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Skylar Simmons is a second grade student at San Francisco’s St. Charles Borromeo School, a member school of the Alliance of Mission District Catholic Schools. Now in its third year, the Alliance is working to enhance academic achievement and to address financial challenges of archdiocesan inner city schools. See coverage on Pages 12-13.

Vatican: climate change demands cooperation UNITED NATIONS (CNS) — Addressing the United Nations, a Vatican official said climate change demands a new cooperative international strategy to avoid a “bleak future.” “Climate change is a serious concern and an

inescapable responsibility for scientists and other experts, political and governmental leaders, local administrators and international organizations, as well as every sector of human society and each human perVATICAN: CLIMATE , page 19

SAN FRANCISCO – Catholic organizations including the public policy office of the California Catholic bishops are at odds with advocates for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender rights about the California Student Civil Rights Act, a proposed law said to be designed to protect public school students against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. Catholic advocates charge the measure could undercut marriage and harm children by further fragmenting families while adding no legal protections to those that already exist. The bill, which passed the state Assembly Sept. 11 by a 21-to-15 vote, was approved by the Senate in May and will become law if signed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. It would amend the state Education Code to specify that students are entitled to equal rights regardless of disability, gender, race or ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation or any other characteristic contained in state Penal Code’s definition of hate crimes. Gender, under the bill, includes a person’s “gender identity and gender-related appearance and behavior whether or not stereotypically associated with the person’s assigned sex at birth.” Religion is defined as including all aspects of religious belief and observance, including agnosticism and atheism. Sexual orientation, as the bill is written, means heterosexuality, homosexuality or bisexuality. Sponsored by Sen. Sheila Kuehl, the bill is intended to consolidate various anti-discrimination provisions scattered throughout the Education Code, said Alice Kessler, government affairs director for Equality California, a statewide lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender advocacy group and the bill’s sponsor. “There is inconsistency among all those different statutes,” she told Catholic San Francisco. “What our bill seeks to do is make them consistent with one another and consistent with the overall prohibition against discrimination.” By listing all the classes protected against discrimination in the Penal Code, bill supporters say it is designed to cover all students and to guide school districts in developing anti- discrimination policies. The lack of clarity in the existing law has resulted in expensive lawsuits against school districts that have failed to protect LGBT students from harassment based on sexual orientation or gender identity, according to Equality California. The bill exempts religiously controlled schools if the provisions would be inconsistent with a school’s religious tenets. The California Catholic Conference is urging the governor to veto the measure, arguing it is unnecessary because existing law prohibits teachers and school districts from giving any lesson or sponsoring any activity that reflects adversely on students because of their identity. The conference also is concerned that the bill, SB 777, could prompt a backlash against traditional views of marriage and gender and promote alternatives as equally valid. “We feel it fails to make clear the legal distinction between the appropriate prohibition of discrimination against individuals and groups based on certain characteristics, and the promotion of certain characteristics and behaviors,” said Ned Dolejsi, executive director of the Sacramento-based conference which is the public policy arm of the state’s Catholic bishops. “We’re asking the governor to veto this and move to other ways to protect students,” he said. Bill May, chairman of Catholics for the Common Good, a San Francisco-based national lay apostolate for the evangelization of culture, called the measure “part of an ongoing agenda to change marriage and family.” “There is a public interest in civil marriage that peoSB 777, page 11

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Students and faculty of St. Ignatius College Preparatory gathered for the school’s annual Mass of the Holy Spirit at Holy Name of Jesus Church in San Francisco Sept. 7. Celebrants included Jesuit Fathers Tom O’Neill, left; SI President Robert Walsh and former SI President Anthony Sauer. Junior John Enriquez, left, and seniors Ryan Falvey, Ilana Black and Zoe Magennis-Molke were among the assembly.

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CSF assistant editor, Rick DelVecchio, a 1977 Syracuse grad Hoya and Joseph Penitani. “We owe a great debt of gratitude and native of Wellsville, NY. Rick’s by-line will be familiar to to these men,” said Father Larry Goode, pastor. The men anyone who has read the San Francisco Chronicle where he donated “time, talent, work and resources” on tasks that includwas a staff writer for 22 years. Rick and his wife, Ginny, and ed paving, flooring, electrical and more, Father Goode said. their children Sam, 15, Nikki, 11 and Lia, 9 live in Oakland…. Save your appetite and see Datebook for details on the parish’s At Holy Name of Jesus Ethnic Food Festival Oct. 5, Parish it’s a heartfelt farewell 6, 7…. More work by volunto Canossian Sister Cristina teers at a grateful St. Cecilia Overjera and a just as heartfelt Parish in San Francisco. welcome to new pastoral assoCullen Roche and Steffan ciate Canossian Sister Stella Sanguinetti have refurbished Negri. Goodbye notes to Sister an image of the parish patron Cristina published on a recent saint on the façade of the bulletin included “God Bless,” Parkside District church. “We love you,” “Have happi“Thank you,” said Msgr. ness in whatever comes,” “God Michael Harriman, pastor… be with you always,” “We will “Thanks” is the word, too, at miss you.” Busy keeping altar St. Pius Parish in Redwood linens at their finest are Holy City for Dave Kellems, Keith Tom and Tim Denterlein Namers Teresa Hurley, Lily Hipsher and Harry Bedigian Louie, Cecilia Wong, Anne Burke and Roonie Flaherty. who have brought the church’s “silent and defunct bells” into “Thank you,” said Father Don D’Angelo, pastor….St. “glorious working order” and installed a barrier to help protect Francis of Assisi Parish in East Palo Alto says, “Thank you” the church stained-glass windows from blackbird attacks…. ON THE STREET, page 7 in a big way to John Albanese, Gabriel Hueso, Carlos de la

Happy Birthday to Sarah Kelechava, the “Godmother” of Our Lady of Mercy Parish, who was 90 years old June 30. Sarah is a founding member of Westlake’s OLM and is now living at Mills Estate Villa, 1733 California Dr., Burlingame, 94010. I had a chance to talk with the new nonagenarian on the phone and she sounded great as she gets back to good health following a stroke earlier in the year. I mentioned we’d ask for prayers for her and Sarah said she’d be most grateful, noting she’d return the favor and pray for all of us, too….Congrats and hats off to Tim Denterlein, a 2005 graduate of Lowell High School and now a junior at Syracuse University. The St. Brendan’s parishioner has been named to Syracuse U’s Dean’s List and was honored last spring by the school’s branch of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars. Tim studies in Rome after the first of the year. Mighty proud are mom, Arti, and dad, Tom. His sister, Priscilla, is now a senior at Fordham. While we’re in the Empire State, let me please say, “Welcome aboard,” to new

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of Ronâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s writing. For me, Ron delved so deep within the characters, the culture and Ron Hansen, a novelist, English profes- the landscape â&#x20AC;&#x201D; so deep that one wonders sor and permanent deacon for the Diocese when reading how he conceived of this of San Jose, recently received a profession- time, place and story, almost as though he had known it himself.â&#x20AC;? al compliment from actor Brad Pitt. Pitt, who also proâ&#x20AC;&#x153;He said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Hey, man, duced the film, became great book,â&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Deacon involved with the project Hansen told Catholic because he had wanted to San Francisco. work with Dominik and â&#x20AC;&#x153;He was a really nice agreed to play James for guy, very generous and less than his normal fee, gracious,â&#x20AC;? the novelist making the movie feasible said, adding: on a $30 million budget. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was prone to like The novelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hero is him.â&#x20AC;? Bob Ford, a 19-year-old Deacon Hansen met wannabe and younger Pitt on the set of â&#x20AC;&#x153;The brother of one of Jamesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Assassination of Jesse gang members. Ford James by the Coward killed James in 1881 by Robert Ford,â&#x20AC;? a movie shooting him in the back starring Pitt as the paraof the head while James noid post-Civil War outwas tidying a picture with law and based on a feather duster. Ford, Deacon Hansenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1983 played by Casey Affleck, novel of the same name. had reason to believe The Warner Brothers Deacon Ron Hansen James intended to kill him film opened Sept. 21 in Los Angeles, and is scheduled for release in and that the crime boss might have been planning the deed to take place in conjunction with San Francisco in early October. What Deacon Hansen apreciates even a robbery the gang had scheduled the next day. In real life, Ford became a celebrity who more than Pittâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s compliment is the movieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s faithfulness to his story. The director, toured the country. The public, reveling in Andrew Dominik, who spotted the book at the blood and guts of Jamesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; career, initiala Melbourne, Australia, bookstore and ly elevated the assassin to the status of hero thought it would make a great movie, for eliminating a public menace but later adapted the novel in a remarkably light- turned him into a goat for shooting a man in handed way for a Hollywood treatment of the back. A popular 19th-century tune branded Ford as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;dirty little coward.â&#x20AC;? literature. In the novel, however, Ford is anything â&#x20AC;&#x153;What Andrew did with my novel was go through it with highlighter and take all but a coward. Obsessed with the famed outthe parts he wanted right out of the novel,â&#x20AC;? law, he finally escapes what he had come to Deacon Hansen said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Even the action believe was the fatal pull of Jamesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; dark descriptions were taken right out of the charisma. He pays a heavy price â&#x20AC;&#x201D; tornovel. There wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a single thing in the mented until the end of the life over script that didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t appear in the novel, which whether he had acted justly. Almost every Hollywood treatment of is strange and wonderful for an adaptation the story shows him as â&#x20AC;&#x153;a little weasel,â&#x20AC;? from an authorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s point of view.â&#x20AC;? Jules Daly, a member of the filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pro- Deacon Hansen said. But in Deacon duction company, wrote in an e-mail: Hansenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s story, Ford is a moral man who â&#x20AC;&#x153;Andrew gives great accolade to all aspects bears a cross of public shame with integrity.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;There was a certain way in which he was unwilling to apologize for something he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need to apologize for,â&#x20AC;? Deacon Hansen said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He knew Jesse James intended to kill him and when he got the chance he killed Jesse first.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ford knew he was backed into a corner,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was kill or be killed.â&#x20AC;? The Ford story, like all Deacon Hansenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s novels, has a Christian theme. His characters cope with the forces of good and evil and his settings dramatize the moral struggle. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot of people would be surprised you could find a Christian idea in a story about Jesse James, but I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s implicit in the text,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot of times itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about recklessness, ambition, ego and how those can really ruin your life, and I think a lot of times there is this sense of peace and redemption operative in most of my books.â&#x20AC;? Deacon Hansenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1996 novel, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Atticus,â&#x20AC;? played on film by the late James Coburn, is a prodigal son story. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hitlerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Nieceâ&#x20AC;? (1999) treats Hitlerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s evil through the experiences of the dictatorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s young niece, who was found dead in his apartment, a fate covered up by the

Nazis. Her seduction and destruction is a proxy for the fate of the German people. Critics praised the novelistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s portrayal of Hitler â&#x20AC;&#x201D; demonic but human. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kind of a mistake to think of him as a monster,â&#x20AC;? Deacon Hansen said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He was fully human.â&#x20AC;? Deacon Hansen cited the influence of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius on his storytelling. â&#x20AC;&#x153;One of the exercises is you are who you follow,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Christ, or the evil one?â&#x20AC;? Deacon Hansenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s forthcoming novel, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Exiles,â&#x20AC;? is about the Jesuit writer Gerard Manley Hopkinsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; poem â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Wreck of the Deutschland.â&#x20AC;? The Deutschland was a German ship that ran aground in England in 1875 and was swamped. The dead included five Franciscan nuns who had been exiled from Germany as a result of religious discrimination. Deacon Hansenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book narrates the shipwreck in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Titanicâ&#x20AC;? fashion and tells the story of the poetâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s inner desolation. Hopkins, who died at 44 and whose poems were not published until 30 years after his DEACON NOVEL, page 20

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Iraq moral obligation remains NEW YORK (CNS) — The United States has a moral obligation to the people of Iraq that must be met regardless of when U.S. troops ultimately withdraw from that country. That was the conclusion of the panelists at “Exit or No Exit? Morality and Withdrawal from Iraq,” a New York forum held Sept. 18 and attended by 450 people on the Lincoln Center campus of Jesuit-run Fordham University. “We must distinguish between the ethics of intervention and the ethics of exit,” said Gerard F. Powers, director of policy studies at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame and former director of the U.S. bishops’ Office of International Justice and Peace. “The U.S. intervention may have been an optional, immoral war, but the post-intervention U.S. involvement is not an optional moral commitment,” he said. Quoting the U.S. Catholic bishops, Powers said U.S. intervention “has brought with it a new set of moral responsibilities to help Iraqis secure and rebuild their country and to address the consequences of war for the region and the world.”

More Iraqi refugees authorized WASHINGTON (CNS) — The United States should have the capacity to admit around 1,000 Iraqi refugees a month next fiscal year — an amount “substantially higher” than this year, said a senior U.S. Department of State official. The United States has “a moral obligation” to protect Iraqi refugees, “particularly those who belong to persecuted religious minorities, as well as those who have worked closely with the United States government,” said Ellen Sauerbrey, assistant secretary of the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration.

Pope: don’t undermine democracy CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (CNS) — Pope Benedict XVI warned politicians against undermining the foundations of democracy in their fight against terrorism. “Terrorism is a serious problem whose perpetrators often claim to act in God’s name and harbor an inexcusable contempt for human life,” he told a group of politicians promoting Christian democracy. Countries have a right to defend themselves, he said, “but this right must be exercised with complete respect for moral and

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Pope: ‘logic of profit’ ruinous CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (CNS) — Pope Benedict XVI said overemphasizing the “logic of profit” can bring ruinous effects, as seen in global poverty and the ecological crisis. The pope spoke about the demands of economic justice during a Sunday blessing Sept. 23 at his summer villa in Castel Gandolfo outside Rome. Earlier in the morning, he made similar remarks during a Mass at the nearby hill town of Velletri. Addressing several hundred pilgrims, the pope said money “is not ‘dishonest’ in itself, but more than any other thing it can close people off in a blind selfishness.”

Marian claims dismissed LONDON (CNS) — The Vatican has dismissed the claims of a woman in England who says Mary has visited her outside her home for more than 20 years. Ruling her claims “highly questionable,” the Vatican also has refused to approve the statutes of the community she founded. Patricia De Menezes said the apparition has been appearing to her beneath a pine tree at her home in Surbiton, a London suburb, since 1984. She claimed she has received a divine message that the Catholic Church must proclaim aborted babies to be martyrs. She also founded the Community of Divine Innocence, which has about 3,000 members in 43 countries. De Menezes, 67, a freelance jewelry designer, declined to comment on the ruling.

The Whirlpool galaxy and the Companion galaxy are seen in this image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. The Vatican Observatory will hold an international conference Oct. 1-5 in Rome on the formation and evolution of disk galaxies.

Anger, unease permeate Lebanon BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNS) — An atmosphere of uneasiness and anger permeated Lebanon in the aftermath of the assassination of a Christian politician just days before lawmakers were scheduled to elect a new president. A pro-government Christian member of parliament and five others were killed when a car bomb blasted through a Christian suburb of Beirut Sept. 19. Antoine Ghanem was the seventh prominent anti-Syrian figure to be assassinated in Lebanon since 2005. Lebanon’s parliament was scheduled to convene Sept. 25 to choose a president. In addition to an ongoing political impasse and threats by some factions to boycott the election, the makeup of parliament was further disrupted by the assassination of a Christian lawmaker

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Online survey targets singing SILVER SPRING, Md. (CNS) — The National Association of Pastoral Musicians is polling Catholics online, asking them to rate the quality of singing of fellow Catholics in the pews. The two big questions in the survey are “How would you rate the congregational singing in your own parish or worshipping community?” and “Based on your own experience of participating in the liturgy of other parishes and communities, how would you rate congregational singing generally in the United States?” Survey participants are also asked to describe the setting of their parish, what kinds of music books are available for use in their parish, and whether they participate in their parish’s music ministry. The survey is available at www.npm.org, the Web site of the pastoral musicians’ group.Voting continues through Nov. 30.

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■ Continued from page 4 be impressed on the soul from the beginning ‘like on a piece of wax,’” the pope said, citing the teachings of St. John Chrysostom at his Sept. 19 weekly general audience. Early infancy “is in fact the age that is the most important” because it marks the time when “the great directives that point to the right course to (take in) life” really take hold in a person, he said.

Online network purchased NEW YORK (CNS) — Faith & Values Media, a consortium of Abrahamic faith groups — including the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops — has purchased Ecunet, a nonprofit online network of Christian organizations. No purchase price was disclosed. Faith & Values Media said in announcing the purchase in late August the acquisition would strengthen Faith & Values’ FaithStreams Network, an online programming service at www.faithstreams.com. A smaller amount of Faith & Values programming is shown on cable’s Hallmark Channel. Faith & Values would in turn bolster Ecunet through its digital arm, Lightworks New Media, offering Web site publishing, podcasting, content distribution, forum discussion and streaming video options. Ecunet was begun in 1985 by the Rev. Houston Hodges, a Presbyterian minister with a new Macintosh computer and a modem. Members of Ecunet can join and participate in online discussions on a wide range of topics.

Snub not intended VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Benedict XVI declined to meet with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during his August vacation, but Vatican officials said it should not be interpreted as a diplomatic snub. “The only reason she wasn’t received was that she came during a period when the pope doesn’t receive

Holy Cross founder beatified LE MANS, France (CNS) — The founder of the Congregation of Holy Cross, Father Basile-Antoine Marie Moreau, was beatified in a Sept. 15 liturgy in his home Diocese of Le Mans, France. Blessed Moreau established two Holy Cross societies — one for men and one for women — as missionary congregations of educators in the mid-1800s. Among the schools operated by the Holy Cross family is the University of Notre Dame in Indiana and A portrait of the founder of the Congregation of Holy Cross, Father Basile-Antoine Marie the Diocese of Oakland’s Moreau, is seen at his beatification ceremony in Le Mans, France, Sept. 15. Moreau High School in Hayward. A contingent from the high school attended the beatification ceremonies including Terry Lee, principal; David Capurro, Moreau Board of Trustees chair and alumnus; Peter Francis Shelley, assistant principal; and Joseph Connell, former Moreau High president. Attending from the Archdiocese of San Francisco was Holy Cross Sister Eliza Martin, an administrator at the Presentation Sisters’ motherhouse in San Francisco. Sister Martin said that a Sept. 16 Mass of Thanksgiving at the Cathedral of St. Julian in LeMans was also “most impressive.” Presiding was Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, retired archbishop of Washington, D.C. who used the chalice of now-Blessed Basile-Antoine Marie Moreau during the liturgy. “I’m sure Father Moreau celebrated Mass there in his time,” Sister Martin told Catholic San Francisco. Since 1894 nearly 750 Sisters of the Holy Cross have ministered in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Presiding at the Sept. 15 beatification Mass was Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins, head of the Vatican Congregation for Saints’ Causes. Beatification, a major step toward sainthood, requires recognition of a person’s heroic virtues and a miracle attributed to his or her intercession. Among those attending the liturgy were Holy Cross members from 18 countries.Blessed Moreau was born Feb. 11, 1799, to a large peasant family. After he was ordained a priest, he taught for 13 years in the Le Mans seminary. anyone. It was a purely technical question of protocol,” an informed Vatican source told Catholic News Service Sept. 20. The source said it was “absolutely not” the Vatican’s intention to rebuff Rice or signal disagreement with U.S. policy on the Middle East. Rice was about to travel to the Middle East for diplomatic talks in early August.

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Several parishes set pet blessings for feast day Several parishes have scheduled the traditional blessing of pets in conjunction with the Oct. 4 Feast of San Francis of Assisi. Times and locations follow: SAN FRANCISCO COUNTY ● Mission Dolores, 3321 16th St., Oct. 4, 2:30 p.m. in the schoolyard; call (415) 621-8203. ● St. Philip the Apostle, Oct. 6, 10:30 a.m. on the front steps of church, 725 Diamond St.; call (415) 282-0141. ● St. Emydius, 286 Ashton Ave., Oct. 6, 9:15 a.m.; call (415) 587-7066. ● St. Cecilia, Oct. 4, 2:45 p.m. in the schoolyard, 2555 17th Ave.; (415) 664-8481. ● St. Boniface, 133 Golden Gate Ave., Oct. 6, following the 12:15 p.m. until 3 p.m.; On-site cat adoption available from the San Francisco SPCA; (415) 863-0111. SAN MATEO COUNTY ● St. Pius, Oct. 4, 2:30 p.m. in the schoolyard, 1100 Woodside Rd., Redwood City; (650) 361-1411. ● Mater Dolorosa, Oct. 7, 1 p.m. in front of the school, 307 Willow Ave., South San Francisco; (650) 583-4131. ● St. Luke, Oct. 7, noon, 1111 Beach Park Blvd, Foster City; (650) 345-6660. ● St. Bartholomew, Sept. 29, 10:30 a.m. in the upper parking lot of the parish office building, 300 Alameda de las Pulgas, San Mateo; (650) 347-0701. “Horses welcome.”

Deacon Chuck Mc Neil blesses Harley the iguana during a blessing of the pets ceremony at the National Shrine of St. Francis, San Francisco, during the summer. The Shrine community holds its blessing of the animals during the North Beach Festival in the month of June. ● St. Robert, Oct. 6, 11 a.m. 1380 Crystal Springs Rd., San Bruno; (650) 589-2800. ● Nativity School, Oct. 4, 8:15 a.m. in the schoolyard, 1250 Laurel St., Menlo Park. (650) 325-7304. ● Junipero Serra High School, Oct. 4, 8 a.m. on the east side of the school building. 451 W. 20th Ave., San Mateo; (650) 345-8207.

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On the street . . . ■ Continued from page 2 Retired just a little bit is Notre Dame Sister Dolores Quigg, who recently wrapped up a run of 32 years as principal at Notre Dame Elementary School in Belmont but will soon leave for Kenya to work with children in her congregation’s missions. The Sisters work against some tough conditions there including parents “hiding their disabled children,” said Peggy Brady, public relations director at Notre Dame High School where Sister Dolores spoke recently to students about social justice, especially for the disabled. Please stay in touch, Sister Dolores! Sue Christensen is another happy long-timer at Notre Dame Elementary where she is now in her 26th year as secretary. Sue and her husband Bob will be married 41

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An evening tribute to Father Gerard O’Rourke (above), director emeritus of the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s Office of Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs, was held Sept. 11 at the Foreign Cinema restaurant in San Francisco. Among those praising the priest’s long history of ecumenical and interreligious work were former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, Jr. and Interfaith Center at the Presidio founding board member Rita Semel – pictured above. An ICP statement extolled the Irish native’s “insight, passion and commitment” to interfaith understanding and described him as “a teacher, pastor, friend and champion of respect, understanding and forgiveness” in his leadership roles. He is currently president of the board of directors of the Interfaith Center of the Presidio which is in the midst of a $6 millioncampaign to restore the Main Post Interfaith Chapel located at the former Presidio military base. The Rev. Paul Chaffee is ICP executive director. For information on the project, visit www.interfaith-presidio.org.

Christian Brother William Woeger, center, was a principal presenter at the Sept. 15 Flower Design Class at St. Mary’s Cathedral, a pre-event to the Cathedral’s first Festival of Flowers Oct. 4—7. Brother William, director of the Office of Worship for the Archdiocese of Omaha, is principal liturgical design consultant for the Oakland Diocese’s new Cathedral of Christ the Light. “Brother William is a major artist in liturgical art and architecture in our day,” said Patrick Vallez-Kelly (right), archdiocesan director of worship. At left is Jaime Martinez Castro, proprietor of J’aime Floral Arts in San Francisco. The Festival of Flowers: All Things Bright and Beautiful begins Oct. 4. See Datebook. Page 21.

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2007 graduates of Junipero Serra High School don sweatshirts from schools they are attending â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and often learned much about at the annual college information night at the San Mateo school. This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s is scheduled Oct. 17; in back from left: Nick Willard, Jeff Flaherty, Garren Staubli, Aaron Chokkar and Andrew Gillis; middle row, from left: Nick Poggetti, John Sims, Bobby McCarthy, Brian Hammel and Will Urich; front, from left: Billy Winters, Gavin Callies, David Lee, Tyler Anthony, Chuck Stimson, Ryan Tung and Anthony Heimuli . Members of the Junipero Serra Class of 2007 are attending more than 60 colleges and universities throughout the United States. Members of the class earned more than $3 million in college scholarships.

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;College fairâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; to feature more than 100 schools All students thinking about college regardless of their familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s financial means should attend, Zoucha encouraged. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are many college options and this is a good way to see them in one place,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The student can ask about financial aid and get contact information for the schoolsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; financial aid office. There are merit-based and need-based scholarships at most colleges and private scholarships are available through companies and organizations.â&#x20AC;? Serraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Counseling Department begins planning for the event in the spring of the preceding school year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The college representatives plan their fall travel and need the date on their calendar,â&#x20AC;? Zoucha said. Much of the hospitality is arranged by student and adult volunteers. Ivy League schools that have participated include Brown University, University of Pennsylvania and Yale. Catholic colleges represented through the years have included University of Notre Dame, Gonzaga University, Notre Dame de Namur University and Santa Clara University. While there is no count, Zoucha had some confidence that Serra students have moved on to at least â&#x20AC;&#x153;a high percentageâ&#x20AC;? of all the participating schools. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t turn any school away,â&#x20AC;? Zoucha said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important for students to have choices. Two-year colleges, four-year colleges and technical schools are represented.â&#x20AC;? Other schools participating have included culinary institutes and fashion institutes. For more information visit www.serrahs.com.

By Tom Burke More than 100 colleges and universities from around the country will participate in The San Mateo County Private High Schools College Information Night, Oct. 17 from 7 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 9 p.m. at Junipero Serra High School, 20th Ave. off Alameda de las Pulgas in San Mateo. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In previous years our college information night has been well attended by senior, junior, sophomore and some freshman students as well as parents,â&#x20AC;? said Jane Zoucha, college and career counselor at Serra, noting as many as 1,200 people are expected to take part. The college night in varying forms has been a staple at Serra for 30 years, Zoucha said. This year the event welcomes college and university representatives familiar with their schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s admissions requirements and who are often involved with the admissions process for the local area. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A college fair is for all grade levels,â&#x20AC;? Zoucha said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;College admission is a process that begins with a search for a college that â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;fitsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. The fair provides the students an opportunity to meet college representatives first-hand, ask questions and pick up material including brochures and informational CDs.â&#x20AC;? Zoucha said it is particularly important for students in their junior year to attend because they are beginning the process, and it is vitally important seniors because they are nearing the end of the process. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Applications are due for the California State and UC systems at the end of November,â&#x20AC;? she reminded.

An Archdiocese-wide â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pilgrimage of the Treasured Shrines of St. Mary Cathedralâ&#x20AC;? has been scheduled Oct. 11. The â&#x20AC;&#x153;prayerful and educational eventâ&#x20AC;? will begin at 7 p.m., according to Social Service Sister Celeste Arbuckle, director of religious education and youth ministry for the Archdiocese of San Francisco. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We will walk in groups with candles to the different Cathedral shrines, and at the shrines a presentation on its meaning will be given,â&#x20AC;? she said, with an emphasis on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mary as disciple and our role as disciples of Jesus.â&#x20AC;? As pilgrims move between the shrines the rosary will be recited, she said. October and May are two months during which the Church traditionally honors the Blessed Virgin Mary, Sister Arbuckle noted. She said the pilgrimage grew The eight shrines spaced around the out of a similar devotion made by interior of St. Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cathedral are catechumens and internationally known and will be the participants in the focus of an Oct. 11 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pilgrimage of Rite of Christian the Treasured Shrines.â&#x20AC;? The flight of Initiation for the Holy Family into Egypt is depictAdults. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The can- ed in this shrine which was executdidates and cateed by renowned Italian sculptor chumens have Enrico Manfrini. often said how they would like to invite extended family and friends to have the same kind of experience,â&#x20AC;? Sister Arbuckle said. Committee members for the pilgrimage include Father John Talesfore, Cathedral rector; Doug Benbow, director of liturgy at the Cathedral; Karen Kelly, a master catechist at San Franciscoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s St. Philip Parish; and Patrick Vallez-Kelly, director of worship for the Archdiocese. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We see this as a great opportunity for people to pray, reflect and journey in the simplicity and beauty of our Cathedral church,â&#x20AC;? Sister Arbuckle said. Sister Arbuckle said no registration is necessary.

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September 28, 2007

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Holy Spirit Conference this weekend Honored for education support On Sept. 12 the St. Anthony Foundation awarded philanthropists Suzanne and Lou Giraudo, both University of San Francisco graduates, with the Father Alfred Boeddeker Award for ensuring low-income families in San Francisco have access to education. USF was honored for its service learning programs for students, developed in partnership with the foundation. From left to right: Franciscan Father John Hardin, St. Anthony Foundation executive director; Jesuit Father Stephen A. Privett, USF president; Suzanne Giraudo, and Lou Giraudo.

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Buen Parto). A statue depicting The Virgin Mother breast feeding the infant Jesus was brought from Spain and enshrined in a small chapel built on the very spot where the explorer Menendez landed in 1556. The image is sometimes called Our Lady of Florida. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Brother John Samaha

Two internationally known leaders in the Catholic charismatic renewal and three well-known priests of the Archdiocese of San Francisco will be key presenters at the 10th annual Holy Spirit Conference this weekend in San Francisco. Linda Schubert, a Santa Clara resident and head of Miracle of the Heart Ministries based there, and Father Bill Halbing, pastor of St. Antoninus Parish in Newark, N.J. and well known for charismatic mission work in Spanish and English, will be among conference speakers. Others will include Father Jim Tarantino, archdiocesan liaison to the Catholic charismatic community and pastor of St. Hilary Parish, Tiburon; Father Raymund Reyes, pastor of St. Anne of the Sunset Parish, San Francisco; and retired Father David Pettingill of San Francisco. To be held at Archbishop Riordan High School, 175 Phelan Ave., the Spanish-andEnglish event will open with a 7 p.m. Mass today, Sept. 28, and conclude with a 3 p.m. healing Mass Sunday. The Masses are open to non-conference attendees.

Conference theme is â&#x20AC;&#x153;All You Who Are Thirstyâ&#x20AC;ŚCome to the Waters.â&#x20AC;? Appointed in 2000 to the Council for the National Service Committee of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal in the United States, Schubert converted to Catholicism in 1977 following the tragic death of her stepson. A prolific writer and speaker, Schubert states: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Turning to Jesus in trustful surrender, I have experienced his healing presence during surgery for breast cancer, grieving losses, divorce, and the emotional impact of the suicide of the father of my stepchildren. As a widow, the Lord has delivered me from fear and insecurity, and shown me his awesome provision.â&#x20AC;? Active in charismatic renewal for more than three decades, Father Halbing is spiritual director of Emmaus Walk With Jesus Faith Ministry. Doors are scheduled to open at 8 a.m. both Saturday and Sunday. Cost is $20 per day or $30 for both Saturday and Sunday. For more information, visit the Archdiocese of San Franciscoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s charismatic renewal Web site: www.sfspirit.com, or call (650) 9063451, (415) 350-8677, or (415) 297-1709.

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Faith Formation Conference attracts 1,600

SB 777 . . . ■ Continued from cover ple are not discussing, and that is marriage is the foundation of the family, which is providing children with a mother and a father, which is indisputably the best environment for human development,” he said. May also cited AB 43, a bill that would legalize marriages between any two people regardless of gender. The bill would provide that marriage is a personal relationship arising out of a civil contract. Another pending bill, SB 11, would expand eligibility for domestic-partner status to include any two unrelated people who are at least 18 years old and share a residence. The legislative proposals are part of an attempt to rede-

fine marriage for the benefit of adults – with “children left out of the picture,” May said. May cited research by the National Marriage Project at Rutgers University on the precarious state of the institution. “The traditional family is an especially attractive unit for attacks from a secular, individualistic perspective” because it is a seeming impediment to personal autonomy and social equality, project founder David Popenoe writes in an essay published on the project’s Web site. He writes that although marriage remains at the heart of American life, it is eroding as the nation heads toward increasing secular humanism and more fragmented families. May sees the student civil rights proposal as part of the trend. “We’re not focusing on homosexuality – that’s a pastoral issue,” he said. “What we’re defending is the rights of parents to educate their children the way they want to with

Faith Formation Conference participants confer with Bill Huebsch (left) after his training session on the effective ways to prepare catechists and teachers to succeed in the classroom. The pastoral planner spoke Sept. 21 in Santa Clara at the annual Faith Formation Conference sponsored by the Archdiocese of San Francisco and the dioceses of Monterey, Oakland, Stockton and San Jose. Huebsch, who teaches parish leaders on the ways and means of lifelong faith formation, urged parishes to recruit teachers who are growing in the faith and arm them with teaching materials that are compelling to adults and children alike. More than 1,600 attended the two-day event including a trio (right) from San Mateo’s St. Gregory Parish, from left: Toni Johnson, confirmation and youth ministry director; Kathleen Casey, catechist, and May Lyau, coordinator of religious education. See Catholic San Francisco’s Web site and next week’s print edition for further coverage of the conference.

their faith and values. This bill is a violation of that. Also, we’re defending religious liberty to be able to express the truth about marriage and family without retribution.” May added: “This kind of legislation is going in the direction of prohibiting people from even discussing the real meaning of marriage.” Kessler said that is not the intent and added she is not aware of any legal case that has arisen from such a backlash. “In terms of a hidden agenda,” she said, “really what we’re trying to do is make sure all students have a safe place to learn. The bill would protect students based on religion just as much as it would protect them based on sexual orientation.” She said the bill gives no direction on what is taught in the classroom — provided the instruction is not discriminatory. “Teachers have a lot of say in the way they talk about families,” she said. “There are all kinds of families.”

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Shakira Garcia, St. Elizabeth

Sister Lucia Cercado, OP, and Brian Williams, St. Charles Borromeo

Emily Rogers, St. Elizabeth

uring the past 40 years the face of Catholic schools has changed dramatically. In the 1950s and 1960s Religious women and men primarily staffed Catholic schools. Rarely was a Catholic school student of that era taught by a layperson. However, Catholic school classrooms of today are very different. More than nine in 10 of our teachers and administrators in Catholic schools are laity. This new generation of men and women is committed to passing along the faith to our children. They see teaching in a Catholic school as a ministry, a way to live out their vocation, and not merely a profession. Similarly, parishes are not able to support Catholic schools today as they did 40 years ago. Today Catholic schools are funded largely through tuition, fees and fundraisers. Even with tuition assistance programs such as the B.A.S.I.C. Fund and the Archdiocesan Endowment for Scholarships, more and more parents find it difficult, if not impossible, to send their children to a Catholic school. At the same time, parish programs have expand-

Ivan Montoya, Epiphany

ed and the needs of the whole parish community compete for the limited financial and human resources of the parish. As the Catholic population continues to increase nationwide, especially among immigrant populations, parishes are stretched thin trying to provide for all the needs of the community. In the Archdiocese of San Francisco, our inner-city Catholic schools are struggling to continue their mission to serve and educate the newest and sometimes poorest members of our community. Parishes in San Francisco face the same challenges as do the Catholic schools. In light of these pressing challenges and the need to retain our Catholic school ministry in our City, the Archdiocese of San Francisco has embarked on a new and exciting project. Responding to a directive in the Strategic Plan for Catholic Schools 2003, and after consultation with pastors, principals and leaders of schools in the two Mission Deaneries in San Francisco, a new way of organizing and governing these schools is taking shape. Schools with shrinking enrollments experience shrinking resources. Rather than expecting each school to provide a full educational program on its own, it makes good strategic sense to work col-

Academic and financial challenges being addressed by Mission District Alliance

Joseph Recinos, St. Charles Borromeo

Now entering its third school year, the Alliance of Mission District Catholic Schools will continue its focus on academic achievement in its eight member schools and turn new energies toward another of its mission goals – garnering financial resources to address the difficult economic realities of inner city parish schools, according to Alliance officials.

Javier Ramos, Ariana Cunanan-Chavez, Chris Guerra, SA/IC

A reflection on the mission of the AMDCS By Sister Maureen Hilliard, SNDdeN, Executive Director, AMDCS

V Maureen Huntington laboratively, sharing opportunities and accessing resources as a larger unit rather than a small entity going it alone. We are beginning our third year in the adventure known as the Alliance of Mission District Catholic Schools. Our first two years were focused on the educational programs at each of the schools. Our next step will be to identify additional financial resources for capital improvements and tuition assistance. It is time in our history to begin the funding of Catholic schools differently than in the past so we can be assured of the continuation of schools into the future. Our Church is counting on these next generations to pick up where we leave off and continue to spread the message of Jesus Christ to go and teach all nations.

Karen Garcia, St. Charles Borromeo

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nriched academic achievement via professional development of faculty and administrators is significantly expanding, said AMDCS executive director Notre Dame de Namur Sister Maureen

See Archbishop Niederauer’s commentary on Page 14 Hilliard. At the same time, she added, the AMDCS “must find ways to address the single most debilitating factor” in families’ abilities to send students to parish schools – tuition expense. Even with help from the Archdiocese’s tuition endowment fund and private organ-

isiting one of our Alliance of Mission District Catholic Schools campuses last spring, I walked out the front door and fell into step with first graders walking on the sidewalk — “make way for ducklings” style — behind their teacher. I asked one little fellow, “Where are you going?” With an expression that clearly indicated I should already know the answer, he replied, “To church!” I continued: “What are you going to do there?” Again dismayed I was so clueless, he said, “Sing!” Enjoying the moment, I kept going: “Well, what are you going to sing?” Realizing I obviously needed help figuring all this out, he stopped, put his hands on his hips, looked up at me with a big smile, and said: “Zip-a-dee-do-dah!” Surprised (and delighted) by his response, just about to laugh but wanting to match my response with his sincerity and excitement, I said, “Oh, oh great—great.” Simultaneously I remembered the principal having told me about an upcoming school concert in the church. I put two and two together. But “two and two” was adding up to something more than four. This little Catholic school student, in his Catholic

school uniform, walking to the parish Catholic church, full of “zippedy-do-dah” about school and life made me say to myself, “This is why I do what I do.” I work as the executive director of the Alliance of Mission District Catholic Schools so that the joy experienced by this child, and the solid curriculum and Catholic environment his school offers, remain available for our “Mission” children – and, as our mission statement says, “… now and for generations to come.” AMDCS Consultative Board members and applicants for AMDCS positions consistently echo the same theme: “I want to serve the Alliance because I want these kids to have what Catholic school gave me.” In a recent talk to local Catholic principals, Christian Brother Stan Sobczyk described an Ash Wednesday liturgy at an inner city school in which he had served. After proclaiming the Gospel parable of the talents, they gave each of the 960 students $1. Then came the challenge: “Each of you could protect and return this $1 at the end of Lent,

Martina Arellano, Epiphany

izations such as the BASIC Fund, many families in San Francisco’s Mission District are struggling to keep their children enrolled in a Catholic school, the executive director said. Average tuition is $4,500. Average cost to educate a student about $6,600. Despite economic and demographic challenges, the overall enrollment of the eight schools in the Alliance remained stable this year with a net loss of about 60 students. Three schools recorded modest increases in student numbers, five noted small declines. In addition to seeking increased endowment funding, potential government monies and private or foundation help, the Alliance will over time help “schools to realize cost savings when they begin to

purchase in quantity and to collectively release individual control over some choices and expenses,” said Maureen Huntington, archdiocesan superintendent of schools. Even though the Alliance encourages cooperation and collaboration, she said, its objective is not homogenization of Mission District parochial schools. “Each school retains its own advisory group, and it is important that each school retain as much of its unique character.” Clustering of parochial schools for “economy of scale” savings is also taking place in other areas of the country, including across the Bay in the Oakland Diocese. That diocese this month announced plans to invite eight schools to function as a consortium to lower expenses and share resources.

but you could also use this gift and multiply it for others.” By Holy Week, the students had raised more than $5,000 by investing their $1 and their creativity, by pooling their money, by buying ice cream and cones and selling them to students on campus. I love the story because it metaphorically reflects what the early Church did, what the AMDCS does today in its collaborative efforts, and what we as Church are called to do as it says in Acts: “The community of believers was of one heart and mind, and no one claimed that any of his possessions were his own, but they had everything in common. …There was no needy person among them, and the proceeds...were distributed to each according to need.” This is the heart of the AMDCS mission. This is where our hearts have to hear the “zip–a–dee–do-dah” of our students, where we are called to embrace collaboration and change, where we cannot resist giving back what was given to us, and where our actions ensure the future we envision for our children – “now and for generations to come.”

Antonio Pacheco, SA/IC

There are also cooperative models in Washington, D.C. and Indianapolis. The Alliance was awarded Catholic Charities CYO’s Loaves and Fishes honor in 2006 for “its collaborative model” and for its labors to sustain “the excellent quality education that the schools have provided for over 150 years for the children of the Mission District.” Initiated with six schools in 2005, AMDCS now includes Epiphany, Mission Dolores, St. James, St. Anthony/Immaculate Conception, St. Finn Barr, St. Charles Borromeo, St Peter, and St. Elizabeth. Two more schools will be encouraged by Archbishop George Niederauer to join the Alliance for the 2008-09 school year, Sister Hilliard said.

Catholic San Francisco

September 28, 2007

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Message from Archbishop Niederauer on role of inner city Catholic schools In 2005, then-Archbishop, now-Cardinal William Levada and archdiocesan Superintendent of Schools Maureen Huntington launched the Alliance of Mission District Catholic Schools after a two-year process of participation and involvement on the part of the Mission Deanery pastors, principals and other representatives. During my first year and a half as Archbishop, I have come to understand and fully support the mission of the Alliance and its vision for our children in the Mission District . The AMDCS vision responds with action to many of the concerns addressed by the United States bishops in their 2005 document, “Renewing Our Commitment to Catholic Elementary and Secondary Schools in the Third Millennium.” Let me highlight a few. The bishops’ document raises critical issues facing inner city schools. 1) They begin by underscoring the quality of Catholic school education in the United States for many generations. They cite empirical studies that conclude Catholic schools “make a major impact in closing the achievement gap for poor and immigrant minority students in inner city environments.” At the same time, they note, we have experienced the loss of more than 850 Catholic schools in our country since 1990, many “in urban, inner city and rural areas of our nation.” 2) As many of our families know only too well, the bishops note that since 1990 the average tuition in both Catholic elementary and secondary schools has more than doubled. Tuition often becomes the single most significant impediment to prevent our families from enrolling in our schools. Thus, the bishops “enthusiastically support” the emergence of Catholic schools that offer “reduced to no tuition for atrisk students.” 3) Poignantly, the bishops recognize our young people are the Church and civic leaders of tomorrow. It is critical that Catholic schools remain “available and accessible” for children who are from poor and middle-class families who face major economic challenges. . .providing immigrants and newcomers with a sense of welcome. . ..” We bishops are very aware that demographics indicate that by the second decade of this century, the Hispanic/Latino population will compose nearly half of all Catholics in the U.S. 4) Among the document’s recommendations for action is encouragement of “alternative governance models and marketing of our Catholic schools.” How does the Alliance of Mission District Catholic Schools address these critical issues? The AMDCS is committed to strong academic achievement in the inner city. In the last academic year AMDCS school administrators and faculty participated in multicultural diversity training for enhancing student academic achievement. The University of San Francisco is establishing strong relationships with AMDCS schools, offering the expertise of its School of Education as well as professors from its Institute for Catholic Educational Leadership (ICEL) to encourage professional development of the AMDCS teachers. In addition, the USF student community will be working with our AMDCS students on a personal level in various educational settings. The AMDCS embraces collaboration — economic, curricular and spiritual— to ensure the future of member schools. The Alliance will soon employ an advancement/development director to seek major gift giving and for community and foundation support. It is noteworthy that more than four of five of our AMDCS school families qualify for “No Child Left Behind” funding. Therefore, the large majority of AMDCS families who enroll children apply for (and receive from the Archdiocese and other sources) significant tuition assistance. In a spirit of collaboration, by using the economy of scale, and through soliciting the help of donors and foundations, the AMDCS is working hard toward a “reduced to no tuition” plan for atrisk students. The member and future member Alliance schools are located in the loosely defined inner city “Mission District” where many of our ethnic communities populate our Mission District schools. A glorious diversity of children, then, will go on to enroll in our Catholic secondary schools and universities. These students will emerge to be our civic and Church leaders — as they have for generations before them. It is the mission of the AMDCS to keep the inner city Catholic schools open so we may be instrumental in the formation of the future leaders of the Church and world. Lastly, the AMDCS implements a new governance model. It shifts academic and economic responsibility and leadership roles from pastors to the AMDCS staff and board, and at the same time welcomes a strong spiritual leadership role on the part of pastors. Let me point out the foundation of this model is based within the spirituality of the early Church. In the Acts of the Apostles, we read, “The community of believers was of one heart and mind, and no one claimed that any of his possessions were his own, but they had everything in common. …There was no needy person among them, and the proceeds….were distributed to each according to need.” As your Archbishop who has “inherited” the AMDCS, I am proud of the efforts of the Alliance to promote this spirituality of the early Church. As we focus on the future and many challenges for our inner city Catholic schools, let us echo the actions of the early Church by calling the entire Catholic community to join this critical endeavor – and to ensure our inner city schools do not stand alone in their need, but thrive as part of a community of believers who share what they can so no one is in need. I call on you, the Church of San Francisco, to embrace the mission of the Alliance of Mission District Catholic Schools, to celebrate with me all they have accomplished while still in their “infancy.”

Most Rev. George H. Niederauer

Objective beauty blooms Pornography a scourge I was quite impressed by Mary McCurry’s letter (“Seek objective beauty”) in the Sept. 21 edition of Catholic San Francisco. In it she writes: “Whether by brush or sound, architecture or literature, beauty can be recognized when the human artist collaborates with God in recreating his kingdom on earth. Praise the beauty of the Lord and to his Church for her instilling values in our culture and faithful preservation of the best of what we humans are all called to be.” Her words resounded with those of Brother William Woeger at the recent flower workshop here at St. Mary’s Cathedral, when he exhorted those who arrange flowers in parishes throughout the Archdiocese to appreciate their ministry as a conscious participation in the cosmic praise and worship of God. What comes so naturally to all of creation is only learned by humans over the course of time and conversion. Ms. McCurry and all those who seek such objective beauty are invited to the Cathedral Festival of Flowers from Oct. 4-7, honoring the feast of our patron St. Francis, who perhaps understood this better than all others. The event is free of charge and will feature floral arrangements by premier Bay Area floral artists, inspired by the art and architecture of San Francisco’s landmark Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption. Father John Talesfore Pastor, Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption

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In his Sept. 7 letter denouncing the Tridentine Latin Mass, S.M.Verdino voices the same complaint of most who are anti-Latin — the alleged meaninglessness of “priests facing the wall” (ad orientem) instead of the people (ad populum). These critics seem unaware of the spiritual imagery of the priest turned East, a symbolic position of prayer toward Eden, in the East, the direction from which Ezekiel saw come “the glory of the God of Israel” (Ezek 43:2,4), the direction in which Jesus ascended from the Mount of Olives and from where he will return (Acts l1:11). In essence, the priest leads the worshippers behind him on the journey East to meet our Lord. For those who are not distracted by the movements and demeanor of the priest facing them during Mass, the twofold use of the one and the same rite will neither interfere with their preferences for the more socially togetherness of “ad populum,” nor discourage it. For those of us who understand and embrace the return of the ancient Mass, may we not enjoy its reverence and ritual without unwarranted bitterness and dissent? Jane L. Sears Burlingame

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Pornography, once accessible to those who were interested enough to seek it out, is now available to everyone via TV, video and HBO. Some of it is fleeting advertisement or on commercials, but it is changing our culture. Webster says it is a “description of prostitution in writing or painting – lewdness or a portrayal of erotic behavior designed to cause sexual excitement.” The word “adult” as used in “adult entertainment” has come to mean hardcore porn. Previously, it meant one had self control, respect for others, love, fidelity, modesty and decency. Morality in Media produces a monthly newsletter informing us as to the law controlling obscenity and pornography. Why doesn’t this paper and our parishes encourage the Catholic community to be informed and take actions we can to protect our culture and our children? Olivia Fisher San Franicisco

Latin live on TV Thank you for publicizing the broadcasting of a live Tridentine Mass over EWTN television. To experience this historic event through our parents’ and grandparents’ senses is to realize what made their Catholic faith so precious to them as to pass it on to us. Marian Brooks San Mateo

Nightmare, not dream

It is noted that on Sept. 20 the bishops in the United States, via Bishop Thomas Wenski of Orlando, Fla., have urged the passage of the “Dream amendment” attached to a defense bill which will have very serious effects on the citizens of this country. It is, quite frankly, not their purview to meddle in the complicated and intricate affairs of a country whose basis is capitalism, not socialism, as these men would have. They are stepping beyond their scope when they want all citizens whose right it is to maintain what they have earned, to give it to those who have not earned this. The implications of this bill’s passage are stupendous. And, of course, they are not the wage earners who will pay for all the freebies given to illegal aliens or their children. The bishops attitude does not sit well with rightful and legal citizens. In fact, it has helped alienate from the Church those who see this injustice. They fall back on the issue of social justice and morality. I see none here, but rather class warfare dividing those who have earned their salaries and retirements, and instead, use the law to erase this way of life for a utopian society. You call that justice? I call it utter stupidity, unfairness and very short-sighted. Whatever happened to obedience for the laws of our land? How can they undercut them and call it morality? No, they cannot drop that on us who will end up paying for these illegals. I wish I knew how to contact these bishops — in an open letter — who claim they work for the poor. With their ideas, this whole nation will become poor and a third world country because their ideas are unsustainable. I hope and pray they will reconsider what they are proposing and think this through, even though I doubt it. They are much too entrenched in their unjust idea of social justice. Sounds more like social communism to me where all become poor. Justine Nunan San Bruno

September 28, 2007

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The Catholic Difference

9/11 and things we can’t not know Six years after 9/11, there are certain things we can’t not know. We may wish these things weren’t true. We can try to ignore them. But safe passage through a moment in history fraught with both danger and possibility requires us to see things as they are. What can’t we not know? We can’t not know the name of the enemy: the name is jihadism, that form of Islamic extremism which teaches that it is the duty of every Muslim to use any means available to advance the prospects of a world that acknowledges the sovereignty of Allah and lives under shari’a law. That jihadists are a small minority of the world’s 1.2 billion Muslims is both true and irrelevant. What counts is cultural morale, and the morale of jihadists may be higher today than it was six years ago. We can’t not know jihadists read history through the prism of their theological convictions. The West, tutored by a progressive view of history, read the Soviet defeat in Afghanistan as a victory for freedom. Jihadists read it as a victory for jihadism, a Phase One triumph in an ongoing war against the infidels. Phase Two, which jihadists imagined might be easier than Phase One, had the United States as its target. Attacks on American embassies in East Africa in the mid-1990s were intended to trigger a struggle in which the United States would be defeated as the Soviet Union was defeated in Phase One. When that didn’t work, jihadists blew a hole in the side of the U.S.S. Cole as it was refueling in the

harbor at Aden. When that didn’t elicit the expected response, Osama bin Laden concluded that an outrage impossible for the Americans to ignore was required. Thus 9/11. Bin Laden got one thing wrong, and we can’t not know that, either. He hadn’t reckoned on the robust response of those allegedly decadent Americans, first in Afghanistan, later in Iraq. As the dean of western scholars of Islam, Bernard Lewis, has written, “It is noteworthy that there has been no successful attack on American soil since...the U.S. actions in Afghanistan and in Iraq indicated that there had been a major change in the U.S.” But now, closely watching our politics and monitoring our national morale, jihadists like bin Laden may, Lewis suggests, be returning to their original assessment of American fecklessness – and may conclude “that they need only to press a little harder to achieve final victory.” A determination to make clear that this re-assessment is wrong ought to be the threshold test of seriousness applied to any presidential or congressional candidate in 2008. For, as Lewis concludes, if the jihadists’ reassessment is proven right, “the consequences – both for Islam and for America – will be deep, wide, and lasting.” Another thing we can’t not know is that the war against jihadism is for the long haul. It won’t be resolved in the next administration, or in the next three administrations. Staying power – rooted in the conviction that religious freedom, tolerance and civility, the rule of law, and the method of persua-

sion in politics reflect universal moral truths – is essential to victory. Moreover, we can’t not know that this longterm war against jihadism has to be fought on multiple fronts, many George Weigel of them non-military. Interreligious dialogue is one such front. It ought to focus (as Benedict XVI suggested last December) on helping Islamic reformers assimilate the positive accomplishments of the Enlightenment – like the separation of religious and political authority in the modern state. Cleaning up our own cultural act is another front in this struggle: a country whose principal exports include pornography is not in a particularly strong moral position in a struggle against a religiously-shaped alternative vision of human goods. Prayer for the conversion of our enemies is yet another “front” in the war that has been declared upon us. Yet I’ve heard very few, if any, such prayers in the past six years. Their necessity is one more thing we can’t not know. George Weigel is a senior fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.

Spirituality for Life

A crisis of faith or of the imagination? J. R. Tolkien, author of “Lord of the Rings,” was one of the key persons who helped C.S. Lewis accept Christianity. As a man of considerable imagination he was not one to easily denigrate this faculty. Yet he knew its limits. One night, after hours of listening to Lewis object to certain aspects of the faith, Tolkien suggested to him that his resistance was not so much a question of belief as it was of imagination: “Your inability to understand stems from a failure of imagination on your part.” There is something very important in that statement. Imagination isn’t faith. For example: Some of the intimate letters of Mother Teresa, recently published for the first time, would seem to indicate she suffered painful doubts about the existence of God. She shares, again and again, how she can no longer imagine God’s existence and the pain she feels about that. A simplistic judgment can then be made that she ceased believing in God, that she lost her faith. Looked at superficially, it might appear so, at least in that she was unable to imagine God exists. But such a judgment is too simple. We need to understand the depth of Tolkien’s comment to C. S. Lewis. Her struggles were much more with her imagination and its incapacity to give her an imaginative picture of God’s existence than they were with the actual belief God exists. Why? Because every action in her life gives us the indication that, as she aged, her faith grew deeper rather than weaker. How do we know this? How is our inability to imagine God’s existence different than atheism? Consider these two scenes: Imagine lying in bed some night: You have just had a

very good time of prayer and are flooded with feelings and images of God. You have strong, clear feelings God exists. On that particular evening you have no faith doubts; you feel the existence of God. Now, imagine another night, a darker one. You wake up from a fitful sleep and are overwhelmed by the sense you don’t believe in God. You try to convince yourself you believe, but you cannot. Every attempt to imagine God exists and to feel his presence comes up empty. You feel an overwhelming emptiness inside because of that feeling. Try as you might, you can no longer regain the solid ground on which you once stood. Try as you like, you can no longer make yourself feel the existence of God. Does this mean that on one nights you have a strong faith and on the other you have a weak one? Not necessarily. It can just as easily mean that on one night you have a strong imagination and on the other you have a weak one. On one night you can imagine the presence of God and on the other night you cannot. Imagination isn’t faith. Daniel Berrigan, in his colorful manner, puts this crassly, but accurately. He was once asked: “Where does your faith live? In the head or in the heart?” Faith, he assures us, is rarely where our heads are at, nor where our hearts are at. In his words: “Your faith is where your ass is at! Where are you living? What are you doing?” Our commitments, our actions, our charity, and our morality ultimately determine whether we believe or not. Passing strange but strangely true, the posterior is invariably a better indication of where we stand with faith and belief than are the head or the heart. We all have had the experience of being inside of certain commitments (marriage, family, Church) where, at times, our heads and our hearts are

not there, but we are there! The head tells us this doesn’t make sense; the heart lacks the proper warm feelings to keep us there; but we remain there, held by something deeper, something beyond what we can Father explain or feel. This is Ron Rolheiser where faith lives and this is what faith means. Mother Teresa, for long periods of time, suffered anguish inside her head and heart every time she tried to imagine the existence of God. Yet by every indication she lived her whole life in function of God’s existence. Her problem was with the limits and poverty of the human imagination. Simply put, she couldn’t picture how God exists. But nobody can. The finite can never picture the infinite, though it can sense it and know it in ways beyond what the head can imagine and the heart can feel. Not being able to imagine God’s existence is not the same thing as not believing. Our actions are always a more accurate indication of faith than are any feelings about God on a given day. Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser, theologian, teacher and award-winning author, is president of the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, Texas. His web site is www.ronrolheiser.com.

Twenty Something

Super Bowl hopes vs. ‘expectation overdose’ This year could be The Year. The year the 49ers win the Super Bowl. The year the Raiders regain their dignity. The year of Brady Quinn. As the preseason unfolds, football fans are debating the impact of hot trades over grills, across cubicles and in chat rooms. Which incoming rookies and high draft picks will make the team a winner? Who will be a star and who will be a role player? Who’s a team player and who’s a play maker? They’re weighing old standings and statistics, then casting bold predictions. Anyone could turn any team around. Anything is possible. There’s something about the advent of autumn that inspires a sense of possibility. Leaves may be dying, but something is being born, too: crisp hope. It stems from the school cycle that’s deeply ingrained in us. The start of a new year, well-rested minds and revamped wardrobes, blank notebooks and neat handwrit-

ing, the signature of good intentions to stay on top of school work this time around. Christians have the best reason to be hopeful. Our mighty God gives us reason to believe in the possibility of a new season and a blank slate. “Behold,” he says in Rev. 21:5, “I make all things new.” All things – not just the things that already show promise, such as the Patriots. Even the Raiders, who lost 14 games last year, could win 14 games this year. Even if last season was marred by fumbles and interceptions, poor coaching and sloppy playing, this season they could reach the Super Bowl. We too make mistakes – treating people badly, treating ourselves badly – and we can start over next season. Or, this season. “As far as the east is from the west, so far have our sins been removed from us,” Psalm 103:12 reassures us. That’s the power of confession: a clean slate. We can be distanced

immeasurably from our sins. We can be made new, again and again. In the process, as we inhale deeply and prepare to begin a new season, we hear others’ expectations. Some are murmured, others Christina shouted. Some are Capecchi direct, others secondhand. Over the phone. In an e-mail. At a family party. Everyone has an opinion, it seems. Young adults, like rookie athletes, are vulnerable to an expectation overdose. We aren’t 100 percent sure of our plans or purpose, so we keep our ears open just in case CAPECCHI, page 19

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St. Rita School marks 50th year

(PHOTO BY APRIL DOMER)

FAIRFAX — The foresight, labors and faith of current and past generations of parishioners, pastors and educators of St. Rita Parish were praised Sept. 5 by Archbishop George H. Niederauer during the homily of the parish school’s 50th anniversary Mass. Alluding to a reading from First Timothy, the Archbishop urged the students attending the Mass to “not neglect any of the gifts you have” and to “serve God by serving one another” – something their teachers, their parents and their pastors had been encouraging them to do at home and at St. Rita School. That message, he underscored, had been part of the school’s work since it opened its doors with 220 students in 1957, he said. Father Edgar Boyle, appointed pastor in 1946, oversaw purchase of the land that would become the school and convent site. Prior to the school’s construction, the Sisters of the Holy Family directed religious education for parish children. Father Albert Duffy, pastor from 1951-60, directed building of the new church, rectory, convent and St. Rita School. He helped recruit the Daughters of the Holy Spirit from Hartford, Conn., to staff the new school which began with grades one through five, adding a grade each year until eight grades were achieved. Today the school also includes a kindergarten – housed in the former convent — and recently expanded pre-school. Over recent years the school has added computer and science labs, an expanded library, offices and more storage.

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Top: The entire student body and faculty of St. Rita School, Fairfax, gather on the steps of St. Rita Church with Archbishop George H. Niederauer, pastor Father Ken Weare, and archdiocesan Superintendent of Schools Maureen Huntington. At right, enjoying the reception following a Sept. 5 Mass marking the 50th anniversary of St. Rita School are, adults from left: Meghan Wolohan, graduate; Michael Ambrosini, graduate; Paulette McDevitt, a member of the school’s first graduating class(1961)and a current faculty member; Father Weare; Archbishop Niederauer; Marilyn Porto, principal; Mary Chapman, school parent and graduate; Mary Ann Smith, graduate; Christina Sasan, school parent and graduate. Three current students in foreground, from left: second graders Emily Ramos and Chad Vasquez and kindergartner Matthew Sasan.

Pope says Catholic schools help develop responsible citizens CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (CNS) — Catholic schools and faith-based education benefit civil society by helping young people grow into responsible citizens, Pope Benedict XVI said. “It is important that states continue to guarantee the Church the freedom to establish and administer Catholic schools, affording parents the opportunity to choose a means of education that fosters the Christian formation of their children,” he said in a private audience with the

Slovak Republic’s new ambassador to the Vatican. When Jozef Dravecky presented his letters of credential to the pope Sept. 13, Pope Benedict underlined the importance of offering young people “a solid education that nourishes all the dimensions of the human person, including the religious and spiritual,” saying such education was “in the interest of both Church and state.” Christian teachings and values help young people “appreciate their personal

More than 500 people munched and mingled at a back-to-school barbecue marking the start of the new school year at St. Raymond Elementary in Menlo Park. Among those helping with the chow and chores were, from left: Mariella Hermosillo, Cherimel Yuzon, St. Joseph Sister Ann Bernard O’Shea, principal; Nimpa Nunn, Violetta Brandys, Minnie Pedrazas and Roxanne El-Hage.

dignity” and give them “a purpose and direction for their lives,” he said, acknowledging that Slovakia had such a system. A well-rounded, faith-based education can help young people “acquire habits that will enable them to embrace their civic duties as they enter adulthood,” he said. The pope also said governments must do more to “promote marriage and foster family life.” Strong families are vital “to a nation’s social stability,” the pontiff added.

“Strong societies are built on the foundation of strong families,” he said, because it is in the family that future citizens first learn about human love and cultivate “the virtues of responsibility, generosity and fraternal concern.” Instead of remaining indifferent to marriage, governments and “all civic communities should do what they can to promote economic and social policies that aid young married couples and facilitate their desire to raise a family,” said the pope.

Archbishop George H. Niederauer was principal celebrant of a Mass Sept. 18 opening the school year at San Domenico Schools in San Anselmo. Father Jim Pickett, above, concelebrated. Servers included, from left, seventh grade students John Paul Butti, Henry White and Will Cook.

September 28, 2007

TWENTY-SIXTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

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. 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, 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.’”

FATHER JOSEPH PELLEGRINO

Swamped with choices, we can overlook primary choice We have so many choices. When I go down the cereal aisle of the supermarket, I have to decide: should I get the Honey Nut Cheerios or the Total, or Wheaties, or Raisin Bran, or whatever? We Americans are accustomed to many choices. The biggest grocery stores of Paris, London or Rome do not offer as many choices as the supermarkets in Daly City or San Rafael. We make all sorts of choices from minor ones like picking a cereal to major decisions like choosing a career or a spouse. The most important choices we make are those that only a human can make — ones which consider the results of that direction’s impact on our lives and others. The most important choice we make is the choice to love or not to love. When a person first meets his or her spouse, for example, he or she might feel a deep stirring, a sense that “This is the man or woman for me.” Somewhere before the engagement was official you realized that to spend the rest of your life with this person would involve making many sacrifices. Marriage and family life are based on sacrifice, sharing and putting others before yourself – at first your husband or wife, then your children. Because we can choose to love, we can

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Amos 6:1a, 4-7; Psalm 146:7, 8-9, 9-10; 1 Timothy 6:11-16; Luke 16:19-31 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.

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also choose not to love. The rich man in the Gospel reading for this Sunday chose not to love. He did not want to sacrifice to the slightest degree for the poor man, Lazarus. His choice was selfishness. He took care of Number One and never learned how to love. He had little capacity to receive and echo the eternal sacrificial love of God. As a result, he went to hell. When he cried to Abraham to send Lazarus to help his brothers, Abraham responded that the man’s brothers already knew that they needed to learn how to love. As members of the chosen people, they had Moses and the prophets. The rich man said they would pay better attention if someone were to rise from the dead. Abraham responded that even the resurrection of Lazarus or anyone, including Jesus, would have no effect on those who have rejected the way of the Lord, the way of sacrificial love. They were in the process of making a choice. They should know what choices they needed to make and were ignoring the choice of love, something they would regret for eternity. Father Joseph Pellegrino is pastor of St. Ignatius of Antioch Parish, Tarpon Springs, Fla.

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Former Riordan educator, Father Bracht, dies Sept. 17 Marianist Father Donald Bracht, a former History from Catholic University in Washington, member of the faculty at San Francisco’s D.C., spent the first 25 years of his 65 years of Archbishop Riordan High School, died Sept. active ministry as an educator serving at schools 17 in Dayton, Ohio, home of the Marianists’ including St. Joseph High School in Alameda, University of Dayton where he completed his Chaminade Preparatory in Santa Cruz, and from undergraduate degree in 1934. Ordained in 1958 –60, Archbishop Riordan High School. 1943, Father Bracht was 93 years old and a In 1960, Fr. Bracht began the second phase of religious for 75 years. his career when he was assigned to raise funds The late priest was an Ohio native growing for the Marianist missions in Korea. His ministry up in Cleveland, where he met the Marianist in development would last nearly 40 years. priests and Brothers at Cathedral Latin School. A funeral Mass was celebrated Sept. 22, He entered the congregation in 1930 professing Father Donald Bracht, with interment in the Marianist plot in Gate vows initially in 1931 and perpetually in 1935. of Heaven Cemetery in Cupertino. SM Father Bracht, who held a graduate degree in American Remembrances may be made to the Marianist Province

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Travel restricted in ‘Torture Trial’ In a pre-trial hearing Sept. 21 in the so-called “Torture Trial,” Magistrate Judge Hector Estrada ruled Franciscan Father Louis Vitale cannot travel outside California and Arizona. Father Vitale and Jesuit Father Steve Kelly face 10 months in jail after they attempted to deliver a letter denouncing torture to Army officials at Ft. Huachuca in Arizona last November. These additional restrictions on Father Vitale came as a result of his participation in a Nagasaki Day line-crossing at the Nevada Nuclear Test Site, for which he was cited in violation of a pre-trial order not to break local, state or federal laws. In exchange for the right to visit his gravely ill sister in California, Father Vitale pledged not to engage in any illegal activity on a federal military or nuclear installation. The priests’ attorney William Quigley told Estrada, in light of earlier rulings that doomed their defense, Fathers Vitale and Kelly would submit a no contest plea to charges of federal trespass and failure to comply with the orders of a police officer when the trial begins Oct. 17. Prosecutor Capt. Evan Seamone responded that, per federal procedure, such pleas could only be accepted in the “most unusual circumstances,” and only with the approval of the U.S. Justice Department. The priests took part in a protest against torture on Nov. 19, but were the only two protesters who approached the fort. They wanted to deliver a letter denouncing torture to Maj. Gen. Barbara Fast, then commander of the fort. As the former head of military intelligence in Iraq, Fast was implicated in the Abu Ghraib torture scandal. An internal Army investigation cleared her of charges.

Vatican: Climate. . . ■ Continued from cover son,” Msgr. Pietro Parolin, Vatican undersecretary of state, told the U.N. General Assembly Sept. 24. The Vatican, he said, believes protecting the environment is a “moral imperative” that requires collective action among nations. All states have a “responsibility to protect our planet and ensure that present and future generations be able to live in a healthy and safe environment,” he said. Solutions, he said, will necessitate not only technical adaptations but also a change in “selfish attitudes” toward consumption of resources. Msgr. Parolin spoke during a one-day U.N. summit on

Capecchi . . . ■ Continued from page 15 some friend or relative or passerby has a better idea, a piece of wisdom we haven’t considered in all our praying, thinking and journaling. Just in case. The trouble is, those thunderous expectations can muffle the whisper of the Holy Spirit. They can paralyze us with the knowledge that it’s impossible to fulfill every one. We must slide outside the weight of others’ expectations. We must find that place where we’re alone with God – a bedroom corner, an empty chapel, an open meadow. And we must consider God’s expectations, the only ones that matter. What does God expect of us? That we love our neighbor and live up to our potential, using and multiplying our talents in a way that glorifies him.

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Nearly 90 young adults took part in the 10th annual Bay Area Chinese Catholic Living Camp for them over the recent Labor Day weekend at the Jesuit Retreat Center of Los Altos. This year’s spiritual director was Paulist Father Ivan Tou, parochial vicar at Old Cathedral of St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception Parish, San Francisco. Featuring the theme, “Worry Less, Travel Light with God,” the retreat is based on a year’s planning and meetings. There will be a 10th re-union celebration for BACCLB campers on Sept. 29 from 6 - 9p.m. at Our Lady of the Rosary Parish Hall, 703 “C” Street , Union City.

climate change attended by representatives of more than 150 countries. Its aim was to build momentum and political consensus for a major U.N.-sponsored conference on the same topic in December in Bali, Indonesia. Msgr. Parolin said the best scientific assessments have established a link between human activity and climate change, but that question marks remain. Those uncertainties “should neither be exaggerated nor minimized in the name of politics, ideologies or self-interest,” he said. Msgr. Parolin said the Vatican’s general stand on environmental protection falls between two extremes. On one hand, he said, it is unsettling that some commentators think people should exploit the world to the full, with little or no regard for the consequences, using a worldview supposedly based on faith.

“We strongly believe that this is a fundamentally reckless approach,” he said. On the other hand, he said the Vatican does not subscribe to the notion that humanity represents an irredeemable threat to the earth and that human population and activity need to be controlled by drastic means. “We strongly believe that such assertions would place human beings and their needs at the service of an inhuman ecology,” he said.

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Magic Theatre offering waves at, not wave of, the future By Father Basil DePinto The Magic is one of San Franicsco’s most esteemed theater venues, going back to the 1970s when it served as the cradle of Sam Shepard’s burgeoning career. It continues to foster new talent, with a slate of upcoming world premieres. The new season began on Sept. 15 with Bill Pullman’s “theatre event,” “Expedition 6,” an account of the 2003 Columbia shuttle disaster and related matters. Two issues present themselves in the wake of this production: the show itself, an excellent example of its genre, and what this says about the future of theater in general. Mr. Pullman devised his work in cooperation with a group of students at the National Theatre Conservatory in Denver, and he brought them, by now professional Equity actors, to the Magic for this run. The ensemble does a remarkable job of bringing Pullman’s concept to life (full disclosure: one of the actors is a personal friend of mine). The basic premise of the show is that spoken dialogue is secondary to symbolism, physical movement and the performance space itself, along with the objects it contains: furniture, electronic devices, etc. Of paramount importance in the piece is a set of trapezes, which the actors use for a variety of dramatic ends, chief of which is to suggest the effects of weightlessness in space. The ingenious (and sometimes heart-stopping) movement is both courageous and dramatically effective.

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by the Coward Robert Ford’ Unusual and compelling Western dramatizing the circumstances that lead up to the shooting of notorious outlaw Jesse James (Brad Pitt) by Robert Ford (Casey Affleck), a member of his own gang, and the publicity generated afterward. Director Andrew Dominik tells the story intelligently at a leisurely, controlled pace with penetrating close-ups of the excellent cast — Affleck is particularly outstanding — to probe psychological motivations, while the relatively restrained violence is presented with an admirable realism devoid of glamorization. Some profanity, innuendo, a nongraphic sexual encounter, several shooting deaths with blood and scenes of violence, suicide and brief rear male nudity. The USCCB Office for Film & Broadcasting classification is A-III — adults. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is R — under 17 requires accompanying adult.

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The spoken part of the piece is, according to a program note, “built entirely on found text from news articles, the Internet, books and interviews,” while the action employs “a heavy use of sound and choreographed movement.” So Mr. Pullman is an editor rather than an author in the conventional sense. His direction of the actors includes cooperation with them as well as other talented contributors: trapeze choreographer, light and sound artists, etc. This collaboration results in an experience for the audience which is intense, engaging, and satisfying in its own way. And thereon hangs the problematic aspect of the work. We are asked to accept it as the wave of the future; the stage

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death, considered himself a failure as a writer and teacher. “His poems of desolation are very much like the Psalms as a way of appealing to God, but not bitter or resentful,” Deacon Hansen said. Born into a Catholic family in Nebraska, Deacon Hansen attended Catholic grade school and a Jesuit high school and university. His twin brother was a Jesuit and a sister was a Dominican nun. His mother and father were converts to Catholicism. His father’s father had been Mormon, and his mother converted while living in an orphanage run by Dominican nuns. While working on his 1991 novel “Mariette in Ecstasy,” about the phenomenon of stigmata, Deacon Hansen returned to school for a mid-career refresher in the faith. In 1995 he graduated from the University of Santa Clara with a master’s

play, composed of plot and character, with interaction among the persons of the drama that elicits recognition, or at least some thoughtful reflection, from the audience, is a thing of the past. The stage event is composed more of show than of tell. But wait, haven’t we had that for a long time in another genre, film? The movies have always insisted on thorough realism (those authentic teacups in a Victorian salon), along with the frenetic movement, largely dictated by television, that characterizes current movie fare. Theater, on the other hand, has always demanded mental concentration, the capacity to hear – and actors to speak – without much visual stimulation. Yes, there have always been stage spectacles, especially in opera, but a play always absorbs us primarily by what is said; never mind Shakespeare or Chekhov or Shaw; take Williams or Miller, or for that matter, Noel Coward. What people say on stage reveals what’s going on inside them and will always be what primarily engages the hearer. Mr. Pullman, an admirable actor in more than 50 movies, clearly knows that. In “Expedition 6” he has chosen many of his texts with an actor’s ear and an author’s sense of what moves an audience. Whenever his characters get meaningful words to say, they touch us and draw us into the story far more powerfully than the most provocative stage business. The very last words in the piece prove that abundantly: “…home, home.” This show deserves a successful run. It also makes us hope that someday we’ll get a real play from Mr. Pullman. of arts in pastoral ministry with an emphasis on spirituality. He later finished the first year of a three-year master’s of divinity program at the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley. He left to enroll in the diaconate program of the San Jose Diocese and was ordained three years later. He assists at Masses, serves on the diocesan formation of clergy committee and is assigned to campus ministry at the University of Santa Clara. In 2006 he was appointed Gerald Manley Hopkins Professor in the Arts and Humanities at the university. He is aware of the challenges his work and writing pose at a time when the Church is under attack as superstitious and opposed to reason. He cited recent books by journalist Christopher Hitchens and Oxford professor Richard Dawkins and an upcoming satirical film on religion by the comedian Bill Maher, titled “Religulous.” “I get increasing signs of the Church being persecuted and religious life in general being persecuted – mocked, at least,” Deacon Hansen said.

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Back to School Sept. 30, 1 – 4 p.m.: Denise Roy, LMFT, M.Div leads a workshop at Mercy Center, 2350 Adeline Dr. in Burlingame. Tickets are $25. A mother of five, the author’s new book is titled “Momfulness: Mothering with Mindfulness.” For information visit Denise Roy www.mercy-center.org or (650) 340-7474. Oct. 6: San Domenico School and the Kairos Center/Stepping Stones Project co-present the 4th annual Green Your School Conference, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m., at San Domenico School, 1500 Butterfield Rd. in San Anselmo. A wide range of workshops, for both adults and youth, a forum for networking and a panel discussion with many leaders in the Eco-literacy movement are planned. Participants will be provided with a healthy, organic lunch. Register online at www.sandomenico.org or call (415) 258-1985. Tickets are $10 youth, $15 adults (includes lunch and materials). Scholarships are available.

Datebook Oct. 12 — Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory Irish Invitational Golf Tournament, Harding Park Golf Course, 9 a.m. shotgun start. Fee of $250 per person includes breakfast, lunch, tee prizes, driving range, golf, and post tournament awards ceremony. For more information contact John Brown ’84 at (415) 775-6626, ext. 682 or john.brown@shcp.edu. Warming up for the event is Christian Brother David Caretti, member of the faculty, retreat coordinator, and Block Club moderator at Sacred Heart Cathedral.

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

St. Mary’s Medical Center, San Francisco Celebrating 150 years of service in 2007. Visit www.stmarysmedicalcenter.org. Oct. 6, 10:30 a.m.: Healthy Heart Lecture and Health Screening in hospital’s Morrissey Hall, 2250 Hayes St. Ground Floor, Level C. Registration is required. Call (800) 444-2303.

Catholic Charities CYO Centennial Events More info on the Centennial celebration at http://www.cccyo.org/centennial/index.php Oct. 7: The 11th Annual Vincenzo Wine & Food Festival on the grounds of St. Vincent’s School for Boys in San Rafael. The festival, complete with exclusive tastings from premier wineries and superb restaurants, and auction raise funds for atrisk youth at St. Vincent’s. Tickets are $125. Info: (415) 972.1233 or vincenzo@cccyo.org

St. Mary’s Cathedral The following events are taking place at or are coordinated by the cathedral of the Archdiocese located at Gough and Geary St. in San Francisco. Call (415) 567-2020 for more information. Oct. 4-7: First Annual Cathedral Festival of Flowers. Oct. 4: Festival opens 9 a.m. with Mass at 12:10 p.m. and viewing until 7 p.m. Oct:. 5: Festival available from 9 a.m. with Mass at 12:10 p.m. and touring until 7 p.m. Oct. 6: Festival opens at 9 a.m. with Masses at 12:10 and 5:30 p.m. and viewing until 7 p.m. Oct. 7: Day begins with Mass at 7:30 a.m. and subsequent liturgies at 9 a.m., 11 a.m., 1 p.m. and a Festival Concert at 3:30 p.m. Touring closes at 5 p.m. Cathedral docents will be available for information.

Oct. 5: Monthly Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. Adoration begins in Our Lady’s Chapel, located behind the main altar, following 8 a.m. Mass, and will conclude with an evening Mass at 7:30 p.m. This is also an opportunity to visit the Cathedral during the Festival of Flowers featuring floral displays highlighting the sculpture and architecture of the Cathedral. For further information, or to volunteer, contact Mary Ann Eiler at (415) 567-2020, ext. 224. Oct. 11: Members of the Archdiocese of San Francisco are invited to a Month-of-Mary Pilgrimage of the Shrines of St. Mary Cathedral. The prayerful and educational evening begins at 7 p.m. No preregistration necessary. Oct. 27: Point7Now! conference. See “Social Justice” entry on this page. Sundays: The Cathedral Sunday Concert Series continues. The 3:30 p.m. concerts are free and often feature the 4,842-pipe Cathedral Organ. Parking in the lot surrounding the Cathedral is free. For more information, call the Cathedral music director at (415) 567-2020, ext. 213.

Food & Fun Sept. 28, 29 and 30: St. Philip Parish Annual Festival Festivities start with parish dinner Friday at 6 p.m. Followed by two days of games, activities and free entertainment on Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Teen dance Saturday at 7 p.m. Located at 24th and Diamond Street in Noe Valley, details at www.stphilipfestival.org or call (415) 824-8467. Sept. 28, 29, 30: St. Augustine Parish Festival, 3700 Callan Blvd. in South San Francisco. Friday is reserved for a Night at the Show featuring teens of the parish at 6:30 p.m. Tickets $7. Saturday fun begins at 9 a.m. and continues until 10 p.m. Sunday hours are 2 – 7 p.m. Food, bingo, and a performance by The Philippine Singers are highlights. Call (650) 873-2282. Sept. 29: Annual festival benefiting Holy Angels Parish in Colma from 10 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. Enjoy entertainment, food from around the world, and games for young and old alike. Admission free. Contact virginiasimon@msn.com for more information. Oct. 5: Catholic Marin Breakfast Club gathers for Mass at 7 a.m. in St. Sebastian Church, Bon Air Rd. and Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Kentfield.

Breakfast and presentation follow in parish hall. Father Tom Daly will speak about the ongoing efforts to gain county approval for developing part of St. Vincent’s School for Boys property to benefit school’s endowment, improvement and future work. Member’s breakfast: $7. Visitor’s breakfast: $10. Call (415) 461-0704 between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. or contact Sugaremy@aol.com. Oct. 5, 6, 7: St. Francis of Assisi Parish Food Festival, Friday 6 – 10 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.; Sunday 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Enjoy the foods of the African American, Hispanic and Pacific Island communities. Music and more are included in the day at 1425 Bay Rd. in East Palo Alto. For prices and more information, call (650) 322-2152. Oct. 5, 6, 7: All Souls Parish Festival, Spruce and Walnut in South San Francisco, Friday 6 – 10 p.m.; Saturday noon – 10 p.m.; Sunday 11 a.m. – 8 p.m. Games, rides, prizes, music, food, silent auction and more. Call (650) 871-8944. Oct. 6: Tripleheader with five-course Hawaiian Luau benefiting Boys Scouts of Troop 343 at St. Thomas More Parish Carroll Hall, 5-9 p.m. Tickets $40 adults includes free raffle ticket; $30 for seniors/$20 children under 12. Art auction after dinner. Call Bob Archer at (415) 333-9243 or e-mail Love2Luau@sbcglobal.net. Oct. 6: Pregnancy Resource Center of Marin and St. Anselm’s Reverence for Life Program will host a fundraising dinner for Novato’s Pregnancy Resource Center, 5 - 9:30 p.m. at St. Sebastian Parish Hall in Greenbrae. Robin Strom, executive director of Pregnancy Resource Center, will be the keynote speaker. Proceeds benefit the Pregnancy Resource Center. Event includes dinner, entertainment, no-host bar and a fine-wine raffle. Tickets are $50. Call (415) 892-0558 or robin@prcmarin.org. Oct. 6: Golf Tournament benefiting Immaculate Heart of Mary Elementary School at Crystal Springs Golf Course. Scramble format at 9:30 a.m. with awards dinner after match. Call (650) 592-7714. Oct. 6, 7, 10 a.m. – 7 p.m.: Columbus Day Bazaar benefiting Sts. Peter and Paul Elementary School on Washington Square in San Francisco. Enjoy games, food and entertainment. Call (415) 4210809 or visit www.stspeterpaul.sanfrancisco.ca.us.

Catholic Charismatic Renewal Oct. 5: First Friday Mass at St. Anne of the Sunset Church, Funston and Judah St. in San Francisco. Liturgy is at 7:30 p.m. Rosary is at 7 p.m. Contact John Murphy at exmorte@aol.com.

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Francisco at 2:30 p.m. “Give one hour prayerful witness” to respect life, organizers ask. For information call (415) 752-4922. Sponsored by United for Life. Oct. 27: Point7Now! conference from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral. Speakers and sessions will focus on addressing world poverty. Invited participants include California Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer and other federal lawmakers. Cost is $20. For information, email publicpolicy@sfarchdiocese.org or visit www.sflifeandjustice.org

Reunions Oct. 6: Class of ’52, reunion lunch, Presentation High School, San Francisco at Sinbad’s Restaurant on Fisherman’s Wharf. Contact Lorraine Denegri D’Elia at (650) 992-2076; Barbara Casey Zanette at (650) 871-9585 or Marilyn Emilio Adair at (415) 584-0798. Oct. 6: Class of ’57 from Holy Name of Jesus Elementary School. Contact Joan McCormack at phone.joan@sbcglobal .net or call (415) 2212684. Oct. 6: Class of ‘72, Notre Dame High School, Belmont. Contact Notre Dame Alumnae Office (650) 595-1913, ext.191 or Gail Jackson gjackson@ndhsb.org. Oct. 6: Class of ‘77, Mercy High School, San Francisco at Mercy High’s Rist Hall. Contact Barbara Bardelli Rindge at (408) 313-9358 or brindge@comcast.net or Rosemarie Paredes Muzio at (650) 888-8654 or rosemarie58@sbcglobal.net. Oct. 20: St. Emydius Class of ’71 at Patio Espanol, San Francisco. Contact Joanne Johnston Ryan at (650) 871-5007. Oct. 20: Class of ’67, Mercy High School, San Francisco at Irish Cultural Center. Contact Stephanie Mischak Lyons at (415) 242-9818 or smlyons@earthlink.net. Oct. 20: Mercy High School, San Francisco, class of ‘82, 4 – 9 p.m. at the school, 3250 19th Ave. in San Francisco. Family BBQ will be held Sunday also at Mercy High School. For information/reservations: http://mercyhighschool1982.blogspot.com. Oct. 27: Immaculate Conception Academy, class of ‘67 at Dominic’s Restaurant at Oyster Bay. Contact Annette Lacrouts Lee at (650) 755-0473 or jdmpro@aol.com or Liz Baiocchi Parodi at (650) 574-1980 or eparodi@cooley.com.

Prayer/Lectures/Trainings Oct. 6: First Saturday Mass at Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma at 11 a.m. Call (650) 756-2060. Oct. 7: Gospel Mass at St. Paul of the Shipwreck Church, 3rd St. at Jamestown in San Francisco at 10:30 a.m. Father Tony Ricard, a noted preacher from New Orleans will preside. “All are welcome to come worship with us!” A collection will be taken for victims of Hurricane Katrina and rebuilding efforts at Our Lady Star of the Sea Church in New Orleans. Reception follows. Call (415) 468-3434. Thursday evenings at 7:30 p.m.: “The Letters of Saint Paul,” a biblical study course with Father David Anderson, a regular presenter in past classes of the School of Pastoral Leadership/Catholic Studies Institute and pastor of St. Peter Church in Ukiah, will take place at Marin Catholic High School, Sir Francis Drake Blvd. and Bon Air Rd. in Greenbrae. For more information, contact haeuser@sbcglobal.net.

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Bobby Kennedy, Jr., visits shrine Bobby Kennedy, Jr., son of the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy, holds the child of an admirer as she takes a photo at a Sept. 5 book signing and lecture at the National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi in San Francisco, a benefit for the Shrine’s Renaissance Project. Kennedy spoke on his dedication to the patron saint of the Archdiocese and autographed copies of his recent book, “St. Francis of Assisi: A Life of Joy.” The Renaissance Project is the topic of a Sept. 30 “Mosaic” program to be aired Sept. 30 over CBS Channel 5 at 5 a.m.

Nearly 1,000 attended the Sept. 8-9 Hispanic Charismatic Congress at St. Peter Parish, San Francisco. Father Jose Corral, left, archdiocesan liaison to the Hispanic Charismatic Movement, was among leaders of the event. The English-language “Holy Spirit Conference 2007” will be held Sept. 28-30 at Archbishop Riordan High School, San Francisco. For details, visit www.sfspirt.com or call (650) 906-3451.

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JOIN A ROSARY RALLY ON OCTOBER 13TH

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For advertising Information Please Call: 415-614-5642

Piano Lessons

Led by Fr. John Jimenez

PIANO LESSONS BY

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

Fax: 415-614-5641 or Email:

penaj@sfarchdiocese.org

In the public square In honor of the 90th anniversary of Our Lady’s apparition in Fatima, Portugal

Organist

WHEN: October 13, 2007

ORGANIST WEDDINGS • FUNERALS

Cost $25

Elderly Care

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

Personal care companion, Help with daily activities; driving, shopping, appointments. 27 years experience, references, bonded. (415) 713-1366

Your prayer will be published in our newspaper

Name Adress Phone MC/VISA # Exp. Select One Prayer: ❑ St. Jude Novena to SH ❑ Prayer to St. Jude

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

Prayer to St. Jude Oh, Holy St. Jude, Apostle and Martyr, great in virtue and rich in miracles, near Kinsman of Jesus Christ, faithful intercessor of all who invoke your special patronage in time of need, to you I have recourse from the depth of my heart and humbly beg to whom God has given such great power to come to my assistance. Help me in my present and urgent petition. In return I promise to make you be invoked. Say three our Fathers, three Hail Marys and Glorias. St. Jude pray for us all who invoke your aid. Amen. This Novena has never been known to fail. This Novena must be said 9 consecutive days. Thanks. S.B.

Prayer to the Blessed Virgin never known to fail. Most beautiful flower of Mt. Carmel Blessed Mother of the Son of God, assist me in my need. Help me and show me you are my mother. Oh Holy Mary, Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and earth. I humbly beseech you from the bottom of my heart to help me in this need. Oh Mary, conceived without sin. Pray for us (3X). Holy Mary, I place this cause in your hands (3X). Say prayers 3 days. L. & T.B.

WHERE: Civic Center Plaza, San Francisco Across from City Hall

Acceptance of an ad in

Catholic San Francisco while based on an assumption of integrity on the part of the advertiser does not imply endorsement of a product or service.

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TAHOE RENTAL

Help Wanted

Irish Caregiver

Please return form with check or money order for $25 Payable to: Catholic San Francisco Advertising Dept., Catholic San Francisco 1 Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco, CA 94109

TIME: 12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Please confirm your event before contracting music!

PIANO LESSONS by university professor. (415) 587-8165

PUBLISH A NOVENA Pre-payment required Mastercard or Visa accepted

Worship Services, Catholic Experience Marie DuMabeiller 415-441-3069, Page: 823-3664 VISA, MASTERCARD Accepted

Piano Lessons

NOVENAS

Many years experience, excellent local references, responsible and reliable. Available days or nights. Please call for info. (415) 503-7208

Room for Rent Room for rent, $625/mo. including utilities, washer/dryer, Richmond district in SF, no pets.

(415) 668-2690

LAKE TAHOE RENTAL Vacation Rental Condo in South Lake Tahoe. Sleeps 8, near Heavenly Valley and Casinos.

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ADVERTISING SALES For The Largest Publisher of Catholic Church Bulletins

This is a Career Opportunity!

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We are looking for full or part time

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Northern California's Weekly Catholic Newspaper

DEADLINE FRIDAY 12 NOON

TO PLACE AN AD: By phone, call (415) 614-5642 or (415) 614-5640 or fax (415) 614-5641 or e-mail: penaj@sfarchdiocse.org; Mail or bring ads to Catholic San Francisco, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco, CA 94109; Or by (please include credit card number & expiration date).

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by telephone, mail, or fax. ONLY VISA or MASTERCARD ACCEPTED.

Services, Real Estate, buying or selling for profit and transportation deales.

PAYMENT: All ads must be paid in advance. Money order, or imprinted checks. Credit Cards

Only: Garage Sales, Help Wanted, Transportation / Vehicles.

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25 per column inch – 1 time / $20 per col. inch – 2 times

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We reserve the right to reject or cancel advertising for any reason deemed appropriate. We want our readers to know that it is not always possible to verify promises made by our advertisers.

Catholic San Francisco

September 28, 2007