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Tony Vallecillo delivers a reflection Oct. 7 St. Raphael Church, where he arrived Aug. 31 in the pastoral year phase of his training for archdiocesan priesthood. He holds a rosary, a critical part of his formation as a seminarian.

Pastoral year Seminarian answers repeated calls from God brother,” Vallecillo recalled. “It was the first time I felt the active presence of a personal God, and it changed my life.”

Until then, he had held a deist view of a distant, handsoff deity with no relevance to his life.

Born in the Nicaraguan capital of Managua, baptized and confirmed in infancy, as that culture dictated, and

By Lidia Wasowicz educated in public schools after the family moved to San Complacent about his Catholic faith, Tony Vallecillo Francisco when he was one, Vallecillo lacked any formal had not attended Mass in 13 years when God started calling. religious teaching beyond first Communion classes.

His Catholicism was limited to attending Sunday Mass Over the next two decades, he got the message. and praying at mealtime He reconciled with the with his family. He found church, entered a seminary Christian life is an ongoing it “painless” to cease both and, on Aug. 31, arrived at when he turned 18 and St. Raphael Church in San conversation, constantly falling was no longer obliged to Rafael for a pastoral year do either. that will test his aptitude A movie aficionado and affinity for diocesan back only to grow again. since adolescence, Vallecillo priesthood. tried his hand at filmmaking Along the journey, the would-be film director and fiction writer repeatedly and writing, paying the rent with meager income from partrelied on heaven-sent signs to point him in the right time office jobs. He attempted to advance his avocation by reading a book and a half each week for 20 years. direction.

He saw no significance in his life until, at age 29, he The first one came in a dream of his mentally ill brother encased in a giant ice cube. Melted by his misery, Vallecillo awakened from the divine dream to a newly meaningful reached out to the estranged senior sibling. The man’s arm morning. He began advocating for his brother and growing shot skyward, morphing into a three-dollar bill, a symbol closer to his family and faith. On Valentine’s Day 1993, he ended his self-imposed exile, drawn inside San Francisco’s Vallecillo equated with the Trinity.

“I knew the dream was from God, asking me to help my PASTORAL YEAR, page 12 Editor’s note: This is the first in an ongoing series periodically reporting on seminarian Tony Vallecillo’s journey through his pastoral year at St. Raphael Church in San Rafael toward his ordination as a priest in 2014.

East Palo Alto mayor, pastor oppose sale of low-income housing

By Valerie Schmalz Wells Fargo Bank plans to sell half of East Palo Alto’s low-income housing to a real estate company whose founder is a billionaire opponent of rent control – and whose representatives reportedly told the city’s mayor it plans to gentrify in one to five years.

The city of East Palo Alto’s mayor and City Council, tenants and affordable housing groups and the pastor of the city’s Catholic church all oppose the sale to Equity Residential. In addition San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice and Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Palo Alto, have written letters to Wells Fargo urging the bank to take steps to ensure the town does not lose affordable housing.

“We’re trying to stop the sale, which is like standing in front of a train,” said Father Lawrence Goode, pastor of St. Francis of Assisi Parish in East Palo Alto. “They intend to come in and gentrify.”

A petition is circulating against the sale, saying that “Equity Residential has a history of alleged violations of housing laws and disregarding the interests of tenants” and that Equity founder and chairman of the board Sam Zell is a “well-known opponent of rent control and tenant protection laws.”

The deal transferring the 1,800 units in 101 buildEAST PALO ALTO, page 22

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By Tom Burke The first annual St. John Vianney Luncheon for Retired Priests is just one week away, Oct. 21, 11:30 a.m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral. Among the 90 prayerful presbyters who will be honored that morning – and I’m sure well into the afternoon – are Father Jim Morris and Father Don D’Angelo. Father Morris, ordained June 4, 1966, has served at parishes including St. Gregory, St. Anne of the Sunset, St. Elizabeth, St. Robert, and most recently St. Raymond in Menlo Park from where he retired in 2010. Father Morris is now 71 years old.

He grew up in St. Cecilia Parish in San Francisco and today makes his home Father James Morris at Alma Via Residence in San Francisco. Father D’Angelo is retired pastor of Holy Name of Jesus Parish in San Francisco and former pastor of St. Thomas More Parish. He has also served at parishes including Our Lady of the Pillar, St. Bartholomew, St. Dunstan, and Church of the Nativity. He grew up in the Sunset District of San Francisco. Now age 70, he was ordained May 18, 1968 and retired in 2009. These are two of 90 special guests Oct. 21 at the St. John Vianney Luncheon. Tickets are $100 per person. Call (415) 6145580 or email development@sfarchdiocese.org.

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Marin Catholic’s new campus priest focuses on faith formation, excellence

By George Raine

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After serving 15 years as president of Seton Hall University, the oldest U.S. diocesan university, and now a little over one month as the priestly presence of Marin Catholic High School, Msgr. Robert Sheeran has a short list of three priorities applicable to both institutions, no matter their differences: One is pursue excellence, another is truth in packaging, meaning, “We are a Catholic school,” with all that that entails, and third, “Always make sure there is room for those who are needy, for there is always room, a special place for those in need,” said Msgr.

Sheeran. “Those are the three transferrable things.”

The Sheeran principles were developed over his full 30 years at Seton Hall, in South Orange, N.J., beginning as a seminary rector and then administrator, before serving as president from 1995 to 2010, and many years as a priest of the Archdiocese of Msgr. Robert Sheeran Newark. He’s also a graduate of Seton Hall, and as synonymous as he is with the institution, Msgr. Sheeran wanted to “ramp down the insane pace of my life as a university president,” and, at the same time, “focus my life much more on priestly ministry.”

It happened that he is well acquainted with Marin Catholic because he lived on campus last year when, on sabbatical, he studied Islam at the University of California at Berkeley and at the Graduate Theological Union. Later, he was traveling in the Middle East when things changed dramatically at the Kentfield high school: Then-Marin Catholic President Father Tom Daly was named auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of San Jose, and he was replaced by Tim Navone, who was director of advancement and the varsity golf coach.

Marin Catholic wanted a priest on campus. Msgr.

Sheeran wanted a change and to work as priest rather than an administrator. He reported for duty as director of mission and ministry at Marin Catholic Sept. 1.

“I love being a priest,” said Msgr. Sheeran. “I love celebrating Mass. Moving away from heavy-duty administration to pastoral work at a prep school has been terrific in all ways, giving me a sense that I am returning to my roots as a diocesan priest. In many ways, I see myself as a leaven at Marin Catholic, working with other dedicated folks, to raise the level of our faith.”

“In my role as the first lay president of Marin Catholic,” said Navone, “I wanted to make sure our students had a priest presence here on campus because I got to see firsthand the impact Bishop Daly had on our students. The fact that we did that with a distinguished university president from one of our nation’s top Catholic schools is simply a blessing from God. In Msgr. Sheeran’s first month, our community is already seeing the fruits of his ministry.”

Msgr. Sheeran’s job description is new at Marin Catholic, “one we created as we transition into the lay president model,” said Navone. “It adds another layer to our commitment to keeping Catholic identity as our focus and top priority.”

However, it is not a new concept to Catholic colleges, most of which have a vice president as director of mission and ministry, or a similar title – the task in part being, as Seton Hall founder Bishop James Roosevelt Bayley put it in 1856, to provide “a home for the mind, the heart and the spirit.”

Msgr. Sheeran says Mass weekdays at the Marin Catholic chapel and, like Bishop Daly before him, Sunday Mass at St. Vincent’s Home for Boys in San Rafael. “My vision is to be a good priest,” he said of his new role.

Surrounded by young people he is just now getting to know, he knows this much: “The students are bright, articulate and socially pretty sophisticated, in my view. These youngsters are winners, in my view. But they need to be formed. Character formation. Faith formation.”

The question then was, what do they need to do to be successful in college and beyond? His answer: “I think if you ask people later on what makes for success in life it is character, number one, a sense of who they are and the ability to develop warm-hearted feelings for other people,” paraphrasing the Dalai Lama. “It’s a flip of ‘Love your neighbor as yourself,’” he said.

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Brown signs DREAM Act SACRAMENTO – Archbishop Jose H. Gomez of Los Angeles and immigrant advocate groups praised Gov. Jerry Brown for signing into law the rest of the California DREAM Act, allowing undocumented students who have graduated from a California high school to apply for state financial aid to attend college at a state school.

Brown signed the first half of the measure in July to make immigrant students attending California State University, California community colleges or the University of California eligible, on or after Jan. 1, 2012, to receive scholarships and loans from private funds.

Brown announced Oct. 8 he had signed the rest of the measure allowing them to apply for state aid.

“The governor’s signature clears the path for immigrant students to further their education so that they can one day contribute their talents and skills to the betterment of our society,” Archbishop Gomez said.

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Vaccine bill OK ‘regrettable, inexplicable,’ say bishops SACRAMENTO – California’s Catholic bishops are “puzzled and disappointed” by Gov. Jerry Brown approval of AB 499, a bill allowing minors to receive the vaccine Gardasil without parent or guardian approval.

“We are disappointed because AB 499 will undermine parental authority,” Ned Dolejsi, executive director of the California Catholic Conference, said in a statement Oct. 10.

“We are puzzled because on the same day he signed AB 499, the governor also signed SB 746, a ‘first-in-the-nation’ law to prevent children under 18 years of age from using tanning beds, and, just a month earlier, he vetoed SB 105, a bill to mandate ski helmets on underage youth, citing his concern with the ‘seemingly inexorable transfer of authority from parents to the state,’ saying ‘I believe parents have the ability and responsibility to make good choices for their children.’”

He said Brown “abandoned the principle of parental responsibility he so eloquently stated earlier,” a “regrettable and inexplicable” action.

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Zenit editors resign ROME — The six editors of the Catholic news agency Zenit have resigned, saying the agency has become too closely identified with the Legionaries of Christ. “The initial vision of Zenit was never to make it a service of a particular congregation, but rather of the universal church,� said a statement issued Oct. 10 by the editors of Zenit’s French, Italian, Spanish, English, Portuguese and Arabic services. The editors said they disagreed with the order’s decision to “underline the institutional dependence of the agency on the legion.�

Pope: Silence needed VATICAN CITY — Endless news, noise and crowds have made people afraid of silence and solitude, which are essential for finding God’s love and love for others, Pope Benedict XVI said.

Young people seem to want to fill every moment with music and video, and there is a growing risk that people are more immersed in a virtual world, he said he said during a vespers service at a Carthusian monastery in Serra San Bruno in Calabria Oct. 9. “Some people are no longer able to bear silence and solitude for very long,� he said.

Abused man’s journey VATICAN CITY — Francesco Zanardi walked almost 350 miles to deliver a letter asking Pope Benedict XVI to meet Italian victims of clerical abuse and to work harder to ensure bishops around the world follow Vatican norms for dealing with accusations of abuse.

Zanardi, 41, set off from Savona, Italy, Sept. 22 and walked almost all the way to Rome. He said he was abused by a priest when he was about 10, but by the time he told police in 2007, the statute of limitations had expired.

The Italian police who patrol St. Peter’s Square stopped Zanardi and Alberto Sala, president of an Italian organization that cares for abused children, Oct. 11 at a checkpoint.

The men were unable to deliver the letter to the Bronze Doors of the Apostolic Palace, but a Vatican employee accepted it. “It’s important to respond to the victims

All-archdiocese Hispanic Mass People from the 32 Archdiocese of San Francisco parishes that have an Hispanic ministry participated in a Mass Oct. 9 at St. Mary’s Cathedral. The Mass, attended by some 2,600 people and celebrated by Bishop William J. Justice and concelebrated by Father Moises Agudo and Msgr. Jose Rodriguez, was intended to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the cathedral that has served the Hispanic community in the archdiocese.

– they need an incredible amount of help,�

Zanardi said. “It’s taken me 20 years to overcome the trauma and that’s fast. I wanted to die. Victims feel they are at fault, that they are dirty. They need help.�

Mourning in Egypt CAIRO — Orthodox Pope Shenouda III declared three days of mourning, fasting and prayer for victims of peaceful protests that turned violent, and church and government leaders called for Egypt to reaffirm its commitment to religious freedom.

At least 26 people — mostly Christian — were killed and nearly 500 were injured Oct. 9 as gangs armed with firebombs, sticks, swords and rocks attacked about 1,000 people staging a peaceful sit-in outside of a state television building. As the violence escalated, a speeding military vehicle mounted a sidewalk and rammed into a group of protesters, killing a number of them. “The army and the police are confronting the Copts. This is the problem,� Father Rafic Greiche, official spokesman for the Catholic Church in Egypt, said in a statement to the Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need.

millions of displaced people on the move now in an effort to survive will tomorrow become refugees, illegal immigrants, without a nation, without a home, work and a community,�

Guinean Cardinal Robert Sarah, president of the Pontifical Council Cor Unum, said during a Vatican news conference Oct. 7. “A whole generation risks being lost.�

Priests a happy group WASHINGTON — Data disprove the myth that the typical Catholic priest is “a lonely, dispirited figure living an unhealthy life that breeds sexual deviation,� as a writer for the Harford Courant once put it, said Msgr.

Stephen Rossetti. The research is “consistent, replicated many times and now incontrovertible� that priests as a group are happy, Msgr.

Rossetti told a symposium on the priesthood Oct. 5 at The Catholic University of America in Washington. A priest of the Diocese of Syracuse, N.Y., Msgr. Rossetti is a faculty member at the university and former president and CEO of St. Luke Institute in Silver Spring, Md., a treatment facility for Catholic clergy and religious.

‘Growing secularism’ threatens, says prelate LITCHFIELD PARK, Ariz. — The greatest challenge faced by Catholic health care workers is growing secularism, said Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez. “This growing secularism endangers our religious freedom,� he said Oct. 8, giving a keynote address that concluded the Oct. 6-8 Catholic Medical Association annual conference.

The archbishop noted the federal Department of Health and Human Services’ mandate that health insurance plans cover contraception and sterilization. “When we stop acknowledging our creator, we stop acknowledging who we are,� he said. “Without God, we lose our ethics and the reason for human rights.�

The archbishop said Catholic health care workers’ greatest responsibility is the sanctity of the human person: “We’re not just biological, our life is also theological.�

During the conference, held in the Phoenix diocese, speakers addressed Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted’s decision to revoke St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center’s status as a Catholic institution. Bishop Robert F. Vasa of Santa Rosa, episcopal adviser of the Catholic Medical Association, said he was disappointed that the U.S. bishops haven’t made a more public stand in support of Bishop Olmsted. – Catholic News Service

“It is not a Christian-Muslim problem anymore. ... People — not just Christians but many Muslims, too — are frightened for the future of our country.

Syrian civil war feared BEIRUT — Pressure being put on the Syrian government could have very bad consequences, especially for Christians, warned the patriarch of the Syriac Catholic Church.

Attempts to collapse the government “will very probably lead to chaos,� Patriarch Ignatius Joseph III Younan told Catholic News Service. “This chaos, surely — with no means to implement security — will lead to civil war,� said the patriarch. “It will be confessional (religious), and war in the name of God is far worse than a political struggle.

And this is what we fear.�

Africa’s ‘lost generation’ VATICAN CITY — Not only are millions of lives at risk in the Horn of Africa due to hunger and drought, those who escape the famine then risk becoming a lost generation due to a severe lack of stability, education and resources, said a top Vatican official. “The

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Anti-bank protests target Wall Street, major US cities

By Mark Pattison WASHINGTON (CNS) — What started as a smallish protest in a New York City park in mid-September to rail against banks and wealthy Americans for their seeming indifference to the plight of poor and working-class Americans in a sluggish economy has spread to several major U.S. cities.

By early October, the “Occupy Wall Street” movement had landed in Washington, with multiple events, including a demonstration outside the U.S. Capitol and separate encampments at prime downtown sites.

“The occupation of Wall Street puts into words and pictures the numerous protests that are going on in many communities across the country about the extent of the pain and suffering that Wall Street has visited upon thousands of people by their reckless betrayal of the public trust,” Father Seamus Finn told CNS in an email.

The priest, an Oblate of Mary Immaculate, is on the board of directors of the Interfaith Center for Corporate Responsibility.

“It always amazes me that young people throughout the decades I’ve been living have always responded to a number of critical social and economic issues,” said Sister Barbara Aires, a member of the Sisters of Charity of St. Elizabeth, and her order’s coordinator of responsible investments.

“They’re always keenly alert to a number of things that seem to be totally unfair to a significant number of the human community not only in the United States but around the world,” she said in an Oct. 5 telephone interview with CNS from Jersey City, N.J. But Father Robert Sirico, founder of the Acton Institute

Mervin Sealy from Hickory, N.C., takes part in a protest outside the Capitol in Washington Oct. 5.

The protests, which started in New York City in September, spread to Washington and several other major cities by early October.

for the Study of Religion and Liberty in Grand Rapids, Mich., said of the protests: “It reminds me of the ‘60s. I think it’s misdirected.”

Speaking to CNS from Grand Rapids in an Oct. 5 telephone interview, Father Sirico said, “The ethos of this all is

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The outreach had humble beginnings, serving about a hundred children, but it grew quickly as others discovered the importance of the work and learned of the integrity of its founders. One of those early sponsors was Cross International Catholic Outreach. Among other things, it helped Reencontro add staff, purchase equipment, and open a new of ce.

Today, Reencontro supplies aid in various forms to 7,000 orphans and has expanded its services to include medical care and a house-building program that keeps families of orphans together under the care of an older sibling.

Cross Catholic, the Florida-based charity, was created speci cally to provide this kind of support. Rather than create its own centers overseas, Cross International Catholic Outreach serves the poorest of the poor by nding local Catholic ministries like Reencontro, supporting them with help from its charitable donors in the U.S. Such support has allowed Olinda to answer God’s call to help the “least of these” in Mozambique — the

A Reencontro staff member locates another child in need — a young girl living in poverty.

Reencontro’s founder, Olinda Mugabe, meets with Jim Cavnar of Cross International Catholic Outreach to discuss the AIDS crisis in Africa. Together, they hope to do more. forgotten children orphaned by AIDS. “I can only carry out my dreams, my mission, because of the people that are supporting this outreach,” Olinda said. “We know the support of American Catholics does not come easy because they have got money problems there also, but thankfully they rise above that. The American people have goodwill to support others that suffer, and they have a true dedication to God. That is a blessing for us. It has allowed us to rescue a lot of children because of their help.”

Cross Catholic and its supporters see this support of Reencontro quite differently.

“I’ve gotten letters from Cross Catholic donors thanking us for letting them know about Olinda and the work of this team,” explained Jim Cavnar, president of Cross

International Catholic Outreach.

“They are amazed by her personal sacri ces and the wonderful work these women are doing in Africa.

They consider it a cause worthy of our support, and they say they consider it a privilege to play a role in its success.”

The point is made.

There is honor in supporting a heroic effort like Olinda’s mission — and American Catholics are proud to be a part of it.

To make a tax-deductible contribution in support of Cross International Catholic Outreach and its projects overseas, use either the postage-paid brochure inserted in this newspaper or send your donation to: Cross International Catholic Outreach, Dept.

AC00782, 490 White Pond Drive, PO Box 63, Akron, OH 44309-0063.

“Cross” Now Endorsed by More Than 50 U.S. Bishops, Archbishops As Cross International Catholic Outreach (CICO) continues its range of relief work to help the poor overseas, its efforts are being recognized by a growing number of Catholic leaders in the U.S. “We’ve received an impressive number of endorsements from American Bishops and Archbishops — more than 50 Catholic leaders at last count,” explained Jim Cavnar, president of Cross International Catholic Outreach.

“They’re impressed by the fact that we’ve done outreaches in more than 40 countries and that we undertake a variety of projects; everything from feeding the hungry and housing the homeless to supplying safe water and supporting educational opportunities for the poorest of the poor.”

Archbishop Robert Carlson of St. Louis sent one of the more recent

letters of encouragement, writing: “It is my hope that this ministry will continue to ourish and reach as many people as possible. I will inform the priests of the Archdiocese of St. Louis of the important work that Cross International Catholic Outreach does and elicit their prayerful and nancial support for the service you provide to the less fortunate around the world.”

In addition to praising the work CICO accomplishes, many of the Bishops and Archbishops are also impressed by the unique collaborative relationship Cross has with the Ponti cal Council Cor Unum in Rome. This allows the charity to participate in the mercy ministries of the Holy Father himself. In his praise of CICO, Archbishop Dennis Schnurr of Cincinnati underscored

this unique connection.

“Cross International Catholic Outreach’s close collaboration with the Ponti cal Council Cor Unum is a source of encouragement,” the Archbishop said. “The Holy See has unique knowledge of local situations throughout the world through its papal representatives in nearly two hundred countries and through its communications with Bishops and others who care for the poor and needy in every corner of the world.”

CICO president, Jim Cavnar, explained the signi cance of this connection.

“Our collaboration with Cor Unum allows us to fund outreaches in virtually any area of the world and we have used that method in special cases — to help the victims of natural disasters, for example,” he said.“It only represents

CICO’s outreach helps priests, nuns and Catholic lay leaders throughout the world. a small part of our overall ministry, but it can be a very important bene t in those situations.”

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Daniel trusts God to save him, and the Lord sees his innocence and intercedes. The biblical Daniel endured only one night of danger, but for Daniel Namapala, an elevenyear-old orphan in Mozambique, the “lions” threatening his life surround him every single day.

Instead of teeth and claws, little Daniel’s lions are loneliness, fear and desperation. Like the biblical Daniel, all he can do is trust God. When Daniel was 2, his mother died of AIDS. His father left him with his elderly grandmother. He later passed away of the same disease. Daniel has no siblings and no recollection of his parents — not even a single photograph.

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“An entire generation of parents has been all but wiped out in some places, especially in Africa, due to the AIDS pandemic. There simply aren’t enough grandmothers, aunts or neighbors who can care for orphans,” Cavnar said. “Malaria, tuberculosis and treatable illnesses caused by unsanitary conditions are also to blame. Whatever the cause, innocent children are left behind, and there’s no place for them to turn.”

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Catholic support from the U.S. forever changed Daniel Namapala’s fate for the better.

When Marta was discovered living in a straw shack, she was caring for several younger siblings. Today, she has a home and hope – her life has improved and her future is bright. he earns in the streets by selling odds and ends he makes.

Millions of orphaned children in developing countries share stories similar to Daniel’s. When their parents die as a result of preventable diseases, they have no relatives or neighbors to take them in; they live in dilapidated shacks, are forced to drop out of school, and must work odd jobs to earn a few pennies for food.

Sadly, the number of young children who could tell these heart-breaking stories is vast — literally measured in the thousands.

“The plight of orphaned and vulnerable children in developing countries is extreme because, in most situations, they live in poverty so intense they can’t go to school, see a doctor when they’re sick or even eat each day,” said Jim Cavnar, president of Cross International Catholic Outreach, a ministry involved with alleviating poverty among children worldwide.

afford to attend school; and loving counseling when they are hurting. For orphans mired in poverty, the impact of this support is profound. Cross Catholic’s assistance literally means the difference between a “normal” childhood and a life of despair. For those taken into the program, there is a much better chance of a prosperous adulthood too.

One of the key ministry partners involved in this Cross-sponsored outreach is called “Reencontro.”

Reencontro was launched by Catholic lay women who provide services for up to 7,000 poor orphaned or vulnerable children in Mozambique.

One of their many “success stories” is Marta Macomb.

Marta was only 13 when her father died and left her, the oldest child in the family, to head the remaining household. She cooked meals, fetched water and rewood, washed clothes and ground corn into our with a mortar and pestle. She and her

younger brothers and sisters lived alone in a decrepit shack made of reeds left to them by their parents. At such a young age, she could barely scrape together enough food for her siblings, let alone nd time or money to attend school.

Reencontro discovered Marta and immediately enrolled the family in Reencontro’s programs. No longer struggling to survive, Marta is now a thriving 18-year-old who, thanks to educational support from Reencontro, speaks uent English and has plans to study at the university level.

Left to her earlier fate, she might never have survived, and would certainly not have been blessed with such opportunity.

“Children like Marta are examples of what God can do through Catholic lay missionaries — and through the loving Catholics who support them nancially,” Cavnar said.

Like Reencontro, dozens of Catholic ministries are also dedicated to orphaned and vulnerable children in countries around the globe, including Ethiopia, Ecuador, Haiti, the Philippines and Mozambique. Many of these also depend on Cross Catholic for nancial

support — and Cross Catholic remains committed to aiding them in Christ’s name.

“That’s only possible because we continue to have the help and support of American Catholics. It is in their name we make our pledges of support,” Cavnar said. “I’m con dent our American benefactors will continue to help us give children like Daniel the resources they need to become successful adults like Marta. When God calls Catholics to help in his name, they always seem to answer — even if it is from the other side of the globe!”

For Daniel, receiving this help will ultimately mean obtaining practical things like food, school and medical care — but it will also mean new hope. The volunteers who have become his mothers and who counsel him will show him what it means to have a family for the rst time.

“Yes, they are my mothers,” Daniel said, “I feel happy when they come to visit me. I pray every day they will never leave me.”

If Cross International Catholic Outreach has anything to say about it, Daniel will never face that “lion” of loss again.

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LOCAL NE WS Lane Center to focus on labor The Joan and Ralph Lane Center for Catholic Studies and Social Thought at the University of San Francisco for the next year will examine the state of workers, both employed and unemployed, amid the current economy, the center announced on Oct. 3.

Participants in the yearlong examination – researchers from various Jesuit universities – will explore what Catholic social thought has to say about the job climate and how workers are being affected, the center said.

The recession and events that led up to it have changed the situation of wage workers in the U.S., “perhaps permanently, and not for the better,” the center noted. There has been growth in highly paid, high-skill jobs and lowwage relatively low-skilled jobs, with middle level jobs disappearing. “These trends do not seem to be short term, but rather suggest a more permanent change in the character of work in the U.S.,” the center said.

The Lane Center, which last year examined migration in depth, said its focus on workers will be informed by an ecumenical effort of which the U.S. Catholic bishops are a partner called “A Circle of Protection.” It is a campaign to protect programs for the poor and

notes on its website – www.circleofprotection. us – that they do not have powerful lobbies, “but they have the most compelling claim on our consciences and common resources.”

The work of another coalition of which the national Jesuit Conference is an active member, Faith Advocates for Jobs, will also influence the yearlong examination. The group advocates for public policy change and provides faithbased organizations with ideas for assisting the unemployed.

– George Raine

Pregnancy center bill hearing set A bill targeting advertising by pregnancy centers as misleading is set to be heard by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors Oct. 18.

The “False Advertising by Limited Services Pregnancy Centers” legislation, introduced by Supervisor Malia Cohen, is aimed at advertising by First Resort, an Oakland-based nonprofit pregnancy counseling and women’s health clinic that provides free medical services. The proposal questions First Resort’s use of billboards in poor Latino and AfricanAmerican neighborhoods and Google ads that bring up First Resort’s website in response to the search engine query “abortion.”

The bill would affect speech of any kind by the organization or its employees, First Resort said in a statement submitted to the committee.

The proposed legislation exempts any organization which provides or refers for abortion.

At a committee meeting in September, Supervisors Sean Elsbernd and John Avalos voted to forward the bill to the full board without recommendation. The third committee member, Supervisor Eric Mar, asked to be added as a sponsor of the legislation.

Elsbernd said he would vote no after confirming that existing state law prohibits false advertising at medical clinics and thus covers First Resort. He said that legislation targeting pregnancy centers in New York, Baltimore and Texas has not stood up to court challenge.

– Valerie Schmalz

Lurie to receive USF award Daniel Lurie, the CEO and founder of Tipping Point Community, an organization that seeks to break the cycle of poverty in the Bay Area, on Nov. 1 will be honored by the University of San Francisco, which is presenting him with the California Prize for Service and the Common Good.

The university bestows the award for significant service to the poor or marginalized and groundbreaking achievements in pursuit of the common good for all members of society.

Lurie will be honored during an evening that includes dinner and a program, with proceeds benefiting USF student programs.

Lurie launched Tipping Point Community, a philanthropic organization, in 2005.

The name was chosen to reflect Malcolm Gladwell’s notion that a few passionate people with a good idea can spark change. In 2001, he joined the Robin Hood Foundation in New York and was inspired by the foundation’s efforts to address the city’s needs in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks and to accommodate people who wanted to give.

In the Bay Area, Tipping Point Community aims to help people become self-sufficient by finding the best poverty-fighting organizations and funding them.

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Centennial Mass celebration for St. Monica Parish

By George Raine On Jan. 22, 1911, Father Edward Doran celebrated the first Mass at St. Monica Church in San Francisco – although it was not the elegant building you’re familiar with at Geary Boulevard and 23rd Avenue.

The first St. Monica was a vacant store on the southwest corner of Geary Boulevard and 27th Avenue. Twenty-eight people attended the first Mass, including Theodocia Oliver, who noted the event in her diary. Here, too, confessions were heard and babies baptized.

The next address for St. Monica was on 25th Avenue between California and Clement streets, and the third is the present site, blessed in June 1918 – a church that would become one of the largest, if not the largest, in San Francisco, as the city developed westward and the Catholic population swelled in the mid-20th century.

On Oct. 23 at 10:30 a.m., the current pastor, Father John Greene, will celebrate St. Monica’s 100th anniversary Mass – and honor a church with a history that reflects the San Francisco story.

“It has a tremendous amount of tradition,”

Olivia Fisher, 90, is a third-generation St. Monica Parish member in a family that spans the full century of parish history: Her grandparents and mother belonged to St. Monica 100 years ago.

Father Greene said of St. Monica. “For a small parish, the parishioners have a lot of involvement – people getting into ministries.

Tradition is a big part of St. Monica. There is pride in the parish, continuing things that have been done for many years.”

Following the great earthquake and fire of 1906, the Richmond District was known as Carville, because so many displaced people were living in streetcars. Star of the Sea Church had been built in 1894 at Geary and Eighth Avenue, and 100 years ago St.

Monica was established to help accommodate the overflow of Star of the Sea and growth in the district.

Theodocia Oliver, her husband, Eugene, and their daughter, Mary, of Sea Cliff, were all at the first Mass that Sunday in 1918 in the new church. Theodocia wrote, “It was a grand ceremony, a high Mass.”

The granddaughter of Eugene and Theodocia Oliver, Olivia Fisher, 90, has for most of her life been a parishioner at St. Monica, a few blocks from where in 1932 her father built the house

At a glance – St. Monica grew with San Francisco’s mid-20th century westward expansion.

– St. Monica School opened in 1919 with the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary as teachers.

– St. Monica’s litany of illustrious pastors includes Father William Cantwell (1929 to 1962), who hailed from County Tipperary and swung his walking cane back and forth as he visited parishioners.

– amid sand dunes – in which she lives today.

She walks to Mass daily and she will be there for the centennial celebration.

“To me, the miracle is that three people (her grandparents and mother) were here 100 years ago and their granddaughter is still there and will be at the dedication of 100 years of St. Monica,” said Fisher, who had a long career as a public school teacher and who for 15 years was a volunteer at St. Monica School teaching second grade and folk dancing.

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By Rick DelVecchio Miracles happen.

For Good Shepherd Sister Jean Marie Fernandez, that is not only an article of faith but also an everyday reality.

Catholic San Francisco caught up with Sister Jean Marie on the job in San Francisco’s South of Market District, where she was completing an assignment as an addiction counselor for the St. Vincent de Paul Society and about to begin volunteering at the society’s new Wellness Center.

The conversation began with the details of her occupation but quickly went deep into the heart of her vocation.

The young sister described her calling in the simplest of Christian terms: A good shepherd who looks for the lost one and brings back the stray.

Sister Jean Marie said the lost ones and the strays are examples of two different types of people she meets in her work. They

At a glance Sister Jean Marie Fernandez, RGS — Profession: California Certified Addiction Counselor — “Malaysian by blood, native of Singapore, American by choice.”

— “I belong to all countries where there are souls to be saved.”

— Arrived in San Francisco in 1984, joined her community in 1988, took final vows in 1995.

are men and women wandering into loneliness and despair from addiction and other complications. Some cannot be reached but others have not drifted so far that they can’t be returned to the fold.

The work is difficult and progress is typically measured in terms of what does the least harm.

But the clinical details are just the outer layer of relationships that can take on a life of their own, just because what’s often at stake is life itself. In these encounters Sister Jean Marie often experiences “a sense of grace and fear.”

“A client comes to me a in a state of profound confusion” but “I can see a radiance, an openness,” Sister Jean Marie said.

The sheep that stray have revealed as much to the shepherd as she has to them, Sister Jean Marie said in recounting details of her encounters, her eyes brightening and her voice rising with enthusiasm.

“Working with the poor has helped me make changes in my own life,” Sister Jean Marie said. “I choose to live in poverty. I take the bus.

“I’m not different from them,” she said.

“Their sufferings are no different than mine.”

She added that the chemical addictions suffered by the most bereft men and women are no different than the unhealthy attachments that can be found at any level of society.

“Everyone has some form of addiction,” Sister Jean Marie said, “something that constrains their life.”

In the flow of conversation Sister Jean Marie recalled her favorite quote. It is from the foundress of the Good Shepherd order, St. Mary Euphrasia Pelletier: “One person is more valuable than the whole world.”

She was reminded of one client who sat

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Good Shepherd Sister Jean Marie Fernandez is pictured at the St. Vincent de Paul Society’s Wellness Center in San Francisco’s South of Market District Sept. 29.

with her and said, “I just can’t keep doing this. I keep falling over and over.”

The man said he used to go to his knees to pray but found it difficult to do so at the detox center.

With Sister Jean Marie he worked out a solution: To read a thought for the day and then pray on his knees.

“He did that,” she said. “He was radiant.

I said, ‘You can do that wherever you go.

That will keep you safe.’

“He was waking to the suggestion. I thought to myself, ‘we have the power within to perform miracles.’”

Sister Jean’s Marie’s energy peaked when she described a man who had lost nearly everything but in a minute was changed by the touch of an angel who took an unlikely form.

The man had gone to the hospital with a medical emergency and when he returned to the shelter everything he owned had been stolen, including his tennis shoes.

“He said, I came in to get help and I lost

everything.’ He said, ‘I’m fighting with the devil.’”

She directed him to go downstairs to the Wellness Center, where a support group was in progress. The shoeless man took his place in the group.

“Next to him was a guy with a bag,” Sister Jean Marie said. “The theme of the day was healing the body. The guy next to him said, ‘I’m a murderer. I’ve killed people.’”

The shoeless man spoke.

“He said. ‘I’ve hit bottom. I’ve lost my tennis shoes and I have nothing.’”

Then “that guy, the murderer with the bag, passed him his bag with a pair of tennis shoes.

“Everybody clapped.”

The man who had been given a pair of shoes “comes up and tells me the story not once but 10 times. What does it mean? In a whisper he said, ‘There is a God.’ “I’ve not forgotten that. In a whisper.

“The tears were just flowing.”

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Pastoral year . . .

■ Continued from cover St. Dominic Church by a notice of a novelty: a guitar Mass.

Also attracted by the musical magnet, other 20-and-30-somethings populated the pews. Prompted by God, he overcame his reticence and joined the church’s young adult group.

Their reading of C.S. Lewis’s “The Screwtape Letters,” in which two demons correspond about the conversion of souls from good to evil, opened another spiritual door. The book offered richer soul food than the secular works he had tasted and whetted his appetite for the writings of Peter Kreeft, Frank Sheed, G.H. Chesterton and other noted Christian scholars.

The Almighty wasn’t done yet.

“God was prompting me to work on my social skills, to become engaged,” Vallecillo said.

He volunteered as extraordinary minister of holy Communion and lector, falling in with two young, “regular guy” Dominican chaplains, the first priests he came to know.

“My new life gave me better grounding and hope that wasn’t there before,” Vallecillo said.

But, as Lewis’s demons point out, the spiritual life peaks and plummets. “Christian life is an ongoing conversion,” Vallecillo discovered. “You constantly fall back only to learn and grow again.”

In 2000, he hit rough waters that did not smooth until March 19, 2002, the feast day of St. Joseph, when “I had a vivid encounter with God that deepened my faith an incredible degree.”

He increased his prayer time more than twelvefold, from 20 minutes to four to six hours a day. He expanded Bible readings, attended daily Mass, visited the Blessed Sacrament.

“It was clear God was calling me somewhere,” Vallecillo said. “Where he led me was a big surprise.”

In July 2003, at a Tuesday Mass at St. Dominic’s, a mystic friend envisioned him at the altar holding up the host during the consecration.

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“I knew God was sending me a message,” Vallecillo said.

“It was a real shocker.”

At 41, he felt an overwhelming desire for marriage and family and not the slightest inclination toward the priesthood.

He sought guidance from the Virgin Mary. Within a year, the urge to give himself to God had taken such hold, he began surveying religious orders. The Dominicans and Carmelites held the greatest initial appeal, but God had other plans, and neither proved a match made in heaven.

Instead, a choice barely in the running took an unexpected lead after a heart-to-heart in September 2004 with then-San Francisco archdiocese vocations director, Father Thomas Daly, now auxiliary bishop for the San Jose diocese.

“I wasn’t planning on talking to the archdiocese,” said Vallecillo, confessing parish priesthood seemed so “boring,” it lagged at the bottom of his preference list.

But during his talk with Father Daly, “I felt God’s active presence, and I knew he was calling me to be a diocesan priest.”

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Less than a year later, the archdiocese accepted Vallecillo’s application.

He faced a nine-year stretch to ordination: four years at Mount Angel Seminary in Oregon to earn a bachelor’s degree in philosophy followed by four years of graduate theological studies at St. Patrick’s Seminary and University in Menlo Park, interrupted midway by the pastoral year at St. Raphael.

“I can take what I’ve learned so far and put it into practice, apply it to real life,” Vallecillo said. “I’ll be able to see what happens at the side of the altar – though not yet in front of the altar.”

That day will come after his ordination in June 2014 at St. Mary’s Cathedral – unless God has other plans.

‘The talented Mr. Apple’ VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Like Pope Pius XI, who founded Vatican Radio and built the Vatican train station, Apple cofounder Steve Jobs knew the importance of expanding communication, a Jesuit told Vatican Radio.

“Steve Jobs had something in common with Pius XI and that is that he understood that communication is the greatest value we have at our disposal today and we must make it bear fruit,” Father Antonio Remembering Spadaro, the new editor of the influential Jesuit ‘a visionary who journal Civilta Cattolica, said Oct. 6. united technology Father Spadaro said Jobs, 56, who died Oct. 5 after a long battle with and art.’ pancreatic cancer, had a “great ability to believe in dreams, to see life not only in terms of little daily things, but to have a vision in front of him. Basically, Steve Jobs’ most important message was this, ‘Stay hungry, stay foolish’ – in other words, maintain the ability to see life in new ways.”

Writing on his own blog, www.cyberteologia.it, Father Spadaro invoked the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius. “In the cases of Ignatius and Steve, death isn’t a bogeyman,” but a reminder that in the face of death, the only thing that remains is what is truly important for each person, he wrote.

Jobs was “a visionary who united technology and art,” the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano said in a front page tribute titled “The talented Mr. Apple.”

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Little Sisters of the Poor mark 110 years in S.F. Late San Francisco Mayor George Moscone called the Little Sisters of the Poor and St. Anne’s Home “as much a part of San Francisco as the Golden Gate Bridge.” The sisters have cared for more than 20,000 residents of limited financial means in San Francisco during the last 110 years. On Oct. 23, their work will be commemorated with a Mass of Thanksgiving at the Lourdes Grotto at St. Anne’s Home, 300 Lake St. in San Francisco. Retired Santa Rosa Bishop Daniel Walsh will preside.

The St. Jeanne Jugan Legacy Plaza Commemorative Brick Campaign will be opened that day. Families, individuals and businesses will be invited to purchase a custom engraved brick in memory of a loved one. Each brick will be placed permanently at St. Anne’s front gate.

In 1901, the sisters placed a brick at the foot of the statue of their patron St. Joseph to symbolize their prayers for a more permanent home as they outgrew their original location on Howard Street.

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Mary Coyle and Sister Mary Anne at St. Anne’s Home. “I feel very safe here, and I thank God with all my heart and soul that I was able to come to St. Anne’s to spend my last days,” Mary said.

and visited frequently. Upon learning about the brick at St. Joseph’s feet and the sisters’ prayers, he promised a $100,000 gift to build a new home, later buying the five acres on Lake Street.

St. Anne’s Home is a $7 million per year operation and is supported in a way no different today than from the Little Sisters

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Going global San Francisco’s Archbishop Riordan becomes the only urban Catholic boys high school west of the Mississippi with a boarding program When Daly took over, Riordan’s enrollment had dropped to 512 students. This year it is Ansel Tam’s mother in Hong Kong brings 575 students, school officials said. The school, her iPad to her parents’ house so Ansel’s founded as St. James High School for Boys in grandparents can Skype with one of the new 1906, has a capacity of more than 800 — which boarders at Archbishop Riordan High School Daly told parents he will restore within five years. in San Francisco.

“Our Catholic faith is, and I tell this to the “The distance is long but it is not that long,” boys all the time, the cornerstone of our school,” Ansel says, sitting next to roommate Tony Wang, Daly said, noting the school’s campus ministry who came from Beijing, in their dorm room involves all the boys in the school with retreats, in the newly renovated wing at Riordan. “The monthly school Masses. Each student must technology makes it closer.” complete 100 hours of community service to Tony uses the graduate. “We cannot Chinese version of be Catholic by name Skype to talk with only. We have to be The first 17 boarding his family in China. a Roman Catholic The sophomore works school that is loyal to students started school until midnight most the magisterium.” nights doing school Key selling points this year: 14 from work and an extra are the school’s locacouple of hours worktion in San Francisco, ing on his English. mainland China, one from dedicated alum“In some ways, I ni in businesses in don’t have time to be Silicon Valley and Hong Kong, one from homesick,” said Tony, San Francisco, strong who is also running academics, athletVietnam and one from cross country. ics, extracurricular One of Riordan activities including San Mateo County.

President Patrick an award-winning Daly’s first actions marching band, popuWithin another year, 30 when he took over in lar drama program July 2010 was to start and daily student-run recruiting for a boardtelecasts. more boarders should fill ing school program.

Many Asian boardWith the change, ers hope an American rooms in the floor below Riordan became the high school education, only Catholic boys and the English skills which now serves as high school with a that come with that, boarding program in will prepare them for school counseling and an urban area west of admission to a U.S. the Mississippi River, university. alumni offices.

Daly said.

Most of the board“The boarding proing students are gram, operated in a involved in extracurfirst-class manner, can generate funds that I think ricular activities, said Tony Payne. “Overall the will be beneficial to the school,” said Daly, who boys are happy,” said Payne. “There are hiccups plans to use the revenue for scholarships for local — they don’t like the food one day. There is far students. Boarding students pay a comprehensive less homesickness than I would have imagined.” fee of $45,000 a year. The new dorms were The boys remain teenagers who miss their converted from the former Marianist Fathers and families and familiar things. Tina Sheng, boardBrothers residence, after the order relinquished ing school director of academic services, gives Mike Liu practices basketball daily in preparation for the upcoming season. He also studies biology, world history, administration of the school in June 2010, due each boy 75 minutes of English support Monday Spanish, PE and takes extra English with program coordinator Tina Sheng. to declining vocations. through Friday. She talks to the boys’ parents The first 17 boarding students started school regularly, sends pictures and is visiting China this this year: 14 from mainland China, one from month to recruit new students but also to bring the Hong Kong, one from Vietnam and one from parents news, in person, of their sons, she said.

Riordan boarders from China enjoy dinner in San Mateo County. One new student is enrolled Sophomore Mike Liu is from Beijing and he and a few more students are expected to enroll is practicing with the basketball team in prepathe school’s cafeteria. From left, Joe Zhang for the spring semester, with 44 students filling ration for the season, in addition to studying of Shenzhen; Steven Zhu of Suzhou, all the rooms of the remodeled third floor of the biology, Spanish, world history, and physical Kaidi Ni of Shanghai and Nick Dong residence by next fall, Daly predicts. education. Mike acknowledges missing his famand Henry Liu, both of Beijing.

Within another year, 30 more boarders should ily, but, with a big grin, he says: “I like the food. fill rooms in the floor below which now serves I like Riordan basketball, burgers and fries.” as school counseling and alumni offices, said Tony Payne, director of residence. Because Riordan operates on the four-block schedule, each semester students take four new courses which equal a year in a traditional year-long high school curriculum.

— Riordan’s first 17 boarders moved in this year; 14 are from mainland China.

The new students will come not only from Asia but also from Europe. Daly said many — Many Asian boarders hope a U.S. high school education and English skills will lead to will also be from the United States. “We are admission to a U.S. university. going after the American market aggressively,” Daly said.

— The school’s newest language offering: Mandarin. Next year: Latin.

Riordan is expanding the Resource Specialist Program for boys with learning challenges such — School President Pat Daly says Riordan is “going after the American market aggressively.” as dyslexia and ADHD and is promoting it to potential boarders, Daly said.

— Riordan was founded as St. James High School for Boys in 1906.

The school is adding Mandarin to its language offerings in the spring and Latin in the — Daly’s five-year plan: Returning Riordan to its 800-student capacity enrollment. fall, Daly said.

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Riordan junior Kevin Zhang, from Beijing, was among the boarders who helped at the St. Vincent de Paul Society’s Friends of the Poor Walk Sept. 24. Boarding program coordinators say the boys put in at least five hours of volunteering each month to meet the school’s requirement of 100 community service hours before graduation.

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Ansel Tam and Tony Wang in their dorm room at Riordan.

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Pope Benedict XVI This is an excerpt from the Vatican transcript of the address of Pope Benedict XVI to seminarians at St Charles Borromeo Seminary Chapel in Freiburg, Germany, Sept. 24.

Personally being with Christ, with the living God, is one thing: Another is that we can only ever believe within the “we.” I sometimes say that St. Paul wrote: “Faith comes from hearing,” not from reading. It needs reading as well, but it comes from hearing, that is to say from the living word, addressed to me by the other, whom I can hear, addressed to me by the church throughout the ages, from her contemporary word, spoken to me the priests, bishops and my fellow believers. Faith must include a “you” and it must include a “we.”

And it is very important to practice this mutual support, to learn how to accept the other as the other in his otherness and to learn that he has to support me in my otherness, in order to become “we,” so that we can also build community in the parish, calling people into the community of the word and journeying with one another toward the living God. This requires the very particular “we” that is the seminary, and also the parish, but it also requires us always to look

beyond the particular, limited “we” toward the great “we” that is the church of all times and places: it requires that we do not make ourselves the sole criterion. When we say: “We are church” – well, it is true: That is what we are, we are not just anybody. But the “we” is more extensive than the group that asserts those words. The “we” is the whole community of believers, today and in all times and places.

And so I always say: Within the community of believers, yes, there is as it were the voice of the valid majority, but there can never be a majority against the apostles or against the saints: that would be a false majority. We are church: let us be church, let us be church precisely by opening ourselves and stepping outside ourselves and being church with others.

I would like to make just one more point to you. In preparing for the priesthood, study is very much a part of the journey. This is not an academic accident that has arisen in the Western church, it is something essential. We all know that St. Peter said: “Always be prepared to make a defense to anyone who calls you to account for the hope that is in you” (1 Peter 3:15). Our world today is a rationalist

and thoroughly scientific world, albeit often somewhat pseudoscientific. But this scientific spirit, this spirit of understanding, explaining, know-how, rejection of the irrational, is dominant in our time. There is a good side to this, even if it often conceals much arrogance and nonsense. The faith is not a parallel world of feelings that we can still afford to hold on to; rather it is the key that encompasses everything, gives it meaning, interprets it and also provides its inner ethical orientation: Making clear that it is to be understood and lived as tending toward God and proceeding from God. Therefore it is important to be informed and to understand, to have an open mind, to learn.

Naturally in 20 years, some quite different philosophical theories will be fashionable from those of today: when I think what counted as the highest, most modern philosophical fashion in our day, and how totally forgotten it is now ... still, learning these things is not in vain, for there will be some enduring insights among them. And most of all, this is how we learn to judge, to think through an idea – and to do so critically – and to ensure that in this thinking the light of God will serve to enlighten us and

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Faith and knowledge

Pope Benedict at the Marian sanctuary of Etzelsbach in Germany Sept. 23.

will not be extinguished. Studying is essential: only thus can we stand firm in these times and proclaim within them the reason for our faith.

And it is essential that we study critically – because we know that tomorrow someone else will have something else to say – while being alert, open and humble as we study, so that our studying is always with the Lord, before the Lord, and for him.

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Pope Benedict among the Germans the church, disagreement over particular moral positions that the church has taken, a newly In Pope Benedict XVI’s speeches during aggressive atheism, and more. But I believe his September visit to his native Germany, we the principal cause is spiritual crisis prompted certainly heard the academic voice of Professor by the two terrible wars of the last century, Joseph Ratzinger. But we also heard the voice fought largely on European soil and resulting of a pastor, uttering a cri de coeur, impassioned in the deaths of tens of millions. Something in plea if you will, to his wandering flock. In his the European soul, especially the German soul, first speech on the tarmac in Berlin, the pope just broke in the 20th century, and the damage specified that his main purpose was not to foster has not yet been repaired. And so the vicar of diplomatic relations between the German nation Christ has indeed come to his homeland as a and the Vatican city state – as welcome as that kind of missionary. would be – but rather to speak of God. It is especially instructive to read the pope’s This might appear commonplace – a pope address before the German Reichstag under talking about God – but this missionary rubric.

Benedict uttered those Benedict reminded the Something in the words in what is generlawmakers and politially acknowledged to cal leaders of Germany be the most secularized that the Catholic European soul, area on the planet, a Church never derived cultural region marked a concrete program especially the German by a sort of forgetfulof law from the data ness of God, a setting of revelation, as did soul, just broke in the aside of ultimate realmany other religions, ity, a complacent restmost notably Islam.

20th century. ing in the goods and Instead, Catholicism joys of the empirically relied on philosophiverifiable world. Sociologists have suggested cal principles articulated by ancient Greek that the European culture of the late-20th and philosophy and on the practical wisdom inherearly-21st centuries is the very first one ever to ent in the Roman legal tradition. This allowed have embraced a predominantly secularist ideol- for a richly independent flourishing of political ogy. Nowhere is this secularism more apparent traditions and practices within the Christian cultdeeply rooted than in northern Germany. tural ambit. Though popes, emperors and kings There are many reasons for this: anger at certainly clashed in the course of the centuries,

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the Catholic tradition, at its best, never pushed toward theocracy; rather, it recognized the legitimate authority of the state and the freedom legislators needed to do their practical work.

In a word, the pope was saying to the German lawmakers, you should have no fear that the church would seek to intervene in your work in a fussy, imperious manner.

However, he also reminded his hearers that all law rests finally upon certain fundamental moral principles that are not themselves the proper subject of debate and deliberation. The positive law – the concrete statutes formulated by cities and states – nests within the natural moral law, which in turn nests within the eternal law of God. When that set of relationships is ignored, positive law degenerates into pure subjectivism and relativism and finally into an expression of the will of the most powerful within the society. To bring home this point, he argued that the human rights so revered by the political theorists of the 18th century and so respected by the secularist political establishment of the West today are the moral absolutes upon which all legislative deliberation is properly founded. And he pressed the case: Those rights are themselves grounded in the existence of God, for it is only a creator who can guarantee the equality and dignity of each individual. A healthy democracy, accordingly, must operate within this moral and spiritual framework. Speaking in the very building which Adolf Hitler’s followers set on fire in order to advance the Nazi program, Pope Benedict was

not reluctant to invoke the example of Hitler in order to demonstrate what happens when the state sets the moral dimension aside.

The day after his address to the Reichstag, Pope Benedict journeyed to Erfurt, the little town where Martin Luther attended university and where he was ordained to the priesthood.

There, in the ancient Augustinian monastery where Luther came of age spiritually, the pope addressed an ecumenical gathering. He spoke of Luther’s enormous passion for God and his desire to know how he stood in regard to God. It was this burning preoccupation that led to the development of the reformer’s theology of justification by grace through faith. To be sure, Pope Benedict is not altogether comfortable with the manner in which Luther articulated the dynamics of salvation –the pope is Catholic, after all –but he wanted to draw attention to Luther’s deep and abiding interest in God and the things of God. The last thing one would ever be tempted to say about the founder of the Reformation is that he had forgotten God. This in itself makes him, Pope Benedict thinks, an important object of meditation for the secularized Europe of the early 21st century.

powerful,” Director of CYO Athletics Courtney Johnson Clendinen said in a story in Catholic San Francisco last week.

Prayer works – it’s what we believe. Hats off to Catholic Charities CYO for this initiative.

commemorate the 50th anniversary of Holy Cross Father Patrick Peyton’s Rosary Crusade.

The 1961 event drew more than a half-million people to the Polo Field in Golden Gate Park and the Legion hopes to fill the plaza in front of City Hall.

St. Anne of the Sunset pastor Father Raymund Reyes and the Dominican Sisters of Mary Mother of the Eucharist at Marin Catholic High School are among those leading groups to the Rosary Crusade.

Father Peyton invented and popularized the saying, “The family that prays together, stays together.”

The main speaker will be Franciscan Father Andrew Apostoli, co-founder of the Community of Franciscan Friars of the Renewal. For more information, see familyrosarycrusade2011.com.

Father Robert Barron is the founder of the global ministry Word on Fire and the Francis Cardinal George Professor of Faith and Culture at University of St. Mary of the Lake in Mundelein, Ill.

CSF Editorials CYO’s daring step toward peace CYO Athletics took a gentle step toward affirming its Catholic identity with the start of this year’s girls volleyball season in Marin County.

Catholic Charities CYO began mandating an ecumenical prayer before the start of each game in September, and will do the same for boys basketball in Marin County next. By fall 2012, all CYO sports teams in Marin, San Mateo and San Francisco will say a prayer before each game.

Officials are directed not to allow play to begin without the prayer but those who don’t feel comfortable praying may stand respectfully.

Someone from each team must lead the prayer,

whether a student athlete, a coach or a parent.

“We think that an opening prayer is a great way to bring us together as a community and remind us that God is present in each of us,” says CCCYO Executive Director Jeff Bialik. He hopes praying together will help “reintroduce fun and civility into our games” where – as anyone who has attended youth sports events in the past decade knows – is often sadly lacking.

Raucous cheers for points scored even during lopsided competitions and nasty comments to the referees are all too common – and don’t reflect our Christian imperative to love our neighbor.

The game prayer is ecumenical in line with CYO’s mission to offer sports opportunities to all children within the geographical area of the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

“Sharing prayer with someone is very

Family Rosary Crusade 2011 Prayer in public spaces is becoming rarer by the day but it is a tradition that is older than the Catholic Church and one that the Legion of Mary is re-emphasizing with the 2011 Family Rosary Crusade.

Please consider joining Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice at the Rosary Crusade at noon on Oct. 15 at Civic Center in San Francisco to

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Honest appraisal My compliments to Msgr. Harry Schlitt on his honest evaluation of the new liturgy (“Msgr. Schlitt to brother clergy: Be prepared!” Sept. 30), and to Catholic San Francisco for publishing the article.

There is so much “fluff” being written by the vested interests that it is refreshing to have someone admit that we are going to wonder why they are doing it. Msgr.

Schlitt did it nicely but he did an honest appraisal.

Denis Nolan Daly City

spite of the weakness of some of its members, the church is very strong today. The church does not demand obedience; it helps and gives us the grace and task to figure out why we are here and where we are going.

I would like to know whether those who leave the church because it does not fulfill their expectations of it find satisfaction elsewhere.

The great poet Edith Sitwell, when asked why she became a Catholic, replied: “It offered me an anchor when all else is uncertain.”

Lenny Barretto Daly City

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Re “A sufficient creed” (Sept. 30): Father Ron Rolheiser has a gift, and it was displayed richly in this commentary.

Love and faith are central principles of Christianity. We don’t, however, often appreciate how closely they are twinned, how they mirror each other.

Love is the source of faith and faithfulness. Faithfulness is the source of mature, seasoned, deep, tested love. One can’t truly love without being faithful, and being faithful is the deepest expression of true love.

The words, in their richest, most meaningful sense, echo each other.

“God so loved the world ....”

“I love you.”

“Love your neighbor as yourself.”

“Faith is love in action.”

Nick Scales San Francisco

Men, not angels Some people predict that the church is in for a rough time. I tell them that maybe she is, but the church will survive. I relate something that I read in school about an event that happened almost 200 years ago.

“The French Emperor Napoleon was swallowing up countries in Europe. He was bent on total world domination. He said to Cardinal Consalvi: “I will destroy your church” “Je detruirai votre eglise.” The cardinal said: “No, you won’t.” Napoleon all 5-feet-2 of him, said: “Je detruirai votre eglise!” The cardinal said with confidence: “No, you won’t. Not even we the clergy with our sins and stupidity could succeed in doing that.”

In today’s generation, many who were raised and born Catholic have drifted or deflected from the church, are slack Catholics or no longer identify with Catholicism. They use the excuse for not practicing the faith because on a particular issue the church is wrong or maybe the priest did not treat them well or scandals have driven them away from the church.

I tell them that Christ said the church would never do wrong; he did not say the members of his church would never sin or do wrong. The church is not open only to saints but also to sinners and on Judgment Day we will solely be judged by our own actions and not about the lives of others.

Men, not angels, are its members, and in

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by Lenny Barretto, (“Hiroshima’s agony,” Sept. 30). I would recommend Mr. Barretto read a copy of D.M. Giangreco’s “Hell to Pay: Operation Downfall and the Invasion of Japan,” Naval Institute Press 2009.

Giangreco totally examines the cost not only in American but in Japanese lives. I have no doubt that Truman saved countless lives on both sides.

Dominic Sigillo San Bruno

War victims’ agony What’s Hiroshima’s agony compared to ours? Consider what Filipinos suffered during the Japanese invasion and occupation of the Philippines during World War II. I cannot help shedding tears whenever I remember the stories of old: My maternal grandfather telling me how the Japanese soldiers shot to death my grandmother while looking for her son during the burning of our homes; my paternal grandfather, whose son was captured by Japanese soldiers and who never saw him alive again; my father – whom I never knew – tortured

by Japanese soldiers and dying in agony; those innocent women raped by soldiers.

In my mind the dropping of bombs

by American soldiers was a blessing to us because it ended oppression and cruelty.

It’s true what Pope Benedict XVI said in Erfurt, Germany on Sept. 23 (“In Germany, pope says godlessness poses risks,” Sept. 30): The oppression and difficulties of World War II actually left many Catholics with stronger faith.

Rose M. Jardin San Bruno

Funeral liturgy should honor loved ones’ needs Father Kenneth Doyle (Question Corner, “Eulogies at funeral Masses,” Sept.

30) perhaps could find creative inspiration for meeting the needs of grieving relatives at a funeral Mass by beginning with what in our archdiocese Archbishop George Niederauer embodies in what he terms the “servant leader.” The results of such an attitude can be seen liturgically, for example, in the sacrament of marriage celebrated together by 26 couples at St. Thomas More Church and by 25 couples at St. Mary’s Cathedral. Both occurred because laypersons and ordained ministers in our archdiocese started not from “the official ritual book” but from the authentic needs of the people of God. With hard work and inspired solutions, they were able to welcome all of these couples to the lifegiving Eucharist within the guidelines of the ritual.

The loved ones of the person who has passed over to God go to the pastor in the moment of their extreme need, seeking God’s comfort. Part of this comfort derives from the community’s conviction that in the body and blood of Christ we once again are joined physically with our loved

ones, risen in Christ. In the funeral Mass, the presider has one ministry. In fulfilling this call by God, a preoccupation on “official ritual” is secondary. The family has suffered the physical loss of their loved one, and they have come to the table of the Lord to lighten their sorrow with the cup of gladness and to be nourished with the body of Christ for the challenging journey ahead. The Eucharist is exactly a proper place to cry, laugh, honor, remember – and most of all to give thanks for the gift of the Spirit who continued to draw the person who passed over to fulfill God’s loving will throughout their life. The presider surely can be sufficiently creative to avoid “standing and waiting to pray over the casket” while the family honors God while commemorating the faithfulness of their loved one.

Each sacrament celebrates and deepens our relationship with God at a life-altering transition. A pastor has the privilege of serving God and the people of God at these times. Be creative in following the ritual guidelines, lead by serving, be Christ to those hungering for a sacrament of God’s presence.

Michael C. Busk San Francisco

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to help moms in need act as the body of Christ and bring love and hope to them through their acts of kindness. Lidia’s exceptional talent for writing and her journalistic skills assist The Gabriel Project as a whole because by helping to make the community aware of this ministry, she can enable us to help more pregnant mothers in need. One couldn’t ask for a more effective assistant angel. Thank you for publishing Lidia’s article. Articles like hers are what educate Catholics of the archdiocese on how to live Christian discipleship.

Fredi D’Alessio Gabriel Project coordinator Sausalito Editor’s note: The young woman featured in the article, Elizabeth Ver, delivered a healthy baby girl, Anastasia Elizabeth, on Oct. 2, Elizabeth Ver Respect Life Sunday.

Don’t groan at the second plate

It is not just wishful thinking that states can live without the death penalty. Generally, states that do not have capital punishment have lower homicide rates than states that have capital punishment.

People of New Testament times needed to consider what Jesus did when asked about the legality of divorce. Jesus was aware of his present time and of what the law stated, but he referenced a time before the law was ever given to reveal what God’s intentions were/ are for humanity (Matthew 19:3-8).

For the sake of our Protestant brethren in Big Bear land, I promise not to bring up the whole Henry VIII affair, but the example of what Jesus did regarding divorce is also valid for capital punishment. We only need to go back and to examine what God did about the very first homicide.

After Cain killed Abel, God put a seal on Cain so that no human being would presume to execute him (Genesis 4:15). Execution is God’s domain – not man’s.

This is the ideal of what God intended or intends for humanity even for today.

Cain became a wanderer, but society today cannot have killers on the loose. This is why we have jails. Incarceration is enough.

The law of love leads one to choose life instead of death.

Until the saints come marching in, and I am not just referring to the ones down in New Orleans, we all have work to do.

California, please pray the little prayer at www.de-vrouwe.info every day, and please abolish the death penalty.

Let the Californian without sin be the first to put the lethal needle in!

Matthew R. Dunnigan Rome

Few of us will admit to groaning at an announcement of a second collection at Mass, and perhaps even more so when such collection is preceded by a presentation to define its purpose.

It is time to set groaning aside.

It is time for gratitude; gratitude for the generous response to the 2010 plea for donations to the Retirement Fund for Religious. The 2010 donation totaling $157,750.36 topped the 2009 donation by $31,128.99.

Thanks are in order for those who, despite difficult economic circumstances, generously donated to the fund. Thanks are also due for those women religious of the San Francisco archdiocese, who gave up a weekend in December to speak at multiple Masses, setting forth the need for financial support. Special thanks to those pastors who invited religious to speak.

The reason for the annual plea is worth restating. Religious communities today do not have adequate income and savings to care for elder members. Many senior religious worked for years for small stipends, and any surplus was reinvested into their community’s ministries. In essence, they put everyone else’s welfare before their own.

Their sacrifices over many decades leave their religious institutes with a tremendous gap in retirement funding.

The annual collection raises funds that are distributed to religious institutes across the country. In 2008, the annual cost of care for retired religious was estimated at over $1 billion.

The collection does not eradicate the need, but it helps to alleviate it. It happens annually in December, which is almost upon us. You will be asked to give again.

Whatever is given, large or small, even with a slight groan, will be gratefully accepted.

Sister Terese Marie Perry, RSM Sisters of Mercy Burlingame

Model of discipleship

Website clarification

Execution God’s domain – not man’s

L E T T E R S

I write in appreciation of Lidia Wasowicz’s beautifully written account (“Blessing from God,” Sept. 30) of how one of our Gabriel Project clients is being helped by the parish of St. Hilary in Tiburon. St. Hilary is one of 13 “Gabriel parishes” throughout the archdiocese which offer a message of hope and tangible assistance to pregnant mothers in need and Lidia has done an excellent job of sharing the message of The Gabriel Project with the readers of Catholic San Francisco. I am very grateful for her article.

We have a role in our ministry which we refer to as “assistant angel.” In this role, parishioners help our clients in various ways by utilizing their unique talents.

Whatever they do, all volunteers working

Re The article Sept. 16 article concerning “End of Life resources”: I had no trouble accessing the cacatholic.org site but after 30 minutes of searching I still couldn’t find the model medical power of attorney mentioned in the article.

I’m not a pro but not a rank amateur either in using a search engine.

Hart Smith San Anselmo Editor’s note: Sorry! A document called Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care can be found at www.embracingourdying.com/legal/dpahc.php. It is one of many end-of-life resources at the California Catholic bishops’ Embracing Our Dying website, at www.embracingourdying.com.

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A READING FROM THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET ISAIAH IS 45:1, 4-6 Thus says the Lord to his anointed, Cyrus, whose right hand I grasp, subduing nations before him, and making kings run in his service, opening doors before him and leaving the gates unbarred: For the sake of Jacob, my servant, of Israel, my chosen one, I have called you by your name, giving you a title, though you knew me not. I am the Lord and there is no other, there is no God besides me.

It is I who arm you, though you know me not, so that toward the rising and the setting of the sun people may know that there is none besides me. I am the Lord, there is no other.

RESPONSORIAL PSALM PS 96:1, 3, 4-5, 7-8, 9-10 R. Give the Lord glory and honor.

Sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord, all you lands.

Tell his glory among the nations; among all peoples, his wondrous deeds.

R. Give the Lord glory and honor.

For great is the Lord and highly to be praised; awesome is he, beyond all gods.

“Then repay to Caesar what belongs to Caesar and to God what belongs to God” (Matthew 22).

In my younger days, I used to teach eighth grade algebra. It was a lot of fun.

But at the end of the day, no matter how much we’d accomplished, there was always a kid that raised his hand and asked the question designed to drive me crazy: “When are we ever going to use this in real life?”

I hated that question. I was always tempted to tell him that his real life was closely tied to our next test, so maybe he’d be able to use it then. However, I realized I was just ignoring the problem. He was truly having a hard time understanding how algebra was going to make any sort of difference in his world. What’s more, his question reflected a complaint that many students had about a wide variety of subjects. They simply didn’t see what was happening in class as having any connection to what was going on in their lives.

School was one thing, real life was another, and there was not a whole lot of mixing between the two.

Of course, this isn’t all that unusual. I think it happens in our faith lives as well.

We go to Mass, say our prayers, go to confession. That’s our religious life. But when we leave church, we do whatever we need to do to get by. That’s our real life. It

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Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time Isaiah 45:1, 4-6; Psalm 96:1, 3, 4-5, 7-8, 9-10; 1 Thessalonians 1:1-5b; Matthew 22:15-21 For all the gods of the nations are things of nought, but the Lord made the heavens.

R. Give the Lord glory and honor.

Give to the Lord, you families of nations, give to the Lord glory and praise; give to the Lord the glory due his name! Bring gifts, and enter his courts.

R. Give the Lord glory and honor.

Worship the Lord, in holy attire; tremble before him, all the earth; say among the nations: The Lord is king, he governs the peoples with equity.

R. Give the Lord glory and honor.

A READING FROM THE FIRST LETTER OF PAUL TO THE THESSALONIANS 1 THES 1:1-5B Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy to the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: grace to you and peace. We give thanks to God always for all of you, remembering you in our prayers, unceasingly calling to mind your work of faith and labor of love and endurance in hope of our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father, knowing, brothers and sisters loved by God, how you were chosen. For our

Scripture reflection DEACON MICHAEL MURPHY

Children of God, undivided can often be difficult seeing a connection between what our faith tells us is important and essential and what the world is telling us is important and essential. We put God into one box and everything else into another, and live accordingly.

In this week’s Gospel, Jesus reminds us that there’s actually just one big box, and God’s in the center of it. Matthew describes the Pharisees trying to trick Jesus, forcing him into an impossible choice. His response, “Repay to Caesar what belongs to Caesar and to God what belongs to God,” silences his critics, yet at the same time answers the question about how we should

balance God and the world. He tells us that our faith lives and our real lives are one and the same. While we must be good citizens, we must also be willing to give back to God all that he has given us: which is everything including, of course, our very selves.

Jesus shows us we can’t be dividing ourselves, sometimes thinking about God, sometimes thinking about money, sometimes thinking about what’s on television.

Rather, God needs to be at the root of all we do. We must never forget that we belong to God always – now and forever.

All those other things which push and pull at us must take their proper place as

gospel did not come to you in word alone, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with much conviction.

A READING FROM THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW MT 22:15-21 The Pharisees went off and plotted how they might entrap Jesus in speech. They sent their disciples to him, with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are a truthful man and that you teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. And you are not concerned with anyone’s opinion, for you do not regard a person’s status. Tell us, then, what is your opinion: Is it lawful to pay the census tax to Caesar or not?”

Knowing their malice, Jesus said, “Why are you testing me, you hypocrites? Show me the coin that pays the census tax.” Then they handed him the Roman coin. He said to them, “Whose image is this and whose inscription?”

They replied, “Caesar’s.” At that he said to them, “Then repay to Caesar what belongs to Caesar and to God what belongs to God.”

we remember that first and last, we are children of God. Understanding this, we will start to see the world differently. We will begin to realize that everything we do bears up, or sometimes tears down, the Kingdom of God. Not only in those areas we’ve come to label “religious” but in every part of our life. It can be hard to believe when we’re stuck in traffic or changing a diaper, but all of it makes a difference.

When that driver with a cell phone cuts us off, instead of getting angry, we need to sit back and take a breath. When we see people in pain, we need to have the courage to reach out and comfort them, even if we’re late for a meeting or our favorite TV show. When we look to shape our world, we must always strive to create a culture of peace and justice. In inviting us to give ourselves to God, in looking to us to build his kingdom, Jesus is not shy about asking that we give him everything we have!

When are we ever going to use this in real life? Remembering now that our faith life is our real life, the answer is easy: Every moment of every day. It’s time to get to work!

Deacon Michael Murphy serves at St. Charles Parish in San Carlos and teaches at Sacred Heart Schools in Atherton.

Question Corner

Communion twice a day Question: What are the church’s guidelines for someone receiving Communion more than once a day?

Some examples are: attending Mass on a Saturday morning, a Saturday evening vigil Mass and Mass again on Sunday morning; also, attending a weekday Mass in the morning and then a healing Mass that same evening.

Answer: Succinctly put, a Catholic can receive Communion twice a day, within the context of a Mass.

Canon No. 917 of the church’s Code of Canon Law states: “A person who has received the most holy Eucharist may receive it again on the same day only during the celebration of the Eucharist in which the person participates.”

The canon goes on to explain that a person who is in danger of death may receive the Eucharist as viaticum no matter how many times he or she has already received it on that same day.

The rationale behind the rule is that the holy Communion is an integral part of the Mass, uniting the recipient to the sacrifice made by Jesus.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church (No. 1388) puts it this way, referencing the words of the Second Vatican Council: “That more perfect form of participation in the Mass whereby the faithful, after the priest’s Communion, receive the Lord’s body from the same sacrifice is warmly recommended.”

In each of the examples your question offers, you

may certainly receive Communion at the second Mass.

Some other frequent situations which allow the same are: a weekday Mass in the morning, with a funeral Mass or wedding Mass later in that day; or a Saturday morn-

Two a day is the limit, and those receiving the sacrament are expected to participate at Mass – not merely drop in for the host. ing wedding or funeral with a vigil Mass for Sunday celebrated on Saturday afternoon.

I know of a man who takes a bus to several churches on the same day and adjusts his schedule to arrive in time to “pop in” and take holy Communion at each of those Masses. I believe that this man is doing what he thinks is helpful and admirable, but objectively he is violating the church’s guideline on two counts: first by receiving Communion more than twice a day; and secondly,

by simply “grabbing” the Eucharist on his “fly-by” and not participating in the Mass at which he receives.

A c t u a l l y, t h e Vatican had envisioned this fellow some years Father ago: A number of bishops had written Kenneth Doyle to the Holy See and asked whether the word “again” in canon No. 917 meant that the Eucharist could be received only twice a day (except in danger of death) or whether someone could take Communion even more often, so long as he or she participated in the Mass.

The Pontifical Council for the Interpretation of Legislative Texts wrote back in 1984, with the approval of Pope John Paul II, and said essentially that twice is the limit. The council recognized what a special gift the Eucharist is and wanted people to maintain the proper respect for its uniqueness.

Father Doyle’s column is carried by Catholic News Service. Questions may be sent to askfatherdoyle@gmail.com and 40 Hopewell St., Albany, N.Y. 12208.

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Guest Commentary

Confronting poverty is not ‘class warfare’ educational attainment and health. It is estimated that an American family of four actually needs about twice the In a recent letter to fellow bishops, New York federal poverty standard to meet basic needs. Thus, one in Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan, president of the U.S. seven American households was food insecure, again with Conference of Catholic Bishops, asked them and their priests serious ramifications for children’s development. to give attention, even in homilies, to the dramatic rise in Since 1980, the United States economy has doubled poverty in the United States, which is now at 46 million in wealth. Yet, in the last decade even middle-class median (including 16 million children) – the highest poverty rate income fell by 12 percent. Median income for the top 90 in 52 years. percent dropped 1.5 percent. The median annual income in Archbishop Dolan urged attention to “the human costs 2010 for a male full-time worker stood at $47,715 – virtuand moral consequences of a broken economy.” Reminding ally unchanged since 1973. Those covered by health insurthe bishops that, for the church, there is “a priority concern ance declined in 2010 to 55 percent, down from 65 percent for poor and vulnerable people,” Archbishop Dolan spoke in 2000. Every other developed nation has some form of of “the scandal of so much poverty.” universal health insurance. (I received medical care for free I reflected how we might respond to Archbishop when I was teaching in Taiwan in 2007 due to its insurance Dolan’s injunction yet come up with something more than scheme.) Meanwhile, the top 1 percent of the wealthiest mere pious platitudes, with some moral bite. Yet, as a Americans now garners 20 percent of all American wealth sociologist I am aware that American congregants do not – up from 10 percent in 1980. The 10 percent wealthiest much want homilies with overt political content. So, how Americans possess 66 percent of all our wealth. can we avoid “narrow” political assertions in what remains A 2011 OECD study of income inequality in OECD an essentially moral argument? nations looked at the 10 worst cases of income inequaliThere is a morally charged rhetorical bite in Archbishop ties. The United States was the fourth worst (after Chile, Dolan’s use of the term “the scandal” of so much poverty. Mexico and Turkey) but behind Israel, Portugal, the United Scandal assumes that we Kingdom, Italy, Australia confront a state of affairs and New Zealand. Other which is not necessary The greater the income inequality developed countries tolerand/or that certain agents ated much less income (government, politicians, of a nation, the more severely low inequality. As Harvard corporations, unions, indisociologist Robert Putnam vidual taxpayers) are not has shown, the greater the its internal social cohesion. doing their duty toward income inequality of a the common good. A stanation, the more severely tistical comparison of the low its internal social United States with the other 29 Organization of Economic cohesion and social trust – crucial elements for solidarity Cooperation and Development nations (all relatively devel- and the common good. oped) makes clear that the United States tolerates considerIt is not because we are poorer as a whole economy than ably higher levels of poverty than most. other OECD nations, which explains our higher poverty and A paper by Gary Burtless and Timothy Seeding, inequality rates. Naturally, as Archbishop Dolan put it, we “Poverty, Work and Policy: The United States in Comparative need to look at the dismal unemployment rates and the rising Perspective,” shows that, at a 17 percent overall poverty rate, poverty rates not as mere statistics but as “people suffering the United States ranks second to last (after only Mexico) and wounded in their human dignity.” among 21 OECD nations. Most had poverty rates around 10 As Stockton Bishop Stephen Blaire argued in a Labor percent. The American poverty rate was higher than Taiwan Day message from the American bishops, “An economy that (at 14 percent) or even Estonia and Slovenia. Child poverty: cannot provide employment, decent wages and benefits and a 21.9 percent compared to an overall 11 percent average in sense of participation and ownership for its workers is broken other nations. Child poverty has serious consequences for in fundamental ways.”

Guest Commentary

The U.S. bishops’ conference has come out with an urgent call to Catholics to oppose the recent Health and Human Services Department mandate that requires insurance plans to cover all FDA-approved contraceptive methods and sterilization procedures as “preventative care” without a copay. Given the high percentage of Catholic women who purportedly use contraceptives and the conventional wisdom that free birth control equals fewer abortions, what’s the big deal?

Here are a few reasons why this issue is critical. First consider the child. Contraception alters the entire concept of sex and turns the child into an enemy to be avoided at all cost. In this case, the cost to women’s health can be great. Estrogen-progesterone oral contraceptives are classified as Group 1 carcinogens by the World Health Organization, potentially cancer-causing. Population control programs promote steroid-based contraceptive drugs to increase access to family planning, particularly in Third World countries. But these drugs have given the HIV virus greater access to women’s bodies by altering their local and systemic immunities and protective vaginal flora, in a direction that makes infection more likely.

There is a basic inconsistency in an environmental movement that supports population control by advocating artificial contraception. “To pollute the waterways of the human body with chemicals and block its passages with metal and plastic barriers, to deliberately prevent its functioning in a normal and healthy way, is an extension of the industrial mentality to the most private human sphere,”

Jon Proctor makes a little more than $200 a week stocking dairy products at a grocery store in Alexandria, Va. He is guaranteed only part-time hours.

A Vietnam veteran and trained electrician, Proctor is among the millions of Americans who struggle below the poverty line. He is pictured in Alexandria Sept. 16.

To be sure, as we consider the human costs and moral consequences of this broken economy, we are also aware of other economic issues: a spiraling deficit and difficulties in achieving a balanced budget. No one should be surprised that Catholic voices say that it would be a further scandal to address this deficit issue by further aggravating poverty among our citizens or cutting – what by almost any other developed country’s measures – is a very meager social safety net.

My argument has been almost entirely a moral one and not a political one. But in our present political climate, it could be perceived as political by some who do not see poverty, the address of basic human needs and the dignity of a sense of participation by working in the economy as essentially and first of all moral issues. No one who follows Catholic social teaching, however, can fail to see it in those terms.

Jesuit Father John A. Coleman is associate pastor of St. Ignatius Church in San Francisco.

He was the Charles Casassa Professor of Social Values at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles from 1997-2009.

At a glance

New federal contraception mandate’s dangerous ground

By Vicki Evans

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Father John A. Coleman, SJ

says S. Caldecott in his article “Cosmology, Eschatology and Ecology.” As the bishops emphasize, pregnancy is not a disease and its prevention is not health care.

Once the child is viewed as the enemy, abortion is the logical follow-up to failed contraception. Counterintuitively, free contraception has done little to decrease the rate of unin-

Economic studies indicate that access to contraception and abortion alter sex and mating markets through ‘risk compensation,’ actually increasing the number of unintended pregnancies. tended pregnancies and stem the tide of abortions. Economic studies indicate that access to contraception and abortion alter sex and mating markets through “risk compensation,” actually increasing the number of unintended pregnancies. Many so-called contraceptives, like Ella and the “morning-after pill,” can act as abortifacients not preventing conception but preventing implantation and causing an early-stage abortion.

– Free contraception has done little to reduce unwanted pregnancies.

– Out-of-wedlock birth rates more than tripled after 1965 and 1970 federal programs focusing on birth control.

– Steroid-based contraceptive drugs have unwanted health effects.

Government programs whose focus was on birth control crusades – from President Johnson’s War on Poverty in 1965 to President Nixon’s signing of Title X of the Public Health Service Act in 1970 – saw outof-wedlock birth rates more than triple. What’s more, free contraception is not really free. There is a cost and someone must foot the bill. In this case, that someone is again the taxpayer.

Perhaps the most frightening aspect of the HHS contraceptive mandate is the lack of any effective conscience protection for individual taxpayers or groups with religious or moral objections to dispensing contraceptives or paying for sterilization procedures. It is a small leap to a mandate that includes abortion, assisted suicide and active or passive euthanasia. This mandate’s religious exemption is so narrow it protects almost no one. It applies only to a religious employer whose purpose is to “inculcate religious values” and who employs or serves only those who share its religious tenets. It has been said, tongue-in-cheek, that this definition would not even include Jesus Christ. Sadly, it also doesn’t include Catholic hospitals, colleges, universities or other Catholic institutions that serve the public.

Vicki Evans is the Office of Public Policy & Social Concerns’ Respect Life Coordinator for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

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Priests have served spiritual needs of servicemen and women since 1917

Profiles in courage: Military chaplains

WASHINGTON – The Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA reported a sharp jump this year in the number of seminarians interested in serving as military chaplains: 31 military-affiliated seminarians are enrolled nationwide, up from just three in 2008.

The seminarians are participating in the Chaplain Candidacy Program for one of the branches of the armed forces and must be cosponsored by a diocesan bishop. Once ordained, the priest must serve three years in a civilian parish and return to his diocese of sponsorship when he retires from active military service.

“This is one of the untold stories of the blessings of the Holy Spirit upon the church and those faithful fervently seeking to respond to the voice of God,” said Conventual Father Kerry Abbott, director of vocations for the archdiocese.

The need for new chaplains for the service is critical, as the number has fallen from 400 a decade ago to 274 today. Pope Benedict XVI himself has noted the important work military chaplains do in promoting holiness in the midst of modern challenges.

In 2010, he said he hoped military chaplains will bring about a “renewed adhesion to Christ,” setting the bar of “holiness as the high measure of Christian life in response to the new pastoral challenges.”

Four military chaplains spoke about their service.

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By Jim Graves

Augustinian Father Edson Wood, brigade chaplain at the U.S. Military Academy, exchanges the sign of peace with a cadet during Mass at Camp Buckner in West Point, N.Y., June 26.

Franciscan Father Robert Bruno Ohio-born Franciscan Father Bruno, a U.S. Air Force colonel, has served as a military chaplain for 31 of his 34 years as a priest. Attracted to military service because he wanted to work with young adults and their families, he has spent much of his career in the United States and Europe and is now stationed at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. Colo.

Father Bruno was initially planning to serve several years and then return to civilian life, but he changed his mind. He said, “I fell in love with the ministry.”

The lifestyle continues to appeal to him, Father Bruno explained, because it is both “dynamic and global” and has left him with a lifetime of memorable experiences.

For example, while stationed in Germany in 2000 he led a delegation of 700 airmen for a Jubilee Year gathering at the Vatican. During a prayer service for more than 100,000 people in St. Peter’s Square, he was unexpectedly asked to read the English translation of intercessory prayers. Pope John Paul II was in the papal apartment above looking down on him.

“I have a whole lifetime of experiences like that that I never would have had in civilian ministry,” he said.

Msgr. Jerome Sommer Msgr. Sommer, 96, is one of just a handful of surviving retired World War II Army chaplains. Until the death Sept. 29 of retired New Orleans Archbishop Philip Hannan, 98, he was the second oldest.

Msgr. Sommer was ordained a priest for

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Father Karl-Albert Lindblad Father Lindblad, 52, is an active-duty chaplain serving at the U.S. Coast Guard Training Center in Yorktown, Va. He is a native of New York City and remembers watching Navy ships come and go from the harbor as a child. After entering the seminary, he contacted the Navy and asked if they had chaplains.

He recalled (laughing), “They said, ‘Don’t move! We’re coming for you now!’”

The military has long had a shortage of chaplains, he added: “We’re lucky to have the priests that we do.”

Unlike a civilian priest, a military priest lives with his congregation, said Father Lindblad, who was ordained for the Archdiocese of New York in 1987. “It can be both exhilarating and challenging. While you’re trying to be a role model and witness Christ to them, some days they see your worst side,” he said.

U.S. Army soldiers kneel during a memorial service in Forward Firebase Joyce in Kunar province, Afghanistan, July 7. Four U.S. Army soldiers, two Afghan soldiers, an Afghan linguist and a military sniffer dog died during operations in Kunar district in the last week of June.

the Archdiocese of St. Louis in 1940. In 1945, his bishop approved his transfer into the military. After six weeks of basic training, he was sent to the Pacific.

Msgr. Sommer still attends military-related events. He was recently pleased to attend a memorial Mass in Washington, D.C., for Father Vincent Capodanno, a military chaplain killed in Vietnam while assisting wounded and dying Marines. Father Capodanno is one of four military chaplains — all Catholic — who received the Medal of Honor for his service.

Catholic chaplains may have less reluctance to minister in a combat situation, Msgr.

Sommer said, because of the urgency of administering the sacraments to the dying and because they are unmarried and don’t have to worry about dependents back home.

Father Clement Davenport Heavy combat is something Father Clement Davenport, 87, saw many times in his years as an Army chaplain in Korea and Vietnam.

Ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of San Francisco in 1948, he volunteered for the Army after the outbreak of the Korean War. The infantry units in which he served, both in Korea and Vietnam, often found themselves in the thick of the fighting. He was repeatedly advised

to return to the safer rear areas but wanted to be on the front lines with the troops.

“That’s how we serve as priests,” said Father Davenport, who is pastor emeritus of Church of the Nativity in Menlo Park. “It’s part of our nature. We have to go where the suffering and dying is.”

The strains of war can be tremendous, Father Davenport said, but God’s grace can help you endure. He recalled one time while serving with soldiers who were protecting a water plant in Saigon. He was suffering from food poisoning, but since his unit was expecting an artillery attack that night, he opted to stay rather than go to the hospital.

At 3 a.m., the barrage hit and “all hell broke loose,” he said. Casualties were high, and Father Davenport went about ministering to the wounded and dying, pausing from time to time to vomit because of his illness. The next day, he celebrated nine Masses. His only “food” for the day was a can of Coke, which it took him eight hours to get down. He reflected, “I don’t know how I did it, but God takes care of you.”

Despite his many times in combat, Father Davenport made it through unscathed. Once on the battlefield, an artillery shell exploded nearby, sending a piece of shrapnel tearing through his fatigues. But he was left uninjured.

Father Clement Davenport

The need for new chaplains for the service is critical, as the number has fallen from 400 a decade ago to 274 today.

The experience helped earn him the title of “Father Lucky.”

Another incident he recalled was when his driver, who had not yet experienced combat, took him to the front lines. While he was speaking to some tank crews, some artillery rounds came in. Father asked his driver, “Are you scared?” He replied, “Not when I’m with Father Lucky.” Father responded, “Well, I am.

Let’s get the hell out of here!”

Father Davenport believes in the saying, “There are no atheists in foxholes.” Soldiers fighting and dying were often receptive to his ministry; some wore rosaries he had given them around their necks into battle.

Father Davenport has fond memories of his time in the service. He says that while war is “terrible and stupid,” the work of a military chaplain is “beautiful.”

“You hold wounded and dying kids in your arms, 18 or 19 years old, some calling out for their mothers,” he said. “I told them not to be afraid and talked to them about Jesus and Mary.

My time in the military was the most important part of my priesthood.”

This article first appeared Sept. 29 in the National Catholic Register at NCRegister.com and is reprinted with permission.

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Spirituality for Life

The joy of a whole number Today we don’t attach a lot of symbolism to numbers. A few, mostly superstitious, remnants remain from former ages, such as seeing the number seven as lucky and the number 13 as unlucky.

For the most part, for us, numbers are arbitrary.

This hasn’t always been the case. In biblical times, they attached a lot of meaning to certain numbers. For example, in the Bible, the numbers 40, 10, 12 and 100 are highly symbolic. The number 40, for instance, speaks of the length of time required before something can come to proper fruition, while the numbers 10, 12 and 100 speak of a certain wholeness that is required to properly appropriate grace.

Knowing that the ancients invested special meaning in certain numbers is critical to understanding a very challenging, and neglected, story in the Gospels, namely, the parable of the woman with the 10 coins (Luke 15, 8-10). Without grasping the symbolism of the numbers, this parable loses its meaning.

Here is the parable as Scripture gives it: A woman had 10 coins and lost one. She became extremely anxious and agitated about the loss and began to search frantically and relentlessly for the lost coin, lighting lamps, looking under tables, and sweeping all the floors in her house. Eventually she found the coin and her joy in finding it matched her agitation in losing it. She was delirious with joy, called together her neighbors to share in her joy, and threw a party whose cost far exceeded the value of the coin she had lost.

Why such anxiety and such joy over the loss of a coin and the finding of a coin whose value was that of a dime? The answer lies in the symbolism of numbers: In her culture, nine was not a whole

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number; 10 was a whole number. Both the woman’s anxiety on losing the coin and her joy in finding it have little to do with the value of the coin. They have to do with the value of wholeness.

A certain wholeness in her life had been fractured and only by finding the coin could it be restored. In essence, this is the parable: A woman had 10 children and these constituted her family.

With nine of them, she had a good relationship, but one of her daughters was alienated from her and from the family. Everyone else came regularly to the family table, but this one daughter did not. The woman couldn’t find rest in that situation; she needed her alienated daughter to rejoin them. She tried every means to reconcile with her daughter and, one day, in a miracle of miracles, it worked. Her daughter reconciled with her and came back to the family. The family was whole again, everyone was back at table.

The woman was overjoyed, withdrew her modest savings from the bank, and threw a lavish party to celebrate the great grace that her family was whole again.

There’s an important lesson here: Like that woman, we are meant to be anxious, not able to rest, lighting lamps and searching, until our families, churches, and communities are again whole and those who will no longer sit at a table with us are back in the fold. Nine is not a whole number ... and neither is the number of those who are normally at our family or eucharistic tables. We need to be constantly uneasy: Who is not at table with us? Who no longer goes to church with us? Who feels uncomfortable worshipping with us? Who will no longer join us in a conversation over morality or politics?

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Sadly, today, too many of us are comfortable in families, churches, and communities that are far, far from whole. Sometimes, in our less reflective moments, we even rejoice in it: “Good riddance! Love us or leave us!

Father Ron She wasn’t a real Catholic in any case! His views are Rolheiser so narrow and bigoted it’s just as well he isn’t here!

We are better off without that kind! There’s more peace this way!

But it’s this attitude and lack of healthy solicitude for wholeness that, perhaps more than any other thing, explains the joylessness and hardness that is so evident everywhere today in our families, churches, and political circles. Unlike Jesus, whose heart ached with God’s universal salvific will and who prayed in tears for those “other sheep who are not of this fold,” and unlike the woman who lost one of her coins and would not sleep until every corner of the house was turned upside down in a frantic search for what was lost, we content ourselves with just nine coins, an incomplete set, instead of setting out solicitously in search of that lost wholeness that would again bring us completeness and joy.

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ings is tentatively scheduled to be concluded in mid-to late October, said Wells Fargo spokesman Alan Elias.

“We are confident that Equity Residential is committed to being a good landlord for the residents of Woodland Park and will abide by all applicable laws and ordinances. Both Wells Fargo and Equity Residential are committed to complying with the existing rent stabilization ordinance,” Elias said.

The buildings were bought up from 2005 to 2008 by Page Mill Properties and aggregated into Woodland Park Apartments. Page Mill raised rents and evicted 400 families before going bankrupt. Wells Fargo acquired the repossessed property when it took over Wachovia Bank and invested $4 million in new roofs and other maintenance before looking for a new buyer.

The city favors a sale to multiple buyers rather than one owner, said East Palo Alto Mayor Carlos Romero.

“My main concern with any purchaser is I don’t want to give anyone that much control in my city so that when I sit down at the table it is an unbalanced equation,” said Romero, who said he is not concerned about Equity founder Zell in particular.

“Wells has every right to sell this property to whoever they want.”

Chicago-based Equity Residential did not return a request for comment. The real estate investment company was founded in 1969, and owns more than 160,000 units nationwide. It advertises its units as luxury accommodations, for instance, asking from $2,000 to $2,500 for two-bedroom apartments in Daly City, Foster City and San Mateo.

Zell was a key supporter of Proposition 98, a ballot initiative rejected by voters in 2008, which would have repealed rent control in California. He is the chairman of the Tribune Co., corporate parent of the Los Angeles Times. Capitol Weekly reported in 2008 that Zell’s company, Equity Lifestyle Properties, had filed lawsuits to repeal rent control ordinances in several California cities, including Santa Cruz and San Rafael.

Bishop Justice wrote a letter Sept. 21 saying if the Woodland Park sale reduces the stock of affordable housing “it would

At a glance – A large share of San Mateo County’s affordable housing stock is at risk in the proposed sale of East Palo Alto apartment complex, opponents say.

– The sale “would be a disaster for many and cause a great deal of community suffering,” Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice said in a Sept. 21 letter.

– Rent control makes East Palo Alto affordable in an area bounded by the Silicon Valley communities of Palo Alto and Menlo Park, St. Francis of Assisi Parish pastor Father Lawrence Goode said. be a disaster for many and cause a great deal of community suffering.”

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All the rent-controlled Woodland Park units are located on the west side of U.S. 101 at the gateway to Palo Alto’s downtown in an area that is prime for gentrification, with high-density zoning already in place, said Mark Moulton, executive director of the Housing Leadership Council of San Mateo.

“Those 1,800 units represent about 15 percent of all affordable housing in the county,” said Moulton, in an area that lacks enough housing for its working class residents. The Housing Leadership Council is a coalition of 60 community organizations whose mission is to see that more affordable housing is built in San Mateo County and to preserve existing affordable housing.

Rent control makes the small town affordable in an area bounded by the Silicon Valley communities of Palo Alto and Menlo Park, Father Goode said. The town has affirmed rent control six times against challenges and via referendums, most recently in 2010 by 79.6 percent, said Romero. “This is a working class people of color community,” he said.

Romero said he won as mayor by spending $2,200 of his own money and going door to door. Romero sent out no mailings to the 7,700 voters in East Palo Alto.

Approximately 3,400 turned out for the 2008 election. Someone willing to spend more money might sway enough voters to change the makeup of the city council and perhaps allow demolition, he said.

“The political winds in any city change quite abruptly,” Romero said. “In four or five years you might get folks on the council who will say, `yeah, it makes sense to gut the west side.’”

Romero said Equity officials told him in discussions prior to the deal that they planned to hold the property from one to five years and then gentrify.

Moulton said even without any specific action, attrition over the years will yield vacancies of about 200 units a year, effectively allowing the company to go forward with creating higher density housing and renting to more affluent residents.

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Crops rotting, families fleeing, after Alabama immigration law

By Patricia Zapor WASHINGTON (CNS) – Farmers are reporting their fruit and vegetable pickers have fled, leaving crops to rot in the field, and principals say many students have withdrawn from school as even legal U.S. residents flee Alabama after a harsh new immigration law took effect in late September.

Federal District Court Judge Sharon Lovelace Blackburn Sept. 28 lifted a temporary stay on the law, allowing most of its provisions to take effect. That includes a requirement that public schools inform the state and federal governments about which students cannot provide proof of legal residency in the U.S., and other provisions mandating that police check the papers of anyone they think might not be legal residents.

Within days, schools reported many children had stopped coming to school.

The journey south A monarch butterfly feeds on a butterfly bush Oct. 6 on Maryland’s Eastern Shore near Cambridge in preparation for its autumn migration to Mexico.

Farmers said they immediately lost many of the workers they had lined up to pick their crops, even those who are U.S. citizens or who have permission to work here.

Mary Bauer, legal director of the Southern Poverty Law Center, said a hotline set up for questions about the law received nearly 2,000 calls in less than a week.

In a teleconference Oct. 6, Bauer said the situation is quickly turning into a crisis.

“Many of the calls are deeply disturbing and paint a grim picture of the aftermath of this ill-conceived law: people overwhelmed with fear; husbands who cannot take their

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wives to the hospital to give birth; sick people who refuse to go to the hospital to receive emergency care; thousands of terrorized children who are out of school; children who do go to school are subject to discriminatory treatment and harassment.”

Bauer said one report told of Hispanic students being called out of the classroom and asked whether they were born in the United States. In some places, people who can’t provide proof of legal residency are being refused water service to their homes, meaning they are cut off from plumbing facilities and drinking water, she said.

“Life as we know it has ended in Alabama – for both immigrants and U.S. citizens alike,” she said, noting that a household with a parent who lacks legal immigration status could include a spouse and children who were born in the United States or who have legal immigration status.

In the same teleconference, Father Jack Kane, pastor of St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Opelika and director of Hispanic ministry for the Archdiocese of Mobile, said he knows of many schools that have lost many students, as their parents either are keeping them home out of fear of being harassed or the families are leaving the state.

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■ Continued from page 10 Blessed Virgin Mary – Sister Anne Kendall, the principal, 1994-2002, and Sister Peggy Devereux, a religion teacher, 1995-2002.

As Father Greene put it, church and school developed “on the installment plan.” The school was doubled in size in 1938 and the church was doubled in 1951; some 30 stained glass windows were added to the church in 1926 (depicting the life of Jesus) and again in the early 1950s (the life of Mary), and the organ was installed in 1936 and rebuilt several years ago.

The quality of the construction and craftsmanship, Father Greene says proudly, is first class, including the work of noted architect Arnold Constable, who designed the church’s expansion; the reredos, or altarpiece honoring the four evangelists and Christ the King, carved in Germany; the stained glass windows from Franz Mayer & Co. in Munich; the Kilgen organ, rebuilt by Schoenstein & Co. of Benecia, the brass candleholders by Dirk van Erp, the Dutch-American artisan, and more.

“Everything here, they bought only the best,” said Father Greene.

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and attention to detail was Father William Cantwell, who served from 1929 to 1962. He was said to be very popular and, as Fisher recalls, was from County Tipperary and swung his walking cane back and forth as he visited parishioners.

St, Monica, said Fisher, has been blessed with excellent priests.

“Father Greene is very spiritual,” she said.

“Every day he gives us a talk both on the reading and on the Gospel and always makes it relevant to what is happening today.”

The parish population grew dramatically, from the 1930s into the 1960s, to 4,000 families. It has 400 now. The demographics of the district have changed, too, with the departure of many Irish and Italian families, and influx of Asians – there’s a Cantonese Mass on Sunday – but people from as far as Daly City and Pacifica and even Vallejo attend Mass at St. Monica, simply because “they like it,” said Father Greene. In addition, Father Greene serves as chaplain of the San Francisco Fire Department and has a steady routine of funerals, marriages and other services for firefighters and their families.

Ninety-year-old Olivia Fisher is the lector at the Monday Mass. “The church is a source of spirituality,” she said. “We grew up as children knowing the church is important.”

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Revised missal: More answers to common questions

People’s parts of the new missal:

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By Laura Bertone As we look at specific changes in the people’s parts of the Mass, one of the most common questions concerns the response “and with your spirit.” The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops addressed this dialogue that we hear so many times during Mass. Here is what they said.

Fourth in a series Perhaps the most common dialogue in the liturgy of the Roman Rite consists of the greeting: Dominus vobiscum et cum spiritu tuo Since 1970, this has been translated as: The Lord be with you.

And also with you.

As a part of the revised translation of the Roman Missal, now taking place, the translation of this dialogue has been revised, to read: The Lord be with you.

And with your spirit.

Why has the response et cum spiritu tuo been translated as and with your spirit?

The retranslation was necessary because it is a more correct rendering of et cum spiritu tuo. Recent scholarship has recognized the need for a more precise

At the Gospel Deacon (or priest): The Lord be with you.

People: And with your spirit.

Deacon (or priest): A reading from the holy Gospel according to N. People: Glory to you, O Lord.

Nicene Creed All:I believe in one God, the Father almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all things visible and invisible.

I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten Son of God, born of the Father before all ages.

God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, consubstantial with the Father; through him all things were made.

For us men and for our salvation he came down from heaven, and by the Holy Spirit was incarnate of the Virgin Mary, and became man.

For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate, he suffered death and was buried, and rose again on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures.

He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father.

He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead and his kingdom will have no end.

I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son, who with the Father and the Son is adored and glorified, who has spoken through the prophets.

I believe in one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church.

I confess one baptism for the forgiveness of sins and I look forward to the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come.

Amen.

Chicago Cardinal Francis E. George blesses copies of the new English translation of the third edition of the Roman Missal at Liturgy Training Publications in Chicago Sept. 26.

translation capable of expressing the full meaning of the Latin text.

What about the other major languages?

Do they have to change their translations?

No. English is the only major language of the Roman Rite which did not translate the word spiritu. The Italian (E con il tuo spirito), French (Et avec votre esprit), Spanish (Y con tu espíritu) and German (Und mit deinem Geiste) renderings of 1970 all translated the Latin word spiritu precisely.

Where does this dialogue come from?

The response et cum spiritu tuo is

Call to prayer With all the preparation and training that is going on for the revised Roman Missal, sometimes we forget the most important form of preparation of all: prayer.

We ask that you include the following in your personal prayers each day so that we may ask for the intercession of the Holy Spirit in preparing us and the church for the upcoming changes. A new prayer will be published each week until we reach Nov. 27, when the Mass changes will be implemented.

Lord, may everything we do begin with your inspiration and continue with your help, so that all our prayers and works may begin in you and by you be happily ended.

We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.

— Book of Blessings, No. 552, b.

“I will be with you always, even until the end of the world” Matthew 28:20

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found in the liturgies of both East and West, from the earliest days of the church.

One of the first instances of its use is found in the “Traditio Apostolica” of St.Hippolytus, composed in Greek around A.D. 215.

What does the priest mean when he says “The Lord be with you”?

By greeting the people with the words “The Lord be with you,” the priest expresses his desire that the dynamic activity of God’s spirit be given to the people of God, enabling them to do the work of transforming the world that God has entrusted to them.

What do the people mean when they respond “and with your spirit”?

The expression et cum spiritu tuo is only addressed to an ordained minister. Some scholars have suggested that spiritu refers to the gift of the spirit he received at ordination. In their response, the people assure the priest of the same divine assistance of God’s spirit and, more specifically, help for the priest to use the charismatic gifts given to him in ordination and in so doing to fulfill his prophetic function in the church.

— From Roman Missal formational materials, U.S. bishops’ Secretariat for the Liturgy, 2010.

Laura Bertone is interim director of the Office of Worship for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Catholic San Francisco is serializing the people’s parts of the new missal. The paper will publish the people’s parts in full on Nov. 18, the last issue before the new Mass changes are introduced on the First Sunday of Advent, Nov. 27.

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Office of Worship Call (415) 614-5586 Workshops on the “Liturgy and the Revised Roman Missal” Oct. 18, 7 – 9 p.m. at St Bartholomew Parish, 300 Alameda de las Pulgas at Crystal Spring in San Mateo.

Oct. 22, 10 a.m.–noon at St Anselm Parish, 97 Shady Lane off Sir Francis Drake Blvd. in Ross.

Nov. 6, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. at St Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard in San Francisco.

Laura Bertone, interim director, Office of Worship, Archdiocese of San Francisco will facilitate the sessions. For more information, call the Office of Worship at (415) 614- 5586. All are invited free of charge.

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Halloween Oct. 22, 10 a.m. – 8 p.m.: “St. Thomas More School’s Fall Festival and Halloween Carnival.” Enjoy food, prizes, games for all ages, plus one scary haunted house at 50 Thomas More Way, in San Francisco off Brotherhood Way. Email anarose0707@gmail.com.

Oct. 28, 7 – 10:30 p.m.: “Sock Hop – Halloween Social” at Immaculate Conception Academy auditorium, 24th and Guerrero streets in San Francisco.

Proceeds benefit St. James School – “challenging the mind, nurturing the spirit.” Evening includes costume contest, pumpkin carving contest, music and dancing. Tickets are $20 per person. Food and beverages will be available for purchase. Buy tickets or donate at www.saintjamessf.org or call (415) 647-8972. Must be 21 years old to attend.

Good Health/Seniors Oct. 23, 1:30 – 4 p.m.: “Navigating the Cost of Senior Care,” a free education event sponsored by the California Knights of Columbus at Janet Pomeroy Center, 207 Skyline Blvd. just off Sloat Blvd. in San Francisco. Topics include myths and realities about senior services and aging, the spectrum of housing and facility options for seniors, inhome care, Medicare, Medi-Cal, veterans aid, and long-term care insurance. Lunch will be provided.

Call (800) 273-0068.

Oct. 15, 9 a.m. – noon: Free health event focusing on breast health for women sponsored by St. Mary’s Medical Center in partnership with Mercy High School, San Francisco, at the school 3250 19th Ave. in San Francisco. Please let us know you’ll be there. Call (888) 457-5202.

Vocations Oct. 22, 9 a.m. - 6:30 p.m.: “Come and See,” a day of reflection to explore religious life with the Religious of the Sacred Heart, Oakland Community, 1726 Chestnut St. at 18th in Oakland. Explore religious life: specifically the mission and charism of the Religious of the Sacred Heart, their internationality, and why women choose this way of life at this time in history. Women interested in knowing more, or who are just curious, or who are exploring a call to embrace religious life are most welcome!

For more information: contact Mary McGann, RSCJ mmcgann@rscj.org. Please register by Oct.19 or email Regina Shin, RSCJ shin@rscj.org.

A monthly discernment group for single, Catholic women ages 18-40 from 10 a.m.- 2 p.m. with the MSJ Dominican Sisters. Day includes group discussion and reflection on your vocation, and Eucharist and lunch with the sisters at their Motherhouse, 43326 Mission Blvd. (entrance on Mission Tierra Place) in Fremont. Email vocations@msjdominicans.org with questions or for more information.

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21-35. “Drink up the good news and good brews,” organizers said. Topic Oct. 19 is “The Intersection between Faith and Sexuality.” Email stmarywcyam@ gmail.com.

The Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose have announced retreats for young adult women and men as well as several retreats for young adult women interested in exploring religious life. Visit www.msjdominicans.org or call (510) 933-6335 or (510) 657-2468. You may also email blessings@msjdominicans.org or vocations@msjdominicans.org.

Respect Life Oct. 23, 5 – 8 p.m.: Fundraising dinner for San Mateo Pro-Life at Father Flanagan Hall, St. Mark Church, 325 Marine View Ave. in Belmont. Menu includes gourmet chicken dinner, plus fun raffle and door prizes. Guest speaker is attorney Brad Dacus founder and president of Pacific Justice Institute. Dacus has been honored his commitment to faith and justice and work protecting parental rights and religious freedom. Tickets are $30 per person. For tickets or more information contact Vicki at (650) 365-5718 or Jessica at (650) 5721468. Please call by Oct. 20.

Food and Fun Oct. 14, 15, 16: “Wild West Days” hosted by St. Dunstan Parish, 1133 Broadway Ave. in Millbrae.

Come celebrate and enjoy carnival rides, games, food and drink, a chili cook off, dunk tank, bingo, raffle, silent auction, Sunday night roast beef dinner, entertainment and much more. Fun for the whole family! Starts at 5 p.m. on Friday.

Saturday hours are noon – 10 p.m. Sunday hours are noon – 8 p.m. Call the St. Dunstan rectory at (650) 697-4730.

Oct. 19, noon: San Francisco’s famous monthly pasta luncheon at the Immaculate Conception Chapel, downstairs, at 3255 Folsom St., just up the hill from Cesar Chavez. Enjoy great mostaciolli, homemade meatballs, and salad, family style for $8. Beverages are available for purchase.

Nov. 6: The Ladies Ancient Order of Hibernians Columbia Division #2 Fall Fashions Show at the United Irish Cultural Center, 45th Avenue and Sloat Boulevard in San Francisco. Contact Maureen Hickey at (650) 375-0277 for reservations or information. Please respond by Oct. 28.

Nov. 12, 5 p.m.: St. Luke Mass and Banquet at St. Thomas More Church, One Brotherhood Way in San Francisco. Father Mark Taheny will preside at Mass. Dinner is at 7 p.m. at nearby Alma Via residence. Harpist Anna Maria Mendieta and Liliane Cromer, soprano, will entertain during a reception

Oct. 21, 11:30 a.m.: “First Annual St. John Vianney Luncheon” honoring retired priests of the Archdiocese of San Francisco at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street and Geary Boulevard in San Francisco. Proceeds benefit Priests Retirement Fund. For information, call (415) 614-5580 or email development@sfarchdiocese.org.

Catholic Charities CYO The social services arm of the Catholic Church in the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Information: (415) 972-1200, www.cccyo.org, moreinfo@cccyo.org.

Nov. 4, 6 p.m.: “Vincenzo Wine Tasting & Auction” at San Francisco’s Galleria in the San Francisco Design Center. Proceeds benefit Catholic Charities CYO services to at-risk youth.

Guests will enjoy an enchanting evening complete with exclusive tastings from premier wineries, hors d’oeuvres and dessert by McCalls Catering and Events, and a festive live auction featuring rare wines and unique travel packages. Tickets start at $175/sponsorship opportunities available. For information visit www.vincenzo.org, phone (415) 972-1213 or email aayala@cccyo.org.

Rosary Rallies Oct. 15: Family Rosary Crusade. The San Francisco Legion of Mary invites all Catholics to join us for the San Francisco Family Rosary Crusade 2011. The Family Rosary Crusade will be held on Oct. 15, 2011, at noon in San Francisco’s Civic Center Plaza. Join us as we pray the rosary, adore the Blessed Sacrament, listen to inspirational speakers, and ask the blessings of God for ourselves and our community. For more information, visit www.familyrosarycrusade2011.com.

Social Justice/Lectures/Prayer Oct. 22, 9 a.m. – noon: “An Interrupted Life,” with Paulist Father Terry Ryan. Etty Hillesum and all of her family but brother, Jaab, were murdered at Auschwitz within months of each other in 1943 and 1944. Jabb also died in that timeframe but from illness and as a free man. Etty’s diaries, published in

Reunion Notre Dame de Namur High School, San Francisco, is looking for members of the class of 1962, in preparation of a 109th Annual Alumnae Mass and Luncheon. The Ladies of the Class of 1962 will be our honored Golden Belles. Contact Katie O’Leary at nuttydames@aol.com or call (415) 282-6588.

Oct. 15, 2 – 4 p.m.: “School of the Epiphany All-School Reunion Open House,” 600 Italy St. in San Francisco. Join your fellow classmates as Epiphany School celebrates its part in the 100-year history of Epiphany Church! All classes, from the Class of 1940 to the Class of 2011, are invited to reconnect with the school of their youth. Meet old friends and classmates. See all the improvements and additions to the campus. See videos of recent graduations. Contact Jim Reinhardt at (415) 3374030, ext.126.

Oct. 21: Tee off in St Matthew School 48th Annual Golf Tournament! Enjoy a fun afternoon of golf and friends at Poplar Creek Golf Course in San Mateo. For more details, registration and sponsor opportunities visit www.stmatthewcath.org or email Jeff at jmstevens1@gmail.com. Alumni should let him know you are a St. Matt’s graduate.

Oct. 22: Presentation High School, San Francisco class of ‘66. Contact Martha Kunz Willis at (650) 763-1202 or email mwwmtw@comcast.net or Marilyn Mathers at (510) 232-4848 or mmathers@ deloitte.com.

Oct. 22: St. John Ursuline High School, class of ‘76 at Fisherman’s Grotto #9 in San Francisco.

Email Julie Smith Prosek at c_jprosek@comcast. net (underscore between c and j) or call (650) 992-8717.

Nov. 5: St Brendan Class of ‘61. Meet for Mass at 5 p.m. Reception and dinner to follow in the church hall. Contact Suzanne McCarthy at (415) 731-2665 or email sbmccarthy@yahoo.com.

Nov. 5: Holy Name School class of `64 will meet in the Flanagan Center. Contact Andi Laber Heintz at AHeintz@redpoint.com.

Nov. 5, 11 a.m.: “St. Paul’s High School Annual Mass and Homecoming Luncheon” begins with Mass is at 11 a.m. in St. Paul’s Church, followed by lunch in the Parish Hall. This year’s Golden Belles, the Class of 1962, will be honored guests.

Cost of the luncheon is $40. For a reservation call (415) 648-7538.

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Cookbook Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery 125th Anniversary Cookbook of Memories As food has always been a comfort to families who have experienced a loss, it seems only fitting that Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery would create a cookbook in honor of its 125th Anniversary. We would like to create a cookbook of memories – special recipes of your loved ones who are interred in Holy Cross. If your Grandmother, Mom, Dad or Great Uncle Sam made a special dish and is interred in Holy Cross, we hope that you will share that favorite recipe.

You may forward your recipe to the attention of Christine Stinson by email costinson@holycrosscemeteries.com, by mail to Holy Cross Cemetery, P.O. Box 1577, Colma, CA 94014 or drop it off at our office or All Saints Mausoleum on weekends. Please include your loved one’s name, date of burial and grave location with the recipe. Also, please include your name and contact information.

Help Wanted

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Volunteer Needed Franciscan Covenant Program, a unique opportunity for a lay volunteer to live, Pray, and serve with the Franciscan friars of the St. Barbara Province in California, seeks full time volunteers (married couples or singles) for a 1 year commitment. Members serve in Retreat Centers, Missions, Native American Reservation, and Foundation providing direct service to the poor. It’s more than volunteering. It’s a fulfilling life experience!

Contact Paul Barnes & Phyllis Becker, Directors, 831-623-1119, covprg@yahoo.com, www.franciscanconvenantvolunteers.org.

Job Opening

Business Manager for Church & School St. Hilary Parish in Tiburon, CA is looking for a Business Manager for the Church with 1100 families and School with 250 students. The ideal candidate should be a practicing Catholic with five years experience managing business operations to include financial management, facilities management and administration for employee benefits.

The applicant should be skilled in Microsoft Office applications and have experience with database systems. The Business Manager reports to the Pastor and works closely with the Principal as well as all staff members and volunteers. A flexible work schedule may include some evenings and weekends. Archdiocesan salary guidelines plus benefits apply.The position will become available on January 1, 2012. Interested candidates should send a cover letter, résumé and references to Rev.William E. Brown, Pastor, St. Hilary Church, 761 Hilary Drive,Tiburon, CA 94920. For more information you may call Bill Tiedje at 415-435-1122 or email him at: billt@sthilary.org

Elementary School Principal Sought St. Anthony Immaculate Conception School San Francisco, CA St. Anthony-Immaculate Conception School which serves students in Kindergarten through eighth grade provides a dynamic, values-based academic curriculum. The partnership between the school staff and families is focused on helping students develop their God-given gifts and talents through a rich academic program found in a dynamic community of believers, committed to faith, service and worship.

A successful applicant should have the following qualifications: • A practicing Roman Catholic who sees Catholic education as a ministry • A valid teaching credential • A Master’s degree in educational leadership • An Administrative Services credential (preferred) • Five years successful teaching experience at the K-8 level (at least three in Catholic schools) • Five years successful administrative experience at the K-8 level (preferred, at least three in Catholic schools) • Experience working in, and with underserved communities •

Basic Spanish language skills required(at a minimum)

APPLICATION AND INTERVIEW: Applicants must complete an application and establish a personnel file with the Department of Catholic Schools. Materials may be downloaded from the Department of Catholic Schools website, www.sfdcs.org ➟ Employment ➟ Principal Application.

The requested material plus a letter of interest should be returned to:

Mr. Bret E. Allen, Associate Superintendent Department of Catholic Schools One Peter Yorke Way San Francisco, CA 94109

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October 14, 2011