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Banners depicting Blessed Pedro Tarres Claret, Blessed Alberto Marvelli and Blessed Pina Suriano hang on the right side of the altar as Pope John Paul II celebrates their beatification Mass in Loreto, Italy, Sept. 5. The pope was joined by 200,000 faithful as he advanced their sainthood causes.

Newly beatified become 20th-century examples of everyday holiness

By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service LORETO, Italy — An engineer, a medical doctorturned-priest, and a young woman with a dream became three new examples of how holiness can be lived in everyday life.

Pope John Paul II beatified Alberto Marvelli, Father Pedro Tarres Claret and Pina Suriano Sept. 5 in a special

outdoor ceremony held in the eastern Italian coastal town of Loreto. By elevating these 20th-century men and woman to just one step shy of sainthood, the pope has given today’s Christians examples of what being holy entails, especially for lay people.

The two Italians and one Spaniard were active members of the worldwide Catholic lay association, Catholic Action. The group’s emphasis on expressing love of Christ

through solidarity with others and the fact it has produced five saints and has 30 members with active canonization causes has led the group to be called “a school of holiness.”

One of those beatified, Italian engineer Alberto Marvelli, was born in 1918 in the eastern Italian city of Rimini. His family was well-off, but they often gave away many of their own basic necessities to the poor.

NEWLY BEATIFIED, page 17

California bishops speak out in opposition to Proposition 71

By Patrick Joyce California’s Catholic bishops are speaking out against Proposition 71, an initiative on the November ballot that seeks to fund — at a cost to California taxpayers of $6 billion — stem cell research in which human embryos are killed.

The bishops, in a statement issued this week, said they do not oppose stem cell research itself but the consequences of using human embryos in the research. “Drawing stem cells from an embryo always directly kills that human embryo, and killing human life is never justified even when the intent is to benefit other humans,” they said.

“We approve and encourage research that uses cells derived from adults and umbilical-cord blood, and

we rejoice at the phenomenal cures that some have experienced because of that research,” the bishops said.

They described this form of research as “morally good.”

See Bishops’ Statement

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The ballot argument against Proposition 71 says adult and umbilical cord stem cells have been responsible for 74 medical breakthroughs. “Cord blood stem cells are being used to treat sickle cell anemia with a staggering success rate of 90%. That’s real progress, helping real people, but it may not receive one penny from this initiative,” the argument says.

Opponents of Proposition 71 include fiscal conservatives who describe the initiative as a form of “corporate

welfare” and leading feminists who support embryonic stem cell research but are concerned that the initiative will open the door to the human cloning.

In terms of campaign contributions, it is a David and Goliath battle, with opponents in the role of David.

At the end of August, they had raised about $100,000 while supporters of the initiative reported nearly $11 million in contributions. Political observers expect that trend to continue, with the Yes on 71 forces raising as much as $20 million. Major contributions are coming from medical research groups, technology business leaders, venture capitalists and the families who have been touched by the diseases targeted by stem cell research.

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INSIDE THIS WEEK’S EDITION ‘On the Street’. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 St. Ignatius parish . . . . . . . . . 6 Commentary and letters . 12-13

Remembering 9/11

Scripture and reflection . . . . 14 Pope’s comments to bishops . . 15

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by Tom Burke Soon busy studying at the college level are Immaculate Conception Academy 2004 grads, Natalie Gomez and Iliana Vasquez, who have been named Millennium Scholars by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and awarded scholarships that will pay tuition from freshman year undergraduate through graduate and post-graduate pursuits. Natalie, a graduate of St. Finn Barr elementary, will attend Santa Clara University. “It’s a wonderful accomplishment for everyone in my life and everyone who will be in my life,” she said. Iliana, an alum of St. Charles elementary in the City, is USF bound. “With the help of great teachers I have been given the opportunity of a lifetime,” she said.

Proud parents are Natalie’s mom, Maria and Iliana’s Natalie Gomez folks Jenny and Marco. “The dollar amount of the awards is unlimited and the girls can attend schools of their choice,” said Kathleen Hayden, who, in addition to this attribution, gets a “Welcome aboard” as the new PR person at ICA. Due special acclaim is school Guidance Director, Anna Maria Vaccaro, who has helped 59 young women from the class of 2004 toward $2.5 million in college scholarship assistance, said ICA Development Director and alum, Patricia Cavagnaro…. It’s all hats off at Mater Dolorosa Elementary School for John Chapman who died June 8. John had taught at Mater Dolorosa for 26 years primarily first grade. “John will be remembered for his warm smile, his wonderful sense of humor, and his commitment to

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Catholic education,” said Jeanette Swain, principal of the South San Francisco school….Peggy Clifford was honored in June for her almost 20 years of service teaching eighth grade at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Elementary School in Redwood City. “It has been my privilege to be connected to nearly 600 students at an important crossroads of their life,” the retiring educator said. “I have attempted to create life-long readers and coherent writers.” Peggy said it’ll be “wonderful not to have a daily agenda and be able to take all the day trips and walks I want to.”

Spending more time with her and husband Jim’s grandchildren – their tenth is expected in October is also a priority, she said. The couple celebrated 42 years of marriage June 23…. Mercy High School, Burlingame named Mercy Sister Amy Bayley its Alumna of the Year for 2003-04.

Sister Amy graduated from Mercy in 1968 and served as the school’s principal from 1980 – 93. She also oversaw restoration of the school plant following the Loma Prieta Earthquake and continues today as a member of the board for Mercy’s Music at Kohl Mansion program.

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serves with Mercy Housing of California, a non-profit developer of affordable housing…. St. James Elementary School marked its 80th year in 2003 –04 complete with an alumni dinner and other fun in April.

More than 50 graduates, friends, and former faculty enjoyed the evening. Behind the good time were alumni committee members including Carol Britschgi, Marci Hooper, Chris Rea, Hedy Tecas, Ydira Vaez.

New principal Dominican Sister Mary Susanna Vasquez, an alumna of neighboring St. Anthony Elementary School – now St. Anthony Immaculate Conception – was named a Distinguished Graduate of her alma mater and honored at ceremonies led by SAIC principal, Dominican Sister Carolyn Marie Monahan…. Hats off to new Student Body Officers at Mercy High School, San Francisco. Senior, Jenny Zeidan, a St. Cecilia elementary grad, is prez. Junior Tiffany Reyes, a St. Anthony Immaculate Conception alum, is vice-prez.. Sophomore Icee Manoonsilpa, a graduate of Hoover Middle School, is secretary/treasurer….At Our Lady of Loretto elementary in Novato it’s “Welcome aboard” to new teachers Kathleen Kraft, 4th grade; Cinda Wisegerber, computer; Julie Marshall, resource teacher and math; Vanessa Heizer, drama….Congrats to Carl Kuhlman, honored by his colleagues at Sons in Retirement Branch One, San Mateo. Carl and his wife Nona are longtime members of St. Bartholomew Parish. Thanks to Ray Lang for the good news… It only takes a moment to let us know about a birthday, anniversary, special achievement, or special happening in your life.

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Statement of the California Conference of Catholic Bishops on Proposition 71 Proposition 71 involves the technology of human embryonic cloning, cannot be justified from an ethical perspective, promises what may not happen, and is a financial boondoggle. For these reasons, the Catholic bishops of California strongly oppose the Embryo Cloning and Stem Research Bond Act, which will be on the November 2, 2004 ballot.

It should be stated that we are not opposed to stem cell research. We approve and encourage research that uses cells derived from adults and umbilical-cord blood, and we rejoice at the phenomenal cures that some have experienced because of that research. Using the God-given talents of scientists to make breakthroughs like that can be aweinspiring, and the work of these scientists brings glory to our Creator and new hope to people who are suffering.

However, we oppose this initiative for the following reasons: ● Proposition 71 will fund human embryonic stem cell research. Drawing stem cells from an embryo always directly kills that human embryo, and killing human life is never justified even when the intent is to benefit other humans.

Obtaining even basic goods for oneself at the cost of innocent life is contrary to the deepest ideals of our nation. ● Proposition 71 will fund human embryonic cloning, what scientists call “somatic cell nuclear transfer.” Such a technological procedure amounts to playing God with the mystery of human life, and it is morally wrong. ● Proposition 71, in its fine print, initially denies funding for adult and umbilical cord blood stem cell research (an area of research that is morally good), even though all

the medical breakthroughs have occurred in this area. ● It is socially unjust to launch a $3 billion new state bureaucracy when vital programs for health, education, police and fire services are being cut.

We pray for scientists and politicians as they strive to discern the right way to use our resources in the important field of medical research. We pray that they will resist the temptation to abandon moral principle, in particular the principle that the end never justifies the means. That principle, a cornerstone of our Western civilization, has already been abandoned in the wording of Proposition 71.

For that reason we join with many other groups, liberal and conservative, Republicans and Democrats, medical professionals and stem cell researchers, in urging a no vote on Proposition 71.

Prop 71 . . .

In their statement, bishops criticized the initiative for funding both embryonic stem cell research and human embryonic cloning while initially denying funds for research using adult and umbilical cord stem cells “even though all the medical breakthroughs have occurred in this area.”

Human embryonic cloning, also known as somatic cell nuclear transfer, “amounts to playing God with the mystery of human life, and it is morally wrong,” the bishops said.

“Obtaining even basic goods for oneself at the cost of innocent life is contrary to the deepest ideals of our nation.”

In their ballot argument, proponents of Proposition 71 say, “Medical researchers believe stem cell research could lead to treatments and cures for many diseases and injuries, including: cancer, heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, HIV/AIDS, multiple sclerosis, lung diseases, and spinal injuries.”

Opponents of Proposition 71, in a ballot rebuttal argument entitled “Stem Cell Research? YES! Human Embryo Cloning? NO!” accuse proponents of the initiative of “manipulating those seeking cures, building false hopes with exaggerated claims.” In fact, the rebuttal says, “Embryo stem cell research in nonhuman animals has produced only limited results. More compelling evidence of its efficacy should be required before a large commitment of public resources to study it in humans.”

The rebuttal, signed by Judy Norsigian, Executive Director of Our Bodies Ourselves, Francine Coeytaux, Founder Pacific Institute for Women’s Health and Tina Stevens, San Francisco State professor and author of “Bioethics in America: Origins and Cultural Politics,” also criticizes Proposition 71 for supporting embryo cloning.

This form of research, it says, “poses risks to women and unique ethical problems …In addition, the perfection of embryo cloning technology—even if initially for medical therapies only—will increase the likelihood that human clones will be produced.”

The backers of Proposition 71 say that the $3 billion bond will not increase taxes or create a new tax. The money to pay off the bonds – about $200 million a year – will come from the state’s general fund. Opponents point out that in a year when general fund revenues fall short, the state will be forced to increase taxes or cut spending on other programs such as education and public safety to pay the Proposition 71 bond debt.

Supporters of Proposition 71 say the $3 billion will be carefully awarded by a committee of medical and financial experts, public hearings will be held, and the funds will be audited. Their opponents say the initiative exempts the committee from some aspects of the California Open Meetings Law and prohibits the governor and Legislature from overseeing how the $3 billion is spent.

Proposition 71’s funding for stem cell research is nearly twice the total amount spent in the last 25 years by the University of California on all its research facilities, according to the Los Angeles Times. Proposition 71 spending is 20 times larger than the California Breast Cancer Research Program, the state’s largest research effort., the Times said.

That program has spent $150 million since 1994.

While proponents of the initiative say that royalties from stem cell breakthroughs will help pay off much of the total $6 billion cost, the Times reported that last year, the University of California earned only $67 million in royalties form its 900 patented inventions.

■ Continued from cover The campaign in favor of Proposition 71 has received $1 million contributions from the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, EBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife Pamela, and venture capitalist John Doerr and his wife Ann Doerr, $400,000 from Microsoft’s Bill Gates and $1.5 million from Fresno businessman Robert Klein II. Mr. Klein’s son has juvenile diabetes and his father Alzheimer’s disease. Backers of stem cell research say it might lead to cures for those diseases But, like David, the opponents of the initiative cannot be counted out. Field Poll results announced in mid-August showed what amounts to a dead heat: 45 percent of likely voters inclined to favor the Proposition, 42 percent opposed, with 13 undecided.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has contributed $50,000 to the campaign against Proposition 71.

Howard Ahmanson Jr., a Southern California supporter of evangelical Christian causes, also has donated $50,000 to the campaign against the initiative.

The U.S. bishops oppose human embryonic stem-cell research because it requires the destruction of embryos.

California bishops say they oppose Proposition 71 because it “involves the technology of human embryonic cloning, cannot be justified from an ethical perspective, promises what may not happen, and is a financial boondoggle.” Proposition 71 seeks to finance embryonic stem cell research with a $3 billion bond issue that would cost the state’s taxpayers $6 billion in principal and interest, according to the state’s Legislative Analyst.

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onfessions are tough. Real tough. But, sometimes a confession can set the record straight, and I want to give credit where credit is due. Before I talk about my confession, though, let me say a few other things first.

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September 10, 2004 by a July 1 resolution approved by consensus of all member governments of the United Nations. Archbishop Celestino Migliore, nuncio to the United Nations, said in an interview at the mission Sept. 2 that a principal change would be the right now to participate in the “general debate” held each year in the opening days of the General Assembly. During this period, heads of state and heads of government, foreign ministers and other top officials present a broad overview of how their respective governments see the international situation and what they consider key issues facing the United Nations, he said.

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Pope prays for siege victims, calls deaths ‘cruel epilogue’

New auxiliary bishop named for Los Angeles

Romero hearing seen as curbing impunity for rights violators FRESNO, Calif. — A U.S. federal judge has awarded $10 million in civil damages for the 1980 assassination of Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero in a hearing that the lead attorney for the plaintiff called part of a worldwide effort to end the impunity of human rights abusers. Judge Oliver W. Wanger of the U.S. District Court in Fresno called the archbishop’s murder a “crime against humanity.” The judge ordered Alvaro Saravia, a retired Salvadoran air force captain who had been living in Modesto, to pay the damages to a Romero relative whose name has not been made public. On Sept. 3 when the civil court decision was issued, there was little chance that the damages would be paid. Saravia fled Modesto after the civil suit was filed in 2003 and his whereabouts are unknown. The trial was less about getting money and more about warning foreign human rights abusers that the United States is “no safe haven” for them, said Nicholas van Aelstyn, lead lawyer for the unnamed plaintiff. Wanger ruled that Saravia was responsible for the wrongful death of the archbishop, who was shot dead while celebrating Mass at a hospital chapel in San Salvador.

Scripture reference, prayers close final night of GOP convention NEW YORK — President Bush closed his nomination acceptance speech Sept. 2 with a paraphrased quote from Ecclesiastes that “to everything we know there is a season — a time for sadness, a time for struggle, a time for rebuilding.” In a 64-minute speech that referred in general terms to his policy proposals and focused at length on U.S. actions in Afghanistan and Iraq, Bush said that by “promoting liberty abroad we will build a safer world. By encouraging liberty at home, we will build a more hopeful America.” He said the American people have, “like generations before us, ... a calling from beyond the stars to stand for freedom.” Bush’s speech on the last night of the Republican National Convention was followed by a closing prayer offered by New York Cardinal Edward M. Egan. He asked God to “make us a people of genuine compassion” for the hungry, the homeless, the abandoned and the stranger, as well as “a people of justice who revere the rights of others ... espe-

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WASHINGTON — Pope John Paul II has named Msgr.

Alexander Salazar, vice chancellor of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, to be an auxiliary bishop of the archdiocese. The announcement was made in Washington Sept. 7 by Archbishop Gabriel Montalvo, apostolic nuncio to the United States.

Bishop-designate Salazar, 54, also serves as pastor of St. Teresa of Avila Church in Los Angeles. Cardinal Roger M. Mahony of Los Angeles, who was scheduled to ordain him a bishop Nov. 4 at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, said in a statement that Bishop-designate Salazar was “a dedicated and wonderful priest, a priest committed to serving all peoples.” The new bishop will be the 30th active foreign-born U.S. bishop and the 25th Hispanic bishop serving in the United States. Born in San Jose, Costa Rica, on Nov. 28, 1949, Alexander Salazar came to the United States with his family in 1953 and settled in Los Angeles. He became a U.S. citizen at age 18.

A nun from the Missionaries of Charity prays beside the tomb of Blessed Mother Teresa Sept. 5 in Calcutta, India, on the seventh anniversary of her death. Pope John Paul II beatified the foundress of the Missionaries of Charity last October.

cially the precious right to live which resides in children coming into this world and in the aged and infirm departing from it.”

Head of effort to address clergy sex abuse sees progress SEATTLE — As the nation’s Catholic dioceses and eparchies undergo a second annual auditing of their efforts to prevent and address the problem of clergy sexual abuse of minors, the woman overseeing the effort is encouraged by what’s been done so far. Kathleen McChesney, executive director of the U.S. Catholic bishops’ Office of Child and Youth Protection, said she sees signs that public confidence is increasing as a result of the bishops’ actions in working to ensure the safety of all children from clergy abuse. She said those actions include the annual reports (audits); the John Jay study released earlier this year on the nature and scope of the clergy abuse; and the fact that some dioceses are going beyond the procedures that the bishops established to protect children. “Based on the people we’ve talked to, (and) based on the news reporting, the (public) confidence is increasing,” McChesney said, “but it will take some time before people are truly comfortable with what the church has done.”

Vatican mission to United Nations prepares for new status NEW YORK — The Vatican is preparing for active participation in the upcoming session of the U.N. General Assembly on the basis of a new, enhanced status voted on this summer.

Formerly participating only on the authority of a 1964 letter from Secretary-General U Thant, the Vatican’s permanent observer mission now has “rights and privileges” spelled out

VATICAN CITY — Pope John Paul II prayed for the more than 330 victims of the Russian school siege, calling their deaths a “cruel epilogue” to a savage attack. In a telegram Sept.

4, the pope said the takeover of the school in the North Ossetia province town of Beslan was a “vile and heartless act of aggression against defenseless children and families.” The pope once again condemned “every form of terrorism” and said he hoped that a “spiral of hatred and violence would not prevail.” The school siege ended Sept. 3 in a shootout between police and the hostage-takers, believed to be Chechen rebels. More than 700 people were injured and some 450 hospitalized. About half of the dead and injured were children. At a papal Mass in Loreto, Italy, Sept. 5, the pope and others offered prayers “for the Russian people, stricken by the inhuman violence of this tragic hostage-taking, for all the dead, for the wounded, for the many innocent young victims, and for the families so sorely tried.”

Israeli chief rabbi calls for assembly of religious leaders MILAN, Italy — At a gathering of hundreds of religious leaders from around the world, one of Israel’s chief rabbis called for the formation of a permanent assembly of religious leaders similar to the United Nations. Rabbi Yona Metzger, Israel’s chief Ashkenazi rabbi, said the assembly, which should be based in Jerusalem, “would make a great contribution in terms of concrete fraternity and cooperation among religions.” The rabbi was one of the speakers at the Sept. 5 opening ceremony of the annual interreligious meeting for peace sponsored by the Romebased Community of Sant’Egidio. Welcoming the religious leaders to Milan, Andrea Riccardi, leader of the Sant’Egidio Community, said the annual interreligious gathering seeks to continue the work begun by Pope John Paul when he called leaders from all the world’s religions to Assisi, Italy, in 1986 to pray and to make a joint commitment to educating their followers in the religious obligations of dialogue and peacemaking.

Pope speaks on same-sex marriage CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy – Pope John Paul II warned against granting legal recognition to same-sex marriages in a meeting with Canada’s new ambassador to the Vatican Sept 4.

Conceding marital status to gay couples goes against natural law and distorts the true meaning of marriage, the pope said. Several Canadian provinces allow same-sex marriage, and the governing Liberal Party in Canada has proposed draft legislation that would change the definition of marriage to include the same-sex unions.

The pope expressed concern about legislative attempts to treat same-sex unions the same as marriage between a man and a woman. “Established by the creator with its own nature and purpose, and preserved in natural moral law, the institution of marriage necessarily entails the complementarity of husbands and wives who participate in God’s creative activity through the raising of children,” the pope said. “Spouses thereby ensure the survival of society and culture and rightly deserve specific and categorical legal recognition by the state,” he said. “Any attempts to change the meaning of the word ‘spouse’ contradict right reason: legal guarantees, analogous to those granted to marriage, cannot be applied to unions between persons of the same sex without creating a false understanding of the nature of marriage,” he said.

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Dioceses, parishes to mark third anniversary of Sept. 11 WASHINGTON — To mark the third anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, there will be commemorative Masses, prayer rallies and a memorial dedication at parishes throughout the United States.

Some dioceses plan to commemorate victims of the Sept.

11, 2001, attack in their annual Blue Masses honoring police officers, firefighters and emergency medical technicians.

In the Archdiocese of Miami, the Blue Mass will be held at St. Maximilian Kolbe Parish in Pembroke Pines, Fla. After the Mass, a monument will be dedicated to Franciscan Father Mychal Judge, the New York Fire Department chaplain who died administering last rites to victims at the World Trade Center’s twin towers. The Archdiocese of San Francisco and the Diocese of Kalamazoo, Mich., also plan to remember victims of the Sept. 11 attacks at their annual Blue Masses.

The Archdiocese of Santa Fe, N.M., will commemorate Sept. 11, observed as Patriot Day, with a memorial service.

The archdiocese, which had received two 20-foot steel World Trade Center beams, incorporated them into the Memorial Bell Tower at Sacred Heart Church in Albuquerque.

In the Diocese of San Angelo, Texas, Bishop Michael D. Pfeifer will lead a Sept. 10 ceremony at the diocese’s memorial monument, which was created with a piece of steel from the World Trade Center structure.

In Italy, students and faculty of the North American College in Rome, including some military chaplain candidates, will take part in a Sept. 11 Mass at the U.S. military cemetery in Nettuno, Italy. The Mass will be celebrated by Father Peter McGuine, vice rector for student life at the college and a chaplain major in the U.S. Air Force Reserves.

Bishop Gerald M. Barbarito of Palm Beach, Fla., plans to celebrate Mass as part of a Patriot Day rally organized by the Knights of Columbus.

Earlier this year, Mount Manresa Jesuit Retreat House on Staten Island, N.Y., dedicated a cross cut from structural steel from the World Trade Center. On the wall next to the cross, retreat house employees planned to display a collage of photos of rescue workers who served at the Fresh Kills landfill recovery site in New York after Sept. 11.

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Pat Dunn, community service director for Catholic Charities in Boston, noted that her agency is still receiving “referrals for services and also has new clients who have not previously applied for assistance because they were unable to cope effectively enough to ask for help earlier.”

She said the financial support from Catholic Charities USA has “allowed our case managers to continue working with families at a time when other agencies have come to the end of their funding.”

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By Jayme George This fall, St. Ignatius Church in San Francisco celebrates 10 years as an active and flourishing parish in the Archdiocese. This in itself is no great feat. There are almost a hundred parishes in the Archdiocese of San Francisco, and every year at least one reaches a new milestone. What makes St. Ignatius an interesting story is that over the past decade the fledgling parish has more than tripled the size of its congregation; managed to draw parishioners from all over the Bay Area, and built a successful network of programs that never go wanting for volunteers.

That just may warrant taking a closer look.

But before that closer look, there are some things that need to be cleared up. It is a common misperception that prior to St. Ignatius’ being named a parish in 1994, the church was a University chapel, under the jurisdiction of the University of San Francisco. In fact, St. Ignatius used to have the distinction of being one of two churches in the nation that belonged to neither a University nor a specific diocese. The prefect of St. Ignatius reported only to the founding Jesuits. However, it was not always this way.

St. Ignatius had been a parish from its inception in 1855 until 1863, when Archbishop Riordan asked the Jesuits for the land on which the church was built. The

Next year will be the 150th Anniversary of the founding of St. Ignatius by the Society of Jesus in San Francisco.

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At right, the 2004 First Communion Group poses with Jesuit Father James Blaettler, associate pastor.

Jesuits refused, citing a Church decree that a religious order could own its own land. In return, Archbishop Riordan revoked the parish status despite Vatican support for the Jesuit’s claim to ownership. By some fluke the parish status remained revoked for 131 years, until it was reinstated it in 1994.

During this time of ambiguous affiliation, St. Ignatius was allowed to hold Mass for its humble congregation, but that is where the sacraments extended to the community ended. Without parish status, a church cannot perform weddings, infant baptisms, first communions, or confirmations.

According to Father Charles Gagan, SJ, pastor at St. Ignatius, not being able to perform these sacraments makes it difficult to become a part of the community.

“A young couple would come to me and say, ‘We’re getting married, and we’d like you to perform the ceremony.’ I’d tell them I would love to, but we would have to find a different church, and this was understandably weird for them. Then that same couple comes back a few years later and wants to have their first child baptized; I would have to tell them no, but I really hope you’ll come back to us for Mass,” said Gagan.

Following a recommendation by the Archdiocesan Pastoral Planning Commission to reinstate St. Ignatius’ parish status, the process was implemented in only

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a few months. The true test was still to come, and the climb to success was not without obstacles.

“In 1993 there were about 400 people in our congregation,” said Susan Todaro, Director of Development at St. Ignatius.

“Today, there are roughly 1400 people, and a lot of that growth happened in the first few years of being a parish. The biggest hurdle was simply keeping up with the rapid growth.”

Keeping abreast of the rising population caused the most havoc on the parish’s finances, causing what insiders to St. Ignatius now call the financial crisis of 2002.

“We had been too lax,” said Todaro. “More money was going out than coming in. Staff cuts were made and we really pared down, but it taught us that the financial committee is really important and that our leadership is strong. We stumbled, but got back up.”

More significant are the successes that St. Ignatius has enjoyed since its reinstatement as a parish. “We are extremely proud of our Children’s Faith Formation, run by Daniel Faloon,” said Todaro. “People come to this parish for that program alone. In addition, we have so many opportunities for helping others. There is the Shelter Meal Program that has 400-500 volunteers, Rebuilding Together, and Helping Hands, just to name a few.”

For Gagan, there are two reasons that St. Ignatius is so thriving and active. “First, we address stewardship forthrightly. For us, it’s a way of being disciples of Jesus. Where as before the Jesuits underwrote most of our expenses, we had to realize that wasn’t going to be there. We didn’t have a rich uncle anymore.”

Finally, Gagan attributes a lot of the church’s success to it’s social ministry. “It is the keynote of Jesuit work to be involved in social ministry,” said Gagan. “We emphasize faith and justice and it resonated with the people who were drawn to our parish—they responded and we gave them leadership.”

To the parish and congregation of St. Ignatius it was more than the weddings and the baptisms that made the long independent church a real part of the community.

The common desire to help others inspired everyone, most of all Gagan. “Before, my job was very limited. Today, my job as pastor is all consuming. I am constantly on call,” said Gagan. “But I love it. This is exactly how I want it.”

A Special Liturgy to celebrate St. Ignatius’ 10 years as a parish will be held in St. Ignatius Church on Sunday, September 19 at 10 a.m., followed by a reception. For more information contact Susan Todaro at todaros@usfca.edu or call 415-422-6645.

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A native of Brooklyn N.Y., Brother Dotzler entered religious life in Ohio in 1930 and earned an undergraduate degree from his congregation’s University of Dayton in 1936. A career in classrooms around the country and the world awaited him.

He taught English, math, mechanical drawing and German at schools from Australia and Hawaii to Alameda and, from 1965 – 70, San Francisco at Archbishop Riordan High School.

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By Julie Asher Catholic News Service Valentine’s Day is a traditional time to give flowers or chocolates to your closest loved one.

But in 2004 in the Archdiocese of Santa Fe, N.M., the day was about much more than blossoms and bonbons.

For dozens of Catholic couples, it was the day they came home to the Catholic Church with a church wedding.

In ceremonies at five churches in Santa Fe and Albuquerque Feb. 14, 20 and 21, 150 couples wed in what was the largest such celebration in the archdiocese’s history.

Most of the couples had been married in civil ceremonies, others had just been living together. Some had been together for just two years, others for more than 50. Most couples had been together for 15 to 20 years.

Archbishop Michael J. Sheehan presided at the weddings of 30 of the couples at St. Francis Cathedral in Santa Fe. “It was deeply moving to me to witness their commitment as they received the sacrament of marriage,” he said. “They all now will be able to be active members of the church and return to the sacraments.”

“It was one of the most exciting events of my priestly ministry,” he added.

Deacon Juan Barrajas, who is director of the archdiocesan Office for Evangelization and of Hispanic ministry and works in Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary Church in Albuquerque, came up with the idea to issue an archdiocese-wide wedding invitation to couples who wanted to get married in the church.

“I had already done it in my parish a few times,” he said. “I saw that many people did not approach Communion, and when I asked them why, they said they were not married in the church.”

He wanted to organize something similar for the archdiocese, he said, especially after the archbishop declared the 150th anniversary year of the Santa Fe Archdiocese as a year of jubilee and grace.

He approached Archbishop Sheehan in June 2003 about holding a group wedding

ceremony. A month later, the archbishop gave his approval for the project and sent a letter to pastors asking them to announce it in their parish bulletins.

The “Come Home” wedding invitation also was promoted in the local daily newspaper and on the radio. The notices urged interested couples to attend one of seven orientation meetings being held around the archdiocese. About 300 couples went to the meetings.

In all, archdiocesan officials received about 500 calls in response to its notices about the group-wedding plans. Some couples who were interested needed annulments. The length of that process meant they wouldn’t be able to participate in the 2004 ceremony, though church officials still offered to help them with the annulment process.

After the orientation meetings, each couple who wanted to participate in the group wedding had a private session with church ministers to fill out the required paperwork, Deacon Barrajas said. Then each couple was given an appointment to meet with a deacon to help with the marriage process.

Next, each couple was required to attend one of seven retreats Deacon Barrajas organized as marriage preparation.

Before their wedding day, the couples attended a rehearsal, which included a penance service.

Reasons couples gave for never having married in the church varied, according to Deacon Barrajas, who himself has been married more than 28 years and has three children and two grandchildren.

Some said they decided to cohabitate rather than marry because they thought their relationship would never last, he said.

Some who were married civilly told him they knew they should have a church wedding but just never took the time to do it, and some “just needed encouragement” to have a church wedding, he said. Some had been mistakenly told they were excommunicated for whatever reason and didn’t know they could marry in the church, he added.

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The group weddings not only benefited the couples, he said, but it touched their immediate families and their extended families and broadcast to the wider community “how important marriage is as a sacrament.”

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Wedding Guide The taming of the sexes

By Frederica Mathewes-Green It’s a man’s world, at least around my house. With my daughter off at college it’s just my husband, two teenaged sons, and me; even the dog and cat are of the masculine persuasion.

I’ve seen some majority-male households that have slipped toward caveman conditions, where underwear is washed by wearing it in the shower and dishes are washed by giving them to the dog. I’m determined that that won’t happen here.

Rather than draw up a long list of rules covering minute aspects of behavior, I’ve found that one general principle covers all circumstances. It’s one my boys actually came up with on their own. The rule is (and this must be hissed in an urgent whisper): “Not in front of the chick!”

Yes, in my house, as far as I know, no one drinks from the milk jug. No one burps. Dignity and decorum rule the day.

When I phone home from a business trip I can almost hear the dishes being whisked out of the living room and the orange juice being wiped off the kitchen floor. The dog, I am given to understand, has been creating these unauthorized situations, grievous and clearly unworthy of chick review. Good thing my boys are there to maintain order. “Bad Sparky!” I hear over the phone line, and picture the bewildered dog ducking his head.

The most obvious charge one could lay against this standard is that it’s sexist, and indeed it is. The “Not in front of the chick” rule (or NIFOTC) colludes in a tacit assumption that how men behave when they are alone together can be different from how they behave in feminine company. It presumes that men and women are different, men naturally devolving to a rougher state if given the chance. Women demand something finer of them: respect, protection, the kind of cherishing (St. Paul suggests) with which men regard their own bodies.

I would have rejected this idea vehemently a couple of decades ago, but I gradually realized that when men don’t feel an obligation to protect and cherish women, women get hurt.

Men come to look out on a leveled world, and treat everyone the way they treat each other—pretty roughly. The interaction of guys in my house runs heavily to broad insults, punches, and grins. They thrive on it, but girls whose exchanges regularly ran to, “Well, your nose is bigger!” would not be friends long.

Recognizing the relative roughness of men blends well with the theory put forth by George Gilder in “Men and Marriage,” that men must be tamed and civilized by women. Their natural impulse is to stray and play, he says, and it is due to women’s influence that they settle down in families and contribute to a coherent society.

This view of the sexes is flattering to both—the pure angel of the hearth and the wild, lusty fellow who must be captured and tamed. I lean more toward thinking there’s something in men that inclines them to want to settle down, if only because most do it so readily. But I’ve heard upstanding, faithful Christian dads dis-

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pute this, forcefully insisting that all men are incorrigible cads and sexual predators, brought into faithful marriage only by the power of a good woman’s love. The evidence of their own lives and that of most of the men they work and worship with suggests otherwise, but it is a harmless and endearing fantasy, enterFrederica tained by “sheep in wolves’ Mathewes-Green clothing.”

NIFOTC acknowledges some of the ways women must tame men. But I’d assert that women need to be tamed by men as well, particularly in moral issues. A classic image is that male justice is too harsh, too prone to blind legalism. Women are thought to temper this with compassion, by considering human variables and calling for mercy. In a typical masculine example, Inspector Javert tracks Jean Valjean relentlessly, in order to jail him for stealing bread for starving children.

The feminine temptation is the opposite, amending principle to fit any present situation. Where cold legalism binds men, women slip in the quicksand of rationalization. Carol Gilligan found, in “In a Different Voice,” that women consider human factors rather than principles of right and wrong in making ethical decisions. At the most advanced level (in Gilligan’s opinion), women balance their own needs with others’, and the ideal of being good is supplanted by that of being true to yourself. Women at that level were able to justify abortion under all kinds of circumstances, because it was what she needed to do.

This is the way women’s moral trajectory bends, unless corrected by masculine rigor. Woman’s classic moral failing is the opposite of masculine legalism: manipulative duplicity in the name of self-interest. Think of Scarlett O’Hara, or Emma Bovary; think of the woman who told Solomon, “Neither you nor I shall have him. Cut him in two!” Women need men to call us up toward the highest moral principles; they need us to call them down to the warmth of human love, and respect for gentler sensibilities (which includes keeping dirty socks out of the den).

It’s clear that we need each other. You’d almost think someone planned it that way.

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“God is love and in Himself He lives a mystery of personal loving communion. Creating the human race in His own image and continually keeping it in being, God inscribed in the humanity of man and woman the vocation, and thus the capacity and responsibility, of love and communion. Love is therefore the fundamental and innate vocation of every human being.

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“For this reason the central word of Revelation, ‘God loves His people,’ is likewise proclaimed through the living and concrete word whereby a man and a woman express their conjugal love. Their bond of love becomes the image and the symbol of the covenant which unites God and His people. And the same sin which can harm the conjugal covenant becomes an image of the infidelity of the people to their God: idolatry is prostitution, infidelity is adultery, disobedience to the law is abandonment of the spousal love of the Lord. But the infidelity of Israel does not destroy the eternal fidelity of the Lord, and therefore the ever faithful love of God is put forward as the model of the faithful love which should exist between spouses.”

“Although the body as such does not speak, it is the personal subject who speaks, in a certain sense, he, man as male or female permits the body to speak for him and on his behalf, I would say in his name, and with personal authority. . . So it is the body itself which speaks by means of its masculinity and femininity; it speaks in the mysterious language of the personal gift.”

“As ministers of a sacrament [marriage] which is constituted by consent and perfected by conjugal union, man and woman are called to express that mysterious language of their bodies in all the truth which is proper to it. By means of gestures and reactions, by means of the whole dynamism, reciprocally conditioned, of tension and enjoyment—whose direct source is the body in its masculinity and its femininity, the body in its action and interaction— by means of all this, man, the person, ‘speaks.’”

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Wedding Guide In fast-paced world, families need ways to take a time out One child-raising theory is that misbehaving children need a “time-out” — essentially a limited time in an isolated spot.

With today’s hectic schedules, perhaps more families should consider a similar concept, not as a punishment but as a way for the entire family to pull back from some of its dozens of slated activities and just relax a little bit.

For many families, the first place that needs examination is work hours.

In 1993, Harvard economist Juliet Schor wrote in “The Overworked American” (Basic Books) that “the typical family puts in a thousand more hours a year today (working) than they were 25 years ago.”

Now, 11 years later, some parents are finding that at least one of them should scale back their work hours to spend time with their children.

After years of increases in the number of working mothers, census figures are starting to show a significant rise in stay-at-home mothers. In 1998, 41.3 percent of mothers with infants stayed home with their children; two years later, the figure rose to 44.8 percent. There also has been an increase in stay-at-home mothers for older children.

But before a couple trades or scales back on one of its incomes to stay at home, there are several points to consider, starting with the financial aspect.

Today, there are dozens of stay-at-home-mom Web sites that urge women who are contemplating leaving the workforce to factor in “the cost of work” — what is spent in trav-

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el, wardrobe, eating out more frequently and child care — to realize that the take-home pay is not always as much as it was thought to be.

Mary Snyder and Malia McCawley Wyckoff, authors of the 1999 book “You Can Afford to Stay Home With Your Kids” (Career Press), stressed that more women today are considering other options, such as staying at home, flextime, working from home and extended maternity leave, because they are shifting their priorities.

“Women don’t want the supermom syndrome,” Snyder said in an interview. “It looked great from the outside, but

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But just because one parent is working less doesn’t necessarily mean the family is spending quality time together.

Many of today’s families are pressured and rushed simply by their children’s overloaded schedules.

In Ridgewood, N.J., community leaders launched a citywide initiative in 2001 called “Ready, Set, Relax!,” to encourage families to slow down their fast-paced, schedule-overloaded lives.

The project focused on one day during the year when local elementary schools and middle schools would not assign homework. Youth sports teams would cancel practices and clubs would cancel meetings. Families were encouraged to eat dinner together and to talk about their day.

Group organizers hoped the once-a-year event would inspire families to take time out on a more consistent basis.

Katrina Kenison, author of “Mitten Strings for God: Reflections for Mothers in a Hurry,” wrote that it is possible to pull back from the myriad of scheduled activities and even live a simple life in this modern age.

Her book, published in 2000 by Warner Books, noted that parents “seem to have lost the knack of appreciating the ordinary.”

Kenison, a mother of two, added that today’s parents need to slow down for the sake of their children. “We do too much and savor too little,” she said. “We mistake activity for happiness, and so we stuff our children’s days with activities, and their heads with information, when we ought to be feeding their souls instead.”

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Wedding Guide

By Kate Blain Catholic News Service The union of two people in marriage should be the most important day of their lives.

But how much of a wedding should satisfy the happy couple, and what concessions should they make to the often-contrary wishes of family and guests?

According to Mary Moriarty, associate director of the Family Life Office for the Diocese of Albany, N.Y., the answer will vary widely from couple to couple. For some, details aren’t as important; others, particularly those with strong ethnic backgrounds, put a lot of value on certain traditions and rituals, she said.

Engaged couples must first remember that “this is your wedding, the sacrament you’re promising to one another,” said Moriarty. “But it’s also the blending of families and family traditions.”

She stressed that a lot of pre-wedding arguments between families and children stem from the fact that people don’t spend enough time discussing the effects a marriage has on the entire family. “Losing” a child to marriage and gaining a new son- or daughter-in-law can be traumatic, she added.

“The sense of change, loss or gain is never recognized until they’re walking down the aisle and everyone is bawling like a baby,” she said.

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recommends that, before the wedding, couples have a “letting-go” ritual for the two families where parents and children can say goodbye to each other, say they love one another and apologize for any past hurts.

The latter element, she added, is especially important.

“This is not a time to bring up old family history. This is a time to settle it,” Moriarty said.

Reuniting divorced parents for a child’s wedding can cause problems of its own, she said, urging divorced parents “to act like grownups for their son’s or daughter’s sake” and not argue over wedding plans or with each other.

“If you’ve had a nasty divorce, your children have suffered enough,” she said.

“Give them something to look forward to.”

If family members or friends are interfering too much with wedding decisions, Moriarty recommended that couples talk with them and say, “I want to walk down that aisle with complete joy.”

A priest or counselor might help if the disagreements are particularly touchy.

Yet often, she added, family members can see the “bigger picture” in wedding planning, such as why it is important to invite some people the couple may not have added to the guest list.

Moriarty said she advises all engaged couples to spend time talking with their families about “why they want what they want and what it means to them.”

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If families understand the couple’s perspective, she said, they may feel more comfortable with their wishes.

Couples, for their part, should ask themselves why they’re making certain decisions about their wedding, Moriarty said, and consider other ideas.

However, she added, a couple who find big weddings exhausting or firmly believe in simplicity should take a stand and defend their views.

“You have to honor certain traditions, but you don’t want a cookie-cutter wedding,” she said. Instead, she said, couples should ask, “What can (we) do to make (our) wedding unique and memorable and sacred all at the same time?”

Letting other people handle some of the details can improve a wedding, she said.

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Guest Commentary The Beatitudes and Ballot Box

By Father William J. Byron, SJ Catholic News Service More and more Catholic conversations are centering on religion and politics.

That seems natural enough in an election year, but I’m wondering how Catholics would answer the question posed in a daily newspaper headline I saw the other day: “Does God Belong in Politics?”

“Yes, of course,” I found myself saying, “politics is people and God is in all people, so surely God belongs in politics.” Without the people, how can God’s will work in our world? If God is present in every person, how can God not be in politics?

“Thy kingdom come,” we all pray, knowing that a kingdom of love, justice and peace has been promised to us. We also know that the kingdom is the “reign of God” and that God reigns when our wills — individually and collectively — are in proper alignment with his. That’s why reasoned and well-constructed moral arguments are so important in the formation of public policy. Threat, force and ridicule won’t do it; moral reasoning will.

When Jesus stepped into his public life (Mk 1:14), he announced that the kingdom of God is “at hand.” He added, “Repent, therefore, and believe the Gospel.”

I often think it is tragic that a kingdom of love, justice and peace has been “at hand” these many centuries but not yet grasped. And I can only conclude that the delay in the coming of the kingdom is our refusal to “repent,” to accept a values reversal, an attitudinal turnaround in response to Gospel values.

This would convince us to lower the barriers within ourselves, namely the opposites of love, justice and peace that we harbor within, and thus open ourselves individually and as a nation to the promised kingdom that will indeed come, but only in God’s own time and God’s own way.

Politics is part of the process that should be moving us in the right direction, but I’m not encouraged by the quality of reasoning in our current political debates.

Although there is a separation of church and state that is appropriate in the United States, there is no separation between church and society. The church, in my view, should be doing a better job communicating Gospel values to society and then trusting society to make political decisions consistent with those values.

I think it is inaccurate to speak of “building” the kingdom. We can, as the popular hymn puts it, “build the city of God,” but not the kingdom. All we can do is lower the barriers within ourselves to the promised kingdom’s coming. We cannot build what only God can give.

There is work to do now in building the city of God, and the political agenda is not unrelated to that work. Issues on the political agenda are multiple and diverse. No one issue alone will pave a sure and smooth road for the coming of the kingdom.

I know of one priest who, speaking from the side of religion to the issues being debated in this year’s presidential campaign, held up the Beatitudes (Mt 5:1-12) as a checklist.

How does a given candidate or political party fare in that comparison? Few serious faith-committed voters who are doing their best to assimilate Gospel values and bring them to life in this imperfect world will say they’ve found a perfect fit.

The church should stay out of partisan politics but not hesitate for a moment to suggest that beatitude values belong in a good society and that beatitude principles can inform the moral reasoning needed to shape solid public policies.

Father William J. Byron, SJ is a columnist for Catholic News Service.

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Nationally, the Catholic Communication Campaign funds media projects that promote Gospel values and bring the Catholic Church’s message to the marketplace. These projects include television specials, radio programming and public information programs.

Locally, the Catholic Communications Campaign helps with the cost of producing and airing the TV Mass and Catholic Radio Hour. The collection also contributes to the support of Catholic San Francisco, the monthly Spanish-language newspaper El Heraldo Catolico, Archdiocesan web sites, and several other communication programs.

Please be generous when the Catholic Communication Campaign is taken up in your parish this weekend.

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Freedom and secularism Having studied in an underdeveloped country and freely mingling and accepting students who wore scarves, turbans, caps and crosses, I am unable to comprehend the law passed by France banning Muslims from wearing head scarves in public schools. It is ridiculous that in a free country this is made to be a problem.

It is extremists that deny people their rights.

It is just a piece of cloth on one’s head and no threat to anyone.

This is not a symbol of Islam, but one that has been created by people.

Hijab or head scarves are used in many Eastern countries, as a protection against the sun. Catholic nuns dress the same way and there is no ban. As a matter of fact this practice has a long JudeoChristian tradition. Next, the French will have to ban jeans, sneakers, baseball caps and will have to also disallow Jews from wearing caps, Christians wearing crosses and Sikhs wearing turbans.

The United States should feel proud to let the world know that we live in a very tolerant and secular society, and that we live, pray and dress as we please.

So what if people wear head scarves, turbans, caps or crosses. We are all different and have a different story to tell. We must accept that there are other ways of life that people are happy with.

Lenny Barretto Daly City Ed. Note: The French government has banned all overt religious symbols from being worn at government run schools. While Islamic head scarves were at the center of the political debate in France, the ban was written to enforce official French secularism and applies also to Christian Crosses, Sikh turbans and Jewish skullcaps.

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I am shocked that Catholic San Francisco would publish that left-wing diatribe of Father Weare under the headline “A Catholic Perspective.” The article is simply the latest pronouncement by a liberation theologian to support international government control over the economies of the United States and the countries of South America. Father Weare complains of existing international treaties usurping the local laws of participating countries. What about his proposed treaties that violate not only U.S. laws concerning private property and free enterprise, but also the sovereignty of the U.S. Constitution?

Free economic activity promotes the dignity of the human person, not a bloated international government bureaucracy regulating all economic activity and institutions to enforce Father Weare’s view of “long-term social development” throughout the hemisphere. These terms, as well as the ideology, are nothing but code words for confiscating the assets and ingenuity of Americans. When I went to Catholic schools, this was called stealing.

Now some call it “social justice.”

The purpose of an economy is not to produce social and economic equality, but to allow people to do so through their own free activities. Free enterprise and entrepreneurs create an expanding economy, which, in turn, create jobs and lower prices for consumers. Of course, NAFTA and FTAA promote an international free market economy. That is why they were fully negotiated by the respective governments and enacted. These governments obviously believed that such would produce local social benefits. Father Weare’s problem is that they are not the benefits he wants, or the benefits will not arrive fast enough - so call in the police to produce them by force.

American corporations were involved in the negotiation of these treaties because they affect them (and their workers and shareholders). And, yes, they were interested in profits because those profits produce the capital necessary to create the international economy in the first place. Who will supply investment capital in Father Weare’s world? The tooth fairy? Who will decide what products can be produced and sold?

The Jesuit theologians? Father Weare wants profits regulated by an international government bureaucracy. Obviously, such could only be done by a world socialist government having jurisdiction over every country (and corporation, worker, and shareholder) involved in a given transaction. Forget about cherished American freedoms; just turn everything over to Father Weare and his “Catholic” perspective.

Thomas H. Werdel, Jr. San Francisco

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I would like to comment upon the recently held Republican Convention in New York City.

I found it very disturbing from a Christian and particularly a Catholic perspective how war was being justified.

Speaker after speaker tried to make us feel good about invading Iraq even though the original justification for doing so was found to be a lie.

Some of the speakers glorifying war were Catholics like ex-New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and New York Governor George Pataki. What does the teaching of the Catholic Church on a just war mean to them? In their speeches they were trying to make us feel good about making war, to take out vengeance on other countries just because they are potential enemies of us.

How much real choice do Christian and Catholic voters have for president when one candidate is pro-choice for war

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and the other candidate is pro-choice for abortion? Is the character of our candidates for president a sign our beloved United States is already coming under God’s judgment.

Joe Trevors Hercules

Thanks for Foudys Thank you for Tom Burke’s wonderful article on one of the truly great priests of our time, Monsignor John T. Foudy. Msgr.

Foudy, like his late brother Fr. Denis Foudy, is an example of the highest qualities of a priest. Always deferring, gracious, dedicated, humble, and full of Irish wit, the Foudy brothers signify an era of genuine priestly service to their community and diocese.

In a time where negative press thrives on misdeeds, the Msgr. Foudy story shines like a beacon in the night. Thank you Msgr.

Foudy, your sister, and your late brother for making us proud to be Catholics in San Francisco.

Peter J. Fatooh San Francisco

September 10, 2004

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The Catholic Difference The recent debate over the ecclesiastical status of proabortion Catholic politicians has sharpened several issues in U.S. Catholic life: the utility (or lack thereof) of “seamless garment” approaches to public policy questions; the roles of moral conviction and prudential judgment in legislating and voting; the bishops’ responsibilities for the integrity of the sacraments. The list could be expanded further and much of it would be familiar; many of these issues have been debated before.

What has been a bit surprising, though, is the dramatic confusion in some Catholics’ minds about the Church and its place in a Catholic’s life.

That the Church is central to Catholic faith has been a settled question for the better part of two millennia. One of the early Church’s premier theologians, the great North African martyr-bishop, Cyprian, put it this way in the midthird century: “You cannot have God for your father unless you have the Church for your mother.” By the same token, a Catholic cannot have Jesus as savior and brother unless he or she has the Church as mother. That theme goes back at least as early as Colossians and its great Christological hymn: “He is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of all creatures. In him everything in heaven and on earth was created, things visible and invisible. All were created through him; all were created for him. He is before all else that is. In him everything continues in being. It is he who is the head of the body, the Church!” (Colossians 1:15-18) The Church is neither incidental nor peripheral to

Catholic faith. The Church is an integral part of the faith.

To deny that is to confess oneself confused, at the very least, about the creed. We do not profess “one holy, catholic, and apostolic Church” every Sunday as a matter of taste, tribal allegiance, or sociological self-definition.

We “believe in” one holy, catholic, and apostolic Church as an integral part of our confession of faith in God and in Christ. That’s the true “seamless garment.”

And that’s why many commentators on the Second Vatican Council have stressed the idea of “communion” as a defining characteristic of the Church. In prayer, in reading the Word of God, in our reception of Christ’s Body and Blood in Holy Communion, in our service to those people who are “Jesus in a disturbing disguise” (as Blessed Mother Teresa put it), our personal “communion” with the Lord is mediated through that communio, that “communion,” which is the Church. It’s not a question of “Jesus and me” over here, and the Church over there. Because Christ is the head of the body, the Church, our relationship to the Lord and our relationship to Church go together.

Thus when Rhode Island Congressman Jim Langevin says, of the recent debate over Catholic politicians and their position in the Church, “I’m very comfortable with my status, and quite frankly, my relationship with God is direct and personal and the Church is merely a guest in that relationship,” he sounds like an untutored Baptist, not a Catholic. No Catholic who understands the symphonic nature of the truth of Catholic faith can say that the Church

is “merely a guest” in his or her relationship with God. If the Church – the body – is “merely a guest,” then what is Christ, the head of the body? Another guest?

I don’t mean to George Weigel pick on Congressman Langevin. His confusions about Christ-and-theChurch-and-me are probably shared by many, perhaps millions, of his fellow-Catholics. Protestant notions of individualism are thickly woven into the fabric of American culture. So it’s perhaps not surprising, although it’s always a bit disconcerting, when Catholics in the United States talk like Protestants, saying, in effect, “My faith is a matter of my personal relationship to Christ; ‘the church’ is the building where I bear witness to that relationship on Sunday.”

Forty years ago this fall, the Second Vatican Council was finishing work on its central document: the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church. Four decades later, it’s surely time for every adult Catholic in the United States to revisit that great text, ponder its challenge to individualistic distortions of the faith, and make its teaching our own.

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

Coming of Age

Boundaries and Rules: Blessings or Curses?

In the house behind us live a couple of dogs — beagles. Most of the time they’re inside. But twice a day, they come out for some air.

There’s no fence between the properties, so I can see the happy little critters out my back window as they bound out and sniff the ground. It’s a calm little scene much of the time.

But once in a while, the mood changes. For while there’s no physical fence as a barrier between the dog’s yard and the rest of the world, there is something designed to keep them contained: one of those underground electrical fences which sends a nasty little shock via the dog’s collar when he crosses over.

One of the dogs is fine with the situation. He obviously absorbed his lessons well, and never crosses the invisible line. Such is not the case with his brother. It’s easy to tell when he’s ventured further than he should: The yelping does it. When I look out the window, I can see him hopping too, as if in mild pain.

I cannot make up my mind whether that dog is brave or just stupid. Is he a creature with a strong will and a determination to follow adventure wherever it leads, no matter

the cost? Or is he just too stupid to figure out the source of his pain and what will stop it?

You may have a similar quandary when it comes to the boundaries in your own life, and I’m sure there are scads of them: curfews and house rules, term-paper deadlines, uniform regulations and class rules. There are guidelines for how you’re to look, what to say and how to act at work.

Then there are the boundaries that aren’t so definable: You will go to college. You will major in something “useful.”

You will not embarrass your mother or father.

Is crossing these boundaries a brave act of exploration of your true identity? Or is it just a stupid act that shows you just don’t know what’s good for you?

Well, it depends. Not all boundaries are there for the same purpose, and an important part of growing to adulthood involves learning to distinguish them. The person who slavishly reveres all rules just because someone made them is just as foolish as the person who thinks it’s the height of maturity to disdain all boundaries.

Would you like a helpful clue to help tease all these boundaries apart so that you could see which are useful and

which could stand a little stretching with no harm to you or others?

Look at Jesus. Jesus pushed some boundaries to the limit: he mingled with the despised, which was supposed to render him “unclean.” He broke Amy Welborn Sabbath rules about eating and working.

But he respected just as many boundaries as he challenged: He talked tough about marriage and divorce. He was enraged by those who violated the sanctity of the temple.

Yes, you’re surrounded by boundaries: invisible fences that just might shock you if you cross them. With Jesus’ help, though, as you grow you’ll be able to tell which crossings are worth the pain and which are just plain stupid.

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Spirituality

Struggling with possessiveness The award-winning Broadway play, “Children of a Lesser God,” tells an interesting story of how love can go wrong, even when it seems like it’s going right.

The story focuses on a spirited young woman who is deaf. Intelligent, sensitive, and wounded, she resists most attempts to help her, until one day a gifted teacher, a man her own age, enters her life. For a while she resists both his love and his efforts to help her, but eventually trust grows in her and she opens up to him. They fall in love and, for a while, things are wonderful and he helps open her to the world.

But then the story takes a curious turn. At a point, a huge tension begins to grow up between them. She feels guilty about it, sensing she should be grateful, even as resentment and anger continue to grow in her. For his part, he can’t help feeling angry because he feels himself being pushed away after all he has done for her. The tension eventually produces a storm, a big one, lots of anger, lots of shouting, lots of recrimination, and a calm afterward.

In that calm, she, still feeling guilty, apologizes and tells him she feels bad because he has been such a great teacher and she owes so much to him. But the storm has taught him its lesson. He now knows the reason for her resentment. In essence, he puts it this way: “I’ve been a good teacher and have loved you, up to a point, but now I realize what I was really doing. In effect, I was saying this to you: ‘Grow, but not so much that you don’t need me anymore. Understand yourself, but not better than I understand you. Be free, but not of my expectations for you.’”

Perhaps the deepest struggle we have is with possessive-

ness and what that triggers in us: restlessness, jealousy, greed, and manipulation. Something inside our very DNA makes us want to possess whatever is beautiful and to have exclusively for ourselves whatever we love. It’s no accident that there are two commandments against jealousy. From a toddler’s tantrum over his mother’s inattention to the sexual jealousy so universal in adulthood, we see that it’s hard to look at what attracts us and respond only with gratitude and admiration.

For this reason, when we should be feeling wonderful, we often feel unsettled, restless, obsessed, and jealous in the face of beauty and love. Etty Hillesum gives us an honest expression of this in her insightful memoir, “An Interrupted Life”: “And here I have hit upon something essential. Whenever I saw a beautiful flower, what I longed to do with it was press it to my heart, or eat it all up ... I was too sensual, I might almost write too greedy. I yearned physically for all I thought was beautiful, wanted to own it. Hence the painful longing that could never be satisfied, the pining for something I thought unattainable, which I called my creative urge ...

“It all suddenly changed, God alone knows by what inner process, but it is different now. I realized it only this morning, when I recalled my short walk round the Skating Club a few nights ago. It was dusk, soft hues in the sky, mysterious silhouettes of houses, trees alive with the light through the tracery of their branches, in short, enchanting. And then I knew precisely how I had felt in the past. Then all the beauty would have gone like a stab to my heart and I would not have known what to do with the pain. Then I would have felt the need to

write, to compose verses, but the words would still have refused to come. I would have felt utterly miserable, wallowed in the pain and exhausted myself as a result. The experience would have sapped all my energy. ...

Father but its beauty now filled Ron Rolheiser me with joy. ... I no longer wanted to own it. I went home invigorated.”

What do we do with our possessiveness? Good spirituality and good psychology agree that the answer lies in a healthy maturity that can admire without seeking to own and love without seeking to manipulate. But that’s easier said than done. We don’t change our deepest instincts simply by willing away possessiveness.

What’s the answer? A lifelong walk toward a very difficult maturity. Overcoming our incurable instinct to possess is one of the final hurdles in life. When we’re no longer prone to jealousy, we’re saints.

In the meantime, it can be helpful to name this. A symptom suffers less when it knows where it belongs.

Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser is a theologian, teacher and award-winning author.

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Catholic = (Jesus + me)? Not exactly.

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September 10, 2004

TWENTY-FOURTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Exodus 32:7-11, 13-14; Psalm 51:3-4, 12-13, 17, 19; 1 Timothy 1:12-17; Luke 15:1-32.

A READING FROM THE BOOK OF EXODUS (EX 32:7-11, 13-14) The Lord said to Moses, “Go down at once to your people, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt, for they have become depraved. They have soon turned aside from the way I pointed out to them, making for themselves a molten calf and worshiping it, sacrificing to it and crying out, ‘This is your God, O Israel, who brought you out of the land of Egypt!’ “I see how stiff-necked this people is,” continued the Lord to Moses. Let me alone, then, that my wrath may blaze up against them to consume them. Then I will make of you a great nation.”

But Moses implored the Lord, his God, saying, “Why, O Lord, should your wrath blaze up against your own people, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt with such great power and with so strong a hand? Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and how you swore to them by your own self, saying, ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky; and all this land that I promised, I will give your descendants as their perpetual heritage.’” So the Lord relented in the punishment he had threatened to inflict on his people.

RESPONSORIAL PSALM (PS 51:3-4, 12-13, 17, 19) R. I will rise and go to my father.

Have mercy on me, O God, in your goodness; in the greatness of your compassion wipe out my offense.

Thoroughly wash me from my guilt and of my sin cleanse me.

R. I will rise and go to my father.

A clean heart create for me, O God, and a steadfast spirit renew within me.

Cast me not out from your presence, and your Holy Spirit take not from me.

R. I will rise and go to my father.

O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth shall proclaim your praise.

My sacrifice, O God, is a contrite spirit; a heart contrite and humbled, O God, you will not spurn.

R. I will rise and go to my father.

A READING FROM THE FIRST LETTER OF SAINT PAUL TO TIMOTHY (1 TM 1:12-17) Beloved: I am grateful to him who has strengthened me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he considered me trustworthy in appointing me to the ministry. I was once a blasphemer and a persecutor and arrogant, but I have been mercifully treated because I acted out of ignorance in my unbelief. Indeed, the grace of our Lord has been abundant, along with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. This saying is trustworthy and deserves full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. Of these I am the foremost. But for that reason I was mercifully treated, so that in me, as the foremost, Christ Jesus might display all his patience as an example for those who would come to believe in him for everlasting life. To the king of ages, incorruptible, invisible, the only God, honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

A READING FROM THE HOLY GOSPEL ACCORDING TO LUKE (LK 15:1-32 OR 15:1-10) Tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to listen to Jesus, but the Pharisees and scribes began to complain, saying, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.” So to them he addressed this parable. “What man among you hav-

ing a hundred sheep and losing one of them would not leave the ninety-nine in the desert and go after the lost one until he finds it? And when he does find it, he sets it on his shoulders with great joy and, upon his arrival home, he calls together his friends and neighbors and says to them, ‘Rejoice with me because I have found my lost sheep.’ I tell you, in just the same way there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people who have no need of repentance.

“Or what woman having ten coins and losing one would not light a lamp and sweep the house, searching carefully until she finds it? And when she does find it, she calls together her friends and neighbors and says to them, ‘Rejoice with me because I have found the coin that I lost.’

In just the same way, I tell you, there will be rejoicing among the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”

Then he said, “A man had two sons, and the younger son said to his father, ‘Father give me the share of your estate that should come to me.’ So the father divided the property between them. After a few days, the younger son collected all his belongings and set off to a distant country where he squandered his inheritance on a life of dissipation. When he had freely spent everything, a severe famine struck that country, and he found himself in dire need. So he hired himself out to one of the local citizens who sent him to his farm to tend the swine. And he longed to eat his fill of the pods on which the swine fed, but nobody gave him any.

Coming to his senses he thought, ‘How many of my father’s hired workers have more than enough food to eat, but here am I, dying from hunger. I shall get up and go to my father and I shall say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I no longer deserve to be called your son; treat me as you would treat one of your hired workers.”’ So he got up and went back to his father. While he was still a long way off, his father caught sight of him, and was filled with compassion. He ran to his son, embraced him and kissed him. His son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you; I no longer deserve to be called your son.’ But his father ordered his servants, ‘Quickly bring the finest robe and put it on him; put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. Take the fattened calf and slaughter it. Then let us celebrate with a feast, because this son of mine was dead, and has come to life again; he was lost, and has been found.’

Then the celebration began. Now the older son had been out in the field and, on his way back, as he neared the house, he heard the sound of music and dancing. He called one of the servants and asked what this might mean. The servant said to him, ‘Your brother has returned and your father has slaughtered the fattened calf because he has him back safe and sound.’ He became angry, and when he refused to enter the house, his father came out and pleaded with him. He said to his father in reply, ‘Look, all these years I served you and not once did I disobey your orders; yet you never gave me even a young goat to feast on with my friends. But when your son returns, who swallowed up your property with prostitutes, for him you slaughter the fattened calf.’ He said to him, ‘My son, you are here with me always; everything I have is yours. But now we must celebrate and rejoice, because your brother was dead and has come to life again; he was lost and has been found.’”

Scripture FATHER GERARD O’ROURKE

Bottomless, gratuitous Mercy After the “Shake Up” in the Readings of the Mass last week, we have the “parables of Mercy” this week. In fact, the theme of Mercy runs through all the Readings. I don’t know about you, the reader, but I love the theme of Mercy. As a Catholic Christian, I feel blessed to have the gift of the Mercy of God so available to us in our daily life and to have it as a central and major theme in our liturgies, rituals and prayer.

This is in such contrast with the ways of the secular world where mercy is seldom if ever mentioned. We live daily with a heartless media, an unforgiving justice system and a ruthless economy with no room for mercy.

In the first Reading from the Book of Exodus, it looks like even God is ready to give up on the “stiff-necked people of Israel.” But their great champion, Moses, stepped in and pleaded with God for his depraved, idolatrous people. Moses implored the Lord, his God, to have mercy on “your own people.” Of course, the God of Mercy listened, let go, relented and had mercy on his wayward people.

St. Paul, writing to his young adult friend, Timothy, who was a new bishop, acknowledged that he perpetrated great evils against Jesus. He became an arrogant persecutor of Christians to vent his rejection and hatred of Jesus. In this reading, St. Paul acknowledges the great mercy of Jesus to him with its abundant graces of faith and love. St. Paul, the hateful and arrogant persecutor was transformed by the wondrous gift of mercy from Jesus.

Are you beginning to fathom the mercy of God available to all of us? No matter how great our breakdowns in faith or in morals; no matter what the evils consciously or unconsciously perpetrated by us or anyone else; no matter how these evils were compounded over the days, the years or the decades, the mercy of God is available to us always. That is the message of the readings today.

Now we come to the Gospel Readings.

Some scholars and teachers have said that if all we had of the New Testament was Chapter 15 of the Gospel of Luke that we would have the core of the message of Jesus.

This miraculous teaching of Jesus came to us as his response to complaining religious people and scholars who said, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.” So I say in 2004, thank God for those “complaining religious people.” They inspired Jesus to tell three stories that have touched and moved countless millions of people ever since about the mercy of God. No matter who we are or how far away from God we think we are. No matter how heedless or stubborn we have become. No matter how lost on the journey of life we seem to be. No matter the reason! God loves us and never gives up on us. That is Jesus’ message in these parables.

First, there is the parable of the “Lost Sheep.” One out of a hundred gets lost. We, in our age, have become accustomed to “collateral damage,” that is a percentage of loss that “we can live with.” Not so for Jesus! There can be no collateral damage, no loss for Jesus, the Good Shepherd. In my home county in Ireland, we have great sheep, elegant, almost aristocratic in their bearing and lineage. They are so good that people from other places think that we stole them. However, even such exceptional sheep tend to be foolish, wayward and with a penchant for getting lost as one did in the story that Jesus told. In the context of the mercy of God, the lost one must be found as happens in the story. And when the lost vagrant is found there must be rejoicing not just here on earth but even in heaven.

The second parable is more domestic and placid though no less harrowing for the woman in the story who lost one of her ten precious coins. A frantic search is made and she finds it. Rejoicing ensues! So, also in heaven “the angels of God rejoice over one sinner who repents.”

The third story is about a father who had two sons. The younger, breaking all the rules of his culture, asked for, received and then squandered his share of the estate that his father had given to him. This story as related to us by Luke has probably no equal in all of literature. It champions the huge theme of God’s mercy. It breaks through and shatters all the restrictions that we poor mortals put on how God should act toward sinners of all stripes.

In this third story, the poor Jewish father welcomes home his wastrel son who also violated his Jewishness by consorting with pagans and even eating their food. Not alone does the father welcome his son back. He rejoices! He puts on a banquet and invites everyone to participate in his joy. Everyone does except the pride of his life – his elder son – who spurns his brother and father. Now the father has to humble himself to convert the older son. He begs him to forgive his brother and join the joyous celebrations. No wonder some people call this story “the parable of the prodigal father.”

May we always be truly open to receive and accept the mercy of God in our lives at all times, no matter what the circumstances. May we be willing to be merciful like Jesus even if it looks like we are squandering our love as God is always ready to do for us. As people of mercy, both givers and receivers, may our hearts and lives always be filled with the joy of heaven.

Father Gerard O’Rourke is Director Emeritus of the Office of Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

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Following is the Vatican text of Pope John Paul II’s remarks to bishops from Maine, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont during their “ad limina” visits. The bishops met the pope at his summer residence in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, Sept. 2.

Dear brother bishops, 1. Through the gift of God we have become “ministers of the Gospel” and received the grace “to preach to the nations the unfathomable riches of Jesus Christ.” Echoing these words of the apostle Paul (cf. Eph 3:7-8), and in a spirit of gratitude for our common calling, I warmly welcome you, my brother bishops of the ecclesiastical provinces of Boston and Hartford, on the occasion of your quinquennial visit to the tombs of the apostles and the see of Peter. Taking up once again my series of reflections on the teaching office entrusted to bishops within the communion of the people of God, I wish to consider some particular concerns facing the church in the United States as she carries out her duty to proclaim the Gospel and to lead all people to the fullness of faith, freedom and salvation in Christ.

2. Throughout these reflections on the exercise of the “munus episcopale propheticum,” I have more than once drawn attention to the importance of the evangelization of culture. A fundamental challenge in this area is surely that of bringing about a fruitful encounter between the Gospel and the new global culture which is rapidly taking shape as a result of unprecedented growth in communications and the expansion of a world economy. I am convinced that the church in the United States can play a critical role in meeting this challenge, since this emerging reality is in many ways the fruit of contemporary Western, and particularly American, Pope John Paul II and Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick of Washington give their blessing at the end experiences, attitudes and ideals. The new evangelization of the pope's weekly general audience at the Vatican Sept. 1. The Holy Father met with the calls for a clear discernment of the profound spiritual needs Bishops of New England for their ‘ad limina’ visit the following day at Castel Gandolfo. and aspirations of a culture which, for all its aspects of materialism and relativism, is nonetheless profoundly attracted to the primordially religious dimension of the human experience sion of hearts and the spiritual renewal of humanity that the cant spiritual and material challenges which your local churches and is struggling to rediscover its spiritual roots. hope of a better tomorrow lies, and here the witness, example are experiencing in this regard, I ask you to encourage all the For the church in America, the evangelization of culture and cooperation of religious believers have a unique role to play. faithful — clergy, religious and lay — to persevere in their pubcan thus offer a unique contribution to the church’s mission 4. I also wish to express my personal gratitude for the tra- lic witness of faith and hope, so that Christ’s light, which can “ad gentes” (for all people) in our day. Through her preach- ditional generosity of the faithful of the United States to the never be dimmed (cf. Jn 1:5), will continue to shine forth in and ing, her catechesis and her public witness, the church in your church’s mission “ad gentes” through the training and sending through the church’s entire life and ministry. country is challenged to develop a new kerygmatic style, one forth of generations of missionaries and through the contribuIn a particular way I would ask you to be strongly supcapable of appealing to the spiritual needs of contemporary tions of countless Catholics to the foreign missions. I encour- portive of your brother priests, many of whom have suffered men and women and of offering them a clear and convincing age you to make every effort to revive this powerful manifes- deeply because of the much-publicized failings of some of response grounded in the truth of the Gospel. Catholics of all tation of solidarity with the universal church. History bears the church’s ministers. I would ask you also to convey my ages must be helped to appreciate more fully the distinctive- witness that a sustained commitment to the mission “ad personal gratitude for the generous and selfless service ness of the Christian message, its capacity to satisfy the gentes” renews the whole church, strengthens the faith of indi- which mark the lives of so many American priests, as well deepest yearnings of the human heart in every age, and the viduals and communities, reinforces their Christian identity, as my deep appreciation of their daily efforts to be models beauty of its summons to a life completely centered on faith and gives rise to fresh enthusiasm for overcoming the chal- of holiness and pastoral charity in the Christian communiin the triune God, obedience to his revealed word and loving lenges and difficulties of the moment (cf. “Redemptoris ties entrusted to their care. In a very real way the renewal of configuration to Christ’s paschal mystery, in which we see Missio,” 2). May the church in your country discover the the church is linked to the renewal of the priesthood (cf. disclosed the full measure of our humanity and our super- sources for a profound interior renewal through a revitalization “Optatam Totius,” 1). For this reason I ask you to make natural call to fulfillment in love (cf. “Gaudium et Spes,” 22). of missionary zeal, above all by promoting vocations to mis- every effort to be present as a father and a brother in the 3. The church in the sionary institutes and pro- midst of your priests, to show heartfelt gratitude for their United States has long been posing, especially to young ministry, to join them frequently in prayer and to encourage committed to making her I once more express my conviction, people, the lofty ideal of a them in fidelity to their noble vocation as men completely voice heard in public debate life completely devoted to consecrated to the service of the Lord and his church. In a in the defense of fundamen- born of faith, that God is even now the Gospel. word, tell your priests that I hold them in my heart. tal human rights, the dignity 6. At the conclusion of these reflections on our responsibil5. More than once in the of the person and the ethical preparing a great springtime for course of these meetings I ity for the church’s prophetic witness before the world, I once requirements of a just and have told you of my admira- more express my conviction, born of faith, that God is even now well-ordered society. In a the Gospel, and that this calls all of tion for the outstanding con- preparing a great springtime for the Gospel (cf. “Redemptoris pluralistic nation like your tribution which the Catholic Missio,” 86), and that this calls all of us to “open the doors to own, this has necessarily us to “open the doors to Christ” in community in the United Christ” in every aspect of our life and activity. As I suggested in involved practical cooperaStates has made to the spread the apostolic letter “Novo Millennio Ineunte,” ours is the wontion with men and women of of the Gospel, the care of the derful yet demanding responsibility of reflecting Christ, the various religious beliefs and every aspect of our life and activity. poor, the sick and those in light of the world. Indeed, “this is a daunting task if we considwith all people of good will need, and the defense of fun- er our human weakness, which so often renders us opaque and in the service of the common good. I am deeply appreciative of damental human and Christian values. Today I wish to encour- full of shadows. But it is a task we can accomplish if we remain your continuing efforts to promote ecumenical and interreli- age you, and through you, all the Catholics of America, to con- ever turned to the light of Christ and open to the grace which gious dialogue on every level of the church’s life, not only as a tinue to bear faithful testimony to the truth of Christ and the makes us a new creation” (op. cit., 54). means of overcoming misunderstandings between believers, but power of his grace to inspire wisdom, reconcile differences, heal Dear brother bishops, as I set this challenge before you, I also for fostering a sense of common responsibility for the wounds and point to a future of hope. The church in your coun- assure you once more of my confidence and my fraternal building of a future of peace. As the tragic events of Sept. 11, try has been chastened by the events of the past two years, and affection. Entrusting you and the clergy, religious and lay 2001, have made clear, the building of a global culture of soli- much effort has rightly been expended on understanding and faithful of your particular churches to the loving intercession darity and respect for human dignity is one of the great moral addressing the issues of sexual abuse which have cast a shadow of Mary, mother of the church, I cordially impart my apostasks confronting humanity today. In the end, it is in the conver- on her life and ministry. As you continue to confront the signifi- tolic blessing as a pledge of strength and peace in the Lord.

Archbishop O’Malley’s remarks to the Holy Father Here is the text of Boston Archbishop Sean P. O’Malley’s remarks to Pope John Paul II on behalf of the bishops of New England.

As the pastors of provinces of Boston and Hartford, we present ourselves to you representing the 3,776,000 Catholics, 3,149 priests, 5,645 religious and 582 deacons of New England. The first Mass was celebrated in our region in 1604 on the Island of Saint Croix in the state of Maine. Over the centuries we have grown from a small persecuted minority into a large and vibrant community. Today we are comprised of many different ethnic groups, and we continue to welcome new immigrants.

Our recent history is one of great pain because of the tragedy of clerical sexual abuse with its all-devastating consequences.

As a church we are striving to bring healing to all of those affected by this crisis. Oftentimes the victims and their families were among those most committed to the life of the church, and

so the abuse has been experienced as the most serious betrayal.

Our Catholic faith assures us that our God is so loving and powerful that he brings good out of evil. We are humbled by our sins and offenses but confident that God does not forsake us and calls us to strive for healing and reconciliation.

The pain of these recent years has certainly convinced us of the importance of prayer in our lives. As you reminded us in “Novo Millenio Ineunte,” Christians cannot survive in today’s world on a superficial prayer life. All of our pastoral programs must have prayer as their foundation in order that we find the strength to carry out the mission of the church, with humility, love and mercy.

We thank you for all that you do to confirm our faith and to lead the church of Christ on the path of fidelity and service. Your many writings, your outreach to the youth and your missionary journeys have inspired us all in our pastoral min-

istry. We are particularly grateful for your unceasing defense of human life when it is most vulnerable, the life of the unborn and of those whose lives are slipping away.

From apostolic times the church has sprung up around the celebration of Mass as when those first Christians came together in fellowship and prayer and for the breaking of the bread. We thank you for your encyclical, “Ecclesia de Eucharistia,” and the gift of a eucharistic year. May this time leading up to the synod be a special grace for all Catholics and a call to renew our eucharistic devotion, to reaffirm the centrality of Sunday Mass and to promote priestly vocations.

Finally, we commend your ministry to the loving care of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the mother of the Good Shepherd.

May she continue to watch over and protect you and obtain for you the grace and wisdom you need to serve God’s people as the successor of St. Peter.

(CNS BY ALESSIA GIULIANI, CATHOLIC PRESS PHOTO)

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Food & Fun Sept. 25, 26: St. Philip Parish Annual Festival. A Noe Valley tradition for almost 70 years. Children’s and teen games, homemade foods, arts and crafts, wheels of chance, live entertainment. Open 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. both days. “The level of parish involvement is impressive,” said Father Tony LaTorre, pastor. Call (415) 282-0141.

Oct. 2: St. Mary’s Cathedral announces two special events – Blessing of the Animals at 10 a.m. and its Jazz/Gospel Mass at 5:30 p.m. “The festive blessing will be held in front of the Cathedral on the Geary Blvd, Plaza,” said Father John Talesfore, Cathedral administrator. “Bring pets on a leash or pictures of pets and don’t forget your pooper-scooper.” The Jazz Mass is a “prayerful and spirited experience” and all are invited, he added. Call (415) 567-2020.

Oct. 3: Harvest Fest, an Arts and Crafts fair benefiting St. Matthias Preschool, Redwood City from 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. Local vendors – 20 – offer wonderful and creative items. Also a Bake Booth, Food Booth, Silent Auction and Raffle. Children’s area too. Call (650) 367-1320.

Sept. 16: Garden Luncheon benefiting San Mateo County Pro-Life Council at noon in the gardens of 259 Bridge Rd. Hillsborough. Featured speaker is Dawn White from Heritage House in San Jose, a resource for pregnant women in need. Tickets $20 per person. Call (650) 342-1600.

Sept. 18: East Meets West, third annual luncheon and auction benefiting the Viet Blind Children Foundation, Sept. 18th at St. Matthew Parish auditorium, 9th Ave. at El Camino Real, San Mateo. Doors open at noon to silent and live auctions as well as raffles for cash prizes and other fun. For ticket information, please contact the foundation at (415) 713-2481 or (408) 296-6557. Visit the Web site at www.vietblind children.org.

Sept. 18: The Lourdes Grotto at St. Anne’s Home is 100 years old. To mark the occasion, the Little Sisters of the Poor announce a Marian Walk-a-Thon from St. Ignatius Church to St. Anne’s Grotto, which is modeled after the famed site in France where Mary appeared to Bernadette. All are invited to join in this mile and a half walk for the intentions of today’s world including respect for life, healing and peace. Walk starts at 4 p.m. with Mass at 5 p.m. and reception after. Those unable to walk are invited to enjoy the procession on the grounds of St. Anne’s, 300 Lake St., SF. Call (415) 751-6510.

Sept. 19: Celebrate the 10th anniversary of St. Ignatius Parish, 650 Parker Ave. at Fulton, SF. Mass at 10 a.m. features voices from parish choir as well as singers from the University of San Francisco. Reception and brunch follows. All are welcome. Call (415) 422-2188.

Sept. 30: St. Francis of Assisi Awards will be presented by Archbishop William J. Levada to well known San Franciscan Angela Alioto and Conventual Franciscan Brother George Cherrie. Ceremonies are part of annual fundraiser for National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi, Vallejo at Columbus in North Beach. Streets surrounding the shrine are roped off each year for this special and formal event. Evening features concert by shrine’s Schola Cantorum.

Tickets $95 per person. Call (415) 983-0405.

Nov. 6: Bal de Paris, annual fundraiser benefiting Notre Dame des Victoires school. The evening’s theme, Claire de Lune a Paris, will commemorate the school’s 80th anniversary and honor Marist Father Etienne Siffert, who shepherded the downtown parish for almost two decades. Tickets include cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, dinner, dancing and other entertainments.

Call (415) 421-0069 or Bal2004@ndvsf.org.

Social Justice/ Family Life Sept. 21: How to be a Christian Peacemaker, an evening with Detroit Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Gumbleton at 7 p.m. at St. Thomas More Church, 1300 Junipero Serra Blvd. at Brotherhood Way, SF. Call Ken PrestonPile at (510) 535-2143. Sponsored by Pax Christi.

Through Oct. 13: Relationships and Prayer From the Heart, a Wednesday morning and evening conference at St. Sebastian Church, Sir Francis Drake Blvd. and Bon Air Rd., Greenbrae. Meets 10 – 11 a.m. and 7:30 – 8:30 p.m. Theme is Recognizing Your Unique Sacred Gift. Facilitator is graduate psychologist and St. Sebastian parishioner, Andra Dhein. Class includes prayer, scripture, centering meditation.

Registration is $30 per person. Call (415) 925-0487.

Sept. 18: Would you like to deepen your marriage relationship? Marriage Enrichment Workshop at St. Peter Church, 700 Oddstad Blvd., Pacifica, 9:15 a.m. – 4 p.m. $40 per couple includes lunch, book and expenses of presenting couple, Anne and Bob Herendine of Salinas. Call (650) 359-6313.

Information about Natural Family Planning and people in the Archdiocese offering instruction are available from the Office of Marriage and Family Life of the Archdiocese, Chris Lyford, director, at (415) 614-5680.

Sat. at 9 a.m.: Pray the Rosary for Life at 815 Eddy St. between Franklin and Van Ness, SF. Call (415) 752-4922.

Worldwide Marriage Encounter Weekends can add to a Lifetime of Love. For more information or to register, call Michele or George Otte at (888) 568-3018.

Retrouvaille, a program for troubled marriages.

The weekend and follow up sessions help couples heal and renew their families. Presenters are three couples and a Catholic priest. Call Peg or Ed Gleason at (415) 221-4269 or edgleason@webtv.net or Pat and Tony Fernandez at (415) 893-1005.

The Adoption Network of Catholic Charities offers free adoption information meetings twice a month. Singles and married couples are invited to learn more about adopting a child from foster care.

Call (415) 406-2387 for information.

The Office of Worship announces training days for lectors, Oct. 2, and extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion, Oct. 9, at Our Lady of Mercy Church, One Elmwood Dr., Daly City, from 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. Expert instruction offered in basic liturgical theology, spirituality and practice. $10 registration. Call Pat Vallez-Kelly at (415) 614-5585 or vallezkellyp@sfarchdiocese.org.

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Datebook Singer Aurora Bardes (aka Dawn Jensen Farry) launches the St. Stephen concert series Sept. 26th at 4 p.m. with the provocative sounds of sacred and operatic music. An award winning soprano, “She sings with passion and sensitivity,” said St. Stephen music director, Mary Liz Smith who will accompany. $10 donation benefits parish music ministry. Call (415) 681-2444. The church is at Eucalyptus Dr. and 23rd Ave. in San Francisco. Don’t forget October 16 at 7pm it’s “Late Night Catechism” at St. Stephen’s.

Nonie Newton-Breen, an alum of Chicago’s famed Second City comedy troupe, is Sister!!! Buckle your seatbelt and settle in for this rollicking entertainment.

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Mon – Fri., KVTO 1400 AM, 7:30 p.m.: Catholic Radio Hour features rosary, music and commentary with Father Tom Daly.

Sunday 6 a.m., WB Channel 20/Cable 13 and KTSF Channel 26/Cable 8: TV Mass with Msgr.

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1st Sun, 5 a.m., CBS Channel 5: Mosaic, featuring conversations on current Catholic issues.

3rd Sun, 5:30 a.m., KRON Channel 4: For Heaven’s Sake, featuring conversations about Catholic spirituality.

Office of Young Adult Ministry: Connecting late teens, 20s and 30s, single and married to the Catholic Church. Contact Mary Jansen, 415-614-5596, jansenm@sfarchdiocese.org. Check out our website www.sfyam.org for a list of events around the Bay Area.

Sept. 18: Fall Fest, Choices: What’s God Have to Do With It? at the University of San Francisco with keynote, workshops, exhibits, Mass, dinner and dance. Bishop Jaime Soto of Orange is among the speakers.

Registration is $50 before Sept 3 and $60 at the door.

Contact for registration, 415-614-5594, www.sfyam.org.

2nd and 4th Mon.: St. Vincent de Paul Young Adult Group meets. “Just show up and be part of our community.” Meetings take place at SVDP, Steiner and Green, SF at 7:30 p.m.

Thurs. at 7:30 p.m.: St. Dominic Adult Formation Series in the parish hall 2390 Bush St. at Steiner, SF. Explore the skills needed to understand the bible and help it inform daily life. Join at any time.

Contact Scott Moyer at scott@stdominics.org.

Reunions Sept. 18: St. Paul High School, San Francisco, class of ’64, 1 p.m. at the Terrace Room of El Rancho Motel, Millbrae. Contact classmate, Liz Hannan, at lizhannan3@yahoo.com.

Sept. 19: Centennial Alumni Reunion, St. Anne of the Sunset Elementary School beginning with Mass at 10:30 a.m. and reception following. “We are hoping to find many of our alumni,” the school said. Call (415) 664-7977.

Sept. 26: Class of ’66, Notre Dame des Victoires High School at St. Francis Yacht Club. Contact Yvonne Deasy-Gowdy at ygowdey@yahoo.com or Renee Lorda Fassett at (510) 655-8903.

Oct. 1: Class of ’47, Presentation High School, SF, 11:30 a.m. Olympic Club, Lakeside. Contact Mary-June Swalen at (408) 354-1544 or Alice Pavano at (415) 826-7771.

Oct. 16: Reunion for all alumnae of the revered and much missed St. Brigid High School, San Francisco beginning at 11 a.m. at St. Brigid Elementary School at Van Ness and Broadway.

Contact Pat Sabatini at (650) 685-5666.

Oct. 17: Notre Dame des Victoires Alumni Mass commemorating the 80th anniversary of the wellknown downtown school. Liturgy is at 12:15 p.m. followed by reception. Call (415) 421-0069.

Nov. 5, 6, 7: Reunion Weekend Celebration for Notre Dame High School, Belmont honoring graduates from classes of ’54, ’59, ’64,’ 69, ’74, ’79, ’84, ’89, ’94, ‘ 99. Weekend features are Nov. 6 luncheon at 11:30 a.m. and all alumnae are invited to Nov. 5 lunch as well as Mass and Brunch on Nov. 7. Call the Development Office at (650) 595-1913, ext. 351.

Nov. 13: Class of ’54, St. Cecilia Elementary School, SF. Reception and dinner at the school.

Contact Mary Rudden at (415) 824-7695 or Don Ahlbach at (650) 348-5577 or dahlbach@pacbell.net.

June 25: “It’s been a long time but it’s coming,” said St. Agnes Elementary alum, Sam Coffey, about upcoming reunion for all former students of the missed and now closed SF school. Please contact Sam at coffey@eesclaw.com; Leanne Guth Chapman at chapman@stanne.com; Jana Serezlis at janaser@hotmail.com. If without Internet access, contact Leonor Pokorny at St. Agnes rectory at (415) 487-8560.

Prayer Opportunities/Lectures 2nd Sat.: Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur offer Saturday Morning Prayer 9:30 – 11:30 at their Province Center, 1520 Ralston Ave. across from Ralston Hall on their university campus in Belmont.

Call (650) 593-2045, ext. 350. This year’s theme is the Beatitudes: Becoming Beatitude People.

Single, Divorced, Separated Separated and Divorced support groups meet 3rd Sat. at 6:30 p.m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral, call Pat at (415) 492-3331; and 1st and 3rd Wed. at 7:30 p.m. at St. Stephen Parish Center, SF, call Gail at (650) 591-8452.

Catholic Adult Singles Assoc. of Marin meets for support and activities. Call Bob at (415) 8970639 for information.

Consolation Ministry Groups meet at the following parishes. Please call numbers shown for more information.

San Mateo County: St. Catherine of Siena, Burlingame. Call (650) 344-6884; Our Lady of Angels, Burlingame. Call Louise Nelson at (650) 343-8457 or Barbara Arena at (650) 344-3579. Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Redwood City. Call (650) 366-3802; Good Shepherd, Pacifica. Call Sister Carol Fleitz at (650) 355-2593; St. Robert, San Bruno. Call (650) 5892800. Immaculate Heart of Mary, Belmont. Call Ann Ponty at (650) 598-0658 or Mary Wagner at (650) 591-3850. Marin County: St. Isabella, San Rafael.

Call Pat Sack at (415) 472-5732. Our Lady of Loretto, Novato. Call Sister Jeanette at (415) 897-2171.

San Francisco: St.Gabriel. Call Barbara Elordi at (415) 564-7882. St. Finn Barr in English and Spanish.

Call Carmen Solis at (415) 584-0823; St. Cecilia. Call Peggy Abdo at (415) 564-7882 ext. 3; Epiphany in Spanish. Call Kathryn Keenan at (415) 564-7882.

Ministry for parents who have lost a child is available from Our Lady of Angels Parish, Burlingame. Call Ina Potter at (650) 347-6971 or Barbara Arena at (650) 344-3579. Young Widow/Widower group meets at St. Gregory, San Mateo. Call Barbara Elordi at (415) 564-7882.

Information about children’s and teen groups is available from Barbara Elordi at (415) 564-7882.

Returning Catholics Programs for Catholics interested in returning to the Church, have been established at the following parishes: Marin County: St. Hilary, Tiburon, Mary Musalo, (415) 435-2775; St. Anselm, Ross, call (415) 453-2342; St. Sebastian, Greenbrae, Jean Mariani at (415) 4617060; Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Mill Valley, Rick Dullea

Return to Me, a Holy Spirit Conference at St. Mary’s Cathedral Conference Center, Gough and Geary Blvd., SF. Opens Oct. 1 with Mass at 7 p.m. with San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop Ignatius Wang presiding. Continues through Sunday, Oct. 3 with prayer and presentations for all ages. Additional Masses Sat. at 5 p.m. and Sunday at 4:30 p.m. Speakers include Father Joe Landi, Archbishop’s liaison to Charismatic Renewal. Fees are $20 per day or $30 for both days.

Call Ernie Von Emster (650) 594-1131.

or Diane Claire at (415) 388-4190; St. Mary Star of the Sea, Sausalito, Lloyd Dulbecco at (415) 331-7949.

San Francisco: Old St. Mary’s Cathedral, SF, Michael Adams at (415) 695-2707; St. Philip the Apostle, 725 Diamond St. at Elizabeth/24th, SF. Call (415) 282-0141; St. Dominic, SF, Lee Gallery at (415) 221-1288; Holy Name of Jesus, SF, (415) 664-8590.

San Mateo County: St. Bartholomew, San Mateo, Dan Stensen at (650) 344-5665; St. Catherine of Siena, Burlingame, Silvia Chiesa at (650) 685-8336; Our Lady of Angels, Burlingame, Dorothy Heinrichs or Maria Cianci at (650) 347-7768; St. Dunstan, Millbrae, Dianne Johnston at (650) 697-0952; Our Lady of the Pillar, Half Moon Bay, Meghan at (650) 726-4337; St. Peter, Pacifica, Chris Booker at (650) 738-1398.

Meetings 2nd Wed.: Men’s Evening of Reflection: Being Catholic in the Modern World at the National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi, 610 Vallejo St. at Columbus, SF beginning at 7 p.m. Call (415) 983-0405.

Courage, a Catholic support group for persons with same-sex attraction, meets Thursdays at 7:30 p.m. Call Father Lawrence Goode at (650) 322-2152.

Taize Prayer 3rd Wed. at 7:30 p.m. with the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur in their Province Center Chapel, 1520 Ralston Ave., Belmont across from Ralston Hall on the campus of their Notre Dame de Namur University.. Call (650) 593-2045, ext. 350 or www.SistersofNotreDameCa.org.

1st Fri. at 8 p.m. at Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Dr., Burlingame with Mercy Sister Suzanne Toolan.

Call (650) 340-7452; Church of the Nativity, 210 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park at 7:30 p.m. Call Deacon Dominic Peloso at (650) 322-3013.

2nd Fri. at 7:30 p.m. at St. Peter Church, 700 Oddstad Blvd., Pacifica. Call Deacon Peter Solan at (650) 359-6313.

3rd Fri. at 8 p.m. at Woodside Priory Chapel, 302 Portola Rd., Portola Valley. Call Dean Miller at (650) 631-2882 1st Sat. at 8:30 p.m. at SF Presidio Main Post Chapel, 130 Fisher Loop. Call Catherine Rondainaro at (415) 713-0225

Volunteer Opportunities St. Vincent de Paul Society of San Francisco needs your help at its Help Desk. Service includes sorting donations and helping clients. If anyone would like to volunteer - also small groups of volunteers one Saturday a month - they should call (415) 202-9955.”

St. Vincent de Paul of San Mateo County needs Spanish/English-speaking volunteers to answer phones in 2 – 3 hour shifts between 9:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. at their offices, 50 No. B St., San Mateo. Volunteers do intake of clients’ requests, log the call and enter into Accessbased computer data system. Call (650) 373-0620.

Most Holy Redeemer AIDS Support Group needs volunteers to provide practical and emotional support to individuals with HIV-AIDS and/or assist with various program events and activities. Many opportunities available. Call (415) 863-1581 or www.mhr-asg.com. Caring for the Caregiver with Carolina Shaper meets Mondays 6 – 7:30 p.m. Call Ms. Shaper at (415) 984-0501.

Help a child succeed in school and in life by serving as a tutor for two hours a week at Sacred Heart Elementary School, 735 Fell St., SF. Sessions take place Mon. – Thurs. from 3:30 – 5:30 p.m. Help welcome in a variety of subjects. Call Mary Potter at (415) 621-8035.

St. Joseph’s Family Center, a homeless shelter for families at 10th and Howard St., SF, is looking for volunteers to help on a regular basis to help with monitoring the computer lab and routine clean up of the facility. If you are interested, call David Harvey at (415) 575-4920, ext. 218. Young adults visit here Saturdays, twice a month. Contact Susan Guevara, susangsf@yahoo.com.

Young adults are invited to assist in the Tenderloin Children’s Reading Program, Tuesdays, 5:30 – 7 p.m. at 570 Ellis St., SF. Helps 6 – 11 year olds with homework. Contact James Nitz, tenderloinkids@aol.com, and (415) 923-0376.

San Francisco’s St. Anthony Foundation needs volunteers as well as canned goods and other staples. Non-perishable foods may be taken to 121 Golden Gate Ave. M – F from 8”30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Volunteer candidates should call (415) 241-2600 or visit the web site at www.stanthonysf.org.

SF’s Laguna Honda Hospital is in need of extraordinary ministers including Eucharistic ministers and readers as well as volunteers to visit with residents and help in the office and with events. Call Sister Miriam Walsh at (415) 664-1580, ext. 2422.

St. Francis Fraternity, a secular Franciscan organization, needs volunteers to help with their 20 year old tradition of serving breakfast on Sunday mornings to their Tenderloin neighbors. Call (415) 621-3279.

Maryknoll Affiliates: Bay Area chapter meets 4th Sat. for two hours at St. Ignatius Church, corner of Fulton and Parker, SF, to share community, prayer, and action on social justice and global concerns. Members occasionally do short periods of mission service around the world at Maryknoll locations. Call Marie Wren at (415) 331-9139 or mwren48026@aol.com.

Datebook is a free listing for parishes, schools and non-profit groups. Please include event name, time, date, place, address and an information phone number. Listing must reach Catholic San Francisco at least two weeks before the Friday publication date desired.

Mail your notice to: Datebook, Catholic San Francisco, One Peter Yorke Way, S.F. 94109, or fax it to (415) 614-5633.

Catholic San Francisco

September 10, 2004

Catholic organizations urge support for hospital ‘conscience clause’ its policy and community sentiment against it.

“Abortion advocacy groups even urged the state of New Jersey to require a Catholic health care system to build an abortion clinic on its premises, to serve what they see as a right of ‘access’ to abortion,” the letter said. In a third example, the state of New Mexico refused to approve a hospital lease because the community-owned institution declined to offer elective abortions, the letter said.

The “conscience protection” language in the appropriations bill “will protect hospitals and other institutional and individual health care providers from governmental discrimination when they decline to provide, pay for or refer for abortions,” it continued.

The letter said such a provision is necessary because without it at least one court found that receiving federal funds made the Alaska hospital cited a “‘quasipublic’ actor with an obligation to further what the court saw as government’s goal of advancing abortion. In effect, abortion advocates maintain that receipt of federal funds requires conscientiously opposed health care providers to perform abortions, even when the federal government itself has long decided not to fund abortion.”

By Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — The presidents of two Catholic health care organizations and the general secretary of the U.S. bishops’ conference urged members of Congress to protect a conscience clause in a pending appropriations bill.

A Sept. 3 letter to members of the House urged their support for a section of the appropriations bill for the departments of Labor and Health and Human Services that allows health care providers to decline to provide abortions without risking the loss of federal funding.

It was signed by Father Michael D. Place, president of the Catholic Health Association; Dr. John D. Lane, president of the Catholic Medical Association; and Msgr. William P. Fay, general secretary of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

The House was scheduled to begin floor consideration of the bill Sept. 8.

The provision “is urgently needed to counteract a nationwide effort to attack the conscience rights of religious and other health care providers,” the letter said. It cited several examples, including that of an Alaska community hospital that was required by a state court to provide elective late-term abortions, despite

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During World War II, Marvelli pedaled his bicycle — loaded with food, clothing and other provisions — to displaced families who had lost everything during the aerial bombing campaigns. People who knew him said his generosity was coupled with such tenderness that those who received his aid accepted it with joy.

In his diary, Marvelli wrote, “We must give others the gifts we have been given freely with God’s love.”

Being caught up in the “fallacy of having” distracts one from the “truth of being,” he also wrote.

After the war, Marvelli used his engineering abilities to help rebuild Rimini, which had been almost razed. In 1946, at age 28, he was killed by a truck while on his bicycle.

Italian lay woman Pina Suriano was born in Sicily in 1915.

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The Question of God: Sigmund Freud & C.S. Lewis with Dr. Armand Nicholi NEW YORK (CNS) — In “The Question of God: Sigmund Freud & C.S. Lewis with Dr. Armand Nicholi,” an absorbing four-hour series premiering on Wednesday, Sept. 15, and continuing on Sept. 22, 10-12 p.m. each night on KQED, Harvard professor and psychiatrist Nicholi poses the granddaddy of all cosmic queries to a round-table panel of believers and nonbelievers, using two of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century — Freud and Lewis — as guides for their discussion.

Based on the popular course Nicholi has been teaching for more than 30 years, the thought-provoking documentary, produced by the husband-and-wife team of Catherine Tatge and Dominique Lasseur, interlaces the debate with handsomely dramatized recreations of episodes from Freud and Lewis’ lives — by far the most compelling parts of the program — as well as talking-head interviews with biographers and historians.

Why Freud and Lewis? Well, according to Nicholi, few other individuals in the last century have left a more lasting impression on the moral fabric of contemporary Western civilization.

Opening narration refers to Freud (1856-1939) — the father of modern psychoanalysis and a dyed-in-the-wool atheist — as “the most influential spokesman for the secular world view,” and Oxford don Lewis (1898-1963) as “the most influential for the spiritual world view.”

The series posits that each person’s search for meaning ultimately hinges on one essential question: Does God really exist? It is mankind’s defining litmus test, the great dividing line between the two intellectually incongruous camps of materialism (the world is mechanical and consists only of matter) and theism (the world was created and consists of matter and spirit), of which Freud and Lewis were the 20th century’s standard bearers par excellence.

With actors playing the roles of the two men at various stages in their lives, part one chronicles Lewis and Freud’s formative years from youth through early adulthood.

While their views differed dramatically, the atheist and the apologist shared surprisingly similar upbringings. Both were raised in devout households — one Jewish, one Protestant — and enjoyed relatively happy childhoods. Re-enactments detail the untimely death of Lewis’ mother and subsequent emotional abandonment by his father, which sent young Lewis into a spir-

itual tailspin. The horrors witnessed in the trenches of World War creations and the round-table symposium, the former spilling I further tested his Christian faith, a faith he soon abandoned. over thematically into the proximate group conversation.

But his once-passionate apostasy Wide-ranging discussions cover was short-lived; he returned to agnostisuch topics as miracles, the compaticism and eventually Christianity “the bility of reason and faith and the limits most dejected and reluctant convert in of the scientific method versus divine all England,” ultimately becoming one revelation. And while the discussions of its staunchest and most eloquent are lively and insightful, the heady defenders. subject matter at times becomes more By comparison the series recounts abstruse than engaging. how Freud — a product of the age of Still, it is interesting to watch both Darwin — “reasoned” his way out of sides defend their contrapuntal posihis faith, eschewing emotion for a tions, even as they wrestle with permuch more analytic road map to disbesonal doubt. While the rap session lief. Freud would come to view cregives a fair voice to all views dence in the transcendent as illusion — expressed, the panel — which a wish-fulfillment fantasy — calling includes several members from the religious faith “the universal obsessionscientific community — has no repreal neurosis of humanity.” He contended sentative from any organized religion. that all religion is rooted in childhood “It may be that Freud and Lewis fears and desires and that the idea of a represent conflicting parts of ourheavenly Father is just a projected subselves,” Nicholi says. “Part of us stitution for unfulfilled relationships yearns for a relationship with the with our own biological parents. source of all joy, hope and happiThe program effectively contrasts ness, as described by Lewis, and Freud’s scientific approach to that of yet there is another part that raises Declan Conlan as young Lewis. the more imaginative Lewis, dedicating its fist in defiance and says with a good deal of time to the latter’s concept of “joy” — a longing Freud, ‘I will not surrender.’ Whatever part we choose to for the eternal which no earthly relationship can satisfy — express will determine our purpose, our identity and our which he experienced through sudden, ephemeral glimpses of whole philosophy of life.” sublime beauty.

Surprisingly, it is an avowed skeptic on the panel who Unlike Freud, Lewis believed that the universe was filled intuits the value of faith over certainty, suggesting that if with what Nicholi calls “signposts unmistakably pointing to an there is a God “maybe he wants us to take a leap of faith intelligence beyond it.” One area of agreement, according to the and not reason our way to him.” program, is that both Lewis and Freud felt the question of God’s The debate will go on. As the filmmakers would admit, existence was of vital importance to understanding who we are, the age-old question of God’s existence can hardly be even if the answers they arrived at were diametrically opposed. resolved in four hours, but based on the two hours viewed this Part two, which was not screened, follows their stories as well-worth-watching series offers much food for thought.

For believers, perhaps the last word belongs to Lewis, both men are tested by tragedy — Freud by the death of his daughter and the specter of the Third Reich, and Lewis by the who says with confident clarity, “I believe in God as I believe in the sun, not because I can see it, but because by loss of his wife and his subsequent dark night of the soul.

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PAINTING & REMODELING John Holtz

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Investment Opportunity INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY We’re offering 400 limited partner interests to finance a Hollywood motion picture about Mother Teresa. We have an Oscar-nominated cinematographer and an Oscar winning make-up artiist on board our film.

All documentation will be disclosed upon qualification of investor.

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Gift Ideas

If you wish to publish a Novena in the Catholic San Francisco You may use the form below or call 415-614-5640

Diocese of Yakima, WA has an opening for Diocesan Director of Social Justice and Respect Life. 41 parishes; many rural.

70 percent Catholic population Hispanic.

Bilingual ability, with English/Spanish biliteracy desirable. Position description will be sent to applicant. Please send resume by September 27 to:

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

Chancellor 5301-A Tieton Drive Yakima, WA 98908 or Fax to 509-966-8334 or Email to rmetha@yakimadiocese.org

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

Say three our Fathers, three Hail Marys and Glorias. St. Jude pray for us all who invoke your aid. Amen.

This Novena has never been known to fail. This Novena must be said 9 consecutive days. Thanks.

M.G.

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Prayer For Motherhood

Contact: Chair, Search Committee for Campus Minister, Schools of the Sacred Heart, 2222 Broadway, San Francisco, CA 94115.

Fax: (415) 563-3005.

E-mail: heart@sacredsf.org For a complete description see “careers” at www.sacredsf.org.

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O good St. Gerard, powerful intercessor before God and Wonder-worker of our day, I call upon thee and seek thy aid.

Thou who on earth didst always fulfill God’s design help me do the Holy Will of God. Beseech the Master of Life, from Whom all paternity proceedeth to render me fruitful in offspring, that I may raise up children to God in this life and heirs to the Kingdom of His glory in the world to come.

Amen.

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Serve as full-time Campus ministry coordinator in a K-12 Catholic, independent school with 1,100 students. Previous experience needed.

Master’s Degree in related fields preferred.

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Prayer to the Blessed Virgin never known to fail.

Most beautiful flower of Mt. Carmel Blessed Mother of the Son of God, assist me in my need. Help me and show me you are my mother. Oh Holy Mary, Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and earth. I humbly beseech you from the bottom of my heart to help me in this need. Oh Mary, conceived without sin.

Pray for us (3X).

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Say prayers 3 days.

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Prayer to the Blessed Virgin never known to fail.

Most beautiful flower of Mt. Carmel Blessed Mother of the Son of God, assist me in my need. Help me and show me you are my mother. Oh Holy Mary, Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and earth. I humbly beseech you from the bottom of my heart to help me in this need. Oh Mary, conceived without sin.

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Say prayers 3 days.

R.S.

Work Full or Part-time in San Francisco – Marin County • Provide non medical elder care in the home • Generous benefit package Fax your resume to: Jeannie McCullough Stiles, RN 415-435-0421

Our Lady of Fatima Church RUMMAGE SALE. Saturday only. September 11 9:00 am – 4:00 pm 101 20th Avenue @ Lake Street.

Good stuff/drawing

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

Special Needs Nursing, Inc. RNs or LVNs We are looking for you.

Business opportunity

Work FULL or PART time while your children are in school.

Are you being paid what you’re worth?

Nurses are needed to provide specialized nursing care for children in the San Francisco Public School setting.

Catholic/professional husband & wife are seeking people who want to transition into being their own boss by partnering with a sussessful INC 500 wellness co. Low Investment-Tax Deductible-Money Back Guarantee-Unlimited Income. No MLM. No Inventory. NO Order Taking.

NO delivering. FREE training. Famed Rich Dad author, Robert Kiyosaki, calls us the “perfect business”. This business is lots of fun & is based on teaching people & enhancing lives!

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Generous benefit packages for generous nurses.

Fax your resume to: Jeannie McCullough Stiles, RN 415-435-0421 Send your resume: Jeannie McCullough Stiles, RN Special Needs Nursing, Inc. 98 Main Street, #427 Tiburon, Ca 94920

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Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery, Colma Announces Our Lady of Antipolo New ground burial available

September 15th, 2004

In the sixteenth century, the galleon trades began between Acapulco, Mexico and the Philippines. The voyages across the Pacific Ocean were extremely dangerous. As a result, many of the early traders sought the intercession and protection of the Blessed Mother. They carried with them a statue of Mary, carved from a dark wood from Acapulco as a symbol of their appeal for Our Lady’s protection. After several successful voyages, the traders left behind the dark wooden image of Mary, which was named Our Lady of Peace and Good Voyage.

Eventually a church was built high atop a hill in Mary’s honor. The hilltop eventually took the name of Antipolo and later became a town and more recently , a diocese. Our Lady of Peace and Good Voyage became popularly known as Our Lady of Antipolo.

Our Lady of Antipolo has become an integral part of the history of the Philippines and the faith-life of devout Filipinos everywhere. Filipinos who journey to the United States do not leave their country totally behind. Rather they bring faith, history, culture and a unique heritage to their new country, where together we celebrate centuries-old devotion to and love for Mary. This devotion is an integral part of who we are as Catholics.

To make an appointment and to receive your $250.00 coupon towards the purchase of a grave in Our Lady of Antipolo section, please call (650) 756-2060 or complete the following:

Name Adress City Telephone

State

Zip

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

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

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

A Tradition of Faith Throughout Our Lives.

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Immaculate Conception Academy

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Catholic High Schools 2004 – 2005 information

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Catholic San Francisco

September 10, 2004

A rc h b i s h o p W i l l i a m J . L e v a d a

The Archdiocese of San Francisco is blessed with many excellent Catholic high

schools, each unique in their culture but consistent in their mission to provide quality academic education within the context of our Catholic faith.

The four years of high school are some of the most important and formative years in a student’s life. During these years they acquire academic skills enabling them to move on to higher levels of education; even more importantly, they should grow into a deeper and more mature practice and knowledge of their faith. The experience of service to their Church and their community enriches all of us in the Catholic community.

I invite you to visit our Catholic secondary schools. I am confident that you will appreciate the quality of our educational programs as well as the Christ-centered culture they provide.

Sincerely yours in Christ,

Most Reverend William J. Levada Archbishop of San Francisco

TA B L E O F C O N T E N T S L e t t e r f ro m A rch b i s h o p Wi l l i a m J . L eva d a - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -2 S t e p s Fo r A p p ly i n g t o C a t h o l i c H i g h S ch o o l s - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -3 A rch b i s h o p R i o rd a n H i g h S ch o o l - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -4 I m m a c u l a t e C o n c e p t i o n A c a d e my - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 5 C o n ve n t o f t h e S a c re d H e a r t H i g h S ch o o l - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -6 S t u a r t H a l l H i g h S ch o o l - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 7 Ju n i p e ro S e r ra H i g h S ch o o l - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -8 M a r i n C a t h o l i c H i g h S ch o o l - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 9 M e rcy H i g h S ch o o l , B u r l i n g a m e - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -1 0 M e rcy H i g h S ch o o l C o l l e g e P re p a ra t o ry - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -1 1 N o t re D a m e H i g h S ch o o l - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 2 S a c re d H e a r t C a t h e d ra l P re p a ra t o ry - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -1 3 S a c re d H e a r t P re p a ra t o ry - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -1 4 S a n D o m e n i c o S ch o o l - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 5 S t . I g n a t i u s C o l l e g e P re p a ra t o ry - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -1 6 Wo o d s i d e P r i o ry S ch o o l - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -1 7 L e t t e r Fro m M a u re e n H u n t i n g t o n , S u p e r i n t e n d e n t o f C a t h o l i c S ch o o l s - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -1 8 W h y C h o o s e A C a t h o l i c H i g h S ch o o l ? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 9 L o c a t o r M a p / O p e n H o u s e C a l e n d a r - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -2 0

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S T E P S F O R A P P LY I N G T O C AT H O L I C H I G H S C H O O L S 1.

2.

Obtain the application packets from all of the Catholic High Schools to which you plan to apply.

Attend OPEN HOUSES and visit at least two schools which interest you and meet your needs. Consult this brochure for calendar dates or call individual schools. Seek information about other opportunities for school visitations. Considering your personal strengths and aptitudes, discuss with your 8th Grade teacher(s), principal and parents, the high school programs that best meet your needs.

3.

Complete and submit your applications on time.

4.

Take the High School Placement test at one of the schools to which you have applied.

You may take it only once, but on the form list the other Catholic Schools to which you have applied, so your test scores can be sent there.

5.

On March 10, 2005 letters will be mailed regarding your admissions status.

6.

Pay registration fees to the school you plan to attend.

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September 10, 2004

ARCHBISHOP RIORDAN HIGH SCHOOL 175 Phelan Avenue • San Francisco, California 94112 • (415) 586-8200 • www.riordanhs.org various Bay Area parades. The Advanced Video Production Class broadcasts news and other programs to the entire school.

Our Resource Specialist Program (RSP) is a program unique among the Bay Area Catholic high schools. With the support of the Resource Specialist, students with learning differences participate in Riordan’s regular college prep curriculum. The goal of the RSP is to help students achieve their maximum potential while developing the necessary compensation and coping skills to succeed independently.

Ninety-nine percent of our graduates go on to college. 72% of our Class of 2004 matriculated to four-year colleges and universities.

Our Advanced Placement program has been expanded to twelve courses to prepare our college-bound students. Five of the twelve A.P. courses are offered in math and science. An all-time high 362 A.P. exams were taken by 200 Riordan students in May 2004.

PROFILE

When the first students walked through the doors of Archbishop Riordan High School in 1949, they encountered a community similar to the one our students experience today. We welcome young men from various ethnic and economic backgrounds with differing abilities and gifts. We provide a rigorous academic program with clearly defined codes of personal conduct in a supportive family atmosphere. And we hold our students to high standards. Archbishop Riordan High School, an Archdiocesan Catholic High School, educates young men in an academic environment that fosters the Marianist tradition of preparing students for a productive and rewarding life.

PHILOSOPHY

In a Marianist school, students cultivate skills that prepare them to learn throughout their lives. The students join a community of caring people who treat one another as family.

The foundation of this community is articulated through a written doctrine, Characteristics of Marianist Education, which aims to: • educate for formation in faith, • provide an integral, quality education, • educate in family spirit, • educate for service, justice, and peace, • educate for adaptation and change.

Archbishop Riordan High School engages young men in a process that promotes growth and development in the intellectual, spiritual, social, and physical arenas of the student’s life. Riordan is a community of faculty, students, parents, and alumni, who mutually support and assist one another to develop Christian values.

STUDENT ACTIVITIES

Archbishop Riordan High School recognizes the role and importance that extracurricular activities play in the personal growth of the whole person. ARHS offers over thirty clubs and activities that reflect the wide range of interests of our students. All Riordan students are encouraged to become involved in Riordan’s numerous clubs and Campus Ministry programs.

Campus Ministry offers spiritual retreats to all grade levels. Retreats provide time for reflection, community building, and spiritual growth away from the Riordan campus.

Archbishop Riordan High School has a very successful athletic program, winning numerous championships over the years. The Crusaders field twenty-seven interscholastic teams (football, cross-country, soccer, wrestling, basketball, baseball, track and field, tennis, swimming, and golf). ARHS is a founding member of the highly competitive West Catholic Athletic League.

Archbishop Riordan High School prepares its students to meet the challenges of life. The combination of demanding academics, abundant co-curricular activities, and supportive atmosphere make Riordan an empowering place. As Archbishop Riordan High School established in 1949, ARHS continues to proudly serve and educate young men in the Marianist tradition.

CURRICULUM

At the core of the ARHS academic program is a challenging college prep curriculum which blends a classical liberal education with the skills and knowledge needed to navigate contemporary times.

The curriculum is designed to develop a student’s understanding of key topics and issues in each academic discipline.

Archbishop Riordan High School utilizes a 4 x 4 block schedule. The school year is split into two semesters, and students take four classes at a time. Each class lasts eighty minutes (five days a week), thus providing sufficient time for students and teachers to delve more deeply and actively into topics and activities. This emphasis on depth promotes greater understanding of skills, concepts, and ideas. Rather than depending only on the traditional lecture to present materials, ARHS teachers encourage active participation of their students in the learning process.

The Visual and Performing Arts Department (drama, music, video production, and fine arts) is integrated within the school curriculum. Our Drama Department, housed in the 1,100 seat Lindland Theatre, boasts an excellent reputation for its quality and professionalism. The Crusader Marching Band performs at

ENROLLMENT 760 young men CO-PRINCIPALS Father Thomas French, S.M. • Mr. Gabriel Crotti TUITION & FEES 2004 - 2005 $9,800 - Tuition • $550 - Registration Fee ENTRANCE INFORMATION Mr. Dion Sabalvaro, Director of Admissions (415) 586-1256 dsabalvaro@riordanhs.org www.riordanhs.org

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Immaculate Conception Academy Catch the Spartan Spirit Inspiring Excellence Since 1883 3625 - 24th Street at Guerrero • San Francisco, CA 94110 • (415) 824-2052

PROFILE

Immaculate Conception Academy is a college preparatory Catholic high school for young women, sponsored since 1883 by the Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose. Maintaining a multi-ethnic population and drawing students from San Francisco, San Mateo, Alameda and Contra Costa counties, the Academy provides a challenging curriculum within the warm family setting that only a small, girls’ school can provide.

• On-site College Admission, ICA’s College Fair and College Panel have empowered our Spartans to achieve great successes in the 2003-2004 school year. Ninety-nine percent of our 2004 graduates will journey on to colleges and universities such as UC Berkeley, Boston University, Santa Clara University and St. Mary’s College. At ICA’s On-Site College Admission Day in October of 2003, over 80 percent of our seniors applied and were awarded admission letters to colleges that very day. The class of 2004 was awarded $2.5 million in scholarships, with two Spartans becoming Gates Millennium Scholars. The Gates Millennium program will fund their entire educational careers from undergraduate school through a doctorate degree.

• ICA’s technology program enables every student to be proficient in the use of sophisticated wordprocessing, spreadsheet, data base and graphics programs.

Many students also pursue the opportunity to take AP Computer Science, computer programming, Photoshop and web design classes.

• An Endowment Fund in excess of $4 million enables ICA to meet the increasing needs for tuition assistance.

PHILOSOPHY

CURRICULUM

ICA engages young women in a college preparatory curriculum. The block schedule provides a more focused and in-depth learning experience for our students.

• All students take four years of Religion and English, with the option of enrolling in English III Honors as juniors and Advanced Placement Literature as seniors.

• Qualified students may choose Algebra II Honors, Pre-Calculus Honors and AP Calculus.

• Four years of laboratory science are offered including physiology, chemistry and physics.

• All students take three and a half years of social science beginning with Ancient History.

• Spanish and French language classes, required for two years, culminate in elective honors and Advanced Placement classes.

• Our Spartans have the opportunity to take several challenging AP Courses: Art History, Studio Art, Calculus, English Literature, U.S. History, U.S. Government and Politics, Spanish Literature, Spanish Language and Computer Science.

• Electives in art, drama, social science and home economics stimulate students to discover their individual gifts and interests, as well as to fulfill the admission requirements for both public and private colleges and universities.

• ICA has established a new program, FLAME: Focused Learning for Academic Motivation and Excellence. This program focuses specifically on students who achieve well above grade expectations and on those students for whom academics are challenging.

ACTIVITIES AND ATHLETICS

Extracurricular activities and sports are an important part of student life at ICA. They include Student Council, California Scholarship Federation, National Honor Society, Block Society, Student Ambassador Club, Girls’ Athletic Association, yearbook, school paper, Campus Ministry, Life, Black Student Union, Fil-Am Club, Las Latinas Unidas, SAVE Club, French Club, choir, drama production, Spartan Film Society, Close-Up Trip to Washington, D.C. and Speech Club. Volleyball, basketball, softball, cross-country, tennis and Spirit Squad are the components to the Sports Page.

The Academy serves the San Francisco community as a vibrant school where love of God and respect for family, friends, and country are nurtured. In preparing young women for the PRINCIPAL future, we provide opportunities Sister Janice Therese Wellington, O.P. for their advancement in challenging academic fields, FACULTY career opportunities, and A 40-member faculty and staff, composed of religious and lay leadership positions. Faculty and colleagues are in teaching and administrative positions. students work together to create an A ratio of 1 to 10 allows for individual attention. environment that fosters the ENROLLMENT development of the whole human 260 person, the pursuit of truth, and the building of community.

TUITION AND FEES 2004–2005 An ICA graduate is a Woman of Learning, Leadership, $8,200 – Tuition • $525 – Registration Community, Faith and Vision. These core characteristics mark Fees/books vary by class level from $400 to $800 each alumna as a young woman whose education has brought her to value her personal, academic and spiritual growth, and TUITION ASSISTANCE as a person who recognizes her responsibilities as a member of ICA offers tuition assistance and awards based on scholarship, citizenship, and financial need. her family, her church and her community.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION Gina Espinal, Admissions Director ‘78 • E-mail: gespinal@icacademy.org Patricia Cavagnaro, Development Director/Alumnae Moderator ‘60 • pcavagnaro@icacademy.org (415) 824-2052 • FAX (415) 821-4677 • Web site: www.icacademy.org

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Catholic San Francisco

September 10, 2004

CONVENT OF THE SACRED HEART HIGH SCHOOL SCHOOLS OF THE SACRED HEART 2222 Broadway • San Francisco, CA 94115 Phone: 415/563-2900 • Web Site: www.sacredsf.org

PROFILE

Convent of the Sacred Heart High School is an independent, Catholic, college preparatory high school for girls founded in 1887 by the Religious of the Sacred Heart. One of the oldest private schools in California, CSH offers a challenging curriculum that provides a strong foundation to meet the demands of highly competitive college entrance.

As a member of the Network of Sacred Heart Schools, CSH participates in Network service projects, leadership seminars, and student exchange programs which offer students opportunities at Sacred Heart campuses throughout the U.S. With a value-oriented perspective, the intention CSH AP bioloy students of a Sacred Heart education is to educate the whole person — spiritually, intellectually and socially. Students at CSH will experience the opportunity to participate in a variety of service outreach programs in the Bay Area community. Students are encouraged to pursue leadership opportunities available through student council and class activities.

In the spring of 1998, CSH was once again recognized as a Blue Ribbon School by the U.S. Department of Education.

ACTIVITIES

Extracurricular activities are an essential part of the CSH experience. All clubs are student directed and options include school publications, debate, drama, service, spirit, outdoors, environmental, and Honor Societies. Several clubs offer co-ed opportunities.

CSH-SHHS Charles Brady Poetry Festival

CSH-SHHS PARTNERSHIP

CSH continues their partnership with Stuart Hall High School.

Students from CSH/SHHS participate together in performing arts, extra-curricular programs, student leadership activies, service projects and social events. This unique opportunity at Schools of the Sacred Heart allows a serious focus on academics for young women and young men along with the benefits of a co-educational campus experience. Our academic program and coed offerings were enhanced with the recent opening of Siboni Arts and Science Center. The new building houses biology, physics and chemistry labs, math classrooms, an art studio and student center.

In addition, there is a state-of-the-art theatre/lecture hall.

PHILOSOPHY

The philosophy of Convent of the Sacred Heart High School is stated in our Goals and Criteria shared by all Sacred Heart Network Schools in the United States. CSH educates its students to: • A personal and active faith in God; • A deep respect for intellectual values; • A social awareness which impels to action; • The building of community as a Christian value; • Personal growth in an atmosphere of wise freedom.

HEAD OF SCHOOL: Douglas H. Grant AVERAGE CLASS SIZE: 14 2004–2005 ENROLLMENT: 200 • FACULTY: 42 TUITION 2004 – 2005 $22,475 • All fees included in tuition.

CURRICULUM

The rigorous academic program, which is based on traditional study of the humanities, also requires that students be thoroughly grounded in the sciences and social sciences. The English program places serious emphasis on writing skills, as well as offering a variety of literature courses. Instruction in the social sciences includes courses in world and U.S. history, government, Asian studies, Latin American studies, and economics.

All of our students enroll in extra courses beyond the graduation requirements. The mathematics program is fully integrated, with the traditional strands of algebra, geometry and trigonometry interwoven throughout each of the first three years. Science courses include biology, marine biology, chemistry, physics, physiology, anthropology, AP biology, AP chemistry, AP human geography, CSH AP studio art exhibit AP physics and AP environmental science. Foreign language classes are taught in French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin and Latin. The school’s technology department has been acknowledged as one of the most innovative in the country. Each student has access to the internet, her own e-mail address and in 2001 Palm technology was integrated into their daily routine to facilitate communication, organization and learning. The Fine Arts Department offers classes in studio art, chorus, instrumental music, dramatic and musical theater, photography, as well as AP art history, art and music history. Twenty-two Advanced Placement courses are available, and an average of 98% of the students enroll in at least one AP course during their four years.

The average number of AP courses taken by students is three.

From 2000 –2003, 285 CSH students passed 665 AP exams.

SCHOLARSHIPS Scholarships and Financial Aid are available to any student who demonstrates interest and need without consideration to race, religion or national origin.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION Courtney Glenn, Admissions Director • (415) 292-3125 COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES ATTENDED BY OUR TOP 15 STUDENTS IN EACH OF THE LAST SEVEN YEARS American U. in Paris (2) Art Institute of Chicago Barnard (3) Boston University Boston College Brown (5) CA Polytechnic State University Carleton Christian U. (Japan) College of Notre Dame Colorado College (2) Columbia Cornell (3)

Davidson Duke George Washington University Georgetown (2) Grinell College Harvard (2) Harvey Mudd College (2) Haverford International M.I.T. (3) Mt. Holyoke NYU (3) Oberlin

Princeton (2) Reed College Rhoades College Rice RISD Santa Clara Skidmore College (3) St. John’s (NM) Stanford (4) Tufts U. of Chicago (2) U. of Colorado (3) U. of Notre Dame (2) U. of Pacific

ADVANCED PLACEMENT CLASSES

Art History Biology Calculus AB & BC Chemistry Comp. Gov’t & Politics Computer Science A & AB English Lang. & Comp.

English History Theology

4 years 4 years 4 years

English Lit. & Comp.

Environmental Science European History French Language French Literature Human Geography Latin Music Theory

U. of Pennsylvania (3) U. of Puget Sound U. of St. Andrew’s U. of Tokyo U. Southern California (6) U.C. Berkeley (10) U.C. Davis (5) U.C. San Diego (6) U.C. Santa Cruz (2) U.C.L.A. (9) Villanova Wellesley Wesleyan Yale (3) Psychology Physics Spanish Language Spanish Literature Studio Art U.S. Gov’t & Politics U.S. History

GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS Mathematics Lab Science International Language

Cross Country

4 years 3 years 3 years

Physical Education Computer Science Fine Arts Community Service

SPORTS PROGRAM

Volleyball

Tennis

Basketball

COED

Soccer

Swimming

Choir Drama Orchestra Musical Theatre Badminton Fencing

Golf

2 years 1 year 1 year 100 hours

September 10, 2004 Catholic San Francisco

CS7

• 1715 Octavia Street • San Francisco, CA 94109 415/345-5811 • FAX 415/931-9161 • e-mail: barclay@sacredsf.org

PROFILE

Stuart Hall High School , is a member of Schools of the Sacred Heart, San Francisco. A unique partnership with Convent of the Sacred Heart High School provides the best of educational opportunities: single-sex classes in a coeducational environment. As a school dedicated solely to the education of young men, Stuart Hall High School offers an essential and significant option for Bay Area families, a high school where the spirited nature of adolescent males is incorporated into an active learning process. Faculty understand the learning styles of young men as well as their emotional and social needs. By design, the school is small and personal in nature. Class size averages 15 students, encouraging a personalized, challenging approach to education. A rich Catholic, ecumenical tradition provides an ideal climate for spiritual growth.

PHILOSOPHY

Stuart Hall High School, as a member of the worldwide Network of Sacred Heart Schools, commits itself to the distinctive spirit and dedication to excellence that marks these schools.

Specifically, Stuart Hall High School educates students to: • A personal and active faith in God; • A deep respect for intellectual values; • A social awareness which impels to action; • The building of community as a Christian value; • Personal growth in an atmosphere of wise freedom.

The young men who choose Stuart Hall High School are called to be persons of courage and integrity, people who clearly choose to use their education and personal convictions in the service of society.

The school’s facilities offer the latest in computer and media technology hardware and software programs. A wide array of courses in technology addresses the needs of students who show exceptional skill and interest in this area.

ACTIVITIES

Co-curricular activities make up a vital part of the Stuart Hall High School experience. The clubs and activities are an outgrowth of student interest and needs. Since the development of leaders is an important aspect of education at Stuart Hall High School, students have many opportunities to lead, assist in program development, and work with the faculty and administration in creating the culture of the school.

Organizations and committees that facilitate this involvement of students make up a key part of the activity program.

“The Knights of the Hall” are members of the Bay Counties League West and field teams in soccer, cross country, fencing, basketball, golf, tennis, baseball and lacrosse.

The athletic program adds sports as student interest warrants new opportunities.

SHHS-CSH PARTNERSHIP

CURRICULUM

The academic program at Stuart Hall High School challenges the students to develop their talents in all areas—the humanities, arts, mathematics, science, and technology—and offers them an excellent college preparatory program. Each student is required to take a minimum of six courses for credit per semester.

The following courses are required for graduation from Stuart Hall High School: four years of English, Social Studies, Mathematics, and Religious Studies; three years of International Language and Laboratory Science; two years of Physical Education; one year of Computer Technology and Fine Arts; and 75 hours of Community Service. Students may choose additional courses from a variety of electives and a range of honors courses.

The Advanced Placement Program at SHHS offers courses in which qualified students can challenge themselves beyond the standard curriculum, exploring areas of particular interest.

The AP Program currently includes offerings in English, Mathematics, Social Sciences, Laboratory Sciences, International Language, and Computer Science.

The partnership with Convent of the Sacred Heart High School allows SHHS and CSH students to participate together in extracurricular programs, service projects and social activities. This unique opportunity at Schools of the Sacred Heart allows a serious focus on academics for young men and women with the benefits of a co-educational campus experience.

HEAD OF SCHOOL Gordon Sharafinski ENROLLMENT 2004-2005 170 TUITION 2004-2005 $22,475 FINANCIAL AID Scholarships and Financial Aid are available to any student who demonstrates interest and need without consideration of race, religion, or national origin.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION Michael Barclay Stuart Hall High School Admissions Director (415) 345-5812 • e-mail: barclay@sacredsf.org

CS8

Catholic San Francisco

September 10, 2004

The Road to Your Future Begins Here!

451 West 20th Avenue • San Mateo, California 94403 • (650) 345-8207

PROFILE

Junípero Serra High School is the Archdiocesan Catholic school educating the young men of San Mateo County. We are an academic high school with a strong college preparatory curriculum. We reflect the cultural richness of San Mateo County and the greater San Francisco Bay Area. Although we are a school for young men, we are involved in a Tri-School program with two schools for young women – Mercy, Burlingame and Notre Dame, Belmont. Coed activities include classes, retreats, drama and music productions, some club activities and dances. Our mission is to develop the gifts and talents of each student and foster Gospel values in an environment of academic excellence and mutual respect.

CURRICULUM

At Junípero Serra High School we offer a college preparatory curriculum, including more than twenty Advanced Placement and Honors courses.

Ninety-nine percent of our graduates continue their education at the college or university level. Among the schools our graduates currently attend are Princeton, UCLA, USC, Dartmouth, Stanford, Santa Clara, Yale, Cal Poly, Duke, and UC Berkeley. The reason our students are so successful is that our faculty has created a challenging and yet comfortable learning environment in which students are placed at various levels of our program according to their needs and abilities.

Junípero Serra students are required to complete a minimum of 240 units, pass all required courses, and perform eighty hours of Christian Service in order to graduate. Students may also earn college credits while at Junípero Serra.

Our John L. Zoph Library contains approximately 18,000 volumes and over 30 online subscription databases. It is a curriculum-based collection that can be accessed by Junípero Serra students from any remote location by visiting the library website to view the online catalog at www.serrahs.com and clicking on the library icon.

The Junípero Serra Guidance Department assists students in making academic, social, spiritual and personal decisions. Our College & Career Center allows students to research more than 3000 colleges and universities on College View, a multimedia program. In addition, the Guidance Department helps coordinate the annual Tri-School College Night, an informational gathering which includes more than one hundred of the top colleges and universities form throughout the country.

ACTIVITIES & ATHLETICS

Extra curricular activities and athletics are an important part of life at Junípero Serra. More than ninety percent of our students participate in at least one activity or sport.

Junípero Serra offers thirteen sports and more than thirty-two clubs ranging from the Angler’s

Fishing Club and a Cultural Awareness Club to a Big Brother’s program and the Trivia Club. In addition Junípero Serra runs three student run publications — the yearbook, a monthly newspaper and an annual literary magazine — all of which offer writing, photography and design opportunities.

Junípero Serra has a rich athletic tradition. Many of our studentathletes have competed for some of the top collegiate programs in the country, while several have also been successful in professional sports. We participate in the West Catholic Athletic League, one of the top leagues in California.

VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS

The arts are an essential component of a Junípero Serra High School education. We offer numerous performance opportunities — Symphonic Band, Men’s and Mixed Chorus, Jazz Band, Dramatic Workshop and Musical Theater Workshop — that allow students to experience the arts both in the classroom and on stage. In addition, we offer Architectural Design, Art, Advanced Art, Beginning Guitar, Beginning Percussion and Films.

SPIRITUALITY

Our Campus Ministry Program provides students with liturgical and prayer opportunities, builds community through retreats, and empowers students to develop their gifts and talents through our Christian Service program. Theology courses offer instruction in the Catholic faith, morality and worship, and stress the importance of individual faith development. The curriculum addresses the needs of students with extensive religious education as well as those with little or no knowledge of the Catholic faith.

PRINCIPAL Mr. Lars Lund ADMISSIONS DIRECTOR Mr. Randy Vogel, (650) 345-8242 TUITION AND FEES 2004 – 2005 Tuition: $10,180 • Registration Fee: $600 FINANCIAL AID Tuition assistance at Junípero Serra is based on financial need. Those families interested in applying for financial aid should contact the Business Manager, Mr. John O’Sullivan, for further information at (650) 345-8207.

September 10, 2004 Catholic San Francisco

CS9

Marin Catholic High School College Preparatory 675 Sir Francis Drake • Kentfield, CA 94904

PROFILE

Marin Catholic is a coeducational college preparatory high school situated on fourteen acres at the base of Mt. Tamalpais in Kentfield. Just minutes from Highway 101, Marin Catholic is ideally located to serve students from all over Marin and the neighboring Bay Area Counties. Marin Catholic is fifteen minutes from the Golden Gate Bridge and just twenty minutes from the East Bay communities located across the Richmond - San Rafael Bridge.

The student body is made up of approximately 730 young men and women meeting admissions criteria for a challenging college prep curriculum. Students are drawn from a broad spectrum of social, ethnic, religious, and economic backgrounds. Marin Catholic High School is committed to class sizes that provide an excellent teaching environment.

The average class size is twenty-four students.

The committed and dedicated faculty of Marin Catholic is often cited by students, parents, and alumni as the greatest strength of our school. As teachers, counselors, advisors, coaches, and activity moderators, the men and women of the faculty and staff ensure that the mission of our school is fulfilled. Thirty one faculty members have Masters or higher academic degrees, and a large number have specialized certification and academic degrees. Several faculty members have been granted research fellowships, conduct lectures and in-services on various academic and educational topics, and have won prestigious academic awards and honors.

MISSION

Marin Catholic High School is a college preparatory school serving young men and women in the Catholic tradition. Consistent with our Gospel values, the school is committed to the education of the whole person. Marin Catholic provides a spiritual, academic, and extra-curricular environment dedicated to imparting knowledge, values and vision.

The school expects the students, through their experiences in the classroom and as active members of the school community, to develop the attributes of an educated person: responsibility, both personal and social; critical ability; appreciation for the beauty and complexity of the world around us. Marin Catholic hopes to instill in the students the confidence that will empower them, as informed and compassionate individuals, to effect change in that world. The school is committed to learning as a lifelong process.

CURRICULUM

The Marin Catholic curriculum is designed to provide a challenging, college prep experience for all of our students. Along with the development and enhancement of essential skills, the required course of study encourages exploration and self-evaluation. Successfully completing the academic program, which includes pursuing the most rigorous course of study one can, qualifies students for admission to the most competitive colleges and universities. Ninety-nine to 100% of our graduates go on to college each year, with 93% of the Class of 2004 matriculating to four year colleges and universities. A detailed matriculation report is available from the Admissions Office.

Marin Catholic offers twenty-two honors and Advanced Placement courses to students who are willing and able to undertake more sophisticated, challenging course work. Honors courses are available freshman through senior year, while Advanced Placement courses traditionally are taken the junior and senior year. Students enrolled in Advanced Placement courses have the ability to gain college credit after passing the national exams.

Graduation requirements include four years of English, four years of Religious Studies, three and one half years of Social Studies, three years of Mathematics (including Intermediate or Advanced Algebra), two years of Foreign Language, two years of Science, one year of Fine or Performing Arts, and one semester each of Computer Studies and Physical Education. Students complete the balance of their graduation requirements and are able to enrich their education through our diversified elective program.

ACTIVITIES

Marin Catholic High School offers a wide array of student activities. Participation in programs and activities outside of the classroom are an important part of the student’s high school years. The goal is to provide as much diversity as possible to appeal to the eclectic interests of our entire student body. A partial list of extra-curricular programs include Student Government, Italian Club, Habitat for Humanity, Wilderness club and a St. Vincent de Paul Club.

Marin Catholic High School has one of the most comprehensive and successful athletic programs for boys and girls in the Bay Area measured by both winning seasons and the high percentage of student involvement in the athletic program.

In addition to the academic requirements students must complete one hundred hours of Christian Service and participate in an annual retreat.

The many activities and opportunities offered to our students through our Community Service Program allow students a chance to learn more about their own spirituality.

PRINCIPAL: Mr. Martin Young PRESIDENT: Fr. Thomas Daly TUITION AND FEES 2004 – 2005 Tuition: $12,850 • Registration & Fees: $810 TUITION ASSISTANCE Tuition assistance at Marin Catholic is based on financial need. Marin Catholic was able to grant over $800,000 in assistance to 20% of the school community for the 2004-2005 school year. Marin Catholic High School is committed to providing tuition assistance to families unable to afford the entire cost of tuition. For information and applications contact the Admissions Office.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, Theresa Hanley, Director of Admissions thanley@marincatholic.org Lori Collins, Admissions Associate lcollins@marincatholic.org (415) 464-3810

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CS10

Catholic San Francisco

September 10, 2004

MERCY HIGH SCHOOL • Burlingame 2750 Adeline Drive • Burlingame, CA 94010 Sponsored by the Sisters of Mercy Mercy Education . . . a gift for a lifetime

PROFILE

Mercy High School, Burlingame, founded in 1931 by the Sisters of Mercy and located in the historic Kohl Mansion, is a Catholic, college preparatory school for young women. In the tradition of the Sisters of Mercy, young women are encouraged to envision their future, discover their talents, and grow in their faith through a challenging and motivating curricular and co-curricular program. With a student body of 465 young women, we provide a unique community on the Peninsula in which each student is known by her teachers and classmates, and each girl is challenged to reach her greatest potential. Annually, 99%-100% of our graduates go on to outstanding colleges and universities throughout the country. Enhancing Mercy’s exceptional environment for young women is the opportunity for our students to participate in a significant number of co-educational experiences through the Tri-School Program with Junipero Serra High School and Notre Dame Belmont. As members of Tri-School, our students take part in coed classes, retreats, community service projects, student activities, performing and visual arts, as well as dances.

CURRICULUM

Mercy offers a demanding college preparatory program designed to prepare students not only for college but for life.

Mercy offers 25 Advanced Placement and Honors classes in English, Mathematics, Social Science, Foreign Language, Science, and Visual and Performing Arts. Our elective program offers a wide variety of courses to meet the needs of our diverse and talented student body.

For those students who have a strong interest in languages, Mercy offers a Tri-Lingual Scholars Program, as well as a four-year UC approved program in American Sign Language. In addition, Mercy has a Learning Assistance Program for a limited number of students who need extra support in order to fulfill the requirements of our college preparatory curriculum. Mercy’s curriculum encourages each student to develop her ability to think critically and communicate effectively.

ACTIVITIES AND ATHLETICS

Mercy is more than academics.

We encourage each young woman to be involved in campus life. Approximately 85% of our students participate in at least one extracurricular activity or sport each year. Our dynamic co-curricular program offers students numerous opportunities to share their talents and have fun, while serving the greater community, by being a member of a team, performing on stage, cheering at games and rallies, or taking on a leadership role within a very active student government program. Mercy hosts several informal and formal dances each year and offers more than twenty clubs ranging from JSA (Junior Statesman of America) to the Ski/Snowboarding Club. There is something for everyone at Mercy.

Athletics are an important part of life at Mercy High School.

Typically, 60% of Mercy students take part in at least one sport each year. Fall sports include water polo, volleyball, cross country, tennis and golf. The Winter sports are soccer and basketball. The spring season consists of swimming, track and field, softball, and beginning spring 2005, a gymnastics team. There are Varsity, Junior Varsity and freshmen level teams in many sports, therefore enabling more students the possibility of making a team.

VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS Fine arts are an integral part of a Mercy education. Mercy is nationally known for its outstanding visual and performing arts program which includes drama, dance, chorale, instrumental music, studio art, ceramics and photography. We not only offer a wide range of courses including honors and AP sections, but a variety of performance opportunities as well. Student performance opportunities include Advanced Chorale, Chorale, Tri-School Chorale, Tri-School Advanced Band, TriSchool Jazz Band, the TriSchool Theatre productions and a number of smaller music and dance recitals. In addition, each spring we host a Fine Arts Night featuring student works and presentations.

SPIRITUALITY

The Campus Ministry program at Mercy offers students a number of opportunities to examine their relationship with God, self, and others through discussion, reflection, service and prayer.

Campus Ministry is at the heart of our mission as a Catholic school and supports the spiritual development of our students. Throughout the school year, Mercy has several school Masses, Seasonal Prayer Services, campus ministry events as well as the Sacrament of Reconciliation for our school community. Retreats are offered throughout the year by grade level, in addition to a number of TriSchool retreats with Serra High School and Notre Dame students.

The four-year religion curriculum offers instruction in Catholic faith and morality, and helps students to integrate spirituality and values into their everyday life. Although 75% of the student body is Catholic; Mercy opens its doors to girls of all faiths.

Community Service is an essential dimension of the mission of Mercy High School and the Sisters of Mercy. Through direct service, students respond compassionately to the needs of their greater community by providing 20 hours of service each year.

PRINCIPAL Laura M. Held ENROLLMENT 465 TUITION AND FEES 2004-2005 $10,825 • Registration $500 TUITION ASSISTANCE Tuition Assistance is offered to students based on demonstrated financial need. Approximately 20% of the student body received financial assistance for the 2004-05 academic year.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION Ellen Williamson Director of Admissions ewilliamson@mercyhsb.com 650-762-1114 www.mercyhsb.com

September 10, 2004 Catholic San Francisco

M

ERCY HIGH SCHOO COLLEGE PREPARATORY

3250 Nineteenth Avenue (415) 334-0525

PROFILE

Mercy High School, San Francisco, was founded in 1952 by the Sisters of Mercy as a Catholic college preparatory school for young women.

Mercy builds on its rich traditions, preparing students for Archbishop William J. Levada their future educations, careers, and roles as women of the twenty-first century.

Mercy’s six-acre modern campus provides a beautiful, park-like environment for an exceptional academic and extracurricular program. Computerized physics, chemistry and biology labs, plus technology centers challenge tomorrow’s scientists and executives. An outstanding reference and circulation library fosters independent study and research.

The fine arts wing, housing a first-rate theater as well as studios for art, ceramics and dance, nurtures and inspires artists and performers.

Mercy excels in athletics as well, with highly competitive teams in basketball, volleyball, tennis, softball, soccer, cross-country and track and field. The beautiful new Catherine McAuley Pavilion includes a gymnasium, classrooms and artists’ gallery.

CURRICULUM

Honors Chemistry

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San Francisco, CA 94132 Fax (415) 334-9726

Mercy provides students with a challenging and extensive program of Advanced Placement and Honors courses: ● Honors: Algebra I, Advanced Algebra II & Geometry ● AP: Calculus AB & Calculus BC ● Honors: Biology, Chemistry ● AP: Chemistry & Physics ● AP: English Language & Composition & English Literature ● Honors: French, Spanish & Spanish for Native Speakers III ● AP: French Language IV, Spanish Language IV, Spanish for Native Speakers IV & Spanish Literature ● Honors: World History ● AP: US History ● AP: Studio Art-Drawing, Studio Art-2D Design, Studio Art-3D Design Students choose from a wide range of classes. Course Sampling: Graphics & Web Design, Contemporary World Issues, Creative Writing, Women’s Literature, Journalism, American Sign Language, Self-defense, Ethics, Social Justice, Fitness/Jogging, Child Development, Drawing, Painting, Ceramics, Dance, Chorus, & Performance Workshop Mercy faculty and staff sponsors Intersession: enrichment program of experiential learning beyond the classroom.

Mercy’s faculty, the majority of whom hold advanced degrees, bring expertise, dedication, and professionalism to the instructional program.

STUDENT ACTIVITIES

Students join the California Association of Student Councils, California Scholarship Federation, National Honor Society, Ambassadors, Amnesty, Anime, Dance Committee, Environmental Green Team, Literary Magazine, Kaleidoscope International Club, Math Club, Mercy Athletic Association, Music Club, Performing Arts Association, Science Club, Speech Club, Spirit Squad, Student Life Team, Student Council, Web Publishing, Writing Club, Yearbook, Dance Ensemble, cast & crews for theater performances.

PHILOSOPHY

Supported by the Mission of the Sisters of Mercy which emphasizes personal responsibility and service to society, Mercy offers each student opportunities and experiences to mature in her own religious faith.

Mercy values intellectual and personal integrity, responsible decision-making, development of self-esteem, respect for life, and genuine regard for ethnic diversity.

Mercy recognizes the obligation to respect and preserve the goods of the earth for the sustenance and enjoyment of future generations. Mercy acknowledges the special role of women in all aspects of life in an ever-changing world. Working with the Campus Minister, students lead four retreats per year in addition to planning and participating in liturgies and assemblies. Each student is required to complete 100 hours of community service as directed and supported through Mercy’s Community Service Office.

CS11

Run Rosie, run!

Intersession ‘04 – Hawaii

Mercy High School’s college preparatory curriculum provides students with a four-year sequence of courses in English, math, science, foreign language and visual and performing arts, in addition to extensive social science, religion and technology courses. Over 98% of Mercy’s graduating seniors go on to college.

PRINCIPAL Dotty McCrea, Ed.D ENROLLMENT 575 TUITION & FEES 2004 - 2005 $9,550 ● $500 registration FURTHER INFORMATION Liz Belonogoff Admissions Director (415) 584-5929 Admissions@mercyhs.org Open House Sunday, October 31 Program begins at 9 a.m.

Visit us at www.mercyhs.org

CS12

Catholic San Francisco

September 10, 2004

NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL “PREPARING YOUNG WOMEN FOR LIFE”

1540 Ralston Ave.

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PROFILE

Notre Dame High School, Belmont is a private Catholic college preparatory school for young women. Established by the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur in 1851, the school was moved from San Jose to the historic William Ralston Estate in 1923. The essence of Notre Dame lies in a strong academic program and a caring, supportive environment rooted in Christian values which prepare young women for lives of leadership and service. Notre Dame strives to create an educational community that will provide the knowledge necessary for young women to make informed intellectual, moral, and spiritual decisions.

Students are challenged by their teachers and peers to become women of active faith, strong intellect, and Christian leadership.

Each year, 99%-100% of the graduates enroll in colleges and universities throughout the country. Notre Dame, Belmont, Mercy, Burlingame, and Junipero Serra High Schools participate in a Tri-School Program which provides coeducational experiences in the areas of academics, campus ministry, athletics, performing and visual arts, and student activities.

Belmont, CA 94002-1995

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650/595-1913

ACTIVITIES

An effective community outreach program requires students to complete 100 hours of community service over four years.

The athletic program offers NDB Tigers the opportunity to participate on 25 teams in 11 sports with over 500 roster spots.

The school’s teams participate in the West Catholic Athletic League which is considered to be one of the strongest leagues in California. The intramural sports program in the new athletic pavilion provides opportunities for athletic participation during lunch periods. Students produce a television broadcast (Tiger TV) and publish a newspaper, literary magazine, and yearbook. They participate in chorus, band, string orchestra, plays, and musicals. Student Government, California Scholarship Federation, National Honor Society, and over 25 clubs provide students with numerous opportunities for leadership and service.

CURRICULUM

Notre Dame High School, Belmont’s graduation requirements provide students with the necessary credits and variety of courses needed for admission to University of California campuses, California State University campuses, and private, public, and Catholic colleges and universities throughout the country. Honors courses are offered in all core academic areas. Advanced Placement classes are available in 11th and 12th grades: American Government, Art History, Biology, Calculus, Chemistry, English Language and Composition, English Literature and Composition, French Language, Spanish Language, Studio Art, and United States History. Balance and choice are important in a student’s life; therefore, the required courses are supplemented by a wide selection of elective courses in every department. The Foreign Language Laboratory and the Science Department Greenhouse provide outstanding laboratory environments which enrich students’ learning experiences.

PRINCIPAL Rita Gleason ‘66 ENROLLMENT 725 TUITION $12,500 (includes registration, campus ministry fee, athletic fees, activity fee, and yearbook) TUITION ASSISTANCE Extensive tuition awards are available to students with demonstrated financial need – over $400,000 awarded.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, VISIT OUR WEBSITE www.ndhsb.org Lynn Stieren Director of Admissions (650) 595-1913, ext. 320 or 315 ● FAX: (650) 595-2643 admissions@ndhsb.org

September 10, 2004 Catholic San Francisco

CS13

Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory Excellence in Catholic education since 1852 1055 Ellis Street

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415.775.6626

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The curriculum prepares students for the rigors of college.

For example, Senior Seminar explores original texts in fields as diverse as theology, philosophy, anthropology, economics, and psychology, and has received countless testimonials from graduates for its value as preparation for the college academic experience. Contemporary course offerings such as Religious Themes in Literature and Films, U.S. Homefront: Mid-Twentieth Century, and Marine Biology provide college prep electives that reflect student interests.

All SHCP students pursue service-learning units within the curriculum, preparing them to become service-oriented individuals with a commitment to living the Gospel. * A complete academic catalog can be found on the school website: www.shcp.edu.

PROFILE / PHILOSOPHY

As the oldest Catholic school in San Francisco and the 1st co-educational high school in the city, Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory celebrates a 152-year tradition of serving the youth of San Francisco. Since our founding in 1852, the Daughters of Charity and Christian Brothers, along with a dedicated lay faculty, have been preparing young men and women for the academic rigors of college and beyond, and inspiring personal and spiritual growth through service to the Church and their society by acting as dynamic members of the communities in which they live.

Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory is a Roman Catholic, co-educational, college preparatory institution that welcomes students from diverse ethnic, social and religious backgrounds into a community which integrates Catholic beliefs with a challenging college prep curriculum and a balanced student activities program.

EXPECTATION: ENTER TO LEARN, LEAVE TO SERVE is the SHCP motto that greets all who walk through the school doors.

Accurately portraying the aims and ideals of the institution, this motto guides the Campus Ministry, Student Activities and service learning projects where SHCP students learn to share their gifts and talents with the Church and the communities in which they live.

CURRICULUM From challenging core classes to rigorous Honors and Advanced Placement courses*, Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory’s curriculum reflects the creativity of our faculty and the uniqueness of the SHCP experience.

SHCP offers a wide variety of college preparatory courses designed to fulfill the requirements for virtually all colleges and universities.

PRESIDENT Mr. John F. Scudder, Jr. ‘73 100% of the members of Class of 2004 continued on to colleges and universities this fall.

Students enroll in a minimum of six courses per semester with the option of a seventh class for special courses. In addition to the solid sequential curriculum of religious education, the liberal arts, and physical and life sciences, SHCP offers a four year Scholar Program, established especially for high ability students who show leadership potential and a proclivity toward service.

INTERIM PRINCIPAL Dr. Kenneth Hogarty ‘66 ENROLLMENT Co-education – 1,200 FACULTY 85 TUITION AND FEES 2004 - 2005 Tuition: $10,000 ● Fees: $900 FINANCIAL AID Extensive tuition awards are available based on a family’s need FOR FURTHER INFORMATION Mr. Timothy Burke ‘70, Director of Admissions ● email: tim.burke@shcp.edu 415.775.6626 ext. 729 www.shcp.edu

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Catholic San Francisco

September 10, 2004

Sacred Heart Preparatory Sacred Heart Schools • 150 Valparaiso Avenue • Atherton, CA 94027 • (650) 322-1866

PROFILE

Sacred Heart Prep is a Roman Catholic, independent, college preparatory school.

It is coeducational with an enrollment of 465 in grades 9-12. The School was founded by the Religious of the Sacred Heart in 1898. It is located on a 62-acre wooded campus, bordering Menlo Park and Atherton.

An education at Sacred Heart Prep is strong in studies, serious in ethical principles, and rich in the spirit of The Gospel. The School is a member of the Network of 21 Sacred Heart Schools in the United States. It is the essence of a Sacred Heart School that it be deeply concerned for each student’s total development: spiritual, intellectual, emotional and physical. School policies and practices provide for the development of leadership and self-discipline.

Sacred Heart consists of a culturally diverse student body, and this mix of individuals develops an appreciation and understanding of diverse races, religions and cultures as students prepare to be global citizens.

MISSION STATEMENT

The Schools of the Sacred Heart in the United States, members of a world wide network, offer an education that is marked by a distinctive spirit. It is the essence of a Sacred Heart School that it be deeply concerned for each student’s total development: spiritual, intellectual, emotional and physical. It is the essence of a Sacred Heart School that it emphasize serious study, that it educate to a social responsibility and that it lay the foundation of a strong faith.

PHILOSOPHY

Each Sacred Heart School offers an education that is distinguished by its commitment to the following five goals: • A personal and active faith in God • A deep respect for intellectual values • A social awareness which impels to action • The building of community as a Christian value • Personal growth in an atmosphere of wise freedom

CURRICULUM

The Sacred Heart Prep course work is designed to offer an intellectually challenging education to college-bound young men and women. (100% continue on to colleges and universities). Students carry six academic subjects and are required to satisfy the following distributional requirements for their diploma — 4 years of English, 3 years of a foreign language, 4 years of History, 3 years of Science (2 Laboratory Sciences), 3 years of Mathematics, 3.5 years of Religious Studies, 3 semesters of Fine Arts and 2 semesters of Physical Education. Our Fine Arts program includes: drama, choral and instrumental music, studio art, ceramics, sculpture, and photography. Students are encouraged to become critical thinkers and to develop an enthusiasm and lifelong love for learning. Most of the students enroll in Honor and Advanced Placement courses during their junior and senior years.

In addition, students must complete twenty hours of community service to the Sacred Heart community and two service projects – one charity and one justice project. Charity projects respond to immediate needs in the community. Justice projects respond to structural injustice and empower people to help themselves.

There is a coordinated approach to spiritual life involving the SHP Community— faculty, students, staff and parents. Monthly seasonal liturgies, planned and carried out by students, embrace the entire school community, Catholic and non-Catholic alike. An organized off campus formal retreat for each class is mandatory. Each Monday assembly opens with a call to prayer or meditative silence.

ACTIVITIES & ATHLETICS

Extracurricular clubs and activities at Sacred Heart Prep play a significant part in the life of each student.

They provide fun, a sense of community, a chance to observe hidden talents and to gain confidence in one’s own initiative and abilities, and an opportunity to develop leadership potential.

Activities include drama, music, yearbook, newspaper, and student council. Many students participate in Model United Nations, Interact Club (Rotary), National Honor Society, Amnesty International, Ski Club, Hiking Club, Spanish Club, Environmental Club and Campus Ministry.

While academic commitments come first at Sacred Heart Prep, the School also seeks to develop fine athletes. The diversity of the interscholastic athletic program, with emphasis on participation, and attention to the individual student athlete. The goal of many of our students is to achieve the Varsity level of competition.

All in all, over 82 percent of the Sacred Heart Prep student body participate in at least one of the many championship caliber sports offered.

ENROLLMENT 2004 – 2005 465 boys and girls Sacred Heart Prep attracts students from South San Francisco to San Jose.

PRINCIPAL Richard A. Dioli FACULTY 55 full-time and 15 part-time members of the faculty.

80% hold advanced degrees.

The student/faculty ratio is 15:1.

TUITION AND FEES 2004 – 2005 $21,870 FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE Sacred Heart Prep remains committed to an effective financial assistance program which supports socio-economic diversity. Last year over $950,000 was awarded to families with demonstrated financial need. Thirty percent of currently enrolled students receive some form of financial assistance.

Financial assistance is awarded on the basis of need, as determined by the Financial Assistance Committee.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION Carl Dos Remedios, Admission Office 650/473-4006 FAX 650/326-2761 Website: www.shschools.org E-mail: admission@shschools.org

September 10, 2004 Catholic San Francisco

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SAN DOMENICO SCHOOL 1500 BUTTERFIELD ROAD SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960-1099 ●

PROFILE AND PHILOSOPHY

San Domenico School is the oldest Catholic, independent school in California, originally established by the Dominican Sisters of Monterey in 1850. The Upper School offers a distinctive boarding and day college preparatory program to 155 young women from the greater Bay Area, California, and over 8 countries. Best known for its friendly, welcoming community, rigorous academics, and superior performing arts in which teachers mentor their students and promote collaborative learning, San Domenico’s spectacular campus on 515-acres just 20 miles north of San Francisco is an ideal setting in which to grow and learn.

In addition to its superior academic program, San Domenico is home to a music conservatory and its nationally renowned Virtuoso Program, an outstanding pre-professional chamber music program. The Upper School’s other exceptional offerings include a lively theatre arts program which stages six different performances annually, and a visual arts program taught by professional artists. San Domenico’s campus features a brand new Hall of the Arts and Athletic Center, a full library, technology center, art studio, music practice rooms, a chapel, three dormitories, an outdoor swimming pool, athletic fields, tennis courts, an equestrian center and an organic garden.

CURRICULUM

San Domenico’s superb academic curriculum prepares students to succeed in college. Advanced Placement classes are currently offered in Biology, Calculus, Chemistry, Environmental Science, English, French, Spanish, Statistics, Studio Art and US History. An innovative learning program is offered to Freshmen (Freshman Foundations) and Juniors (American Studies) in which literature, history, art, religion and theatrical performance are presented in an integrated structure, providing a thematic and holistic educational experience.

All students participate in San Domenico’s R.O.S.E. (Real Opportunities in Service Education) program. The Director of Service Learning, along with teachers and students, integrates pertinent community projects to enhance academic depth and promote social activism. Students develop unique personal interests with community involvement.

Each spring, students take one week’s break from traditional classroom learning to participate in alternative educational experiences.

Past “Spring Discovery” activities have included backpacking in Hawaii, touring the ancient ruins of Peru, studying coral reef ecology in Costa Rica, volunteering in the Tenderloin, and attending actor workshops at the Shakespeare festival in Ashland, Oregon.

Our school takes pride in its commitment to ecological literacy and environmental science. Our Director of Sustainability involves students in integrating the garden into the curriculum and San Domenico’s mission.

ACTIVITIES AND ATHLETICS

Organizations and clubs add an exciting dimension to student life.

Choose from Student Council and Resident Council, Model United Nations, Environmental Club, Drama Club, Student Ambassadors, Poetry Club, Peer Counseling, Photography Club, Promoting Positive Body Image, Organic Gardening, Verities (a magazine featuring creative literature) Yearbook and the Student Newspaper.

San Domenico competes in the Bay Counties League in volleyball, tennis, cross-country, basketball, soccer, swimming, track and field, and badminton. The varsity volleyball team was a BCL West Bay Division II Champion.

COLLEGE PLACEMENT

Our graduates attend both public and private colleges and universities. Recent graduates attend such colleges as Boston University, Brown, Emory, Johns Hopkins/Peabody Conservatory, Lewis and Clark, Oberlin, Occidental, Pitzer, School of Visual Arts, Stanford, Universities of California, University of Washington, USC and Willamette.

HEAD OF SCHOOL Dr. Mathew Heersche UPPER SCHOOL DIVISION HEAD John Bowermaster TUITION, 2004-2005 Boarding: $37,202 ● Day: $21,642 FINANCIAL AID San Domenico is committed to diversity in its student body and provides financial aid to qualified students. All financial aid is awarded on the basis of need. Payment plan options are also available to help make a San Domenico education affordable.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Wendy Feltham, Director of Admissions Phone: (415) 258-1905 ● Fax: (415) 258-1906 Email: admissions@sandomenico.org Website: www.sandomenico.org

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Catholic San Francisco

September 10, 2004

St. Ignatius College Preparatory 2001 - 37th Avenue • San Francisco • California • 94116 (415) 731-7500 • www.siprep.org

PROFILE

St. Ignatius College Preparatory celebrates its 149th year of providing Jesuit secondary education in the San Francisco Bay Area. SI is one of 44 Jesuit secondary schools in the United States providing values-centered education. SI was the tenth Jesuit secondary school to become coeducational.

During their four years at SI, our students receive rigorous academic training designed to ensure that they are well prepared to enter the world of higher education. Historically, over 99% of St. Ignatius graduates enroll in colleges and universities throughout the United States. Our strong college preparatory curriculum is balanced by an active Campus Ministry program, an excellent athletic department which offers inter-scholastic competition on over 60 teams, and a superb fine arts program highlighted by productions and presentations throughout the school year.

PHILOSOPHY

There are two primary objectives to a Jesuit education: first, educating the total person; and second, forming “men and women for others.” In achieving the first objective, SI offers programs that enable students to develop academically, physically, spiritually, and socially.

Student activities are a vital part of the curriculum at SI. They provide opportunities to develop interests and talents that are normally untapped in classroom activities. The second objective permeates all aspects of SI education but is most clearly focused in the 100 hours or more of community service.

This special graduation requirement has as its goal the development of Christian leaders.

CURRICULUM

The academic program at St. Ignatius College Preparatory is designed to prepare students for their college education, offering them four years of college preparatory study. Minimum graduation requirements meet or exceed the prerequisites and recommended subjects for any selective college in the country.

They include 8 semesters of English, 7 semesters of Religious Studies, 6 semesters of Mathematics, 6 semesters of Social Science, 4 semesters of the same Foreign Language, 5 semesters of Science, 2 semesters of PE, 2 semesters of Fine Arts, 8 semesters of college preparatory electives, and 100 hours of supervised community service.

For students who wish to be challenged further, SI offers Advanced Placement and Honors classes in English, Mathematics, Social Science, Foreign Language, and Science. Students who pass Advanced Placement exams receive college credit and thus save on university tuition. Of the 1,284 AP exams taken in 2003, SI students passed 72 percent. AP success has ranked SI among the top 30 schools nationally and among the top three schools in Northern California in terms of the number of exams administered.

PRINCIPAL Mr. Charles Dullea ENROLLMENT 1415 FACULTY 100 TUITION / FEES $11,840 / $500 FINANCIAL AID Available to students with demonstrated financial need. $1.1 million of need-based financial aid has been awarded to over 19% of the student body for the 2004-2005 academic year. The average grant was $3,930.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION www.siprep.org Mr. Kevin M. Grady, Admissions Director Mrs. Lori Yap, Assistant Admissions Director Ms. Genny Poggetti, Admissions Coordinator

September 10, 2004 Catholic San Francisco

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Woodside Priory School 302 Portola Road Portola Valley, CA 94028 • 650 / 851-8221

California’s Benedictine College Preparatory School

Web site: www.WoodsidePriory.com

OUR MISSION

Woodside Priory School is an independent, Catholic, college preparatory school in the Benedictine tradition. Our mission is to assist students of promise in becoming lifelong learners who will productively serve a world in need of their gifts.

We believe in these Benedictine values: Spirituality: God works in us, through us, and for us.

Hospitality: All are welcomed with honor and respect.

Integrity: Learning flourishes in an environment of honesty, trust and personal responsibility.

Individuality: Every student has gifts to be discovered, nurtured, and treasured.

Community: Together we find strength and purpose in supporting one another We believe these values are made real in a community in which every student is known and loved.

OVERVIEW

The Priory is a coeducational, college preparatory school that includes a middle school program for grades six through eight and a high school, for the freshman through senior years.

A challenging curriculum, combined with a full program of interscholastic sports, extracurricular activities, cultural events and service to community provides an atmosphere encouraging growth in the personal, intellectual, physical and spiritual aspects of a young person’s life.

The Priory provides a unique student community for both day students and boarders. Integrating its students in the boarding program with the day students, the Priory provides a boarding option that fosters community living within a structured, family environment. Boarders from throughout the Bay Area, as well as from other parts of the US and the world consider boarding as an exciting opportunity.

With a campus of unsurpassed beauty and outstanding facilities, the Priory is located on sixty acres in rural Portola Valley, forty miles south of San Francisco and five miles west of Stanford University.

PHILOSOPHY AND CURRICULUM

Priory students are challenged to engage in a complete range of educational experience, demonstrating intellectual inquiry, knowledge of human history and culture, and clear thinking, speaking and writing. Critical thinking, study skills and research skills are integrated into all academic disciplines.

The required high school curriculum prepares all students to meet University of California admission requirements or other highly regarded colleges. Students develop a strong academic base in skills and knowledge, with a special emphasis on math-science and writing/research skills training.

The Priory’s strengths include: • Eighteen AP, honors and advanced courses, plus a wide range of elective choices for many required classes.

• Modern athletic and arts facilities, with a complete range of physical education, fine and performing arts courses.

• Community service is integrated into student life and the curriculum. All students fulfill an 80-hour requirement and many go far beyond that with club and class activities.

• Advanced technology is supported and use of technology is integrated across the curriculum.

• More than 40 faculty-supervised co-curricular activities are offered within the school day. These choices provide opportunities for students to discover talents and develop skills not tapped in typical academic studies.

• Students are engaged in a four-year high school retreat program, which centers on their spirituality and faith journey within the context of Benedictine values.

The small school environment, small class size and 10-to-1 student-teacher ratio create a strong, interactive academic environment in which individual strengths can be encouraged.

HEADMASTER Tim Molak, M.A. COMPREHENSIVE FEE 2004 – 2005 (Includes: tuition, lunch, activities and athletics) Day Students: $23,830 TUITION ASSISTANCE The Priory is committed to working with families regarding tuition costs. Towards that end, a tuition assistance program is available and aid is awarded on the basis of family need. For the 2003 – 2004 school year over $832,000 has been awarded to approximately 20% of the student body. Call the Admissions Director for information.

ENROLLMENT Co-educational - 340 students FACULTY Sixty teachers form the faculty of the school, including five members of the Benedictine Community. Four members of the faculty hold doctorates and a majority hold advanced degrees.

TO VISIT THE PRIORY From the I-280 freeway, take the Alpine Road/Portola Valley exit.

Follow Alpine Road west three miles to a stop sign at Portola Road.

Turn right onto Portola Road. The Priory entrance is one half-mile.

SHADOW DAYS Prospective students who wish to spend a day at the Priory are encouraged to make a reservation early as Shadow Days are limited.

Call Admissions after September 1st for available visit days.

OPEN HOUSES Saturdays, November 20th & December 11th, 2004 at 10 AM FOR FURTHER INFORMATION Al Zappelli, Director of Admissions and Financial Aid Woodside Priory School 302 Portola Road, Portola Valley, CA 94028 650-851-8221 e-mail: azappelli@woodsidepriory.com Web site: www.woodsidepriory.com

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Catholic San Francisco

September 10, 2004

M S . M AU R E E N H U N T I N G TO N S U P E R I N T E N D E N T O F C AT H O L I C S C H O O L S E

ach year, the Archdiocese of San Francisco presents to the Bay Area our outstanding Catholic High Schools. Each school, unique in culture and environment, is deeply committed to teaching and living the values of our Catholic faith. The commitment toward academic excellence is evident at each campus and in each classroom. Come, visit our campuses and see for yourself the dedicated teachers and administrators, the academic excellence of our curriculum, and serenity and peace of a Christ centered campus.

Each high school is unique in size, culture, charism and environment. Students are treasured for their individuality, talents and interests. The teachers and administrators at each school work closely with parents and the family to make sure each student receives the attention they need to be academically successful and the support and encouragement they need to grow and mature into faith filled adults. This ethnical and moral foundation will enable our young people to grow into adults with strong moral decision making skills deeply rooted in justice and integrity.

I urge you to consider a Catholic High School for your son or daughter. Four years can make a world of difference!

Maureen Huntington

Ms. Maureen Huntington Superintendent of Catholic Schools Archdiocese of San Francisco

W H AT F I N A N C I A L H E L P I S AVA I L A B L E T O A S S I S T A F A M I LY W I T H T H E E X P E N S E O F A C AT H O L I C H I G H S C H O O L E D U C AT I O N ?

Significant scholarship and financial assistance p rograms help families meet tuition responsibilit i e s . I n t h e 2 0 0 3 - 2 0 0 4 s ch o o l ye a r a l o n e , more than $9 million in financial assistance wa s g ive n by C a t h o l i c h i g h s ch o o l s w i t h i n t h e

A rch d i o c e s e . A t t h e t i m e o f a p p l i c a t i o n t o a Catholic high school, parents should inquire a b o u t p ro g ra m s ava i l a b l e t h ro u g h t h e S a n Francisco A rchdiocese as well as through the individual school.

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Why C h o o s e A C a t h o l i c H i g h S ch o o l ? ? ?

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can I get the most supportive environment for my child during the next four years?

The community environment experienced in Catholic schools fully supports students in their spiritual and academic growth. Teachers dedicate themselves to helping students achieve their full potential.

What can a Catholic high school do for my child?

The teaching of Catholic values is core to the curriculum in Catholic high schools. Equally important is the religious community of adults surrounding Catholic schools which supports the schools’ mission.

Catholic schools mandate that their students take more college preparatory classes.

Catholic schools provide a challenging academic curricula in which students thrive, particularly in religious studies, mathematics, science, English and other core subjects.

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am unable to afford the expense of a Catholic education; what can I do?

All Catholic high schools in the San Francisco Archdiocese have substantial scholarship and financial aid programs for students and families who qualify.

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are the results for Catholic high school graduates?

Over 98% of Catholic school graduates in the San Francisco Archdiocese enroll in colleges and universities.

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Catholic San Francisco

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Mercy High School – Burlingame 2750 Adeline Drive, Burlingame, CA 94010 (650) 343-3631 Web Site: www.mercyhsb.com Open House: Sun., Nov. 21 (12:00 pm – 4:00 pm) 6th & 7th Gr. Day – Fri., April 29 (1:30 pm – 3:00 pm)

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San Domenico School 1500 Butterfield Road, San Anselmo, CA 94960 (415) 258-1905 Web Site: www.sandomenico.org Open House: Sun., Nov. 21 (1:00 pm – 4:00 pm)

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Sacred Heart Prep High School 150 Valparaiso Avenue, Atherton, CA 94027 (650) 322-1866 Web Site: www.shschools.org Open House: Sun., Oct. 31 (11:30 am) Sun., Nov. 21 (1:00 pm)

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Archbishop Riordan High School 175 Phelan Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94112 (415) 586-1256 Web Site: www.riordanhs.org Open House: Sun., Oct. 24 (Program begins at 11:00 am) Sun., Nov. 14 (Program begins at 11:00 am)

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