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Pilgrims pack St. Peter's Square for the beatification of Mother Teresa of Calcutta Oct. 19. Some 300,000 people filled the square and surrounding streets as Pope John Paul II presided at the ceremony honoring the founder of the Missionaries of Charity.
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Pope John Paul II offered his thanks to Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta, founder of the Missionaries of Charity, for being close to him in her lifetime and for courageously showing the world what it means to love and serve Jesus completely. “The venerable servant of God, Teresa of Calcutta, from this moment on will be called blessed,” the pope said at the Oct. 19 beatification Mass as the crowd burst into applause. In the homily he wrote for the ceremony, the 83-yearold pope said: “We honor in her one of the most relevant personalities of our age. Let us accept her message and follow her example.” For the first time at a major event, Pope John Paul did not read even one line of his own homily. A Vatican official said that with the pope’s difficulty speaking clearly, the crowd would not have been able to understand much of his message, so others were asked to read for him. St. Peter’s Square and the surrounding streets were a crush of some 300,000 pilgrims and admirers of Mother Teresa. Under a bright sun, which weather forecasters had said would not appear, the scene was awash with vibrant colors: flags from dozens of countries, banners in languages from Polish to Hindi, the blue-trimmed saris of the
Missionaries of Charity, and the colorful traditional dress of Guatemalans and Nigerians. In an unusually personal homily, read by a Vatican aide and by Indian Cardinal Ivan Dias of Mumbai, the pope wrote, “I am personally grateful to this courageous woman, whom I always felt was alongside of me. “An icon of the good Samaritan, she went everywhere to serve Christ in the poorest of the poor. Not even conflicts or wars could stop her,” the pope wrote. Mother Teresa was beatified in record time — just over six years after her death — because Pope John Paul set aside the rule that a sainthood process cannot begin until the candidate has been dead five years. A tapestry depicting Blessed Mother Like the pope, many people in the crowd knew Mother Teresa of Calcutta hangs from St. Peter’s Teresa, volunteered in one of her homes or soup kitchens, Basilica during her beatification or at least heard her speak when she came to their home ceremony Oct. 19. Pope John Paul II towns. presided at the service, calling her They carried official posters as well as their own phoa “courageous woman” and an tographs of the small, stooped nun who died in 1997. Jack Griffith, 42, of Menasha, Wis., was with a group “icon of the good Samaritan.” doing a “saints pilgrimage” around Italy. “For us, Mother Teresa is important because she is a “She shunned everything and focused on two things: saint of our own time,” he said. “Her mission of mercy was Jesus in the Eucharist and serving the poor,” Griffith said. among the poorest of the poor, and in that way she was Before the Mass began, pilgrims swapped stories about BEATIFIES, page 21 countercultural.
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On The Where You Live by Tom Burke As we approach Advent, remember to keep an eye on Datebook for prayer and other opportunities that might help on the preChristmas journey. Watch, too, for holiday fundraisers that can help complete Christmas shopping as well as aid parishes and auxiliary groups in their ministries. As you’ve been oft told, this is an Prayer and a party empty space withcommemorated Father Len out ya’ and Calegari’s 40th anniversary as Datebook is pretty a priest at Pacifica’s St. Peter much open territory Parish where he has been without your parish pastor since 1981. “We are and group goin’s blessed having you as our on, so remember to shepherd,” parishioners said send them our way. in a recent bulletin. Some boutique-type events begin as soon as tomorrow!!…Our Lady of Perpetual Help commemorated completion of the Year of the Rosary with a procession October 4th. More than 500
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At anniversary Mass, pope prays for ‘wisdom, holiness and strength’ VATICAN CITY — As the world offered congratulations and encouragement, Pope John Paul II celebrated a 25th anniversary Mass and prayed for the “wisdom, holiness and strength” to keep leading the church. The Oct. 16 liturgy in St. Peter’s Square brought together church leaders, civil authorities and some 50,000 faithful from many countries, all of them eager to share the moment with the aging and fragile pontiff. The Mass was an emotional high point of the anniversary events, which included a conference of cardinals and bishops discussing the pontificate’s major themes, the release of the pope’s post-synodal document on the role of bishops and heartfelt expressions of support from average Catholics. “I’m 26 years old, and I’ve followed him all my life. I see Christ in him,” Rome resident Cecilia DiCarlo said with tears running down her cheeks. “He invites everyone to be Christian, even when it is difficult. He knows how difficult this is for young people, and that is so special, especially from someone his age,” she said. The liturgy in St. Peter’s Square was joyful and poignant, a celebration of what the pope has accomplished in 25 years and a reminder of how much his physical strength has slipped. Youthful and energetic when he greeted the world Oct. 16, 1978, the 83-yearold pontiff had to be wheeled on a chair to the altar and struggled to pronounce the Mass prayers. In a sermon read in part by an aide, the pope alluded to his physical difficulties and asked for continued prayers and support from Catholics all over the globe. He said that, aware of his “human fragility,” he meditated daily over his ability to meet the demands of the papacy. “I renew, through the hands of Mary, beloved mother, the gift of myself, in the present and the future: All will be accomplished according to your will,” he said in a prayer to Christ, the church’s “good shepherd.” More than 250 cardinals and bishops from more than 120 countries concelebrated with the pope. Most of them have taken office under Pope John Paul and helped him shape the modern church. Addressing the pope, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, dean of the College of Cardinals, described the pontiff as a tireless missionary who has preached Christ’s message to “young and old, rich and poor, the powerful and the humble.” Sitting in a spotlight under a canopy, his head tilted forward under a brocaded gold miter, the pope glanced out at the
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Pope John Paul II applauds at a concert performance at the Vatican Oct. 17. The music was presented in honor of his 25th anniversary as pope.
crowd and smiled as visitors waved caps, flags and scarves in tribute. He told them their support helps him carry on his ministry. “God alone knows how much sacrifice, prayer and suffering have been offered up to support me in my service to the church,” he said. “I beg you, brothers and sisters, don’t interrupt this great work of love for the successor of Peter. I ask you once again: Help the pope ... to serve man and all humanity,” he said. Introducing the prayer of the faithful, the pope asked that God “continue to pour upon me the Holy Spirit, the spirit of wisdom, of holiness and strength, in order to serve his holy people and proclaim to all people the Gospel of salvation and peace.” At 25 years, this papacy has become the fourth-longest in history and has left a defining mark on the church and the world beyond its borders. One person who was in St. Peter’s Square the night of the pope’s election in 1978 was Bishop Wilton D. Gregory of Belleville, Ill., president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. A student in Rome at the time, Bishop Gregory said he was immediately struck by the new pope’s vigor and youthful enthusiasm. Today, frail and weakened by illness, the pope is “witnessing to us the human dignity that is present at all moments in life and that we never lose, even though we lose our physical strength or physical
beauty, and even though we become dependent on others,” Bishop Gregory said. Tributes and accolades poured in from nearly every country to mark the pope’s anniversary, and the Vatican Web site (www.vatican.va) invited Catholics to send greetings to the pope via e-mail. President George W. Bush said in a message that the pope has left the United States and the world a better place. “For the past 25 years, His Holiness has led worldwide efforts to develop a new culture of life that values and protects the lives of innocent children waiting to be born. He has also brought the love of the Almighty to people of all ages, particularly those who suffer or live in poverty, or who are weak and vulnerable,” Bush said. “Pope John Paul II has shown the world not only the splendor of truth, but also the power of truth to overcome evil and to redirect the course of history,” he said.
The pope began the week by remembering the day of his election and thanking everyone — especially young people — for their prayers and enthusiasm over the years. Speaking in a pre-recorded TV transmission to Poland Oct. 13, the pope said that at the 25-year mark the words of St. Luke’s Gospel came to mind: “We are useless servants. We have done no more than our duty.” He thanked God for “all the good he has caused to spring from the hearts of individuals, the church and the world” throughout his papacy. At a general audience Oct. 15, the pope was cheered by a crowd of 20,000 and serenaded by Polish choirs. Short of breath and weak of voice, he thanked people for their spiritual support. Then he spent nearly an hour individually greeting prelates, civil dignitaries, pilgrim groups and the sick — many of whom brought a gift for the occasion. At the Vatican conference on Pope John Paul II’s first 25 years, leading cardinals said the pope had guided the church through a time of confusion with the sure touch of an understanding father. Beninese Cardinal Bernardin Gantin, former dean of the College of Cardinals, appeared to counter rumors of future papal retirement when he said: “Popes don’t take retirement pay, having been chosen to serve for life.” Then the cardinal quoted St. Leo the Great, who despite physical frailty carried on in his papal ministry, inspired by the figure of St. Peter. On Oct. 16, the pope signed an apostolic exhortation, “Pastores Gregis” (“Shepherds of the Flock”), his response to the 2001 world Synod of Bishops, which discussed the identity and role of the bishop in the church and in the world. The document called on every bishop to be “a living sign of Jesus Christ, teacher, priest and pastor,” while acknowledging the tremendous demands of pastoral ministry in the modern age. “Where will we find the strength to carry it out according to the will of Christ? Undoubtedly, only in him,” the pope told more than 250 cardinals and bishops at the signing ceremony.
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WASHINGTON — The church cannot remain silent on public issues despite its weakened moral credibility because of the clergy sex abuse crisis, said Father J. Bryan Hehir, president of Catholic Charities USA. The church has a major responsibility to solve the problem of clergy sex abuse of minors, “but I don’t think it can drive you into silence,” he said Oct. 15 at Georgetown University in Washington. There is “a need for the church to be an active contributor to public debates in this country,” said Father Hehir. “The stakes are too high if you remain silent,” he said in a question-and-answer session after participating in a panel discussion on contemporary challenges to peace. On Jan. 1 Father Hehir will leave his national post to take over as president of Catholic Charities and as Cabinet secretary for social services for the Boston Archdiocese, which has been at the center of the U.S. clergy sex abuse crisis. A Boston archdiocesan priest, he was named to the posts Sept. 26 by Boston Archbishop Sean P. O’Malley.
FCC commissioner to Catholics: keep tabs on ‘big media’ ST. LOUIS — Commissioner Michael Copps, a Democrat who serves on the Federal Communications Commission, urged Catholic media professionals to hold what he called “big media” accountable for lack of diversity on the airwaves. “Catholics around this country need to be participating in the resolution of the great communications issues before the Congress and before the FCC,” said Copps, a Catholic. He cited localism, concentration of media ownership, diversity and indecency as being among those issues. “Now is not the time to slow down. Big media isn’t,” Copps said in an Oct. 15 address to the Catholic Academy of Communication Arts Professionals meeting in St. Louis. “This is the best chance this country will have, for years, to do something about concentration and to make sure the public’s airwaves serve the public interest.” Copps was in the minority when the FCC voted in June to permit greater media concentration. However, the House and the Senate have passed separate bills that could scuttle the FCC’s media deregulation plans.
U.S., Mexican farmers decry free trade’s impact on their livelihood DES MOINES, Iowa — A delegation of farmers from Mexico traveled to Iowa to share their stories about the devastating impact they say free trade has had on their family farmers and rural communities. They found their U.S. counterparts are facing the same problems at the Bi-National Farmer Forum, sponsored by the National Catholic Rural Life Conference, Catholic Relief Services and the Social Pastoral Commission of the Mexican bishops. The problems are the losses of family farms in both countries because the abundance of cheap imports prevents family farmers from earning enough to stay on their land. In Mexico, the government estimates that 600 small farmers leave their land every day. About 4.5 million Mexicans derive their household incomes from small farms, and an estimated 25 million Mexicans in agriculture-related jobs. Larry Mitchell, representing the American Corn Growers Association, told those assembled for a farmer panel that the United States has spent “upwards of $20 (billion) to $30 billion to prove free trade works.” The result has been, however, “that it doesn’t work,” he said. “We want fair trade, not free trade,” he added.
Poll: Believers say religion not to blame for violence around world WASHINGTON — Even though much of the violence taking place in regions throughout the world is often linked to religious beliefs, a new survey of believers of the world’s major faiths says religion is not to blame. And a consensus among the more than 4,000 people worldwide who were polled for the survey released Oct. 16 by the polling firm Zogby International and the religion and classics department
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Protesters hold up signs and a photograph of Terri Schiavo with her mother outside the Pinellas Park Hospice in Florida Oct. 15. By order of a circuit court judge, Terri Schiavo's feeding tube, which was keeping her alive, was removed that afternoon. The 39-year-old Catholic woman had been on a feeding tube since a 1990 collapse that left her with severe brain damage. She has been the subject of a bitter battle between her husband, who claimed further treatment was useless and sought to have nutrition and hydration ended, and her parents and other relatives, who were fighting to keep her alive.
at the University of Rochester, N.Y., was that increased religious practices within their countries would only be a benefit. John Zogby, founder and CEO of Zogby International, said the poll reveals that “religion is far more important to people than politics.” He also said in an Oct. 16 teleconference that the survey shows that “Most groups acknowledge the possibilities of multiple paths to religious truth and the majority of communities surveyed do not associate religion with trouble, unrest and violence in their own countries.”
Bolivian bishop sees poverty, injustice at root of political crisis WASHINGTON — Massive demonstrations against the Bolivian government are rooted in the rampant poverty and injustices in the South American country, said a Bolivian bishop whose diocese has been a scene of protests. The country’s bishops have been trying unsuccessfully for months to get government officials and opposition leaders together to work out peaceful solutions, said Bishop Juan Vargas Aruquipa of Coroico, Bolivia. The bishop was interviewed Oct. 16 by Catholic News Service while in the United States to raise funds for the Catholic university in his diocese. He spoke while Bolivian opposition leaders continued their street protests in several parts of the country demanding the resignation of President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada over his freemarket economic policies. Opponents say the policies have worsened conditions for the country’s indigenous poor. The protests have forced the temporary closing of the national legislature and paralyzed a lot of economic activity.
Knights have key role in Supreme Court Pledge case WASHINGTON — The Knights of Columbus, both historically and in the present day, is playing a crucial role in the Pledge of Allegiance case accepted for review Oct. 14 by the U.S. Supreme Court. At issue are the words “under God,” added to the pledge by a 1954 law that received major support from the Knights of Columbus and from the 110-organization National Fraternal Congress, then headed by the Knights’ supreme knight, Luke Hart. The Supreme Court agreed Oct. 14 to hear an appeal of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision that said requiring the pledge in public schools was an unconstitutional violation of the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause because of those two words. But Justice Antonin Scalia “took no part in the consideration or decision of these motions and this petition,” the court also said Oct. 14. Although no reason was given for Scalia’s decision, observers believe it is related to a speech he made in January before a Knights of Columbus-sponsored event in Fredericksburg, Va.
In U.S. talk, top Vatican liturgy official criticizes liturgical abuses SAN ANTONIO — The Vatican’s chief liturgy official sharply criticized unauthorized liturgical innovations in a speech Oct. 8 in San Antonio. “Some people seem to think that inculturation in the liturgy encourages free and uncontrolled creativity,” said Cardinal Francis Arinze, prefect of the Vatican Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments. “The truth is that genuine inculturation has nothing to do with the product of the over-fertile imagination of an enthusiastic priest who concocts something on Saturday night and inflicts it on the innocent Sunday morning congregation now being used as a guinea pig,” he said. Cardinal Arinze was a keynote speaker at the Oct. 7-11 national meeting of the Federation of Diocesan Liturgical Commissions.
Pope tells cardinals, bishops to preach Gospel ‘to the last breath’ VATICAN CITY — Pope John Paul II told cardinals and bishops assembled for his 25th anniversary that their common duty was to preach the Gospel “to the last breath.” The pope said that in evangelizing the credibility of church leaders depends on the unity they show among themselves and the commitment they show to the world’s poor. The pope addressed more than 250 cardinals and heads of bishops’ conferences Oct. 18 at the close of a four-day conference that reviewed the main themes of his pontificate’s first 25 years. Although the pope did not attend the speech-giving sessions, he summed up the focus of his pastoral ministry in a short speech, which was delivered in part by an aide. In the face of the many changes over the last 25 years, he said, one thing has remained constant: the need for the pope and bishops to be fearless witnesses of truth and hope.
Vatican conference focuses on church’s missionary challenges VATICAN CITY — The Third World shift of the Catholic Church and the future of its missionary efforts drew attention from cardinals and bishops gathered to discuss the first 25 years of Pope John Paul II’s pontificate. At the closing session of a Vatican conference Oct. 18, Cardinal Ivan Dias of Mumbai, India, outlined the evangelization picture since the pope’s election in 1978, noting the church’s strong growth in new areas like Africa and Asia and its slippage in places like Europe. Cardinal Dias said church leaders need to reflect on missionary plans at a time when “the winds of secularization and globalization are blowing ever strongly all over the world and threaten to invade the sacred precincts of the church itself.” He said, “Indeed, Europe is now one of those tradi-
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U.S. Jewish group thanks pope for defending Jewish people VATICAN CITY — Among the congratulatory messages received by Pope John Paul II on his 25th anniversary, one from a U.S. Jewish group caught the Vatican’s special attention. The New York-based Anti-Defamation League praised the pope for his many efforts to reconcile Christians and Jews. It was the only message printed in full by the Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, in its coverage of the Oct. 16 anniversary. “Jews throughout the world are deeply grateful to the pope. He has defended the Jewish people at all times, as a priest in his native Poland and during his pontificate,” the ADL message said. It noted that the Polish-born pope has denounced anti-Semitism as a sin and called on Christians to avoid anti-Jewish interpretations of Scripture.
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WARSAW, Poland — A former U.S. official said the United States and Vatican were united by a “preoccupation with human rights,” not by a plot to undermine communism. “It wasn’t only the Soviet press that wrote about plots, but the Western press too — and it was all garbage,” said Zbigniew Brzezinski, who headed the National Security Council under U.S. President Jimmy Carter. “There was no cooperation in the sense of coordinated joint activities. But we all knew very well that the church in the East was acting both openly and covertly — this was no secret,” he said. Brzezinski told Poland’s Gazeta Wyborcza daily that he believed the pope had spurred the collapse of communist rule by strengthening “feelings of independence and solidarity” among Soviet-bloc populations. He said that after Pope John Paul II’s 1978 election the Carter administration quickly realized that he would be “an ally in its squabble with the Soviet Union.”
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Service Oct. 16 before concelebrating a 25th anniversary Mass with the pope at the Vatican. “I think in our society we as Americans so value physical dexterity, the ability to move, the ability to be self-directed, independent and autonomous. The pope’s physical appearance right now really challenges that,” Bishop Gregory said. “Yet he is witnessing to us the human dignity that is present at all moments in life and that we never lose, even though we lose our physical strength or physical beauty, and even though we become dependent on others,” he said.
tionally Christian places which, in addition to a new evangelization, require in some cases a first evangelization.”
VATICAN CITY — Calling Pope John Paul II a “pilgrim of ecumenism,” the head of the Maronite Catholic Church credited the pope with ensuring tremendous progress in the search for Christian unity. Lebanese Cardinal Nasrallah P. Sfeir, patriarch of the Maronite Church, spoke at the Oct. 17 meeting of the world’s cardinals and presidents of national bishops’ conferences celebrating the pope’s 25th anniversary. Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, president of the Pontifical Council for the Family, also spoke Oct. 17, highlighting the pope’s role as a champion of the traditional family. In his presentation, Cardinal Sfeir said, “Ecumenism is an integral part of the daily ministry of John Paul II.”
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Bolivian Bishop Juan Vargas Aruquipa of Coroico describes the crisis in his country during a visit to Washington Oct. 16. Bolivia's government was facing a revolt by indigenous citizens who feel their concerns about poverty, inequality and the president's U.S.backed free-market policies have gone unanswered.
Bishop Gregory says pope still gives powerful witness to world VATICAN CITY — When Pope John Paul II came to the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica after his election Oct. 16, 1978, Bishop Wilton D. Gregory was a young graduate student in the square below, amazed at the new pontiff’s vigor and enthusiasm. Twenty-five years later, the pope — frail and weakened by illness — is still giving powerful witness to the world and teaching it the value of commitment, Bishop Gregory said. Bishop Gregory, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and head of the Diocese of Belleville, Ill., spoke in an interview with Catholic News
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VATICAN CITY — As the Catholic Church looks to the future, one issue to study is why the U.S. church has succeeded at renewing parish life in ways other regions have not, said Los Angeles Cardinal Roger M. Mahony Oct. 15. In an interview with reporters at North American College the day before Pope John Paul II’s 25th anniversary Mass, Cardinal Mahony was asked to identify two or three problems that he and his fellow cardinals should focus on in the coming years. The “uneven situation of the church throughout the world,” was the first he suggested, explaining that “in many places our churches are filled to overflowing,” while elsewhere, such as across much of Europe, attendance is at record lows. “This unevenness in the church, what is the reason for that?” he asked. Cardinal Mahony said one clue may lie in an observation the pope made about lay movements. The cardinal explained that a few years ago he was with a group having lunch with the pope as the discussion turned to movements such as Opus Dei and charismatic renewal. “We were asking him why (the church in Europe) favors movements so much,” Cardinal Mahony said. “And he said to us, ‘You must remember that these movements are primarily here in Europe because there is no life at the parish level.’”
Pope pledges church’s support for U.N. effort to fight hunger VATICAN CITY — Pope John Paul II pledged the support of the Catholic Church for the U.N. “International Alliance Against Hunger,” saying a lack of food resources contributes to world tensions and violates the God-given dignity of millions of human beings. Hunger and the tensions it causes “can only be overcome by rapid and effective interventions brought about by a common will and joint efforts,” the pope said. In his message for the Oct. 16 celebration of World Food Day, an event sponsored by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, the pope said the world is a “family of nations” that should be committed to promoting the good of all its members. – Catholic News Service
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By Patricia Zapor Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — They came from New Zealand and New Delhi, Argentina and Australia, the Philippines and Philadelphia. About 300,000 people gathered from around the world Oct. 19, crowding St. Peter’s Square and the surrounding streets to celebrate the beatification of Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta. The global work of the founder of the Missionaries of Charity was reflected in the range of nations represented in the congregation. Even more striking was how many of those 300,000 people felt a personal connection to the tiny nun who died six years ago. Nearly all described their affection for her in the present tense, as if she were beside them: “Mother loves the poor,” or “Mother Teresa guides me.” Father Joselee Cyrakkove of Kerala, India, described her international appeal. “For any Christian, this is an important day,” he said. “For Indians it is very special. She had Albanian blood, Italian citizenship and worked in India, but she was a figure for the whole world. “Her secret was she understood the message of Christ, which is to love Christ and find Christ in the poor,” Father Cyrakkove said. Patrick and Kiran Baretto flew from New Delhi to stand in the square holding a large banner that read: “Mother Teresa of Calcutta, you set ablaze a path for humanity to Christ. From your loving children, Rochelle, Amaryllis, Gabriella, Chrisyllis, Kiran and Patrick Baretto.” Tears welled up in Patrick Baretto’s eyes as he explained his connection to Mother Teresa. “Whatever I ask for in life, she has given me — in my family, in my business,” he said. “I have four daughters; good, loving, healthy,
smiling children. She has kept us together as a healthy, loving family.” For about 15 years Baretto has been a member of the International Association of Co-Workers of Mother Teresa, and he said he met her a few times. He said the most lasting impression he has of her is her plea for people to “just look after my children. And she didn’t mean my own children, she meant all the children in the world.” Arlene Sattler of Minneapolis credits Mother Teresa with curing her son-in-law’s cancer. She was at St. Peter’s Square with a pilgrimage group from Queen of the Most Holy Rosary Parish in Stanley, N.D., where her son, Father Wayne Sattler, is pastor. Father Sattler was among more than 100 priests helping distribute the Eucharist at the beatification Mass. His parishioners said the priest met Mother Teresa several times, including once when he was studying in Rome and volunteering for the Missionaries of Charity. Arlene Sattler said at one of those meetings Mother Teresa asked him to pray for her to be able to go to China. In return, she said, “When I die I will pray for you.” When her son-in-law’s oral cancer was found to be aggressively advancing and “the prognosis was not good,” Arlene Sattler said, the family took Mother Teresa up on her offer and prayed for her intervention. Before long, the cancer was gone. “The doctors couldn’t understand it,” she said. “They said there was no medical explanation.” The doctors have submitted information about his case to the postulator working for Mother Teresa’s canonization, she added. Carmen Viegelmann of Auckland, New Zealand, said she was most struck by Mother Teresa’s love for the poor, “which I am trying to emulate. I don’t know how, but I’m trying.” Viegelmann said she came to the beatification because “We just want to bask in her glory.”
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Mary Jane Bauer of Chicago gave up on reaching St. Peter’s Square through the crushing crowds at security checkpoints. She was content to watch on closed-circuit television set up along Via della Conciliazione outside the square. She said she admired Mother Teresa’s ability to love, “to see Jesus in everyone.” She said she was especially impressed when, at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington in 1994, Mother Teresa condemned abortion and offered to take in the child of any woman considering an abortion. U.S. President Bill Clinton, who supported legal abortion, sat beside her at the event. Many people in the city seemed to have met Mother Teresa or known someone who had. Father Peter Long was leading a pilgrimage of 34 people from Our Lady of Vietnam Parish in the Archdiocese of Washington. A Vietnamese immigrant, he said he met Mother Teresa twice in Washington and asked her to pray for Vietnam.
“She gave a good example for many people,” he said. “She loved God and served people. That is a very simple, but very great way to live.” Michael Emmanuel Robinson decided the day before the beatification to fly to Rome from his Chicago home. As an American Airlines employee, it was relatively easy for him, he said. Wearing elaborate African dress, he arrived straight from the airport and full of enthusiasm, despite the fact that he lacked a ticket for admission to the square. Robinson volunteers at a Missionaries of Charity shelter in Chicago, where he said sisters of Mother Teresa’s order inspire him. Deciding to come to Rome, he said, was a decision to “step out in faith.” The bright, sunny day was seen by many people as an example of Mother Teresa watching out for her children. Heavy rain fell the night before, and forecasters had called for more. Instead, umbrellas were used for sunshades, and rain coats became cushions for hundreds of thousands of people without chairs to sit on the cobblestones during the Mass readings and the pope’s homily. As the two-hour Mass concluded, many people lingered in the square for an hour or more, chatting, pulling out lunch or taking photos of each other in front of the new portrait of Mother Teresa that hung on the front of St. Peter’s Basilica. And Missionaries of Charity, in their distinctive blue-trimmed white saris, found themselves suddenly in demand as the new celebrities of the hour. Hurrying to a luncheon for the people who eat and sleep at their order’s charities in Rome, they were stopped every few steps as they crossed the square. “One photograph, please,” one group after another would ask in Italian or English or Tagalog.
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State capitol round-up California legislative session proves “lackluster and disappointing” By Patrick Joyce A California legislative session dominated by the drama of a historic budget deficit and an unprecedented recall campaign was described as “lackluster and disappointing from the standpoint of the Catholic Church’s agenda.” “We achieved some success in a few modest things but not on the big issues of society because the legislature once again punted on most of those,” Ned Dolejsi, executive director of the California Catholic Conference, the public policy agency of the state’s Catholic bishops, said in an interview following the bill signing deadline. Among the successes are laws that provide health insurance for a million California workers, expand food stamp eligibility for the poor, exempt the mentally retarded from the death penalty and give the dying easier access to pain medication. The disappointments include laws that restrict religious freedom and parental rights and an expansion of legislation promoting the use of human embryos for research. A bill allowing illegal immigrants to obtain California driver’s licenses was supported by the conference and signed by Gov. Gray Davis. Gov.-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger opposes the bill, by Sen. Gil Cedillo, D-Los Angeles, and an effort is under way to repeal it by referendum in March. “We realize this is a challenging issue, and we will be working to seek come kind of solution,” Mr. Dolejsi said. “We in the Catholic Conference are looking forward to working with the new administration,” he said. “We’re anxious to have formal meetings with them. We will continue to work with the Democratic leadership in the Legislature but we realize we have entered into a new era of divided government. “The Church will continue to pursue what we have always wanted to pursue - an agenda that respects life and deals with the poor and promotes the common good.”
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More people who are trying to make the transition from welfare to work will be eligible for food stamps, as a result of the enactment of AB 231 by Assemblyman Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento. “As we have been mired in these challenging economic times, we have more and more people who are hungry, even though California is the nation’s largest food producer,” Mr. Dolejsi said. “It’s a tragedy that we have people going hungry. This allows the state to avail itself of the federal food stamp program in more responsible ways.” The bill eliminates a 26-year-old legal requirement that welfare recipients cannot own a car worth more than $4,650. While there will now be no limit to the value of a recipient’s car, an aide to Assemblyman Steinberg said that in other states where the requirement has been eliminated the average value of recipients’ cars is about $7,200. “The old limit didn’t take into account that the price of used cars has gone up dramatically,” Mr. Dolejsi said. “You could have a junker to get back and forth to work and not be eligible for food stamps.” An additional six months of food stamp eligibility will be provided to recipients who have moved off public assistance because they have found jobs. “People have gotten themselves back to work, at minimum wage or entry wage jobs, and they are still poor.” Mr. Dolejsi said. Transitional food stamp eligibility “has proven to be, along with health care, one of the things that allows people to move out of poverty and not come back on public assistance.”
One piece of pro-life legislation signed into law is a death penalty bill by Sen. John B Burton, D-San Francisco. It updates California law to reflect last year’s U.S. Supreme Court’s decision banning the execution of the mentally retarded. “This is a good sign that there are some limits on who we will execute in California,” Mr. Dolejsi said. The compromise legislation includes a requirement sought by prosecutors that the defense prove by a preponderance of the evidence that the defendant is mentally retarded. A provision sought by defense lawyers puts the decision in the hands of the judge not a jury. “It was our contention that this should be heard by the judge who can make a decision based on these facts and save the state a whole lot of time and money if the person is mentally retarded by not moving it forward,” Mr. Dolejsi said. The conference’s support of the bill reflects the views of “bishops in the United States - and the world,” he said. “They have followed the lead of Pope John Paul II who has continually questioned the imposition of the death penalty. The pope views this very much as a prolife issue - that the death penalty adds to the demeaning the value of life in this society.” That view, now reflected in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, sees “that the moral conditions for the imposition of the death penalty are practically nonexistent in this society - that we have bloodless means to STATE ROUND-UP, page 21
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Catholic Charities program serves counseling needs at parish religious education director is salaried but supervises 75 volunteer teachers and classroom aids. Carlos, (not his real name), was suffering Because the parish has been able to save from depression and loneliness. The elderly money by using volunteers, it was able to use man’s wife had just died. A former bracero $100,000 of its savings to build a soccer field from Mexico, Carlos was living with his adult for the parish youth. The field, was completson, daughter-in-law and three children in an ed Aug. 1 with another $100,000 from overcrowded house. He felt unneeded and Electronic Arts of Redwood city and $27,000 worthless. Tensions ran high in the home. in private contributions. But now, thanks to a counseling program However, the majority of parishioners live sponsored by Catholic Charities of the with many risk situations, including high Archdiocese of San Francisco at St. Anthony unemployment, low salaries, youth gang of Padua Parish in Menlo Park, Carlos is feelactivity, family instability, spousal abuse, ing better these days. He gets out of the house adult illiteracy and extremely crowded living more and does volunteer work. Through this conditions. Many are illegal immigrants, said venue, he is making new friends with people Father Garcia. Fewer than 19 percent of his own age. Even Carlos’ physical health has adults have a high school diploma. Ninety improved since he is happier, said Yalile percent of the students entering the school Gonzalez, his counselor. systems are Spanish-speaking with limited Ms. Gonzalez, a licensed social worker, English proficiency. More than 60 percent of began offering bi-lingual counseling services students eventually become dropouts. to St. Anthony parishioners two years ago. A “They are the day laborers you see waiting Marin County donor gave the Archdiocesan along Middlefield Road for their rides to Catholic Charities a $50,000 gift to be used jobs,” pointed out Father Garcia. “They are for this purpose, said Dr. David Ross, director the gardeners, construction workers, house of Charities CYO San Mateo Behavioral cleaners, hotel workers, box packers for comHealth Care Services. puter companies, nannies and baby sitters for The donation has been a dream come true surrounding affluent neighborhoods here on for everybody concerned. No one was more the peninsula,” he added. delighted by the windfall surprise than Mr. Some of these parishioners are now comRoss, unless it was the pastor, himself, Father ing to Yalile Gonzalez with their problems. James Garcia. In fact, the priest immediately Ms. Gonzalez said she counsels an average of gave up his office two days a week, so Ms. 12 people each week. Some of them phone Gonzalez could privately meet with troubled ahead. Others simply drop by. “If I don’t have parishioners in a private, nonthreatening setan appointment booked, I’ll see them.” ting. Her job has two components — She Ms. Gonzalez says there “are all kinds of helps people work through their emotional needs.” People homesick and depressed issues, and refers those with immigration because they miss their native lands; undocuproblems to Catholic Charities’ immigration mented immigrants driving without licenses; advocate in San Mateo. adolescents unhappy in what Ms. Gonzalez Father Garcia says the counseling service describes as a public school system largely has “added some badly needed missing pieces unresponsive to the needs of its Latino stuto our parish’s integral response to the (l-r) Mr. David Ross of Catholic Charities CYO, bi-lingual counselor dents. These kids express their frustration and Gospel. It is one thing to provide food for the Yalile Gonzalez, and St. Anthony pastor Fr. James Garcia at church. boredom by being disruptive. body, but we also need to offer people help for She works with some of their parents, who their emotional distress.” When Father Garcia refers to providing “food for the facility, providing they had cars, that is. But most people are ashamed of their children’s behavior, but too fearful to body,” he is talking about the parish’s Padua Dining Room. from St. Anthony’s depend on bus service to get around. talk with teachers. Ms. Gonzalez also deals with a number For more than 25 years it has served hot meals to the poor An exhausting round trip from Menlo Park to San Mateo, of couples not getting along because money is short “and who walk, ride their bike, take a bus, or drive their cars in and back, often with little kids in tow, could eat up four or they are so tired from working all day.” She sees highly order to come to the parish hall for food six days a week. five hours of a person’s day, explained Mr. Ross. “Besides, educated, professional people who had good jobs in The dining room provides lunch to more than 600 people a people are more comfortable in their own surroundings, Mexico, but who are now disheartened because they are day. Over 140 volunteers from throughout the community like St. Anthony parish itself.” he said. Mr. Ross noted that working in minimum-wage service jobs Ms. Gonzalez sends those with immigration issues to show up each week to prepare the meals, said Father families feel so at home there, they often have picnics right Garcia. The dining room has a budget of $900,000 funded on the church grounds. So what better place to offer psy- the San Mateo office of Catholic Charities CYO for help. chological counseling than in a place they are already com- Diana Otero, an immigration advocate, gets them started on completely by private donations and foundations. their paperwork, right away. Last December, Ms. Otero Adding that final piece – assisting people in emotional fortable with and love, he said. St. Anthony is a parish of 3,000 families located in the presented a Citizenship Fair at St. Anthony’s to encourage pain – has been on Father Garcia’s mind for a long time. Since the late 1990s, he and David Ross had been explor- unincorporated North Fair Oaks community, a poor, people to become U.S. citizens, and 120 people attended. Unfortunately, not enough people realize that they can ing the possibility of bringing on-site counseling services industrial Hispanic area south of Redwood City on the border of Menlo Park. St. Anthony’s baptizes 850 babies receive free immigration services from Catholic Charities to the parish. But they needed money to pay a counselor. True, they realized that folks could always avail them- a year, 900 youth attend its religious education program CYO, Ms. Otero pointed out. “So instead, some of them selves of counseling services at Mr. Ross’s San Mateo and 3,700 people come to the eight weekend Masses. The pay thousands of dollars to an immigration lawyer.”
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Retired religious live lasting vocation in Archdiocese By Tom Burke Almost 1,000 women and men religious, representing more than 80 congregations, serve in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Almost 200 are categorized as retired. The truth is that no matter how these men and women are classified for fiscal or organizational purposes, their service to the people of God continues until death, and after death in the example of their lives. Mercy Sister Edith Hurley, now 82 years old and a religious for 64 years, said she has already “retired twice,” first from elementary school teaching in 1984 and again two years ago from computer instruction. “When I got to be 80, I thought it was time to slow down,” Sister Edith said, though her latest post-retirement effort of cataloguing the Holy Name Elementary School library on computer might cause one to think that maybe she’s sped up. Born and raised in San Francisco, Sister Edith met the Mercy Sisters at St. Peter Parish where she attended elementary and high school. “It’s Father Peter Yorke’s parish,” she said proudly. “I was at his funeral.” Sister Edith has taught at schools throughout the Archdiocese including her alma mater, Holy Name of Jesus, St. Stephen’s, and St. Gabriel in San Francisco; St. Bartholomew’s in San Mateo, and St. Catherine of Siena and Our Lady of Angels in Burlingame. “I loved being in the classroom and going to the students’ games,” Sister Edith said. Sister Edith said she is enjoying this time in her life. “Going to 9 o’clock Mass in the morning instead of the 7:30 is one luxury,” she said with a laugh, She also said she now has more time for hobbies including reading and listening to music. “A benefit of age,” Sister Edith said, “has been seeing the generations coming along and growing up and seeing so many students that we’ve taught develop so well. That’s the best part and seeing how they’re able to help people as well.” Sister Edith exhorts youth “to stay close to family and the Church,” and adults to “keep praying.” Christian Brother Raphael Willeke says he is “retired in a sense” but only because he is now relieved of daily responsibilities as administrator and teacher, ministries that have kept him busy through almost 20 assignments in his 59 years of religious life. Brother Raphael, a former Christian Brothers Provincial and now 77 years old,
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entered the community in 1944 following graduation from the Mission District’s St. Peter High School. “When I saw the brothers at St. Peter’s, I thought that these are people doing something for others that was useful and I could fit into that,” he said. “The whole idea of fulfillment was much more than I ever dreamt of or expected.” Retirement has brought Brother Raphael his first assignment in his hometown. “When the Provincial asked if I wanted to live here at Sacred Heart Cathedral, I said ‘Yes,” Brother Raphael exclaimed. He said retirement is allowing him to “do more historical reading” – his field of expertise with a degree in the subject from St. Mary’s College, Moraga and decades teaching it. “I’m also glad to be able to just do things for the community that need to be done on a daily basis including driving, errands and all that,” Brother Raphael said. “The greatest benefit of age has been increased hindsight,” Brother Raphael said with a smile. “I’ve gained a clearer perspective than ever before.” Presentation Sister Cleta Herold, a “native San Franciscan,” is a graduate of St. Cecilia elementary and Presentation high schools. A religious for 62 years she’s happy to state her age as 82. “I’m grateful for the gift of every day and every year,” Sister Cleta said. Sister Cleta has taught at schools of the Archdiocese including her high school alma mater, St. Anne of the Sunset, and St. Agnes. She has also ministered to the deaf at San Francisco’s St. Benedict Parish and taught Sign Language for 18 years. Calling herself a “retiree who is not retired,” she said her service today includes volunteering
at Safe House, a transitional program for women leaving prostitution that was founded by the Presentation Sisters, and the Good Samaritan Resource Center. In 1984, Sister Cleta left the classroom to serve as a pastoral associate at the Castro District’s Most Holy Redeemer Parish. “The
AIDS epidemic was becoming evident then,” Sister Cleta said, noting that today she lives in an apartment in the Most Holy Redeemer compound. “The times I was working with AIDS patients was very special. I felt privileged to be there. I witnessed real holiness and sanctity in so many of them.”
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Seminarians discuss love and longing, Christ and hope Father Tom Daly, vocations director for the Archdiocese recently arranged a conversation for Catholic San Francisco with four men in the beginning stages of their formal preparation for the priesthood at Saint Patrick’s Seminary. Two are quite young, one is in his 30s and one is a late vocation, but all are viscerally youthful in their love of Christ, their idealism of sacrifice and their appreciation for the formation they are receiving at Saint Patrick’s. The most important thing to say about Saint Patrick’s is “people are happy here,” seminarian Mike Quinn said. The day begins at Saint Patrick’s with breakfast at 7:30. Praying the office is at 8:00 followed by Mass. Liturgy is planned with student help and alternates with different choirs including, Spanish, Vietnamese, Filipino and guitar. Classes consume the day with a break for lunch and in the evening, prayer is again the center of student life. Evening prayer at 5:00 p.m. is standard, but the students had a part in increasing the communal aspect of their prayer and devotion to the Eucharist. Father Michael Barber, S.J., spiritual director at the seminary, and other staff have encouraged the students to keep a spiritual focus. Part of the students’ response to that challenge is to spend a half hour most days in adoration of Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament after evening prayer. Students had also been encouraged to pray the Rosary, at least privately, but according to Quinn, students decided doing so together in the chapel at night was the best way. Each student has an academic and a spiritual advisor they have a say in choosing. The purpose of the advisors is to make sure the students are well rounded, “academically, spiritually, emotionally, and physically,” said Quinn. “The advisors want you to succeed . . . They want you to lead a long happy life,” he said. Below is a short profile of the four seminarians Catholic San Francisco spoke with and a few of their comments on Christ, the Church, the priesthood and hope. Joe Campos is a 25 year old from Saint Cecilia’s parish in San Francisco. He went to Saint Cecilia’s and Saint Ignatius High School and then studied psychology and philosophy through the Saint Ignatius Institute at
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the University of San Francisco. Campos did an undergraduate year abroad and then post graduate studies in Blackfriars and Greyfriars in Oxford. He is a first year theology student at St. Patrick’s. Sacrifice: “I don’t see it as a sacrifice. I see it as my vocation in life. This is what I’m called to do. There is just an acceptance on my part to answer that call.” Longing: “Everybody feels that void . . . When you look at material or earthly goods and the way people look at them; they are overcome with a big smile or so much joy. That’s the way I see Christ. The joy that people feel in reaction to worldly things; that’s my reaction to Christ. So I don’t feel that I’m really forsaking anything. It’s more of an acceptance of something that’s greater than really anything else has to offer.” Hope: “It is important to pray and keep in mind that SEMINARIANS, page 12
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Jesus is the center of all the longing that people have in their hearts.” David Schunk is 25, also from Saint Anthony parish in Novato. He went to public elementary school and Novato High School. Schunk earned a bachelor degree in music education at the University of Northern Colorado. Schunk has been a music teacher near Chico, CA and is now a first year pre-theology student. Priesthood: “People are hungering for something and find that what they are using to fill that hunger is only temporary and unfulfilling. The Church has something to offer them in the message of Christ’s salvation. God’s love for us is something we can offer for people and that’s what I want to do as a priest.”
Vocation: “The question that every person asks for themselves is ‘why am I put in this situation?’ For me the answer is ‘I don’t know.’ God calls us to whatever vocation we are and you can ask yourself why, but you may not know. . .God calls you to open his love up to other people and that’s why you’re there. Why did God call me to do this as a priest and not the person next door? He knows and I guess that’s all that really counts right now.” Family: “They call the family the domestic church for very good reason. Family life will ground you however you are. It will mold you. Family life is what molded me into a person trying to be holy.”
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God, our Father, In Your love and providence, You call each of us to a more holy and abundant life. We pray for our young people in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Open their hearts and minds to know the vocation You have planned for them from all eternity. If they are being invited to follow You as a priest, Brother, or Sister, give them a generous heart to respond to Your challenging call and the strength to follow wherever You lead them. May families desire to please You by encouraging and supporting vocations within their homes. We ask this through Jesus Christ, our Good Shepherd. Amen
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A. Durand Garcia Dennis E. Gooch Matthew G. Hysell Andrew R. Johnson Michael J. Konopik
Kiet Minh Le Juan Lopez Linh T. Nguyen Ngoan Van Phan Joseph Previtali
Michael Quinn Vincent Mark Reburiano John J. Sakowski David Schunk Paul M. Zirimenya
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Christian Brothers: Called to a life of service of teaching” that attracted Brother Michael Sanderl to the community. He graduated from La Salle High School in Pasadena, Often the fear of the unknown or lack then went on to St. Mary College in of understanding can get in the way of Moraga. answering God’s call to serve, according His father’s 30-year teaching career and to Brother Thomas Pham, who is preparhis own student experience with the ing to profess his final vows as a De La Brothers, inspired Brother Michael to Salle Christian Brother for the teach. Archdiocese of San Francisco. “Coming from a very strong Catholic Born a Catholic in Vietnam, Brother family,” Brother Michael said, “I wanted to Thomas “never heard” of the Christian teach religion. It was very important to Brothers until his arrival in San Jose, CA me.” For the first two years after his noviin 1995. A chance meeting with tiate he was very active, teaching religion Community members and an invitation and organizing campus ministry in to tutor the local Vietnamese Catholic Portland, Oregon at De La Salle North children at the La Salle Vietnam House Catholic. began his discernment. Currently, Brother Michael is a The Christian Brothers’ example of full-time doctoral student at the University their “dedication to the education of all of San Francisco studying Catholic children, especially the poor,” inspired Educational Leadership, and is anxious to Brother Thomas to investigate the “very return to teaching. happy men who care for each other and “Whatever I do it has to interact with show great concern for one another.” young people,” he said. “My passion is to “I never thought about being part of teach religion in a classroom or campus any religious community,” Brother ministry.” Thomas said. “The turning point for me Brother Thomas Pham tutors one of the “scholars” at De Marillac Middle School “Brother Michael is very people orientcame when I spent a week with the Community and watched their commitment and dedication of making an “informed decision” at the time and left the ed, a fun loving guy, very organized, and a competent Community. “After living on my own and dating, I felt I teacher,” said Brother James. to helping children,” he said. Although any lifelong commitment can be daunting, Since 1995, Brother Thomas has worked with the poor- was ready and knew what I wanted,” he said. He returned Brother Michael advises those thinking about a religious life est of children in the Philippines and India. His heart is to the Brothers in 1999. Born in Napa, he was “raised right behind the Christian to “try it, pray about it, and interact with the community.” dedicated to street children. “I like to talk and listen to To learn more about the De La Salle Christian Brothers them,” he said. “I want to have a chance to bring them back Brothers Winery.” He was educated by the Brothers at visit www.delasalle.org. Justin-Siena High School. to their families where they belong.” “I watched the Brothers pray and I thought there had to Currently, Brother Thomas is teaching in the Tenderloin at the De Marillac Middle School sponsored by the be something there. I believed it was something to search,” Christian Brothers and the Daughters of Charity, where he he said. Brother Joseph also teaches at De Marillac School. teaches “the children who are poor mentally and spiritual“Although it can be taxing teaching children with English ly.” “Brother Thomas helps with the reading program and as their second language,” he loves the challenge. Brother James speaks highly of his teaching skills. “He provides tutor support,” said Brother James Joost. The Director of Vocation Ministry said, “he is very conscien- has an effective calm and patience when he deals with the kids. He is infinitely patient and very clear. The kids tious and consistent in his concern for the kids.” In 1979, Brother Joseph Kirk began his discernment respond well to him.” It was the Christian Brothers’ “charism and the ministry with the Christian Brothers, but he felt he was not capable
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What to do about homelessness At least 169 homeless people died on the streets of San Francisco last year. Mayoral candidates are making the rounds and seeking our endorsement. Thirtyeight percent of likely voters surveyed in a poll carried out last year identified homelessness as the most important problem facing San Francisco. There are no quick fixes to this problem. As the Director of San Francisco’s leading organization providing shelter for Latino working poor, I believe it is high time we got our house in order in San Francisco. We need leadership on the issues surrounding homelessness. We do not have a homeless plan. Despite the hundreds of thousands of dollars spent each year; in spite of the thousands of hard working, well intentioned people; in spite of countless hours spent arguing over the issues; we do not have a comprehensive, or even a bare-bones plan that is invested in by all key stakeholders. This is not for lack of trying. Over the last three years, a tremendous effort was put behind a plan that would have the buy-in from advocates, service providers, government agencies, and homeless San Franciscans. The result was “the Continuum of Care” (COC). The plan was stillborn. Even with the hard work of a wide variety of talented individuals, most of whom took time away from providing services, the plan ended up with serious gaps in it. So, even though there is a great deal that can be learned from the COC, and even though it has received accolades from many in the city, it sits on the proverbial shelf. Without a common comprehensive plan, or vision, we who live and work in San Francisco are left to react as changes come at us. The economy continues to be in a slump, adding to the number of skilled and unskilled workers who are jobless. We have spent much of this year re-acting to, arguing over, and planning to implement Proposition N, Care Not Cash. The voters passed this last year, only for it to be later nullified by a court ruling. The Board of Supervisors passed a watered down version that will have little real impact on the system. The federal government has mandated that cities implement a management information system to keep track of recipients of services. This is being implemented on a local level with an eye to reducing fraud. Computer scanners have been placed in all the shelters. Those with criminal records may self-select to spend the night on the street or in our parks rather than risk having their fingerprints scanned. Hardly a desired result. This is happening in the absence of a general plan or common vision. We have wasted a great deal of time and money arguing with one another with little real gain. Leadership on this issue is urgently needed. We should be demanding that the Mayoral candidates articulate a vision and a method of dealing with San Francisco’s poor. Such a plan must have at a minimum the following elements: A commitment to simplify San Francisco’s byzantine bureaucracy. We do not need a dozen city agencies duplicating efforts while not talking with one another. A commitment to confront advocates, service providers, businesses, unions, neighborhood associations, and anyone else whenever we need to be reminded that the role of government is to provide for the common good while protecting individual rights. The ability to bring together the divergent groups that make up this great city. That means all of us, not just the folks I agree with. An ability to be flexible, to listen to the underserved and to re-think the status quo. Bob Nelson is Executive Director of Dolores Street Community Services in San Francisco.
Was the Iraq war justified? Questioning continues regarding the justification for the Iraq war. Thoughtful Catholics struggled and debated whether this war was just well before the first smart bomb exploded over Baghdad. Today, months after the president declared major hostilities to be at an end, the debate has intensified. The reasons for the heightened scrutiny are many — some genuine, some not. In the former category is the posturing of those who would be president. The main issues remain: Were we right to go, and are we right to stay? The mounting costs of the war and occupation cannot be lightly dismissed. Each day there are reports of new casualties of American soldiers and Iraqi civilians alike. President Bush has asked for $87 billion to rebuild the country, even as suicide bombers seem intent on destroying incrementally what presently exists. And we bear these costs largely alone. It would be easy to walk away. Doing so, however, would forfeit the moral high ground we sought to defend. Yes, Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction elude us. U.S. inspector David Kay’s interim report detailed the difficulty. Biological and chemical weapons have the potential to kill hundreds of thousands in a single day, but they can be stored in an area no larger than a household garage. But while the moral case for the Iraqi war was partially premised on the threat of hidden weaponry, it was hardly centered there. Nor was the strongest justification retribution for 9-11. The links between Hussein and al Qaida are disputed. Apologists for the war claim terrorist presence in Iraq has been conclusively determined. Yet, without Hussein or bin Laden actually in custody, seeing the war in Iraq as proportionate punishment for the still unrequited attack upon innocent life in New York and elsewhere is problematic. Self-defense, of course, is a key element of just-war thinking, and the president WAR JUSTIFIED?, page 16
Recent editorial spurs strong reader criticism We are responding to your editorial attack on Leo McCarthy. We believe such a harsh personal assault has no place in a Catholic newspaper. By describing Mr. McCarthy as “staunchly pro-abortion” you are factually inaccurate and you are slandering an outstanding public servant and a distinguished Catholic leader. Both personally and professionally, Leo McCarthy has consistently advocated and implemented the values of the Gospel, especially concern for the poor. He has never been “staunchly pro-abortion”. On the contrary, he is an outstanding Catholic layman, as well as an active and generous supporter of many Catholic organizations including Catholic Charities CYO, where he serves on the Board of Directors. We are pleased and proud that our Church’s journalists are aggressive in promoting the pro-life agenda, but the approach taken in this editorial effort was disrespectful and divisive. You owe Leo McCarthy a public apology. Brian Cahill, Executive Director, Catholic Charities CYO Catholic Charities CYO Board of Directors Members: Mark Cleary Reverend Charles Gagan Jack Fitzpatrick Cecilia Herbert
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of your charge is a 1992 LA Times article summarizing a survey of various positions of ten candidates for the U.S. Senate. I was not interviewed for nor quoted in the article and thus did not have the opportunity to specify that I accepted my Church’s teaching on abortion. My refusal to impose my religious convictions on all citizens in our pluralistic society was taken in the survey as simply “favors abortion” and related issues. This in no way justifies the label “staunchly proabortion.” For the record, I have long accepted our Church’s teaching on abortion and many years ago shared this with my four children. Obedience to that teaching has guided our private lives. Neither in private nor public life have I ever been “staunchly pro-abortion.” Abortion was never a “prominent feature of [my] platform.” In public life I did not seek to compel non-Catholics to conform to my religious convictions on abortion or other subjects. President John F. Kennedy and many other Catholic elected officials have in conscience adopted this same position out of respect for our pluralistic society. There is a respectable body of Catholic theologians who are supportive of this stance. It was also elegantly stated by staunchly Catholic former Governor Cuomo in an address at the University of Notre Dame in the mid-1980’s. On the other hand, I authored the only legislation ever to be signed into law that would have funded education in religious and other private schools of children from low-income families. In that effort, I was accused by nonCatholics of carrying that bill solely to help Catholic schools. No Catholic leader ever asked me to introduce or fight for that legislation. The central purpose of the measure was to help poor kids get a good education. State courts subsequently declared that law unconstitutional I have a forty-year list of tangible actions that illustrate I take my Catholic beliefs seriously. That I need to recite a small part of this record to defend myself against your editorial slur is painful and demeaning. That record includes the prevention of nursing home abuse, the promotion of affordable family housing laws, health care for the disabled and the ending of racial discrimination. Since I left public office nine years ago, my wife and I have formed a family foundation to assist Catholic non-profit organizations. I serve on the Board of the Jesuit School of Theology and was recently appointed by Archbishop Levada to the Board of Catholic Charities CYO. I have written two letters to the Archbishop in the last 15 months thanking him for his leadership in two important areas: his public message at the height of the clerical child abuse scandal and his ecumenical partnering with leaders of other Christian faiths. I respect, support, and pray for the Archbishop in his difficult job. Leo T. McCarthy San Francisco
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I am responding to the personal attack on me in the October 10, 2003 editorial of Catholic San Francisco. In an earlier editorial, you stated that it was ironic that Tony Ribera was excluded from a recent Mayor’s debate sponsored by non-profit agencies including some Catholic organizations. I wrote to explain Mr. Ribera was excluded from the debate because he did not meet the sponsors’ criteria of polling 5 percent or more, not because he was pro-life which you inferred. Despite conceding no bias against Mr. Ribera, the editorial personally attacked me as the likely “explanation” why “only pro-abortion Catholics” were included in the mayoral debate. As you read the following charges, which I deny, ask yourself what is the causal connection between what I allegedly felt about abortion issues in 1992 and the selection of mayoralty candidates (without my involvement) before the USF hosted debate last month: “There may be an explanation why the Leo T. McCarthy Center was not struck by the oddness of a debate that includes only pro-abortion Catholics. Its namesake, the former Lieutenant Governor of California, is a staunchly pro-abortion Catholic politician. In his 1992 run for U.S. Senator, abortion was a prominent feature of his platform.” [emphases added] Neither charge is accurate. The basis
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Two hallmarks of Catholic journalism touching upon political life should be fidelity to the faith and an abiding commitment to civility in discourse. Catholic San Francisco violated the latter on October tenth by launching a biting personal attack upon former Lieutenant Governor Leo McCarthy in its editorial. It is not clear whether this attack was occasioned by Mr. McCarthy’s letter to Catholic San Francisco or by the fact that the Institute which sponsored a recent mayoral debate is named after McCarthy. What is clear is that the Catholic owes Mr. McCarthy an apology. The Church’s position affirming life in a society all to oblivious to the sanctity of human life will succeed only if it is put forth in a consistently respectful manner. We await the Catholic LETTERS, page 16
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From the Editor More heat than light Former U.S. President Harry Truman’s famous line, “If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen,” certainly applies this week. Several letters from readers chastise Catholic San Francisco for a statement made in a recent editorial. I find that I agree with their major criticism. The story begins with our coverage of a controversy surrounding a San Francisco Mayoral Forum in the Oct. 3 issue and a brief editorial urging the inclusion of an additional candidate. The editorial amplified a request that Archbishop Levada made to the debate sponsors, which had been declined. In the Oct. 10 issue we covered the debate itself and published an editorial, which made clear that the candidate had failed to meet the established criterion for inclusion in the debate and was not excluded on the basis of his beliefs or party affiliation. The editorial noted the unusual circumstances of the situation and quoted Archbishop Levada’s comments in a letter to the debate’s steering committee, asking them to reconsider the criterion for candidate inclusion. Near its end, the Oct. 10 editorial went awry. It made a harsh, venal, uncharitable and unwarranted speculation. It said, “There may be a reason why the Leo T. McCarthy Center was not struck by the oddness of a debate that includes only pro-abortion Catholics. Its namesake, the editorial said, “is a staunchly pro-abortion Catholic politician.” This characterization is at best inadequate, and one that totally obscures the many contributions that Leo McCarthy has made to the common good in his career in public service and the many contributions he has made in private life as a Catholic. I deeply regret the speculation contained in the editorial, and I offer Mr. McCarthy my sincere apology. While a member of the editorial staff penned the editorial, I edited, rewrote and titled the editorial and I take full responsibility for its shortcomings. While the comment in the editorial was unfair and counter to the level of discourse one should expect in a Catholic diocesan newspaper, it was based on research by the paper. On May 29, 1992, the Los Angeles Times published a survey of candidates bidding for a seat in the U.S. Senate. The Times reported Mr. McCarthy’s position on abortion in these words: “Favors abortion rights. Would co-sponsor bill in Senate to write Roe vs. Wade into federal law. Supports Medicaid funding for abortion, full funding for family planning and testing and distribution of French abortion pill RU-486, if it is found to be safe.” Abortion was a hot issue in the Senate race of 1992, with Barbara Boxer finally winning the day based partly on her rock-ribbed commitment to pro-choice and abortion rights. Mr. McCarthy told me of another article in the Los Angeles Times a month earlier in 1992 quoting Jane Danowitz, then Executive Director of the Washington DC based Women’s Campaign Fund. “The definition of pro-choice has changed. We are no longer just talking about people who have good voting records. We are talking about people who are going to stand up and lead the charge,” Danowitz said. Danowitz said she researched votes by McCarthy and Levine when they served in the state Legislature during the 1970s and 1980s and pointed out votes in which they supported restrictions on abortions or did not vote at all on issues of key importance to women. Danowitz said that McCarthy and Levine “have records on choice that are filled with oopses and back flips and waivers and waffles, misses and just plain bad votes.” This certainly brings a different perspective on “my abortion positions,” Mr. McCarthy said. Indeed, Danowitz obviously thought that he was not loyal to many of the women organization’s positions on abortion. In the end, I hope that this experience can be helpful in advancing a dialog about very important and very sensitive issues within the Church. The public life-private belief paradigm put forward by then New York Gov. Mario Cuomo 20 years ago was challenged by New York Cardinal John O’Connor at the time. More recently, we have the U.S. Bishops’ Statement on Responsible Citizenship and the Vatican’s Doctrinal Note on the Participation of Catholics in Political Life. Catholic San Francisco’s editorials have been a standard for excellence since the beginning of the newspaper nearly five years ago – an excellence recognized each year by the Catholic Press Association. We recommit ourselves to this high standard, and to a discourse that is respectful and faithful to the saving message of Christ. MEH
War justified? . . . ■ Continued from page 15
argues strongly that the Iraqi campaign is crucial to it. Iraq, it is said, is “the central front of the war on terror.” It may be. Average citizens without access to classified intelligence have no way of knowing for sure. They can only trust proper authority or, in terms of Augustine’s classic just-war thinking, rely upon the chief magistrate’s understanding of his strict moral duty to maintain a just political order under law. Pope John Paul II reminds us that no aspect of the human condition falls outside moral reasoning, including war. He cautioned against this war, hoping, as many did, to find an alternative course. We ultimately disagreed, believing the gravity of the evil could not wait. Were we right about the magnitude of evil? Regretfully, yes. When federal Judge Don Walters was sent to Iraq to evaluate its justice system, he brought with him a deepseated opposition to the war. What he brought home was a tangible report of 57 mass graves, one with the bodies of 1,200 children, accounts of unspeakable cruelty, including Hussein’s henchmen ripping out the eye of an infant in front of his mother and father when they refused to answer questions, and massive, deliberately imposed poverty. As we at our comfortable distance rethink whether the war was necessary and just, we must not be politically gullible, but we must also not be morally indifferent. As the pope wrote in 1993, there is a duty to disarm “an unjust aggressor, [and] states no longer have a ‘right of indifference.”’ John Paul II was writing then about the duty of humanitarian intervention, and in the final analysis that is what our nation did in Iraq and continues to do.” Douglas W. Kmiec writes for Catholic News Service
Letters . . . ■ Continued from page 15 San Francisco’s effort to reintroduce that respect to its pages. Monsignor Bruce Dreier Reverend William Justice Monsignor Maurice McCormick Reverend James McDonald Monsignor Robert McElroy Reverend John Penebsky Reverend John K. Ring Reverend Vince Ring As President of the Board of Directors of Catholic Charities CYO, I want to express my appreciation for Leo T. McCarthy’s extraordinary dedication to public service and charitable works. As Catholics throughout the Archdiocese well know, Mr. McCarthy served ably as a San Francisco Supervisor, Speaker of the California State Assembly, and Lt. Governor of California before retiring in 1994. In addition, Mr. McCarthy has been a generous contributor to Catholic Charities CYO and a decades long parishioner at St. Brendan’s Parish. Mr. McCarthy endowed the creation of a Center for Public Service and the Common Good at the University of San Francisco. For more than thirty years I have personally observed and admired Leo McCarthy’s tireless commitment to social justice and public service. He has been a role model for probity and honor in public life. That is precisely why Archbishop Levada ratified Mr. McCarthy’s appointment to the CCCYO Board of Directors and why we are so proud to have him as a member. Clinton T. Reilly President of the Board of Directors Catholic Charities CYO
Bernardin’s “seamless garment” theology, we are committed to bringing people together in order to follow the Gospel imperative. Fr. John Hardin, OFM Executive Director St. Anthony Foundation Louis Alessandria Executive Director St. Vincent De Paul Society
Popularity contest In reference to the selection of candidates for the debate which excluded Tony Ribera because of his “popularity” or lack there of, I have what I consider a pertinent question for you. Do you think that our Blessed Lord Jesus’ philosophy was “popular” - say with the Scribes and the Pharisees? Would they have been invited to participate? As a pro-life supporter, I am grateful to Archbishop Levada for his support in this matter. Jackie Sarraillé San Francisco
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Peace and all good. We are writing to you in response to recent editorials in Catholic San Francisco regarding the Mayoral Forum that was co-sponsored by our Faith-based service providers’ group along with the Leo McCarthy Center at USF, Human Services Network, Senior Action Network, and the Council of Community Housing Organizations. The joint committee, composed of members of each of the sponsoring groups, made a practical planning decision to limit participation in the forum to candidates showing at least 5 percent voter support in the pre-election polls. Exclusion of candidates was not based on party affiliation or an individual’s position on one particular issue, as your editorial infers. We limited the forum in this way in order to allocate adequate time for discussion of the evening’s theme: the candidates’ positions on homelessness and housing. Your editorial jumps from the question of Mr. Ribera’s participation in the forum to Mr. Leo McCarthy’s voting record on prolife issues. By neglecting to comment on the forum’s main focus your editorial succeeds in generating much more heat than light. The faith based service providers have been trying to build bridges between the business community and other service providers in order to address the issue of the quality of life for our sisters and brothers who live on the streets of San Francisco. In this regard, the print media, secular and religious, can be an influential avenue for advocating for the common good. As a Catholic newspaper, Catholic San Francisco would use its moral authority well by taking on the challenge of gathering disparate groups of constituents together. Until we stop vilifying each other and pointing fingers, nothing will change, especially for the poor. We believe that there is a core constituency in San Francisco that really does care about the poor and homeless and are desperately looking for real solutions. At this critical juncture in the world, in our country, in our state, and most especially in our city, we do need to consider the words of the Bishops’ Pastoral on Economic Justice: “a society will be judged on how it treats the anawim.” As Roman Catholics who love the Church and are firmly committed to Cardinal
Faith in prison
We want to thank Evelyn Zappia and Catholic San Francisco for the wonderful article (CSF – 10/3) about our Pastoral Leadership Group here at San Quentin. Each of us is truly blessed by the opportunity we have been given to take classes through the Archdiocesan School of Pastoral Leadership. All of us would like to send a special thank you to someone that was not mentioned in the article, Ms. Joni Gallagher, the former Assistant Director of the School of Pastoral Leadership. Joni openly shared her spirit, love, joy and time supporting our group. We cannot thank her enough for the blessings she brought into our lives. We hope she knows that we miss her and remember her in our thoughts and prayers. We also thank Father Peter Togni for his support and the knowledge he has shared with us. We especially want to send our prayers out for him that he will get well soon. We also want Father Denis McManus to know that we miss him. We hope that his retirement is treating him well. But we also hope he will not be a stranger behind these walls. Our group is currently studying the Psalms under the guidance of Ms. Angela Del Greco. We look forward to many more classes in the future. We also hope for more visits from our faith community in the Archdiocese. The faith sharing visits with our brothers and sisters in Christ are always encouraging, especially from our devoted leaders Archbishop Levada, Bishop Wester and Bishop Wang. Leonard Rubio Bob Kaser José Chavez Vy Xuan Le Douglas Collier Antonio Molinar Richard Farias, Jr. José Montejan Kevin Hagan Eugenio Peña
Yorke witticism I read the September article on Father Peter Yorke, Garret McEnerney and Senator James Phelan with a great deal of interest and enjoyment. My parents were great admirers of Father Yorke. We had a large framed picture of him hanging in our living room when I was a child. Father Yorke devoted a great deal of his time to holding well-attended public meetings on labor union problems. I was told that he often pointed out the shortcomings of officers of the American Protection Association, which opposed labor unions, and in particular those members who were Catholic. He was a very witty speaker. Your readers may enjoy his comment about an APA officer: "He's so narrow-minded he can look through a keyhole with both eyes at once." Mary Moran Pajalich San Francisco
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John Paul II and the Gospel of Peace By Monsignor Lorenzo Albacete Pope John Paul II’s vigorous opposition to the war in Iraq has made some American Catholics and other observers wonder whether the Holy Father was abandoning the traditional Catholic position on the possibility of “just wars.” An important (non-Catholic) observer of the Vatican for a prestigious secular news outlet told me that Pope John Paul II would be known in history as the “Pope of non-violence.” President Bush’s Catholic advisors, who have helped him put together the moral arguments in support of this war, went on emergency lecture tours to try to minimize the damage caused by this perception of the Pope’s position. The President’s political advisors, who try to cultivate the “Catholic vote” by appealing to the President’s pro-life position in the abortion and bioethical controversies, must be puzzled and disturbed by this apparent clash between the Administration and the Vatican. Is this perception true? Is John Paul II the Catholic Ghandi? Does he want Catholics to be pacifists? In fact, the Holy Father has not rejected the “just war doctrine.” The Catechism of the Catholic Church promulgated by him reaffirms it. Indeed, the Pope and Vatican diplomacy did not mobilize to oppose the war against the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, and some of the Pope’s remarks at that time appeared to justify it as a just response to the attacks of September 11, 2001. Whereas the Church recognizes that some may be called to pacifism as a personal “vocation,” John Paul II’s opposition to war has nothing to do with pacifism. Since Pope John XXXIII’s encyclical Pacem in Terris (1963) and the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965), the Papal Magisterium has strongly insisted that in the age of nuclear weapons the dangers of a mass conflagration have made war unacceptable, and nuclear war itself immoral,
according to the very principles of the just war doctrine. But although some Catholic leaders have sought to make this argument against (or for) this war, the Holy Father himself has not expressed his position exactly in these terms. All wars, he has said, represent a defeat for humanity. The Pope’s position should be seen as part of the post-conciliar efforts to root Catholic moral teachings more explicitly in the faith. The “traditional” point of reference for most of the Church’s teachings on war and other social issues has been the so-called “natural law” which, in theory, is perceived by all human beings. This approach has allowed the Church to offer moral guidance to believers and unbelievers alike. Indeed, the Church has always maintained that our moral consciousness is wounded as a result of sin, and that, for this reason, faith in Christ is needed to achieve a clear perception of what is right or wrong. According to this position, however, the point of departure for moral judgments appears to be an ethics that, theoretically at least, does not need faith to discover what is just or unjust. Critics, however, say that this point of departure often degenerates into a moralism or legalism that grounds moral behavior on abstract principles or ideas rather than on a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, which is the heart of the Gospel. Instead, the Second Vatican Council affirmed that the full truth about what a human being is could only be found in the mystery of Christ’s identity and mission. This passage (in the Council’s decree on “The Church in the Modern World,” paragraph 22) has been the cornerstone of Pope John Paul II’s moral teaching. This approach gives priority to a view about human nature based on the experience of what Christ’s on-going presence in the world makes possible. According to this view, the Church’s moral teachings originate in its mission to make Christ present in the world as the point of departure to the possibility of achieving what all human beings desire, believers or not.
In the case of war, the Pope is convinced that Christ makes peace possible and that human beings can be educated in the ways of peace if they can overcome the defeatism that accepts violence as the solution to conflicts. John Paul II is not an unrealistic visionary. He is aware that he is holding out for what can only be described as a miracle, but can a Pope be anything else than the witness to the possibility of miracles? It is understandable that those who do not believe in miracles will see war as the only solution to certain conflicts, but should not those who identify themselves as Christians or other believers seek to strengthen the desire for peace in the hearts of all men and women of good will? This is how the Pope understands his primary responsibility, as a witness to a hope based on his experience of faith. In the end, it is a matter of believing in divine grace (and therefore in the Church’s presence) as a real factor guiding human history. The opposite to confidence in the power of grace is dependence on the power of human ideals, but human ideals by themselves cannot overcome our moral weakness. Instead, they become “causes” that never reach their intended goals. And when pursued by violent means, these ideals become harmful, even if they are just theoretically. This is why the Pope says that war, even a just war, is in the end a defeat for man. The mission of the Church in the world is to hold on to the possibilities opened up by grace, to educate all in living as witnesses to the Peace that the world cannot achieve by itself–neither through diplomacy nor through war, however just.
many activities as possible. She was not, it seems, spoiled or coddled or hidden away. At her funeral her family shared a video of Kayla singing to her father. Her head rested on a pillow as she sang along with Nat King Cole: ‘“L’ is for the way you look at me. ‘O’ is for ...” You know the one. During the instrumental portion she smiled coyly at her father while playfully keeping time with the music in one of the few ways she could — with her eyebrows. I am sure the angels wept along with everyone in that crowded church. I never met Kayla Holdaway. However, she has deeply impacted my daily life in just the time I have learned of and from her. Kayla made use of all that she was provided by our Creator. At 11 years old, she had become an unintentional master teacher about life. How can I whine about cold weather, the bad economy,
the Mariners’ lack of hitting, a sore shoulder or anything else? Life is a miracle. Just having arms and legs, it would seem, can be a cause to shout, “Hey, let’s party!” Kayla was not an accident. Kayla was not a person who needed to be Dan Morris-Young “fixed.” Kayla was Kayla. Total and complete. That was all she needed to be. And she will be missed, even by many of us who never met her.
Monsignor Lorenzo Albacete is National Director of the ecclesial movement Communion & Liberation. Reprinted with permission from Traces magazine. All rights reserved.
Family Life
Kayla Holdaway I never met Kayla Holdaway. I did see a snapshot of her among a bunch of kids at a camping experience. You could barely make out her face. She was smiling out at the camera with her friends from her wheelchair. Kayla died recently. I am told her death resulted from an infection following one of the many surgeries that were part of her life. That life lasted 11 and one-half years. While I did not know Kayla or the circumstances of her birth, I do know from her classmates at Marshall Elementary in Marysville, Wash., and their parents a bit about her. She was born with a disease that did not allow her body to develop. Her head was normal, adult-size. Her body was the size, I am told, of a small infant. She had no use of her limbs. She was totally dependent on others for her physical care. Yet Kayla was an outstanding student. She was a member of the area children’s choir. She took part in as
Dan Morris-Young is a veteran journalist who now lives in Arlington, Washington.
Spirituality
Conservatism is a good place to start from Sometimes it’s helpful to imagine you’re a strip of litmus paper and then analyze the colors you turn as you fall into the various acids of life and religion. I grew up in the 1950s and 1960s, a time both of great stability and mind-boggling change. I had some things that helped keep me steady, wonderful parents and a strong faith community. My parents were immigrants, honest, hard-working, Roman Catholics, with a deep faith. More than that, my dad was one of the most moral men I’ve ever met and my mother was generous and soft-hearted to a fault. Not bad for luck. By temperament they were both conservative, with an immigrant’s fear of change, the world, the dangers out there. They liked things safe, solid, to be known in their consequences before they were tried. And they wanted their kids to play it safe, too, to venture away from home only when we knew we could find our way back again. They had faith in the old taboos: Always be careful about your friends, your morals, your religion, your soul. Partly this was fear; partly it was wisdom, deep wisdom that more parents ought to impart to their children. The old taboos contain not just the fears of past generations, but the wisdom and experience of those generations as well. In essence, what they say is that naive freedom can be dangerous, there are lots of places you can get lost, where your mind can snap, your heart can break, you can lose yourself, and, as Iris Murdoch says, get into a muddle and never get out. I’m grateful that my parents started me out on such conservative footing. It gave me the foundation I needed from which to build. When I began to study literature, philosophy,
and theology, I found myself in ever more liberal classrooms. I’m grateful for that. My parents gave me both wisdom and fear, and those classrooms helped free me from some of the fear. But it wasn’t without struggle. I remained my parents’ son and didn’t take to new ideas easily, but great teachers, caring colleagues, wonderful friends, and the experience of ministry stretched my horizons against my early training, taking me, sometimes, a long way from the religious home of my parents: immigrant Catholicism, the Baltimore Catechism, Catholic devotions, distrust of other faiths, uncritical obedience to the letter of the law, fear of what’s outside my circle. Today I’m pretty comfortable in many circles. I move with ease among Protestants and Evangelicals. I’m comfortable there, in their churches, with their prayer, their faith, their friendship. I’m growing more comfortable, too, with Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Native religions, even secular religion. I’m not always fully at home here, but there are aspects in all of these faiths and cultures where I’m at home and from where I can travel easily back and forth to my own religious home. I’m not sure anymore whether I’m liberal or conservative. A younger ecclesial set sometimes sees me as a (burned-out) liberal. They may be right on the “burned-out” part, but my liberal friends distrust me almost as much, know me too well, and are even more suspicious now because I spend time in Rome. Liberal or conservative, it doesn’t matter, I have a decent comfort zone on both sides of that ideological fault line. Much of that is because of my conservative roots. Because of them I can be more free. Like everyone else, of
course, I’m still struggling to be free and creative. Many of the old taboos still have their hold on me. And I’m grateful for that, too. I may be more uptight than I should be, but, on the positive side, I can Father still find my way home Ron Rolheiser from most any place and I can find a home most any place in the world. Sometimes when I’m in Rome, I pack a lunch, walk down to St. Peter’s Square and sit in the shade of one of its pillars. I look across the square and see lights on inside the papal apartment and suspect that an aging pope is sitting at his desk right now with his sleeves rolled up, over strong peasant arms, and is penning some encyclical or church ordinance, parts of which will no doubt irritate me. No matter. I’m home. It could be my dad writing that piece. Like my dad, the pope knows the value of the old taboos, even if sometimes they express fear along with wisdom. I’m at home in Rome, just as I am with my Protestant friends. I thank my parents for that. Conservatism is a good place to start from. Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser is a theologian, teacher and award-winning author.
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The Immigrant Church Faithful of all continents build the City of God by the Bay By Jeffrey M. Burns Years ago the great historian of American immigration, Oscar Handlin, reflected that he had once set out to study the role of the immigrant in American history, but what he found was that the role of the immigrant was American history. The same can be said of the Catholic Church in the United States, and especially of the Catholic Church in the Bay Area. Since the inception of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, we have been an immigrant church. And today, as we celebrate our sesquicentennial, we remain an immigrant church. The Gold Rush of 1848-49 began the flood of immigrants as people from around the world rushed to San Francisco, giving the city and Bay Area a remarkable diversity. One young seminarian was awestruck. “What a population! French, English, Germans, Italians, Mexicans, Americans, Indians, Canacs, and even Chinese; white, black, yellow, brown ...” The Catholic population was just as diverse. One priest wrote in 1857, “The Catholics [here] are of all nationalities, even Chinese and Indians from the old missions. The majority of Catholics in this country are Irish, Spanish, and Italian.” Over the next century and a half Catholics from nearly every country in the world found their way to the Bay Area and contributed to the building of the Church here.
The Earliest Immigrants The largest group of immigrants in early San Francisco was the Irish. By 1856, more than 6,000 foreign-born Irish (12 percent of the city’s population) had arrived in San Francisco, growing to over 30,000 by 1870. By 1880, foreign-born Irish and Americans of Irish descent accounted for 33 percent of the city’s population. The large numbers of Irish translated into immediate political power with the success of Irishmen such as John Downey, who became Governor. The Irish provided enormous support for the growing Catholic Church in San Francisco, funding the construction of churches, schools, orphanages, and other institutions of charity. Men and women like John Sullivan, Jasper O’Farrell, Timoteo Murphy, Catherine Sullivan, Richard and Mary Tobin, Peter Donahue, Myles D. Sweeney, Joseph A. Donohoe and others, made substantial grants of property and money to the Archdiocese. John Sullivan alone provided land for St. Mary’s Cathedral, St. Mary’s College, Calvary Cemetery, St. Patrick’s Church, and the work of the Presentation Sisters. Historian R.A. Burchell concludes, “Once founded, Church institutions needed a continuous injection of funds from the pious to survive. By and large the Irish provided them.” More poetic in his description of Irish support was Cardinal Vaughan of England, who reminds us that it was not just the wealthy who supported the Church: “As soon as the Holy See gave San Francisco an Archbishop the zealous sons of St. Patrick’s determined to build him a cathedral. The wages of the common hodman were two pounds, ten schillings a day; nevertheless while the Catholic with one hand worked or scrambled for wealth, with the other he freely gave to that which is always dearest to his heart.” The zealous sons of St. Patrick not only supported the Catholic Church, they benefited from it. The Church acted as the chief meeting place and social center of
Archbishop Edward J. Hanna with the Knights of Saint Patrick in front of St. Patrick’s church in San Francisco in 1921.
the Irish community. No St. Patrick’s Day celebration was complete without a visit to the parish church. More importantly, the Church promoted devotional, benevolent, mutual aid, and social associations as well as educational outlets, which greatly enhanced the life of the Irish in San Francisco. The Irish prototype was followed by other immigrant groups as well—all contributed to the growth and construction of the Church, while the Church served as the central institution of their community.
French and German Large communities of French and German immigrants resulted in the creation of the Archdiocese’s first national parishes. In 1856, under the direction of Father Dominic Blaive, the French began Notre Dame des Victoires parish. In 1885 the parish was placed under the care of the French Marists, who continue to serve the Notre Dame community to the present time. In the late 1850s, a group of German laymen raised funds to create their own church, and in 1860 the German parish of St. Boniface was begun with Father Sebastian Wolf serving as its first pastor. In 1887, the Franciscans took charge of the parish, and remain so to the present. Though both Notre Dame and St. Boniface churches were destroyed in the earthquake of 1906, the rebuilt churches are two of the most beautiful in the Archdiocese.
Fr. Luis Almandares celebrates the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe at St. Mary’s Cathedral in 1957.
Spanish Speaking In 1850, the Spanish speaking community in San Francisco was made up primarily of the recently displaced Californio elite and the newly arrived Mexican immigrants, who came in search of gold. The Spanish speaking were subject to intense racial animus in the mines, a prejudice, which spilled over into San Francisco. The Archdiocese’s first Archbishop, Joseph Alemany, showed tremendous sympathy for the Spanish speaking community. In 1865, he appointed Father Gabriel Serrano to minister to the Spanish speaking, and in1868, Father Andrew Garriga. Despite the ongoing ministry, by 1871, the Spanish speaking community was in sad disarray. A group of Spanish leaders circulated a petition asking Alemany to establish a Spanish national parish for San Francisco “to reestablish ... the splendor, brilliance and influence of our race.” The petition reported that all other organizational efforts—political, philanthropic, and social — had failed to provide unity. Alemany acceded to their request. In 1875, the Spanish national parish of Our Lady of Guadalupe (Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe) was established on Broadway St. with Father Andrew Garriga as pastor. The Parish served the Mexican and Spanish Speaking community well until its closure in 1992.
Italians
Saint Boniface in San Francisco was founded as a German parish in 1860. Here parishioners celebrate the parish’s 100th anniversary.
By the end of the 19th century the Italians were second only to the Irish in size. As of 1880, there were only 5,000 Italians in the city, with the largest concentration forming in North Beach. After 1880 Italian immigration increased dramatically, so much so that by 1930, 20 percent of the city was made up of first, second, or third generation Italians. These hard-working immigrants found work in fishing and related industries, in produce, truck farming and later in banking and the wine industries. Italians on the West Coast enjoyed greater prosperity than their countrymen on the East Coast. The most notable success was A.P. Giannini, founder of the Bank of Italy, which later became the Bank of America. IMMIGRANT CHURCH, page 19
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Immigrant Church . . . ■ Continued from page 18 By 1881, the Italian community had grown large enough to merit a parish of their own. The cornerstone of the new Saints Peter and Paul Italian national parish was laid in 1881, and the church was dedicated on June 29, 1884, the feast of Saints Peter and Paul. The founding pastor was the Reverend Carlo Franchi, who had served as assistant pastor of Our Lady of Guadalupe since 1877. In 1897 the parish was taken over by the Salesians. In 1906, the first church was destroyed by the fire and earthquake. In 1924, a new church widely known as “The Italian Cathedral of the West” was completed. Towering majestically above Washington Square, one parish publication paid tribute to the “Cathedral” as a “monument of faith, of Italianita.” The new church unabashedly celebrated the Italian contribution to civilization, to the nation, and to the city. Italian processions and celebrations manifested a rich popular Catholicism in the parish. Two processions became particularly popular in the city of San Francisco. In 1919, Sts. Peter and Paul’s Parish sponsored the first Columbus Day parade, which began at Market and Montgomery Streets and ended at the Church, to celebrate the great Italian explorer. In the 1930s, Mayor Angelo Rossi, the city’s first Italian mayor, elevated the celebration to a major civic event. The other major procession sponsored by Sts. Peter and Paul, the blessing of the fishing boats, began in October 1938. The blessing of the fishing fleet was part of the Sicilian celebration of the feast of Madonna del Lume, the protectress of fishermen. According to legend, the blessing of boats originated in twelfth century Sicily, where a picture of the Madonna sent out a beam of light, rescuing a fishing fleet floundering in the fog. Each year the feastday begins with a Mass followed by a procession in which a painting of the Madonna is carried to Fisherman’s Wharf. After the blessing of the boats, the congregation processes back to the Church for benediction.
More National Parishes In the period 1890-1940 additional national parishes were established to serve the immigrant faithful, though there never were as many national parishes in the Archdiocese as there were on the East Coast. The new parishes included: 1893—St. Anthony (German), 1898—Corpus Christi (Italian), 1902—Nativity (Slavonian) 1912— Immaculate Conception (Italian), 1915—St. Paul of the Shipwreck (Maltese and Italian), 1922—St. Joan of Arc (French), and, 1938 — St. Benedict the Moor (African American). A large Portuguese community grew in the Half Moon Bay area and national parishes for the Portuguese were established in Oakland and San Jose. Special missionary parishes were established for the Japanese—St. Francis Xavier (1913) and for the Chinese—Holy Family Mission (1921), though the mission to the Chinese by the Paulists had been established as early as 1903.
The New Immigrant Church In 1924, increased antipathy towards immigrants in the United States led to the end of open immigration into the United States. This changed in 1965, when the immigration reform act set off a new wave of immigration that was
President Lyndon B. Johnson celebrated Columbus Day with thousands of San Franciscans in 1964 at the "Italian Cathedral of the West," Saints Peter and Paul in North Beach.
quite different from previous waves. Prior to 1965, 60 percent of all immigrants to the United States came from European nations; since 1965, 80 percent of all immigrants have come from Latin America and Asia. The shift has had a tremendous impact on the Bay Area Church as the older immigrant groups have given way to the new. The new groups include Mexicans, Central and South Americans, Filipinos, Vietnamese, Koreans, Chinese, Samoan, Tongan, Polish, African and others. By the year 2000, the minority population in San Francisco had become the majority culture, with Asians accounting for more than 36 percent of the city’s population, and Hispanics more than 15 percent. Ethnic growth has also been significant in San Mateo County. The shift in demographics has been most telling in the archdiocesan Catholic schools. As of 2000, minorities made up more than 55 percent of the archdiocesan elementary school population—72 percent in San Francisco, and 42 percent in San Mateo County. The old concern of ministering to the immigrant community is once again a new concern. The new immigration has also brought a new vibrancy to the Church in San Francisco as new devotions and celebrations contributed to a rich new tapestry. The Spanish speaking community, whose presence had preceded the creation of the Archdiocese, grew dramatically. The new influx of immigrants from Latin American countries has enriched the local church. The celebration in honor of Our Lady
Filipino celebration of Our Lady of Perpetual Help.
of Guadalupe is now observed throughout the Archdiocese. A variety of other Latino devotions and feasts are celebrated in the archdiocese including the via crucis, and Our Lady of San Juan de los Lagos for Mexicans; La Immaculada, celebrating the feast of the Immaculate Conception for Nicaraguans; the feast of El Salvador del Mundo for Salvadorans; El Senor de Esquipulas for Guatemalans, El Senor de los Milagros for Peruvians, and many other devotions.
Filipinos The largest Asian Catholic group in the Archdiocese is the Filipinos. In the 1920s, in response to the influx of Filipino immigrants, the archdiocese established the Filipino Catholic Club to address the religious and social needs of the largely male Filipino populace. In 1934, Filipino immigration was severely restricted, and the Club closed shortly thereafter. Immigration escalated once more following World War II. Most Filipino immigrants in this era obtained low-paying jobs in agriculture, industry or domestic service. The largest wave of Filipino immigrants began to arrive after 1965; by 1980, more than 60,000 Filipinos were living in San Francisco and San Mateo counties. By 2000, Filipinos made up close to 25 percent of the Catholic community in the archdiocese. The post-1965 immigration included a majority of professional and college educated immigrants, enabling this wave to establish themselves firmly in the middle class. Filipino ministry has been assisted by the
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immigration of a number of Filipino priests, but from 1965 to 1983 a specific archdiocesan Filipino ministry did not develop. Since most Filipinos spoke English, there was an attempt to integrate them into the regular parish structure. The resentment and discrimination experienced by Latinos was experienced by Filipinos as well, making such integration difficult at times. St. Patrick parish and St. Joseph’s parish in San Francisco and parishes in South San Francisco and Daly City became the largest Filipino parishes, but Filipinos could be found in virtually every parish in the archdiocese. While no specific ministry was undertaken at an archdiocesan level several parishes did offer occasional Tagalog masses, and did celebrate traditional Filipino devotions. At St. Joseph’s parish in San Francisco the celebration surrounding the feast of the Santo Nino de Cebu, became a major celebration complete with novena, a procession through the streets of the neighborhood, fiesta and beauty pageant. It has since moved to St. Dominic’s. In 1983, the Archdiocese established an Office of Filipino Catholic Affairs under the direction of Father (later Monsignor) Fred Bitanga, with Noemi Castillo as the essential staff person. (Ms. Castillo later was appointed director of the archdiocesan Office of Ethnic Ministries). Filipino celebrations have also enriched the Archdiocese, such as Simbang Gabi, a traditional novena of masses held in preparation for Christmas, celebrated at dawn; Salubong, the encounter of the risen Christ with His sorrowing mother, celebrated at dawn on Easter morning; Flores de Mayo, devotion to Mary similar to the traditional May crowning; Hesus Nazareno, devotion to the suffering Jesus carrying the cross, and Santo Nino. Many parishes have begun celebrating these events. Filipinos also have an intense devotion to the rosary, and Marian celebrations such as devotion to Our Lady of Perpetual Help are also popular. The 1970s also saw significant immigration from other Asian nations with the largest Catholic contingents coming from Vietnam and Korea. Specific ministry to the Vietnamese began under Father Than Dinh (Anthony) Phuc, CSSR. Korean ministry blossomed to the point that in 1980, a Korean mission was established in 1980, and was moved to St. Michael in 1994. In 2002, the Archdiocese received a major blessing with the appointment of Monsignor Ignatius Wang as auxiliary bishop, the first bishop of Asian heritage to be appointed anywhere in the history of the U.S. Catholic Church.
Multicultural Church The Archdiocese of San Francisco enters the twenty-first century much as it began in 1853, as a multicultural church, made up of people from throughout the world. We are truly an immigrant church. Though the arrival of so many groups has been the source of tension at times, it has also provided the great depth, variety and diversity that characterize the San Francisco Church. In a very real sense we are all immigrants, or are at least of immigrant stock. As such we should be proud of our immigrant forebears, and welcoming to our new immigrant brothers and sisters who, like the immigrants that came before them, are doing their part in building the local church.
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Food & Fun Oct. 25: Christmas in October Boutique commemorating the 119th year of the University Mound Ladies Home, 350 University Ave., SF from 1 – 3 p.m. This annual fundraiser has “purchased a large screen television, built and furnished a lovely sun room” and redecorated several additional rooms making “daily life more comfortable” for residents. Call (415) 239-6696. Oct. 25: Festival of Songs and Dances 2003 benefiting Franciscan Friars of Immaculate Conception Chapel, SF and children suffering from tuberculosis in the Philippines. Takes pl;ace at 6:30 p.m. South City High School Auditorium, 398 B St., SSF. Tickets $15/$25. Call (650) 991-3921. Oct. 24, 25, 26: Endless Summer, a Fall Fun Fest benefiting Good Shepherd Parish, 901 Oceana Blvd., Pacifica featuring games, rides, food, classic car show, karaoke, live music. Fun for all ages!! “Pacifica’s biggest beach party.” Fri. 6 – 10 p.m.; Sat. noon – 10 p.m.; Sun. 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. Call (650) 355-2593. Oct. 25: Nightmare on St. Thomas More Way, annual Fall Festival benefiting St. Thomas More Elementary School at 50 Thomas More Way off Brotherhood Way, SF, 11:30 a.m. – 9 p.m. “Booths, games, food and plenty of fun for the entire family.” Call Patricia at (650) 7569525 or Linda at (650) 755-1297. Oct. 25: Pre-Halloween Zydeco Dance in the O’Reilly Center of St. Emydius Parish, 255 Jules Ave, at Ashton, SF, from 9 p.m. – 1 a.m. Music by Andre Thierry and Zydeco Magic. “Grub and Grog” available. Tickets $12 advance/$15 at door. Call (415) 333-0808. Oct. 25: Annual Halloween Luncheon Fundraiser of Dolores #7 Young Ladies Institute in St. Cecilia Parish lower church hall beginning at 11 a.m. Tickets $12. Call Claire Kendall at (415) 751-5875. Oct: 20: Regular meeting at 7:30 p.m. with official visit from Grand President Barbara Lovio. Call Rose Marie at (415) 753-5680. Oct. 25, 26: Holiday Craft Fair benefiting St. Gabriel Elementary School, 41st Ave. and Taraval, SF. Items include scarves, jewelry, soaps, tote bags, ornaments and candles. Sat. 10 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.; Sun. 12:30 – 4 p.m. takes place in parish’s Bedford Hall. Call (415) 566-0314. Oct. 27: SF County Council of Catholic Women meets at St. Philip Parish at 7:30 p.m. parking in schoolyard off Elizabeth between Diamond and Castro. Speaker is representative from SF League of Women Voters. Refreshments and meeting follow. Call Cathy Mibach at (415) 753-0234. Oct. 29: Annual Octoberfest Luncheon and Bingo Party sponsored by the Good Shepherd Guild of Grace Center, SF. Takes place at Basque Cultural Center, 599 Railroad Ave., SSF beginning at 11:30 a.m.Tickets $35. Call Beverly Desmond at (415) 587-5374. Nov. 1, 2: InStyle, 34th annual Fashion Show benefiting St. Ignatius College Preparatory School, SF, an event “that has raised millions of dollars for the SI scholarship fund,” the school said. “The paparazzi will be there and the runway filled with fashionable models.” Tickets to Saturday’s Evening Gala are $125. Sunday luncheon tickets are $75. Sponsorship and other underwriting opportunities are still available. Call Jeannie Barulich at (650) 373-4140, or Theresa Moore at (415) 586-8051. Nov. 6: Annual Brennan Dinner of San Francisco’s St. Vincent de Paul Society honors Peter Brusati at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough and Geary St., SF beginning at 6 p.m. Cocktails, dinner, silent auction.Tickets $150 per person. Call Tina McGovern at (415) 661-2645.
Performance/Auditions Admission free unless otherwise noted. Nov. 2: Acclaimed organist, Maryliz Smith, will perform in concert at St. Stephen Church, 451 Eucalyptus, San Francisco at 4 p.m. The program, dedicated to the memory of lost loved ones, will feature the artist’s own compositions as well as a selection by Samuel Barber. Maryliz, who is music
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Datebook Wesley J. Smith, internationally known author and attorney who advises The International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide, is featured speaker at a Potluck dinner and presentation of the Marin County Respect Life Program November 15. “The event is designed to educate the community about the realities of the Culture of Death as it relates to end of life issues, care of the disabled, the assault on medical ethics and more,” said Vicki Evans, coordinator. Call (415) 945-0180. Takes place at St. Sebastian Parish, 373 Bon Air Rd. at Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Greenbrae at 6 p.m. director at St. Stephen’s, is known for her “evocative, luminous and intensely-felt music.” She has performed previously in countries including Ireland, Australia, and Canada. $10 suggested donation benefits St. Stephen Music Ministry. Call (415) 6812444.
Reunions Oct. 31, Nov. 2: Class reunions and Alumnae Mass and Brunch honoring classes of ’58, ’63, ’68, ’73, ’78, ’83, ’88, ’93, ’98 at Notre Dame High School, Belmont. Contact alumnae office at (650) 595-1913, ext. 351 or alumnae@ndhsb.org.
Vocations/PrayerOpportunities Oct. 25: Dinner commemorating 140th anniversary of San Francisco’s St. Brigid Church at Holiday Inn, 1500 Van Ness Ave., SF beginning at 6 p.m. Music by Wish You Were Here. For ticket information, call (415) 364-1511. Oct. 25, 26: The Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose invite women interested in religious life to join them for a weekend retreat at their motherhouse in Fremont. Open to women college age to 40. Contact Sister Helena at (510) 657-2468 or helena@msjdominicans.org. Oct. 29: Music in the Time of Dante, a presentation by Eric Keilholtz at National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi, 610 Vallejo St. at Columbus, SF at 7:15 p.m. Call (415) 983-0405.
Social Justice/ Family Life Information about Natural Family Planning and people in the Archdiocese offering instruction are available from the Office of Marriage and Family Life of the Archdiocese, Chris Lyford, director, at (415) 614-5680. Sat. at 9 a.m.: Pray the Rosary for Life at 815 Eddy St. between Franklin and Van Ness, SF. Call (415) 752-4922. Worldwide Marriage Encounter Weekends can add to a Lifetime of Love. For more information or to register, call Michele or George Otte at (888) 568-3018. Seton Medical Center Natural Family Planning/Fertility Care Services offers classes in the Creighton Model of NFP. Health educators are also available to speak to youth and adults on topics of puberty, responsible relationships, adolescent sexuality, the use of NFP throughout a woman’s reproductive life, and infertility. Call (650) 301-8896 Retrouvaille, a program for troubled marriages. The weekend and follow up sessions help couples heal and renew their families. Presenters are three couples and a Catholic priest. Call Peg or Ed Gleason at (415) 221-4269 or
edgleason@webtv.net or Pat and Tony Fernandez at (415) 893-1005.. The Adoption Network of Catholic Charities offers free adoption information meetings twice a month. Singles and married couples are invited to learn more about adopting a child from foster care. Call (415) 406-2387 for information.
Retreats/Days of Recollection —— VALLOMBROSA CENTER —— 250 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park. For fees, times and details about these and other offerings call (650) 325-5614. Presentation Sister Rosina Conrotto, Program Director. Oct. 31, Nov. 1, 2: What is Prayer?, an endeavor to deepen understanding of prayer and its practice. Holy Ghost Father Tom Timmins facilitates the weekend. Time for prayer, penance Mass and Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.
—— MERCY CENTER —— 2300 Adeline Dr., Burlingame. For fees, times and other offerings, call (650) 340-7474 or www.mercy-center.org. Nov 8: 12-step Spirituality: A Fresh Approach, a retreat for people in any 12-step recovery program. Contact Ed Semansky at (650) 685-6243, EdSemansky@aol.com or www.mercy-center.org.
Single, Divorced,Separated Sundays through Nov. 23: Divorce Recovery Course, 7 p.m., O’Reilly Parish Center, 451 Eucalyptus, San Francisco. $45 fee includes materials. “Provides a chance to understand the emotional journey begun with the loss of a marriage,” said Separated and Divorced ministry of the Archdiocese of San Francisco sponsor of the sessions. Call Susan at (415) 752-1308 or Vonnie at (650) 873-4236. Nov. 15: San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop John C. Wester will preside at a Mass of Thanksgiving at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church, Mill Valley at 1 p.m. Pot luck reception follows. Call Pat Harder at (415) 492-3331. Separated and Divorced support groups meet 3rd Sat. at 6:30 p.m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral, call Pat at (415) 492-3331; and 1st and 3rd Wed. at 7:30 p.m. at St. Stephen Parish Center, SF, call Gail at (650) 591-8452. Catholic Adult Singles Assoc. of Marin meets for support and activities. Call Bob at (415) 8970639 for information.
Returning Catholics Programs for Catholics interested in returning to the Church, have been established at the fol-
lowing parishes: St. Philip the Apostle, 725 Diamond St. at Elizabeth/24th, SF. Call the parish office at (415) 282-0141; St. Hilary, Tiburon, Mary Musalo, (415) 435-2775; St. Anselm, Ross, parish office at (415) 453-2342; St. Sebastian, Greenbrae, Jean Mariani at (415) 461-7060; Old St. Mary’s Cathedral, SF, Michael Adams at (415) 695-2707; St. Dominic, SF, Lee Gallery at (415) 221-1288; Holy Name of Jesus, SF, Dennis Rivera at (415) 664-8590; St. Bartholomew, San Mateo, Dan Stensen at (650) 344-5665; St. Catherine of Siena, Burlingame, Silvia Chiesa at (650) 685-8336, Elaine Yastishock at (650) 344-6884; Our Lady of Angels, Burlingame, Dorothy Heinrichs or Maria Cianci at (650) 347-7768; St. Dunstan, Millbrae, Dianne Johnston at (650) 697-0952; Our Lady of the Pillar, Half Moon Bay, Meghan at (650) 726-4337; St. Peter, Pacifica, Chris Booker at (650) 738-1398; Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Mill Valley, Rick Dullea or Diane Claire at (415) 388-4190; St. Mary Star of the Sea, Sausalito, Lloyd Dulbecco at (415) 331-7949.
Meetings//TV-Radio 3rd Sat: Reconnecting With Yourself, a group for survivors of abuse by Catholic Church clergy or personnel, 3 –5 p.m., Epiphany Parish Center, 605 Italy St., between Athens and Naples, SF. Sponsored by the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Contact facilitator, Richard Krafnick, MFT, (415) 351-2463. Courage, a Catholic support group for persons with same-sex attraction, meets Thursdays at 7:30 p.m. Call Father Lawrence Goode at (415) 3333627. Mon – Fri. at 7 p.m.: Catholic Radio Hour featuring recitation of the Rosary and motivating talks and music with host Father Tom Daly. Tune your radio to KEST - 1450 AM “Mosaic”, a public affairs program featuring discussions about the Catholic Church today. 1st Sundays 6:00 a.m., KPIX-Channel 5. “For Heaven’s Sake”, a public affairs program featuring discussions and guests, 5 a.m. 3rd Sunday of the month, KRON-Channel 4.
Taize Prayer 3rd Wed. at 7:30 p.m. with the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur in their Province Center Chapel, 1520 Ralston Ave., Belmont across from Ralston on the college campus. Call (650) 593-2045, ext. 350 or www.SistersofNotreDameCa.org. 1st Fri. at 8 p.m. at Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Dr., Burlingame with Mercy Sister Suzanne Toolan. Call (650) 340-7452; Church of the Nativity, 210 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park at 7:30 p.m. Call Deacon Dominic Peloso at (650) 322-3013. 2nd Fri. at 7:30 p.m. at St. Peter Church, 700 Oddstad Blvd., Pacifica. Call Deacon Peter Solan at (650) 359-6313. 2nd Fri. at 7:30 p.m., St. Dominic Church, 2390 Bush St., SF. Call Laura McClung at (415) 362-1075 3rd Fri. at 8 p.m. at Woodside Priory Chapel, 302 Portola Rd., Portola Valley. Call Dean Miller at (650) 631-2882 1st Sat. at 8:30 p.m. at SF Presidio Main Post Chapel, 130 Fisher Loop. Call Catherine Rondainaro at (415) 713-0225
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when they met Mother Teresa or recounted tales of her audacity: For example, when a bank offered her $1 million, she said it was not enough; she wanted $2 million. Retired Australian Cardinal Edward I. Cassidy, former president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, was among the attendees with a story. He was a secretary in the Vatican Embassy in India from 1955 to 1962, the early years of the Missionaries of Charity. “She was a frequent visitor,” coming to inform the nuncio of her plans and occasionally asking for help, he said. “The nuncio and I kept saying, ‘Go slowly. You are building for the future, build solidly,’” the cardinal said. Cardinal Cassidy returned to Calcutta, India, in 1975 to celebrate Mass with Mother Teresa and her sisters to mark the 25th anniversary of the Missionaries of Charity. “She said, ‘Remember when you used to tell me to go slowly? I always went away thinking, ‘You’d think the representative of the Holy Father and his secretary would have more faith.’ That was her little dig at us,” the cardinal said. The congregation at the beatification Mass included official delegations from the Orthodox Church of Albania, Albania’s Sunni and Bectascian Muslim communities, and from 26 governments, including the United States, the Canadian province of Quebec, India, Albania and Macedonia. Aferdita Berisha, 35, a Muslim from Kosovo, said: “All the good things Mother Teresa did cannot be divided according to faith. She helped everyone who needed help, regardless of religion.” Several royal guests were seated not far from 2,000 people who eat or sleep at the missionaries’ facilities in Rome. The royals included Queen Fabiola of Belgium, Princess Mona of Jordan, Princess Elena of Romania and Prince Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy, the former Italian royal family. In his homily, Pope John Paul wrote that Mother Teresa’s life was “a radical living and a bold proclamation of the Gospel.” “Her life is a testimony to the dignity and the privilege of humble service,” he said. “Her greatness lies in her ability to give without counting the cost, to give ‘until it hurts.’” Pope John Paul appeared to be doing the same thing. What little he read during the Mass, he read with great strain. But after Mass, he stayed on the stage for 20 minutes greeting members of the official delegations, then rode through the massive crowd in an open popemobile. The pope met Oct. 20 with Sister Nirmala Joshi, Mother Teresa’s successor as superior of the order, and with hundreds of Missionaries of Charity and pilgrims who had come to Rome for the beatification. Mother Teresa, he told them, “was one of the greatest missionaries of the 20th century,” a missionary who preached the Gospel around with world “with daily gestures of love for the poorest.” Mother Teresa was born to Albanian parents in 1910 in what is now Macedonia; in 1946, she experienced a call to found the Missionaries of Charity and live among the poorest of the poor in Calcutta. Mother Teresa — always smiling — rapidly expanded the order and opened hospices, clinics and shelters around the world, but her letters to her spiritual directors express a feeling that God had abandoned her. “Mother Teresa shared the passion of the Crucified One, particularly during her long years of ‘interior darkness,’” the pope wrote in his homily. “In the darkest hours, she clung with even greater tenacity to prayer before the Blessed Sacrament. “This harsh spiritual struggle allowed her to identify even more with those she served every day, experiencing the pain and even rejection they felt,” he wrote. Retired Cardinal Ersilio Tonini of Ravenna-Cervia, Italy, told Italian television: “She was strong. She commanded. She knew how to organize. She was very intelligent. “Often we think of saints as people who are half-stupid, who go around in a fog,” he said. “Mother Teresa was real, practical. She had great courage.” The people participating in the processions, readings and dances at the Mass included active and contemplative nuns, contemplative brothers and priests belonging to the various branches of the Missionaries of Charity, as well as lay co-workers and children adopted from the Missionaries’ orphanages. As a brother carried a reliquary containing some of Mother Teresa’s blood to the altar, 10 young Indian girls in gold-trimmed white saris danced in procession; the girls were adopted by Italian families. Maria McMurtrie and her mother, Sandy, of Bethesda, Md., represented the Americas in the offertory procession, carrying a painting of Our Lady of Guadalupe with the pope and Mother Teresa. Sandy McMurtrie adopted Maria, who has Down syndrome, from a Missionaries of Charity orphanage in Mexico. Mother Teresa was Maria’s godmother. After the Mass, the 2,000 poor who were special guests at the Mass were offered a luncheon in the Vatican’s audience hall. In a simple setting, with chairs but no tables, they ate lasagna, chicken, peas, bananas and dessert.
deal with criminals who have committed the ultimate offense against society,” Mr. Dolejsi said. “We should not be reverting to motives of vengeance. . . .This isn’t consistent with the message of Jesus which is to value each human life even though this person didn’t value that human life . . . . It’s a challenging teaching in the current cultural milieu. Yet we are making inroads in the sensibilities of lots of people.”
EASING THE PAIN OF THE DYING The dying will have a better chance of getting medication to ease their pain because of a bill that eliminates cumbersome paperwork in prescribing powerful pain killers. “We felt this is very important to help stem the tide of people feeling they need assisted suicide,” Mr. Dolejsi said. Passage of the bill, SB 151 by Sen. Burton, was a “multi-year effort working with a coalition of other people committed to quality end of life experiences,” he said. The process included negotiations with law enforcement officials who are concerned about the misuse of the powerful drugs. The bill eliminates the triplicate prescription requirement for schedule 2 controlled substances, including the pain killers. The requirement was designed to curb abuse of the medications but it also made many doctors reluctant to prescribe the drugs. “The Department of Justice had concerns about abuse,’ Mr. Dolejsi said. “We came up with a way to
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HEALTH COVERAGE FOR WORKING POOR The newly signed law requiring employers to provide health insurance for an additional one million workers is “important but controversial,” Mr. Dolejsi said. “It was a step in the right direction. We have to deal responsibly and effectively with the crisis of health care in California.” “While we are sympathetic to the challenges of our public funding system and to challenges to our business community,’ he said, “we still have the human reality that millions of people in California have no health insurance, even though they are working. Secondly, the health care system is delivering basic health care services through the emergency room. That is the least efficient method of all.” The health insurance bill, SB 2by Sen. Burton, was passed hurriedly at the end of the session and will need to be revised before it goes into effect, Mr. Dolejsi said. Businesses with more than 20 employees will be required to provide health care coverage for their employees. They must either obtain the insurance themselves and pay 80 percent of the cost or pay a fee to the state, which would then provide insurance. Businesses with more than 200 employees must include coverage for dependents. The law would become effective in phases, from 2005 through 2007. Part one of two installments.
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“Radio” inspiring story of kindness taught by example From director Michael Tollin and writer Mike Rich, screenwriter for “The Rookie,” comes the latest “inspired by a true story” movie since the release of “Seabiscuit.” This time, in the film “Radio,”audiences are transported to the small town of Anderson, South Carolina, where a mentally handicapped young man spends his life pushing a shopping cart outside the fringes of society until the local high school football coach introduces him to a hesitant community. Cuba Gooding Jr. and Ed Harris are the foundation of this film, supporting a weak plot with their strong portrayals of James “Radio” Kennedy and Coach Harold Jones— two real life men who changed the way a small southern town viewed handicapped individuals. Within the town there are the token intolerant parents, jerk football players, and nervous school board officials who think Radio is a danger and a distraction. In the end, their hearts are warmed and opened to him, and its obvious to everyone that being a part of T.L. Hanna High School has dramatically changed Radio’s life for the better. Director Michael Tollin tends to overplay the sympathy card with audiences by pulling at the heartstrings like a marionette puppeteer. With each new hardship that befalls Radio the sad music plays and there is Radio being terrorized by the football team. There he is again playing football by himself on a dark and stormy night. And look at him now, alone in a jail cell. Poor Radio. An angry Coach Jones tells his daughter that the last thing Radio needs is people feeling sorry for him. Unfortunately, Tollin didn’t get that message. Tollin does succeed, however, in making Radio’s character more than just a “glorified human mascot” for the Hanna Yellowjackets. When a movie features a nonhandicapped actor playing a character with a handicap, the results can very good (see Dustin Hoffman in “Rainman”) or the film can take a different direction and exploit a mentally handicapped character for laughs and pratfalls. Gooding walks a fine line between a truthful portrayal of Radio’s character and a performance that
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Reviewed by Jayme George
Cuba Gooding Jr. and Ed Harris star in Revolution Studio's "Radio." The USCCB Office for Film & Broadcasting classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG -- parental guidance suggested.
“Radio” is not a great film, but it never falls short of being a “feel good” movie. Knowing that somewhere in the world there was a man who taught others how to be kind by example of his own goodness is a good thing to take away from a movie experience. What it lacks in innovative filmmaking it makes up for in heart. Therefore, “Radio” earns a respectable B. This film is rated PG.
could be considered exploitative. However, the humor in “Radio” comes from a good place, it is Radio’s childlike wonder and his never-ending joy that make people smile, not his muffled speech or ignorance of the concept of a telephone. Perfectly blending the elements of story, character, music, and cinematography is what makes a great film.
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