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VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Pope Benedict XVI approved a miracle attributed to Pope John Paul II’s intercession, clearing the way for the late pope’s beatification on May 1, Divine Mercy Sunday. Pope Benedict’s action Jan. 14 followed more than five years of investigation into the life and writings of the Polish pontiff, who died in April 2005 after more than 26 years as pope. The Vatican said it took special care with verification of the miracle, the spontaneous cure of a French nun Pope John Paul II holds from Parkinson’s disease – the same illness that afflicta koala during his ed Pope John Paul in his 1986 visit to Australia. final years. Three separate Vatican panels approved the miracle, including medical and theological experts, before Pope Benedict signed the official decree. “There were no concessions given here in procedural severity and thoroughness,” said Cardinal Angelo Amato, head of the Congregation for Saints’ Causes. On the contrary, he said, Pope John Paul’s cause was subject to “particularly careful scrutiny, to remove any doubt.” The Vatican said it would begin looking at logistical arrangements for the massive crowds expected for the beatification liturgy, which will be celebrated by Pope Benedict at the Vatican. Divine Mercy Sunday had special significance for Pope John Paul, who made it a church-wide feast day to be celebrated a week after Easter. POPE JOHN PAUL II, page 11
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People with the Angel Project line the street leading to St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church, where the funeral of U.S. District Judge John M. Roll was taking place, in Tucson, Ariz., Jan. 14. Roll was killed in the Jan. 8 shooting that left six people dead and wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.
Forner Planned Parenthood director to convert to Catholicism By Valerie Schmalz The woman who walked away from her job as a Planned Parenthood clinic director after helping with an ultrasound-guided abortion is on the verge of entering the Catholic Church. Abby Johnson, 30, who will speak at the 11 a.m. Walk for Life West Coast rally in San Francisco Jan. 22, is preparing with her husband Doug to enter the Catholic Church in her native Texas within the next few months. The couple has a 4-year-old daughter. “When we went to the Catholic Church for the first time we knew that was where we were supposed to be and we have been there ever since,” said Johnson, who said she particularly loves the church’s reverence for Mary as the mother of God. “The more we started learning about the beliefs of the church and the Eucharist and everything, it seemed like this was what had been missing our whole lives.” After eight years as a Planned Parenthood volunteer and employee, Johnson walked away from her job as director of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Bryan/College Station, Texas, Oct. 6, 2009 during a prayer vigil by 40 Days for Life. Johnson, who had two abortions at 20 and at 23, first began working as a clinic escort while a student at Texas A&M University. Assisting with an ultrasound during an abortion in September 2009 turned her into a pro-life advocate. Johnson’s embrace of Catholicism was a natural development after she became pro-life but was pre-
Abby Johnson pictured at the 2010 West Coast Walk for Life. cipitated by her pro-choice Episcopalian community’s vocal rejection of her change of heart, she said. Even before the dramatic experience of assisting in an ultrasound abortion, Johnson said God had been calling to her for several months through the penitential rite of the Episcopal service, which is similar to the Catholic prayer. With the Episcopalian Church one of the largest donors to the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, Johnson said she and her husband were not going to remain at the church anyway. Johnson describes the experience of assisting with the ultrasound abortion in her book “Unplanned: the Dramatic True Story of the Planned Parenthood Leader
Who Crossed the Life Line to Fight for Women in Crisis,” written with Cindy Lambert (Ignatius Press, 2011). In the book’s first chapter, Johnson describes holding the ultrasound probe on the woman’s abdomen and watching the screen as the abortion doctor worked and the mother cried. The fetus was at 13 weeks gestation based on the abortion doctor’s estimate, Johnson wrote. “At first, the baby didn’t seem aware of the cannula,” she writes. “It gently probed the baby’s side, and for a quick second I felt relief. Of course, I thought. The fetus doesn’t feel pain. I had reassured countless women of this as I’d been taught by Planned Parenthood. The fetal tissue feels nothing as it is removed. Get a grip, Abby. This is a simple, quick medical procedure. My head was working hard to control my responses, but I couldn’t shake an inner disquiet that was quickly mounting to horror as I watched the screen. “The next movement was the sudden jerk of a tiny foot as the baby started kicking, as if it were trying to move away from the probing invader,” she continues. “As the cannula pressed its side, the baby began struggling to turn and twist away. It seemed clear to me that it could feel the cannula, and it did not like what it was feeling. And then the doctor’s voice broke through, startling me. ‘“Beam me up, Scotty,”’ he said lightheartedly to the nurse. He was telling her to turn on the suction – in an abortion the suction isn’t turned on until the doctor feels he has the cannula in exactly the right place. CATHOLIC CONVERSATION, page 3
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On The Where You Live By Tom Burke Let’s warm up to Catholic Schools Week with thanks and congratulations to Janet Dyer Wildey who has served for 32 years as administrative assistant and admissions coordinator for preschool and kindergarten at Sacred Heart Schools in Atherton. Janet’s late mom, Stella, walked before her as a school Janet Dyer Wildey secretary there. “Every day I come to school, I thank God for allowing me to work here,” Janet said. “It is a great privilege to be at this school.” After more than three decades on the job, Janet looks upon Sacred Heart as a second home. “Our mission is to provide an excellent education with strong values; it starts at preschool and continues all the way through high school,” Janet said. “It’s wonderful to see how successful and happy the students are as they graduate and how many of them come back as young parents, wanting their own children to have the same experience.”… Our Lady of Mercy School’s class of
Father Dave Ghiorso, pastor, St. Charles Parish, baptizes cousins, Luca Elias Gordon and Gabriel John Reynolds, at the newly remodeled San Carlos church Dec. 11. Proud parents are Michalis and Erin Bisordi Gordon and Dan and Dana Bisordi Reynolds. The sister-moms are graduates of St. Charles School. Thanks to grandparents, Marilyn and John Bisordi, for the good news.
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Share your St. Mary’s Cathedral memories The Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption celebrates the 40th year of its dedication May 5, 2011. Catholic San Francisco looks forward to commemorating the milestone with stories and pictures of the cathedral and its history. Do you have a special memory of St. Mary’s Cathedral? Were you baptized or married, there? Was it a refuge of prayer for you during a trying time in your life? Is it special to you for other reasons? Please let us know what St. Mary’s Cathedral has meant to you. If you have a picture of an event at the cathedral, we’d like to see those, too. Please e-mail the information to burket@ sfarchdiocese.org. Please include the data of the event, a picture as applicable, your name and a phone number where you can be reached. You may also mail the data and picture to Cathedral Memories, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco 94109. St. Mary’s Cathedral has blessed the Archdiocese of San Francisco for four decades. Let us know what the mother church has meant to you.
Catholic conversation . . . ■ Continued from cover “I had a sudden urge to yell, ‘“Stop!”’ (According to a description by Priests for Life, the cannula is a hollow plastic tube that is connected to a vacuum-type pump by a flexible hose. The abortionist runs the tip of the cannula along the surface of the uterus causing the baby to be dislodged and sucked into the tube – either whole or in pieces.) Johnson watched the entire abortion and went home, shaking and in tears, to tell her husband she had to find a new job. A few days later she walked out of the clinic and joined people praying outside the clinic. They were members of the 40 Days for Life group, which had held six prayer vigils outside her clinic and whose headquarters was just a few doors away. Johnson is in the process of obtaining an annulment of the marriage to the man who was her husband at the time she had her abortions, so that she and her husband Doug can convalidate their marriage and enter the church. “We are ready to come into the church as soon as we are able,” Johnson said. Johnson also counsels others who have left the abortion industry, she said, and there are more than most people would think. Those who walk at the Walk for Life are giving an important witness, she said: “In California, one of the most pro-choice and liberal states in the country it is important to show up en masse and tell the leaders of the state and the leaders of our nation how important the sanctity of life is to us. “We do not have the luxury anymore to stand around and say I can’t tell someone what to do,” Johnson said. “When it comes to taking the lives of our children, we don’t want to give our opinion? That doesn’t make sense.” Planned Parenthood Federation of America is the leading provider of abortions in the U.S., with 324,008 of the 1.21 million abortions reported in 2008 performed at a Planned Parenthood clinic, the organization reports. From 1973 through 2008, nearly 50 million legal abortions occurred, according to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, Planned Parenthood’s research arm. The number of abortions dropped from 1.31 million in 2000 to 1.21 million in 2008, but the long-term decline stalled during 2005-2008. About one in three women will have an abortion between the ages of 15 and 45, according to the Guttmacher Institute, which draws its statistics from abortion providers and is generally regarded as the most statistically valid source of information on abortion. In the U.S., Planned Parenthood’s 87 affiliates operate more than 825 health centers, according to a Planned Parenthood fact sheet.
San Francisco Archbishop Joseph Thomas McGucken who served the Archdiocese of San Francisco from Oct. 15, 1961 to Feb. 22, 1977, addresses the press amid the burned-out St. Mary’s Cathedral on Van Ness Avenue in Sept. 1962. From these ashes the new Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption would rise at Gough Street and Geary Boulevard. Archbishop McGucken, who died Oct. 26, 1983, will be honored posthumously with the annual Assumpta Award in ceremonies at the cathedral May 5, for his part in the construction of the country’s first post-Vatican II cathedral.
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By David Agren MEXICO CITY (CNS) – The director of a migrant shelter in northern Mexico has rebuked the country’s federal government for questioning the results of a survey by the National Human Rights Commission, which reported more than 10,000 undocumented migrants were kidnapped over a six-month period of 2010. “The government is completely wrong,” said Father Pedro Pantoja, director of the Belen migrant shelter in Saltillo. “They’re debunking the fact kidnappings happen, saying that it’s insignificant, that the number is low. There’s an intention of diminishing the facts.” The survey, released Jan. 6, reported at least 215 mass abductions of migrants heading north to the U.S. between April and September with an average of at least 50 victims being kidnapped each time by groups linked to organized crime. Commission
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ombudsman Raul Placencia told reporters that local police and officials from the National Immigration Institute assisted the “wellorganized groups” in some of the abductions, which usually required migrants to call relatives for ransoms. “These are not individual kidnappings, rather massive events, where the criminals capture up to 100 or 150 migrants and later take them to a point where they are victims of extortion,” Placencia said. The federal government immediately objected to the findings. Alejandro Poire, technical secretary of the National Security Council, said the findings failed to square with government statistics. He also questioned the methodology, which he said could not be replicated. Poire later clarified that the federal government only questioned the methodology of surveying migrants – not the existence of kidnappings. MIGRANTS KILLED, page 6
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Buffalo, N.Y., priest moves step closer to sainthood VATICAN CITY – A Buffalo diocesan priest, Msgr. Nelson H. Baker, has cleared the first major hurdle on the way to being declared a saint. Pope Benedict XVI signed a formal decree Jan. 14 recognizing that Msgr. Baker, who died in 1936 at the age of 94, heroically lived the Christian virtues and is worthy of veneration. Msgr. Baker, a Civil War-era soldier and grain dealer who became a Buffalo diocesan priest in 1876, served as pastor of Our Lady of Victory in Lackawanna, N.Y., for more than 50 years. At Our Lady of Victory, which is now a basilica, Msgr. Baker operated soup kitchens and a hospital, as well as homes for unwed mothers, homeless and troubled boys and abandoned infants. The pope must still recognize a miracle attributed to Msgr. Baker’s intercession before he can be beatified. Another miracle is needed for canonization.
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In Mexico, a debate over just how many migrants have been killed
Migrants rest at a church-run shelter in Ixtepec in the Mexican state of Oaxaca Dec. 22.
Same-sex unions ‘penalize’ traditional marriage, pope says VATICAN CITY – Same-sex unions “penalize” traditional couples and distort the true nature of the family, Pope Benedict XVI said. The many crises that families face are “caused by the rapid social and cultural changes” in society, the pope said Jan. 14 in a speech to officials from the city and province of Rome and the Lazio region of Italy. Passing legislation or adopting policies that recognize “forms of unions, which distort the essence and purpose of the family end up penalizing those who, with much effort, commit themselves to living a life whose bonds are marked by stable intimacy, have juridical guarantees and are recognized publicly, he said. While same-sex unions or gay marriage is not recognized in Italy, a number of city and regional governments, including Rome’s Lazio region, have introduced registries for same-sex couples that are largely symbolic and have no legal consequences.
Neocatechumenal Way is ‘precious instrument,’ pope says VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI said the Neocatechumenal Way is a “precious instrument” that can bring new life to the Christian duty of evangelization. The church has recognized that the Neocatechumenal Way has “a special gift that has been called forth by the Holy
Spirit,” he told thousands of members of the movement during a special audience in the Vatican’s Paul VI hall Jan. 17. Pope Benedict noted the progress that was made in recent years starting with the Vatican’s final approval in June 2008 of a set of statutes for the Neocatechumenal Way that confirmed the movement’s unique approach to adult evangelization, while also insisting on close ties with local bishops and parishes and asking for changes in the way the group celebrates the liturgy. The pope also noted “another significant step” was made just a few days ago when the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith gave its approval of the Way’s catechetical material.
Sri Lankan bishop: Government must admit killing civilians BANGALORE, India – The Sri Lankan government must acknowledge that it killed thousands of civilians in the last five months of the country’s civil war, said a bishop from the affected region. “The truth about violations of international human rights and humanitarian law, such as (forced) disappearances, extrajudicial killings, arbitrary detention, torture, bombing and shelling of civilian’s spaces ... must be publicly acknowledged,” Sri Lankan Bishop Rayappu Joseph of Mannar told a special government commission established to counter widespread criticism of gross human rights abuses in the final stage of the war, which ended in May 2009. “Without addressing these needs,” Bishop Joseph added, “people affected by the war will not be able to move toward reconciliation,” the bishop said. NEWS IN BRIEF, page 5
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Boston Archdiocese says no ‘categories’ of students will be excluded By Jim Lockwood BRAINTREE, Mass. (CNS) – A new Catholic schools admission policy in the Archdiocese of Boston says schools must “not discriminate against or exclude any categories of students” while at the same time acknowledging the autonomy of parish and school officials to make admissions decisions at the local level. Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley pledged to develop the new policy after a May 2010 incident that made national headlines when a Hingham Catholic school rescinded the acceptance of a child of lesbian parents. At the time, archdiocesan officials reacted negatively to the decision but noted there was no specific archdiocesan policy covering the situation.
The new Archdiocesan Catholic Schools Admission Policy, distributed Jan. 12, says schools “do not discriminate against or exclude any categories of students.” The policy does not define what is considered a category. “Our schools welcome, and they don’t discriminate against any categories of students,” said Mary Grassa O’Neill, secretary for education. “It covers all categories of students.” Father Richard Erikson, vicar general and moderator of the curia, said, “Catholic education is a treasure of the church, and we want to share that as broadly as we can.” “We will not exclude any category of child from our schools and we expect pastors will be in conformity with the decision,” he added. The policy also maintains the rights of pastors, prin-
cipals and other staff to develop admissions policies for their schools. “Admission is dependent both on academic qualifications and the desire to promote what is in the best interest of the student,” the policy reads. It acknowledges the “principle of subsidiarity,” which says decisions should be made at the lowest practical organizational level in the church. “Admissions decisions are still made at the local level,” O’Neill said. She said the new policy allows school personnel to consider other aspects of applicants, including academic background, financial situation and possible need for student support services. O’Neill declined to speculate how this policy would have BOSTON ARCHDIOCESE, page 7
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New magazine aims at nation’s 27 million Catholic singles NEW LONDON, Conn. – Tobias, a new magazine published by Bayard U.S., aims to address the needs of the 27 million single Catholics in the U.S. Dubbed “the magazine for single Catholic living,” Tobias will include articles on singles who dare to make a difference, faith at work and personal stories of courtship and marriage. It will focus on Catholic singles of all ages and stages in their personal faith journeys – those who are widowed or divorced and single parents, as well as recent college graduates and young professionals. “Tobias editor Christina Capecchi has her finger on the pulse of the community of single Catholics in the U.S.,” said Bret Thomas, president and CEO of Bayard. “We believe that this audience deserves a high-caliber magazine of their own to help them navigate the challenges of living a Catholic life in a secular culture.” Capecchi, 28, a former staff writer for The Catholic Spirit, newspaper of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, works as a freelancer and writes the nationally syndicated “Twenty Something” column that appears in about 50 diocesan newspapers. Tobias will be published quarterly, with the first issue debuting Feb. 1. Subscriptions are available for $9.95 a year. Bulk subscriptions also are offered to parishes.
Federal judges seek state court’s advice on Prop. 8 SAN FRANCISCO – A federal appellate court has asked the California Supreme Court to determine whether sponsors of Proposition 8, which bans same-sex marriage, have the right to defend it in court. The request came from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which in December heard arguments over the constitutionality of voter-approved Prop. 8 and whether sponsors ProtectMarriage. com have standing before the court.
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A church steeple is seen amid the debris following a landslide in Teresopolis, Brazil, Jan. 14. The death toll from torrential rains and massive floods topped 665 in Brazil’s worst natural disaster in four decades, Voice of America reported Jan. 17.
The issue arose because former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and former Attorney General Jerry Brown refused to appeal a federal judge’s ruling in August that Prop. 8 is unconstitutional because it discriminates on the basis of sexual orientation and gender. ProtectMarriage.com and Imperial County appealed the ruling. “This gives the state Supreme Court an opportunity to clearly reaffirm the right of official proponents to legally defend voterpassed initiatives they successfully enact, particularly when public officials abdicate their constitutional duties by refusing to enforce and defend the law,” said Anthony Pugno, general counsel for ProtectMarriage.com.
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A protester kicks a policeman during clashes with riot police in downtown Tunis, Tunisia, Jan. 14. “It seems that people were really oppressed and tense and things just exploded,” Catholic Archbishop Maroun Lahham of Tunis told Catholic News Service Jan. 17. “The whole world saw Tunisia as calm, but it happened.” The ejection of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali’s government and his expulsion from the country was the culmination of four weeks of protests that left nearly 80 people dead. The archbishop said protests began because of the high unemployment rate but quickly changed in nature.
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“The federal government reiterates its absolute condemnation of any violation that infringes on the human rights of migrants,” Poire said. The commission defended its methodology, explaining that it carried out 2,500 visits to migration stations, migrant shelters – some run by Catholics – and places migrants are known to congregate, such as rail yards. Father Pantoja said the reaction reflected the federal government’s failure to take the abduction problem seriously, even though the Interior Ministry has launched campaigns to encourage migrants to denounce crimes. “It’s only a show,” Father Pantoja said of the campaign. The survey underscored the continuing problem of undocumented migrants being preyed upon by criminal groups as they transit Mexico. In 2009, the human rights commission found a similar number of abductions, but without the phenomenon of mass abductions. Most of the 2010 abductions occurred in southern and eastern Mexico, the human rights commission reported, especially in the states of Chiapas, Tabasco, Oaxaca, Veracruz, San Luis Potosi, Coahuila and Tamaulipas, where an August massacre claimed the lives of 72 migrants.
Los Zetas, the former elite soldiers turned cartel toughs, were blamed for the massacre and maintain a strong presence in the states mentioned by the commission. Church officials cite their own issues with Los Zetas and criminal groups. Father Pantoja said criminals broke into the Saltillo migrant shelter in December and stole computers and case files. He suspected organized crime was responsible, as few items with a high commercial value were stolen. “It was a strategic robbery,” he said. In Oaxaca, Father Jose Alejandro Solalinde, director of the Brothers of the Road shelter, has reported Los Zetas threatened him with death for his work. He said he advises migrants of the kidnapping risks. Father Solalinde also said some state governments, such as those in Oaxaca and Chiapas, finally have taken steps to better protect migrants. Oaxaca Gov. Gabino Cue Monteagudo announced in January the establishment of centers providing medical and psychological help, along with human rights advice, for migrants passing through the state. The priest was less complimentary of the federal government. “States like Oaxaca and Chiapas have done their part, but the (federal government) ... where is the Public Security Secretariat?” Father Solalinde told El Universal TV. “There have been kidnappings for years and nothing’s been done.”
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Prospects good for pro-life legislative success but challenges remain By Nancy Frazier O’Brien WASHINGTON (CNS) – The 112th Congress that was sworn in Jan. 5 contains up to four dozen more pro-life House members and four to six more pro-life senators than the Congress that preceded it, according to estimates from organizations on both sides of the abortion question. And the Republican “Pledge to America” outlining the party’s legislative priorities vows to “establish a government-wide prohibition on taxpayer funding of abortion and subsidies for insurance coverage that includes abortion.” “This prohibition would ... enact into law what is known as the Hyde amendment as well as ban other instances of federal subsidies for abortion services,” the pledge says. “We will also enact into law conscience protections for health care providers, including doctors, nurses and hospitals.” But with a president who supports keeping abortion legal in the White House for two more years, what are the chances that the Republicans can deliver on their pledge? Richard Doerflinger, associate director of the U.S. bishops’ Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities, thinks progress will be made.
Boston archdiocese . . . ■ Continued from page 5 affected the Hingham case but stressed that this is the policy moving forward and it is now codified. The Archdiocese of Boston is also encouraging schools to place their own admissions policies in their handbooks and provide prospective applicants with policy information before registering the child. The Catholic Schools Office is available
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When the leadership of the House makes a pro-life promise, “it makes a lot of difference practically in getting a vote” on key pieces of legislation, Doerflinger said. In addition, he said, “the president is less likely to veto a bill if he has to veto an entire package of funding legislation” on another matter.
Ready to be introduced in the new Congress or recently introduced are four pieces of legislation supported by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops: – The Protect Life Act, which would apply long-standing federal policies on funding and conscience rights related to abortion to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. – No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act, which would make those policies part of permanent federal law rather than requiring them to be inserted into funding legislation each year.
health plan under the new reform law that would exclude items that are against their moral and/ or religious convictions, even in the face of new federal “mandated benefits” provisions. Most of those bills received wide bipartisan support in the last Congress, Doerflinger said, and “they should receive support again even from people who say they are pro-choice” because they guarantee a true choice for those who do not support abortion. Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., co-chairman of the Congressional Pro-Life Caucus with Rep. Dan Lipinski, D-Ill., and a chief sponsor of the
No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act, said at least 77 of the 93 freshman members of the 112th Congress “are committed to defending the unborn.” Another sign of progress for those who support the pro-life cause is the appointment of some House committee chairmen who are known to oppose abortion. The Health Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, for example, is headed by Rep. Joe Pitts, R-Pa., who co-wrote the Stupak-Pitts amendment to eliminate abortion funding from the health reform legislation. The subcommittee has jurisdiction over private health insurance, Medicaid, the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health. “We need to protect human life from the unborn to the elderly,” Pitts said in December, when his subcommittee appointment was announced. He has described the health reform legislation as “riddled with loopholes that allow taxpayer subsidies for coverage that includes abortion.” Laurie Rubner, vice president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, termed Pitts “as anti-choice as a member of Congress can be.”
to assist pastors and principals if they have any questions on the application of the policy, O’Neill said. O’Neill also pointed out that the new archdiocesan policy ensures Catholic schools are in line with federal nondiscrimination standards. Many of the archdiocese’s Catholic schools are legally sanctioned nonprofit organizations and each year must sign a nondiscrimination clause. She said that in formulating the archdiocesan-wide policy, officials wanted to clarify older guidelines that she said were vague.
The text of the admissions policy says its developers were guided by previous remarks made by Pope Benedict XVI, canon law and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Father Erikson and O’Neill also said the policy has significance for parents seeking to place their children in Catholic schools and the pastors and principals who make admissions decisions. Father Erikson said the policy means that parents enroll their child with the understanding their child will be taught the Catholic faith and be required to participate in religious services that are part of the school’s curriculum. “What it means is we are dedicated to
excellent faith-based education, and parents who enroll their children in Catholic schools (should expect that) their children will be taught fully the Catholic faith,” he added. The new policy was formulated by a team of archdiocesan officials, including the Presbyteral and Pastoral Councils, principals and pastors, including Father James Rafferty, the pastor of St. Paul School in Hingham, the school which ignited the controversy in May. “The archdiocese has now finalized that document and I welcome the fact that we now have a clear policy to guide us in the important work of Catholic education,” said Father Rafferty in a statement provided to The Pilot, Boston archdiocesan newspaper.
– Abortion Non-Discrimination Act, which would ban governmental discrimination against obstetrics/gynecology residency programs that do not provide abortion training and allow health care providers to sue a discriminating entity. – Respect for Rights of Conscience Act, which would protect the rights of insurance issuers, providers and purchasers to negotiate a
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Father Gabriel Flores, 25 years a priest, reflects on his spiritual roots and path By José Luis Aguirre Father Gabriel Flores grew up in the midst of a deeply Christian Mexican family infused with a religiosity in which everything centered around church life: baptisms, first Communions, town festivities, Sunday Masses. And if that were not enough, he accompanied his father who played the harmonium at liturgies celebrated around their hometown of San José de García. “I remember when priests visited us at home we used the best tablecloths, the best dinnerware and we prepared the most delicious food,” he said. “This really made me envision an ideal. On top of that my mother washed at home the church linens, which I used to take back with utmost care. This truly left an impression on me.” Last month Father Flores celebrated not only his 25th anniversary as a priest but also his installation as pastor of Our Lady of the Pillar Parish in Half Moon Bay. His journey to religious life began in Mexico City when, at age 18, he joined the Comboni Missionaries. The order carries out missionary work in Africa, Latin America and Asia. “I had selfless dreams to reach out to Africans and to save the world,” he recalls. He was then sent to Paris to study philosophy and theology. After four years he returned to San José de García to be ordained a priest on Dec. 7, 1985. Because so many people were expected to attend, the ceremony was held in the town’s plaza, where a true festival took place. “Being Christ’s priest has been the biggest and most beautiful event of my life,” Father Flores said. “From the day I said ‘yes’ to God’s beckoning, he has led me through unimaginable paths and has introduced me to people whose experiences and testimonies have made me feel that heaven is in our midst and that God himself is among us.” After his ordination Father Flores was sent to Egypt, where he learned Arabic and Muslim culture. He remained there for 10 years, promoting the dialogue between the Islamic faith and Christians – an area that opened up after Vatican II. “We have insufficient knowledge and we need to get to know them and be known to them,” Father Flores said. “It is not a matter of convincing them or being convinced
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God chooses us not because we are the best but because he wants instruments that accept to be chosen. – Father Gabriel Flores If someone should ask Father Flores what he finds most fulfilling about being a priest, he would reply without hesitation: “Being able to be with people through profound existential moments like death, births, the celebration of love in matrimony and the possibility to enter in communion with them.” Each time he traveled to Sacramento, where most of his family lived, Father Flores would leave with sadness. He asked for permission to come to San Francisco and was granted two
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January 21, 2011
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DUBLIN (CNS) – An Irish nun working in Southern Sudan said Southerners were returning from northern Sudan for fear of what will happen after results of the referendum for the South’s independence are announced. “Many of these people left up to 20 years ago. They fear that when the South officially announces its intent to separate, it will bring trouble to Southerners in the North,” said Loreto Sister Orla Treacy, principal of the only secondary school for girls in Southern Sudan’s Lakes state. “The government and aid groups have promised the returnees support, but for now they are camping in local schools and centers. In our local parish school in Rumbek there are 400 families; they have been there since the beginning of January,” she told Catholic News Service in an e-mail in mid-January. “The younger children have never known the South, and some don’t even know the local language,” she added. The African Union Observer Mission’s preliminary verdict on Southern Sudan’s Jan. 9-15 referendum vote on secession called the vote “free, fair and credible, a true reflection of the democratically expressed will of the people of Southern Sudan.” Results are expected to be announced in early February, and the citizens are generally believed to have voted to secede. Bishop Cesare Mazzolari of Rumbek, the capital of Lakes state, told CNS he was “moved with tears of joy to see the jubilation of the people of Southern Sudan at the referendum.” The bishop, an Italian, added that “at the core” of the referendum was “a quest and a longing for peace that most people elsewhere in the world cannot even begin to imagine because they have not known what these people have suffered.” Sister Orla said: “With poorly trained teachers and a lack of nursing and medical staff, it will take more than a generation to improve the lives of the people here. “We have great dreams and hopes for a new Southern Sudan, but there will be struggles ahead,” she added. “We have many tribes, some larger than others, cautious leadership – and wise decisions will be needed to involve all tribes in the forming of a new Southern Sudan.”
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Plight of Congolese villagers inspires Bay Area Catholics to help A non-profit organization’s dogged advocacy for child victims of organized terror in the Democratic Republic of Congo has captured the enthusiastic attention of Catholic school students and teachers in the Bay Area. The group is Invisible Children, based in San Diego, which grew from the experiences of three young filmmakers who in 2003 produced a video that aimed to capture the enormity of tragedy in Congo’s neighbor Uganda, where a 25-year-long civil war conflict has displaced 1.8 million people and forced children to become rebel soldiers. Invisible Children representatives tour extensively, bringing with them young adult and teen-age Ugandans who describe atrocities committed by the Lord’s Resistance Army, a militia that rebelled against the Ugandan government. The LRA was formed in the 1980s by a woman named Alice Lakwena, who believed the Holy Spirit ordered her to overthrow the Ugandan government. She was eventually exiled and her cousin, Joseph Kony, took control of the rebels, who took to abducting children and indoctrinating them into their ranks. It is estimated that more than 90 percent of the LRA’s troops were abducted as children. As the civil war intensified, the government of Uganda encouraged people in vulnerable, rural areas to move into camps where they could be protected. In the process, they are displaced, are unable to plant their crops and their living conditions are barely tolerable. The LRA has not agreed to a proposed truce and analysts say the group’s goals are unclear. The army does not now represent a threat to the government but continues to kill, rape and mutilate people in Central Africa. This year, part of Invisible Children’s focus is on Congo, where the non-profit is helping to install a radio warning system that will alert people in 12 villages about the rebel army’s movements. The twice-daily broadcasts will give villagers, who are without telephones and other means of communication, a chance to escape if need be. Invisible Children members are making numerous appearances in the Bay Area this spring to explain and raise funds for the effort, as well as show a new film about African turmoil. Invisible Children clubs have formed on numerous Catholic school campuses, such as the University of San Francisco, St. Ignatius College Preparatory and Justin-Siena High School in Napa, where 16-year-old junior Elyse Quast finds the humanitarian work compelling. “What touched me the most is that we talk about how (atrocities) would never happen in the U.S., so why should it happen there?” she asked. “The fact is that these children have always lived the life of war and violence and they don’t know any better. These children are the future of their country and they don’t know anything else. I believe they deserve a better life.” For Scott Haluck, a math and engineering teacher at St. Ignatius, seeing the first Invisible Children video with his wife to be, Luningning, or Ning, in 2005 was a life-changing event. At the time, he was a hardware engineer, building satellites. He was so moved by the story, he said, that before
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the credits rolled he turned to Ning and said he was going to quit his job and become a teacher. “I said, ‘I can do better for the world than to help build satellites for weather prediction,’” said Haluck, who did quit his job, taught in a school in Los Angeles for two years and in 2007 joined the St. Ignatius faculty. He is the moderator of the SI Invisible Children Club and has done volunteer work for and been associated with Invisible Children for six years – including on his honeymoon, when he and Ning worked in an orphanage in Uganda for two weeks. “I had always had this kind of passion for teaching, although I don’t think I had recognized it,” said Haluck, 28. He said he was particularly moved by a scene in the film in which two men who have nothing talk about their aspirations to be a teacher and a lawyer. He compared that with his own good fortune. “There are so many possibilities that I have,” said Haluck. “I am not being held back in any way, and I can help the world much better by interacting with youth and helping them see how easy it is to get involved and how easy it is to help.” At Justin-Siena High School in Napa, 60 students in April participated in an overnight event called Displace Me, where they “identified with and were in solidarity with people displaced” by sleeping in cardboard boxes on the campus, said Andrew Hodges, the director of campus ministry.
“The event was so popular that Elyse is planning another displacement event for this coming April,” said Hodges. Turmoil has come to Congo because of money to be made from the mining of “blood minerals,” such as casserite and coltan, which command high prices because they are used in the manufacture of computers and cell phones. Armed groups are outgunning Congo’s military to claim their share of the wealth. The Lord’s Resistance Army is also abducting and terrorizing people in the Central African Republic and Southern Sudan. The Congo Catholic bishops have praised Congress for passage of a law that holds accountable American companies that use minerals in their products from mines that help fund the Congo fighting, and the church is helping Invisible Children establish the warning system, a two-way radio link connecting the U.N. and local leaders. “This has been a dream of mine day and night for a long time and today it is happening,” Father Benoit Kinalegu of the Dungu-Doruma Diocese, said of the warning system. “I reached out to many organizations, and thanks to the help of the United Nations I was connected to Invisible Children who has helped in making this happen.” Invisible Children will be at St. Dominic Church in San Francisco March 11, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.; at Saint Mary’s College in Moraga April 3, 5-6 p.m.; and at USF April 21, 7-9 p.m. A tentative visit to St. Ignatius is planned April 11.
On unity’s path, the pilgrims call at the Orthodox patriarch’s great city ISTANBUL – On Sunday, Nov. 28, 2010 (the First Sunday in Advent for Catholics), we ecumenical pilgrims left Athens for Constantinople (renamed Istanbul by Turkish sultans after 1453). This magnificent city is the gateway between the continents of Europe and Asia, and has hosted three empires: Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman. In Constantinople is located the Ecumenical Patriarchate, the headquarters of His All-Holiness, the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, presiding as 270th successor to St. Andrew the Apostle, elder brother of St. Peter and founder of the 2,000-year-old Christian church in this region.
Journey of Faith: East and West As Ecumenical Patriarch, Bartholomew convenes councils and meetings of other patriarchs and hierarchs within Orthodoxy, facilitates inter-church and inter-faith dialogue, and serves as spiritual leader of approximately 250 million faithful worldwide, including the Orthodox Church in America. Together with the late Holy Father, Pope John Paul II, and now Pope Benedict XVI, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew has supported progress toward the reconciliation and reunion of the Roman Catholic Church and Orthodox Christianity. He is uniquely placed and experienced to lead in building peace and reconciliation among the Orthodox, Catholic and Muslim faiths. The main buildings of the Ecumenical Patriarchate are located in a compound called the Phanar. We arrived there Monday afternoon, Nov. 29, for an audience with the Ecumenical Patriarch and the celebration of the Great Vespers of the next day’s Feast of St. Andrew the Apostle. As we entered the Phanar we were shown the patriarchate’s main gate, which has remained permanently sealed shut since April 1821, when
This is the fourth and final installment 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. Ecumenical Patriarch Gregory V was hanged on that spot by the sultan, for the crime of assisting the Greek people in their successful struggle for freedom against the tyranny of the Ottoman Empire. We proceeded to the beautiful Cathedral of St. George for the Vespers service. Located in this Cathedral are the throne of the Ecumenical Patriarch, the column of Christ’s flogging, splendid icons and the Holy Relics of St. Gregory the Theologian and St. John Chrysostom, which Patriarch Bartholomew received from Pope John Paul II in November 2004 (they had been in St. Peter’s Basilica for 800 years). On Nov. 30, we were privileged to attend the celebration of the Divine Liturgy on the feast of St. Andrew. For several years now it has become the custom that the Ecumenical Patriarch or his representative attends the celebration of the Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul in Rome on June 29, and the pope or his representative attends the celebration of the Feast of St. Andrew in Constantinople on Nov. 30. This last year His Eminence Cardinal Kurt Koch, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity (whom we pilgrims had met with a week before in Rome), represented Pope Benedict XVI and during the liturgy delivered the Holy Father’s message, underlining “the need to progress toward full communion with the Orthodox Church, so as to give a greater
Christian witness to the world.” His All-Holiness Bartholomew replied gratefully and warmly, urging both Churches to “continue to examine, in love and sincerity, the theological matters that both unite and still divide, ‘until we arrive at the unity of faith,’ according to St. Paul the Apostle.’” (Ephesians 4:13). On Dec. 1, the last full day of our pilgrimage, we visited Hagia Sophia (the Church of Archbishop Holy Wisdom), originally George the largest church in the Niederauer Christian world, built by the Emperor Justinian, A.D. 532-537. After their victory in 1453, the Muslims converted the church into a mosque, but since the last century it has been a museum. Some of its glorious mosaics can now be seen. The dome is 182 feet high, with a diameter of 103 feet. To employ a now muchabused term, Hagia Sophia is genuinely an “awesome” sight. We also visited the famous Blue Mosque and the Grand Bazaar. The following morning we departed Constantinople for home. In another sense, our ecumenical pilgrims had never left home: We had visited each other’s spiritual homelands – Rome, Athens and Constantinople – and, Orthodox and Catholic alike, we had felt in many ways spiritually “at home” in all three.
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Pope John Paul II greets a young person during his 1994 vacation in Val D’Aosta, Italy.
Pope John Paul II . . . ■ Continued from cover The pope died on the vigil of Divine Mercy Sunday in 2005. With beatification, Pope John Paul will be declared “blessed” and thus worthy of restricted liturgical honor. Another miracle is needed for canonization, by which the church declares a person to be a saint and worthy of universal veneration. The Vatican spokesman, Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, summed up much of the sentiment in Rome when he said Pope John Paul would be beatified primarily for the spiritual gifts of faith, hope and charity that were the source of his papal activity. The world witnessed that spirituality when the pope prayed, when he spent time with the sick and suffering, in his visits to the impoverished countries of the world and in his own illness “lived out in faith, before God and all of us,” Father Lombardi said. Father Lombardi said the Vatican was preparing to move Pope John Paul’s body from the crypt of St. Peter’s Basilica to the Chapel of St. Sebastian in the basilica’s upper level at the time of beatification. The chapel, on the right hand side of the church just after Michelangelo’s Pieta, is easily accessible and spacious, an important factor given the steady stream of pilgrims who come to see the pope’s tomb. Father Lombardi said Pope John Paul’s
casket would not be opened at the time of the relocation, and that it would remain closed after it is placed beneath the altar of the chapel. To make room, the Vatican will have to move the tomb of a previously beatified pontiff, Pope Innocent XI, to another area of the basilica, he said. In 2005, Pope Benedict set Pope John Paul on the fast track to beatification by waiving the normal five-year waiting period for the introduction of his sainthood cause. That seemed to respond to the “Santo subito!” (“Sainthood now!”) banners that were held aloft at Pope John Paul’s funeral. Even so, church experts needed years to review the massive amount of evidence regarding the late pope, including thousands of pages of writings and speeches. The process began with the Diocese of Rome, which interviewed more than 120 people who knew Pope John Paul and asked them about his actions and character. Studies were conducted on his ministry, the way he handled suffering and how he faced his death. In 2007, on the second anniversary of the pope’s death, the Rome diocese concluded the initial inquiry phase. The documents from the investigation were placed in four chests, which were latched, tied with a red ribbon, sealed with red wax and delivered to the Congregation for Saints’ Causes for further study. In November 2008, a team of theological consultors to the saints congregation began studying the 2,000-page “positio,” the docu-
Mourners hold banners that read “sainthood now” during the funeral Mass for Pope John Paul II in St. Peter’s Square April 9, 2005.
morning feeling completely different. “I was sure I was healed,” she said. Not long afterward, she had recovered enough to return to work in Paris at a maternity hospital run by her order. Several times during the last two years, rumors have surfaced about delays in Pope John Paul’s beatification cause. Various reasons were reported, most having to do with incomplete documentation. In 2010, with new revelations of priestly sex abuse in many European countries, some Vatican sources said it was the wrong moment to push the sainthood cause of Pope John Paul, who was pope when some of the abuse occurred. But the Vatican’s sainthood congregation continued to methodically process the cause. A year ago, a book revealed some of the spiritual and penitential practices of Pope John Paul, including self-flagellation and spending entire nights on a bare floor with his arms outstretched. The book was written by Msgr. Slawomir Oder, postulator of the late pope’s sainthood cause, and it prompted some displeasure among church officials because it was based on supposedly confidential material gathered in the investigation process. Pope John Paul’s death and funeral brought millions of people to Rome, and Vatican officials said they would begin working with the City of Rome in logistical planning for the beatification.
ment that made the case for Pope John Paul’s beatification. After their favorable judgment, the cardinal and bishop members of the sainthood congregation met in late 2009 and voted to advance the cause. On Dec. 21, 2009, Pope Benedict declared that Pope John Paul had lived a life of “heroic virtues.” That meant he could be beatified once a miracle had been approved. The reported cure of the French nun was carefully investigated by the Vatican’s medical experts over the last year after questions were raised about the original diagnosis. Vatican sources said that, in the end, the experts were satisfied that it was Parkinson’s, and that there was no scientific explanation for the cure. In 2007, the nun, Sister Marie-SimonPierre, spoke to reporters about her experience. A member of the Little Sisters of the Catholic Motherhood, she was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 2001 at the age of 40. In watching Pope John Paul deteriorate from the effects of Parkinson’s disease, she said, “I saw myself in the years to come.” When the pope died in 2005, and as Sister Marie-Simon-Pierre’s condition began to worsen, all the members of the Little Sisters of Catholic Motherhood in France and in Senegal began praying to Pope John Paul to intervene with God to heal her. By June 2, two months after the pope died, she was struggling to write, to walk and to function normally. But she said she went to bed that night and woke up very early the next
Vatican officials, Catholics on the street talk about Pope John Paul VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Vatican officials, Catholic leaders around the world and ordinary people on the streets and in St. Peter’s Square were more pleased than surprised by news that Pope John Paul II will be beatified May 1. Portuguese Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins, retired prefect of the Congregation for Saints’ Causes, said, “finally” more than once during a brief conversation Jan. 14 just minutes after Pope Benedict XVI signed a decree recognizing the miracle needed to beatify Pope John Paul. “This is what the whole world was waiting for,” said Cardinal Saraiva Martins, who was the head of the saints congregation when Pope John Paul died and when his sainthood cause was opened. “I can’t help being happy. This is the crowning moment of a work I began,” he said. The cardinal said the written work of Pope John Paul is so vast and the time before his beatification so short that the best “spiritual preparation” Catholics could make would be to “thank God for Pope John Paul’s example of holiness and recommit ourselves to follow his example.” Carl Anderson, supreme knight of the Knights of Columbus, said Pope John Paul’s upcoming beatification is a “call to each of us to emulate his personal holiness.” Anderson, who stood in St. Peter’s Square on the day of Pope John Paul’s funeral as many shouted “Santo subito!” (“Sainthood now!”), said there were many who were ready to have him beatified that very day. In an e-mail to Catholic News Service,
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Visitors walk past San Sebastiano chapel in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican Jan. 14. The late Pope John Paul II will be placed in the chapel after his May 1 beatification, a Vatican official said.
Anderson called the upcoming beatification a great opportunity for the world to focus on the pope’s message of human dignity. “He led by example, caring for the poor, the intellectually and physically disabled, the unborn, the oppressed. He forgave those who did him harm, and he broke down barriers. He had great respect even for those who differed with him religiously. In short, Pope John Paul is a model the world needs,” he said. Anderson said the beatification is not a recognition of the pope’s “successful papacy or
a thank-you for his good work” but a call for each person to “imitate the holiness, the love of God and neighbor that this man exhibited throughout his life.” Jim Nicholson, a former U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, who also attended Pope John Paul’s funeral, said the vast crowd that day was a testament to the pope’s exceptional qualities “of leadership and hope.” In a phone call from his Washington law office, Nicholson told CNS he was “extremely pleased” for the pontiff, whom he frequently
described as a “hope-filled freedom fighter.” During his 2001-2005 role as ambassador, he got to know Pope John Paul personally and said he greatly admired his “adherence to hope, faith and prayer, coupled with courage and clever actions.” Jim Young, a Presbyterian from Ohio, was in St. Peter’s Square when the beatification announcement was made. He said his only real reaction was that he’d better make sure he found some Pope John Paul souvenirs because “I’m related to a bunch of Polish Catholics who were already convinced he’s a saint.” Giovanni Caponi, one of the souvenir-sellers who has a stand on the boulevard leading to St. Peter’s Square, said the news will be good for business. From a sales point of view, “John Paul is our most popular figure. No one greater exists. He’s No. 1,” said Caponi, who described himself as a nonbeliever. Kaitlin Benedict, a 21-year-old Catholic from Eden, N.Y., said she thought the decision to beatify Pope John Paul just over six years after his death “is a little fast. I was surprised. Usually these things take decades and now they’re just changing up tradition. But if they feel so strongly ...,” she said, her voice trailing off. Brigida Jones, a 26-year-old Australian from Melbourne, said Pope John Paul “was probably one of our best popes; he was a people’s pope.” The young woman said, “I think he did so much when he was alive, and you’d just see him on television and get this sense of peace – obviously he was holy.” Contributing to this story was Carol Zimmermann in Washington.
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Inside San Quentin, voices blend in song By Emily Schaeffer On the evening of Dec. 16, 2010, the St. Dominic Parish 5:30 p.m. Sunday Contemporary Choir traveled outside the city – and outside most people’s comfort zone – to share the gift of music and Advent joy with inmates at San Quentin State Prison. The choir, led by Mark Lizama, prepared a Lessons and Carols concert for Advent and Christmas. Despite over a month of preparation, there was some difficulty getting through security. It was a relief when, an hour late and chilled to the bone from waiting in the cold night, the choir made it through the gates and multiple checkpoints to arrive inside the prison walls. The inmates who had chosen to attend the concert gave a warm welcome and applauded as we walked in the door. They were like any other audience, with the exception of the block letters “CDC Prisoner” printed on their clothing. However, by the end of the evening, it was easy to look past the label and see the person. The choir handed out programs with the readings and music to the assembled congregation, which was made up almost entirely of inmates. Also in the congregation were Deacon Chuck McNeil, assistant chaplain at San Quentin, and a local Marin couple who call the San Quentin Catholic community their home church. Choir member Marilyn Paquette said later that the highlight
for her was looking out into the congregation and seeing the men singing along. “It drove home the fact that music is such a genuine form of prayer,” she said. “It connects people to people and people to God.” The room was full of heartfelt prayer as the inmates joined in the contemporary song “Let It Be Done,” by Chris Muglia, singing the lines, “Yes, Lord, we’re ready to receive. Yes, Lord, we’re ready to believe. Let it be. Let it be done unto me.” Many of the inmates have lived at San Quentin for 20 or more years, serving time for crimes such as armed robbery and other violent offenses. Yet on that night, we were all joined in a prayer of surrender to the will of God. The evening closed with two songs of thanksgiving: Chris Tomlin’s “How Great is our God” and the classic carol “Joy to the World.” Choir member Josh Schellenberg recalled that many started singing along enthusiastically during the last refrain of “How Great is Our God.” “Instead of ending the song where we normally do, Mark took advantage of the opportunity and had us repeat the final refrain many times,” Schellenberg said. “In contrast to the structure and time constraints at Mass, we fed off of the audience and adapted our songs to their energy.” At the conclusion of the evening, many of the 40 to 50 inmates present for the concert stood in line to shake our hands. One inmate brought us his program and a pencil to ask for “first-name autographs” so he could “remember this day forever.”
Many of the inmates are a part of the Catholic chapel’s regular Sunday Mass choir. According to the inmate pianist, they rehearse every Saturday and lead the congregation – composed mostly, but not exclusively, of inmates – in music. They sing in at least three languages: English, Spanish and Vietnamese. “What struck me most was the invitation from one of the inmates to come and join them for Sunday Mass,” Lizama said. “I’m hoping we are able to do that!” Anyone with security clearance is welcome to worship on Sundays with the inmates. The St. Dominic Contemporary Choir hopes to join the community at San Quentin in the future for another concert. The Gospel of Matthew tells us, “I was in prison and you visited me. Amen, I say to you, whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me.” (Matthew 25:3536, 40). In doing service to those in prison, we received a gift from the inmates in return – a better understanding of God’s love and grace. The members of the Contemporary Choir singing at San Quentin were: Director Mark Lizama, Gervase Eline, Mark Finneman, Stephanie Lacambra, Lutz Latta, Shilpa Mathew, Marilyn Paquette, Emily Schaeffer, Josh Schellenberg, Grace Renaud. Contact the choir at St. Dominic Catholic Church, 2390 Bush St., San Francisco 94115; (415) 674-0433; markq@ stdominics.org.
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Why we must not give up on Haiti
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One year ago, the worst single urban catastrophe in its tectonic plates but Haiti’s grinding poverty – an issue modern history befell Haiti, the poorest nation in our hemi- never fully addressed by its government and the international sphere. Goudou-goudou, the Creole word for the Jan. 12, community –which has limited its ability to easily recover 2010, earthquake, took some 300,000 lives and cost billions from an event of this magnitude. in destroyed property and infrastructure. Notwithstanding the immediate need to rebuild infraIn the immediate aftermath of structure and meet the basic surthe region’s biggest disaster in 200 vival needs of the Haitian people, years, the island nation avoided the a clear, long-term commitment expected outbreak of disease and to Haiti’s economic and political social disorder. Yet, by the end of development is needed. As usual, 2010 the Haitian people ended with the U.S. must take leadership in both – a still-uncontained cholera this effort. epidemic that has claimed more To start, the new Congress than 2,000 lives and widespread should re-introduce legislation civil disorder due to uncertainties similar to the Haiti Empowerment, from the elections. It seems as Assistance and Rebuilding Act (HR though, a year later, Haiti is getting 6021) in the previous Congress. worse, not better. Such legislation would provide With such results, it would a framework to guide long-term be easy to throw up our hands in assistance to Haiti. At the same despair. But it would not be in the time, it would encourage both long-term interests of the U.S. to the Haitian government and civil begin minimizing Haiti out of frussociety to look beyond immediate tration with a weak government needs and plan for the future. and an absence of progress in its Any assistance plan must recovery. Such a policy would have be accompanied by a new and long-term adverse consequences strengthened U.S. resolve to hold Holding photos of family members killed throughout the region. Haitians – and their foreign partin the disaster, a woman prays during ners – in both the public and private What we need to do is reconsider Mass in Port-au-Prince Jan. 12. sector accountable, while at the what needs to be accomplished to same time training them in demomake Haiti a functioning country again. While the earthquake has created new challenges, it has cratic governance. U.S. policy should be guided by a mix also laid bare for all to see those that have piled up over a very of generosity and hard-nosed realism, forcing the Haitian long time. This explains why there is so little evidence of Haiti political class to reduce corruption and govern transparently. In addition, U.S. migration policies toward Haiti should rising from the dust and ashes of the earthquake one year ago. The goudou-goudou was more than just a natural disaster reflect the dire situation on the ground, not compound it. – stronger quakes hit Chile and New Zealand in the same As a start, the administration should use its humanitarian year with less destruction and loss of human life. What parole policy to bring into the U.S. the immediate fambrought Haiti to its knees was not so much the shifting of ily members of Haitians medically evacuated after the
earthquake. In addition, another 55,000 Haitians who have already been approved to enter the U.S. to join family members could be allowed to enter as they await their priority date. Temporary Protected Status should Archbishop be extended to Haitians Thomas Wenski who arrived in the U.S. in the chaotic months aftermath of the earthquake. As a result of these straightforward policies, remittances to the country, so desperate for income generation and economic activity, would be strengthened. What the U.S. should not do is to cause more harm by resuming deportations to Haiti, a move being considered by administration officials and already being decried by human rights organizations. The Haitian government at this time does not have the capacity to accept and accommodate deportees, especially ones with criminal records. The U.S. also should pressure neighboring countries, such as the Bahamas and the Dominican Republic, to cease their deportations. As we have learned the hard way, recovery from natural disasters has been slow even in the resource-rich U.S. It took years for Florida to recover from Hurricane Andrew and five years later New Orleans is still struggling to overcome the impact of Katrina. It is no wonder that a third-world country near our doorstep is still reeling from its own catastrophe. We cannot walk away from Haiti-a neighboring country of nine million people only 800 miles away from the U.S. We must work with the new Haitian government to not only rebuild the national infrastructure, but also to rebuild a sense of national identity and unity. This will not be an easy road, but it is the only path forward. Archbishop Wenski is the archbishop of Miami.
Bishops welcome new Obama policies easing U.S.-Cuba travel rules WASHINGTON – The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops welcomed an executive order by President Barack Obama broadening the scope of travel allowed to Cuba and allowing non-family remittances to Cuba. “These needed new policies are modest but important steps toward advancing our hopes for a better relationship between our people and the people of Cuba, a relationship which holds great promise of fostering positive and real change in Cuba,” Albany, N.Y., Bishop Howard J. Hubbard, chairman of the USCCB Committee on International Justice and Peace, said Jan. 15. Bishop Hubbard’s remarks came after the announce-
ment by a senior White House official explaining the changes, which will expand purposeful and peopleto-people travel to Cuba and allow all Americans to send assistance to the Cuban people. The White House designed these changes to support a more vibrant civil society and to help the Cuban people depend less on the Cuban state at a time when changes in the Cuban economy are anticipated. “The church sees the changes as useful, positive and important steps forward toward the goal of greater engagement,” Bishop Hubbard said. “We hope and pray that these needed measures to remove unnecessary restrictions on
purposeful travel to Cuba and to offer greater people-topeople assistance to Cubans will be another step toward supporting the people of Cuba in achieving greater freedom, human rights and religious liberty.” The Catholic Church in Cuba and the U.S has repeatedly called for an end to the trade and investment embargo placed on Cuba in 1962. The U.S. bishops’ position is that the embargo’s principal effect has been to strengthen government control and weaken an already weak civil society. “It provides the government with excuses for its own failures” and is “morally unacceptable and politically counterproductive,” the bishops maintain.
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The Catholic Difference
The Reagan centenary February 6 is the centenary of the birth of Ronald Wilson Reagan, one of the most intriguing public figures of our time. Clark Clifford, the ultimate Washington “insider,” dismissed him as an “amiable dunce.” Yet Reagan’s posthumously published diaries and speech notes show a man of considerable insight and intelligence, who was shrewd enough to understand that the contempt of the elites was a political asset in securing the loyalty of the electorate and in getting what he wanted out of Congress and the federal bureaucracy. He was feared by arms controllers and the foreign policy establishment as a man likely to blunder into a nuclear Armageddon. Yet recent studies by Martin and Annelise Anderson demonstrate that, unlike the liberal poobahs of deterrence, Reagan never learned to live with the bomb and bent every effort to rid the world of nuclear weapons, through both disarmament and the development of effective strategic defense. His anti-communism was derided as primitive, unsophisticated, and a danger to world peace. Yet the historical record shows that his “simplistic” prescription for ending the Cold War—“We win; they lose” – turned out to be the key to the victory of imperfect democracies over a pluperfect tyranny. Few great public figures of late modernity have been so misunderstood in their lifetime or revered at their death – with the exception of another man who was never supposed to become the titanic figure he became, Pope John Paul II. And, as I try to show in “The End and the Beginning: Pope
John Paul II –The Victory of Freedom, the Last Years, the Legacy,” these two unexpected giants of the late 20th century had strikingly parallel biographies, despite the obvious differences in their backgrounds and interests. They were both orphaned young: the future pope, literally; the future president, virtually, given the alcoholism of his father. They were both men of the theater, whose extensive acting experience gave them both crucial skills and a conviction: that the word of truth, spoken clearly and forcefully enough, could cut through the static of evil’s lies, rally hearts and souls, and create possibilities where only obstacles were apparent. Their understanding of, and loathing for, communism came to both of them early: Reagan, through his battles with Hollywood communists for control of the Screen Actors Guild; John Paul II, through his experience of the brutalitarian period of Polish communism after World War II. Both knew that the crucial battle with communism was in the realm of the human spirit, for communism proposed a false, yet seductive, view of the human future that could best be matched by a nobler vision of human freedom. They were both dismissed as “conservatives” by pundits for whom “conservative” was a polite placeholder for “reactionary.” Yet the truth of the matter was that both were radicals: Reagan, in his convictions about ridding the world of nuclear weapons; John Paul, in the depth of his Christian discipleship. There was no “holy alliance” between them, as some overly imaginative reporters have alleged. But there
was deep mutual respect. Shortly before Christmas 2001, John Paul II asked me, “How is President Reagan?” As it happened, I had just run into former attorney general Edwin Meese, who had told me George Weigel a story that I shared with the pope. Meese had gone to the christening of the U.S.S. Ronald Reagan earlier that year, and had brought the former president (whose illness prevented him from attending) the typical ship’s baseball cap, emblazoned “U.S.S. Ronald Reagan CV-76,” that had been given out on the occasion. Reagan, a gentleman to the end, responded, “Thank you, Ed. That’s very kind. But why would anyone name a ship after me?” Twelve years after leaving office, the most consequential president since Franklin Roosevelt had no memory of having led his country, and the free world, for eight years. John Paul II, who could not imagine the unreflected-upon life, was saddened by my tale, and asked that I get word of his solidarity in prayer to Mrs. Reagan. It’s a comfort to imagine these two happy warriors now, in different circumstances, beyond the reach of either misunderstanding or sorrow. George Weigel is Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.
Spirituality for Life
Children within our care Margaret Laurence’s novel, “A Jest of God,” tells the story of two sisters: One of them, Rachel, single still and childless at mid-life, is a gifted, elementary school teacher. The other is a stay-at-home-mother, dedicating herself full-time to caring for her children. As the years go by and Rachel finds herself still without children of her own, her frustration grows. She works with children all day, every day, but they are not her children. They come into her classroom, learn from her, pass through her life, but then move on to other classrooms and to a life away from her. She suffers deeply from this transience, this lack of possession. Most everything inside her screams for children of her own, children who will not simply pass through her life. One day she shares this frustration with her sister, confessing how painful it is to have children pass through your life, a different group every year, and never have any that are really your own. Her sister is less than fully sympathetic. She tells Rachel, in effect, that it is no different being a parent. Your children also pass through your life and move on to their own lives, away from
you. They also are never really your children, someone you possess. Children are never really yours, irrespective of whether you are their natural parent, their foster parent, or their teacher. They have their own lives, lives that you do not own. There are some important truths in that: Children are never really our own. They are given us, in trust, for a time, a short time in fact, during which we are asked to be their parents, their teachers, their mentors, their pastors, their uncles, their aunts, their guardians, but they are not, in the end, our children. Their lives belong to them, and to God. That’s both challenging and consoling to realize. The challenge is more obvious: If we accept this then we are less likely to be manipulative as parents, teachers, and guardians. We are less likely to see a child as a satellite in our own orbit or as someone whose life must be shaped according to our image and likeness. Rather, if we accept that they are their own persons, we will be able to offer our love, support, and guidance with fewer strings attached. The consolation is not as obvious, but is my main point here: If we accept that our children are really not our own, then we
will also realize that we are not alone in raising them. How so? Our children are not ours, they are God’s children. In the end, we are only their guardians, all of us. God is the real parFather Ron ent and God’s love, care, and anxiety for them will Rolheiser always be in excess of our own. You are never a single parent, even if you are doing the parenting alone. God is alongside, loving, caring, cajoling, worrying, trying to instill values, trying to awaken love, worrying about what company they are keeping, concerned about what they are watching on the Internet, and spending the same sleepless nights that you are. God’s worry exceeds our own. Moreover God has the power to touch the heart of a child SPIRITUALITY FOR LIFE, page 15
Looking Around
Trusteeship is a shared responsibility There has been an interesting development – several developments, really – with respect to the composition of governing boards of Catholic hospitals, schools, colleges and universities over the past few decades. For instance, throughout the 1950s, Catholic colleges began to shift governance control from members of the sponsoring religious community to laymen and laywomen. Typically, a “one-third plus one” rule specified the required presence of representatives of the religious community on the board, a measure intended to guarantee influence if not absolute control of key changes that would require a two-thirds vote for enactment. And that provision was written into the bylaws of the college or university. This “safety” device has largely disappeared with the decline in religious community membership and the increase of trust that the sponsoring religious communities have in their lay associates. Today, at Georgetown University, for example, there are only three Jesuits on a board of 35 members. Boston College has eight Jesuits on their 57-member board of trustees. The average religious-lay board member composition for the 28 Jesuit colleges and universities is roughly 20 percent Jesuit, 80 percent lay. And the average total board size is 36. Board size is an issue today. Having too many people around the table makes it hard to handle board business efficiently. Colleges and universities, and hospitals too, want large boards so that they can enlist potential benefactors. But open checkbooks
are no substitute for regular attendance and meaningful participation. Excessive size makes meaningful participation difficult, if not impossible. In corporate America, there is a movement to reduce the size of boards. An opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal in lateDecember called for a “new model” for corporate boards, one that would reduce the average size from 11 to six or seven, “small enough for all members to take personal responsibility for the group’s actions.” Racial and gender considerations are mentioned whenever board composition comes up. But to achieve diversity, many boards find it necessary to add rather than subtract members. It should be acknowledged that Catholic institutions are relative newcomers to the world of lay-dominated, self-perpetuating, independent boards of trustees. As lay trustees gain more governance control, they are looking to priests and religious who once had control, to help them somehow preserve the tradition and revitalize the mission. This amounts to more than just showing respect for the elders; it is an effective way to preserve memory and the tradition. There is no question that Catholic colleges and universities are now stronger providers of research and instruction, as well as community service, than they have ever been; this is largely due to the presence of laypeople at all levels of administration and instruction. There is a question, however, about the level of understanding
and commitment to Catholic mission and identity on the part of lay board members. Workshops, retreats and training institutes are needed to help institutions familiarize their lay trustees with the religious mission. Father William What is needed now at the board level of Catholic J. Byron, SJ institutions is talk between those who understand the tradition and the trustees, particularly the lay trustees who are responsible for preserving the tradition in contemporary but faithful expressions of Catholic mission and Catholic identity. What are the essentials of trusteeship in Catholic institutions? Attention to that question in the boardroom will eventually help the institutions clarify for themselves their own Catholic institutional identity. Their future, quite literally, depends on it. Jesuit Father William J. Byron, university professor of business and society at St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, writes a column for Catholic News Service. E-mail him at wbyron@sju.edu.
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A READING FROM THE BOOK OF ISAIAH IS 8:23-9:3-1 First the Lord degraded the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali; but in the end he has glorified the seaward road, the land west of the Jordan, the District of the Gentiles. Anguish has taken wing, dispelled is darkness: for there is no gloom where but now there was distress. The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; upon those who dwelt in the land of gloom a light has shone. You have brought them abundant joy and great rejoicing, as they rejoice before you as at the harvest, as people make merry when dividing spoils. For the yoke that burdened them, the pole on their shoulder, and the rod of their taskmaster you have smashed, as on the day of Midian. RESPONSORIAL PSALM PS 27:1, 4, 13-14 R. The Lord is my light and my salvation. The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom should I fear? The Lord is my life’s refuge; of whom should I be afraid? R. The Lord is my light and my salvation. One thing I ask of the Lord; this I seek: To dwell in the house of the Lord
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Third Sunday in Ordinary Time Isaiah 8:23-9:3-1; Psalm 27:1, 4, 13-14; I Corinthians 1:10-13, 17; Matthew 4:12-23 all the days of my life, That I may gaze on the loveliness of the Lord and contemplate his temple. R. The Lord is my light and my salvation. I believe that I shall see the bounty of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord with courage; be stouthearted, and wait for the Lord. R. The Lord is my light and my salvation. A READING FROM THE FIRST LETTER OF PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS 1 COR 1:10-13, 17 I urge you, brothers and sisters, in the
name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree in what you say, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and in the same purpose. For it has been reported to me about you, my brothers and sisters, by Chloe’s people, that there are rivalries among you. I mean that each of you is saying, “I belong to Paul,” or “I belong to Apollos,” or “I belong to Cephas,” or “I belong to Christ.” Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul? For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with the wisdom of human eloquence, so that the cross of Christ might not be emptied of its meaning.
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hen Mel Gibson released his film “The Passion of the Christ,” the release was accompanied by a certain degree of publicity for Catholicism. This was because Gibson professes a Catholic faith. The publicity, however, was not as positive as one might have imagined, considering a Hollywood figure was making a major motion picture about the death of Christ. Rather, the message people got about the Catholic Church was that, as old and as large as the Catholic community is, it is essentially a divided community. This was expressed in the manner in which the media referred to Gibson’s Catholicism. It was not enough to refer to him simply as “Catholic.” Rather, Gibson was described as a “traditional” Catholic. This assertion left many asking: “Is there another kind?” But our division was compounded by the answer of many Catholics: “Yes!” I have had similar experiences myself in the 10 years since my ordination to the priesthood. On various occasions, usually when I begin work at a new parish, one or two parishioners, while introducing themselves, immediately ask me, usually with an air of suspicion: “Are you a traditional priest, or are you one of those liberals?” I usually answer: “Neither. I am a Catholic priest.” St. Paul was no stranger to this phenomenon, which is perhaps one that the Catholic Church will never fully overcome. At a time when there were no mass media but rather dedicated missionaries, apostles and evangelists who traveled from place to place and left presbyters and other elders to lead and nourish, it was natural for a particular community to develop an exaggerated fondness for their founding apostle – or even for the leader left behind. Perhaps one leader over others had a way of being more forthright in his leadership, another more gentle, another more
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Our divided church poetically eloquent, another more in tune with the community’s history, another more able to challenge in ways the others could not and still another who simply buttered the people up by telling them what they wanted to hear so as to generate greater contributions. Be that as it may, St. Paul was more than a little astounded when the result was a few of these communities defining their identity first and foremost by the leader to whom they were so attached – “I belong to Paul,” “I belong to Cephas,” “We belong to Apollos,” etc. We ourselves are no stranger to this phenomenon. One need simply consider a parish going through a transition of pastors, particularly if the retiring pastor was long tenured in the parish. There is hardly a priest alive who hasn’t heard the phrase, “You’re not like our last priest,” or, “We miss Father So-and-So.” In some unfortunate cases, there may be factions who want to accept the newer leader, facing antagonism from
a group who prefers the former, and vice versa, or groups who advocate faster progress with the new leader pitted against those who want slower developments – not to mention those who want no change at all! Given the divisions between Mass times, between parishes and parochial schools, between “traditional” and “progressive,” “orthodox” and “liberal,” between old and young, between clergy, religious and laity, even between men and women or between cultures, we are truly a divided church. Paul could not deny the importance of a community’s founder, nor deny the attachment many had to their local Christian leader. It was from such as these that the living word of the Gospel and the presence of and connection to the apostolic church was to be found. In addition, Paul was aware that the distance and diversity between the different communities, cities and regions made for very different communities. Paul also does not deny the diversity of gifts
A READING FROM THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW MT 4:12-23 When Jesus heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew to Galilee. He left Nazareth and went to live in Capernaum by the sea, in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali, that what had been said through Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled: Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali, the way to the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles, the people who sit in darkness have seen a great light, on those dwelling in a land overshadowed by death light has arisen. From that time on, Jesus began to preach and say, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” As he was walking by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon who is called Peter, and his brother Andrew, casting a net into the sea; they were fishermen. He said to them, “Come after me, and I will make you fishers of men.” At once they left their nets and followed him. He walked along from there and saw two other brothers, James, the son of Zebedee, and his brother John. They were in a boat, with their father Zebedee, mending their nets. He called them, and immediately they left their boat and their father and followed him. He went around all of Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom, and curing every disease and illness among the people. among Christians, which contribute to the unity in function of the one body that is the church. Paul points out, however, that all are united through one baptism in Jesus Christ, in which all are united to one another in and through his cross. In the same way, our church has inevitable and unavoidable differences. We find a personal identity in our families. We take pride in our identity and history as parishes. We are united to our particular apostolic leader in our dioceses and find identity in the cultures and nations to which we belong and from which we have come. Nonetheless, as all come together in worship and in sacrament, we are brought together – families, parishes and so upward – in a progressive unity that is the universal church throughout the world. We may belong to one group or another, considering ourselves “traditional,” “conservative,” “liberal” or “progressive.” We may belong to one parish or another, to one organization or another or participate in one or another ministry dedicated to various services done in the name of the church. We may take pride in our parish community as “the one and only,” “second to none,” “first among equals,” “the friendliest little parish in the valley” or “the finest, the greatest and the best.” But Paul, as he did then, now calls on us to recognize that in the end our identity is defined not in what divides us as communities, parishes, groups, even cultures and ideologies, but by Christ who bridges the great divisions within our church. In him we are defined, not by our parts, but in Christ, as a church that is one and Catholic. Father William Nicholas is parochial vicar at Our Lady of Loretto Parish in Novato. Visit his website at www.frwcnicholas.com.
Pope shares saint’s vision of purgatory as an ‘interior fire’ VATICAN CITY (VIS) – During his Jan. 12 general audience, held in the presence of 9,000 faithful, Pope Benedict XVI focused his teaching on St. Catherine of Genoa (1447-1510), author of two books: “Treatise on Purgatory” and “Dialogues on the Soul and the Body.” Catherine received a good Christian education in the home before marrying at age 16, although her married life was not an easy one. At first she led a worldly existence which caused her a profound sense of emptiness and bitterness. However, following a unique spiritual experience which made her aware of her own misery and defects and, at the same time, of the goodness of God, she decided to change her life and to begin a journey of purification and mystical communion with the Lord. “The place of her ascent to the mystical heights was the hospital of Pammatone, the largest
in Genoa, of which she was director,” the pope said. “The period between her conversion and her death was not marked by extraordinary events,” he said, “but two elements characterized her entire life: On the one hand, mystical experience, profound union with God and, on the other, service to others, especially the most needy and abandoned. “We must never forget”, he went on, “that the more we love God and remain constant in our prayers, the more we will truly manage to love those around us, because in each individual we will see the face of the Lord, who loves without limit or distinction.” The pope referred to the works of the saint. “In her mystical experiences,” he said, “Catherine never received specific revelations on purgatory or on the souls being purified there.” She did not, he said, see purgatory “as a place of transit in the depths of the
earth: it is not an exterior fire, but an interior fire.” The saint did not use the hereafter as a basis “to recount the torments of purgatory and then show the way to purification and conversion; rather, she began from the interior experience of man on his journey toward eternity,” he said. Thus, for Catherine, “the soul is aware of God’s immense love and perfect justice; as a consequence, it suffers for not having responded to that love perfectly, and it is precisely the love of God himself which purifies the soul from the ravages of sin,” the pope said. This mystical saint from Genoa used an image typical of Dionysus the Areopagite: the thread of gold linking the human heart to God, the pope said: “In this way the heart of man is inundated with the love of God, which becomes his only guide, the only driving force in his life. This situation of elevation toward God and
abandonment to his will, as expressed in the image of the thread, is used by Catherine to express the action of divine light on the souls in purgatory, a light which purifies and raises them toward the splendor of the dazzling rays of God. “In their experience of union with God, saints achieve so profound an understanding of the divine mysteries, in which love and knowledge almost become one, that they can even help theologians in their studies,” the pope said. Catherine’s life teaches us that the more we love God and enter into intimate contact with him through prayer, the more he fills our hearts with his love, the pope said. “By writing about purgatory, the saint reminds us of a fundamental truth of the faith which becomes an invitation for us to pray for the dead, that they may achieve the blessed vision of God in the communion of the saints,” he said.
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Mercy Sister Cecilia Dolores, 94, taught grade school for 50 years A funeral Mass was celebrated for Mercy of school children as Sister Mary Urban. Her Sister Cecilia Dolores Conant Dec. 15 at ministry took her to St. Peter School, St. the Mercy Sisters motherhouse chapel in Gabriel School and St. Stephen School in Burlingame. She was 94 and a religious for San Francisco, Our Lady of Angels School in Burlingame and other Catholic 76 years. schools around the state. Sister Cecilia Dolores After retiring from teaching grew up on her family’s 100in 1987, Sister Cecilia Dolores acre farm in Modesto. In an worked at Mercy Terrace in announcement of her death, San Francisco for eight years the Sisters of Mercy said, “She overseeing a federal surplus often shared her memories of food distribution program, life on the farm in a simpler era: organizing a weekly Mass for milking the many cows mornCatholic residents who couldn’t ing and evening, making ice get out to church, and being a cream with home-grown fruit, riding to church on Sundays in Sister Cecilia Dolores gentle, listening friend to the Conant, RSM residents. After her official a horse-drawn surrey.� Sister Cecilia Dolores met the Sisters retirement in 1996 when she turned 80, of Mercy as catechism teachers and after Sister Cecilia Dolores continued to volunteer graduating from high school in 1934, fol- at Mercy Terrace until she moved to Marian lowed her now-late sister Maria Josephine – Care Center in 2003. Interment was at Holy Cross Cemetery Sister Mary Placida – to the Sisters of Mercy novitiate in Burlingame. After profession in Colma. Remembrances may be made to in 1937, she began a 50-year ministry as a the Sisters of Mercy, 2300 Adeline Drive, primary-grade teacher, known to generations Burlingame CA 94010.
Spirituality for Life . . . ■Continued from page 13 and break through to a child in a way that you, as a parent, often cannot. Your children can refuse to listen to you, turn their backs on you, reject your values, and walk away from everything you stand for; but there is always still another parent, God, from whom they cannot walk away. God can reach into places, including hell itself, into which we cannot reach. God is always there, with a love more patient and solicitousness more fierce than is our own. From that we can draw courage and consolation. Our children are surrounded always by a love, a concern, an anxiety, and an invitation to awaken to love, that far exceeds anything we can offer. God is the real parent and has powers we don’t have. This is particularly important and consoling if we have ever lost a child tragically, to an accident that might have been prevented, to
suicide, to drugs or alcohol, or to a set of friends and a lifestyle that ended up killing them and, as a parent or guardian, you are left feeling guilty and second-guessing: Why did I fail so badly in this? How much am I to blame for this failure? Again, it is helpful to remind ourselves that we were, and are, not the only parents here and when this child died, however tragic the circumstances, he or she was received by hands far gentler than our own, was embraced by an understanding far deeper than our own, and was welcomed into the arms of a parent more loving than we. Our child left our foster care and our inadequacy to provide everything, to live with a mother and a father who can give him or her the protection, guidance, and joy that we could never quite fully provide. Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser, theologian, teacher, and award-winning author, is president of the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, Texas.
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TV review: “The Lost Valentine,” a WWII-generation family romance NEW YORK (CNS) – With the first of the baby boomers turning 65 this year, the ranks of their parents – the children of the Depression and the youthful GIs and Rosie the Riveters of the Second World War – are rapidly thinning. So perhaps it’s an appropriate time for a celebration of the values and ideals cherished by those who have aptly been called the “greatest generation.” “The Lost Valentine” – a Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation, produced in association with Paulist Productions – offers just such a salute. Based on James Michael Pratt’s novel, and directed by Darnell Martin, the sweetly romantic, family-oriented drama premieres Sunday, Jan. 30, 9-11 p.m. EST on CBS. Each Valentine’s Day – her wedding anniversary and the anniversary, a year later, of her husband’s departure for service in the Pacific – Caroline Thomas, touchingly played by the indefatigable Betty White, returns to the railroad station where she saw her courageous and high-minded spouse, Neil (Billy Magnussen), for the last time. Though he was reported missing in action shortly after the birth of their son a few
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Actress Betty White is pictured in a scene from the “Hallmark Hall of Fame” made-for-TV movie “The Lost Valentine.”
months later, 65 years on, Neil’s ultimate fate remains a mystery. Assigned to cover Caroline’s story as a human interest piece, initially doubtful TV reporter Susan Allison (Jennifer Love Hewitt)
rapidly finds herself drawn to the plucky octogenarian and – more significantly – to Caroline’s biggest fan, her protective grandson, Lucas (Sean Faris). Susan’s feelings for Lucas are complicated,
however, by her relationship with longtime boyfriend, Andrew (Will Chase), a globetrotting photographer who, in an early scene, proposes to Susan shortly before departing for his latest journey to distant climes. The unabashedly old-fashioned teleplay, by Maryann Ridini Spencer and Barton Taney, showcases Caroline’s enduring marital love and – as the circumstances of his last days are gradually uncovered – Neil’s selfless heroism. As for Susan’s dilemma, it pits the modern taste for a lifestyle abundant in space and freedom, typified by the possibilities of marriage to the often-absent Andrew, against the hometown closeness and simplicity offered by Lucas. If the proceedings occasionally seem overidealized, this is, nonetheless, that current rarity: quality programming appropriate for all ages. So parents can feel entirely comfortable gathering the clan for a wholesome and inviting stroll back in time to the days of swing music, victory gardens, and demanding commitments – both personal and patriotic – fulfilled. Mulderig is on the staff of Catholic News Service. More reviews are available online at www.usccb.org/movies.
Book looks behind mystery of ‘Holy Face’ relic reputed to be Jesus’ burial veil “ T H E FAC E O F G O D : T H E REDISCOVERY OF THE TRUE FACE OF JESUS ON THE HOLY FACE OF MANOPPELLO,” by Paul Badde. Ignatius Press (San Francisco, 2010). 350 pp., $23.95.
Reviewed by Raymond Frost Several years ago Paul Badde, the Rome and Vatican correspondent for Die Welt, one of Germany’s leading newspapers, was on his way to San Giovanni Rotondo in southern Italy to report on the new church being built in memory of St. Padre Pio. Having heard from Father Heinrich Pfeiffer, a Jesuit professor at the Gregorian University in Rome, about a unique image of Jesus in the town of Manoppello near Pescara, Badde decided, since it was on the way, to make a visit to the shrine in Manoppello where the image
is kept. This book began to take shape from that moment. Following in the tradition of Catholic pilgrimage authors such as Dante and Chaucer, Badde draws us along on his journey to meet the people who lead him to deeper knowledge of this sensational image which had been nearly forgotten for centuries. Badde’s wife Ellen plays a crucial role as helper and advisor, at critical moments, as to where he should go or with whom he should speak. The dialogues between Badde and Sister Blandina, a Trappistine nun, lead to the discovery that the fabric of the “Holy Face” is marine byssus, the most precious material of the ancient world, a “silk from the sea” made from the hairs of a Mediterranean sea mollusk. His discussions with Father Pfeiffer shed light on how the image, known since the 11th century as “the Veronica,” was taken from the Vatican during the construction of the new St.
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behind the altar and see Jesus face to face, and because of the unique nature of the fabric of byssus, see him or herself in the image. On Sept. 1, 2006, Pope Benedict XVI made a visit to the shrine in Manoppello and stayed for f a long time in contemplation before the face. He urged us all to seek the face of Christ. One year later he composed a special prayer to the holy face and in October of this year he aaccepted the keys to the town oof Manoppello, which Badde aalso received earlier this year. Ignatius Press has produced a well-made and du beautifully printed edition of be Badde’s book with a number Ba of fine color photos of the face. “The Face of God” is face no lless than a treasure for the ages, a landmark and compass of Catholic culture for the 21st century.
Peter’s Basilica in the 16th and 17th centuries only to reappear in Manoppello, where it has remained since that time. Badde and Pfeiffer discuss why the pope and Vatican officials contrived to cover up this loss by substituting a poor copy which ch is still publicly displayed once a year at St. Peter’s. What is moree Father Pfeiffer convincinglyy leads Badde to the earth-shaking conclusion that the holy face in Manoppello is the very cloth that is spoken of in John 20:8 – the face cloth that was set apart from the other burial cloths in the tomb of Jesus on that Easter morning when Peter and John “saw and believed.” What can be seen in Manoppello on any given day by any pilgrim is an image of Jesus unlike any other. The gaze of Jesus seems tto bbe th thatt off a living person, one who is speaking, a person who has suffered and still bears the marks of that suffering but who loves and seeks to be loved. The pilgrim can climb the stairs
The writer is sacristan at St. Ignatius Church in San Francisco.
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“As a deacon, a servant of God, my life's calling is to be a prisoner of Jesus Christ. God has given me the vocation of a prison psychiatrist. My job is to heal the minds and comfort the souls of convicted felons at San Quentin State Prison.” Reverend Mr. John Dupre, MD began his humble roots in New Orleans, born and raised there in the deep South. He completed his psychiatric residency in 1983 at UCSF. He began 27 years of service as a psychiatrist at San Quentin State Prison in 1983 where he remains employed. Ordained deacon in 1990, he continues service in the baptismal and social justice ministry.
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Social Justice/ Lectures/Respect Life Jan. 29, 9 a.m.: “Radical Amazement,” a spirituality workshop with Paulist Father Terry Ryan at Old St. Mary’s Paulist Center, 660 California St. at Grant Avenue in San Francisco. Coffee and sweets start the day. Call (415) 288-3844. 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. April 2: The Diocese of Stockton invites all Catholics to 38th Annual Ministry Day at St. Mary’s High School, Stockton. Workshops to inspire on the sacraments, Youth Ministry, Scripture, Family Life, faith formation and more, in English and Spanish. There will be over 50 exhibitors. Bishop Stephen E. Blaire will celebrate Mass. Advanced registration is $30 until February 22, and then it is $35. To register and for more information visit http;//is.gd/iVn41. Saturdays: San Mateo Pro-Life prays the rosary at 2211 Palm Ave. in San Mateo at 8 a.m. and invites others to join them at the site. The prayer continues as a peaceful vigil until 1 p.m. The group is also open to new membership. Meetings are held the second Thursday of the month except August and December at St. Gregory Parish’s Worner Center, 138 28th Ave. in San Mateo at 7:30 p.m. For more information, call Jessica at (650) 572-1468 or visit www.sanmateoprolife.com Saturdays, 9 a.m. – 10 a.m.: Rosary for Life 815 Eddy St. in San Francisco.
Food and Fun Jan. 29, 8 p.m.: “July Fest Zydeco Dance” at St. Finn Barr Church, Goode Hall, 415 Edna St. at Hearst in San Francisco. Tickets are $20.00 at the door/$16.00 in advance. For advance tickets, call (415) 333-3627. 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 San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop Robert McElroy is guest speaker. Members’ breakfast is $7 and non-members’ $10. 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 is by Andre Thierry and the Zydeco Magic Band. Call (415) 468-3434. Feb. 19, 5:30 p.m.: Mission Dolores and Notre Dame Elementary Alumni present “A Night at the Races” at Mission Dolores Auditorium, 3371 16th St. in San Francisco. Enjoy a great dinner, prizes, laughter and fun, as the MD Auditorium transforms into “Dolores Downs.” Tickets at $40 per person include dinner and a ‘funny money’ packet. An additional $100 will give you naming rights for a horse. Make checks payable to Mission Dolores School, and mail to MD/NDE c/o Katie O’Leary, 440 Panorama Drive, San Francisco 94131. Reservations must be received no later than Feb. 9, 2011. E-mail dolorians@aol.com or call Katie at (415) 282-6588. Spouses and friends are welcome.
Prayer / Special Liturgies Sundays, 1:30 – 2:30 p.m.: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament with Benediction at Notre Dame des Victoires Church, 566 Bush St. between Stockton and Grant in San Francisco. Convenient parking is available across Bush Street in StocktonSutter garage. Call (415) 397-0113. Taize Sung Prayer: First Fridays at 8 p.m.: Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Drive, Burlingame with Mercy Jan. 27, 11:30 a.m.: Women’s Business Luncheon at the City Club of San Francisco. Proceeds benefit Immaculate Conception Academy, an all-girls Cristo Rey high school in the Mission District of San Francisco. Tickets are available at http://icaluncheon. eventbrite.com/ or call (415) 824 2052, ext40.
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Feb. 12, noon: Archbishop George Niederauer presides at a Mass and Anointing of the Sick at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard in San Francisco. Mass is commemoration of World Day of the Sick instituted by Pope John Paul II in 1992. People living with any serious or acute illness as well as their families and caregivers are especially invited. Plenty of parking is available in cathedral lot at bottom of church steps. Please arrive by 10:30 a.m. Assistance to cathedral from parking lot will be available. Observance is sponsored by the Order of Malta of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. E-mail kenmryan@aol.com or call (415) 788-4550.
Sister Suzanne Toolan. Call (650) 340-7452; young adults are invited 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 St. 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.
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. 19, 5:30 p.m.: Mission Dolores and Notre Dame Elementary Alumni present “A Night at the Races” at Mission Dolores Auditorium, 3371 16th St. in San Francisco. Enjoy a great dinner, prizes, laughter and fun, as the MD Auditorium transforms into “Dolores Downs.” Tickets at $40 per person include dinner and a ‘funny money’ packet. An additional $100 will give you naming rights for a horse. Make checks payable to Mission Dolores School, and mail to MD/NDE c/o Katie O’Leary, 440 Panorama Dr., San Francisco 94131. Reservations must be received no later than Feb. 9, 2011. E-mail dolorians@aol.com or call Katie at (415) 282-6588. Spouses and friends are welcome. 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.
Vocations/Serra Clubs Jan. 27, noon: Serra Club of San Francisco meets at Italian American Social Club, 25 Russia Ave., off Mission Street in San Francisco. Vicki Otto, pastoral associate at St. Raphael Parish and member of the new Missal implementation team will talk about the new translations affecting the Mass. Cost is $16 for lunch Contact Paul Crudo at (415) 566-8224 or pecrudods@aol.com. Please write “Serra” on subject line. Patrick Vallez-Kelly, director of worship for the
Archdiocese of San Francisco, will speak at February 24 meeting about the new missal and changes associated with its implementation. 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 Friday at 9 p.m. and Sunday at 11 a.m. E-mail info@ sfarchdiocese.org with comments and questions about faith. Visit www.ihradio.org Sunday, 6 a.m., KOFY Channel 20/Cable 13 and KTSF Channel 26/Cable 8: TV Mass with Msgr. Harry Schlitt presiding. Sunday, 7 a.m.: TV Mass on the Filipino Channel (TFC) Channel 241 on Comcast and Channel 2060 on Direct TV. Saturday, 4 p.m.: Religious programming in Cantonese over KVTO 1400 AM, co-sponsored by the Chinese Ministry and Chinese Young Adults of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. First Sunday, 5 a.m., CBS Channel 5: “Mosaic,” featuring conversations on current Catholic issues. EWTN Catholic Television: Comcast Channel 229, AT&T Channel 562, Astound Channel 80, San Bruno Cable Channel 143, DISH Satellite Channel 261, Direct TV Channel 370. For programming details, visit www.ewtn.com
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 Street and Geary Boulevard 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
Jan. 30, 11 a.m.: San Francisco Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women’s Annual Luncheon featuring “100 Years of Vintage Fashion from The Goodwill Bags” at the Olympic Club, Lakeside, Skyline Boulevard in San Francisco. Begins at 11 a.m. with no host cocktails and silent auction with lunch at 12:30 p.m. Tickets are $60 per person. For more information or reservations, call Diana Heafey, (415) 731-6379.
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at (650) 366-3802. St. Bartholomew, San Mateo; call 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. Gabriel; call Monica Williams at (650) 756-2060. St. Mary’s Cathedral; call Sister Esther McEgan at (415) 567-2020 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.
Volunteer Catholic Charities CYO is an independent nonprofit organization operating as the social services arm of the Catholic Church in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Contact Liz Rodriguez at erodriguez@ cccyo.org or (415) 972-1297 to fill out a volunteer application. A list of current open volunteer positions is available online at www.cccyo.org/volunteer. St. Vincent de Paul Society of San Francisco – SVdP - works to provide direct person to person service to San Francisco’s poor, homeless, and victims of domestic violence. Serving more than 1,000 children, women and men every day, volunteers play a critical difference in the community. For more information contact Tim Szarnicki at tszarnicki@svdp-sf. org or (415) 977-1270 x3010. St. Anthony Foundation serves thousands of poor and homeless individuals and families through its food program, drug and alcohol recovery, free medical clinic, clothing program and other programs. For more information, visit www.stanthonysf.org and fill out a volunteer opportunity request form or contact Marie O’Connor at (415) 592-2726. The Society of St. Vincent de Paul of San Mateo County is the safety net every year for over 40,000 San Mateo County residents in need, including more than 17,000 children. Call Atrecia at (650) 373-0623 or e-mail svdpinfo@yahoo.com. Handicapables continues its 40-year tradition of prayer and fellowship each month at St. Mary’s Cathedral. Volunteers are always welcome. Call or Jane at (415) 585-9085. La Porziuncola Nuova at National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi invites you to volunteer. Contact Jim Brunsmann at jimbrunsmann@comcast.net or go to www.knightsofsaintfrancis.com and follow the Volunteer Application link at the bottom of the home page.
Good Health Mondays, 4 p.m.: Join us on level C of St. Mary’s Medical Center in the Cardiology Conference Room. This series of eight classes covers everything related to diabetes. It is a great way to learn more about diabetes in a relaxed and friendly environment. Specialized diabetes educators lead the sessions. No previous registration is necessary. Take advantage of this education opportunity. If you have any questions or would want more information please call Diabetes Services at St. Mary’s (415) 750-5513.
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January 21, 2011
In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of December HOLY CROSS COLMA
Thomas V. Hanlon, Jr. Inez L. Healy Pauline E. Hemmati Rene J. Hetu Maria Camino Altube Msgr. Alvan P. Heuring Andrew C. Anderson Richard Alan Hines Richard Walter Andre Beulah Hudson Aida V. Aycinena Primitiva C. Ingojo Marciano Cruz Baltazar Howard “Bud” Jenkins Jesus A. Barbosa Johanna (Nan) Joesten Lesbia Barbosa Maria T. Kristel Clara D. Barraza Cornelio T. Labuen Barbara Barrett Leticia Lazo Bernard O. Barrett Lazaro M. Mabasa Katherine M. Bartolotti Reginald M. Maghirang Marieta J. Bayot Sr. Michel De Ste Marguerite Marie Paula Roa Bendana Regina I. Marsh Robert Lee Boring Robert C. Martins Ruth Burchell Budesa Mary Josephine McNeill Jose R. Buitrago Isabel Inday Vargas Medina Roberta Alires Bullington Bridget “Bridie” Mehigan Paul A. Burket Rose L. Morillon Lorraine Sonia Businger Carmen Muniz Werner Businger, Jr. Harold Newsham III Robert “Bob CC” C. Carnecer Hy Duy Nguyen Jose B. Catudan Joseph M. Nguyen James T. P. Chen Ada E. Nicolopulos Victor J. Cipparrone, Sr. Jean Boysen O’Donnell Stephen J. Clancy Angelita A. Ocampo Dorothy A. Clark Maria Mercedes Orantes Wanda Cobarruviaz Prudence De Los Santos Collardo Brandy Melissa Orge Alma T. Ottino Jeannette Rita Collins Encarnacion D. Padua Nevio Colombana Porfirio P. Paet Cecilia Dolores Conant, RSM Catherine A. Page Carlito R. Covita Carlos Palacios Rose M. Crivello Marilyn Palmer Frank E. Daniels Merci Palmer Jesus P. De La Paz Joffre V. Pantig Sophie G. Delgado Eileen A. Patron Philip J. Deredi Carmel Bridgett Payne John Derenzi Natividad Lopina Pelejo Mary D. Donohue Lee Polizzi Virginia M. Dooling Rose Portale Bobbie Downing Michael G. Powell Robert J. Dummel Juanita Ramos Anthony Escandor Antonio D. Reis Rosemarie S. Fee Rosa P. Reyes Felie Ferrer Milagros Frazier Rodrigues Alberta C. Finn Galdina Rodriguez Brian Francisco Enrico I. Ruiz Gertrude A. Gaillard Malianive Saffings Carmelo Galarraga Virginia F. Samaduroff Evelyn M. Garibaldi Evangelina L. Sanchez Emma Garzaro Rose J. Sancimino Mary E. Giuliani Oswald J. Schefers Emilio R. Gobbo Marion Sloan Florence “Pat” Goldberg Horace Smith, Sr. Bernice P. Grove Agnes M. Sneler Trinidad M. Guerrero Jose Reynold Cipriano Sonza Larry L. Hall
Gilbert A. Soto Joseph Spiteri Charles Joseph Terranova Pearl Tomasacci Yelva M. Torres-Correa Flora Ulibarri Margaret M. Vetter Edward M. Walsh Robert E. Waters Margaret Ysturiz
HOLY CROSS MENLO PARK Margaret Cannavo Jeanne Hernandez Robert E. Huber Elodio B. Medina Joseph Anthony Scaroni III Maria A. Walker
MT. OLIVET SAN RAFAEL Sara Ann Allemang Allwin Baldacci Gail Lee Marie Beatrice Angelo Colombo Madeline E. Cota Mary Ann Dix Mario Michael Ghilotti Joseph F. Mangione Lois Rasmussen Dennis Sabraw Susan Schaffer Piero Sebastiani Emil F. Slansky
OUR LADY OF THE PILLAR Joe Alvaro Lourenco
HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY, COLMA First Saturday Mass – Saturday, February 5, 2011 All Saints Mausoleum Chapel – 11:00 a.m. Rev. Daniel McCotter, Celebrant Old St. Mary’s Cathedral
The Catholic Cemeteries Archdiocese of San Francisco www.holycrosscemeteries.com HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY 1500 Mission Road, Colma, CA 650-756-2060 PILARCITOS CEMETERY Hwy. 92 @ Main, Half Moon Bay, CA 650-712-1676
HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY Intersection of Santa Cruz Avenue, Menlo Park, CA 650-323-6375 ST. ANTHONY CEMETERY Stage Road, Pescadero, CA 650-712-1679
MT. OLIVET CATHOLIC CEMETERY 270 Los Ranchitos Road, San Rafael, CA 415-479-9020 OUR LADY OF THE PILLAR CEMETERY Miramontes St., Half Moon Bay, CA 650-712-1679
A Tradition of Faith Throughout Our Lives.