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Young adults march in the Walk for Life West Coast Jan. 22 in San Francisco.

San Francisco pro-life rally, march attract crowd of more than 40,000

By Valerie Schmalz More than 40,000 people crowded San Francisco’s waterfront boulevard for the seventh annual Walk for Life West Coast on the 38th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion.

“We’re here to break the chains of the culture of death,” co-founder Dolores Meehan told the 11 a.m. rally Jan. 22, before the 2.5-mile walk along the Embarcadero to Marina Green near the Golden Gate Bridge.

“It’s awesome to see all of you packed out there,” Meehan told the crowd, which sponsors said was the largest in the history of the event.

“You are the new generation of pro-lifers and let me tell you something friends; Planned Parenthood and the pro-choice movement, they are shaking in their boots,” said speaker Abby Johnson, 30, who walked away from her job as a director of a Texas Planned Parenthood clinic in 2009 after assisting with an ultrasound-guided abortion.

“They are terrified because there are so many more pro-life young adults than pro-choice young adults,” Johnson said. “You know why? Because it makes sense to be pro-life. It doesn’t make sense to be pro-choice.

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“You guys 30 years of age and younger – you’re the movement. You’re the next generation,” Johnson said.

“This is our time – make it count.”

“It was really powerful because there was a ton of people on the walk with us,” said Devlin Sevy, a 15-yearold freshman at Marin Catholic High School in Kentfield.

“There were other people who believed the same things you did, like, all across California. I did not expect there to be so many kids our age.”

Participants were still filing out of the plaza to walk toward Marina Green at 1:10 p.m., an hour after the rally concluded. At one point, the mass of people walking – in many cases 15 across – stretched nearly two miles from the downtown plaza to Aquatic Park at Fisherman’s Wharf. Walk organizers clocked the crowd as it moved past a specific point and last year conservatively estimated the number at 35,000.

About 140 counter-demonstrators were separated from the pro-life walkers by police.

All the guest speakers had a history of abortion.

“If we care for the baby, we have to care for the mother and father,” said speaker Kathleen Eaton, who founded Birth Choice Health Clinics in Orange County after her own abortion 30 years ago. A new Birth Choice Health Clinic is opening in Napa, the first in Northern California.

Mary Poirer of Prayerbreaks told the story of her three abortions and her journey to healing through the words of her confessor.

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Pope names Bishop Vasa as coadjutor bishop of Santa Rosa WASHINGTON (CNS) – Pope Benedict XVI has named Bishop Robert F. Vasa of Baker, Ore., to serve as coadjutor bishop to Bishop Daniel F. Walsh of Santa Rosa.

The appointment was announced in Washington Jan. 24 by Archbishop Pietro Sambi, apostolic nuncio to the United States.

Bishop Vasa, 59, has headed the Baker diocese since January 2000. He will automatically succeed the 73-year-old Bishop Walsh when he retires or dies.

Bishop Walsh has been a bishop since 1981 and was appointed to head the Santa Rosa diocese in 2000.

Bishop Vasa was expected to take up residence in the Santa Rosa diocese March 4. A Mass of reception and welcome was scheduled for March 6 at St. Eugene’s Cathedral in Santa Rosa.

Bishop Walsh hopes to return home to the Archdiocese of San Francisco upon retirement. “I hope to continue to serve the Catholic Church for the rest of my life, possibly in a parish,” he said.

Bishop Walsh, who had asked for the assistance of a coadjutor, said in a statement that he was happy at the appointment and looked forward “to introducing him to our parishioners and working in partnership to lay the foundation for our diocesan future.”

Born May 7, 1951, in Lincoln, Neb., Robert BISHOP VASA, page 3

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St. Thomas More Society Essay Contest winner, Catharine Palaban with her parents, Carl and Carmelita, and teacher, Elaine Kouches. Back from left are Adrian Driscoll and Dennis McQuaid, president and outgoing president of the Catholic legal association.

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By Tom Burke San Domenico School salutes President Emerita Sister Gervaise Valpey, dedicated teacher and principal at the San Anselmo school for 37 years and this year celebrating her 50th year as a San Rafael Dominican. “Sister Gervaise is well known within the Bay Area community as a pillar of Sister Gervaise Valpey, OP spiritual faith and environmental stewardship,” the school said. Sister Gervaise was honored with a benefit event at the Julia Morgan Ballroom in San Francisco in November raising $200,000 for a scholarship fund named for her at San Domenico….

Patricia Cavagnaro’s dedication to Immaculate Conception Academy has not wavered since her time as a member of the ICA class of 1960 and especially in the last 26 years as the school’s development director, recruitment director, and alumnae director. “Patty’s impact on our school is enormous.,” said Dominican Sister Mary Virginia Leach, ICA president. “She brings a wonderful

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By Carol Zimmermann WASHINGTON (CNS) – In dioceses across the country this year, U.S. bishops and Catholic college and university presidents plan to discuss the specifics of how to best promote Catholic mission and identity on college campuses.

The bishops and college leaders will be giving a 10-year review of “The Application of ‘Ex Corde Ecclesiae’ for the United States” a document that was approved by the U.S. bishops in 1999 and then approved a year later by the Vatican. The document officially went into effect in 2001. It outlines how U.S. Catholic colleges and universities should implement the Vatican document on Catholic higher education “Ex Corde Ecclesiae” (“From the Heart of the Church”).

“Ex Corde Ecclesiae” is an apostolic constitution issued in 1990 by Pope John Paul II that outlines the identity and mission of Catholic colleges and provides universal norms to ensure colleges maintain these standards. The document was issued after more than a decade of research involving Vatican departments and Catholic educators around the world. It specifically defines the “mandatum,” or church authorization, granted by the local bishop to teach theology.

The plan for upcoming local dialogues to review the application of “Ex Corde” at U.S. Catholic colleges and universities was announced Jan. 20 by Los Angeles Bishop Thomas J. Curry, chairman of the bishops’ Committee on Catholic Education.

In a statement, the bishop said he hoped the review will help the bishops “appreciate the positive developments and remaining challenges in the collaborative efforts of bishops and presidents to ensure the implementation of Ex Corde Ecclesiae in the United States.”

After these dialogues occur, bishops will share their reflections with one another at regional meetings during their fall 2011 general assembly in Baltimore. These presentations will then be compiled and presented to the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, New York Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan.

Bishop Curry said the discussions between bishops and Catholic college and university presidents should provide “an important means to foster a mutually beneficial relationship.”

He added that the “collaboration is essential to the spirit of Ex Corde Ecclesiae, which is why a working group of bishops and university presidents created the review process together.”

Vincentian Father Dennis Holtschneider, president of DePaul University in Chicago and chairman of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities, said he was pleased that the bishops “invited university presidents to help shape the instrument that will guide these conversations.” He noted that the church and society at large are “served well when the leadership of both the church and higher education institutions work closely together.”

This notion of university and church leaders working together is something Pope John Paul II hoped would come about as colleges implemented “Ex Corde.”

In a 1987 address to U.S. Catholic education leaders, he said the then-upcoming document calls for “close personal and pastoral relationships” between university and church authorities “characterized by mutual trust, close and consistent cooperation and continuing dialogue.”

Pope John Paul’s U.S. meeting with Catholic educators at Xavier University in New Orleans took place as Catholic higher education officials around the world debated the possible effects of the much-anticipated apostolic constitution on Catholic higher education.

The pope just briefly addressed one key point in the document that focused on giving greater administrative control of Catholic universities to church hierarchy. He told the group of more than 1,000 Catholic higher education leaders that bishops must be participants in Catholic colleges and universities and that the work of theologians has to be tested by the church’s teaching authority.

Catholic colleges should not simply transmit knowledge to their students but bring them to a deeper understanding of faith “which in turn nurtures the soul of a nation,” Pope Benedict XVI told Catholic college presidents and diocesan education representatives at The Catholic University of America in Washington in 2008.

Though some had predicted he would be critical, the pope called Catholic educators “bearers of wisdom” and gave his “profound gratitude” for their “selfless contributions” and dedication.

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Bishop Vasa . . .

■ Continued from cover Francis Vasa was ordained a priest of the Lincoln diocese on May 22, 1976, after studies at Holy Trinity Seminary in Dallas and the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.

In addition to a number of parish posts, then-Father Vasa served in the Lincoln diocese as a high school teacher, advocate and judicial vicar for the diocesan marriage tribunal, vice chancellor and chancellor, moderator of the curia, vicar general, finance officer and chairman of the Diocesan Building Commission.

Appointed bishop of Baker by Pope John Paul II on Nov. 19, 1999, he was ordained a bishop on Jan. 26, 2000.

At the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Bishop Vasa serves on the Catholic Home Missions Subcommittee and the Task Force on Health Care. He will become the sixth bishop of Santa Rosa, a diocese with about 170,000 Catholics in a total population of 910,000.

Bishop Vasa made national news early in 2010 when he ended the church’s official sponsorship of central Oregon’s largest medical center, citing the hospital’s refusal to adhere to some Catholic teachings. He said St. Charles Medical Center in Bend “gradually moved away” from church ethical and religious standards and can no longer be called Catholic.

Bishop Walsh, born Oct. 2, 1937, in San Francisco, was ordained a priest of the San Francisco archdiocese on March 30, 1963.

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He held parish, educational and administrative posts with the archdiocese until his June 30, 1981, appointment as an auxiliary bishop of San Francisco.

Ordained a bishop Sept. 24, 1981, he also served as archdiocesan vicar general until his installation as bishop of Reno-Las Vegas Aug. 6, 1987.

When the diocese was divided in 1995, he became the first bishop of Las Vegas. Bishop Walsh held that post until he was named bishop of Santa Rosa in May 2000.

In the California diocese, he inherited a financial crisis attributed to Bishop G. Patrick Ziemann, who resigned in July 1999 after admitting a homosexual relationship with one of his priests, who sued the diocese for $8 million. Bishop Ziemann died in 2009, two years after Bishop Walsh announced that the diocese had paid off its debts and restored funds to its parishes, cemeteries and schools.

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Vatican did not tell bishops to cover up abuse cases, spokesman says VATICAN CITY (CNS) – A Vatican official downplayed a 1997 Vatican letter to Irish bishops about handling cases of clerical sex abuse, saying the letter did not tell bishops to keep the cases secret from the police.

Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, the Vatican spokesman, said the letter aimed at ensuring the bishops fully followed church law for dealing with accusations in order to avoid a situation in which an abusive priest could return to ministry on the technicality of his bishop mishandling the process.

The letter, brought to public attention Jan. 17 by Ireland’s RTE television and published by the Associated Press, was written by Archbishop Luciano Storero, then-nuncio to Ireland. The letter summarized the concerns of the Congregation for Clergy regarding proposed Irish norms for dealing with the sex abuse crisis.

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tion, “the situation of ‘mandatory reporting’ gives rise to serious reservations of both a moral and a canonical nature.”

Father Lombardi said, “One must note that the letter in no way says that the country’s laws must not be followed.”

He told Catholic News Service Jan. 19 that the Vatican “does not have a universal, specific position on mandatory reporting because the laws and situations are so different from country to country.”

However, he said, the Vatican has made it clear to bishops that in their policies for dealing with abuse accusations and in concrete situations “they must respect the laws of their country,” including when those laws require the church to report accusations to police or the courts.

Some news reports and some groups of sex abuse victims have pointed to the 1997 letter as evidence that the Vatican directly orchestrated the response of bishops’ conferences to the sex abuse crisis and that even in the late 1990s, not everyone at the Vatican was convinced that abusers should be turned over to the police. reality and life in the faith of our churches without causing damage to the churches,” he told a delegation from the German Evangelical (Lutheran) Church Jan. 24. The delegation was in Rome during the week of prayer for Christian unity.

The pope noted that Catholic bishops and Lutheran representatives in Germany are engaged in bilateral talks on the theme, “God and human dignity.”

The blessing of same-sex unions is practiced in a number of constituent members of the Evangelical Church in Germany, a federation of Lutheran, Reformed and Protestant regional church bodies.

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Pope offers condolences after Moscow bombing VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI condemned the suicide bombing at Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport and offered his prayers for the 35 people who died, for the dozens who were injured and for the victims’ families.

“His Holiness Benedict XVI expressed deep pain and strong condemnation of this serious act of violence,” said Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Vatican secretary of state, in a telegram Jan. 25 to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.

The suicide bombing took place Jan. 24 in the international arrivals hall of the airport; officials said at least 35 people died and more than 150 were injured. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the bombing.

Differences cannot be ignored in inter-church work, pope says VATICAN CITY – Fundamental differences, particularly over human sexuality and marriage, should not be ignored out of fear of damaging the progress that has been made in ecumenical dialogue, Pope Benedict XVI told Lutheran representatives.

“Ecumenical dialogue today cannot be separated from

Pope says online social networks help spread Gospel VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI invited Christians to join online social networks in order to spread the Gospel through digital media and discover “an entirely new world of potential friendships.” At the same time, the pope warned of the limits and the dangers of digital communication, including the risks of constructing a false online image and of replacing direct human contact with virtual relationships. “Entering cyberspace can be a sign of an authentic search for personal encounters with others, provided that attention is paid to avoiding dangers such as enclosing oneself in a sort of parallel existence, or excessive exposure to the virtual world,” the pope said in his message for the 2011 celebration of World Communications Day.

Catholic wedding must mean couple knows truth, pope says VATICAN CITY – Men and women have a natural right to marry, but that does not mean they have a right to a Catholic wedding, Pope Benedict XVI said. For the Catholic Church, marriage is a sacrament that is witnessed by a priest or deacon,

Father Lombardi objected to the letter being presented as some kind of “proof” that the Vatican wanted to cover up cases of abuse.

Instead, he said, the letter demonstrates the seriousness with which the Vatican was taking the need to formulate and adopt comprehensive norms that could respond to the crisis, which already was affecting several English-speaking countries.

“The letter rightly insists on the fact that it is important that canon law be respected always, precisely to avoid giving the guilty well-founded reasons for an appeal, therefore obtaining a result contrary to that desired,” Father Lombardi said.

The Jesuit also said people have to realize that the letter was written before 2001 when Pope John Paul II issued new norms for dealing with abuse allegations and made the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith – headed by the future Pope Benedict XVI – responsible for overseeing handling of the cases.

‘Like the prophet Jeremiah’ MEXICO CITY – Retired Bishop Samuel Ruiz Garcia, known as the champion of the poor and indigenous in southern Mexico, died Jan. 24 of complications from longstanding illnesses. He was 86.

The bishop headed the Diocese of San Cristobal de Las Casas from 1960 to 2000, Retired Bishop and from 1994 to 1998 mediated a commission looking for Samuel Ruiz Garcia an end to the conflict between the Mexican government and the indigenous Zapatista National Liberation Army in Chiapas state.

For his work with the state’s indigenous population he received death threats and, in 2002, was the recipient of the Niwano Peace Prize for his work “raising the social standing of the indigenous communities of Mexico” and for his work toward “the reclamation and preservation of their native cultures.”

“Don Samuel was like the prophet Jeremiah, a man who lived and experienced contradiction,” said Bishop Raul Vera Lopez of Saltillo, who served as Bishop Ruiz’s coadjutor from 1995 to 1999.

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New York archdiocese to close 27 schools in reconfiguration plan

By Mary Ann Poust NEW YORK (CNS) – Twenty-seven Catholic schools in the New York Archdiocese – victims of low enrollment and rising costs – will close at the end of the school year in a move that archdiocesan education officials describe as part of a strategy to ensure long-term success of the overall system.

New York Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan and Timothy McNiff, superintendent of schools, announced the closings Jan. 11.

The schools – 26 elementary schools and one parish high school – were among 32 cited in November as “at risk” of losing their archdiocesan subsidies and likely to close.

However, four of the schools originally called at risk will remain open after presenting viable plans to continue operating, and a decision on a fifth school was deferred for a few weeks for further review, the announcement said.

The closings are in line with the strategies of “Pathways to

Excellence,” a wide-ranging strategic plan that focused on the “3 R’s” of reconfiguration, regionalization and reinvestment over the next three years. The goal is a modernized school system that is academically excellent, fully enrolled and affordable.

“The reconfiguration committee has done its job well, with compassion for school families in transition and with concern for the future of Catholic education, which is at the heart and soul of this process,” Archbishop Dolan said. “We can all be proud of the opportunities our Catholic schools have provided to so many children, rich or poor.

“Thanks to the parishes that now, painfully, must close their schools, for their understanding and commitment to Catholic education. Moving forward, we encourage local communities to join us as we build a bold future for Catholic schools for the 21st century,” he said.

McNiff, architect of the strategic plan, described it in a recent interview as “the right strategy for the future of our schools, and it’s going to work.”

Over the years, there have been many school closings in the archdiocese, reflecting a national trend, but this group of closings will be the largest number at one time in the archdiocese.

The elementary school closings will affect 3,652 students, representing 7 percent of the elementary enrollment in the 10-county archdiocese. The number of affected high school students is 110, out of 26,501 secondary school students currently enrolled.

McNiff told Catholic New York, the archdiocesan newspaper, that the archdiocese, through the Inter-Parish Finance Office, has been providing school subsidies that have recently reached $23 million. The archdiocese will continue to subsidize its schools, but without the closed schools in the mix the subsidies will be cut to about $13 million, McNiff said.

He said the recommendations to close specific schools were made after consultations with pastors, the archbishop and the local school community. “These were collective decisions,” McNiff said.

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News in brief . . .

■ Continued from page 4 Pope Benedict said Jan. 22 when he met with members of the Roman Rota, a Vatican-based tribunal that deals mainly with marriage cases. Because the church has a very specific religious understanding of what marriage is, “no one can claim the right to a marriage ceremony” in the church, the pope said.

VATICAN CITY – It is “unacceptable” to evangelize without addressing the urgent problems of poverty, injustice and oppression, Pope Benedict XVI said.

To not be concerned with life’s temporal problems would be to forget the Gospel teaching to love one’s neighbor who is suffering and in need and “it would not be in harmony with Jesus’ life,” which combined proclaiming the Good News and curing people of disease and illness, the pope said in his message for World Mission Sunday 2011.

The annual observance will be marked Oct. 23 at the Vatican and in most countries.

In his message, released in Italian Jan. 25 at the Vatican, the pope focused on the responsibility of every baptized Christian to announce the Gospel message to all men and women in every corner of the world.

“We cannot remain untroubled by the fact that after 2,000 years, there are still people who don’t know Christ and still have not heard his message of salvation,” the pope said.

Catholics are called to support foreign missions and to promote the human person, he said.

Pope Paul VI underlined that is was “unacceptable that evangelization would ignore questions concerning human development, justice and liberation from every form of oppression, obviously with respect for autonomy in the political sphere.”

English cardinal heard range of voices in Dublin visitation DUBLIN – One of the church officials charged with an inquiry into church life in Ireland in the wake of clerical sexual abuse scandals said he has heard voices of integrity as well as discouragement. “During these past two weeks, I have heard many voices: the voices of great pain and suffering of the survivors of abuse; their shame; their anger. I have also heard voices of discouragement, voices of honesty and the integrity of the people and good priests,” said English Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, retired archbishop of Westminster and one

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To evangelize without solidarity for oppressed is wrong, pope says

of five clerics assigned to investigate revelations of clergy abuse and cover-up in the Irish church. “I have also heard voices of faith and a determination to persevere,” he said at a Jan. 23 “Service of Penitence and Healing” in St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Armagh, Northern Ireland.

Shriver showed how ‘faith must engage the world’ POTOMAC, Md. – Robert Sargent Shriver Jr. was “a man

Father Alfred Cioffi of Miami listens as Nathaniel Clark of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, gives an impromptu confession before the start of the National Prayer Vigil for Life at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception Jan. 23.

for this age,” whose faith shaped his work on behalf of the poor around the world and his work in defending the dignity of all human life, said Washington Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl at the Jan. 22 funeral Mass for the founding director of the Peace Corps. Shriver – also a key architect of anti-poverty programs such as Head Start, VISTA, the Job Corps and Upward Bound – died Jan. 18 at the age of 95. “The life of Sargent Shriver was a testimony to belief in God and how faith must engage the world,” Cardinal Wuerl said in his homily at the Mass at Our Lady of Mercy Church in Potomac.

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Bishops seek health care that’s universal

By Sister Mary Ann Walsh The health care reform discussion goes on and on and seems to be the same political football it was leading up to its passage. Its approval last spring came after a fierce legislative fight, and there has been little consensus since government set out to implement it.

Whatever one feels about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the fact is that tens of thousands of Americans are without health care insurance. This creates a health care crisis for the nation.

This nation needs universal health care, which the U.S. bishops have argued for, for decades. The bishops’ objections to the bill that passed stemmed from its lack of universality.

For one thing, the bishops found that the bill did not protect the life of the unborn child. The bishops’ concern was borne out afterwards as some states sought to use newly available

health care funds for elective abortions. After some cried foul, the secretary for Health and Human Services advised these states that such funding was not permitted. Any cleaning up of the bill now ought to guarantee that funds for health care should not be used for elective abortions.

Another concern of the bishops is protection of the conscience rights of institutions. Most people understand the need to respect the conscience of an individual, a conscience correctly formed through education and prayer. An institution also has conscience rights, including the right to follow the teachings of its sponsoring organization. No religious organizations should be forced to purchase coverage for procedures it does not approve of, such as contraception and sterilization. No government should force an institution to practice medicine or purchase medical services that run contrary to its basic tenets.

Not just the institution but a pluralistic America would suffer if such a right were denied.

Guest Commentary Participants at the annual meeting of Christian sage from the Birmingham clergy. Though virtually all Churches Together in the U.S.A., held in Birmingham, our institutions have formal statements against racism, issued this letter Jan. 14 in a response to the Rev. Martin too often our follow-through has been far less than our Luther King Jr.’s 1963 “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” spoken commitments. Too often we have elected to be Replying to a statement by Alabama clergy members comfortable rather than prophetic. Too often we have who feared his campaign for civil rights would get out of chosen not to see the evidence of a racism that is less hand, King, in his letter, explained his strategy of direct overt but still permeates our national life in corrosive ways. action and urged religious leaders to stand with him.

Renewing. Though chastened by the unfinished We have gathered this week in Birmingham as representatives of the churches and organizations that make nature of the work before us, we are inspired by the up Christian Churches Together. We came to examine witness we saw reflected in both the history and the present-day ministry of the organizations we have visited poverty through the lens of racism. in Birmingham. Dr. King’s After experiences at letter speaks powerfully the Civil Rights Institute to us today, even as it did and the Sixteenth Street Too often we have elected to in 1963.

Baptist Church, we have We remember two winfelt compelled to make be comfortable rather than dows in the Sixteenth a response to the “Letter Street Baptist Church. from Birmingham Jail.” prophetic.

In one window, the face Dr. Martin Luther King of Jesus had been blown Jr.’s famous letter was an away by the bomb that answer to a message from a group of clergy in Birmingham. So far as we know, no murdered four girls in 1963. The other window, a gift to one has ever issued a clergy response to Dr. King’s letter. the congregation after the tragedy, depicts a Christ figure Remembering. We begin by expressing profound who with one hand rejects the injustice of the world – and gratitude to the leaders of the civil rights movement with the other extends forgiveness.

In the spirit of this loving Jesus, and in the spirit of whose sacrifices have moved us closer to God’s justice.

Those leaders and thousands who followed their lead those who committed their very lives to that love, we accomplished more than many could imagine, and renew our struggle to end racism in all forms. We begin demonstrated the power of Christian, nonviolent action. by taking time on Monday, Jan. 17, to reread the “Letter We celebrate the remarkable strides made through their from Birmingham Jail,” along with the message from the Birmingham clergy that prompted Dr. King’s letter, and courageous witness.

Repenting. We recognize, however, that some of us to reflect on its meaning for us today. We urge all within have not progressed far enough beyond the initial mes- our churches to join us.

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Challenges bishop’s stance in Phoenix case George Weigel writes triumphantly in support of Bishop (Thomas) Olmsted’s decision to revoke the Catholic status of St. Joseph’s Hospital in Phoenix. (“Reaffirming

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Catholic identity,” Jan. 14). The bishop’s justification was his conclusion that an abortion had taken place, contrary to Catholic teaching. However, as often happens, “The devil is in the details.” The details were that a mother of four was delighted with her fifth pregnancy and worked hard to preserve it. However the mother suffered from acute pulmonary hypertension and was hospitalized. The pregnancy led in time to failure of the right side of the mother’s heart and to cardiogenic shock. The placenta was unable to get enough oxygen to survive. The embryo at 11 weeks was too young to live outside the mother’s womb.

The situation was that “mother and fetus were both in the process of dying” and the decision that faced the hospital staff was whether to allow both mother and child to die. Medical ethicists were consulted as was the hospital’s own ethical council.

The decision was then made to remove

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The bishops also seek to protect access to health care for immigrants. The right to health care is a basic right. Every individual has a right to defend his or her life, even against disease. There also are practical reasons to support providing health care for immigrants in our country, including the fact that a contagious illness in one person can quickly become illness in others. The bill that was passed last spring would not even allow some immigrants to purchase health care insurance.

Right now the effort to obtain universal health care continues and the bishops stand behind it. They seek universality, a health care that protects everyone, the immigrant, the unborn and the weak at all stages of life. It is a position that can only help the nation. It’s a position that, in the least, protects pluralism and, most importantly, protects human life.

Archbishop George Niederauer offered this prayer Jan. 17 at the 2011 Martin Luther King Jr. birthday celebration in San Francisco.

Loving God, we come before you this morning in the light of Dr. Martin Luther King’s life and example, but also in the shadow of the death and sadness that violence has caused among our sisters and brothers in Tucson.

Violence struck down Dr. King over forty years ago, and ended his life, but it did not end his legacy. None of us are bulletproof, but thanks to you, dear Lord, our national memory, our national imagination, and our national resolve are. Martin Luther King will always live in that memory, imagination, and resolve. Today we remember in a special way one instance of his leadership, on a day when hatred and violence turned the Edmund Pettis Bridge into a barrier to human decency, but the behavior of Dr. King and those with him, guided by your spirit, turned it into a genuine bridge to a better tomorrow.

Our nation’s leader, President Barack Obama, has reminded us that though “we may not be able to stop all the evil in the world,” nevertheless “how we treat each other is up to us.” Dr. King spent his life, O Lord, challenging all of us, your children, to examine, to own, and to change how we treat each other. Help us, O God, with your grace, to hear and respond to that challenge, not for just a week or a year, but for all the weeks and years to come.

Our brother, Dr. King, preached your word, O Lord, shining its fiercest light on human rights and hopes and dreams. Give us your light and strength, dear Lord, that we may still hear Dr. King’s call and answer it together. Last week we heard that call again, in these words: “Let us use this occasion to expand our moral imaginations, to listen to each other more carefully, to sharpen our instincts for empathy, and remind ourselves of all the ways our hopes and dreams are bound together.”

Help us, O God, to be worthy of the memory of Martin Luther King. We pray this in your great name and power.

Amen

the placenta, leading to the death of the embryo. (That is what also happens when a fallopian tube is removed in an ectopic pregnancy, a morally licit operation.)

The procedure saved the mother’s life.

The bishop, however, saw the removal of the placenta as the “direct” taking of a life, a prohibited “abortion.” That led the bishop to make a series of highly publicized actions, including removal of the Eucharist from the hospital.

One almost has the sense that the bishop was looking for an opportunity to publicly discipline the hospital.

Indeed it is the public disciplining that so pleases Weigel. And yet one may ask, must we believe that Catholic morality requires that both mother and child die in that situation? Must I as a Catholic husband send my wife in a similar situation to a Catholic hospital that operated under Bishop Olmsted’s interpretation?

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defends the Obama health care bill against a tide of objections rising against it, saying the act could bring health care to more than 30 million Americans with no coverage. His argument stands on Pope John XXIII’s “Pacem in Terris” and on Pope Benedict’s call for “access to adequate medical attention” for “the greatest number of people.” The commentary refers to the “privileged economic class” enjoying health care, as if the Marxist class distinction serves to smudge everyone who very well may have received their own rightfully earned benefits not from privilege but from deductions from their hard-earned paycheck. These good, responsible citizens, many of them faithful Catholics like all of us, in protesting the bill’s intrusion into personal lives and medical care, did not, as the commentary says, “use distorted arguments with a blend of bad theology and partisan rhetoric.” Instead of beating us on the head with the words of two popes, and insulting us with name-calling, the director should show respect for his office, and for all of us, with suggestions for where we might channel our donations of time and money, as called for by our own pontiffs.

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Disagrees with health reform comment The director of Public Policy and Social Concerns’ Guest Commentary of Dec. 10, 2010, (“Health care: An inalienable right”)

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Tenderloin success story: De Marillac prepares at-risk kids to achieve and serve The students are from the neighborhood and other inner-city communities. Of them, A tuition-free Catholic school in San 78 percent are Latino, 14 percent are Asian Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood relies and 6 percent are African-American. This on generous private funding to support a year, 85 percent of students qualify for a free rigorous learning and character-building or reduced-price lunch through the National experience for the children of poor families School Lunch Program. The school asks – sustaining the church’s historic role of families to contribute a modest monthly serving the needy. activity fee, but some are so poor that they The school, De Marillac Academy, with can give only a token amount. grades four through eight, is De Marillac is part of a noting its 10th anniversary national educational movethis year, but there may ment of inner-city, tuitionbe even more cause for free Catholic schools that celebration next year when Jesuits began in New York the first class of its graduin the early 1970s, called ates earn college degrees.

“Nativity” and “Miguel” That will be a considerable schools. It’s one of 64 achievement for young NativityMiguel schools people who began with educating more than 5,000 so little, and De Marillac students. will be closer to its goal De Marillac Academy of breaking the cycle of was created out of strategic generational poverty that planning that occurred at churns in the Tenderloin.

Sacred Heart Cathedral Michael Daniels, Set on Golden Gate Preparatory in San Francisco president and CEO of Avenue in an area popuDe Marillac Academy, during the late 1990s and lated by many troubled early 2000. The planaims to break the souls, De Marillac comning efforts included the cycle of poverty bines the traditions of two Daughters of Charity and in the Tenderloin. famous Catholic orders, the the De La Salle Christian Daughters of Charity and Brothers, as well as SHCP the De La Salle Christian faculty, staff and parents.

Brothers, and begins with the belief that all Franciscan Father Louie Vitale of St. children deserve opportunities for success. Boniface Parish recommended the abanThere are nine-hour days to accommodate doned four-story space that from 1899 to additional teaching many of the students 1961 was occupied by St. Boniface School. may need to catch up, and, equally impor- A $2 million renovation followed, and De tant, five virtues are emphasized: responsi- Marillac, named for Louise de Marillac, who bility, compassion, perseverance, integrity with Vincent de Paul founded the Daughters and leadership. of Charity, opened in 2001.

“I am really proud of our kids when they This year’s $2.3 million operating budget reach eighth grade and are responsible,” relies on generosity of strangers, foundations said Michael Daniels, the president and and the sisters and brothers, and also covers chief executive officer. “I am very happy the $15,000 per-student scholarships that they understand pre-algebra and that they the market would charge the current 119 get U.S. history, but to see them develop students. as the young men and women that they are De Marillac donors, said Daniels, buy becoming – I don’t think many jobs are into the school’s Catholic tradition: “We able to offer that kind of reward that my believe in the God-given dignity each of us vocation does.”

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Seventh graders pictured at St. Charles Borromeo School in San Francisco’s Mission District. School and parish leaders are joining forces to boost enrollment by informing parents in the wider parish community that the school offers a high-quality, affordable education for their children. Page 11.

What is the future of the Catholic high school in the 21st century?

By Valerie Schmalz Archbishop Riordan High School President Patrick Daly is starting a boarding program with international students at the boys school in the fall. It’s all part of what he sees as the role of a Catholic high school administrator: spreading the faith and making a high-quality college preparatory Catholic education affordable.

Innovative solutions are the currency of the successful Catholic school in the 21st century, as elementary and secondary schools in the Archdiocese of San Francisco and across the country face declining enrollment and stubbornly high costs of operation.

“The diocesan and the parish Catholic school system historically has always reached out to the working and middle class,” said Marin Catholic President Father Tom Daly, who with 18 years as teacher and administrator at Marin Catholic is the de-facto dean of the Catholic high school administrators. “It’s not been an elite Catholic school system. If we become elite Catholic high schools, we have broken the link with our roots and our reason for existence.”

“Catholic schools have been excellent because, as our founder and the patron saint of teachers John Baptist De La Salle tells teachers, we have adapted to meet students where they are while seeing them as yearning for salvation and understanding that they bring salvation to us,” said Ken Hogarty, principal of Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory in San Francisco.

There are four critical pieces for long-term success of Catholic education, said Father

Archbishop Riordan High School President Patrick Daly says Catholic high schools must meet four challenges: making Catholic education affordable, offering a high level of academics and discipline and having faith as the cornerstone.

Daly’s brother and Riordan President Patrick Daly, a married father of four children who grew up one of seven in San Francisco and was hired as Riordan’s president in 2010. “We have to make Catholic education affordable, offer a high level of academics and discipline and have faith as the cornerstone,” he said.

The first and most obvious challenge is economic, said Father Daly, who is also the archdiocesan vocations director.

“The second challenge,” he asked, “is how do we keep our schools authentically Catholic; faithful to Christ and the teachings of the church in an area that is demographically challenged, expensive to live in and not always familyfriendly?”

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may look beyond the scope of the parish school, Father Daly said, with three or four parishes supporting one elementary school. Stepped-up cooperation among elementary and secondary schools run by the archdiocese is also vital, said Father Daly, citing Marin Catholic’s relationship with the seven parish schools in Marin County. High schools draw the bulk of their students from Catholic grammar schools and it is in their interest to offer the business acumen and other skills from high school boards of trustees, he said.

“In many ways, we have to no longer see ourselves as just grammar schools and high schools; we have to see ourselves as one whole Catholic school system, K through 12,” Father Daly said.

Short of tuition tax credits, which would take national or state legislation, Father Daly said Catholic schools would benefit from the creation of a $100 million endowment that would subsidize tuition at the four archdiocesan Catholic high schools. He estimates that would provide $1 million per high school per year in additional revenue.

Patrick Daly said a $250 million endowment would help the entire archdiocesan system, which is now composed of 53 elementary schools and the four high schools, co-ed Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory and Marin Catholic, all-boys Junipero Serra High School in San Mateo and Riordan. In addition to those schools, which are owned and operated by the archdiocese, there are another 10 private Catholic high schools and nine independent Catholic grammar schools owned and operated by lay boards or religious orders.

The archdiocese provides $1 million a year in tuition assistance, said Annette Brown, assistant superintendent of planning and finance for the Department of Catholic Schools. She said the mean annual family income of families receiving archdiocesan assistance is $33,000. Other financial aid is offered by individual grammar and high schools, and the income level of recipients varies.

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JunĂ­pero Serra High School in San Mateo is much more than an outstanding Catholic college preparatory school for young men. It is a place where classmates become brothers, teachers become mentors and ordinary moments become extraordinary experiences.

By Maureen Huntington Catholic Schools Week celebrates almost 200 years of excellent religious and academic education to the students and families we serve. Catholic schools are the best the Catholic church has to offer. Yet almost weekly we see headlines in newspapers, on the Internet and on TV announcing the closing of Catholic schools in all parts of the U.S. If Catholic schools are an asset to the U.S. and a blessing to the church, why are they closing by the dozens? For the Archdiocese of San Francisco and many other (arch) dioceses across our county, we face the same challenges:

National Catholic Schools Week: Jan. 30-Feb. 5 – Declining enrollment - more seats in schools than children to fill them. – Neighborhood demographics continuing to change from young families with children to young singles without children. – Facilities that are aging and in need of constant upkeep and renovation. – Increasing dependence on higher and higher tuition and fees, fundraising, and the generosity of donors.

Located in the heart of the Peninsula between San Francisco and Silicon Valley, Serra students take advantage of all the Bay Area has to offer.

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– Continued high unemployment that affects many of our families.

Catholic families and the church need Catholic schools now more than ever.

How do we balance this growing need with the resources available to our families, our parishes, and our archdiocese? We start by taking a realistic look at our schools and with an eye to the future. We have many more seats in our Catholic schools and more buildings than we have children to fill them. We will need the courage and resolve to make hard decisions about which schools will be able to remain open, which will merge or consolidate, or which will close over the next year, two, or three. We need to aggressively market our schools to the larger Bay Area. As the number of Latino families moving into our area increases, how do we become more inviting and welcoming to these new families? How do we make our Catholic schools affordable through increased tuition support and programs to address English language learners?

The benefits we received from our Catholic school education continue to enrich us every day. During this week, I ask that you take some time to reflect on the many challenges and blessings that lay before each of our Catholic schools. Your prayers for our teachers, principals, pastors and students will enable us to move forward into the next decade, providing quality Catholic elementary and high school education for our Bay Area families.

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Combination to create new K-8 Catholic school in Mission District population of 250. Megan Furth now has 121 students, while Mission Dolores has Attending Catholic elementary school 161 students, Huntington said. Other just got more affordable in San Francisco’s students will eventually be welcome, Mission District. but Megan Furth and Mission Dolores Megan Furth Academy, now housed Academy families will have first priority, at the former St. Dominic School in the Lalanne said. The schools department has Western Addition, and Mission Dolores already announced that from two to four School, the parish school of Mission elementary schools in the archdiocese will Dolores Parish, will merge operations in likely close in June due largely to dropa new model beginning Aug. 1. ping enrollment and financial difficulties.

The new venture will be located “The Holy Spirit intervened here,” at the Mission Dolores School site Huntington told Catholic San Francisco. but will be called In a Dec. 16 Mission Dolores note to Catholic Academy. It will be school administraThe goal of the governed by a board tors announcing the of directors rather change, Huntington combination ‘is than by the parish wrote, “This is truly and the Archdiocese a win-win project to create a model of San Francisco and I am delighted Department of to be able to share school for all families Catholic Schools. it with you. It is an “This is a godearly Christmas gift wishing to receive a send for both Megan directly from the Furth and Mission heart of our Savior.”

D o l o r e s ,” a r c h Mission Dolores high-quality Catholic diocesan schools Parish will rent Superintendent Dolores education regardless of Mission Maureen Huntington School to Mission said. “It’s the best of Dolores Academy their income.’ both worlds.” for $1, Huntington In a deal brosaid. The Mission kered by the archDolores pastor will diocese and the Megan Furth Academy sit on the governing board of directors board, the new school model will continue and the board of directors will include the the Megan Furth Academy approach of current board of Megan Furth Academy relying on private funding for the bulk and representatives of the Daughters of of per-student costs of about $10,000. Charity and Christian Brothers, accordMegan Furth will bring a “significant” ing to the Dec. 15 letter sent to parents endowment to the new venture, said Bob at both schools.

Lalanne, chair of the board of Megan Huntington said the new school will Furth and of the new Mission Dolores most resemble De Marillac Academy, Academy. although it will not have an income By combining student populations, requirement and the school will charge Mission Dolores Academy expects a K-8 tuition in addition to offering substantial

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financial aid. The tuition will be established by the board of directors, and had not been decided, Lalanne said. However, the tuition will be less than the $6,500 for the first child at Mission Dolores, Huntington said.

The goal of the combination “is to create a model school for all families wishing to receive a high-quality Catholic education regardless of their income,” according to the Dec. 15 letter.

At the request of Archbishop George Niederauer, the Daughters of Charity and the Christian Brothers have agreed to help guide the merger process, Lalanne said.

Those religious orders now support two Catholic elementary schools in poor San Francisco neighborhoods, the private, tuition-free De Marillac Academy and

Our Lady of Visitacion School at Church of the Visitacion Parish in the Visitacion Valley neighborhood.

Mission Dolores School, which has gone through several names and models, was founded in 1852. It has a rich history, including its association with the Spanish Mission, as well as a spacious plant, a gym and an auditorium.

Megan Furth Academy needed a new home because St. Dominic Parish wanted to use the school building to expand its young adult and teen ministry and to serve the Dominican priory, Huntington said.

Megan Furth Academy was founded in 2005 and was originally created by the 2003 merger of Sacred Heart School on Fillmore Street and St. Dominic School on Pine Street.

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■ Continued from page CSW1 national Catholic school graduation rate is 99.1 percent of high school students.

Of these graduates, 84.7 percent go on to college, compared with 44.1 percent of public school graduates, the NCEA says.

However, when Father Tom Daly archdiocesan high school tuition and fees are more than $15,000 a year and parish schools charge $6,000 or more per child, many families just walk away.

At least nine of every 10 Catholic children in California attend public schools, with the figures even higher for Latino families, which send about 3 percent of their children to parochial schools, according to national statistics.

Catholic school enrollment nationally has dropped from a peak of 5.2 million in the mid-`60s to 2.1 million in the 2009-10 school year, NCEA says. In the Archdiocese of San Francisco, enrollment declined 2 percent from last school year and the archdiocese plans to shutter two to four elementary schools in June, Schools Superintendent Maureen Huntington announced in the fall. No high schools will close, Huntington said.

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Convincing Catholics that a Catholic education is worth it – and making it affordable – are persistent challenges, school administrators said.

“It’s going to take really good minds around the table,” said Rita Gleason, principal of Notre Dame High School in Belmont, a girls college preparatory school founded in 1851 by the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur. “I believe in these times, 21st-century Catholic schools are needed more than ever to instill the values of Jesus Christ and to empower our students,” said Dominican Sister Mary Virginia Leach, president of Immaculate Conception Academy, a girls’ college preparatory in the Cristo Rey Network. ICA converted to a corporate work study model and lowered its tuition to $4,000 in 2009.

Catholic schools must compete with nonCatholic private schools and public charter schools that are luring away Catholic students, said Riordan President Daly. “I believe we have to be that much better,” he said.

“I believe if you really look at the history of parish and diocesan education, there always has been tremendous trust in God’s providence,” Father Daly said. “Our prayer is that we will always have what we need to educate the young in an excellent, academically challenging Catholic environment. But, I suspect, we will never have enough of a padding that we could ever not rely upon God’s grace and the generosity of the faithful.”

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Toronto Catholic high schools work to eliminate bottled water

By Vanessa Santilli TORONTO (CNS) – Catholic high schools in the Archdiocese of Toronto are working to create “bottled water-free zones” within their schools.

The “Water for All: Let Justice Flow” movement is part of the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace’s yearlong campaign against the privatization of water.

“The idea is to create a culture where students don’t bring bottled water or use bottled water even though they may have the right,” said Luke Stocking, who works with Development and Peace in central Ontario.

Bottled water companies are buying more water sources and denying access to local communities in the Southern Hemisphere, said Stocking.

“Bottled water is the most visible symbol of turning this public good into a private good for private profit,” he said.

At Toronto’s Cardinal Carter Academy for the Arts, school officials plan to stop selling bottled water at the concession stand by the theater, said chaplain Marilyn Grace.

She said campaigners hope to create a Cardinal Carter reusable water bottle that students could take to shows.

“But it’s all an ongoing process ... it’s not something that can happen overnight,” she added. “We’ve got to get all the stakeholders on board.”

Officials at Mary Ward Catholic Secondary School have applied for various grants to fund their initiatives, said teacher Kathy Saran. So far, the school has received a $500 grant from Learning for a Sustainable Future, a registered nonprofit charitable organization whose goal is to integrate sustainability education into Canada’s education system.

“We’re using that money to purchase stainless steel water bottles,” said Saran. “We hope to raise enough money to make it part of the uniform

so that next year all of the incoming Grade 9 students get a free stainless steel bottle of water.”

Saran said the school’s annual art show in April will include a section centering on the environmental theme surrounding the bottled water-free zone campaign.

At Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Secondary School in Mississauga, Ontario, chaplain Anne Brisbois Abbott said the main way the school is trying to create a bottled waterfree zone is through education.

“The more education we give, the more it becomes natural not to have bottled water,” she said.

Toward the end of February, the school’s environmental club will set up a booth in the foyer and project an interview of actor Matt Damon speaking about the water crisis from a clip on www.water.org.

Another school conducted retreats where students focused on the duty of Catholics to be active stewards of the planet.

While the initiatives to create bottled waterfree zones within high schools are ongoing, the highlight of the campaign will take place on Bottled Water Free Day. Development and Peace has invited schools to collect discarded plastic water bottles throughout the year, place pledge cards to be bottled water-free inside them and then to create pirate ships out of the plastic bottles. On March 10, these ships will be displayed at the archdiocesan Catholic Education Center.

“We’re hoping it will be a celebration so that students in the Toronto Catholic District School Board recognize water as a God-given gift and celebrate that gift,” said Stocking.

Jessica Lee, a leader of Just Youth, the social justice club at Cardinal Carter, said it is important for Catholic students to be aware of the world around them.

“We’re always told to be compassionate and peacemakers, and it’s obvious that bottled water is not fulfilling that desire to be a compassionate citizen of the global village,” she said.

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Archbishop Riordan alumnus Father Thomas Seagrave honored by alma mater He is also grateful to those who were the front line and backbone of Catholic schools during his time there.

Father Thomas Seagrave was honored Jan. 21 with “I had great nuns,� Father Seagrave said. “The mesArchbishop Riordan High School’s annual Chaminade sage of their lives of total dedication was not lost on me.

Award. Father Seagrave, a 1960 Riordan alumnus, They were strict but fair and loving to boot. They taught was recognized for his priestly service of 42 years the Christian life and drew us into the Christian life.� as well as his outreach to the poor that has included Father Seagrave said he saw in the sisters and later the his paying students’ Catholic school tuition from his Marianists at Riordan a model of service. “It was a spirit own resources for many years. When asked if he’d that certainly oriented me toward the priesthood,� he said. accede to a Catholic San Francisco story about his San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice priesthood and his generosity, Father Seagrave said and Father Seagrave were seminary classmates. “Father simply, “Please keep it short.�

Tom and I met while standing in line at St. Joseph’s “Archbishop Riordan High School received nearly College, the minor seminary for the Archdiocese of San 40 letters of support for Father Seagrave’s nomination Francisco, waiting to be given our room assignments for as the Chaminade Award recipient,� the school told our first year in the seminary. It was early September, Catholic San Francisco. “These letters came from 1960. As we chatted, I discovered he was a week older people that have been touched by Father Tom includthan I and that he had just graduated from Archbishop ing parish members from St. John of God, St. Paul, Riordan High School. I had just graduated from Serra St. Peter, St. Anne of the Sunset and Our Lady of the High School. We were rivals and now the two of us Visitacion parishes.� were beginning to study for the priesthood. Tom has Father Seagrave, who spoke with Catholic San been teaching me ever since. Teaching me Christ’s call Francisco via e-mail from Serra Clergy House in San to serve the poor, to be open to different cultures, to give Mateo where he has lived since July 2009, grew up your all in service to those who know they need God, to in St. Paul Parish but attended St. John the Evangelist work tirelessly for the availability of Catholic education, School because of a family legacy. “My mother went especially for those families needing financial aid, clearly there as a child,� Father Seagrave said. “I was taught to be a witness of the mercy, love and challenge of Jesus by the Ursuline Sisters who were based in Santa Rosa, to serve all his people. He is an outstanding priest, a great a great group of women whom we all loved.� person, and a gift to us all. He is a tremendous example When he was 18, Father Seagrave asked himself how of the Marianist tradition at Archbishop Riordan High he might best live his life. A look toward law school School. Even a man from Serra must say that!� was redirected by a vocation poster – “A World of Souls Father Thomas Seagrave, Class of 1960, receives a Golden Diploma Long-time Catholic school advocate John Moriarty Needs You� – in his homeroom at Riordan. “What betcalled Father Seagrave “a ‘non-careerist’� noting that from Archbishop Riordan High School President Patrick Daly. ter way to live my life than serving Jesus Christ,� he “he has always and only been interested in helping said. “Law, politics, wife and children all went flying people.� out the window. Once I set my hand to that plow I never real- ents, too, were people of faith whom I greatly respected,� “He is the hardest-working priest I know,� Moriarty said, ly looked back.� he said. “Families went to Mass on Sunday and lived it the recalling that he met Father Seagrave in one of his earliFather Seagrave said “Catholic education not only helped rest of the week. No one talked about community in those est assignments as a priest 35 years ago. “We can be proud and guided� him to become a priest, it “determined that days. It was just there.� of Father Seagrave for many reasons,� Moriarty said, “and decision.�

In Catholic schools you think about God and Jesus Christ especially for his generosity in paying from his own resources Catholic education for the future priest began at home. every day and Christian values are taught and modeled every tuition for many students in Catholic schools through the years.� “My parents were people of faith who modeled that faith day, Father Seagrave said. “I have always regarded that as a Father Seagrave is former pastor of San Francisco’s St. for me.� Relatives including grandparents, aunts and uncles blessing in my life that not everyone has. People sacrificed Peter Parish, Church of the Visitacion Parish and St. John of did the same, he said. to make it available to me; I have tried over the years to do God Parish. He has also served at San Francisco’s St. Paul His friends came from similar backgrounds. “Their par- the same.�

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■ Continued from page 5 Many of the schools that will close were under-enrolled, McNiff said. And even though there are still schools that are not up to enrollment capacity, the hope is that students from the closed schools will enroll in other Catholic schools nearby.

Thanks to the parishes that now, painfully, must close their schools, for their understanding and commitment to Catholic education.

– New York Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan “If we’re successful in doing that, we will have accomplished another significant part of our strategy, which is taking the remaining under-enrolled schools and bringing enrollments up,” he said.

McNiff said part of the reason the school closings were

announced so early is to allow for families to make transitions to new Catholic schools.

“We’re going to bring more resources toward helping those families,” he said, adding that the resources will include counseling and tuition assistance as needed.

The regionalization component of the Pathways to Excellence plan would change the governance of the schools from the parish-based system that’s been in place since the first Catholic school in New York was founded more than 200 years ago.

Instead, the plan recommends that the schools be run by regional boards of pastors, parishioners and others who would oversee operations of all Catholic schools within the region’s boundaries.

A committee has just begun meeting to work out the details, but it’s expected there will be about a dozen such regions throughout the 10-county archdiocese.

McNiff said the idea is to have all parishes within a region contribute to the schools in a given region, even if the parish does not have a school on its own property.

“The regions will be large, and they’ll have a critical mass of parishes and schools so they’ll be able to sustain themselves,” McNiff said.

“Every parish will contribute to the pot,” he said. “That will be a big help.”

He said he expects to be able to identify the regions by the end of 2011, with three of them able to “go live” as pilot programs in September 2012.

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New York Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan, right, addresses members of the media at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops annual fall meeting in Baltimore Nov. 16, 2010.

If the pilots are successful, the rest of the regions will begin operating in September 2013.

The third “R,” reinvestment in Catholic education, is linked in part to the first two parts of the school reconfiguration plan. A percentage of the revenues from rents and sales of former school buildings – whether they are schools that will close this year or schools that have closed in the past – will be returned to the school system, probably in the form of tuition assistance, McNiff said.

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LOCAL NEWS St. James School, San Francisco

Congratulations to this year’s Peacemaker Award winners. Students Marisol Sandoval, Nicholas Amayo and Keven Munoz were honored for “their exemplary modeling of the qualities befitting a person like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,” said Dominican Sister Mary Susanna Vasquez, principal.

Junipero Serra High School

Sophomore Andrew Licko is among the newest members of the California State Honor Band. “Thousands of California music students applied for the position, but only a few hundred were accepted,” the school said in an announcement of the accomplishment.“I love to play music. It’s like a sport to me,” the tuba playing Licko said.

Notre Dame Elementary School, Belmont

KGO TV Meteorologist Mike Nicco visited with fifth and sixth graders in November. The classes are currently studying weather and Nicco explained much about the topic with a special lesson on tornadoes. Pictured from left are Mike Nicco, and students A.J. Johnson and Francesca Boerio.

St. Rita School, Fairfax The eighth-grade confirmation class surrounds a mound of more than 300 pairs of shoes collected by the students to be shipped to Our Lady of Mount Carmel School in El Sitio, Guatemala, an area flooded and devastated by recent heavy rains. Lay people at St. Rita began raising money to help the people of El Sitio, a tiny village near Patzun, 10 years ago, and have built a two-story grammar school and two-story high school. Schooling in El Sitio before that was in a mud hut with a dirt floor, said Father Kenneth Weare, the pastor at St. Rita.

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Don’t rule out Catholic school because your child has a learning disability Although not every child with a learning disability is going to find Catholic school a congenial fit, more and more Catholic schools are trying to find ways to keep children with mild learning issues in Catholic schools.

“Twelve to 15 percent of students in the elementary and secondary schools have diagnosed learning needs – from ADD, to dysgraphia to dyslexia to Asperger’s syndrome (an autism spectrum disorder),” said Maureen Huntington, superintendent of the Department of Catholic Schools for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

All 14 Catholic high schools in the Archdiocese of San Francisco have some kind of resource program for students who have learning issues, Huntington said. Seventy to 80 percent of elementary schools have reading specialists on

staff. Many children “need to have time with a specialist and also need support in the classroom,” Huntington said, and a growing number of elementary schools offer that.

In all schools, children with learning disabilities can take extended time to take tests if they have had an educational assessment.

The Department of Catholic Schools also offers in-service trainings for teachers to acquaint classroom teachers with ways to respond to different learning styles.

The increased use of technology at both elementary and high school level has been a boon to the parents of children with learning disabilities and the children themselves, Huntington said. Most high schools and many grade schools’ classroom teachers now post homework

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assignments on a website so parents can check homework, she said.

But the support offered by technology goes much further, for children with and without learning differences. Some elementary schools offer online textbooks with an audio portion that goes along with the text, giving students an opportunity to read and hear the same material. Students can prepare by taking online tests that cover the material too.

Most high schools allow students to use their laptops in class. Huntington said 98 percent to 100 percent of students who graduate from archdiocesan Catholic high schools, with or without a learning disability, are headed to college. “If they graduate from one of our Catholic high schools, they go on to college,” Huntington said.

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(PHOTO BY JOSE LUIS AGUIRRE/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

St. Charles Borromeo School seeks funding to enroll more students

By José Luis Aguirre One of the San Francisco Catholic schools in greatest need of financial assistance is St. Charles Borromeo School, which has been teaching children in the Mission District since 1894.

According to Principal Daniel Dean, 70 percent of St. Charles students need financial aid and 65 percent are eligible for free or low-cost breakfast or lunch.

“Our challenge is to be able to find the funding to help these families who work so hard to pay for their children’s education,” said Dean, who for the past two years has seen the K-8 school’s revenue decline as a result of dwindling enrollment.

Enrollment went from 252 students two years ago to 236 last year and is down to 205 this year. The school lost about $200,000 in potential tuition revenue in the past two years.

“We had to lay off one full-time and two part-time teachers who coordinated the program for students with special needs,” Dean said.

Typically students entering the school do not speak English.

The ethnic distribution of students is 60 percent Hispanic, 25 percent Filipino, 2 percent other Asian, 2 percent Caucasian, 6 percent African American and 5 percent multiracial.

The school has room for another 100 students. To balance its budget, it would need to add 60 new students because 30 eighth graders will graduate this year.

Rosario Haro, the school’s administrative assistant and religious education teacher at the parish, is spearheading the effort to increase enrollment.

St. Charles Borromeo School Principal Daniel Dean reads to a first grader.

“Together with Father Moisés Agudo, pastor of St. Charles Borromeo, we are working so that parishioners do not perceive the school as something separate but as belonging to the same family and are encouraged to enroll their children here,” Haro said.

At each Mass Father Agudo invites parents to get to know

the school and to find out what Catholic education can do for their children. Families of the 290 kids registered in the parish religious education program have attended several meetings aimed at introducing them to the school. Some 20 of their families have expressed interest in enrollment.

“Parents believe that attending the school is very costly but honestly it is doable especially if they can get financial aid,” Haro said. “And when they enroll more than one child, tuition is only $1,550 per additional child.”

Father Agudo believes that money should not be the parents’ only concern and that they should realize that they are responsible for providing their children with a good education.

“It implies effort and sacrifice,” he said.

Without financial aid the cost of tuition per student is $4,700, but students eligible for assistance through the Archdiocese of San Francisco and the BASIC Fund – a program that helps low-income families in the Bay Area pay for private tuition – would pay only half of that.

“One of our objectives is to find benefactors who could help these families with education costs,” Father Agudo said.

“We want donors to help the students directly – not the parish. We want them to adopt a child and to offer them a yearly scholarship to pay for their schooling.

“These kids are tomorrow’s leaders and when we support these families we are supporting society,” he said. “Catholic education can change the world in a different way.”

For more information contact the school at (415) 861-7652 or online at www.SFStCharlesSchool.org.

De Marillac . . .

Carrie Davis, who teaches seventh and eighth grade, confers with a De Marillac student.

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possesses. And regardless of socioeconomic background, these kids deserve the same opportunities that kids around the city get. When they go on to high school and college they have every right to be there the same way everybody else does.”

Here’s the payoff, said Daniels: 90 percent of the students in the class of 2010 attend private or college preparatory high schools, and nearly 80 percent of college-age alumni are attending a two- or four-year college or university.

There are high expectations at the school with a studentto-teacher ratio of 12-to-1, and families have to enter a covenant, agreeing to get kids to school on time, reading together for 30 minutes every night, attending workshops and otherwise partnering to produce successful students. There is a five-week summer school, a week-long summer camp and nearly a year-round calendar. There is also help at every turn, including volunteers who help kids with homework.

Daniels, 32, succeeded founding principal and president Catherine Ronan Karrels in 2008, and previously served as the school’s director of communications and major gifts.

In fact, he has done volunteer work in the neighborhood for a decade.

Eileen Emerson-Boles, in her third year as principal, feels the same magnetic pull at the academy and the neighborhood, including the effect of blending the Lasallian and Vincentian traditions of the founders. “They go so well together because of their outreach and complete dedication to working with the poor,” she said.

It’s her job not only to oversee academics but to weave virtues with coursework and the entire school experience.

Accordingly, the school routinely honors students for academic achievements and those who demonstrate the academy’s core virtues – by being upstanding, honest and generous young people. There’s a cash award for that – from Emerson-Boles’ own pocket.

Carrie Davis, who teaches language arts and social studies, is the longest-tenured teacher, having arrived in the

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school’s second year. Here’s her thinking on the contribution that De Marillac graduates will begin to make upon becoming college graduates: DE MARILLAC, page CSW12

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De Marillac Academy draws its students, for grades four through eight, largely from the Tenderloin. The school is adjacent to St. Boniface Church.

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■ Continued from page 3 “That person is now a college graduate in a family, so younger brothers and sisters, their cousins – they will see that. They will see what that person has accomplished and it is more of a possibility for them. It’s an attainable goal. And it is not just one student’s family. It is seen by their friends’ brothers and sisters. I also think – at least I hope – that as students graduate some of them will choose to come back here and maybe teach or maybe give back in other ways.”

That’s already happening, actually, as the relationship between students and the academy continues after graduation. Graduates return to serve as tutors, while the school continues to give assistance to graduates who move on to high school and college,

for textbooks, counseling and a variety of other needs.

Angelica, a 19-year-old sophomore at San Francisco State University, is a tutor for fourth graders. Angelica lived with her family in the Tenderloin for 11 years, four blocks from the school. At De Marillac, among other things, she learned confidence.

“I definitely want to be an athlete,” said Angelica, who plays on a coed football team.

“I am really interested in the entertainment business. I want to be a manager or a talent agent. I am also thinking about law school – definitely. De Marillac has prepared me. I am very confident about what I want to do.”

(PHOTO BY JOSE LUIS AGUIRRE/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

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Eileen Emerson-Boles, the academy principal, emphasizes both academics and virtues to the student body of 119.

Delivering on the Power and the Promise of Catholic Education

Catholic Elementary Schools of Southern San Mateo County

Southern San Mateo County parish schools have been providing Catholic education to children on the San Francisco Peninsula for more than 125 years. Combining the power of Catholic faith formation and the promise of academic excellence, students and families enjoy the benefits of a fully credentialed faculty, a clear mission, vision and values, and the commitment of principals and pastors to prepare children for high school and beyond.

Immaculate Heart of Mary

St. Charles School

1000 Alameda de Las Pulgas, Belmont www.ihmschoolbelmont.com tel 650-593-4265 fax 650-593-4342 ihmschool@ihmschoolbelmont.com PreK-8 Open House: Jan 30, 10:30 am –1:30 pm

850 Tamarack Avenue, San Carlos www.stcharlesschoolsc.org tel 650-593-1629 fax 650-593-9723 Open House: January 23, 10:00 am –12:30pm

Nativity School

St. Gregory School

1250 Laurel Street, Menlo Park www.nativityschool.com tel 650-325-7304 fax 650-325-3841 Open House: January 30, 11:00 am –1:00 pm

2701 Hacienda Street, San Mateo www.stgregs-sanmateo.org tel 650 573-0111 fax 650-573-6548 lpaul@stgregs-sanmateo.org Open House: February 6, 10:00 am

Notre Dame Elementary

St. Pius School

A sponsored ministry of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur 1200 Notre Dame Avenue, Belmont www.nde.org tel 650-591-2209 fax 650-591-4798 Open House: January 22, 9:00 am–12:00pm

1100 Woodside Road, Redwood City www.stpiusschool.org tel 650-368-8327 fax 650-368-7031 office@stpiusschool.org Open House: January 30, 10:30am–12:00pm

Our Lady of Angels

St. Matthew Catholic School

1328 Cabrillo Avenue, Burlingame www.olaschoolk8.org tel 650-343-9200 fax 650-343-5620 Open House: January 27, 6:00 –8:00 pm

910 S. El Camino Real, San Mateo www.stmatthewcath.org tel 650-343-1373 fax 650-343-2046 bviotti@stmatthewcath.org Open House: January 30, 11:45am–1:30pm

Our Lady of Mount Carmel School

St. Raymond

301 Grand Street, Redwood City www.mountcarmel.org tel 650-366-8817 fax 650-366-0902 info@mountcarmel.org K Info Night: January 18, 7:00 – 8:00 pm PreK-7 Open House: Jan 30, 10:00am–12:00pm

1211 Arbor Road, Menlo Park www.straymond.org tel 650-322-2312 fax 650-322-2910 Open House: January 30, 11:00 am–1:00 pm

St. Catherine of Siena School 1300 Bayswater Avenue, Burlingame www.stcos.com tel 650-344-7176 fax 650-344-7426 Open House: January 30, 10:00 am–1:00pm

St. Timothy School 1515 Dolan Avenue, San Mateo www.sttimothyschool.org tel 650-342-6567 fax 650-342-5913 K Open House: January 19, 7:00 pm K-8 Open House: February 1, 7:00 pm

All schools are fully accredited by the Western Catholic Educational Association and the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.

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A CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL

CAN MAKE ALL THE DIFFERENCE !

• Challenging college preparatory curriculum with over 98% continuing on to college • Education which provides ethical and moral foundation of Christian values • Education which addresses personal growth of the whole person • Education in a supportive family atmosphere • Education for service, justice and peace • Athletic programs affording a wide range of team and individual participation • Programs which foster leadership in community service • Dedicated faculty, staff and administrators committed to Catholic education • Variety of extra curricular activities provide opportunity for individual interests

All schools are committed to serving children who desire an excellent Catholic education. Substantial scholarship and financial aid programs for students and families who qualify are available.

ARCHBISHOP RIORDAN HIGH SCHOOL 175 Phelan Avenue San Francisco, CA 94112 (415) 586-1256 Web Site: www.riordanhs.org CONVENT OF THE SACRED HEART HIGH SCHOOL 2222 Broadway Street San Francisco, CA 94115 (415) 292-3125 Web Site: www.sacredsf.org IMMACULATE CONCEPTION ACADEMY 3625 - 24th Street San Francisco, CA 94110 (415) 824-2052 Web Site: www.icacademy.org JUNÍPERO SERRA HIGH SCHOOL 451 West 20th Avenue San Mateo, CA 94403 (650) 345-8207 Web Site: www.serrahs.com MARIN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL 675 Sir Francis Drake Boulevard Kentfield, CA 94904 (415) 464-3800 Web Site: www.marincatholic.org MERCY HIGH SCHOOL – BURLINGAME 2750 Adeline Drive Burlingame, CA 94010 (650) 343-3631 Web Site: www.mercyhsb.com MERCY HIGH SCHOOL – SAN FRANCISCO 3250 – 19th Avenue San Francisco, CA 94132 (415) 334-0525 Web Site: www.mercyhs.org NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL 1540 Ralston Avenue Belmont, CA 94002 (650) 595-1913 Web Site: www.ndhsb.org SACRED HEART CATHEDRAL PREPARATORY 1055 Ellis Street San Francisco, CA 94109-7795 (415) 775-6626 Web Site: www.shcp.edu SACRED HEART PREP HIGH SCHOOL 150 Valparaiso Avenue Atherton, CA 94027 (650) 322-1866 Web Site: www.shschools.org SAN DOMENICO SCHOOL 1500 Butterfield Road San Anselmo, CA 94960 (415) 258-1905 Web Site: www.sandomenico.org ST. IGNATIUS COLLEGE PREPARATORY 2001 - 37th Avenue San Francisco, CA 94116 (415) 731-7500 Web Site: www.siprep.org STUART HALL HIGH SCHOOL 1715 Octavia St. (at Pine) San Francisco, CA 94109 (415) 345-5812 Web Site: www.sacredsf.org WOODSIDE PRIORY SCHOOL 302 Portola Road Portola Valley, CA 94028 (650) 851-8221 Web Site: www.WoodsidePriory.com

A Catholic high school can make all the difference in your child’s teenage years and for the rest of their lives!

C ONGRATULATIONS TO ALL SCHOOLS CELEBRATING C ATHOLIC S CHOOLS W EEK !

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4 St. Anthony-Immaculate Conception Elementary School 299 Precita Ave. 94110 (415) 648-2008 Fax: (415) 648-1825 Web Site: www.saicsf.org Grades: K-8, Extended Care

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3 Holy Name of Jesus Elementary School 1560 40th Ave. 94122 (415) 731-4077 Fax: (415) 731-3328 Web Site: www.holynamesf.com Grades: PreK-8-D, Extended Care

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2 Epiphany Elementary School 600 Italy Ave. 94112 (415) 337-4030 Fax: (415) 337-8583 Web Site: www.sfepiphany.org Grades: K-8-D, Extended Care

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1 Corpus Christi Elementary School 75 Francis St. 94112 (415) 587-7014 Fax: (415) 587-1575 Web Site: www.corpuschristisf.org Grades: K-8, Extended Care

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6 Notre Dame des Victoires Elementary School 659 Pine St. 94108 (415) 421-0069 Fax: (415) 421-1440 Web Site: www.ndvsf.org Grades: K-8, Extended Care

16 Saint Charles Borromeo Elementary School 3250 18th St. 94110 (415) 861-7652 Fax: (415) 861-0221 Web Site: www.sfstcharlesschool.org Grades: K-8, Extended Care

24 Saint Peter Elementary School 1266 Florida St. 94110 (415) 647-8662 Fax: (415) 647-4618 Web Site: www.sanpedro.org Grades: K-8-D, Extended Care

7 Our Lady of the Visitacion Elementary School 785 Sunnydale Ave. 94134 (415) 239-7840 Fax: (415) 239-2559 Web Site: www.olvsf.org Grades: K-8, Extended Care

17 Saint Finn Barr Elementary School 419 Hearst Ave. 94112 (415) 333-1800 Fax: (415) 452-0177 Web Site: www.stfinnbarr.org Grades: K-8, Extended Care

25 Saints Peter and Paul Elementary School 660 Filbert St. 94133 (415) 421-5219 Fax: (415) 421-1831 Web Site: www.stspeterpaul.san-francisco.ca.us Grades: PreK-8, Extended Care

8 Megan Furth Academy 2445 Pine St. 94115 (415) 346-9500 Fax: (415) 346-8001 Web Site: www.meganfurthacademy.org Grades: K-8, Extended Care

18 Saint Gabriel Elementary School 2550 41st. Ave. 94116 (415) 566-0314 Fax: (415) 566-3223 Web Site: www.stgabrielsf.com Grades: K-8-D, Extended Care

26 Saint Philip Elementary School 665 Elizabeth St. 94114 (415) 824-8467 Fax: (415) 282-0121 Web Site: www.saintphilipschool.com Grades: PreK-8, Extended Care

9 Convent of the Sacred Heart Elementary School 2222 Broadway St. 94115 (415) 563-2900 Fax: (415) 563-0438 Web Site: www.sacredsf.org Grades: K-8, Girls, Extended Care

19 Saint James Elementary School 321 Fair Oaks St. 94110 (415) 647-8972 Fax: (415) 647-0166 Web Site: www.saintjamessf.org Grades: K-8, Extended Care

27 Saint Vincent de Paul Elementary School 2350 Green St. 94123 (415) 346-5505 Fax: (415) 346-0970 Web Site: www.svdpsf.org Grades: K-8, Extended Care

10 DeMarillac Academy 175 Golden Gate Ave. 94102 (415) 552-5220 Fax: (415) 621-5632 Web Site: www.demarillac.org Grades: 4-8

20 Saint John Elementary School 925 Chenery St. 94131 (415) 584-8383 Fax: (415) 584-8359 Web Site: www.stjohnseagles.com Grades: K-8-D, Extended Care

28 Saint Thomas the Apostle Elementary School 3801 Balboa St. 94121 (415) 221-2711 Fax: (415) 221-8611 Web Site: www.sfta.org Grades: PreK-8, Extended Care

11 Stuart Hall For Boys Elementary School 2222 Broadway St. 94115 (415) 563-2900 Fax: (415) 292-3165 Web Site: www.sacredsf.org Grades: K-8, boys, Extended Care

21 Saint Mary Chinese Day School 910 Broadway St. 94133 (415) 929-4690 Fax: (415) 929-4699 Web Site: www.stmaryschinese.org Grades: K-8, Extended Care

28 Saint Thomas More Elementary School 50 Thomas More Way 94132 (415) 337-0100 Fax: (415) 333-2564 Web Site: www.StThomasMoreSchool.org Grades: PreK-8, Extended Care

12 Saint Anne Elementary School 1320 – 14th Ave. 94122 (415) 664-7977 Fax: (415) 661-6904 Web Site: www.stanne.com Grades: PreK-8-D, Extended Care

22 Saint Monica Elementary School 5950 Geary Blvd. 94121 (415) 751-9564 Fax: (415) 751-0781 Web Site: www.stmonicasf.org Grades: K-8, Extended Care

30 Saint Stephen Elementary School 401 Eucalyptus Dr. 94132 (415) 664-8331 Fax: (415) 242-5608 Web Site: www.st-stephen.org Grades: K-8, Extended Care

13 Saint Brendan Elementary School 940 Laguna Honda Blvd. 94127 (415) 731-2665 Fax: (415) 731-7207 Web Site: www.stbrendansf.com Grades: K-8, Extended Care

23 Saint Paul Elementary School 1690 Church St. 94131 (415) 648-2055 Fax: (415) 648-1920 Web Site: www.stpaulsf.net Grades: PreK-8, Extended Care

31 Star of the Sea Elementary School 360 9th Ave. 94118 (415) 221-8558 Fax: (415) 221-7118 Web Site: www.starofthesea.com Grades: PreK-8, Extended Care

14 Saint Brigid Elementary School 2250 Franklin St. 94109 (415) 673-4523 Fax: (415) 674-4187 Web Site: www.saintbrigidsf.org Grades: K-8, Extended Care 15 Saint Cecilia Elementary School 660 Vicente St. 94116 (415) 731-8400 Fax: (415) 731-5686 Web Site: www.stceciliaschool.org Grades: K-8-D, Extended Care

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Saint Rita Elementary School 102 Marinda Dr., Fairfax 94930 (415) 456-1003 Fax: (415) 456-7946 Web Site: www.strita.edu Grades: PreK-8, Extended Care

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120 King St., Larkspur 94939 (415) 924-0501 Fax: (415) 924-3544 Web Site: www.stpatricksmarin.org Grades: K-8, Extended Care

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3 San Domenico School 1500 Butterfield Rd., San Anselmo 94960 (415) 258-1910 [Primary] (415) 258-1908 [Middle] Fax: (415) 258-1901 Web Site: www.sandomenico.org Grades: PreK-8

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1100 Fifth Ave., San Rafael 94901 (415) 454-4455 Fax: (415) 454-5927 Web Site: www.saintraphael.com Grades: PreK-8, Extended Care 7 Saint Isabella Elementary School 1 Trinity Way, PO Box 6188, San Rafael 94903 (415) 479-3727 Fax: (415) 479-9961 Web Site: www.stisabellaschool.org Grades: K-8, Extended Care

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Saint Hilary Elementary School 765 Hilary Dr., Tiburon 94920 (415) 435-2224 Fax: (415) 435-5895 Web Site: www.sainthilary-school.org Grades: K-8, Extended Care

SAN MATEO COUNTY 3 Notre Dame Elementary School 1200 Notre Dame Ave., Belmont 94002 (650) 591-2209 Fax: (650) 591-4798 Web Site: www.nde.org Grades: PreK-8, Extended Care

13 Nativity Elementary School 1250 Laurel St., Menlo Park 94025 (650) 325-7304 Fax: (650) 325-3841 Web Site: www.nativityschool.com Grades: K-8, Extended Care

4 Our Lady of Angels Elementary School 1328 Cabrillo Ave., Burlingame 94010 (650) 343-9200 Fax: (650) 343-5620 Web Site: www.olaparish.org Grades: PreK-8, Extended Care

14 Good Shepherd Elementary School 909 Oceana Blvd., Pacifica 94044 (650) 359-4544 Fax: (650) 359-4558 Web Site: www.goodshepherdschool.us Grades: K-8, Extended Care

5 Our Lady of Perpetual Help Elementary School 80 Wellington Ave., Daly City 94014 (650) 755-4438 Fax: (650) 755-7366 Web Site: www.olphdc.org Grades: K-8

15 Woodside Priory School 302 Portola Rd., Portola Valley 94028 (650) 851-8221 Fax: (650) 851-2839 Web Site: www.woodsidepriory.com Grades: 6-8

6 Immaculate Heart of Mary Elementary School 1000 Alameda de las Pulgas, Belmont 94002 (650) 593-4265 Fax: (650) 593-4342 Web Site: www.ihmschoolbelmont.com Grades: PreK-8, Extended Care

16 Our Lady of Mount Carmel Elementary School 301 Grant St., Redwood City 94062 (650) 366-6127 Fax: (650) 366-0902 Web Site: www.mountcarmel.org Grades: PreK-8, Extended Care

7 Saint Catherine of Siena Elementary School 1300 Bayswater Ave., Burlingame 94010 (650) 344-7176 Fax: (650) 344-7426 Web Site: www.stcos.com Grades: K-8, Extended Care

17 Saint Pius Elementary School 1100 Woodside Rd., Redwood City 94061 (650) 368-8327 Fax: (650) 368-7031 Web Site: www.stpiusschool.com Grades: K-8, Extended Care

8 Holy Angels Elementary School 20 Reiner St., Colma 94014 (650) 755-0220 Fax: (650) 755-0258 Web Site: www.holyangelscolma.com Grades: PreK-8, Extended Care

18 Saint Charles Elementary School 850 Tamarack Ave., San Carlos 94070 (650) 593-1629 Fax: (650) 593-9723 Web Site: www.scharlesschoolsc.org Grades: K-8, Extended Care

9 Our Lady of Mercy Elementary School 7 Elmwood Dr., Daly City 94015 (650) 756-3395 Fax: (650) 756-5872 Web Site: www.olmcath.org Grades: K-8-D, Extended Care

19 Saint Gregory Elementary School 2701 Hacienda St., San Mateo 94403 (650) 573-0111 Fax: (650) 573-6548 Web Site: www.stgregs-sanmateo.org Grades: K-8, Extended Care

1 All Souls Elementary School 479 Miller Ave., So. San Francisco 94080 (650) 583-3562 Fax: (650) 952-1167 Web Site: www.ssfallsoulsschool.org Grades: PreK-8, Extended Care

10 Saint Joseph Elementary School 50 Emilie Ave., Atherton 94027 (650) 322-9931 (MAIN #) Fax: (650) 322-7656 Web Site: www.shschools.org Grades: PreK-8, Extended Care

20 Saint Matthew Elementary School 910 South El Camino Real, San Mateo 94402 (650) 343-1373 Fax: (650) 343-2046 Web Site: www.stmatthewcath.org Grades: K-8-D, Extended Care

2 Saint Veronica Elementary School 434 Alida Way, So. San Francisco 94080 (650) 589-3909 Fax: (650) 589-2826 Web Site: www.stveronicacatholicschool.org Grades: K-8

11 Saint Raymond Elementary School 1211 Arbor Rd., Menlo Park 94025 (650) 322-2312 Fax: (650) 322-2910 Web Site: www.straymond.org Grades: K-8, Extended Care

21 Saint Timothy Elementary School 1515 Dolan Ave., San Mateo 94401 (650) 342-6567 Fax: (650) 342-5913 Web Site: www.sttimothyschool.org Grades: K-8, Extended Care

12 Saint Dunstan Elementary School 1150 Magnolia Ave., Millbrae 94030 (650) 697-8119 Fax: (650) 697-9295 Web Site: www.st-dunstan.org Grades: K-8, Extended Care

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The Catholic Difference

The chattering classes are us Catholics once had an intuitive understanding of sacred space. To enter a church, especially in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament, was to enter a different kind of environment, one of the hallmarks of which was a reverent silence.

Some of that intuition remains, but much of it has been lost.

Thus, within the past few months, I have noted three habitual behaviors, not in parishes that are otherwise sloppy in their liturgical practice, but precisely in parishes that take their liturgical life seriously: (1) The demarcation between the narthex (or, as they say in AmChurchSpeak, the “gathering space”) and the body of the church (the “worship space”) has been severely eroded.

Conversations begun in the narthex often continue when people reach the pews; new conversations are initiated in the pews.

Both types of conversation sometimes continue during the choral prelude, if there is one. In any case, the new convention seems to be that in-pew conversations are quite appropriate until the processional hymn is announced.

(2) The exchange of peace, which ought to be accompanied by the briefest of greetings, often becomes the occasion for a general conversational free-for-all. This breaks the rhythm of the liturgy of the Eucharist and is anything but conducive to the gathering of mind and spirit appropriate to the period before the reception of holy Communion (3) Immediately after the conclusion of the recessional

hymn, conversation, often quite loud, immediately breaks out in the pews (among those, that is, who have not already bolted for the door during the recessional). Choirs who have spent time and effort preparing a choral postlude must therefore compete with a torrent of chatter that not infrequently drowns out music that has been carefully rehearsed. This chatter is both bad liturgical form and very bad manners. Attempts to remind one’s fellow congregants of the proprieties, through a pleading glance, are met with either incomprehension or hostility.

The liturgical catechesis enjoined by Vatican II as part of the reform of the liturgy could actually take place this year — if pastors and parish liturgy directors see the introduction of the new English translations that will become mandatory on the First Sunday of Advent as the occasion to do what should have been done 40 years ago and equip the saints for their part in worship. That part was beautifully defined by the fathers of Vatican II in the chapter on the holy Eucharist of the council’s Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy: “The Church … earnestly desires that Christ’s faithful, when present at this mystery of faith, should not be there as strangers. …They should give thanks to God. Offering the immaculate victim, not only through the hands of the priest but also together with him, they should learn to offer themselves.”

That offering of self takes place through silence as well as through the “full, conscious, and active participation” the

council enjoined. This is a “participation,” I might add, that was not envisioned as obliterating the distinction between behavior appropriate to the parish hall and behavior fitting for the body of the church. Both our parGeorge Weigel ticipation in the liturgy and our silence should reflect the distinctiveness of the sacred space that we are privileged to share when we come into church.

Pastors and liturgical directors have a great opportunity this year to re-educate Christ’s people in the nature of the liturgy. That education can be both direct and indirect: direct, by catechesis from the pulpit; indirect, by providing ample moments of silence within the liturgy. There is no reason why every available moment during Mass must be filled with speech or music; surely there ought to be moments of repose when all are allowed to listen for the “still small voice” of 1 Kings 19:12. Those moments, in turn, might help remind us that sacred space is not space for chatter.

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

Spirituality for Life

The asceticism of pressure and duty The past several weeks have been some of most pressured weeks in my life. I have been trying to balance the pressures of teaching a three-hour-a-day intersession course, my duties as an administrator, a series of emergencies to do with the deaths of a couple of close friends, along with trying to sustain some kind of prayer life, all the time nursing a nasty viral cold. It’s been a pressured time.

We’ve all had similar seasons in our lives, sometimes lasting for years, not just for a couple of weeks. Sometimes the pressures of life simply put us on a treadmill from which, for awhile at least, there is no stepping off. What happens at those times is that we tend to beat ourselves up for getting caught in that situation. Frequently friends and spiritual directors join in, berating us for not taking better care of ourselves, for not saying no to more things, and for not having the discipline to schedule regular prayer, exercise and leisure into our lives.

Their challenge is not without value. We do need to take care of ourselves and it is not always a virtue to respond to every need that presents itself. But, that being said, it also needs to be said that sometimes, perhaps most of the time, the pressures of life, those duties and demands that rob us of leisure and rest and time for formal prayer, are not necessarily a bad thing. There is a fasting and prayer too, by conscription.

Jesus, the Gospels tell us, once went into the desert for forty days and forty nights, taking no food and no nourishment. He fasted. In essence, what this says is that he deprived himself of the normal comforts and supports of ordinary human life. He voluntarily submitted to an asceticism designed to help move him to a deeper level of understanding, love and maturity (the purpose

of all voluntary asceticism). He actively sought out the desert.

Sometimes, however, the desert finds us. Whenever a season of our life is so full of pressure so as to deny us the normal comforts and supports of ordinary life, then we too are in the desert and afforded the opportunity to use that deprivation as an asceticism that can help move us to a deeper level of understanding, love, and maturity; except, in our case, the asceticism is conscriptive rather than freely chosen.

Former spiritualities tried to teach this through a concept they called living out our duties of state. In an oversimplification, the idea was this: God puts us on this earth not just for leisure and enjoyment, but also to serve others and to give our lives over in unselfish duty. Our private happiness, and indeed our private sanctity, is not our highest goal. Once we accept this and begin to give our lives over in service, the duties innate within marriage, family, vocation, church, society, and the needy will, at times, consume us in ways that can for long periods of time take away our freedom, our leisure, our rest and even our time to pray as we ideally should. But that response to duty is also a healthy asceticism, albeit a conscriptive one, which can do for us the very things that private prayer and voluntary fasting can do, namely, push us beyond a self-centered life.

Biblically, this is captured in Jesus’ remark to Peter at the end of John’s Gospel. After Peter had three times affirmed his love and commitment, Jesus turned to him and said: Up to now, you have gird your belt and walked wherever you wanted to go, but now, after this commitment, others will put a belt around you and take you where you would rather not go. What Jesus is telling Peter is that the duties that will now follow upon his commitment

of faith and love will rob him not just of his leisure and his own plans for his life, but ultimately too they will rob him of his freedom and his very life. Duty can do that, and often does.

I know a woman Father Ronald whose children are now grown who once confessed Rolheiser to me that, while her children were toddlers, she sometimes went through long periods when she could not even carve out sufficient time for herself to go to the bathroom, let alone find time for leisure or time to pray or sit in solitude. Today she is one of the most unselfish and prayerful persons I know.

Obviously her time in the desert of her own home, her feet held to the fire by duty, fasting by necessity from ordinary leisure, did for her what the desert did for Jesus and what the conscriptive rope did for Peter.

Unwelcome pressure, tiredness that we haven’t the luxury to address, and duties that take us beyond our own agendas, if accepted without resentment, can function as God’s conscriptive, ascetical hook, taking us, as if against our own will, to deeper and more mature places.

Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser, theologian, teacher and award-winning author, is president of the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, Texas.

The Human Side

Keeping dreams alive in a senseless world “Getting old isn’t for sissies.” Not only is this true for elders, but it applies to young and old alike.

The recent shootings in Tucson, Ariz., that left six dead, several others injured and Rep. Gabrielle Giffords fighting for her life, remind us that life is filled with endless traumas that require all of our strength to withstand the distress caused by them.

The word “trauma” traces its origins to the word “throe,” meaning “being in the midst of struggles and pain.”

A day doesn’t pass by when we don’t hear of someone murdered or killed in war or in a senseless accident. Nor does it pass by without corruption, deception, slander and the exercise of despotic power being added to the pains of life.

The result is disillusion, depression, hopelessness and, in some cases, suicide. Dreams of living together peacefully and possessing a zest for a happy future are quickly dashed.

I once met a lobbyist in the Senate barbershop on Capitol Hill. As he was leaving, he turned to me and said, “Here is something to ponder: Are your dreams strong enough to outweigh your fears?”

In the midst of daily turmoil, how do we keep our dreams

strong enough to withstand fear, disillusion and the paralysis they create?

One suggestion is to ally ourselves with creative people who won’t allow anything to impair their dreams. Almost all of the extraordinary events and the wholesomeness they create can be traced to a dream.

The dream of flying like a bird, for example, or of going to the moon, overcoming debilitating diseases, creating inspiring music and designing awesome architecture began with a dream.

When we look at the spellbinding progress we have made in our lifetime, we learn that it originated with an inspiration that wouldn’t go away, a hard-fought idea, vision and determination.

It is no exaggeration to say that we are inundated with disillusionments that can kill our dreams. How to counter these disillusionments is not only necessary but imperative for our well-being.

One measure we need to take more than ever is to strike a balance between inspiring news and events and their opposites.

When the Arizona shootings were reported, we were inundated with details. In a case like this, the English writer G.K.

Chesterton would tell us that surrounding ourselves with too much trauma is a good way to become a lunatic.

The word lunatic comes from the Latin word “luna” (meaning moonstruck or controlled by the moon).

Father Eugene A moon is a circle with no outlets. When we become Hemrick circumscribed by bad news, it ends up consuming us, leaving no room for good news that keeps dreams alive.

Today, it goes without saying that keeping a balance between the harsh realities of life and our dreams for a better life is one of its most difficult challenges facing us.

Father Eugene Hemrick, a research associate at the Life Cycle Institute at The Catholic University of America, writes a column for Catholic News Service.

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A READING FROM THE BOOK OF ZEPHANIAH ZEP 2:3; 3:12-13 Seek the Lord, all you humble of the earth, who have observed his law; seek justice, seek humility; perhaps you may be sheltered on the day of the Lord’s anger.

But I will leave as a remnant in your midst a people humble and lowly, who shall take refuge in the name of the Lord: the remnant of Israel. They shall do no wrong and speak no lies; nor shall there be found in their mouths a deceitful tongue; they shall pasture and couch their flocks with none to disturb them.

RESPONSORIAL PSALM PS 146:6-7, 8-9, 9-10 R. Blessed the poor in spirit; the kingdom of heaven is theirs!

The Lord keeps faith forever, Secures justice for the oppressed, gives food to the hungry.

The Lord sets captives free.

R. Blessed the poor in spirit; the kingdom of heaven is theirs!

The Lord gives sight to the blind; the Lord raises up those who were

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Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time Zephaniah 2:3; 3:12-13; Psalm 146:6-7, 8-9, 9-10; Corinthians 1:26-31; Matthew 5:1-12a bowed down.

The Lord loves the just; the Lord protects strangers.

R. Blessed the poor in spirit; the kingdom of heaven is theirs!

The fatherless and the widow the Lord sustains, but the way of the wicked he thwarts.

The Lord shall reign forever; your God, O Zion, through all generations. Alleluia.

R. Blessed the poor in spirit; the kingdom of heaven is theirs!

A READING FROM THE FIRST LETTER OF PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS 1 COR 1:26-31 Consider your own calling, brothers and sisters. Not many of you were wise by human standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. Rather, God chose the foolish of the world to shame the wise, and God chose the weak of the world to shame the strong, and God chose the lowly and despised of the world, those who count for nothing, to reduce to nothing those who are something, so that no human being might boast before God. It is due to him that you are in Christ

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bus taking me to the New Orleans airport passed a court building. I grabbed a pen to copy the inscription carved into the smooth stone slabs below the roof: “The impartial administration of justice is the foundation of liberty.” I was moved because all along Jefferson Parkway, boarded-up houses, barely functioning small businesses, haphazard fencing and make-do, hand-painted building signs testified to the devastation from Hurricane Katrina five years ago. People here probably know more about injustice than justice when it comes to economic turmoil from natural disasters like Katrina and man-made disasters like the Gulf oil spill.

A judge’s role is “the impartial administration of justice.” That’s an ancient principle of law. There’s supposed to be no difference between a rich person and a poor person before the law when it comes to protection of rights to own property, to get access to assistance, to be compensated for injury or to be protected from oppression by the more powerful. The king, the judge or the elder is supposed to protect the rights of the disadvantaged – the one with less money, less social status, less eloquence, less education, less physical attractiveness or less health and strength. Impartiality means that all these differences are balanced out when a judge hears a case between two parties. Why? Unless there is fairness in the judicial system, there isn’t liberty for anyone, says the legend on the court building. I recall a quote whose source escapes me: “There can be no peace without justice.”

The Scriptures for this Sunday look at God’s “impartial administration of justice” which serves as a model for how believers should treat each other, especially when they seem less advantaged. The first reading from Zephaniah speaks of a politically powerless minority, a faithful remnant of Israelites who are loyal to God despite the devastation of war, loss of land and impoverishment. The prophet commends the “anawim” – Hebrew for lowly ones – as blameless and truthful.

They haven’t rebelled against God or lost their

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Who are the fortunate? faith. They don’t tell lies or betray others to secure advantage. These are the ones “who take refuge in the name of the Lord.” Their eventual reward will be peace and tranquility in their daily lives. The passage is a kind of “beatitude” on people who suffer injustice, yet in God’s eyes they are all the more worthy of reward. How fortunate they are.

Going to court is not the solution to every human problem. Psalm 146 is a recitation of God’s compassionate aid to people who may never reach a courthouse to have their case heard. Paying attention to those who suffer the inequalities of the human condition – this is the embodiment of divine justice. The psalm offers its own catalogue of the spiritual and corporal works of mercy as restorative justice.

These include “raising up those who were bowed down” by feeding the hungry, helping the incarcerated to adjust to life on the outside, advocating for the disabled, working for immigration reform, making funds available to single mothers and supporting the health needs of elderly widows. Part of acting in God’s name involves protection of the vulnerable elderly by alerting adult protective services when there is a suspicion they are a victim of physical or financial abuse.

Some Corinthians must have wondered if they were good enough to belong to the

community of believers in Jesus. They looked around and thought, “As a person, I’m not smart enough, wealthy enough, spiritual enough, educated enough, gifted enough or important enough to belong here. Why should I continue trying to fit in?” St. Paul pronounces his own “beatitudes” to these self-effacing members of the congregation who feel less advantaged. He invokes two theological principles. The first is the fact of our common humanity. We all, no matter our differences, were created as children of God who received life as a divine gift,“so that no human being might boast before God.” The second principle places the focus not on who we are as persons in comparison with others, but on who Jesus is. He “became for us wisdom from God, as well as righteousness, sanctification and redemption.” Thus, we should all be looking at Jesus and the effect of his life and death in our own lives. We should not get sidetracked by a subjective sense of worthiness or unworthiness within the community. The focus is Jesus, not us.

Matthew’s beatitudes – “blessed are they” – differ in wording from Luke’s “blessed are you.” But the overall intent is the same: God’s justice is oriented to restore balance to many human situations where a minority suffers loss and disadvantage at the hands of people

Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, as well as righteousness, sanctification, and redemption, so that, as it is written, “Whoever boasts, should boast in the Lord.”

A READING FROM THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW MT 5:1-12A When Jesus saw the crowds, he went up the mountain, and after he had sat down, his disciples came to him. He began to teach them, saying: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Blessed are they who mourn, for they will be comforted. Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the land. Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied. Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. Blessed are the clean of heart, for they will see God. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God. Blessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are you when they insult you and persecute you and utter every kind of evil against you falsely because of me. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward will be great in heaven.”

in power. This is the basis for saying the beatitudes are an outline for a social justice program. A better translation for “blessed are they” is “fortunate are they.”

It is inaccurate to say, though, that Jesus proposed an entirely new spiritual set of Christian principles, and that the beatitudes are a break with Jewish tradition. This ignores the consistent scriptural theme that God favors the poor and the “beatitudes” encoded in many of the Psalms. In addition, more current scholarship on the Qumran literature shows that blessings or affirmations which ennoble the oppressed antedate Matthew and Luke.

There are two two poles in the Matthean catalogue. The first are blessings promised to the oppressed – the poor, the downtrodden and deprived, those who have been treated unjustly, and those who are persecuted for trying to do the right thing. Social justice aims to set aright the inequality between men and women, white and black, rich and poor, literate and illiterate, insured and uninsured, housed and homeless, employed and jobless, the mobile and immobile.

The second pole refers to blessings for practicing “useless” moral virtues – compassion, integrity, reconciliation and peacemaking, as well as the patient endurance of shame from defamation and insults. Who gets money, property or social standing from adopting these virtues? What Jesus affirms is another kind of reward: seeing God, being in close relationship with God, being part of God’s empowerment of others, the kingdom of God. So what is God’s sense of justice? Is it all that impartial? Do we have a picture of God sitting in a courtroom calmly hearing the case of the poor against the rich? To reflect on the beatitudes, God seems to have left both impartiality and the bench behind, and set out into the world itself to set injustices there aright.

Mercy Sister Eloise Rosenblatt, Ph.D., is a theologian and an attorney in private practice in San Jose.

Toward liturgical renewal Teachers often tell their students, “There are no dumb questions,” meaning no one should be afraid to ask a basic question. (Apparently, the great jazz master Louis Armstrong didn’t entirely buy into this idea, as he is purported to have said either, “Man, if you gotta ask, you’ll never know,” or “If you still gotta ask, shame on you,” when asked “What is jazz?” Ouch.) With the Year of Renewal in Worship and Prayer announced for the Archdiocese of San Francisco in 2011, I’d say it is fair to ask these basic questions: “What might renewal in worship and prayer actually look like?” and, “How do we move toward renewal?”

Renewed worship Ask a hundred different people, “What does renewed worship look like?” and you could very well get a hundred

rather different answers. The bishops of the Second Vatican Council said it would mean “that the faithful take part fully aware of what they are doing, actively engaged in the rite, and enriched by its effects” (“Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy,” 11). This renewal was to be achieved in part via liturgical reforms, priestly formation, and a catechetical effort to be conducted, as the constitution states, “with zeal and patience.”

Embracing the revised missal From my point of view we could rejoice in renewal if we were to see the faithful attending Sunday Eucharist with greater regularity or – dare I say it? – every Sunday. Renewal might mean that we sing “Alleluia” as enthusiastically as we sing “Take Me Out to the Ball Game.” When we find our-

selves praying the words and action of the Mass instead of merely giving lip service to them, and when we have a greater capacity to connect the events and relationships of our daily lives with the Lord’s Supper, then we might say, “I feel a renewal

By Patrick comin’ on!” To be renewed Vallez-Kelly could mean we embrace the ongoing Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) as an essential element of our parish life and worship. It could REVISED MISSAL, page 11

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renewed worship and prayer might play out in various ways.

It might mean observing Sunday as a whole as a day of rest.

It could mean that an individual or a community gives some usual activities a rest, focusing instead on the essentials for worship. We need to ask, “What needs to be allowed to die so that something new might rise?�

Finally, after rest, renewal requires curiosity and openness to new approaches to the tasks or relationships at hand. In the case of our worship, the newness that we seek shouldn’t be equated with novelty – making up some new ritual or action.

Rather, it’s more akin to the new song that the Lord puts in the mouth of the psalmist (Psalm 40:4). Many of us will need to be open to worshiping in the spirit with new attitudes and expectations. We will need to have a greater curiosity about the ancient rites that we celebrate. We will need to be open to celebrating them in ways that, perhaps, have not been tried or given a fair chance.

To borrow from the new translation, “it is right and just� that this renewal be guided by our pastors and theologians so that it remains within the living tradition of the church, but it is also worthwhile to discern the sense of the faithful. Readers: How would you envision renewed worship and prayer? How do you see us moving toward renewal?

â– Continued from page 10 mean we are OK with taking a little extra time for silence. In short, renewal would mean that through our worship we find a renewed love for God and passion for living the Christian life.

Toward renewal It’s easy enough to set up a utopian vision, but how do we actually engage in the process of renewal? In truth it’s not easy because it involves a paschal process – a process of dying to old ways and rising to new ones. It requires desire and intention, pruning and resting, and openness to something new.

To move toward renewal someone must first have the desire for it. Renewal of the spirit is largely God’s work, but the church community has to want it enough to say, “OK, God, we’re ready. We need it. Let it be done unto us according to your will.� We can make all the right moves to receive a new translation of the Mass come November, but if we don’t really desire renewed worship, it will be like putting old wine into a new wineskin, to convolute Jesus’ parable.

After the initial desire and choice to pursue renewal, the next step may be to rest or to do some serious pruning. In regard to worship, though, this is not to say that we should take a break from it, which actually makes this step a bit difficult to discern. It’s precisely in worship with Christ that we are supposed to find our true rest. Resting or pruning toward

Patrick Vallez-Kelly is director of the Office of Worship for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

He is writing an occasional column for Catholic San Francisco during the Year of Renewal.

Father Padrez, OP, to lead Western Dominican Province University of Arizona where he was active in the Newman Center run by the Dominicans. Through exposure to the work and spirituality of the Dominicans, Father Padrez was open to God’s invitation to enter the order in 1987. He is a graduate of the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology and was ordained in 1995. He has served in many capacities throughout the Western Dominican Province including: Holy Rosary Church in Antioch, the Newman Center at the University of California at San Diego as well as the director of vocations and vicar to the provincial.

Dominican ministries within the Archdiocese of San Francisco include St. Dominic Church, the Dominican Novitiate, St. Jude Shrine and the Dominican Mission Foundation.

The 24th Provincial Chapter of the Western Dominican Province has elected Father Mark Padrez, OP, to be the 16th prior provincial of the province which encompasses 10 states.

He will have both temporal and spiritual responsibility for the 150 priests and brothers of the Dominican community serving in 18 parishes and Newman Centers as well as independent ministries throughout the region. As provincial he will also have responsibility for the spiritual guidance of approximately 20,000 families registered in Dominican parishes as well as thousands of individuals in missions and mission sites in Mexico, Guatemala, Kenya and Eastern Europe.

Father Padrez was born in Nogales, Arizona in 1963.

He grew up in that community and eventually attended the

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Author avoids sensationalism in study that brings Italian nuns to life “NUNS BEHAVING BADLY: TALES OF MUSIC, MAGIC, ART & ARSON IN THE CONVENTS OF ITALY”

by Craig A. Monson. University of Chicago Press (Chicago, 2010). 264 pp., $35.

Reviewed by Brian Welter (CNS) – Leading strict, enclosed lives, the need for fresh air or escape sometimes proved too much for some nuns. Or, bored and intellectually stagnant, they would pursue romance or magic. Yet, rather than sensationalism, Monson delivers a wellresearched historical study of the all-toohuman follies and failings of 16th- and 17th-century Italian nuns.

For such a religious environment as Italian convents (or perhaps because of it), a remarkable number of superstitious practices abounded. These were only occasionally centered on the devil. The women were more interested in telling the future or trying to figure out who stole what from the convent kitchen. They also wore protective amulets.

Abbot Ambrosia da Bologna charged some nuns at San Lorenzo in Bologna in 1584 with using “incantations, fortunetelling, love charms, but also the possible use of baptized lodestones.” In this instance, it was more than just magic, and sounded like devilry: “He too spoke of the mysterious

levitating object, and of baleful howling, clashing of swords and mysterious lights in the night. Some of the sisters were possessed.”

On one occasion, to divine a missing viola, “there was all sorts of fuss about someone using a bowl of water, and somebody else tracing some figure on the floor to find the missing viola,” Monson records.

The author gives readers a good impression that the convents were a beehive of activity, at least in some cases. Piety could certainly be present, and everyone seemed to accept the basic Christian dogma of the day and the authority of the church. No one was against the system and its underlying beliefs.

Yet nuns and convents struggled to toe the line. Sometimes the bishops seemed unduly strict, as when they outlawed convent singing in the 16th or 17th centuries when a local nun or convent became too famous and were pressed with crowds of people. Mass at that point became too boisterous for church authorities, who also feared that the fame would take away from the inner life of religious.

Many nuns became quite famous at the local level through music, which shows the important roles nuns and convents played in towns and cities throughout Italy.

Cardinal Gabriele Paleotti cracked down on nun singing in Bologna in the 1570s, resulting from the Council of Trent’s

strict measures. Cardinal Paleotti limited Bolognese convents to only one solo voice and the organ, outlawing polyphony and additional musical instruments such as the viola.

So much for poor, passive, obedient nuns: They went over his head and straight to Rome, getting permission for a softening of the edict ct on certain feast days.

This assertiveness reap-pears throughout thesee stories. The nuns’ inde-pendent streak and stubbornness could become a real headache for prelates.

Individual nuns, whether strong-willed, rebellious or downright kooky, caused consternation for their own convents, and not only for the bishops.

By weaving fictional dialogues in with the narrative, Monson’s characters come to life, and readers can get attached to them.

Donna Christina, starved for culture, had a local priest, Don Giacomelli, sneak her out to the local opera dressed as an abbot – twice. In the weeks leading up to Lent, carnival season, Bologna was a riotous festival of masked people dressed

up as nuns, priests, abbots and royalty.

Unnoticed, she succeeded on both nights, caught on the second sortie by a vigilant nun. Church authorities and her own order were relentless in their persecution. Sadly, Don Giacomelli was arrested and thrown in jail, where his health rapidly deteriorated and he soon died.

Perhaps for some such as Donna Christina, the heavy institutional flavor of religious life, and of all of society, struck at her sense of freedom and s passion. p Convent life was regimented, though one wonm ders de if this was for the growth in holiness or so gr that tha people could be easily controlled.

While Monson con never attacks Catholic culnev ture and beliefs in the way that so many contemporary academics do, he does note acad that holiness was not always a central focus of monastic life. What he unearths for readers is very real people who lived life fully.

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Film, TV series latest in Hollywood’s fascination with exorcisms

By Sheila Dabu Nonato TORONTO (CNS) – The exorcism began after Mass as the exorcist and several parishioners gathered around a troubled young man and started praying over him, recalls Father Joseph Muldoon, episcopal vicar of the Ottawa archdiocese.

Father Muldoon, who oversees the work of Ottawa’s lone official exorcist, is not an exorcist himself, but this was one of two exorcisms he assisted over the years. Both occurred outside of Canada.

Father Muldoon joined in praying for the young man who dabbled in drugs and

the occult. The man exhibited one of the signs of demonic possession: a supernatural strength requiring him to be restrained by several people to prevent harm to himself and others around him.

The priest performing the exorcism, trained under the ancient rite, blessed the man with holy water. He then placed a crucifix and Bible on his chest, some of the norms of the rite established in 1614.

“The priest gradually, slowly commanded the evil spirit to leave him and never to return, to be placed at the foot of the cross,” Father Muldoon said.

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name and pray the Our Father with the community. He was freed from the devil’s grasp, said the priest.

Exorcisms have always piqued the Hollywood imagination and provided a steady source of material for filmmakers in the horror genre. And with a new movie set for release Jan. 28, plus a reality-TV series on exorcists, Hollywood is once again entering the battleground of good vs. evil.

“The Rite,” a film featuring Anthony Hopkins, is based on a book by journalist Matt Baglio about the accounts of an American exorcist. Meanwhile, the Discovery Channel is reported to be working on a reality show called “The Exorcist Files.”

Father John Horgan, a scholar on exorcisms and pastor of Sts. Peter and Paul Parish in Vancouver, British Columbia, was a consultant to the 2005 movie “The Exorcism of Emily Rose,” a movie loosely based on an actual case in Germany.

He cautions that Hollywood versions of exorcism usually provide a liberal interpretation of the actual rite. A scene of “being chained and tied up has nothing to do with the Catholic rite of exorcism,” he said.

While Hollywood may play up the drama of exorcisms, the key message about them is not how evil takes over, Father Horgan said: It’s how the power of God always triumphs in the end.

Father Gary Thomas, pastor, Sacred Heart Parish in Saratoga, witnessed 80 formal exorcisms over eight months in Rome.

It is his training experience as an exorcist that is chronicled in “The Rite.” He recently saw an early screening of the film version of the book with star Anthony Hopkins in Hollywood. The actor is “very down to earth,” the priest said. “The film is very well done, demonstrates the human side of the priesthood and has a great ending,” Father Thomas told Catholic San Francisco.

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St. Mary’s Cathedral – Celebrating 40 years Gough Street and Geary Boulevard in San Francisco (415) 567-2020. Visit www.stmarycathedralsf.org Feb. 12, noon: Archbishop George Niederauer presides at a Mass and Anointing of the Sick. Mass is commemoration of World Day of the Sick instituted

by Pope John Paul II. 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.

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 the cathedral. 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.

National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi LA PORZIUNCOLA NUOVA Columbus at Vallejo in San Francisco’s North Beach The Porziuncola and “Francesco Rocks” Gift Shop are open every day but Monday from 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. Visit www.knightsofsaintfrancis.com The Shrine church is open every day 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. with Mass Monday through Saturday at 12:15 p.m. and Sundays at 10 a.m. Rosary prayed daily in Porziuncola at 4:30 p.m. Call (415) 986-4557 or visit www.shrinesf.org or e-mail info@shrinesf.org or herbertj@shrinesf.org.

Feb. 26, 7 p.m.: “Appealing to Our Better Angels” an evening with documentarian, Ken Burns, at Cowell Theater, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco. The Knights of St. Francis of Assisi of La Nuova Porziuncola at the National Shrine of St. Francis are among the event sponsors. Evening is free but donations accepted. E-mail Steve Cady at cscady@yahoo.com.

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 at Grant Ave. in San Francisco. Coffee and sweets start the day.

Call (415) 288-3844.

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. Visit www.stocktondiocese.org.

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

Feb. 27, noon: Columban Fathers Annual Lunch, “An Afternoon of Fun,” at United Irish Cultural Center, Sloat Blvd. at 45th Ave. in San Francisco. Honorees are Peggy and Mike Cooney. No-host cocktails at noon with lunch at 1 p.m. Choices include pot roast and chicken pomodoro. Tickets are $40 per person. Call Pam Naughton at (415) 566-1936 or Anne Quilter at (415) 586-8017 for tickets or more information.

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November’s St. Stephen Women’s Guild Fashion Show benefiting St. Stephen School “was amazing,” said school publicity chair, May Ryan. Kudos all around she said including to “the more than 100 St. Stephen Cougar models” and all who helped make the event work. “The dedicated committee did a fabulous job and their efforts are truly appreciated.” Pictured from left are fashion show chairs, Susie Wassmer, Renee Wallis and Samantha Martinez.

Mondays, 4 p.m.: Join us on level C of St. Mary’s Medical Center in the Cardiology Conference Room for a series of eight classes about diabetes. 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.

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 at the door/$16 in advance. For advance tickets, call (415) 333-3627.

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 Blvd, 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.

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 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.

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Taize Sung Prayer: First Friday at 8 p.m.: Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Drive, Burlingame with Mercy Sister Suzanne Toolan. Call (650) 340-7452; young adults are invited each first Friday of the month to attend a social at 6 p.m. prior to Taize prayer at 8 p.m. The social provides light refreshments and networking with other young adults. Convenient parking is available. For more information, e-mail mercyyoungadults@sbcglobal. net. Tuesdays at 6 p.m.: Notre Dame Des Victoires Church, 566 Bush 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.

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

Mass in Latin The traditional Latin Mass celebrated according to texts and rubrics of the Missal of Blessed John XXIII of 1962 is celebrated at these locations: Sunday, 12:15 p.m.: Holy Rosary Chapel at St. Vincent School for Boys in San Rafael. For more information, call St. Isabella Parish at (415) 479-1560; first Fridays, 7 p.m. at St. Francis of Assisi Church, 1425 Bay Road. at Glen Way in East Palo Alto. For more information, call (650) 322-2152. Father Lawrence Goode, pastor, is celebrant; first Sundays, 5:30 p.m. at Mater Dolorosa Church, 307 Willow Ave. South San Francisco. For more information call (650) 583-4131; second Sundays, 5:30 p.m. at St. Finn Barr Church, Edna Street at Hearst in San Francisco. Call (415) 333-3627; third Sundays at Holy Name of Jesus Church, 39th Avenue at Lawton in San Francisco. Call (415) 664-8590 for time.

Vocations/Serra Clubs Feb. 10, noon: San Francisco Serra Club luncheon at Italian American Social Club, 25 Russia Ave., off Mission, in San Francisco. Marianist Brother John Samaha will talk about Franciscan Friar, Blessed Junipero Serra. Tickets are $16 for lunch. Nonmembers welcome. Contact Paul Crudo at (415) 566-8224 or e-mail pecrudodds@aol.com , enter Serra on subject line.

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). Free-will offering accepted. Contact vocations@msjdominicans.org or (510) 933-6333.

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Pro-life march . . .

(PHOTOS BY JOSE LUIS AGUIRRE/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

Marchers in the seventh annual Walk for Life West Coast Jan. 22 reach Fisherman’s Wharf.

(PHOTO COURTESY MARIN CATHOLIC)

“Everybody suffers in the wake of abortion,” said the Rev. Brian Walker of Pro-Life Action Ministries, who related how he and his wife Denise chose an abortion four months before their wedding date. “If the person who had been growing in my womb had been recognized by the law of this land as a person, I would have all three of my children,” said Rev. Denise Walker of her three abortions, two before she met her husband. Walker is founder of Everlasting Light Ministries, a post-abortion healing outreach in Minnesota. The Walkers are the parents of three living children.

Earlier, an 8 a.m. Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral celebrated

by San Francisco Archbishop George Niederauer and concelebrated with California bishops and many other priests was packed with close to 3,000 people. “Eternal life overcomes the culture of death,” Archbishop Niederauer said.

Ten California bishops attended the walk, including Archbishop Niederauer, San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice, San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop Robert W. McElroy, retired San Francisco Bishop Ignatius Wang, Oakland Bishop Salvatore Cordileone, Sacramento Bishop Jaime Soto, Stockton Bishop Stephen Blaire, Santa Rosa Bishop Daniel Walsh, Orange Bishop Tod Brown and San Bernardino Bishop Rutilio del Riego The walk was founded in 2005 by a group of San Francisco Bay Area residents who wanted to stand up for life but also to reach out to the many women and men affected by abortion in California, said co-founder Eva Muntean.

Eight San Francisco Bay Area pro-life activists were honored by the walk organizers with the St. Gianna Molla Award for their activism in the early days of the pro-life movement after California legalized abortion in 1967. They are: Father Lawrence Goode, Santa Rosa Bishop Daniel F. Walsh, thenFather Walsh, Father Francis Filice, Alice Asturias, Evelyn Eaton, Mary Ann Schwab, Catherine Conway and Beatrice Smalley and the late Gloria Gillogley-Acosta.

(PHOTO BY CHARLIE ACZON/WALK FOR LIFE WEST COAST)

■ Continued from cover

Young adults, left and right, are pictured at the opening ceremonies for the Walk for Life West Coast, which included the national anthem and a prayer by Santa Rosa Bishop Daniel F. Walsh. Marin Catholic High School freshman Stanton Leavitt, center, was one of 25 Marin Catholic students attending the walk.

Parish group joins march against abortion for seventh straight year another way to integrate the community’s many cultures, which include Hispanic, AfricanWith tears in her eyes, Yurizan Valencia lisAmerican, Filipino and Tongan. tened to the testimony of those who shared their “It’s an opportunity for young people to experiences of abortion. see people from other churches, other backThe 23-year-old parishioner at St. Francis grounds, who may not be Catholic but who of Assisi Parish in East Palo Alto was in the share the same stance on abortion,” Father crowd at the Walk for Life West Coast in San Goode said.

Francisco Jan. 22 as speakers told their stories.

Participants also are prepared to deal with As she listened she recalled the abortion she had demonstrators who support abortion. The counwhen she was 18. ter-demonstrators usually walk in the street “I thought that was good,” Valencia said. “I shouting slogans against walk participants. was far from God and was not aware of what I “From the first year we participated we told was doing.” the young people, who have prepared cheers, For the past year, Valencia has been part of chants, banners and everything, that you need her parish’s Youth United in Christ group. The to ignore opposition groups that make much experience has changed her life. noise,” Father Goode said.

“With this group I could approach God, who During Masses the weekend before the alone can forgive us,” she said. walk, Father Goode held a second collection to With drums, trumpets, banners and songs, raise funds to rent the three buses that carried each year about 120 St. Francis of Assisi parishparishioners to San Francisco.

A St. Francis of Assisi Parish youth marches in the Walk for Life West ioners join thousands of other people for the “It’s an inspiration to me to see these young Coast. The East Palo Alto parish, led by pastor Father Larry Goode, has anti-abortion walk from Justin Herman Plaza to people take religion so seriously,” said Father sent a delegation every year since the walk began in 2005.

Marina Green.

Goode. “Many have even become teachers of “We decided to walk to defend the right to life natural family planning.” that American citizens were stripped of, the main premise “Often, women do not think about the baby, who is After the walk, parish youth held hands to thank God protected by any civilized country: the right to exist,” said maimed, poisoned, strangled and tortured just because for the day that motivated them to say yes to life. “I am Herminio Gonzalez, one of the organizers of the group. he committed the crime of being generated by two selfish very happy to see so many people walking,” said Valencia, The Walk for Life West Coast was held on the 38th people who are not willing to face the consequences of who helps women who have had abortions to become anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade ruling. their actions,” he said. closer to God. “It’s unfair, unlawful, irrational and inconsistent that in Father Lawrence Goode, the pastor of St. Francis of “The relationship with my family has improved and exchange for votes, the government marketed human life by Assisi, has a long history of working for the rights of because of my experience that I shared with my family, the ‘right’ of women to decide to murder their children,” said all human beings, from migrant workers to the unborn. my parents are getting married after living together for 24 Gonzalez, 36, the father of two girls and a boy.

He sees the walk as an opportunity for his parish and years,” the young woman said.

(PHOTO BY JOSE LUIS AGUIRRE/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

By Jose Luis Aguirre