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During his Sept. 16-19 apostolic journey to the United Kingdom, Pope Benedict XVI expressed his pain over the abuse crisis as he assured young people that Jesus is their greatest hope and friend. He attacked secularism’s rise and called for a return to reason and faith in balance. The pope drew larger-than-expected crowds with, as one British commentator put it, “a shyness that attracts.” Above, suburban London school children awaiting the pope’s arrival; the pope serving Communion to a young man at Mass at Westminster Cathedral, where he confessed his “deep sorrow” to abuse victims.
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Pope: faith’s public voice at risk; “dictatorship of relativism” looms By John Thavis LONDON (CNS) – Christianity risks being sidelined in the West and the “voice of religion” must be heard in the public square, Pope Benedict XVI warned British cultural and political leaders. The pope’s speech Sept. 17 laid out his vision of how belief can influence politics and save the principles needed for true democracy. Religion, he said, is “not a problem for legislators to solve, but a vital contributor to the national conversation.” The pontiff addressed some 2,000 leaders in politics, business, the arts and diplomacy in Westminster Hall, a site rich in church-state history. State trumpeters greeted him with a fanfare. An ovation filled the hall as the red-caped Pope took the podium for his nationally televised speech. Westminster Hall, he recalled, was where St. Thomas More, the 16th-century English scholar and statesman, was sentenced to die for opposing King Henry VIII’s break with Rome. He said the saint’s trial underscored a perennial question about how much governments can impose upon citizens and their religious beliefs. Modern democracies, he said, face the challenge of making sure that fundamental moral principles are not determined by mere social consensus.
The pope said the church teaches that the ethical basis for political choices can be found through reason; the church does not dictate these norms as religious truths, but it does promote them in a “corrective” role, he said. This contribution of religion is not always accepted, he said, in part because “distortions of religion” like fundamentalism are seen as creating serious social problems. But he said reason, too, can fall prey to distortions, as when it is manipulated by ideology. In short, he said, the world of reason and faith need each other, and their relationship is a “two-way process.” The pope warned about what he called “the increasing marginalization of religion, particularly of Christianity,” which he said is occurring even in countries that have a reputation for tolerance. He said there are some who argue, for example, that Christmas should not be publicly celebrated because it might somehow offend those of other religions or of no religion. He also complained of a failure to appreciate freedom of conscience and the legitimate role of religion in public debate. Some, he said, openly advocate that “the voice of religion be silenced, or at least relegated to the purely private sphere.” On the contrary, religion and politics need to be in dialogue, he said, and one step in that direction was the “unprecedented invitation extended to me today.” DICTATORSHIP OF RELATIVISM, page 12
“A shock for me, a great sadness” Revelations of priestly abuse “have been a shock for me, not only a great sadness,” Pope Benedict XVI told journalists on Sept. 16 while airborne for his apostolic journey to the United Kingdom. “It is difficult to understand how this perversion of the priestly ministry was possible,” he said. The Holy Father, who later in the journey addressed the abuse issue at a public Mass in London and met separately with a victims’ group and the Church’s child protection officers, continued in his response to journalists: “The priest at the time of ordination, after having prepared for this moment for years, says yes to Christ, to be his voice, his mouth, his hands and serve Him with his whole life, so that the Good Shepherd who loves and helps and guides to the truth is present in the world. “How a man who has done this and said this may also fall into this perversion is difficult to understand. It is a great sadness, a sadness that even the authority of the Church has not been sufficiently vigilant and not fast or decided enough in taking the necessary measures. “Because of all of this,” the Holy Father said, “we are in a time of repentance, humility and renewed sincerity.” In his homily at a public Mass Sept. 18 at London’s Westminster Cathedral, the 83-year-old pontiff expressed “my deep sorrow to the innocent victims of these unspeakable crimes, along with my hope that the power of Christ’s grace, his sacrifice of reconciliation, will bring deep healing and peace to their lives.” He acknowledged the “shame and humiliation which all of us have suffered” and invited the audience to trust in the power of Christ’s chastisement to heal the victims, purify the Church and renew the Church’s age-old commitment to the education and care of young people. The Holy Father met with a group of abuse victims the same day. “He was moved by what GREAT SADNESS, page 12
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Happy anniversary August 7 to Josephine and Giorgio Vecchiola, who took their vows 50 years ago in Sts. Peter and Paul Church in San Francisco with Salesian Father Armand Oliveri presiding. Father Armand, who himself is celebrating 70 years as a Salesian in 2010, also witnessed By Tom Burke the marriage of Josephine and Giorgio’s daughter, Jeanne, and husband, John Asdourian, 25 Please let me years later. “My mother was begin with an “oops” well-known in North Beach as and a “sorry” to she worked for the Lucchesi the St. Vincent de Brothers at their delicatesPaul Society of San sen/market,” Jeanne told me. Francisco. Their “My father was the co-owner B re n n a n Aw a r d of Monza Motors on Post Civic Luncheon will Street.” Family and friends be held October 6 at commemorated the milestone in the San Francisco July also celebrating Jeanne and St. Matt’s eighth graders Sophie La Herran, Patrick O’Regan and Marriott Marquis, John’s half-of-fifty anniversary Arden Cravalho with SPCA representative, Elizabeth Van Note. 55 Fourth Street. and their daughter Adriana’s Age and/or haste led graduation from Santa Clara me to list another and University. “We have a lot to celebrate,” Jeanne said…. from famed Admiral Chester Nimitz. “His great heroics incorrect site earlier. Congratulations and thank you to Notre Dame Sister are just an example of how he lived his life,” the family The event begins at Kathryn Camacho who is celebrating 25 years as a reli- said in an obituary…. This is an empty space without 11a.m. with a silent gious. Born and raised in Sacramento, Sister Kathy’s first you. E-mail items and electronic pictures – jpegs at no less auction and reception, career took her to Weinstocks Department Store, but feeling than 300 dpi – to burket@sfarchdiocese.org or mail them Sister Kathryn Camacho, followed by lunch and a strong call to religious life, she became a Sister of Notre to Street, One Peter Yorke Way, SF 94109. Don’t forget SNDdeN the awards presenta- Dame. After serving in parish ministry in Sacramento and to add a follow-up phone number. Thank you. My phone tion at noon. The luncheon honors two very special people as development director for Mission Dolores School in San number is (415) 614-5634. and also raises money for SVDP’s very special work. For Francisco, Sister Kathy served as principal of St. Paul of information or to purchase tickets, please call (415) 977-1270 the Shipwreck School in San Francisco. She also served x3079 or visit www.svdp-sf.org/brennanaward.....Mighty as the founding principal of Cristo Rey High School in thoughtful are Sophie La Herran, Arden Cravalho and Sacramento. Today, Sister Kathy works with college stuPatrick O’Regan, all eighth graders at St. Matthew School dents at the Newman Catholic in San Mateo. The trio invited Community in Sacramento friends and family to a collecand serves as National tive birthday party at the beach Formation Minister for the and all guests were asked to not Sisters of Notre Dame….Tony bring gifts for the honorees but, Rouse, chief financial officer instead, make a small donation for SVDP of San Mateo to Peninsula Humane Society. County, leads an “all hats “Thanks to a generous eighth off” for his dad, Francis Clare grade class, Sophie, Arden and Rouse, who died September 3 Patrick presented the SPCA at age 89. Tony and his nine with an envelope containing siblings, truly loved the man over $800,” Sophie’s mom, they called “a proud 60-year Nicki, told me in a note to this resident of East Palo Alto.” column. “We already have a lot Francis was also a founding of stuff,” Sophie said, speaking member of East Palo Alto’s for the three wise youth. “This St. Francis of Assisi Parish Giorgio and Josephine Vecchiola will really help animals without from where he was buried. a home.” The party was in Half Francis was a retired Chief Moon Bay. Proud folks are Will and Nicki La Herran, Greg Quartermaster in the Navy and fought in WWII’s Battle and Carla Cravalho and Kevin and Mary O’Regan…. of Midway later receiving a personal citation for his bravery Father Armand Oliveri, SDB
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By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) – What do Renaissance masters have to teach today’s women about feminine beauty? One Vatican official thinks quite a bit. U.S. Father Mark Haydu, international director of the Vatican Museums’ Patrons of the Arts office, has invited mothers and daughters to attend a special pilgrimage to Italy. He will open the doors to the museums’ artistic treasures and “provide the beauty of the arts,” he said, in an effort to reveal the Christian vision of femininity and how it has been depicted in paintings, frescoes, and statuary over the centuries. Talks and discussions will be led by art historian Elizabeth Lev; U.S. radio host Teresa Tomeo of Ave Maria Radio; and Brenda Sharman, national director of Pure Fashion – an apostolate run by Regnum Christi members that encourages young women to live and dress with a Christian sense of dignity. Titled “Feminine Beauty in the Arts,” the eight-day pilgrimage will journey to Rome, Siena and Nettuno Dec. 27-Jan. 3. Father Haydu, a member of the Legionaries of Christ, told Catholic News Service that he came up with the idea because he wanted to help families have a deeper conversation about what makes a woman beautiful. Female beauty is not revealed by skimpy, faddish fashions, but by an inner quality and “the way you carry yourself,” he said. He said conversations between mothers and daughters about what is appropriate to wear in public may sometimes take place “in a heated moment” in front of a clothes rack at a mall or after the fact when a teen comes home with her purchases. Father Haydu said he wanted to give mothers and daughters a chance to fix or pre-empt these problems by “creating a nice
atmosphere” to discuss what real beauty is and how best to emulate it. Lev, a professor of art history at the Rome campuses of Duquesne University and the University of St. Thomas, told CNS that women’s unique quality of feminine genius “has been depicted in Christian art for 2,000 years.” In early Christian art, she said, women were often adorned with heavy cloaks or clothed like a queen “because we want to see them in a spiritual sense, not a physical sense,” and send the message, “Love me for my soul, not my body.” With the Renaissance, Lev said, women in art are no longer shapeless forms; they become soft and beautiful “like 1940s movie stars, reclining and languid, exuding an atmosphere of delight and delectation.” She said the change reflected “the natural recognition of the humanity of Christ,” which meant paying greater attention to the nurturing body of Mary, who bore the son of God. “Then along comes Michelangelo’s startling and unconventional depiction of women in the Sistine Chapel,” she said. In a style that lasted well until the 17thcentury, Michelangelo turned women into heroes who command space and presence; they stand next to men and show they have an equally critical role to play in salvation, said Lev. No more are women just reclining, passive figures who are just a showcase for jewelry and clothes, much like models in many fashion magazines today, she said. The women in Michelangelo’s world come in all shapes and sizes, young and old, she said. “They’re all strong: strong in faith, strong in who they are and their vocation. That’s what beautiful is in Michelangelo’s world,” Lev said. The pilgrimage’s tentative itinerary includes a general audience with the pope at the Vatican and a private visit to the FEMININE BEAUTY, page 6
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Priests’ group seeks “primacy of conscience” DUBLIN – The inaugural meeting of a new association to represent the views of Irish priests drew six times more participants than organizers expected, Catholic News Service reported. More than 300 priests attended the first meeting of the Association of Catholic Priests in Port Laoise Sept. 15. Organizers had expected only 60 priests to attend. Father Brendan Hoban, an association founder, said the group does not seek to represent all priests, only those who agree to its program. “The association hopes to speak to the members of the Vatican’s apostolic visitation to Ireland to voice our opposition to the new English-language translation of the Mass,” Father Hoban said. “We believe the new translation ... is over-complicated and over-Latinized. There has been very little consultation about it, but nobody seems to want it – it’s another example of the church trying to fix things that don’t need to be fixed and not fixing the things that need fixing.” The association said it would work for “full implementation of the vision and teaching of the Second Vatican Council,” particularly the primacy of individual conscience, the status and active participation of all baptized people and establishing a church where all believers will be treated as equal; restructuring the church’s governing system to encourage consultation and transparency, particularly in the appointment of church leaders.
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Son picks rosary over ‘soccer stuff’ during fire BOULDER, Colo. – When police and firefighters showed up on Michelle Murphy-Pauletto’s doorstep and advised her to run with her family from a wildfire threatening their canyon home, she and her husband made one last request of their three children after most of the rushed packing was done. “We told each of them, ‘Go get what’s special to you,” Murphy-Pauletto said. “I have to tell you, my nine-year-old grabbed his rosary and forgot his soccer stuff.” “That ...,” said Murphy-Pauletto, trailing off as she was moved to tears, “that really was the clarifying moment of what is so important in life. He forgot his soccer stuff ... and remembered his rosary. It was very sweet.” The gesture by her son, Ben, she said, helped her to refocus spiritually in a time of uncertainty.
Vatican II’s “elusive” impact NEW YORK – Was Vatican II revolutionary or, by contrast, moderately reformist? Scholars and theologians are still asking that question nearly 50 years after the council set in motion widespread changes in the Church, said speakers at a Fordham University forum on “Searching for Vatican II: Why a Transformative Moment Remains so Elusive.” Some people understand the phrase “Vatican II” as only the 16 documents produced by the council, said Father Joseph A. Komonchak, a New York archdiocesan priest and co-editor of the English language edition of the five-volume “History of Vatican II.” Others use it to refer to what occurred in Rome and throughout the Church from Jan. 25, 1959, when Pope John XXIII announced his intention to convoke a council, until Dec. 8, 1965, when Pope Paul VI brought it to a solemn close after four sessions. Father Komonchak said there are three competing interpretations of the council’s historic significance. The progressive and the traditionalist “draw a sharp contrast between the church as it was before Vatican II and the church as it was after it,”with the traditionalist favoring the earlier time and both interpretations focusing on breaks and discontinuities. The council participants “did not intend revolutionary breaks in the church’s life but rather reform and renewal in the light of, and continuous with, its broad and deep tradition, Father Komanchak said.
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“This is the true ‘spirit of Vatican II,’” he said, and Pope Benedict XVI has been the chief voice of the reformists for 25 years.
Vatican bank head named in money-laundering probe VATICAN CITY – The president of the Vatican bank, Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, has been placed under investigation by Italian magistrates in a money-laundering probe, the Italian state television RAI reported. RAI, citing judicial sources, said the move followed the seizure Sept. 20 by Italian treasury police of 23 million euros (US$26.3 million) that had been deposited in a Rome bank account by the Vatican bank. The Vatican expressed “bewilderment and amazement” at the legal action, saying its operations were legitimate and documented. Last fall, Pope Benedict XVI named Gotti Tedeschi, an Italian banker and professor of financial ethics at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, as president of the Vatican bank, known formally as the Institute for the Works of Religion. The appointment was seen at the time as a move toward greater transparency in the bank’s operations. A statement issued by the Vatican’s Secretariat of State Sept. 21 said the Vatican bank was committed to “full transparency” in its operations and had been actively working for some time with Italian and international authorities to comply with procedures that ensure funds are not used for terrorism or money-laundering.
Prelate: teachers’ Catholicity lacking BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – Some teachers have fallen prey to religious indifference and atheism, Archbishop Agustin Radrizzani of Mercedes-Lujan said in exhorting Catholic teachers to fulfill their mission as disciples of Christ. The prelate noted that he would be “failing the truth” if did not share his concern and sorrow, that in some Catholic institutions, there exists “a religious indifference and even an atheism,” Catholic News Agency reported. Education is not only the imparting of knowledge, but also the formation in values, the archbishop continued, adding that in the case of Catholic teachers, they are also responsible for bearing Christian witness to the new generations. He also lamented the “lack of a clear Christian commitment” and obliviousness to God that often leads teachers to see their educational task as merely a means of sustenance, a “job” or “a place of prestige.”
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Father Steven Lopes appointed Monsignor Pope Benedict XVI has appointed Father Steven J. Lopes as Chaplain to His Holiness, Cardinal William Levada has announced. Msgr. Lopes becomes an addition to the monsignors Class of 2010 for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, Archbishop George Niederauer said in a Sept. 13 memo to pastors and parish administrators. Msgr. Lopes, ordained for the Archdiocese in June, 2001, has been assigned as an official of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, while also serving as Cardinal Levada’s priest-secretary, since 2005. For the past five years, he has also served as an adjunct professor of theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University and homiletics instructor at the North American College in Rome. Msgr. Steven Lopes Msgr. Lopes graduated from the University of San Francisco before attending St. Patrick’s Seminary in Menlo Park and the North American College in Rome. He served as associate pastor at St. Patrick Church in San Francisco and St. Anselm in Ross. In 2005, he completed a doctorate in dogmatic theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, with a dissertation on “Trinitarian Theology of the Eucharist.”
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WICHITA, Kan. – Don’t wait until the anesthesiologist is ready to put the mask on you before you think about the Sacrament of the Sick, says Father John Hay. He urges everyone to seek an anointing before they are admitted to a hospital, Catholic News Agency reported. “It is a sacrament given to help us bear the suffering – the sickness that we have – to be able to unite that suffering to the suffering of Jesus Christ,” the diocesan priest said. “And then it’s not suffering for suffering’s sake, it can actually become redemptive,” he said. “We enter into the suffering of Jesus Christ – and that gives us a new power, a new strength, from the power of his grace, to help us carry our load, our cross, whatever sickness that might be.”
erty level in 2009 rose to 43.6 million, or 14.3 percent of the population, the highest since 1984, the Census Bureau said. In 2008, the comparable figures were 39.8 million people and 13.2 percent. “Staggering,” said Father Larry Snyder, Catholic Charities’ president. “Unfortunately, little surprise to those who have been working closely with the growing population for whom poverty has become a daily reality.” At Network, the Catholic lobbying group said it was “deeply disturbed by Washington’s continued inability to effectively address our nation’s rising poverty rates.” Particularly alarming, the organization said, was that the data showed more than a quarter of Hispanics and African-Americans lived in poverty in 2009. “These statistics underscore the grim fact that people who benefited the least from the last economic boom are the ones who are suffering the most in this severe recession,” said Sister Simone Campbell, a Sister of Social Service who is Network’s executive director. “Government policies of both parties have failed the working poor in our country.” The bureau also reported that a record number of Americans – about 50.7 million – had no health insurance. That’s the highest since it began keeping track in 1987.
Correction The preschool directory published in the Aug. 13 issue incorrectly included an old e-mail address and misidentified the director of Littlest Angel Preparatory Preschool. The director of Littlest Angel Preparatory Preschool at St. Paul School is Peg Lazzarini-Kayser. The principal of St. Paul’s is Arleen Guaraglia. For more information www.LittlestAngelPreschool.com or e-mail LittlestAngelPreschool@gmail.com.
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Archbishop George H. Niederauer said time is now for comprehe that the th to address the estimated nsive immigration reform residents of the United 11 million undocumented States. At a May conference held in press front of Mission Dolores14 pres Francisco, the San in San failure of the federalFrancisco Archbishop said the gration reform may government to address immicause more states similar to Arizona’s to pass laws . “This should not be ing for ‘open borders,’ an ‘amnesty.’ Nor are we askstanding with a woman,said Archbishop Niederauer, Rosa, a married mother four, who is fighting of deportation on an expired “Yes, to undocumented people – you belong visa. in the
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But even Versaggi doesn’t know what’s come next. going to As with many disasters BP’s Deepwater Horizon both natural and man-made, has Catholics in Florida’soil spill in the Gulf of Mexico fishing industry praying scrambling to survive. and Looking at Louisiana – whose oyster beds closed west of the Mississip have been pi thanks to the spill, whose fishing industry and the hundreds of dead has been severely crippled – and Island, Ala., the spill fish washing ashore in Dauphin worries men and women on boats, in warehous who work way that no hurricane es, in restaurants and in retail in a has “The people are lookingfor years. at a business that them 25 years to build – losing it in one fell has taken Jones, executive director swoop,” Bob of the Southeastern Fisheries GULF OIL SPILL, page 6
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Cathedral flower fest includes fire tribute The Cathedral Festival of Flowers, which has grown dramatically since it was first presented in 2007, this year marks the beginning of the celebration of the 40th anniversary of St. Mary’s Cathedral. The festival, planned for Sept. 30-Oct. 3, will display the work of 30 floral artists from throughout the Bay Area. Admission is free but does not include a gala preview and reception as well as workshops and other events for which tickets may be purchased. A centerpiece of the festival is a floral creation titled “Through the Fire,” by Natasha Lisitsa, owner and lead designer at Waterlily Pond Design Studio in San Francisco. It memorializes the Sept. 7, 1962, fire that razed the old cathedral building at the corner of Van Ness Avenue and O’Farrell
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Feminine beauty . . . ■ Continued from page 3 Vatican Museums with guided tours of many of its artistic treasures. Guests will get an after-hours peek of the Sistine Chapel and Raphael Rooms before dining in the museums’ ancient statue gallery. One day will be spent in Siena focusing on the life of St. Catherine of Siena, a 14thcentury saint who is probably best known for persuading Pope Gregory XI to come back to Rome from exile in France. In her numerous letters to popes, cardinals, monks and priests, she was also very vocal in urging priests to reform and faithfully live their vocation at a time when church corruption was prevalent. Mass will be celebrated most days, including at the site of St. Maria Goretti’s martyrdom in Nettuno. The 11-year-old Italian girl was repeatedly stabbed by a young neighbor after she refused his sexual advances. She died in the hospital the next day, July 6, 1902, after forgiving her attacker. Father Haydu said he wanted to highlight the life of St. Maria Goretti because “we thought she was a good example for young women. She represents the heart of beauty as being found in one’s own personal integrity.” She courageously protected her virtues and shows that real love is not about desire for external attractiveness, but entails respecting the other’s inner being and dignity, he said. Today if a young woman wants to protect her integrity, he said, “a certain heroic virtue is involved.” The U.S. priest said fathers and sons are also welcome to join the journey. The men will receive a special itinerary looking at Greek and Roman heroes and discuss fundamental human virtues like “what it takes to be a man of virtue and a real leader,” he said. Lev, who is a mother to two teenage girls, said she hopes young women attending the pilgrimage learn to not be driven by powerful
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commercial and fashion industries “who do not want the well-being” of young people. She said she hopes to instill in young women a strong self-image and sense of who they really are. She would also like families to see “how much the church loves and respects women.” Most people only look at “the red flag of ordination” in which the priesthood is limited to men and, from that, erroneously conclude that the church is somehow incapable of appreciating women, she said. She said sacred art shows that the church has long recognized the “really extraordinary beauty,” ability and heroism of women. More information on the pilgrimage and how to reserve a place is posted online at: www.teresatomeo.com/documents/Patrons%20of%20the%20Arts%20 Brochure.pdf.
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Give an hour to save a Life . . .
St. Francis Shrine reopens after seismic work always accentuated – the need for constant conversion,” said Father Coiro. One of the first executive decisions that Capuchin friar San Francisco Archbishop George Niederauer celFather Gregory Coiro made when he was named rector ebrated a 9 a.m. Mass – it was also the Feast of the of The National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi was to Stigmata of St. Francis – and in his homily he noted that order letterhead envelopes that declared the devotional Francis was a rich young man, the son of a wealthy cloth church in North Beach “The Heart of San Francisco.” merchant, who had said yes to Jesus. Who could argue with him? It had been formed as St. “He followed in the steps of Jesus,”Archbishop Francis Parish on June 12, 1849, and Catholics gathered Niederauer said. “Now, if you follow in the steps of Jesus five days later for the first Mass said at the church, the they will lead you where they led him.” city’s second parish after Mission Dolores. The Gold He spoke of the “paradox of giving away in order to Rush was giving have” – something shape and personalithat did not escape ty to the nascent city, Oscar Hammerstein “That is part of our a year before it was II who wrote these formally incorpowords in “The Sound calling, and something rated and California of Music”: joined the Union. “A bell’s not a Francis always San Francisco bell ‘til you ring it, is named for St. A song’s not a song accentuated – the need Francis and St. ‘til you sing it, Love Francis is the in your heart wasn’t for constant conversion,” put there to stay, patron saint of the Archdiocese of San Love isn’t love ‘til Capuchin Father Francisco. The presyou give it away.” said Father Coiro. Gregory Coiro ent Norman Gothic The archbishop church that bears his added, “If we are name, distinguished by handsome twin campanile, was generous to God with our days and our months and our dedicated March 17, 1860 at the same site at Columbus years, He will be generous with us in eternal life.” Avenue and Vallejo Street where the original humble The congregation of the old St. Francis Church church was built. It opens its doors to a broad demo- was multi-lingual, with preaching in English, Spanish, graphic mix of locals and tourists as diverse as the city French and Italian. The rapidly growing congregation itself, and every day a parade of city workers and mer- required a larger structure, and the cornerstone of a new rymakers passes by. church was laid Oct. 2, 1859, and the church rose over “What could be more San Francisco than that?” asks the original structure. St. Francis Church survived the Father Coiro. 1906 earthquake, but the fire that resulted gutted the Closed for nearly a year for a seismic retrofit necessi- facility – although the brick walls, now made stronger, tated by the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake and re-opened and towers stood. The restored church was rededicated on Aug. 10, Catholics of the Archdiocese gathered on March 2, 1919. Sept. 17 not only to mark the completion of the church’s St. Francis Church was closed briefly after the 1989 strengthening and re-opening, but to rededicate them- earthquake, and its mission as a parish was discontinued. selves as the people of God. On Feb. 22, 1998, Archbishop William Levada re-opened “That is part of our calling, and something Francis SHRINE REOPENS, page 11
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Archbishop’s Journal
Called to humble service to the body of Christ Archbishop George Niederauer delivered this homily at the episcopal ordination of Bishop Robert McElroy, the 17th auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, at St. Mary’s Cathedral on Sept. 7. On June 20th of this year Our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, ordained fourteen new priests for his Diocese of Rome. In his homily on that occasion the Pope reminded those present that ordination, for a priest or a bishop, is not a “career move.” He said that a priest who seeks status rather than the will of God will be a slave to himself and to public opinion, and will not discover how God wants to use his gifts and talents for the good of the Church and the world around him. If he seeks status the priest will have to flatter, say things to please people, follow fads, and deprive himself of what the Pope describes as “a life-giving relationship with the truth.” As we gather here in the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption this afternoon for this joyful moment of the ordination of a new bishop, Auxiliary Bishop Robert McElroy of San Francisco, the Pope’s words present a healthy challenge to all the ordained–bishops, priests and deacons alike –and a welcome assurance to all the Christian faithful as well. When we consider the words of Jesus Christ to his first apostles at the Last Supper, recorded in our Gospel reading from St. John, we recognize the origin of Pope Benedict’s teaching: “It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you.” We Catholics believe that a priestly vocation is a call to follow Christ in the service of his people in the Church, not a job opportunity with a chance for advancement. The call to serve the Church as a bishop charges a priest with the duty to serve by leading, teaching and sacrificing in new ways. It is not a promotion, a reward or a distinction as the world around us understands such matters. In his June 20 homily Pope Benedict went on to say that ordination requires the courage to say “yes” to the will of another, rather than the satisfaction of doing one’s own will. The one ordained knows that the Church will not erase his own individuality, but rather will help him to actualize the gifts God has given him for the life of the Kingdom. Thus is the promise of Jesus fulfilled: the one who “loses”
or gives away his life for the King and for the Kingdom, will find or “save” his life, now and forever. Our first reading, the famous call of the prophet Jeremiah, is a powerful instance of how unique, intimate and loving is God’s call to each of us. Listen to this call: “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you, dedicated you, appointed you .... You shall go wherever I send you, speak what I command. Have no fear! I place my words in your mouth.” The cherishing intensity of that call of the Old Testament prophet prepares us to appreciate the same quality in the words of Jesus to the apostles at the Last Supper: “As the Father loves me, so I also love you. Remain in my love. If you keep my commandments you will remain in my love. This is my commandment: love one another as I have loved you. I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit that will remain.” As we consider these readings we have heard, and as we listen to the words of the Rite of Ordination of a Bishop, we need to hear them as the call of Jesus Christ in His Church to Bishop-elect McElroy to respond in loving service to his sisters and brothers in Christ. Following an ancient custom, in today’s rite, before the people of God, I will ask Bishop-elect McElroy certain questions. It is called the “Examination of the Candidate.” These questions teach us and the new bishop some powerful lessons about the office and the life to which Jesus Christ has called him in the Holy Spirit. So right now we will have one last review for his examination. The Church will ask Bishop-elect McElroy whether he is resolved by the grace of the Holy Spirit to exercise to the end of his life the office of apostle that is passed on to him by the laying on of hands. An apostle is, literally, one whom Jesus sends. In our Gospel reading, Jesus says “greater love one has than to lay down his life for his friends.” Certainly Jesus is referring to his death on the cross for us on Good Friday, the following day, but he is also describing the minister’s laying down of his life, day by day, until the end, in humble service to his sisters and brothers.
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Shrine reopens . . . St. Francis of Assisi Church as the City Shrine Church. In September of 1999, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops granted the church the title of the National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi. Father Coiro, 57, became rector on July 1 – he made a point of thanking Archbishop Niederauer at the Mass “for giving me a job” – after working for years as a high school teacher and counselor and for 10 years as a media relations specialist in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. A native of the New York Borough of Queens and reared in Orange County, he said he is energized by his new role and the shrine. “It is more than iconic. It is right smack-dab in one of the most vibrant neighborhoods in San Francisco,” he said. “There is a brass market on the sidewalk identifying this as part of the Barbary Coast. The church was founded for the 49ers. It really is in many ways the heart of San Francisco.” Father Coiro added, “It is a place of peace and tranquility in an area that can be somewhat chaotic, in a city that can be somewhat chaotic. People come in all day and they look at the beauty of the building and the stained glass windows, they light a candle, they say a prayer. And I hope that after people have been here for a liturgy or just a private visit they leave with a sense of God’s presence and peace.” The shrine is open every day from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and often later, “because people come straggling in and I don’t have the heart to turn them away,” said Father Coiro. “We are all called to be converted, and part of that process is to become ambassadors for Christ, to become living examples of the Gospel,” Father Coiro said. After all, he said, one of St. Francis’ favorite expressions was this: “Preach the gospel always. Use words only if necessary.”
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God is your best friend, pope tells school kids
The pope greets students at St. Mary’s University College in Twickenham, a London suburb.
Dictatorship of relativism . . . ■ Continued from cover The pope also offered an example of where ethical and moral influences have brought about a notable achievement: the abolition of the slave trade by the British Parliament in 1807. In Westminster Hall, which is part of the Parliament complex, the pope said that “the angels looking down on us from the magnificent ceiling” were a reminder of the traditional religious element in British democracy. “They remind us that God is constantly watching over us to guide and protect us. And they summon us to acknowledge the vital contribution that religious belief has made and can continue to make to the life of the nation,” he said. Before leaving, the pope briefly greeted a number of dignitaries, including former Prime Minister Tony Blair,
Great sadness . . . ■ Continued from cover they had to say and expressed his deep sorrow and shame over what victims and their families had suffered,” the Vatican said in a statement. The pope prayed with the victims and assured them that the Church is continuing to put measures in place to safeguard young people and that it is doing all it can to investigate clergy and religious accused of these “egregious crimes,” the Vatican said. The group included four women and one man, all adults, who came from England, Scotland and Wales, Catholic News Service reported. Each had time to speak “with great intensity and emotion” about their suffering, the Vatican spokesman, Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, told reporters. He said the pope prayed with them at the beginning and the end of the encounter; the only other people present were three people who work with abuse victims and a translator. Asked whether 30 minutes was enough time for the pope to have given the victims, Bill Kilgallon, head of the National Catholic Safeguarding Commission, said: “It’s longer than the prime minister got.” The pope has previously met with abuse victims in the United States, Australia and Malta, and the Vatican has said such meetings are part of an effort to implement the pope’s own call for “absolute transparency” over sexual abuse and its commitment to reconciliation with victims. In London, the pope met with the Church’s child protection officers and said their efforts have helped ensure that abuse allegations are met “swiftly and justly.” “While there are never grounds for complacency, credit should be given where it is due: the efforts of the church in this country and elsewhere, especially in the last 10 years, to guarantee the safety of children and young people and to show
LONDON (CNS) – In a rousing encounter with 4,000 schoolchildren, Pope Benedict XVI asked them to make friendship with God the center of their lives. “Only he can satisfy the deepest needs of our hearts,” he said Sept. 17 in suburban Twickenham. He spoke to a cheering crowd of Catholic students who filled a soccer field, as more than 800,000 others followed online from classrooms throughout Great Britain. The pope said he hoped that among his listeners there would be “future saints.” “What God wants most of all for each one of you is that you should become holy,” he said. “Perhaps some of you think being a saint is not for you,” he said. He warned them away from “celebrity culture” and urged them to bring deeper qualities into their lives. “Happiness is something we all want,” he said, “but one of the great tragedies in this world is that so many
people never find it, because they look for it in the wrong places. The key is very simple – true happiness is to be found in God.” God wants your friendship – “and once you enter into a friendship with God, everything in your life begins to change,” the pope said. Greed and selfishness fall away; compassion is born, he said. “And once these things begin to matter to you, you are well on your way to becoming saints,” he said. The pope addressed young people in the audience at a Sept. 18 prayer vigil In London’s Hyde Park: “Only Jesus knows what ‘definite service’ he has in mind for you. Be open to his voice resounding in the depths of your heart.” He listed the temptations of modern culture – drugs, money, sex, pornography, alcohol – and said all are destructive and divisive. “There is only one thing which lasts: the love of Jesus Christ personally for each one of you,” he said.
who became a Catholic after leaving office three years ago. At a Mass in Glasgow, Scotland, on Sept. 16, the pope said that the “dictatorship of relativism” threatens to distort the truth about human nature. The Holy Father exhorted Catholics not only to be examples of faith in action but also to defend the influence of the Christian faith in the public forum. “There are some who now seek to exclude religious belief from public discourse, to privatize it or even to paint it as a threat to equality and liberty,” he said. “Yet religion is in fact a guarantee of authentic liberty and respect, leading us to look upon every person as a brother or sister.” Society needs clear voices that propose our right to live free from “a jungle of self-destructive and arbitrary freedoms,” he said. Instead, the faithful must put forth a vision of a society that works for welfare of its citizens and guides and shelters
them in the face of their weakness and fragility, he said. The pope landed earlier in the day in Edinburgh, where he met with Queen Elizabeth II and was treated to an official state welcome. In a televised speech, he warned that attempts to exclude God from social and political life can lead to disaster. In calling for the invigoration of Catholic witness in British society, the pope pointed to the example St. Ninian, who died in 432. The Scottish evangelizer’s feast fell on the day of the pope’s arrival. St. Ninian was “unafraid to be a lone voice” in proclaiming the Gospel in society, the pope said. “In the course of my visit it has become clear to me how deep a thirst there is among the British people for the Good News of Jesus Christ,” the pope told British bishops in Birmingham on Sept. 19 at the close of his trip. He encouraged them to spread the Gospel in full – “including those elements which call into question the widespread assumptions of today’s culture.”
them every respect as they grow to matuabuse was the “most serious charge” rity, should be acknowledged,” he said. against the pope. On Sept.19, some 10,000 protesters The “shameful” clerical sex abuse marched through London, among them crisis “seriously undermines the moral Nina Kaye. credibility of church leaders,” the pope She came with her husband and told bishops at a Sept. 19 meeting in son, holding up a banner that read, Birmingham, England. “Prosecute pedophile priests.” “I have spoken on many occasions “I’m just so angry that the terrible of the deep wounds that such behavior abuse by priests is being covered causes – in the victims first and foreup,” she told Catholic News Service. most – but also in the relationships of “Pedophilia isn’t an illness, as the trust that should exist between priests pope said, but a crime, and the church and people, between priests and their shouldn’t be placing itself above the bishops, and between the church law.” authorities and the public,” he said. Members of organizations repreThe pope told the bishops they must senting clergy abuse victims from five continue their efforts to reach out to the countries circulated leaflets outside the victims, to carefully screen candidates Catholic Westminster Cathedral. “We for the priesthood and other church ask you and your fellow-Catholics to offices and “deal properly and transparinsist on real reform, not just lip serently with allegations as they arise.” vice and window dressing from church The child protection procedures Protesting the pope’s officials,” the leaflet said. developed by the Catholic Church in “While a few complicit church offiGreat Britain over the past 10 years also arrival in Scotland. cials have voluntarily resigned, no one should be shared with the wider comhas ever been demoted, disciplined or munity, the pope said, because children defrocked for putting children in harm’s way. Until bishops continue to be victims of abuse in a variety of settings. As the London meeting took place, protesters in another experience real consequences for covering up crimes, kids part of the city – including some abuse victims – accused will continue to be unsafe,” the pamphlet said. In Belgium last week, an independent commission the pope of protecting abusive priests. Groups of hecklers greeted the pope at various stops in revealed allegations of widespread abuse in the Church and London, holding up banners condemning clergy sexual abuse noted that the problem was worst in the 1960s. In Ireland last year, a commission reporting on “oppresand demanding the pope’s resignation. Addressing the midday rally of about 300 outside St. sive” conditions in state institutions for young people found Mary’s University College in Twickenham Sept. 17, gay that sexual abuse was widespread and was treated in isolation rights campaigner Peter Tatchell said covering up sexual and secrecy by the authorities.
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The pope talked about aging and spirituality in a visit to London’s St. Peter’s Residence, a home for the aged run by the Little Sisters of the Poor. “Those of us who live many years are given a marvelous chance to deepen our awareness Scene at a papal prayer vigil. of the mystery of Christ, who humbled himself to share in our humanity,” the 83-yearold pontiff told the 76 residents, who include nine priests and members of religious orders. “As the normal span of our lives increases,” he said, “our physical capacities are often diminished; and yet these times may well be among the most spiritually fruitful years of our lives.”
The UK Catholic Herald reported London Mayor Boris Johnson telling the pope at Heathrow Airport Sept. 17 “that what was wrong with Britain was that the Roman Emperor Honorius told the Brits in 410 AD that Rome was no longer able to protect them. ‘“From that time, the British have had a sense of desertion, of confusion, of rejection.” The pope reportedly paused before replying: “Very interesting.”
Minute by minute Catholic Herald reporters sent micro-blog posts from the field, documenting the papal visit telegraphstyle: Birmingham: 14.46 According to the Telegraph, David Cameron will say later today that the Pope made Britain “sit up and think.” He will add that faith is “a vital part of our national conversation.”
Westminster Cathedral: 11:44 Ringing post-Communion silence. Amazing that so many people can be so quiet and prayerful. Central London: 17:50 The Pope has just addressed the needs of the poor, especially in the developing world. “Where human lives are concerned, time is always short.” Scotland, Bellahouston Park: 18.06 The crowd is silent – completely absorbed in listening to the Pope’s words. Edinburgh: 09.06 Cybil Oliver, a Londoner and member of the Church of England rings in to say ... “I think the visit will be a good thing. We listen far too much to atheists like Richard Dawkins. I think it’s time that people paid attention to the teachings Benedict fan’s rain boots. of Christ.”
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Pope beatifies Cardinal Newman faith and reason, said the pope, who repeated those themes during his visit to Great Britain. The pope paid special tribute to Blessed Newman’s vision of education, which combined intellectual training, moral discipline and religious commitment. He quoted the theologian’s appeal for a well-instructed laity and said it should serve as a goal for catechists today: “I want a laity not arrogant, not rash in speech, not disputatious, but men who know their religion, who enter into it, who know just where they stand, who know what they hold and what they do not, who know their creed so well that they can give an account of it.” The pope also praised Cardinal Newman’s service to others as a priest who visited the sick and poor, comforted the bereaved and cared for those in prison. “No wonder that on his death so many thousand people lined the local streets as his body was taken to its place of burial not half a mile from here,” he said. Deacon Jack Sullivan of Marshfield, Mass., whose healing from a crippling spinal condition in August 2001 was the miracle that allowed for Cardinal Newman’s beatification, read the Gospel at the Mass. Pilgrims, required to arrive hours before the pope, waited in a drizzle huddled in the dark with hands wrapped around steaming cups of tea. Katrina and Steve Herbert arrived from Aldershot shortly after 4 a.m. with their eight children, ages 13 years to 13 months. “We have frozen. The kids have been pale green most of the day,” the mom said, but “it’s wonderful to be here. It’s an incredible day for our country and for Catholics.”
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Archbishop’s Journal . . . ■ Continued from page 10 and to remain united with it within the order of bishops under the authority of the Pope, the successor of St. Peter, to whom he will remain faithful and obedient. The great value here is unity, the unity among his followers that Jesus Christ prayed for at the Last Supper. In our second reading, from the Letter to the Ephesians, we hear about the essential value of unity in the Church: one Lord, one faith, on baptism. The bishop, the overseer of the Church, as shepherd must gather all the faithful together into one flock. In these fractious and polarizing times, that is an enormous challenge, but it is not merely local in its scope. A bishop is ordained into the body of bishops, and his concern must be for the entire Church, in this region, in this country, and around the world. We are Catholics, not congregationalists, and that must be true in our parishes, in our dioceses, in our country, and around the world. The Church then asks the new bishop whether, as a devoted father, he will cooperate with the priests and deacons who share his ministry in sustaining the people of God and guiding them on the way to salvation, and whether he will show special compassion toward the poor, the stranger, and the needy, and seek out especially the sheep who stray from the fold of the Lord. In
carrying out his office, the bishop needs to see deacons and priests as brothers and collaborators, and to treat them as such. The Church instructs us that the title of bishop is not one of honor but of function, hence the bishop must strive to serve, not to rule, just as Jesus Christ came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for the many. Among those many, the neediest have the strongest claim on us. St. Francis of Assisi, Patron of the Archdiocese, is our special model and intercessor in responding to those needs. Finally the Church asks Bishop-elect McElroy whether he is resolved to pray for the people of God unceasingly, and to carry out his duties in a way that gives no grounds for reproach. He will respond that he is so resolved, and then will add, “with the help of God.” It is the unceasing prayer, the attempt to be one with God’s loving will, day by day, hour by hour, that will bring that powerful help of God. For our new bishop, it will be the Lord Jesus Christ who will shepherd the shepherd. In our second reading we heard a list of some of the virtues that will help Bishop McElroy keep his resolve: humility, gentleness, patience, and bearing with much out of love. We cannot follow the call of Christ unless we try to walk and behave in the way of Christ. This is especially important in the way we talk to and talk about our neighbors, and the way we focus on their welfare, not mainly on our own. In prayer,
In London’s Hyde Park, tens of thousands of people gathered for the service on the eve of the beatification.
Bishops greeting the pope as he arrives for the beatification Mass for Cardinal John Henry Newman.
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BIRMINGHAM, England (CNS) – Pope Benedict XVI beatified Cardinal John Henry Newman and said his vision of religion’s vital role in society should serve as a model today. Celebrating Mass in Birmingham Sept. 19 for more than 50,000 people, the pope read the decree proclaiming Cardinal Newman “blessed,” a major step toward sainthood. A giant portrait of Blessed Newman hung behind the altar, and smaller likenesses were carried to the Mass by many of the faithful who filled suburban Cofton Park. As the pope and concelebrants processed, the choir and crowd sang “Praise to the Holiest in the Height,” a hymn with lyrics written by Cardinal Newman. Blessed Newman, a 19th-century theologian and a prolific writer on spiritual topics, left the Anglican Church and embraced Catholicism at 44. The pope announced that his feast day would be Oct. 9, the day of his entry into the Catholic Church, but he did not mention his conversion. But in welcoming the pope, Archbishop Bernard Longley of Birmingham offered a prayer of thanks for the Anglicans who nurtured Cardinal Newman’s faith and for Blessed Domenico Barberi, a Passionist priest who welcomed him into the Catholic Church in 1845. In his homily, the pope spoke of Cardinal Newman’s profound insight into the Christian call to holiness and the importance of prayer. His eloquent prose inspired many of his time and later, the pope said. Blessed Newman was passionate about “the vital place of revealed religion in civilized society” and the dialogue between
Jesus strengthens our bond with him, and helps us to follow more closely in his way. Bishop Robert McElroy has chosen as his motto for his coat of arms, “Dignitatis Personae,” the title (the first two words in Latin) of the Declaration of the Second Vatican Council on Religious Liberty. In the 45 years since the Council ended, the Catholic Church has met many challenges to her teaching about the priceless dignity, value and rights of each human person, of each human life. This teaching, this belief is rooted in our faith in Jesus Christ, Savior and Lord. We are called to deal with each person as if he or she were Jesus Christ, because they are. Indeed, we are called to deal with them as Jesus Christ dealt with everyone in the Gospel. There’s an old legend about a wander-
Cardinal William Levada blessing Bishop Robert McElroy during the Rite of Ordination of a Bishop.
ing scholar during the middle ages whose name was Mauretus. He was shabbily dressed when he fell ill in a town where he was not known or recognized. Mauretus was taken to a hospital. Some doctors gathered around his bed and, speaking to each other in Latin (the language of the educated), they speculated that, since this was obviously a worthless person, they could perform certain experiments on his corpse after he had died. Mauretus startled them when he said aloud, in perfect Latin, “Call no one worthless for whom Christ died.” An important lesson then; an important lesson now. Christian life and ministry, including a bishop’s, are not matters of rank and station, but of reverence and respect for, and humble service to, the members of the body of Christ.
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Reader would give Hawking a “D” When I was in college one of the most popular classes was an anthropology course given by a gifted and funny professor who really made the subject live for the 900 students that crowded his lecture hall. His final exam was always memorable. He would write a single question on the chalkboard on the stage and the students would have three hours to fill their bluebooks with their response. At the end of one semester, he wrote a single word, “Why?” on the board and left the auditorium. Everyone began frantically scribbling away. That is, except for one student, who considered the question for about five minutes, wrote “Because” in his bluebook, turned it in and left. He got a C. Stephen Hawking, in “The Grand Design” (“Hawking’s ‘curious metaphysics,’” CSF, Sept. 17) seeks to answer the question, “Why does the universe exist?” and states that the universe can and does create itself from nothing using
the law of gravity through a process he calls Spontaneous Creation. I am neither a physicist nor a cosmologist and am not qualified to say whether or not a process such as Spontaneous Creation is feasible. But even if Hawking is right, he has told us how the universe came to be, not why. Science, as powerful and useful as it is to us all, explores the realms of what, when, where and how and it can never answer any question that begins with why. By its own rules science can only deal with the physical universe. When faced with a great loss, a person cries out “Why did this happen?” Science and technology can describe the chain of events that lead to an event, but they can’t respond to the real question of “Why did this have to happen?” which is really being asked. Richard Dawkins, the tireless atheist spokesman and biologist, is certain that the process of evolution tells us
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Praise for deacon’s “Ten facts” corrective Thank you to Deacon Mike Murphy for his “Ten Facts...” commentary. I was one of those who was very dismayed over the publishing of Gary Zimak’s article because I feel it represented our Catholic faith as negative and judgmental. Deacon Murphy did a wonderful job at showing the “real” faith that Jesus brought us–one of love, compassion, hope and inclusiveness. Susan Todaro San Rafael
“Those elitist parents” Can our society get more absurd or evil? Twelve-year-olds can be taken out of school, without parental notification, to obtain mental health evaluation, safe sex education, or abortions, yet that same 12-year-old needs their parents’ signature and a doctor’s note to carry a couple of Ibuprofens for menstrual cramps. Parents brought this one on themselves because they voted against parental rights during the last election. Those “elitist” parents voted against parental rights for those “poor, unfortunate children whose parents weren’t educated enough to make such decisions”. Have you all lost your minds? Any American parent who gives up their God given rights and chooses evil instead, needs to wake up – your eternal soul is at stake, not to mention your “free will” you so enjoy maligning. Do I hear Nanny State? Sandra Dillon San Mateo
Mosque article “flat-out strange” I don’t think I have ever read a more bizarre column than Father Peter J. Daly’s re the Ground Zero mosque controversy (CSF, Sept. 10). Now, I am sure that Father Daly is both a good man and a good priest but this article was flat-out strange. Nowhere does Father Daly show any compassion or understanding for the relatives of the victims of 9/11. His attempt to tarnish with the brush of anti-religious bigotry all
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those decent men and women, protestant, Catholic, Jewish and non-believers, who are not opposed to building a mosque, just this location, is neither right, fair nor charitable. And his attempt to frame the issue as one of religious liberty is false. No one who opposes the building of the mosque on this site says the builders don’t have the right to build there, only that the site should be moved. Archbishop (Raymond) Burke recently stated that a just compromise would be moving the location, just as the Carmelite nuns who wanted to build a convent next to Auschwitz to pray for the victims of the holocaust did when the Jewish community opposed having the convent so close to a hallowed Jewish site. Quite frankly, I am surprised that someone at the paper didn’t contact Father Daly to ask him if he wanted to rethink this. Stephen Firenze San Mateo
Mosque article’s “flawed logic” I’m sure Father Daly is a good neighbor and has wonderful relations with all the other local faiths, but the flawed logic with which he argues in favor of the construction of a mosque overlooking the 9/11 site would have had him bounced out on his ear from Philosophy 101 at the seminary. First he argues that because Catholics in this country were unfairly resented, perhaps even feared, when they came to America in the 19th and early 20th centuries, we need not fear the radical Islamists and we should concentrate on continuing to be good neighbors to resident Muslims. First of all, there were no Catholics coming here who blew up N.Y. City Hall or Independence Hall, as the Islamists have repeatedly done or attempted to do in the World Trade Center, Pentagon, N.Y. subway system and elsewhere. Second, equally important, despite the feverish imaginings of the “Know Nothings” there was no international power base for Catholics, as there is in many locations for the Islamists. In even a nominally Catholic country such as Italy or Ireland, the church had virtually no temporal power base akin to that enjoyed by Muslims worldwide. What I and many Americans expect from our good neighbors in the Muslim world is the kind of vigorous condemnation of the terrorists which has been notably absent. What we hear instead is “Gosh, don’t blame me “. Well if you don’t condemn terrorism it’s not unfair to suspect you condone it. No one suggests, as father implies, that the presence of Muslims offends us. What offends us is the unwillingness of the Muslim community here and elsewhere, to take an unequivocal stand condemning terrorism. Malcolm Post San Francisco
all that we need to know about life and human existence. He does a wonderful job of describing and demonstrating how natural selection operates to produce species that are most successful in exploiting the habitat in which they find themselves. However, even a complete understanding of evolution is going to get me no closer to the essential and meaningful question of “Why am I here?” Philosophy and theology, embattled as they are in this materialistic age, are the disciplines that attempt to deal with the why question. Science is restricted knowledge, philosophy and theology attempt to expand on that knowledge with wisdom. Science answers the question “Why?” with “Because.” I would give Hawking a “D.” Nick Scales Sausalito
Rome “losing control” I just finished reading all the changes that the Vatican has determined for the new liturgy. The question must be asked: Why? Considering that the translation is poor English and archaic presentation, there is only one answer. The Roman hierarchy sees that it is losing control. This liturgy is nothing more than a reassertion of authority just for the sake of showing power. Sadly, the USCCB acquiesced without a whimper. This liturgy will not attract new people, will alienate other Christians to whom we have been reaching out, and will drive present Catholics away in disgust. With this act, the Vatican has shown that it is Roman, but definitely not Catholic. Common sense – where have you gone? Dennis Nolan Daly City
“Beyond arrogance” It is with shuddering dismay and ever deepening concern for our beloved Church institution that we read about the newest nonsense coming from our Roman “Lords”. They now decree that our Sunday liturgical prayers must be rewritten in a more Latinized form. They would give us a Middle Ages vernacular, actively diminishing our Modern Church. Who are these few men who presume to set aside the honest, dedicated work of Vatican II: the work of ALL the Bishops of ALL the world gathered by papal decree in historic conclave under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Their chicanery is beyond arrogance and should be rejected. Where are our American bishops? Why are they not speaking for their Church communities? Why are they not standing for the people of God, “the light of the world”? Geraldine and Joseph Walsh Marin County
Priest’s Prop 8 view “misleading”
The document goes on to state the following concerning adoption: “As experience has shown, the absence of sexual complementarity in these unions creates obstacles in the normal development of children who would be placed in the care of such persons. They would be deprived of the experience of either fatherhood or motherhood. Allowing children to be adopted by persons living in such unions would actually mean doing violence to these children, in the sense that their condition of dependency would be used to place them in an environment that is not conducive to their full human development. This is gravely immoral and in open contradiction to the principle, recognized also in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, that the best interests of the child, as the weaker and more vulnerable party, are to be the paramount consideration in every case.” Just a few decades ago, any proposal to give legal recognition to same-sex unions and to allow for the adoption of children by same-sex couples would have been considered outlandish. Why all the confusion today, Western society? Robert Graffio San Francisco
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The essay of Father William J. Byron, SJ, in the Sept. 10, 2010 edition of Catholic San Francisco, titled “The same-sex marriage debate,” is misleading. Father Byron gives the impression that the Catholic Church can decide to support same-sex domestic partnerships and the adoption of children by same-sex couples. Readers of Father Byron’s essay should be clear: These are settled issues in Catholic teaching. As Cardinal Prefect of the Holy See’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Joseph Ratzinger (now pope), with the formal approbation of Pope John Paul II, stated the following in the 2003 document “Considerations Regarding Proposals to Give Legal Recognition to Unions Between Homosexual Persons”: “The principles of respect and non-discrimination cannot be invoked to support legal recognition of homosexual unions. Differentiating between persons or refusing social recognition or benefits is unacceptable only when it is contrary to justice. The denial of the social and legal status of marriage to forms of cohabitation that are not and cannot be marital is not opposed to justice; on the contrary, justice requires it.”
Religion survey’s fuzzy logic
In the Sept. 3 CSF, Stephen Kent made the unsupportable assertion that The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, in its poll, “found that two-thirds of Americans feel religion is losing its influence in America.” He goes on to a selected quote from the Bishops’ Committee on Domestic and Human Development that leads us to looking at “a global economy,” and his words lead us to suspect something terribly amiss with what this man is trying to advance to our readers. First, there is no verifiable data published by the Pew Foundation with any reasonable set of facts, such as location and size of population sample, questions asked, and affecting variables, such as age group, ethnicity, or location. Second, the author utililizes as a quote from Bishop William F. Murphy of Rockville Centre, N.Y., who “calls for a new social contract,” and, third, Kent adds the opinion that “the call for a new social contract should be cast in the context of a global economy.” Kent’s message to Catholics is so fuzzily constructed around suspicious and unbelievable citations; he makes himself a doubtful contribution to Catholic San Francisco. Let’s stick to the topics brought to us by George Weigel. He is a most valuable contributor who advances our faith with every appearance in Catholic San Francisco. Robert Jimenez Burlingame
State workers’ pay: more to the story As a state employee, I wish to correct some misleading statements in Mr. Mike DeNunzio’s guest column in Catholic San Francisco of Sept. 3, titled “Faithful citizenship and state stewardship.” Mr. DeNunzio LETTERS, page 15
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The Pius XII Wars, continued In the war over Pius XII and the Holy See’s policy toward Nazi Germany before and during World War II, there are fanatically anti-Pacelli/Pius XII writers like Daniel Jonah Goldhagen and Sergio Minerbi, whose imperviousness to evidence that challenges their presuppositions raises grave questions about their scholarship. And then there are the serious academic historians. The latter’s critique of Pius XII often begins with the charge that, as cardinal secretary of state to Pius XI, Pacelli engineered the demise of the Catholic Center Party, urged the German bishops to lift their ban on Catholic membership in the Nazi Party, and prompted German Catholics to support the Enabling Act that granted Hitler dictatorial powers: all in exchange for a concordat—a formal treaty – between the Third Reich and the Holy See. This strategy, these historians argue, weakened the Church’s capacity to resist the unfolding Nazi tyranny and gave the new German regime an undeserved degree of international legal credibility. As Hubert Wolf, professor of Church history at the University of Muenster, demonstrates conclusively in “Pope and Devil: The Vatican Archives and the Third Reich” (Harvard/Belknap), this charge of a “package deal” between the Vatican and Hitler fails when the documentary evidence is examined seriously. Recently-available archival materials from the pontificate of Pius XI make clear that Pacelli and Pius XI never offered any such trade to the Nazis. In fact, the Holy See was blindsided by the German bishops’ initiative in lifting the ban on Nazi Party membership, and
the Center Party acted on its own in supporting the Enabling Act. Wolf also argues that Pacelli, far from being the Roman manipulator of the Church in Germany, was undercut in his diplomacy by the German bishops’ preemptive concessions to the Nazi regime. As Wolf writes, “If Pacelli had had his way, if he had pulled all the strings, Hitler would have paid a heavy price for the Center’s consent to the Enabling Act and the bishops’ retraction of their condemnation. The cardinal secretary of state would have dictated hard concessions for the conditions that Hitler was so eager to get from the Church.” The net result was not a happy one: as Pacelli put it to British diplomat Ivone Kirkpatrick, “a pistol had been pointed at his head and he had no alternative” but to conclude a concordat quickly, in order to provide a minimum of legal protection for Catholic life in a Germany he knew was heading for disaster. As for the concordat itself, Wolf concludes that, while “there is no doubt that this agreement further opened the floodgates for the involvement of German Catholics in the National Socialist state,” it also helped prevent German Catholicism from being completely absorbed (or “coordinated,” as the Nazis put it) by the Third Reich, such that “the Catholic Church in Nazi Germany was the only large-scale social institution Hitler never managed to co-opt.” Precisely because Wolf’s conclusion is based on documentary evidence rather than presupposition or conjecture, it should definitively resolve this battle in the Pius Wars: “The Reichskonkordat was a pact with the devil—no one
had any illusions about that fact in Rome –but it guaranteed pastoral care and the continued existence of the Catholic Church during the Third Reich. (Pacelli) did not make this deal by having George Weigel the Center Party consent to the Enabling Act or by lifting the condemnation of National Socialism. The German Church bears sole responsibility for these steps.” “Pope and Devil” is not without its problems. Wolf’s critique of Roman “centralism” is belied by his own demonstration that, in the case of Nazi Germany, the Roman centralizers could be far more forceful in defending the “locals” than the locals could themselves. Wolf also posits a false dichotomy between “dogma and diplomacy,” when the real issue in the Pius Wars is the exercise of prudence. Nonetheless, Wolf has done the Pius debate a great service by demonstrating that, in response to the charge that the Holy See undercut the Catholic opposition in Germany in exchange for a concordat, the only responsible verdict is “Not guilty.” George Weigel is Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.
Spirituality for Life
How large is your heaven? One of the marks of a Christian heart is the desire for inclusivity, the desire to ultimately be in communion with as many people as possible, to have everyone in heaven with you without demanding that they become just like you to get there. Sadly, we tend to harbor the opposite attitude, though we are slow to admit this. We all like to think of ourselves as big-hearted, as having wide compassion, and as loving like Jesus did, but too much within both our attitudes and our actions belies this. Our own love, truth, and worship are often unconsciously predicated on making ourselves right by making others wrong. Too often we have an unconscious mantra which says: I can only be good, if someone else is bad. I can only be right, if someone else is wrong. My dogma can only be true, if someone else’s is false. My religion can only be right, if someone else’s is wrong. My Eucharist can only be valid, if someone else’s is invalid. And I can only be in heaven, if someone else is in hell. We justify this attitude of separation and moral-religious superiority by appealing to various things: correct dogma, the need for justice, proper morality, right ecclesiology, and correct liturgical practice, among other things. And there’s some truth in this. To have your heaven include everyone does not mean that truth, morality, and church practice all become relative, that it’s of no ultimate consequence what one believes or how one acts and worships. Our Christian scriptures and our subsequent tradition warn clearly that there are certain rights and wrongs and that certain attitudes and actions can exclude us from God’s Kingdom, heaven. But those same scriptures make it equally clear that God’s salvific will is universal and that God’s deep, constant, passionate longing is that everyone,
absolutely everyone, regardless of their attitude and actions, be somehow brought into the house. God, it seems, does not want to rest until everyone is home, eating at the same table. Jesus, uncompromisingly, teaches the same thing. For example, in the Gospel of Luke, chapter 15, he weaves together three stories to make this point: The shepherd who leaves the 99 sheep in order to search for the one stray; the woman who has ten coins, loses one, and cannot rest until she has found her lost coin; and the father who loses two sons, one to weakness and one to anger, and will not rest until he has both back in the house. I particularly like the middle story, the one about the woman with the lost coins, because it is the most clear in making this point: A woman has ten coins (each worth about a dime), she loses one, frantically searches for it, puts on extra lights and sweeps her house, and finally she finds it, is overjoyed, calls in her neighbors, and has a celebration that clearly costs more than what the coin itself was worth. Why her frantic pursuit of one small coin? And why her great joy in finding it? What’s really at issue is not the value of the coin but the loss of wholeness: For a Hebrew at the time, 10 was a number of wholeness, 9 was not. Hence we might recast the story this way: A woman is the mother of ten children. Nine come to visit her regularly and share their lives with her, but one is alienated and refuses to come home or ever talk to her. The woman cannot rest and tries everything imaginable to try to reconcile with her daughter and eventually her daughter comes round. They reconcile. She is overjoyed, phones her friends, and throws a party. Her family is whole again! The same dynamic holds true for the shepherd who leaves the 99 sheep to search for the lost sheep. For a Hebrew at that
time, the number 99 did not designate wholeness, but the number 100 did. The shepherd is like the mother with the alienated daughter, he cannot rest until his family is once again made whole. We see Father the same longing, passion, and sadness in the father of Ron Rolheiser the prodigal son and older brother. He cannot rest, nor be at peace, until both his sons are back in the house. He is overjoyed when his wayward son returns but the story ends with him still outside the house, trying to coax his other son, outside because of anger, to also come inside. His heaven includes both his sons. Our heaven too must be a wide one. Like the woman who lost a coin, like the shepherd who has lost a sheep, and like the father of the prodigal son and older brother, we too shouldn’t rest easy when others are separated from us. The family is only happy when everyone is home. What ultimately characterizes a genuine faith and a big heart is not how pure our churches, doctrines, and morals might be, but how wide is the embrace of our hearts.
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readers and that Mr. DeNunzio will take all these facts into consideration in any future commentaries on state employees. E.F. Sullivan San Francisco
It is my belief that these men deserve the thanks of all of us for their many years of hard work in the Archdiocese and these thanks should be made public in the official organ of the Archdiocese. I personally salute the Marianists and it would be my hope that this salute be made by all of us. As a means of doing this, we should read something in our local Catholic paper. Brother Arnold Stewart, FSC Brothers of the Christian Schools Napa
■ Continued from page 14 claims that California state employees have the highest salary and benefits in the nation. That statement is misleading because Mr. DeNunzio fails to point out the fact that California state employees have received almost nothing in the way cost of living raises over the past ten years, with no pay raises whatsoever from 1995 through 1998 during the second term of Governor Pete Wilson. In fact, the governors own pay studies show that when you compare state employees vs. their private sector counterparts with the same education level, state employee salaries actually lag 15-20 percent behind their private sector counterparts. Mr. DeNunzio goes on to say that a four -day work week translating into a 20 percent pay cut would save the state money. Again, Mr. DeNunzio fails to mention important facts such as the fact the state employees are already in their second year of a 15 percent pay cut due to the furloughs and that this has had almost no impact on the state’s fiscal crisis, proving that state employees are NOT a contributor to California’s budget crisis. In fact the accumulated leave time state employees are mandated to build up during the furloughs may actually cost taxpayers more in the long run. I hope my letter to the editor will clarify this issue for your
Marianists’ long record of service The Marianists staffed (Archbishop) Riordan High School since it opened and, before that staffed St. James High School and St. Joseph’s High School on Howard Street. They provided a Catholic education to the youth of San Francisco for over 100 years. Unfortunately, due to a decrease in the number of Marianists available for staffing, they have been forced to leave Riordan this year. I’ve failed to read anything in Catholic San Francisco regarding their departure from Riordan. I’ve also failed to read anything in the way of words of gratitude for all they’ve done for the Archdiocese in their many years of hard work. In my 13 years as principal at Sacred Heart High School, I had numerous occasions to work in cooperation with Fathers, Brothers and staff at Riordan. There were many times in which I talked with the Father or Brother Principal about various matters of mutual concern, and I always found them to be genuine Catholic educators who were concerned – as I was – about all facets of education our young men (at that time SH was all male.)
Father Ron Rolheiser, theologian, teacher and award-winning author, is president of the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, Texas. He can be reached through his website at ronrolheiser.com
Note to ACLU: faith built America In America, no one is forced to honor God, but the ACLU and others should not be allowed to dismantle our right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. This organization is trying to eradicate our Judeo-Christian heritage to free the government of influence of religious practices. How can their lawyers urge a ban on references to God, public building, federal currency, nativity scenes or memorials? Religion, as viewed by our founders, is integral in law. The Pledge of Allegiance, our patriotic songs and Lincoln’s words are reminders of our nation’s beginnings under God. Most nations didn’t start as one. God Bless America. Olivia Fisher San Francisco
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A READING FROM THE BOOK OF AMOS AM 6:1A, 4-7 Thus says the Lord the God of hosts: Woe to the complacent in Zion! Lying upon beds of ivory, stretched comfortably on their couches, they eat lambs taken from the flock, and calves from the stall! Improvising to the music of the harp, like David, they devise their own accompaniment. They drink wine from bowls and anoint themselves with the best oils; yet they are not made ill by the collapse of Joseph! Therefore, now they shall be the first to go into exile, and their wanton revelry shall be done away with. RESPONSORIAL PSALM PS 146:7, 8-9, 9-10 R. Praise the Lord, my soul! Blessed he who keeps faith forever, secures justice for the oppressed, gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets captives free. R. Praise the Lord, my soul! The LORD gives sight to the blind. The Lord raises up those who were bowed down; the Lord loves the just. The Lord protects strangers. R. Praise the Lord, my soul! The fatherless and the widow he sustains, but the way of the wicked he thwarts.
Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Amos 6:1a, 4-7; Psalm 146:7, 8-9, 9-10; I Timothy 6:11-16; Luke 16:19-31 The Lord shall reign forever; your God, O Zion, through all generations. Alleluia. R. Praise the Lord, my soul! A READING FROM THE FIRST LETTER OF PAUL TO TIMOTHY 1 TM 6:11-16 But you, man of God, pursue righteousness, devotion, faith, love, patience, and gentleness. Compete well for the faith. Lay hold of eternal life, to which you were called when you made the noble confession in the presence of many witnesses. I charge you before God, who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus, who gave testimony under Pontius Pilate for the
noble confession, to keep the commandment without stain or reproach until the appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ that the blessed and only ruler will make manifest at the proper time, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, and whom no human being has seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal power. Amen. A READING FROM THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO LUKE LK 16:19-31 Jesus said to the Pharisees: “There was a rich man who dressed in purple garments and fine linen and dined sumptuously each day. And lying at his door was a poor man named Lazarus,
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he Gospel proposes the image of “a great chasm” that is “established to prevent anyone who might wish to go from our side to yours or from your side to ours.” What is the great chasm? Certainly more than a physical drop between mountain cliffs that interrupts passage across the ridge. Luke imagines a psychological separation, a mental incomprehension, an experiential difference, or a radical perspective on reality that results in such polarization that rich and poor, parents and children, one language and another, this life and the next– cannot be brought together. He applies the “great chasm” to the consciousness of the rich about the poor. So what is Luke getting at, other than saying, “Pay attention to the poor at your doorstep?” Is this an elegant form of a fireand-brimstone revival tent sermon, warning believers what awaits them if they don’t repent and change their ways? The parable can certainly be read on this level. The passage from Amos also has this orientation. Amos warns “the complacent in Zion” that their “wanton revelry” shall be done away with and they will be punished by exile. It always strikes me how candid Hebrew Scripture is. Here is a passage whose larger context calls upon the rich to care for the poor. Past generations, criticized for their materially comfortable and mindless life-style, don’t look praiseworthy. Still, later Jewish editors never censored or deleted such passages. Instead, they preserved the threatening words of Amos as a reflection of the congregation’s abiding commitment to the poor—charity whose foundation is care for the widow, the orphan and the stranger. The point of charity is that while it may begin at home, it extends beyond it, treating the anonymous widow, orphan and stranger as though they were family. This principle, of paying attention to the
Scripture reflection ELOISE ROSENBLATT, PH.D.
A great chasm needs of anonymous persons who are unrelated to you, is one theme in Luke’s parable. In the parable, the anonymous poor man is dignified and particularized as Lazarus. The rich man is the one who is anonymous. Lazarus was a pitiable, ordinary human being, suffering the misery of loneliness, poverty, and illness, his body putrefying from infection and sores. Dogs showed him more pity than the householder. The parable is populated by men—the rich man, Lazarus, Abraham and the five brothers, Moses and the prophets. This may distract from the truth that most of the poor of the world are women, not men. As the on-line publicity material for the documentary “A Powerful Voice” sums up: “Of 3 billion people who live in absolute poverty around the globe, 70 percent are women and girls. Women work two-thirds of the world’s working hours, but earn only 10 percent of the income. Women produce one-half of the world’s food, yet own only 1 percent of the land. Women make up two-thirds of the estimated 876 million adults worldwide who cannot read or write. Girls
make up two-thirds of the 77 million children not attending school.” Maybe the “rich man” in the parable stands for men who need a change of consciousness, not merely about “the poor,” but about the grinding reality of women’s gender-specific poverty. In Luke’s parable, a mindless rich man who didn’t pay attention to the poor seems to have a change of heart in hell, and wants to spare his own brothers the pain he now suffers. But does he really have a change of heart? Or is hell just a continuation of how he was in life? If he has suddenly become altruistic, it’s too late. But is “it can be too late” the message? Should we pity the poor rich man who wants father Abraham to send Lazarus to him for a moment’s relief? With fortunes reversed, the rich man wakes up from his indifference and seems to “see aright.” Lazarus at the side of Abraham embodies the religious tradition which sees the poor as loved and valued in God’s eyes. He makes a dramatic plea to Abraham, “Send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water to
covered with sores, who would gladly have eaten his fill of the scraps that fell from the rich man’s table. Dogs even used to come and lick his sores. When the poor man died, he was carried away by angels to the bosom of Abraham. The rich man also died and was buried, and from the netherworld, where he was in torment, he raised his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side. And he cried out, ‘Father Abraham, have pity on me. Send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am suffering torment in these flames.’ Abraham replied, ‘My child, remember that you received what was good during your lifetime while Lazarus likewise received what was bad; but now he is comforted here, whereas you are tormented. Moreover, between us and you a great chasm is established to prevent anyone from crossing who might wish to go from our side to yours or from your side to ours.’ He said, ‘Then I beg you, father, send him to my father’s house, for I have five brothers, so that he may warn them, lest they too come to this place of torment.’ But Abraham replied, ‘They have Moses and the prophets. Let them listen to them.’ He said, ‘Oh no, father Abraham, but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.’ Then Abraham said, ‘If they will not listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if someone should rise from the dead.’” cool my tongue.” What a sense of imperious entitlement! Abraham should be at his service, and Lazarus should be sent like a charge nurse. Lazarus, the very one whom he ignored, is now supposed to pay attention to the rich man’s misery and relieve his thirst, like a house-slave. He should do what the rich man never did, leave a place of comfort to offer the rich man physical relief. The rich man hasn’t really changed. Now the tradition itself should be twisted so it serves his own needs. The poor should serve him, not the other way around. Does the rich man’s compassion toward his family show a change of heart, since he wants to spare them his torment? Is he now proving himself supremely self-sacrificing and generous? No. He still sees himself as a man of privilege, worthy to ask for special service. Abraham should respond to his request that a message be sent from him in hell via messengers from heaven to his own family members on earth. He is concerned only about his own family’s well-being, not anyone else’s. This is not a parable about a rich young man divesting himself of his wealth, giving it all to the poor, and then following Jesus. It’s a story of minimal care. The rich man didn’t extend even a small act of kindness toward the person on his porch. He has not really had a change of heart. He is still acting as though he has power that heaven and earth must respond to. This is what condemns people even in this life. It’s not a new message, or the result of a post-Resurrection conversion, to pay attention to the poor. It’s part of religious tradition that’s already been taught for generations. Eloise Rosenblatt, Ph.D., is a Sister of Mercy and theologian. She is also an attorney in private practice in San Jose. She can be reached at eloros@sbcglobal.net.
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Fear is the enemy of joy The fear of failure dominates the thinking of many people. People tend to become perfectionists in order to avoid failing. This nervous condition can lead to self-sabotage in a thousand ways. But isn’t it true nobody can be perfect? We all have to live with our imperfections, and still love ourselves in the process. I knew a forty-year old woman who quit college years earlier because she was afraid of failing her first set of exams. Instead of trusting herself to pass the exam, she just didn’t show up. In fact she dropped out of school entirely. This type of fear caused her problems throughout her entire life. She didn’t know how to cope, and didn’t have faith enough to trust her fears to the Lord. Faith brings with it a new confidence. Once you know that you are loved, good things begin to happen. Faith teaches us that “God loves us; and God gives us the grace we need to succeed. Patience and trust are the keys to a peaceful life. There is no need to be afraid.”
The words “Do not be afraid,” are repeated 365 times in the Bible. They are words of wisdom coming directly from God. Once we believe them, and act on them, we can become more secure and peaceful. There are many kinds of fear. For instance, jealousy and envy are forms of fear. Jealousy is the worry that someone is taking what is rightfully yours. Envy is sadness over the good fortune of another; it is a fear that you are not getting your fair share. The fear of failing goes to the heart of all our fears. We don’t want to lose what we perceive to be necessary for our happiness. But think about it. Do you really need what you think you need? Or do you merely think you want it? How sad it is to fear losing something that you don’t really need. Think it through! Let go of the fears that weigh you down. Making progress may take time, but your patience and trust in the Lord will carry you through. Prayer will put you
in touch with God’s power. Ask for the gift of a true faith, and God will eventually do for you what you cannot yet do for yourself. Once you build up a solid level of trust in God, your soul will soar. Father Here is a prayer written by St. Teresa of Avila. It may John Catoir help you along the way: Dear Lord, let nothing disturb me, let nothing cause me fear. Teach me that trust and patience obtains all. Father John Catoir, head of St. Jude Media, writes a column for Catholic News Service
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St. Mary’s Cathedral: The Lord Reigns, He is Clothed in Beauty Not quite six months after his arrival in San Francisco, its of the Church: a noble simplicity which was to be one of the fifth Archbishop, Joseph T. McGucken, faced the destruction most striking qualities of St. Mary’s Cathedral. I have often by fire of St. Mary’s Cathedral on Van Ness Avenue. With stood at the entrance of the Cathedral as people came for evecourage and vision he stood in the ashes and proclaimed ning Mass, heard them talking as they made their way to the that there would be a new cathedral. door when suddenly, as they stepped inside, the conversation The first attempt at a design was timid and stereotyped. stopped and there was a cry of astonishment at the immense The public reaction was mixed but the archbishop listened soaring beauty of the place. Such integrity of material and carefully to criticism from workmanship, such simplicmany sources. The new ity of line, the colors of the cathedral had to be someupper windows, such majesty thing great, imaginative, a and grace of the pipe organ, structure which would capthe power of the great altar, ture the beauty and power of the embracing lower winSan Francisco. Recognizing, dows drawing into the sacred as Archbishop Riordan place the human activity and had after the earthquake of life of San Francisco. 1906, that he was a citizen St. Mary’s Cathedral is a of no mean city, Archbishop window on the infinite, lifting McGucken determined that the human spirit to the Infinite he had to go back to the and Eternal Beauty which is drawing board in search God. This is precisely what of something that would Dorothy Day perceived here. embody vision and hope At a meeting called by the and greatness. The existing U.S. bishops about social design would not do. issues in our country, Dorothy 1962: Archbishop Joseph McGucken gives an address He thus invited Pietro listened to vigorous criticism in the ruins of the old cathedral building at Belluschi to join the archiof the money spent on buildVan Ness Avenue and O’Farrell Street. tectural team to work with ing St. Mary’s Cathedral. the engineering genius, Pier When she finally spoke, she Luigi Nervi. Archbishop McGucken charged them to do said, “I hope you bishops will not pay attention to this critithree things: design a cathedral that would accommodate cism. The Cathedral in San Francisco is one of the few places large numbers of people; one that would enable even large where the poor can go and sit down and be with God in beauty.” crowds to surround the altar; and a structure that would be In the depths of tragedy, something stirred in the soul a statement that God is present in beauty in the earthly city. of Archbishop McGucken. A vision gradually took shape Belluschi himself prized two things in his designs– integrity in him that something new and great could be done. He and simplicity. These qualities eminently reflected what the grasped the dream. And now a timeless thing of beauty Second Vatican Council, then in session, sought in the liturgy stands in noble simplicity – a “luminous tent” as Gyorgy
Kepes, designer of the windows called it. It is a great hymn to God’s transcendent glory. How fitting to describe it all are Archbishop the words of Eliot’s poem: We thank Thee who John R. Quinn has moved us to building, to finding, to forming at the ends of our fingers and beams of our eyes. And when we have built an altar to the Invisible Light, we may set thereon the little lights for which our bodily vision is made. And we thank Thee that darkness reminds us of light. O Light Invisible, we give Thee thanks for Thy great glory.” Archbishop John R. Quinn is Emeritus Archbishop of San Francisco. He served from 1977 to 1995 as the sixth archbishop of the Archdiocese and as president of the U.S. Catholic Conference and National Conference of Catholic Bishops from 1977 to 1980. Archbishop Quinn’s commentary is the first in an occasional series marking the 40th anniversary of St. Mary’s Cathedral. The cathedral staff is planning a series of events to appeal to the entire Archdiocese, culminating in a special liturgy next May. More than 100 priests and half-a-dozen bishops have been ordained at the cathedral. During his visit to San Francisco in 1987 Pope John Paul II gathered people from around the country for two meetings in the cathedral.
1987: Archbishop Quinn at the cathedral with Pope John Paul II.
1986: Archbishop Quinn baptizes John Hughan at the cathedral font.
Philippine diplomat visits St. Pat’s seminary
Philippine Consul General in San Francisco Marciano A. Paynor Jr. visited St. Patrick’s Seminary and University Aug. 19 at the invitation of Nellie Hizon, a member of the seminary Board of Regents. St. Patrick’s President and Rector Father James McKearney, SS, and Vice President for External Affairs Father James Myers, SS, welcomed the ambassador and his wife, Teresita, with a tour of the seminary. The tour highlighted current enrollment and the recent history of Filipino seminarians and their contribution to the U.S. Church. Seminarians of Filipino descent, both U.S. residents and non-residents, represent nearly a quarter of the student body of 107.
Youth outing on Oct. 16 Teens and young adults are invited to a day of riding roller coasters, listening to music and meeting other Catholics in the first ever ONFIRE2010 on Oct. 16 at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo. The day starts at 9 a.m. with Mass and a concert, followed by a keynote address by Catholic evangelist David Bisono. The park opens at noon, the lunch buffet is set for 1:30 p.m. and a special prayer service for parents and chaperones is scheduled for mid-afternoon. “We hope it will be the largest gathering of Catholic youth and young adults in Northern California,” said Vivian Clausing, associate director for Youth Ministry & Catechesis for the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Teen and young adult groups are particularly invited and can find out more information through their parishes or by going to norcalcatholicyouth.com. ONFIRE 2010 is a fall gathering sponsored by the Catholic dioceses of Northern California youth and young adult ministries. It features Mass, concerts and amusement park rides. The participating dioceses are San Francisco, Oakland, Sacramento, Stockton, San Jose, Santa Rosa, Monterey, Fresno and Reno. More information will also be distributed at the Archdiocesan Youth Mass at 4 p.m. on Sept. 26 at St. Anne of the Sunset Church in San Francisco.
St. Augustine Parish celebrating 40th year St. Augustine Church began in July 1970 under the leadership of Father Paul Duggan. Serving families from Daly City, Pacifica, San Bruno and South San Francisco,
St. Augustine was officially established in December of the same year with a small but very dedicated and faithful parishioner group. Father Duggan, his supporters and staff worked tirelessly to oversee the details involved in the construction of a new church building, which was dedicated in 1975. Under the leadership of its second pastor, Father Michael Keane, the parish hall and rectory were inaugurated in 1980. The parish began to expand not only in the number of buildings but also in the number of registered parishioners and daily mass goers. Msgr. Floro Arcamo took the helm as St. Augustine’s third pastor and oversaw the continued growth of parishioners. And, during Father Eugene Tungol’s tenure as fourth pastor, the church was expanded in order to accommodate its growing population. Four decades later, as the parish celebrates its 40th anniversary, St. Augustine is acknowledged as among the largest parishes in the Archdiocese of San Francisco, with Father Rene Ramoso as pastor and Father Luello Palacpac as assistant. In observance of the anniversary, St. Augustine will hold its annual parish festival on Sept. 24-26. Among the highlights are the Dollar Raffle, the Youth Night show, the Home and Garden Sale, and a silent auction. To add to the festivities there will be entertainment, food and games throughout the weekend. A Thanksgiving Mass is scheduled at 12:30 p.m. on Sunday and will be followed by a show and the awarding of the Dollar Raffle’s major prizes. On Saturday evening, Oct. 23, a multimedia presentation, “Making a Difference in Our Parish through the Years,” will narrate the parish’s 40-year history. It will include the participation of various parish organizations and ministries, choirs and cantors, original parishioners and the youth who will lead the parish in years to come. – Nestor L. Fernandez II, St. Augustine Parish
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Estevez directs Sheen in pilgrimage film on American faith By Michael Swan TORONTO (CNS) – Actor and director Emilio Estevez reluctantly went to Spain to tell a story about how faith, hope and walking are all part of the American way of overcoming hard times. Estevez told The Catholic Register that his new film “The Way” is about American spirituality. The story follows four “broken souls” walking the Camino de Santiago de Compostela, or the Way of St. James, through Spain. “Americans are searching for something,” Estevez said. “The Camino serves as the ultimate metaphor for life.” The movie premiered Sept. 10 at the Toronto International Film Festival. It is to be distributed outside North America by Icon Productions. Estevez’s father, Martin Sheen, first proposed making a film about the Camino seven years ago. During a break in filming “The West Wing,” Sheen had attended a family reunion in Ireland, and then headed for Spain to walk the Camino. But Sheen had to be back in the United States and did not have the six to eight weeks it takes to complete the walk. Sheen insisted his son had to make a movie about the pilgrim’s path. At first, Estevez said no, but reading such books as journalist Jack Hitt’s “Off the Road: A ModernDay Walk Down the Pilgrim’s Route Into Spain” helped him shape the script. Sheen plays a 70-year-old American doctor who goes to Spain to claim the body of his son, who died halfway through a pilgrimage. The father completes the walk and falls in with an oddball group: an Irishman angry with the church, a cynical Canadian woman looking for redemption and a Dutchman who seems lost. “None of these characters is in any way perfect. In fact they’re all flawed, broken and not particularly attractive,” Estevez said. . In the end they discover that “we can’t do it alone,” the director said. Walking inevitably becomes a theme in a movie about a pilgrimage. “Isn’t it our first instinct?” asked Estevez. “When we’re babies it’s the only thing we want to do – to get on our two feet and move forward.” Getting the walking right was an issue during filming. Sheen was walking too fast, too confidently, for the director’s taste: “I said, ‘Look, you’re fit. You look great. You’re playing a guy who is 70. You are 70, almost. So maybe you could slow the pace down a little bit.
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Priest-playwright: “Theater reminds you of God” By Mary Chalupsky NEW HAVEN, Conn.. (CNS) – When thee Knights of Columbus wanted to sponsor a play about the organization’s founder, Father Michael J. McGivney, they turned to priestplaywright Dominican Father Peter John Cameron. He wrote “He Was Our Father,” a 90-minute, one-act play that recounts the pivotal moments in the life of F Father McGivney, h M Gi who is a candidate for sainthood. It debuted in Chicago in 2005. The founding editor-in-chief of the monthly prayer aid z. he also just published his seventh book, “Mysteries of the Rosary: Living Our Lady’s Graces,” on the importance of Mary as seen through the mysteries and feasts of her life. Author, editor, journalist, playwright, theatrical artistic director, professor of homiletics, preacher, retreat master – Father Cameron’s resume is extensive. The common thread is his vocation. “My priesthood and my evangelizing ... my preaching is first,” he said. Father Cameron said he is a priest so that others may meet Christ. “I met him and I realized that life doesn’t make sense without him,” he said. “Every need and longing of our heart has an answer, and he’s the answer. When Christ gazes at you, your life changes. His gaze is on everyone, just waiting for our answer.” Father Cameron rises early to write at St. Mary’s Priory and keeps working on his commute by train to his office in Yonkers, N.Y. “I’ve always loved writing; and when I was given permission (in the seminary) to do a graduate degree in theater, I opted for playwriting,” he said. “It was a way to keep my finger in the theater.” He estimates that he has written and produced about 10 plays through the Blackfriars (a common name for Dominican friars) Repertory Theatre in New York – the first religious theater there and the only professional-
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level theater sponsored by a Catholic organization in the United States. It has launched the careers of such actors as Patricia Neal, Darren McGavin and Shelley Berman. The theater was founded in 1940 by Dominican Fathers Urban Nagle and Thomas Carey, but it closed in 1972. Father Cameron, who is its artistic director, revived it in 1998. Of theater, he said, “It’s an attempt to see, find and experience the ultimate purpose of life in a real-life experience.” He said there is a beauty about the theater that is “deeply compelling,” adding that there are very few occasions when people are “together in one place, united for one reason, agreeing to keep silence together in order to share in the experience. “Theater reminds you of God,” Father Cameron reflected. “To be human is to thirst for the infinite.”
Chicago priest to host weekly national program on commercial TV network CHICAGO (CNS) – A Chicago archdiocesan priest who teaches systematic theology and is a well-known homilist with a popular evangelization website and radio program is now launching a weekly national program on a commercial TV network. Beginning Oct. 3, “Word on Fire With Father Barron” will appear on WGN America Sundays at 8:30 a.m. Central time. The Chicago-based network, which offers its national programming across North America, is carried on various cable outlets. An announcement on Father Robert Barron’s website, www.wordonfire.org, said his show will be “a groundbreaking broadcast” because he “will become the first priest since Archbishop Fulton Sheen in the 1950s to have a regular, national program on a commercial television network.” The archbishop’s show was called “Life Is Worth Living.” Father Barron, a professor at the University of St. Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary since 1992, has a global media ministry called “Word on Fire,” which aims “to educate and engage the culture.” The priest said he has the same mission for his TV show, which is being funded by private donations, according to the announcement. “Now is the time to reach out to Catholics and others who are searching for meaning in their lives or who have left the church because they are disillusioned,” he said in a statement. “In each episode, our mission will be to encourage believers and bring the transformative power of the Gospel to the culture.” He holds the Francis Cardinal George chair of faith and culture at Mundelein. Ordained a priest in Chicago in 1986, he has published numerous books, essays and DVDs.
Father Barron also lectures and leads retreats and workshops around the world. In downtown Chicago, he holds a series of missions for business, civic and cultural leaders. His homilies can be heard Thursday mornings on Relevant Radio. He Father Robert Barron, is a regular commentator a Chicago archdiocesan on the Paulists’ “Busted Halo Show” on the Sirius priest and professor of satellite radio network systematic theology, will based in New York. He begin broadcasting a appears on the Eternal weekly national television Word Television Network, show on commercial TV. and videos of his commentaries can be found regularly on YouTube. Father Barron holds a master’s degree in philosophy from The Catholic University of America in Washington and a doctorate in sacred theology from the Institut Catholique de Paris. For the past two years, he has been producing a 10-part documentary series called “Catholicism,” traveling to 16 countries to tell the story of the church. The release is set for next year, but Father Barron said he will preview some highlights of the series in his weekly broadcasts. The faith of the church is our strength,” said the priest. “Our program will strive to show viewers the richness of the Catholic faith and how it is a treasure to be shared now and with future generations. The faith imbues our life with meaning and imparts to all a renewed sense of purpose.”
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St. Mary’s Cathedral Gough and Geary Blvd. in San Francisco. Call (415) 567-2020 Festival of Flowers, Sept. 30 – Oct. 3, 2010. For four decades, flowers have been used to decorate and augment the beauty of the 19-story-high St. Mary’s Cathedral, an architectural masterpiece atop Cathedral Hill. The Flower Festival schedule includes an opening-night gala on Sept. 30 from 6 to 9 p.m. - $75 per person; more than 30 renowned floral artists from the Bay Area, unique floral elements, including a large-scale, organic floral display floating 20 feet in the air; distinctive exhibits, creative demonstrations and workshops by the artists and others on topics including basic floral preparation, Ikebana, and an overview of the Cathedral’s history and more. The Festival of Flowers is an annual open house, where all are welcome to enjoy the beauty of the floral artwork. For more information, visit www. CathedralFlowers.org, or call (415) 567-2020. Strength for the Journey, a ministry of support for people diagnosed with life-threatening illness and the families, friends and caregivers, is in its inaugural stage at the cathedral. Deacon Christoph Sandoval is director. Cal (415) 567-2020, ext. 203, or e-mail Rcs7777@comcast.net.
Arts and Entertainment Oct. 8, 8 p.m.: “A Night of Prayer and Song” with musicians Bob Hurd and Dan Schutte at St. Kevin Church, 704 Cortland Ave. in San Francisco. Songs written by the pair include Pan de Vida and Here I Am Lord. Tickets at $25 per person include refreshments at 7:30 p.m. Visit www.lanier.org/st-kevin or contact Matt Lanier at (650) 738-1632 or matt@ lanier.org. Proceeds benefit the parish.
Social Justice / Lectures Respect Life Saturdays through Dec. 18, 9 a.m. – 11 a.m.: Scripture Study at Mater Dolorosa Church, 307 Willow Ave. off Grand in South San Francisco. $15 covers materials. Contact Gloria Flores at matergf@ aol.com. Sept. 25, 9 – 10 a.m.: “Walk a Mile in My Shoes,” a benefit marking the 50th anniversary of the St. Vincent de Paul Society conference at St. Raphael Church in San Rafael. No fees or registration costs. “Please help us celebrate by joining us as we walk one mile for people who are poor and hungry in San Rafael,” SVDP said. “Be a voice for the poor.” Call (415) 454-8141, ext. 10, or visit www.saintraphael.com. Oct. 4, 11, 7:30 – 9 p.m.: Presentations on upcoming November ballot measures and perspective on California government reform at St. Matthias Church, 1685 Cordilleras Rd. off Edgewood Rd. in Redwood City. Coordinated by parish social justice ministry. Call Evie Dwyer at (650) 368-9372. Oct. 10, 2 p.m.: “Afternoon Tea” sponsored by YLI Dolores #7 at St. Cecilia Lower Hall, 17th and Vicente St. in San Francisco. Adults: $15 and children under 10 $5. Call Patricia Carlin at (415) 681-8858. Nov. 6, 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.: “Medjugorje Healing Conference” at St. James the Apostle Church, 34700 Fremont Blvd, Fremont. Come hear remarkable testimonies, excellent speakers, renowned musicians, and experience adoration, Mass, reconciliation, and a beautiful procession with the Blessed Sacrament. Sign-ups are happening now. Tickets are only $20 per person. Free lunch provided. Call (510) 635-1920 or visit www.holychoices.org/conference.
Oct. 11: 18th Annual Capuchin Golf Tournament at Green Hills Country Club in Millbrae. $300 includes golf, range and cart as well as lunch, dinner, beverages, tee prizes and tournament prizes. Tickets at $50 include dinner only. The Capuchin Friars are celebrating their 100th anniversary in the Western United States in 2010. Proceeds benefit social service programs of the Capuchin Friars of the Western America Province. For reservations, call Bill Mason at (650) 906-1040 or Roy Nickolai at (650) 760-6584. For dinner reservations only, call Anne Hahn at (650) 692-5044.
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CORRECTION: The St. Vincent de Paul Society of San Francisco’s Brennan Award Civic Luncheon will be held at the San Francisco Marriott Marquis, located at 55 Fourth Street, on October 6, 2010. The event begins at 11a.m. with a silent auction and reception, followed by lunch and the awards presentation at noon. For information or to purchase tickets, please call (415) 977-1270 x3079 or visit www.svdp-sf. org/brennanaward. required by September 25.To respond or for more information, call Jack at (415) 566-4230 or Miriam at (415) 992-3657. Oct. 22-24: A Beginning Experience Widowed, Separated and Divorced Weekend at Vallombrosa Center, Oak Grove Ave. in Menlo Park. Contact Cathy at (408) 262-3718 or Helen at (415) 388-9651 You may also e-mail SJBeginExp@aol.com or visit www.beginningexperience.org. Jesuit Father Al Grosskopf is the group’s spiritual director.
Taize/Sung Prayer “Our school is no longer there but the true spirit of sisterhood lives within each one of us,” said Maria Rinaldi Vincent, an organizer of August’s St. Paul High School class of ’80 reunion a La Quinta Suites in Millbrae. “The nuns would have been proud to see what we have done with our lives! Twenty-seven from the class of 60 were on hand to tell and hear stories of old.” Also serving on the “sister soiree” committee were Dette Bitanga, Sandy Muffareh Jadallah, Linda West, Margarita Cartegena, and Gina Delrosario.
Vocations/Serra Clubs Oct. 18, 7:30 p.m.: “Come and See Gathering with the Society of Jesus” – the Jesuits - at Loyola House/ USF, Lone Mountain campus, 2600 Turk Blvd. in San Francisco, for single men ages 18 – 45. This informal gathering enables Catholic men who would like to explore a possible vocation to religious life, serving as a priest or brother, to get to know the Jesuits of the California Province. Participants will hear vocation stories, life as a Jesuit, the spirituality and work of the Society. There will be opportunities to listen to, ask questions, and speak with Jesuit priests, brothers and men in formation. Pizzas and refreshments will be served afterward. There is no cost for this event, but pre-registration is requested. To register, call Teresa Rechsteiner, Loyola House secretary, at (415) 422-4200 or e-mail trechsteiner@usfca.edu. For more information, call Brother James C. (Jim) Siwicki, S.J., vocation director, at (408) 884-1613 or e-mail jsiwicki@calprov.org.
Food & Fun Oct. 3, 7:30 a.m. registration: ”Strides for Life,” a four-mile walk or run benefiting colon cancer research and founded in memory of Dylan Cappel who died from the disease at age 23 while training for a spot on the 2004 Olympic Rowing Team. Dylan was a graduate of St. Dunstan Elementary School and Junipero Serra High School. Colon cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States and 90 percent of them are preventable with proper diagnosis and treatment. Teams and solo runners welcome. The event takes place around Lake Merced from Lake Merced and Sunset Blvd. in San Francisco. Pre-registration is $35/$45 on race day. Fees include shirt, goodie bag and breakfast after the race. Call (650) 348-5800 or visit www.stridesforlife.org Oct. 9, 10 a.m.: Star of the Sea Parish and School festival. Festivities include live entertainment, crafts, Touch -a- Truck and kids games. Get some holiday shopping done at the upstairs boutique while you enjoy homemade treats. Bingo 11 a.m. -5 p.m. Family pasta dinner starts at 5 p.m. Free parking available. Come to Star of the Sea Parish Center at 345 8th Ave. between Clement and Geary in San Francisco. Call (415) 751-0450 for tickets or information. October 15, 16, 17: Relive childhood memories and create new ones at “Playland at St. Cecilia”, where you can enjoy the “Giant” Slide, delight in
an It’s It, and maybe get a glimpse of Laughing Sal. Join us at our annual festival benefitting St. Cecilia Parish, Vicente and 18th Ave in San Francisco: Friday 6-10 pm; Saturday noon-4 and 6-10 pm; Sunday noon-6pm. Tons of indoor and outdoor games, silent auction, bingo, raffles (over $5000 in cash prizes), fun house, carnival activities, salami toss. Enjoy a hot lunch and dinner in our snack bar. Call (415) 309-8073 or visit www. scfestival.com.
TV/Radio Fridays at 9 a.m.: “The Archbishop’s Hour” on Immaculate Heart Radio, KSFB - 1260 AM, San Francisco. Enjoy news, conversation and in-depth look at local and larger Church. Program is rerun Fridays and Mondays at 9 p.m. and Sundays at 11 a.m. - e-mail info@sfarchdiocese.org with comments and questions about faith. 1260 AM also offers daily Mass, rosary and talk on the faith. Visit www.ihradio.org Sunday, 6 a.m., KOFY Channel 20/Cable 13 and KTSF Channel 26/Cable 8: TV Mass with Msgr. Harry Schlitt presiding. Sunday, 7 a.m.: TV Mass on The Filipino Channel (TFC) (Channel 241 on Comcast and Channel 2060 on Direct TV. Saturday, 4 p.m.: Religious programming in Cantonese over KVTO 1400 AM, co-sponsored by the Chinese Ministry and Chinese Young Adults of the Archdiocese. 1st Sunday, 5 a.m., CBS Channel 5: “Mosaic,” featuring conversations on current Catholic issues. EWTN Catholic Television: Comcast Channel 229, AT&T Channel 562, Astound Channel 80, San Bruno Cable Channel 143, DISH Satellite Channel 261, Direct TV Channel 370. For programming details, visit www.ewtn.com
Single, Divorced, Separated Information about Bay Area single, divorced and separated programs is available from Jesuit Father Al Grosskopf at grosskopf@usfca.edu (415) 422-6698. Oct 2, 6 p.m.: Separated and Divorced Catholics of the Bay Area Annual Gala Dinner at the Lakeside Café, 2529 Ocean Avenue, San Francisco (near Stonestown). No-host wine and beer at 6 p.m. with a gourmet dinner at 7 p.m. Tickets at $40 include wine and dessert. Evening guarantees a good meal and great companionship. Reservations are
1st Friday at 8 p.m.: Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Dr., Burlingame with Mercy Sister Suzanne Toolan. Call (650) 340-7452; young adults are invited each first Friday of the month to attend a social at 6 p.m. prior to Taize prayer at 8 p.m. The social provides light refreshments and networking with other young adults. Convenient parking is available. For more information, e-mail mercyyoungadults@sbcglobal.net. Tuesdays at 6 p.m.: Notre Dame Des Victoires Church, 566 Bush at Stockton, San Francisco with Rob Grant. Call (415) 397-0113. 3rd Friday, 8 p.m.: Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose, Motherhouse Chapel, 43326 Mission Blvd. (off Mission Tierra), Fremont. For further information, please contact Dominican Sister Beth Quire at (510) 449-7554 or visit our website at www.msjdominicans.org for more information.
Reunion Oct. 2, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.: Our Lady of Loretto Alumni! The Fall Festival is back! Come and visit for a day of family fun for all ages! Enjoy carnival games, balloons, golf, bungee run and jumpy house during the day for the kids, followed by an Italian Dinner in the courtyard for families in the evening. Contact the School Office at (415) 892-8621 for ticket information or any questions. Looking forward to seeing you there and meeting old friends and classmates! Oct. 23: Class of 2000 Notre Dame High School, Belmont with campus tours at 4:30 p.m. and celebratory event at 7 p.m. at King Fish Restaurant in San Mateo. E-mail ndbjaguars2000@gmail.com. Oct. 23: Archbishop Riordan High School, class of ’60 dinner dance, at the Italian American Social Club in San Francisco. Contact Tucker Spolter at teespot@earthlink.net or (415) 461-4628, or Tom Aspell at aspellt@al.com. Oct. 24: St John Ursuline High School, San Francisco is having the class of ’75, ’76, ’77 Reunion Lunch at the Irish Cultural Center.Contact Karen Grimley (75’) at karen.grimley@ssf.net or Theresa Keane (77’) at theresakeane@gmail.com for information – please respond by by Oct 1. Nov. 20, 4 – 8 p.m.: Class of ’60, Holy Name of Jesus Elementary School in San Francisco on school campus at 40th Ave. and Lawton. Contact Dennis Norton at (415) 454-3184 or danort@comcast.net.
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Most beautiful flower of Mt. Carmel Blessed Mother of the Son of God, assistme in my need. Help me and show me you are my mother. Oh Holy Mary, Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and earth. I humbly beseech you from the bottom of my heart to help me in this need. Oh Mary, conceived without sin. Pray for us (3X). Holy Mary, I place this cause in your hands (3X). Say prayers 3 days. P.R.
Most beautiful flower of Mt. Carmel Blessed Mother of the Son of God, assistme in my need. Help me and show me you are my mother. Oh Holy Mary, Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and earth. I humbly beseech you from the bottom of my heart to help me in this need. Oh Mary, conceived without sin. Pray for us (3X). Holy Mary, I place this cause in your hands (3X). Say prayers 3 days. C.O.
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In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of August HOLY CROSS COLMA Sr. Mary of the Eucharist, O.C.D. David Lawrence Alvers Maria Teresa Baez Genevieve A. Balzarini Leona Bartholomew Estanislao Bautista Donald W. Behnken Lawrence Raymond Bertolucci Norma Boike John P. Bonnassiolle Rosa Juarez Boyle Barbara J. Cadigan Helen Theresa Caires Mary L. Campi Maria C. Cardenas Jovita Carpio Roland E. Casassa Victor Casco, Jr. Victor Casco, Sr. Margaret “Peggy” Casey Jorge Serrano Castillo Angela V. Castro May W. Chun Hubert C. Conway Carolina De La Rama Cornejo Dorothy E. Corvi Nino R. Cresci Elvira C. Cristiani Carlo J. Crivello Ellen Louise Crosson Esmo Dal Poggetto Juanita Ruiz De Zordo Mark K. DeAngelis James Mitchell Deignan Audrey A. Diridoni Crestita P. Dizon June M. Dodane Leonard E. Dold Patrick A. Dunleavy
Garrett Ekman Agnes Rose O’Donnell Fernandez Michael J. Flannery Lola Saenz Flores Thomas Flynn Mary Bell Gardner Raul A. Garduno, Jr. Steven J. Geramoni Primo Gestra Genevieve Giannini James A. Grady Louis A. Grech Desmond Michael Grogan Hilda Oneida Guandique John F. (Jeff) Healy Aneriueta U. Heather Charles Edward Hoenisch, Jr. Alice L. Holmes Margaret Hustedt Mary Louise Iannone Anthony Ingoglia Myrtle Ivers-Gaudy Albert L. Jones Yvonne S. Jones Kenneth R. Jones Rev. W. Thomas Jones, SM Margaret E. Kenmore Genevieve La Motte Stuart La Motte Ernesto Lacayo L. Ka Lap Lao Kam Yuen Lo Lao Estelle G. Ledford Remigio S. Leonardo Daniel J. Linehan Ruby Lucas Adela M. Mangabot Frances A. Maradiaga Enrico Marchesin Jean K. Martin Mary B. McCarthy Jim McKeever
Louise S. McMichael Alice McNamara Patricia Medrano Maryland V. Miller Bertha Mendez Miron Donald S. Modena George S. Molcilo Narcizo (Hugo) Rodriguez Montano Archie E. Moses James Michael Murphy William C. Murray Anne Musante John Musante Helen M. Nagle Dick Yat Ng Robert J. Noryko Michael J. O’Brien Ronald E. O’Connor William F. Oberster Adilia Olivares Juana M. Ortiz Robert Mark Ostello Rosa E. Parada Virginia B. Pilapil Grace Prado Perminia Quaglia Alberto N. Quintanilla Beatrice Nicole Reynoso Lydia H. Riera Joseph R. Rivera Richard H. Rodriguez Yvonne H. Rodriguez Joseph Carmen Menchavez Rojo Michael Salvemini Macario I. Santos Alfred J. Sazio Mary E. Scannell Patrick Senkir Frank Edward Sever Dorothy Shaffer Antoinette R. Skalko Sean M. Smith
Liam Spiers Doris S. Stefani Beatriz Talavera Eva Y. Thompson Donna Tolotti Maria J. Torres Angel M. Uribe Yolanda Valle Shirley A. Van Wart Carmelita F. Waechter Susan Walters-Sanchez Thomas Walter Westwood Trude Winter Kam Ho Yeung Carmela V. Zammit
HOLY CROSS MENLO PARK Carol J. Collard Donald E. Edwards Elena M. Lovergine Hugh O’Donnell Consuelo Rios Joseph A. Valdes
MT. OLIVET SAN RAFAEL Paolo Agazzi Chief Franklin J. Buscher (Ret.) John Antone Caito John H. Kong Wesley H. Kong Kelly Jean McLaughlin Mary E. Moore John M. Muelrath Dr. Maurice I. P. Redor Frank J. Sabbatini Marina Ventura
HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY, COLMA First Saturday Mass – Saturday, October 2, 2010 All Saints Mausoleum Chapel – 11:00 am • Fr. Domingo Orimaco, Our Lady of Mercy, Celebrant
Todos Los Santos –All Saints’ Day Celebration Saturday, October 30, 2010 • 11:00am Holy Cross Mausoleum Chapel • Bishop William Justice, Celebrant Refreshments following mass
Transforming Grief Saturday, October 2, 2010 • St. Robert Parish, San Bruno • 9:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. A day of spiritual retreat for those who are grieving the death of a loved one. Please call Barbara Elordi, Presenter to register (415) 614-5506.
The Catholic Cemeteries Archdiocese of San Francisco www.holycrosscemeteries.com HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY 1500 Mission Road, Colma, CA 650-756-2060
HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY Intersection of Santa Cruz Avenue, Menlo Park, CA 650-323-6375
MT. OLIVET CATHOLIC CEMETERY 270 Los Ranchitos Road, San Rafael, CA 415-479-9020
PILARCITOS CEMETERY Hwy. 92 @ Main, Half Moon Bay, CA 650-712-1676
ST. ANTHONY CEMETERY Stage Road, Pescadero, CA 650-712-1679
OUR LADY OF THE PILLAR CEMETERY Miramontes St., Half Moon Bay, CA 650-712-1679
A Tradition of Faith Throughout Our Lives.