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Egypt’s grief A Christian woman mourns on the coffin of Mina Demian at a funeral at Abassaiya Orthodox Cathedral in Cairo Oct. 10. At least 26 people, mostly Christians, were killed Oct. 9 when troops broke up a peaceful protest against an attack on a church in southern Egypt. At the Vatican Oct. 12 a “profoundly saddened” Pope Benedict XVI condemned the attack, saying Egypt has been “lacerated” by attempts to undermine peaceful coexistence among its communities. Christians in Egypt, Iraq, Syria and Yemen “live under an atmosphere of continuous tension,” said Bishop Camillo Ballin, apostolic vicar of Northern Arabia.
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Rural coast pastor taking Christ to the beach By George Raine It’s not yet listed in any visitor activity guides, but one of these next Sunday evenings there’s going to be a spontaneous celebration at Dillon Beach in Marin County: It will be Father Shouraiah Pudota saying Mass. The beach is just three miles from the town of Tomales and the Church of the Assumption of Mary, northernmost church in the Archdiocese of San Francisco, and where Father Pudota, the pastor since July 1, seeks to grow the parish. The Sunday evening Mass is just one exercise in evangelization that Father Pudota is launching, but it reflects
his missionary zeal: With a large number of vacation homes along the beach – people who are not attending Mass at the Church of the Assumption – he’s going after the weekend crowd. “That is the best place where I can get people and let them know that something is going on and it is a celebration of the Eucharist, of Mass, of importance,” said the 59-year-old Indian born priest. “If I get five people coming off the beach, I’m going to do that. I’m going to reach them. The mountain doesn’t come to you. You go the mountain.” Father Pudota, who spent the last four years at Church CHRIST TO THE BEACH, page 23
By Dana Perrigan It was the hands of those who gathered at San Francisco’s Civic Center Plaza to take part in Family Rosary Crusade 2011 that told the story. Gnarled and work-worn, smooth and supple, middleaged and of every color and complexion, nearly all clutched rosaries as they basked in the bright Saturday afternoon sun or huddled in the shade of the sycamores across the street from the gold-trimmed dome of City Hall. Others raised banners that read, “Praying the Rosary for America,” and “The Family that Prays Together Stays Together.” ROSARY, page 7
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On The Where You Live By Tom Burke Fond farewells with prayerful and tearful goodbyes were among the order of the special Mass Sept. 25 for Father Paulinus Mangesho at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish in Redwood City. The priest, who has served at OLMC for six years, is returning to Tanzania. Father Paul oversaw development of a sister parish relationship between St. Francis Xavier Parish in Tanzania and OLMC. “Enough funds were raised at OLMC to put a new roof on the church in Tanzania,” said Peggy Clifford in a note to this column. “In Father Paulinus addition, medical supplies Mangesho, and water cisterns were donated.” OLMC parishioners also journeyed to the African village, which is the priest’s hometown and located near Mount Kilimanjaro. More than 700 people attended the farewell Mass and the reception that followed, Peggy said. • St. Isabella Parish pulled out all the stops for a Family
Blessing of animals was a major part of Oct. 4, St. Francis of Assisi Day, for students at Immaculate Heart of Mary School in Belmont. Pictured from left are Matthew McPartlan and Cody, Claire McPartlan, Olivia Tyler and Rosy and Curt Tyler with Howie.
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Pictured, from left, at the Sunset Festival with San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee are Alice Ho Seher, Holy Name Parish preschool director, and Holy Name School students Krista Yep, Audrey Kan, Alyssa Borje-Bonkowski, Valerie Kau, Madison Phan, and Annie Bai. The school’s display promoted “Anti-Bullying” and “Positive Attitude” themes.
Fun Fair Oct. 1. Food, fun and a splash tank were highlights of the day said Mark Mangini, director of religious education at St. Isabella. Father Mark Reburiano, pastor, took a couple of dunks himself, Mike said. Father Reburiano will be installed as pastor at St. Isabella’s Oct. 29. • Congratulations to new leadership of the Catholic Federation of Teachers serving faculty at the four high schools of the Archdiocese of San Francisco: Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep, Archbishop Riordan High School, Marin Catholic High School and Junipero Serra High School. The new officers are Lisa Dole of Marin Catholic, president; Susie Woodall of Marin Catholic, vice president; Mike Vezzali of Riordan, treasurer. Hats off, too, for Christian Clifford of Serra who is outgoing president. • Thank you also to those who have led the St. Thomas More Society during the last year: Adrian G. Driscoll, president; Robert L. Zaletel, Hon. Martin J. Jenkins and Hon. Robert L. Dondero, vice-presidents; Thomas K. Hockel, secretary; Isabelle L. Ord, treasurer; and past presidents J. Dennis McQauid and Gregory E. Schopf. Executive committee members include Hon. Suzanne R. Bolanos, Jeffrey S. Brand, Timothy P. Crudo, Matthew F. Graham of Wendel, Iain A. MacDonald, and Hon. Thomas P. Mazzucco. Superior Court Judge Kathleen Kelly receives the group’s St. Thomas More Award Oct. 27 at the Red Mass, an annual liturgy for members of the legal profession. • Congrats to Sean Traynor, of St. Pius Parish, on his $1,000 Kohl’s Cares Scholarship for “outstanding volunteer service.” Sean, who attends Carlmont High School, was one of 210 winners selected for the honor from 37,000 candidates, the department store said in a statement. • Catholic Charities CYO Junior Board, young adults who support the agency’s work and ministries, recently helped paint the horse barn for the Therapeutic Equestrian Program at St. Vincent’s School for Boys in San Rafael. New members are welcome. Several membership options
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Archdiocesan retreat offered for people experiencing grief By George Raine Ninety percent of people who have been mired in grief after the death of a loved one do move forward with their own lives, perhaps after two years, although some people in the throes of numbness, confusion and fear caused by the loss may find that difficult to believe. That’s useful to know – that there is hope – as is how to incorporate peace, empowerment and normalization in your life in the recovery process. That and much more about navigating grief is laid out at three retreats each year by Barbara ‘This is a Elordi, the Ministry of Consolation coordinator perfect time for the Archdiocese of San Francisco. for parishes to The third “Transforming Grief” join’ and for retreat of 2011 is Oct. 29 from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. parishioners to at St. Robert Church in San Bruno, and, like others, it will draw people in take training. various stages of grief to setting, said Elordi, in – Barbara awhich they learn they are not alone and are safe. Elordi “It is held in a room in which people can sit in a circle and share their stories, light a candle for the loved one, know that for everybody in that room, their journey is sacred and that their experience with their loved one is special,” said Elordi. There are some 200 grief ministers working in parishes of the archdiocese, but there is room for more, said Elordi, who added that training is now in English and Spanish. The training for ministers to the bereaved includes information about the order of Christian funerals, the grief process and listening/communication skills, and the Ministry of Consolation/Grief Care Program itself is based on Catholic tradition promoting an awareness of grief as a normal life process, said Elordi. Said Elordi, “This is a perfect time for parishes to join” and for parishioners to take training, as the retreat and grief workshops prior to Christmas – a particularly difficult time for many people who have lost a loved one – call attention to the ministry. At the San Bruno retreat, grieving people will bond, said Elordi. “They feel safe whether they are angry, whether they are crying. They feel safe in the group,” she said. The day begins with a prayer and the morning hours focus on “normalizing grief.” She said, “We are letting them tell their stories. We are talking about grief and loss. They can look at this and say, in their minds, ‘Oh, I’m not crazy.’” Liturgy follows, and prayers are offered for loved ones, adding to the sense of comfort the retreat brings, Elordi said. “Some people are struggling with their faith. For some of them it is extremely strong at times like this. Others wonder if they even have it, but they do,” said Elordi. “And we talk about our relationship with God, with Jesus. Relationships need to grow, and this experience in grief is going to continue their relationship in a new way with God. Even though they may be lost in that right now, and many of them are, it is there. It is deep down,” she said. Yoursource sourcefor for the the best best Your Catholic books books -– Bibles Bibles Catholic music -– movies movies -–ministry ministry music resources -–greeting greeting cards cards resources rosaries – medals rosaries - medals statues -–gifts gifts for for statues Catholic occasions Catholic occasions Material en Español Material en Español
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VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI appealed for immediate and long-term relief for the world’s hungry, saying the right to adequate nourishment is a fundamental part of the right to life. The hunger crisis that affects millions of people today is a sign of the deep gulf between the haves and the have-nots of the world and calls for changes in lifestyle and in global economic mechanisms, the pope said in a message marking World Food Day Oct. 16. The text was addressed to Jacques Diouf, director-general of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization. Citing the famine and refugee crisis in the Horn of Africa, the pope said the “painful images” of starving people underline the need for both emergency aid and long-term intervention to support agricultural production and distribution. “Freedom from the yoke of hunger is the first concrete manifestation of that right to life which, although solemnly proclaimed, often remains far from being effectively implemented,” he said.
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Anti-bank protest Activists kick off “Occupy Detroit” with a rally and march through downtown Detroit Oct. 10. The group was protesting the actions of U.S. banks and other financial institutions during the country’s economic crisis.
“It will be a moment of grace and commitment to an ever fuller conversion to God, to reinforce our faith in him and to proclaim him with joy to the people of our time,” the pope said in his homily.
Pope sets ‘Year of Faith’ Australian-Rome talks ousted bishop to renew mission energy concern VATICAN CITY – Australian bishops VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI announced a special “Year of Faith” to help Catholics appreciate the gift of faith, deepen their relationship with God and strengthen their commitment to sharing faith with others. Celebrating Mass Oct. 16 with participants in a Vatican conference on new evangelization, the pope said the Year of Faith would give “renewed energy to the mission of the whole church to lead men and women out of the desert they often are in and toward the place of life: friendship with Christ who gives us fullness of life.” The pope said the observance would begin Oct. 11, 2012 – the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council – and conclude Nov. 24, 2013 – the feast of Christ the King.
had a special meeting with top Vatican officials in mid-October to discuss the case of a bishop Pope Benedict XVI removed from office after years of tension with a variety of Vatican offices. Cardinals Marc Ouellet, prefect of the Congregation for Bishops, and William J. Levada, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, met the Australian bishops to discuss the aftermath of the removal in May of Bishop William Morris of Toowoomba. The meeting with the cardinals was “an indication of the seriousness with which the Roman authorities in the dicasteries here want to enter into dialogue with the Australian bishops in looking at these
issues,” said Archbishop Philip Wilson of Adelaide, president of the bishops’ conference. The bishops promised the people of Toowoomba and all Australian Catholics that they would discuss the case with Vatican officials during their “ad limina” visits Oct. 10-22, Archbishop Wilson said.
Anti-crime priest shot ARAKAN, Philippines – An Italian priest doing mission work in a remote area of the southern Philippines was gunned down inside the compound of Mother of Perpetual Help Parish in Arakan, said a local official. Father Fausto Tentorio, 59, of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions, was shot dead by a lone gunman Oct. 17 as he was about to board his pickup truck at around 7:30 a.m., said town councilor Leonardo Reovoca. An autopsy report said he was shot eight times. The Asian church news agency UCA News reported that Reovoca said Father Tentorio had been an active law and order campaigner in Arakan and recently was
WASHINGTON – A Catholic Press Association-commissioned study showed that 26 percent of adult Catholics had read a print copy of their diocesan newspaper or magazine in the past three months, but only 4 percent had gone to their computer to view the online version of the publication. The study by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University also revealed that readership of Catholic newspapers has held steady over the past six years, a far cry from the daily newspaper business, which has recorded continuous declines in revenue, readership, advertising and employment. “The differences between some of the religious market and the secular market was something we were curious about, and readership patterns showed up very strongly in the print publications,” said Tim Walter, CPA executive director.
Father Dean Brackley, SJ, dies in El Salvador at 65 SAN SALVADOR – U.S. Jesuit Father Dean Brackley, 65, who joined the faculty at the University of Central America after six of his fellow Jesuits were killed at the height of the country’s civil war, died of pancreatic and liver cancer Oct. 16. Originally a member of the Jesuits’ New York province, Father Brackley joined the university’s theology faculty after the 1989 murder of the Jesuits, their housekeeper and her daughter by Salvadoran military troops. Father Brackley often traveled to the U.S. and Europe to lecture about the situation in El Salvador and to keep alive the memory of the priests and other martyrs from the war who worked on behalf of justice for the country’s poor and marginalized people. He served as a trustee of University of San Francisco from 2003 until his death. A scholarship for Latino students was established in his name by the University of San Francisco Sept. 28.
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USF `51 football players recall civil rights stand It was 60 years ago that the 1951 University of San Francisco Dons football team – undefeated and untied – rejected an invitation to a bowl game that compromised their values. Had the team accepted the invitation from the Orange Bowl, the players would have basked in national attention, deservingly so. It was, we now know, a storied team: Nine of those Dons were drafted into the National Football League and three of them ultimately were inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. That Orange Bowl game on Jan. 1, 1952, might well have been played for the national championship. The offer, however, carried what to the team, to a man, was a repulsive condition: Leave your two black players, Dick Colombini Burl Toler and Ollie Matson, at home, for the game against Georgia Tech. In 2005, USF conferred an honorary doctorate on its 1951 “We told them to go to hell,” Bob St. Clair, one of team, men now in their 80s. “We did not honor these men the three 1951 football Dons in the Hall of Fame, said to for what they did – which was significant – but for what they applause at USF on Oct. 8 at the 60th anniversary gathering refused to do. They refused to sacrifice human solidarity and of the team many consider to have been the best in intercol- personal integrity for promises of fame and fortune,” USF legiate history – and importantly, one that chose to do the President and Jesuit Father Stephen Privett said. right thing over glory. At the 60-year reunion, there was more talk about a USF football was discontinued in 1952, for lack of funds. principled position taken long ago than about the extraorSt. Clair, Matson and Gino Marchetti went on to have bril- dinary team numbers: 9-0 that last season, with the nine liant football careers and were inducted, while the others, players drafted and three in the Hall of Fame establishing noted Dick Colombini, a an unequaled record in the fullback and guard on the history of intercollegiate USF team, went on to pro“All the guys said, `This is crazy. football. fessions and trades, raised “Ollie and Burl were our families and drifted apart. teammates,” Colombini, a The hell with it.”’ They were reunited for general building contractor a 40th reunion and a 50th, in Santa Rosa, said at the – Bob St. Clair reunion. “They were just along with annual luncheons. As time passed, the power like any other player you of that civil rights statement would want to associate made by the small Jesuit school — years before the move- with. We went to school together. We practiced together. We ment had traction and in the throes of segregation — became played games together. We did everything together. Now they clearer. want us to leave the two players home? To go the Orange “It is a story that transcends football into the realm of Bowl? And we refused to do so. We said that is not right the human spirit,” said Paul Tagliabue, a former NFL com- and we refused to do so.” missioner. St. Clair recalled that no team meeting was necessary
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to consider the bowl bid: “All the guys said, `This is crazy. The hell with it.”’ He added, “I attribute this to the fact I had a wellrounded education here at the university and they did not take any guff from anybody – the Jesuits. But they teach you not only morality but wisdom for common sense.” Two of Burl Toler’s six kids were there – Valerie, a veteran neonatal nurse at UCSF, and Jennifer, a social worker for child protective services in San Mateo County. For their father, education always came first, they said. He was the first at many things, said Valerie, not only the first black NFL official – a job he took after a knee injury ended his chance for a promising pro football career – but the first black toll-taker on the Bay Bridge, and then the first black administrator in San Francisco schools. But he did not dwell on his firsts, she said. Said Jennifer, “He always said, ‘Do your best and your best will be good enough.’” Toler died in 2009 and Matson died last February. In all, 27 from the 1951 team are deceased. Some are in poor health. But there was much about which the old players could cheer this day, including the fact that perhaps a fourth teammate may be inducted into in the Hall of Fame. Dick Stanfel, who went on to be an offensive lineman for the Detroit Lions and Washington Redskins, is nominated.
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Route: Starting at the corner of Guerrero and 23rd St. walking on 23rd St towards Mission St., left on Mission St., right on 14th St., left on South Van Ness Ave. to Van Ness Ave., left on Pine St. and left on Steiner St. (approx. 3.5 miles). For more Information: Shrine of Saint Jude (415) 931-5919 Mon-Fri 9:00 am – 4:00 pm e-mail: info@stjude-shrine.org www.stjude-shrine.org Jaime or Rosa Pinto: (415) 333-8730 Please be advised that the Shrine of St. Jude, as sponsor, will photograph and video record this event. The photographs or video recording may be used in St. Jude Shrine publications and posted on their website, for educational and religious training purposes, and/or for other non-commercial uses. By participating in this event, participants are deemed to have given their consent and approval to the St. Jude Shrine to use a photographic or digital likeness or reproduction of themselves and any minors in their custody or control without further permission or notification.
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Rosary . . . ■ Continued from cover While the estimated 1,500 people in attendance at the Oct. 15 event were a small fraction of the sea of 550,000 souls that thronged Golden Gate Park when Father Patrick Peyton inaugurated the event 50 years ago, the message was similar. “We are in the greatest struggle in the church in its 2,000year history,” said keynote speaker Father Andrew Apostoli, of the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal. “It is a great spiritual battle. At stake is our whole Catholic culture.” Apostoli, who traveled from his home in Yonkers, N.Y., to deliver his message, said the lack of respect for life – as evidenced by the growing acceptance of euthanasia – and the traditional family was “hitting at the foundation of Catholic culture.” The rosary, he said, which was a favorite prayer of Blessed John Paul II and has remained popular through the centuries, is powerful. “It can stop wars,” he said. “It can convert and save souls.” During his blessing of the event, San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice – who attended the inaugural rally as a 19-year-old seminarian – lauded the rosary as a “prayer for all seasons, for all times and for all peoples.” “Today we come to remember,” he said, “but we also come to remember the challenge to live our faith.” A few in the crowd, like Bishop Justice, remembered the event’s founder, Father Peyton, whose devotion to – and advocacy of – the rosary motivated him to organize and lead rosary rallies around the world. His successful radio program in New York during the early `40s made him popular among many Hollywood stars. Following the bishop’s blessing, the crowd was led in a communal prayer of the rosary. At its conclusion, a choir sang “Salve Regina,” as, mercifully, a cool breeze arose.
Franciscan Father Andrew Apostoli addresses participants at the Family Rosary Crusade 2011 at Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco Oct. 15. The faithful came from many dioceses. The rosary “helps me get started in the morning,” said Vietnam veteran Louis Brannum of San Francisco. For Gilbert Martinez of St. Dominic Parish in San Francisco, “It’s an anchor.”
Earlier, Father Lawrence Goode, pastor of St. Francis of Assisi Parish in East Palo Alto and spiritual director of the Legion of Mary in San Francisco, welcomed the participants, who had traveled from dioceses including Stockton, Sacramento, San Jose and Oakland. “I think it’s a great way to spread the faith,” said Elisabeth Redmond, 23, of Pleasanton. “Praying together
Tiburon rosary rally Oct. 22 A rosary rally will be held Oct. 22, noon-2 p.m., at Main Street and Tiburon Boulevard in Tiburon. Dr. Anne Marie Meagher and Janneka Hipkins, both parishioners of St. Hilary in Tiburon, are co-captains of the event. The day follows on Tiburon rosary rallies of one and two years ago. “We’ve had about 40 people at each and hope for more this year,” Hipkins told Catholic San Francisco. Lay people will lead the decades but St. Hilary Parish is helping promote the day. “Everyone is welcome,” Hipkins said. Now 79 years old, she said the rosary has been part of her life for well over 60 years and that she attended the San Francisco rally Oct. 15. “It was wonderful,” she said. In an email to Catholic San Francisco about the rally, Father Bill Brown, pastor at St. Hilary, said: “Even as San Francisco had its own rosary rally last Saturday, parishioners from Marin County are invited to join in prayer this coming Saturday.”
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this way with the people of San Francisco doesn’t happen much.” For Guisell Garcia, a parishioner at St. Anthony of Padua Parish in San Francisco, who served as a rosary rally captain, the event was “a testimony of faith.” She said she became involved in public rosary rallies as a way to combat gang violence in the Mission District. Vietnam veteran Louis Brannum of San Francisco, says he prays the rosary daily. “It’s an anchor,” he said. “It helps me get started in the morning.” Gilbert Martinez, of St. Dominic Parish in San Francisco, said he wanted to “come out and express (his) faith on a beautiful day.” A fourth-year student at St. Patrick’s Seminary, Cameron Faller said the rosary was a “great way to enter into meditation. “I got my vocation in Lourdes, France,” he said. “I believe it was Mary who called me to the church.” This year’s event was sponsored by the Legion of Mary, Knights of Columbus, Immaculate Heart Radio and Ignatius Press.
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Judge Kelly to receive Thomas More Award at Red Mass Oct. 27 By Tom Burke Superior Court Judge Kathleen Kelly will be honored with the St. Thomas More Award Oct. 27 at the Red Mass, an annual liturgy for members of the legal profession. San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop Robert W. McElroy will be principal celebrant. Msgr. John Talesfore, pastor, St. Mary’s Cathedral and Judge Kelly’s first cousin, will concelebrate. The Mass will take place at Sts. Peter and Paul Church in North Beach. “The St. Thomas More Society of San Francisco is honored to announce the selection of the Honorable Kathleen A. Kelly, Judge of the San Francisco Superior Court, as the 43rd recipient of the St. Thomas More Award,” said Adrian G. Driscoll, president. “For more than 20 years, Judge Kelly has walked in the footsteps of St. Thomas More as lawyer, educator, judge, and public servant. Our patron saint was especially committed to children and family, as is Judge Kelly. The society’s award recognizes her dedication to both church and community, particularly the community of children.” Judge Kelly is a native San Franciscan and graduate of St. Cecilia School and St. Rose Academy. She completed
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undergraduate work at UC Berkeley and earned a law degree from Hastings College of Law in 1984. Judge Kelly has served as senior trial attorney with the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office where she represented minors in child abuse and neglect cases. She has taught juvenile law at University of San Francisco School of Law and also served as an assistant U.S. attorney. She was appointed to the Superior Court in San Francisco in 2003. “Many children in our city face tremendous obstacles and difficulties,” Judge Kelly told Catholic San Francisco. “I am deeply honored by this recognition and feel very blessed that I have been able to work in collaboration with
extraordinary people, some who are truly saints, to bring some measure of hope to children who need it most.” Judge Kelly began her efforts on behalf of youth during what she called a “crack cocaine epidemic,” among families she was assisting some 20 years ago. “Despite compelling issues of poverty, violence and substance abuse, I was struck by the number of young people who were eager to find a job and were particularly hungry for knowledge,” she said. “The youngsters in juvenile hall, many of whom had significant challenges in school, were desperate to read.” “Together with some determined volunteers and ultimately the San Francisco Library, we were able to bring an extensive library to the young people in Juvenile Hall and Log Cabin Ranch.” Judge Kelly said the work could not have been accomplished without the Volunteer Auxiliary of Youth Guidance Center, currently known as City Youth Now, an organization “originally founded by distinguished women in both the Catholic and Jewish communities of San Francisco. “The greatest honor I have had as a lawyer and judge is to have worked in the juvenile court system,” Judge Kelly said. “I was particularly honored to be the juvenile court judge who presided over the innovative Juvenile ReEntry Court, which has significantly reduced recidivism and provided invaluable support to youth and their families.” Judge Kelly’s husband is attorney Kevin Holl. They are the proud parents of daughters Kaitlin, a senior at Villanova University, and Claire, a sophomore at the University of San Francisco. The family belongs to St. Brendan Parish in San Francisco.
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Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Our Lord, before returning to the Father, announced the gift of the Holy Spirit and charged His followers with being His witnesses “to the ends of the earth” (Acts 1:8). We are familiar with this fundamental duty of all Catholics. Each year, we renew this baptismal call, especially during our Easter celebration. And in October, as the entire Church celebrates World Mission Sunday, we have a chance to fulfill this duty in a special way. Through prayer and sacrifice we are able to support those missionaries who bring the “Good News” of Jesus to faraway places. In doing so, we are renewing our own vocation as missionaries. The Church is, after all, mission. Thankfully, there are many organization, some Catholic, that extend the treasure and talent of Americans to those parts of the world where people are struggling to get enough to eat or send their children to school. However, the Church’s missionary activity begins with the proclamation of faith: “Jesus is Lord!” He is our common hope – a hope that not only clothes and educates, but also saves. On World Mission Sunday, October 23, I invite you to “celebrate the hope that saves” through prayer and participation in the Eucharist, and by giving generously to the World Mission Sunday collection. On behalf of Archbishop Niederauer, I commend you for your vital contribution to the Pontifical Mission Societies, which will support those 1,150 young mission dioceses and communities who await the “Good News” of Jesus as their saving hope. As we pray and respond here in the United States, we join with every parish and chapel around the world to renew ourselves and our Church. May God bless you and our Archdiocese.
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Honduran priest, 83, returns to help his country face its past SANTA ROSA DE COPAN, Honduras (CNS) – An 83-year-old Honduran priest has returned from exile to help the Central American nation face its past. A member of an alternative truth commission established by human rights groups, Father Fausto Milla fled Honduras for Nicaragua July 8 after a series of threats against him and his assistant. He returned home Sept. 18, determined to continue his work of helping the nation reconcile its Father Milla bloody past. In 1980, scores of Salvadoran refugees seeks the were massacred at the Sumpul River along the truth of what Salvadoran-Honduran border in a combined operahappened tion of the two countries’ militaries. Father Milla’s around the parish was nearby, and he condemned the massacre 2009 coup and participated in an international tribunal to that overthrew investigate the crime. In response, he was threatened and finally kidnapped the Honduran in 1981. Following an international outcry, he president. was released after five days. Later that year, he was forced into exile for four years, allowed to return to his parish only after lengthy negotiations between the Honduran military and his bishop. Now, Father Milla wants to know the truth about what happened before and after the 2009 military coup that overthrew Honduran President Manuel Zelaya. In May 2010, international pressure led the Honduran government to create a Truth and Reconciliation Commission that includes Honduran and foreign members.
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Yet many Hondurans doubted that such an official commission would produce anything critical of the coup plotters and, with violence increasing across the country, human rights groups created an alternative commission that June. They called it the “True Commission.” Father Milla is one of two Hondurans on the alternative commission, which is chaired by Maryknoll Sister Elsie Monge, an Ecuadorean who serves as president of that country’s Ecumenical Commission on Human Rights. “The official commission’s creation was part of the clown act in the circus, something to distract the attention of the people from the growing violence around them. It’s entertainment, like football,” Father Milla told Catholic News Service. Since the 2009 coup, the security situation in Honduras has deteriorated dramatically. Demonstrators protesting what they consider to be an illegitimate government have been beaten and killed. Journalists asking hard questions about government corruption or involvement in drug trafficking have been frequently threatened; according to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists, 12 Honduran journalists have been murdered since March 2010. And landless peasants seeking rich farmland they claim is rightfully
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (CNS) — Bishop Robert W. Finn of the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph has become the highest ranking member of the clergy to be charged with a crime arising out of the sex abuse scandal plaguing the Catholic Church. Bishop Finn and the diocese were charged in a closed indictment by the Jackson County, Mo., grand jury on Oct.6 on misdemeanor criminal charges of failure to alert authorities about the potential threat to children posed by a diocesan priest, Father Shawn Ratigan, as Missouri law requires. The charges were announced Oct. 14 by Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters, who emphasized that the pursuit of the case has nothing to do with “the Catholic faith,” but is based on state law requiring reporting of the potential of child abuse. Bishop Finn, who if convicted could face a year in jail and a $1,000 fine, and the diocese, facing a $5,000 fine, entered pleas of not guilty. “Bishop Finn denies any criminal wrongdoing and has cooperated at all stages with law enforcement, the grand jury, the prosecutor’s office” and the independent commission appointed by the diocese to study the matter, said Gerald Handley, the bishop’s attorney. “We will continue our efforts to resolve this matter.” Bishop Finn said in a statement after diocesan attor-
the diocese in those cases are also accused of failing to keep Father Ratigan away from children apparently after learning disturbing images were found on the priest’s computer and being warned of the priest’s inappropriate behavior around children. Suspicions about Father Ratigan first arose in midDecember 2010, when a laptop belonging to the priest, then pastor of St. Patrick Parish in Kansas City, was turned in to diocesan officials; a computer technician found disturbing photos on the hard drive. The photos included pictures of female children at parish events, including one of a naked female child who was not identifiable. In May, a search of his family’s home turned up a disk and hard drive with 18 different images of child pornography. Father Ratigan was charged with three counts of possession of child pornography in Clay County, followed later by the federal charges. – Contributing to this report was John Thavis in Rome and George Raine of Catholic San Francisco. The full statement from the Diocese of Kansas CitySt. Joseph is available at http://bit.ly/pubf2f.
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St. Hilary School adopts iPads in move to new teaching, learning style In a sign of the role-shifting times, teachers are giving Apples to their students at St. Hilary School in Tiburon. On Oct. 3, every sixth-, seventh- and eighth-grader received an iPad in the start of an updated technology program that promises to transform traditional teaching techniques. The sleek Apple tablet challenges pen and paper’s supremacy as a study staple, changes the classic “teacher as preacher” instruction format and channels control over learning modes to the student. Sold on the technology’s classroom potential, Principal Charley Hayes purchased 100 of the devices he insists will make the educational experience more effective, efficient and engaging. Hayes acknowledged the move strays into a World Wide Web of temptations to malleable young minds, but asserted the change was necessary to keep in step with a new generation and to keep up with an evolving, computercentered world. Hayes kicked-off the “historic” program at an all-school assembly. “Raise your hand if you’re excited about the iPads,” Hayes asked the K-8 student body seated on the gymnasium floor, flanked by parents and faculty. Every arm shot up, amidst whoops and cheers. After dismissing the younger classes, which will use the textbook-size tablets in small learning groups, the principal reminded the middle schoolers of the principles they must follow. “We want you to have the advantage of the latest technology because that’s what you use at home, that’s what you are going to use in high school and college, and that’s what most likely you will use on the job after graduation,” he said. “But remember, as the leaders of tomorrow, you must set a good example and use it responsibly, ethically, legally and morally.” To ensure that end, personal promises of adhering to
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St. Hilary student David Haines is pictured with one of the school’s newly issued iPads.
Christian conduct and parental permission are prerequisite and a former member of the school advisory board, said he spearheaded the technology initiative because “I wanted to for using the Internet, email and other tablet functions. Once in, students can access an array of applications for elevate the credibility and reputation of St. Hilary.” The school has made such strides in both, “we now every avocation, from athletics to academics. In physical education, the technology would help them have high schools coming to see how to prepare for our “see it, show it, do it,” said instructor Neil Cayman. “We students,” said Assistant Principal Maggie Murphy. Prospective pupils and their families can judge for watch the drill, demonstrate the technique and put it into themselves during school tours play in the field.” Oct. 25, Nov. 8 and Nov. 15. For first-year teacher Kaj Kibak thinks the technolKibak, the iPad was designed ogy will spur applications with his seventh-grade language The ‘teacher as master at the from both new students and arts and social studies class in mind. Within minutes of assign- pulpit’ format no longer applies. teachers, who will be in great demand over the next 10 years ing his 20 students their tablets, as the 50 percent of over-50 he had them customizing the — Principal Charley Hayes California educators start to graphic organizer to depict the retire. five pillars of Islam, the current Already, the approach is lesson objective. “You might wind up with 20 students choosing 20 dif- generating a buzz among the current crop of young eduferent ways to organize the material,” Kibak said, “but all of cators. “Today’s children are not the students of yesterday,” them learn the same lesson, laid out by the teacher.” Hayes said the approach represents a shift in the said Claire Potter, math specialist for grades five to eight, teacher’s role: “The ‘teacher as master at the pulpit’ format “and no matter how successful and effective our teaching modalities were then, they no longer work for this new, no longer applies.” J. Robert Hahn, the father of a fourth- and second-grader advanced, techno-savvy generation.”
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October 21, 2011 Bourgeois was traveling to Rome and added, “From the beginning, it has been Maryknoll that has repeatedly attempted to foster communication between Father Bourgeois and the church.” Father Bourgeois told journalists, “I don’t want to be kicked out,” but that he was fighting for “what is just” and would accept whatever decision his order made “without anger.” He said the church’s ban on the ordination of women “defies reason and defies faith” and had at its roots “the sin of sexism.” The demonstrators, including two women who claimed to By Carol Glatz be priests and one a deacon, walked from Castel Sant’Angelo ROME (CNS) – After marching up the wide boulevard to to St. Peter’s Square carrying banners that said “God is calling St. Peter’s Square Oct. 17, Maryknoll Father Roy Bourgeois women to be priests” and “Ordain Catholic women” while singand two other demonstrators supporting ing and beating a small tambourine. women’s ordination were briefly detained The Vatican does not allow protests, demby Italian police. The ban on the onstrations or signs on Vatican property and A group of 18 people, most of them from Italian police did not allow the group to enter the United States, were trying to deliver to St. Peter’s Square. ordination of Vatican officials a petition supporting the Police explained to the group that it was ordination of women as Catholic priests. illegal to hold a demonstration without a women ‘defies The petition, signed by 15,000 people, permit and that it would have been more praised the work of Father Bourgeois, who appropriate to have called Vatican officials reason and faces possible dismissal from his order and ahead of time in order to deliver the petition. the priesthood for his refusal to recant his con“It’s not like delivering a pizza, you can’t defies faith.’ tinued support for the ordination of women. just show up” unannounced and without authoThe Maryknoll order has issued two rization, the undercover police officer said. canonical warnings to the 73-year-old priest – Maryknoll “It’s a very important pizza,” one of the this year. He was excommunicated “latae sendemonstrators shouted. tentiae” – automatically – in November 2008 Father Bourgeois was told several times by Father Ray after participating in the attempted ordination Italian police that they could not prevent him of Janice Sevre-Duszynska, who was also at entering St. Peter’s Square by himself Bourgeois from the demonstration. to try to deliver the petition to someone in the Father Bourgeois was still with the Vatican, but the group as a whole and specifiMaryknoll Society as the matter was being cally the women dressed as priests could not enter the square reviewed, the order said in a written statement to Catholic because “their form of dress is a form of protest.” News Service Oct. 11. However, the situation grew tense when police tried to conThe Maryknoll Society said it was aware that Father fiscate the group’s banners and fliers. Members of the group refused because the vinyl banners cost a lot to produce, one demonstrator explained. Because of their refusal to hand over the banners peacefully, Father Bourgeois and two members of the group, Erin Saiz Hanna, executive director of the Women’s Ordination In 2008, the doctrinal congregation formally decreed Conference, and Miriam Duignan of WomenPriests.org, were that a woman who attempts to be ordained a Catholic brought to a nearby Italian police station. They were not arrested priest and the person attempting to ordain her are autoand no charges were filed against them. matically excommunicated. In 1994, Blessed John Paul II said the church’s ban on women priests is definitive and not open to debate among Catholics. – Catholic News Service
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THE STIGMA HAS NOT ABATED A sister who works with the mentally ill explains how to turn fear, guilt and shame into action and reach out to those among us who suffer through no fault of their own.
Please share a short biography. Long before I heard the words “social justice” I experienced the living out of this term within my family circle. My father was a union leader and over the supper table we learned about the dignity of workers and all people and the importance of speaking up for those who have no voice or feel powerless to change the system. My parents lived in the same home for almost 70 years and at my mother’s funeral six years ago she was eulogized as the “Compassionate Mother of our neighborhood who was always there for the most vulnerable or excluded.” No wonder that all five of my brothers and sister became socially active in serving others. What inspired you to your vocation? My parents, grandmother, and the sisters who taught me in grade school and high school inspired me by their example of caring for others, especially those most in need. From a very young age I felt the call to go to Africa as a sister and be of service as a nurse. For over 50 years in religious life I have had the privilege of being able to minister with the underserved as a nursemidwife, clinical psychologist and spiritual directress in Taiwan, Tanzania and the United States. My Franciscan Sisters and many others inspire me by their solidarity with and advocating for the most marginalized and underserved of society. Tell us about your work with the National Alliance on Mental Illness. What are the services provided and what are the greatest needs in our local communities? For me, one of the greatest needs in our local parishes is to share the “good news” of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. So many parishioners are suffering silently and helplessly because they do not know where to turn for support when a loved one is suffering from serious mental illness. If only someone had told my family about NAMI when my younger brother, suffering from mental illness, was panhandling in tattered, dirty clothes with matted hair and living homeless on the streets of our small city. My family did everything to try to help him to no avail and I believe the greatest heart-pain of my mother’s life, after the death of my father, was reading a sign in our parish church stating that if my brother came into the church the pastor was to be phoned and he would call the police to escort him out, presumably to jail. My mother and brother never returned to our family church until the day of her funeral.
Our family’s story is not unique; many families have these same experiences and feelings of helplessness, hopelessness, guilt and shame of being able to help others but unable to help their very own loved ones. Until recently the term “schizophrenogenic mother” was used by the psychiatric community in books and many mothers, including my mother, believed that they were somehow the cause of their children’s
My father was a union leader and over the supper table we learned about the dignity of workers and all people and the importance of speaking up for those who have no voice or feel powerless to change the system. mental illness. Many mothers still do not know that current research invalidates that theory and has revealed that the brain scans of those with schizophrenia and other brain disorders look very different from the brain scans of someone without mental illness. Mental illness is nobody’s “fault.” How do you experience the presence of Christ in your work with the mentally ill? When I read the Gospels I am touched by how Jesus always reached out to those who were most vulnerable, excluded, invisible and marginalized in the community. I ask myself: “What would Jesus do today to reach out to those excluded from the circle?” My response is to go into the jails for Sunday services (and we all know that many of the mentally ill end up in jail); pray at murder sites with families of the victims; teach trauma recovery to women transitioning from jail; and do therapy with the undocumented, uninsured and others. How much of a stigma against the mentally ill do you see in society? Has this abated somewhat over the years, the same the way that other minority groups have become less marginalized? No, the stigma has not abated and the most informed answer I could offer to this question is in the mission statement of the group known as Stamp Out Stigma.
Their mission is to change the destructive perceptions caused by television and film’s portrayal of people suffering from a mental illness, typically presented as society’s outcasts, being violent, unproductive, uneducated, dangerous, crazy, and nothing more than an economic drain on society. Employment, education, and housing opportunities of persons with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major depression, anxiety and panic disorders, personality disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder can be significantly hampered by this societal stigma which is then often internalized within the person with mental illness. What are the root causes of mental illness in your experience? It’s often said that mental illness is half genetic and half environmental. What is your experience? Mental illness is a brain disorder, and brain disorders are biologically based medical problems. Untreated, disorders of the brain cause severe disturbance in thinking, feeling and relating to others. This results in substantially diminished capacity for coping with the ordinary demands of life. These brain disorders can affect persons of any age and occur in any family. Mental illness is not caused by bad parenting and is not evidence of weakness of character. Can you give an example of how your work with a mentally ill person has changed you? Every person I have met or counseled with a diagnosis of mental illness has been my teacher. I marvel at their resiliency and courage in facing the daily burden they carry through no fault of their own. When I feel down or rejected in some way all I have to do is to think of them, each one of them, including my brother struggling through each day and it renews my strength and hope. There are many lessons to be learned from those with the lived experience of mental illness if we are open. The least we can do is to support them, advocate for them and do all we can to reduce the stigma. How can members of the Catholic community help their mentally ill members? The Catholic community and all caring communities can Google www. NAMICalifornia.org to find their local NAMI office listed by county with the phone number. You will reach a kind volunteer who will answer your questions. Be sure to ask for some pamphlets that list the free services NAMI provides. Then perhaps you can request that they be placed in a convenient place in your church available to all. If you carry a few in your car or purse you will always have some handy to offer persons or family members suffering but not knowing where to turn for support. You are also invited to join us for the annual NAMI San Francisco Bay Area Walk where seven Bay Area counties come together in Golden Gate Park to walk together to end stigma and raise awareness about mental illness.
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As part of our ongoing coverage of the full breadth of Respect Life Month, Catholic San Francisco interviewed Franciscan Sister Maureen Sinnott, Ph.D., M.Div., a clinical psychologist who has a private practice in Redwood City and whose ministry also includes serving as a disaster mental health psychologist for the Red Cross and as a clinical psychologist for organizations assisting formerly incarcerated women. She is active in the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill.
Franciscan Sister Maureen Sinnott speaks with a consumer of mental health services during a National Alliance for the Mentally Ill provider education class in San Mateo Oct. 13. The five-week course helps providers realize the hardships that families and consumers face to live with and recover from mental illness.
How to help – The National Association of Mental Illness, at www.nami.org, offers a free 12-week course taught by trained family member volunteers. It is open to parents, spouses, siblings and adult children of persons with mental illness. – NAMI offers a free nine-week program for persons with mental illness taught by trained mentors with lived experience of mental illness. – NAMI collaborates with sheriff’s departments and behavioral health and recovery services in some counties to help law enforcement deal with people with mental illness.
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– For more ideas on parish work, take a look at one Philadelphia parish’s Disability Advisory Committee, http://bit.ly/qK5WDn – Ideas from the Archdiocese of Philadelphia on how parish members can support families with children with disabilities, http://bit.ly/rnE71n – View the U.S. bishops’ 1978 Pastoral Statement on People with Disabilities, http://bit.ly/o3CRmO – Catholic teaching on disability, http://bit.ly/r4DnAR
Sister Maureen is pictured with providers and consumers at the education class, which was designed to teach providers how to be more sensitive to the mentally ill and their families. Above right, she speaks to consumer and teacher Calvin Shelton.
“Few of us would admit to being prejudiced against people with disabilities. We bear them no ill will and do not knowingly seek to abrogate their rights. Yet people with disabilities are visibly, sometimes bluntly different from the norm, and we react to this difference. Even if we do not look down upon them, we tend all too often to think of them as somehow apart – not completely one of us.” – Pastoral Statement of the U.S. Catholic Bishops on Persons with Disabilities, Nov. 16, 1978
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Advance of same-sex marriage deepens religious liberty concern By Dennis Sadowski This backgrounder and news analysis was published by Catholic News Service Oct. 13. WASHINGTON (CNS) – The widening campaign by gay rights advocates to promote same-sex marriage as a civil rights issue is forcing Catholic and other religious institutions to confront charges of intolerance and discrimination. Also at risk, say church officials working on the legal front, is the way religious institutions and individuals opposed to same-sex marriage conduct business from hall rentals to receiving government contracts for social services. Recently, the Diocese of Peoria, Ill., withdrew from all state-funded social service contracts, citing increasing clashes between state law and church teaching on same-sex relationships. The Diocese of Rockford stopped offering state-funded adoptions and foster care services when the Illinois civil unions legislation took effect June 1. Catholic Charities in the dioceses of Joliet and Springfield and Catholic Social Services of Southern Illinois in Belleville also have been involved in legal proceedings with the state since then. In 2006, Catholic Charities in San Francisco and Boston stopped adoption placements when laws required equal treatment of applicants in same-sex relationships.
Elsewhere, including New York where a same-sex marriage law took effect July 24, church institutions are carefully monitoring how such laws are being applied and are vigilant for threats to religious liberty in the areas of taxes, housing, education and employment. “The general issue is the definition of marriage creates many, many rights, not just one,” explained Anthony R. Picarello Jr., general counsel for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. “So changing the definition of marriage creates changes throughout the legal system.” Those changes can affect a wide range of practices far beyond marriage such as whether: – A private individual can deny renting an apartment to a same-sex couple on religious grounds. – A public school teacher who refuses to talk about same-sex marriage as a justice issue can continue to teach. – A counselor’s license can be revoked for declining to accept same-sex couples as clients. – A religious organization that does not recognize same-sex marriage can be considered discriminatory by a state or local government and lose any contract for services. “Redefining marriage has a multiplier effect,” Picarello explained to Catholic News
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Support religious ed You have a lot of articles about Catholic schools but I have very mixed feelings about Catholic schools today. I know there is a lot of good going on in them but I believe that the religious education programs that parishes provide are where most Catholic children are coming to be educated in their faith. We need to support these programs wholeheartedly. The children’s sacramental lives are in the hands of parish religious education leaders, not the schools anymore. I would like to read more information about these very busy archdiocesan programs. Mimi Ahern San Carlos
Column uninformed With all due respect to Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr’s anti-war stance, and at the risk of sounding like a warmonger, I am stunned by Tony Magliano’s lack of basic knowledge of historical fact, “America’s longest war,” Oct. 7). As the saying goes: “War has solved nothing” … except, defeated communism, abolished Nazism, fascism, imperialism, totalitarianism, slavery and soon … terrorism. Tragic though any war is, Mr. Magliano would be shocked to know that women in Afghanistan can now attend school, visit libraries, vote and even be spared of mutilation. In addition, the drug source of income for the Taliban is steadily being eliminated by the U.S. military. Roads are built, hospitals established, electricity grids powered and even hotels erected … and all the above by 2008! How is it that our country’s “violent” military, such a cause of “instability” and “obstacle to peace” is the first to provide aid
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in disaster relief? We have jolting reason to be shameful that when our economy falters, so goes the world’s economy. Could it be that the rest of the world looks to the Christian-Judaic U.S. for stability? Does a thriving South Korea survive on the border of a diabolical North Korea as a consequence of our “arrogant” military? Why is the military–industrial complex highlighted for lobbying, over the ACORN, MoveOn.org, pot club, GLAD and solar energy lobbyists? Only the late and great Steve Jobs sent no lobbyists to Washington … moreover, Mr. Jobs didn’t tell everyone that he was unique. Rather, he was recognized for what he was, and rightfully so. Happily, the majority of this country recognizes the United States for what it is: exceptional. How many lands has the U.S .militaryindustrial complex conquered or annexed? At last count, zero. Sadly, Mr. Magliano believes he must apologize for the United States, as our own president famously has. Mr. Magliano has dismissed the more than 300,000 Iraqi souls dumped in mass graves under Saddam Hussein. More to the point, perhaps, he wants to visit “unobstructively peaceful” Iran … oops, I mean Egypt. Carolyn Carr San Francisco
Fuzzy logic Father John Catoir’s Oct. 7 commentary on “Wisdom vs. logic” was full of fuzzy illogical notions. He states that the theory of evolution is plausible but it has never been truly proven and that Darwin’s theory eliminates God from the process. Evolution, specifically common descent, is widely acknowledged as a fact. Even Pope John Paul II acknowledged this. What is not a fact is the explanation about how life has evolved, whether by natural selection or genetic mutation – this is the unproven theory part. Regardless, evolution tells us how life came to be where it is now, but it does not say why. The choice is not between God and science, or even between religion and evolution. Isn’t
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Service. “The problems proliferate. The problems that we see under mere sexual orientation anti-discrimination laws multiply by order of magnitude when marriage is redefined. “Marriage is a legal lever, because in our society we have a legal infrastructure that
rewards those who support marriage, and punishes those who oppose it. When that legal structure ... is then applied to a relationship that isn’t marriage, the people who object to that definition are going to suffer severe disadvantages,” he added.
it plausible that Darwin discovered a new law of nature designed by God? Father Catoir claims that logic has caused many believers to leave the faith and that we should pray for those who have lost their faith because of the atheistic theories of Charles Darwin. First, it is not clear at all that Darwin was an atheist. But to speak to the main point, isn’t it also possible that many believers have left the faith because of the dogmatism of its leaders? Both science and religion contribute to our understanding of mankind and both sides should treat each other with mutual respect. We should pray for those who have lost their faith, but let’s not blame it solely on the scientists. Theresa Jennings San Rafael
In contrast, Darwin begins his essay on “The Descent of Man” by admitting that his evidence is not complete. Logic (through reason) per se is not why believers lose their faith. Human reasoning is fallible and needs the assistance of Holy Spiritinspired teaching offered in a convincing way, through lifelong formal or informal religious education, homilies or competently led faith sharing groups. As in medicine, preservation of faith needs an ounce of prevention! Alex M. Saunders, M.D. San Carlos
Logic, faith unopposed Logic needs no defense against Father John Catoir’s column, “Wisdom vs. logic.” Logic is merely a tool. A tool used wrongly will give improper results. For example, a screwdriver held at the wrong end is unlikely to properly drive a screw. In the case of logic, if one starts with the wrong premise, one may indeed reach the wrong conclusion. The attempt to interpret every word of Genesis leads to the wrong premise that the fall of Adam and Eve is a necessary prerequisite to the concept of original sin. I quote Cardinal Walter Kasper, a former member of the Curia, and one of many theologians writing on the subject: “Original sin means that the universal situation determining everyone inwardly is in fact opposed to the original saving will of God.” (See Page 203, Walter Kasper, “Jesus the Christ,” Paulist Press, 1976) Since the premise was in error, one need not even discuss Father Catoir’s conclusion except to say that the doctrine for the need of salvation is not in jeopardy due to the theories of Darwin. Charles Darwin wrote two major works, “The Origin of Species” and “The Descent of Man.” The actual theory of the first is “survival of the fittest” in the formation of new species over long periods of time. To counteract Father Catoir’s accusation about Darwin’s faith, here I quote the last paragraph of “Origin”: “There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that while this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved.”
Not a democracy After many years of reading Catholic San Francisco, I have finally felt compelled to write in response to Father John Ring’s letter (“St. Brigid book is questionable history,” Oct. 7). At the time of the pastoral planning process I was a parishioner at St. John the Evangelist Parish and my children were attending Immaculate Conception Elementary School. The small meetings and town hall meetings were anything but collaborative. During the process a memo surfaced that the commission had a “hit list” of churches and their real estate value if closed and sold. All the while the commission and the pastors told us there was no such list and we were all in this together. Sadly that was not true. Our school was merged with St. Anthony School and eventually the ICE campus was closed and SAIC suffered continuous low enrollment. Toward the end a pastor informed me with his finger in my face that the Catholic Church is not a democracy and whatever the archdiocese wants to do cannot be stopped by the parishioners. I watched as St Brigid went through so much turmoil over the closure and subsequent sale of the property. Father Ring’s broad view of how well the pastoral commission worked with the parishioners just rings so hollow today. Just one more reason why so many Catholics have left the church. Jeffrey Milla San Francisco Editor’s note: The pastoral planning process resulted in closures and mergers and other dispositions of property in certain parishes in the archdiocese. In the case of closures, buildings in financially strapped parishes were deemed too costly to upgrade seismically. Decisions were reached by consensus; there was no “hit list.” The archdiocese hired engineers and real estate consultants to evaluate properties that were scheduled to close.
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Lay reform of church and world Two volumes recently published by Encounter Books address key issues in the new evangelization. The first, Marcello Pera’s “Why We Must Call Ourselves Christians,” is another effort by a distinguished public intellectual to call our civilization back to its foundational senses. Pera, a philosopher of science, is also an Italian legislator who served for several years as president of the Italian Senate. During his tenure as Italy’s third-ranking public official, he co-authored a book with then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, “Without Roots,” in which Pera, the secular philosopher, and Ratzinger, the church’s principal theologian, found a remarkable degree of agreement on the causes of Europe’s current malaise, which both men traced to a profound hostility to Christian faith and a deep skepticism about moral truth. In this sequel, Pera develops his argument that a West that has marginalized Christian truth and Christian values is a West that has hollowed itself out and become an empty shell: a shell that will crack under the increasing pressure of demographic crisis, fiscal crisis, and, ultimately, political crisis. Only a renewed appreciation of what Christianity brings to public life, Pera proposes, will suffice to reconstruct a West that is imperiled from without by the assault of Islamist jihadism, and from within by what his friend Ratzinger, now the pope and the author of the preface to Pera’s book, calls the “dictatorship of relativism.”
Marcello Pera is one of the most civilized men I know. For those who have not had the pleasure and honor of his friendship, to meet him in this book is to meet a modern Ezekiel, a watchman appointed to show all with eyes to see and ears to hear the path into a more humane future. If there is to be a reconstruction of the Christian roots of Western culture, that will most likely come, not from the clergy, but from the Christian laity: fathers and mothers who raise families in the truth, men and women at work in the fields of business, culture, the arts, the academy, the media and politics. That was the teaching of Vatican II; that was the teaching of John Paul II in his 1990 encyclical on Christian mission, “Redemptoris Missio” (“The Mission of the Redeemer”) and the 1988 apostolic exhortation “Christifideles Laici” (“Christ’s Lay Faithful”); and that is a teaching the church has yet to absorb. One of the oddities of the post-Vatican II church is that its concrete life has often inverted the council’s teaching on the roles of bishops and priests, on the one hand, and lay Catholics, on the other, in the public square. Bishops and priests were to recover their prophetic role as teachers and formers of the Christian conscience; the laity were to be empowered by their bishops and priests to bring the Gospel into the world. Yet the omnipresence of episcopal conference statements on every conceivable issue of public policy has filled much of the public “space” that was to have been shaped by the witness
of a deeply catechized and formed laity, while the phrase “Catholics in public life” has come to mean the likes of Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry, and Joe Biden, none of whom qualifies as minimally catechized, much George Weigel less deeply catechized. In “Living the Call,” philosopher Michael Novak and businessman/philanthropist Bill Simon challenge their fellow Catholics, laymen and women alike, to take the council seriously, and to see in the church both a source of wisdom that can heal our broken culture and an arena of service in which the laity have many important roles to fill – including roles that will free priests and bishops from being overwhelmed by administrative tasks, to the point where their primary roles as teachers and sanctifiers become minimized. “Living the Call” is no exercise in abstraction, however, for the authors illustrate their proposals with the examples of real-life apostles at work in the church and the world, examples that both instruct and inspire. George Weigel is Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.
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Respect life: The rest of the story If you really respect life, you will be deeply committed to praying and working for the full protection of every single unborn baby. But there’s more to this story. Do you remember the late broadcaster Paul Harvey? He always had interesting stories to share with his listeners. But the best part of each story came at the end, with a surprising twist. He would conclude with his signature phrase: “And now you know ... the rest of the story.” From the Catholic perspective, the rest of the respect life story also includes a deep commitment to praying and working to ensure that every born person’s life and dignity is protected, especially the vulnerable and poor. Rather than concentrating on just one life issue, such as abortion, extremely important as it is, Catholic social teaching urges believers to also include energetic efforts on behalf of the hungry, the homeless, the medically uninsured, the undocumented, the unemployed, the uneducated, the environment, the abolition of the death penalty, the elimination of nuclear weapons and ending war itself. The social doctrine of the Catholic Church links social justice, peace and life issues. In his powerful encyclical “Evangelium Vitae” (“The Gospel of Life”), Blessed John Paul II is crystal clear on this. He writes: “As disciples of Jesus, we are called to become
neighbors to everyone (Luke 10:29-37) and to show special favor to those who are poorest, most alone and most in need. In helping the hungry, the thirsty, the foreigner, the naked, the sick, the imprisoned – as well as the child in the womb and the old person who is suffering or near death – we have the opportunity to serve Jesus. ... “Where life is involved, the service of charity must be profoundly consistent. It cannot tolerate bias or discrimination, for human life is sacred and inviolable at every stage and in every situation; it is an indivisible good. We need then to ‘show care’ for all life and for the life of everyone.” Take, for example, the poor. In his October 1979 New York homily, Blessed John Paul was rock solid in his conviction that showing deep care for the poor is absolutely essential. He compassionately proclaimed: “The poor of the United States and of the world are your brothers and sisters in Christ. Never be content to leave them just the crumbs of the feast. Take of your substance, and not just of your abundance, in order to help them. Treat them like guests at your family table.” The latest U.S. Census Bureau statistics reveal a record 46 million Americans – 16 million of them children – are poor. According to the anti-poverty Christian organization Bread for the World, approximately 925 million fellow human beings throughout the world are hungry. Every day,
almost 16,000 children die from hunger-related causes. What are we going to do about it? Ongoing prayer, study and generous giving are required here. And Tony Magliano Respect Life Month is the perfect time to expand our active concern for all life. For again in the words of Blessed John Paul: “We are all really responsible for all.” And now you know ... the rest of the respect life story. Editor’s note: The U.S. bishops’ October 2011 statement “Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship” is found at www.faithfulcitizenship.org. The statement “applies Catholic moral principles to a range of important issues and warns against misguided appeals to ‘conscience’ to ignore fundamental moral claims, to reduce Catholic moral concerns to one or two matters, or to justify choices simply to advance partisan, ideological, or personal interests.” Tony Magliano writes a column on social justice for Catholic News Service.
Guest Commentary
Alarming trends of emerging adulthood Today’s young adults are headed toward trouble, according to University of Notre Dame professor of sociology Christian Smith, the author of the new book “Lost in Transition: The Dark Side of Emerging Adulthood.” In the summer of 2008, Smith and co-authors Kari Christoffersen, Hilary Davidson and Patricia Snell Herzog, together with a team of trained interview researchers, conducted 230 in-depth interviews with young adults between the ages of 18 and 23. Their results are disconcerting. “What we saw and heard in our interviews,” writes Smith, “is that many emerging adult lives are complex, fraught with difficulty and often beset with big problems, serious confusions, and misplaced values and devotions.” He points especially to their confused moral reasoning, materialistic life goals, routine intoxication, exploitation of sex and disengagement from civic and political life. They do this much more so than earlier generations. Why? Smith offers five factors contributing to a dark, emerging adulthood. First, the dramatic growth of higher education. A huge proportion of college graduates today are extending their schooling well into their 20s.
Second, people are delaying marriage. Earlier generations married right out of high school, settled down and started families. Today, a typical bride walks down the aisle 10 or more years after high school graduation. Third, job security doesn’t really exist today. We can no longer expect to work for one company for decades and then retire with a nice pension. Most people can’t even commit to a career or field of study during their adult years. A lawyer may become a journalist and a journalist a banker. Fourth, older generations are enabling immaturity by funding their kids well past college graduation. In fact, Smith says, American parents spend on their children an average of $38,340 per child in total material assistance between the ages of 18 and 34. Fifth, birth control technologies have cheapened the act of sex. Before the development and introduction of “the pill,” Smith explains, having sex entailed a very real risk of creating a new life. After the 1960s, when the pill and other birth control technologies came on the market, that connection faded, and sex became a recreational activity. Smith claims that the widespread philosophies of postmodernism – theories that promote uncertainty, ambiguity and changing identities – contributed to a culture of moral relativism. For the most part, Smith walked away from the interviews
feeling troubled, disturbed, and depressed. He wrote the book to encourage parents, teachers, coaches, college administrators, pastors and anyone engaged with young people today to better understand the problems of Therese J. emerging adulthood and its larger implications. Borchard He also intends to communicate that we all have a responsibility to remedy this problem because it takes many generations to create a culture of selfishness and immaturity. Said Smith, “One way or another, adults and the adult world are almost always complicit in the troubles, suffering and misguided living of youth, if not the direct source of them. The more adults can recognize and admit that fact, the sooner we will be able to address some of young people’s problems more constructively.” Therese J. Borchard writes a column for Catholic News Service.
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A READING FROM THE BOOK OF EXODUS EX 22:20-26 Thus says the Lord: “You shall not molest or oppress an alien, for you were once aliens yourselves in the land of Egypt. You shall not wrong any widow or orphan. If ever you wrong them and they cry out to me, I will surely hear their cry. My wrath will flare up, and I will kill you with the sword; then your own wives will be widows, and your children orphans. “If you lend money to one of your poor neighbors among my people, you shall not act like an extortioner toward him by demanding interest from him. If you take your neighbor’s cloak as a pledge, you shall return it to him before sunset; for this cloak of his is the only covering he has for his body. What else has he to sleep in? If he cries out to me, I will hear him; for I am compassionate.” RESPONSORIAL PSALM PS 18:2-3, 3-4, 47, 51 R. I love you, Lord, my strength. I love you, O Lord, my strength,
The Torah was understood to have 613 commandments – 248 were positive while 365 were negative. It was required that all the commandments be considered equal but did not mean that they were all understood to have equal right or authority. There were “heavy” and “light” commandments. The “love for God” in Jesus’ response was not a new commandment to the mainstream rabbis in Jesus’ time. He quotes the beginning of the famous “Shema” prayer in Deuteronomy 6:5 to be the greatest and first commandment. Jesus reminds them and us, today, that the love one has for God must come from the heart, mind and soul; reaching the depth of a person’s being. It is not enough to merely obey a law and, thereby, think that one has fulfilled it. It must come from within. Consider the example of Dr. Ed Tenant and his wife, June. They were childless. When they tried to adopt children, they found healthy children were scarce. So they talked it over and decided to adopt a child the agency classified as “unplaceable.” The child was severely disabled and could not walk. The couple’s experience with this child led them to adopt more “unplaceable” children. They now have 12 such children. To some people, what the Tenants have done is “insane.” To the Tenants it’s simply an expression of love. They are responding to Jesus’ invitation to love with all their heart, with all their soul, and with all their minds.
October 21, 2011
Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time Exodus 22:20-26; Psalm 18:2-3, 3-4, 47, 51; I Thessalonians 1:5c-10; Matthew 22:34-40 O Lord, my rock, my fortress, my deliverer. R. I love you, Lord, my strength. My God, my rock of refuge, my shield, the horn of my salvation, my stronghold! Praised be the Lord, I exclaim, and I am safe from my enemies. R. I love you, Lord, my strength. The Lord lives and blessed be my rock! Extolled be God my savior. You who gave great victories to your king and showed kindness to your anointed. R. I love you, Lord, my strength.
A READING FROM THE FIRST LETTER OF PAUL TO THE THESSALONIANS 1 THES 1:5c-10 Brothers and sisters: You know what sort of people we were among you for your sake. And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, receiving the word in great affliction, with joy from the Holy Spirit, so that you became a model for all the believers in Macedonia and in Achaia. For from you the word of the Lord has sounded forth not only in Macedonia and in Achaia, but in every
Scripture reflection DEACON FAVIA PO’OI
Obedience must come from within Jesus continued to quote Leviticus 19:18, which states that one must love neighbor as oneself. Jesus combines the second with the first commandment and declares that the whole law and the prophets, referring to all of divine revelation, depend on these two commandments. Most of us don’t have difficulty loving our families, friends, co-workers and people we know and care about. The first reading directs our love and care even toward the neighbor we don’t know. In our society, this is perhaps not only challenging but sometime it is also very risky. In a crime-laden society such as ours, we tend not to trust
strangers. On one hand, we must be careful and protect ourselves and our loved ones. On the other hand, we must be deeply concerned and show compassion to others in need: This is an act of love. In loving our neighbor, we love as God first loved us. Jesus’ love and compassion is the heart of his teaching and ministry, and nothing is more expressive of his love than the Crucifixion. Jesus does not expect us to have warm, fuzzy feelings for all people. He cares greatly about what we do to one another especially about what we do to the least of our brothers and sisters. That’s the meaning of Christian love. The responsorial psalm expresses the
place your faith in God has gone forth, so that we have no need to say anything. For they themselves openly declare about us what sort of reception we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God and to await his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus, who delivers us from the coming wrath. A READING FROM THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW MT 22:34-40 When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of them, a scholar of the law tested him by asking, “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” He said to him, “You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments.”
wholehearted love of God (“I love you, Lord, my strength.”) It is an acknowledgment that the source of our capacity to love both God and neighbor is God. It is God who gives us strength to live according to the requirement of the commandments. The first reading tells us these demands in concrete terms as an act of love toward the poor and neglected, toward real people in real need. Jesus’ last story in Matthew is his parable of the final judgment. It is all about the acts of love. Feelings are completely omitted in this parable. Jesus does not say: “I was hungry and thirsty, and you felt sorry for me. I was naked, and you were embarrassed for me. I was sick, and you had sympathy for me.” That all sounds very nice. But that was not what Jesus said. What mattered to him was that the hungry and thirsty were fed, the naked were clothed, and the sick were visited. In other words, we put our warm, fuzzy feeling into action, just as we are to do with our faith. As we come together to receive the real presence of our risen Jesus Christ, we ask the Holy Spirit to guide our lives and actions. Through the grace of this Eucharist, may we open our mind, heart and soul to Jesus’ commands to love God and to love one another as Jesus has loved us. Deacon Favia Po’oi serves at St. Timothy Parish in San Mateo.
Question Corner
The existence of purgatory, sermon vs. homily Question: I have been to a number of funerals where the presiding priest has essentially stated that the deceased person “has gone to heaven.” No mention is made about purgatory, so I am wondering whether the church has discarded that belief. If so, then why do we have a funeral Mass at all? Why not go directly from the funeral home to the cemetery, and why celebrate All Souls’ Day anymore? (San Francisco) Answer: The Catholic Church clearly does believe in purgatory, which it describes as a period of purification after death before entrance into heaven. Section 1030 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church says: “All who die in God’s grace and friendship, but still imperfectly purified, are indeed assured of eternal salvation; but after death they undergo purification, so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven.” Exactly what this transitional state consists of, we cannot say with certainty. Pope John Paul II, addressing the matter in a general papal audience in 1999, explained that the term purgatory “does not indicate a place but a condition of existence.” How long it lasts, whether it might even be instantaneous, what exactly it feels like, are of course beyond our reckoning so long as we are on this side of eternity. But Pope Benedict XVI offered a glimpse of it in January of this year when he suggested that the soul in purgatory “is aware of the immense love and perfect justice of God (and) consequently suffers for not having responded correctly and perfectly to that love.” When Catholics gather for a funeral Mass, they do
so primarily to pray that God will bring the deceased person quickly and gently into the joy of his presence. In doing so, we are continuing the ancient Jewish practice of praying for those who have died, according to which Judas Maccabeus “made atonement for the dead that they might be absolved from their sin” (2 Maccabees 12:46). As your question notes, sometimes priests at funerals – in part to comfort the bereaved family – suggest that the quality of the deceased’s life argues for instant admission to heaven. But it is probably safer to assume, along with Proverbs 24:16, that “the just fall seven times,” and that most of us, if not all, will be grateful for some prayers at our passing – thus the wisdom of the Catholic funeral ritual that prays that the deceased will be cleansed of any sin and granted the fullness of redemption. Question: I am a convert to Catholicism, and I wish you would explain to me the difference between a Catholic homily and a Protestant sermon. (I have studied our faith a great deal, but the question stumped me when it came from a Methodist friend.) (Irving, Texas) Answer: A wag might answer the question this way. The difference between a Catholic homily and a Protestant sermon is “about 20 minutes” – and actually, there’s some truth to that. The celebration of the Eucharist is, for Catholics, always the focal point of the Sunday gathering, whereas many Protestant congregations have a Communion service only once a month. On the other Sundays, Protestants gather for scriptural readings, music and a sermon. Typically the
sermon lasts anywhere from 20 to 30 minutes, whereas the conventional wisdom now sets the ideal time for a Catholic Sunday homily at about eight minutes. In addition to length, there is a more substanFather tive difference. A Catholic homKenneth Doyle ily should take the assigned scriptural readings for that Mass and apply them, bringing out the lessons for daily living contained in the ageless Scriptures. There are some Protestant congregations that do follow the Catholic cycle of Sunday readings, but others that do not; so oftentimes, a Protestant sermon starts with a moral topic of the preacher’s choosing and then selects various scriptural passages as a basis for the moral teaching. Both Protestant sermons and Catholic homilies seem to generate more interest when they can link the Scriptures to current events. A wise dictum, variously attributed, says that a Christian preacher should speak with the Bible in one hand and today’s newspaper in the other. 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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Revised missal: More answers to common questions One of the most challenging changes to the revised Roman Missal being implemented Nov. 27, the First Sunday of Advent, concerns the words said over the chalice in each of the revised eucharistic prayers. Father Paul Turner, a renowned liturgist, wrote this article for the University of Notre Dame. It describes well the changes that you will hear and why they are being made. – Laura Bertone, interim director of worship, Archdiocese of San Francisco
By Father Paul Turner Among all the words undergoing a revision, one of them has probably raised more eyebrows than any other. It is the word “many.” It replaces the word “all.” And it has caused much concern among many faithful Catholics. As with much of the new translation, it helps to pick up a Bible to understand what is going on. The word of God can always shed light on the words of the Mass. The word in question shows up during the eucharistic prayer of every Mass, at the institution narrative or the words of consecration. Presently, people hear the priest quote Jesus saying these words about the wine at the Last Supper: Take this, all of you, and drink from it: this is the cup of my blood, the blood of the new and everlasting covenant. It will be shed for you and for all so that sins may be forgiven. Do this in memory of me. The revised translation makes a few alterations: Take this, all of you, and drink from it For this is the chalice of my blood. The blood of the new and eternal covenant. Which will be poured out for you and for many For the forgiveness of sins. Do this in memory of me. The word “cup” has become “chalice,” which makes the text sound more like the description of a ritual. The word “shed” has been changed to “poured out,” so that it can refer both to the blood and to the chalice; you can pour out a chalice, but you cannot shed a chalice. The word “everlasting” has become “eternal” because “everlasting” is a little like our word “long‐lasting”, whereas “eternal” refers to a time outside of the way we think of time. The phrase “so that sins may be forgiven” has been changed to “for the forgiveness of sins,” which basically means the same thing, but makes a tighter phrase that connects more directly with the New Testament’s record of the words of Jesus. But the change that has garnered the most attention is the one that explains for whom Jesus will pour out his blood. The current translation says, “for you and for all,” but the revised translation says, “for you and for many.” Logically, this has raised the objection, “Wait a minute. Does this mean that Jesus did not pour out his blood for all? Has he changed his mind about how many he came to save? If he poured out his blood for many, then who are these many, and who are not?” First, to put the larger question to rest, let there be no doubt about it: Jesus died for the sake of us all. In 2 Corinthians 5:14‐15, Paul writes, “For the love of Christ urges us on, because we are convinced that one has died for all; therefore
all have died. And he died for all, so that those who live might live no longer for themselves, but for him who died and was raised for them.” Paul’s Letter to Titus 2:11 says, “For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all.” In John 11:52, the evangelist says Jesus died to gather into one the dispersed children of God. The First Letter of John 2:2 says that Jesus “is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.” In John’s Gospel, 12:32, Jesus says very plainly, “And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.” So, there is no question about it, provable from several places in the New Testament, that Jesus came for the salvation of all. The problem is that he used a different word at the Last Supper, and it shows up in Mark 14:24 and in Matthew 26:28. The other accounts of the institution of the Eucharist in 1 Corinthians and in Luke’s Gospel do not quote Jesus making this statement at all. But both Mark and Matthew have him saying that his blood will be poured out for many. Why did he say this? The most logical explanation is that he is alluding to Isaiah 53:11‐12. There we hear the voice of God describing the task of the suffering servant: “The righteous one, my servant, shall make many righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities. … (H)e bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.” By using the word “many” precisely at this moment in his life, Jesus was most likely identifying himself as the fulfillment of Isaiah’s prophecy. Jesus is the Father’s faithful Son who suffered for the sake of others. The word is simply a device to link the Gospels to the Old Testament, the way the word “Emmanuel” appears in the story of Jesus’ birth, to link him to another prophecy of Isaiah. The problem for English‐speaking Catholics is that we are accustomed to hearing the words “for all,” so the change in translation will make the word “many” sound restrictive. But that is because of the changing translation, and not a good interpretation of the biblical sense of what Jesus said at the Last Supper or the inclusive nature of his mission that the rest of the New Testament so clearly proclaims. Reprinted with permission of the Notre Dame Center for Liturgy, http://liturgy.nd.edu. The article was shortened for space; the complete document can be viewed at http://bit.ly/qXOR1N.
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A picture Of Dorian Gray – and of our culture Nearly a century ago, Oscar Wilde wrote a famous jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses. novel titled, ‘A Picture of Dorian Gray.’ It begins this way: You will become sallow, and hollow-cheeked, and dull-eyed. Basil Hallward, a painter, has just finished a portrait of You will suffer horribly .... Ah! realize your youth while a young man of extraordinary good looks, Dorian Gray. Just you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listenas he finishes the painting, a brilliant, though highly cynical, ing to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, young Lord, Henry Wotton, wanders into the room, marvels or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and at the painting, and compliments Dorian on his good looks. the vulgar. These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our Dorian, quite humble at this stage of his life, tells Lord Henry age. Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing that his good looks mean little to him. But Lord Henry chal- be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. lenges Dorian to make his good looks mean something, both Be afraid of nothing .... A new Hedonism, that is what our because they are real and century wants. You might because they are transient. be its visible symbol. With Here are his words to your personality there is Youth, health, and sexual the young, Dorian Gray: You nothing you could not do. have a wonderfully beautiful The world belongs to you attractiveness do not, as face, Mr. Gray. Don’t frown. for a season .... You have. And Beauty is a A new Hedonism – that Lord Henry and much of form of Genius, is higher, is what our century wants! indeed, than Genius, as it Oscar Wilde prophesized our contemporary society needs no explanation. It this nearly a century ago is one of the great facts of and, it would seem, that the world, like sunlight, or is precisely to where we suggest, have a divine right of springtime, or the reflection have evolved in the Western in dark waters of that silver world. Bodily appearance, sovereignty. They are not ends shell we call the moon. It looking good, having a trim, cannot be questioned. It has athletic body, being sexually in themselves, but only part its divine right of sovereignattractive, remaining young, ty. It makes princes of those and being admired for your of our journey. who have it. You smile? body is, for the majority of Ah! When you have lost it our culture, a huge, obsesyou won’t smile... People sive preoccupation. Most say sometimes that Beauty is only superficial. That may be people in our culture, perhaps not in theory but certainly in so. But at least it is not so superficial as Thought is. To me, our practical life choices, would agree with Lord Henry when Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people he says: The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the invisible. Good looks tend to trump everything. world is the visible, not the invisible .... Yes, Mr. Gray, the Not that this is all bad. Shallow is the spirituality that gods have been good to you. But what the gods give they discredits the body! We are not angelic, disembodied spirits, quickly take away. You have only a few years in which to but creatures of body and soul, and both are important for live really, perfectly, and fully. When your youth goes, your our spiritual health. God did not make us to walk this earth beauty will go with it, and then you will suddenly discover indifferent to our bodily appearance, sexually numb and that there are no triumphs left for you, or have to content careless about our physical health. Indeed, indifference to yourself with those mean triumphs that the memory or your our health and bodily appearance is one of the signs of clinipast will make more bitter than defeats. Every month as it cal depression. Being young, healthy, and sexually attracwanes brings you nearer to something dreadful. Time is tive is meant to be enjoyed, one of the pleasures that God
intended for us. There is no virtue in looking and feeling shabby. Thus: It’s good, spiritually, to be physically healthy! It’s good, spiritually, to work at keeping our bodies attractive! It’s good, spiritually, to Father Ron healthily feel our sexualRolheiser ity! But these are a means, not an end. Youth, health, and sexual attractiveness do not, as Lord Henry and much of our contemporary society suggest, have a divine right of sovereignty. They are not ends in themselves, but only part of our journey toward maturity, altruism, and happiness. They are not the aim of that journey. And when we do make them the aim of our journey, we will, soon enough, taste the bitter bile warned of in Lord Henry’s counsel to the young Dorian Gray: You will suddenly discover that there are no triumphs left for you, or have to content yourself with those mean triumphs that the memory or your past will make more bitter than defeats. Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser is president of the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, Texas.
All Saints celebration at Holy Cross Cemetery Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery in Colma will celebrate All Saints Day Mass and Todos Los Santos Oct. 29 at 11 a.m. Mass will be celebrated by Msgr. Fred Bitanga in Holy Cross Mausoleum Chapel. Holy Spirit Ministry will provide music and Ministers of Hospitality are from St. Paul’s. The annual Todos Los Santos Celebration combines the traditions of the Filipino and Latino community. All are invited for a gathering and refreshments following the Mass. For more information, visit www.holycrosscemeteries.com or call (650)756-2060.
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Contemporary heroes, grieving parents offer lessons on dying, living “THE ART OF DYING AND LIVING: LESSONS FROM SAINTS OF OUR TIME” by Kerry Walters. Orbis Books (Maryknoll, N.Y., 2011). 226 pp., $20. “FINDING HOPE IN TIMES OF GRIEF “ by Preston and Glenda Parrish. Harvest House (Eugene, Ore., 2011). 187 pp., $10.99.
Reviewed by Nancy L. Roberts (CNS) Hundreds of years ago, our Christian forebears sought to learn to die well. They even wrote guidebooks about the art of dying (“ars moriendi”), hoping to inspire others to achieve a sense of spiritual completion and fulfillment at life’s end. But in our modern age, such signposts are few indeed. Our loved ones often die not at home, but in hospitals at some remove from us. And so we approach death largely untutored, bewildered and unprepared, writes Kerry Walters, a former hospital chaplain. In “The Art of Dying and Living: Lessons from Saints of Our Time,” he has produced a firstrate “ars moriendi” for our time. His thesis is simple and powerful: to die well, we must first live well. Long before our end, we need to cultivate love, gratitude, patience and trust, the virtues that will “make our living richly meaningful and discipline us to ways of thinking and behaving that will stand us in good stead at life’s end.” To this end, he presents instructive and moving stories of how seven holy men and women lived and died. We are invited to emulate Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s courage, Blessed John Paul II’s patience, Sister Thea Bowman’s love and Etty Hillesum’s gratitude, among others. Taking The story of Hillesum, a 29-year-old Dutch inspiration from Jewish mystic who lived for several months at a Holocaust Westerbork, the infamous transit camp in northeastvictim who ern Holland, before being shipped to Auschwitz and executed, is particularly wrote, ‘It all inspiring. In the midst of the horrific Nazi death comes down to culture, she sought and found God — and a deep the same thing: and abiding well of gratiWalters tells how she Life is beautiful.’ tude. watched as “infants dying of pneumonia were piled on the Auschwitz-bound freight cars and people already in the cars stuck their hands through gaps in the planks.” They “waved as if they were drowning,” Hillesum wrote in her journal. Yet at the same time, she recounted, ‘The sky is full of birds, the purple lupines stand up so regally and peacefully, two little old women have sat down on the box for a chat, the sun is shining on my face.” Later, Hillesum wrote. “It all comes down to the same thing: Life is beautiful. And I believe in God. ... Despite everything, I rejoice and exult time and again, Oh God: I am grateful to you for having given me this life.” Her gratitude lived large, stretching, as Walters writes, “to embrace the bad as well as the good, the tragedies that unfold in life and settle like ash on one’s spirit as well
EWTN focus on day of prayer with Pope Benedict in Assisi An EWTN special telecast will focus on Pope Benedict XVI as he leads a prayer vigil Oct. 26 in St. Peter’s Basilica for the “Day of Prayer for Peace and Justice in the World.” On Oct. 27, the Day of Prayer, EWTN will provide live coverage as the pope makes a pilgrimage to the hometown of St. Francis of Assisi and invites fellow Christians and others to join the journey. EWTN is carried 24 hours a day on Comcast Ch. 229, AT&T Ch. 562, Astound Ch. 80, San Bruno Cable Ch. 143, DISH Satellite Ch. 261 & Direct TV Ch. 370. Comcast airs EWTN on Ch. 70 in Half Moon Bay and on Ch. 74 in southern San Mateo County. For program starting times, go to www.ewtn.com and click on “Television,” “Program Schedules” and “October Grids.”Or call (205) 271-2900 and ask for “Viewer Services.”
as the moments of sheer luminous grace that reveal deep meaning.” Walters presents Sister Thea (1937-1990), a member of the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration, as a model of opening ourselves lovingly to others. Rather than withdraw into anxiety when she was stricken with breast cancer, she embraced others, often praying, “I want to love until I die.” Walters, a professor of philosophy and peace and justice studies at Gettysburg College, recommends Sister Bowman’s example: “For the person who practices love, the universe becomes a progressively friendlier place, saturated through and through not only with the presence of God ... but with a multitude of beloveds as well. The strength of their love surrounds us when we die, comforting us on our dark journey.” Likewise, emulating Pope John Paul’s endless patience in the face of suffering and Bonhoeffer’s moral courage in resisting the Nazis (for which he was hung on the gallows) is essential practice throughout our lives and on our deathbeds.
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Walters writes conversationally, conveying substantial information so gracefully that we may not immediately recognize the depth of his contribution. In collecting these life lessons, he has given us a treasure indeed. Part of our own preparation for death, too, is learning to grieve when we lose our loved ones. This is harder still when the beloved one is a child. When Glenda and Preston Parrish lost their 25-year-old son, Nathan, in a hiking accident, they were devastated. Her heart was “just plain broken,” Glenda recounts, and even several years later, she still has “hard days” that come unbidden, when she finds herself “struggling to stand up with any kind of stability.” In “Finding Hope in Times of Grief,” each parent writes candidly about the reality of their loss. Glenda’s engaging, journal-type entries pare it down to the essence. She is eloquent when describing the first time she entered her dead son’s room: “I was paralyzed. It smelled like Nathan. ... His clothes were there. His books were there. His climbing gear was there. ... I knelt and wept. ... The air was heavy. Life itself seemed heavy. I wondered if I would ever feel any different.” Ultimately she does, and this well-told story of the couple’s grief journey will surely be balm to others who have experienced such loss. Their greatest comfort, the Parrishes say, came from trusting God and reading again and again the scriptural message of hope. The Psalms, especially, reminded them of God’s great love: “He heals the brokenhearted/And binds up their wounds” (Psalm 147). Also of interest: “Alone: For All Those Who Grieve” by W.F. (Bill) Cento. Itasca Books (Minneapolis, 2011). 104 pp., $14.95. Roberts directs the journalism program at SUNY Albany and has written “Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker” and other books.
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WASHINGTON (CNS) – This past January, Nova Nelson sang as a soloist with the Archdiocese of Washington Mass Choir at Holy Redeemer Church in Washington at the annual archdiocesan Mass honoring the life and legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. On Oct. 16, Nelson stood before tens of thousands of people from across the country who gathered at the National Mall’s West Potomac Park, and the Catholic young adult sang the national anthem for the dedication of the new Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial. The five-hour ceremony culminated with a speech by President Barack Obama. “It was definitely an honor, something I’ll never forget,� said Nelson, now director of the Archdiocese’s Mass Choir who also directs
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Audience members clasp hands during the dedication ceremony for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington Oct. 16.
the gospel ensemble and children’s choir at her parish, St. Martin of Tours in Washington. Nelson said that “what he was talking and preaching about to us ... is so relevant now. It’s what we as a people are fighting for now, as far as justice, peace and equality.� The singer said she was especially moved by seeing the faces of the people, who came
from near and far to remember Rev. King’s legacy. As the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Dedication Choir sang “The Battle Hymn of the Republic,� she said, she also was struck by seeing Obama and his family on the giant screens erected on either side of the stage as the first family toured the
memorial, accompanied by members of Rev. King’s family. “That spoke a lot – his truth is marching on,� said Nelson. In an interview the next day with the Catholic Standard, Washington’s archdiocesan newspaper, Nelson said that Rev. King’s call still resonates today, for all people regardless of race, color or creed, to work together, to help those who are hungry and homeless, those without jobs, and those who lack access to health care. “For me, what’s so inspiring (is that) no matter how much he was hated or rejected, he kept going because he believed in God, and believed God would make a way, and he wasn’t afraid, “ she said. “He had to keep pushing for what God wanted him to do,� Nelson added. “Sometimes, we get doors closed in our faces. We have to keep pushing, knowing God is walking with us every step of the way.� The centerpiece of the new memorial is a 30-foot sculpture of Rev. King, which shows him looking forward, emerging from a granite Stone of Hope.
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Christ to the beach . . . ■Continued from cover of the Epiphany in San Francisco, speaks Spanish and six other languages fluently. That makes him an ideal fit for Church of the Assumption, where the parishioners are now 80 percent Hispanic, many of them workers on West Marin County dairy farms. Some 70 to 80 attend the Sunday Mass in Spanish and about 30 come to the English Mass. Some daily Masses attract two or three people. “Two people are important,� said Father Pudota. “They come, travel great distances, so that is a great faith they have. We need to help them to grow in their faith.� Father Pudota’s resume includes 14 years of service in Buenos Aires and four years serving largely Hispanic casino workers at San Felipe Church in Wendover, Utah. He’s already launched or is sketching out new ministries and
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church-centered activities that will give Hispanics in particular a sense of parish ownership. “My job here is to offer different ministries in the parish and to create a new vision, a new sentiment that this is their parish, their church – that, and to bring Jesus into the lives of the parishioners,� Father Pudota said. “They come to Jesus here and they take Jesus to their homes, and they come back here again to Jesus because they feel and they identify with Jesus.� He has begun a fundraising effort for people having difficulty getting to Mass – perhaps someone needs gasoline or a bicycle repaired or food – and a weekly Hispanic prayer group began last week. He will even be handing out free bottled water to passersby on Highway 1 so they can stop and take a look inside the mission-style church. There are also working plans for a ministry devoted to Our Lady of Guadalupe and, perhaps, forming a Knights of Columbus group. “I’m also out every day meeting the people, at the ranches, everywhere. I don’t sit here in the office,� said Father Pudota. “Ever since I came here I feel sincerely that it is hands to work, hearts to love.� Mary Pepper, a 30-year resident of Tomales and teacher at Tomales Elementary School, said of Father Pudota, “He’s going to provide leadership for mentoring, facilitating the community, because he speaks seven languages and has a global perspective. He also understands the merging of the Anglo and Hispanic populations.� The son of a rice and peanut farmer, Father Pudota as a teenager, along with his parents, was inspired by Mill Hill missionaries from London. At the time, he thought of becoming a physician, but it wasn’t to be. “I told God my plan but God laughed at me,� he said. “He said, ‘You are becoming a priest.’�
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At a glance – Archbishop Joseph Alemany dedicated the Church of the Assumption of Mary in 1860: It was the archdiocese’s first church on the coast north of the Golden Gate. – The first pastor was Father Louis Rossi, a Roman Jew turned Passionist priest. – In the early days ships called not far from Tomales, which made it a likely settlement, and merchants had an interest in supporting a church so they could serve parishioners when they came Church statue damaged for Sunday Mass. by the 1906 earthquake – The original church building was replaced in 1897 by a stone church, which was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake. Parishioners wanted to return to a redwood frame building, which stands today. – A reminder of the earthquake also stands: a statue of Mary holding Jesus is out front, minus the hands of Jesus broken in the earthquake. For many years a sign hung there reading, “He has no hands but yours,� said Father Robert White, who preceded Father Pudota as pastor of the rural church.
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Movie review: Pilgrimage drama treats faith with refreshing respect NEW YORK (CNS) – A thinking person’s road movie, “The Way” (Producers Distribution Agency /ARC) follows a quartet of central characters along the ancient pilgrimage route from France to the Spanish shrine of Santiago de Compostela, even as it conducts viewers through a reflective, and ultimately rewarding, exploration of elemental themes. Writer-director Emilio Estevez’s drama challenges materialistic values and treats faith
with refreshing respect. But its focus – like the varied motivations of the contemporary pilgrims it portrays – is more broadly spiritual than specifically religious. Thus Catholicism is treated as something the onscreen travelers encounter rather than fully embrace. So moviegoers on the lookout for a fullblown conversion story will be disappointed. And parents will want to keep in mind that some aspects of the dialogue and behavior on display, including one character’s fondness for marijuana, make this meditative offering unsuitable for kids.
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Catered reception immediately following the Service 4:00pm - 6:00pm Our Lady of Mercy Church Hall We invite each family to bring a favorite photo of your loved one to be placed on the Altar of Remembrance before the service.
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An alienated Catholic’s faith is renewed at an ancient shrine. In an echo of reality, Estevez and his real-life dad, Martin Sheen, play a father and son. The fictional duo’s temperamental differences, however, have left them semiestranged. Estevez’s Daniel is hungry for experience and fond of globetrotting, while Sheen’s Tom, a prosperous California ophthalmologist and widower, is content to divide his time between his office and the golf course. It’s out on the links that Tom gets the shocking news that Daniel has been killed in a freak storm while pursuing his latest adventure – hiking the mountainous path to Santiago first blazed by medieval pilgrims. After claiming Daniel’s body and effects, Tom resolves to complete the journey Daniel had only just begun as a means of honoring the lad’s memory. As he follows the Camino through the lush landscape of the Basque Country, Tom meets, and bonds with, three of his fellow sojourners: Sarah (Deborah Kara Unger), a tart-tongued Canadian divorcee out to quit smoking, Joost (Yorick van Wageningen), a merrily gormandizing Dutchman who hopes to lose weight, and Jack (James Nesbitt) a garrulous Irish author struggling with writer’s block. Despite some initial resistance, Tom’s newfound friends gradually break down both his self-imposed isolation and the mild orneriness by which he enforces it. A kindly priest, meanwhile, gives Tom, a self-identified lapsed Catholic, a set of rosary beads. A later scene shows Tom acknowledging that the use of them has proved helpful. The privations they all endure – long days of walking are followed by nights in primitive dormitories – and the simple but pleasant hospitality offered by the locals drive home the point that happiness and meaning are not to be found in the blind pursuit of wealth. “The Way” most closely approaches an explicit endorsement of faith during a climactic scene at the shrine itself. Catholic viewers will especially appreciate the influence that ancient structure exerts on Jack, whose previous sense
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Martin Sheen in a scene from the movie “The Way.” The Catholic News Service classification is A-III – adults. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG-13 – parents strongly cautioned. Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13.
of alienation from the church he attributes to the clerical scandals in his homeland. Less welcome is the recurring sight of Tom leaving portions of Daniel’s ashes at various spots along the trail; Christian reverence for the body of a departed person – and the faithful expectation of that body’s resurrection – require, rather, that cremated remains be buried together. Still, the underlying message of “The Way” – the very title, of course, recalls Jesus’ teaching that he is himself “the way, the truth and the life” – is one that audiences of faith will find congenial, if not as robustly satisfying as less caution might have made it. The film contains brief partial rear nudity, drug use, a couple of instances of profanity and of crass language as well as references to abortion and sexuality. The Catholic News Service classification is A-III – adults. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG-13 – parents strongly cautioned. Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13. Mulderig is on the staff of Catholic News Service.
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. As the families we serve are from so many different cultures and backgrounds, our book should be a delicious mix of memories and interesting dishes to make. 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 Catholic Cemetery, P.O. Box 1577, Colma, CA 940l4 or drop it off at our office (or All Saints Mausoleum on the 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.
“I will be with you always, even until the end of the world” Matthew 28:20
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We hope to have the cookbooks ready at the beginning of 2012 – our Anniversary Year. Proceeds of this cookbook will go to a special cemetery restoration fund allowing us to preserve our history and the stories of all who are interred here.
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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 auditorium24th Street and Guerrero 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. You may also call (415) 6478972. Must be 21 years old to attend.
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Faith Formation Nov. 18, 19: “Go! Glorify the Lord with your life!” Be among the more than 2,500 religious education professionals and Catholics looking to deepen their faith meeting for the annual “Faith Formation Conference” sponsored by the Archdiocese of San Francisco with the dioceses of San Jose, Oakland, Monterey and Stockton at Santa Clara Convention Center. Local experts and nationally known speakers will facilitate 84 workshops. More than 70 exhibits relevant to the day will be on display. Visit www. faithformationconference.com.
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Office of Worship Call (415) 614-5586 Workshops on “Liturgy and the Revised Roman Missal” 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.
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, in-home care, Medicare, Medi-Cal, veteran’s aid, and long-term care insurance. Lunch will be provided. Call (800) 273-0068.
Vocations Oct. 22, 9 a.m. - 6:30p.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
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Sister Agnes Clare accepting donated goods into Little Sisters of the Poor refrigerated van. In the earliest of the Sisters’ 110 years in San Francisco the religious women went door-to-door on foot asking for goods to feed the elderly in their care. “We are motivated by the goodness in people and the presence of God in those we encounter on our daily begging rounds,” Sister Agnes said. “We leave every morning with a joyful heart and return with gratitude for anything in the van. We are grateful for even one cent.” Visit www.littlesistersofthepoorsf.org for more on the 110-year St. Anne’s Home anniversary. 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 October 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 Pl) in Fremont. Email vocations@msjdominicans.org with questions or for more information.
Young Adults Oct. 27, 6:30 p.m.: “Theology on Tap with Dr. Mary L. Davenport” at Zio Fraedo’s Restaurant, 23 Harbor Way in Vallejo. A former abortionist, Dr. Davenport is an internationally renowned pro-life doctor who practices in the Bay Area. For more information, contact (707) 567-0389. 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
Food and Fun Nov. 5, 6:45 p.m.: “Off to the Races,” an action packed evening of fun and excitement at St. Finn Barr School! Enjoy eight horse races with exciting commentary and close finishes, free hors d’oeuvres, and tasty desserts and coffee. $10 donation at the door covers all food (21 and over only). Cash Bar will feature beer and wine. Come support St. Finn Barr School and maybe win a few prizes in the process. Takes place at St. Finn Barr Parish Hall, 415 Edna St. in San Francisco. Advance tickets and sponsorship opportunities available, contact Lisa_walsh@yahoo.com or Kathy Mylett Morgan, Kmylett@sbcglobal.net. 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 further 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 preside at Mass. Dinner is at 7 p.m. at nearby Alma Via residence. Harpist Anna Maria Mendieta and Liliane Cromer, a soprano, will entertain during a reception before dinner at 6 p.m. also at Alma Via. Guest speaker is Michael DeNunzio of the Commission on Aging. Tickets for dinner are $25 per person/$10 for clergy,
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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) 572-1468.
Holy Name School Class of 1966 members interested in having a class reunion should contact Lenore Lamey at (415) 566-8833 or lameyirish2@aol. com. Hope to hear from you. 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 honored Golden Belles. Contact Katie O’Leary at nuttydames@aol.com or call (415) 282-6588. 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 $40.00. For a reservation call (415) 648-7538. Nov. 6, 2 p.m.: St. Peter School Memorial Mass at St. Peter Church, 24th Street and Alabama Street in San Francisco. Father Daniel J. McGuire, former pastor of St. Peter, is principal celebrant. Parking is available in church and school lot. Call (415) 647-8662. Nov. 18: Saint Ignatius College Preparatory, class of ’45, at Basque Cultural Center in South San Francisco. Door prizes and entertainment are on program. Call Jack Campbell at (650) 583-1882.
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religious and students. Contact George Maloof at (415) 305-2408 or email gemaloof2003@yahoo.com. Dec. 4, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.: “Holiday Open House & Craft Fair” benefiting Hanna Boys Center, 17000 Arnold Drive in Sonoma. Enjoy a festive day including refreshments, Santa photos, handmade crafts, campus tours. “For more than 60 years, Hanna Boys Center has helped change the lives of thousands of at-risk boys of diverse ethnic and economic backgrounds from the greater Bay Area and beyond through caring, respect, education and faith,” the facility said. For more information about the Center’s program or the Holiday Open House, visit www.hannacenter.org or call Tamara Stanley at (707) 933-2504.
The National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi Vallejo and Columbus in North Beach Oct. 27, 10 a.m. - noon: Pope Benedict XVI and representatives of the world’s major religions gather in Assisi, Italy, to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Pope John Paul II’s meeting in 1986 during the United Nations International Year of Peace. The Archdiocese of San Francisco is holding similar rites at the National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi and the Porziuncola Nuova. The gatherings are named “Pilgrims of Truth, Pilgrims of Peace.” Nov. 2, 7 p.m.: Requiem for All Souls at La Porziuncola Nuova. The clergy and choir of Our Lady of Fatima Russian Byzantine Catholic community will serve the Panikhida (Requiem) for the feast of All Souls. This is a rare opportunity for our brothers and sisters in the Catholic community of the San Francisco Bay Area to experience the beauty of Russian Orthodox liturgical music in this historic setting. This memorial celebration is arranged in cooperation with the National Shrine of Saint Francis of Assisi and the Porziuncola Nuova with the community of Our Lady of Fatima Russian Byzantine Catholic Church. Visit http://knightsofsaintfrancis.com. The Porziuncola and “Francesco Rocks” Gift Shop are open every day 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. with Mass in the shrine church Monday through Saturday at 12:15 p.m. and Sundays at 10 a.m. Rosary is prayed daily in Porziuncola at 4:30 p.m. Call (415) 986-4557.
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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 •
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Catholic San Francisco
October 21, 2011
In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of September HOLY CROSS COLMA Zenaida “Nedy” Alava Maria G. Alioto Enrique J. Altamirano Teodoro “Doro” L. Anabeza Yolanda M. Arnaudo Manuela Agustin Asuncion Mary Barbieri Sr. Flora Batterton, R.S.M. Micaela Benigno Joseph F. Beresford Jeanna Bleuher Cecilia T. Bonderud Dario L. Bonfantini R. A. “Tony” Botelho Duane M. Bozzini Benjamin A. Brockmeyer Vivienne Brown Audrey E. Burkart Alfred M. Cabuntala Rilio Frank Caccia Mary Ann Calleja Richard V. (Dick) Cantillon Maria “Maring” Carino Lenor Castillo Rosa G. Cataluna Peter D. Cerri Leonor Pastora Chavarria Coleman Connolly Salomon Mora Contreras Eartha Bernadette Cook-Aragon Consiglia Crispi Barry Cronin Jean E. Crotty Marcus A. Da Luz Jose de Jesus Flores Anthony J. De Lucca Maria Del Refugio Dominick Doherty Betty M. Drews
Oscar M. Dris, Sr. Robert Edwards Andrew J. Farren Mary Fellipelli Danilo A. Flores Orlando J. Fonseca Dell N. Freeman Cecelia C. Gaddini Patricia Ann Gagan Trish Gallagher Theresa E. Galli Dena D. Garavaglia Jose Elias Garcia de Alba Ann Giampaoli Arthur E. Ginocchio Giuliano Giuntini Earl A. Graham Francisca Bravo Guzman Alfredo Guzman Patrick Hecq Adeline C. Heredia Emile E. Heredia Emile H. Heredia Robert J. Holland James V. Ingebretsen Laura K. Iskra William Kelleher Lillian Irene Kelly John Lee Janice Bernadette Lim-Escober Deborah Zupo Lippini Teresa L. Lopez Malvina Lowenstein Charles “Tad” Lynch Patrick Lynch Rose M. Madrid Frances A. Maggi Alice F. Malouf Estelle J. Masie Edward P. Massarweh Preston May Angelo F. Mazza
Helen T. McDonnell John J. McEllistrim Barbara Jean McKay Helen McKenna Felton Miles, Jr. Alejandro G. Miranda Lois Molkenbuhr Maria Isabel Monteiro Florence Munoz Florence Clara Murray Bernadette Neeley Peter “Pistolpe” Olasiman Alfred V. Pacheco Rose Pacini Maria Louise “Pat” Pagelli Orantes A. Pautin Marjorie E. Petterson Esther J. Pochini Florence Quilici Rose Rago Nasri Raheb-Khello Rosemarie S. Reynolds Barbara R. Roache Elaine G. Robertson Catherine M. Robinson George G. Rosko Tony Ruiz Nestor Z. Sanchez Teresita Santos Arturo Santos, Jr. Ilse M. Sauerwald Joseph P. Scattini Concetta M. Skinner Jerry Paul Smith Alfredo M. Soriano Teresa Steffen Brian T. Stone Dianne K. Sulpizio Marino C. Sun Anacoreta Sunga Perfecto G. Tabaranza Victoria E. Tallerico
John Torchia Elvira M. Tuazon Paul Luke Vella Martin Villalobos John Villalon Mary T. Waldmann Earl Warren Kathleen Whitcomb Frieda C. Williams Winifred E. Woods Kathryn Young Santiago Frigillana Zarate Luis Zuro-Morales
HOLY CROSS MENLO PARK C. Sam Buchanan Kathleen Eldredge John Carl Thomas Green Jose Guizar Jesus Ramirez Negrete Irene Eugenia Taylor
MT. OLIVET SAN RAFAEL Mary Brabo Douglas Conner Zelma Cordone Ann B. Courter Dave Crowley Katherine Elizabeth Fumeo Neal Gingras John W. Leonard Mary (Mae) Mendelsohn Lucy Aileen Halligan Murray Jeff Pulver Helen Pulver Norma Simerson
HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY, COLMA Todos Los Santos – All Saints Day Mass
1st Saturday Mass
Saturday, October 29, 2011 Holy Cross Mausoleum Chapel – 11:00 am Msgr. Fred Bitanga, Main Celebrant Refreshments after Mass
Saturday, November 5, 2011 All Saints Mausoleum Chapel – 11:00 am Rev. Marvin Felipe, Celebrant
Veterans’ Day Service All Souls Day Mass Wednesday, November 2, 2011 All Saints Mausoleum Chapel – 11:00 am Rev. Arturo Albano, Celebrant
Friday, November 11, 2011 Star of the Sea Section – Outdoor Service Monsignor Michael Padazinski Chancellor of the Archdiocese of San Francisco Chaplain, Colonel, United States Air Force Reserve
The Catholic Cemeteries Archdiocese of San Francisco www.holycrosscemeteries.com HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY 1500 Mission Road, Colma, CA 650-756-2060
HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY Intersection of Santa Cruz Avenue, Menlo Park, CA 650-323-6375
MT. OLIVET CATHOLIC CEMETERY 270 Los Ranchitos Road, San Rafael, CA 415-479-9020
PILARCITOS CEMETERY Hwy. 92 @ Main, Half Moon Bay, CA 650-712-1676
ST. ANTHONY CEMETERY Stage Road, Pescadero, CA 650-712-1679
OUR LADY OF THE PILLAR CEMETERY Miramontes St., Half Moon Bay, CA 650-712-1679
A Tradition of Faith Throughout Our Lives.