September 21, 2007 by Catholic San Francisco

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Members of the Bay Area faith community supporting a national Catholic campaign to triple federal spending on global anti-poverty measures are gathering in San Francisco next month to challenge lawmakers to back legislation that advances that long-term goal. The Point7Now! Action Conference, set for Saturday, Oct. 27, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral, will center on speeches by three activists in the global campaign: Bridget Chisenga, who works in HIV/AIDs treatment for Catholic Relief Services in Zambia; Marc D’Silva, who served as CRS country representative for India from 2002-2006; and Winston Hugh Njongonkulu Ndungane, the Anglican archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa, and the successor to Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu. The speakers will lead a “Call of the Poor,” pressing lawmakers to support policy changes that will add to the sum the federal government spends on global poverty relief. The spending now amounts to two-tenths of a percent of the gross domestic product. Campaign leaders are seeking policy changes in three areas – farm subsidies, international aid and trade policy – to gradually increase it to seven-tenths of a percent. The target is consistent with the United Nations Millennium Goals approved in 2000 by all UN member states. Campaign leaders say the United States in particular has the capacity to do far more to ease the worst suffering in developing countries. Conference organizers, representing the Catholic Church and other faith organizations, are inviting House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, U.S. Representatives Tom Lantos, Anna Eshoo and Lynne Woolsey and California Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer. Their aim is to secure commitments from the lawmakers to support pending legislation in all three areas of antipoverty policy. “The purpose of this conference is an action,” said George Wesolek, director of Public Policy and Social Concerns Office for the Archdiocese of San Francisco. POINT7NOW!, page 19

Key meeting on future of boys’ home Sept. 25 Marin County’s Board of Supervisors will hold a public meeting Tuesday, Sept. 25, at 1:30 p.m. at Marin Civic Center to address proposed land use policies that could determine the future viability of St. Vincent School for Boys. St. Vincent’s has proposed constructing senior housing and assisted living facilities on a small percentage of the school’s 770 acres, leaving 85 percent of the property as open space. School officials say the development of much-needed senior housing would protect the surrounding natural environment and allow St. Vincent’s to continue providing residential care for abused and neglected boys. Marin’s Catholic clergy have voiced support for the St. Vincent plan and opposition to proposed land-use restrictions that they say place the future of St. Vincent School for Boys in jeopardy. Father Tom Daly, chaplain at St. Vincent’s, said he hopes there will be a strong showing of support for the boys at the Sept. 25 Supervisors’ meeting.

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Teacher, Rob Pheatt, and eighth graders, Annie Hanna, Jennifer Rizzo and Danny Loftus, preview new MacBooks at St. Isabella School in San Rafael. As of Oct. 1, the school’s eighth graders will all use the laptops at school and at home in curriculum that “integrates technology … from religion to art,” said Principal Cynthia Bergez. See story on Page 7.

National bioethics gathering set for San Francisco By Rick DelVecchio Hundreds of Catholic workers in health, science and education are expected to gather in San Francisco Oct. 3 for a conference designed to affirm Church principles of human dignity at a time when advances in biology are raising new ethical challenges for those making beginning-of-life and end-of-life decisions. The conference, “Urged on by Christ: Serving the Human Person in Health Care and the Life Sciences,” will be held at St. Mary’s Cathedral from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. It is being presented by the Philadelphia-based National Catholic Bioethics Center and sponsored by the Daughters of Charity Health System and Immaculate Heart Radio. Scheduled speakers include the bioethics center’s president, John Haas, who will discuss the role of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic health care services. The directives ground the Catholic health ministry in “the sacredness of every human life from the moment of conception until death.” Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk, the center’s director of education, will speak on human embryonic stem cell research, human cloning and the determination of death for the purpose of organ transplantation. Thompson Faller, a professor of philosophy and health care ethics at the University of Portland in Oregon, will cover ordinary and extraordinary means of prolonging life. “This is really a first, that it’s open to the entire Bay Area,” said Charlotte Kiesel, a bioethics center board member and parishioner at Our Lady of Angels in Burlingame. “It’s not just geared for caregivers. There will be issues for the laity, lawyers, students.” The conference is taking place against the backdrop of an expanding stem cell research program in California and a parallel debate over the ethics of creating or destroying human embryos to obtain stem cells. Approved last December, the state’s strategic plan for stem cell research sets a 10-year goal to develop at least

one disease cure and to advance therapies for two to four other diseases to clinical trials. It also outlines initial work on potential therapies for dozens of other diseases. The plan is a blueprint for spending up to $3 billion over 10 years on stem cell research in the state. Voters authorized the funding in 2004 by passing Proposition 71, the California Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative. In May, the California Supreme Court declined to review a lower-court decision upholding the constitutionality of the research program. In an interview with Catholic San Francisco, Father Pacholczyk said the conference is an opportunity to educate not only Catholic workers but also the general public about what the Church has to say on scientists’ responsibilities toward human life at its very beginnings. “The utilitarian approach has gained the ascendancy,” said Father Pacholczyk, who has a degree in neuroscience from Yale and was a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard, working as a molecular biologist. “There has been a readiness and a willingness to sideline moral concerns in the name of progress,” he said. “The receptivity among certain audiences to the moral concerns is declining. What’s happening is, as we make moral concessions we put our foot on slippery slopes and before we know it we’re very far down the slopes.” Father Pacholczyk continued: “What the Church has done is say that life is good and a gift and we have certain responsibilities toward that life. The term that is used is stewardship. We have to be good stewards of what God has given us.” The same principles hold true in non-Catholic settings, he said. “Many of these judgments are actually based on something called the natural law,” he said. “We don’t have to have something like a Bible to see the rightness and the wrongness of these things. This is not something that only is understandable through revelation. Revelation reinforces what we already know by natural law.” Added Father Gerald Coleman, ethicist for the BIOETHICS, page 18

INSIDE THIS WEEK’S EDITION Santa Rosa settles . . . . . . . . . 5 Cancer center opens . . . . . . 10 Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Scripture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Datebook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

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Smiles, grace and Hawaiian hospitality were all part of anniversary Mass for Lucille and Antonio Sanchez-Corea, appropriately adorned here with flowers of the islands. Also enjoying the occasion were Cardinal William J. Levada, Orange Bishop Tod Brown, Msgr. Thomas Driscoll of Connecticut; Father Jerry McCormick of Monterey and, in front, the anniversary couple’s grandchildren, Douglas Hosking, left, Olivia Sanchez-Corea, Dexter Simpson, Gabriella SanchezCorea, Lucia Simpson, Katie Hosking and Andrew Hosking.

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Celebrating 50 years of marriage in Italy are Carla and Adolfo Del Carlo of St. Dunstan Parish in Millbrae. Thanks to Marie Amoroso for the good news.

Prayers please and letters, too, if you like for Matt Sheedy and Kevin Germano, young men of St. Peter Parish in Pacifica now serving in Iraq. Their proud folks are Debbie Sheedy and Mary and Michael Germano. Matt’s address is SPC Sheedy, Matthew, 3rd PLT. G CO. 3/2SCR, Unit Number 53465, APO AE 09322. Kevin’s is just as long: PVT Kevin Germano, Echo-3-8 CAV, 1st CD SCOUTS, LSA ANACONDA, APO 09391. We’re happy to publish other addresses of our service men and women. All you gotta’ do is send ‘em to us at the e-mail address below…. Happy as can be is the Maltese Catholic Community of the Archdiocese of San Francisco currently celebrating the canonization of St. George Preca, born in 1880 in Malta and elevated to sainthood by Pope Benedict XVI June 3. “We are very excited about our first saint,” said John Sant of St. Elizabeth Parish and a proud bearer of the Maltese heritage. A Mass on the day of the canonization was celebrated at the Maltese American Social Club in South San Francisco. Father David Farrugia, cousin of late St. Elizabeth pastor, Father Edwin Farrugia, presided. More than 175 people were in the assembly, John said…. Happy 50 years married Aug. 24 to Lucille and Tony Sanchez-Corea who commemorated the milestone with family and friends at a Mass of Thanksgiving on Hawaii’s “Big Island” July 29. Former San Francisco Archbishop and now Cardinal William J. Levada presided. “It was really wonderful to have our entire

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A series of events highlighting Vallombrosa Retreat Center’s 60th anniversary took place Sept. 15-16 including a benefit dinner, commemoration Mass and blessing of the Center’s new Memorial Fountain, a gift of the Vallombrosa Retreat Association. At right, Presentation Sister Rosina Conrotto who has been Vallombrosa’s program director for more than eight years and its interim director for the past two, discusses event logistics. Above left, the three former Center directors honored at a Saturday evening benefit dinner – from left: Msgr. Eugene Boyle (1960-68), Msgr. J. Warren Holleran (1968-82), and Father J. Thomas Madden (1982-2004) – are pictured with long-time Center supporter Winnie Hook, who is 101. At left, Archbishop George Niederauer blesses the Memorial Fountain following a Sunday Mass (above) in the well-known Menlo Park campus’ chapel. Dominican Father Patrick LaBelle was named new Vallombrosa director in July. Sister Conrotto has been named co-administrator of the Presentation Sisters’ San Francisco Motherhouse effective Nov. 1. For Vallombrosa retreat schedules and information, visit www.vallombrosa.org. The Archbishop’s anniversary Mass homily is posted on the archdiocesan Web site: www.sfarchdiocese.org.

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September 21, 2007 Sept. 16 were the latest in a series of ecological statements by the pope, who has focused lately on the Christian responsibility of safeguarding the environment. The pope noted that Sept. 16 marked the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the Montreal Protocol, an agreement that curbed emissions of chemicals which reduce the earth’s protective ozone layer in the stratosphere.

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Artificial nutrition addressed WASHINGTON (CNS) — Catholic health care and ethical groups thanked the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith for clarifying its stand on artificial nutrition and hydration for patients in a persistent vegetative state in a pair of Sept. 14 documents. “The Catholic health ministry is grateful for the clarification provided today,” said Sister Carol Keehan, a Daughter of Charity who is president and CEO of the Catholic Health Association, in a Sept. 14 statement. “Patients in a persistent vegetative state, while making up a very small percent of all patients, pose some of the most challenging and heart-wrenching situations for families and caregivers,” she added. “This clarification affirms the church’s belief in the value of their lives in spite of the circumstances of their condition.” Vatican’s responses to two questions posed by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and its commentary on those responses “provide a clear rejection of the claim

Villagers sit in front of their house, which collapsed during a Sept. 12 earthquake, in Lais in Bengkulu province, Indonesia, Sept. 13. Multiple earthquakes caused severe damage and death. Catholic Relief Services and other Catholic agencies have been responding. Visit www.crs.org for details.

CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (CNS) — A meeting between Pope Benedict XVI and Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir ended with hopes that upcoming peace talks for Darfur would “put an end to the suffering and insecurity” in that region, said the Vatican. In a statement following the pope’s Sept. 14 meeting with alBashir, the Vatican said expectations were high that peace talks between the Sudanese government and the Darfur region’s rebel leaders in Libya Oct. 27 would guarantee that humanitarian assistance would get to those in need and would lead to the start of rebuilding and development in the region.

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of certain theologians that the provision of food and water for patients in the persistent vegetative state is not morally obligatory,” said the Philadelphia-based National Catholic Bioethics Center in a Sept. 14 statement.

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The Vatican has announced the excommunication of certain members of the Army of Mary, a Canadian sect whose teachings have been deemed dangerous and erroneous by Church authorities. Father Jean-Pierre Mastropietro, seen in this September 2001 file photo , was included on the list of those incurring excommunication, for having attempted to perform ordinations. Father Mastropietro is seen with Sylvie PayeurRaynauld, a former woman religious.

WASHINGTON (CNS) — Church officials are examining a book written by a Vietnamese-American theologian, Father Peter Phan, for possible ambiguities on the unique role of the Catholic Church in the framework of religious pluralism. “There has been correspondence and dialogue” between Father Phan and the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Doctrine, according to Father Thomas Weinandy, a Capuchin Franciscan who is executive director of the U.S. bishops’ Secretariat for Doctrine and Pastoral Practices. Father Phan is a member of the theology department at Jesuit-run Georgetown University in Washington. A Sept. 12 story by the National Catholic Reporter said the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has voiced concerns about Father Phan’s book, “Being Religious Interreligiously: Asian Perspectives on Interfaith Dialogue,” published in 2004 by Orbis.

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Santa Rosa Diocese reaches settlement with priest’s victims SANTA ROSA, Calif. (CNS) — The Diocese of Santa Rosa reached a settlement of more than $5 million to resolve sex abuse claims against a fugitive priest, Father Francisco Ochoa-Perez, who was an assistant pastor in Sonoma. The settlement will be paid to 10 people and is being funded by insurance coverage and the sale of a piece of property next to the Cathedral of St. Eugene, according to a Sept. 13 statement from Deirdre Frontczak, a spokeswoman for the diocese. According to local news reports, the settlement was reached Aug. 27. It was made public Sept. 13. The sum of $5 million will come from those sources and an additional $20,000 will be paid personally by Santa Rosa Bishop Daniel F. Walsh from stipends he receives when he officiates at baptisms and weddings. Last year in late April, the priest, who also goes by the name Francisco Xavier Ochoa, admitted to Bishop Walsh and

other top diocesan officials he had had inappropriate contact with children, including kissing an altar boy and giving him money. The bishop suspended him immediately. About a week later Father OchoaPerez fled the area. It is believed he has been living in Mexico. In June 2006 authorities issued an arrest warrant. The Sonoma County district attorney charged him with 10 felony sex abuse counts. In October of that year a lawsuit on behalf of several alleged victims was filed against the diocese. “No parish, school or other ministry funds were used to settle the cases,” Frontczak said in a statement e-mailed to Catholic News Service. “The settlement provides reasonable compensation to the victims without jeopardizing the diocese’s ministries to its people. We pray for the continued healing of the victims,” she said. The Press Democrat, a Santa Rosa daily newspaper, quoted diocesan attorney

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CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (CNS) — Pope Benedict XVI pointed to the Northern Ireland peace process as an example to “other troubled zones of our world” that conflict can be overcome peacefully. After 30 years of conflict, peace in Northern Ireland was “achieved through widespread international support, determined political resolve on the part of both the Irish and the British governments, and the readiness of individuals and communities to embrace the sublime human capacity to forgive,” he said. The pope made his comments in a Sept. 15 address to Ireland’s new ambassador to the Vatican, Noel Fahey.

serving with the Holy Cross Associates for the last 12 months in Santiago, Chile. He keeps his blog — http://pjfurlong.blogspot.com — with the hope that college students considering volunteer work after graduation might catch a glimpse of what it is like in the trenches. In August he headed to another volunteer position in Quito, Ecuador, to teach poor children and their parents 12 hours a day, five days a week.

was a Saturday. The diocese notified Sonoma County Child Protective Services on Monday, May 1, 2006, and the bishop’s first personal contact with authorities was May 2, 2006. Galvin said later he did not know Child Protective Services had a 24-hour hot line he could have accessed to report the alleged abuse. Bishop Walsh publicly apologized for failing to report the alleged abuse to authorities immediately. He said he would accept “whatever punishment is imposed.” He completed the five-month diversion program in May.

Dan Galvin as saying, “The bishop volunteered to pay the $20,000 to get the case settled.” He added that the bishop’s offer was “critical to getting the case settled.” Last November Bishop Walsh agreed to enroll in a diversion counseling program in lieu of facing possible criminal charges for what civil authorities said was a delay in reporting allegations that one of his priests sexually abused a minor. Bishop Walsh learned from Father Ochoa-Perez on April 28, 2006, that the priest was a molester. The bishop notified Galvin the next day, April 29, which

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Holy Names University enrolls record numbers of students As it prepares to celebrate its 140th anniversary, Oakland’s Holy Names University reports a record enrollment of more than 1,100 students for the 2007-08 academic year, according to a report in The Catholic Voice, newspaper of the Oakland Diocese. John Bowman, university spokesperson, said 195 first-year and transfer undergraduates make up one of the largest entering

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In last week’s article on Catholic youth in Mexico, student Sam Wickstrom appeared in the above Page 18 photo at left. She was misidentified as Megan Smith. Amanda Costello (right) is the other Redwood City youth in the photo.

groups in the university’s history. These students will participate in a program to help them transition successfully into college through several core courses, complemented by a common reading of “The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals” by Michael Pollan. They will explore issues of nutrition, social justice, animal rights, the environment and poverty. The university is among the most ethnically diverse in the country with 30 percent of students identifying as African American, 30 percent white, 20 percent Latino, and the the final 20 percent as Asian and other groups. A recent US News & World Report on best colleges in America ranked Holy Names first in the Western United States for diversity. But, said HNU President Rosemarie Nassif, “Diversity is more than a descriptor. It provides our students an opportunity to learn and develop skills in a social environment that reflects how the country and the world will be throughout their lifetimes.” The university was founded by the Holy Names Sisters in 1868 on the banks of Lake Merritt and moved to its present location on Mountain Boulevard 50 years ago. It offers more than 25 undergraduate and graduate degrees and various certificates and credentials. Last year it received a coveted 10-year reaffirmation of its accreditation from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.

“Learn Like a Girl’ author to speak Diana Meehan, author of “Learning Like a Girl: Educating Our Daughters in Schools of Their Own,” will speak at 7 p.m. on Sept. 25 at Notre Dame High School, 1540 Ralston Ave., Belmont. The 1961 graduate of Notre Dame is co-founder of The Archer School for Girls in Los Angeles. The Archdiocese of San Francisco is home to all-girls schools including Notre Dame High School in Belmont, Immaculate Conception Academy in San Francisco, Mercy High School in Burlingame, Mercy High School in San Francisco, Convent of the Sacred Heart in San Francisco and San Domenico Upper School in San Anselmo. From left, Notre Dame students Amber Walton, Julia Canafax and Cassandra Bass help the sponsoring Notre Dame Parents Association publicize the event. For more information, visit http:www.ndhsb.org.

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Computer classrooms changing the way students learn The smell of new books and the sound of chalk against the blackboard may well be eclipsed as sensory indicators of the new school year by the glow and pings of laptop computers at St. Isabella Elementary. Eighth graders at the San Rafael school will receive MacBooks for use in class and at home Oct. 1. “Education is on the brink of exciting changes that will improve learning opportunities for all students,” said Cynthia Bergez, principal. “We, the St. Isabella School community, are excited to be providing the necessary tools to ensure that this happens for our students.” The 40 new MacBooks for the school’s eighth graders and their teachers were paid for through fundraising efforts of the St. Isabella Parent Club. The total cost was approximately $49,000. The computers will be on-loan to the students and families pay a nominal fee to insure the hardware. “The MacBooks are being used by the eighth graders at home and at school,” Bergez said. “The faculty who teach eighth grade are integrating technology into all the eighth grade curriculum — from religion to art.” The students are more than ready for the step, Bergez pointed out. “Our students are computer literate. Not only do we have an excellent technology program here at school, our students also use computers at home. Our technology teacher will be working with the students on how to maximize the potential of the MacBook at school and at home.” Bergez said the program creates a new

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Third graders and their teacher, Mavis Wall, take advantage of their new “wired classroom” at St. Isabella School in San Rafael.

learning environment to prepare students for the world of tomorrow. “These students will have a tool at school and home to compose and write fluently, to participate in interactive assignments, and to research relevant learning topics with the abundant sources of information available on databases or the Internet,” she said. The school itself is “wireless”, the principal said, thus “students can work anywhere on the school grounds.” “We are giving our students the ability to communicate with students and

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Project to offer a conference on environmental sustainability for schools. The event, scheduled Oct. 6 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., will offer workshops, networking and panel discussions. The “ecoliteracy” panel includes Andres Edwards, author of “The Sustainability Revolution”; Carolie Sly from the Center for Ecoliteracy; Bonnie Ora Shrek from A Living Library; Mark Stefanski of Marin Academy; Shelley Flint, director of sustainability at San Domenico, and Charles McGlashen of the Marin Board of Supervisors. Tickets are $10 for youth and $15 for adults, which includes an organic lunch and curricula aids. San Domenico School is at 1500 Butterfield Rd., San Anselmo. For more information, call (415) 258-1985 or visit www.sandomenico.org. Advertisement

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content experts anywhere in the world,” Bergez said. “The possibilities are infinite to extend and enhance learning for each student. This program provides an opportunity for learning with technology, not about technology. Education is on the brink of exciting changes that will improve learning opportunities for all students and we are a leader in providing the necessary tools to ensure that this happens.” “I am really excited to have the opportunity to pilot the laptop program,” said Rob Pheatt, eighth grade teacher. “I know it will really enhance our teaching and the students’ learning.” Kathy Rizzo is a member of the eighth grade. “The new MacBook project seems like a good way to help us with note taking and researching for our classes,” she said. Eighth grader Matthew Powers sees the MacBooks as a way for students “to do more creative presentations using Power Point.” Michelle Geck, also a member of the class, thinks the pilot project “will help us improve the computer skills we need.”

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St. Isabella’s is already computer equipped with 35 ibooks in a mobile lab for use by students in grades kindergarten through seven. “We integrate technology into the curriculum,” Bergez said. “Computers are tools like pencils,” she noted. “We do not have pencil class – we teach children how to read, write, and compute with computers.” St. Isabella’s has also set-up what it calls “state of the art computer classrooms” for its third and eighth grades complete with ceiling-mounted computer projectors and large screens. “Our third and eighth grades are wired classrooms,” Bergez said. “There is a computer projector mounted on the ceiling and the teacher uses a remote control to activate it.” The projector and speakers have replaced the television and VCR/DVD in the classroom. Students now have access to programs and streaming video on a 10-foot screen rather than a smaller television. The two wired classrooms cost approximately $9,000 with installation, Bergez said, noting again the funding came “thanks to the incredible fundraising of our Parent Club.” Third grade mother Wendy Calcaterra said the classrooms “are an excellent example of our fundraising dollars at work. I am hoping that all our classrooms are presented with this technology in the very near future.” “I like having a projector in my class,” said Calcaterra’s son, Joey. “Mrs. (Mavis) Wall is able to look up interesting information. It helps me learn.” “I love the computer system,” said third grader, Julia Hunter. “It makes it easier to see what the teacher is teaching.” “I think the wired classroom is outstanding and a great addition,” said Julia’s mother, Catherine. “Things that previously would have been hard to convey such as the incredible beauty of the Grand Tetons, are more easily presentable in the new format.” The laptop and wired classroom project will expand, Bergez said. “This is a pilot program. We wanted to try it out first. If we find that it enhances the learning of our students, we will wire more classrooms and loan MacBooks to our seventh graders next year.”

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September 21, 2007

Open every day for 26 years Free Dining Room of San Rafael readies for revamping By Tom Burke The St. Vincent de Paul Society of Marin County is shoring up its Free Dining Room of San Rafael, a ministry its Vincentian members and volunteers have helped prosper every day for the last 26 years. Work on remodeling the dining room begins in early October and is expected to be complete by Christmas. “We are taking a worn, depressing space and making it a friendly, uplifting space,” said Christine Paquette, St. Vincent De Paul’s director of development. Meals will not miss a beat during construction. “We’ve rented a space next door, so all will go on,” she explained. “The dining room has been open every single day for 26 years,” said Paquette. “The origins are that we originally ran a thrift store in town, and hungry people would come to the doors looking for food. Thrift store volunteers realized something had to be done to make sure people could eat. Once the dining room opened, the manager of the Safeway down the street told us he was thrilled.” “We are helping men, women and children at the dining room,” she said. “We primarily see the elderly, the homeless, lowwage earners, new immigrants, the disabled and veterans.” Paquette said 250-300 meals are served in the dining room every day. “As a volunteer, I eat in the free dining

Marin County St. Vincent De Paul Society Executive Director Steven Boyer is flanked by St. Vincent volunteers Susan Tighe (left) and Vicki Kryzanowski during the organization’s "Miracle on B Street" fundraiser held in August.

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replacing failed materials with commercial products that will withstand the demanding use the space receives. Almost half the funding of the $200,000 project came from Peter T. Paul, a Marin County businessman and philanthropist who created his own foundation to support agencies that help people with practical needs. “He found us and asked us to submit a proposal which he then accepted,” Paquette said. The Paul grant totaled $78,000. A matching amount and more were raised with the “Miracle on B Street” fundraiser held in August. San Francisco designer, Debra Nichols, and Tiburon architect Bill Comstock have also come forth with donated work on the dining room’s new look. “Our homeless live in their cars, in the hills, in storage sheds, or on someone’s couch,” Paquette said. “Our poor live day to day, many times on the brink of homelessness. Unless you make an effort to visit areas like the free dining room, the Canal, Marin City and other pockets of poverty, you can easily live in Marin without seeing that we have a problem.” The Marin County St. Vincent De Paul Society has 12 conferences or branches with 183 Vincentian members. Last year, in addition to their work in the Free Dining Room, they provided 3,473 home visits to people in danger of losing their housing by providing FREE DINING ROOM, page 9

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New ceramic tile flooring, wainscoting, fresh paint, lighting, signs, tables and chairs will be part of the updated dining room of the Free Dining Room of San Rafael, at 820 B St., San Rafael. Pictured here is the dining hall continually in service since 1981.

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‘Torture trial’ scheduled for court Oct. 17 By Michael Vick Franciscan Father Louis Vitale and Jesuit Father Steve Kelly have been scheduled to appear for trial on Oct. 17 on charges of federal trespass and failure to comply with the orders of a police officer. The two Bay Area priests had offered a no contest plea after Magistrate Judge Hector Estrada gutted their defense in a series of pre-trial rulings. The decision to accept or reject that plea now rests with the Attorney General’s office in Washington, D.C.

The two face up to 10 months in jail after a failed attempt on Nov. 19 to deliver a letter denouncing torture to Maj. Gen. Barbara Fast. Fast, then head of Ft. Huachuca in Arizona, was implicated in the Abu Ghraib torture scandal in Iraq. The military’s official investigation cleared her of all charges. Father Vitale also faces a hearing today, Sept. 21, to set the conditions of his pre-trial release. The priest was cited for a Nagasaki Day line-crossing at the Nevada nuclear weapons test site on Aug. 9, in possible violation of Estrada’s pre-trial order not to break local, state or federal laws.

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OUR FRIENDS Retired priests remain active, involved and grateful

riendship – that’s the key word I would use to describe my experience of the retired priests I know. It is an underlying attitude I have seen in every retired priest. They have a genuine camaraderie with the people in their lives. They speak with smiles on their faces and inspire recollections of fondness and gratitude.

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Father Joseph O’Reilly By Mike O’Leary Retired priests are a joy to get to know. They are gentle, happy, smart and caring individuals who have captivating stories to share. Their soft-spoken voices tell of memories of people they have spent their lives serving. Visits to Serra Clergy House in San Mateo, Nazareth House in Marin, and Alma Via in San Francisco, all uncover these sentiments. Nazareth House in Marin is home to several of our retired priests. Msgr. Richard Knapp says that his service to the people of the Archdiocese has been a privilege. He has been a priest for 52 years. Commitment to Mass Sunday after Sunday impresses a happy Father James O’Malley who was ordained in 1946. Father Ed Cleary says his 50-plus years as a priest have been wonderful. Father Wilt Smith will tell you one of his greatest joys remains celebrating the Eucharist with the people. These guys work long past what we consider retirement age, yet they are happy to do so because they really enjoy the people they serve. A resident at Alma Via, 95-year-old Father Joseph O’Reilly has been a priest for 67 years. Father O’Reilly recalls his education in San Francisco’s public schools in the early 1900s. At St Mary’s College, he received a degree in economics and was a great asset for the Archdiocese for decades. As a child, one hears the name of important people

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while in grammar school. I remember the reverence in my teacher’s voice when she spoke of Msgr. John Foudy, the superintendent of schools. A soft-spoken, gentle man with a quick smile and a positive outlook, Monsignor speaks of his gratitude and happiness during his 66 years as a priest.

Msgr. John T. Foudy and Father William H. Worner These priests have been friends of our families for generations — watching us grow, witnessing amazing occasions over the years. They’ve celebrated wedding Masses. They’ve watched as families bring children into the world and be baptized. They’ve overseen reception of other sacraments, and they’ve buried loved ones. They’ve seen the process repeated a hundred-fold throughout the Archdiocese.

When I hear a priest was ordained in the 30s, 40s or 50s, I am astounded. To think of all the people that man has helped over these years. We have a total of 78 retired priests in our Archdiocese – with countless thousands of people served. I discovered that a priests’ friendships are often his “battery charger”. Younger priests have retired priest friends; retired priests spend time with other retired priests, and all have friends who are lay people. The retired priests keep their finger on the pulse of the action by having friends who are priests in active ministry. These guys hang out at baseball games and in prayer groups, Sunday barbeques and vacations together. I can’t think of any company where retired employees have such a strong connection after retirement. This solidarity means retired priests keep their thoughts and prayers closer to all of us and to our need for more vocations. Retired priest Father Zachary Shore sees vocations encouraged through the witness of priests being happy. And Father William Worner, ordained 61 years ago, says bringing people closer to Christ – helping them realize their faith — furthers the example of priests for vocations. Think about it: priests who have served the Archdiocese more than 50 (and some 60 or more) years began their ministries as World War II ended and while the San Francisco Seals were playing baseball on 16th Street. Much history has been written since then, but the Church has been steadfast in serving its flock; and its leading edge has been these priests. With all their years of service, our retired priests’ small paychecks meant little in savings and not much accumulated in Social Security. Some of these great fellows who have given us so much now have very little to carry them through retirement. Most work well past the time most of us retire, and many are still serving Mass and administer-

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Father Zachary Shore, Msgr. John T. Foudy, Father William H. Worner, seated Father James F. Atkins and Father Joseph P. O’Reilly ing the sacraments. In some cases, our parish rectories are not adequately equipped or staffed to care for these priests and some of our priests do not have families living nearby. There is something you can do to help these men. You can put a few bucks in the special collection for the Priests’ Retirement Fund collection on Sept. 23. If everyone helps a little, these 78 men who have served us over the years will be helped a great deal. One thing each of the retired priests I have met has told me to relay is that they are most appreciative for your generosity to the Priests’ Retirement Fund, because without your help, they couldn’t make it as easily. Won’t you help someone who has been supporting you in so many important ways through the years? Michael P. O’Leary, Associate Director of Development, started working for the Archdiocese of San Francisco in 1976 producing radio and television. Produced TV in the Netherlands, St. Louis, New York and the University of Notre Dame returning to San Francisco five years ago. Presently works in the Office of Development in the Archdiocese.

Average age of priests being ordained now 35 WASHINGTON (CNS) — Results of a recent survey show the average age of the 475 priests expected to be ordained in the United States this year is 35 and one-third of them were born in another country, primarily Vietnam, Mexico, Poland or the Philippines. The three men ordained for the Archdiocese of San Francisco on June 9 at St. Mary’s Cathedral echo the findings. Father Paul Zirimenya, 29, is a native of Uganda in East central Africa. Father Ngoan Phan, 38, is Vietnamese and was one of thousands who lived for a time in a Hong Kong refugee camp. Father Michael Konopik, 40, is a native of Honolulu, Hawaii. The national study of the ordination class of 2007 also shows the men are well educated. More than six in 10 completed college before entering the seminary and some have advanced degrees in law, medicine and education. The annual survey of new priests was initially developed in 1998 by the U.S. bishops’ Secretariat for Vocations and Priestly Formation. Last year, the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University began conducting it for the U.S. bishops.

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Vatican Letter Pope puts away traveling shoes, prepares for busy fall and winter By John Thavis After a three-day trip to Austria in early September, Pope Benedict XVI is putting away his traveling shoes and settling in for a long fall and winter at the Vatican. The next foreign trip fixed firmly on the pope’s calendar is mid-July of 2008, when he plans to fly to Australia for World Youth Day celebrations. Vatican officials say the pope also expects to visit the United Nations and New York in 2008, and April now looks like a likely time frame. He could easily add one or two other eastern U.S. cities, such as Philadelphia or Boston, to that itinerary. Other foreign travels in the first half of 2008 look less probable. There was talk about a possible papal trip to Quebec for the International Eucharistic Congress in mid-June, but Vatican sources said no concrete plans were being made for such a visit. A papal visit to the Marian sanctuary at Lourdes, France, could occur, but probably later in 2008. The Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France, also has invited the pope, but there’s been no answer yet. If the pope does go next year, Church sources think it would be in the fall, perhaps in connection with the Lourdes visit. Despite a recently renewed Israeli invitation for a papal visit, Vatican sources said there was no rush to make that happen in 2008. When Pope Benedict was elected, he said he’d be more of a stay-at-home pope than his globe-trotting predecessor, Pope John Paul II. But four months after his election, Pope Benedict was presiding over World Youth Day in Germany, and in 2006 he seemed almost restless, making four trips outside Italy. To date, he’s made seven foreign trips — more than most people expected. Unlike Pope John Paul’s barnstorming tours, however, Pope Benedict’s foreign journeys have been brief and generally close to home. In Pope John Paul’s first seven trips, he visited five continents, from Japan to Mexico, and logged more than 60,000 miles. Pope Benedict has strayed outside Europe only twice — to Turkey and to Brazil. The pace of the visits has also changed. Pope John Paul spent 53 days on the road during his first two and a half years, giving 313 speeches in foreign countries. Pope Benedict has spent 25 days traveling, delivering 74 speeches on the road. Health does not appear to be an issue for Pope Benedict, who scoots up stairs and strides onto podiums with an energy and ease that often surprise people. There are other reasons the pope is staying close to home in the coming months, however. For one thing, he has a backlog of “ad limina” meetings with bishops from Asia, Africa and Europe coming through his door for their periodic consultations. The pope is also said to be dedicating much of his time to two special projects. The first is completion of his second volume on the life of Jesus, expected to cover Christ’s passion, death and resurrection. The first volume, “Jesus of Nazareth,” was published last spring. The other project, more nebulous, is the pope’s second encyclical. The pope tantalized reporters during his summer vacation in northern Italy by telling them he was working on a new encyclical, and a Vatican spokesman later said it would be related to Catholic social teaching. The pope will get out of Rome at least once this fall when he makes an Oct. 21 trip to Naples, Italy, where he is expected to meet with Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople at the opening of an interreligious conference. Probably the biggest public event on the pope’s fall calendar is the anticipated naming of new cardinals and a consistory at the Vatican. Most expect the pope to announce the cardinals’ names in late October and preside over the consistory liturgies Nov. 24-25. At that time, the pope would have at least 17 vacancies to fill among cardinals who are under age 80 and can vote in a conclave. The limit of voting-age cardinals is 120, although Pope John Paul sometimes went over that number. Among those expected to get a red hat this time around are U.S. Archbishop John P. Foley, who was recently named pro-grand master of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem. Other U.S. possibilities include the archbishops of Washington and Baltimore. But Vatican sources noted that retired cardinals from both those archdioceses are still among the 11 U.S. cardinal electors, making new cardinals less likely this time around. The pope’s list of cardinals is expected to include four or five Roman Curia officials and the new head of the Italian bishops’ conference, Archbishop Angelo Bagnasco of Genoa. Other European candidates include the archbishops of Paris; Dublin, Ireland; and Warsaw, Poland. In Africa, potential cardinals are found among the archbishops of Kampala, Uganda; Nairobi, Kenya; and Abuja, Nigeria. In Asia, a potential cardinal comes from Mumbai, India; and in South America, potential cardinals are found in Sao Paolo and other Brazilian archdioceses. (John Thavis directs the Rome Bureau of Catholic News Service.)

Generosity applauded

Prodigal potential

(The following letter was addressed to San Francisco Archbishop George H. Niederauer who asked that it be shared with readers of Catholic San Francisco.) With this letter I offer my sincere thanks for the generous help provided by your faithful in support of the mission ad gentes for the year ending December 2006. Such gratitude is made in the name of the millions of people around the world who directly benefit from this missionary generosity. The donations for 2006 include: $1,352,189 for the Society for the Propagation of the Faith and $34,870 for the Society of St. Peter Apostle. For the fiscal year ended June 30, 2006, offerings to the Holy Childhood Association were $40,542. Although there are many financial challenges and economic realities that confront the Church in the United States, we continue to reach out to support the worldwide mission to make Christ known among all nations and peoples. Your personal leadership in designating a diocesan director for the Pontifical Mission Societies who collaborates and participates in programs coordinated by our national office, especially World Mission Sunday, and your own example in animating the people of your Archdiocese to accept the missionary vocation given them in baptism are greatly appreciated by myself and by all in our “one family in mission.” Thanking you for your ongoing support of the mission ad gentes and asking God to bless you in all your many activities and responsibilities. Gratefully in our Lord, Msgr. John E. Kozar National Director, Pontifical Mission Societies in the United States

Father Bill Nicholas’ Sept. 14 Scripture reflection on the parable of the Prodigal Son was indeed thought provoking. I would offer another view. Might the merciful father be the prodigal son in that parable? The tale sends messages on many levels. While the Prodigal Son title is traditional, the etymology of the word prodigal as an adjective is from the Latin protigus from protigere, meaning to drive away. Could it not then be that the locus of the parable is about the act of driving away? Might this parable send a message about the treatment of one another, of particular note in familial relationships, among all God’s children? The parable is certainly the story of two sons and their relationships with their father. Yet could it be the story of three sons—as the father is surely a son as well? The man as a central actor in the parable, with the mention of “father” 13 times, may be inferred as representing God. Perhaps it could also be representative of Jesus, son of God, with regard to his treatment of tax collectors, sinners, Pharisees and scribes present with the original delivery of the parable. The story is certainly open to consideration of another view – the treatment of others through one’s lifetime. From the longstanding interpretation of the sons’ treatment of each other and the father, might another perspective—the treatment by the father of his two sons—emerge? While scarce on detail of disparate treatment between the sons, inference may be made that such exists. Indeed, the traveling son longed to be treated as if a servant of his father, so good was that treatment. At the return of his wayward son, the father was filled with compassion. A valuable lesson for all, to be full of compassion; perhaps this is a message of the parable. This perspective could also be consistent with the first and second readings concerning sustenance and reconciliation, which are central to them and the Gospel. The fallibility of humans gives way to opportunities to learn from one’s mistakes. Fallibility gives way to forgiveness, knowledge and wisdom, which tend to build and sustain relationships. Is it not always worthwhile to make the time to develop relationships among all of God’s children? If development of relationships is to be accomplished, then might the parable guide us to compassionately seeking out how others wish to be treated and then acting accordingly? Perhaps this is yet another lesson from the parable. Tom Maloney Redwood City

Prodigal problem

L E T T E R S

In regard to Father Bill Nicholas’ Sept. 14 Scripture reflection, is it possible instead that the real culprit in this parable of the prodigal son has never been identified? How about the father whose failure to demonstrate any appreciation for his elder son’s years of faithful service and loyalty, thus prompting said son’s quite understandable reaction? A fairly familiar family scenario, it seems to me. According to Father Nicholas, the young returnee is apparently entitled to forgiveness for his profligate ways, while his brother’s conduct is condemned as “reward seeking.” The father adds insult to injury by telling the elder son that “everything I have is yours.” Not so. The younger son will once again inherit. Certainly some expression of gladness at his younger brother’s return would have been noble on the part of the elder son, regardless of the inheritance angle. But to brand him prodigal as well? Neither accurate nor compassionate. Virginia Dolar Novato

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Seek objective beauty Praise to George Weigel for his “National Endowment for Arts – it’s working!” In his Sept. 14 column, Weigel praises Dana Gioia’s ambitious and inspired leadership as its chairman. He went on to itemize the sweeping programs that are revitalizing our culture amidst an onslaught of decadence and social decay. Speaking of Gioia as a serious Catholic, Weigel notes Gioia “believes that the world, created through the Word, is unveiled in all its mystery and beauty through the mediation of words” and that “ours is a sacramental world, in which the extraordinary lies just on the far side of the ordinary” and further that “great art, in its many forms, helps us up through that permeable border and into the realm of transcendent truth – and love.” Not all that is called art is beauty. Today, more than ever, we need these reminders that, like objective truth there is objective beauty. Whether by brush or sound, architecture or literature, beauty can be recognized when the human artist collaborates with God in re-creating his kingdom on earth. Praise the beauty of the Lord and to his Church for her instilling values in our culture and faithful preservation of the best of what we humans are all called to be. Mary McCurry Pacifica

September 21, 2007

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Spirituality for Life

Mother Teresa’s dark night of the soul A recent book on Mother Teresa, “Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light,” makes public a huge volume of her intimate correspondence, and in it we see what looks like an intense, 50-year struggle with faith and belief. Again and again, she describes her religious experience as “dry,” “empty,” “lonely,” “torturous,” “dark,” “devoid of all feeling.” During the last half-century of her life, it seems, she was unable to feel or imagine God’s existence. Many people have been confused and upset by this. How can this woman, a paradigm of faith, have experienced such doubts? And so some are making a judgment that her faith wasn’t real. Their view is that she lived the life of a saint, but died the death of an atheist. For doctrinaire atheists, her confession of doubt is manna from the abyss. Christopher Hitchens, for example, writes: “She was no more exempt from the realization that religion is a human fabrication than any other person, and that her attempted cure was more and more professions of faith could only have deepened the pit that she dug for herself.” What’s to be said about all of this? Was Mother Teresa an atheist? Hardly! In a deeper understanding of faith, her doubts and feelings of abandonment are not only explicable, they’re predictable. What Mother Teresa underwent is called “a dark night of the soul.” This is what Jesus suffered on the cross when he cried out: “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” When he uttered those words, he meant them. At that moment, he felt exactly what Mother Teresa felt so acutely for more than 50 years, namely, the sense that God is absent, that God is dead, that there isn’t any God. But this isn’t the absence of

faith or the absence of God, it is rather a deeper presence of God, a presence which, precisely because it goes beyond feeling and imagination, can only be felt as an emptiness, nothingness, absence, non-existence. How can faith feel like doubt? How can God’s deeper presence feel like God’s non-existence? And, perhaps more importantly, why? The literature around the “dark night of the soul” makes this point: Sometimes when we are unable to induce any kind of feeling that God exists, when we are unable to imagine God’s existence, the reason is because God is now coming into our lives in such a way that we cannot manipulate the experience through ego, narcissism, self-advantage, self-glorification and selfmirroring. This purifies our experience of God because only when all of our own lights are off can we grasp divine light in its purity. Only when we are completely empty of ourselves inside an experience, when our heads and hearts are pumping dry, can God touch us in a way that makes it impossible for us to inject ourselves into the experience, so that we are worshiping God, not ourselves. This is painful. It is experienced precisely as darkness, emptiness, doubt, abandonment. But this is, in fact, “the test” from which we pray God to spare us whenever we pray Matthew’s version of the Lord’s Prayer - “Do not put us to the test.” Moreover this experience is usually given to those who have the maturity to handle it — spiritual athletes, those who pray for and truly want a searing “purity of heart,” people like Mother Teresa. They ask Jesus to experience and feel everything as he did. He just answers their prayers! Henri Nouwen, in “In Memorium,” shares a similar thing about his mother. She was, he states, the most faith-filled and generous woman he had ever met. So

when he stood at her bedside as she was dying he had every right to expect her death would be a serene witness to a life of deep faith. But what happened, on the surface at least, seemed Father the exact reverse. She Ron Rolheiser struggled, was seized by doubts, cried out, and died inside a certain darkness. Only later, after prayer and reflection, did this make sense. His mother had prayed her whole life to die like Jesus - and so she did! In a remarkable book, “The Crucified God,” Jurgens Moltmann writes: “Our faith begins at the point where atheists suppose that it must end. Our faith begins with the bleakness and power which is the night of the cross, abandonment, temptation, and doubt about everything that exists! Our faith must be born where it is abandoned by all tangible reality; it must be born of nothingness, it must taste this nothingness and be given it to taste in a way no philosophy of nihilism can imagine.” Mother Teresa understood this. That is why her seeming doubt did not lead her away from God and her vocation but instead riveted her to it with a depth and purity that, more than anything else, tell us precisely what faith really is. Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser, theologian, teacher, and award-winning author, is president of the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, Texas. His Web site is www.ronrolheiser.com.

Guest Commentary

Take a page from St. Paul — literally On the eve of the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul, June 28, New Testament’s formation? The biographical study, “Paul Pope Benedict XVI proclaimed a Pauline Year to honor St. the Apostle,” published in the mid-19th century by the Paul in preparation for the 2000th anniversary of the great noted Italian scholar Giuseppe Ricciotti, details some apostle’s birth. Church historians reckon that St. Paul was aspects of ancient letter writing. born about 10 A.D. in Tarsus, now located in present-day Usually letters were written on parchment, which Turkey. Following his conversion to Christianity he became was worked leather, or on papyrus. Papyrus was a comthe Church’s foremost evangelizer in spreading the Gospel position of thin, crossed strips of an Egyptian river reed. among the Jews and the Gentiles. It varied in thickness and smoothness, and was formed The Pauline Year will run from June 29, 2008, to June into sheets measuring about 10 or 12 inches wide. Neither 29, 2009, to highlight Paul’s contribuparchment nor papyrus offered the tion to the spread of Christianity in the smooth writing surface we expect in first century. paper today. On his first official venture outA pen was made from a split side the Vatican in April 2005, Pope reed or a goose quill. The sticky ink Benedict visited the Basilica of St. was a mixture of carbon and glue or Paul’s Outside the Walls to pray at the gum. With rough quality papyrus, tomb of the great apostle and to honor writing was difficult and the scribe his missionary legacy. On that occastruggled intently to form each letter. sion he reflected that “The Church is With a short letter, such as Paul’s by nature missionary; its primary task message to Philemon (25 verses), the is evangelization. At the beginning of finished letter was folded, then sealed the third millennium, the Church feels with wax or pitch. The name of the with renewed strength that Christ’s intended receiver was written on the missionary mandate is more pressing outside along with the name of the than ever.” bearer and the intermediate stops. A The inspired letters of St. Paul are long letter would be rolled and a primary source of the history and enclosed in a sealed envelope, or teaching of the nascent Church and wrapped in another sheet of papyrus, clearly influenced its early developthen tied with a small cord and ment. sealed. With today’s rapid and varied A piece of second century papyrus The actual composition and writstyles of communication St. Paul ing of the letter posed some difficulshows the beginning of St. Paul’s would have a field day with his extenty. Determining the content of the Letter to the Hebrews. sive contacts for the growth and develmessage, plus the length of the text, opment of the Church. The awesome required considerable effort, writing ease of electronic communication would hold spellbound space, and time. On average, each papyrus sheet held this inveterate letter writer of the New Testament. about 140 words. To write three syllables required about However, the demanding and rigorous conditions of one minute, and an hour’s work produced about 72 words. letter writing in St. Paul’s day in no way diminished this St. Paul’s earliest letter, the oldest text in the New master evangelizer’s passion for this labor of love. Testament, is the First Letter to the Thessalonians. In the beginnings of Christianity the “city churches” Scholars estimate this required about 11 sheets of papyrus communicated with Paul and other leaders of their time and and 20 hours of writing. His letter to the Romans, his with each other by letters. Unfortunately many of these let- longest, needed 50 sheets and 100 hours to complete. His ters have been lost. Some of Paul’s letters are responses to shortest letter contains 335 words to Philemon, but letters he received, and in his letters he instructs, solves required three sheets and more than four hours. Letter problems, and offers encouragement to the local Christian writing was a labor of love. communities. Because writing was a tedious task, only two or three Just what did it take to write a letter in the era of the hours in a working day could be devoted to it. It is esti-

mated the Letter to the Romans must have occupied Paul and his secretary at least 32 days at three hours a day, or a maximum of 49 days at two hours a day. These approxiBrother John mate calculations hold Samaha special importance for a correct interpretation and understanding of St. Paul’s letters. Apparent interruptions in the development of thought, abrupt transitions, and repetition complicate Paul’s theological reflections and exhortations. Considering the time involved in actually composing and writing, and factoring in postponements and interruptions, no wonder Paul’s content and style are not always easy to follow or to read aloud. Another New Testament letter writer, St. Peter, admitted frankly that in the letters of “our beloved brother Paul . . . there are some things hard to understand” (2 Peter 3:15-16). Reviewing these conditions can remind us about the importance of letter writing. This seems to be a lost art among the young. The known effects of a handwritten or typed, personal letter are remarkable. We are not all like St. Paul, but we do have the ability and opportunity to cheer, console, cajole, congratulate, and encourage each other. Letter writing is a valuable apostolic venture. Remember that St. Paul inspired and supported Church vocations by his letters to Timothy and Titus, and in all his letters exhorted the baptized to be faithful to their baptismal consecration. Writing a personal letter is a wonderful and warm expression of thoughtfulness and courtesy and appreciation. Letter writing is an inspired apostolate of expressing God’s love for us, and our love for one another. Let’s take a page from St. Paul and renew this practice in our own lives. (Ed. note: The “Letters of St. Paul” is be the focus of a Thursday evenings lecture series at Marin Catholic High School. See Datebook, Page 21.) Marianist Brother John Samaha is a widely published author and resides at the Marianist Care Center in Cupertino.

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September 21, 2007

TWENTY-FIFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

Scripture reflection

Amos 8:4-7; Psalm 113:1-2, 4-6, 7-8; 1 Timothy 2:1-8; Luke 16:1-13 A READING FROM THE BOOK OF AMOS (AM 8:4-7) Hear this, you who trample upon the needy and destroy the poor of the land! “When will the new moon be over,” you ask, “that we may sell our grain, and the Sabbath, that we may display the wheat? We will diminish the ephah, add to the shekel, and fix our scales for cheating! We will buy the lowly for silver, and the poor for a pair of sandals; even the refuse of the wheat we will sell!” The Lord has sworn by the pride of Jacob: Never will I forget a thing they have done! RESPONSORIAL PSALM PS 113:1-2, 4-6, 7-8 R. Praise the Lord who lifts up the poor. Praise, you servants of the Lord, praise the name of the Lord. Blessed be the name of the Lord both now and forever. R. Praise the Lord who lifts up the poor. High above all nations is the Lord; above the heavens is his glory. Who is like the Lord, our God, who is enthroned on high and looks upon the heavens and the earth below? R. Praise the Lord who lifts up the poor. He raises up the lowly from the dust; from the dunghill he lifts up the poor to seat them with princes, with the princes of his own people. R. Praise the Lord who lifts up the poor. A READING FROM THE FIRST LETTER OF PAUL TO TIMOTHY (1 TM 2:1-8) Beloved: First of all, I ask that supplications, prayers, petitions, and thanksgivings be offered for everyone, for kings and for all in authority, that we may lead a quiet and tranquil life in all devotion and dignity. This is good and pleasing to God our savior, who wills everyone to be saved and to come to knowledge of the truth. For there is one God. There is also one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as ransom for all. This was the testimony at the proper time. For this I was appointed preacher and apostle — I am speaking the truth, I am not lying —, teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth. It is my wish, then, that in every place the men should pray, lifting up holy hands, without anger or argument. A READING FROM THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO LUKE (LK 16:1-13) Jesus said to his disciples, “A rich man had a steward who was reported to him for squandering his property. He summoned him and said, ‘What is this I hear about you? Prepare a full account of your stewardship, because you can no longer be my steward.’ The steward said to himself, ‘What shall I do, now that my master is taking the position of steward away from me? I am not strong enough to dig And I am ashamed to beg. I know what I shall do so that, when I am removed from the stewardship, they may welcome me into their homes.’ He called in his master’s debtors one by one. To the first he said, ‘How much do you owe my master?’ He replied, ‘One hundred measures of olive oil.’ He said to him, ‘Here is your promissory note. Sit down and quickly write one for fifty.’ Then to another the steward said, ‘And you, how much do you owe?’

He replied, ‘One hundred kors of wheat.’ The steward said to him, ‘Here is your promissory note; write one for eighty.’ And the master commended that dishonest steward for acting prudently. “For the children of this world are more prudent in dealing with their own generation than are the children of light. I tell you, make friends for yourselves with dishonest wealth, so that when it fails, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings. The person who is trustworthy in very small matters is also trustworthy in great ones; and the person who is dishonest in very small matters is also dishonest in great ones. If, therefore, you are not trustworthy with dishonest wealth, who will trust you with true wealth? If you are not trustworthy with what belongs to another, who will give you what is yours? No servant can serve two masters. He will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and mammon.”

FATHER ANDREW GREELEY

If you don’t work at something it will leave the results in doubt We must remember that when Jesus is telling a parable it has only one point. The point in this parable is that corrupt officials are very shrewd in the way the steal money. Whereas we who are his followers are not all that shrewd about how agile we should be to respond to the overwhelming and forgiving love of God that Jesus has revealed to us. Once upon a time there was an eighth grader who was a great, great quarterback. Everyone said he’d be varsity in his sophomore year, he was go good. They even said that when he graduated from high school he might go to Notre Dame where they specialize in ruining potentially great quarterbacks. Well, the kid was really good, but he was also really lazy. Or maybe we should say he thought there were more important things to do with the summer than weight training and practice the first week in August.

And maybe he was right. He wanted to play football, you see, but he figured he was good enough that he could take the summer off and still play. So he didn’t show up the first week in August or any week in August. When school started, he finally wandered down to the football field and threw a few perfect passes. The team was enthused. Maybe he would be varsity as a freshman. But the coach saw him and chased him off the field. You didn’t come to Summer practice, the coach said, we don’t want you now. Maybe the coach was wrong, maybe there shouldn’t be August practice. BUT if you don’t want to work at something, no matter how good you are, you may be out of luck. Father Andrew Greeley is an author, journalist, sociologist and teacher.

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Bishop Ignatius Wang: (CNS PHOTO/REINHARD KRAUSE, REUTERS)

Reconciliation and forgiveness central messages of pope’s letter to Chinese (The text of the June 30 letter of Pope Benedict XVI to the “bishops, priests, consecrated persons and lay faithful of the Catholic Church in the People’s Republic of China” can be viewed on the Vatican Web site: www.vatican.va.)

By Bishop Ignatius Wang

Chinese bishops approve selection

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HONG KONG (CNS) — The governmentsanctioned Bishops’ Conference of the Catholic Church in China has approved Father Joseph Li Shan of the Beijing Diocese as bishop-elect of the diocese covering the country’s capital. Anthony Liu Bainian, vice chairman of the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association, told the Asian church news agency UCA News Sept. 12 that the conference recently had given its approval to the 42-year-old priest. A group of priests, nuns and laypeople of the Beijing Diocese elected Father Li bishop July 16, nearly three months after Bishop Michael Fu Tieshan of Beijing died April 20. Bishop-elect Li generally is recognized by all diocesan priests and laypeople for his spirituality, theological acumen and pastoral experience, Liu said, adding that the bishop-elect “shows consideration for his fellow priests and faithful.” According to the diocesan foreign affairs office, the episcopal ordination is tentatively scheduled for Sept. 21; however, the diocese has not yet confirmed the date. No word was immediately available to indicate if Bishop-elect Li had received the approval of the Holy See.

Anthony Liu Bainian, vice chairman of the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association, said China will continue to “self-elect and self-ordain” bishops. His comments in July came in reaction to Pope Benedict XVI’s June 30 letter to Catholics in mainland China.

Chinese bishop dies of cancer in detention HONG KONG (CNS) — Bishop John Han Dingxiang of Yongnian, in China’s Hebei province, died of lung cancer Sept. 9 while in detention by the Chinese government. He was 68. The bishop’s body reportedly was cremated six hours after he died. His ashes were interred at a public cemetery, several Catholic sources in China told UCA News. A Sept. 10 statement from the U.S.-based Cardinal Kung Foundation said Chinese authorities suddenly summoned Bishop Han’s close relatives, but not diocesan priests or lay leaders, to his bedside before his death. The bishop’s “last words before he drifted into a coma were to ask his (people) to

recite more rosaries,” the foundation’s statement said. Bishop Han was born in Hebei May 17, 1939. He entered the minor seminary in Beijing in 1952. After the minor seminary was closed in 1954, he continued studies with a spiritual director from the clandestine Catholic community. He was arrested in 1960 for “counterrevolutionary activities” and was sent to a labor farm. The Kung Foundation statement said the bishop was arrested for the last time Nov. 28, 1999, while conducting a religious retreat for nuns.

Catholics welcome ordination of bishop HONG KONG (CNS) — The ordination of Coadjutor Bishop Paul Xiao Zejiang of Guizhou, China, was seen as part of a smooth transition in the diocesan leadership. More than 3,000 Catholics attended the ordination of the 40-year-old priest Sept. 8 at the cathedral, or North Church,

Yuan Weijung, the wife of blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng, who is serving a four-year prison term after exposing forced abortions and sterilization in northern China in 2005, is checked by police as she leaves her home in Beijing Aug. 24. China prevented her from going to the Philippines to collect a human rights award on behalf of her husband.

in Guiyang, the capital of Guizhou province, reported UCA News. The ordination, with the approval of both the Holy See and the Chinese government, marked the first ordination of a bishop since Pope Benedict XVI issued his open letter to mainland Chinese Catholics June 30. As coadjutor, Bishop Xiao will automatically succeed 89-year-old Bishop Anicetus Wang Chongyi, who is still active, upon the elderly prelate’s death or retirement. “Isn’t it fun to know there is another Bishop Wang,” quipped San Francisco Archbishop Ignatius Wang on reading of Bishop Xiao’s succeeding Bishop Anicetus Wang Chongyi.

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Bishop-elect Joseph Li Shan

In recent decades, since the open policy reform in China, which had the effect of changing the “Bamboo Curtain” into an open market, significant financial progress has become noticeable. While there has been economic progress, there remains lagging a very necessary growth in spirituality. After the Cultural Revolution, during which all religions had been persecuted, religious activities began to resurface. China, still suffering hiccups from the foreign power invasions at the turn of the 20th century, was leery of any outside interference. The Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association was established, advocating self-governance, self-election and self-support. Consequently, ecclesiastical provinces of the Holy See were abolished and dioceses were realigned. Bishops were elected and ordained without the Holy Father’s approval. The “underground Church,” which vows obedience to the Holy Father, came into existence. This religious climate persists today, though in a much mitigated way. Occasionally we find members from both sides work together. Pope Benedict XVI’s recent letter to the bishops, priests, consecrated persons and lay faithful has already received much positive response from around the world, although I, personally, have not heard directly any comments from the Church and government in China. The letter is indeed the Charta Magna to guide the Church in China for many years to come. It is easy to read, and I would recommend that every Chinese person and those concerned about the Church in China study it. The Diocese of Hong Kong has printed the Chinese version in pocket size. Christianity in China has come a long way since the early influences of the Nestorians in the 6th century, the Franciscans in the 14th century and the Jesuits in the 16th century. The Holy Father in his letter shows his fond sentiments for the culture and noble people of China. As a theologian, he expands on the teaching of the Vatican Council, and as successor of St. Peter he explains the importance of unity. He exhorts that a church independent from the Holy See would in effect separate itself from the rest of the Catholic world, and he assures us of his prayer that the Chinese bishops’ conference will be a part of the universal bishops’ confraternity. It is ironic that for decades China has been sending abroad ecclesiastical students for advanced studies, including the study of Canon Law. The contradiction between the required adherence to the rulings of Canon Law and in the law’s application by the Catholic Church in China, which claims many independent areas from the Vatican, continues to surprise me. His Holiness points out the importance of re-establishing the ecclesiastical provinces for easier governance, and acknowledges that the realignment of diocesan boundaries can be necessary. He reiterates that the appointment of bishops by the Holy See is the only means to maintain unity, and that dialogue with local authorities can be beneficial. He further speaks about the management of temporal goods. In my travel to China, I try to visit needy dioceses. When I ask how I can help, often enough I am asked to write a check payable to the local bishop because the diocese itself is not recognized as an entity by the local banks and, as such, has no account. While I do not doubt the integrity of the bishop, this procedure is certainly not in conformance with our modus operandi. The most important part of the papal letter is the stress on the need for charity, which leads to forgiveness and reconciliation. I have mentioned the “underground Church”. Often, this is perceived as opposed to the “patriotic church.” These misnomers, as I call them, are often misleading. There is no patriotic church, as such; the name, in reality, applies to government-approved churches. More than likely, the “patriotic church” is under the surveillance of the Catholic Patriotic Association. By “underground Church” is meant a non-government registered church that acknowledges the Holy Father as its supreme leader. However, since it is not registered, it is not considered legal, and is therefore subject to harassment by government officials at any time. Interestingly, being underground does not mean that it is unknown. In fact, some of these churches not only have a visible building, but also a prominent cross on top and a belfry for call to worship. The Holy Father calls for reconciliation and forgiveness between these two groups, acknowledging the sufferings of the “underground” Church followers, as well as the suffering of those who, often enough, bear a conflicting burden of conscience to follow the officially approved churches. The present situation is not healthy for either China or for the universal Church. Together with the pope, we pray that direct dialogue may bring reconciliation and healing soon. (Bishop Ignatius Wang, auxiliary of the San Francisco Archdiocese, was the first bishop of Asian descent to be ordained a U.S. bishop. The native of Beijing is still the only U.S. bishop of Chinese ancestry.)

Chinese Bishop Benedict Cai Xiufeng of Wuzhou died Aug. 20 at the age of 90. Bishop Cai, who as a priest spent 20 years in a government labor camp, was ordained bishop of Wuzhou in 1993. Local clergy said that Bishop Cai led a simple and prayerful life full of religious fervor. Bishop Cai is seen in this 2005 photo.

Pope’s call for unity theme for Assumption XUANHUA, China (CNS) — Catholics in northern China, celebrating the feast of the Assumption of Mary, were reminded of the call for unity in Pope Benedict XVI’s letter to Chinese Catholics. In Hebei province’s Xuanhua Diocese, about 1,000 parishioners attended the 5 a.m. Mass Aug. 15 at Xiheying Church in Yuxian County, about 100 miles west of Beijing. “Today we celebrate the feast day of our Blessed Mother, the caretaker of our souls,” Father Xia Shaowu said in his homily. He highlighted Pope Benedict’s emphasis on one Church and unity.

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September 21, 2007

Bioethics . . . ■ Continued from cover Daughters of Charity Health System: “There are many people, scientists included, who have the same position the Catholic Church holds on embryos.” Catholic doctrine opposes any procedures that deny life to the unborn – procedures ranging from aborting a fetus to biomedical research that involves creating or destroying a human embryo for the therapeutic value of the cells at the earliest stage of the embryo’s development. The bioethics center maintains that from fertilization a new human being exists as a composite unity and is a growing individual who bears human rights. “The stem-cell issue has the same ramifications as abortion but at a much earlier stage,” said Vicki Evans, coordinator of the Respect Life program for the Archdiocese of San Francisco. “I think it’s the future of the pro-life movement.” Embryonic stem cells are capable of differentiating into any adult cells, making them potentially powerful therapies in countering such diseases as cancer, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. But Catholic teachers such as Father Pacholczyk argue that science need not obtain stem cells from human embryos because alternatives are available that promise the same disease-fighting potency. The alternatives mentioned include umbilical cord blood, genetically reprogrammed mouse skin cells and procedures that alter adult body cells to have some of the properties of human embryonic stem cells. Dr. William Hurlbut, a Stanford Medical School professor and a member of the President’s Council on Bioethics, is urging scientists to pursue alternatives because he is concerned that long-standing policy forbidding use of federal funds for the destruction of human embryos will be reversed after the next presidential election. “What’s at stake here is not a question of a particular project. It’s a principle,” he told Catholic San Francisco. In an interview with National Review Online, Hurlbut said an alternative called Altered Nuclear Transfer “would provide a technological way to answer the current ethical and legislative impasse over federal fund-

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ing of new human embryonic stem cell lines.” Dale Carlson, a spokesman for the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine, which was formed to support research under Prop 71, said it is too early in the research to rule out the possibility that cells with the therapeutic qualities of human embryonic stem cells may come from other sources. “Are there other places to find them? Maybe,” he said. Alta Charo, a University of Wisconsin law professor and member of the institute’s standards working group, said research is ongoing on many possible alternatives. The latest concerns adult stem cells from bone marrow. Charo countered the charge that scientists are focusing on human embryonic stem cells at the expense of alternatives and doing so without ethical reflection. “My experience is that they’re intensely attentive to both the political arguments and the ethical concerns but they don’t necessarily share the same moral vision as the Vatican,” she said. The research “actually forces Catholics to think ever more deeply about the logic behind their views on the sanctity of life,” she said. “I’m not saying Catholics have to change their minds or the Vatican is wrong. I’m saying each of the experiments forces us to reexamine to make more precise the reasoning that leads us to the conclusions we hold.” Charo said there is no technological breakthrough in view that will end the debate. “We do not have a techno-fix that gets us out of having to balance our duty to do everything to relieve patients’ suffering with our views about the moral status of the human condition,” she said. Jesuit Father Kevin Fitzgerald, the

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Point7Now! . . . ■ Continued from cover “It’s to confront, in a gentle way, all these legislators, with their constituents’ desire to have them raise the importance of a foreign-aid budget that starts moving toward .7 percent of the GNP.” “We’ll have testimony by lay people and clergy on the importance of this issue, and we’ll challenge them to commit to putting this at the top of their priority list,” Wesolek said. The conference also will serve to motivate local Catholics to work individually through their parishes on the Millennium Goals, said Deacon Gene Smith, executive director of the Seton Institute, a non-profit that raises money to support Catholic Sisters working in the world’s poorest countries. “This conference is an opportunity for all of us to roll up our sleeves and do something as far as being a voice for the poor,” he said. “It’s an opportunity to live our faith. Over a billion people live in absolute poverty – meaning existing on a dollar a day or less. Many of them don’t have clean water, adequate nutrition, basic health care.” “My greatest hope,” he said, “is that parishioners from all the parishes in the Archdiocese will attend, then go back home and do something about poverty in the world.” The Millennium Goals include eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, achieving universal primary education, promoting gender and racial equality, reducing child mortality and improving maternal health. The Point7Now! campaign, launched last year by the Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns of the Archdiocese, is collaborating with the National Catholic Campaign Against Global Poverty. The national campaign is a joint effort of Catholic Relief Services and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

The national campaign has made gains and the share of GNP that goes to fighting global poverty, although still a fraction of the goal, has grown by more than a third. Campaign leaders are encouraged by a new effort by the Bush Administration to increase funding for foreign aid with measures encouraging host nations to be more transparent and participatory in how they spend the money. The foreign aid budget for the 2008 fiscal year is in line to increase 10 percent over 2007, said Dr. Stephen Colecchi, director of the Office of International Justice and Peace for the bishops’ conference. On trade policy, the campaign’s key goal is to shift subsidies from agribusiness to small- and medium-sized farmers – a change campaign leaders argue would help small farmers in developing nations compete. So far, the leaders are frustrated with lawmakers’ response in the form of the 2007 Farm Bill. “Recently, the World Trade Organization found U.S. farm programs to be in violation of U.S. commitments not to unfairly distort trade,” according to a CRS update on the anti-poverty campaign. “So far, Congress’ efforts to craft the 2007 Farm Bill have ignored these findings and have supported the current status quo of inequitable farm policies that do not support struggling small- and mediumsized farms.” The campaign also is working on the Jubilee Act, a bill calling for responsible lending to foreign governments and expanded debt cancellation. Under the bill, introduced in June by Rep. Maxine Waters of south Los Angeles, all nations would enjoy debt relief provided they hold to stricter standards of accountability on aid money. “In all three of these areas, due to the leadership of the Catholic community and many others, we’ve had some amazing successes.” Colecchi said. For more information on the conference, call (415) 614-5572 or visit www.sflifeandjustice.org. The registration is $20.

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Martha Ruiz, wife of Deacon Juan Ruiz, dies August 31 A funeral Mass for Martha Ruiz, wife of Deacon Juan Ruiz, was celebrated Sept. 6 at Holy Angels Church in Colma. Mrs. Ruiz died Friday, Aug. 31, after suffering a fall and broken hip with serious complications. She and Deacon Ruiz had been married 43 years. “Though in frail health for some time, Martha always managed a warm smile and kind words to all she met,” said Deacon Leon Kortenkamp, director of the Permanent Diaconate Office of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Deacon Kortenkamp and Deacon Ruiz were both ordained in 1990. “Like many deacons’ wives, Martha often joined her husband in ministry,” Deacon Kortenkamp said, noting Mrs. Ruiz and her husband were known throughout the Archdiocese for an “excellent marriage preparation program for Spanish-speaking engaged couples” which they led at Holy Angels. “Please join the diaconate community of the Archdiocese as we keep Martha, Deacon Juan and their family in our prayers. We all will deeply miss her.” Father Manuel Estrada, principal celebrant and homilist at the Mass, made several references to Mrs. Ruiz’ strong faith and what an inspiration she was to all who knew her. Concelebrants included Holy Angels pastor, Father Manuel Curso. Members of the diaconate community were also present. Interment was at Skylawn Memorial Park in San Mateo. Condolences can be sent to Deacon Juan and the Ruiz Family, 368 Deanne Lane, Daly City, CA 94014.

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Book sees Germany as history’s ‘existential battleground’ “FIVE GERMANYS I HAVE KNOWN” by Fritz Stern. Farrar (Strauss and Giroux, 546 pp.,$15, paper)

By Father Basil DePinto In the years between 1870 and 1945 Germany was the focal point of western history. After its stunning victory over France in 1871 Germany was in turn crushed in 1918 and literally annihilated in 1945. After the Second World War Germany ceased to exist as a nation. Fritz Stern, for many years a professor at Columbia University tells the story through the lens of his personal experience. He was born in Germany in 1926 and came with his family to this country in 1938, barely escaping Hitler’s onslaught against the Jews. The five Germanys are the Weimar Republic, the Nazi years, the Federal Republic, Communist East Germany, and the reunited country of today. Stern’s childhood impressions are keen but since he was only seven when the Weimar Republic ended, it is the rest of the story that shows so clearly the author’s perception of

Germany as “the existential battleground” of history. His central concern is the one that has fascinated historians for decades: how did Germany, a European marvel of commerce and industry, the brilliant home of art and culture, a model of progress and modernity, descend into the barbarism of the Nazi period? A few easy answers surface at once: the vindictive reparations demanded by the Allies, especially France, crippled the nation’s power to recover from the losses of the Great War. Fatalism about the future induced a decadence of morals. Above all, communism threatened to overturn whatever order existed in the general political chaos. Hitler presented himself as the designated savior who would right all wrongs. Was there something about the German people that gave in all too easily to Hitler’s demagoguery, something native to the German character? One does not have to accept the racist fantasies of Daniel Goldhagen in his book “Hitler’s Willing

Executioners” to acknowledge that the nation was entranced by the Fuehrer’s call to national resurgence after the defeat of 1918. Stern alternates between a severe condemnation of his native country and sympathy and admiration for a thoroughly beaten nation which in a relatively short period was able to reconstitute itself not only economically, but politically, choosing a vigorously democratic way out the ruins of defeat. Most interesting for Americans, perhaps, is the subtle but pointed analogy which Stern suggests, without insisting on it, between Germany in the 1930s and this country today. After the victory in the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-71, Germany was immersed in a frenzy of nationalist feeling cultivated by Bismarck, the prime minister, whose ultraconservative rule denounced both socialists and politically organized Catholics. The cult of the strong leader focused on liberalism as the chief enemy of the nation. It was accompanied by a powerful dose of

pseudo-religious presence in the political sphere; the Protestant (Lutheran) church was not officially the state religion, but membership was an essential requirement for social advancement. Hence the Jewish Stern family were all baptized at birth, which ironically came to mean nothing once Hitler came to power. But Hitler continued, for a while, the close nexus between church and state. The ultimate ingredient in Germany’s acceptance of totalitarianism was the near universal conviction that a decisive leader was essential for the security of the nation. The curtailment of personal liberty was seen as a small price to pay for Germany’s place in the sun. Although Stern is a professional historian, he has chosen to lay all this out within the framework of a personal memoir, so that it becomes the vivid account of a living memory, and is all the more striking for it. As we read of something that happened a century ago we experience a shudder of recognition and the salutary warning to learn from history so that we are not condemned to repeat it.

Catholic Best-Sellers for October led by Pope Benedict XVI

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Here is the Catholic Best-Sellers List for October 2007, according to the Catholic Book Publishers Association.: HARDCOVER 1) “Jesus of Nazareth,” Pope Benedict XVI, Doubleday 2) ”A Jesuit Off-Broadway,” James Martin, Loyola Press 3) ”Celebration of Discipline: 25th Anniversary Edition,” Richard Foster, HarperOne 4) ”The Apostles,” Pope Benedict XVI, Our Sunday Visitor 5) ”Simply Christian,” N. T. Wright, HarperOne 6) “Catechism of the Catholic Church,” Doubleday; Our Sunday Visitor; and USCCB Publishing 7) “The Dream Manager,” Matthew Kelly, Beacon Publishing/Hyperion 8) “Mother Angelica’s Little Book of Life Lessons and Everyday Spirituality,” Raymond Arroyo, Doubleday 9) “Reasons to Believe,” Scott Hahn, Doubleday 10) “The Love that Satisfies,” Christopher West, Ascension Press PAPERBACK 1) “Mere Christianity,” C. S. Lewis, HarperOne 2) “Catechism of the Catholic Church,” Doubleday;Our Sunday Visitor; and USCCB Publishing 3) “United States Catholic Catechism for Adults,”

Angela Alioto is “miked” by a CBS Channel 5 technician during a recent taping of the half-hour program “Mosaic” which will air Sept. 30 at 5 a.m. Alioto, a leader of the Renaissance Project at the National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi in San Francisco, and Father Robert P. Cipriano, its rector, discuss the shrine renovation efforts and current programs of the internationally acclaimed site with “Mosaic” host Tom Burke. Alioto, a San Francisco attorney, is former president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

USCCB Publishing 4) “The Screwtape Letters,”C. S. Lewis, HarperOne 5) “Handbook for Today’s Catholic,” a Redemptorist pastoral publication, Liguori Publications 6) “The Great Divorce,” C. S. Lewis, HarperOne 7) “Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church: Libreria Editrice Vaticana,” USCCB 8) “RB 1980: The Rule of St. Benedict,” Liturgical Press 9) “The Complete C.S. Lewis Signature Classics,” C. S. Lewis, HarperOne 10) “This Is Our Faith,” Michael Pennock, Ave Maria Press CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE 1) “The Catholic Faith Handbook for Youth,” Brian Singer-Towns, St. Mary’s Press 2) “Welcome Children!” Jean Buell, Pflaum Publishing

3) “Tear Soup: A Recipe for Healing After Loss,” Schwiebert & DeKlyen, ACTA/Grief Watch 4) “Handbook for Today’s Catholic Teen,” Jim Auer, Liguori Publications 5) “FAQs About Confirmation,” Christina Bigatel Durback, Pflaum Publishing Group 6) “Making Things Right” (revised), Jeannine Timko Leichner, Our Sunday Visitor 7) “The First Christmas Coloring & Activity Book,” Halpin & Richards, Pauline Books & Media 8) “Prove It! You,” Amy Welborn, Our Sunday Visitor 9) “My First Missal” (revised), Maria Grace Dateno, Pauline Books & Media 10) “The True Story of Santa Claus,” Paul Prokop, Pauline Books & Media

September 21, 2007

Back to School UCSF is offering a drop-in immunization clinic in the Mission District to give children the vaccines they need to start school. Parents are encouraged to bring their children if they have not yet received their shots. UCSF Valencia Health Services is open four days a week, year round – Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday. Hours are 8:30 – 9:30 a.m. and 3:30 – 4:30 p.m. The clinic accepts most insurance plans and immunizes uninsured children at no cost. Valencia Health Services, 1647 Valencia St. (between Cesar Chavez/Army and Mission) in San Francisco. For more information, call (415) 647-3666. Sept. 27: Stroke and osteoporosis screenings will be offered beginning at 9 a.m. at St. Dominic Church, 2390 Bush St., San Francisco. Cost is $139. Appointments are required. Call (800) 6979721 or (800) 697-9721, or visit www.lifelinescreening.com. Sept. 30, 1 – 4 p.m.: Denise Roy, LMFT, M.Div leads a workshop at Mercy Center, 2350 Adeline Dr. in Burlingame. Tickets are $25. A mother of five, the author’s new book is titled “Momfulness: Mothering with Mindfulness.” For information visit www.mercy-center.org or (650) 340-7474. Oct. 4: Notre Dame de Namur University will offer a forum on its evening degree completion program at 6:30 p.m. in Ralston Hall Mansion, 1500 Ralston Ave., Belmont. For information on the free event, call (650) 508-3600. A 6 p.m. campus tour will precede the forum.

National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi Vallejo at Columbus St. in the City’s Historic North Beach. Visit www.shrinerenewal.org or call (415) 983-0405 In anticipation of St. Francis feast day – Oct. 4 – Dominican Father Anthony Rosevear will lead the Transitus Oct. 3 at the Shrine at 7 p.m. This prayerful rite commends St. Francis to heaven and was prayed by his brother friars at the time of his death. Oct. 4: The Feast of St. Francis of Assisi: A solo harp concert will be presented at 11:30 a.m. featuring Dominique Piana and at 12: 15 p.m. a Gregorian Chant Mass will be celebrated by San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop Ignatius Wang and sung by the Shrine Schola.

La Madonna Del Lume Celebration These events have to do with the annual blessing of the fishing fleet at Fisherman’s Wharf. Call (415) 749-0250 for more information. Sept. 29: Memorial Mass at Fisherman’s and Seaman’s Chapel at Fisherman’s Wharf behind Pier 45 at 10 a.m. Sept. 30: Mass at 11:30 a.m. at Sts. Peter and Paul Church on Washington Square with refreshments after in church cafeteria. At 1:45 p.m. a parade to the blessing of the fleet begins in front of the church. Later, a family dinner will be held at San Francisco Italian Athletic Club, 1630 Stockton St. between Union and Filbert in San Francisco. Tickets are $45 for adults/$20 for children 3 – 12 years old. For information, call Jeanne Pellegrini at (415) 846-7896.

St. Mary’s Medical Center, San Francisco Celebrating 150 years of service in 2007. Visit www.stmarysmedicalcenter.org. Sept. 29, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.: Free screenings for Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD). The condition can lead to amputation, heart attack, stroke and even death. Symptoms include cramps, tiredness or pain in the legs, foot or toe pain at rest, foot or toe wounds that will not heal. Registration is required. Call (800) 444-2303 or visit www.KnowYourABIQ.com. Takes place in St. Mary’s Cardiac Cath Lab, 450 Stanyan St. Level C. Oct. 6, 10:30 a.m.: Healthy Heart Lecture and Health Screening in hospital’s Morrissey Hall, 2250 Hayes St. Ground Floor, Level C. Registration is required. Call (800) 444-2303.

Datebook Oct. 4 -7: First Annual Cathedral Festival of Flowers. Oct. 4: Festival opens 9 a.m. with Mass at 12:10 p.m. and viewing until 7 p.m. Oct. 5: Festival available from 9 a.m. with Mass at 12:10 p.m. and touring until 7 p.m. Oct. 6: Festival opens at 9 a.m. with Masses at 12:10 and 5:30 p.m. and viewing until 7 p.m. Oct. 7: Day begins with Mass at 7:30 a.m. and subsequent liturgies at 9 a.m., 11 a.m., 1 p.m. and a Festival Concert at 3:30 p.m. Touring closes at 5 p.m. Cathedral docents will be available for information. Oct. 11: All members of the Archdiocese of San Francisco are invited to a Month-of-Mary Pilgrimage of the shrines of St. Mary Cathedral. The prayerful and educational evening begins at 7 p.m. No pre-registration necessary. Oct. 27: A day-long, follow-up Point7Now Conference to which several Bay Area legislators have been invited, including Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, and Representatives Tom Lantos, Anna Eshoo and Lynn Woolsey. Workshops and presentations will focus on global poverty. The Web site is www.sflifeandjustice.org. For information, contact the Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns at publicpolicy@sfarchdiocese.org or (415) 614-5567. Cost is $20. Nov. 29: A Mass for young adults, ages 18-35, will be celebrated at 7 p.m,; Archbishop George H. Niederauer will preside and deliver the homily. Coordinated by the Young Adult Ministry Office, the Mass will be followed by a reception. The Young Adult Ministry Web site is www.sfyam.org.

Serra Club Sept. 27: Regular luncheon meeting of Serra Club of San Francisco at Italian American Social Club, 25 Russia St. in San Francisco at noon. Guest speaker is Jesuit Father Cameron Ayres, pastor, St. Agnes Parish in San Francisco who will speak on Pope Benedict XVI’s statement regarding salvation and the Catholic Church. Tickets at $15 and include lunch. Friends and non-members welcome. Call Paul Crudo at (415) 566-8224. Oct. 10: Sisters and Brothers Appreciation Dinner, 6 p.m., at El Patio Espanol, 2850 Alemany Blvd. in San Francisco. Religious Sisters and Brothers are invited guests; tickets for others are $30. Contributions toward the cost of the evening are welcome. Contact Vivian Mullaney at (415) 239-8280 or vivianmullaney@yahoo.com. Response by Oct. 3 requested.

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.

Food & Fun Sept. 21, 22, 23: Journey through the Years, annual St. Robert Parish festival, Crystal Springs Rd. at Oak in San Bruno. Entertainment, food, games, rides for the kids plus raffles, prizes and bingo. Call (650) 589-2800. Sept. 28, 29, 30: St. Philip Parish Annual Festival festivities start with parish dinner Friday at 6 p.m. Followed by games, activities and free entertainment on Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Teen dance Saturday at 7 p.m. Located at 24th and Diamond St. in Noe Valley; details at www.stphilipfestival.org or call (415) 824-8467. Sept. 29: Annual festival benefiting Holy Angels Parish in Colma from 10 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. Enjoy entertainment, food from around the world, and games for young and old. Admission free. Contact virginiasimon@msn.com for more information. Sept. 30: International Food Festival, 11 a.m., at St. Thomas More Elementary School, 50 Thomas More Way in San Francisco. Enjoy authentic ethnic foods. Visit www.STMchurch.com for more information. Oct. 6: Golf tournament benefiting Immaculate Heart of Mary Elementary School at Crystal Springs Golf Course. Scramble format at 9:30 a.m. with awards dinner after match. Call (650) 592-7714. Oct. 6: Pregnancy Resource Center of Marin and St. Anselm’s Reverence for Life Program will host a fundraising dinner for Novato’s Pregnancy Resource Center, 5 - 9:30 p.m. at St. Sebastian Parish Hall in Greenbrae. Robin Strom, executive director of Pregnancy Resource Center, will be the keynote speaker. Proceeds benefit the Pregnancy Resource Center. Event includes dinner, entertainment, no-host bar and a fine wine raffle. Tickets are $50. Call (415) 892-0558 or email robin@prcmarin.org. Oct. 6, 7, 10 a.m. – 7 p.m.: Columbus Day Bazaar benefiting Sts. Peter and Paul Elementary on Washington Square in San Francisco. Enjoy games, food and entertainment. Call (415) 421-0809 or visit www.stspeterpaul.sanfrancisco.ca.us.

Trappist Father Thomas Keating, the internationall y - k n o w n Cistercian monk famed for his teaching and promulgation of contemplative prayer in everyday life, has scheduled two appearances in the Archdiocese in November. He will speak on “Healing the World One Person at a Time” on Nov. 3 during a 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. event at St. Hilary Church, 761 Hilary Dr., Tiburon. He will take part in “An Invitation to Interspiritual Dialogue and Healing of the Human Family” on Nov. 4 from 1:30-4:30 p.m. at Mercy High School auditorium, 3250 19th Ave., San Francisco. Pre-registration is “highly recommended” by the sponsoring organization, Contemplative Outreach of San Francisco and Marin Counties. Cost for the Nov. 3 event is $35 in advance, $40 at door and includes lunch. Cost for Nov. 4 is $25in advance, $30 at door. Visit www. contemplativeoutreach.org or e-mail mary.wyman@yahoo.com.

of teaching/updating the entire parish community in the Catholic faith – Whole Community Catechesis. Our Lady of Angels, St. Matthew, St. Mark, St. Gregory parishes co-sponsor the evening. Call (650) 347-0701, ext. 18 for more information. Sept. 28: San Francisco Archbishop George Niederauer will lecture at noon on author Flannery O’Connor’s vision of faith, Church and modern consciousness at the University of San Francisco’s Fromm Hall, located behind St. Ignatius Church. No cost. Parking is available at the Koret Center (corner of Turk and Parker). For more information, visit www.usfca.edu/lanecenter or call (415) 422-5200. Oct. 23: Cardinal Godfried Danneels, archbishop of Brussels-Mechelen, will speak on “Catholic Evangelization and Populorum Progressio” at 5:30 p.m. at St. Rita Parish, 100 Marinda Dr., Fairfax. For information, e-mail nkostelic@sbcglobal.net.

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Catholic Charismatic Renewal Sept. 28, 29, 30: Holy Spirit Conference beginning with an opening Mass at 7 p.m. at Archbishop Riordan High School, 175 Phelan Ave. across from San Francisco City College. Event continues Saturday and Sunday at Riordan with registration each day at 8 a.m. and a closing Mass Sunday at 3 p.m. Speakers include Father James Tarantino, pastor, St. Hilary Parish in Tiburon, and Father Raymund Reyes, pastor, St. Anne of the Sunset Parish in San Francisco as well as retired San Francisco priest Father David Pettingill. Cost is $20 per day or $30 for all days. Call Ernie von Emster at (650) 906-3451 or Mario Vierneza at (415) 3508677.

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Sept. 24, 7:30 p.m.: Living Your Faith: Making Each Day Count, by Bill Huebsch, at St. Bartholomew Church, 300 Alameda de las Pulgas at Crystal Springs in San Mateo. The presenter is known for his work in modeling methods of teaching/updating the entire parish community in the Catholic faith – Whole Community Catechesis. Our Lady of Angels,St. Matthew, St. Mark, St. Gregory parishes co-sponsor the evening. Call (650) 347-0701, ext. 18 for more information.

Sept. 29: Annual St. Brigid High School reunion at Presidio Golf Club with cocktails at 11:15 a.m. and lunch at noon. Tickets are $40. Make check payable to Sister Maleada Strange and mail to her at 11-A, 255 Coggins Dr., Pleasant Hill, 94523. Sister Maleada can also be reached at (925) 932-6613. Oct. 6: All-Class Reunion of alumnae and former students and friends of St. Rose Academy. “Yes, we still have reunions, even without a building,” said Marci Hooper, class of ’66. “We continue to gather.” The Web site, which includes an invitation and printable reservation response is: http://stroseacademy.org/. Reservations by Sept. 23 requested. Oct. 6: Class of ’52, reunion lunch, Presentation High School, San Francisco at Sinbad’s Restaurant on Fisherman’s Wharf. Contact Lorraine Denegri D’Elia at (650) 9922076; Barbara Casey Zanette at (650) 871-9585 or Marilyn Emilio Adair at (415) 584-0798. Oct. 6: Class of ’57 from Holy Name of Jesus Elementary. Contact Joan McCormack at phone.joan@sbcglobal .net or call (415) 2212684. Oct. 6: Class of ‘72, Notre Dame High School, Belmont. Contact Notre Dame Alumnae Office (650) 595 1913, ext.191 or Gail Jackson at gjackson@ndhsb.org. Oct. 6: Class of ‘77, Mercy High School, San Francisco at Mercy High’s Rist Hall. Contact Barbara Bardelli Rindge at (408) 313-9358 or brindge@comcast.net or Rosemarie Paredes Muzio at (650) 888-8654 or rosemarie58@sbcglobal.net.

Thursday evenings at 7:30 p.m.: “The Letters of Saint Paul,” a biblical study course with Father David Anderson, a regular presenter in past classes of the School of Pastoral Leadership/Catholic Studies Institute and pastor of St. Peter Church in Ukiah, will take place at Marin Catholic High School, Sir Francis Drake Blvd. and Bon Air Rd. in Greenbrae. For more information, contact haeuser@ sbcglobal.net or check www.leblogdelabergerie.com/SaintPaul.htm Sept. 24, 7:30 p.m.: “Living Your Faith: Making Each Day Count,” by Bill Huebsch, at St. Bartholomew Church, 300 Alameda de las Pulgas at Crystal Springs in San Mateo. The presenter is known for his work in modeling methods

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Pauline Books and Media Daughters of St. Paul Sept. 21-22: The Daughters of St. Paul will have a booth at the Faith Formation Conference at the Santa Clara Convention Ctr., 5001 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara. Sept. 27: Share an evening of musical inspiration with the Daughters of St. Paul at 7 p.m. Guest speakers will include Sister Bridget Ellis and Sister Donna Giaimo, who will give a “behind the scenes” glimpse of the Sisters’ music ministry. Samples from the latest album and advance copies of the Sisters’ new Christmas CD, “Season of Hope,” will be available. For more information call (650) 369-4230 or visit Pauline Books & Media, 2640 Broadway, Redwood City. Sept. 29-30: A display will be provided at the Catholic Charismatic Conference to be held at Archbishop Riordan High School, 175 Phelan Ave., San Francisco.

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Sept. 28: Famed cabaret artist, Wesla Whitfield, in concert with her husband, Michael Greensill on piano, at Notre Dame de Namur University’s Ralston Hall Mansion Ballroom at 8 p.m. Tickets are $25. Call (650) 508-3515 or e-mail jgiannini@ndnu.edu. Sept. 28: Famed cabaret artist, Wesla Whitfield, in concert with her husband, Michael Greensill, on piano, at Notre Dame de Namur University’s Ralston Hall Mansion Ballroom at 8

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Kentfield labyrinth to be sign of welcome By Tom Burke Stimulated during Lent and executed with the cooperation of parishioners of St. Sebastian Parish in Kentfield is a newly drawn labyrinth directly in front of the church. “The children of the parish inspired it,” said Father Kenneth Westray, pastor. “They drew a labyrinth in chalk in front of the church during Lent and after Easter and some consideration we decided to do it in paint. The parishioners deserve all the credit. I had nothing to with it.” Father Westray joked that the color of the paint “matches the trim of the church so it doesn’t stand out.”

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September 21, 2007

In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of August Daniel Patrick Murphy Emil Ferrera Amelia Sunga HOLY CROSS Agnes M. O’Connor John Ward Flaherty John R. Symkowick Sheila A. O’Connor Edward Augustus Flynn Helen T. Tealdi COLMA Margaret Ritchie O’Grady Adeline M. Francisco Corazon G. Teodoro Manuel J. Aburto Barry Richard Adan Josiah Antonio Alvarado Matilde Aramendia Cindi L. Bacoka Clara Ballestrasse Diane F. Barberini Carmen Barcenas-Garcia Marilyn Belloni Angel L. Bernardino Ursula A. Bernhart Beatrice M. Beveridge Joseph P. Borg II Edward J. Bragg Marion M. Bragg Patricia J. Brockmeyer Adam John Bullis Daniel Bustos Carol M. Butler Lillian M. Caballero Doris K. Cahalan Edgar E. Callo Rita M. Canale Angelina Carson Jesse Michael Castellanos Ines Cayton Agata Cefalu Mary R. Cirelli Theresa Marie Cloherty Patricia Codemo Catharine Mary Colling Barbara K. Costello Rose Cristofani Giuseppe Antonino D’Amato Muriel A. Dailey Florence M. Dal Negro Ethel Delafose Sr. Carmen Diaz Lorette Y. Domergue Milly I. Donohue Margaret Duff Roger Kent (G.P.) Easley Esther I. Eccher Joyce E. Erlwin Alberto V. Esteva

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HOLY CROSS MENLO PARK Joe Ines Aguirre Lucy Carriere Alefeleti Mataele Piu Fineasi Edwina Breen Kump Dr. William G. Walker, Jr.

MT. OLIVET SAN RAFAEL Frances Cloney Casey Rose Andre Cornelius William D. Griffin Russell Edward Lessig Justine Marie Matteucci Marie A. Oliver Richard J. Schneider, M.D. William J. Shank Joyce Taffi

HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY, COLMA 1st Saturday Mass – Saturday, October 6, 2007 – 11:00 a.m. All Saints Mausoleum Chapel – Rev. L. Joseph Landi, Celebrant – St. Cecilia’s Parish

TODOS LOS SANTOS – All Saints’ Day Celebration Saturday, October 27, 2007 – 11:00 a.m. – All Saints Mausoleum Chapel Refreshments following the Mass

All Souls’ Day Mass – Friday, November 2, 2007 – 11:00 a.m. All Saints Mausoleum Chapel – Rev. Joseph Bradley, Celebrant – St. Gregory Parish

Veterans’ Day Service – Monday, November 12, 2007 – 11:00 a.m. Outdoor Service – NO MASS – Star of the Sea Veteran’s Section

The Catholic Cemeteries Archdiocese of San Francisco www.holycrosscemeteries.com 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.