September 3, 2010 by Catholic San Francisco

California bill would bring end to shackling of pregnant prisoners

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California is poised to become the first state in the nation to halt the shackling of pregnant women prisoners, under legislation sent to the governor for his signature. However, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has not said if he will sign the legislation, which received final legislative approval August 24, said Sandra Trevino, aide to Assembly Member Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley. The governor’s office did not respond to a request for comment but supporters are optimistic he will sign it, since AB1900 passed unanimously in both the state Assembly and Senate. The California Catholic Conference is one of about 50 organizations which support the legislation. Other supporters include California Medical Association, American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, California Nurses Association, California National Organization for Women, California Church IMPACT, California Commission on the Status of Women, and the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. No group is known to oppose the legislation, said Trevino and no opponent is listed on the state analysis of the bill. California is already just one of six states in the country that have prohibited, by law, the shackling of women prisoners during labor and delivery, according to the The Rebecca Project for Human Rights based in Washington, D.C., which says the practice of shackling pregnant women “constitutes a cruel, inhumane and degrading and practice that rarely can be justified in terms of security concerns.” The five other states which have statutes regulating the use of restraints on women in labor and delivery are Illinois, PREGNANT PRISONERS, page 4

Changes in Mass will alter most prayers; bring words closer to original Latin While the new translation was set in motion by Pope John Paul II, who commisWe will have to keep our eyes on our sioned the Third Edition of the Missal in Missalettes ™ for the first few months once 1997, it also reflects very clearly the desire the new translation of the Roman Missal of Pope Benedict XVI to refine the manner takes effect nationwide on the first Sunday in which we celebrate the Church’s liturgy, of Advent 2011. However, we’ll have a year said Vallez-Kelly. The language of the to learn about the changes. Church is Latin and each Missal is originally Just about every prayer said during the written in Latin, based on the earlier official Mass has undergone some tweaking in the version, and then each national church transjust-approved English-language translation lates it with final approval or the recognitio of the Third Edition of the Roman Missal. by the Holy See. The Gloria, the Nicene Creed, the Dialogues “You might call it a more vertical or exchanges between celebrant and people, approach. Recall that the primary purpose the Eucharistic Prayers, even some of the of the liturgy is the worship of God and words of the consecration, change with a through that, the sanctification and unificanew philosophy of translation that requires tion of people,” Vallez-Kelly said. “In the closer adherence to the Latin. The new transliturgy we’ve had, it’s been a very familiar The introduction of the new Roman Missal will pose significant lation is both more poetic and more formal way of speaking but the new translation challenges for priests as well as musicians and members of the than liturgies of the past 40 years. reflects the original Latin’s more humble One example is the use of chant is congregation who will have to adapt to new wording for some prayers. stance before God.” emphasized in the new version of the Mass, The American translation process began which should mean more singing throughout by priest in 2002 when the Missal was published in Latin and conto learn to say the Mass in a different cadence, because and people. tinued with participation for numerous groups, including though the language will remain English it will often “We’re planning to do a yearlong catechesis on liturgy particularly the U.S. bishops, with the edited final text reflect the grammatical structure of the Latin prayers, and specifically in the Mass,” said Patrick Vallez-Kelly, approved in March and received by the American bishops said Msgr. Anthony F. Sherman, executive director of the director of the Office of Worship for the Archdiocese of San on August 20. In 2001, the Holy See issued guidelines for Secretariat of Divine Worship of the U.S. Conference of Francisco, saying the changes will be introduced initially translation requiring “formal equivalency” rather than the Catholic Bishops. during the year in the parishes with bulletin announcements “dynamic equivalency” used for translations in the years “It’s a challenge for any priest because they have–so and inserts, and then more intensively in the weeks leading after Vatican II. “Dynamic equivalency allows for translamany of us have–a grieving process to go through. The up to the changeover November 27, 2011. tions of ideas rather than word-for-word strict following of words we have been praying for the past 40 years have CHANGES IN MASS, page 5 The transition will be greatest for priests who will have gotten into our bones,” said Vallez-Kelly. (CNS PHOTO/MIKE CRUPI)

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On The Where You Live By Tom Burke Our Lady of Angels parishioner, Larree Renda, welcomed longtime friend and California first lady, Maria Shriver, to the Burlingame church and school in July. Maria and Larree visited with parishioner and parish music minister, Liz Hannan, and teens from several states who had gathered for two weeks of Young Neighbors in Action, a program where youth volunteer their time to projects at area facilities. Worksites included St. Peter School in San Francisco and St. Vincent de Paul Society locations in the City and South San Francisco. “Maria is all about volunteering and helping those who can’t help themselves,” Larree told me. “Her mother and father instilled a great sense of service in her. She was glad to compliment the kids on the good work they were doing. It was an honor for me to introduce her to them.” … Thanks for the detailed report on honored but certainly not ancient Hibernian, Phyllis Moylan from Katy O’Shea. Phyllis, who was presented with the group’s St. Brigid of Ireland Humanitarian Award in July, was born in Ireland’s County Wexford coming to the United States in 1949 and marrying, John Moylan of County Tipperary, in 1956. Active members

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Bishops’ offer guidelines to ‘opt out’ for parents of public school children By Valerie Schmalz The California Catholic bishops’ conference is alerting parents and guardians of public school children that they have the right to ‘opt out’ of many influences and classes that contradict their family’s values – from instruction in how to perform sexual acts to instruction in the ins and outs of witchcraft and the conjuring of spirits. Ninety percent of California Catholic school children attend public school. The California Catholic Conference says that most parents don’t realize they need to specifically fill out a form every year for every child and for every activity they find objectionable. “This is a way to empower parents to get involved,” Catholic Conference Executive Director Ned Dolejsi said. “From Catholic teaching, we understand that parents are the primary teachers of their children.” At least 9 of every 10 Catholic children in California attend public schools, with the figures even higher for Latino families, which send about 3 percent of their children to parochial schools, according to national statistics. The Catholic Conference guidelines are written in Spanish and in English. (A complete list of guidelines for parents is available at cacatholic.org under the topic of education. California law, as decided by the state supreme court, permits school districts to dis-

Pregnant prisoners . . . ■ Continued from cover New Mexico, New York, Texas, and Vermont, according to the Rebecca Project. AB1900, if enacted, would affect about 1,000 women a year, said Karen Shain, of Legal Services for Prisoners with Children in San Francisco. There are approximately 11,000 women in state prisons and another 11,000 in county jails, Shain said. Those in county jails would be most affected as they are more likely to be moved from place to place for court hearings. Few women are incarcer-

miss students for confidential medical services, without parental notification and without logging any absence. Thus, parents have no right to know if their child from seventh grade on goes off campus for any “confidential medical services,” including AIDS testing or treatment, birth control, or abortion. However, parents do have control over many other influences, if they have the stamina to navigate the system, the California Catholic Conference said in its back to school message. Dolejsi said that when parents assert their rights, school districts have a tendency to respond and he said in his experience schools tend to treat respectfully children whose parents decide they will not participate in an activity or a class – rather than singling them out as different, a fear of every school child. According to California law (Education Code Sections 51240, 51513, and 51938) a parent or guardian may request that his or her child be excused from any class, assembly, presentation, discussion, project, survey, extracurricular activity or program presented by the school district and/or by its agents which involve any of the following: sex or family life education; AIDS or HIV education; acquisition and/or use of birth control devices or drugs; abortion; death education of any type including “assisted suicide”; homosexuality; sexual perversions; showing of R, NC-17 or X-rated films; meditation, yoga, conjuring of spirits; ated for violent offenses, Shain said. Nearly 71 percent of all arrests of women are for non-violent larceny and theft or drug-related offenses, according to the Rebecca Project. “It’s a safety concern. The way this started we got a letter from a woman in Contra Costa County jail. She was trying to figure out if what was happening to her was legal,” said Shain. The woman was in jail for seven and a half months, and heavily pregnant as she was transported from jail facility and back and forth to court, hands bound behind her and feet in chains, attached to both men and women prisoners, Shain said. She was also “belly shackled,” even while heavily pregnant, Shain said.

witchcraft; counseling except as recommended by the student’s physician; questionnaires, role playing or other strategies to examine the moral and religious beliefs of the student and/or the student’s family members; diversity education which teaches tolerance for variant lifestyles. Many parents or guardians are unfamiliar with the laws that govern what their child will be allowed to do — or asked to do — and unaware of certain ideas and information that will be presented to their child while in public

school, according to a document sent out via the Catholic Legislative Network email this month. “I think it has been forgotten in our particular experience of education that legally the state through the school districts operates ‘in loco parentis’ or in place of the parent and that implies a partnership between the parents and the school district in the moral formation of their children,” Dolejsi said. “Every teacher who is out there who is worth their salt will say it is so much easier to educate a child when the parents are involved.” Among the stack of forms sent home at the beginning of the school year is one that is often difficult to decipher because of the “legalese” that tells parents and guardians that permission is assumed unless the parent opts out, the Conference said. Parents must opt out using a specific form available for the school office and specifically listing topics and activities from which they want their child excluded, the Conference said. In addition, all parents or guardians have the right to examine copies of all tests, questionnaires, or surveys that inquire about students’ or their parents’ personal beliefs, family life, religion or sex practices. They also have a right to know the approximate time and date a topic or activity is planned, the Conference said. More information is available at cacatholic.org, click on Topics on the top bar and then click on Education in the drop down menu.

“She had to shuffle down the street. What would happen if the person in front of her tried to make a run for it or fell down? There was no way she could protect herself or the baby,” Shain said. The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists backs the legislation because of difficulties its doctors have had treating women who were chained, said Shannon Smith-Crowley, legislative advocate for the 5,200-member California chapter of ACOG. “There are increasing numbers of women that are being incarcerated,” said Smith-Crowley, “and particularly pregnant women are at higher risk being incarcerated. We’ve got concerns about their health, the health of the pregnancy and of the fetus.” “The stories we mainly have from our doctors are really challenging cases where there has been emergency treatment that has need to be performed and it has been

physically difficult to treat,” Smith-Crowley said. One doctor had difficulty getting an IV in during an ambulance ride with a woman suffering extreme preeclampsia or high blood pressure. “There have been reports of broken bones and broken pelvises because of difficulty accessing women,” because of the chains, she said. San Francisco General Hospital has an entire ward devoted to treating women prisoners and Smith-Crowley said the program is a model that ACOG and its doctors hope the state will follow if the legislation is enacted. There are no readily available statistics of women who suffered miscarriage or other injury because of the state and county practice of shackling but the danger exists, Shain said. However, on the other hand, she said, “There are certainly no cases of pregnant women escaping because they were not shackled enough.”

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The Roman Missal: the Church’s common treasure By Lynn S. Williams The new English translation of the Roman Missal, the official manual for the Roman Catholic Mass, has been approved, and soon familiar prayers and responses said in churches around the English-speaking world will change. Priests will follow newly translated instructions. Prayers used throughout the Mass and some responses of the congregation will change. Sacred chants and music used in worship will also be updated. The full texts of the English translation received recognitio, or approval, from the Vatican in June and July of 2010. The new translation will be implemented in U.S. dioceses in Advent 2011. It will be the most significant change to the Mass in over 40 years. An occasion like this raises the question: Why is the Roman Missal so important? “The Roman Missal is a common treasure,” says Msgr. Anthony Sherman, executive director at USCCB Secretariat of Divine Worship. “It is the book that provides us with prayer text. It serves as a point of unity that

Changes in Mass . . . ■ Continued from cover the text. It allows for more fluency and even at times for paraphrase,” Vallez-Kelly said.”The advantage is you get a text that at times seems familiar. But, in formal equivalency there is much more attention to word order and to strict word-for-word translation. It provides for a more precise, or literal translation.” In the Nicene Creed, where for 40 years American Catholics have said “one in being with the Father,” we will now say “begotten not made, consubstantial with the Father.” We will also say, “I believe” rather than “We

keeps us all together, presenting the prayers that are used around the world, in many languages, during universal feasts or holy days.” Latin is the core text of the Roman Missal, evolving from oral tradition to written words. During the 15th century, in the era of the first printing press, the earliest book called Missale Romanum appeared. After the Council of Trent in 1570, Pope Pius V issued the edition that set the premier standard of uniformity used by celebrants of the Catholic faith. Eight former Popes issued new editions between the 1604 and 2002, and each maintained a consistent style of worship for prayer in the Roman rite. Over time, additional Masses, prayers and revised rubrics (instructions) used to celebrate the Mass were added. The need for vernacular translations of the Roman Missal arose after the Second Vatican Council, and the present English translation of the Mass, which dates back to the 1970s, follows the Vatican’s guidelines of that time, which favored translations that were easy to understand in the vernacular. When Pope John Paul II issued the Third

Edition of the Roman Missal in 2002, a new English translation was required. Since the new English translation is guided by the 2001 Vatican document Liturgiam Authenticam, it presents a more literal translation of Latin wording and sentence structure than is used in the current translation. “The current translations are centered more on the community than the divine,” says Father Paul Turner, author of “Let Us Pray: A Guide to the Rubrics of Sunday Mass.” “They were somewhat inattentive to inclusive language, and lacked some theological depth and musicality. The first translations condensed some of the content of the prayers. The new translation improves that,” he says. “This is not a new Mass,” says Michael McMahon, president of the National Association of Pastoral Musicians, adding that with a new translation, “one of the opportunities we have is to look at the parts of the Mass that should be sung” in the dialogue between the priest and the people and integrate them. One of the challenges of introducing a newly translated missal is

retraining priests to lead Mass. Downloadable recordings for priests who don’t read music are being produced and distributed free, online. Major publishers will release material on compact discs. The Roman Missal itself is the primary source of training and instruction for the new translation. It displays rubrics, sentences printed in red that instruct a priest on what to say and do, how and when to gesture, and when to sing the common prayers in The Order of Mass. It provides instructions that guide the celebrant in leading the liturgy and the people assembled in ritual response for each occasion of Mass. It also dictates the words used by a priest during the Mass, which with the new translation will reflect a more formal style than past translations. “The Roman Missal puts us into a tradition of prayer and creates an historical awareness in the roots of where we are now,” says Msgr. Sherman. “When you study the background of these prayers, you become united” with the perpetual mission of the Church.

believe.” And in answering the priest when he says, “The Lord be with you,” the people will answer “And with your spirit,” rather than “And also with you.” The new translation changes “cup” to “chalice” in the consecration and changes the words, “It will be shed for you and for all so that sins may be forgiven. Do this in memory of me,” to “which will be poured out for you and for many for the forgiveness of sin.” The man charged by the bishops with explaining the changes in workshops around the country, Msgr. Sherman, said, “The challenge is not to lose sight that Christ suffered, died and rose for every person and the change in the translation is not meant to convey any

difference in this.” He noted that only the Holy Father can change the words of the consecration and Pope Benedict XVI made the decision, largely because “for many” is closer to the Latin and also because while Christ died for all, only some accept him. The Second Vatican Council spurred a reform of all the liturgical rites with the 1963 document Sacrosanctum Concilium, beginning a dramatic change in the Church’s liturgical life. In the Mass, some of the results were turning the altar around so the

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Archdiocese welcomes 15 new administrators for 2010-11 school year Fifteen educational professionals have taken on new duties as principals or presidents of schools in the three-county archdiocese for the current school year. These individuals join a large body of principals and administrators, teachers and staff already at work in local Catholic schools. In the Counties of San Francisco, San Mateo and Marin, there are 14 Catholic high schools, with an enrollment of more than 8,000 students and approximately 600 teachers. Another 16,000 students are members of the 62 Catholic elementary and middle school communities with enrollment of more than 16,000 students and approximately 1,850 teachers. Annette Bonanno – Our Lady of Loretto School, Novato Annette, a San Francisco native and graduate of St. Monica School, holds degrees in Elementary Education and Italian from the University of Arizona, and a graduate degree in Educational Organization and Leadership from the University of San Francisco. She has formerly taught at St. Gabriel School in San Francisco as well as public schools in San Francisco. “I’m very excited to become a part of the Our Lady of Loretto community,” Annette told Catholic San Francisco. The faculty is very intelligent and dedicated to providing the students

with an outstanding education. Christ is truly at the center of this school’s mission and vision.” Monica Miller – St. Timothy School, San Mateo Monica, who holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in World Literature and Education from San Francisco State University and a graduate degree in Pastoral Studies from Seattle University, is a former member of the faculty at St. Patrick’s Seminary and University in Menlo Park and Mt. Angel Seminary in Oregon. She has also taught at San Francisco’s Francisco Middle School, and Justin-Siena High School in Napa. Presently, a Sister of the Presentation from San Francisco (on leave), she was the first Executive Director of the Conference of Presentation Sisters of North America. In addition to her teaching and administrative posts, Monica has also served as spiritual director, process facilitator, and retreat and workshop leader. “I am privileged to have this role in passing on the values of the Church and forming the leaders of the Church for the 21st century,” Monica told Catholic San Francisco. “It is also wonderful opportunity to work with and care for their teachers who daily dedicate themselves to the mission of the Church and our children.”

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“The new principals and president/head of schools come with a variety of educational and administrative experiences. I am thrilled with their enthusiasm, dedication, and sincere desire to provide the very best Catholic school experience for their students. We are looking forward to working with them for many years to come. They are a blessing to their individual school communities and to our Archdiocese.” – Maureen Huntington, Superintendent of Catholic Schools, Archdiocese of San Francisco Eileen Murphy-Vigo – St. Vincent de Paul School, San Francisco Eileen has formerly taught at Holy Name School in San Francisco, and served as principal of the now-closed Sacred Heart School in San Francisco and Mater Dolorosa School in South San Francisco. A former executive director of the BASIC Fund, she holds an undergraduate degree from Cal State, Chico, and a graduate degree in Educational Psychology from the University of San Francisco. “As a native San Franciscan and a product of Catholic schools in San Francisco, I am proud to continue my ministry in Catholic education at St. Vincent de Paul,” Eileen told Catholic San Francisco. “The sense of family and spiritual life is evident when you walk through the door.” Hannah C. Everhart – Immaculate Heart of Mary School, Belmont Hannah, who was most recently IHM’s assistant principal, holds an undergraduate degree in Education from Miami University and a graduate degree in Catholic Educational Leadership from the University of San Francisco. “I believe that my new role in Catholic education inspires me as an administrator to reach for the highest goals in serving the youth of our Church,” Hannah told Catholic San Francisco, noting that the United States Bishops said it best in naming young people as “a valued treasure and the future leaders of our Church.” Hannah pledges to uphold that “ideal as I begin my journey with the families, faculty and staff of Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish.”

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School administrators. . . ■ Continued from page 6 has served as principal of Las Lomitas School in Atherton for the last 10 years. “I look forward to merging my experiences as an administrator in public, private and international schools with the successes already in place at Notre Dame Elementary School,” Gerald told Catholic San Francisco, saying he looks forward

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School administrators. . . ■ Continued from page 7 Maxie O’Rourke – Our Lady of the Visitacion School, San Francisco Maxie, a resident of San Francisco’s Visitacion Valley and a member of Church of the Visitacion Parish since 1969, has been a member of the faculty at Visitacion School for 31 years. She holds a graduate degree in Educational Leadership from the University of San Francisco. “As both a teacher and a principal I have learned what a privilege it is to be able to teach students about the love of Jesus,” Maxie told Catholic San Francisco. “The school community must be a place where the love of Jesus is felt and witnessed by all its members. As principal I plan to work with faculty, staff, parents, and students to follow in the footsteps of St Vincent de Paul, St. Louise de Marillac, and St Elizabeth Ann Seton to continue to make Our Lady of the Visitacion School a place of love and respect.” Barbara Harvey – St. Raphael School, San Rafael Barbara has been a teacher and administrator at Catholic schools for more than 30 years at schools including San Francisco’s St. James School, St. Gabriel School and St. Vincent de Paul School. “Working in different areas of San Francisco has allowed me the opportunity to work with a very diverse population,” Barbara told Catholic San Francisco. “It has been a very enriching experience for me.” She holds a graduate degree from the University of San Francisco. “Saint Raphael School benefits from a strong and dedicated parish and school community,” she said. “It is an honor and a privilege to be working with a diverse, committed, and caring population and I look forward to joining them in their mission to meet the needs of their parish and their students.” Marie Fitzpatrick – St. Thomas More School, San Francisco Marie has most recently served as assistant principal at St. Thomas More where she has been a member of the faculty and administrative staff for more than 20 years. She completed undergraduate work in Ireland and holds a graduate degree from the University of San Francisco. She is a member of St. Cecilia Parish. “This is an exciting time to be a leader in a Catholic school,”

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Religious leaders urge Congress to keep religious hiring rights intact WASHINGTON (CNS) – The general counsel of the U.S. bishops was one of more than 100 leaders from varying religious organizations asking Congress to turn back legislation that would deny religious charities the right to hire only people of the same faith if those charities receive federal grants. Anthony Picarello added his name to the Aug. 25 letter, sent to each member of the House and Senate, asking lawmakers to reject any legislation that would “dilute the right of faith-based social service organizations to stay faith-based through their hiring.” The religious leaders say the religious hiring rights can be traced to the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993, the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and even to the First Amendment of the Constitution. A unanimous 1987 Supreme Court decision also upheld the right of religious organizations to hire people of the same faith, ruling that the practice does not violate the constitutional principle of separation of church and state. “The law has long protected the religious freedom of both

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New ‘social contract’ needed in 21st-century economy, bishop says WASHINGTON (CNS) – A new “social contract” is needed in today’s economy, said Bishop William F. Murphy of Rockville Centre, N.Y., in the U.S. bishops’ annual Labor Day statement. “Currently, the rewards and ‘security’ that employers and society offer workers in return for an honest day’s work do not reflect the global economy of the 21st century in which American workers are now trying to compete,” said Bishop Murphy, chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development. The title of the statement, “A New ‘Social Contract’ for Today’s ‘New Things,’” is a reference to Pope Leo XIII’s 1891 encyclical “Rerum Novarum,” which in English means “Of New Things.” The encyclical ushered in the era of Catholic social teaching. Pope Leo, according to Bishop Murphy, “insisted on the value and dignity of the worker as a human being endowed with rights and responsibilities. He commended free association or unions as legitimate and he insisted on a family wage that corresponded to the needs of the worker and family.” The “new things” in Pope Leo’s time included the ideological split between “collectivist organization with much governmental control” and the notion that “those who owned the means of production should be free to develop markets with the most able, or ruthless, rising to prominence and wealth,” Bishop Murphy said, “Neither option seemed morally correct to the pope.” Today’s “new things,” the bishop added, can be traced to Pope Benedict XVI’s 2009 encyclical “Caritas in Veritate” (“Charity in

Truth”). “One of the principal ‘new things’ addressed by Pope Benedict is globalization,” he said. “More than ever, the dignity of the worker is a foundation upon which we should measure much of what is good, and not so good, in the financial, industrial and service sectors of our economy and our world.” Bishop Murphy said, “Like Pope Paul VI before him, Pope Benedict uses the centrality of integral human development as one of the basic criteria to address the challenges of an interdependent world. Here the economic realities of one nation or one society are constantly being influenced by some or all of the economies and cultures of the rest of the world.” He quoted from “Caritas in Veritate”: “I would like to remind everyone, especially governments engaged in boosting the world’s economic and social assets, that the primary capital to be safeguarded and valued is man, the human person in his or her integrity.” The encyclical itself italicized for emphasis the entire second half of the sentence, beginning with “primary capital.” “Could a reawakening and new development of the roles of intermediary institutions, including voluntary associations and unions, be a force to call the market to a greater understanding of the centrality of the worker?” Bishop Murphy asked. “Could they be a means to restrain, mediate or hold accountable both the state and the marketplace? Could their voices help create greater economic and social justice, a more mutually respectful and collaborative stance by all the actors toward the economy, work and wealth creation around the world? “Pope Benedict believes this,” Bishop Murphy said.

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“For the worker without employment, a job is the major issue,” the bishop noted. “But jobs are not individual ‘things’ whose worth can be measured by numbers. Jobs are the result of initiatives creating markets that offer new opportunities in response to new challenges. These are not limited to our economy in isolation from others.” Bishop Murphy, in the statement, mourned the deaths of the 29 miners in a West Virginia mine explosion this past spring and of 11 workers in the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion that resulted in the months-long oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. He also mourned persistent U.S. joblessness –- 15 million unemployed and 11

million able to find only part-time work – as “a pervasive failure of our economy.” Bishop Murphy castigated employers who cheat workers of their rightful wages. “National reports tell of factory workers whose time begins with the start of the conveyor belt not their arrival; of retail workers who are ‘clocked out’ and then required to restock or take inventory; and wait staff whose employers do not give them their tips,” he said. “Families struggling to make ends meet cannot have wage earners shortchanged on overtime or not get paid for all the hours they work,” he added. “The dignity of the person is diminished when poor or middleclass people are denied their full wage or just compensation for their hard work.”

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Gulf Coast slowly rebuilds five years after Hurricane Katrina WASHINGTON (CNS) – Five years after the devastating effects of Hurricanes Rita and Katrina, rebuilding efforts are still very much a work in progress. Many, but not all, Gulf Coast residents have returned and although many homes and buildings have been rebuilt, more still needs to be done. Amid the ongoing recovery, many exasperated locals say they just want to move on, especially as the nation remembers the five-year anniversaries of Hurricane Katrina, which slammed into the Gulf Coast Aug. 29, and Hurricane Rita, which made landfall in Texas and Louisiana Sept. 24. Moving past the collective grief and frustration of Katrina is the impetus behind an ecumenical service at Our Lady of Prompt Succor Parish in Chalmette, La., Aug. 28 dubbed “a funeral for Katrina.” The church is located in the largest city in St. Bernard’s Parish, a civil entity just east of New Orleans that was almost entirely flooded from the breached levees and has yet to completely recover. According to U.S. Census Bureau reports, the region is only half as populated as it was before the storm. New Orleans Archbishop Gregory M. Aymond and other religious and community leaders were to direct the service where participants will be invited to write their feelings on strips of paper and toss them into a casket. After the service, the casket will be loaded into a horse-drawn vehicle and a high school jazz band will lead the funeral procession to the local cemetery to place the coffin in a newly built Katrina memorial vault. A parish bulletin announcement of the event said: “It is time to move on with our lives and put Katrina to final rest. Many of us have already moved on, and the community is experiencing renewal and much growth.”

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A big part of moving on depends on the help people received and continue to get after the largest natural disaster in U.S. history. Catholic Charities USA outlined the broad extent of its outreach in a new report “Katrina & Rita: Five Years Later.” The report notes that the national organization raised $163 million for hurricane relief. Of these funds, $116 million went to Louisiana, $23 million to Mississippi and $13 million to Texas. Five other jurisdictions – Florida, District of Columbia, Georgia, Missouri and Tennessee – received more than $1 million for their assistance to evacuees. In the five years since Katrina, Catholic

Charities New Orleans alone distributed $55 million in direct financial assistance to those in need, provided 335,000 nights of shelter, gutted and rebuilt 3,200 homes, distributed 250 million pounds of food and provided counseling for 900,000 people. Since Katrina, the organization has increased its efforts on preparing for future disasters. “Now we’ve got a plan for whatever comes our way,” said Carol Spruell, commu-

Parishioners enter the new Romanesque Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Slidell, La., which replaces a sanctuary destroyed by 8 feet of water during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Providing numerous jobs in construction, the new, 14,000-square-foot church is elevated 6 feet above grade and seats 800 worshipers.

nications coordinator for Catholic Charities in the Diocese of Baton Rouge. Craig Fugate, administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, has told reporters that his office is similarly better prepared for a major disaster after being severely criticized five years ago for a perceived slow response. In the days before Katrina’s fifth anniversary, U.S. government officials announced more than $25 million in aid for newly GULF COAST REBUILDS, page 15

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Historian’s thoughts about Catholics and Labor on Labor Day By Bill Issel When I was growing up, we considered the Labor Day parade on Market Street one of the high points of the year. Women marched in the parades, but back then if you asked me or my fellow students at St. Agnes School, we would have told you that our dads worked and our moms stayed home. If our dads did not sit at desks at City Hall or wear police or fire department badges, they mostly wore union buttons while they hefted freight on the docks or nearby warehouses, drove trucks, and built and maintained the city’s downtown offices and department stores and uptown schools and houses. Every other Sunday, our family joined those of my dad’s seven brothers and sisters for dinner at my grandparents’ house after 11:00 o’clock Mass at St. Vincent’s in Petaluma. After the meal, my dad and my four uncles, veterans of the battles to unionize workers who were not yet enrolled in Congress of Industrial Organization (CIO) or American Federation of Labor (AFL) unions, traded stories from the front lines of the labor wars. An abiding theme in these late 1940s discussions between my dad and my uncles was their conviction that they were doing God’s work by spreading the gospel of union solidarity. They could quote by heart passages from Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum (1891) and Pius XI’s Quadragesimo Anno (1931). They could also quote their Association of Catholic Trade Unions chaplain, Auxiliary Bishop Hugh A. Donohoe. They read Donohoe’s pro union columns in The Monitor, they listened to his and Archbishop John J. Mitty’s sermons at the annual Labor Day Mass

Bishop Hugh A. Donohoe offering an invocation, ca. 1950. John F. “Jack” Henning of the California State Federation of Labor in left background.

at St. Mary’s Cathedral, and they attended union leadership classes at Father Andrew Boss’s University of San Francisco Catholic labor school program. They had faith in the Church’s social justice teachings that offered pride of place to democratic (and anti-Communist) unions. What they could not understand were fellow Catholics who failed, in the language of a popular song of the day, to “accentuate the positive” when discussing the labor movement. These naysayers, Catholic neighbors and

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fellow parishioners, unapologetically sided with business and praised America’s “free enterprise system.” They criticized “aggressive” union organizers, condemned “corrupt” union officers, decried “biased” union membership rules, and generally questioned whether the “coercion” that they believed was implicit in mandatory payment of union dues was compatible with the individual freedoms guaranteed to Americans by the U.S. Constitution. Then there were those bishops and priests who, during the unsuccessful fight to defeat the 1947 anti-union Taft-Hartley Act and then to overturn President Truman’s veto of the act, sided with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce against the AFL and the CIO; for them, my pro-

union family reserved some choice words that ought not to be repeated in a family newspaper. Ten years later Catholics in San Francisco disagreed about the labor movement again, this time over whether California should be a “Right to Work” state. Prominent Catholic laymen ran newspaper advertisements arguing that Pius XII had condemned the alleged coercion involved in mandatory union membership. Father Boss defended the AFL-CIO position, but the archbishop’s failure to explicitly urge Catholics to vote against “Right to Work” legislation led to grumbling and criticism in city union halls among unionists who expected more robust support. CATHOLICS AND LABOR, page 13

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Catholic influence on San Francisco labor movement By Bill Issel In the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century, Catholics comprised a critical mass in the population at large, as well as among the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s business and political leadership. Catholic influence in public life ensured that the notions of a moral economy in Pope Leo XIIIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1891 labor encyclical Rerum Novarum became an explicit part of San Franciscoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s political culture. The first American labor organization to send an official letter of gratitude to the pope came from the Pacific Laborerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Union in San Francisco. Father Peter C. Yorke, a San Francisco priest, played a central role in establishing the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Catholic labor philosophy at the beginning of the twentieth century. During a prolonged strike by teamsters and waterfront workers in 1901, Yorke criticized â&#x20AC;&#x153;the manifest disposition betrayed by the favored money class to disregard the sentiment of the common people.â&#x20AC;? When the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Employersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Association objected, Archbishop Patrick W. Riordan

Catholics and Labor . . . â&#x2013; Continued from page 12 By the end of the 1950s, it was clear that from coast to coast significant numbers of the Catholic hierarchy, clergy, and laity disagreed with â&#x20AC;&#x153;labor priestsâ&#x20AC;? like Bishop Donohoe, Father Boss and others who seemed to be teaching that the Church required lay men and women to support the union movement or jeopardize their standing as good Catholics. Catholics have witnessed many changes in the past half-century since they debated how to interpret Church teachings about work and

responded that Yorke was â&#x20AC;&#x153;merely explaining the Encyclical of the Pope.â&#x20AC;? Then, from the â&#x20AC;&#x153;lean yearsâ&#x20AC;? of unionism before the mid-1930s to the high point of labor success during and after World War II, Archbishops Edward J. Hanna, John J. Mitty and priests worked with unionists to shape the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s labor movement along the lines laid out in the labor encyclicals of Popes Leo XIII and Pius XI. In 1931, Pope Pius XI issued Quadragesima Anno, reaffirming and extending the principles of the 1891 labor encyclical, and in 1937 he condemned communism in Divini Redemptoris. Catholics in San Francisco used the encyclicals in a communal effort to shape a labor movement with multiple-dimensions. Labor organizers, officials, and negotiators pointed to the encyclicals as evidence that God was on their side as they fought to build and sustain their unions. Labor priests explained the encyclicals in their sermons and lectures demanding justice and dignity for workers. The archbishops cited the encyclicals as authority for their calls to resolve differences between labor and capital through compromise

and arbitration, and they quoted the encyclicals as ammunition when they condemned laissez faire businessmen and left wing unionists. Catholic principles played a role in shaping the Pacific Coast maritime strike from May through July of 1934. On June 9, the official Catholic newspaper, The Monitor, ran a frontpage editorial on â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Maritime Strikes.â&#x20AC;? It said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The rights of the ship-owners over their ships do not give them the right to impoverish the whole community. Nor do the rights of the striking workers include the right to pursue their aims regardless of the consequences to the third party in the dispute, namely the people who are not directly involved, but who depend upon cargoes for their livelihoods and sustenance.â&#x20AC;? On July 13, with the city in the throes of a General Strike, Archbishop Hanna addressed San Franciscans in a speech broadcast over several radio stations. He explicitly endorsed both labor unions and collective bargaining, and he condemned employer exploitation that ignored â&#x20AC;&#x153;the human character of the worker.â&#x20AC;? Then, in a blunt rejection of the Communist Party slogan â&#x20AC;&#x153;class against class,â&#x20AC;? Hanna criti-

the labor movement during the fights over Taft-Hartley in 1947 and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Right to Workâ&#x20AC;? in 1958. St. Agnes School is gone, its place taken by a French language prep school. St. Peterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Church offers three Spanish language Masses to its Mission district congregation every Sunday, and St. Patrickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Church provides a Mass in Tagalog once a month. Today Catholics have more direct access to Church teachings than they did when they turned to The Monitor for news and opinion; Benedict XVIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Caritas in Veritate (2009) and the U.S. Conference of Bishopâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Respecting the Rights of Workers (2009), not to mention numerous websites and blogs devoted to

Catholic matters, are available on the internet. But â&#x20AC;&#x153;the labor questionâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201C; for a variety of reasons â&#x20AC;&#x201C; has receded in importance for most Americans, living as we do in the shadow of post-Reagan Neo Liberalism rather than in the afterglow of post-FDR Fair Deal Liberalism. On Labor Day 2010 one element of continuity stands out in the midst of the swirl of changes that have taken place since the 1940s. As the well-publicized clash of opinion that has marked recent campaigns to unionize workers

cized unionists who premised their activities on the necessity of â&#x20AC;&#x153;conflict between class and class.â&#x20AC;? The Archbishop warned leftist unionists â&#x20AC;&#x153;rights must be religiously respected wherever they are found.â&#x20AC;? Both sides in the waterfront strike, Hanna insisted, should move quickly to accept the results of arbitration, keeping in mind the â&#x20AC;&#x153;underlying principles which have ever been the teaching of Christianity during 2000 years.â&#x20AC;? Settlement of the waterfront strike came during the next two weeks, partly because of the work of the National Longshoremenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Board on which Hanna served and partly because of the influence of John E Neylan, a prominent Catholic lawyer close to the Archbishop. The strike settlement realigned the relationship between organized labor and business in the direction called for by Catholic leaders. Business leaders agreed to arbitration and expressed a public commitment to respect the rights of labor and to treat workers with dignity. Excerpt from â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Catholic Church and Labor from the 1890s to the 1950s,â&#x20AC;? published in Catholic San Francisco 2003.

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Analysis and Commentary Solidarity movement: Shaped by Catholic social doctrine, personal witness of John Paul II Thirty years ago, on Aug. 31, 1980, an electrician named Lech Walesa signed the Gdansk Accords, ending a two-weekold strike at that Hanseatic city’s Lenin Shipyards. Walesa signed with a giant souvenir pen featuring a portrait of Pope John Paul II. The choice of pen was not, as Marxists might have said, an accident. Neither was the distinctive revolution that unfolded in the wake of the Gdansk Accords, which were forged over two weeks of high drama on Poland’s Baltic coast. The Accords were the pivot between John Paul’s Polish pilgrimage of June 1979 and the rise of the “Independent Self-Governing Trade Union Solidarity” in September 1980. Fourteen months before the strike, John Paul II had ignited a revolution of conscience that had inspired countless numbers of people to “live in the truth,” to live “as if” they were free—as the period’s mottoes had it. “Living in the truth” gave a special texture to the Gdansk Accords, which in turn led to the unique social and political phenomenon that was Solidarity. There had been labor unrest in Poland in 1953, 1956, 1968, 1970, and 1976. In each instance, the Polish communist regime pacified the workers (in whose name these Marxists putatively ruled) by a combination of divide-and-conquer tactics, economics bribes (usually involving food prices), and

At the monastery of Jasna Gora in Czestochowa, Poland, Pope John Paul II greets throngs of Poles waiting for a glimpse of their native son during the first trip to his homeland in June 1979. The pontiff’s visit motivated workers to form Solidarity, the first independent trade union in a communist-ruled country.

brutality. 1980 was different, and the difference that made 1980 different was the John Paul II difference—a moral difference. I try to capture that difference in “The End and the Beginning: Pope John Paul II—The Victory of Freedom, the Last Years, the Legacy,” which Doubleday will publish on Sept. 14: “[This] moral difference showed itself almost immediately as the Gdansk shipyard

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Crowds cheer in the streets of Warsaw, Poland, on June 4, 1979, waiting for the arrival of Pope John Paul II on his first visit to Poland as pope.

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Pope John Paul II greets Lech Walesa – Nobel Peace Prize winner and head of Solidarity – in Gdansk in June 1987. The pope’s public comments defending the labor union, and his visit to the grave of Father Jerzy Popieluszko, a proSolidarity priest killed by Polish police, were clear signals to the communist government of his commitment to Poland’s freedom. In June 1989, communist rule came to an end. Walesa became president the following year.

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Solidarity movement . . . ■ Continued from page 14 Points’ agreed upon by the MKS presidium… emphasized economic change while including a full menu of basic human rights, specifically mentioning, among others, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and an end to discrimination against religious believers ‘of all faiths’ in terms of access to the media. The goals of dissent had been enlarged and deepened; as one worker-poet would put it a few months later, ‘The times are past/when they closed our mouths/with sausage.’” Solidarity’s tumultuous path over the next nine years paved the way for the Revolution of 1989, the (largely nonviolent) collapse of European communism, and the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991. There were endless arguments as Walesa and the Solidarity leadership wrestled with the inevitable turbulence of a new trade union that was also a mass social movement and a de facto political

opposition—in a society where the communist party and the state apparatus it controlled tried to occupy every available inch of social space. That the Catholic Church in Poland had tenaciously maintained its independence for 35 years in this suffocating social and political environment helped make Solidarity possible; the Church’s independence also helped provide a protected space in which the movement could continue after Solidarity-the-trade-union was dissolved, under the martial law imposed on Poland on Dec. 13, 1981. During its epic period, Solidarity was a unique blend of moral and intellectual conviction, economic good sense, political shrewdness, and personal courage, all of which were shaped by the social doctrine of the Catholic Church and the personal witness of John Paul II. Its example should inspire free people, and those who aspire to freedom, everywhere. George Weigel is Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.

approved Gulf Coast rebuilding projects, which includes $11 million to the state of Louisiana to help rebuild the student center at Xavier University in New Orleans – the country’s only historically black Catholic university. Xavier University was virtually underwater after Katrina. When floodwaters subsided, they left behind layers of mildew and mold along with damaged books, furniture, carpeting and a buckled hardwood gym floor. The storm also destroyed buildings and ripped off roofs. Since then, the university has focused on getting back on track. This fall semester it opens a new wing at its College of Pharmacy and starts construction on a chapel in honor of the university’s founder, St. Katharine Drexel. It is also starting work on a new student center and other campus building renovations. Sarah Comiskey McDonald, director of communications for the Archdiocese of New Orleans, told Catholic News Service that FEMA had given the archdiocese about $61.9 million by the end of 2009 for rebuilding, repairs and alternate projects. The archdiocese anticipates receiving another $108.1 million for ongoing repairs and upgrades. Although Mississippi has received less attention than New Orleans, the state’s coast was devastated when the hurricane hit and some areas are still struggling to recover. In the Diocese of Biloxi, schools and churches damaged from wind and severe flooding are slowly being repaired. In some cases destroyed or damaged schools have merged and some churches will not be rebuilt.

Beautifully restored by workers, the mission church of St. Ann is pictured in Empire, La. The church, which was swept from its pilings by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, was rededicated this week on Sept. 2 by New Orleans Archbishop Gregory M. Aymond, the latest sign of hope for the Archdiocese of New Orleans.

When Katrina hit Mississippi, the sign outside Our Lady of the Gulf Church in Bay St. Louis read: “Sometimes, you have to lose everything in order to do anything.” The irony of the message is not lost on the pastor, Father Michael Tracey. In the Aug. 20 edition of the Gulf Pine Catholic, diocesan newspaper of Biloxi, the priest said the electronic parish sign will reflect the same message this Aug. 29. “This time,” he said, “rather than being providential or prophetic, it may be a sign of realistic hope, lessons learned and providential care.”

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Mother Teresa ‘We shall then once again touch the beauty before us’ Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice delivered the following homily Aug. 26 at St. Paul Church in San Francisco on the 100th anniversary of Mother Teresa’s birth. A few days ago, the first day in months that we had no fog in San Francisco, I took a wonderful walk along the Marina and along the shoreline of the Presidio. It was a grand day. One thing that caught my eye was the couples sitting on benches along the trail. They were quiet, gazing out on the bay. I could not discern any verbal communication taking place. They just seemed so content to be there, and to be there with one another. Words were not necessary. Presence was. In some way, I believe most of us have a similar feeling today as we honor Mother Teresa of Calcutta. We are gathered here with her Community, gathered around the Word of God in the Scriptures, to celebrate the Eucharist – the sacrificial meal of the Lord Jesus. What is to be said about Mother Teresa that has not already been said? How do we express what is in our hearts? What more can be said? Perhaps it is enough to express our quiet gratitude for Mother’s presence in our lives, and in the lives of all she touched. In that way, we are like the couples sitting together on those benches that look out to the bay where the beauty of God’s creation overwhelms them – and us. Yet we need to speak. We need to praise and give thanks for Mother, born 100 years ago today. And we need to be challenged to sense the beauty of Christ in our lives so we may recognize that beauty, as she did, in the poor and suffering, and be the body of Christ to them. We need to speak of thanksgiving: for her desiring to be a religious and a missionary from the age of 12, and acting on that desire by joining the Sisters of Loreto at the age of 18 and for her arrival in India in 1929 to begin her lifelong service to the people of that nation. We are in awe that in September of 1946 she experienced what she described as, “the call within the call.” I quote, “I was to leave the convent and help the poor while living among

them. It was an order. To fail would have been to break the faith.” We give thanks that in 1950 she was given permission to start the diocesan congregation that would become the Missionaries of Charity, whose mission was to care for – as she said – “the hungry, the naked, the homeless, the crippled, the blind, the lepers, all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared for throughout society; people who have become a burden to the society and are shunned by everyone.” We celebrate her receiving recognition of her work through winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979, and India’s highest civilian award in 1980. And we give thanks to God that by 2007, the religious family Mother Teresa founded and guided numbered approximately 5,000 nuns and 450 brothers worldwide, operating 600 missions, schools and shelters in 120 countries! The power and love of God’s spirit can leave us in quiet awe! I believe that the spirit of this gathering and the scripture proclaimed to us at this Eucharist moves us to speak of God’s calling of Mother, and in truth, the whole Christian and worldwide community. All the readings speak of God’s love for us in concrete terms. The first reading today from the Prophet Hosea was the experience of a man and woman in love: the desire to be together. God sees Israel as his spouse: “So I will allure her, I will lead her into the desert and speak to her heart…I will espouse you to me forever. I will espouse you in right and in justice, in love and in mercy; I will espouse you in fidelity, and you shall know the Lord.” That is our God who loves us so much he sent his only Son that we might have life, eternal life. This is the invitation from God to be so close to him that he fills us with his life: we become the branches, he is the vine. This is the love Mother realized was guiding her life and calling her to share it with the poor and outcast. Saint Paul in the second reading sees himself, an apostle of Jesus, as a father who wants to betroth us, his converts, to Christ, so that we no longer live but Christ lives in us. He is jealous and protective of anything that

would threaten the relationship. This is the love that Mother had for those in need. This is the love that God protected her with during her struggles with selfdoubt and feelings of aloneness. This is Auxiliary Bishop the jealous God who William J. calls us to trust in him and share his love in Justice service to those who need us. Finally, the Gospel reminds us to be wise, to be alert. God expects us to use the talents and gifts we have in the service of his jealous alluring love. Mother used her talents and gifts to share God’s love with the poor, those in need. We must do the same. It is our daily calling from God. It is also our continuation of the Charism of Mother Teresa from Calcutta and the Missionaries of Charity. More than enough words have been said. We need to return to being together, as those couples contemplating the beautiful creation of San Francisco Bay, and in contemplation and awe give thanks for Mother, give thanks for the God who spoke to her heart and speaks to ours and for the people he calls us to serve: the poor, those who are outcasts. We shall then once again touch the beauty before us – the beauty Mother has called us to discover and to share: God loves us, each person on this earth. It may be Mother’s birthday, but she is still giving her deepest gift to us: Jesus Christ. Let us in a few minutes turn to the altar of the Lord and celebrate Eucharist so that when we say “Amen” today to the Body and Blood of Christ, we will joyfully be able to say “Amen” to his profound call to follow him.

New Balance The Catholic South rises The Jesuit theologian Karl Rahner once said that, pressing ahead with the blessing of same-sex unions This has practiin the long run, the importance of the Second Vatican and the ordination of openly gay bishops and meeting cal consequences. Council in the mid-1960s is that it marked the emergence ferocious resistance from the Anglican constituency in How do you address of Catholicism as a self-consciously global family of the South, particularly in Africa. With 41 million of the health care, for faith. Rahner was making a kind of theological argu- 79 million Anglicans in the world now living in Africa instance, in a culture ment. What I want to argue is that Catholic demography (and with more practicing Anglicans living in Nigeria where the default in the early 21st century confirms empirically what than in Great Britain), we can see which way the winds interpretation of illRahner contended theologically. blow on these issues. ness is not merely At the dawn of the 20th century, there were 266 However, change the subject from culture wars to physical cause and million Catholics in the world, of whom 200 million other issues—the ethics of free market global capitalism, effect but also the John Allen, Jr. lived in Europe and North America and just 66 million war and peace, race relations, the environment, the arms operation of malign (25 percent) lived on the rest of the planet, principally in race—and a consensus becomes apparent across south- spirits? Treating the Latin America. In other words, roughly a hundred years ern Catholicism that by western standards seems liberal, physical source without attention to the spiritual realm ago, the demographic profile of the Catholic Church and even progressive. (It bears noting, though, that this in which healing must also take place will address only was essentially what it was at the time of the Council of division of humanity into liberals and conservatives is half the problem. Increasingly, the palpable nearness Trent in 1545—overwhelmingly white and First World. a northern taxonomy. Such categories don’t occur to of the supernatural will be woven into the fabric of By the year 2000, the balance had shifted. With 1.1 most people in the South.) Since the United States–led Catholicism in the 21st century. billion Catholics in the world, almost 66 perCatholic leaders in the South see comcent of them lived in what is loosely referred petition for souls arising from a different to as “the South” (including Latin America, source than do their northern counterparts. sub-Saharan Africa, the Indian subcontinent, Roll the clock forward to 2050, and the projection In Western Europe, and on the East Coast of Southeast Asia, and the Pacific islands). Roll the United States, we habitually think that the clock forward to 2050, and the projec- is that the South’s share of Catholics will rise the Church’s major competitor is seculartion is that the South’s share of Catholics ism. But often in the South, you have to look will rise to 75 percent—a figure that sums to 75 percent — a figure that sums up the most hard to find a secularist. Secularism simply up the most rapid and profound transformadoes not have a serious sociological footprint tion of Catholic demography in 2,000 years rapid and profound transformation of Catholic outside of the West. The reality in most of of Church history. The period we are living the world is the competitive dynamic of a through now is comparable to that moment in flourishing religious marketplace. The typical demography in 2,000 years of Church history. the first century when St. Paul left Palestine Catholic bishop in sub-Saharan Africa, or in for Damascus, Greece, and Rome, thereby Southeast Asia, or in most of Latin America transforming primitive Christianity from a sect is worried about losing people to Christian within Palestinian Judaism to a religious movement. incursion into Iraq in March 2003, I have interviewed Pentecostalism. In some parts of sub-Saharan Africa, The question is: As southern Catholics inevitably some 300 Catholic bishops in the South, and I have not new iterations of indigenous religions also raise and increasingly set the tone for the Church, what is found one who isn’t convinced that the invasion failed concern. And in parts of India, militant nationalist Hinduism is a perceived threat. Catholicism in the 21st century going to be like? For the Catholic Church’s tests for a just war. Most people around the world do not choose Further complicating this picture is the fact that one thing, Catholics in the global South—from bishops to clergy to laity—will seem to European and American the ethos of Catholicism in the South is heavily biblical between belief and disbelief. Rather, they shop for eyes fairly traditional on matters of sexual morality and supernatural. It is tied less to abstract scholastic the particular brand of religion that suits them best. and fairly progressive on just about everything else. theology and more to the Bible’s narrative universe The Catholic Church in the South is not, in the main, On abortion, gay rights, gender roles, and the family, and world-view, particularly the Old Testament and fighting abstract intellectual battles. It is fighting there is a consensus in the southern Catholic Church, the Synoptic Gospels. Miracles, revelations, exorcisms, pastoral battles. Southern bishops’ primary concern is as in southern cultures generally, that is markedly demonic combat—all of which in western culture can that the Pentecostals are doing a better job of holding conservative. To see how that has played out so far in seem quaint or arcane or off-putting—are part of the midweek prayer nights and organizing youth ministries. a different Christian context, consider the Anglican routine of spiritual life in the South. The supernatural is The focus of southern Catholicism for the foreseeable communion today, in which liberal Anglican churches close. People sense it. And they live in lively expecta- future is likely to be at this practical level. in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada are tion that it is going to erupt in their daily experience. NEW BALANCE, page 20

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Dealing with ‘new things’ on Labor Day At a daily newspaper where I once labored, we spent long hours analyzing the results of a readership survey in order to translate the data into a strategy that would strengthen and increase readership. One question about newspaper content was a series of “more-less” statements, including “would you like more or less news about crime?” A significant number wanted less news about crime. But before we abolished the police beat and turned the space over to happy news, an editor raised this cautionary: “Are they saying they want to read less news about crime that has happened? Or are they wishing for less crime to be reported about?” Opinion polls can hold different meanings and need interpretation to get to the true meaning often contained below the surface. A recently published national poll on religion and public life brings this point to mind. Conducted for the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, the poll found several seemingly contradictory answers. It found that two-thirds of Americans feel religion is losing influence on life in America, and slightly more than half feel that is a negative thing. Just over half say churches ought to stay out of political affairs, yet over 60 percent say that members of Congress should have strong religious beliefs. What does this mean? Is it good news or bad news? From the apparently conflicting data, a case can be

made that the public does not care for religion per se, but likes what religion provides as a value-giver. “Though the public expresses reservations about churches involvement in politics, there is widespread agreement that politicians should be religious,” said the poll. “Fully 61 percent say it is important that members of Congress have strong religious beliefs; just 34 percent disagree.” It is difficult to generate much enthusiasm this year to celebrate Labor Day when the national unemployment rate is nearly 10 percent, which translates into ruined lives and the prospect of years to regain job losses. However, it is an appropriate time of year to recognize and celebrate the contribution of the Catholic Church. This is far from the first major social change or economic crisis it has witnessed. The encyclical “Rerum Novarum,” written by Pope Leo XIII in 1891, dealt with “new things,” mainly major shifts in production and new growth in productivity brought about by the Industrial Revolution that had seemingly moved the world into a new age. “That encyclical provided moral, and even spiritual, guidance for many of the great social reforms of the last century, including advances in public health, the banking system, public education, living wages, unions and income security through the creation of Social Security, unemployment insurance and similar programs,” the U.S. bishops said in their 2010 Labor Day statement. This year, the bishops propose a new social contract for today’s new things.

“Moving from general principles of Catholic social teaching to application in everyday life is never easy,” wrote Bishop William F. Murphy of Rockville Centre, N.Y., on behalf of the bishops. Stephen Kent “We need to assess not just individual actions but broader trends in social and economic structures.” Bishop Murphy is chairman of the bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development. He called for the forging of “a new ‘social contract,’ which begins by honoring work and workers ... (and) ultimately focuses on the common good of the entire human family.” He added that “perhaps the call for a new ‘social contract’ should be cast in the context of a globalized economy and seek a renewed development of the relations among the three sectors of market, state and civil society.” Such a new social contract might be just the thing for those who, while decrying the loss of influence of religion in American life, don’t want churches involved in politics and who feel those who make public policy should be influenced by a faith life. Stephen Kent, retired editor of archdiocesan newspapers in Omaha and Seattle, can be contacted at: Considersk@gmail.com.

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The good shepherd: a break that forms a bond I had relegated shepherds to the unicorn file, somewhere near the hunch-backed blacksmith and the whistling milk man. They were the stuff of Mother Goose lore. So it was surprising to discover actual shepherds when I visited the Holy Land. I was riveted by the sloping landscape of Jesus’ ministry. Two tones checkered our vistas: crusty white limestone and fluttering blue-green olive trees. And there, among the jagged hills, was a man tending sheep. He was dressed in brown and his head was covered. He appeared hot and lonely. I asked our guide Wisam, a Catholic Palestinian, about that line of work. It looked undesirable. But Wisam said shepherds cherish their lifestyle and their work, which is often passed on for generations. The meager wages don’t deter them. Wisam then shared a fascinating element of shepherding. If a sheep persistently wanders, he said, “a good shepherd” will break its leg and carry it until it heals. That physical closeness creates a strong, lasting bond, and the sheep may go on to be a leader among the flock. What a powerful insight for us wandering humans, whose self sufficiency so easily leads us astray. We bemoan the times we are broken, but if they send us onto our knees and into the shepherd’s arms, we can consider them an abiding blessing.

We live in a culture that produces lost sheep – Heidi Montags, Levi Johnstons, Lindsay Lohans. It confuses attention with respect, wealth with success, and pleasure with contentment. The ravenous reality-TV circuit spotlights the weird and the weepy, the loony and the loopy, seeking characters, not character, making “good TV” out of bad people. Their 15 minutes come at a great personal cost: severed engagements and marriages, ruptured friendships and families. They clamor for the camera and play the game, and, in doing so, lose faith – in self, in neighbor and in God. This month St. Luke reminds us that our good shepherd would leave 99 sheep to seek out one missing and rejoice when it is found. The same Gospel reading chronicles the prodigal son’s return. For years when I heard this passage from the pulpit I identified with the faithful older son. I was the girl showing up every day, sitting in the front row, raising my hand. What a raw deal the older son got! Then one day in my late teens or early 20s, a light bulb flashed: What if I was the younger prodigal daughter? Suddenly I was recalling the times I’d received undue credit. It was a jarring paradigm shift, a revelation that redrew all the lines of my comfortable theology.

Of course each of us needs the unfailing devotion of a good shepherd – to be singled out, chased after and cared for. When I look back on the year, I think of the people who have been broken and carried. The Christina widow who has continued her husband’s nightly Capecchi prayer ritual with their three young children. The dad trying to hold on to his house, who is still quick to tickle and tease his kids. The mom who lost her job the same month she rushed her asthmatic toddler to the ER. The latest post on her blog is a request for others’ prayer petitions, an offer to return the good graces that had been shown her. Their pain produced a stronger bond with the good shepherd, and now the rest of us are drawing closer too. Christina Capecchi is a freelance writer from Inver Grove Heights, Minn. She can be reached at www.ReadChristina.com.

Guest Commentary

‘Faithful Citizenship’ and state stewardship “The poor must be spared.” Archbishop George Niederauer has reminded the Governor and Legislature that any increase in revenue or cuts in services to balance the budget must be fair and responsible. He calls for their courage to protect the future of the state, and not give in to special interests that deprive the needy of vital human services. California, the eighth largest economy in the world, cannot pay its bills; and without responsible stewardship of taxpayer dollars and state resources it never will. “Faithful Citizenship” taught by the American Bishops calls Catholics to step into the public square: Contact legislators, write editors, call talk shows and demand greater stewardship from elected officials: An end to irresponsible spending that exceeds inflation and population growth; the correction of unsustainable benefits that plunder the treasury; and change in regulations that drive out business, jobs and tax revenues that have led to the $20 billion deficit. The first responsibility of the State is to protect people–not buildings, departments and bureaucrats: California owns and maintains 22,272 buildings and properties. (Yes-22,272) They include the Los Angeles Coliseum and the San Francisco Cow Palace, and thousands of other facilities. The state can sell and leaseback some to reduce costs and protect vital services as other states and the federal government are doing.

California also has 240,579 state employees with the highest salaries and benefits in the nation; they total $19 billion a year plus $5 billion in benefits. A four-day week could save $4 billion a year to protect vital services. This 20 percent cut is far less than the 100 percent cut faced by two million unemployed in the private sector. The state expends $88 billion a year to fund 500 departments, agencies and commissions. They all can reduce costs to help protect services: The Community Colleges offer free continuing education that includes ballroom dancing; while Health and Human Services is forced to cut assistance to the disabled and home bound seniors. If more taxes could balance the budget and protect vital services Sacramento should increase taxes, but they will not. Increasing taxes during a recession with 12 percent unemployment will cause more businesses to leave California, taking with them jobs, tax revenues and ambitious young people – the future of the state. California taxes are among the highest in the nation; the state is ranked worst to do business for the fifth straight year, and has the lowest credit rating of 50 states. But Catholics cannot solely blame the Governor and Legislature for the budget crisis; they did not invade Sacramento and seize power-these officials were elected by us – the people. Faithful Citizenship calls on Catholics to be informed and wary of

those that denigrate enterprise that creates jobs and tax revenues that protect the needy. Last year, individuals, businesses and foundations contributed $307 billion to religious, healthcare, eduMike cational, social and environmental causes. Every DeNunzio dollar came from profits and taxes generated by businesses, risk takers and free market capitalism; including contributions and government grants to Catholic, Protestant, Jewish and Muslim charities. Faithful Citizenship can help teach elected officials that no other economic system, or government does more to help the needy-and none ever will. Local Catholic Mike DeNunzio is a California Commissioner on Aging appointed by Governor Schwarzenegger, and a former San Francisco Commissioner on Aging appointed by Mayors Brown and Newsom

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A READING FROM THE BOOK OF WISDOM WIS 9:13-18B Who can know God’s counsel, or who can conceive what the Lord intends? For the deliberations of mortals are timid, and unsure are our plans. For the corruptible body burdens the soul and the earthen shelter weighs down the mind that has many concerns. And scarce do we guess the things on earth, and what is within our grasp we find with difficulty; but when things are in heaven, who can search them out? Or who ever knew your counsel, except you had given wisdom and sent your holy spirit from on high? And thus were the paths of those on earth made straight. RESPONSORIAL PSALM PS 90:3-4, 5-6, 12-13, 14-17 R. In every age, O Lord, you have been our refuge. You turn man back to dust, saying, “Return, O children of men.” For a thousand years in your sight are as yesterday, now that it is past, or as a watch of the night. R. In every age, O Lord, you have been our refuge. You make an end of them in their sleep; the next morning they are like the changing grass, Which at dawn springs up anew,

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Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time Wisdom 9:13-18b; Psalm 90:3-4, 5-6, 12-13, 14-17; Philemon 9-10, 12-17; Luke 14:25-33 but by evening wilts and fades. R. In every age, O Lord, you have been our refuge. Teach us to number our days aright, that we may gain wisdom of heart. Return, O LORD! How long? Have pity on your servants! R. In every age, O Lord, you have been our refuge. Fill us at daybreak with your kindness, that we may shout for joy and gladness all our days. And may the gracious care of the LORD our God be ours; prosper the work of our hands for us! Prosper the work of our hands! R. In every age, O Lord, you have been our refuge.

A READING FROM THE LETTER OF PAUL TO PHILEMON PHMN 9-10, 12-17 I, Paul, an old man, and now also a prisoner for Christ Jesus, urge you on behalf of my child Onesimus, whose father I have become in my imprisonment; I am sending him, that is, my own heart, back to you. I should have liked to retain him for myself, so that he might serve me on your behalf in my imprisonment for the gospel, but I did not want to do anything without your consent, so that the good you do might not be forced but voluntary. Perhaps this is why he was away from you for a while, that you might have him back forever, no longer as a slave but more than a slave, a brother, beloved especially to me, but even

f Jesus had hired me as a management consultant in order to bring about a change in the corporate culture of the People of God, I would never have advised him to rely so heavily on the model of family. Yet that is precisely what He did. “Who is my mother?” He once asked, “and who are my brothers and sisters?” Then He plunged ahead and told us that if we do the will of His heavenly Father, if we love God, do justice and walk humbly before the Lord, then He, Jesus, would give us His mother, be our Brother, and cause His Father to be our Father. He will even go so far as to give us His Precious Blood so that we will be His blood brothers and sisters. That is quite extreme, I’d say… as well as quite astonishing. So it is we go today in our second reading to find a quote in St. Paul’s letter to Philemon. Unfortunately we read this passage only once every three years. It would benefit us to study it more often.

Scripture reflection FATHER CHARLES IRVIN

Truly living as family So it’s quite worthwhile for us to pause today and reflect on it. Paul is writing this letter from a prison, writing it to the head of a little family of Christians he started probably located in a town near Colossae, in what is today known as

Turkey. Paul has Timothy sign it along with him and mentions that five other Christians are also imprisoned along with him. He wants the recipient of this letter, Philemon, to take it very seriously. I want to highlight for you today the

more so to you, as a man and in the Lord. So if you regard me as a partner, welcome him as you would me. A READING FROM THE HOLY GOSPEL ACCORDING TO LUKE LK 14:25-33 Great crowds were traveling with Jesus, and he turned and addressed them, “If anyone comes to me without hating his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. Which of you wishing to construct a tower does not first sit down and calculate the cost to see if there is enough for its completion? Otherwise, after laying the foundation and finding himself unable to finish the work the onlookers should laugh at him and say, ‘This one began to build but did not have the resources to finish.’ Or what king marching into battle would not first sit down and decide whether with ten thousand troops he can successfully oppose another king advancing upon him with twenty thousand troops? But if not, while he is still far away, he will send a delegation to ask for peace terms. In the same way, anyone of you who does not renounce all his possessions cannot be my disciple.” family language St. Paul uses. Timothy is called “brother”, Philemon is addressed as “beloved”, Apphia is “our sister”, and Onesimus is someone St. Paul proudly claims to have “fathered” into the Faith. Under Roman Law Onesimus was a slave. Here in this letter St. Paul calls for him to be considered by the Christians of Colossae no longer a slave but rather to be regarded by them as “a brother in the Lord.” Later, in his Letter to the Galatians, Paul will broaden out his vision and proclaim that for Christians “There is neither Jew nor Greek . . . neither slave nor free person … neither male nor female; for we are all one in Christ.” We are family – a loving unified family – with God as our Father. In the thinking of Jesus, this family’s importance even transcends membership in one’s natural family. That is, of course, extreme. But God makes extreme demands upon us. If you take God seriLIVING AS FAMILY, page 19

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Piety and propriety “And when you pray, do not imitate the hypocrites: they love to say their prayers standing up in the synagogues and at street corners for people to see them. ... But when you pray, go to your private room, shut yourself in, and so pray to your Father who is in that secret place.” (Matthew 6, 5-6.) For whatever reason, as churches and as individuals, we have been slow to take seriously Jesus’ warnings against displaying our piety in public. Yet Jesus is very clear, and very strong, in warning us not to do intimate private acts of prayer, devotion, and asceticism in public. Moreover, in this warning, he doesn’t distinguish as to whether these acts come from a sincere heart or a false one. Sincerity or insincerity is not the only issue that concerns him. Public display of piety, however sincere, is also the problem. Why? What’s wrong with public displays of piety? Don’t they serve as an inspiration to others? What’s wrong with putting our private hearts on display in public might be answered in one word: aesthetics. It’s bad art, art that irritates more than it inspires. It’s unhealthy exhibitionism. Why? Because piety is a form of intimacy and intimacy needs propriety. Intimacy is a deep private bond between persons and that private bond demands that deep intimate expressions of affection should be done in private. This isn’t abstract. We all know that love should be made behind closed doors. Intimacy, in its very structure, demands discretion, privacy, propriety, a shielding from public gaze, something which the early church called the discipline arcane. That’s why we find ourselves uncomfortable when we see people who are too openly affectionate in public. Our spontaneous reaction, to avert our eyes, to feel uncomfortable, to wish this wasn’t happening in front of us, is a healthy one because what we are seeing is an unhealthy

exhibitionism, even if the affection between the two persons is healthy. It’s not the love that’s wrong; it’s the public display that’s unhealthy. Intimate affection needs to be more sacred in guarding itself with privacy and propriety. The same is true for private prayer, private devotions, and private acts of penance. Whether sincere or not, public display of them is unhealthily exhibitionistic. When Jesus warns us to do our private prayers and our private penances behind closed doors he is, admittedly, warning against hypocrisy, against being seen as good as opposed to actually being good. But he is also warning against the public display of private devotion itself, no matter how sincere. For example, the early Church practiced something it called the discipline arcane. This was a practice within which any Christian who had been baptized and was participating in the Eucharist was forbidden to bring a non-baptized friend to the Eucharist or even describe to another person what happens at a Eucharist. The instinct here was not to create some kind of secret cult around the Eucharist, but to guard its intimacy. For them, the Eucharist was like making love, something done behind closed doors. I was lucky enough to see this healthily enacted in my own parents, both in their prayer lives and in their relationship to each other. My mother and father had a deep affection for each other and clearly made love a lot behind closed doors. But they never put that affection on public display. Indeed, and the family smiles about this now, we would sometimes catch them holding hands and sitting together when they thought nobody was around. Their prayer lives were the same. Both had a deep faith marked by piety, but both were also careful to keep their more intimate acts of prayer and devotion private. Both too tended to cringe when they saw too overt a display of either affection or piety in public. Perhaps that’s why I have a

certain genetic resistance to overt displays of piety. But, for the most part, we have been reluctant to take Jesus’ warning on this seriously. Sometimes in fact the reverse is true and public display of private Father devotion is held up as an Ron Rolheiser ideal. To cite an example: Several years ago, I was at a Sunday mass which was being presided over by an Auxiliary Bishop. Just before he was to receive communion, in front of a congregation of more than 500 people, he, in all sincerity and reverence, put his arms on the altar, placed his face down inside his arms, and stayed in that posture of adoration for over a minute, while the entire congregation had nothing to do but to watch him make that private act of reverence. At the time, I was only irritated by something that I considered out of place, bad timing, bad art, but I was more taken aback afterwards by comments outside the church: “Wasn’t that wonderful!” “What a deep faith!” Deep faith, probably. Wonderful, no. There’s a good reason why we spontaneously squirm in the face of overt gestures of intimacy that are meant really to express private emotion. Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser, theologian, teacher, and award-winning author, is President of the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, TX. He can be contacted through his website www.ronrolheiser.com.

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Living as family . . . ■ Continued from page 18 ously then you will come to know that Christianity is an adult religion that requires very mature and very adult decisions, decisions that are hard and demanding, decisions that are extreme, because God wants all of our love, not just an hour of our love on Sunday (if, in fact, we give Him even that little crumb!) Belonging to His family has greater importance than belonging to our natural, earthly family. To return now to my opening remark, why would I caution against all of this “family talk”? Well, because of the sad state in which we find American families these days. More than 50 percent of marriages now end in divorce. Adultery, promiscuity and infidelities permeate many of our families, even some of our leading families. Children are abused by their fathers and their mothers as well. Women are battered, men are held in contempt. Abortion is increasingly a part of our modern American families. Even the very definition of what it means to be a married couple is under assault. It is not a happy model to be using these days in order to teach us about loving others as God wants us to. But on the other hand, maybe it is exactly the image that Christians should

be using in order to learn of the kind of love and commitment Jesus wants from us. Maybe His image, His picture, His vision and model for family is precisely what our modern American families need as an antidote to the terrible sickness that seems to be infecting our society. Maybe Jesus was a whole lot more savvy than we think! In another letter, this one to the Corinthians, St. Paul speaks of what it means to live together as a family, particularly in the family of Christ. He tells us that if we speak to each other in our families in the tongues of men and of angels but have not love, well, then, we are only clanging gongs or tinkling cymbals. If we speak of God’s love and can fathom His mysteries in full knowledge and with a faith that can even move hearts made of mountains of stones, but have no love, well, then, we are good for nothing. If we share everything we have and even bum out our bodies in exhaustion while working for our families, but have not love, well, then, we gain nothing. Can we live in a family and be always patient? Always kind? Can we stop living in sibling rivalry and envy? Must we boast to each other? Must we live in competitive haughtiness and pride in order to show others up? Why are we often times more rude to the members of our own family than we are to outsiders who are not a part of our family? Why

do we treat non-family folks better than we treat those in our own families? Why do we fly off the handle at the slightest remark or because of the smallest little thing that we consider to be out of place in our homes? Why do we keep long records of every time we’ve been hurt and cling to our resentments like we, as children, used to cling to our security blankets? And must we feel happy and vindictive when someone else in our family makes a mistake or commits a sin, and we follow it up with a snotty “see, I told you so!”? This is a long and seemingly impossible list of questions to answer. In answer to them we have hope given us in Christ when He told us: “With man it is impossible. But with God, all things are possible.” Love – true family love – is the antidote to our sickness. Real love in a family, it seems to me, doesn’t delight in evil but rather rejoices in the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, and is always constant, steadfast and persevering. If we never fail in loving those in our families, then our families will likely never fail in loving us. For everyone we’ve ever really loved will be redeemed - it’s all a matter of loving them so much that we won’t cast them aside. Christ is very demanding; He has the greatest expectations of us. To be a Christian goes far beyond simply being a nice person. To be like

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‘The Waiting City’ – poignant, challenging, well-crafted Australian film set in India By John Mulderig NEW YORK (CNS) – A poignant yet challenging drama with mature themes, “The Waiting City” (Emerging) is a well-crafted exploration of emotional bonds that probes both the vulnerabilities and the fundamental value of one married couple’s life together. With the rich culture of India providing a vibrant backdrop, the film also tells a story of spiritual awakening, though it does so in a way that blurs the line between the good news of Christianity and the beliefs of the subcontinent’s Hindu majority. Australian writer-director Claire McCarthy’s experience eight years ago as a volunteer worker at Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity orphanage in India provides the inspiration and invaluable background knowledge for this warm and insightful film. The title refers to the impossibility of hurrying things in India. Traveling from their native Australia to Kolkata – the teeming city formerly called Calcutta – to finalize their adoption of a baby girl, buttoned-up, work-obsessed lawyer Fiona (Radha Mitchell) and her laid-back husband Ben (Joel Edgerton) find themselves bogged down by bureaucratic delays. It forces them to remain in this alien setting for a longer visit than expected. Everything takes time, particularly where paperwork and protocols are concerned, as young Australian married couple Ben and Fiona find when they arrive in Kolkata (Calcutta) to collect baby Lakshmi, whom they have been negotiating to adopt for two years. While Fiona stays cooped up in their expensive hotel room pursuing her business affairs via the Internet, ex-rock musician Ben – guitar in hand – sets out to see the sites and meet the locals. Their diametrically opposed reactions to their new environment, plus the tensions brought on by red tape and the other complications they eventually confront, combine to reveal the underlying fissures in Ben and Fiona’s marriage. An important character is Krishna (Samrat Chakrabarti), a young hotel employee who becomes Ben and Fiona’s unofficial guide and a confidant of both. He comes from the same village where little Lakshmi was born, and takes the prospective parents on an important trip there so they can absorb something of the baby’s early circumstances. Krishna bluntly asks the sort of questions we want answered, and he acts as sort of sounding board to allow the characters to open up. As the spouses question their future together, Fiona’s purely secular outlook begins to be eroded. This occurs both by the pervasive Hindu imagery that surrounds her – ranging from religiously themed postcards to the life-sized statues of gods carried in procession through the streets – and by the patient

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wisdom displayed by the Missionaries of Charity who staff the orphanage where her adoptive daughter has been living. While these heirs of Mother Teresa are portrayed in a consistently positive light, little distinction is made between their faith and the traditions that motivate Fiona to bathe in the Ganges or, in a later scene, to bow down before a woman she momentarily mistakes for the patron goddess of maternity. Thus, though McCarthy effectively pits mundane values against transcendent ones, her script seems to imply that any given source of nonmaterialist values is as good as any other. The maturity needed to sort through this mixed religious content, and to deal with the movie’s basically pro-life, but emotionally taxing treatment of abortion, mark this as moving fare for a restricted audience. Faith plays a part in this story, too. Ben is at least a nominal Catholic, whereas Fiona is not a believer. But the way India accommodates the coexistence of Hindu, Muslim

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and Christian causes her to question her own agnosticism when things reach crisis point. The performances are exceptional. Mitchell and Edgerton, who both have tremendous ease in front of the cameras, are totally convincing as the married couple working through their problems, and the Indian supporting players are especially well chosen for their roles, notably Tillotama Shome as an orphanage nun, Sr Tesilla. The film contains complex religious issues, brief graphic marital lovemaking, an abortion theme, at least one use of profanity, a few instances of rough and crude language and some scatological humor. Catholic News Service classification is L – limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. The MPAA rating is R – restricted. Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian. Jim Murphy, of the Australian Catholic Office for Film and Broadcasting, contributed to this review.

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St. Mary’s Cathedral Gough and Geary Blvd. in San Francisco. Call (415) 567-2020 St. Mary’s Cathedral marks its 40th year in 2010. Among special events of the anniversary is the annual Festival of Flowers which takes place at the Cathedral October 1 – 3, with a Gala Preview and Reception September 30, from 6 - 9 p.m. For more information on the Festival visit the Flower Festival website www.CathedralFlowers.org, or call (415) 567-2020. Monterey Bishop Richard Garcia this year joins Archbishop George Niederauer as Flower Festival Honorary chair.

Catholic Charismatic Renewal Sept. 17 – 19: San Francisco Catholic Charismatic Renewal Conference at Archbishop Riordan High School, 175 Phelan Ave. in San Francisco across from City College. Speakers include Msgr. James Tarantino, Father Dan Nascimento, Mark Ferrel, Carolyn Suty. Tickets are priced at $25 for the weekend. Hot lunch is available. To register in English, call (415) 564-PRAY; in Spanish, call (650) 773-4709; in Vietnamese, call (408) 661-6751.Youth registration, call (415) 350-8677. Masses of healing will be celebrated Friday at 7 p.m.; Saturday at 11:30 a.m.; Sunday at 2:30 p.m.

St. Patrick’s Seminary and University Sept. 18: St. Patrick’s Seminary & University Four Pillars Gala at the school, 320 Middlefield Rd. in Menlo Park. Evening includes Vespers at 5 p.m. then tours, social hour, dinner, raffle and dancing. Tickets are $150 per person. Raffle tickets $25 each or a book of five for $100. For more information visit our www.stpatricksseminary.org, email events@ stpatricksseminary.org or call (650) 325-5621, ext. 211.Proceeds benefit the school.

Youth Ministry Visit http://sforeym.googlepages.com Sept. 26, 4 p.m.: Mass in Celebration of Youth at St. Anne of the Sunset Church, Judah St. at Funston in San Francisco. This is a collaborative event of high school campus ministers and parish youth ministers/ Confirmation coordinators. Youth are encouraged to get involved as music ministers, readers, extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion, and ministers of hospitality. Help is also needed with set-up, clean-up and refreshments. A planning meeting is scheduled for Aug. 31 at the Pastoral Center, One Peter Yorke Way in San Francisco. Contact your parish youth minister or school campus minister or call (415) 614-5654.

National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi La Porziuncola Nuova Columbus at Vallejo in San Francisco’s North Beach The Porziuncola and “Francesco Rocks” Gift Shop are open every day but Monday from 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. Visit www.knightsofsaintfrancis.com. Volunteers are needed at La Porziuncola Nuova in San Francisco. La Porziuncola Nuova in San

Oct. 3, 7:30 a.m. registration: Seventh Annual Strides for Life, a four-mile walk or run benefiting colon cancer research and founded in memory of Dylan Cappel who died from the disease at age 23 while training for a spot on the 2004 Olympic Rowing Team. Dylan was a graduate of St. Dunstan Elementary School and Junipero Serra High School. Colon cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States and 90 percent of them are preventable with proper diagnosis and treatment. Teams and solo runners welcome. The event takes place around Lake Merced from Lake Merced and Sunset Blvd. in San Francisco. Pre-registration is $35/$45 on race day. Fees include shirt, goodie bag and breakfast after the race. Call (650) 348-5800 or visit www.stridesforlife.org

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Tuesdays at 6 p.m.: Notre Dame Des Victoires Church, 566 Bush at Stockton, San Francisco with Rob Grant. Call (415) 397-0113. 3rd Friday, 8 p.m.: Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose, Motherhouse Chapel, 43326 Mission Blvd. (off Mission Tierra), Fremont. For further information, please contact Dominican Sister Beth Quire at (510) 449-7554 or visit our website at www.msjdominicans.org for more information.

Oct. 8, 8 p.m.: A Night of Prayer and Song with musicians Bob Hurd and Dan Schutte at St. Kevin Church, 704 Cortland Ave. in San Francisco. Schutte was among a composing and performing group known as the St. Louis Jesuits that gained a very prominent place in liturgical music with contemporary compositions during the years of the enactment Bob Hurd Dan Schutte of Vatican II. He continues to write today. Hurd, also a popular and well known liturgical composer, has been a member of the faculty at St. Patrick’s Seminary and University in Menlo Park. Songs written by the pair include Pan de Vida, Here I Am Lord and You Are Mine. Tickets at $25 per person include refreshments at 7:30 p.m. Visit www.lanier.org/st-kevin or contact Matt Lanier at (650) 738-1632 or matt@lanier.org. Proceeds benefit the parish.

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Social Justice / Lectures / Respect Life Sept. 18 starting with Mass at 8:30 a.m.: “The Manhattan Forum Conference - Keeping Faith in the Public Square.” Speakers include Detroit Archbishop Allen Vigneron - Christian Conscience and the Issues of the Day. Call (888) 619-7882 for info or to register or visit www.sapi.org/mforum. Takes place at St. Isidore Parish in Danville. The day is presented by the St. Anthony of Padua Institute and the Diocese of Oakland’s Dept. for Evangelization and Catechesis. Sept. 25, 9 – 10 a.m.: Walk a Mile in My Shoes, a benefit marking the 50th anniversary of the St. Vincent de Paul Society conference at St. Raphael Church in San Rafael. No fees or registration costs. “Please help us celebrate by joining us as we walk one mile for people who are poor and hungry in San Rafael,” SVDP said. “Be a voice for the poor.” Call (415) 4548141, ext. 10, or visit www.saintraphael.com. Oct. 9, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.: Archdiocese of San Francisco Respect Life Conference - Rediscovering the Family in a Technological Age at Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption – St. Francis Hall, Gough St. at Geary Blvd. in San Francisco. Tickets are $40 for general admission; $60 for nurses CE; and $90 for doctors CE. Families are faced with physical, spiritual and psychosocial dilemmas in today’s world. These talks compare and contrast Natural Law with today’s concept of marriage, conscience, birth control and artificial reproduction. A Course Evaluation will be completed for CE requirements. To register Visit: http://www. ncbcenter.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1069 or www.ccwf.org or www.sflifeandjustice.org. For information contact Vicki Evans vevans1438@att.net or call (415) 614-5533, Kathleen O’Connell-Sundaram, RN, BSM adminccwf@gmail.com (408) 391-6211; Julie Kelley jkelly@ncbcenter.org (215) 877-2660.

Food & Fun Sept. 19, 3 – 6 p.m.: Third Annual Wine and Roses Gala benefiting Redwood City’s St. Francis Center at The Sullivan Estate and Vineyard in Woodside. Day includes wine tasting, music, silent auction, and raffle. Tickets are $75 per person. Call Lynda Connolly at (650) 592-7714 or e-mail lyndaconnolly@c2usa.net Sept. 19, 1 – 5 p.m.: Champagne Bingo in downstairs gym at St. Peter and Paul Church on Washington Square in San Francisco. No children. Free parking is available.

Donations of $20 include champagne, hot lunch and two free bingo cards plus door prizes. No tickets sold at the door. Call (415) 885-0567 or (415) 421-0809. September 26, 9 a.m. - 8p.m..: International Food, Music and Dance Festival featuring ethnic cuisine, music and entertainment. Enjoy foods from Brazil, Burma, the Philippines, the Middle-East, Greece and the United States. Also: animal balloons, cotton candy, face painting, hookahs, jewelry, photos and smoothies. Foods will be available for purchase. Admission is $3. Takes place at St. Thomas More Church, at Brotherhood Way at Thomas More Way, San Francisco. (415) 452-9634. Oct. 6, 11 a.m.: St. Vincent de Paul Society of San Francisco’s annual Brennan Awards lunch and ceremony at the Hilton San Francisco Hotel, 333 O’Farrell St. Award recipients are Sharon McCarthy Allen and Joanne Murphy. Visit www.svdp-sf.org

Single, Divorced, Separated Information about Bay Area single, divorced and separated programs is available from Jesuit Father Al Grosskopf at grosskopf@usfca.edu (415) 422-6698. Oct. 22-24: A Beginning Experience Widowed, Separated and Divorced Weekend at Vallombrosa Center, Oak Grove Ave. in Menlo Park. Contact Cathy at (408) 262-3718 or Helen at (415) 388-9651. You may also e-mail SJBeginExp@aol.com or visit http://www.beginningexperience.org. Jesuit Father Al Grosskopf is the group’s spiritual director.

Pauline Books and Media Daughters of St. Paul, 2640 Broadway, Redwood City (650) 369-4230 Sept. 16, 7 p.m.: An evening reflection on Mary’s various portrayals and representations throughout history. Daughter of St. Paul Sister Armanda Santos will guide this reflection in Woman of Many Guises. Light refreshments will follow. Visit www.PaulineRedwood. blogspot.com, or call (650)369-4230. Sept. 25, 10:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m.: Local children’s author Pam Mayer reads her short story from the new book Family Ties, then will engage kids ages 8-12 in a writing exercise aimed at helping them develop a lifelong love for writing. The 40-minute session is offered twice (see times above). For more information visit www. PaulineRedwood.blogspot.com, or call (650)369-4230.

Taize/Sung Prayer 1st Friday at 8 p.m.: Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Dr., Burlingame with Mercy Sister Suzanne Toolan. Call (650) 340-7452; young adults are invited each first Friday of the month to attend a social at 6 p.m. prior to Taize prayer at 8 p.m. The social provides light refreshments and networking with other young adults. Convenient parking is available. For more information, e-mail mercyyoungadults@sbcglobal.net.

Sept. 16: Class of June 1945 from St. Paul High School in San Francisco at the Basque Cultural Center. Call Edna Leonard at (650) 341-0431. Sept. 18: St. Paul High School class of 1960 contact: Lil Carter 415-584-3938 email:sphsclassof1960@ yahoo.com Sept. 25, 11:30 a.m.: St. Brigid High School all-school reunion at Presidio Officers Golf Club. Contact Pat Sabatini at (650) 685-5666. Oct. 23: Class of 2000 Notre Dame High School, Belmont with campus tours at 4:30 p.m. and celebratory event at 7 p.m. at King Fish Restaurant in San Mateo. E-mail ndbjaguars2000@gmail.com. Oct. 23: Archbishop Riordan High School, class of ’60 dinner dance, at the Italian American Social Club in San Francisco. Contact Tucker Spolter at teespot@earthlink. net or (415) 461-4628, or Tom Aspell at aspellt@al.com. Oct. 24: St John Ursuline High School, San Francisco is having the class of ’75, ’76, ’77 Reunion Lunch at the Irish Cultural Center. Contact Karen Grimley (75’) at karen.grimley@ssf.net or Theresa Keane (77’) at theresakeane@gmail.com for information – please respond by Oct 1. Nov. 20, 4 – 8 p.m.: Class of ’60, Holy Name of Jesus Elementary School in San Francisco on school campus at 40th Ave. and Lawton. Contact Dennis Norton at (415) 454-3184 or danort@comcast.net

Holy Cross Cemetery 1500 Old Mission Rd. in Colma, (650) 756-2060 Sept. 4, 11 a.m.: First Saturday Mass in All Saints Mausoleum.

Special Liturgies Sundays, 1:30 – 2:30 p.m.: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament with Benediction at Notre Dame des Victoires Church, 566 Bush St. between Stockton and Grant in San Francisco. Convenient parking is available across Bush St. in StocktonSutter garage. Call (415) 397-0113. Sept. 12, 2 p.m.: Charismatic Mass and Healing Service with Bishop Mylo H. Vergara, Bishop of San Jose Diocese, Nueva Ecija, Philippines, presiding, at St. Patrick Church, 756 Mission St.at 4th St. in San Francisco. Parking at Jesse Parking Garage—Enter on 3rd Street and Stevenson. Tickets will be validated at the Gift Shop. Call (415) 421-3730. Sept. 22, 7 p.m.: Mass of Thanksgiving commemorating 100th anniversary of the ordination of St. Padre Pio and the 50th anniversary of the ordination of Capuchin Father Fintan Whelan at Our Lady of Angels Church, 1721 Hillside Dr. in Burlingame. Reception follows. Call (650) 347-7768. Oct. 28, 5:30 p.m.: Mass commemorating 75th anniversary of Shrine of St. Jude at St. Dominic Church, 2390 Bush St. at Steiner in San Francisco. Archbishop George H. Niederauer will preside. Call (415) 931-5919 or e-mail info@stjude-shrine.org. Visit www.stjude-shrine.org.

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Congratulations to Bishop-elect Robert W. McElroy

Northern California’s Weekly Catholic Newspaper

(PHOTO BY MICHAEL COLLOPY)

17th Auxiliary Bishop for the Archdiocese of San Francisco

INSIDE THIS Special section

Interview with Bishop-elect ~ Page M2 ~ September 3, 2010

Parish view of Pastor, leader ~ Page M8 ~

From early years to priesthood ~ Page M12 ~

ONE DOLLAR

Heraldry points to Vatican II ~ Page M16 ~ VOLUME 12

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AUXILIARY BISHOP MCELROY SPECIAL SECTION

Interview with new auxiliary bishop Bishop-elect McElroy: ‘Bring true discipleship to the public square’

Archbishop John Quinn, Bishop William Justice and Bishop Ignatius Wang join me in congratulating Bishop-elect McElroy on his appointment as auxiliary bishop. We ask the people of this Archdiocese and all of our brothers and sisters in the Catholic Church to join us in praying for him, and for the gifts and graces he will need to carry out his apostolic office. – Most Reverend George H. Niederauer, Archbishop of San Francisco

• Our American society has too often allowed our notion of the dignity of the human person to be warped by a marketoriented approach. • The belief that the fundamental goods of society are socially created rather than transcendent gifts of God “poses an ominous development.” • “A truly secular humanistic worldview is indeed incompatible with the Catholic view of the world.” • It is important for Catholics to recognize that various teachings of the Church are taught with different levels of authority and certitude.” Bishop McElroy also traced his spiritual development, honoring his parents and his whole family for giving him the gift of a deep faith, recalling the challenging and nurturing Catholic culture he grew up with in 1950s and 1960s Daly City and Burlingame and painting a picture of one of his first priestly mentors, Capuchin Father Gerald Barron, as a priest who exuded a transcendent, but not otherworldly, faith. Here is the full text of the interview: Catholic San Francisco: Are there any special guests who you would like to honor at your ordination Mass – any family, friends and mentors who came a long way to take part in the rite or who played a big role in what led up to the day? Bishop McElroy: The two people whom I would like to honor most on the day of my ordination are my parents. They have given to me the most important gift that parents can give to their children – the experience of knowing that you have always been deeply and irrevocably loved. In addition, my parents have given to me and indeed to our whole family the gift of deep, sustained, lived Catholic faith. Finally, they gave to us the marvelous witness of six decades of married love, and celebrated their sixty-second wedding anniversary in August. What is the larger meaning of an episcopal ordination for the community, for your brother priests and for the laity who will come together at the cathedral for this comparatively rare event? The larger meaning of an episcopal ordination always lies in the testimony it gives to the vitality, continuity, and unity of the local Church. The Archdiocese of San Francisco is geographically small. But it is rich in its cultural diversity,

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Bishop-elect Robert McElroy, newly named 17th auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, believes lay Catholics in the Archdiocese have an important role to play to revitalize not only the inner life of the Church but also the public life of the Bay Area. Among the comments Bishop-elect McElroy provided to Catholic San Francisco in the weeks prior to his episcopal ordination Sept. 7 at St. Mary’s Cathedral, is an interest in an initiative “to transform the too often secularized culture of the Bay Area to bring true discipleship – public discipleship – to the center of the public square.” Bishop-elect McElroy, a priest for 30 years, is known for his intellectual achievements. His educational background includes a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University, a master’s degree from Stanford University, a master’s in Divinity from St. Patrick Seminary and University, a doctorate in political science from Stanford, and a doctorate in moral theology from North American College in Rome. Yet, he also has a reputation for leadership and pastoral ministry. He has championed lay leadership and involvement in his 14 years as pastor at St. Gregory Parish in San Mateo. He also has been key in the design of lay training for lay leaders throughout the archdiocese. In the following exchange, Bishop-elect McElroy shared his thoughts on discipleship and other topics in response to wide-ranging questions from Catholic San Francisco. Among the highlights of his responses:

Most Reverend Robert W. McElroy was appointed auxiliary bishop of San Francisco by Pope Benedict XVI on July 6, 2010.

its religious depth, and its contribution to the growth of the Church throughout the Western United States and across the Pacific. Each of the eight episcopal ordinations that I have participated in during my lifetime has embraced all of these elements in a dramatic way that has helped to remind the communities of our Archdiocese that although we function as particular parishes or schools or agencies on a daily basis, we are part of a much larger vision rooted in faith in Jesus Christ, a vision which ultimately encompasses the whole of our world. INTERVIEW WITH NEW BISHOP, page M3

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Congratulations Bishop Robert W. McElroy We congratulate Bishop Robert W. McElroy on his appointment by His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI, as Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Archbishop George H. Niederauer Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice Archbishop Emeritus John R. Quinn Auxiliary Bishop Ignatius C. Wang The Clergy, Religious and Faithful of the Archdiocese of San Francisco

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Interview with new bishop. . .

Roberta and Walter McElroy, parents of the new auxiliary bishop, are pictured here at a celebration of their 50th wedding anniversary in 1998.

■ Continued from page M2 Was there one moment, one experience, that inspired you to become a priest? There was no single moment or experience that inspired me to be a priest. I have wanted to be a priest from my earliest years. How did your family life contribute to your decision to train for the priesthood? Did you have family members who had taken religious vows? I don’t have any members of my family who were priests or religious. But my parents and grandparents were deeply religious, and that provided the foundation for my vocational development. Sometimes the term cultural Catholicism is used to denote merely a cultural and not a faith-based Catholicism. But for me growing up in Daly City and Burlingame during the l950’s and l960’s the culture in which I lived breathed a substantive Catholicism that was alive and challenging and nurturing. I attended Catholic schools all of my life until college, and so many of the sisters and priests who were models for me in life exemplified a real world Catholic faith that rendered Catholicism far more substantial than any set of abstract notions or disembodied piety. Was there one priest who inspired you most when you were in formation, and if so, how did he inspire you? There were four priests who inspired me during my vocational formation. The first was Monsignor Richard Power, the founding pastor of Our Lady of Mercy Parish in Westlake, where I lived until I was ten. Monsignor Power was a charismatic figure who knew his people well, was a tremendous organizer, conveyed real depth in Catholic faith, and made the development of vocations to the priesthood and religious life a real priority. More than anyone else, it was he who

formed my earliest notions of what it meant to be a priest. The second figure who inspired me in my youth was Father Gerald Barron. Father Gerald arrived as a newly ordained priest at Our Lady of Angels Parish in Burlingame when I was in sixth grade. I served his first Mass. What struck me most about Father Gerald was the example of lived holiness which he provided. He exuded a sense of faith which was transcendent, but not otherworldly, and he mixed kindness, compassion, gentleness and humor. He represents the best of the Franciscan tradition. The third priest who had a particularly large role in my vocation was Father John Ward, the Sulpician principal of Saint Joseph High School Seminary. Father Ward exemplified two central priestly virtues for me. The first was the ability to deal with conflict and challenge with graciousness and equanimity. The period from 1968 to 1972 was a difficult one for seminaries, filled with turmoil and discord. Saint Joseph’s was no exception, although I found my own experience there as a student in those

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years to be tremendously enriching. Father Ward had to deal with many complex and troubling issues in his leadership of the high school, and he consistently did so in a way that testified to his identity as a truly Christian gentleman, even when provoked. The second quality that remained with me about Father Ward was his love for the life of the mind and learning. He was a classics scholar who taught me Latin and Greek, and class with him was a daily reminder of the Catholic commitment to knowledge seen in the light of faith. The final priest who helped shape my priestly vocation was Father Howard Rasmussen, the pastor of Saint Elizabeth Parish, where I spent my diaconate year. Father Rasmussen had a truly fatherly relationship with the members of his parish – rooted in faith, deeply empathetic, unafraid to lead, quick to console, adept at nurturing, willing to admit mistakes, eager to grow. Spending the diaconate year at Saint Elizabeth’s was a deeply posiINTERVIEW WITH NEW BISHOP, page M4

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â&#x2013; Continued from page M3 tive experience for so many of us in those years not merely because that parish was a wonderful, diverse community of faith, but also because its pastor embodied what it means to be father as a priest. Other than scale, what do you see as the differences between your role as pastor of a large parish and your role as Auxiliary Bishop? There are enormous differences between being pastor of a parish and being an auxiliary bishop. In one way, the role of the pastor is more defined and includes a direct responsibility for the pastoral well-being of a particular parish. An auxiliary bishop does not have any such direct responsibility for the leadership of his diocese but instead assists the diocesan bishop (or Archbishop in our case) in his direct responsibility to lead the Archdiocese. At the same time, an auxiliary bishop is part of the universal college of bishops and thus is called to exercise a collaborative teaching role in the Church throughout the world, in concert with the leadership of the Holy Father. On the topic of parish life, what can the chancery do to help parishes, which are hardput financially these days, to increase their income? I believe that Monsignor (James) Tarantino (archdiocesan Vicar for Administration and Moderator of the Curia) is actively analyzing ways in which the pastoral center could help parishes to increase their income and raise new funds in these difficult times. Since he has headed the Stewardship Committee of the Archdiocese for many years and has himself been immensely successful as a parish fundraiser at Saint Hilaryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, I am eagerly looking forward to the ideas which he will identify and suggest to the Archbishop. You have been a leader in two inter-parish initiatives that I know of: the training of parish administrators to take on more operational responsibility, and the job support network in the central San Mateo County deanery. Do you have any other ideas in mind that would, like these, involve parishes joining forces or challenge the laity to a higher level of discipleship? The program for the formation of lay parish managers

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and the job support network for those seeking employment during the current recession were both very exciting for me to participate in, since they constituted two very concrete ways in which talented lay leaders in our parishes took novel steps to serve the Church and our parish communities in a

A truly secular humanistic worldview is incompatible with the Catholic view of the world. A transcendent truth, rooted in God, is the truest anchor for an individual or a society wishing to better our world. creative way. I think that the thrust of both of these initiatives â&#x20AC;&#x201C; lay discipleship revitalizing both the inner life of the Church and the world in which we live â&#x20AC;&#x201C;will continue to be a hallmark of the life of this Archdiocese in the coming years. I would be particularly interested in an initiative

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St. Gregory has been particularly generous in raising funds for victims of the Southeast Asian tsunami, for example, and in raising funds to help the poor globally. What has been your role, as pastor, in these efforts, and what do you see as your possible archdiocesan role in supporting parishesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; social justice work? Five years ago forty members of Saint Gregory Parish attended the Archbishop John R. Quinn Colloquium on Catholic Social Teaching that focused on dire global poverty and our Christian obligation to eradicate it. This two-day conference electrified the leadership of our parish and led our parish council to resolve that each Lent we as a parish should learn more about fighting global poverty and take concrete steps to help those most in need in our world. In 2007 we raised $40,000 for bed nets to fight malaria in Africa. In each subsequent year we raised a similar amount for wells in poor villages (2008), food for children in refugee camps in the Congo (2009) and micro lending in Haiti and the Philippines (2010.) As part of each of these initiatives, we undertook educational programs directed at our adults, children and young adults designed to provide a fuller understanding of the particular dimension of global poverty that was the focus for that year. This experience has convinced me that the people of our Archdiocese, when brought face to face with the realities of global poverty in a manner that invites education and action to alleviate that poverty, can and will move dramatically to embrace Christâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s suffering brothers and sisters.

Your Dominican sisters and brothers in Christ offer our blessings to you in your new ministry as Auxiliary Bishop of San Francisco.

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Interview with new bishop. . . ■ Continued from page M4 Catholic theologians, I think it is important for Catholics to recognize that various teachings of the Church are taught with different levels of authority and certitude. There are some teachings which constitute central dogmas put forth with certitude and with the highest teaching authority by the Church, for example the divinity of Jesus, the Resurrection, the divine nature of the Church. There are others which are much more contingent, because they proceed not from Revealed Truths or central elements of our faith, but constitute the application of principles of faith to the concrete elements of social or economic or political life. It is an error to believe that all Church teachings demand equal assent from Catholics. Regarding these more contingent questions, it is particularly appropriate to recognize that differing views of theologians can and should be entertained by Catholics precisely as part of the process of identifying the truth by which we as followers of Christ are to live. In your scholarly writings, including your writings on Jesuit theologian and Second Vatican Council adviser John Courtney Murray, you have been concerned with the consequences of polarization in our civic life and in our Church life. Murray contributed to the Second Vatican Council text on religious liberty, “Dignitatis Humanae,” which states: “Men are to deal with their fellows in justice and civility.” What can Catholics do to elevate our dialogue with each other, to find common ground on shared beliefs, and to elevate our dialogue with the mainstream culture? One of the most distressing elements of our national dialogue in the present moment is that our society is increasingly polarized, not merely in how we approach important social, political or economic questions, but more importantly in how we view the fundamental realities that make us a society. The emergence of social media and television networks at both ends of the spectrum that systematically interpret the major events of the day through a sharply ideological lens really does pose a threat to our ability to endure as a national community dedicated to common discourse and mutual respect. Civility is only the first casualty of this distorted dialogue. A second and more important casualty is the recognition that consensus on important social questions must proceed from an ethically substantive conversation that is the opposite of polarization, categorization and judgmentalism.

Father McElroy celebrated his first Mass after ordination at Our Lady of Angels Church, his home parish, in Burlingame. In this photo he greets parishioners after Mass. At right is Father Howard Rasmussen, who was pastor of St. Elizabeth Church in San Francisco, where Bishop-elect McElroy spent his diaconate year.

One of Murray’s concerns, expressed 50 years ago, was state imposition on religious freedom. Murray was convinced, you have written (paraphrasing your Feb. 7, 2005 “America” article), that unchecked state growth at the expense of religious freedom would rob American society of a vital “transcendent perspective” and rob Americans of their ability to express their beliefs publicly. What do you think Murray would say if he were with us today? John Courtney Murray, and the Founders of our nation, shared a belief that the most sacred realities of our society and our humanity – the sanctity of human life, the dignity of the human person, peace, marriage, freedom itself – were rooted in their transcendent nature as gifts of God. Our society increasingly has come to believe that society creates these realities and that society alone has the legitimate authority to decide what each of these realities constitutes. This poses an ominous development, because in such a world there are no anchors to appeal to against distortions

of these fundamental human goods by society itself. Our own American society, which has accomplished so much good in the world, has all too often allowed our notion of the dignity of the human person to be warped by a marketoriented approach to social solidarity, and has also let our notion of protected human life fall victim to the ideologies of the left and right that exclude the unborn, victims of war, those on the edge of death, and those whom our society puts to death as punishment. You have written that imposing Eucharistic sanctions solely on candidates who support abortion could harm the societal role of the Church “in advocating a moral agenda that transcends the political divide.” What can we in the Church do to be more effective in this role today? I believe that the principal challenge for the Church in the United States on the issue of abortion today is to convey to our society the recognition that the humanity of the unborn INTERVIEW WITH NEW BISHOP, page M6

Our warmest congratulations to

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Robert W. McElroy as you begin your new Episcopal ministry within the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

May your service to the people of the Archdiocese of San Francisco be blessed and marked by the inspiration of your patron. With prayerful support and congratulations, Bishop Stephen E. Blaire and the people of the Diocese of Stockton

Thank you for your compassion and dedication to changing lives every day.

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■ Continued from page M5 child necessarily demands protection in civil law. Polling data indicates clearly that most Americans have an intuitive understanding that life within the womb is indeed human life, and for that reason most Americans view abortion as morally problematic. But this same data shows that most Americans resist the clear implication of this insight: namely that this human life in the womb deserves legal protection. It is essential that the Church witness in particularly creative and effective ways to this legal dimension of the rights of the unborn child, while doing so in a manner that is emblazoned with compassion and sympathy for the enormously difficult dilemmas that pregnant women often face. In your “A Pastor’s Homily on the Church’s Failure,” which ran in the Archbishop’s Journal in the April 21, 2010, issue of Catholic San Francisco, you wrote that shame over the existence of abuse “led to a culture of secrecy and concealment that massively compounded this failure.” In your new role, how do you feel you could bring added transparency to help the Church and survivors heal from the crisis? I believe that the major breakthrough in the drive for transparency took place at the bishops’ meeting in Dallas [2002] with the adoption of the Charter for the Protection of Children. But as with any breakthrough, it is essential that every diocese and religious order be vigilant in its openness to victims, its investigation and evaluation of allegations, and its dedication in following the protective provisions of the Charter.

“The Search for an American Public Theology: The Contribution of John Courtney Murray,” Paulist Press 1989 John Courtney Murray, Jesuit priest and theologian, had a profound influence on the notion of Religious Liberty found in Dignitatis Humanae and other documents of Vatican II. The author gives a broad and clear review of Murray’s social philosophy. “Morality and American Foreign Policy: The Role of Ethics in International Affairs,” Princeton University Press, 1992 “The role of morality in international relations dominated foreign policy in the first 60 years of the 20th century “has been banished to the periphery of the field” in the last 25. The culprits: the rise of value-free science and realism.

Then Msgr. McElroy addresses a couple at their wedding ceremony in 2005. At right is Msgr. Bruce Dreier, a great friend for many years of Bishop-elect McElroy, who passed away at the age of 60 in 2009.

You may have heard that novelist Anne Rice announced she is leaving Christianity after having been publicly Christian for five years. On her Facebook page July 28, she wrote, “I’m out. In the name of Christ, I refuse to be anti-gay. I refuse to be anti-feminist. I refuse to be anti-artificial birth control. I refuse to be anti-Democrat. I refuse to be anti-secular humanism. I refuse to be anti-science. I refuse to be anti-life.” If you were Anne Rice’s pastor, what would you say? If I were Anne Rice’s pastor, I would attempt to have a conversation with her which went beyond the surface level of sloganeering that her initial statement reflects and instead sought to deal in turn with the substance of each of

the issues that she is raising. Part of that conversation would recognize the reality that all too many Christians bring the judgmentalism that Christ rejected so vehemently to their efforts to articulate Christian beliefs. Part of it would point out that neither political party in America today can begin to claim the mantel of Catholic truth on the central issues that confront us as a nation today. Part of it would explore the many dimensions of being pro-life or anti-life in our world. But part of it would also point to my conviction that a truly secular humanistic worldview is indeed incompatible with the Catholic view of the world, and that a transcendent notion of truth rooted in God is the truest anchor for an individual or a society wishing to better our world.

“He held these truths,” America magazine, Feb. 7, 2005 The author looks at American theologian John Courtney Murray’s views on religious freedom in light of contemporary problems. “Only if America takes a religiously informed look at the dominance of technology and materialism in our culture will the core of our national identity be founded on spiritualizing rather than instrumentalizing impulses.” “Foundations for a national ethical discussion about Iraq,” Lane Center for Catholic Studies and Social Thought, University of San Francisco, Spring Lecture Series 2008 The author reviews the war in Iraq in light of Catholic social teaching. “A just cause alone is not sufficient for a decision to wage war.” “Archbishop’s Journal: A pastor’s homily on the Church’s failure, Catholic San Francisco,” April 21, 2010 “Forgiveness is a magnificent quality. But forgiveness can become a distortion when it is separated from justice.”

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A scholar who listens, a pastor who thinks first of his flock: St. Gregory leaders reflect on their work with Bishop-elect McElroy By George Raine

St. Gregory Church in San Mateo.

When he assumes his episcopal duties for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, look for Bishop-elect Robert McElroy to bring the skill set and pastoral style that endear him to the St. Gregory Parish community of San Mateo, where he has ministered as pastor since 1996. Bishop-elect McElroy is, say members of the parish council, a consensus-builder whose keen intellect does not distort his kindness and generosity. He has the ability, members say, to create a climate of calmness in his ministry. People feel at ease, and not only discover relevancy in the Gospel but also find that they are eager to live it. Bishop-elect McElroy also has a remarkable memory, council members say, and knows everyone in the parish by name. “Bishop-elect McElroy and the priests here have a gift of being able to connect the Gospels to our daily lives, which enriches our faith life,” council member Brian Sullivan said. “Bishop-elect McElroy is an extremely personable type guy,” said Deacon Steve Fox, who was encouraged by the pastor to pursue the vocation of deacon. In the process, Deacon Fox found that he could not say no to the pastor. “He is a pastor’s pastor,” Deacon Fox said. “He thinks more of his flock than he does of himself.” Many St. Gregory parishioners will be boarding buses at around noon on Sept. 7 for the trip to St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco to see their pastor ordained as a bishop. Their parish life will change as a result of Bishop-elect McElroy’s new role, but much of what has been significant about the pastor’s tenure will remain in place, council members say.

They noted the sense of family that Bishop-elect McElroy helped create, the concern for local and global social justice that he promoted, the capital improvements that enhance religious life at the 56-year-old church.

‘He is a wonderful negotiator, he is extremely good at explaining things to people in a very gentle, non-threatening way, and their tendency is to buy into his suggestions, because he has the ability to interact with everyone.’ It’s very likely, council members say, that Bishop-elect McElroy – although he is one to respect differences from parish to parish –will help other religious communities in the Archdiocese to celebrate what is similar and what is unique about them all. He begins, they say, with the ability to engage on a personal level. “I learned a lot from him,” said Carol James, the parish council president. “As the parish manager for 11 years, my tendency ST. GREGORY LEADERS, page M9

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St. Gregory leaders . . . ■ Continued from page M8 was to rush into things too quickly, whereas he would observe, analyze, discuss and then make a decision.” At the request of Archbishop George Niederauer, Bishop-elect McElroy may take on the special ministry of Vicar for Pastoral Life. “If you are going to interact with another parish from a chancery position, you have to be very cognizant of the fact that every pastor has his own way of doing things,” James said. “You can’t go in like gangbusters and say, ‘Change this or change that.’ That is the beauty of Bishop-elect McElroy. When he came here he first observed, he analyzed, he discussed, and then he suggested positions and got the collaboration of staff and everyone so that it makes sense to everyone.” She added: “He is a wonderful negotiator, he is extremely good at explaining things to people in a very gentle, nonthreatening way, and their tendency is to buy into his suggestions, because he has the ability to interact with everyone.” Bishop-elect McElroy’s educational background is impressive. It includes a bachelor’s degree in history from Harvard and a master’s in history and doctorate in political science from Stanford. But he doesn’t wear those credentials on his sleeve and treats everyone in his community with respect, council members say. “He comes across as a pastor – someone who cares more for the person,” Deacon Fox said. The deacon added: “His education is phenomenal, and he takes that into the par-

St. Gregory Parish council members, left to right, Deacon Steve Fox; Brian Sullivan; Council President Carol James; Bob Leathers.

ish, the finance council, the parish council, because of his knowledge of finance. He is able to project where we will be, what we will do, financially and economically within the parish.” At the same time, say Fox and others, Bishop-elect McElroy has made his mark as an engaging priest.

PARISH PRAYERS Congratulations and Prayerful Wishes Most Rev. Robert MCElroy From

All Souls Parish South San Francisco.

Congratulations Bishop McElroy

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thanks God for sending His People a new Shepherd in this Archdiocese. May God bless Bishop McElroy with the love, strength and wisdom he will need to care for the Church in San Francisco

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Congratulations and Blessings from the Parish Community of

Congratulations and Best Wishes to Most Reverend Robert W. McElroy on your Ordination as Auxiliary Bishop of San Francisco

The parishioners of Most Holy Redeemer Church congratulate Bishop Robert McElroy and pray for God’s blessing on his ministry to share the Gospel message with all people.

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Bishop Robert W. McElroy

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Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Belmont MATER DOLOROSA CHURCH Congratulations and many blessings from Fr. Roland De la Rosa, Msgr. C. Michael Padazinski, Fr. David Schunk, and all the parishioners of Mater Dolorosa Church. Our prayers & good wishes go with Bishop McElroy.

Bishop-elect McElroy is also known for his fund-raising ability. The amount of money St. Gregory raised for the victims of the tsunami in Southeast Asia was among the most raised by all parishes in the archdiocese, and St. Gregory is particularly generous in funding efforts to ease the burden of the poor globally. ST. GREGORY LEADERS, page M10

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R obert W . McElroy Auxiliary Bishop of the San Francisco Archdiocese May the Holy Spirit continue to guide you as you serve God’s people. Holy Angels Parish in Colma

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“He is someone I can talk to about anything. And I have,” Sullivan said. “Engaging me to become part of the clergy was part of that,” Deacon Fox added. “His approach, his ability to encourage me to go further in my faith was, I think, one of the most dramatic parts of his legacy for me.”

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The Capuchin Franciscans, parshioners and staff of Our Lady of Angels Parish Burlingame joyfully celebrate with our former parishioner and OLA student

Monsignor Robert McElroy on his installation as Auxiliary Bishop of San Francisco

Congratulations Bishop McElroy! from the Parish Community of OUR LADY OF FATIMA CHURCH SAN FRANCISCO

Congratulations and Blessings from the Parish Community of Our Lady of Lebanon Church Millbrae

Congratulations and Blessings from the Parish Community of Our Lady of Mercy Church Daly City

Congratulations Bishop Robert W. McElroy We welcome you as Spiritual Shepherd With our prayers, support and best wishes We are Our Lady of Loretto Parish Community Novato, California

Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in San Francisco congratulates and oﬀers prayerful best wishes to Auxiliary Bishop Robert McElroy as you begin your ministry to the Archdiocese. Congratulations and Blessings from the Parish Community of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church Mill Valley

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Welcoming message from St. Gregoryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pastor

â&#x2013; Continued from page M9 â&#x20AC;&#x153;He really gets right down to where you understand and your sympathy is just there for the victims of these tragedies, but he also lets people know whose heart may be there but their funds are not, because of job losses, etc., that it is OK if you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t donate. It is perfectly OK, just pray for these people,â&#x20AC;? James said. The pastor has come to the aid, too, of victims of the economic downturn in his own community. He spearheaded a parish job support network, which helps anyone with resume-writing and other job search skills amid the punishing employment downturn. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have seen him assist people in situations that were personally devastating to them,â&#x20AC;? James said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;and he was kind, gentle and very caring.â&#x20AC;? If Bishop-elect McElroyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ministry at St. Gregory is a model for what he may do as archdiocesan pastoral life minister, said council member Sullivan, consider what he did with Lenten projects in recent years. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We reached out to the community, the parish community at large, and took on projects that require us to look out beyond our own local community,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We take a look at our lives from a different perspective, so part of that is looking at the global community, while grounded in our local community too, because there are needs here. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The idea was not to look at our own faith through a very narrow prism but through a broad prism, looking at the world,â&#x20AC;? Sullivan said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And understanding that we can make

The following message from Bishop-elect Robert McElroy appears on the website of San Mateoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s St. Gregory Parish.

Deacon Steve Fox

Carol James

a difference, maybe a small difference, but we can make a difference.â&#x20AC;? But Bishop-elect McElroyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gift for consensus-building is a major part of his legacy at St. Gregory, said Sullivan. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think he is a very kind and generous man who is respectful of other opinions and so you have a sense of calmness in which you can speak your mind, and I think what he does is build consensus with people,â&#x20AC;?

PARISH PRAYERS The Church of San Francisco is very blessed to have you as our newest auxiliary bishop. We offer you our sincerest congratulations and a promise to pray for you, that God will continue the good work He has begun in you! OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL CHURCH REDWOOD CITY YOUR EXCELLENCY MOST REVEREND ROBERT W. McELROY BISHOP ELECT WARMEST CONGRATULATIONS AND ASSURANCE OF PRAYERS FOR YOUR FRUITFUL MINISTRIES IN THE ARCHDIOCESE

Dear Friends: Welcome to the website of Saint Gregoryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s parish. For the past sixty years, Saint Gregoryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s has been serving the people of San Mateo preaching the Gospel, educating our young people, celebrating the Eucharist, forming friendships in community, serving the poor and the needy, comforting the sorrowing and attempting to make the love and grace of our God more visible in our world. Saint Gregoryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s seeks to be a welcoming community, and we hope that the information provided here will acquaint you with the diverse ministries and activities that form our parish life. Saint Gregoryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s seeks to be a faith-filled community, and we hope that this website will open up for you the many ways that our parish provides to grow in the Lord. Saint Gregoryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s seeks to be a serving community, and we hope that in these pages you will find a call to reach out with your time and talents to those in need, whether that need be material or spiritual or social. The Eucharist is the center of our life of faith and worship; for it embodies the presence of the Lord himself in our midst and in our lives. Our parish family seeks to continue the tradition of warmth and intergenerational community that has been part of Saint Gregoryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ever since a handful of families began worshiping together in the old Manor Theater on 25th Avenue more than sixty years ago. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Monsignor Robert W. McElroy

The St. Agnes Parish Community congratulates Auxiliary Bishop Robert W. McElroy! We assure him of our continual prayers as he ministers to the people of San Francisco.

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Congratulations Bishop McElroy! May God bless you in your new ministry. Fr. Toan Nguyen, Fr. Bill Thornton, Fr. Ed Phelan and the Parishioners of St. Anthony of Padua Novato, CA

he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He has a pretty good idea of what needs to be done and should be done, but I think he has a way of inspiring people to come to that same conclusion without them being overpowered by his intellectual prowess.â&#x20AC;? Sullivan added: â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think he is a really good visionary as to where the Church needs to go in the 21st century, what it needs to do, and I think that the skill that he has is being

able to be a consensus builder, and have discussions with whomever and he has to get them to buy-in to whatever they can do â&#x20AC;&#x201C; to help them with what they need to do to make that happen. Matching up the skill set for what needs to be done. Identifying people who can help that particular parish or clergy accomplish what they need to accomplish, in a non-threatening way, so you get it done.â&#x20AC;? ST. GREGORY LEADERS, page M11

BISHOP MCELROY â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is the Spirit that gives life.â&#x20AC;? Jn6:63

Bishop McElroy With prayers and best wishes from St. Bartholomew Parish San Mateo

Congratulations and Blessings from the Parish Community of St. Bruno Church San Bruno

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Blessed is he, who comes in the name of the Lordâ&#x20AC;? Bishop McElroy, Many blessings to you, St. Charles Parish, San Francisco

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Congratulations Congratulations and Blessings and Blessings from the from the Parish Community Parish Community of of ST. ANTHONY CHURCH ST. ANDREW CHURCH M P DALY CITY

St. Benedict Parish for the Deaf at St. Francis Xavier Church in San Francisco sends warmest congratulations to Bishop Robert W. McElroy Auxiliary Bishop of San Francisco

Congratulations and Blessings from the Parish Community of

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St. Charles Church San Carlos

Congratulations Dear Bishop McElroy On this special day for our local church we pray for you and we thank the Lord for the gift of your vocation. The Catholic family of OUR LADY OF THE PILLAR IN HALF MOON BAY SAINT ANTHONY OF PADUA OF PESCADERO OUR LADY OF REFUGE OF LA HONDA

The parish of St. Anthony of Padua, founded in 1893, along with its sister chapel of the Immaculate Conception, founded in 1912, sends blessings to Bishop Robert McElroy.

Congratulations and Blessings from the Parish Community of ST. BONIFACE CHURCH San Francisco

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Congratulations! Bishop McElroy from the Staff and Parishioners of Sacred Heart, Olema and St. Mary Magdalene, Bolinas Felicidades para nuestro nuevo Obispo!

Congratulations Bishop-Elect McElroy.

WELCOME BISHOP MCELROY!

REV. ANTONIO G. PETILLA AND REV. DENNIS BARLAAN, PASTORAL COUNCIL AND OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP PARISH COMMUNITY DALY CITY

St. Anselm, Ross, prays that the Lord will continue to bless Bishop Robert McElroy.

We are overjoyed at your appointment and look forward to prayerfully supporting you as you minister to the people of our Archdiocese.

St. Augustine Parish South San Francisco

And congratula ons on your Episcopal Ordina on. Know that we will support you with our prayers. The Parish Community of St. Brendan, San Francisco

St. Catherine of Siena Church

and Blessings from the Parish Community of

Bishop McElroy!

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ST. CECILIA CHURCH St. Denis Church LAGUNITAS Menlo Park Congratulations and Blessings from the Parish Community of ST. CECILIA CHURCH San Francisco

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St. Gregory leaders . . . ■ Continued from page M10 Florida transplant Bob Leathers is relatively new to St. Gregory, having joined the community with his wife in January 2007.

‘The idea was not to look at our own faith through a very narrow prism but through a broad prism, looking at the world,” Brian Sullivan said. “And understanding that we can make a difference, maybe a small difference, but we can make a difference.’ The couple visited several churches before meeting the St. Gregory pastor and hearing him speak. “And we said. ‘This is our parish,’” Leathers recalled. Almost immediately, the pastor intro-

At a Mass in 2005, Bishop-elect Robert McElroy, shown with priests and deacons, celebrated the 25th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood by Archbishop John R. Quinn at St. Mary’s Cathedral on April 12, 1980.

duced the couple to other couples in the parish – “so that we could begin to bond and be part of the community,” said Leathers, a parish council member. He added: “His education, his degrees, his academic credentials speak for themselves. But the way that he takes that and relates it to you, and brings it down to my level and makes the Gospel relevant – to us, that is just awesome.” Leathers said he is particularly impressed with the jobs network McElroy championed at St. Gregory, as well as a room he set aside

PARISH PRAYERS Congratulations and Blessings from the Parish Community of St. Dunstan Church Millbrae

BISHOP MCELROY: Felicidades! May God keep you in the palm of his hand. From the Parishioners of St. Finn Barr Church, San Francisco

Thank you for accepting this new ministry for our Church.

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ST. EMYDIUS PARISH SAN FRANCISCO

Congratulations from the Tongan, Hispanic and Cajun community of St. Francis of Assisi in East Palo Alto

“We support you in our prayers”

Congratulates Bishop McElroy on the occasion of his Ordination.

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St Gabriel Parish San Francisco, CA

ST. ELIZABETH CHURCH in San Francisco would like to congratulate BISHOP ELECT ROBERT MCELROY on his new appointment.

SAINT IGNATIUS PARISH

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Many Blessings!

Fr. Charito Suan, Fr. Elias Salomon, Staff and Parishioners of

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Congratulations to Bishop McElroy: our Pastor, our shepherd, our guide! We celebrate your ordination! SAINT GREGORY CHURCH “A bishop must be a lover of goodness, holding fast to the true message.” Titus 1:7-9 The people of St. Hilary Parish in Tiburon promise our prayers for Bishop Robert McElroy!

Congratulations and Blessings from the Parish Community of St. Isabella Church San Rafael Congratulations and Blessings from the Parish Community of

ST. JAMES CHURCH SAN FRANCISCO Congratulations and Blessings from the Parish Community of ST. JOHN OF GOD CHURCH SAN FRANCISCO

where prayers can be said for people with cancer. It is a small room dominated by a statute of St. Peregrine, the patron of those suffering from cancer. “Almost every one of us has been touched by cancer,” Leathers said. “He responded to a need, listening, administering to the community here.” Bishop-elect McElroy’s legacy, James said, also includes new stained glass windows in the church, an upgraded church lighting and sound system and an annual parish festival.

“He will be missed,” she said. “He made a big impact on the parish. We will always remember him and love him for his gift, his talent, his friendship. He is a good friend.” Bishop-elect McElroy’s legacy has added to previous pastors’ work to leave the parish with a strong foundation, Sullivan said. “This parish has an electricity to it,” he said. “There is vibrancy, liveliness to this parish that is unique. That is why it attracts people, both parishioners and clergy.”

BISHOP MCELROY May God be with you as you sanctify the people and yourself through your Apostolic Ministry! ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST CHURCH SAN FRANCISCO

The Catholic Community of ST. KEVIN PARISH in Bernal Heights joyfully welcomes our new auxiliary bishop, Most Reverend Robert McElroy.

Best Wishes!

Congratulations and Blessings from the Parish Community of ST. MARY STAR OF THE SEA SAUSALITO

Congratulations and Blessings from the Parish Community of

CATHEDRAL OF ST. MARY OF THE ASSUMPTION

Congratulations Bishop Robert McElroy!

Congratulations and Blessings from the The parish of Saint Luke Parish Community in Foster City sends you of its love and best wishes. St. Matthew May our Lord Jesus Church and his mother Mary always walk with you.

Congratulations and Blessings from the Parish Community of St. Mark Church Belmont

San Mateo

We are proud to congratulate Bishop Robert McElroy on his ordination. Be assured of our prayerful support for your new ministry. The Family of St. Monica’s Parish San Francisco

St. Patrick Church, Larkspur

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Early years: new bishop is described as fun-loving, adventurous, with an interest in the priesthood By Valerie Schmalz Bishop-elect Robert McElroy’s interest in the priesthood started early – somewhere around second or third grade, with a decision to enter the minor seminary at 14 setting him on his way. But the piety was leavened by humor and imagination, his siblings said in answer to a series of written questions from Catholic San Francisco. “Bob has a penchant for practical jokes, so be wary,” says Bishop McElroy’s brother, Walter Joseph McElroy III or Bud, the youngest of the five children raised by Walter and Roberta McElroy. Bishop McElroy’s older sister Mary recalls the “Mass” that she, her friend and her brother enacted. “I put towels on our heads for veils as if we were nuns and Bob celebrated a ‘Mass’ with Necco wafers and distributed them to us on our tongues,” she said. But the new auxiliary, a middle child, doesn’t remember his youthful self as all too saintly. The new bishop recollects comparing pieces of cake with his sister and his mother telling him that St. Teresa of Avila, always took the smallest piece. The future bishop’s wish? That St. Teresa was his sister! Her son’s interest in the priesthood was expressed early, said Roberta McElroy.

The middle child in a family of five children, “Bobbie,” is pictured here, at three years of age, with his sister Mary Eileen.

Qualities of the new bishop described as ‘kindness, caring, compassionate, a good listener, a good negotiator, always trying to be helpful in difficult situations; mindful of the worries and sorrows of those involved.’

Bishop-elect McElroy spent his diaconate year at St. Elizabeth Parish in San Francisco, before being ordained at St. Mary’s Cathedral in 1980.

“Whenever people would ask Bob what he wanted to be in life, he would answer: a priest. He never wavered in this,” said Mrs. McElroy, who said her son has many qualities that make him a good priest and will help him continue as a good bishop. Among them: “Kindness, caring, compassionate, a good listener, a

good negotiator, always trying to be helpful in difficult situations; mindful of the worries and sorrows of those involved,” Mrs. McElroy said. At the high school seminary, Bishopelect McElroy was an outstanding student – but one who was always willing to help out another student, with a unique ability

to help others navigate through problem solving, said Father Ray Sacco, rector of the Cathedral of Christ the Light in Oakland, who counts the auxiliary as a close friend. “My experience of him has always been he’s been a person with a big heart.” EARLY YEARS, page M13

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Family events and celebrations, such as this wedding of Bishop-elect McElroy’s sister, Kathy, in 1986, brought the family together.

Early Years . . . ■ Continued from page M12 The newest bishop for the Archdiocese of San Francisco is a fifth generation San Franciscan, born in the city Feb. 5, 1954. Until the age of 10, he lived in Our Lady of Mercy Parish in Daly City. He and his family then moved to Our Lady of Angels

Parish in Burlingame where he completed grade school. After completing the eighth grade, he entered the now-closed St. Joseph College, a seminary high school, at the age of 14. Bishop-elect McElroy is a Bay Area native through and through. Several of his paternal great-grandparents moved to California right after the Gold Rush. Three

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The family also gathered for events such as this baptism in 2000. As a priest, Bishop-elect McElroy is an enthusiastic family resource.

of his grandparents lived through the 1906 earthquake. Bishop-elect McElroy’s paternal grandfather Walter McElroy Sr. fondly recalled the six months when school was cancelled after the quake destroyed their San Francisco home and the family decamped to Larkspur, while maternal grandmother Irene’s family took temporary refuge in Golden Gate Park. Both of his parents grew up in St. Cecilia Parish in San Francisco. “Bob has always been very fun-loving and enjoys a good laugh,” says younger sister Kathy Schreiner. “He showed early skills as a leader, or more aptly a ringleader in many of the adventures we undertook as kids.” “Bob was always game for fun, learning and adventure,” recalls youngest sister Patti Merriman, one of three sisters and

a brother. “I think he can easily relate to sinners because there were so many times when we were growing up that he played practical jokes on his sisters and brother.” “Despite his priestly manner, Bob is very competitive. If he played the board game Risk with the devil, Satan would be surrendering all the souls in Purgatory as Bob took over the underworld after ruling all the earthly continents. I’m glad Bob is on our side,” Merriman said. “While his academic achievements are voluminous and extremely impressive (he graduated summa cum laude from Harvard in three years), I think it’s important to note he was a well-rounded child,” says brother Bud McElroy. “From participating in grammar school basketball and baseball to being captain EARLY YEARS, page M14

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Bishop-elect McElroy is pictured here at Stanford University with his parents, Roberta and Walter, after receiving his Ph.D. in Political Science.

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Dignitatis Humanae Coat of arms features Vatican II document, ‘Of the Dignity of the Human Person’ Christian times, the title of “pontifex” has been understood in The following description of the Episcopal Coat of its symbolic sense. Episcopal “bridge-builders” are the ones Arms of Bishop Robert W. McElroy is written in the who, in the pattern of Christ, erect bridges of reconciliation vocabulary of heraldry as expressed in the Old English between God and humankind. language by way of its French roots. The third charge of Bishop McElroy’s Coat of Arms Blazon: Tierced per fess. Chief Azure sur une trinité is divided into three parts – yet it is meant to be read as a de dolfphins Argent. Vermillion tenne syant a fess ponte single narrative. The field color of green, symbol of God’s d’ Or. Sur vert fond, scales chevron light Or; entre dexter natural order of creation, ties these three partitions together. pale Vert chêne feuille, et sinster Vert syant colombe Argent. The three symbols of a leaf; scales of justice; and a dove An easy way to read his shield is to view it as horizontally demonstrate the tripartate basis of the dignity of the human partitioned into three main sections, with the lower section havperson made in God’s image. These three themes have formed ing three parts. The top section tells us the ancestry of Bishop the framework for Bishop McElroy’s published writings. McElroy. The middle section tells us of Bishop McElroy’s contemporary heritage. The third section of the Coat of Arms This defining section of Bishop McElroy’s Coat of Arms give us a view of his ideals. is further elucidated in the banner that is unfurled along the bottom of the shield which contains a mission statement The top charge, or dolphin symbol of the shield comes from (or motto) chosen by the Bishop. The title comes from the the Coat of Arms of the Giolla Rua Clan of Ireland’s county landmark 1965 Second Vatican Council’s document on Clare where they held a family seat from ancient times. As Irish religious freedom, Dignitatis Humanae, which asserts patronymic surnames developed, they were often re-formed the fundamental right of all individuals, religious comby adding the Gaelic word mac or mc, which means “son of” munities and families to freedom of religious participato the name of the original bearer’s father. The presence of tion and expression. Beyond religious freedom, this three dolphins in the McElroy family coat of arms gives document also represents a major development in some indication to three original sons in the clan history. Catholic teaching on human rights and church-state County Clare on its west, faces the Atlantic Ocean. relations, a development which Pope Benedict XVI Thus, the use of dolphins in the family coat of arms has cited as an exemplar for the true spirit of reform indicates maritime history in the clan. The Azure blue at the Second Vatican Council. Finally, Dignitatis background in this section of the shield indicates Humanae constitutes the principal contribution the Atlantic Ocean. In heraldic terms, deep blue is which the theology and experience of the United meant to convey depth and stability. In Christian States made to the Council. iconography, dolphins were seen as one of the emblems of Christ. Sailors knew the dolphin’s The scales at the bottom of the shield stand qualities of intelligence, almost of divination, for justice. It is foundational that in human as well as their wonderful feats of life-saving. and international relationships, there can be no They considered the dolphin to be a benevolent peace without justice. As the opening sentence traveling companion. The dolphin thus signifies of Dignitatis Humanae attests: “A sense of the Episcopal Coat of Arms of the Most Reverend Robert W. McElroy, Christ the guide, or Christ the friend. It is in this dignity of the human person has been impressing S.T.D., Ph.D, Titular Bishop of Gemellae in Byzacena role as a “guide of souls” that we see it used itself more and more deeply on the consciousand Auxiliary Bishop of San Francisco, California. here. The role of a bishop is to save the lost ness of contemporary man, and the demand is as Christ did – not only as the rescuer of the increasingly made that men should act on their shipwrecked, but also as the sure conductor of the ship of the ramifications in the description of the third charge of the shield. own judgment, enjoying and making use of a responsible Church to harbor in sudden storms and darkness. But more than just giving a geographic identity to Bishop freedom, not driven by coercion but motivated by a sense of The middle charge, or symbol of the shield represents the McElroy, the symbol of the bridge also has symbolic impor- duty.” (Dignitatis Humanae 1.) The leaf stands for the sanctity of life – both human and contemporary, iconic Golden Gate Bridge. This alerts the tance. In Christian tradition, the role of a bishop has been seen viewer to the current geographic location of Bishop McElroy’s as “pontifex,” which means “bridge-builder” – with the Bishop natural. In this case, the use of the Oak leaf also references family. There is evidence of the McElroy’s family presence in of Rome being the “pontifex maximus,” that is, the “greatest “eternal life.” Since the oak tree does not shed its leaves in the various cities of California in records reaching back to the Gold bridge builder.” Originally meant in a literal sense, the job of winter, unlike most deciduous trees, it is seen as a symbol of Rush Era. Bishop McElroy is a fifth generation San Franciscan. bridge-builder was an important one in ancient Rome, where life that lasts through human seasons. “And this is the will of The Orange Vermillion background of this field is unusual in the major bridges were over the sacred Tiber River. Only pres- Him who sent Me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes heraldry. It is precisely the color of the Golden Gate Bridge. It tigious authorities with sacral functions could be allowed to in Him may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at is also called “International” Orange, which will have symbolic “disturb” the river with mechanical additions. However, since the last day.” (John 6:39-40.) The third symbol of the dove of the Holy Spirit stands for the principle of peace. As stated in Dignitatis Humanae: “Like Christ Himself, the Apostles were unceasingly bent upon bearing witness to the truth of God, and they showed the fullest measure of DIGNITATIS HUMANAE, page M17

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Pope Benedict XVI: Having a “vision from on high’ During a General Audience in May 2006, the Holy Father made the following reflections. The Lord founded the Church by calling together the Twelve, who were to represent the future People of God. Faithful to the Lord’s mandate, after his Ascension, the Twelve first made up their number by appointing Matthias in Judas’ place, thereby continuing to involve others in the duties entrusted to them so that they might continue their ministry. The Risen Lord himself called Paul to be an Apostle. Paul compared his Gospel with the Gospel of the Twelve, and was concerned to transmit what he had received. In the distribution of missionary tasks, he was associated with the Apostles together with others, for example, Barnabas. Just as becoming an Apostle begins with being called and sent out by the Risen One, so the subsequent call and sending out to others was to be brought about, through the power of the Spirit, by those who are already ordained in the apostolic ministry. And this is the way in which this ministry, known from the second generation as the episcopal ministry, was to be continued. Perhaps it would be useful to explain briefly what “Bishop” means. It is the Italian form of the Greek term, “episcopos.” This word means one who has a vision from on high,

who looks with the heart. This is what St Peter himself calls Jesus in his First Letter: bishop, “Shepherd and Guardian of your souls.” And according to this new model of the Lord, who was the first Bishop, Guardian and Pastor of souls, the successors of the Apostles were later called Bishops, “episcopoi.” The role of “episcope” was entrusted to them. This specific role of the Bishop was gradually to evolve, in comparison with the origins, until it took the form – already clearly attested to by Ignatius of Antioch at the beginning of the second century – of the threefold office of Bishop, Priest and Deacon. This development was guided by God’s Spirit who helps the Church in the discernment of the authentic forms of Apostolic Succession, ever more clearly defined among the plurality of experiences and charismatic and ministerial forms present in the earliest communities. In this way, succession in the role of Bishop is presented as the continuity of the Apostolic ministry, a guarantee of the permanence of the Apostolic Tradition, word and life, entrusted to us by the Lord. The link between the College of Bishops and the original community of the Apostles is understood above all in the line of historical continuity. As we have seen, first Matthias, then Paul, then Barnabas joined the Twelve, then others,

until, in the second and third generations, the Bishop’s ministry took shape. Continuity, therefore, is expressed in this historical chain. And in the continuity of the succession lies the guarantee of the permanence, in the Ecclesial Community, of the Apostolic College that Christ had gathered around him. Pointing to this network of Apostolic Succession as a guarantee of the permanence of the Lord’s word, Irenaeus then concentrated on that Church, “the very great, the very ancient and universally known Church founded and organized at Rome by the two most glorious Apostles, Peter and Paul”, highlighting the Tradition of faith that in her comes down to us from the Apostles through the succession of the Bishops. Apostolic Succession, verified on the basis of communion with that of the Church of Rome, is therefore the criterion of the permanence of the particular Churches in the Tradition of the common apostolic faith, which from the origins has come down to us through this channel: “In this order, and by this succession, the ecclesiastical Tradition from the Apostles and the preaching of the truth have come down to us. And this is a most abundant proof that there is one and the same vivifying faith, which has been preserved in the Church from the Apostles until now, and handed down in truth.”

According to this testimony of the ancient Church, the apostolicity of ecclesial communion consists in fidelity to the teaching and praxis of the Apostles, through whom the historical and spiritual bond of the Church with Christ is assured. The Apostolic Succession of the episcopal ministry is a means of guaranteeing the faithful transmission of the Apostolic witness. What the Apostles represent in the relationship between the Lord Jesus and the Church of the origins is similarly represented by the ministerial succession in the relationship between the primitive Church and the Church of today. It is not merely a material sequence; rather, it is a historical instrument that the Spirit uses to make the Lord Jesus, Head of his people, present through those who are ordained for the ministry through the imposition of hands and the Bishops’ prayer. Consequently, through Apostolic Succession it is Christ who reaches us: in the words of the Apostles and of their successors, it is he who speaks to us; through their hands it is he who acts in the sacraments; in their gaze it is his gaze that embraces us and makes us feel loved and welcomed into the Heart of God. And still today, as at the outset, Christ himself is the true Shepherd and Guardian of our souls whom we follow with deep trust, gratitude and joy.

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faith in Christ and to His service.” (Dignitatis Humanae 22-27.) Covering the top of the shield, and used in episcopal heraldry since the Tenth Century, is the “Gallero.” It is also known as a “pilgrim’s hat” because of its wide brim protecting the traveler from the elements. In this context, the Gallero indicates a bishop’s willingness to journey to different places for the faith, while at the same time expecting to be protected by the shadow of God, as noted in Psalm 84:12. The Gallero has a cord attached to it in the color green, flanked by two sets of six tassels, or “fiocchi.” Originally this cord was a simple way of securing the hat to the traveler. Tradition

now dictates that a bishop’s Gallero and cord are depicted in the color green and flanked by two sets of six tassels ordered in three rows, indicating the wearer has the rank of bishop. Above and behind the shield of Bishop McElroy, there appears a processional cross which further reinforces the theme of “bishop as pilgrim” – a person on the move for the sake of the kingdom of God. In this case, the cross is fashioned in the shape of the Order of St. Gregory. This cruciform honors St. Gregory

the Great, (540-604) and the patron of the parish at which Bishop McElroy has served as pastor in the San Francisco Archdiocese for fourteen years. It was Pope St. Gregory who first described the papacy as that of “the servant of the servants of God.” Prepared and executed in consultation with the Most Reverend Robert W. McElroy of the Archdiocese of San Francisco in July/ August of 2010 by the Reverend Timothy Pelc of the Archdiocese of Detroit.

■ Continued from page M16 boldness in ‘speaking the word with confidence’ (Acts 4:31) before the people and their rulers. With a firm faith they held that the Gospel is indeed the power of God unto salvation for all who believe. Therefore they rejected all ‘carnal weapons.’ They followed the example of the gentleness and respectfulness of Christ and they preached the word of God in the full confidence that there was resident in this word itself a divine power able to destroy all the forces arrayed against God and bring men to

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Auxiliary Bishops of San Francisco Archdiocese Strong leaders, colorful personalities among 16 auxiliaries who precede 17th Auxiliary Bishop Robert W. McElroy

Bishop Denis J. O’Connell

Archbishop Thomas A. Connolly

Bishop Hugh A. Donohoe

Bishop James T. O’Dowd

Bishop Merlin J. Guilfoyle

Bishop Mark J. Hurley

Bishop William J. McDonald

Bishop Norman McFarland

Bishop Francis A. Quinn

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By Deacon Jeffrey Burns, Ph.D. When Joseph Sadoc Alemany, a Dominican, became the first U.S. bishop of California in 1850, his diocese included all of Baja and Alta California. In 1853 when the Archdiocese was established, it covered all of northern California from the southern boundary of Santa Clara County to the Oregon border. In 1861, the Archdiocese would be reduced to the 13 Bay Area counties (which now include the dioceses of Stockton, Oakland, Santa Rosa, San Jose and part of Sacramento). In short, Alemany presided over a vast and far-reaching Archdiocese. The rugged frontier conditions he confronted prompted him to request an assistant in this arduous work. In those days, Rome was more apt to appoint a “coadjutor archbishop” than an auxiliary. A coadjutor “had the right of succession,” and so would become the next archbishop with the retirement or death of the current archbishop. After 30 years of struggle, in 1883 Alemany was delighted to receive Patrick W. Riordan as his coadjutor. The following year Alemany retired and returned to his native Vich, Spain with Riordan becoming archbishop.

Not long after Riordan became archbishop, he also began to seek help. In 1903, the bishop of Los Angeles, George Thomas Montgomery, was appointed coadjutor for San Francisco. Unfortunately, Riordan outlived him. Montgomery died in 1907, his life apparently shortened by the toll taken by his heroic efforts in the aftermath of the great earthquake and fire of 1906. With the devastation of the earthquake and fire Riordan looked even more desperately to replace Montgomery. His choice was Rochester seminary professor, Edward J. Hanna. Hanna’s road to San Francisco, however, was “rough” according to his biographer, Richard Gribble. Hanna’s appointment was short-circuited by accusations that he was a “modernist,” a heresy condemned by Pope Pius X in 1907. In his stead, the Archdiocese received its first auxiliary bishop, Bishop Denis O’Connell, one of the most colorful bishops in the U.S. Church. O’Connell had served as the rector of the North American College in Rome, where he played a major role in the Americanist controversies of the 1890s, and as rector of the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. before being named auxiliary for San Francisco in 1908. In 1912 he was named Bishop of Richmond, Va.

Riordan again sought a replacement and this time he succeeded in getting Hanna appointed later in 1912. However, Hanna did not come as a coadjutor archbishop as Riordan wanted, but as an auxiliary bishop without the right of succession. Nonetheless, Riordan celebrated Hanna’s appointment: “It was a great triumph…for until now he [Hanna]was under a cloud, and evil-minded people were disposed to carp at him because he had been rejected a few years ago, but I kept my counsel and remained loyal to him, and at last, for his sake, I brought him through triumphantly. He is a wonderfully good man, learned, and full of apostolic zeal for the building up of the Church, and I am not one to curb activities in that direction. I shall give him a free hand when he comes out to me.” Despite being named an auxiliary, Hanna did succeed Riordan as Archbishop in 1915 and went on to become one of the most beloved figures in the history of the Archdiocese. (See Richard Gribble’s biography of Hanna, “An Archbishop for the People” (Paulist Press)). San Francisco did not receive another auxiliary bishop AUXILIARY BISHOPS, page M19

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Daniel F. Walsh became auxiliary in 1981, before being appointed bishop of Reno-Las Vegas in 1987 and later in Las Vegas when it became an independent diocese. He ■ Continued from page M18 was called upon to become Bishop of Santa Rosa in 2000, where he overcame a financial nightmare and the afteruntil 1939. By that time Archbishop John J. Mitty math of a high-profile scandal involving his predecessor. had succeeded Hanna in 1935. In June 1939, Thomas A dual appointment was made once again on Dec. 6, Arthur Connolly was appointed the first native-born 1998 when Carlos A. Sevilla, S.J. and Patrick J. McGrath San Franciscan and alumnus of St. Patrick’s Seminary were appointed auxiliaries. Sevilla ultimately became to be named auxiliary bishop. He remained until he was bishop of Yakima, Wash. in 1996 and McGrath became named coadjutor bishop of Seattle in 1948, later becombishop of San Jose in 1999. ing Archbishop of Seattle in 1951 when Seattle became In the tenure of Archbishop William J. levada, one an archdiocese. When he died in 1991 he was the oldest of the more popular auxiliaries in recent memory, John member of the U.S. hierarchy. Bishop William J. Justice Bishop-elect Robert W. McElroy C. Wester, was appointed auxiliary in 1998. I remember Following Connolly, native San Franciscan auxiliary when I had just finished writing the illustrated threebishops became more familiar figures. Hugh A. Donohoe was appointed in 1947, with James T. O’Dowd appointed the fol- “When I was one, I had just begun….” He was named bishop volume history of the Archdiocese and I had failed to include Wester in the history. He asked me, “What does an auxiliary lowing year. Both had distinguished careers. Donohoe, who had of Stockton in 1969. William J. McDonald was named auxiliary to San Francisco bishop have to do to get into your history?” to which I flipply served as editor of The Monitor (the Archdiocese’s newspaper for 124 years until 1984) and professor at St. Patrick’s Seminary, in 1967. He had previously served as auxiliary bishop in replied “Do something historic.” With his good nature Wester laughed at my unfortunate became the first bishop of Stockton in 1962, and Bishop of Washington, D.C. and as rector of Catholic University of Fresno in 1969. O’Dowd, who had served as superintendent of America. His tenure at CUA was quite tumultuous including the remark, and then he did go out and make history. He was the Catholic schools, was expected to do great things as he was only uproar that surrounded the dismissal of theologian Father Charles point man in the Archdiocese’s response to the sex abuse crisis 40 years old when he was appointed auxiliary. O’Dowd was a Curran for dissenting from Church teaching on sexual matters. where his sensitivity, concern and diligence were commendable. He remained in San Francisco until his death in 1989. In 2007 he was appointed bishop of Salt Lake City succeedbroad, big shouldered man with a winning smile. One newspaMark J. Hurley was appointed auxiliary in 1967, but two years ing George Niederauer who had become Archbishop of San per described him as “a policeman’s son with the physique of a college fullback, a scholar’s mind, and a deep concern for the later he was named Bishop of Santa Rosa. Norman McFarland Francisco in 2006.. One of the more significant appointments of an auxiliary welfare of children.” Unfortunately, O’Dowd died tragically in was named auxiliary in 1970. Known for his forthrightness and 1950 in a train accident at the age of 43. His loss was deeply business acumen, McFarland oversaw the first total financial bishop occurred in 2002 when Ignatius C. Wang was named audit of the Archdiocese in 1972. Throughout his career he by Pope John Paul II. Wang became the first bishop of Chinese mourned throughout the Archdiocese. Shortly thereafter Merlin Joseph Guilfoyle was named was called on to assist dioceses in financial trouble. He became and Asian origin in the history of the Catholic Church in the United States. Wang’s appointment was particularly appropriate auxiliary in August 1950. Guilfoyle is well remembered for Bishop of Reno in 1976 and Bishop of Orange in 1986. Francis A. Quinn and R. Pierre DuMaine were named auxil- as it reflected the growth and importance of the Asian Catholic his penchant for poetry and a historic confirmation sermon: iaries the same day, April 28, 1978. Quinn had served as editor community in the Archdiocese and on the West Coast. of The Monitor, and was a much beloved pastor. He went on to In April 2008, Pope Benedict XVI appointed a popular and become bishop of Sacramento in 1979. After he retired in 1994, long-time priest of the Archdiocese, Father William J. Justice, he spent the next 13 years working with Native Americans in to be the 16th auxiliary bishop in the history of the Archdiocese Arizona. DuMaine had served as superintendent of Catholic of San Francisco. His Episcopal ordination was May 28, 2008. schools for many years, and was named the first bishop of San Among many duties, his role as Vicar for Clergy is his primary Best Wishes Jose in 1981. responsibility.

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