January 14, 2011

California bishops offer cautious support for Brown’s proposed budget

Catholic san Francisco Northern California’s Weekly Catholic Newspaper

California’s Catholic bishops reacted with cautious support for Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposed $127.4 billion budget that would slash $12.5 billion in state spending and raise another $12 billion in taxes. But the bishops said that “some of our most needy are not able to share in the sacrifice asked by the governor.”

Catholic Charities officials also said there was no question that the poor would be hurt.

“The cuts will have a dramatic impact on the poor and vulnerable in California,” said Shannon Lahey, executive director of Catholic Charities of California.

Brown’s budget relies on the state Legislature voting by March to place an extension of income, vehicle and sales taxes before voters in June. Without the taxes, Brown said, the state will need to cut another $12 billion in spending. He would not detail what other cuts would be necessary until after the voters decide.

Under the budget, Brown plans to return some programs and tax revenue to cities and counties, including areas of court security, mental health, foster care, child welfare and substance abuse.

The budget predicts a shortfall of $25 billion through the end of the fiscal year 2011-12 in June 2012.

It is “not going to get better, unless we do something,” Gov. Brown said at a Jan. 10 press conference in Sacramento.

“Now some people are going to say, ‘Why don’t we just borrow, kick the can down the road?’ The problem is, next year, there’s not that much more money, but then we’ll have debt service and a bigger burden to pay back. It’s better to take our medicine now and get this state on a balanced footing.”

The bishops “are heartened by the governor’s acknowledgment that difficult times lie ahead for all and his clear-eyed approach to the problem,” said Edward E. Dolejsi, executive director of the California Catholic Conference, the public policy office of the Catholic Bishops of California, in a Jan. 10 statement.

But reductions in welfare payments and support programs will hurt the most needy who “are not able to share in the sacrifice asked for by the governor,” he said.

Jeff Bialik, executive director of Catholic Charities CYO of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, said the cuts will clearly have a negative impact on children and families who are struggling with the basic necessities of life.

“We understand that the state’s budget must be balanced in a way that is sustainable for the long term,” he said. “Hopefully, we can balance fiscal prudence with respect and compassion for those who need our help.”

CCCYO programs that rely most on state funding are St. Vincent School for Boys, Treasure Island Child Development Center, Alzheimer’s Day Care Resource Center and Home Care and Case Management Services for seniors, said Bialik, who said it is difficult to see immediately what the budget cut effects would be.

Brown’s budget avoids cutting K-12 public education BUDGET, page 22

Walk for Life West Coast Jan. 22 Tens of thousands are expected for the seventh annual pro-life march along the San Francisco waterfront. Page 7.

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Father Vito Perrone, an archdiocesan priest and founder of the Contemplatives of St. Joseph, pictured in the newly created order’s monastery in a former convent in South San Francisco. “St. Joseph wants to be here,” he says. Page 14.

St. Pat’s Seminary enrollment near capacity

By George Raine If it’s your job to scout and advise prospective seminarians or to teach and nurture them on their journey, these are problems you want: St. Patrick’s Seminary & University in Menlo Park is near capacity. There’s a pressing need for expansion, and it’s possible there may be no room in the inn for some students in the near future. At the same time, there’s need to add to faculty numbers to satisfy demand. St. Patrick’s is going to the fundraising well.

“Be careful for what you pray, you just may get it,” said Sulpician Father James L. McKearney, the president and rector at St. Patrick’s.

St. Patrick’s, with a total student population of 107, welcomed 31 new seminarians in the 2010-11 school year. There hasn’t been a spike like that since 2000-01, when there were 32 new seminarians at the institution that currently serves 16 dioceses and a religious order, the Franciscans. Similar upticks are found at seminaries around the country, although the numbers are still not great enough to resolve a priest shortage that is acute in parts of the U.S. as men who were ordained in the 1960s during a surge in vocations retire or otherwise leave their ministries.

Comparatively, the Archdiocese of San Francisco has had little difficulty in staffing parishes, although there is always room for more priests in the pipeline, said Father Tom Daly, director of vocations for the archdiocese as well as president of Marin Catholic High School.

Currently, 20 seminary students represent the archdiocese: 15 at St. Patrick’s; two at Mount Angel Abbey at St. Benedict, Ore.; one at Bishop White Seminary at Gonzaga University in Spokane; one at Theological College at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.; and one at Blessed John XXIII National Seminary at Weston, Mass.

I want to become a priest even amid this environment because I want to help restore the dignity and beauty of the church and the priesthood.

– Cameron Faller If 20 seminarians does not sound like a high number, said Father Daly, it is when put in context: 13 years ago, there were seven, and when he became director of vocations in the summer of 2002, there were 12. “It would be nice to have 30 seminarians but I am grateful for the 20 that we have,” said Father Daly, who noted that most ST. PAT’S SEMINARY, page 10

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By Tom Burke Happy 50 years married to Beverly and Phil Arnautou. The couple, married at St. Anne of the Sunset Church Nov. 26, 1960, was honored “with a lovely dinner party in San Francisco,” said daughter, Julie. “They were surrounded by family - children, grandchildren, siblings - and members of their wedding party from 50 years ago.” Bev and Phil are native San Franciscans and were longtime members of St. Denis Parish in Menlo Park before moving to Lincoln Hills near Sacramento where they continue to “enjoy an active life filled with family, faith and travel and are very active in St. Joseph Parish,” Julie said. Bev and Phil, also parents of Phil, Jack and Marianne and grandparents of John, Georgia, and Frances, plan a trip to the Holy Land later this year. Also in on the congrats and prayerful good wishes are Bev’s brother, Santa Rosa Bishop Daniel Walsh and, sister, Lou Walsh Healy, wife of Maury Healy, executive editor of Catholic San Francisco. ... An “oops” and “sorry” to Dianna and Norm Baetz for this late mention of their Oct. 15 50th wedding anniversary. The St. Isabella parishioners – Dianna sings in the parish choir - marked the milestone Oct. 17 with family including, of course, their children, Lynn Gulick with husband, Roy; David Baetz with wife, Karen; Dawn Baetz, and Jaime Rasp, and their six grandchildren. Dianna is a retired nurse and Norm a retired lithographer…. And while we’re at it, one more “oops” and a “sorry” too to Olga Montafi, whose happy 90th birthday I should have mentioned here months ago. The new nonagenarian was honored by Church of the Epiphany’s Over 50 Club in the spring.

Thanks to Barbara C. Bottarini for the good news……Hats off and congrats to St. Ignatius College Preparatory junior, Chris Crowley, and his brother, freshman Jim Crowley on their recent awards at the school’s annual football banquet. Lineman Chris was named to the all conference Honorable Mention Team and SF Prep All City Second Team. Jim was the recipient of the Freshman Football Scout Team Award. Chris and Jim Dianna and Norm Baetz are graduates of St.

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San Mateo parish-based jobless support network seeks volunteers considerably more than the 10 to 20 jobless people who have been attending the free sesA lay ministry in San Mateo County sions in recent months, said Tauskey. parishes that has helped more than 40 people “One of the messages that we are trying find jobs amid a punishing recession is seek- to get out is that if you are among the more ing additional volunteers who can teach fortunate and you have not been significantly job-hunting skills and is asking unemployed impacted by the recession, your role in this parishioners to shed their embarrassment and ministry is to reach out to that neighbor,” said accept help that is being offered.

Tauskey, who asks volunteers to spend as little Economic conditions for some may have as an hour per month on the effort. worsened since the Job Support Network “We’re also not getting nearly enough peowas launched some ple (seeking help),” 18 months ago, said he said. “That is not Bill Tauskey, a busienough and it is a One of the messages ness executive who problem.” was an advocate for The Job Support that we are trying to the ministry at St. Network had wideBartholomew Parish spread support in get out is that if you in San Mateo and parishes when it helped establish it at was organized, and are among the more seven other parishes Tauskey remains its in the county. “sparkplug,” noted fortunate and you have Father Anthony With private savings likely dwindling McGuire, pastor of St. not been significantly and the California Matthew Parish in San unemployment rate Mateo and dean of the hovering above 12 archdiocese’s Central impacted by the percent, the need for San Mateo County the program remains deanery, which suprecession, your role in high, he said. ports the effort.

“It is as bad or experience this ministry is to reach of “The worse as it ever was trying to help and I don’t see the people in this most out to that neighbor. economy turning important area of around anytime soon their lives has put – Bill Tauskey the church in a good in a big way,” said Tauskey, a senior fellight with many,” low at management said Father McGuire. consulting firm IG Partners in San Mateo and Unfortunately, though, said Tauskey, many a parishioner at St. Bartholomew. who could benefit from job search advice have Those who were able to land jobs partici- been reluctant to come forward. “They are pated fully in classes in which they learned embarrassed. They are not sure their parish techniques in resume writing, interviewing, would ever have anything worthwhile to offer. networking and other aspects of job searches. But more so they are embarrassed or do not However, sustaining the effort will require an know that the parish cares and is trying to do infusion of additional talented volunteers and something,” said Tauskey.

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Study notes the birth of a new class: America’s ‘involuntarily retired’ America’s long-term unemployed are living lives of downward mobility and most fear they will never return to their former financial status, a Rutgers University study says.

Released Dec. 16, the study by researchers Jessica Godofsky, Carl Van Horn and Cliff Zukin concludes that the recession that began in 2008 has been “a cataclysm” that will have a lasting impact on the unemployed.

Titled “The Shattered American Dream: Unemployed Workers Lose Ground, Hope, and Faith in their Futures,” the study is based on interviews with a national sample of 1,202 unemployed workers in August 2009 and follow-up interviews with just over 900 in March 2010 and 764 in November.

Only one-quarter of those first interviewed had found full-time jobs some 15 months later. And most of those who were off the unemployment rolls had taken jobs they did not really want – and for less pay.

What’s more, according to the study, the recession has wreaked havoc on the retirement plans of older workers.

“Well over half of the unemployed have been looking for a job for over a year, and are pessimistic about their chances of getting a new job in the next year,” Van Horn said. “They face a situation not of their own making and have exhausted all ideas of what to do next to get work and take care of their Moreover, the ranks of parishioners who have particular workplace skills that can benefit job seekers – including those who enthusiastically supported the Job Support Network at its outset – have been declining, he said.

“What the program needs for sustainability is more people in the parishes who can help in one way or another to share their time and talent,” said Tauskey. “Sound familiar?”

The network is in response to staggering job losses and, in the program run at St. Bartholomew Church, has three key elements – emotional support, job search advice and assistance and financial advice and support, said Tauskey.

“It is getting back to one of the fundamental tenets of our faith,” he said. “Someone cares. Your parish community cares. It is a community, the extension of the family, and we want to try and help,” said Tauskey. “The biggest part of it is the emotional support. It is just knowing that somebody else cares, that you are not there alone.”

families. The climate is one of pessimism, tinged with resignation.”

More than 15 million Americans are unemployed, and more than 6 million have been jobless for more than 26 weeks. In addition, 2.5 million people are discouraged in their search for work and 9 million are working part-time because their hours have been cut or they can’t find full-time work.

For many casualties of the recession the American Dream is not what it once was.

“The depth and length of the recession’s toll on the unemployed has caused them first to question and now to disbelieve one of the fundamental tenets of the American credo – that people have it in their power to succeed if they work hard enough,” coauthor Zukin said.

More than half of the unemployed tracked by the study believe that hard work does not guarantee success, and just 40 percent feel that hard work will lead to success.

“We are witnessing the birth of a new class – the involuntarily retired,” the study concludes. “Many of those over age 50 believe they will not work again at a full-time ‘real’ job commensurate with their education and training.”

The unemployed “feel powerless, and voice little confidence in the government’s ability to help them.” They no longer believe, according to the study, that if they work hard and play by the rules they can get ahead.

St. Bartholomew parishioner Isabelle Briand attended an intensive four-day job search program Tauskey and others organized after she was let go. Briand had not written a resume for years, and learned how to “capture your value, your experience.” Rather than writing a “laundry list resume,” she learned to write an “accomplishment resume,” she said.

She also learned the value of support, which she found in the Job Support Network. Of the program, she said, “I would tell people to jump in, because you cannot do it alone.”

It paid off in Briand’s case: She landed an open-ended contract job.

At St. Matthew Parish, Father McGuire said, “One successful sidelight of the program has been education of many in the manner of presenting themselves for a new job, especially the art of making a resume. For many of our Hispanic workers, this was the first time they had put down their work history and were surprised as to how many possibilities to which it opened them,”

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By John Thavis VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Leaders of the Coptic Catholic Church in Egypt said a deadly attack against Christian worshipers was an act of political destabilization and a sign of the increasingly radical “Islamization” of the country.

Pakistani reformer assassinated, Page 9 “The newspapers are pointing the finger at al-Qaida. But terrorism arises in sectors of the Muslim society where other organizations encourage intolerance. For 40 years in Egypt, there has been a creeping Islamization that pervades every area of society,” said Coptic Auxiliary Bishop Kamal Fahim Awad Hanna of Alexandria.

Bishop Hanna told the Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, Jan. 3 that the government was making every effort to ensure the safety of worshipers as they prepared for the Coptic celebration of Christmas Jan. 7. All Christian churches have been surrounded by security forces, he said.

The reaction among most Egyptian Christians to the Jan. 1 attack has been fear and concern, but not the desperation that prompted a few spontaneous public protests, he said.

“For the great majority of Copts, even in the face of the horror of this attack ... the reaction was moderate, because the faith emphasizes mercy for the victims and forgiveness for those who have erred,” the bishop said.

Bishop Hanna said the entire Egyptian society was shocked by the attack and concerned that it could endanger the relatively peaceful relations between Christians and Muslims in the country.

He pointed hopefully to a recent proposal by an official of the al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo to establish a new interreligious dialogue organization called the “House of the Egyptian Family,” which would include seven Christian and seven Muslim representatives.

Bishop Hanna said Egyptian schools were the most effective place to stem the spread of fundamentalism.

“They should begin teaching tolerance to children in elementary schools. At present, there is no effort on the part of teachers to impart the concept of unity in the respect of differences,” he said.

Cardinal Antonios Naguib of Alexandria, the Coptic patriarch, told the Vatican newspaper that the attack on the church was “a criminal act aimed at destabilizing internal security and harmony among citizens.” He expressed his condolences to the families of the Coptic Orthodox victims of the bombing.

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Coptic leaders say attack reflects increasing ‘Islamization’ in Egypt

Egyptian Christian women protest in Cairo Jan. 2, one day after a deadly bomb blast at an Orthodox church in Alexandria.

“We have complete trust in the wisdom and the determination of the authorities, and are certain that they will adopt the necessary measures to put an end to such painful events,” the cardinal said.

The pilgrims meet on ground where St. Paul the Apostle preached ATHENS – On Thursday, Nov. 25, 2010, Thanksgiving Day in America, our group of 28 ecumenical pilgrims left Rome and arrived in Athens, the capital of Greece and heartland of the Greek Orthodox faith. We had dinner in our hotel, the Royal Olympic Palace, and it included – yes – roast turkey as well as many local dishes. We gave special thanks for our journey of faith together, and the walls of our private dining room echoed with some strains of patriotic song.

Journey of Faith: East and West On Friday morning we were scheduled to meet in audience with His Beatitude, Hieronymos II, Archbishop of Athens and all Greece, but he had been hospitalized for surgery the day before.

Nevertheless His Beatitude’s staff greeted us very warmly and kindly encouraged us regarding the value and meaning of our pilgrimage.

We later heard that His Beatitude recovered well from his surgery and illness. We regretted not meeting him; he is the author of many books on theological, social and historic subjects, and has led the social outreach of his church into such work as founding a program of foster families as well as shelters for the elderly, and programs that serve children with special needs and care for the mentally challenged.

Our hotel offered a breathtaking view of the Acropolis (fifth century B.C.), a cradle of Western European civilization, including the beautiful Parthenon (dedicated to the goddess Athena).

This is the third in Archbishop George Niederauer’s series on Orthodox and Catholics’ Nov. 21-Dec. 2 ecumenical pilgrimage to Rome, Athens and Constantinople (Istanbul). The archbishop and Metropolitan Gerasimos of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of San Francisco led a 28-member group from both communities.

It was in the Agora of the Acropolis that St. Paul the Apostle first preached to the people of Athens in A.D. 51 (cf. The Acts of the Apostles, Chapter 17).

On Saturday we were taken on a tour of ancient Corinth, where St. Paul lived and preached for two years (A.D. 52-54).

He later wrote several letters to the members of the Christian Church in Corinth, two of which are included in the New Testament. The first of those letters contains the earliest description of the Christian Eucharist, the offering and receiving of the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, written about 25 years after the Last Supper.

His Eminence the Metropolitan of Corinth Dionysios and many members of his clergy welcomed us most enthusiastically.

The bells rang as they led us into the beautiful cathedral, and in his words to us His Eminence encouraged us in our joining together to bridge our two ancient faiths and to visit together the foundations of our shared beliefs. Afterward he and his brother clergy continued our welcome at a splendid luncheon: Because of the

Advent fast it was a meatless meal, but the many courses we were served seemed numberless.

After lunch we visited the spot where Paul had preached in Corinth, as well as the Bema where the apostle pleaded his case before the Roman governor Gallo in A.D. 52 (cf.

The Acts of the Apostles, Chapter 18). It is one thing to read the words of Paul Archbishop and to study about his misGeorge sionary journeys; it is quite another experience to stand Niederauer in the very place where the Holy Spirit guided him in his preaching of the Good News nearly 2,000 years ago.

On the way back to Athens we visited the exquisite Monastery of Daphne, which is undergoing extensive restoration. It was once a pagan shrine and later a Christian monastery. While there we climbed about five or six flights of narrow, steep and somewhat rickety stairs to view the 11th-century mosaics of events in the lives of Jesus and Mary. The climb was well worth it to see these masterpieces of the golden age of Byzantine art.

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TUCSON, Ariz. (CNS) – Tucson Catholics mourned the loss of two of their own – federal Judge John Roll and 9-year-old Christina Taylor Green – in the Jan.8 mass shooting that critically wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.

The attack during a Saturday morning meet-yourcongressional-representative event at a Safeway shopping center left six people dead and 14 wounded, including Rep. Giffords, 40, who hosted the event.

The alleged shooter, Jared Lee Loughner, 22, was stopped by bystanders and is being held on initial federal charges related to the deaths of U.S. District Judge two U.S. government employJohn Roll, pictured ees – a federal judge and a congressional aide – and the in an undated photo. attempted murder of Giffords and two of her staff members.

Tucson Bishop Gerald Kicanas invited the Catholic community to gather at St. Odilia Church for a Mass for the Healing of Our Community, Remembrance of Those Who Have Died, and for the Consolation of All Victims and Their Families.

Young Christina Green made her first Communion at St. Odilia last spring and was a member of the children’s choir at the church, which is a located a few blocks from the shooting.

On the day of the shooting, Christina came to meet Giffords with a neighbor because she was so interested in civics. She had just been elected to the student council at Mesa Verde Elementary School.

Her grandfather is former major league pitcher and manager Dallas Green, and her father, John Green, is a scout for the Los Angeles Dodgers. The only girl on her Little League team, Christina was born on Sept. 11, 2001, and was featured in a book called “Faces of Hope,� about 50 babies born on that day.

Roll, the chief judge of the Tucson federal court, had stopped by the shopping center in northwest Tucson to see Giffords on his way home from morning Mass at St. Thomas the Apostle

Church. Bill Badger, one of several people who tackled the shooter to stop his rampage, despite his own gunshot wound, also is active in the parish he shared with the judge, according to Fred Allison, spokesman for the Tucson diocese.

Roll, a fourth-degree member of the Knights of Columbus, was remembered as “a person of great faith and great integrity� who was a devoted member of two Tucson Catholic parishes, according to Bishop Kicanas. Bishop Kicanas returned to Tucson hastily from the Middle East, where he was to attend the annual Coordination of Episcopal Conferences for the Church in the Holy Land, representing the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Roll for many years began his day by serving at Mass as a lector at Sts. Peter and Paul Parish or St. Thomas the Apostle Church, the bishop said. “He lived his faith as a servant of our nation for the cause of justice.�

In a message Bishop Kicanas sent to Allison as he left the Middle East to return to Tucson, he said watching the television coverage from afar was overwhelming. “I could not sleep. I just wanted to return home as soon as possible.�

He said that before he left the Middle East, he concelebrated a Mass with 10 other bishops in a small Catholic church in Jericho, where only about 50 Catholic families are in the village, “but they all expressed to me their condolences for what happened in Tucson and promised their prayers as did each of the bishops from Canada, Albania, France, Germany, England and the Holy Land. Their comfort and heartfelt prayers meant a lot.�

Bishop Kicanas went on to observe that “in the Holy Land, violence is feared and expected. Violence, too often, tears apart both the Israeli and the Palestinian people. Each community knows well the result of senseless violence. Their families have mourned the loss of loved ones and cared for those injured.�

He added that the people in Jericho, hearing about the Tucson events, asked him how to prevent such acts of violence. “I wish I knew the answer,� he wrote. “But as the world continues to seek an answer to that question we can, each in our own way, strive to respect others, speak with civility, try to understand one another and to find healthy ways to resolve our conflicts.�

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ST. FRANCIS, Wis. (CNS) – Faced with dwindling resources and unresolved claims from victims of priestly abuse, the Archdiocese of Milwaukee is seeking a court-administered reorganization of its finances under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. “We are in Chapter 11 for one reason: because priestperpetrators sexually abused minors,� the archdiocese said in an announcement on its website.

Archbishop Jerome E. Listecki announced the decision Jan. 4 at a news conference and in a letter to the Catholic community.

He said the move is designed to compensate abuse victims while maintaining the essential functions of the archdiocese.

The reorganization makes it possible for the archdiocese to use its available funds to compensate victims/survivors with unresolved claims “in a single process overseen by a court, ensuring that all are treated equitably,� according to the archbishop. “In addition, by serving as a final call for legal claims against the archdiocese, the proceeding will allow the church to move forward on stable financial ground, focused on its Gospel mission,� Archbishop Listecki wrote.

Over the past 20 years, the archdiocese has spent more than $29 million to cover costs associated with abuse. It has sold property, liquidated savings and investments, eliminated ministries and services, cut archdiocesan staff by nearly 40 percent and put all available real estate on the market. “As a result, we have succeeded in reaching mediated settlements with nearly 200 individuals,� the archdiocese said in its announcement. “We recently tried mediation with legal counsel representing victims/survivors to resolve our pending cases, but were unsuccessful. “In addition, legal costs continue to choke us and would only increase as pending lawsuits moved toward trial. The recent court decision that insurance companies need not contribute to any financial settlement and the notice that additional claims are going to be brought forward against the archdiocese reinforced our conclusion.�

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Twenty-one US bishops could retire for age reasons in 2011 WASHINGTON (CNS) – Five U.S. cardinals and 16 other U.S. bishops could retire because of age this year.

There are 12 active U.S. bishops, including three cardinals, who have already turned 75. Two cardinals and seven other bishops will celebrate their 75th birthday in 2011.

At age 75, bishops are requested to submit their resignation to the pope.

Cardinal Bernard F. Law, archpriest of St. Mary Major Basilica in Rome and a cardinal since 1985, turned 75 Nov. 4, 2006. A former bishop of Springfield-Cape Girardeau, Mo., he was archbishop of Boston from 1984 until his resignation from that post in 2002 in the wake of controversy over his handling of cases of clergy sex abuse there. He was named to his Rome post in 2004.

Cardinal Justin Rigali of Philadelphia turned 75 on April 19, 2010. Born in Los Angeles, he was ordained an archbishop in 1985 while serving as head of the school that educates future Vatican diplomats. He returned to the United States in 1994 to become archbishop of St. Louis, holding that post until his appointment as archbishop of Philadelphia in 2003. He was elevated to the College of Cardinals that same year.

Also Philadelphia-born Cardinal John P. Foley, grand master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulcher since 2007, turned 75 Nov. 11. A former editor of The Catholic Standard & Times newspaper in Philadelphia, he was president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications at the Vatican for more than 23 years. He became a cardinal in 2007.

Cardinal Roger M. Mahony of Los Angeles turns 75 on Feb. 27 and Coadjutor Archbishop Jose H. Gomez already has been named to succeed him when he retires.

Cardinal William J. Levada, former archbishop of San Francisco and Portland, Ore., and a former auxiliary bishop in Los Angeles, will be 75 on June 15 but is expected to continue as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, a post he has held since 2005, until Pope Benedict XVI names his successor. He became a cardinal in 2006.

Pope Benedict, like his predecessor Pope John Paul II, often has asked cardinals to stay on the job after they reached the age of 75. Even when a cardinal retires in his 70s, he remains an active member of the College of Cardinals, eligible to enter a conclave and vote for a new pope, until age 80.

The nine other active U.S. bishops who are already 75 and the dates of their 75th birthday are: – Bishop Manuel Batakian of the Eparchy of Our Lady of Nareg in New York for Armenian Catholics; Nov. 5, 2004. A bishop since 1995, he was already nearly 76 when appointed to his present post in 2005.

– Bishop J. Kevin Boland of Savannah, Ga., April 25, 2010.

– Bishop Carlos A. Sevilla of Yakima, Wash., Aug. 9, 2010.

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Phoenix bishop strips hospital of church affiliation; Archbishop Niederauer ‘intends to initiate dialogue’

By J.D. Long-Garcia PHOENIX (CNS) – St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix can no longer identify itself as “Catholic,” Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted announced Dec. 21.

The Phoenix bishop issued a decree revoking the 115-year-old hospital’s affiliation with the Catholic Church. He wrote that he could not verify that the hospital provides health care consistent with “authentic Catholic moral teaching.”

He said it was his duty to strip St. Joseph’s Hospital of its Catholic identity because its leadership, as well as that of its parent organization, San Francisco-based Catholic Healthcare West, is not committed to “following the teachings of the Catholic Church.”

To demonstrate that the hospital is no longer Catholic, Bishop Olmsted is prohibiting the celebration of Mass on the hospital’s campus and will have the Blessed Sacrament removed from the hospital’s chapel.

San Francisco Archbishop George Niederauer will meet with the leadership of Catholic Healthcare West regarding questions raised by other bishops on Catholic health care, the Archdiocese of San Francisco announced Dec. 21.

Bishop Olmsted “has authority and responsibility to interpret the moral law and to teach the Catholic faith in the Diocese of Phoenix,” the archdiocese said in a statement.

Questions have been raised about the implementation of U.S. bishops’ moral directives for Catholic health care as they relate to the CHW system and Archbishop Niederauer “intends to initiate a dialogue” with CHW leadership, the statement continued.

“Recent discussions within the United States Conference of

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Linda Hunt, president of St. Joseph’s, said in a statement after the bishop’s news conference that the hospital was “deeply disappointed” by the action but would “continue through our words and deeds to carry out the healing ministry of Jesus.”

In May, officials at St. Joseph’s publicly acknowledged that an abortion occurred at the hospital in late 2009.

“Consistent with our values of dignity and justice, if we are presented with a situation in which a pregnancy threatens a woman’s life, our first priority is to save both patients,” Hunt said in her statement. “If that is not possible, we will always save the life we can save, and that is what we did in this case.”

Sister Carol Keehan, a Daughter of Charity who is president and CEO of the Washington-based Catholic Health Association, also defended the hospital’s action in a “heartbreaking situation” and said personnel there “carefully evaluated the patient’s situation and correctly applied” the “Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services,” to which all Catholic hospitals in the United States are required to adhere.

She said Catholic Healthcare West has a “long and stellar history in the protection of life at all stages.”

But Bishop Olmsted said in an interview with his diocesan newspaper, The Catholic Sun, that his action also was related to the hospital’s participation in the Mercy Care Plan, which provides health care through Arizona’s Medicaid program, and to the fact that Chandler Regional Hospital, also affiliated with PHOENIX BISHOP, page 8 Are you concerned about your child’s success in school? Does your child want to excel?

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Tens of thousands expected for Walk for Life West Coast in San Francisco Tens of thousands of people are expected to join the seventh annual Walk for Life West Coast on Jan. 22, gathering at an 11 a.m. rally at Justin Herman Plaza in downtown San Francisco and then walking more than two miles to Marina Green.

“The Walk for Life is now a tradition in San Francisco,” said San Francisco Archbishop George Niederauer, who will attend along with nine other California bishops, including Auxiliary Bishop William Justice, Auxiliary Bishop Robert McElroy and retired Bishop Ignatius Wang of the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

“It has become an increasingly important event here in a very brief few years,” Archbishop Niederauer said. “I believe that the walk is inspired by the Holy Spirit who accomplishes it through women and men who listen to his call.”

The walk was founded in 2005 by a small group of San Francisco and Bay Area residents with about 7,000 joining the first grassroots event. In 2010, more than 35,000 walked along the city’s Embarcadero.

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“Abortion hurts not just babies, but all women and men, because violence against any is violence against all of us,” said Dolores Meehan, co-founder of the Walk for Life West Coast and a fourth-generation San Franciscan. “As our mission statement says, our goal is to shed light on all issues of life, but particularly to change hearts hurt by the violence of abortion.”

This year the walk falls on the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling legalizing abortion.

Abby Johnson, former manager of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Texas, will speak about her conversion to pro-life advocacy through her experience assisting with an abortion performed using ultrasound in 2009. Johnson also will talk about her relationship with 40 Days for Life, a national prayer ministry that had conducted six 40 Days vigils outside the clinic where she worked.

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WASHINGTON (CNS) – The one-year anniversary of the earthquake that killed at least 230,000 people and displaced 1 million in Haiti gives Catholics an opportunity to stand in prayerful solidarity with the people of the impoverished Caribbean nation.

Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski of Miami, chairman of the Haiti Advisory Group of the U.S. bishops’ Subcommittee on the Church in Latin America, invited Catholics to pray and reflect for nine days using the novena to Our Lady of Guadalupe.

The novena started on the evening of Jan. 12, the anniversary of the magnitude 7 quake, and ends with the celebration of Mass the weekend of Jan. 22-23, the date of the bishops’ annual collection for Latin America, which includes Haiti.

“Haiti and its people still very much need our prayers and solidarity,” Archbishop Wenski said in a statement. “As we approach the anniversary of the earthquake in Haiti, we join together with parishes, Catholic schools, youth groups, colleges and universities from across the country to remember the tragic events of that

fateful afternoon and to respond in a faith-filled way.”

In addition to the novena, other catechetical and reflection resources, including material from Catholic Relief Services, is available at www.usccb.org/haiti/one-year-later.shtml.

Life in a tattered tent in a crowded camp, threats to personal safety and the need to scramble for food and clean water are fueling a growing anger among survivors, said Archbishop Louis Kebreau of Cap-Haitien, president of the Haitian bishops’ conference.

“The people of Haiti are tired of misery,” Archbishop Kebreau said in a Jan. 4 interview with Catholic News Service during a visit to Washington. “They are tired of living in their tents. The people are saying they are not happy. They’re frustrated and angry. That provokes violence.”

He expressed concern that the surge of hopefulness felt by Haitians at the world’s compassionate response immediately after the quake has given way to a feeling of abandonment. People don’t think their pleas are being heard any longer, he said.

Phoenix bishop . . .

the care provided will be in full accord with the teachings of the church.”

Hunt said at a Dec. 21 news conference that the hospital is required by state law to “provide family planning benefits.”

“But since the very beginning, these have been administered by third-party administrators,” she added. “We do not have any type of billing or any type of process that we get involved in with that. So it’s a different set of providers, a different entity that takes care of that for us.”

Bishop Olmsted, explaining his authority to revoke the Catholic identity of St. Joseph’s Hospital, cited Canon 216, which states: “No undertaking is to claim the name Catholic without the consent of competent ecclesiastical authority.”

“I have hoped and prayed that this day would not come,” the bishop said. “However, the faithful of the diocese have a right to know whether institutions of this importance are indeed Catholic in identity and practice.”

“I don’t think anyone could fairly say that I rushed judgment,” he told The Catholic Sun. “It’s not something I wanted to happen. The opposite is what I wanted. I wanted to have rigorous Catholic health care that’s in accord with the church’s teaching.

That requires cooperation and a desire to be in full communion with the church. That was never guaranteed to me.”

For the full text of the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s statement on Archbishop Niederauer’s role, see catholic-sf.org.

■ Continued from page 6 Catholic Healthcare West, has not complied with the directives for many years.

“I have continued to insist that this scandalous situation needed to change,” the bishop said. “Sadly, over the course of these years, CHW has chosen not to comply.”

Through its involvement in the Mercy Care Plan, the bishop said Catholic Healthcare West has been responsible for a litany of practices in direct conflict with Catholic teaching. These include: contraceptive counseling, provision of various forms of contraception, voluntary sterilization and abortions “due to the mental or physical health of the mother or when the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest.”

“One could say that some of the administrators sincerely did not know what was in the government contracts with Mercy Care Plan,” he told The Catholic Sun. “However, they have an obligation to know. They would not sign a contract in which they were unclear about finances or some other dimension. They have an obligation with anything dealing with such delicate matters as life and death.”

Bishop Olmsted said Catholics “are free to seek care or to offer care at St. Joseph’s Hospital. But I cannot guarantee that

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LAHORE, Pakistan – The assassination of a Pakistani sent a stark message to those trying to change the blasphemy governor who favored repeal of the country’s much- law: “Nobody is safe anymore.”

“If VIPs like Salman Taseer can be a target, anyone can,” criticized blasphemy law is a serious setback for religious freedom, Archbishop Lawrence Saldanha of Lahore, said the news service reported, adding that commentators fear there will be more assassination attempts on government in a Jan. 5 interview with Vatican Radio.

On Jan. 4, Salman Taseer, governor of Punjab, was figures opposing the law and that Taseer’s killer could fatally shot by one of his own guards in Islamabad. The become a hometown hero to fanatics.

Pakistan is trapped between religious attacker confessed he was motivated by extremism and the war on terror, and the Taseer’s opposition to the blasphemy law, “abandonment of reason” is the counwhich has been condemned by human try’s biggest challenge, the news service rights organizations as a vehicle to punish reported. and intimidate religious minorities.

“Any attempt to change the blasphemy A Christian woman, Asia Bibi, became law is immediately conflated in extreman international symbol of the law’s misuse ists’ minds with anti-American sentiments, last November when Pakistan’s High Court while that is fanned by their ‘leaders’ who condemned her to death for what her lawclaim the reforms are being dictated by yers said was a fabricated charge of offendthe U.S.,” according to the report. “But the ing the nation’s majority Islamic faith. really sobering message from Taseer’s murPope Benedict XVI took up Bibi’s der is that the lack of tolerance in society cause, as did Taseer in criticizing the law has now crept its way into the country’s and seeking a pardon for the condemned own establishment. The government is now woman.

Archbishop facing a major headache providing security But voices calling for tolerance have Lawrence Saldanha even for the elites.” grown increasingly quiet, intimidated by Christians in Pakistan hailed Taseer as their “hero,” the militants and extreme religious parties who are gaining in Union of Catholic Asian News reported. strength, Archbishop Saldanha told Vatican Radio.

“Though a Muslim, Taseer gave his life for a just cause “There are very few voices in favor of the repeal. People are afraid,” he said. “It’s possible that the general feeling is and has become a hero to the Christian community,” said one of fear. After the death of the governor it’s going to be Sumaira Shafique, general secretary of Pakistan’s Christian Lawyers Association. more difficult now for people to speak against it.”

Father Emmanuel Yousaf Mani, national director of the The archbishop said, “There’s a very intolerant mood in the country at the moment. We feel ourselves more and Catholic Bishop’s National Commission for Justice and more not tolerated at all. That’s why this year doesn’t seem Peace, laid flowers on Taseer’s grave and prayed for him and his family, UCA News reported. to be a very hopeful year or happy year.”

“We urge the government to investigate the matter and The Union of Catholic Asian News, in a report from Lahore, said the assassination eliminated a good friend of bring the culprits to justice,” Father Mani said in a statePakistani Christians and women’s rights campaigners and ment.

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Come to Assisi and pray for peace, pope bids faith leaders VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI will make a pilgrimage to Assisi, the town of St. Francis, on Oct. 1, and is inviting Christian leaders of different confessions to join him in a gathering marking the 25th anniversary of the World Day of Prayer for Peace.

The event will “solemnly renew the commitment of believers of all religions to live The pope after Mass in their religious faith as a service to the cause of St. Peter’s Basilica Jan. 1. peace,” the pope said in his address after his first Angelus of the new year.

“Those who are journeying toward God cannot fail to transmit peace; those who build peace cannot fail to move toward God. I invite you, even now, to support this initiative with your prayers,” he said.

The pope remarked on the threat to religious freedom as one of the great challenges of the time. He said the challenge has become “dramatically pressing.”

“Today we are witnessing two opposing tendencies, two equally negative extremes: on the one hand laicism which deviously seeks to marginalize religion and confine it to the private sphere and, on the other, fundamentalism which seeks to impose it on everyone by use of force,” he said.

New York Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, expressed “profound sorrow” over the deaths of about two dozen worshippers in a Coptic Orthodox church in Alexandria, Egypt, in a Jan. 4 letter to Coptic Orthodox Pope Shenouda III. In a separate letter Jan. 6 to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Bishop Howard J. Hubbard of Albany, N.Y., chairman of the bishops’ Committee on International Justice and Peace, urged U.S. diplomats to respond to “the egregious violations of human rights as well as indifference and inaction by foreign governments to the protection of their own citizens.”

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■ Continued from cover are from the Bay Area, and those who are not natives were educated here.

Importantly, he added, the racial blend in the group largely reflects the Bay Area population, including Asians, Latinos and whites, with the average age in the early 30s. And, he is particularly proud that there are currently three Marin Catholic graduates studying at seminaries: T.R. Hoffman, Class of 2004, studying with the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal, in the Bronx; Cameron Faller ‘06 at St. Patrick’s; and Richard Grablin ‘09 at Bishop White Seminary at Gonzaga University in Spokane. That hasn’t occurred for 40 years.

Of the 20 seminarians, in various stages of their formation, it is expected that three will be ordained this year and be assigned work in the archdiocese. “We need five,” said Father Daly, perhaps four for parish work and one for another service, such as education, social work or missionary work. If there were five ordinations per year, in 10 years there would be 50 priests for 90 parishes, and enough to cover the natural attrition that occurs.

As is, staffing in the archdiocese is adequate, but barely, at parishes and elsewhere. Father Daly, for example, is the only priest at Marin Catholic and there are no priests at Junipero Serra High School in San Mateo, Archbishop Riordan High School in San Francisco and Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory in San Francisco. Daughters of Charity and Christian Brothers remain available for spiritual counseling at SHCP. Marianist Father John Thompson is a regular celebrant of school Masses at Riordan.

Any increase in vocations is welcome news, particularly given the graying of the Catholic Church in the U.S., as it copes with a landslide of retirements, deaths and priests growing too ill to work. A study in August by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University showed

that 91 percent of women religious and 75 percent of priests are 60 and older and most of those remaining are 50 or older.

“What it points out to us is the reality that there was a large surge in vocations in the 50s and 60s and then stopped, or slowed down dramatically after that,” said Mary Gautier, senior research associate at the center and co-author of the report. “What we have is a bubble effect. It means that the work that is done to encourage vocations needs to continue, but it is unrealistic to expect the very large numbers that occurred in the ‘50s and ‘60s,” she said.

Indeed, Gautier added, the church is ordaining only about a third of the number of priests that would be required to make up for those who are dying and retiring. “That is the effect of the bubble working its way through,” she said.

Currently, according to center research, there are 39,993 priests in the U.S., compared with 58,632 in 1965. There are 3,400 parishes without a pastor, compared with 549 in 1965, while the Catholic population has grown from 45.6 million to 65.6 million over the same period.

Accordingly, the current increase in vocations is welcome news. It’s being attributed to several factors – some even speculate that the priesthood is seen as a safe harbor in a roiling economy – but seminarians, who say they have heard a calling to be a disciple of Christ, say, when asked, that the impetus is far more traditional.

“They say they met a holy priest and want to help do their part,” said Father McKearney.

“They say, ‘I would like to be a good priest.’ They would like to do what a priest does.

Father James L. They would like to McKearney, SS administer the sacraments. They would like to preach the gospel and on the scriptures,” he said.

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It is significant, he added, that the number of young seminarians is up. “This is the largest group in this category in recent years,” said Father McKearney, referring to the young men of 2010-11. Only about six in the class have enrolled seeking a “second career” following a secular career. “Again, this is a shift that we have been seeing in recent years,” he said.

Manolito Jaldon Jr., 26, of St. Stephen Parish in San Francisco, earned his degree from Mount Angel Seminary and has completed his first semester at St. Patrick’s. He said, “All I want is that Manolito at the end of the Jaldon day my desires are ultimately God’s desires – that my desires will be conformed to his desires for the people of the archdiocese.”

Armando Gutierrez, 33, of St. Charles Borromeo Parish in San Francisco, had a degree from Cornell University, a job in the affordable housing industry and a girlfriend Armando when he realized he had been makGutierrez ing his own plans and asking God for his help “as if he were my administrative assistant.” Gutierrez, now in his sixth year at St. Patrick’s, knew he wanted to enroll after a discernment visit. “A better term for a successful priesthood would be when you see that a priest has given his life to the ministry, so much so that he and the ministry have become one,” he said.

Cameron Faller, 22, of Our Lady of Loretto Parish in Novato, had not thought about becoming a priest until he visited Lourdes in the summer of 2006. There, Mary, the mother of God, “opened my eyes,” he said, “to the fact that I had never listened to God’s will in my life. I had always just done what I wanted to do rather than listening to what God wanted me to do.” He said

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the decision to enter the seminary “was extremely difficult because it was such a radical change from a normal college lifestyle.” However, the day he arrived at Menlo Park, he said, “the Lord poured an amazing amount of peace and grace upon me.”

Jaldon, Gutierrez and Faller are seminarians at a time when scandal within the church has diminished some of the respect that formerly came with the priesthood. Indeed, said Father Daly, “they want to be part of the solution,” in the same way that St. Vincent de Paul, St. Francis de Sales, St. Philip Neri and others in the post-Reformation came to advocate for the church because they were drawn to Christ.

Jaldon, Gutierrez and Faller, in fact, all said the scandal strengthened their vocations.

“A lot of what helped me discern or encouraged me to apply to the seminary were priests I had met in the archdiocese,” said Gutierrez. “All of them are priests that I have seen very much at the service of the people. They are very conscious that a priest is to serve the people and come from a position not of nobility but humility.”

The scandal, said Jaldon, “was a genuine way to test out whether this (his vocation) is for real, is this really a calling. I want to stand for the truth,” he said. “I want to stand for what the priesthood is all about, because I have had priests in my life within this archdiocese who have been a great inspiration of what a priest should be and I want to rise to that call.”

Said Faller, “I realize that the scandal was caused by some priests and bishops that made some very poor decisions and, as a consequence, the dignity of the church and priesthood has been damaged. I want to become a priest even amid this environment because I want to help restore the dignity and beauty of the church and the priesthood.”

Father Daly noted that the church just completed its “Year of the Priest” observance. He said it called attention to “the need to pray for holy priests that the people serve.”

Father Daly offered this advice to priests to be: “There has to be a sense of humble service. Not that guys should be pushovers.

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Holy Family Day Home celebrating 100 years in Mission District For all of the wealth and merrymaking that was created in young San Francisco in the Gold Rush years and beyond, there was hardship and despair, too – and social needs at a time when there was no government structure to meet them.

The church was the social service center, and in the Archdiocese of San Francisco, then-Archbishop Joseph Alemany, along with a priest who had arrived from Ireland, Father John Prendergast, gave an assignment to an eager, devout 22-year-old named Lizzie Armer: help those people, no matter their religion, who are falling through the cracks.

With that, in 1872, Armer and Father Prendergast formed the Sisters of the Holy Family – the only religious congregation founded west of the Mississippi River. It had this charism: “To seek out and advocate for the poor and needy, especially for families, for the Kingdom of God.” The mission remains unchanged, said Sister Gladys Guenther, the congregational president of the Sisters of the Holy Family, now based in Fremont, because the need remains the same: “There was a recognition (in the 1870s) that there was great wealth in addition to great poverty. Kind of like today.”

The sisters were and continue to be involved with a host of ministries in the West, from parish administration to doing advocacy work for victims of human trafficking, but are best

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Then and now: Children at Holy Family Day Home in San Francisco pictured in the 1960s and today.

known as the founders, owners and operators of day homes for needy children – notably Holy Family Day Home in San Francisco. The 111-year-old facility, the oldest child care center in San Francisco, has occupied a corner of 16th and Dolores Streets for 100 of those years, and the sisters, said Donna Cahill, the executive director of the non-sectarian facility, are the keepers of the day home’s mission:

“Holy Family Day Home provides affordable, high quality, early childhood education and family support services in a stable and nurturing environment, thereby providing the children of working families with skills and hope for life-long development,” Cahill said. “This continues a tradition established in 1900 by the Sisters of the Holy Family.”

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The Armenian Catholic Community will celebrate Mass in the National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi on Jan 16 at 12:30 p.m. Father Gregory Chahin of St. Gregory Armenian Catholic Church in Glendale will be the celebrant During the Walk for Life weekend Jan. 21-23, the shrine will host an exhibit of the Stations of the Cross

by Southern California artist Katie Schmid in the space surrounding the Porziuncola Chapel. These stations are slated for permanent installation at Purdue University.

The artist’s work may be seen at www.katieschmid.com.

After the Walk for Life, Conventual Franciscan Father Francisco Nahoe of Reno’s St. Thomas Aquinas Cathedral will celebrate Mass in Latin on Jan. 22 at 5 p.m. A contingent from Reno will attend, as will students from Thomas Aquinas College in Ojai, and the Mass is open to all.

The shrine continues to sponsor the rosary in the Porziuncola chapel each day at 4:30 p.m. with the intention of invoking the intercession of Our Lady of the Angels so that all Catholic public officials might be, or become, authentically pro-life.

Amanda Quantz, Ph.D., president of the American Theological Society, will lecture on St. Bonaventure and the Tree of Life in the hall below the shrine’s church on Jan. 25 at 7 p.m. She leads pilgrimages to Assisi and is an expert on Franciscan spirituality especially as it is expressed in art and architecture.

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■ Continued from page 11 Sister Gladys, who serves on the board of the day home, is organizing a Mass at Mission Dolores Basilica and reception to follow at the day home at 299 Dolores St., on Feb. 12, to note 100 years on the corner. Today, early childhood education and development are being provided to 171 children at the facility.

The families of 70 percent of them, noted Cahill, are receiving some subsidy.

That was the spirit that Lizzie Armer – who would become Sister Dolores – brought to her work some 138 years ago. She was a girl from Australia who had been unofficially adopted by Richard and Mary Ann Tobin, he

a founder of Hibernia Bank and they on their way to becoming prominent San Franciscans.

Armer’s father had met Richard Tobin in Australia, and he left her – and for a shorter time, his two sons – with the Tobins when he went off to work in the gold fields. The three children were motherless. Armer came of age amid Nob Hill society often surrounded by children to whom she taught catechism.

At 22, said Sister Michaela O’Connor, a historian for the Sisters of the Holy Family, she approached Archbishop Alemany seeking his permission to go east and join a contemplative order of sisters.

Alemany knew the Tobins, had seen Armer develop as a young woman and knew her potential, said Sister Gladys. Alemany was looking for the right opportunity to tap her for

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service, she said. “I think they kind of waited for the time, as they say, when things were converging. People were at the right time at the right place,” said Sister Gladys.

Accordingly, said Sister Michaela, when Armer told Alemany she wanted to go off to lead a cloistered life, he said to her, “Father Prendergast and I have another work for you to do.”

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the 1906 earthquake and fire – until the flagship Holy Family Day Home was established in the Mission District. When pondering a new location after a facility was destroyed in 1906, then-Archbishop Patrick Riordan said, “We should go where the children are.” Father Prendergast found symmetry in the Mission, saying, “Mission Dolores, Dolores Street, Sister Dolores; it seems this must be the place for the day home.”

Since 1949, the motherhouse of the Sisters of the Holy Family has been a site known as “Palmdale,” in the foothills of Fremont near Mission San Jose. (The first fruit exported from California, pears, came from the elegant grounds.) From there, the work of some 87 sisters, many of them retired, is overseen.

There is an association with other day homes, St. Elizabeth in San Jose and St. Vincent’s in Oakland; a literacy program for Latinos in South Central Los Angeles, and the work of Sister Michaela, who works with the Khmu people, immigrants from Southeast Asia, to name a few ministries.

“I think the legacy is one of caring,” said Sister Gladys. “I think we have been very consistent in seeking out and advocating for children and families and I think we can be very proud of that,” she said.

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Priest sees his disabling MS as means of reverence, prayer and service OREGON, Ohio – In his final year of seminary formation, Father Joseph Weigman experienced symptoms he knew might indicate something wasn’t right.

He became dizzy riding his bike and had weak legs when getting up suddenly from a laying position.

Three months before his ordination to the priesthood in 1991, he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, a disease of the central nervous system that attacks the brain and spine.

Since his ordination, he has faced a continual progression of physical limitations that now make it too difficult for him to serve in a parish.

Despite the limitations, he has come to see his MS as “my way of praising, reverencing and serving God,” says Father Weigman, 49, referencing the teaching of St. Ignatius of Loyola.

He serves as chaplain at the Little Sisters of the Poor Sacred Heart Home where he also receives care and assistance as he lives there in residence.

In his electric wheelchair, Father Weigman visits with the elderly residents, consoles families of the dying and celebrates the sacraments.

“God calls each of us in different ways, Father Weigman says. “As I look at my classmates … they’re pastors of big parishes. Well, that is not how I am being called to live out my priesthood. Quite honestly, I think I would prefer that way, but it’s not an option for me.

“It’s a matter of kind of reconciling myself to that reality and to be able to say that, ‘OK, I’m not able to do that, but that doesn’t mean God has given up on me, it means God has called me to live out my priesthood this way.’”

As his multiple sclerosis has progressed, Father Weigman has faced more limitations in his mobility.

When he first needed to use a cane two years after his diagnosis, he thought, “OK God, I can handle this, but no more,” he remembers.

“Each time I thought I couldn’t do anymore, I did it,” he says. “Really, I believe now that it was the grace of God at work in me that allowed me to realize the reality that you do what you have to do.”

He has also dealt with a growing dependence on others.

At a Teens Encounter Christ retreat in the mid-90s, his eye caught sight of a graphic just as he was about to give a talk to high school students. The picture showed a man bending down to give flowers to a woman in a wheelchair.

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Father Joseph Weigman talks with Dan Palos, a resident at the Little Sisters of the Poor Sacred Heart Home in Oregon, Ohio. Diagnosed with MS in 1991, Father Weigman serves as chaplain to the sisters and the residents.

“Wow, what has to die in me is that image of myself as the young man giving the flowers,” he remembers thinking at the time. “And what had to be born, what had to arise in me, was to be the woman in the wheelchair — to accept the flowers, the ministry, the gifts of other people.”

Father Weigman plays a vital role at the Sacred Heart home where some residents refer to him as “the wounded healer,” says William Cook, development director.

Catherine Neihoff, Sacred Heart Home resident and sacristan, says Father Weigman is a source of inspiration to her and the residents.

“We all have aches and pains and we never hear him complain … He’s very supportive of the ones who are ill and have a lot of pain,” she says.

Father Weigman tries to help residents keep a perspective on their own limitations.

He recalls one resident was very upset when she had to start using a walker and complained to him. He tried to be humorous in his response to her.

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Father James Bacik, pastor of Toledo Corpus Christi, says he has great respect for Father Weigman and how he has handled his illness. While Father Bacik has known the virtue of acceptance on a theoretical basis, he says he sees it lived out in Father Weigman.

“The acceptance frees him up to do what is possible,” he says.

Father David Reinhart calls Father Weigman a great priest and a great friend.

The two priests worked together at Oregon Cardinal Stritch High School before Father Weigman retired to part-time ministry and Father Reinhart went into service with the Archdiocese for Military Services.

“The MS certainly causes him suffering, but he does it with grace because he has to ask for help — and that’s a hard thing because just about every common thing that you and I do he has to ask to be done … He’s a remarkable priest — he was without MS and he is with MS.” How his MS will continue to progress isn’t certain as each case is different, Father Weigman says. He knows of a Sacred Heart Home resident about his age who has multiple sclerosis and is confined to her bed.

“That worries me a little. It scares me I guess, but I’m not going to spend a lot of time or energy worrying about it until it’s here,” he says. “I just have to believe that whatever happens, I’ll deal with it by the grace of God.” While there are times he has felt sorry for himself or become angry, Father Weigman says he luckily has not dwelled on those feelings for too long.

At a physical therapy session in the mid-`90s when he was learning to use a cane and crutch, he remembers seeing a little boy with greater physical challenges than himself. The boy was laughing and having a good time.

“I thought, ‘Oh man, look at him. He’s got it worse than me and he’s happy’ … We all have to deal with what’s dealt us,” Father Weigman says. “It was a great beginning to realize it’s a matter of perspective and we can feel good or we can feel bad. We’ve got to choose.”

Reprinted with permission of the Catholic Chronicle, the official newspaper of the Diocese of Toledo, Ohio.

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New order of monks modeled on St. Joseph founded in archdiocese

Father Vito Perrone sees his new order as an open door to San Francisco-area Catholics who feel called to contemplative life.

By Valerie Schmalz In the San Francisco Bay Area, orange-robed Buddhist monks are a common sight.

Father Vito J. Perrone wants to make the black diocesan priest garb of the newly founded Contemplatives of St. Joseph at least as ubiquitous. His goal is to bring a deep awareness of Catholic contemplative spirituality to the Archdiocese of San Francisco, draw back Catholics who have left and make new converts.

People are leaving the church and joining other religions or embracing other philosophies because they do not know what the Catholic Church is and what it offers for a relationship with God, he said.

“The goal of the Contemplatives of St. Joseph is to help those who enter as priests and brothers, and those whom they serve in their active ministry to wake up to the contemplative spiritual treasures of the Catholic Church,” said Father Perrone.

Unusually, the Contemplatives of St. Joseph will live a mission that unifies the active and cloistered life. “We’re a monk Monday through Friday and a diocesan priest Saturday and Sunday,” said Father Perrone, with the order’s habit the garb of a diocesan priest.

His new order will “breathe with both lungs of the church,” East and West, taking its guidance from Pope John Paul II’s pastoral letter “Light from the East,” Father Perrone said. Priests will embrace the Latin and Eastern rites of the church and study the early Desert Fathers and Orthodox spirituality.

“By living fully within the Catholic contemplative tradition at this time in church history, as expressed by both the Eastern and Western Church, the priests and brothers’ way of life will slowly but surely help the Archdiocese of San Francisco to grow in contemplative spirituality,” the 53-year-old founder said.

Father Perrone has room for 10 aspiring priests in his new order, which is modeled on the spirituality of St. Joseph.

Father Perrone will welcome his first two postulants in the next few weeks to the monastery located on the grounds of Mater Dolorosa Parish in South San Francisco. The monastery was converted from a former convent of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace, said Father Perrone, adding, “St. Joseph wants to be here.”

The priests will focus particularly on developing as spiritual directors and confessors, with Father Perrone envisioning the Contemplatives of St. Joseph priests eventually spending entire weekends hearing confessions and giving retreats. They are modeled on St. Joseph, who was silent and contemplative, yet active – the foster father of Jesus and spouse of Mary, protecting his little family and “standing against evil,” Father Perrone said.

“This is the year for vocations,” said Father Perrone, who has room for 10 aspiring priests in his community.

Archbishop George Niederauer granted permission for the order in the Archdiocese on May 30, 2008, the founding date of the order, Father Perrone said. It was a long process and the order remains in an exploratory stage. If vocations and support come, then the order is the will of God, Father Perrone and Auxiliary Bishop William Justice said.

Bishop Justice called Father Perrone an “essentially holy” man.

For decades, Father Perrone yearned for life as a cloistered monk. A spiritual searcher, he moved from North Dakota to the Bay Area in 1982 for a master’s degree from the Franciscan School of Theology and was ordained a priest in the archdiocese in 2001. He served at Immaculate Heart of Mary and St. Cecilia parishes.

Although he spent most vacations on retreat at monasteries around the U.S., Father Perrone said he never heard a “complete yes” from God the way he had heard God call him to the priesthood of the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Then, six years ago, a blizzard left Father Perrone alone in the famous St. Joseph’s Oratory of Mount Royal in Montreal, an unusual occurrence because the Catholic basilica is a popular tourist destination and always crowded with visitors, Father Perrone said. “The progress of a whole lifetime came to a head,” Father Perrone said. “For an hour and a half I was the only one there…just like that, this insight came to me, ‘start something new.’”

Father Perrone spent a year praying about what the St. Joseph’s Oratory experience meant. He eventually came to the idea of the Contemplatives of St. Joseph and presented it to Archbishop Niederauer. For another year the two prayed about the concept. Then, the archbishop told Father Perrone to test the concept by putting together the logistics, consulting with others and continuing to discern. The process of discernment took another two years, he said. “I had to search my own soul to see if I had what it takes to be the person to get this rolling,” Father Perrone said.

As the only order of contemplative men in the archdiocese, the Contemplatives of St. Joseph will pray for all the bishops, priests and people and hope by their prayer and example to attract vocations to the priesthood of the archdiocese as well as to the order, Father Perrone said.

With a half-million Catholics in the archdiocese, there are many who seek spiritual direction that will now be able to turn to the new order, Father Perrone said. “A holistic presentation of contemplation will resonate with the modern seeker who is ambivalent and hesitant about entering more fully into the life of the church,” he said. “We pray there will be many more converts to the Catholic faith.”

Contact the Contemplatives of St. Joseph at http://contemplativesofstjoseph.com; phone (650) 995-3660; 377 Willow Ave., South San Francisco CA 94080.

‘Oprah nuns,’ a fast-growing teaching order, expanding to California Under the city of Loomis’ planning and building regulations, the sisters expect their One of the fastest growing orders of application to be approved Jan. 18 and after women religious in the United States negotiating details and meeting regulatory is expanding to California where the requirements to be able to build by 2012, Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Sister Thomas Augustine said. Funding for Eucharist, took over administration of a construction still needs to be raised, she said.

Sacramento Catholic school this school The religious’ primary apostolate is year. teaching. Sisters are sent out in small Perhaps more significantly, the groups. They are teaching and administerDominican Sisters have outgrown the ing Catholic schools in California, Texas, motherhouse in Ann Arbor, Mich., and Arizona, South Carolina, and Michigan. are planning to build two new houses of A new mission will open next year in formation in California and in Texas. Each Columbus, Ohio, Sister Thomas Augustine would hold about 100. The order’s lifestyle said. Fifteen sisters are obtaining their intrigued Oprah Winfrey, who featured teaching credentials this year and will go the sisters twice on her show in 2010. As out to teach next year. a result they have been nicknamed the “We deliver a Catholic education The Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist, number 110.

“Oprah nuns.” because we are in the business of saving Just 31 have made final vows and the rest are at various stages of formation.

“We had 22 young women enter in souls,” she said.

August, and we have had between 10 and The order is part of a worldwide resur20 new vocations per year for the past five years,” said Sister We’ll live in kitchenettes, closets and landings. We have in the gence among religious orders who embrace the traditional Thomas Augustine, director of California Mission Advancement. past,” Sister Thomas Augustine said. religious life as part of Pope John Paul II’s call for a new evan“It has happened to us before that by the time we finished addThe land in Loomis near Sacramento was purchased by Fred gelization, Sister Thomas Augustine said. ing onto the motherhouse in Ann Arbor we were already out of and Joan Cordova, a couple who received a direct-mail piece and “The thing to note is what we all have in common: the habit, room! This time we are hoping to stay ahead of things so we called in 2005 to say they wanted the order to come to California living a common life, devotion to the Eucharist and Our Lady, are planning for two new houses of formation.” absolute fidelity to the Church’s teachings and the influence of and would buy the sisters land.

Founded in 1997 by four Dominicans from the Nashville There are now eight sisters in the Sacramento diocese. Four John Paul II,” said Sister Augustine, who was a New York lawyer Dominicans, just 31 of the 110 Dominican Sisters of Mary, are teaching at Presentation School, an elementary school that before she joined. All eight of the California religious and six Mother of the Eucharist, have made final vows so far. The saw its enrollment jump by 44 students to 196 when the sis- from Arizona plan to walk in the Walk for Life West Coast Jan. remaining religious are in various stages of formation or educa- ters took over in the 2010-11 school year, said Kevin Eckery, 22 year with a banner, Sister Thomas Augustine said. tion and discernment, said Sister Thomas Augustine.

Find more information at www.sistersofmary.org or contact spokesman for Bishop Jaime Soto. “This is the first increase in “We’re not turning anyone away. We’ll sleep on the floor. enrollment in five years,” Eckery said.

Sister Thomas Augustine at mao-cadirector@sistersofmary.org

By Valerie Schmalz

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‘This is where I was led’ Lawyer to give up career for the greater promise of monastic life

By George Raine Tara Clemens has been living her dream: After she finished law school in 2007, she worked for a law firm in Portland doing work she enjoyed, and went on to co-found a firm in Anchorage where she assists clients planning for their future, some of whom are mulling end-of-life issues and making decisions about them. It’s perfect for Clemens.

“I love the law. I love the challenge,” she said.

Still, Clemens has been restless. “There was just something missing,” she said. For the past three years she has been asking God what he wanted her to do, no matter the law degree and launching a potentially lucrative career. She believes she has the answer: Clemens has been accepted for the postulancy, or the second step in the eight-year discernment process in becoming a cloistered nun at Corpus Christi Monastery in Menlo Park. It’s a far different world from the one seemingly laid out for Clemens, the one she worked hard to achieve. There will be no marriage, no family, but vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. Looking back over her life, however, she believes she has long been preparing for a religious life.

The seemingly dramatic turn of events in Clemens’ life comes as no surprise to her, certainly, because it’s a snapshot of a vocation: “By the time I finished law school, as much as I love law, everything from an outside perspective was exactly what I could have dreamed and what I did dream, at one point,” she said. “Still, there was something that was not quite right. And so I continued to ask the Lord, ‘What is it that you would have me do?’”

The answer, or the calling she heard, became clear after several visits to the Menlo Park Monastery. There also came over Clemens, she said, a sense of peace when she was certain she had heard her calling correctly. That peace, she said, “is beyond words. It is peace that God gives. It is unlike anything we will find in this world.”

Her Protestant family isn’t on board, and she must erase some $114,000 in college tuition costs before she is accepted formally at Corpus Christi, an enclosed cloistered independent monastery within the Dominican Order. But, like so much in Clemens’ life, she forecasts only positive resolution.

“This is where I was led,” she said.

Mother Disappoves It is not something that Clemens, 32, would have considered as a younger woman. She was reared in evangelical Protestant churches where a religious vocation was not a large part of the conversation. It is certainly not a route Clemens’ mother, Carol Clemens, supports.

In the summer of 2007, Carol Clemens, out of the blue and out of context, said on three occasions, “Promise me you are not going to become a nun,” said Tara Clemens, who the following year was baptized in the Catholic Church.

“We were making dinner plans” when the question was asked the first time, said Clemens. Her answer was always the same: The thought had not crossed her mind but she couldn’t make that promise because she didn’t know what God had in mind for her.

At the time, she was beginning her law practice, at the front end of her dream job, specializing in probate, estate planning and elder law issues, but all the while she was questioning whether that was the course intended for her.

She found a vocation prayer on the back of a holy card in a gift shop called The Grotto in Portland. She read it nearly every day: “O God, who enlightens the minds and inflames the hearts of the faithful by the Holy Spirit, grant that through the same spirit I may know my true vocation in life, and may have the grace to follow it faithfully. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.”

The following year, Clemens went on several retreats with religious communities. In February, 2010, she spent a month as a guest at Corpus Christi in what is called an “aspirancy” – time during which to determine if the enclosed contemplative life will be “compatible with her gifts,” as the Dominicans note on the monastery’s website.

It’s a life for a select few. “At the end of the aspirancy,” the site reads, “the woman returns to her home and in the midst of her normal life reflects on her experience with us. If she feels truly called to a commitment to his life, and the community reflecting on their experiences with her agree to the possibility of this call, she applies to enter as a postulant.”

Clemens says the call is unmistakable, and it has become clearer after spending time with the sisters in Menlo Park. Their devotion is palpable, she said.

“That is me,” she said. “One thing that is evident is

Tara Clemens: God “is calling me to a more perfect fulfillment of what he created me to be to begin with.”

their love for our Lord and their love and dedication for the Church,” she added. “This is what I was looking for.

That was the criteria for me in what I was looking for.”

Clemens said law school – Northwestern School of Law at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, which she attended after earning a degree at Washington State University – taught her to examine things critically. At the same time, the demands of law school did not permit her to spend a great deal of time at her Protestant church, but, being a faith-driven person, she felt the need to look critically at Protestant doctrine and, eventually, Catholic.

“I took stock of where I was and I realized I was not where I wanted to be in my relationship with God,” she said. “So, I began to pray, ‘Lord, show me your church.’”

That was her turning point to Catholicism.

Now that she is poised at the door of a monastery, is Clemens trying to reinvent herself?

Her answer: He is not asking her to become someone she is not – “not the new me,” she said. God does not call us to be different people, she said. “I would say that what he is calling me to is a more perfect fulfillment of what he created me to be to begin with.”

Clemens said that she has been open about her vocation with her devout Protestant family. “They still don’t understand, but I sympathize with that,” she said. “It is something that is difficult for many Catholics to understand. But, ultimately they love me, I know they love me and they just want what is best for me. They want what God would have for me.”

The remaining college debt, however, is currently the “last and only impediment” in Clemens’ path. Her target date to enter the monastery is June 8, pending resolution of the debt. There have been contributions; she owed $135,000 after earning her law degree. The contributions that have come her way are “very humbling and appreciated.” She added, “Deo gracias!”

Sisters Approve There are currently 14 professed sisters at Corpus Christi, and Clemens was “a good fit” during her monthlong visit, said Sister Mary of the Sacred Heart, the novice mistress, who worked closely with her. “We were very happy with her,” she said.

Clemens, she said, was comfortable with daily schedule of prayer, study, community work and more, and the sisters, who consider prospective applicants, voted to accept her, said Sister Mary. The screening includes a psychological examination, in addition to work history.

All debts of candidates must be resolved before they enter.

Clemens’ debt-reduction cause has been taken up by the Laboure Society, a St. Paul, Minn.-based group that assists with priestly and religious vocations through student loan resolution.

Two other women are also considering whether to apply for acceptance at Corpus Christi, where, since it is a contemplative community, vocations are few and far between, compared with active ministries of teaching, nursing, social work and other pursuits, said Sister Mary.

“If we get one or two a year, that is ideal. That’s really good,” she said.

Clemens’ efforts can be tracked on her blog at http:// supporttarasvocation.wordpress.com.

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Called to the fullness of ‘spiritual motherhood’

By Tara L. Clemens When I first started seriously discerning religious life, the prospect of not being a wife and mother was difficult. In one sense, it is similar to deciding whether to marry at all – a married person has made the choice to forgo marital intimacy with all others, to give themselves wholly to their spouse. Ideally, before marriage, each person has prayerfully discerned that their beloved is the one God has provided, the one who will be their spouse until death, and they are ready and willing to make the necessary sacrifices to live a married life.

As a person discerns religious life, you are walking a similar path – prayer- All women are fully discerning whether God would have you for- called to be sake marital intimacy with all others and belong only mothers … but to God. Your discernment continues after you enter a convent or monastery until God equips us final vows, when you make your commitment to God, and calls us having made the necessary sacrifices that would to do this in impede a religious life.

While I’d never been different ways. in a rush to get married – I enjoyed being single and free for God alone – I had, at the same time, assumed that someday I’d meet “Mr. Right-for-me” and we’d get married and start a family. At that time, it was a more difficult prospect than giving up a career, as much as I love my work.

Nonetheless, I had long realized that someday my family needs may require I sacrifice part or all of my career, so I’d already come to terms with the possibility.

Looking back, I realize I struggled more with giving up motherhood than giving up being a wife.

Then one day, I was listening to (global Catholic network) EWTN and a young sister was describing her calling to religious life. She, too, struggled with the idea of not being married and having children. An older sister told her two things which gave her peace: Just like the woman in the Gospel, she needed to break the alabaster jar of her life. In other words, she needed to give herself over completely to Jesus and his will for her. He knew what would make her supremely happy and for what purpose she was created. Second, she began to study and understand spiritual motherhood and, as Pope John Paul II described, the feminine genius.

All women are called to be mothers; all women are called to bring forth life into their homes, their communities, the public square, the world. But God equips us and calls us to do this in different ways. For most, this means being a mother in the traditional “raising a family” sense, being involved in parish life, careers and so on. But for women religious, it means spiritual motherhood for the church and the world.

As I studied this more and began to understand my vocation as a woman and particularly the spiritual motherhood of contemplative nuns, God gave me great peace and joy about my vocation and where I felt him leading me.

A few resources I found helpful in understanding the special call and gift of women were Pope John Paul II’s “Letter to Women” and his “Apostolic Letter on the Dignity and Vocation of Women.” Also, in 2007, the Congregation for the Clergy published a short, wonderful document on spiritual motherhood called “Eucharistic Adoration for the Sanctification of Priests and Spiritual Maternity.” Finally, I was also informed and inspired by Alice von Hildebrand, author of “The Privilege of Being a Woman”; Johnnette Benkovic, author of “Full of Grace: Women and the Abundant Life”; and Genevieve Kineke, who wrote “The Authentic Catholic Woman.”

The cloister garden, with a statue of St. Dominic, at Corpus Christi Monastery in Menlo Park.

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Women religious celebrate jubilees – 50 years – Sister Carol Marie Baum, BVM, (Joseph Louis) taught at St. Paul School in San Francisco. She has also been active in congregational service since 1997.

Sister Ann DeLeeuw, BVM, (Charles Ann) has been an educator and medical secretary. She taught at St. Paul and St. Brigid schools in San Francisco. Currently, she is teacher, medical secretary and medical records coder in Phoenix, Ariz.

Sister Bette Gambonini, BVM, (Esther Mary) was a music teacher at St. Paul Elementary School in San Francisco. Sister Bette has been active in congregational service since 1971.

Sister Patricia Peach, BVM, (Janet Irene) taught at St. Paul High School in San Francisco. She has also taught in Kansas City and St. Louis, Mo.; and Portland, Ore. Sister Linda Quinones, BVM, (Frances Jean) has ministered as secretary at the now-closed Most Holy Redeemer School and as secretary/librarian at St. Thomas More School, both in San Francisco. Since 2004, she has lived in Kilauea, Hawaii, and volunteers in hospice and at St. Catherine’s Parish and Senior Center.

Sister Marilyn K. Wilson, BVM, (Claudia), since 1980, has served primarily in campus, retreat and adult spirituality ministry and adult education in Santa Clara. She has been very active in congregational service since 1970.

Sisters of Mercy West Midwest Community – 75 years – Sister Martha Kiening, RSM, has served as a nursing supervisor at St. Mary’s Hospital, San Francisco and other facilities. She holds a degree in psychiatric nursing from Catholic University of America and helped in the founding of McAuley Psychiatric Institute at St. Mary’s. She also helped found the University of San Francisco School of Nursing.

– 60 years – Sister Mary Rose Christy, RSM, now retired, began ministry as a nurse. In 1991 she moved to Romania to reform the practices in orphanages there later beginning a social services organization serving families with food, clothing, rent money, job training and programs in family budgeting.

Sister Rose Davis, RSM, now serving in the ministry of prayer, holds a graduate degree in history from Loyola University and taught in elementary and high schools for 20 years in San Francisco and Los Angeles. She also served as a hospital wound care specialist and liaison for immigrants in Mexico.

Sister Marilyn Gouailhardou, RSM, taught elementary school at St. Gabriel and Holy Name schools in San Francisco and also taught at Mercy High School in Burlingame and Mercy High School in San Francisco. Sister Marilyn became the Sisters of Mercy Burlingame community archivist in 1993, a position she continues to hold.

Sister Loretto Hunt, RSM, a graduate of San Francisco’s now-closed St. Peter Academy, holds undergraduate and

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Former Anglican bishops received into Catholic Church LONDON – Three former Anglican bishops were received into the Catholic Church just hours after they officially gave up their ministries in the Church of England.

Bishops Andrew Burnham of Ebbsfleet, John Broadhurst of Fulham and Keith Newton of Richborough will be soon ordained as priests for a special Anglican ordinariate that will be set up in England later in January.

Their resignations took effect at midnight Dec. 31, and they were received into the Catholic Church the afternoon of Jan. 1 during a Mass in London’s Westminster Cathedral.

They were to be ordained as priests at a ceremony in the cathedral Jan. 15. They will be incardinated into the English ordinariate, which is expected to be formed by papal decree the second week of January, when Pope Benedict XVI is also expected to appoint an ordinary.

The ordinariate will be the first to be created since the pope issued the apostolic constitution “Anglicanorum coetibus” Nov. 4, 2009, to allow the group reception of disaffected Anglo-Catholics into the Catholic Church.

graduate degrees in education. She served for many years as an educator in the Archdiocese of San Francisco, and the dioceses of Oakland and Fresno and currently serves in a San Francisco crisis support program.

Sister Marietta McGannon, RSM, who holds graduate degrees in educational administration in higher education from San Fernando Valley College and in spirituality from Gonzaga University, taught at St. Peter’s School in San Francisco. She currently is retreat and spiritual director for the Sisters of Mercy in Burlingame.

Sister Barbara Moran, RSM, who holds a post-graduate degree in English from Catholic University of America, has taught kindergarten to college. Since 1998 she has been a docent at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco.

Sister Diana Petz, RSM, now retired, was for 25 years a teacher and principal at St. Gabriel and St Peter schools in San Francisco and St. Catherine of Siena school in Burlingame.

She served as a pastoral associate for the Hispanic community at St. Athanasius Parish in San Jose for 20 years.

Sister Helena Sanfilippo, RSM, holds a post-graduate degree in history from the University of Notre Dame and has taught at the elementary, secondary and college levels. She worked in Appalachia for eight years where she started a free clinic for the poor in Virginia.

Sister Paulina Simms, RSM, was principal of San Francisco’s St. Stephen School for 18 years. Since 2003 she has been a volunteer in the school library for St. Peter school in San Francisco’s Mission district.

Sister Maria Juanita van Bommel, RSM, taught for 35 years in the archdioceses of San Francisco and Los Angeles and dioceses of Fresno, Oakland and San Diego also serving as a homeless counselor and coordinator of volunteers. She also served in restorative justice ministry at Elmwood Correctional facility in Milpitas.

Sister Elizabeth Wekall, RSM, currently serving in Southern California, entered her lifelong ministry of education teaching in Catholic elementary schools in the archdioceses of San Francisco and dioceses of Oakland and San Diego.

– 50 years – Sister Patricia Beirne, RSM, currently serves in Los Angeles and has taught at St. Gabriel and Holy Name of Jesus schools in San Francisco and Our Lady of Angels School in Burlingame. She has also served extensively in the Los Angeles area. Photography is a part of her contemplation.

Sister Rosann Fraher, RSM, a San Francisco native, attended Mercy High School, San Francisco. She is a former principal of Mercy High School in Burlingame leading the school through an enrollment increase and expansion of academic programs and has taught junior high at St. Anne School in San Francisco since 2004.

Sister Mary Timothy Gallagher, RSM, now Nursing Director at St. Mary’s Medical Center in San Francisco, attended St. Cecilia School and Mercy High School, San Francisco. She holds a nursing degree from University of San Francisco and a health education degree from San Jose State.

Sister Toni Lynn Gallagher, RSM, is a graduate of Mercy High School, San Francisco, and for 23 years was religious

education coordinator at San Francisco’s St. Stephen School.

She has also worked with children suffering loss of a parent, and in programs assisting people living with HIV/AIDS. Sister Bernadette Hart, RSM, a graduate of Mercy High School, Burlingame, is now director of religious education at St. Gabriel Parish in San Francisco. During her time as vocation director she was drawn to spiritual direction and became a qualified spiritual director through a three-year program at Mercy Center.

Sister Marilyn King, RSM, holds a post-graduate degree in theology from St. Paul University as well as from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, and taught at the college level until 1980. Today, she lives at the Laura, a contemplative retreat in rural Kentucky ministering in outreach to rural neighbors.

Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary – 75 Years – Sister Sylvia Hamilton, PBVM, lives at the Presentation San Francisco Motherhouse and is engaged in the ministry of prayer for vocations. She began her ministry as a Catholic elementary and high school teacher in 1942 until 1981, with periods in Congregational roles including the fundraising for construction of the new Motherhouse on Turk Boulevard.

– 60 Years – Sister Bernard Joseph George, PBVM, currently volunteers as a caregiver. She began her ministry in Catholic education in 1949 at St. Anne School in San Francisco. Most recently, she served as Coordinator of Religious Education at South San Francisco’s Mater Dolorosa Parish from 1989 to 2007.

Sister Janet Harris, PBVM, began ministering in restorative justice ministry in 1969, focusing primarily on youth and gangs. In 1974, she began work with the Los Angeles Probation Department in a program with gangs. Sister Janet has focused her ministry on the escalating of punishment for juveniles, and communicating with young people.

Sister Joanne O’Shea, PBVM, volunteers at A Friendly Manor, a day time drop in center for needy women in Oakland.

A Catholic elementary school teacher from 1949 to 1981, Sister Joanne has lived and ministered in Berkeley since 1981 and has been a Case Manager with Catholic Social Services in the Oakland diocese.

Sister Jude Ristey, PBVM, a graduate of San Jose’s St. Patrick School and Notre Dame High School, ministers at the Archives of the Archdiocese of San Francisco in Menlo Park and taught in Catholic schools in San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Jose, Oakland, San Leandro, and Gilroy for 30 years.

Sister Vivian Vaccari, PBVM, now retired from full time ministry, has been involved in volunteer work and in pursuing an interest in eco-spirituality. Sister Vivian taught in many Bay Area Catholic schools and developed one of the first computer labs and computer science programs for Bay Area elementary age students.

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Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Archbishop Dolan reaffirms pledge to help pregnant women in need NEW YORK – In response to recent statistics revealing that 41 percent of pregnancies in New York City in 2009 ended in abortion, New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan reiterated the pledge of his predecessors to help any pregnant woman in need.

“Through Catholic Charities, adoption services, lobbying on behalf of pregnant women, mothers and infants, support of life-giving alternatives, health care and education of youth for healthy, responsible, virtuous sexual behavior, we’ve done our best to keep that promise and these haunting statistics only prod us to keep at it,” he said during a Jan. 6 interfaith news conference in New York.

The statistics were released in late December by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene in its annual summary of vital statistics. According to the figures, the 87,000 abortions performed in New York City in 2009 continues a pattern of decline from previous years, but the overall rate of abortions is much higher than the national average of 23 percent.

Bishop Cordileone to head bishops’ panel on marriage WASHINGTON – Archbishop Timothy Dolan, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, appointed Bishop Salvatore Cordileone of Oakland as chairman of the bishops’ Ad Hoc Committee for the Defense of Marriage. Bishop Cordileone succeeds Archbishop Joseph Kurtz of Louisville, Ky., who was elected vice president of the USCCB in November 2010.

“Marriage and the family are the essential coordinates for society,” Bishop Cordileone said. “How well we as a society protect and promote marriage and the family is the measure of how well we stand for the inviolable dignity and good of every individual in our society, without exception. The consequences for our future – especially that of our nation’s children – cannot be greater and must not be ignored.”

A Christian man in Juba, Southern Sudan, holds up a Bible as he chants slogans during a parade in support of the referendum on independence Jan. 9. Millions of jubilant Southern Sudanese started voting in a long-awaited independence referendum that is expected to see their warravaged region emerge as a new nation.

Collection for Latin America church set for Jan. 22-23 WASHINGTON – The 2011 Collection for the Church in Latin America is slated for the weekend of Jan. 22-23 in parishes across the country. This year’s theme, Keep Faith, summarizes the purpose of the collection as well as the challenges faced by the Catholic Church in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Donations to the collection will support evangelization in some of the poorest parts of the church by promoting lay-leadership programs as well as the education of seminarians and religious brothers and sisters who, together, help keep the Catholic faith alive in the part of the world where the majority of Catholics live.

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LOCAL NEWS Notre Dame de Namur University

University of San Francisco St. Mary’s Medical Center Auxiliary

USF students and volunteers helped 120 needy families with Thanksgiving baskets, including a turkey dinner Nov. 20. It was the 16th year for the effort, which takes place at USF’s War Memorial Gym. NDNU students and volunteers prepared and served Thanksgiving meals and fellowship to more than 300 homeless men, women and children in Golden Gate Park on Thanksgiving Day. It was the service project’s 18th year.

Our Lady of Loretto’s Helping Hands group raises $20,000 for needy

Sacred Heart Preparatory School, Atherton SHP’s eightman football team captured its first-ever Central Coast Section championship while the girls’ water polo team won their fourth consecutive CCS championship.

Filipino Ministry Consultative Board

Our Lady of Loretto Parish 2011-12 Chair Holli Lemos assisting with the Helping Hands Cake Walk at the parish’s Fall Festival 2010

By Tom Burke Helping Hands, however appropriate, seems a bit of an understatement as the name for a service group founded at Novato’s Our Lady of Loretto Parish 35 years ago. At Thanksgiving and Christmas alone, members raised more than $20,000 to benefit needy families with grocery and department store gift cards.

With a roster of more than 250 members, Helping Hands began as a welcoming committee for new parishioners and to assist fellow parishioners in times of need, according to Mary Alice Musante, a member for 25 years.

“I have experienced both the generosity of our members who have donated their time and talent and the tremendous thankfulness of those who have been recipients of their efforts,” Musante told Catholic San Francisco.

The Helping Hands tale is a story Musante is happy and proud to tell.

Members currently assist with the Comforting Meals program, which provides food for funeral receptions or for those experiencing poor health and the Easter Outreach bringing flowers to the sick and homebound as well as to those in assisted living and convalescent homes. Members also provide a breakfast reception after the Memorial Mass celebrated every year for families who have lost loved ones, and participate in a weekly prayer group to pray for parishioners’ special intentions.

“It has been enjoyable for me to work with such dedicated people and an honor to be a part of such a wonderful organization,” Musante said.

The Thanksgiving and Christmas Outreach programs were merged together for the first time this year and $20,350 was donated by parishioners and school families to ensure that 100 families in need received grocery and department store gift cards in time for Christmas.

“I have been involved in OLL Helping Hands since its inception over 35 years ago,” said co-chair Barbara Watson.

In the early days of her membership, when her and husband Jack’s three children were growing up, Watson’s participation was providing home cooking for a funeral reception or sick parishioner’s family.

Upon retirement and with Nicole, Brad and Jack grown, Watson became more active and has served as Helping Hands co-chair for the past two years with Teresa Olson. Watson’s son, Jack, is married to Olson’s daughter Erin. Watson and Olson are assisted in leadership of the group by committee chairs who organize the various ministries for participation by the rest of the membership.

“The work has reinforced my feelings of community as an Our Lady of Loretto parishioner,” Watson said, an OLL parishioner herself for 43 years. “As a Catholic, I have been inspired by the spirit of the group.”

The board has been appointed to assist in the work of the office of the archdiocesan Vicar for Filipinos, Father Eugene Tungol, pastor of Church of the Epiphany Parish in San Francisco. Pictured front from left are Peter Chan, Estrelle Chan, Nellie Hizon, Estelle Oloresisimo, Flor Nicolas, and Nenar Nicolas; back from left are Father Ted Magpayo, Father Arnold Zamora, Father Ed Dura, Father Tungol, Father Rene Ramoso and Loy Banez. Member Edgar Estonina was unavailable for the photo.

The annual Holiday Boutique sponsored by St. Mary’s Medical Center Auxiliary raised more than $14,000 to benefit the hospital’s cancer services. Organizers of the successful event included, front from left, Doris Gibson, Pauline McArdle and Mary Perata. Pictured back from left are Arlene Fife, Anita Fernandes, Cecilia Bermudez and Anne Hohener.

Unavailable for the photo was Ellenann Hughes.

Good Shepherd School, Pacifica Students held their first Jump-A-Thon to raise money for the school’s physical and health education programs. More than 200 youth jumped rope for periods as long as 15 minutes to qualify pledges from family and friends. Physical activity helps learning, growth of new brain cells, stress and self-esteem, the school said.

Holy Name School, San Francisco Each Christmas season, the San Francisco school collects newborn baby items for their Christ Child Layette. The Nativity scene displays the baby gifts for several weeks and replaces the Kris Kringle gift exchange for students. The gifts benefit the Christ Child Drive of the archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women and helps needy mothers and their newborn children.

Youth serve Christmas feast Notre Dame des Victoires to Handicapables gathering robotics team advances to state championship

Handicapables founder Nadine Calliguri welcomes Stella Frey to Christmas Mass and lunch. Also attending was Stella’s caregiver, Josefina Espanol.

Handicapables met for Christmas prayer and lunch Dec. 18 at St. Mary’s Cathedral. More than 150 members were expected but a bus transporting about 50 members from Laguna Hospital broke down en route. Bishop William Justice, principal celebrant of the monthly Mass, remembered the missing members in prayer. Conventual Franciscan Father Paul Gawlowski, pastor of St. Paul of the Shipwreck Parish, and Father Kirk Ullery, retired pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes Parish and Handicapables chaplain, concelebrated.

More than 50 youth from Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory School, and parishes including St. Paul of the Shipwreck, Our Lady of Lourdes, All Hallows, Mater Dolorosa, St. Hilary, St. Augustine and Our Lady of Mt. Carmel in Redwood City helped serve the meal. A 10-person crew of regular volunteers prepared the holiday fare in the Cathedral Hall kitchens. Vivian Clausing, associate director for youth ministry for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, also attended representing her office and assisting the youth on site.

“We always need volunteers,” said Nadine Calliguri, who founded Handicapables more than 40 years ago.

Handicapables continues its tradition of prayer and fellowship each month at St. Mary’s Cathedral. People interested in volunteering should call Jane at (415) 585-9085.

Notre Dame des Victoires School’s robotics team celebrates its success in regional competition.

The LEGO robotics team from Notre Dame des Victoires School “surprised everyone” in the school’s first foray into the field and is the only San Francisco Catholic school team to go to the state championship.

LEGO Mindstorm robotics competitions give grade school children an opportunity to build LEGO robots and then work as a team to get their robot to complete a work project during timed competitions.

The NDV team performed so well at the Northern California FFL Robotics Regional Tournament in Sacramento that it was one of 48 teams in Northern California to advance. An initial 384 teams competed, said Patty Hoyt, computer science teacher at the downtown San Francisco school. Hoyt said the teams are judged on four areas: teamwork, robot design, a biomedical engineering research project and the robotics competition.

“This rookie robotics team, NDV Dragon Bots, surprised everyone by their excellent performance,” Hoyt said. “They received many accolades from judges for being a well-rounded team in all areas especially teamwork skills and research.”

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Guest Commentary

God still calls, but are we listening?

Every year around January we have a week dedicated to vocations awareness, and more specifically, to prayer for vocations to the priesthood and religious life. Even though this is an annual event, and our archdiocese is serious in its task of getting the message out, we also have many difficulties. For instance, it’s difficult to convey the message of life commitment, let alone vocation to the priesthood and religious life, to a postmodern audience.

Let me give you a personal experience of how tough it is to encourage vocations in the Bay Area. When I was in my late teens a decade ago, I often listened to people from other countries who didn’t have religious freedom and had to face hardships, even persecution, in order to become priests and religious. I was inspired by the stories, but the message somehow didn’t touch my heart to make a decision to enter the seminary. The stories were good, but they didn’t fit in with my experience. I lived in an MTV culture, and I asked, “What does that have to do with me?” whenever I sat through another vocations story. The logical question is, of course, what prompted me to take the decisive step? It was in 2005 when my parish priest was preaching about our anger at church leadership regarding the sexual abuse scandal. He said we often complain about problems, but have we ever thought about what we can do?

The priest’s homily instantly touched my heart because it spoke to my experience. I was disappointed by the actions of some members of the clergy, but the Catholic faith was, still is and always will be, important to me, so important that I considered the priest’s homily as a call to action. My generation is

postmodern and millennial. We place high value on experience, and if someone can speak on what we are experiencing right now, the message will certainly get through, as the case of my parish priest shows. Our attention span is very short also, and if we don’t connect with what you’re saying right away, we just tune out. Nothing personal – it’s how we’re wired.

Our attention span is very short also, and if we don’t connect with what you’re saying right away, we just tune out. Nothing personal – it’s how we’re wired.

Jesus Christ certainly understood this concept even though he lived in first-century Palestine. When he called the first disciples, Christ didn’t begin by theologizing on who he is, say, by reading the first chapter of the Gospel of John. Instead, he met and invited the disciples where they were – speaking through their experience, with just a simple invitation: “Come, follow me.” People were busy when the invitation came, just like today when life can be so hectic, yet his message of vocation was still able to cut through the fishing nets (Matthew 4:20), money of a tax collector (Matthew 9:9) and the political agenda (Matthew

16:22). At other times, Christ called those who were seeking a deeper meaning in life, like the rich young man who has kept all the commandments since his youth (Matthew 19:16), or those who had no idea Dat Nguyen what they want to do in life (Matthew 20:1).

I would like to write a few personal words to those who are discerning a vocation in ministry. I encourage you to pray and contact our archdiocesan vocations director, Father Tom Daly, for guidance. If you’re afraid of “follow-up calls,” the vocations director doesn’t have the same role as a military recruiter; the director’s role is to help you, and the church, discern your calling without pressure. Once you’re ready to take the next step, by entering a seminary or religious community, don’t expect perfection.

I can say from experience I’ve made mistakes and exercised poor judgment. Nevertheless, through my personal shortcomings, I can evaluate in an authentic way whether I truly have a vocation to the priesthood. I invite you to take the next step after reading this article.

Nguyen is studying for the Archdiocese of San Francisco at St. Patrick’s Seminary & University in Menlo Park. He is in his last year of theology studies.

‘Only the truth saves’

By Pope Benedict XVI The following is excerpted from the pope’s Dec. 20, 2010, Christmas address to the Roman Curia.

We had begun the Year for Priests with great joy and, thank God, we were also able to conclude it with great gratitude, despite the fact that it unfolded so differently from the way we had expected. Among us priests and among the lay faithful, especially the young, there was a renewed awareness of what a great gift the Lord has entrusted to us in the priesthood of the Catholic Church.

We were all the more dismayed, then, when in this year of all years – and to a degree we could not have imagined – we came to know of abuse of minors committed by priests who twist the sacrament into its antithesis, and under the mantle of the sacred profoundly wound human persons in their childhood, damaging them for a whole lifetime.

In this context, a vision of St. Hildegard of Bingen came to my mind, a vision which describes in a shocking way what we have lived through this past year: “In the year of our Lord’s incarnation 1170, I had been lying on my sick-bed for a long time when, fully conscious in body and in mind, I had a vision of a woman of such beauty that the human mind is unable to comprehend. She stretched in height from earth

to heaven. Her face shone with exceeding brightness and her gaze was fixed on heaven. She was dressed in a dazzling robe of white silk and draped in a cloak, adorned with stones of great price. On her feet she wore shoes of onyx. But her face was stained with dust, her robe was ripped down the right side, her cloak had lost its sheen of beauty and her shoes had been blackened. And she herself, in a voice loud with sorrow, was calling to the heights of heaven, saying, ‘Hear, heaven, how my face is sullied; mourn, earth, that my robe is torn; tremble, abyss, because my shoes are blackened!’”

And she continued: “I lay hidden in the heart of the Father until the Son of Man, who was conceived and born in virginity, poured out his blood. With that same blood as his dowry, he made me his betrothed. For my Bridegroom’s wounds remain fresh and open as long as the wounds of men’s sins continue to gape. And Christ’s wounds remain open because of the sins of priests. They tear my robe, since they are violators of the Law, the Gospel and their own priesthood; they darken my cloak by neglecting, in every way, the precepts which they are meant to uphold; my shoes too are blackened, since priests do not keep to the straight paths of justice, which are hard and rugged, or set good examples to those beneath them.

Nevertheless, in some of them I find the splendor of truth.”

Catholic san Francisco Northern California’s Weekly Catholic Newspaper

Thanks for kindness to troops abroad I’ve been wanting to thank you for the article (“Christmas in Afghanistan,” Nov. 3, 2010). You have no idea how the community responded. It was awesome.

Letters welcome Catholic San Francisco welcomes letters from its readers.

Please send your letters to: Catholic San Francisco One Peter Yorke Way San Francisco, CA 94109 Fax: (415) 614-5641 E-mail: delvecchior@sfarchdiocese.org, include “Letters” in the subject line.

We sent over 45 boxes to our troops and still have an inventory of things we plan to send as they will be there through the end of March, and January and February can be awfully dreary months.

Again, thank you. You played a huge role in the success of this effort.

Norma Gomez The writer is the city clerk of San Mateo.

Commends image I commend the photographer of Sister Helen Prejean and Camila Ascencio (“Sister Helen Prejean: ‘Do we only uphold the dignity of innocent life?’” Nov. 19, 2010), who captured their radiance, beauty and inner joy that the critics of the picture (Letters, Dec. 3 and Dec. 10) failed to see.

Rose M. Jardin San Bruno

In the vision of St. Hildegard, the face of the Church is stained with dust, and this is how we have seen it. Her garment is torn – by the sins of priests. The way she saw and expressed it is the way we have experienced it this year.

We must accept this humiliation as an exhortation to truth and a call to renewal. Only the truth saves. We must ask ourselves what we can do to repair as much as possible the injustice that has occurred. We must ask ourselves what was wrong in our proclamation, in our whole way of living the Christian life, to allow such a thing to happen.

We must discover a new resoluteness in faith and in doing good. We must be capable of doing penance. We must be determined to make every possible effort in priestly formation to prevent anything of the kind from happening again.

This is also the moment to offer heartfelt thanks to all those who work to help victims and to restore their trust in the Church, their capacity to believe her message. In my meetings with victims of this sin, I have also always found people who, with great dedication, stand alongside those who suffer and have been damaged. This is also the occasion to thank the many good priests who act as channels of the Lord’s goodness in humility and fidelity and, amid the devastations, bear witness to the unforfeited beauty of the priesthood.

Thanks, Father Brown A heartfelt thanks to Father Bill Brown for the insight and kindness expressed in his recent letter (Dec. 10, 2010).

Bev Rowden San Rafael

Pro-life march drew positive response

of the pro-life movement which is trying to stop the thousands of child sacrifices daily here in America that occur in abortions. My gratitude to all those good people who took the time to march and pray with us, upholding our Catholic faith and shining the light of Christ in the darkness of our society.

Jessica Munn Foster City

L Fight for life as the basic of rights E most The Walk for Life West Coast is T at hand.

All of us treasure life as the highest good. We all should cherish our physical T lives – just observe the long lines at the prescription counter in any pharmacy. though, are not interested when E Many, others are murdered before they can take first breath of life. Pope John Paul R their II put it this way: “The most basic and fundamental right is the right to life and S supersedes all other rights.” The cold

This past Sunday (Dec. 12, 2010), was the feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe as well as the third Sunday of Advent. On that day was held the annual pro-life march in San Mateo.

This time the participants, while praying the rosary to end abortion and processing beneath the banner of Our Lady of Guadalupe, took a different route. The new route included a number of blocks along El Camino Real in the heart of San Mateo. To our delight, we received many positive responses (and only one negative response) along the way. Why do we do this? Our Lady of Guadalupe is the patroness of the pre-born. In the image she is pregnant, and back in 1531, when she appeared to Juan Diego, there was much child sacrifice to the Aztec gods.

After her appearance, millions of Aztecs converted to Christianity and the child sacrifices stopped. Today she is hailed as the patroness

winds of euthanasia are blowing south from the state of Oregon. My head with a normal amount of white hair is not far from the morphine guillotine. Fellow Catholics I have this advice: Pray for all life and vote against the culture of death.

Roy Petri San Anselmo

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The Catholic Difference

Reaffirming Catholic identity Throughout his recently completed three-year term as president of U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Cardinal Francis George, OMI, gently but firmly led his brother bishops through a reflection on their duties as defenders of the integrity of the Catholic “brand.” A deeper commitment on the bishops’ part to being the stewards of Catholic identity in their dioceses was, one may speculate, one factor in the election of Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York — a robust defender of Catholic truth — as Cardinal George’s successor in the president’s chair at the USCCB. Not everything that is labeled “Catholic” warrants that label, the bishops have come to understand; and if anyone is to do something about that, the bishops are going to have to be the principal agents of change.

The debate about the Catholic identity of Catholic institutions of higher education has been underway for decades, and may well take some interesting turns in the years ahead. At the moment, however, the hottest of hot buttons on this front involve health care institutions that call themselves “Catholic” but which have acquiesced to practices approved by an increasingly aggressive secular culture — and to the lure of government dollars. On that new front in the campaign to reaffirm Catholic identity, Bishop Thomas Olmsted of Phoenix has become an important leader.

Bishop Olmsted inherited a terrible situation in Phoenix: the previous bishop had been disgraced; the local legal authorities had stated publicly that they could not trust the church to police its own house in matters

of sexual abuse, and proposed to take over that function themselves. Bishop Olmsted didn’t squawk, nor did he deny that serious problems existed. Rather, he quietly and decisively set about fixing what needed fixing, so that the public authorities were soon content to revert to a more normal church/state relationship.

Then, in 2009, a “therapeutic” abortion was performed at Phoenix’s St. Joseph’s Hospital, a part of the Catholic Healthcare West system. When Bishop Olmsted wrote the president of CHW, asking what on earth was going on, CHW attempted to justify what had happened through arguments advanced by M. Therese Lysaught, who teaches theology at Marquette University. Bishop Olmsted was not impressed, and informed CHW that it was his duty, as the local bishop, to be the authoritative interpreter of the moral law in his diocese and the authoritative interpreter of the hospital guidelines adopted by the USCCB. And the bishop went on to state that, on Dec. 17, 2010, he would declare that St. Joseph’s Hospital is no longer to be considered a Catholic institution — unless CHW admits that the 2009 abortion that happened there violated the U.S. bishops’ norms and unless CHW pledges that such an abomination will not happen again.

However the Phoenix situation eventually sorts out, an important marker has been laid down by a bishop known for both his integrity and his personal sanctity. Bishop Olmsted will undoubtedly be criticized by those for whom “dialogue” is the holy grail of Catholic life. But in our current cultural situation (and given the pressures that the

Obama administration and unsympathetic state governments are likely to increase on Catholic health care facilities), the call for “dialogue” too often amounts to a prescription for slowGeorge Weigel motion surrender, with the Catholic identity of Catholic institutions being slowly whittled away while the “dialogue” partners carry on.

The Catholic integrity of Catholic educational and health care institutions was at stake when those institutions were segregated in the 1950s and early 1960s; brave bishops like Joseph Ritter in St. Louis, Joseph Rummel in New Orleans, and Lawrence Shehan in Baltimore took a lot of heat, but did what they had to do to bring the conduct of Catholic institutions into sync with the church’s teaching on human dignity. No less ought to be expected of the church’s ordained leaders today, when the stakes are just as high, although the issues have changed. So full marks to Cardinal George for putting the issue of Catholic identity on the bishops’ plates, and full marks to Bishop Olmsted for giving that new commitment real teeth.

George Weigel is Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.

Consider This

An opening for faith on the public agenda?

Perhaps it may be premature to call it a trend, but some catch-up reading over the holidays seemed to surface more and more books and articles with the theme of regretting the loss of influence of religion in public life.

Ross Douthat, a New York Times columnist, commented on the National Marriage Project study reporting the decline of the two-parent family among those 60 percent of Americans with high school diplomas but with no college degree.

“American churches seem to have trouble reaching the people left behind,” wrote Douthat. “This is bad news for both Christianity and the country. The reinforcing bonds of strong families and strong religious communities have been crucial to working-class prosperity in America.”

Olivier Roy, the author of “Holy Ignorance: When Religion and Culture Part Ways,” writes that religion “is both more visible and at the same time frequently in decline.”

Roy’s point, Alan Wolfe says in a review, is that religion “cedes so much to the secular world that it can no longer offer a transcendental alternative to it.”

This giving in to the world is seen in the complaint “that’s not realistic in today’s world” when realism is

defined as the need to adjust faith to meet the values of the world rather than vice versa.

Douthat decries the lack of interest in maintaining strong families as evidenced by the National Marriage Project study.

“Yet today no religious body seems equipped to play the kind of stabilizing role in the lives of the ‘moderately educated middle’ (let alone high school dropouts) that the early 20th-century Catholic Church played among the ethnic working class.”

Thanks for the compliment, but the church is ever active – and sometimes alone – in supporting family values.

One reason why religion is seen to be ceding things to the secular world is a lack of understanding among believers about what is fundamental to their faith.

Issues of human dignity, such as health care, are nonnegotiable. The methods used to achieve goals are, perhaps, negotiable, but not the principles. Health care is not “nice” or something that should be done. Marriage certainly is another issue fundamental to the dignity of the human person.

It is the moral responsibility of nations to guarantee access to health care for all of their citizens regardless of social and economic status or their ability to pay, Pope Benedict XVI said in a message to an international health

care ministry conference in November.

“The care of man, his transcendent dignity and his inalienable rights” are of concern to Christians, he said.

“Justice in health care Stephen Kent should be a priority of governments and international institutions,” the pope added.

This is good to keep in mind as the 112th Congress begins its two-year life this month in Washington.

There is this sense that religion and faith have something to offer to the culture and to the world. A grudging recognition of the value of religion, of faith in life, is something that could lead Roy’s “transcendental alternative” in the contentious months to come.

Kent, now retired, was editor of archdiocesan newspapers in Omaha and Seattle.

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Twenty Something

Secondhand books and recycled grace Nothing feels like a better bargain than a one-cent book, so I always click on Amazon’s used category.

Not only does it save me money, it comes with the added benefit of footprints from a previous reader – marks flagging the sentences that struck someone somewhere, a person who can unknowingly offer me a flashlight for the story ahead.

I also look for clues to identity – a library stamp, a cursive inscription – and marvel at the book’s journey.

Joseph Cardinal Bernardin’s end-of-life reflection “The Gift Of Peace” was passed from a daughter to a mother, then back to a daughter from a mother – with Goodwill in between.

When I read the note inside, dated April 1998, “To Mom – All my love, Mary,” I knew a similar love brought it to me.

Then there’s the “Chicken Soup For the Soul: Living Your Dreams” edition, copyright 2003. Amazon offers 121 used copies – 18 for a penny – but mine came through Sam’s Club, where it sold for $7.47, down from its cover price of $12.95, and was later consigned for a dollar.

The first chapter includes a goal sheet for the reader to fill out. A previous owner played by the rules, leaving secrets in black ink.

He vowed to triple his income of $30,000 and lose half

of his 240 pounds. “My ideal soul mate is: someone I can talk with, share things we like to do together,” he wrote in the book. “My right livelihood is: be my own boss. Other dreams I have are: a home on a lake.”

It’s not just hand-me-down books that become hand-medown wisdom. As I orient to 2011, I’m thinking of all the things we share: recipes and knock-knock jokes, bobby pins and bug spray. Parking spaces and prayer cards, passwords and priests. How impossible a year would be if I were left to my own bag of tricks.

Giving something small can have a big effect, cracking open the heart and sharpening a sense of purpose. I know for sure that generosity invites grace, and I’m determined to welcome the new year with upturned palms, as the cheerful giver God loves. When we share we are drawn into community, practical support underlined by neighborly affection.

Our year begins with Epiphany, when the Magi from the East follow the star. Along the way they share bread and blankets. Their fellowship guides and sustains them, carrying them to Bethlehem where they drop to the ground in worship of the Christ Child. “Then they opened their treasures and offered him gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh.”

We are prepared for this well-known Gospel by a short second reading, when St. Paul tells the Ephesians about “the stewardship of God’s grace that was given to me for your benefit.” And Christina therein is the key to it all, that we are merely stewCapecchi ards of the blessings and crock pots and laptops in our homes. We do not own them; we are temporary keepers. In that spirit we do not count or collect but give freely.

When we embrace the call to community and stewardship, it becomes easier to journey toward the star. As you do, look out for the pilgrims who fall into stride with you, if even for an hour.

And together, leave bread crumbs for the ones who will follow.

Christina Capecchi is a freelance writer from Inver Grove Heights, Minn.

She can be reached at www.ReadChristina.com.

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A READING FROM THE BOOK OF ISAIAH IS 49:3, 5-6 The Lord said to me: You are my servant, Israel, through whom I show my glory.

Now the Lord has spoken who formed me as his servant from the womb, that Jacob may be brought back to him and Israel gathered to him; and I am made glorious in the sight of the Lord, and my God is now my strength! It is too little, the Lord says, for you to be my servant, to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and restore the survivors of Israel; I will make you a light to the nations, that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth.

RESPONSORIAL PSALM PS 40:2, 4, 7-8, 8-9, 10 R. Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will.

I have waited, waited for the Lord, and he stooped toward me and heard my cry. And he put a new song into my mouth, a hymn to our God. R. Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will.

January 14, 2011

Second Sunday in Ordinary Time Isaiah 49:5-6; Psalm 40:2, 4, 7-8, 8-9, 10; I Corinthians 1:1-3; John 1:29-34 Sacrifice or offering you wished not, but ears open to obedience you gave me. Holocausts or sin-offerings you sought not; then said I, “Behold I come.”

R. Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will.

“In the written scroll it is prescribed for me, to do your will, O my God, is my delight, and your law is within my heart!”

R. Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will.

I announced your justice in the vast assembly; I did not restrain my lips, as you, O Lord, know.

R. Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will.

A READING FROM THE FIRST LETTER OF PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS 1 COR 1:1-3 Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother, to the church of God that is in Corinth, to you who have been sanctified

“I

am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world,” said Mother Teresa. She had the conviction that through her, God was speaking a message of love to the world.

God’s word is spoken and written to the world in every age and nation, addressing the longings and hopes of the human family.

God chooses each of us to help him write the love letters to the world of today, for our times and needs.

Before God can use us as his messengers of love and peace, he will call us to respond personally to his love and beauty. This call will echo in our individual hearts and be mediated through family and parish, through those who shape and inspire us. That is what happened to Mother Teresa. First, she responded to God’s call to become a Loreto nun, which brought her from Albania to India. Within her vocation there came another call: to do “something beautiful for God” by spending her life for the poorest of the poor. The rest, as they say, is history.

We are also reminded of the life of St. Anthony of Padua, who started out as an Augustinian monk, then turned into a Franciscan. He too received a call within a call to write God’s love letters to the world. When he died at age 36, he had made a great impact on the early 13thcentury Christianity, through his piety and preaching.

God is calling us to be with him in this world and act as his messengers. But it is not a static call that happens once for all. God keeps calling us for deeper commitment and greater dedication. In order for us to be more

Scripture reflection FATHER CHARLES PUTHOTA

Hearing the call within a call alive to what happens in our own lives and circumstances, God keeps giving us a call within a call within a call. We need to be alert and generous to such a God who fulfills our life by asking us to give everything of ourselves for love of God and neighbor. To use T.S. Eliot’s language in “Four Quartets,” this will be a commitment “costing not less than everything.”

The Word of God this Sunday invites us to grapple with the God who keeps calling us to respond to him in continuous and evernew ways. From the memorable Chapter 49 of Isaiah, we see the second song of the suffering servant who is called that “Jacob may be brought back to him and Israel gathered to him.” However, this call given to the servant to bring Israel back to God leads to another call, a call within a call. The first call is “too little, the Lord says, … to

restore the survivors of Israel; I will make you a light to the nations, that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth.” The suffering servant, widely interpreted as the Messiah to come, is called to gather up not only Israel but the whole world.

Following the attitude of “Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will” (Responsorial Psalm), Paul is convinced that he is “called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God.” Paul was to preach the good news to Corinth, a cosmopolitan harbor town known for its philosophy, commerce, and immorality. He had received the call to leave his old religion and culture and enter the new world of Jesus Christ. Within this call to follow Christ, came another call to share the good news with the Gentiles so that salvation may be attained by all peoples of the world.

in Christ Jesus, called to be holy, with all those everywhere who call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours. Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

A READING FROM THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JOHN JN 1:29-34 John the Baptist saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world. He is the one of whom I said, ‘A man is coming after me who ranks ahead of me because he existed before me.’ I did not know him, but the reason why I came baptizing with water was that he might be made known to Israel.” John testified further, saying, “I saw the Spirit come down like a dove from heaven and remain upon him. I did not know him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water told me, ‘On whomever you see the Spirit come down and remain, he is the one who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.’ Now I have seen and testified that he is the Son of God.” The Gospel story of John the Baptist’s testimony to Jesus continues the theme of the manifestation of Jesus that occurred at Christmas, heightened at the Epiphany, and intensified at the baptism of the Lord. Jesus continues to be manifested, now through the call of the baptizer to bear witness to him. The continuation of today’s passage in John’s Gospel will give us the event of John’s two disciples becoming Jesus’ disciples.

The call of John the Baptist itself is not only to point to Jesus as the Lamb of God but to convince people to become the disciples of Jesus, the one who will baptize people with the Holy Spirit. The next Sunday’s Gospel from Matthew – the call of the first four apostles – focuses on how the call of Jesus is widened to many others. In other words, our personal call to be a disciple of Jesus enshrines within it the call to lead and inspire others to embrace the discipleship of Jesus.

Good Pope John XXIII once asked a group of people what the purpose of our life was. Various answers were given along the lines of reaching heaven, loving God, serving him, and attaining salvation. The pope said that it was all good, but not adequate.

We have to help others, too, to love and serve God and attain their salvation. What he meant was that others’ happiness and fulfillment are necessarily built into our own.

Now, there is for us the call within the call!

Father Charles Puthota, Ph.D., is pastor of St. Veronica Church, South San Francisco.

Spirituality for Today

Evangelizing through a yearly “come home” program I would love to see a “come home” program offered in every parish throughout the world at least once a year.

Jesus placed such a high priority on the church’s effort to reach out to the lost sheep. In Matthew 18:14, he said, “It is not the will of your heavenly Father that one of these little ones be lost.”

Seeking after the lost sheep is certainly one of the most important priorities in the Gospels.

Evangelization is much more than the noun form of the verb “to evangelize,” which means “to preach the Gospel.”

The word “evangelization” also means different things to different people. Preaching a Sunday sermon, for example, is a form of evangelization, but Jesus wants the laity involved as well as the clergy; he wants more than a sermon in church.

We who claim Christ as our Lord have to go after the lost sheep; we can’t expect them to come to us.

Religious teachers are all evangelists, but schoolroom evangelization is a remote and indirect way of reaching lost souls. You have to persuade the students to devote themselves to the art of seeking after lost souls in whatever way possible.

While classroom evangelization is a good and noble thing, it is essentially the act of saving the saved.

Granted, the missionary spirit must be part of our training.

Evangelization, in the purest sense, is missionary in nature.

However, caring for the saved is not the same as reaching out to those who have strayed.

In our schools and universities, we teach the faith to willing listeners (and some not so willing). But true evangelization is found in the effort to awaken a person to the possibility of spiritual danger in going it alone.

We all need a port in the storm of life. A little lamb doesn’t stand much of a chance in a cold world full of prowling wolves.

Good parents deserve to be applauded for their sacrifices in providing a spiritual foundation for their children.

The children may fall away later in life, but if they have been formed in the faith, many of them will come back to their Catholic faith later when they feel the need.

How lapsed Catholics live without the Eucharist is baffling to me. Perhaps they no longer believe in Christ’s real presence in the Eucharist. When that level of faith is gone, it is no wonder that many of them have no interest in returning to the Catholic faith.

A lack of faith is the most difficult obstacle to bringing the lost sheep home. However, I still have high hope.

A recent Gallup Poll told us that 40 percent of lapsed Catholics would consider returning to the church – if invited.

So they need us to remind them that we love them and want them back!

The Second Vatican Council defined the church as the sinful people of God. As such, we need to assure returning John Catoir Catholics that there is always room for one more sinner. If they claim they are without sin, then they really need our prayers.

Everyone needs God’s grace to overcome the darkness.

Fear is a sure sign of the need for an increase of sanctifying grace. Survival and eternal salvation are at stake.

Winning back those who have abandoned the Catholic Church is not as daunting as one would think. The thing to keep in mind is the supernatural perspective of Jesus: “There will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over 99 righteous people who have no need of repentance” (Luke 15:7).

Father John Catoir, head of St. Jude Media, writes a column for Catholic News Service.

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Sister Rita McCloskey, OP, former St. Raymond religious ed director Sinsinawa Dominican Sister Rita McCloskey Park, as director of religious education, adult (Marie Brian) died Dec. 21, 2010. The funeral education coordinator, and as volunteer in adult faith formation from 1989 Mass was celebrated in Queen of through 2009. the Rosary Chapel at Sinsinawa, Born March 28, 1927, in Wis., Dec. 28 with burial in the Illinois, she is survived by nieces Motherhouse Cemetery. and her Dominican Sisters with Sister Rita made her first whom she shared life for 63 religious profession as a years.

Sinsinawa Dominican Aug. 5, Memorials may be made to 1947, and her final profession the Sinsinawa Dominicans, 585 Aug. 5, 1950. She ministered County Road Z, Sinsinawa, WI in education as a teacher and 53824-9701 or online at www. administrator for 41 years and sinsinawa.org by clicking on in religious education and adult Sister Rita Donate to Us, then Honors and faith formation for 20 years.

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Funeral service for Redwood City soldier killed in Afghanistan A funeral service for a Redwood City soldier killed in Afghanistan was held Dec. 20 at St. Gregory Church in San Mateo.

U.S. Army Spc. Derek T. Simonetta, 21, of Redwood City, died Dec. 12 in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked an Army unit with an improvised explosive device. Simonetta was one of six people killed in the attack.

Another Californian, Army Spec. Kenneth E. Necochea Jr., of San Diego, also died.

The soldiers were assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), at Fort Campbell, Ky. Both then – California Gov. Arnold

Schwarzenegger and Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear ordered that flags at state office buildings be lowered to half-staff in honor of the soldiers.

Simonetta was a recipient of the Bronze Star, Purple Heart and Combat Infantryman’s Badge. He was reared in the Bay Area and attended Central Valley High School in Redding and Carlmont High School in Belmont. He is survived by his widow, Kimberly Anne Simonetta; his father, Jim Lemp; his mother, Tanya Simonetta, and brother, Jordan Simonetta. He is also survived by his grandparents, Paul and Bonnie Simonetta and James and Lucy Lemp; great grandmother, Mary Beffa, and aunt, Sandra Gonser.

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Archdiocese begins year of preparation to adopt Mass text changes

By Patrick Vallez-Kelly We’re at 317 days and counting. According to the U.S. bishops’ website on the new edition of the Roman Missal, this is the number of days until the Catholic Church in the U.S. begins to celebrate the Mass using the first major English-language updates to it in more than 25 years.

Embracing the revised Roman Missal The missal, also known as the Sacramentary in its present form, is the English translation of the “Missale Romanum,” the church’s official ritual book in Latin containing prayer texts and instructions for the celebration of the Mass. The new, Third Edition contains updates to the universal and U.S. sanctoral cycles, new prefaces for Eucharistic prayers, new Masses for various occasions, additional dismissal formulas – for example, “Go in peace, glorifying the Lord by your life” – and an extensively revised English translation of most of the texts of the Mass.

I’m both anxious and hopeful about the challenges and possibilities that come with the revised Missal. “What will we do with these 317 days, the time that we are given?” is a question that arises as both a challenge and a possibility. Over the course of 2011, within the Archdiocese of San Francisco and throughout the country, we will make efforts not only to

Budget . . .

■ Continued from cover but slashes $1.7 billion from Medi-Cal, $1.5 billion from the CalWorks welfare-to-work program and $750 million from the Department of Developmental Services, which provides care for developmentally disabled adults.

The budget cuts $500 million from the University of California and $500 million from the California State University system. Community colleges would be cut by $400 million. State employees not covered by union contracts will see a 10 percent reduction in take home pay to save $308 million, Brown said. Another $200 million would be saved via state government reorganization.

Brown’s budget proposes total spending of $127.4 billion

inform church members about revisions that have been made to the missal, but also to form ourselves for a fuller, more conscious and more active participation in the liturgy.

To this end Archbishop George Niederauer recently announced a Year of Renewal in Worship and Prayer for the archdiocese, extending until the Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord on Jan. 8, 2012. During the year the revised English Mass texts will be introduced gradually outside of Mass to integrate the spoken or sung words into the spiritual lives of all as the day of implementation draws closer, the archbishop wrote in his announcement Oct. 12.

“This Year of Renewal is an opportunity for enhanced catechesis and personal reflection for all as we prepare to implement the revised English texts of the Roman Missal on the First Sunday of Advent, Nov.27, 2011,’’ Archbishop Niederauer wrote.

The archdiocesan Plan for Study and Reflection, he continued, “provides an outline of catechetical objectives for classes, workshops, and study groups to assist pastors, catechists, educators, and other parish leaders in making this time of preparation, study, and reflection a fruitful experience for all the faithful.”

Just within the past week the church has seen the liturgical season of Christmas come to a close, yet the rich and powerful mystery of God becoming human in the person of Jesus Christ remains. We will do well to be mindful of the mystery of the Incarnation, especially as we make our way through this year’s administrative and catechetical process that, at times, may seem all-too-filled with human limitations.

Through it all we should look for God’s hand in the work and remember our own Christian potential to help bring about the renewal that we all desire.

The overarching title and theme for the Year of Renewal in Worship and Prayer is “Lift Up Your Hearts!” In the liturgy, these words are a call to prayer. May they be a call to that and more – to hope and encouragement – in these next 317 days and beyond.

for the 2011-12 fiscal year, with $84.6 billion in general fund spending. The budget would eliminate an 18-month budget gap estimated at $25.4 billion, comprised of a current year shortfall of $8.2 billion and a budget year 2011-12 shortfall of $17.2 billion. Another $1 billion would be placed in a rainy-day fund for a total of $26.4 billion.

The California Catholic Conference said much remains to be done for Brown’s budget fix to work.

“Whether the Legislature will respond to the governor’s proposals by reviewing the cuts and by placing the requested tax proposition on the ballot and whether voters will accept the ‘shared’ sacrifice remains to be seen,” the California Catholic Conference said in its statement. “If the cuts are perceived to be applied justly and the revenues are raised fairly, we believe that the public will support the proposed budget solution.”

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Patrick Vallez-Kelly is director of the Office of Worship for the Archdiocese of San Francisco. He will write an occasional column for Catholic San Francisco during the Year of Renewal. The copyrighted art work, “Sursum Corda,” is by Joseph Patrick Murphy.

Archbishop George Niederauer will preside at a Mass and Anointing of the Sick on Feb. 12 at noon at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard in San Francisco.

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■ Continued from page 7 Ministries; and Kathleen Eaton, founder of Birth Choice Health Clinics.

The day will begin with 8 a.m. Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral, celebrated by Archbishop

Niederauer and concelebrated by brother bishops, said Vicki Evans, Respect Life coordinator for the archdiocese. Joining to concelebrate will be Priests for Life founder Father Frank Pavone; Ignatius Press founder Jesuit Father Joseph Fessio; and University of San Francisco President Jesuit Father Stephen Privett.

A youth rally will be held at 3 p.m. at Fort Mason.

The 24th Annual Interfaith Memorial Service for the Victims of Abortion will be held at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 21 at the cathedral.

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EWTN will broadcast live from the Walk for Life beginning at 10 a.m. in Justin Herman Plaza. A rebroadcast will air Jan. 23 at 6:30 a.m.

For more information on the youth rally, www.youthrally.blogspot.com; on the walk, www.walkforlifewc.com.

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Scholarships offered to Riordan students The Michael and Sally Mayer Family Foundation will again offer scholarships of $2,000-$5,000 to sons of law-enforcement officers applying to, or currently enrolled, at Archbishop Riordan High School in San Francisco. Last year, the foundation awarded $51,000 to 13 students.

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“Here’s wishing happiness and wellbeing to all the families of the Archdiocese. If you ever need our guidance please call at any time. Sincerely, Paul Larson ~ President.”

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Was Twain anti-Christian, or just anti-church?

By Mike Latona (CNS) – “There is one notable thing about our Christianity: bad, bloody, merciless, money-grabbing and predatory ... ours is a terrible religion.”

As this quote from his recently releasedd autobiography illustrates, Samuel Clemenss was not one to sugarcoat his views aboutt organized religion.

Sprinkled among his novels, essays, speeches and personal memoirs are numerous remarks by Clemens – better known by his pen name of Mark Twain – that would be distressing to devout Christians. In fact, Twain, one of the most celebrated U.S. authors, is often quoted on atheistic websites.

Now comes the “Autobiography of Mark Twain” (University of California Press), a best-seller and media sensation.

Should Catholics and other Christians share in the admiration for Twain? One person who believes so is Anthony Pucci, who leads the English department at Notre Dame High School in Elmira, N.Y. Pucci said he feels Twain’s biggest beef with Christianity

was not about its core teachings, but with the failure of humans to practice what they preach.

Indeed, Twain seemed at his angriest when people misused religion to justify violence, personal gain and mistreatment of the poor and oppressed.

“If Christ were here, there is one thing he would not be – a Christian,” he wrote in “Mark Twain’s Notebook.”

Twain did not believe in the existence of heaven and hell, the immortality of the soul nor the divinity of Jesus Christ. He was w highly skeptical of the Bible’s contents, and a although he professed belief in God, he frequently questioned God’s motives. f Representative of his views are such novels as “The Mysterious Stranger,” in no which wh conventional religion is attacked, and “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court,” which takes Catholicism to task.

Co Nonetheless, Pucci said he teaches “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” as “a great “Ad book to illustrate a Christian message, regardless of what Twain might have written about organized religion” because Huck stands up to corruption, opting to protect Jim the slave even if it means in his mind that he might be damned to hell.

Biography details Drinan’s life as priest, legislator “BOB DRINAN: THE CONTROVERSIAL LIFE OF THE FIRST CATHOLIC PRIEST ELECTED TO CONGRESS,” by Father Raymond A. Schroth, SJ. Fordham University Press (New York, 2010). 366 pp., $32.95.

Reviewed by David Gibson (CNS) – Jesuit Father Robert Drinan servedd from 1971 to 1981 as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts.

He “decided to answer the question of whether the public roles of the priest and politician are compatible by actually playing both roles,” according to “Bob Drinan: The Controversial Life of the First Catholic Priest Elected to Congress.”

This readable, biographical look at Father Drinan’s life as a Jesuit priest, politician and law professor informs readers that he would answer “yes,” a priest can serve successfully as an elected politician. But Pope John Paul II’s answer was “no,” and in April 1980, Father Drinan was instructed not to run for a sixth term in Congress.

The author of “Bob Drinan” is Jesuit Father Raymond Schroth, an associate editor at Jesuit-sponsored America magazine. He endeavors to present an honest picture of Father Drinan’s intellectual and personal strengths, as well as weaknesses.

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Not surprisingly, Father Drinan’s approach as a congressman to the abortion issue re-emerges for discussion again and again in this book.

A question mark punctuated Father Drinan’s political career. In part the question was whether a priest could represent one political party and still dedicate himself to all people in the ways expected of priests.

But always managing to attract great attention, despite Father Drinan’s passion to a end e the Vietnam War or the energy he invested in international human rights cases, was the distinction he drew as a legislator between di abortion as a legal issue and a moral issue. ab Among “those who strongly disliked him, most mo did so because of his abortion position,” Father Schroth explains. However, for “his Fat devoted supporters,” Father Drinan’s “lifelong devo commitment to human rights around the world com is the unifying, idealistic glue of his public life.”

Surely, Father Drinan viewed his apparently evolving abortion position differently than did his critics. He has spoken of the “horror” of abortion and insisted that “an unborn child must be respected as a precious gift from God.” But he long opposed making abortion a crime in America’s pluralistic culture and even seems to have thought laws limiting abortion to certain hard cases had a left-handed way of legitimizing those abortions.

Bishops retire. . .

■ Continued from page 6 – Bishop John B. McCormack of Manchester, N.H., Aug. 12, 2010.

– Bishop Joseph V. Adamec of Altoona-Johnstown, Aug. 13, 2010.

– Bishop Fabian W. Bruskewitz of Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 6, 2010.

– Bishop Victor B. Galeone of St. Augustine, Fla., Sept. 13, 2010.

– Bishop Paul A. Zipfel of Bismarck, N.D., Sept. 22, 2010.

– Bishop Gerald A. Gettelfinger of Evansville, Ind., Oct. 20, 2010.

In addition to Cardinals Mahony and Levada, bishops turning 75 in 2011 and the dates of their 75th birthday are: – Bishop Thomas G. Doran of Rockford, Ill., Feb. 20.

– Bishop Edward U. Kmiec of Buffalo, N.Y., June 4.

– Archbishop George H. Niederauer of San Francisco, June 14.

– Bishop Donald W. Trautman of Erie, Pa., June 24.

– Bishop Ricardo Ramirez of Las Cruces, N.M., Sept. 12.

– Bishop Tod D. Brown of Orange, Calif., Nov. 15.

– Auxiliary Bishop Kenneth D. Steiner of Portland, Ore., Nov. 25.

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St. Isabella Parish, San Rafael Students, parishioners and alumni decorated 50 bags and collected items to fill them for the Ritter House Homeless Holiday party. The bags contained hats, gloves, socks, candy, toothbrushes, toothpaste, toiletries and, of course, a “Merry Christmas!” Pictured front from left are Conor Cassidy, Brendan Cassidy, Aisling Cassidy, Claire Cassidy, and Madison Harris; back from left are Jack Feeney, Molly Boyer, Megan Feeney and Patrick Carlin.

St. Raphael Parish, San Rafael Winners of the recent parish Respect for Life Poster Contest are, left to right, Christa Ramos, Pilar Diaz and McKenna Tuatagaloa. They gathered with pastor Father Paul Rossi and Deacon Gene Smith to receive awards. Not pictured are other prize winners Matthew McDonald and Charles McDonald The contest was sponsored by the Peace, Justice and Service Committee of the parish as part of an overall plan during last fall to promote the dignity of every person and all respect for life principles.

BOXES Lifting the Lid on an American Life

by Donnan Beeson Runkel

Everyone has a collection – stamps, receipts, seashells, pictures, figurines. These objects, when gathered together, imbue more meaning than each has on its own. For the author, the varied containers crowded on top of her dresser became not just a collection on boxes to hold her jewelry, but a link to people in her life who made major contributions to who she is today – a successful businesswoman with a wide array of friends and connections around the world.

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St. Mary’s Cathedral – Celebrating 40 years Gough and Geary Blvd. in San Francisco (415) 567-2020. Visit www.stmarycathedralsf.org Feb. 16, 10:30 a.m.: Free Grief Support Workshop in the Msgr. Bowe Room, on the west side of the parking lot level of St. Mary’s Cathedral Gough St. and Geary Blvd. in San Francisco. Workshop provides information on the grief process, and tips on coping with the loss of a loved one. Presenter is Barbara Elordi, MFT, director of Archdiocesan Grief Care Ministry. Call Sister Esther at (415) 567-2020, ex. 218.

Prayer/Special Liturgies Jan. 19, 9:30 a.m.: Contemplative Day of Prayer with Dominican Sister Patricia Bruno at Santa Sabina Center, 25 Magnolia Ave., San Rafael. Suggested offering $20. Contact (415) 457-7727 or info@santasabinacenter.org.

Sister Bruno 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 397-0113.

Taize Sung Prayer: 1st Friday at 8 p.m.: Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Drive, Burlingame with Mercy Sister Suzanne Toolan. Call (650) 340-7452; young adults are invited each first Friday of the month to attend a social at 6 p.m. prior to Taize prayer at 8 p.m. The social provides light refreshments and networking with other young adults. Convenient parking is available. For more information, e-mail mercyyoungadults@sbcglobal.net. Tuesdays at 6 p.m.: Notre Dame Des Victoires Church, 566 Bush at Stockton, San Francisco with Rob Grant. Call (415) 397-0113. Third Fridays, 8 p.m.: Dominican Sisters of MSJ Motherhouse Chapel, 43326 Mission Blvd. (entrance is on Mission Tierra Place, between Ohlone College and the Old Mission San Jose) Fremont.

Call (510) 449-7554. Jan. 19, 7 p.m.: Santa Sabina

Jan. 21, 7:30 p.m.: The Interfaith Committee for Life is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year and its 24th Annual Interfaith Service for Life at St. Mary Cathedral. The service is followed by a reception. Featured speakers include Father Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, and David Beriet, National Campaign Director of 40 Days for Life.

Auxiliary Bishop William Justice will offer a blessing. A Procession of Roses with over 50 Bay Area pro-life groups signifies the more than 53 million lives lost through abortion since the passage of Roe v. Wade in 1973. Visit www.walkforlifewc.com.

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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.

Would you like support while you travel the road through separation and divorce? The Archdiocese of San Francisco offers support for the journey. The Separated and Divorced Catholics of the Archdiocese of San Francisco (SDCASF) now have two ongoing support groups in the 1st and 3rd weeks of each month - St. Bartholomew Parish, 600 Columbia Drive, San Mateo, on the first and third Tuesdays, at 7 p.m. in the spirituality center, and in O’Reilly hall of St. Stephen Parish near Stonestown, San Francisco, on the first and third Wednesdays, at 7:30 p.m. Call Gail (650) 591-8452, or Joanne at St. Bart’s, (650) 347-0701 for more information.

Catholic Adult Singles Association of Marin County: “We are Catholics, single or single again, who are interested in making new friends, taking part in social activities, sharing opportunities for spiritual growth, and becoming involved in volunteer activities that will benefit our parishes, our community, and one another. We welcome those who would share in this with us.” For information, call Bob at (415) 897-0639.

Food and Fun Jan. 19, noon: The popular third Wednesday Italian lunch at the Immaculate Conception Church in the Church Hall at 3255 Folsom St., up the hill from Cesar Chavez and Precita Ave. Come on up to Bernal Heights for the city’s best pasta and meatballs! $8 per person, family style, includes salad.

Beverages are available for purchase.

Feb. 4, 7 a.m.: Monthly Mass and meeting of Catholic Marin Breakfast Club at St. Sebastian Church, Sir Francis Drake Blvd. at Bon Air Rd. in Greenbrae. San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop Robert McElroy is guest speaker. Members’ breakfast Bishop is $7 and non-members’ $10.

McElroy E-mail sugaremy@aol.com to register and for other details.

Feb. 12, 8 p.m.: “Zydeco Dance” at St. Paul of the Shipwreck Gym, 1122 Jamestown (corner of Third and Jamestown) in San Francisco. Tickets are $20 in advance/$23 at the door. Music by Andre Thierry and the Zydeco Magic Band. Call (415) 468-3434.

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Capuchin Father Gregory Coiro, right, rector of the National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi in North Beach, welcomed visiting Father Regis-Marie de la Teyssonniere as concelebrant of weekday Mass at the shrine in November. Father Regis-Marie serves at the Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in France. The National Shrine church is open every day 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. with Mass Monday through Saturday at 12:15 p.m. and Sundays at 10 a.m. The La Nuova Porziuncola Chapel and “Francesco Rocks” Gift Shop are open every day but Monday from 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

Visit www.knightsofsaintfrancis.com or www.shrinesf.org or e-mail info@shrinesf.org or herbertj@shrinesf.org. Call (415) 986-4557.

Center, 25 Magnolia Ave., San Rafael. Suggested offering $10-20. Contact (415) 457-7727 or info@ santasabinacenter.org

Reunion Jan. 30, 9:30 a.m.: St. Cecilia School Alumni Mass at St. Cecilia Church, 17th Street and Vicente Avenue in San Francisco followed by light refreshments. The school will be open so alums can take a walk down memory lane and reminisce over the photos in the halls. For more information contact the alumni office at (415) 753-3917 or e-mail alumni@stceciliaschool.org Feb. 27, 2 p.m.: All Presentation alumnae are invited to celebrate what it meant and continues to mean to be part of the Presentation Family at the Fourth Annual Presentation Honor at El Patio Español Restaurant in San Francisco. For more information e-mail Rosana Madrigal at rmadrigal@ pbvmsf.org or call (415) 422-5020.

Mass in Latin The traditional Latin Mass celebrated according to texts and rubrics of the Missal of Blessed John XXIII of 1962 is celebrated at these locations: Sunday, 12:15 p.m.: Holy Rosary Chapel at St. Vincent School for Boys in San Rafael. For more information, call St. Isabella Parish at (415) 479-1560; First Fridays, 7 p.m.: St. Francis of Assisi Church, 1425 Bay Road. at Glen Way in East Palo Alto. For more information, call (650) 322-2152.

Father Lawrence Goode, pastor, is celebrant; First Sundays, 5:30 p.m.: Mater Dolorosa, 307 Willow Ave. South San Francisco. For more information call (650) 583-4131; Second Sundays, 5:30 p.m.: St. Finn Barr Church, Edna St at Hearst in San Francisco.

Call (415) 333-3627; Third Sundays at Holy Name of Jesus Church 39th Avenue at Lawton in San Francisco. Call (415) 664-8590 for time.

Social Justice/ Lectures/Respect Life Jan. 16, 1:45 p.m.: “An Old and New Invitation: How do we as believers deal with challenges facing

us about belonging to this family of faith called the Catholic Church?” Answer this question with Mercy Sister Eloise Rosenblatt, a Professor of Biblical Studies at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago and at Santa Clara University, who also practices law. Sister Eloise has authored books and written articles on Scripture, conducted retreats and written for Catholic San Francisco newspaper. Takes place at Notre Dames des Victoires Church, 566 Bush St. at Grant in San Francisco. Reasonably priced parking is available across Bush at Stockton Sutter Garage. Admission is free. For more information, call (415) 397-0113.

Vocations/Serra Clubs Feb. 11, 12: Overnight “Religious Life Discernment Retreat” Is God calling you to consider Consecrated Life as a Dominican Sister? Come and join our discernment retreat for single Catholic women (18-40).

Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose Motherhouse 43326 Mission Blvd. in Fremont (entrance on Mission Tierra Place). Freewill offering accepted. Contact vocations@msjdominicans.org or (510) 933-6333.

TV/Radio Fridays at 9 a.m.: The Archbishop’s Hour on Immaculate Heart Radio, KSFB - 1260 AM, San Francisco. Enjoy news, conversation and in-depth look at local and larger Church. Program is rerun Fridays and Mondays at 9 p.m. and Sundays at 11 a.m. e-mail info@sfarchdiocese.org with comments and questions about faith. 1260 AM also offers daily Mass, rosary and talk on the faith. Visit www.ihradio.org Sunday, 6 a.m., KOFY Channel 20/Cable 13 and KTSF Channel 26/Cable 8: TV Mass with Msgr.

Harry Schlitt presiding.

Sunday, 7 a.m.: TV Mass on Filipino Channel (TFC) (Channel 241 on Comcast and Channel 2060 on Direct TV. Saturday, 4 p.m.: Religious programming in Cantonese over KVTO 1400 AM, co-sponsored by the Chinese Ministry and Chinese Young Adults of the Archdiocese.

1st Sunday, 5 a.m., CBS Channel 5: “Mosaic,” featuring conversations on current Catholic issues.

Consolation Ministry Feb. 16, 10:30 a.m.: Free Grief Support Workshop in the Msgr. Bowe Room, on the west side of the parking lot level of St. Mary’s Cathedral Gough St. and Geary Blvd. in San Francisco. Workshop provides information on the grief process, and tips on coping with the loss of a loved one. Presenter is Barbara Elordi, MFT, director of Archdiocesan Grief Care Ministry. Call Sister Esther at (415) 567-2020, ex. 218.

Grief support groups meet at the following parishes: San Mateo County: Good Shepherd, Pacifica; call Sister Carol Fleitz at (650) 355-2593. Our Lady of Mercy, Daly City; call parish at (650) 755-2727. Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Redwood City; call parish at (650) 366-3802. St. Bartholomew, San Mateo; Barbara Syme (650) 343-6156. St. Peter, Pacifica; call parish at (650) 359-6313. St. Pius, Redwood City; call parish at (650) 361-0655. St. Robert, San Bruno; call Sister.

Patricia O’Sullivan at (650) 589-0104.

Marin County: St. Anselm, San Anselmo; call Brenda MacLean at (415) 454-7650. St. Anthony, Novato; call parish (415) 883-2177. St. Hilary, Tiburon; call Helen Kelly at (415) 388-9651. Our Lady of Loretto, Novato; call Sister Jeanette at (415) 897-2171.

San Francisco County: St. Dominic; call Deacon Chuck McNeil at (415) 567-7824. St. Gabriel; call Monica Williams at (650) 756-2060. St. Mary’s Cathedral; call Sister Esther McEgan at (415) 5672020 ext. 218. Alma Via; contact Mercy Feeney at (650) 756-4500.

Young Widow/Widower Group: St. Gregory, San Mateo; call Barbara Elordi at (415) 614-5506.

Ministry to Grieving Parents: Our Lady of Angels, Burlingame; call Ina Potter at (650) 347-6971 or Barbara Arena at (650) 344-3579.

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Catholic San Francisco

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ST. GREGORY CATHOLIC SCHOOL San Mateo, California St. Gregory Catholic School is a K through 8 grade school with an enrollment of 320 students. Working closely with the Pastor and parish community, the students, teachers and staff are an integral part of St. Gregory Church. St. Gregory School is committed to carrying out the ministry of Jesus Christ in the education of youth. In partnership with families and the parish community, we educate students to become active Christians, lifelong learners, capable problem solvers, and responsible citizens.

Qualifications; • A practicing Catholic in good standing with the Church • A Masters degree in educational leadership (or related field) • Five years of successful teaching/administrative experience • Current California Credential Salary is commensurate with credentials and experience.

Letters of interest and resume should be sent to : Mr. Brett Allen Associate Superintendent Department of catholic Schools One Peter Yorke Way San Francisco, CA 94019 DEADLINE: February 15, 2011

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Catholic San Francisco

January 14, 2011

A Life Remembered C r e m at i on Op t i on s

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