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Josephite Father Bartholomew Endslow displays a wooden cross he found amid the debris scattered across the parking lot of Mother of Mercy Parish in Pass Christian, Miss., Sept. 9. National Guardsmen from Indiana assisted the priest in recovering items from the church and rectory which were severely damaged by Hurricane Katrina.
Catholic Charities USA brings relief to the streets in Biloxi, Miss. By Carol Zimmermann
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BILOXI, Miss. (CNS) — More than anything else, people wanted bleach. That’s what the Catholic Charities USA disaster relief team found as it drove its caravan of vehicles through Biloxi and the surrounding area hard-hit by Hurricane Katrina. Victims of the hurricane were happy to get food and water, but above all they wanted bleach and other cleaning supplies such as mops and paper towels to begin the long, arduous process of cleaning up. One woman literally broke down in tears when she was handed a bottle of bleach. Others simply glanced at other giveaway items in the back of the pickup truck, not interested in bread, power bars, fruit and water, just hoping for a big bottle of Clorox. Catholic Charities USA set up a disaster relief center Sept. 8 in the parish hall at St. Mary’s Church in Woolmarket, just outside Biloxi, to provide immediate relief to the thousands of people with damaged homes. The parish center was also a base of operations for World Outreach Ministries International, a nonCATHOLIC CHARITIES, page 3 denominational aid group.
Vatican delegation tours devastated regions of Gulf Coast By Carol Zimmermann BILOXI, Miss. — Archbishop Paul Cordes, the Vatican’s top humanitarian aid official, urged Biloxi Catholics Sept. 12 not to lose hope in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and assured them that with God’s help they would “be able to overcome” the struggles they faced from the devastation. The archbishop, who is president of the Pontifical Council “Cor Unum,” which coordinates charity efforts, was sent to the Gulf Coast region by Pope Benedict XVI as part of a delegation visiting the hurricane-devastated areas of the United States.
He was accompanied by Washington Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick and Father Larry Snyder, president of Catholic Charities USA, for a threeday visit that included visiting evacuees in Baton Rouge, La., going on a helicopter tour of New Orleans and driving through hard-hit areas in Biloxi. Archbishop Cordes said his visit was “a sign from the pope that he’d like to be close to you and show his compassion.” Area bishops who joined the delegation included Baton Rouge Bishop Robert W. Muench, Archbishop Alfred C. Hughes and Auxiliary
Bishop Roger P. Morin of New Orleans, and retired New Orleans Archbishop Philip M. Hannan. Bishops John H. Ricard of PensacolaTallahassee, Fla., and Thomas J. Rodi of Biloxi met the delegation in Biloxi, and Archbishop Oscar H. Lipscomb of Mobile, Ala., met them in Baton Rouge. The delegation met in Baton Rouge Sept. 10 and toured New Orleans by helicopter. The next day, after Mass at the Cathedral of St. Joseph in Baton Rouge, they visited local shelters and a hospital to speak with evacuees from New VATICAN DELEGATION, page 6
INSIDE THIS WEEK’S EDITION News-in-brief . . . . . . . . . . . 4 New I-Hotel opens . . . . . . . 5 USF enrolls Katrina refugees. 7 Editorial & columns . . 12-13 Evolution debate . . . . . . . . 15
Daughters of St. Paul leaving San Francisco ~ Page 8 ~ September 16, 2005
Interfaith delegation visits San Quentin ~ Pages 10-11 ~
‘The Exorcism of Emily Rose’ movie review ~ Pages 17-18 ~ SIXTY CENTS
Datebook . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Classified ads . . . . . . . . . . 19
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Helping lead the way as they make their own are Senior Class Officers for 2005-06 at Notre Dame High School in Belmont. From Left: Madison Mooney, Mone Azzopardi, Kellen Ruwe, Alisa Scannel, Kaitlin Neary.
Junipero Serra High School is all set for a new season having named its bullpen for school dad and longtime baseballvolunteer, Al Malley. Al and his wife, Joan, sent three sons through the school – Dan and Mike who are both now deceased and much missed and Jim who graduated in‘76. While Al and Joan led cheers for all their athlete sons, the diamond is where Al began to donate his time after retiring from the grocery business. “I never expected recognition for this, especially for something that I enjoyed doing so much,” Al said…. Happy 59 years married May 12th to Rose and Carl Dalessio, longtime parishioners of St. Veronica Parish in South San Francisco – “We go back to the days of original pastor, Father John Coleman,” Carl told me. “We celebrated quietly this year but for the 60th we’re going on a cruise,” Rose said…. Faithful servants of Star of the Sea Parish in San Francisco were
Arthur Papoff and Ken Troche have made Rome their home during Holy Week for at least a decade. For the last two years the have carried palms in the papal Palm Sunday procession. Art, left, and Ken said they have run into Pope Benedict XVI a coupla’ times when he was known to the wider Church as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger. “He is the nicest man and very polite,” Ken said. “He is also very friendly,” Art told me. Art and Ken are both longtime parishioners of the Ingleside’s St. Emydius. Art for 56 years and Ken for more than 40.
remembered in a recent bulletin including Janet and Arthur Ottolini and Frances Flynn. Hats off to them all…. Thanked for their stints as Celtics Coaches in the CYO sports program at St. Peter Parish in Pacifica were John Gillmore, Rob Mallick, Madison Mettling, Larry Shores, Ron Baxter, Bob Mulvey, Dave Downing, Kathy Mack, Jillian Fuller, Lizzie Tucker, Rachael Coy, John Mauer, John Vallero, Lisa York, Dave Stevens, Vince Anicetti, Matt Hanaike, Julian Agustin, Dave Federico, Bill Spiker…. St. Mary Star of the Sea Parish led congrats to Kiki and Michael Pescatello on the occasion of their 28th wedding anniversary in May. “To them we say ‘Thanks for your faithful witness to Christ in your love for each other,” the parish said…. Celebrating 67 years of marriage and the good wishes of Holy Name of Jesus Parish June 4th were Evelyn and Al Leveroni who have lived in their Sunset District home since shortly after their wedding day
in 1938…. Congrats to Larry Santy III an All Souls Elementary and Junipero Serra High School alum, and now a 2005 graduate of San Francisco State University. Hats off, too, his sister, Stephanie who graduated in May with honors from the University of San Francisco where she’ll continue studies on a road to a teaching career. Sib, Timothy, is now a student at Loyola Marymount in Los Angeles. Proud parents, Marguerite and Larry, alums of the much-missed St. Rose Academy and St. Ignatius College Preparatory Thanks for the good news to Nana Gladys Santy and Oma Rosmarie Arenz…. Remember this is an empty space without ya’!! The email address for Street is burket@sfarchdiocese.org. Mailed items should be sent to “Street,” One Peter Yorke Way, SF 94109. Pix should be hard copy or electronic jpeg at 300 dpi. Don’t forget to include a follow-up phone number. You can reach me at (415) 614-5634. Cheerleaders at St. Veronica Elementary School were first place finishers in three competitions during school year 2004-05. On hand with praise for the group were members of the Immaculate Conception Academy cheerleading squad. Back from left: Rizza Te, Gianna Giuliani, Kristen Kelly, Andrea Carrillo, Molly Soracco, Bianca Castro, Brooke Beltrame, Anastasia Koulakis, Gianna Puccinelli, Heidi Roman, Melanie Shea, Christina Kalogerias. Front from left: Amanda Bonzani, Brittany Tom, Julia Lagman, Alexa Flores, Jennifer Formosa, Jennifer Bartolo.
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Catholic Charities . . . ■ Continued from cover The Catholic Charities workers organizing the distribution center and helping with deliveries of food and supplies to people who might not be able to get to the center were all from Florida’s Catholic Charities agencies. “The seven dioceses of Florida agreed: We’ve adopted the Biloxi Diocese,” said Peter Routsis-Arroyo, president of Catholic Charities in the Venice Diocese. “We’ve had six hurricanes in the past year. We’ve been through this,” he told Catholic News Service Sept. 9 in the parking lot in front of the parish hall under blue skies and a blazing hot sun. He said the work of distributing food to the needy was a start, especially since the “local and state systems were totally overwhelmed” by the devastation and the needs in southern Mississippi. As the Catholic Charities relief caravan made its way through devastated streets of Biloxi Sept. 10, people with flood-damaged homes were handed bags of food and supplies and asked if there were certain items they needed. On the edge of the yards of each home were huge piles of household belongings: sofas, rugs, chairs, insulation, toys, television sets, mattresses, clothes and furniture, all mud-covered and soggy from being covered with the rising floodwaters that accompanied the hurricane. At almost every stop, residents were quick to tell how high the water rose in their house, and hesitant to say what they were going to do next because most simply did not know. In a suburban neighborhood in D’Iberville, on the outskirts of Biloxi, the homes and yards were a little bigger, but the stench from mud and water and the piles of household furniture and belongings were about the same. Some families were outside hanging clothes out to dry on bushes, the front yard or driveways. Others were clearing branches or fixing roofs. Sharon Vance, who was wearing a mask over her nose and mouth to keep out some of the mold and mildew smells, was in the front yard of her daughter’s home washing out toys with a bleach and water mixture. Down the street, Suzanne Ledet, a member of St. John Parish in Biloxi, was also starting an overwhelming cleanup project. Her mother and brother were both staying temporarily with her because her home was in better shape than theirs. Back at the base of operations, Father Dominick Fullam, pastor of St. Mary’s and the newly appointed coordinator of disaster relief for the Biloxi Diocese, was
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SACRAMENTO – Less than a day after the Democratmajority legislature pushed through a bill that would legalize same-sex marriage, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger pledged to veto the bill, saying it ignores the will of the people. The bill, AB 849, passed the state assembly Sept. 6 with no votes to spare. Of 47 Democrats in the assembly, 41 voted for the bill, while 31 Republicans and four Democrats voted against its passage. Just five days earlier, the state senate had approved the bill on a straight party line vote, 21 Democrats in favor, 15 Republicans opposed. The bill, authored by Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) would replace the phrase “a man and a woman” with the term “two persons” in the state’s marriage laws. In 2000, Californians voted overwhelmingly for Proposition 22, which banned same-sex marriage. The California Catholic Conference is urging Catholics to contact Gov. Schwarzenegger and express their support for a veto of AB 849.
Diocese appeals bankruptcy ruling SPOKANE, Wash. — The Diocese of Spokane has moved to appeal a bankruptcy court decision that said parishes and schools were part of diocesan property and must be counted as diocesan assets in an attempt to make a financial settlement of sexual abuse claims. The Sept. 6 motion requesting an appellate hearing said the court’s ruling “would pit the debtor (the diocese) against the true beneficial owners of the disputed property — the parishes and schools — in violation of the civil and canonical trust relationship” between the diocese and its parishes. In a letter for distribution in all parishes at weekend Masses Sept. 1011, Spokane Bishop William S. Skylstad said he was appealing the decision because he believes it was incorrect.
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The sixth-century Church of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul became a museum in 1934. It had been used as a mosque after the city's capture by Ottoman Turks in 1453. A group of Swiss scholars has petitioned the European Parliament to ensure that the church is restored for Christian worship before Turkey joins the European Union.
“The diocese does not own the parishes,” he wrote. “They do not belong to me. I can no more sell parishes than I can choose the house or lake cabin of a Catholic parishioner and sell those properties to satisfy claims.” He said that the mission of the church in Spokane will continue during the appeals process, which some believe could take as long as 10 years, and afterward.
Sept. 16 declared national day of prayer for hurricane victims WASHINGTON — President George W. Bush declared Sept. 16 as a “national day of prayer and remembrance” for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. “A vast coastline of towns and communities has been decimated. Many lives have been lost, and hundreds of thousands of our fellow Americans are suffering great hardship,” Bush said in a Sept. 8 proclamation announcing the prayer day. “To honor the memory of those who lost their lives, to provide comfort and strength to the families of the victims, and to help ease the burden of the survivors, I call upon all Americans to pray to almighty God and to perform acts of service,” he said. “Our nation is united in compassion for the victims, and in resolve to overcome the tremendous loss that has come to America. We will strive together in this effort, and we will prevail through perseverance and prayer,” he said.
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On 9/11, Pope Benedict pays homage to terrorism victims CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy — On the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, Pope Benedict XVI paid homage to all victims of terrorism around the world and appealed for an end to hatred and renewed dedication to peace. “Today, 11 Sept., we remember the victims of terrorist violence throughout the world,” he said at the end of his noontime Angelus prayer at the papal summer residence in Castel Gandolfo. “May God inspire men and women of good will everywhere to renounce hatred and to build a world of justice, solidarity and peace,” he said. In San Francisco on Sept. 11, more than 500 people attended the annual Police and Fire Memorial Mass at St. Monica Church, which was co-sponsored by the San Francisco Fire Department and the San Francisco Police Department. Father John Greene gave the homily.
Pope names four mainland Chinese bishops to October synod VATICAN CITY — In what could be a promising move for Vatican-China relations, Pope Benedict XVI has named four mainland Chinese bishops as members of the October Synod of Bishops. Church sources in Rome said two of the bishops belong to the government-approved Catholic Church in China, while the other two have been members of the underground church that has rejected official government ties. None are listed in the Vatican’s official pontifical yearbook. Named to the synod were: Bishop Aloysius Jin Luxian of Shanghai, a government-recognized bishop; Bishop Anthony Li Du’an of Xi’an, a governmentapproved bishop; Bishop Luke Li Jingfeng of Fengxiang, an underground church leader; and Bishop Wei Jingyi of Qiqihar, another underground church bishop. The appointments to the Oct. 2-23 synod were seen as a potential breakthrough, in part because the full spectrum of the Catholic community in China would be represented at the Rome assembly for the first time.
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Bishop John C. Wester blesses new I-Hotel
St. Mark’s Knights are number one The Knights of Columbus Saint Mark’s Council in Belmont was named the Best Council in Division I by their fellow Knights at this year’s statewide convention in Ontario. Saint Mark’s won awards in eight categories altogether helping to make them number one, including second place awards for Church, Pro-Life, and Youth work. Grand Knight Ken Oden told Catholic San Francisco, "We are proud of our accomplishments, our council, our parish, our pastor, and most importantly, that we are continuing our Catholic Faith. Picture from left are Hugo Da Silva, Duane Darr, Ken Oden, St. Mark’s Pastor Fr. Al Furtado, Steve Rubio, Max Toscano, Nelson Cabe, Dan Abalos, and Tom Tolentino.
Bishop John C. Wester blessed the new International Hotel August 26 at the crossroads of Chinatown and North Beach, 26 years after the original hotel was closed following protracted battles and forcible evictions. The hotel had been the center of a once Filipino community in San Francisco. Decades of political fighting prevented development of the property at the corner of Kearney and Jackson. In 1994, the property was purchased by the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Together with government and community groups, a 15 story, $29 million building was erected which includes 88 studio and 16 one-bedroom apartments. The property will also house St. Mary’s Holy Family Chinese Mission and St Mary’s Schools which were displaced by the 1989 Loma-Prieta Earthquake. St. Mary’s Chinese School is temporarily housed at the former Our Lady of Guadalupe Church atop the Broadway Tunnel. Please visit website www.stmaryschinese.org or call 415-929-4696 for information on supporting the remaining costs and construction of St. Mary’s Chinese Schools and Center.
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Vatican delegation . . . ■Continued from cover Orleans. The group arrived in Biloxi Sept. 12 in a U.S. Marine helicopter. After a brief gathering at the Biloxi Diocesan Pastoral Center, the delegation drove through devastated areas including a Biloxi neighborhood that was literally blown apart as if it had been hit by a bomb. Houses were leveled to the ground or huge sections of them were moved to other yards or just broken in pieces. Some cars were upside down and an occasional boat was on its side. All tree leaves were singed brown and street edges were lined with piles of scraps that were remnants of the homes’ insides. Signs spray-painted on plywood boards in front of houses often listed the insurance policy numbers and some also had messages of hope and even humor, such as “We’ re OK� or “For Sale — Half Off Literally� and “Yard of the Month.� A rooftop, laying flat on the ground, bore the message “God bless America.� The group stopped briefly at St. John Church in Biloxi where water levels rose at least 8 feet and wet mud still soaked the church’s carpet. Hymnals, pews, Stations of the Cross and even the altar were all mud-covered. The final stop in the tour was St. Michael Church in Biloxi, just blocks from the ocean and adjacent to the once-thriving casinos that were demolished in the storm. Bishop Rodi described the church, with its shell-shaped roof, as a place the diocese was “always proud of and will be proud of again.�
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To get into the circular-shaped church, delegation members had to first walk over wires, broken glass and scattered debris before climbing through the frame of a no-longer existing window. Essentially nothing remained inside. The pews were completely gone and the bottom half of the long stainedglass windows were all broken. The Biloxi bishop was quick to point out that a crucifix suspended from the ceiling remained intact. “Jesus is still with us,� he told the other bishops and the reporters who were following them. Inside the hollow church, Cardinal McCarrick described the scene as the “worst he ever saw� in his life. But he also told Catholic News Service that he was convinced the church would be rebuilt. “You can’t be a Christian unless you’re optimistic; that’s what it’s all about,� he said. At the pastoral center before the delegation tour, Cardinal McCarrick told the assembled crowd of diocesan employees, priests, religious and lay people of the Biloxi Diocese that people would one day know about their area as the place that “came back with joy, courage and strength in God.� “Good is going to come out of this, even if you don’t always see it,� he added. Archbishop Cordes likewise encouraged Biloxi Catholics, noting that the previous day in Baton Rouge he “saw people in difficult situations, but they were smiling.� “It was a sign of hope,� he said, “that we can give our difficulties to the Lord and move on.�
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University of San Francisco welcomes displaced students from hurricane-stricken areas In response to the tragic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the University of San Francisco accepted 161 displaced students from the New Orleans area. The young adults received a president’s welcome from Father Stephen A. Privett at the orientation session held Sept. 8. He told USF’s newest students, “You are home now.” After the president’s remarks, the newly enrolled students attended a reception and resource fair where they learned to navigate the grounds of their new home, and visited information booths where students received answers to their questions regarding student activities, residence life, financial aid, and more. Counseling was available for students who found the transition difficult, especially those dealing with the disastrous aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Since classes had already begun at the University, Father Privett made the process of accepting the displaced students as easy as possible. In a recent letter he wrote to the University community he wrote, “Our policy is that we will accept as many qualified students as we can accommodate and will work out the details later when we and they have more information.” With USF housing “virtually full,” the University had to come up with some lodging ideas fast for the new enrollees. Staff, students and alumni made it all possible. The University turned campus lounges into dorm spaces. Students living in doubles agreed to accept a third student in their dorm rooms. And, alumni in the Bay Area offered to house some of the students.
Freshman Amanda Garcia had already gone to Loyola University in New Orleans for the start of the school year but decided to evacuate when Hurricane Katrina started to intensify. “Seeing how bad it was going to be, I wanted her out of there,” said Michael Garcia, Amanda’s father. Garcia, whose family lives in San Francisco said he immediately called universities in the Bay Area to enroll his daughter. One student said his home in New Orleans was lost under 17 feet of water, but his family escaped unharmed. Eric Ramos a senior of Loyola University was about to return for the fall semester when Katrina hit. Ramos said he had seen four other Loyola students he knew in the admissions office at USF. On Sept. 15, the new USF members were formally welcomed at the University’s annual Mass of the Holy Spirit. A special section in St. Ignatius Church was saved for the new students so they could have the opportunity to meet other students from their region. The majority of the students came from six universities affected by Hurricane Katrina: Loyola, Xavier, Tulane, Dillard, University of New Orleans, and Southern Mississippi. The University continues to get dozens of last minute inquiries regarding admission to the Jesuit school. Presently, since USF is into its fourth week of classes, the University is encouraging students who have not applied to the school to wait until January to start classes. USF believes four weeks of “catch up” would be difficult for even the best of students.
Three university students from hurricane-stricken areas discuss what classes to take with Dena Davis (far left) and Tom Merrell (far right) of USF’s academic services. The students are among 161 who re-enrolled at USF after their schools closed down in the wake of Hurricane Katrina’s devastation.
Respect Life Education Day moved to USF The October 1 Education Day sponsored by the Archdiocese of San Francisco Respect Life Program has been moved from its original location to the University of San Francisco and St. Ignatius Church. The day begins at 8:00 a.m. with registration and continental breakfast at the Maraschi Room in USF’s Xavier Hall, nearby St. Ignatius Church. Presentations by Dr. William Hurlbut of Stanford University and the President’s Council on Bioethics and Vicki Thorn of the National Office of Post-Abortion Reconciliation and Healing follow. Mass will be celebrated by Bishop Wester in St. Ignatius Church at 12:05 p.m. followed by lunch and an afternoon session back at Xavier Hall. Call Vicki Evans at 415-945-0180 or email evansv@sfarchdiocese.org for more information or to register. $20 registration includes continental breakfast and lunch.
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Daughters of St. Paul leaving San Francisco after 35 years By Evelyn Zappia After 35 years of ministry in San Francisco, the Daughters of St. Paul will be moving to Redwood City and closing their Geary Street Book and Media Center Sept 17. The Sisters could not afford the cost of retrofitting the downtown building to meet San Francisco’s 1991 Un-reinforced Masonry Building Ordinance, according to Pauline Sister Margaret Obrovac. “It was very clear we had to relocate,” she said. The sisters have sold the downtown building that included their convent. A portion of the proceeds went toward the purchase of a new convent in Redwood City. The Daughters also donated a portion of the sale proceeds for urgent needs of their Province in Toronto. The remaining proceeds will go towards the start-up expenses of a new Book and Media Center planned for Redwood City. “We are grateful how it has turned out so far,” said Sr. Margaret. “We are not in the red, but we didn’t make money either.” The five Pauline Sisters moving their ministry headquarters from San Francisco to Redwood City view the relocation as a
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Daughters of St. Paul . . . ■ Continued from page 8 could be sponsored by the Center in collaboration with parishes. The new center will likely be smaller than the San Francisco site. Inventory will reflect some of the local needs. The Chapel and children’s corner that visitors expect to see in Pauline Book and Media Centers will be retained. Sister said that the Pauline family was meant “to offer the Catholic media world a charism – a way of bringing the gospel – enculturating the gospel – bringing people into a deeper relationship with Christ and one another – using the very means that define the culture.” The two priorities of the Daughters of St. Paul are to help young women discern their vocation, and to develop lay collaboration. Both of these are meant to continue the road of communicating Jesus by bringing the gospel to others who might travel different paths. “The Peninsula has many churches of all denominations,” said Sister. “We have been encouraged to join the Peninsula Clergy Network. It will help us contact a number of churches other than the Catholic churches. We’re looking forward to the ecumenical flowering of our mission in ways we couldn’t do at our San Francisco location.” The Daughters of St. Paul were founded in 1915 by Father James Alberione. Like St. Paul, he was a great communicator striving to bring the gospel to all people. He wanted his congregation to reach out to
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September 16, 2005
Bishop Wester leads interfaith delegation to San Quentin
Standing in front of San Quentin’s Holy Rosary Catholic Chapel after one of their summer meetings are Interfaith Restorative Justice Roundtable section leaders Eddie Renteria, Tung Nguyen, Kevin Hagan, Robert “Red” Frye, Douglas “Skip” Collier, Leonard Rubio, Robert “Bob” Kaser, and San Quentin Chaplain Father Stephen Barber, S.J.
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San Quentin inmates: In their own words
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So Crips and Bloods have their own cages, as do prisoners who because of the nature of their crime, are in danger from other prisoners. n interfaith delegation led by San Francisco Apostolic Administrator Bishop John C. A narrow walkway along the yards allowed the delegation to process by and speak through the wire Wester and Sacramento Auxiliary Bishop Richard J. Garcia toured San Quentin’s fence with any prisoners who wished. Death Row Sept. 7 and joined for lunch and dialogue with inmates at the prison’s Back inside is a long four-story cell block with hundreds of solitary confinement cells. Opposite the Holy Rosary Catholic Chapel. The group included Father John P. McGarry, newly cells, on narrow walkways, armed guards keep watch. At the end of the block is a small cage with woodinstalled California Jesuit Provincial, and representatives from Evangelical churches, Lutheran, en benches where small groups of condemned prisoners can attend Mass celebrated by Fr. Barber, who Jewish, Friends (Quaker), and other congregations and organizations. along with the altar, is housed in an adjacent cage. The purpose of the visit was to raise the particiAs the delegation prepared to tour the cell block, it pants’ own awareness about the religious and paswas announced that prisoners wishing a visit should toral needs of the men at San Quentin and to generturn their cell lights on. A large number did wish a ate awareness and interest in volunteer service opporvisit from Bishops Wester and Garcia and the other tunities at the prison. In addition, the group hoped to members of the delegation. Bishop Wester stopped to learn from prisoners themselves insights to improvpray, console, and just listen to many condemned ing programs of outreach, rehabilitation, reconciliamen. One showed him a prayer card with the picture tion, and restorative justice. of Archbishop Levada, which the Archbishop had The day began as the group gathered at the gates given him on a previous visit. Bishop Wester also of San Quentin and were met by Jesuit Father wrote down the names and id numbers of several men Stephen Barber, San Quentin’s Catholic Chaplain. who had made specific requests. The group then met with San Quentin’s new Warden, Following the visits on Death Row, the delegation Steve Ornoski, and Inmate Program Coordinator, assembled at the Holy Rosary Catholic Chapel where Captain K.J. Williams. San Quentin is distinguished, they were welcomed by Father Barber. The delegation according to prisoners and staff alike, for the numwould have lunch with the Interfaith Restorative ber and quality of its programs. Volunteers and proJustice Roundtable composed of prisoners and “outgrams for prisoners far outnumber those at other side” members who had met nine weeks over the sumstate prisons. mer to compose a White Paper to be presented to the Delegation members were particularly interested delegation. While the Roundtable was originally the to question whether the new Warden was supportive initiative of members of the Holy Rosary Chapel, it was of prison programs. The Warden said he was strongly a truly interfaith group including Buddhist, Christian, supportive of programs, but favored an “evidence Muslim, Native American and Jewish representatives based” approach to evaluating them. Twelve Step from the prison and outside volunteer populations. programs, he explained, are generally more worthy of Prayer was led by Bishop Garcia and prisoner support than some others because of their effectiveLeonard Rubio who led the Roundtable effort, and ness in turning lives around. lunch was served. Following lunch, the product of the Captain Williams also explained the prison was Bishop John C. Wester leads Grace before Roundtable’s work was presented to the delegation by hoping to increase emphasis on working with groups Mr. Rubio. to create “outside” programs to help prisoners adjust a special boxed lunch meal with members of The Roundtable began their work by studying docuonce they are released. “If there’s no program for the Interfaith Delegation, inmates, and “outside” ments of the U.S. and California Bishops on rehabilitathem to go to on the streets, it’s moot,” he said, refermembers of the Interfaith Restorative Justice Roundtable. tion, restoration, prison ministry and documents on ring to the value of prison based programs. other prison and crime related subjects. The purpose of the plan is to “address ways to better meet the needs Fr. Barber later explained to the group that the Warden had visited him in the Catholic Chapel of victim-survivors of crime, the families of the incarcerated, the incarcerated, ex-offenders, and society.” (the first warden in his tenure to do so) as soon as he arrived. During his visit, the Warden also The delegation was then invited to meet with the authors of the six main focus areas of the plan received and reviewed a White Paper produced over the summer by prisoners and others titled to ask questions and hear their concerns. Catholic San Francisco will publish a longer discussion “Responsibility, Rehabilitation, and Restoration: A Response and Implementation Plan.” of the White Paper – “Responsibility, Rehabilitation, and Restoration: A Response and From the Warden’s office, the delegation was processed into the secure part of the prison, where Implementation Plan” in an upcoming issue. the cell blocks, chapels, and other institutions of prisoner life are housed. While several stops were When the meetings at Holy Rosary Chapel were completed, the delegation was shown the planned during the morning tour, the delegation finally spent all of its time in the area housing Death Chamber at San Quentin. Lieutenant Vernell Crittendon, San Quentin’s public information condemned prisoners. At the ground floor of the Block housing the bulk of the approximately 600 officer, gave a somber and exhaustive explanation of the practice, process and history of execucondemned men at San Quentin is an outdoor yard containing six small fenced-in exercise areas. tions at San Quentin. San Quentin has had eleven executions since the practice was re-instated in Each contained about 30 to 40 men sitting, exercising, or showering outdoors. A red letter sign in California in 1992 following the 1977 re-enactment of the death penalty. Two were by poison gas each cage read “Danger – No Warning Shots Fired In This Yard.” A prison guard explained the and the rest by lethal injection. men were segregated according to gang or other affiliations to prevent violence among prisoners.
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By Evelyn Zappia Catholic San Francisco spoke with the inmate leaders of the six focus groups of the Interfaith Restorative Justice Roundtable which produced Responsibility, Rehabilitation, and Restoration: A Response and Implementation Plan. Following are some of their comments: As focus leader for Families of Offenders – Family Preservation, Douglas “Skip” Collier believes the stigma associated with families of offenders is too great a burden for the children. “They seem to bear the brunt of the sentence along with the offender,” he said. “Many of the children of offenders end up in these cells. Eventually, they are subjected to the pitfalls that come with having an incarcerated family member.” While mom is trying to keep a roof over their heads, he said, the kid is out on the streets surrounded by people who want to exploit him. Soon the kid is presented with choices to make his life easier. The temptation is great, and the kid takes a chance. He winds up in the juvenile system, becomes a ward of the court and then a foster child. He’s fallen through the cracks because of the “evil forces” of the streets. “I’m not exaggerating,” he said. “I speak from experience.” Collier said when a relative is in prison it can drive the kid to shame and seclusion. He hoped the bishops would consider the recommendations of “setting support networks up for families, addressing mentor and education programs, job training for mothers, and increasing visiting sessions.” He also would like the Church to get involved on the parish level and routinely “set up a Mass and a prayer service for the offenders and victims – not to mix them but to identify these people and bring them out of the darkness.” Tung Nguyen another focus leader for Families of Offenders – Family Preservation believes the value of family ties is crucial for the inmate and family. Most prisons have limited family visiting sessions to only two days a week. “It makes it very difficult for family members to visit,” said Nguyen. He would like the prison system to increase visiting days to five, giving families more options and making it easier to schedule visits. “I am hopeful about this document,” said Nguyen. “It was written as a community. Having ‘the free’, i.e., not offenders, and the prisoners coming to agreements is a benefit for all of us.” As focus leader for Prevention and Alternatives to Incarceration, Kevin Hagan emphasizes it’s all about changing the direction of kids. Hagan works with kids through some of San Quentin’s youth programs. He hopes he can make a difference and prevent a kid from going to prison. “Their trouble is behavior that is learned,” he said. “If you get them young or even in their teens, their behavior can be changed.” He meets with kids from various juvenile programs four times a month. For some, the meeting can be their last chance before serving time. “We don’t sugarcoat anything,” said Hagan. “You can’t. He talks of “respect” – the giving and receiving of it. “Drug offenders belong in a dependency program where the person can work on the addiction,” he said. He believes the program must be strict. And, the offender must be closely monitored for at least six months to a year. Also, the offender should be required to attend a job training program. “Prevention comes with education,” he said. “A lot of people in here have mental problems, and they should be in mental institutions,” he said. Hagan hopes the document will give the bishops some direction regarding alternatives to sending people to prison. Also, he would like the document help to improve the lives of the inmates. Leonard Rubio is 37 years old. He has been incarcerated for half of his life. He said that he chose to be focus leader of the document’s Victims and Survivors of Crimes because each time he appears before the Parole Board he is forced to face the direct impact of his crime – the anger and pain of the parents of the daughter he murdered. “Their anguish led me to join this group session,” he said. “One of the goals behind the Roundtable is to try and bring some healing to those our crimes have impacted. We realize that we have caused a great deal of pain, and in some cases even shame. People don’t deserve any of this. They have done nothing.”
The document suggests that the Church and other faith communities reach out to victims and survivors of crime by providing ministries of healing through liturgies of remembrance, retreat sessions, and designating a day of prayer for victims and survivors one Sunday per year. Rubio said the Roundtable process helped everyone involved to understand the issues. He hoped that the document would help get the information out to victims and survivors who need healing. Focus leader, Robert “Red” Frye, chose Prison Education because San Quentin “is seriously lacking in educational programs. CDCR (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation) should expect full accountability from teachers, instructors and students,” he said. “Education is empowering. When you’re educated you are well-equipped to deal with what society has to throw at you,” he said. Frye explained that if an inmate meets the criteria of a ninth grade level he does not have to attend classes. Below that level, basic adult education and GED classes are available for inmates. Frye teaches English as a second language. He said the students are eager to learn but are frustrated with the lack of enthusiasm some of their teachers display when teaching them. “It isn’t fair to the students who are trying to make positive changes in their lives,” Frye said. “The stereotypical views of people in prison can’t be broken until people realize that offenders are not the crimes they commit but redeemable human beings. The opportunity to make the positive changes have to be available for them so they can be ready for society,” he said. Eddie Renteria, focus leader of Preparation – Reintegration – Transition said, “We are going through hoops in here, doing whatever we can to change our lives and to better ourselves – yet in many ways our success of reintegration depends on the support of the community. The minute the community learns there is an ex-felon in the neighborhood they say ‘we don’t want him in our neighborhood.’ Some of the fear is warranted but most of the time it is not. The majority of inmates are dedicated to changing their lives.” As a Catholic, Renteria views the local Catholic parish as the key to assisting the parolee by welcoming him after his release and publicly supporting him through his transition. “Maybe Catholic Charities could help with clothing and some kind of housing,” he said. In exchange, Renteria said that the ex-offender could volunteer at the parish and do some odd jobs. If he proves a good worker people will notice. Eventually, his actions will establish that he is dedicated to changing his life and he is will willing to do whatever it takes to be a productive citizen. “The only thing we want is a second chance,” said Renteria. “We don’t want things given to us. We want to earn our way back into society.” “I’m a Term-to-Lifer and I’m approximately 5 years beyond my parole date,” said Robert “Bob” Kaser, focus leader of the document’s Term-to Lifers proposal. “I’ve been in prison for 20 years, disciplinary free. I’ve reclaimed, transformed and renewed my life.” Like the “thousands” of term-to-life prisoners in California, Kaser’s life is on hold - possibly for the rest of his life. Kaser blames “the de facto no parole policies of Governors Pete Wilson (1991-1999), Gray Davis (1999-2003), and to some extent, Arnold Schwarzenneger. Kaser claims he could name “numerous inmates who have served beyond their time and met parole standards but won’t be released. Money is keeping them in prison,” he said. Kaser calls San Quentin one of 33 “prison industrial complexes – big businesses. Think about the thousands of employees working for the prisons,” he said. “A lot of them would be out of jobs if prisoners suitable for parole were released.” Kaser said he read that out of the estimated 27,000 men and women term-to-lifers incarcerated in California prisons about 10,000 served beyond their time and are parole worthy. He gave the man that lives next door to him as an example. “He received 7 years to life. He should have been out in 11 years (under the old pre-1978 law). He is on his 36th year. He had two previous parole hearings before Governors Wilson and Davis continually denied him parole.” “The system doesn’t know what to do with him,” Kaser added. “Year after year he hears the same thing - ‘keep up the good work.’”
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Whether We Live or Die, Catholic We Are the Lord’s san Francisco Veto of AB 849 essential Nowadays, it is not unusual to have an acquaintance, a co-worker, a friend, or a family member who has a homosexual orientation. This openness is in contrast to earlier times, when many gays and lesbians had to put on a public face, keeping their sexual orientation in the “closet.” American society, in the past half-century, has witnessed an increasing willingness to treat homosexuals with dignity and respect. This development is supported by Catholic Church teaching, which requires us to have respect and compassion for persons with a homosexual orientation. However, respecting and loving a member of our family or a close friend who has a homosexual orientation does not mean that we should cast aside Catholic Church teaching on marriage. “Marriage is not just any relationship between human beings. It was established by the Creator with its own nature, essential properties and purpose,” we were recently reminded in the Vatican’s statement, Considerations Regarding Proposals to Give Legal Recognition to Unions between Homosexual Persons. In Catholic teaching, marriage is a sacrament that is a covenant in which God’s grace is manifest in the love, reciprocity, fidelity and mutuality of the relationship. What is best for children is to be nurtured by a married and loving union of a man and a woman. Contrary to claims of gay rights advocates, marriage is not a civil right. Marriage is favored in the eyes of the law (duties and benefits) because of thousands of years of human history and incontrovertible evidence that the two-parent, mother-father home is the best milieu in which to raise children. A week ago, the California Assembly voted 41-35 in favor of AB 849, authored by Mark Leno (D-San Francisco). This “gender-neutral” marriage bill would enact the “Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Protection Act,” redefining marriage simply as a personal relation arising out of a civil contract between two persons. Voting in favor of the bill were 41 Democrats, while the opposing vote included all 31 Republicans and four Democrats. The State Senate had passed the bill five days earlier by a straight party line vote of 21-15. Democrats favored the gender-neutral marriage bill, while Republicans opposed it. The next step is for the bill to go to Gov. Schwarzenegger for his approval or veto. Gov. Schwarzenegger has pledged to veto AB 849 because it subverts the will of the people as expressed in an overwhelming approval in 2000 of Proposition 22, which states “Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.” The Governor said AB 849 was unconstitutional, because only another initiative can overturn a previous initiative. He has aid the decision must be made by the people or the courts. Since the 1960s, well-organized groups of homosexual activists have worked to change the definition of marriage and family in Western culture. They have been successful in gaining wide acceptance of domestic partnerships, relying on the “value judgment” that the individuals in “committed” relationships have an “equal right” to the benefits presently given to married couples: tax breaks, insurance benefits, inheritance rights, ability to adopt, and next-of-kin responsibilities. Their success can be measured by the fact that California, Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, Maine, New Jersey and Vermont grant persons in same-sex unions a similar legal status to those in a civil marriage by domestic partnership, civil union or reciprocal beneficiary laws. Massachusetts, by judicial fiat, has legalized same-sex marriage. In addition, same-sex marriages are legal nationwide in the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, and Canada. There also have been strong voter reactions to this push by homosexual activists. Today, 18 states have a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, and a vote is scheduled in five other states. Only last November, voters in 11 states approved constitutional bans on gay-marriage. California, by virtue of Proposition 22, is one of the states with a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. Now, however, Assemblyman Leno is attempting to legalize same-sex marriage in California with his bill AB 849, claiming in his legislative “findings” that prior to 1977 California marriage law was “gender-neutral”—a somewhat bizarre claim that turns on the fact that before that year marriage was understood to be between a man and a woman so it wasn’t necessary to explicitly enumerate it in statute. In the face of Gov. Schwarzenegger’s pledge to veto AB 849, homosexual activists have launched a communications blitz, including a goal of 50,000 emails, to the Governor’s office. They know that AB 849 passed both the Senate and the Assembly with zero votes to spare, so activists are waging a desperate battle to try and change the Governor’s mind. It is vitally important that people who believe that the definition of marriage should remain a union of a man and a woman lend their voices in support of the veto of AB 849. Take time to write, call or email Gov. Schwarzenegger today. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, State Capitol Building, Sacramento, CA 95814 Phone: 916 445-2841; E-mail:governor@governor.ca.gov We urgently join with the California Catholic Conference in asking Catholics to contact Gov. Schwarzenegger and thank him for his pledge to veto AB 849. Tell the Governor that AB 849 must receive his veto. MEH
the second reading of today’s Mass: “None of us lives for himself; none of us dies for himself. For if we live, we live for the Lord and, if we die, we die for the Lord; so then, whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s.” No matter what tragedy may befall, we are the Lord’s. He is present to us at every moment of our lives. He it is who will receive us when we die. We are the Lord’s. We have seen how a handful of terrorists have changed the course of history and have changed literally millions of lives; we have seen how one natural disaster has paralyzed an entire section of the mightiest nation on earth. How many people put their trust in money and in possessions — and we see how soon it can all be lost! How many people put their trust in power — and we see how soon we find ourselves powerless in the hands of a few fanatics or in the face of a force of nature. Yes, we are autonomous, but we are not self-sufficient. We are dependent every moment of our lives upon the Lord and it is he to whom we must be ready to render an account of our lives. We are called upon to live our lives always in that delicate balance between personal responsibility and effort and the realization that we depend totally and utterly upon God, our creator and redeemer. On this day, we pray that the hearts of those who wish us evil may be converted — and we hope to have the power and the will to forgive them. On this day, we remember the survivors, those who still suffer the effects of 9/11 and other terrorist acts and those who are refugees from Katrina. On this day, we remember the victims — the thousands who died in the attack on the twin towers and the Pentagon and the attempted attack on another target which finished in a plane crash in a field in Pennsylvania; we remember their victims of terrorism in other nations — and we remember the as yet unnumbered thousands who have perished in the terrible destruction along the Gulf Coast. May they rest in God’s peace! On this day, we pray for ourselves, that we may have the strength to bear whatever may happen to us, remembering that we are God’s, and we pray that we may have the will and strength to help those who cry out to us in their need — not only for assistance, but for a sense of meaning and purpose. “Whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s.” This may sound like our limitation; it is in reality our strength.
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The following is an excerpt from the homily given by Archbishop John Foley, president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communication in Rome on Sept. 11, 2005, the fourth anniversary of the World Trade Center terrorist attacks: My brothers and sisters in Christ: 9/11 — hearing those numbers still causes us pain. We can still see the planes, mobile incendiary bombs, flying into the World Trade Center towers; we can still see the bodies of many in the towers who hurled themselves into the void to flee incineration; we can still see those two great towers, symbols of the economic power of the United States, collapsing in on themselves like houses of cards. 9/11 — they are the numbers which have changed our lives, because trust and openness have vanished as travel has become a series of obstacles to be overcome — not an experience to be pleasantly anticipated. 9/11 — hearing those numbers makes us think of heroism. Those numbers had symbolized and still symbolize our last resort — the number Americans call in an emergency. Those numbers for us now symbolize heroic fire fighters and police men and women who sought to save lives and to bring order out of chaos. They are not the men and women who made six- and seven-figure salaries and who had perhaps not yet arrived in their luxurious offices in the World Trade Center; they are the men and women who perhaps cannot ever be paid enough for the risks they take, for the dedication they show, for the sacrifices they made that day and on many others. Even everyday life has become increasingly unpredictable, as the train bombings in Madrid and the underground bombings in London have made clear. Now, just two weeks ago, a natural disaster — Hurricane Katrina — wiped out much of the Gulf Coast of the United States. We do not know how many have died, but we do know that there are hundreds of thousands of refugees, persons displaced by one of the most powerful hurricanes ever to strike the United States. Not only will we be praying today for all those victims, both living and dead, but your pastor, Father Greg Apparcel, has informed me that there will be a special collection at the post-Communion of today’s Mass, the proceeds of which will be sent to Catholic Charities USA for the relief of the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Now, I ask you to meditate on the words of
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The annual Tribute in Light shines in the New York skyline as a memorial to the fallen twin towers of the World Trade Center Sept. 11. Each year to mark the anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Center, two beams of light are illuminated in the sky from dusk to dawn. The Sept. 11, 2001, attacks claimed some 3,000 lives.
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The Catholic Difference Questions about Pope Benedict XVI’s ability to connect with young people were decisively answered at World Youth Day in Cologne last month. He connects, all right. And the “connection” is through the same “connection” that binds the entire Church together - the Holy Eucharist. In four days of winsome, challenging catechesis, during which he called the youth of the world to ponder “the inconceivable greatness of a God who humbled himself even to appearing in a manger, to giving himself as food on the altar,” Pope Benedict returned time and again to the Eucharist and the Magi (whose relics, tradition holds, are preserved in the Cologne cathedral). Like John Paul the Great, Benedict XVI did not come to World Youth Day to say, “Look at me.” Like his papal predecessor, Benedict asked his young followers to look to Christ, to the redeemer worshiped by the Magi at Bethlehem. According to one etymology, “Bethlehem” derives from the Hebrew for “House of Bread.” That is where the Magi found the One they sought. And that is where young people - indeed all of us - will find the truth we seek: in the “House of Bread” that is the Eucharist. “We have come to worship him,” a phrase from of the infancy narrative in St. Matthew’s gospel, was the theme of World Youth Day 2005; Pope Benedict seized on it from the moment of his arrival in Germany. In his first extended public remarks, he spoke of “the great procession of the faithful, called ‘the Church’.” In the Church, he suggested, we follow
the Magi in their search for the One to whom worship is due; and that is why the city of the Magi’s relics was an appropriate venue for a global Catholic celebration of faith. Yes, the Pope said, these men in Matthew’s Christmas story were just men, and their relics “are indeed just human bones.” But these are the bones of “individuals touched by the transcendent power of God.” Cologne, and the relics of the Magi, had been a pilgrimage destination for centuries. Now, in August 2005, that tradition of pilgrimage to the great Gothic cathedral on the Rhine was being revivified. For here in Cologne, the young people of the Church were discovering “the joy of belonging to a family as vast as the world, including heaven and earth, the past, the present, and the future.” In the Basilica of the Nativity in March 2000, John Paul II had spoken of Bethlehem as a place where “we are called to see more clearly that time has meaning because here Eternity entered history and remains with us forever.” Benedict XVI made the connection between Bethlehem and the Eucharist in a moving address at the Vigil service at Marianfeld outside Cologne on the last night of World Youth Day 2005. He reminded the vast, youthful congregation that Matthew’s gospel account “is not a distant story that took place long ago. It is with us now. Here in the sacred Host he is present before us and in our midst...He is present now as he was then in Bethlehem. He invites us to that inner pilgrimage which is called adoration.”
Whatever else may eventually be said about the pontificate of Pope Benedict XVI, the experience of World Youth Day 2005 confirms the intuition that many had in Rome during those remarkable George Weigel days in April, five brief months ago: this will be a great catechetical papacy. Joseph Ratzinger has long had a striking ability to bring the depths of Christian truth to life in a language accessible to everyone, with a simplicity that comes from the most profound erudition. Now, that ability is being displayed on a global stage. And, again like his great predecessor, Benedict XVI is demonstrating that what the 21st century world craves is not Catholic Lite, but a demanding faith - a faith proclaimed with confidence, humility, and joy by a Church that has taken seriously the Second Vatican Council’s challenge to nourish its spiritual and intellectual life on the Bible, the Fathers of the Church, and the great masters of theology throughout the ages. George Weigel is a senior fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.
Family Life
Are you happy with tv’s view of family life? Parents are stupid. Especially Dad. Their children are smart. Especially a daughter. Any and all problems can be solved in 60 minutes for a drama and 30 for a comedy (including commercial breaks). And the ultimate — or perhaps only — sin is to be judgmental of another human being. As the fall season begins, it’s good to remember that television is not reality. Although networks and advertisers aim at specific demographic targets, television is never a mirror that accurately reflects what it is like to be a member of that group. Shows aren’t written to offer a model of the ideal family or to present helpful suggestions on the best parenting practices. You know it, we know it, everyone knows it. But — like a gaggle of 9-year-old boys watching wrestling for a little while and then dissolving into a giant ball of holds and slams — we may allow it to influence our opinions and our actions. That’s so, even though television never has accurately depicted family life. Real families aren’t that dramatic or “funny.” Thank God! As you also well know, in its early days television featured families that always included a mother and father who, if they didn’t know best, knew more than their children. It
presented children with minor troubles and major cuteness. It also gave the impression that all families are of one race (white) and one religion (generic Protestant). “I Love Lucy” was considered daring because Ricky was Cuban! Fast forward half a century and dear old Dad has by and large become a major doofus. Often it’s Mom who knows better and, even more frequently, the children. Week after week, youngsters — still cute — now recognize, deal with and solve crises. These days more races are represented and so are a variety of living arrangements, from blended families to single parents to living-together couples. Added to the mix is sexual orientation. Generally speaking, religion is out unless it has an Eastern or Native American flavor. Characters profess that they are “spiritual, not religious.” A person portrayed as a Christian is more likely to be a psycho or hypocrite than a well-balanced, caring individual. A couple of points to consider: —Television isn’t “bad” anymore than books or movies are “bad.” Just as you choose a book or a movie for yourself, just as you pay attention to what your children choose for
themselves, watch with a critical eye and help your children learn to do the same. How? By watching their shows with them. —Some people get paid to watch and critique television. Find a reviewer you trust. A Bill and Monica good place to start is the Dodds U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Its Web site offers movie and TV reviews and recommendations: usccb.org/movies/index.htm. And listen to what your friends and extended family are recommending. If you find a show you like, recommend it. The most trusted “advertising” remains word of mouth. Bill and Monica Dodds are the editors of “My Daily Visitor” magazine.
Spirituality
When feeling down and out In 1946, with the memory of war still fresh and the ruins of bombed buildings all around him, Karl Rahner preached a series of Lenten sermons in Munich. He reminded the people of the war and their fear: “Do you remember the nights in the cellar, the nights of deadly loneliness amid the harrowing crush of people? The nights of helplessness, of waiting for a meaningless death? The nights with the lights out, and horror and powerlessness gripping our hearts? When we were just playing at being brave and relaxed? When our own pleasantries and brave expressions sounded so strangely wooden and empty and seemed to have died on us even before they reached the other person? When we just gave up, when we were quiet, when we were just waiting without hope for the end, for death? Alone, powerless, empty.” Rahner then extends this image, of being “blocked-up” in a cellar, to the way we feel “blocked-up” in our hearts. What’s to be done when we feel like that, lonely, frustrated, our words sounding empty even to ourselves? Here’s his advice: First, don’t be surprised to feel so lonely and shackled: “Don’t be shocked at the loneliness and desertedness of your inner prison, which seems to be filled only with powerlessness and hopelessness, with tiredness and emptiness! Don’t be shocked!” To feel shocked and abnormal at the chaos of our own loneliness and complexity is to not yet have been properly introduced to ourselves. To sometimes feel emptiness and neardespair is normal, a sign of sensitivity and emotional health. Second, stay inside of that emptiness. Don’t run from it. The natural temptation is to try to get out of loneliness
by plunging ourselves into busyness, distractions, amusements, and social life with the hope of fooling ourselves about our own despair. Part of that too is the tendency to see our emptiness and frustration as a sign that there isn’t any God. Emptiness and chaos can easily cause us to doubt. But, says Rahner, in this kind of despair we are confusing the true God with the God of our own imaginings. The God of our imaginations, rightly, does not exist. But God is not as we imagine him to be, namely, “the God of earthly security, the God of salvation from life’s disappointments, the God of life insurance, the God who takes care so that children never cry and that justice marches upon the earth, the God who transforms earth’s laments, the God who doesn’t let human love end up in disappointment.” That God doesn’t exist. Tough words, but true. When we break down, it’s not the real God we despair of, but only God as we imagined him. What we feel in emptiness is not the death of God but rather the space within which God can be born. What loneliness and despair deprive us of is not God, but our illusions about God. The finite, not the infinite, is what’s taken from us. Rahner goes on to say that, if we stay inside of our loneliness, we eventually become aware that our “emptiness is only a disguise for an intimacy of God’s, that God’s silence, the eerie stillness, is filled by the Word without words, by Him who is above all names, by Him who is all in all. And his silence is telling us that He is here.” At the end of the day our task is to recognize that God is in the silence, the frustration, the loneliness, the emptiness. Our job is to become aware of this. “Be aware that for a long time He has been waiting for you
in the deepest dungeon of your blocked-up heart. Be aware that He has been listening for a long time, to see if you after all the busy noise of your life, all the talk that you call ‘illusion-free philosophy’ or perhaps Father even your prayer, noise Ron Rolheiser and talk in which you are only talking to yourself, after all the despairing, weeping and silent sighing over the need in your life - He has been listening to see if you might finally be able to be silent before Him and let Him have the word, the word that appears to the person you were up till now only as a deathly silence.” We should never be shocked at our own emptiness, nor should we run from it and think that God is dead. God is in the emptiness. But the God who is found there is not God as we imagine Him. The God we find in loneliness and emptiness is the real God, the God that nobody can look at and live because that God is too real, too ineffable, too infinite, too unnameable, too wild, and too much pure fire to be captured in any concepts, words, imaginations, or even feelings. That God, of course, can be met and known; but, this side of eternity, perhaps that God is most easily met precisely when our own words sound flat and empty. Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser is a theologian, teacher and award-winning author.
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The Magi and the Host
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September 16, 2005
TWENTY-FIFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
Scripture FATHER PAUL SCALIA
Isaiah 55:6-9; Psalm 145:2-3, 8-9, 17-18; Philippians 1:20c-24a; Matthew 20:1-16a A READING FROM THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET ISAIAH (IS 55:6-9) Seek the Lord while he may be found, call him while he is near. Let the scoundrel forsake his way, and the wicked his thoughts; let him turn to the Lord for mercy; to our God, who is generous in forgiving. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says the Lord. As high as the heavens are above the earth, so high are my ways above your ways and my thoughts above your thoughts. RESPONSORIAL PSALM (PS 145:2-3, 8-9, 17-18) R. The Lord is near to all who call upon him. Every day will I bless you, and I will praise your name forever and ever. Great is the Lord and highly to be praised; his greatness is unsearchable. R. The Lord is near to all who call upon him. The Lord is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and of great kindness. The Lord is good to all and compassionate toward all his works. R. The Lord is near to all who call upon him. The Lord is just in all his ways and holy in all his works. The Lord is near to all who call upon him, to all who call upon him in truth. R. The Lord is near to all who call upon him. A READING FROM THE LETTER OF SAINT PAUL TO THE PHILIPPIANS (PHIL 1:20C-24, 27A) Brothers and sisters: Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death. For to me life is Christ, and death is gain. If I go on living in the flesh, that means fruitful
labor for me. And I do not know which I shall choose. I am caught between the two. I long to depart this life and be with Christ, for that is far better. Yet that I remain in the flesh is more necessary for your benefit. Only, conduct yourselves in a way worthy of the gospel of Christ. A READING FROM THE HOLY GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW (MT 20:1-16A) Jesus told his disciples this parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out at dawn to hire laborers for his vineyard. After agreeing with them for the usual daily wage, he sent them into his vineyard. Going out about nine o’clock, the landowner saw others standing idle in the marketplace, and he said to them, ‘You too go into my vineyard, and I will give you what is just.’ So they went off. And he went out again around noon, and around three o’clock, and did likewise. Going out about five o’clock, the landowner found others standing around, and said to them, ‘Why do you stand here idle all day?’ They answered, ‘Because no one has hired us.’ He said to them, ‘You too go into my vineyard.’ When it was evening the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Summon the laborers and give them their pay, beginning with the last and ending with the first.’ When those who had started about five o’clock came, each received the usual daily wage. So when the first came, they thought that they would receive more, but each of them also got the usual wage. And on receiving it they grumbled against the landowner, saying, ‘These last ones worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us, who bore the day’s burden and the heat.’ He said to one of them in reply, ‘My friend, I am not cheating you. Did you not agree with me for the usual daily wage? Take what is yours and go. What if I wish to give this last one the same as you? Or am I not free to do as I wish with my own money? Are you envious because I am generous?’ Thus, the last will be first, and the first will be last.”
Envy or generosity? Are you envious because I am generous? With these words, the wise landowner in the parable both warns us against a vice and encourages us to a virtue. We ought to avoid envy and cultivate generosity. Envy may not seem such a serious sin, because it does not make the front pages like killing, stealing or lying. Nevertheless, it is one of the seven deadly sins. St. Augustine describes it as the diabolical sin – the sin of Satan himself. Out of envy of God’s generosity toward man, Satan rebelled. Early in Scripture we encounter the dangers of envy: out of envy Cain killed his brother Abel, and out of envy Joseph’s brothers sold him into slavery. Ultimately, envy prompted the leaders of Israel to hand our Lord over for crucifixion, as even Pontius Pilate perceived (cf. Mt 27:18; Mk 15:10). So also in our Lord’s parable, the workers fall prey to envy. They resent the generous wages given to the other workers – that is, they resent the landowner’s generosity. At the heart of envy, therefore, is a resentment of God’s generosity, a sadness at someone else’s gifts, and a sense that God’s generosity toward someone else actually deprives us of something. The gravest form of envy, of course, is to resent another’s spiritual gifts or excellence. Just as it causes the laborers to grumble against the landowner, so envy sets us against God. The envious man decides that God erred in His distribution of gifts, talents, and wealth. It should have been done some other way, he thinks. He, instead of God, becomes the judge of who should receive His gifts. Just as it prompts the morning laborers to look askance at the late arrivals, so envy
Fraternal correction in this day and age? By Father Eugene Hemrick Catholic News Service Tough love can take many forms, among them fraternal correction and reality checks. Fraternal correction, according to St. Thomas Aquinas, falls into the category of charity. Traditionally fraternal correction has been utilized in religious life as an aid to maintaining community spirit. Many spiritual writers see it as the basis of spiritual progress. Recently, the priests’ council of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe, N.M., issued a code of conduct for priests. It encouraged fraternal correction as one way of maintaining a wholesome priesthood. It strongly recommended also that priests have mentors for guidance and spiritual reinforcement. We don’t hear much about fraternal correction these days. One reason is that when an adult is corrected, he or she often is made to feel like a child. People feel that their adulthood is being questioned. Because of its belittling sound, “fraternal correction” often isn’t mentioned. Another reason it isn’t mentioned is that its application requires a strong constitution on the part of the person who administers it. It isn’t easy to
fraternal correction, yet he did give his stand up to a friend and say, “You are apostles reality checks. After they wrong in what you are doing.” And returned from experiencing the power too, all of us are sinners in one way or of preaching and healing, they jubianother. Aware of this, we are less lantly related this to him. Christ prone to point out another’s loved their enthusiasm, but sins. in that enthusiasm he As negative as fraalso saw a possible ternal correction downfall. Hence may sound, it prowe hear him say: duces many ben“Remember I efits when saw Satan fall offered out of a from heaven deep sense of like thunder. love. The most Years ago important thing my psychology is to get your professor posed names written in this hypothetical the book of question: “What heaven.” would happen to the In other words, quality of homilies if don’t get overconfident. priests allowed their Don’t think that earthly aduparishioners to offer them St. Paul – Giotto lation is what preaching and fraternal correction?” healing is about. The reality I actually witnessed a is that homilists are servants of God, nationally known preacher open himand God’s approval is what really self up to correction after a homily. It counts. was astonishing, and it seemed very professional to me. A group of parishWe may wince when we hear the ioners and he went through his homily words “fraternal correction.” But my piece by piece, refining it into a masguess is that some of the best terpiece. improvements we’ve made in life Few ever think of Christ in terms of were due to it.
sets us against one another. The man who resents his neighbor’s gifts and blessings cannot possibly love his neighbor. Further, the envious man inevitably falls into gossip and hatred. He eventually becomes a slave, constantly comparing himself to others, forever worrying that somehow, somewhere, someone is receiving more than he. Are you envious because I am generous? Christ reveals that envy is ultimately a hatred of God’s generosity. Therefore the solution to envy is to embrace and imitate that same generosity. Generosity means, first of all, that we rejoice in the success and good fortune of others. The blessings that they receive reveal God’s goodness. If God has chosen to bless them in such a way, then we must leave aside our own opinions, pride, and feelings, and choose to rejoice with them and for them. Love for others demands that we be joyful when they receive something good. Further, we ought to extend God’s generosity, which is an even harder task. We should desire that others become as great as possible — better than we are. And we should work towards that end. Envy desires others to remain mediocre and average at best. But generosity, coming from a true love of neighbor, seeks success and greatness for the other. Envy is a kind of spiritual sickness that restricts the heart so that it cannot rejoice in the good of others, much less give to them. Generosity, on the other hand, widens the heart to rejoice in our neighbor’s good and seek to increase it. Fr. Paul Scalia is a priest of the Diocese of Arlington, Virginia and chaplain for the Arlington chapter of Courage.
I cannot do this alone O God, early in the morning I cry to you. Help me to pray And to concentrate my thoughts on you: I cannot do this alone. In me there is darkness, But with you there is light; I am lonely, but you do not leave me; I am feeble in heart, but with you there is help; I am restless, but with you there is peace. In me there is bitterness, but with you there is patience; I do not understand your ways, But you know the way for me… Restore me to liberty, And enable me to live now That I may answer before you and before me. Lord, whatever this day may bring, Your name be praised. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Evolution and the Catholic Church “We believe in one God…Maker of Heaven and Earth” In the August 12, 2005 edition of Science, the lead News article reads “Vatican Astronomer Rebuts Cardinal’s Attack on Darwinism.” This article is referencing the opinion piece in the July 7, 2005 edition of the New York Times where the Archbishop of Vienna, Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, asserted that the Catholic Church is rethinking its support of the neo-Darwinian concept of evolution. This statement disturbed many scientists in the United States who are already worried about a resurgence of creationism in its modern rebirth as “intelligent design.” Schönborn’s concern is that the Catholic Church has been perceived as uncritically accepting a “neo-Darwinian dogma” of evolution. The Cardinal accepts evolution “in a sense of common ancestry,” but disassociates himself from a sense of evolution as “an unguided, unplanned process of random variation and natural selection.” Schönborn concludes that the “Catholic Church will again defend human reason by proclaiming that the immanent design evident in nature is real.” Scientific theories that try to explain away the appearance of design as the result of ‘chance and necessity’ are not scientific at all, he believes, but an abdication of human intelligence. Jesuit George Coyne, Director of the Vatican Observatory, responded to Schönborn in the August 5, 2005 edition of The Tablet. He cites the 2004 document of the International Theological Commission (ITC), “Communion and Stewardship: Human Beings Created in the Image of God.” Coyne explains that the ITC “saw no incompatibility between God’s providential plan for creation and the results of a truly contingent evolutionary process in nature.” The ITC document provides an important guide. It suggests that theology does not have to settle the argument between design and contingency in the development of life. Divine providence can work through either one. The document concludes, “Through the activity of natural causes, God causes to arise those conditions required for the emergence and support of living organisms, and, furthermore, for their reproduction and differentiation. Even a contingent natural process falls within God’s providential plan for creation.” (no. 69) This is a theological conclusion. Science does not claim to know all the links in evolution. However, the process of evolution has a certain intrinsic directionality toward complexity. Science accounts for the increased complexity of higher biological order (multi-cell organisms) by processes of mutation through various mechanisms and natural selection for fitness. Science strives for a plausible, self-consistent world view derived from observation and experiment. Science and religion ask different questions.
Coyne’s viewpoint does not stand alone. In his July 12, 2005 letter to Pope Benedict XVI, for example, Dr. Lawrence M. Krauss, Ambrose Swasey Professor and Director of the Center for Education and Research in Cosmology and Astrophysics at Case Western Reserve University wrote that “it is vitally important that in these difficult and contentious times the Catholic Church not build a new divide, long ago eradicated, between the scientific method and religious belief.” Krauss fears a frontier violation when faith is taught as science. Time’s essayist Charles Krauthammer agrees, “If you believe that science is reason and that reason begins with recognizing the existence of an immanent providence, then this is not science. This is faith disguised as science.” (8/6/2005) These critiques aim at a critical point-of-reference: it is misdirected to blur scientific and theological methods. Science as a discipline is a systematic study of the physical universe that relies on observation and measurement in trying to answer hypothesis-driven questions. Period. Theological method is based on revelation (see Catechism of the Catholic Church, nos. 295, 302, 308, 842, 1700, 1701) and reaches conclusions beyond the scope of scientific methods. Theologically, the human person, intelligent, free, graced, and the recipient of revelation, has a relationship beyond other creatures to God the Creator. The soul in a human person is spiritual and immortal and is not explained by purely material antecedents. Persons might share biological continuity with lower animals, but there is a psychic and moral discontinuity, an ontological leap. Proponents of immanent design believe that science must also reach this conclusion, despite the fact that it is a theological judgment that lies outside the scope of science. Lacking in the current debate is the recognition that the church’s tradition on evolution is already quite clear. Pius XII’s 1950 encyclical Humanae Generis recognized “the doctrine of evolution” as a valid hypothesis and worthy of investigation and in-depth study. Pius affirmed the difference between the “secrets of the material universe” (science) and the “truths of a higher order” (theology). [no. 15] John Paul II furthered this teaching. In a 1985 general audience, he stated that science seeks to determine the stages and the mechanisms of the evolution of living beings. At the same time, revelation obliges us to “suppose a Mind which is its inventor, its creator.” In his 1996 “Message to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences on Evolution” on its 60th anniversary, John Paul recognized the difference in scientific and theological methods when he said that “revelation contains teaching concern-
ing the nature and origins of man,” while asking “how the conclusions reached by the various scientific disciplines coincide with those conFather Gerald tained in the message of revelation.” John Paul D. Coleman, S.S. importantly concluded that the scientific theories of evolution now seem overwhelming and beyondhypothesis because evolutionary theories have been verified by scientific facts. “Today new knowledge leads to the recognition of the theory of evolution as more than a hypothesis.” The Pope situated the topic of evolution in terms of Christian anthropology. He insisted that scientific theories of evolution must never obscure the theological belief that the human person is created in the image and likeness of God. This does not mean that scientific theories must reach theological conclusions, but rather that evolutionary theories cannot dismiss as absurd theological conclusions regarding the truth about man: “With man we find ourselves in the presence of an ontological difference, an ontological leap.” This Catholic teaching shows that the church respects scientific investigations into the origins and development of the universe and living beings. Evolutionary theories have demonstrated the processes of change and stability. At a different level of argument, the church roots its ultimate teachings in revelation and asserts that God’s providence oversees natural causes and laws because God is the ultimate cause of all things. As St. Augustine taught, the human person is made for God. This is a sound theological belief. It is not and cannot be a scientific judgment. Christian anthropology insists that the human person is superior to bodily things. The human person is more than a “speck of nature” or a “nameless unit.” The human person recognizes within him or herself a spiritual and immortal soul which is not the result of merely physical or social causes. (Gaudium et Spes, no. 14) At his Mass of Installation on April 24, 2005, Pope Benedict XVI similarly asserted that “We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed, each of us is loved, each of us is necessary.” Sulpician Father Gerald D. Coleman is former president and rector of St. Patrick Seminary, Menlo Park.
Finding design in nature Following is the original editorial by Cardinal Christoph Schönborn which appeared in the New York Times on July 7, 2005.
By Cardinal Christoph Schönborn Ever since 1996, when Pope John Paul II said that evolution (a term he did not define) was “more than just a hypothesis,” defenders of neo-Darwinian dogma have often invoked the supposed acceptance - or at least acquiescence - of the Roman Catholic Church when they defend their theory as somehow compatible with Christian faith. But this is not true. The Catholic Church, while leaving to science many details about the history of life on earth, proclaims that by the light of reason the human intellect can readily and clearly discern purpose and design in the natural world, including the world of living things. Evolution in the sense of common ancestry might be true, but evolution in the neo-Darwinian sense - an unguided, unplanned process of random variation and natural selection - is not. Any system of thought that denies or seeks to explain away the overwhelming evidence for design in biology is ideology, not science. Consider the real teaching of our beloved John Paul. While his rather vague and unimportant 1996 letter about evolution is always and everywhere cited, we see no one discussing these comments from a 1985 general audience that represents his robust teaching on nature: “All the observations concerning the development of life lead to a similar conclusion. The evolution of living beings, of which science seeks to determine the stages and to discern the mechanism, presents an internal finality which arouses admiration. This finality which directs beings in a direction for which they are not responsible or in charge, obliges one to suppose a Mind which is its inventor, its creator.” He went on: “To all these indications of the existence of God the Creator, some oppose the power of chance or of the proper mechanisms of matter. To speak of chance
for a universe which presents such a complex organization in its elements and such marvelous finality in its life would be equivalent to giving up the search for an explanation of the world as it appears to us. In fact, this would be equivalent to admitting effects without a cause. It would be to abdicate human intelligence, which would thus refuse to think and to seek a solution for its problems.” Note that in this quotation the word “finality” is a philosophical term synonymous with final cause, purpose or design. In comments at another general audience a year later, John Paul concludes, “It is clear that the truth of faith about creation is radically opposed to the theories of materialistic philosophy. These view the cosmos as the result of an evolution of matter reducible to pure chance and necessity.” Naturally, the authoritative Catechism of the Catholic Church agrees: “Human intelligence is surely already capable of finding a response to the question of origins. The existence of God the Creator can be known with certainty through his works, by the light of human reason.” It adds: “We believe that God created the world according to his wisdom. It is not the product of any necessity whatever, nor of blind fate or chance.” In an unfortunate new twist on this old controversy, neoDarwinists recently have sought to portray our new pope, Benedict XVI, as a satisfied evolutionist. They have quoted a sentence about common ancestry from a 2004 document of the International Theological Commission, pointed out that Benedict was at the time head of the commission, and concluded that the Catholic Church has no problem with the notion of “evolution” as used by mainstream biologists that is, synonymous with neo-Darwinism. The commission’s document, however, reaffirms the perennial teaching of the Catholic Church about the reality of design in nature. Commenting on the widespread abuse of John Paul’s 1996 letter on evolution, the commission cautions that “the letter cannot be read as a blanket approbation of all theories of evolution, including those of a neo-Darwinian provenance which explicitly deny to divine providence any truly causal role in the development of life in the universe.”
Furthermore, according to the commission, “An unguided evolutionary process - one that falls outside the bounds of divine providence simply cannot exist.” Indeed, in the homily at his installation just a few weeks ago, Benedict proclaimed: “We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed, each of us is loved, each of us is necessary.” Throughout history the church has defended the truths of faith given by Jesus Christ. But in the modern era, the Catholic Church is in the odd position of standing in firm defense of reason as well. In the 19th century, the First Vatican Council taught a world newly enthralled by the “death of God” that by the use of reason alone mankind could come to know the reality of the Uncaused Cause, the First Mover, the God of the philosophers. Now at the beginning of the 21st century, faced with scientific claims like neo-Darwinism and the multiverse hypothesis in cosmology invented to avoid the overwhelming evidence for purpose and design found in modern science, the Catholic Church will again defend human reason by proclaiming that the immanent design evident in nature is real. Scientific theories that try to explain away the appearance of design as the result of “chance and necessity” are not scientific at all, but, as John Paul put it, an abdication of human intelligence. Cardinal Schönborn is Archbishop of Vienna, Austria. He was chief editor of the Catechism of the Catholic Church published in 1992.
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St. Mary’s Cathedral The following events are taking place at or are coordinated by the cathedral of the Archdiocese located at Gough and Geary St. in San Francisco. Call (415) 567-2020 for more information. Oct. 1: The San Francisco Archdiocesan Respect Life Program will offer an Education Day, 8 a.m. – 3 p.m., for parish respect life coordinators to help them learn more about the complex life issues they face today. The $20 registration fee includes a Continental breakfast and a buffet lunch. Speakers include William Hurlbrut, MD, Consulting Professor in the Neuroscience Institute at Stanford University and a member of the President’s Bioethics Counsel and Vicki Thorn, Director of the National Office of Post-Abortion Reconciliation and Healing. Both talks will include give and take with the audience in a classroom-type setting. Bishop John Wester will celebrate Mass at 12:10 p.m. followed by a commissioning of Respect Life coordinators. After lunch, Sarah Silva, who works in Parish Outreach and Organization, will lead a panel discussion offering tips for organizing a parish Respect Life Program. For information and reservations, call Vicki Evans at 415-9450180 or email evansv@sfarchdioces.org. Oct. 7, 8, 9: Catholic Charismatic Conference. Friday: Praise Night at 7 p.m. Free admission. Doors open at 8 a.m. Sat & Sun. $20 per day/$30 for the weekend. Lunch available for $5. Call (800) 700-1849 or (415) 753-3732. High School/Middle School Youth Teen Holy Spirit Conference, Friday night Upbeat Praise/Worship at 7pm, Doors open at 8am Sat./ Sun, Special $10 price for weekend includes lunch.Visit our web-site www.sfspirit.com/events or call 1-800-700-1849.
Food & Fun Sept. 16, 17, 18: St. Dunstan Caribbean Daze Festival. Enjoy rides, Live Music, Friday & Saturday Night Dance, Booths, Games, Sunday Night Dinner, Live & Silent Auction. Fri: 6 to 10 p.m.; Sat.: noon to 10 p.m.; Sun: noon to 8 p.m. For information call Ann Woolen at (650) 697-4730. Sept. 16, 17, 18: September Fest benefiting St. Finn Barr Parish and School, Edna and Hearst St. off Monterey in San Francisco. Games, booths, and food including a spaghetti dinner. Fri.: 6 – 10 p.m. Sat.: 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. Sun.: Mass at 10 a.m. plus International Food Fair and $5,00 Raffle. Call (415) 333-3627. Sept. 17, 18: Palmdale Spectacular VIII benefiting the Sisters of the Holy Family. Features silent and live auction, dinner, raffle and strolling musicians. Sat. 1 – 4 p.m. with auction preview and Mass at 4:40 p.m. Sun.: 1 – 5 p.m. Call Linda Micciche at (510) 624-4581. Sept. 22: Annual Luncheon benefiting work of San Mateo County Pro-Life Council at noon at a Hillsborough home. Guest speaker is Dolores Meehan. Tickets $20 per person. Call (650) 342-7161. Sept. 23. 24 25: St. Matthew Catholic School’s Annual Harvest Festival - Streets of San Francisco. With over 2,000 people expected, this year’s festival includes games and food booths, plus a boutique, new carnival rides, entertainment, bingo and casino games, a chili cook-off, a Saturday Tri-tip dinner and a $20,000 cash raffle. Fri.: 6 – 10 p.m.; Sat.: 1 – 10 p.m.; Sun.: 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Visit St. Matthew’s website www.stmatthewcath.org. Sept. 24, 25: St. Philip Annual Festival, a Noe Valley tradition for almost 70 years. Free admission with games for children, teens and adults plus homemade foods, arts and crafts, and live entertainment. All proceeds benefit St. Philip Elementary School. Open 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. both days. Call (415) 282-0141. Sept. 24: Huge Saturday Sale benefiting Vincentian Help Desk of St. Vincent de Paul Society of San Francisco, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. at 425 4th St. at Harrison, SF. Lots of furniture, electronics, DVD/VHS movies, household items, tools and more. Cash/credit cards only. Donations and dealers welcome. Call Sally Rosen at (415) 202-9955. Sept. 24: Hawaii on the Bay Luncheon/Bingo sponsored by League of the Sacred Heart Altar Society of St. Cecilia Parish, 17th and Vicente St., SF at 11 a.m. Plenty of parking. $25 ticket includes lunch and free bingo card. Reserve by Sept. 20th to (415) 753-5680. Oct. 1: Carnivale benefiting Holy Name of Jesus Elementary School “Carnavale” from 10am to 5pm. Enjoy carnival games, rock-climbing, a variety of food
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Academy at Embassy Suites in Burlingame. Contact Anne Nolan Dowd at (650) 359-2601 or andown@aol.com. Oct. 8: Class of ’50, Holy Name of Jesus Elementary School. Contact Joe Murray at jdmsail1@cs.com or www.holynamesf.com/alumni. The school is searching for class members from’65. Contact Helen Sigmund Fisicaro at (415) 973-1022. Nov. 4, 5, 6: Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory Reunion Weekend 2005. Friday, Nov. 4 begins the festivities with Back to School Day. Saturday, Nov. 5, enjoy the reunion dinner featuring cuisine from the various diverse neighborhoods of San Francisco. Sunday, Nov. 6, attend Alumni Mass and Brunch. For more information, contact Gregg Franceschi, Director of Alumni Relations at 415.775.6626 ext. 636 or gregg.franceschi@shcp.edu. Nov. 12: Class of ’64 Holy Name of Jesus Elementary School. Contact Kevin Brady at kbrady2626@msn.com or www.holynamesf.com/alumni. Nov. 19: Class of ’80, Presentation High School, San Francisco. Contact Bernadette Sallaberry Hurley at (650) 359-8218 or jbjnhurley@aol.com.
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Adding a new dimension to zoom, zoom, zoom, were the Archbishop Riordan High School Track Team finishing at the top of last year’s Central Coast Section. Good luck to those continuing the effort in this new school season. Front from left: Mark Ilarina, Christian Perez, Frankie Wong, Benjamin Mangubat, Ronnie Morrisette, Anthony Balinton, Stephen Hermann, Eugene Talusan. Next row from left: Tyrone McGraw, Marcus Terry, Marco Moon, Joseph Fazio, Christopher Corgas, Giovanni Fillari, Irving Torres. 3rd row from left: Douglas Thompson, Mathew Scharding, Scott DeMartini, Casey McHugh, Greg Bianculli, Ben Santana. Top from left: Coaches Marc Rocillo, Randy McLaughlin, Mark Dyer, Barry McLaughlin, Blake Cunningham, Head Coach Frank Oross, David Johnson. and more. Holy Name is located at 3300 Lawton Street (at 40th Ave.) Admission is free. Call (415) 731-4077 or visit www.holynamesf.com for more information.
Shows/Entertainment Sept. 23: Concert at 8 p.m. benefiting St. Dominic’s Community Services featuring Ensemble Phoenix, a noted Chamber Music group. Reception follows with wine, raffle, and arts and crafts. Tickets $20 per person. Takes place at Presidio Post Chapel. Call (415) 567-7824 or contact Christina Halsey at christinemhalsey@yahoo.com. Sept. 24: Saint Stephen Parish proudly presents Manolito Jaldon, Jr, pianist, Dawn Farry, soprano and Michael Burroughs, organist in a gala concert to open this year’s concert series at the Lakeside District church, Eucalyptus Dr. at 23rd Ave. at 8 p.m. Opening Gala reception begins at 7:15 p.m. Program includes vocal works by Puccini, Verdi, and more with keyboard works by Rheinberger, Mozart, and other composers. Donation $20. For more information call (415) 681-2444, x26.
Reunions Sept. 23: Class of ’77 from St. Stephen Elementary School, SF, at home of Kathleen Dowling McDonough. Contact kmcdonough@bpmllp.com or (415) 564-6487. Sept. 24: Class of ’50, St. James Boys Elementary School is planning a reunion. Please contact Mike Miller at (650) 344-1074 for details. Reunion in planning for Class of ’55 from St. Cecilia Elementary School. “Come back to the finest, the greatest and the best,” said classmate. Andi Thuesen Ibarra. Contact Andi at (415) 6650959 or andrea.ibarra@med.va.gov. Class of ’56, Notre Dame des Victoires High
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School is planning a reunion for June 2006. Call Marilyn Donnelly at (650) 365-5192. Marin Catholic High School announces Homecoming for Sept. 24 as well as upcoming reunions for class of ’75, Sept. 22; ’85, Sept. 23 – 24; ’50, Sept. 24; ’55, Oct. 1; ’65, Nov. 5; ’95, Nov. 26. Contact LeAnn Tarrant at (415) 464-3843 or ltarrant@marincatholic.org. Sept. 17: St. Paul’s Grammar School reunion for class of 1960, 6 p.m. at Irish Cultural Center, San Francisco. Call Liz Hinds Hannan at (650) 342-1759. Sept. 21: Class ’45 Presentation Academy at Sinbad’s Pier 2 Restaurant on the Embarcadero in San Francisco. Contact Peggy Sweeney Volponi at (925) 447-0569/pegneye@pacbell.net or Marian Fallon Sweeney at (650) 583-3679 / doorbells6@sanbrunocable.com. Oct. 1: Dinner/Dance for all who graduated in the ‘70s from St. Paul Elementary School in San Francisco beginning at 5:30 p.m. Contact Anne Cunningham Campbell ET (650) 365-3653 or annec@3cisfca.com. Tickets not sold at door. Oct. 1: All Class reunion for St. Brigid High School at St. Brigid school, Broadway at Van Ness. Contact Adrienne Mansi at (415) 479-2974. Oct. 1: Golden Diploma ceremony for 1955 graduates from Marin Catholic High School beginning with Mass at 4 p.m. in MC’s St. Francis Chapel. Father Tom Daly, school president, will preside. Dinner and dancing follows at Marin Art & Garden Center. Call Tracy Hogan at (415) 464-3843. Oct. 1: Calling all Stars who graduated in 1965 from Star of the Sea Academy - a 40th Reunion. Contact Teri Baldocchi at 650-592-6763 or xbaxter11@comcast.net. Oct. 29: Class of ’55, Immaculate Conception
Oct. 1: Third Annual Gospel/Jazz Mass and Prayer for World Peace at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough and Geary St., SF at 5:30 p.m. The Inspirational Voices of St. Paul of the Shipwreck Gospel Choir will join with the Jubilation Choir of Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory in a “dialogue of cultures,” information promoting the event said. “All are invited to come and share in this joyful and much needed Day of Prayer for World Peace.” The Annual Blessing of Animals will be celebrated earlier the same day at 10 a.m., in the Geary Boulevard Plaza of the Cathedral. Children’s Choirs from throughout the Archdiocese will participate. “Bring your pets - on a leash - or pictures of pets, and don’t forget your pooper-scooper!” Oct. 15: Training for New Lectors, 9 a.m. -3:30 p.m. at St. Thomas the Apostle Church, San Francisco. Sponsored by the Office of Worship. Please pre-register at 415-614-5585 or at vallezkellyp@sfarchdiocese.org. Cost $15. Sept. 29 – Oct. 7: Novena for Peace at St. Anthony’s Church 3215 Cesar Chavez St. at Folsom, San Francisco. Rites include Mass, Scriptural Rosary, sung Chaplet of Divine Mercy, and a sermon on peace. Sept. 29: 7-9 p.m./Sept 30: 4-6:45 p.m./Oct. 1: 7-9:30 p.m./Oct. 2: 1-3 p.m./Oct. 3 through 6: 7-9 p.m./Oct. 7: 5-7 p.m. Contact Christine Watkins at (415) 931-5517, or christinew@runbox.com.
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The making of The Exorcism of Emily Rose By Steven D. Greydanus There are no scenes of spinning heads, projectile pea-soup vomiting, or levitating beds in The Exorcism of Emily Rose (opening September 9), starring Laura Linney, Tom Wilkinson, Jennifer Carpenter, and Campbell Scott. Writer-director Scott Derrickson and his writing partner Paul Harris Boardman are no strangers to over-the-top horror (previous collaborations include Hellraiser: Inferno and Urban Legends: Final Cut). But Derrickson, who is also a devout Evengelical Christian, wanted this film to be different. “When you make a movie with this subject matter, you’ve got to reckon with The Exorcist, and what a popular film that is,” Derrickson commented at a recent New York press event. “And I think that in the writing of it, we both felt that we would get around that problem by making a much more realistic movie.” The Exorcism of Emily Rose is loosely based on a true, tragic story of a pious young German woman named Anneliese Michel, who in 1970 began suffering disturbing symptoms ranging from seizures to seeing demonic faces to manifesting infernal personalities. In 1976, after nearly a year of exorcism sessions, she died, apparently of starvation, resulting in a criminal trial for the priests and her parents. In the film, the story takes place in the US, and the girl’s name is Emily Rose (Carpenter). Whether the girl’s demons are real or in her mind — and whether or not her sincere, devout priest (Wilkinson) is guilty of negligent homicide — are ques-
tions the film raises but doesn’t answer definitively — along with even larger questions regarding the existence of spiritual realities and ultimately God himself. That open-endedness was important to Linney, who plays the priest’s reluctant, skeptical defense attorney. “I wanted to make sure that both arguments were fully and completely explored and that it was balanced,” Linney stressed. “I wanted to make sure the movie was not telling people what to think or believe, and that it presented two complete sides to the discussion.” For Linney, rather than answering its questions, the film “opens the question… the big question… Where does evil come from? Is it stuff in our brains? Or is it something outside ourselves?” The film’s ambiguity was also the goal for Carpenter, whose thoroughly unsettling physical and vocal performance, unenhanced by digital tweaking on the soundtrack or the screen, anchors the film. Carpenter said her aim was “to keep the audience — and myself — on the fence as long as possible.” Adding that how she personally felt about the film’s subject matter was “irrelevant,” Carpenter expressed her hope that viewers of various persuasions would be willing to “look at the things they have faith in, and take inventory, and see how much room they’ve left for new information and new possibilities, and whether they leave the theater feeling exactly the way they felt when they came in, or if they leave a little more open to a different idea.” These are not the kinds of comments you hear talking to the makers of films like Constantine, in which demons are merely fantastic monsters for heroes to shoot at with
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cism, and viewed a lot of videotape of real exorcisms, and heard audiotapes of real exorcisms… That was the part of the process that — I’ll never do that again. To get your head into that kind of a space. I guess I’m glad that I know so much about it. It’s good knowledge to have. As a writer — I also feel for me as a Christian it’s good to have that knowledge, but… not again.” What drew Derrickson to this material? The writer-director explained that it was the opportunity to bring spiritual concerns to the fore in a medium that has often ignored them. “It’s been tough for me to feel so pasEMILY ROSE, page 18
big guns, and evil itself is sort of cool. “I don’t think evil’s too cool,” observed Linney. Contemplating the existence of demons, she added, “I don’t know. I just honest to God don’t know. I hope not. I hope not. And I do believe in something bigger than me, I do I do I do I do. And this is where I get caught up. I don’t know. I hope not. I hope that evil is just a man-made thing.” Part of this open-endedness involved keeping it real — and doing the research necessary to do so. Commented Derrickson, “The research phase was horrible… [and] pretty intensive. I probably read two dozen books on possession and exor-
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Emily Rose . . . ■ Continued from page 17 sionate about my faith, to care so much about it… and to be a lover of cinema, and to have cinema be so void of good religious subject matter. I think [religion] tends in the modern era to be treated almost the way sex was treated in the fifties — it’s like, if you just watched our movies, you wouldn’t even know it was part of our culture. “What I wanted to do was write something that wasn’t propaganda, wasn’t about trying to persuade people to think the way that I do, but recognize the fundamental importance of that question, the central question — does the spiritual realm exist? Is there a devil, and more importantly, is there a God? And if so, what are the implications of that? “I don’t care what you believe — those are questions to be reckoned with… Everyone has to answer that question. And in some ways everyone lives their life based on what they believe about that question.” Does the green-lighting of this project reflect a new openness in Hollywood toward spiritual subjects? “I can’t speak for anyone, why they green-light a movie,” Derrickson demurred. “It was green-lit the weekend after The Passion [of the Christ] opened. But it also happened to be the weekend that the head of Screen Gems read the script. “I was very fortunate, because Clint Culpepper, the head of Sony Screen Gems, is not scared of this material. He likes the fact that it has spiritual content. He appreciated that, and never made any attempt to back off from that in any way.” While the film’s spiritual content may be challenging to skeptics, believers may find themselves wrestling with the film as well. For one thing, Emily, a devout girl from a Catholic family and apparently guiltless,
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“I am a Protestant… there are specific reasons I’m not Catholic — but I’m pretty close,” he allowed. “One of my closest friends, [Catholic screenwriting maven] Barbara Nicolosi, always teases me that I’m one Chesterton book away from crossing over. Chesterton is my favorite writer. Orthodoxy is the greatest book I’ve ever read. I have a lot of appreciation and a lot of personal affinity for Catholicism, and aesthetically I have much more appreciation for it than the Presbyterian denomination that I am a part of.” Derrickson also revealed that the project didn’t originally start out as restrained and realistic as the finished film became. The original script called for flashier special effects and more startling makeup — but that was before Carpenter was cast. When he realized what she was capable of, he decided that less would be more.
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“I really had an epiphany where I realized that I can get rid of all that stuff, and try to make this movie feel much more real and hope that the intensity and the impact will flow out of it,” he said. “It was such a relief, because it really allowed us to make a movie that is so much more credible and so much more true to the kind of research and the kind of stuff that got us excited about this, which is just how scary these real exorcisms — no matter what you believe about them — how scary they really are when you actually start researching them. We wanted to stay true to that.” Steven D. Greydanus is film critic for the National Catholic Register and has written numerous reviews for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
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In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of August Dina C. Carriker Alfred Casazza John G. Casazza, Jr. Teodoro G. Castro, Sr. Graciela Acosta Linwood L. Clark Jorge R. Agcaoili Daniel J. Corkery Frances Ahrens Evelyn F. Crane Carmel Alin Frank D. Crivello Catherine “Kitty” Ammiro Stella Crosatto Loni Anastasio Olivia David Annie V. Armstrong Nancy De Battista Faustina C. Badiable Francisco S De Jesus Pilar R. Balisi James De Lucchi Grace M. Barry Carl P. Dell’Aquila Frances M. Batterton, R.S.M. Rose S. Dell’Aquila Bridget Teresa Beirne Marilyn J. Delucchi Carole Anne Berthold Louise A. DeMartini Tinina Bianchini Emma DeMeyer Josephine Blagdon Bernadette M. Desmond Consuelo Braten Ida Dinucci A. Philip Bray Kevin J. Dullea Eileen E Butler Elsa Marie Duri Hugh Kevin Byrne Gustavo Alberto Escobar Edward M. Cabrera Antoinette Fambrini Evelyn Caglieri Anna G. Farrajota Cenona B. Calda Dale H. Fife Abraham “Ed” Camacho Victoria C. Fontela Joan O'Neill Carew Mary T. Franco Jeannette E. Gaehwiler Felicidad Z. Gamad
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Maria Becerra Garin Magdaleno Garin Catherine M. Gerboni Paul J. Giguiere Hazel C. “Penny” Gocke Marilyn F. Gomes Luis Enrique Gonzalez Earl J. Graf Fernanda Guaraldi Mercedes Guerrero Marshall Guillory Joachin “Jay” Guillory Alice J. Guizot Dorothy A. Hammers Neal Hickey Debbie M. Hilbert Bertha V. Jackson Genoveva A. Javier Beatrice F. Jones La Verne Kendall Elizabeth M. (Betty) Knapp Nicholas Anthony Kurtela Danny B. Labogin George Y. Lam Elizabeth D. Landwermeyer Koo Lee Christopher Liczbik Po Chu Liu Louie Loyo Margaret M. Madden Aldo L. Malaspina Amalia H. Marin Florida Mariveles Abigail D. Marquina Raymond Leo Martin Francisco Alonso Martinez Ann Marie McCarthy Rev. Pearse McCarthy William McFadden Rose Alva McGrath
Fern Mary McHale Michael V. McKenna Ray Medrano, Jr. Charles A. (Chuck) Meister Helen L. Miller Maria Miyamoto Dorothy Evelene Monroy Frances Montalvo Luigi Montella William J. Mooney Eugene L. Mooney Angelo Moreci John Bernard Murphy Mary Niland Edward W. O’Hara Eileen C. O’Shea Pauline C. Olivier Joseph J. Otayde, Sr. Joseph A. Ottria Danilo A. Pacheco Rita B. Padilla Thomas Padilla John G. Papai Jesus Pastran Mary Rose Pastran Josephine Pitto Catherine A. Pitts Thomas E. Plevin Romeo B. Poblete Annie Prendergast John J. Previti Paolina Quilici Mary Louise Rach Jose P. Ramos Margarita A. Recinos Margaret T. Renovich Richard T. Rinker Stella J. Rivers Marian L. Roccucci Rose T. Rodrigues Francisco Rodriguez Robert F. Rubia Nancy J. Sanchez Valerie S. Saput Claire B. Seiler Carmen Simmons
Frances M. Slater Anne V. Spinetta Joseph E. Spinetta Marie W. St. John Madeline R. Stachnick Barbara M. Stahl Gerda H. Stopowski Kenneth R. Sullivan Joseph Sundar Mercedes Tan Diane M. Tomasello Guillermo Tonarelli Lawrence J. Tullius Thomas Turley Martha Clark Urrea Arthur Waal, Jr. Juanita M. Wagner Walter Wermes Robert N. Wright Anna Yu
HOLY CROSS MENLO PARK Victor Omar Barajas Jadwiga Grzeszczuk Isak Hansen Mary B. “Mari” Pacheco Joseph F. Rafferty Barbara Mape Skarston Caroline M. Strada
MT. OLIVET SAN RAFAEL Rose Castellani Daniel Duarte Pauline Ann Kilborn Vera Milani Henry L. Morin Justin G. Roll Mary K. Senteno
HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY, COLMA – CALENDAR OF EVENTS 2005 First Saturday Mass
Respect Life Mass
Todos Los Santos Mass
Saturday, October 1, 2005 – 11:00 a.m. All Saints Mausoleum Chapel Rev. Francis Mulloy Celebrant, St. Dunstan Parish
Saturday, October 8, 2005 – 11:00 a.m. Outdoor Mass in front of Rachel Mourning Statue
Saturday, October 29, 2005 – 11:00 a.m. Holy Cross Mausoleum Chapel
All Souls’ Day Mass Wednesday, November 2, 2005 – 11:00 a.m. All Saints Mausoleum Chapel
Veterans’ Day Mass Friday, November 11, 2005 – 11:00 a.m. Not Mass – Outdoor Service Star of the Sea Military Section
Christmas Remembrance Service (Not Mass) Saturday, December 10, 2005 – 11:00 a.m. All Saints Mausoleum Chapel
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.