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Pope Benedict XVI with ambassadors of Islamic nations and Italian Islamic leaders in a room at his summer residence in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, Sept. 25.

Pope meets with Muslim leaders; calls dialogue ‘a vital necessity’ By Catholic News Service CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy — Meeting with Islamic ambassadors, representatives and clerics earlier this week, Pope Benedict XVI expressed his deep respect for Muslims, pledged to continue dialogue, and said Islamic and Christian leaders should cooperate to curb violence. The Pontiff, who invited the Muslim representatives to his residence at Castel Gandolfo Sept. 25, told the leaders that the dialogue between Christians and Muslims “cannot be reduced to an optional extra. It is, in fact, a vital necessity, on which in large measure our future depends.” The pope said, “Faithful to the teachings of their own religious traditions, Christians and Muslims must learn to work together, as indeed they already do in many common undertakings, in order to guard against all forms of intolerance and to oppose all manifestations of violence,” the pope said. In part, the encounter at the pope’s summer residence was designed to soothe Muslim resentment over a recent papal speech that cited a historical criticism of Islam and the concept of holy war. The pope later distanced himself from the quoted material and said he was sorry Muslims had been offended. Addressing the Islamic representatives, the pope

alluded only briefly to the earlier speech. Instead, he focused on assuring Muslim communities that his papacy was not backtracking on the dialogue opened by the Second Vatican Council and developed in large part by his predecessor, Pope John Paul II. The pope expressed his “esteem and profound respect” for Muslim believers and said he wanted to continue to build bridges, especially between Muslims and Christians. Productive dialogue, he said, will be based on mutual knowledge, which “with joy recognizes the religious values that we have in common and, with loyalty, respects the differences.” He said historical animosities should be left behind. The lessons of the past, he said, should help Christians and Muslims seek “paths of reconciliation” that lead to respect for individual identity and freedom. In that regard, Pope Benedict cited Pope John Paul on the important issue of reciprocal respect for religious rights, quoting from a speech the late pope delivered to Muslims in Morocco: “Respect and dialogue require reciprocity in all spheres, especially in that which concerns basic freedoms, more particularly religious freedom.” The pope said that in the current world situation it was imperative that Christians and Muslims join to promote human dignity and the rights that flow from that dignity.

“When threats mount up against people and against peace, by recognizing the central character of the human person and by working with perseverance to see that human life is always respected, Christians and Muslims manifest their obedience to the Creator,” he said. The pope closed his talk by recalling that Muslims worldwide were about to begin the spiritual month of Ramadan, and he prayed that they be granted “serene and peaceful lives.” When he finished, he was warmly applauded. The meeting was a formal audience and not a closeddoor exchange of opinions. In attendance were ambassadors from predominantly Muslim countries and other Islamic representatives based in Italy. According to the Vatican, participants in the meeting included heads of mission from Kuwait, Jordan, Pakistan, Qatar, Ivory Coast, Indonesia, Turkey, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Lebanon, Yemen, Egypt, Iraq, Senegal, Algeria, Morocco, Albania, the Arab League, Syria, Tunisia, Libya, Iran and Azerbaijan. Also present were 14 members of the Islamic Council of Italy and representatives from the Italian Islamic Cultural Center and the Office of the World Muslim League. After words of welcome by the head of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, French Cardinal VITAL NECESSITY, page 4

INSIDE THIS WEEK’S EDITION Opus Dei meeting . . . . . . . 3 Education guide . . . . . . . 8-9 Archbishop’s homily. . . . . 14 Commentary . . . . . . . . . . 15 Scripture and reflection . . . 16 Datebook . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

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Among the many helping celebrate Father Heribert Duquet’s 67th year as a priest were Father Mario Mich, left, Father Duquet, Msgr. Michael Harriman, Msgr. John Foudy and Father Terry Horan.

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By Maurice Healy Spanish Bishop Javier Echevarria Rodriguez, who heads the personal prelature Opus Dei, met with more than 2,000 members, their families and friends Sept. 24 at the Marin Civic Auditorium in San Rafael. The event, which largely drew people from the San Francisco Bay area, was part of a 17-day pastoral trip by the prelate to cities in the United States and Canada. After entering the auditorium and being welcomed with sustained applause, Bishop Echevarria delivered remarks and answered questions from the audience for 75 minutes. In an informal exchange termed a “get together,” Bishop Echevarria urged people to pray more for Pope Benedict. He also asked for prayers for Opus Dei. He said, “Our work can only be done with one weapon – and that is prayer.” He said he was asking those present for a commitment of prayer, particularly for the success of Opus Dei expansion to additional countries, including Russia, Vietnam, Bulgaria and Romania. After speaking for about 20 minutes, Bishop Echevarria responded to questions posed by members of the audience. To a woman who asked how she might better help people, the bishop recalled the words of Opus Dei founder Saint Josemaria

Escriva in seeing others, “Christ is passing by, Christ is passing by.” Bishop Echevarria added, “We must seek the truth in everything we do. And we need to speak the truth even at times when it is difficult, or it is not accepted.” He said, “We have to recover the dignity of the person,” he told a father who asked about the difficulty of raising a family in a secular culture. “Throughout the world today, there is little willingness to respect the formation of young people,” the bishop said. “That is why we need to persevere in our efforts,” he said, urging greater responsibility for our own lives and consistent prayer. Saint Josemaria Escriva founded Opus Dei in Spain in the early 20th century. The organization defines its mission as helping people turn their work and daily activities into occasions for growing closer to God, serving others, and improving society. Opus Dei asserts that it complements the work of local churches by offering classes, talks, retreats and pastoral care that help people develop their personal spiritual life and apostolate. There are an estimated 80,000 Opus Dei members worldwide and more than 3,000 members in the United States. However, many more people participate in activities related to Opus Dei’ spiritual formation. Opus Dei activities in America are organized from 60 centers in 19 U.S. cities including San Francisco and Los Angeles.

‘Mosaic’ TV program airs Oct. 1 Julia Dowd, associate director of the Joan and Ralph Lane Center for Catholic Studies and Social Thought at the University of San Francisco, talks with host Tom Burke about Catholic social teaching and people living in poverty on the TV program Mosaic, which airs Sunday, Oct. 1 at 5:30 a.m. on KPIX-Channel 5.

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Bishop Javier Echevarria Rodriguez speaking at Sept. 24 meeting.

Feast Day of Saint Francis of Assisi “Blessing of the Animals,” a tradition on the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, will take place at many parishes this weekend. One such event will take place on the plaza of St. Mary’s Cathedral on Saturday, Sept. 30 at 10:30 a.m. Children’s Choirs from throughout the Archdiocese will accompany the service. For more information, call (415) 5672020. Franciscan Friars will bless animals and pictures of animals at St. Boniface Parish, Golden Gate Ave. and Leavenworth St. in San Francisco on Sept. 30 at 12: 45 p.m., 1: 30 p.m., 2:15 p.m. and 3 p.m. For more information, call (415) 241-2600. The National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi will welcome Archbishop George H. Niederauer for the first time when he presides at a Mass commemorating the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, Oct. 4 at 12:15 p.m. “The Shrine is very happy to welcome Archbishop Niederauer,” said Father Robert Cipriano, rector of the shrine, who will concelebrate. “I’m really glad he is able to be with us. Last year we filled the church for this prayerful occasion and know we will again.” In addition to marking the feast, the Mass

will close the shrine’s annual novena to St. Francis and pray for peace in the world. A reception follows the liturgy. Father Cipriano said, “Please come to pray, to eat and to enjoy fellowship.” On Oct. 3, Dominican Father Anselm Ramelow will lead a Transitus Service – a special prayer commending St. Francis to heaven - at 7 p.m. For more information, call (415) 983-0405. During the weekend of Oct. 6-8, St. Francis of Assisi Parish in East Palo Alto will mark the occasion with prayer and a festival. “We have three very different ethnic communities who are working very hard to make our celebration of our patron saint very big,” said Father Larry Goode, pastor. Friday offers a dinner dance and entertainment from 6 to 10 p.m. with tickets at $10 per person. Saturday includes games for children, live music and entertainment and food from noon to 5 p.m. Sunday’s festivities begin with Mass at 9:30 a.m. followed by traditional dance from some of the parish’s diverse ethnic communities. Live music, entertainment, Mexican folk dance, African American music and dance follow the 11:30 a.m. Mass. For more information, call (650) 322-2152.

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Jesuits’ work at Indian mission highlighted by bishop’s visit ETHETE, Wyo. — Jesuit Father Ron Seminara, pastor of St. Joseph’s Church in Ethete, says he loves what he does — ministering to members of the Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribes in western Wyoming. What he loves about his ministry is that he has the “opportunity to accompany people with the struggles in their lives,” he told the Wyoming Catholic Register, newspaper of the Cheyenne Diocese. He said he enjoys helping the people find God in the word and in all that they do. St. Joseph’s and Blessed Sacrament at Fort Washakie are mission churches of St. Stephen’s Indian Mission on the Wind River Reservation in western Wyoming. St. Stephen’s serves about 350 families. Father Seminara oversees all three parishes with the help of two other Jesuits, Fathers Daniel Gannon and Robert Hilbert. In August, St. Stephen’s and St. Joseph’s played host to Cheyenne Bishop David L. Ricken, who celebrated Mass and performed a baptism during a pastoral visit.

U.S. missionary says Oaxacans fear labor crisis might escalate MEXICO CITY — People in Oaxaca state feared that a labor crisis in their state might escalate after police and the

Vital necessity . . . ■ Continued from cover Paul Poupard, the pope delivered his talk in French; the Vatican immediately made available translations in Arabic, English and Italian. Afterward, the pope greeted those present individually, then posed for a photo and left the hall. The papal talk was broadcast live on the Arab television network Al-Jazeera. Before the meeting, the Vatican spokesman, Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, said the encounter was a sign that dialogue was returning to normal after a moment of misunderstanding. The spokesman said the pope’s speech Sept. 12 at the University of Regensburg in Germany might even turn out to be “providential” for dialogue. “We hope the tension and suffering of the past days make everyone understand the urgency of a renewed dialogue that is positive, trustworthy, capable of looking at problems in depth, and ready for ‘self-criticism,’ as the pope said,” Father Lombardi said. “If this happens, the speech in Regensburg, with its intellectual courage ... will have been fruitful, perhaps even providential,” he said.

Mourners pray around the casket of Sister Leonella Sgorbati during a funeral Mass at Consolata Shrine in Kenya's capital of Nairobi Sept. 21. Hundreds of mourners bid a last farewell to the nun shot dead in Somalia days before. Her fellow sisters vowed not to abandon their humanitarian work despite the dangers.

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governor’s bodyguards clashed with an armed citizen militia. “People are desperate for the conflict to end and hope an enlightened era of governance will replace it,” said Phil DahlBredine, a Maryknoll lay missionary working in Oaxaca, capital of the state with the same name. “The citizens are afraid. And because there no longer exists a functional police force, they have organized neighborhood watches,” he told Catholic News Service by telephone in late September. Dahl-Bredine said there was “a lot of anger” in Oaxaca, where 70,000 teachers have been on strike since May 22. Gov. Ulises Ruiz Ortiz has threatened to cut off their pay and hire replacements. On Sept. 25, the day after the militia clash, Archbishop Jose Chavez Botello of Oaxaca urged all parties to avoid violence and rely on tolerance, moderation, perseverance and a vision of transformation to find effective ways to resolve the conflict. Reaction to the pope’s talk was mostly favorable among the participants and mixed among other Islamic leaders. An Iranian diplomat assigned to the Vatican, Ahmad Fahima, said the encounter was “good and, as far as we’re concerned, sufficient.” Indonesia’s ambassador to the Vatican, Bambang Prayitno, said the pope’s encouragement to dialogue should have positive effects. Abdellah Redouane, who represented the Islamic Cultural Center of Italy, said that with the papal talk “a new stage” in dialogue had begun. Yahya Pallavicini, a Muslim cleric who is vice president of the Islamic Religious Community organization, welcomed the encounter with the pope but said Islamic leaders wanted more than a papal speech. He suggested forming a commission of Christian, Muslim and Jewish experts to map out a new cycle of dialogue meetings. In Turkey, Ali Bardakoglu, the head of the country’s directorate of religious affairs, said he thought the pope’s talk would be welcomed as a positive development and would allay misgivings in the Muslim world. Catholic San Francisco contributed to this story.

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CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy — Pope Benedict XVI said a missionary nun slain in Somalia exemplified the “logic of Christianity” by working for the victory of love over hatred. The pope’s comments Sept. 24 came exactly one week after the nun, Consolata Sister Leonella Sgorbati, was gunned down with her bodyguard as she left the children’s hospital where she worked in Mogadishu. Somali authorities arrested one suspect and two potential witnesses to the slaying, which came amid rising tensions in the Muslim world over a recent papal speech on Islam. It was not known if the killing was connected to Muslim criticism of the pope’s speech. Addressing pilgrims gathered for a noon blessing at his summer residence outside Rome, the pope spoke about the Gospel’s encouragement of peacemakers.

Underground Chinese bishop returned HONG KONG — Underground Bishop Julius Jia Zhiguo of Zhengding, China, returned home Sept. 25 after three months of house arrest in an undisclosed location, sources from Zhengding Diocese told UCA

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Archbishop Milingo excommunicated VATICAN CITY — Recent ordinations made without papal approval have placed Zambian Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo and the four prelates he ordained under automatic excommunication, the Vatican said. Starting with his “attempted marriage” in 2001 until his Sept. 24 ordinations of four bishops in Washington, Archbishop Milingo’s actions have led him to “a condition of irregularity and progressive breach in communion with the church,” said a written statement by the Vatican press office. Various church officials tried “in vain” to contact the retired archbishop of Lusaka, Zambia, and “dissuade him from continuing acts that provoke scandal,” the Sept. 26 press statement said. — Catholic News Service

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Dedicated Catholic Ministry Has Won Many Battles In Haiti’s War on Poverty Seeing the emaciated young Haitian boy sitting listless under a tree — skin and eyes sallow from dehydration — American-born nurse, Bette Gabrian, felt convicted before God. “Here, an hour-and-a-half from Miami, children are starving,” she said. “This can’t go on. God is watching. We have to do something.” In addition to severe malnutrition, the five-year-old’s back bulged grotesquely due to Potts Disease-tuberculosis of the spine. “What was happening to this boy happens all too often in rural Haiti,” explained Bette Gebrian, the Director of Public Health with the Haitian Health Foundation (HHF), a Catholic medical outreach with a long history of serving the country’s rural poor. “His mother came home to the mountains to deliver her baby. She breast-fed for awhile, then she went back to Port-au-Prince because she had to find a job.” The boy’s grandmother, whose own energy had waned with age, was not capable of caring for him properly. Although she loved the boy she nicknamed “Raisin,” the grandmother was unable to recognize the danger he was in, and her poverty kept her from having an adequate supply of nutritious food on hand. As a result, the boy was slowly starving to death. And, as Bette Gabrian rightly says, situations like this are common in Haiti, where the population is destitute, medical care is inadequate and food is scarce. Because of this severe poverty, Bette has had to see countless children die from heartbreaking — and totally preventable — maladies. But she has also won many battles, conquering such illnesses through HHF’s programs, supported by Cross International Catholic Outreach. Fortunately for Raisin, Bette happened to visit his rural village with her mobile vaccine clinic. She recognized his classic symptoms before it was too late.

Responding to the boy’s urgent needs, Bette took little Raisin to a nearby HHF facility where caring nuns treated his Potts Disease and anemia, de-wormed him, and lovingly fed him back to health. It took a whole year for the weakened boy to reach the level of health and vitality appropriate for a five-year-old. At that point, he could return home. “But the important thing about this situation is that the boy wasn’t simply brought home and left to fall back into his previous condition. We knew that was a risk, so we assigned a health agent to return to his village and do follow-ups,” Bette explained. “That’s the point of having resident village health workers, who are local people trained by HHF to provide health care to their own people. They do more than put a Band-Aid on the problem — they become part of a long-term process that improves the quality of life for the people in a meaningful way.” Cross International Catholic Outreach fully supports HHF’s strategy, recognizing that the constant presence of a trained health worker greatly augments the care given by doctors who come to the village only for emergencies or for occasional wellness visits. Cross has supported these efforts and would like to find ways to expand and strengthen the outreach. “Clearly, these resident health workers are essential to maintaining the work that’s been accomplished by doctors and nurses. HHF has shown the creativity and commitment that marks most Catholic ministries for the poor. This isn’t just a job for them. It’s a mission and ministry. It’s an expression of their love for God and love for others,” explained Jim Cavnar, president of Cross International Catholic Outreach. “This is precisely the type of ministry we American Catholics should be supporting overseas.” Cavnar added that HHF’s method of training local people to better their own circumstances is also right in line with how Cross works. It’s a method that is

both empowering and extremely cost effective in the long run. And this too makes it a wonderful project for U.S. Catholics to support. “Ultimately, it doesn’t take a huge grant of aid to save lives in rural Haiti,” said Cavnar. “Pennies can literally mean the difference between a child receiving a lifesaving antibiotic or losing a limb from a staff infection; an expectant mother getting access to medical care or dying in childbirth; or an infant getting vaccinated or succumbing to measles. It only costs us pennies to help — and therefore not helping can cost lives. “Like Bette, we should all feel concerned when we see children suffering. We should all wonder what God thinks as He watches our response,” he added. “And as Bette says, something

should be done... and it can. All it takes is a commitment to get involved and support dedicated Catholic ministries like HHF, and thereby stand with them in their struggle to help the poor. Then, when God watches... He will have reason to smile.” Readers interested in hearing Bette Gebrian describe HHF’s lifesaving work in Haiti can listen to interviews posted at www.crosscatholic.org/podcast. To make a tax-deductible contribution to Cross International Catholic Outreach and its work with Catholic ministries overseas, either use the enclosed postage-paid brochure or send contributions to Cross International Catholic Outreach, Dept. AC00342, 490 White Pond Drive, PO Box 63, Akron, HO 44309-0063.

Catholic Leaders Help Build Strong Foundation for Cross With the recent addition of His Eminence William Cardinal Keeler as its Patron, Cross International Catholic Outreach continues to build on a strong foundation of Catholic leadership and support. The impressive group of Catholic bishops already on the organization’s board includes its Chairman, Most Reverend Sam Jacobs, Bishop of the Diocese of Houma-Thibodauex, and directors Most Rev. Michael Cote, Most Rev. Carlos Sevilla and Most Rev. Edward Slattery. “Cross International Catholic Outreach is an official Catholic organization, listed in the national Catholic directory, and our mission has always been tied to the work of the Catholic Church overseas,” explained Jim Cavnar, president of Cross. “Our goal is to make American Catholics aware of the work being done by the dedicated priests, nuns and other Catholic leaders serving overseas. The Catholic Church is accomplishing amazing things in serving the poor. More people should be aware of it — and support

the work if they can.” In Cavnar’s view, Cardinal Keeler, the Bishops serving on the board for Cross and the thousands of U.S. Catholics who support the ministry as benefactors are all part of one unified mission. “Christ called us to love one another, and all of us are simply trying to respond to that command in a meaningful and tangible way,” Cavnar explained. “We are people bound together by a shared mission, and God has blessed us. As Christ calls others to take part, we will continue to grow — expanding the outreach by feeding more who are hungry, providing shelter to those who need it, delivering medicines to comfort the sick and sharing the Gospel with those who are lost.” This commitment to the poor has also helped forge an official collaboration between Cross International Catholic Church and the Holy Father’s own international relief organization, the Pontifical Council Cor Unum. This unique collaboration has already been a blessing for the poor following several

His Eminence WIlliam Cardinal Keeler at a recent meeting with Pope Benedict XVI. disasters, including the tsunami in southeast Asia, floods in Haiti, drought in Africa and programs serving refugees in Rwanda. “Ultimately, the success of Cross

depends on the prayers and support of American Catholics — their generosity and faithfulness have made all of this possible,” Cavnar said. “We are deeply grateful for their support.”

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Priest’s Timely Rescue of Haitian Orphans “Wouldn’t Have Been Possible” Without Help From U.S. Catholics The men standing in Fr. Marc Boisvert’s doorway had terrible news. A nearby orphanage had just collapsed under financial pressure, and sixty-four boys were in urgent need of help. Many of the children had already gone hungry for days, and some were sick and needed medical attention. No one else was capable of dealing with the problem — could he help? Having worked with orphans for several years, Fr. Marc could easily imagine what the children were going through as they awaited word of their fate. First there would be shock. Then loss and emptiness, followed by fear. Ultimately, these children would relive the full, crippling sense of abandonment that overwhelms all orphans. “When I heard about these kids, my mind raced, and I wondered if I could do anything about it. My own orphanage already housed hundreds of children and we were financially strapped ourselves,” Fr. Marc recalled. “I knew I had the heart for the job, but there were so many practical and financial hurdles to overcome. Could I afford to take those children in? And on the other hand — could I afford not to? This is Haiti, I thought. What are their chances if I turn my back on them? They might not survive.” Knowing that some kind of outside help would be necessary to properly feed, shelter and educate the new children, Fr. Marc quickly contacted several large international charities seeking their support. All of them turned him down... except one. Within hours of hearing from Fr. Marc about the plight of the orphans and his desire to help, Cross International Catholic Outreach made a firm pledge of support and wired all of the funds needed to get the rescue underway. Every one of those children was saved. “The first week involved some adjust-ments,” Fr. Marc explained. “They came in with nothing but the

clothes on their backs, no shoes and many were clearly malnourished. They ate ravenously that first night. The next morning at breakfast, one of the kids seemed surprised and wondered if the food he was being served would be his only meal for the day. He wasn’t used to eating every day — and certainly never more than once a day.” Over the next few weeks, Fr. Marc

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turned these new “visitors” into family. Meanwhile, Cross International has had to mobilize its programs to get the financial support that was needed. “It’s been a big undertaking,” explained Jim Cavnar, president of Cross International Catholic Outreach. “Fr. Marc had to have beds, sheets and towels, clothing, shoes and school supplies, among other things. Funds were also needed to bring in a doctor to examine and treat children that were ill or suffering from malnutrition. Now we are working on supplying food and other day-to-day needs.” For Fr. Marc, it has been a tremendous relief to have so willing a partner help handle the emergency. “Here in Haiti, a Catholic priest is constantly in the midst of life-or-death situations — people come to him because they’re desperate for food or have dying children in need of medicines or face some other urgent needs,” he explained. “When they come to us for help, we want to respond, but we can’t unless we have outside resources — food for the hungry, medicines to treat the sick or the other materials needed to get the job

Navy Chaplain Leaves Success, Opportunities to Accept Christ’s Call for “A Few Good Men” While serving in the U.S. Navy, Chaplain Marc Boisvert, a veteran of “Desert Shield/Desert Storm,” made a trip to Haiti. He went, in part, to confirm stories he had been told about the plight of the poor living there. What he saw changed his life forever — not simply because it altered his perspective on poverty or changed his political views, but because it moved him to act. “What I saw — particularly the condition of the children — demanded my immediate action. I saw life or death situations, and I knew I could help... but only if I got deeply involved,” Fr. Marc recalled. After resigning his commission in the US Navy Chaplain Corps, Fr. Marc was honorably discharged as a Lieutenant Commander. “I sold most of my worldly possessions — all 17 of them — and moved lock, stock and barrel to Haiti. That was on January 1st, 1998,” He recalls. Today, Fr. Marc directs of one of Haiti’s finest Christian orphanages, serving hundreds of children (see story above). “You don’t have to be a brain surgeon to see how devastating poverty is for children here. Haiti is the poorest country in the Western hemisphere and that is

done. It’s a real blessing to have Cross as a partner in times like those. In fact, without their support, taking in these additional orphans wouldn’t have been possible... and these children wouldn’t have the peace and hope they enjoy today.” Although the story of the rescued orphans is still unfolding, Cross is committed to providing Fr. Marc with the tools he needs to care for them... and give them new hope. To accomplish this, the ministry hopes to secure support from Catholics in the U.S. “I’m confident that when Catholics in America hear about this urgent need and about Fr. Marc’s goal of rescuing these children, they will want to help. We Catholics value life as a gift from God, and we have always supported our missionaries overseas,” explained Jim Cavnar, president of Cross International Catholic Outreach. “This situation gives us an opportunity to put our beliefs into action. Our involvement is meaningful and it will have a tangible impact — these children will have hope and a better life because we chose to become involved.”

In addition to seeking help from U.S. Catholics for these rescued orphans, Cross is also hoping to gain support for Fr. Marc Boisvert’s larger goal — the development of “Project Espwa,” a major housing and self-help program for Haiti’s neediest orphans. It’s goal is to take children off the dangerous streets in Haiti and place them in a safe, rural setting where they can recapture their childhood and take part in educational programs that will help shape a new future. “Espwa means hope, and that is what this project is all about. It includes safe housing and food — the basic necessities of life — but its staff is ultimately working toward self-sufficiency for the children who will grow up there,” Cavnar said. “Their goal to educate the children and teach them skills on the farm is a wonderful plan we should get behind and support. This approach does more than meet the immediate needs of these children. It gives them the gift of a brighter future. It literally gives them espwa — hope.”

Fr. Marc, while serving in the U.S. Navy almost a death sentence to the kids here. Poor sanitation, polluted water, no access to decent medical care, no money for school and often no money for food.” “Still, some ask why I do this. In part, it is a response to Christ’s words in Matthew 25. Jesus explains that in serving Him, we serve the poor. As a Christian, you can’t read that and not take it seriously. You have to do something. You have to feed the hungry, clothe the naked and respond to the needs of the poor.”

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Sister Estelle Meiers, PBVM Sister Estelle Meiers, a Sister of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, formerly Sister Mary Arthur, died September 18, at the Presentation Motherhouse in San Francisco. Sister Estelle was born in 1924 and was a Sister of the Presentation for 65 years. She leaves her brother Theodore, many nieces and nephews, and her loving Presentation Sisters. Sister Estelle earned an undergraduate degree in education from the University of San Francisco and taught elementary school from 1943 until 1971 at Catholic schools in San Francisco, San Jose, Oakland, Berkeley, San Pedro and Menlo Park. For 13 years, at different times, she cooked at Presentation Retreat Center, Los Gatos, and eventually joined the Presentation Motherhouse staff as a cook for the elderly and infirm Sisters living there. Sister Estelle made rosaries in her spare time and was hired by the filming crew of the movie, “Sister Act,” to show Whoopi

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Respect Life ❖ Sunday October 1, 2006 ❖ Created, Loved, Redeemed by God. ‘Women deserve better’ New study examines abortion complications and negative effects By Mary Ann Schwab Evidence continues to mount that men and women caught up in the abortion epidemic of the last forty years are experiencing crippling distress and guilt in increasing numbers. Some counselors and therapists, including an ever a growing number of pro-choice professionals, are admitting that certain people are highly prone to post-abortion distress. Support groups and other healing programs are multiplying and even surfacing on the Internet. “Silent No More,” a movement of women who are publicly giving witness to their pain and voice to their insistence that women must be informed of the possible consequences of abortion, is attracting increasing numbers. Unfortunately few objective research studies have been made to document statistically the actual physical and emotional consequences of abortion. Major obstacles to such studies include the sense of privacy that blocks persons from participating. The most significant reason, however, is that the abortion industry, its supporters, and some mental health associations have discouraged extensive private and government research from exploring the negative effects of abortion. They have arranged to suppress compelling information that abortion can give rise to serious physical and emotional difficulties. Some concerned professionals are circumventing this obstacle by finding creative ways of gathering significant facts. They are utilizing credible studies from abroad and finding ways to surface unpublished reports and hidden statistics. One such study was conducted Dr. Mary Davenport, an East Bay Obstetrician and Gynecologist, with the assistance of several well-credentialed medical and psychological professionals. The report of the study, titled “Women Deserve Better,” provides sufficient statistical information to

make a reasonable case that indeed for many persons abortion is damaging. The project tracked down well solid studies from other countries and identified some faulty methods of collecting data in our own country. The study unmasks as a myth the idea that abortion is less dangerous than childbirth. It also shows statistics that women who had abortions have higher risks of complicated childbirth, breast cancer and certain psychological disturbances. These include increased risk of suicide, substance abuse, and child abuse. The report also unlocks a mystery of how statistics can be manipulated to offer assurance that abortion is safe and easy, and that it can have a positive influence on women. It presents the weakness in some methods of collecting and interpreting data. The after effects of abortion are often unreported due to hazy and non-uniform requirements and calculated misinterpretations. The complexities around postabortion behavior, including suicides, accidental deaths, homicide and substance abuse are not recognized as abortion related and are not factored into many studies. Other Institutes and foundations including the Elliot Institute and the Heritage House also are vigilant in detecting and reporting current research that provides wider information about the personal impact of abortion on physical and mental health and are disseminating it in their newsletters and other publications. What can be concluded from the grave evidence of the negative impact of abortion? It certainly seems that the time has come to challenge a fundamental rationale of Roe versus Wade that abortion is good for women’s health. It is also time to ask for accountability from professional organizations, such as the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the American Psychiatric Association, that have not been open to accepting evidence of the complications of abortions. Federal, state and other agencies that are charged with the protection of

What is Project Rachel? Project Rachel is the name of the Catholic Church’s healing ministry to those who have been involved in abortion. Its name comes from Scripture: In Ramah is heard the sound of moaning, of bitter weeping! Rachel mourns her children, she refuses to be consoled because her children are no more. Thus says the Lord: Cease your cries of mourning, wipe the tears from your eyes. The sorrow you have shown shall have its reward There is hope for your future. Jeremiah 31:15-1 Project Rachel operates as a network of professional counselors and priests, all trained to provide one-on-one spiritual and psychological care for those who are suffering because of an abortion. Although most dioceses use the name Project Rachel, some programs are named differently. In addition to individualized counseling, some programs include support groups and retreats. Founded in 1984 by Victoria Thorn in Milwaukee, today Project Rachel programs can be found in 140 Catholic dioceses in the United States, as well as in dioceses in other countries. Visit www.hopeafterabortion.com. In addition, Rachel’s Vineyard is a retreat program, which helps those suffering after abortion in a group setting, usually over a weekend. Retreats often are sponsored by local Project Rachel offices, as well as counseling centers and retreat houses. For information or retreat schedules contact www.rachelsvineyard.org. public health and describe themselves as patient advocates need to take a long hard look at informed consent policies and permit women contemplating abortion to be informed of realistic complications. True concern for health, dignity, and welfare call for a radical examination

of the erroneous commonly held concept that abortion can be good. Mary Ann Schwab is coordinator of Project Rachel, Post-Abortion Ministry of the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

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Respect Life ❖ Sunday October 1, 2006 ❖ Created, Loved, Redeemed by God. Retrospective: Deciding for Life By Cardinal Joseph Bernardin Twenty-seven years ago, Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, then leader of the Archdiocese of Chicago, issued the following statement for Respect Life Sunday on Oct. 1, 1989. Cardinal Berbardin died of cancer on Nov. 14, 1996 at the age of 68. We Americans cherish freedom. To act on our own judgments and enjoy the responsible use of freedom accords more with human dignity than does being pressured or coerced into action by outside forces. Personal freedom enables us, in harmony with others, to pursue those goods and values which enhance and enable human lives. It is good to keep in mind, though, that freedom is not an absolute value. At times some, in their exercise of personal freedom diminish the freedom and dignity of others. At other times, vulnerable groups in society need their personal freedoms protected. In both in government has an obligation to limit one group’s use of its freedom so another group may legitimately exercise its freedom. A common example illustrates this point. Governments at various levels have passed ordinances requiring reserved sections in parking lots for persons with disabilities. Although this restricts the liberty of those who are not disabled and who would like to park in those sections, the vast majority of people accept this type of restrictive legislation. It is easy to see how reserved parking areas enable those with disabilities to have easier access to facilities. Government intervention restricts the personal liberties of some without demeaning them as persons in order to uphold the personal liberty of the disabled and provide them with an opportunity to lead fuller lives. Laws requiring handicapped parking sections are based on a respect for the dignity of persons with disabilities and a call to others to treat them with fairness and justice. The pursuit of values associated with the human spirit is the purpose of freedom. Protection of these same values is the justification for restricting personal liberty. Not all values, however, are of equal weight. Some are more fundamental than others. On this Respect Life Sunday, I wish to emphasize that no earthly value is more fundamental than human life itself. Human life is the condition for enjoying freedom and all other values.

Consequently, if one must choose between protecting or serving lesser human values that depend upon life for their existence and life itself, human life must take precedence. Today the recognition of human life as a fundamental value is threatened. Nowhere is this clearer than in the case of elective abortion. At present in our country this procedure takes the lives of over 4,000 unborn children every day and over 1.5 million each year. Some, though admittedly a small minority, even favor abortion for the purpose of eliminating a child that is not the sex desired by the mother or both parents. Such a decision gives more weight to gender preference than to life itself. Yet, this is permitted under our nation’s current legal policy virtually allowing abortion on demand. Others, though increasingly a minority give, higher priority to the freedom of teenage girls to abort their children without their parents knowledge or consent than they do the value of the human lives these young women carry within them. Overcoming fear, embarrassment and inconvenience, or concern about not interrupting one’s career plans are value often cited in justifying elective abortion. Giving precedence to these values to justify abortion ignores the priority of the more fundamental value, namely life itself. The primary intention of the consistent ethic of life, as I have articulated it over the past six years, is to raise consciousness about the sanctity and reverence of all human life from conception to natural death. The more one embraces this concept, the more sensitive one becomes to the value of human life itself at all stages. This is why this year’s Respect Life observance, whose program is shaped by the consistent ethic of life, includes, in addition to abortion, such topics as euthanasia, the Church and technology, violence in our culture, the changing American family, and the Church’s concern for the elderly. This consistent ethic points out the inconsistency of defending life in one area while dismissing it in another. Each specific issue requires its own moral analysis and each may call for varied, specific responses. Moreover different issues may engage the energies of different people or of the same people at differ-

ent times. But there is a linkage among all the life issues which cannot be ignored. Because of the Webster decision, the abortion issue is being debated intensely at this moment. and the consistent ethic has much to contribute. For the more one reverences human life at all stages, the more one becomes committed to preserving the life of the unborn, for this is human life at its earliest and most vulnerable stage. And the more one is committed to preserving the life of the unborn, the one more one appreciates their need for constitutional protection. There are those who support abortion on demand who do not grasp or will not discuss the intrinsic value of human life and the precedence it should take in decision making. The issue - the only issue - they insist, is the question of who decides — the individual or the government. Who decides is not the issue. We all decide, but we make our free decisions within limits. In exercising our freedom, we must not make ourselves the center of the world. Other individuals born and unborn are as much a part of the human family as we are. On this Respect Life Sunday I invite reflection on our free choices and the values which really are worth pursuing. I encourage a deeper appreciation for the freedom we have and how it enables us to achieve selfhood in harmony with others, particularly the weak and vulnerable whose dignity as persons may not be as clearly in evidence. In short, I exhort you to decide for life.

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September 29, 2006

Speaker says new ‘culture of poverty’ sweeping U.S. MINNEAPOLIS (CNS) — A new “culture of poverty” is sweeping the United States at a “phenomenal and frightening” rate, a speaker told Catholic Charities workers at the Catholic Charities USA annual gathering, held in Minneapolis Sept. 14-17. Generational poverty, in which two or more generations of a family have lived in poverty, is becoming an epidemic in this country, said Allison Boisvert, justice and charity minister at Pax Christi Parish in Eden Prairie. Social workers need to understand this new culture of poverty if they are to be effective advocates for those they serve, declared Boisvert, who herself emerged from generational poverty and worked for Catholic Charities for 22 years. “There is a language of the poor, a psychology of the poor, a worldview of the poor,” Boisvert said. “Everything about them, from the condition of their teeth to the way in which they love, is suffused and permeated by the fact of their poverty.” Boisvert said at a young age she became acquainted with social service agencies as a consumer. “I began to use all of the social and psychiatric, health care and juvenile justice systems,” she said. “I moved through the process as if it were some kind of warped matriculation.” When welfare officials learned about Boisvert’s heroin addiction, they gave her two options: clean up her life or risk losing her children. Boisvert chose to clean up her life. “Like so many recovering types, I went into the business that cured me and I worked with the generationally impoverished in many forms,” Boisvert said. “But I’ve also watched the development and the final institutionalization of a permanent underclass in the richest country in the world. “To be impoverished in the richest country in the world is to be an internal alien, another culture that is radically different from the one that dominates society,” Boisvert continued. “The generationally poor are usually as confined by their poverty as if they lived in a maximum security prison.” Poverty topped the agenda at this year’s Catholic Charities USA conference and was the theme of a new policy paper detailing the agency’s plans to address what is a growing problem in the U.S.

Cokie Roberts, senior news analyst for National Public Radio, speaks during the Catholic Charities USA annual meeting in Minneapolis Sept. 14. During her speech, Roberts praised the church's efforts to help the poor.

After several years of decline, recent indicators have shown an increase in the number of people living in poverty in the United States, said Father Larry Snyder, Catholic Charities USA president. Catholic Charities statistics reveal some disturbing trends, Father Snyder said. “For the first time since we have gathered data, over 50 percent of people that we serve now live below the level of poverty in this country,” he said. A family of four earning less than $20,000 per year in 2006 is classified as poor, according to U.S. government measurements. Catholic Charities agencies across the nation are feeling the strain, Father Snyder added. Since 2003, he said, the number of people for whom Catholic Charities has provided emergency services — such as food, clothing, temporary shelter, and assistance paying utility bills and prescription medication costs — has increased by about 30 percent. “Our work is not done,” Father Snyder told conference attendees. In her keynote address, Cokie Roberts, senior news analyst for National Public Radio, spoke about the Catholic Church’s political influence at the national level. Roberts, a Catholic, praised the church’s efforts to help the poor. “It seems to me that your issues are actually the ones that Jesus talked about,” Roberts told conference participants. She challenged Catholic Charities to educate parishioners about the “option for the poor,” a Catholic social teaching that puts the needs of the poor and vulnerable first. “The parishes do wonderful work in terms of actually helping the poor with soup kitchens and with collections and with people volunteering, and it’s always just wonderfully heartwarming to see the children bringing up their toys to give to poor children,” Roberts said. “But how about teaching it? How about having all of those people who are in those parishes every Sunday hearing about the preferential option for the poor?”

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By Julie Carroll

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Catholics need to be educated about Catholic social teaching so they can influence public policy through their voting, Roberts said. “I say get this poverty report into the parishes,” she said. “Organize those armies of compassion, because that’s where they are.” Also during the conference, Catholic Charities USA presented its 2006 Vision Award to John Carr, secretary of the Department of Social Development and

World Peace of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. The annual Vision Award recognizes an individual whose life and work personifies Catholic Charities USA’s vision for the new millennium. Carr, a former legislative coordinator for the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, was recognized for helping to apply Catholic social teaching to issues related to poverty, racism, welfare reform and other social issues on the personal and public policy levels.

Growth in number of lay parish ministers called a ‘revolution’ By Mark Zimmermann WASHINGTON (CNS) — A revolution has occurred in parish ministry in the past generation, a panelist said at a conference on “The Catholic Church in America: 2006,” held at The Catholic University of America in Washington. David DeLambo, associate director for pastoral planning for the Cleveland Diocese, noted that most Catholics remember a time when parish ministers were nearly all priests, but today there are 30,632 lay parish ministers in paid positions, which he said exceeds and by some accounts might even be double the number of priests in parish ministry. Two-thirds of parishes across the spectrum of Catholic life in the United States, from cities to suburbs to small towns, now employ lay parish ministers, he said. “It is hard to fathom just how much parish ministry changed in the span of one generation,” DeLambo said. “Lay parish ministers are (now) a common and accepted presence in parishes across the country. This, indeed, is a development of revolutionary proportions.” The Sept. 20-21 conference was organized by Catholic University’s Life Cycle Institute, which analyzes current issues from the perspective of Catholic social teachings. Panels at the two-day conference also examined Catholic identity, new movements in the church and the church’s presence in public life. DeLambo is the author of a recent study from the National Pastoral Life Center: “Lay Parish Ministers: A Study of Emerging Leadership.” He said the center’s founder, the late Msgr. Philip J. Murnion, identified parish ministry trends in 1990 that he called “a virtual revolution” in pastoral ministry that was becoming increasingly lay, feminine and local. DeLambo said those patterns continue today, as lay parish workers fill roles such as “parish life coordinator, director of religious education, pastoral associate, youth minister, liturgist and music minister.” According to studies, in 1990 women religious constituted

41 percent of lay parish ministers (under canon law they are considered lay members of the church), but now they account for only 17 percent of parish ministers, DeLambo said. He noted that about half of the nonreligious filling those roles holds a degree in a pastoral field. “Laity are pursuing ministry-specific degrees — and doing so largely at their own expense — in order to serve the mission of the church,” he said. “The challenge for church leaders will be to facilitate the education and formation of lay parish ministers,” he added. More and more dioceses are offering continuing education and formation programs, he said. Today about 80 percent of lay parish ministers are women, DeLambo said, noting that the percentage of men has increased slowly since 1990. He added that women in parish ministry are a “gift to the church,” and those married with children “bring sensitivity to lay concerns, and to families, as well as to issues related to gender and inclusion.” He said the average annual salary today for full-time lay parish ministers is $35,261. But according to one study, he said, about one-third of parish ministers do not find their salary “adequate for their personal, family or religious congregational needs.” About half of the parish ministers said one day they may no longer be able to afford to work for the church, he said. Another panelist, Mary Gautier, a senior research associate at the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University, discussed the “emerging phenomenon” of parish life coordinators — a deacon, woman religious or layperson administering a parish in the absence of a resident priest pastor. Today, they administer 566 of the nation’s parishes, roughly double the number of 10 years earlier. Drawing on CARA studies and Gallup surveys, she noted that “eight in 10 parishes (across the United States) have a resident priest pastor, (and) in nearly 60 percent of those parishes, he is the only priest at the parish.” Seventeen percent of the 18,500 U.S. parishes today lack a resident pastor, she said, noting that most of those parishes

without resident pastors are administered by a nonresident priest who has responsibility for several parishes that are twinned or clustered. The priest shortage is especially felt in areas such as the nation’s upper Plains region, where she said one-third of parishes lack a resident priest, and the northern Midwest, where one-quarter lack a resident priest. Parish life coordinators are administering about 18 percent of those parishes without resident pastors. Four of 10 of those coordinators are women religious, but an increasing number today are laypeople or deacons, Gautier noted. The nation’s parishes serve about 3,000 Catholics on average, and the nation’s 67 million Catholics are served by 41,794 priests, about 1,530 Catholics per priest. And she noted that 14,795 permanent deacons “are increasingly sharing in the duties that were formerly considered the exclusive responsibility of priests.” Nearly two-thirds of parishes now have deacons on their staffs, she said. In addition to the 30,000 lay ministers serving in parishes, another 19,000 are in formation for those positions, she said. Gautier said CARA divides the nation’s parishes into four roughly equal groups — megaparishes, corporate parishes, community parishes, family parishes — based on the number of parishioners, resident priests and staff. The largest typically have two or more priests, four lay staff and a variety of ministries. The smallest typically have one or no resident priest, with volunteers handling many parish ministries. The researcher also noted the growing Hispanic presence among the nation’s Catholics, now constituting more than onethird of the total number. And she noted that more than one-half of American Catholics belong to post-Second Vatican Council or new millennium generations. Gautier noted that the nation’s Catholics surveyed express satisfaction with parish life. “Despite the increasing size and complexity of parish life today, most Catholics are relatively satisfied with parish life as they know it,” she said. “Nine in 10 say that parish priests do a good job.

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September 29, 2006

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Archbishop’s homily By Archbishop George H. Niederauer Following is the homily delivered by San Francisco Archbishop George H. Niederauer at St. Mary’s Cathedral on Sunday, Sept. 24, 2006. Imagine this scene: A mother, about sixty years old, gathers her adult children in her living room, and tells them she has cancer, probably incurable, and it will demand very painful treatments. Then she goes into her kitchen for a few minutes, and when she returns she asks her children what they were arguing about. After an embarrassed silence, they say they were arguing about which of them is her favorite, which she loved the most. That’s like the scene with Jesus and the twelve apostles in today’s reading from Mark’s Gospel. Walking along the road, Jesus tells them that he will suffer and die on a cross, and rise again. After they have arrived home, Jesus asks them what they were talking about on the way. Their answer? “Who is the most important of us all?” How shallow and self-centered can you get? Jesus tells them what “success” really means in the kingdom he has come to establish and proclaim: “If anyone wishes to rank first, he must remain the last one of all and the servant of all.” That is not an arbitrary rule; it is based on the example of Jesus Christ himself. He is God’s Son, yet he came to serve us and save us, not to be served. To give the twelve apostles credit, at least they are embarrassed by their shallowness; “At this they fell silent…” It’s interesting, isn’t it, how everything looks like its true self in front of Jesus Christ? Even clergymen, God’s very imperfect, human agents, get “special treatment” in a group. If there is a priest present, someone may say, “Maybe I shouldn’t really be telling this story in front of you, Father.” Maybe you shouldn’t be telling it at all! O course, everything we say and do is “in front of Christ”, but we conveniently

forget that. Life is so much more comfortable that way. It’s a natural human inclination to operate according to the pleasure/pain principle: seek and do what gives pleasure, or comfort, or even convenience, and avoid the opposite. The issue can be small or huge: stealing items from work or having an abortion. Self-love is the be-all and end-all. Jesus came to announce a different way, to BE a different way, to be a man for others. “I am the Way and the Truth and the Life.” That is the opposite to the way of the world around us: self, first, last and always. So we must choose. For instance, the way of the world is to seek out the powerful who can help you out and make your way easy. Stick with winners; don’t spend any time on losers. What does Jesus teach instead? Listen to the gospel: “Then he took a little child, stood him in their midst, and putting his arms around him, said to them, ‘Whoever welcomes a child such as this for my sake welcomes me. And whoever welcomes me welcomes, not me, but him who sent me.’” Why the little child? Well children are helpless and vulnerable in this life. Most of the time they can’t make us rich or famous. Children need us: our help, our example, our care, our patience, our love. So a child is a great example for Jesus to use when he’s showing us that we must be the servants of all, especially those most in need of us. But there’s more to it than that. Children are naïve and inexperienced, but they are more open and flexible than adults, more spontaneous and joyful usually, and, while they constantly have their battles, they are much quicker to forgive and start over again. Contrast all that with what James is talking about in that second reading today: the jealousy, strife and bad behavior among adults in the Church. He gives a pretty good first-century psychological and spiritual analysis of what is going on when we sin when he says: Where do the conflicts and disputes

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The harvest of peace begins and ends with Jesus

among you originate? Is it not your inner cravings that make war within your members? What you desire you do not obtain, and so you resort to murder. You envy and you cannot acquire, so you quarrel and fight. You do not obtain because you do not ask. You ask and you do not receive because you ask wrongly, with a view to squandering what you receive on your pleasures. At the end it comes back to being selfabsorbed and self-centered, rather than Christ-centered, open to his love for us and his love for others through us. In the gospel story, Mark tells us that the twelve apostles did not understand Jesus’ prediction of his suffering, death and resurrection. Certainly that was true for “rising” after death! But some of the trouble probably was that they didn’t want to “take in” what he was saying, because of the demand it made that they change their minds, their hearts, and their ways. They wanted Jesus to become a conquering king giving them power in their part of the world. They weren’t ready for a Savior who would die and rise for the forgiveness of their sins and their eternal salvation. Notice how Mark puts it: “Though they failed to understand his words, they were afraid to question him.” You bet they were! We do that too. We figure out what “if only’s” would truly make us happy (if only we could get away from home, or get a great job, or get a new boss, or get a Lexus). Then we would be happy and

fulfilled. But God teaches us that only in him, in relationships of mutual love and of giving, are we going to be at peace and joyful and fulfilled. James says: “The harvest of justice is sown in peace for those who cultivate peace.” As a young man, St. Augustine was something of an expert on avoiding God’s grace and opting for what the world around him could give him. After his conversion, he wrote a wise piece of psychological and spiritual analysis. He said that worldly goods, when we do not have them, attract us; when we have them, they fail to satisfy and fulfill us. On the other hand, spiritual goods, when we do not have them, do not attract us; when we have them, however, they satisfy and fulfill us. Someone might rather have a BMW than get closer to God in prayer. But after he’s had the car for a while, there still may be a hole in his heart. What’s to be done about this? Is there any hope? Of course there is: the apostles don’t understand what Jesus is saying, but they keep following him. They remain faithful to him, and he remains faithful to them. There’s an important lesson for us here: something is happening in the apostles, in spite of all their confusion and being baffled and not understanding. That’s true for us. What are we to do? Stay close to Jesus as they did: at Mass each week, and with some time for prayer each day. In silence, alone with the Lord, meanings are clearer, and priorities get sorted out. It was true for the apostles, and it can be true for us.

Cardinal sees signs of hope for U.S. church despite challenges By Mark Zimmermann WASHINGTON (CNS) — In the early 1960s, the future Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick was a young priest earning a doctorate in sociology at The Catholic University of America in Washington. Some societal trends from that decade still resonate in the country and in the church nearly five decades later, Washington’s retired archbishop said. Cardinal McCarrick traced a decline in American Catholics living out and understanding their faith to the “ethos of the 1960s, which we have not yet overcome.” In that era, he said, people adopted an attitude of being “open to everything,” and people “opted out” of traditional morals and ideas about family life, society and their faith.

It has led people to lose a sense of commitment to marriage, to God, to the priesthood and religious life, and to workplace ethics, Cardinal McCarrick said. The cardinal said the church’s greatest challenge is helping people know and follow the faith, at a time when most Catholics who are polled do not understand key teachings such as the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist. He said that the 1960s’ mind-set of questioning traditional morals affected people’s attitudes toward the Second Vatican Council, which was unfolding at the same time. “The church was saying all the right things, and the vast majority of (Catholics) were not reading” the council documents,” he said. A decline in pastoral practice, in Mass attendance, in vocations and in people understanding and following the faith has

occurred in the Catholic Church, as morals have weakened in society as a whole, the cardinal said. Acknowledging he was painting a “bleak picture,” the cardinal said, “it’s important we see the difficulties the church faces today.” But Cardinal McCarrick also addressed signs of hope he sees in the Catholic Church in the United States today. “There’s so much hope in the Second Vatican Council. This really brought in the age of the laity,” he said. The late Pope John Paul II with his canonizations “made so clear that laypeople are called to holiness,” he said. And the cardinal said that Vatican II’s call to ecumenism has enriched the Catholic Church, because “we have learned to look beyond ourselves.”

The new U.S. Catholic Catechism for Adults issued by the nation’s bishops is another sign of hope for the church, he said, noting that there seems to be “a new frontier in Catholic education” to help people learn what the church really teaches. Cardinal McCarrick also praised the growing popularity of movements in the church such as the Neocatechumenal Way, Focolare and Communion and Liberation. “These movements are bringing life to parishes and life to the church,” he said. “The movements have also given us a new openness to life, to family life and vocations.” The cardinal also said the growing Hispanic presence in the Catholic Church in the United States “is another sign of hope,” as those newcomers offer an inspiring witness to the importance of faith and families in their lives.

September 29, 2006

Catholic San Francisco

The Catholic Difference A few days after Pope Benedict XVI’s Sept. 12 lecture on faith and reason at Regensburg University, I was invited onto PBS’s “News Hour with Jim Lehrer” to discuss the ensuing controversy with Nihad Awad, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations [CAIR]. During our exchange, Mr. Awad said that “the word ‘jihad’ does not mean holy war.” No one, he suggested, had ever been forced to become a Muslim. Equating “jihad” with “holy war,” he argued, was a notion “born within Christianity.” Time constraints precluded my answering this directly, but on my return to my office in downtown Washington, I read an Associated Press story which began with this suggestive lead: “Al-Qaida in Iraq and its allies warned Pope Benedict XVI on Monday that he and the West were ‘doomed’ and proclaimed that the holy war would continue until Islam dominates the world.” The Al-Qaida statement was, shall we say, robust: “You infidels and despots, we will continue our jihad and never stop until God [permits] us to chop your necks and raise the... banner of monotheism, when God’s rule is established governing all people and nations...We will break up the cross, spill the liquor and impose head tax, [and] then the only thing acceptable [will be] a conversion or the sword.” In other words, surrender to jihadist Islam or be murdered. As for the time-line involved here, Iraqi Al-Qaida took the broad view: “...jihad continues and should never stop until doomsday, when [Islam] ends victorious.”

I have neither the capacity nor the desire to engage in an exegetical exercise with Mr. Awad about the Qur’an and what it enjoins on Muslim believers. That can be done by specialists. But, had time permitted, I would have said to Mr. Awad that, irrespective of his understanding of “jihad,” there are tens of thousands of jihadis throughout the world who take a drastically different view: who believe that the murder of innocents in the name of God can be pleasing to God – indeed can be commanded by God – if it advances the cause of Islam. Christians have developed, over the past centuries, a deep theological critique of past Christian attempts to advance Christianity coercively. The deepest taproot of that critique can be found in something Joseph Ratzinger wrote, in 1987: “God wishes to be adored by people who are free.” The God of Abraham, Moses, and Jesus, who comes into history in search of man and who invites men and women into a dialogue of salvation, wishes a free choice for himself. Anything else, as the pope suggested at Regensburg, would be contrary to the nature of God, who creates the world (and us) through Logos, the Word, who is reason itself. God cannot command the unreasonable or the irrational; God cannot wish, much less command, the death of innocents in God’s name. This is the kind of internal theological critique, based on Islamic warrants, that Mr. Awad and those who wish us to believe that “jihad” has been misunderstood, must foster in their own Islamic communities. It is not sufficient to deplore

over-heated rhetoric in response to the pope’s Regensburg address (as CAIR) did; nor is it sufficient to say, as Mr. Amad said on the Lehrer program, that he and his organization condemn the George Weigel murder of nuns and the burning of churches. More is needed – and what is needed are clear statements that these depredations are religiously offensive because they are the result of a distorted understanding of what God wishes and commands. Unless Islamic leaders find the intellectual resources and the moral courage to condemn, on religious grounds, those who would murder in the name of God, more than a billion Muslims will be held hostage to the fanatics among their coreligionists. So will the rest of the world. It is long past time for Muslim leaders to stop quibbling over (or in some cases, dissembling about) the meaning of “jihad” and to condemn the jihadis who are turning the planet into a free-fire zone – and imagine that they’re doing God’s will in the process. George Weigel is a senior fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, D.C.

Living Well

In sickness and in health Of all the stresses that can rupture a marriage, the serious illness of a spouse is certainly one of the gravest. Chronic or catastrophic illness can change the dynamics of a relationship, putting greater stress on care giving instead of a more equitable division of familial responsibility. Health care costs and lost productivity can bring monetary distress, even financial ruin, to a couple, especially with a long-term illness. Life plans of a married couple can be derailed if an illness leaves a spouse infertile or changes his or her energy level so drastically that work or leisure activities become impossible. Alterations in physical appearance — weight gain, hair loss, and muscle atrophy — can bring changes in the self-esteem of the sick spouse and in how the healthy spouse views his or her “better half.” These can erode the attraction married people feel for each other. A healthy attitude toward illness is one of the first indicators that someone can cope with a spouse’s diagnosis. Is illness considered a weakness or an indication of a flawed character? Is illness a part of life that can and should be addressed with maturity and a desire to care?

Compassion and respect are essential to facing the daunting task of care giving. Selflessness is an unsung, but important virtue. There is usually no glory in care giving, no tangible reward. But selflessness is an integral part of our Christ-centered lives and a worthy attitude, especially in care giving. This is demonstrated, among other ways, by how someone gives time and energy and in what, if anything, someone expects for favors and graces granted. Care for one’s own health shows respect for life. This includes keeping up with regular checkups and engaging in healthful activities to maintain a good level of emotional, physical and spiritual wellbeing. Sometimes, the marriage can become consumed by the illness. The ill spouse needs to remain an active participant in the marriage, supporting and respecting the needs of his or her spouse, taking appropriate care of health matters and avoiding activities or attitudes that can undermine possible healing. There can be positive benefits to living with illness. Some marriages blossom under pressure, fueled by a determination to stay together and a commitment to

respect, love and learn from each other. Many couples cite a shared faith, sense of humor and desire to grow, both personally and together, as elements that ensure their marriages’ continued Maureen Pratt success. Many, too, view their lives together not as a series of goals, but as a journey, and they more willingly take the good with the difficult. From the altar onward, illness is unpredictable. But the character of the individual spouses and the way they relate to others in health can indicate how they may handle their lives together in sickness — and help them find the blessings in the midst of the challenges. Maureen Pratt writes on health and spirituality.

Guest Commetnary

Emergency contraception: Plan B The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Aug. 24 approved over-the counter sales of what is commonly called “the morning after pill,” or Plan B. It is expected to be in pharmacies by January 2007. It will be available without a prescription to any woman or man over 18 years of age. Plan B will sell for about $40, although this price might go higher. Medicaid does not cover the cost of Plan B. The manufacturer, Barr Pharmaceuticals, agreed to the limitation to buyers over 18 years of age since other pharmaceutical products already have this restriction, e.g., narcotics and certain cold medicines. Barr Pharmaceuticals has said, however, that it will continue to look into the possibility of making Plan B also available to adolescents without a prescription. The New York Times, on Aug. 25 hailed the FDA decision as “sensible.” It claimed that the approval of Plan B had too long been blocked by “religious and social conservatives who consider the pills akin to abortion…” The editorial stated that it is “imperative to have quick access to the pills without waiting for a doctor’s appointment to obtain a prescription.” This type of rhetoric is superficial, facile and misleading. It gives the impression that Plan B is morally neutral and has been criticized solely on religious grounds. Let’s take a closer look. Plan B is a package of two pills that contain a high dosage of the artificial or synthetic hormone levonorgestrel. This dosage is 40 times the amount found in normal birth control pills. The first pill is to be taken no later than 72 hours after sexual intercourse. The second pill is taken 12 hours later. The reason a woman would take Plan B is to avoid a pregnancy. The reason a man would provide a

woman with Plan B is to avoid a pregnancy. The FDA claims that taken within these time-designations, Plan B “effectively and safely prevents pregnancy.” However, the manufacturer adds a fact that gets little attention. Plan B can also “prevent a newly conceived embryo from implanting and surviving in the womb.” In other words, Plan B can also act as an abortifacient (causing an abortion). Scientific and medical literature avows that a fertilized ovum, an embryo, is a new human life. This is a biological fact. It is not simply a religious conviction. Should ovulation and fertilization have taken place, Plan B prevents this new human life from implanting in the woman’s womb. This is an abortion. Some are wrongly identifying Plan B as an “abortion pill.” The so-called “abortion pill” is correctly named RU486. It is taken by a woman who knows she is pregnant and wants to abort her child. Plan B is a contraceptive/abortifacient taken by a woman who is not sure she is pregnant. The use of Plan B could actually increase the number of abortions when it acts to prevent implantation. If this occurs, the woman has no attending physician or clinician. Making Plan B available to women who are unaware of this possible effect offers them emotional and moral trauma and possible health risks. Knowing that Plan B is a backup contraceptive can easily lead men and women to have causal or recreational sex with no concern for the personal effect of sexual intercourse or the meaning of human life. If drug and alcohol are involved, this possibility is even greater. And Plan B does nothing in preventing the transmission of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) or HIV.

Plan B will change men. How responsible will men be when they purchase Plan B for a sexual partner, placing all responsibility on the woman? How responsible will men be when they Father Gerald D. Coleman, S.S. know their sexual partner has Plan B available? How respectful of a woman and her sexuality will a man be who knows that there is no moral consequence to his sexual activity? Does Plan B give men permission to have sex anytime they want? In a society that tolerates and practices promiscuous sexual behavior, Plan B just gives a guy another excuse to have any kind of sex he wants. Any time, too. Although unintended pregnancy rates have been dropping in the U.S. in the last decade, couples continue to have so much unprotected sex that half of all pregnancies are unplanned. Plan B should not be hailed as “sensible.” It should be seen as another means of objectifying sex, dehumanizing women, and disregarding nacient human life. Father Gerald D. Coleman lectures in moral theology at Santa Clara University.

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An interreligious dialogue, continued

Catholic San Francisco

September 29, 2006

TWENTY-SIXTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

Scripture FATHER JOHN D. O’CONNOR, OP

Numbers 11:25-29; Psalm 19; James 5:1-6; Mark 9:38-43, 45, 47-48 A READING FROM THE BOOK OF NUMBERS (NUM 11:25-29) The Lord came down in the cloud and spoke to Moses. Taking some of the spirit that was on Moses, the Lord bestowed it on the seventy elders; and as the spirit came to rest on them, they prophesied. Now two men, one named Eldad and the other Medad, were not in the gathering but had been left in the camp. They too had been on the list, but had not gone out to the tent; yet the spirit came to rest on them also, and they prophesied in the camp. So, when a young man quickly told Moses, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp,” Joshua, son of Nun, who from his youth had been Moses’ aide, said, “Moses, my lord, stop them.” But Moses answered him, “Are you jealous for my sake? Would that all the people of the Lord were prophets! Would that the Lord might bestow his spirit on them all!” RESPONSORIAL PSALM (PS 19:8, 10, 12-13, 14) R. The precepts of the Lord give joy to the heart. The law of the Lord is perfect, refreshing the soul; the decree of the Lord is trustworthy, giving wisdom to the simple. R. The precepts of the Lord give joy to the heart. The fear of the Lord is pure, enduring forever; the ordinances of the Lord are true, all of them just. R. The precepts of the Lord give joy to the heart. Though your servant is careful of them, very diligent in keeping them, Yet who can detect failings? Cleanse me from my unknown faults! R. The precepts of the Lord give joy to the heart. From wanton sin especially, restrain your servant; let it not rule over me.

Then shall I be blameless and innocent of serious sin. R. The precepts of the Lord give joy to the heart. A READING FROM THE LETTER OF SAINT JAMES (JAS 5:1-6) Come now, you rich, weep and wail over your impending miseries. Your wealth has rotted away, your clothes have become moth-eaten, your gold and silver have corroded, and that corrosion will be a testimony against you; it will devour your flesh like a fire. You have stored up treasure for the last days. Behold, the wages you withheld from the workers who harvested your fields are crying aloud; and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts. You have lived on earth in luxury and pleasure; you have fattened your hearts for the day of slaughter. You have condemned; you have murdered the righteous one; he offers you no resistance. A READING FROM THE HOLY GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MARK (MK 9:38-43, 45, 47-48) At that time, John said to Jesus, “Teacher, we saw someone driving out demons in your name, and we tried to prevent him because he does not follow us.” Jesus replied, “Do not prevent him. There is no one who performs a mighty deed in my name who can at the same time speak ill of me. For whoever is not against us is for us. Anyone who gives you a cup of water to drink because you belong to Christ, amen, I say to you, will surely not lose his reward. “Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were put around his neck and he were thrown into the sea. If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed than with two hands to go into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire. And if your foot causes you to sin, cut if off. It is better for you to enter into life crippled than with two feet to be thrown into Gehenna. And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out. Better for you to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into Gehenna, where ‘their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.’”

Not one of us? It’s a fact of human nature that we often think of others in terms of what positive qualities they lack, rather than in terms of the positive qualities they actually have. Sometimes we make this worse by doing the exact opposite when it comes to ourselves, ignoring our own faults, and then comparing our estimation of others with that of ourselves. It’s what the disciples do in today’s gospel. We are presented with the disciples reporting to Jesus the activity of some unknown man who is casting out devils in his name. He could be a follower of Christ who has proceeded to bring the Good News to others. On the other hand, he could be someone who is not really a follower of Christ, but who uses Christ’s name in exorcisms. If so, whatever faith he has is unformed but he has taken a small step. And that he successfully exorcises indicates the activity of God in his actions. What is clear is that he is not one of the disciples and they want to exclude him. Of course, you might say that the disciples are realistic. You need to have some conditions for discipleship, otherwise discipleship would be meaningless. That is true. But Mark is not focusing on this aspect in today’s gospel. We see this because in his account the disciples do not say to Jesus: “and because he was not one of your followers we tried to stop him.” Instead, they say: “and because he was not one of us ….” What they object to is that the unknown exorcist is not one of their group, and not that he is not a full disciple of Christ. In their eyes they have become the standard by which discipleship is measured and the call of Christ is effectively sidelined. They have concentrated on what the man is not, and not the fact that he successfully exorcises in Christ’s name. This is despite the fact that only a little earlier in the same chapter it is the disciples who are unable to exorcise a demon from a young boy. So, we have here the irony that if we apply the disciples’ exclusionary approach to themselves then it is they who deserve to be excluded. Unlike the unknown man, it is they who are unable to exorcise in Christ’s name. By setting up their own standards they can blissfully ignore their own faults and feel righteous. However, there is a further catch: by trying to exclude the exorcist they show their mis-

understanding of Christ’s message, and so they merit their own exclusion all the more. This is not something peculiar to the disciples. It can happen in our Christian communities or in any group situation and we should be aware of it, remembering that inasmuch as we try to exclude others unfairly from Christ, we exclude ourselves. Thankfully, this is not the last word because, although we are often exclusionary, God is not. Today’s gospel therefore confronts any presumption we may have to superiority, challenging us to find the good qualities in others rather than the negative. This may mean having to give up feelings of self-righteousness and superiority, which we all love so very dear. It is a serious business because these feelings and the behavior they lead to undermine faith through forms of exclusion, subtle or otherwise. Jesus makes this point very strongly indeed. But anyone who is an obstacle to bring down one of these little ones who have faith, it would be better for him if he were thrown into the sea with a great millstone round his neck. How do you read this? Do you take this as a warning? It is a warning, of course, not to harm the little ones. But it is more than that. You see, the warning may be addressed to you and to me, but it is also possible that we are ‘little ones.’ You may or may not see yourself as a ‘little one’ needing protection, but neither did the disciples even though their behavior showed them to be very little indeed. They misjudged the exorcist and they misjudged themselves. Personally, I think we are all little ones to a greater or lesser degree, and the less we see it the more little we are. This strong warning remains a warning, but it also gives comfort. It gives comfort because it means that our salvation and wellbeing are to be protected because we little ones matter very much to God. We are therefore to be protectors, while recognizing that we ourselves also need protection and so the simple categories we construct of “them” and “us” break down before our own weaknesses and the love of Christ. Dominican Father John O’Connor is Parish Priest of St. Columba in Glasgow.

The core message of Christianity By Father John Catoir Woody Allen once described Christianity as “pay now, enjoy later.” The full truth was more aptly described by St. Catherine of Siena who said, “All the way to heaven is heaven.” There are many other inaccurate views about our Catholic faith that need correction. For instance, Jesus rejected the worldly view that wealth and social status are sure signs of God’s favor. When he said, “Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven” (Mt 5:1), he was not condemning the rich, nor was he saying that poverty is a blessing. The poor, even those who have made themselves poor by renouncing the goods of this world, are not ipso facto among the “blessed.” The “blessed” are those who are “poor in spirit;” who put God’s will before their own. Jesus never condemned any class of people. Some rich people are scoundrels, and some are saints. What Jesus did condemn

was hypocrisy, selfishness and greed. These are found in all classes of people. When Jesus said, “Blessed are the meek,” he wasn’t praising weaklings and cowards. Jesus was meek and humble of heart, but he always accepted his Father’s will. This often led him to be confrontational. He always practiced tough love. It takes courage to surmount difficult circumstances. A few years ago I ran a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center where we had to enforce strict discipline every day in order help our clients recover from their addiction. If you showed weakness around drug addicts, most would surely take advantage of you. To help them break away from their self-destructive behavior, the staff constantly had to exercise tough love. There was no room for meekness in this setting. When Jesus said, “Blessed are the peacemakers,” he wasn’t endorsing absolute pacifism as some biblical literalists imagine. Jesus did not practice a policy of “peace at any price.” Peacemakers include those law enforcement officers who are honorable in

their efforts to keep the peace. They put their lives on the line to prevent criminals from plundering the weak. Also included among “the peacemakers” are those brave men and women who serve their country honorably in the military. Jesus said, “There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for another.” When Jesus said, “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for justice,” he wasn’t blessing everyone who rants and raves at a protest rally. He was praising those who struggle to promote a just cause, and he promised that one day they would be satisfied. Perfect justice may never be attainable in this world, but God blesses those who strive to build a just society. When Jesus said, “Blessed are the merciful,” he wasn’t saying that we should never hold people responsible for their actions. Mercy is another name for love when it confronts misery; it is not an invitation for the unruly to force their agenda on others. Jesus praised the compassionate, but even the compassionate have to crack down on

those who engage in anti-social behavior. Love demands both service and fidelity to the common good. In the Book of Micah Chapter 6:8, we read, “Act justly, to love tenderly, and to walk humbly with your God.” Jesus added, “I have told you (to love one another) so that my joy may be in you and your joy may be complete”(Jn 15:11).

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Food & Fun Sept. 29, 30, Oct. 1: Mater Dolorosa Parish invites you to their “Viva Las Vegas” festival and assures you will have fun! Featuring raffle drawings, silent auctions, games for children and adults, and gourmet dinners. Come join us at 307 Willow Ave, So. San Francisco. Special treat for alumni on Sept 30th at 2 p.m.! Sept. 29, 30, Oct. 1: Happy Days, annual festival benefiting St. Veronica Parish and School in South San Francisco. Classic Car Show all day Saturday. Enjoy rides, great food, family fun and games!! Prizes and raffle, too!! Call (650) 588-1455. Takes place on parish grounds, 434 Alida Way off El Camino Real. Oct. 2: 14th Annual Capuchin Seminarian Golf Tournament, Half Moon Bay Golf Links, Ocean Course. Tourney is 18 hole Scramble beginning with check-in at 10:30 a.m. lunch and golf at 12:30 p.m. and cocktails and dinner at 7 p.m. Contact Mike Stecher at (650) 342-4680 or Anne Hahn at (650) 692-5044. Proceeds benefit the Capuchin Franciscan Seminary. Oct. 3, 10, 17, 34: Theology on Tap for Young Adults of the Archdiocese at Ireland 32 Bar, Geary Blvd. at 3rd Ave. in San Francisco beginning at 7 p.m. Archbishop Niederauer will lead off the series with “Faithful Citizenship” in anticipation of the November elections. For more information: www.sfyam.org. Oct. 7: Festa Filipiniana at St. Anne of the Sunset parish Hall beginning at 6 p.m. Tickets are $30/adults and $12/children. Evening features authentic food, music, raffle, and entertainment. Call Freda Motak at (415) 335-5606 or Lydia Cuiting at (415) 608-6820. Oct. 7, 8: 87th Annual Columbus Day Bazaar – Saints Peter and Paul School, 660 Filbert Street at Powell, San Francisco open 10 a.m. – 7 p.m. both days. A North Beach family festival of games, food and entertainment. Salami toss, giant slide, dunk tank, mini-golf, face painting, pumpkin bowling. Food includes the favorite grilled Italian sausage and bell pepper sandwich, hot dogs, cotton candy, snow cones. Benefits the scholarship goals of Saints Peter and Paul School, serving North Beach since 1919. Call ( 415) 421-0809 or www.stspeterpaul.san-francisco.ca.us Oct. 8: 10th Annual Vincenzo Wine & Food Festival Join us for an afternoon filled with exquisite wine and food—all to benefit at-risk youth at St.Vincent’s School for Boys.The beautiful grounds of St.Vincent’s in San Rafael will be transformed into an Italian marketplace featuring choice cuisine and premier wines, and a live auction offering rare vintages and travel packages. Tickets are $95 per pserson. All proceeds benefit St. Vincent’s. Call (415) .972.1239, www.cccyo.org, www.vincenzo.org. Oct. 17: Saint Rita Golf Tournament, Dinner and Live Auction benefiting the Fairfax parish and school. Call (415) 456-4815. Oct. 19: Octoberfest with Good Shepherd Guild at Basque Cultural Center, 59 Railroad Ave. in South San Francisco. Social hour at 11:30 a.m. with luncheon at 12:30 p.m. Tickets are $40 per person. Benefits Gracenter. Call Beverly Desomnd at (415) 587-5374.

Taize Prayer 3rd Wed. at 7:30 p.m.: Sisters of Notre Dame Province Center, 1520 Ralston Ave, Belmont. Call (650) 593-2045 ext. 277 or visit www.SistersofNotreDameCa.org. 1st Fri. at 8 p.m.: Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Dr., Burlingame with Mercy Sister Suzanne Toolan. Call (650) 340-7452; Church of the Nativity, 210 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park at 7:30 p.m. Call Deacon Dominic Peloso at (650) 322-3013. Oct. 14: Crossing the Threshold to Adulthood in a Healthy Manner, a day dedicated to wellness and good health at St. Paul of the Shipwreck Church, 3rd St. and Youngstown in San Francisco beginning at 11:30 a.m. Also available at the Arthur J. Coleman Medical Center, 3rd St. at Ingerson in the City. Sponsored by St. Mary’s Medical Center and the San Francisco Giants. All services are free and all are welcome. In addition to new and exciting programs designed for the young, a broad spectrum of health and wellness services will be available for all age groups. Call (415) 750-5683.

Oct. 15: Class of ’66, Notre Dame High School in Belmont at 11 a.m. in the school dining room, 1540 Ralston Ave. Contact Connie Partmann Trewin at (650) 343-6889 or Angela Harrington Norton at (650) 349-5091. Oct. 15: Star of the Sea Academy, class of ’56 at El Rancho Inn in Millbrae. Contact Natalie Nalducci Sandell at (415) 453-3687 or Diane Donohoe Mulligan at (415) 664-7977.

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Oct. 14: Annual reunion of Golden Alumni of the University of San Francisco at USF 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. The class of ’56 will be specially honored and welcomed into the esteemed golden gang. Day includes Mass and luncheon. Call USF Alumni Relations at (415) 422-6431. On hand from the class of ’56 to help plan the 50-yearslater soiree are Jim Breslin, back left, Don Feehan, Bob Anderson, Young Stewart, Carl Pimentel, Ray Perkins, with Bob Dawson, front left, Denis Ragan, Carl Kuhe, Rouben Chakalian, Joe Ignoffo. Not available for the photo were committee members Bill Bush, Ray Chan, John Foran, Tom Klitgaard, Fred Meier, Frank Noonan. Tuesday, 6:30 p.m.: Taizé Candlelight Prayer, Chanting and Meditation, Notre Dame Des Victoires Church, 566 Bush at Stockton, SF, with Rob Grant.

Catholic Charismatic Renewal The Catholic Charismatic Renewal plans events throughout the year. Information about the group’s activities can usually be found here in Datebook and always at their Web site www.sfspirit.com. First Fridays of the month are commemorated with rosary and Mass at selected churches throughout the Archdiocese usually beginning at 7 p.m. For more information, contact John Murphy at exmorte@aol.com. Oct. 6: First Friday Mass at Saint Mary’s Cathedral, Geary and Gough, San Francisco. Rosary 7 p.m. and Mass 7:30 p.m. Oct. 6, 7, 8: Holy Spirit Conference at Archbishop Riordan High School, 175 Phelan Ave, San Francisco. Registration opens at 8 a.m. Speakers include Father Jim Tarantino, Father Raymund Reyes, Sister Linda Koontz, Bob Canton. Bilingual Masses: Saturday 11:30 a.m. and Sunday 3 p.m. Youth tracks for teens and children. Theme of the Conference: “Preserve the Unity” Eph 4:3 All are welcome. Tickets $20 per day or $30 for weekend.$5 lunch is available. Youth tickets $10 per day includes lunch. Doors open 8 a.m. Saturday and Sunday. Healing Mass Friday evening at 7 p.m. Contact Mario Vierneza (415)467-2099 or Ernie von Emster (650)594-1131.

Reunions Oct. 7: Star of the Sea Elementary School, Class of 1956 celebrates its “Golden Diploma” ceremony. Star of the Sea Academy will be doing the same on October 15. For more information please call the school office. And,

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as we approach our100th anniversary (2009) we are calling out to all our graduates from both schools to contact us. Please call, mail, or email us, especially if you have a list of classmates’ names and contact information. Phone 415-221-8558, e mail terryhanley@starsf.net, or address 360 9th Avenue SF CA 94118. Oct. 7: Class of ’56 from Immaculate Conception Academy, with social at noon and lunch at 12:30 p.m. at the Basque Cultural Center 599 Railroad Ave. in South San Francisco. Contact Nancy Sutter at (650) 756-7539 or Arlene Balestreri at (415) 883-3619. Oct. 11: Class of ’46, Presentation High School at Basque Cultural Center in South San Francisco at 11: 30 a.m. Call Carolyn Bacigalupi at (415) 8212541 or Grace Walsh at (415) 413-7989. Oct. 14: St. Monica Elementary School, class of ’56 beginning with Mass at 5 p.m. in parish church, 23rd and Geary Blvd. in San Francisco. Social gathering continues 6 – 10 p.m. in church hall. Contact Karen Schurer Mullen at (415) 453-0482 or kathy.mullen@comcast.net. Oct. 14: Annual reunion of Golden Alumni of the University of San Francisco at USF 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. The class of ’56 will be specially honored and welcomed into the esteemed golden gang. Day includes Mass and luncheon. Call USF Alumni Relations at (415) 422-6431. Oct. 14: Class of ’50, St. Cecilia Elementary School luncheon. Contact Doris at (415) 664-2247. Oct. 14: Class of ’55, St. John Elementary School at Embassy Suites in South San Francisco. Call Carolyn Eriksson at (650) 342-0983. Oct. 14: Class of ’71, Star of the Sea Academy at Caesar’s Restaurant, Bay and Powell in San Francisco at 6 p.m. Contact Pat Mullen Casell at (415) 566-4091 or Alsida canton at (925) 377-9301.

Oct. 2: Praying with Scripture with Mercy Sister Suzanne Toolan at 7 p.m. in St. Matthew Church, One Notre Dame Way at El Camino Real in San Mateo. Admission free. Call Sister Maria at (650) 548-9662. Oct. 7: 1st Saturday Mass at Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma in All Saints Mausoleum at 11 a.m. Call (650) 756-2060. Deepen Your Faith Speaker Series. Challenge yourself and grow in your faith. Join us at 7 p.m. for an engaging speaker, delicious food, and in-depth discussion at St. Pius Parish, 1100 Woodside Rd, Redwood City. For more information call (650) 3650140 or email Kevin@pius.org. Oct. 25: Social Justice, Why Should I Care? with Father Jon Pedigo. October 1, 8, 15, 22, 29: Confused About Catholicism? – Let’s Figure It Out Together! –An open discussion of the book: The Complete Idiot’s Guide To Understanding Catholicism, by Bob O’Gorman and Mary Faulkner. Everyone must obtain their own copy of the book and come to the first session prepared to discuss Part I: What’s A Catholic? 10:3011:30 a.m. at St. Pius Parish Parish Center, 1100 Woodside Rd, Redwood City. For more information call (650) 365-0140 or email Kevin@pius.org. Oct. 4, 11, 18, 25: Parent Book Club – Gather with other parents for an hour-long discussion on The Price of Privilege” by Madeline Levine, Ph. D. Hospitality from 8 a.m discussion from 8:30 a.m. at St. Pius Parish Center, 1100 Woodside Rd, Redwood City. For more information or to RSVP call (650) 365-0140 or email Kevin@pius.org. Oct. 21: Training for New Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion. Offered by the Office of Worship. $15.00 fee. 9 a.m.- 3:30 p.m. at Mater Dolorosa Church, So. San Francisco. Please pre-register at (415) 614-5585 or vallezkellyp@sfarchdiocese.org. Oct. 28: Training for New Lectors. Offered by the Office of Worship. $15.00 fee. 9a.m. - 3:30 p.m. at Mater Dolorosa Church, So. San Francisco. Please pre-register at (415) 614-5585 or vallezkellyp@sfarchdiocese.org.

Young Adults Office of Young Adult Ministry and Campus Ministry: Connecting late teens, 20s and 30s, single and married to the Catholic Church. Contact Mary Jansen, 415-614-5596, jansenm@sfarchdiocese.org. Check out our Web site for a list of events around the Bay Area and download our Newsletter at www.sfyam.org. We publish a quarterly newsletter to connect college students and young adults to the Catholic Church. Oct. 3, 10, 17, 24: Theology on Tap for Young Adults of the Archdiocese at Ireland 32 Bar, Geary Blvd. at 3rd Ave. in San Francisco beginning at 7 p.m. October 3 - Democrat vs. Republican: Is Religion Politically Incorrect? with Archbishop George H. Niederauer. For more information visit www.sfyam.org.

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

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RNs and LVNs: we want you. Provide nursing care for children in San Francisco schools.

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

Catholic San Franciscan Craig Diaz needs work as Janitor / Laborer / Clerk / Paper Worker / Typist with Typewriter, $11/hour.

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We have an immediate opening for a service-oriented Regional Sales Representative to represent an innovative Catholic Educational Publishing Company in our Northern California based region. Catholic Education background and/or school/parish experience preferred. We offer a competitive compensation package and comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k). To view the job requirements, visit our website at www.rclinfo.com. For immediate consideration, e-mail your resume with salary requirements to hr@rcl-enterprises.com or fax to 972-390-6588 EOE

Jeannie McCullough Stiles, RN, PHN RNTiburon@msn.com 415-435-0421 Special Needs Nursing, Inc. 98 Main Street #427 Tiburon, CA 94920

Special Needs Nursing, Inc.

NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL BELMONT, CALIFORNIA – PRINCIPAL – The Board of Directors at Notre Dame High School, a Catholic independent school sponsored by the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur and serving 700 young women in grades 9 through 12, invites candidates who are practicing Roman Catholics to apply for the position of Principal. The school has inaugurated the President/Principal model of administration. The Principal is the Chief Operating Officer and, as such, has the general charge of the day to day operation of the school. The Principal reports to the President who is responsible to the Board of Directors. The ideal candidate will have a strong record of accomplishment as both an enthusiastic educator and an academic leader with a belief in the value of single-gender education. Discover more about the school at www.ndhsb.org. Position qualifications include an advanced degree, five years of successful educational experience in teaching and in Catholic school administration, collaborative leadership style, and superior communication and interpersonal skills.

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Notre Dame Principal Search Robert F. Shea, President Shea Consulting Services, LLC 7601 Churchill Way, Suite 1116 Dallas, TX 75251 972.458.7755 Robert@sheaconsulting.com

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Catholic San Francisco

September 29, 2006

In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of August HOLY CROSS COLMA Susie V. Aguirre Ruel G. Alejandro Shirlee June Allen Ernesto O. Alonzo Joseph J. Aquilina Roland S. Arceo Sara E. Baires Evelyn A. Barner Maria Ascencion Benitez Nick Tomasito Birco Angelo F. Borelli Benvenuta “Betty” Borjas Natividad S. Boyer Richard A. Braun Theresa Dollard Broussard Helen J. Buelna Rhafiel V. Bugawan Daniel Burke Dorothy A. Burns Mary A. Burrus Margaret “Marge” Carey Alfred Cariani Mabel I. Cariani Ysabel Ceballos Margaret K. Cervelli Margaret I. Christie Emilio C. Ciannelli Narciso S. Claveria Florence C. Conroy Mary Cotter Dennis Laurence Cowen Margaret T. Cronin Corazon R. Cruz Jacqueline A. Cunnie John A. Debono LeRoy J. Denning Eileen Kerns Dewey

Emma Dillon William G. Disse Helen Dubor Alice Ducasse Jesus Estrada Perfecto C. Felicia Lorraine Fencken Chung “Bill” Fong Adele Caroline Foraker Ruth E. Ford Ado J. Gallegos George M. Gallegos Mary Gambelin Louis Ghilarducci, Jr. Morris Goldberg Marie D. Gonzales Veronica A. Gray Norayr A. Grigoryan Wilfrido Guevara Pacita M. Habana Henry A. Hall Lorraine A. Hassing Dorothy Herndon Callistus V. Houlihan Carmen Icaza Lawrence C. Jossart Audrey A. Keller Terry Kenny Kenneth Thomas Koch Danica Krzanich Michael A. Kubush Sarkis A. Kumjian Rita M. Lefler Mathilda Lopez Elias Hanna Makhoul Betty Ann Maloney Federico R. Mangundayao John A. Maring Rafhia Faris Massis

Catherine McCahill Marie B. McCormack Paul C. McDonnell, Sr. Frances V. McMahon Theresa F. Melchiori Claudio C. Mendones Juan Angel Mendoza Melchor C. Mendoza Rev. George R. Meyer Sylvia D. Miles Rudy Molina Ella C. Morey Rose Ann Muscat Joseph F. Muscat Michael O’Connell Helen E. O’Hara Mary Agnes O’Hara Catherine M. O’Shaughnessy Zenaida B. Paige Ida Paraventi Frances M. Pardini Julian A. Pardini Sal Parise Mary Perazzo Carroll Don Pfeifer Frances L. Piazza Harry J. Piccini Donald R. Powelson Frank L. Quirante Marie A. Regan Mary J. Rende Maria A. Riordan Julio Rios Robert L. Roberts Anita R. Ryan Joseph S. Serna Margaret Mary Singer Mary C. Skance Alicia Solorzano

Eleanor Basabe Taddeucci Helen C. Tardelli George L. Thompson, Jr. Martha E. Thurston Charles E. Tweedy Maria van Rijn Carmen Vigil Millan P. Vista, Sr. William C. Yeung Eufrocino A. Ynion Theresa Zammit Hortense F. Zorrozua

HOLY CROSS MENLO PARK Joseph R. Boudreau Marjorie E. Silva Leti Tuitupou

MT. OLIVET SAN RAFAEL Dorothy M. Carver Leone M. Downey George E. Fagundes Emma V. Gormley Florence J. Humphrey Dale Luther Johnston Kari Ann Loberg John Robert Maher Vivian M. Smith Robert E. Winckler

HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY – COLMA First Saturday Mass Saturday, October 7, 2006 All Saints Mausoleum Chapel – 11:00 a.m. Rev. Guillermo Rodriguez, Celebrant

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

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

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

A Tradition of Faith Throughout Our Lives.