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Quake survivor The hand of a victim rests on the shoulder of Yunus, a 13-year-old earthquake survivor, as he waits to be rescued from under a collapsed building in Ercis, near the eastern Turkish city of Van, Oct. 24. A magnitude 7.2 quake and multiple aftershocks in Turkey have left more than 370 people dead. More than 1,300 people were injured in the quake, which wiped out sections of Van and the town of Ercis.
Historic 21/2-ton bell stolen from cathedral By George Raine A 5,330-pound church bell the Archdiocese of San Francisco has owned since 1889 has been stolen from the grounds of St. Mary’s Cathedral, apparently for the scrap value of copper it will bring thieves. The bell was reported missing at 11 a.m. Oct. 23. It has been on a concrete slab in a garden in front of the cathedral at Geary Boulevard and Gough Street since 1970. “We cannot replace this historic and valuable item,” said George Wesolek, director of communications and public policy for the Archdiocese of San Francisco. “Hopefully, the police will recover it, and we can put it back in its rightful place as a memory of the Catholic Church in San Francisco.” The bell – the size of the Liberty Bell, 62 inches in diameter – was forged by McShane Bell Foundry in Baltimore, Md. It was given to the church by a San Rafael man, Duriham Carrigan, who was born in New York in 1839 and died in San Rafael in 1889. It was placed in the former St. Mary’s Cathedral at Van Ness Avenue BELL, page 4
VATICAN CITY (CNS) – A Vatican document called for the gradual creation of a world political authority with broad powers to regulate financial markets and rein in the “inequalities and distortions of capitalist development.” The document said the current global financial crisis has revealed “selfishness, collective greed and the hoarding of goods on a great scale.” A supranational authority, it said, is needed to place the common good at the center of international economic activity. The 41-page text was titled, “Toward Reforming the International Financial and Monetary Systems in the Context of Global P u b l i c A u t h o r i t y.” Prepared by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, it was released Oct. 24 in several languages, Cardinal Peter Turkson including a provisional holds the new document. translation in English.
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The document cited the teachings of popes over the last 40 years on the need for a universal public authority that would transcend national interests. The current economic crisis, which has seen growing inequality between the rich and poor of the world, underlines the necessity to take concrete steps toward creating such an authority, it said. One major step, it said, should be reform of the international monetary system in a way that involves developing countries. The document foresaw creation of a “central world bank” that would regulate the flow of monetary exchanges; it said the International Monetary Fund had lost the ability to control the amount of credit risk taken on by the system. The document also proposed: – Taxation measures on financial transactions. Revenues could contribute to the creation of a “world reserve fund” to support the economies of countries hit by crisis, it said. – Forms of recapitalization of banks with public funds that make support conditional on “virtuous” behavior aimed at developing the real economy. – More effective management of financial shadow markets that are largely uncontrolled today. Such moves would be designed to make the global economy more responsive to the needs of the person, and less “subordinated to the interests of countries that effectively enjoy a position of economic and financial advantage,” it said. In making the case for a global authority, the document said the continued model of nationalistic self-interest seemed “anachronistic and surreal” in the age of globalization. MARKET, page 20
Season of saints: Inside, Page 8 This bell, which stood in the garden at St. Mary’s Cathedral and had been recovered from the previous cathedral church that burned down in 1962, was reported missing Oct. 23.
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On The Where You Live By Tom Burke All Hallows Church is recognized as the oldest Catholic church in southeast San Francisco and the All Hallows community will celebrate the 125th anniversary of that honor Nov. 3 and 5. Thanks to Lucy M. Scarbrough, a member of the event publicity committee, for these special notes about All Hallows. In the early days the southeast part of San Francisco was part of St. Peter Parish in the Mission District. Catholics of all nationalities in the area worshipped at two mission sites, Mt. St. Joseph’s Infant Asylum and the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum. Father Timothy Fitzpatrick, pastor of St. Peter Church lobbied for another parish to help meet the sacramental needs of the growing population. All Hallows was established in 1886. The church, still in its original location, was named after the seminary Father Fitzpatrick attended in Dublin, Ireland. The All Hallows priests for many years were from the Marist Order whose ministry conPriscilla and tinues today at Notre Dame Tom Denterlein des Victoires Parish in San Francisco. The church also established All Hallows School which is now closed. The Sisters of Saint Joseph of Orange provided administrative staff and some teachers for the school. All Hallows has stood the test of time by continuing with its traditional services and joining other parish churches in the area to provide community services. As the Bayview has become more diverse, so has the congregation of All Hallows Chapel which adds a wonderful richness for all attendees. Father Daniel E. Carter, pastor, emphasizes that not only are all people welcome for the November celebrations but to all rites at All Hallows. Visit www.lourdesbayview.org. See Datebook. • This writer is always glad to receive notice of the annual St. Peter School Memorial Mass, this year Nov. 6, 2 p.m. at St. Peter Church, 24th and Alabama streets in San Francisco. Father Daniel J. McGuire, former pastor of St. Peter and now retired pastor of St. Thomas the Apostle Parish, is principal celebrant. See Datebook.
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Having a great time at recent “Senior Chat” at St. Hilary Parish are Marjorie Connolly; second graders, Chapin Hanley and Sebastian Wolf; and eighth grader, Matthew Biasotti.
St. Hilary seniors celebrated their monthly “Senior Chat” luncheon with visiting St. Hilary School second graders and their eighth grade buddies on Sept. 29. The monthly event includes a “Communion service, a warm meal and even warmer social time,” parishioner Carolyn Biasotti, told me. • Jack Campbell is rallying members of the class of 1945 from Saint Ignatius College Preparatory for a Nov. 18 holiday gathering at the Basque Cultural Center in South San Francisco. Jack and his wife, Barbara, celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary Aug. 18. The longtime St. Veronica parishioners met at San Francisco State, Jack told me. See Datebook. • Now ready to “approach the bench” is Priscilla Denterlein, recent graduate of New York’s Touro Law Center. Priscilla completed her undergraduate work at Fordham University. Her proud folks are Arti and Tom Denterlein, long of St. Brendan Parish in San Francisco. “It was a happy day for the entire Denterlein family,” Tom told me in a note to this column. • Congratulations to Jane Cahill Pfeiffer, a 1950 graduate of San Francisco’s now closed and much-missed Presentation High School and honored in August with the school’s
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At a glance – Lou Freitas’ CYO basketball teams won more than 100 Marin County championships. – His 1950s win streak is unmatched by any other school in Northern California. (CNS PHOTO/OSWALDO RIVAS, REUTERS)
By George Raine The years have not been kind to the St. Raphael School gymnasium – the flooring is shot, it sorely needs paint, the roof must be repaired – but memories of the school’s legendary basketball coach Louis Freitas, who taught the game and shaped lives over three decades, are clear and treasured. There’s a fundraising campaign underway to restore the gym, to be renamed the Louis G. Freitas Memorial Gymnasium, and many of the people who are donating either played for the coach or knew him and the footprint of his prominent Marin County family – and that, say organizers, is the wind in the sails of a $500,000 campaign. “He did a lot of things for a lot of people,” said Keith Grady, St. Raphael Class of 1954, with his own memory of a championship season. “One kid came to play and he was pretty poor. Louie paid for his college education, and he never told anyone,” said Grady. “One kid came to try out for the team and did not have basketball shoes, so Louie went out and bought him shoes. That was Louie, an unbelievable guy.” “He rarely raised his voice,” he added. “He taught us plays that most coaches at the time did not do, for grammar school kids. And, he did a lot of things for a lot of people.” The restoration of the gymnasium is a part of a larger capital campaign for repairs and improvements throughout the St. Raphael campus, including church, mission, plaza, parish center, school, rectory and chapel. Organizers approached a group of former players, including prominent Marin County names, and asked them to help raise funds for the gym.
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Floods in Nicaragua A girl stands along an alley at a shelter for people displaced by floods in Esteli, Nicaragua, Oct. 20. Dozens of people have died and thousands have been displaced in recent heavy rains and flooding in Central America.
They agreed, said Grady – but only if it would be named for Louie Freitas. Freitas, born in 1910, was raised on the Freitas home ranch – now the Terra Linda area of San Rafael – and attended Notre Dame, Saint Mary’s College in Moraga and the University of San Francisco. He worked on the family dairy and was also a reporter on the old Marin Independent. Prior to World War II, the story goes, the St. Raphael pastor asked him to coach the girls basketball team. Freitas told him he didn’t know a thing about the game and the pastor handed him a rule book. Freitas’ coaching was then interrupted by the war. He served in the Army and was severely wounded in New Guinea – shot
in the shoulder. He returned to St. Raphael and took over as the boys’ basketball coach, heading five or even six individual teams per season, which went on to win more than 100 Marin County CYO championships. For five consecutive seasons in the 1950s, his teams, which competed in weight brackets, won every title from 70 to 110 pounds in the archdiocesan championships, a record that fundraising campaign organizers say is unmatched by another school in Northern California.
– Legend has it that Freitas didn’t know a thing about basketball before the pastor handed him a rule book and sent him in to coach the girls team. – Many of his former charges are supporting a $500,000 fundraising drive to restore the St. Raphael School gym in his name.
Freitas retired from coaching in the 1960s and then taught history at San Domenico School in San Anselmo. He died at 93 in 2004. The campaign has raised about 40 percent of the $500,000 goal to repair the gym that was built in 1937 and, in its current state, is “a disaster,” said Grady, unimproved for decades. In fact, CYO no longer uses St. Raphael for games, in part because the floor is not regulation and not conducive for basketball. “We want to give boys and girls in Marin County the same opportunity that many of us enjoyed in our youth,” said former Marin County Supervisor Gary Giacomini, who played for Freitas. “We want to honor Louie’s memory through the restoration of the gym, naming it after coach Freitas, a tremendous role model who had a profound impact on the youth that he coached, myself included.”
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VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI proclaimed three saints and said their lives demonstrated that true faith is charity in action. “These three new saints allowed themselves to be transformed by divine charity,” the pope said at a canonization Mass in St. Peter’s Square Oct. 23. All three founded religious orders in the 19th century, working in missionary areas and on behalf of society’s disadvantaged in Europe. The new saints are St. Guido Maria Conforti, an Italian who founded the Xaverian Foreign Missionary Society, dedicated to the sole purpose of evangelizing non-Christians; St. Louis Guanella, the Italian founder of the Servants of Charity, the Daughters of St. Mary of Providence and the Confraternity of St. Joseph; and St. Bonifacia Rodriguez Castro, a Spanish cordmaker in Salamanca who gathered working women for spiritual encounters.
D.C. prelate named to evangelization synod VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI named Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl of Washington as the relator, or recording secretary, of the 2012 Synod of Bishops on “new evangelization.” The synod, to be held Oct. 7-28 next year, will focus on the theme, “The new evangelization for the transmission of the Christian faith. “When a person is well-grounded catechetically – that means each one of us renewing our faith – that person has the confidence to be able to express it” and “to invite others into the experience of faith,” said Cardinal Wuerl, addressing a recent Vatican conference on new evangelization. He added that while Western society is highly secularized, there is “enormous openness to hearing about Christ” among many young people.
Blessed John Paul feast ROME – Thousands of Catholics in Rome celebrated the first feast of Blessed
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Hindu offering A woman makes an offering during a Hindu ritual at a temple in Chandigarh, northern India, Oct. 15. In a message to the world’s Hindus, a top Vatican official, Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, called on Christians and Hindus to work together to promote religious freedom. In a letter Oct. 20 he cited threats to “members of the human family exposed to bias, prejudice, hate propaganda, discrimination and persecution” on the basis of creed.
John Paul II Oct. 22 and the promoter of his sainthood cause said he has received several reports of healings that could be the miracle needed for the late pope’s canonization. Msgr. Slawomir Oder, the postulator of Pope John Paul’s sainthood cause, told Vatican Radio, “I have received several very significant testimonies and am waiting for the complete documentation” that would allow him to judge which would be the most appropriate to submit to the Vatican. “I was particularly struck by the healing of a little girl who was in an almost desperate situation and another very touching testimony regarding the healing of a priest,” he told the radio Oct. 22. In Rome, Blessed John Paul’s feast was marked with two particularly large celebrations: the Diocese of Rome held a prayer vigil and Mass at the Basilica of St. John Lateran, the diocesan cathedral.
Rome investigated London Benedictines LONDON – At the request of the
Vatican, a bishop has conducted a review of child protection procedures at a Benedictine abbey following a number of high-profile child abuse cases. Auxiliary Bishop John Arnold of Westminster and Abbot Richard Yeo, president of the English Benedictine Congregation, conducted the apostolic visitation at Ealing Abbey and the neighboring St, Benedict’s School during September. They have already made their report to the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which ordered the visitation. Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman, confirmed to Catholic News Service Oct. 25 that Bishop Arnold was asked by the doctrinal congregation to conduct the apostolic visitation. The congregation, he said, has competency for handling “questions regarding the sexual abuse of minors.” “When the final report of the visitation is ready, it will be given to the congregation, which will take the appropriate steps,” Father Lombardi said.
and O’Farrell Street the year Carrigan died. When that building was destroyed by fire in 1962 the bell was transferred to the site of the new cathedral as a memorial and artifact of the previous cathedral. The estimated replacement value of the bell is $75,000. The current scrap value of copper is approximately $2 to $2.50 a pound. The genuine bell-metal component of the stolen item is 80 percent copper and 20 percent tin. San Francisco Police Inspector Brian Danker said he is canvassing the neighborhood, asking neighbors if they saw any unusual activity around the cathedral property. He said a hydraulic lift could move the bell. Copper theft is a plague in the Bay Area, he said. “The worst nightmare going for a contractor in San Francisco or the Bay Area is to make the mistake of going on a three-day weekend. You come back to your job site and see copper has been ripped out of your building,” said Danker. The archdiocese is offering a reward in the case.
Sister Patricia Chappell to lead Pax Christi USA WASHINGTON – Helping people understand how the sin of racism undermines society’s ability to overcome violence and economic injustice is the top priority for Sister Patricia Chappell as the new executive director of Pax Christi USA. “People really have to acknowledge that racism is a deep integral sin in our country and we have to admit it continues to be an institutional sin,” Sister Patricia told Catholic News Service Oct. 24, shortly after the organization announced she would succeed David Robinson as head of the nationwide Catholic peace organization. “We have to acknowledge that, but then we have to be able to find ways to move forward, not just get stuck on the emotional piece of it all,” said Sister Patricia, a member of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, Connecticut province. – Catholic News Service
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Catholic voter: Focus on ‘sinful inequalities’ called core strength
Rome’s new U.S. diplomat Pope Benedict XVI named Italian Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, 70, as the new nuncio to the United States, the Vatican announced Oct. 19. He succeeds the late Archbishop Pietro Sambi at the apostolic nunciature in Washington. Archbishop Vigano is pictured in a 2009 photo at the Vatican.
NEW YORK (CNS) – Catholic voters who seek the facts, study the issues and know what the church teaches are wellequipped to counter electoral negativity and partisan sniping, said panelists at “Keeping the Faith in a Season of Spin,” a conference at Fordham University Oct. 18. “The core competency of Catholics in the public square is to repeat the catechism’s emphasis on sinful inequalities,” said John DiIulio, professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania and first director of the Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives in the George W. Bush administration. Today’s candidates are not talking much about disparities between the rich and the poor, or the needs of the weak, he said, but “people who imbibe Catholic social teaching” should put it on the political agenda. Those who follow the principles outlined in the Catechism of the Catholic Church are immunized from the “spin” of political rhetoric, he said. “In the Catholic tradition, you’re not allowed to be either addicted to government or allergic to it,” Dilulio said, adding that government should be related to serving the common good. Tom Perriello, a Virginia Democrat who served in Congress from 2008 to 2010, said religion and faith have a place in politics. “Motives matter. Faith is one of the things that shapes values systems,” he said. If candidates are authentic about describing the influence of faith on their life choices, they win a certain respect, even from people who disagree with them, he said.
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Jesuit Father Thomas J. Reese of the Woodstock Theological Center at Georgetown University said Catholics “should never become captive to any single party. Every four years, we’re the swing voters who decide elections and we should treasure that.” He said Catholic clergy should continue the tradition of not running for office and bishops should continue to speak on issues while avoiding partisan politics. Father Reese said Catholics must realize that appeals to Catholic theology and religious authority will not be persuasive to everyone. “Things like excommunication and denying Communion because of votes are not only stupid, but harmful to the goals,” he said, because it gets the candidate off message and makes certain issues appear to be of interest only to the Catholic community and not the wider electorate. DiIulio said the disciplining of Catholic candidates by Catholic clergy has backfired. “People have thought better about it. Do you really want most of the ink spilled and the lines written on this, instead of the issues?” he asked. Father Reese said Catholics need to distinguish between specific principles and specific legislation and remember that the role of religion is to motivate people to love, inspire selfsacrifice and work for justice. Gerald Seib, Washington bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal, said economic justice will likely be an issue in the presidential election. “It’s starting to rise to the top. Nasty things are happening,” whose effect will last beyond the end of the recession, he said. “Marriage is being ground down by economic pressures.” Seib said the growing number of long-term unemployed is a pressing social, economic and moral issue. “People are descending into poverty and economic anxiety,” he said. “They’re moving down the economic scale.” Perriello said the Catholic bishops missed an opportunity to provide moral leadership during the 2006 mortgage crisis, but have been “strong on immigration” because the church is a primary structure for immigrants.
Bishop McElroy talk: Church and social justice San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop Robert W. McElroy will speak Nov. 1 at 7 p.m. at the Taube Center of Notre Dame de Namur University, 1500 Ralston Ave., Belmont. His topic is “The Contemporary Church and Economic Justice.” The talk is part of the school’s Catholic scholar series. For more information visit www.ndnu.edu. Bishop McElroy holds degrees from Harvard, Stanford and the Pontifical Gregorian University. He was pastor of St. Gregory Parish in San Mateo for 14 years before his appointment as auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Bishop McElroy is the author of books on theology and morality in international affairs.
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The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted 10-1 Oct. 18 for “false advertising” legislation that targets pregnancy centers. The bill is crafted so that it affects only First Resort, an Oakland-based pregnancy resource organization that operates medical clinics in the Bay Area that offer ultrasound, prenatal care and support for pregnant women before and after pregnancy. The legislation, which was scheduled for second reading this week before going to Mayor Ed Lee for his signature, exempts any organization that offers or refers for abortion and only affects those pregnancy resource centers operating as medical clinics. The “False Advertising by Limited Services Pregnancy Centers” legislation, introduced by Supervisor Malia Cohen, is aimed at First Resort’s use of billboards in poor Latino and African-American neighborhoods and pay-per-click Google ads that bring up First Resort’s website in response to the search engine query “abortion.” Legislation aimed at pregnancy centers in other states has directly regulated the centers, requiring them to post signs in their waiting rooms that they do not offer abortion. The board “knowingly approved an ordinance which unequally applies the law to regulate and restrict speech by our organization,” First Resort said in a statement. “It is unfair and unnecessary and will have a chilling effect on those who value free speech and respect a woman’s right to choose.” First Resort officials said they had not yet decided whether to appeal. The lone dissenting vote was Supervisor Sean Elsbernd, who said the legislation was unsupported and unnecessary. No evidence had been presented of anyone who had been misled by First Resort, the organization that bill proponents had told him was the target of the legislation, said Elsbernd. “What I fear we are doing today is passing a solution in search of a problem,” he said. That lack of evidence will make it more difficult for the city to defend the law on appeal, said Elsbernd, noting that three of
San Rafael alters tow policy after parishioners complain The San Rafael Police Department has adjusted its vehicle impoundment policy after a group of parishioners at St. Raphael Church two years ago began lobbying for change saying it disproportionately targeted Hispanics. San Rafael police officers at the time made a large number of driving-while-intoxicated arrests at checkpoints in parts of San Rafael where there are large Hispanic populations, and in some cases impounded vehicles for up to 30 days. Impoundment
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Sister Marie tosses hats over the fence that separates New Mexico and Mexico Oct. 14. Sister Marie and Sister Karen, Franciscan Missionaries of Mary, come to the fence periodically and toss whatever they can get to give the needy families of Puerta de Anapra, one of the poorest and most violent suburbs of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Sister Marie began her periodic jaunts to the border fence five years ago, after attending the annual Border Mass held in early November. “I come here fearless,” she said.
four laws in other states that targeted crisis pregnancy centers had been tossed by the courts and the fourth was in litigation. At an earlier committee meeting, Elsbernd noted First Resort as a medical clinic falls under state law prohibiting false advertising. Cohen said her goal was to protect women and said the legislation “does not trample on any one organization’s First Amendment rights.” Supervisor John Avalos said “while I’m not totally
satisfied with it,” he would vote yes because “I do want to support legislation that is fully in favor of a woman’s right to choose and that is the overriding concern for me today.” “This has been a tough one for me,” said Supervisor Mark Farrell who explained he had many friends at First Resort, but he would vote for the legislation because it prohibited false advertising. “This is not about First Resort. I have a lot of friends who are involved with the organization and have great things to say about the organization.”
fines can be several thousand dollars over 30 days, and working families could ill-afford them, parishioners complained in calls to the parish seeking answers. The St. Raphael group, whose leaders include Keenny Aguilar of the Peace, Justice and Service Ministry, took the matter to the Marin Organizing Committee, a group that includes churches, synagogues and nonprofits in Marin County, which in turn sought the backing of the San Rafael City Council and police. Three council members ultimately agreed that the 30-day impoundment is onerous, given the fines, and supported the campaign launched at St. Raphael, with the help of then-pastor Father Paul Rossi.
Last month, San Rafael Police Chief Jeff Franzini ordered that, for a six-month trial period, the department will not automatically impound a vehicle for 30 days but release it to a licensed driver as early as 24 hours after a traffic stop, saving the owner a considerable part of the $2,200 it can cost to retrieve a vehicle, charged on top of a city fine and towing and storage fees of some $1,900. Franzini told parishioners at St. Raphael at a meeting on Oct. 5 that he is willing to temporarily adjust the impound policy – the amendment was effective in mid-September – after hearing them, along with the Marin Organizing Committee, make their case. Franzini said he would review the policy in March, but does not expect the adjustment to “have a major impact upon the department’s ability to address traffic safety within San Rafael.” Aguilar, of St. Raphael, said, “A lot of our parishioners are really grateful to have this change in the policy. This gives them a chance to obey the law but at the same time not be in fear if they get stopped and their cars impounded.” – George Raine
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G R I EV I N G & H E A L I N G Private offerings to ancestors focus of Days of the Dead exhibit in Oakland
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– Event: Ofrendas, or altars, by 14 artists and three community groups with personal stories related to Dias de los Muertos. The exhibition “Love & Loss: Dias de los Muertos 2011” investigates the significance of ofrendas and showcases the intimate and sacred spaces in which they are shared. (OAKLAND MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA)
By Jose Luis Aguirre The origins of the celebration of Day of the Dead in Mexico can be traced from the indigenous people of Mesoamerica: the Aztecs, Mayans, Purepecha, Nahua and Totonac. The tradition is on display at the Oakland Museum of California for the 17th consecutive year, with this year’s focus on the importance of privacy in the offerings to the deceased. The exhibition, “Days of the Dead, Love & Loss,” runs through Dec. 11 in the museum’s California Art Gallery. The show features altars by 14 artists and three community groups, each with personal stories of their deceased loved ones. For example, Nevel Xochitl Guerrero and Roberto Guerrero in their installation “The Dance of Love and Combat” honor their dear friend Rebecca “Ruby” Pacheco, who loved being a teacher and spent most of her life as an activist for social justice. Joaquin A. Newman pays tribute to his grandfather, Francisco, a veteran of World War II. Amalia Mesa Bains’ altar is dedicated to women who symbolize
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strength and spiritual and cultural values, while artist Alicia Diaz’ niche resulted from her work with families who have suffered painful losses. The museum’s annual Day of the Dead celebration has been one of the most popular community events in the Bay Area, each year attracting thousands of participants to an experience of indigenous Mesoamerican culture. According to historians, rituals celebrating ancestors have been made by Mesoamerican people for at least 3,000 years. In the pre-Hispanic era it
was common practice to keep skulls as trophies and display them during rituals to symbolize death and rebirth. When the Spanish conquistadors arrived in the 15th century, they were surprised by these pagan practices. In an attempt to convert Native Americans to Catholicism they moved the festival honoring ancestors to the beginning of November to coincide with the Catholic festivities of All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day. Today, Day of the Dead is associated with iconic and colorful items such as sugar skulls, marigold flower and altars.
– Location: Oakland Museum of California, Gallery of California Art, 1000 Oak St., Oakland – Dates: Oct.14-Dec. 11 – Admission: $12 general; $9 seniors and students with valid ID; $6 youth ages 9-17. Free for children 8 and under, OMCA members, and city of Oakland employees. Adult groups of 10 or more $10 per person. School groups and tours, call (510) 318-8470 to schedule visit. “Love & Loss”: Talks and tours Hear artists talk about their works in the exhibition. All programs included with museum admission. – Oct. 30: 1 p.m., family tour; 2 p.m., Joaquin A. Newman, Xochitl Nevel Guerrero and Roberto Guerrero – Free, Nov. 6: 1 p.m., family tour; 2 p.m., Dee Dee Rodriguez – Nov. 20: 1 p.m., family tour; 2 p.m., Consuelo Jimenez Underwood – Free, Dec. 4: 1 p.m., family tour
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G R I EV I N G & H E A L I N G Saints for moms: Author writes devotional book to refresh busy lives
All Saints’ Day, Nov. 1: A holy day of obligation By Laura Bertone
By Valerie Schmalz A new book by a California blogger is aimed at helping mothers be better people – by reflecting on the lives and writings of saints who have special meaning for mothers. “I do believe that society often has an impression of saints that they lived pious lives separated from the struggles and realities that so many of us face in our day to day world,� said Lisa Hendey, who blogs at CatholicMom.com and whose previous book was “The Handbook for Catholic Moms.� “A Book of Saints for Catholic Lisa Hendey Moms: 52 Companions for Your Heart, Mind, Body, and Soul� (Ave Maria Press, Notre Dame, Ind. 2011) profiles 52 saints for the 52 weeks of the year, with daily spiritual readings or ideas for each day of the week. The book is intended to be read individually or to be used as family reading. It was published just in time for All Saints’ Day. “I find great hope in reading these stories and great joy in sharing them with other moms,� said Hendey, who said she has been reading the lives of the saints every day for many years, using a well-thumbed book on saints that her mother gave her father in 1975. Among the saints profiled, some well-known, some obscure, are St. Josephine Bakhita, St. Francis De Sales, and St. Mother Theodore Guerin as well as Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Joseph. “In researching the lives of women like St. Gianna Beretta Molla or St. Margaret Clitherow, busy, working moms with families and responsibilities, we can find timeless themes that show they shared our same challenges and that their faith was
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On Nov. 1 we celebrate All Saints’ Day, a holy day of obligation in the Catholic Church. Since the feast falls on a Tuesday this year, the obligation to attend Mass is in place, and all Catholics are required to celebrate the feast at a liturgy. Holy days of obligation observe the most important feasts of our church which honor the mysteries of the Lord, the Virgin Mary and the saints. It is unfortunate they are called days of obligation since that tends to imply a duty or compulsion rather than a day of joy that we should want to celebrate together as a community. Perhaps a better way of thinking of the day is as a “holy day of observation.� All Saints’ Day is one of the oldest feasts the church has celebrated. Since the first century, the tradition of commemorating the martyrdom of saints on the anniversary of their death was followed. During the persecutions of Christians by the Roman Empire in the first centuries of the church, martyrdoms increased and local churches established a common feast day to honor all martyrs: known and unknown. This practice spread to the universal church so that today we celebrate every Nov. 1 for all saints in heaven – those who have been canonized and those who are with God but not yet officially sanctified by the church. Laura Bertone is interim director of worship for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.
17 new saints’ feasts Prayers for 17 saints’ feast days that were not in the previous Roman Missal are included in the revised Roman Missal that takes effect Nov. 27. With the exception of the memorials of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein who died in the Holocaust) and St. Pio, all of the new observances are optional memorials: The priest can decide whether to celebrate them or use the Mass of the day. Here are the new dates and Catholic News Service profiles of three saints added to the missal. Jan. 3: Most Holy Name of Jesus Feb. 8: St. Josephine Bakhita, virgin April 23: St. Adalbert, bishop and martyr April 28: St. Louis Mary de Montfort, priest May 13: Our Lady of Fatima May 21: Sts. Christopher Magallanes and companions, martyrs May 22: St. Rita of Cascia July 9: Sts. Augustine Zhao Rong, priest and martyr, and companions, martyrs 17 NEW SAINTS, page 11
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G R I EV I N G & H E A L I N G Pope: Knowing God’s unending love leads people out of despair difficulties endured by the early Israelites as recounted in the Psalms, there are plenty VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Remembering of recent episodes in history like the “dark God’s love is forever helps lead the faithful period of Nazi and Communist persecution,” out of darkness and despair and toward a the pope said. future of hope, Pope Benedict XVI said. No matter how dark the world got, “God It’s important to remember all of God’s came to us, he showed he is good, has strength gifts to humanity – from creating the earth to and that his mercy lasts forever,” he said. giving humanity his only “One can survive in son – because it is that very these valleys of darkness recollection of his generand death because one Human history osity that “becomes the remembers the Lord’s strength of hope,” he said goodness, power and and individual during his weekly general mercy” never dies and that audience Oct. 19. enduring love – that light Remembering God’s lives are marked – acts like a guiding star goodness and mercy “also leading out of the darkness opens up the path of light hope, he said. by difficulty and toward toward the future during Everybody has a pertimes of darkness,” the experience of salvagreat happiness. sonal pope said. tion and that experience of In his audience talk to God’s mercy must always about 15,000 people in St. be remembered in order to Peter’s Square, Pope Benedict spoke about hold strong to one’s trust in God and know praising God for his everlasting love, an that “if today I am in the darkness of night, attitude reflected in Psalm 136. tomorrow I will be free because his mercy The psalm praises “God’s mighty deeds is forever,” the pope said. in the creation of the world and in the hisAt the end of the audience, Bishop Arthur tory of Israel,” saving his people from their Roche of Leeds, England, presented the enemies and leading them to the Promised pope the British version of the new English Land, the pope said. translation of the Roman Missal, the book After each recollection of something God of prayers used for Mass. has given or done for his people, the psalm Bishop Roche, chairman of the repeats the refrain “God’s love endures International Commission on English in forever.” the Liturgy, opened the missal to a page Human history has been marked by of colorful illustrations, and the pope then periods of darkness and light, and the lives leafed through the heavy, white leatherof individuals, too, have been colored by dif- bound, gilt-edged missal. ficulties and great happiness, the pope said. U.S. Catholics will start using the new While it may be hard to imagine the missal the First Sunday of Advent, Nov. 27.
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Slain priest mourned A woman grieves at the casket of slain Italian Father Fausto Tentorio, fondly called “Father Pops,” in Arakan, Philippines, Oct. 17. Father Tentorio, 59, was shot dead outside a church in Arakan Oct. 17.
Jewish leaders decry ‘deicide’ remarks VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Jewish groups have called on the Vatican to suspend reconciliation talks with a traditionalist group after one of its bishops said the Jewish people were responsible for the death of Jesus. Chief Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, president of the Conference of European Rabbis, urged the Catholic Church Oct. 19, to suspend talks with “extremist Catholic tendencies.” He referred to comments by Bishop Richard Williamson, a member of the Society of St.
Pius X, who said recently in his online newsletter that “only the Jews (leaders and people) were the prime agents of the deicide” because they clamored for his crucifixion. Bishop Williamson, one of four bishops whose excommunication was lifted in 2009 by Pope Benedict XVI, has since been told by the Vatican that he will not be welcomed into full communion in the church until he disavows and apologizes for comments denying the Holocaust.
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G R I EV I N G & H E A L I N G Faith communities seek federal support to combat domestic violence ‘epidemic’
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– Religious groups are often first responders to victims of domestic violence.
By Carol Zimmermann WASHINGTON (CNS) – In desperation, women suffering from domestic violence often turn to faith communities for help. These communities can offer vital support and connect women with services they need such as legal assistance and temporary housing. But the ability to do this well is not necessarily a given. Every leader of every faith community across the country will not automatically have the right response or the necessary information on hand to best help victims of domestic violence. But the Interfaith Domestic Violence Coalition hopes to change that. The group, formed by Jewish Women International in 2008, is made up of more than 20 organizations, including the National Council of Catholic Women. It also represents Muslim, evangelical, Baha’i, United Methodist, Seventh-day Adventist and Presbyterian communities.
A call for a new policy focus especially on risks to teens, young adults and the elderly The group meets once a month to discuss and promote domestic violence legislation. These meetings have taken on a renewed urgency during October – Domestic Violence Awareness Month – since the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act is set to take place this year. The federal legislation, which was passed in 1994, set out to improve criminal justice and community-based responses to domestic and dating violence, sexual assault and
One in four women has experienced domestic violence in her lifetime, according to surveys and data from the last decade. It permeates all facets of society. About 7 percent of men say they have been abused by a spouse or domestic partner.
stalking. It also outlined grant programs to prevent violence against women, established a national domestic violence hotline and gave new protections to victims of domestic abuse. The act was reauthorized in 2000 and 2005. During an Oct. 18 Capitol Hill news briefing on this legislation, sponsored by the Interfaith Domestic Violence Coalition, speakers stressed that the legislation’s upcoming reauthorization should more clearly designate a federal partnership with local faith communities. Speakers from a variety of faith traditions noted that religious groups are often first responders for abused women who don’t know where to turn and these groups would significantly benefit from funding and training in how to best respond to these crisis situations. Each speaker stressed the enormity of the problem of domestic abuse, citing the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence’s statistics that 85 percent of domestic violence victims are women and one in every four women will experience domestic violence in her lifetime. The Rev. Susan Newman, an associate
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– An interfaith coalition is seeking a stronger federal partnership for training on how best to respond. – 85 percent of domestic-violence victims are women, according to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence. – In a 1992 document, the U.S. bishops stressed that men and women are created in God’s image and should treat each other with dignity and respect. The U.S. Catholic bishops addressed that specific biblical passage in their 1992 document, “When I Call for Help: A Pastoral Response to Domestic Violence Against Women.” The bishops condemned the use of the Bible to support abusive behavior in any form, stressing that men and women are created in God’s image and should treat each other with dignity and respect. At the briefing, Loribeth Weinstein, executive director of Jewish Women International, echoed the notion that religious leaders need to be trained and educated about domestic violence issues because they “serve as powerful role models who can connect women to social services.” Weinstein described the Violence Against Women Act as “landmark” legislation for acknowledging domestic violence as a crime and providing federal funds and resources to fight these crimes. “Domestic violence is an epidemic that doesn’t spare anyone,” she said. “It affects every race, religion and culture.” And as such, she said, there needs to be a “holistic approach to stop violence against women.”
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17 new saints . . . ■ Continued from page 8 July 20: St. Apollinaris, bishop and martyr July 24: St. Sharbel Makhluf, priest Aug. 2: St. Peter Julian Eymard Aug. 9: St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, virgin and martyr, also known as Edith Stein Sept. 12: Most Holy Name of Mary Sept. 23: St. Pio of Pietrelcina or Padre Pio Sept. 28: Sts. Lorenzo Ruiz and companions, martyrs Nov. 24: Sts. Andrew Dung-Lac, priest and martyr, and 107 companions, martyrs Nov. 25: St. Catherine of Alexandria, virgin and martyr in the early fourth century
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Lorenzo Ruiz and companions Died 1637 Feast day: Sept. 28 Lawrence or Lorenzo, the first Filipino saint, and 15 others were martyred in Japan. The 10 Asians and six Europeans included nine Dominican priests. After various tortures, 14 of them died by being suspended by the feet in a pit of manure, one was burned at the stake and one died in prison. Lorenzo, a Dominican tertiary, was living in Binondo, Philippines, with his wife and three children, when he fled an unjust murder charge by joining a missionary expedition to Japan. He was arrested there for being a Christian, which was then illegal. He died in the pit in 1637.
St. Josephine Bakhita 1868-1947 Feast day: Feb. 8 As a child this first Sudanese saint was kidnapped by Arab slave traders. A Muslim owner named her Bakhita, meaning “lucky”; other owners included an Arab chieftain and a Turkish St. Josephine general. She endured years of Bakhita cruelty, even torture, before being sold to an Italian consul who planned to free her. He took her to Italy, where she worked as a nanny for another family. In 1889 she won her freedom in court. She was baptized Josephine, entered the Canossian Sisters and served her order in Italy for more than 50 years as a cook, seamstress and doorkeeper.
Adalbert of Prague 956-997 Feast day: April 23 Christened Wojciech in Bohemia, in today’s Czech Republic, he took the name of his teacher, St. Adalbert of Magdeburg. He became the bishop of Prague while still in his 20s, but because
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NEW YORK (CNS) – Unless Middle Eastern countries support religious freedom and respect human rights, the “Arab spring” movement will devolve into an “Arab winter,” said Maronite Patriarch Bechara Rai. Patriarch Rai said the “Arab spring” movement holds much promise, but its leaders must “adopt a separation between religion and state.” He said such a system exists in his native Lebanon and Maronite Patriarch “respects all religions Bechara Rai and all values of each religion.” Failure to do so will result in civil wars, such as the one in Iraq, he warned, and will lead to the rise of regimes “that are even more fundamentalist,” he told a news conference Oct. 20 at the Catholic Near East Welfare Association.
The leader of Libya’s National Transitional Council, Mustafa Abdel Jalil, shakes hands with a wounded officer during a declaration of liberation in Benghazi, Libya, Oct. 23. Libya’s new rulers declared the country freed from Moammar Gadhafi’s 42 years of one-man rule.
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Moammar Gadhafi’s bloodied body was stripped and displayed around the world from cellphone video. The Libyan strongman is pictured in Tripoli in this Feb. 13, 2011, file photo.
An anti-Gadhafi fighter in Sirte, Libya, shouts, “Allahu akbar” (God is great), as he celebrates Gadhafi’s death.
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‘Arab spring’ or ‘Arab winter’?
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Libyans gather in front of the White House in Washington Oct. 20 to celebrate the death of Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi. The Vatican said Gadhafi’s demise ended a “harsh and oppressive regime.” Habib Malik, associate professor of history at the Lebanese American University, Byblos campus Beirut, said Gadhafi “lived by the sword” and it was no surprise that he should die by it. The gruesome manner of his death was no cause of rejoicing, but Libyans are justifiably relieved about starting a new day in their history, he said.
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Pope urges Christians to offer prayers, help to world’s migrants
People pack a room at the St. Juan Diego Migrant House, a shelter and sanctuary for travelers, in the Tultitlan suburb of Mexico City, in mid-August.
Civil collapse: 100,000 homes empty in Mexican border city, bishops learn (CNS PHOTO/RICARDO MORAES, REUTERS)
VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Christians need to offer migrants special care, ranging from prayer and concrete aid to promoting policies that uphold immigrants’ rights and dignity, Pope Benedict XVI said. Modern migration represents “an unprecedented mingling of individuals and peoples, with new problems not only from the human standpoint but also from ethical, religious and spiritual ones,” he said. The influx of people from all corners of the world offers new opportunities to evangelize and to provide material and spiritual care to those in need, he said. The pope made the comments in a message on the theme of “Migrations and New Evangelization” for the World Day for Migrants and Refugees 2012; the text was released at the Vatican Oct. 25 during a news conference. The World Day for Migrants and Refugees is observed Jan. 15. In the United States, National Migration Week will be celebrated Jan. 9-14. In his message, the pope called on Christians to pay special attention to migrant workers and their families and to accompany them with “prayer, solidarity and Christian charity.” Christians also should promote political, economic and social policies and strategies that uphold “the dignity of every human person, the safeguarding of the family (and) access to dignified housing, to work and to welfare,” the pope said. Those seeking asylum because of persecution, violence and threats to their lives “need our understanding and welcome,” he said. They need respect for their dignity and rights and to become aware of their duties and responsibilities in a new land, he added. At the news conference, Archbishop Antonio Veglio, president of the Pontifical Council for Migrants and Travelers, said immigrants “must be legitimately legalized, freeing them from the scourges of poverty, exploitation and the trafficking of organs and people.” By helping immigrants obtain legal status and by protecting their dignity, communities can foster real human progress so that migration becomes “a blessing for dialogue among peoples, coexistence in justice and peace, and the evangelical proclamation of salvation in Jesus Christ,” said the Italian archbishop. In his message, the pope said increased human mobility means there are new challenges and opportunities for evangelization. Every Christian has a duty to evangelize, and the ease of communication and meeting new people who may never have encountered Christ “must reawaken in each one of us the enthusiasm and courage that motivated the first Christian communities to be undaunted heralds of the Gospel’s newness,” he said. The presence of people from different nations and cultures means there is greater urgency for dialogue and respect for legitimate differences. However, secularization and the “fragmentation” of societies that divide people according to cultural or ethnic identities are an obstacle to the unifying vision of one human family, he said. Much of today’s world “is marked by endeavours to efface God and the church’s teaching from the horizon of life, while doubt, scepticism and indifference are creeping in, seeking to eliminate all the social and symbolic visibility of the Christian faith,” he said. In such secularized communities, the church is faced with
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Haitian Lizette Louissaint, 25, lies on her bed at a house in Manaus, Brazil, in late September.
new challenges in helping Christian migrants maintain their faith in their new homelands, the pope said. The church must develop new pastoral approaches, methods and expressions to help Christian migrants “keep their faith firm even when they are deprived of the cultural support that existed in their country of origin,” he said. The increased mobility of peoples from different nations and cultures in today’s globalized world also presents new opportunities to evangelize, to dialogue with other believers and show the unifying force of the Christian vision of one human family in today’s multiethnic, multicultural communities, said the pope.
EL PASO, Texas (CNS) – Thousands of Mexican citizens are fleeing the violence plaguing the border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, members of the U.S. bishops’ Subcommittee on Catholic Home Missions learned during a recent visit to the troubled city. Ruben Garcia, director of Annunciation House in El Paso, told the eight bishops on the subcommittee Oct. 20 that there is a “steady stream” of refugees trying to escape their country’s “police, military and government,” as well as the nation’s drug cartels. Garcia estimated that “more than 100,000 residents of Ciudad Juarez have crossed over” into the United States because of the border violence. Howard Campbell, professor of anthropology at the University of Texas at El Paso, said 30,000 to 200,000 people have fled Ciudad Juarez because of border violence. He said 100,000 homes have been abandoned and 10,000 businesses are closed. Kathleen Staudt, professor of political science at the University of Texas at El Paso, said she began a study of violence in Ciudad Juarez after the murders of more than 300 women there. The victims’ mothers organized protests as the murders went unsolved. “There are people trying to build a democracy in Mexico,” she said, “but it is hard because of the complicity of government institutions with the criminal element.”
Survey: Mass attendance down but Catholic identification remains strong By Mark Pattison WASHINGTON (CNS) – Mass attendance continues to drop among American Catholics but loyalty to Catholic identification remains strong, according to a survey commissioned by National Catholic Reporter newspaper. Mass attendance by “pre-Vatican II” Catholics, born in 1940 or before, slipped to 54 percent, down 10 percentage points from the high recorded in the 1999 survey, but it still topped all age groups. The rate for “Vatican II” Catholics, those born 1941-60, is 31 percent; for “post-Vatican II” Catholics born 1961-78, 29 percent; and for “millennial” Catholics born since 1979, 23 percent. “One reason why Catholics continue to remain loyal to Catholicism while skeptical of some of its teachings and practices is that there are many aspects of Catholicism that they find meaningful,” said Michelle Dillon, who chairs the sociology department at the University of New Hampshire, in an essay accompanying the survey findings. Catholics can “disagree with or make moral judgments that contravene church teaching and yet also respect the church’s moral stance,” she said. Sixty percent of survey respondents said one can be a good Catholic without adhering to church teaching on birth control. On the matter of helping the parish, the figure was 56 percent; on having a valid marriage, 48 percent; on weekly Mass attendance; 48 percent; on divorce and remarriage, 46
percent; on helping the poor, 39 percent; and on abortion, 31 percent. A majority in each age group said they believe that “at the consecration the bread and wine actually become the body and blood of Christ.” Majorities also agreed that the sacraments, belief in Jesus’ resurrection, helping the poor and the church’s teaching on Mary are very important to them as Catholics, although in smaller percentages than in 2005. But no majority in any age group said they considered “teaching authority as claimed by the Vatican” to be “very important.” This “is held by the Vatican (as very important) but is not seen in that way by the laity,” said William V. D’Antonio, a fellow at the Institute for Policy Research & Catholic Studies at The Catholic University of America and one of the survey authors. Strong majorities in each age group agreed with the U.S. bishops’ support for immigration reform. Vatican II Catholics were the only age group in which a majority did not agree with the bishops’ opposition to last year’s health care reform bill. While a plurality of all but the oldest Catholics call themselves independents, majorities in all age groups said they lean Democratic. The less committed Catholics said they were, the more likely they were to embrace other spiritual practices as reincarnation, yoga and “spiritual energy.” But even 21
U.S. Catholics: 25 Years Ago and Today 1987
2011
RACE
1987
2011
EDUCATION
White (not Hispanic)
86%
63%
Some high school or less
21%
14%
Hispanic
10%
32%
High school graduate
40%
32%
5%
5%
Some college
20%
19%
Black, Asian, other (not Hispanic)
GENDER
Associate degree
—
7%
12%
18%
8%
9%
Female
52%
50%
College graduate
Male
48%
50%
Graduate degree(s)
CATHOLIC EDUCATION AGE
Grade school
52%
37%
55 or older
27%
34%
High school
25%
19%
45-54
12%
19%
College/university
8%
8%
35-44
18%
21%
INCOME
25-34
26%
16%
Less than $10,000
12%
7%
18-24
17%
10%
$10,000-19.999
20%
11%
$20,000-29,000
19%
12%
Married
62%
54%
$30,000-39,000
13%
10%
Never married
22%
20%
$40,000 or more
19%
60%*
—
10%
No answer, refused
18%
—
15%
15%
MARITAL STATUS
Living with partner Divorced, widowed, separated Source: National Catholic Reporter
*Among those with incomes above $40,000, 22% reported incomes of $100,000 or more. © 2011 CNS
percent of self-described committed Catholics said they had embraced yoga. The survey, conducted online by Knowledge Networks for NCR, involved 1,442 Catholics, including an oversampling of Hispanics and young people under age 32. The results were adjusted to account for the oversampling. The margin of error is plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.
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THE NUMBER OF HISPANIC CHILDREN LIVING IN POVERTY is on the rise in the U.S., surpassing children of all other races and ethnicities. 7 million
How far have we really come as a society?
HISPANIC 6.1 million
6 million
WHITE
5 million
groups. If public policies today do not address established By Father Thomas Massaro, SJ patterns of residential segregation and blocked educational In Chapter 23 of Matthew’s Gospel, Jesus directs a and employment opportunities, then those policies are part series of “woes” at the scribes and Pharisees. The list of of the problem. It requires no ill will, but merely inattendamning charges includes the hypocrisy by which they tion, for those policies to cast ethical shadows upon us, pay lip service to the prophets of old, even erecting tombs the citizens who are ultimately responsible for collective in honor of the social critics of earlier times, but by their social actions. present complicity with injustices prove themselves to If you seek evidence of disproportionate burdens fallbe “the sons of the prophets’ ing on segments of our populamurderers.” These are harsh tion, the best place to look is accusations, hardly an easy in aggregate statistics. New The most serious losers in springboard for a pleasant Census Bureau findings docusermon on a sleepy Sunday the wide and growing gap the recent economic turmoil ment morning. between whites and the rest of But, as with all scriptural Americans in social indicators have been those with the warnings, we are wise to keep such as unemployment, childthis one in mind and to be hood poverty and inadequate vigilant against the possibility health insurance. The current fewest resources, the most of falling into the very errors unemployment rate for blacks we decry. As we ponder our is 16.7 percent, nearly double modest savings and the national policies and our collecthe rate for white non-Hispanic tive responsibility for them, we Americans. To oppose measures highest personal debt. have to ask: Is American society addressing the jobs crisis is tanguilty of tolerating a large gap tamount to turning one’s back between the values we profess on the serious struggles of the to champion, on one hand, and deplorable policy outcomes black community, even if such a stance is not explicitly we allow to persist, on the other hand? motivated by racial bias. Budget deals that favor spending cuts add to the Other studies reveal that the most serious losers in problem. the recent economic turmoil have been those with the At stake is racial fairness, specifically the economic fewest resources, the most modest savings and the highprospects of people of color. There has been a spate of est personal debt. These are disproportionately members attention to racial progress these past few months, occa- of racial minorities, whose annual incomes and stocks of sioned by Civil War anniversaries and a new memorial wealth lag behind those of others. The deeper and longer to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Millions viewed the mortgage and credit crises run, the more these groups “The Help,” a film that revisits the struggles of African- bear the lion’s share of financial harm, as they fall further American domestic workers in the deep South half a cen- and further behind in the struggle to save for college and tury ago. Reviews note the film’s subtle psychological lure: retirement. Budget deals that favor spending cuts (espehow we today still derive satisfaction from feeling superior cially on programs that serve low-income Americans) to the white Southerners who so cruelly demeaned the over raising revenues (most taxes come from the upper desperately poor and underpaid domestics who heroically brackets) certainly add to the problem. raised their children and cleaned their houses. Attending to deep structural economic issues like But how far have we really come as a society? Are these always raises profound questions about culpabilthere any ways in which we still collectively exhibit the ity and complicity in the racially skewed consequences hypocrisy that Jesus decried? It is true that overt racism is of national policies. It is notoriously hard to establish not socially acceptable today. But sociologists like William clear lines of economic causality, much less to clarify Julius Wilson of Harvard University have documented how conscious or unconscious motivations behind public polino direct present-day discrimination is required in order to cies. The ethical challenge is not so much to point the perpetuate the disproportionate burdens that have histori- finger of blame in the right direction, but rather to keep cally fallen upon African-Americans and other minority the proper questions and priorities ever before our eyes.
5 million
BLACK
4.8 million
4.4 million
4 million
3 million
3.8 million
2 million
1 million
1.4 million
‘76
‘80
‘84
‘88
‘92
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
‘96
‘00
‘04
‘08 ‘10 ©2011 CNS
Also notable – The median wealth of white households is 20 times that of black households and 18 times that of Hispanic households. – These lopsided wealth ratios are the largest since the government began publishing such data a quarter century ago. – They are roughly twice the size of the ratios that had prevailed between these three groups for the two decades prior to the Great Recession that ended in 2009. – Pew Research Center, June 2011 – From December 2007 to June 2011, real median U.S. annual household income declined by 9.8 percent – a significant reduction in the American standard of living. – Sentier Research, October 2011
After all, none of us relishes being identified as “sons of the prophets’ murderers.” Jesuit Father Thomas Massaro, teaches social ethics at the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry, Chestnut Hill, Mass. Reprinted from America magazine, Oct. 17, with permission of America Press Inc., copyright 2011. All rights reserved. For subscription information, Call 1 (800) 6279533 or visit www.americamagazine.org.
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Moral obligation and national security By Father Basil De Pinto Discussion has begun in the media on the subject of targeted assassinations, their legal basis and ramifications. The discussion has largely centered on the case of Anwar al-Awlaki, an American citizen, who was targeted and killed by an American drone Sept. 30. The question of a citizen’s constitutional rights to a fair trial is set aside in the pressing circumstances of the “war on terror” and it is asked whether exceptions can and should be made to eliminate known enemies of the state, lest they inflict harm on our country and its people in the manner of the 9/11 attacks. What follows approaches this issue from a different perspective than the political one outlined above. The question here is that of morality, understood in the light of scriptural revelation and principles of Catholic teaching, especially as they conflict with policies of the government. One might argue that religious and civil spheres are separate and can be peacefully reconciled: “Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and unto God the things that are God’s” (Matthew 22, 21). But Jesus more trenchantly proclaimed the superiority of the one over the other: “You would have no power over me unless it had been given you from above” (John 19, 11). Respect for civil authority cannot supersede moral obligation: Abortion and capital punishment are the law of the land in this country, but the church has vigorously opposed them both. Any child can tell you that murder is a mortal sin against the clear commandment of God, “Thou shalt not
itself once condemned heretics to death; happily the church has rejected its former stance and clearly proclaims that all human life is to be protected and respected, from conception to natural death. This is a good example of the development of doctrine, whereby the church learns from its human experience and, under the tutelage of the Holy Spirit, gradually brings itself to a fuller understanding of the The Catholic ways of God with us. The taking of human life by any agenvoice on these cy, whether individual or collective, is of supreme gravity in human affairs. It belongs to the sphere of universal values, even in the matters has been secular realm. Consider the Four Freedoms enunciated in the wake of the horrors of muted at best. It World War II, or the repugnance of civil society to the lynching so common in the is time for that American South for a hundred years after the Civil War. Does not the Christian conscience voice to be heard, have at least as much prominence as we consider policies such as torture, once thought to clarion clear. be even unmentionable in our society, later justified by legal memos, and implemented Anwar al-Awlaki by the highest authority until they were disof an individual, as in the case of Osama bin Laden, or covered and (we hope) definitively repudiated? The Catholic voice on these matters has been muted by targeted mechanical means as with Awlaki, is a grave offense against the law of God, no matter how high the at best. It is time for that voice to be heard, clarion clear: civil authority that sanctions it. There are well established No amount of obsession with national security can justify legal norms for the apprehension of evil doers, their the abrogation of the rights of our citizens, nor, above indictment, conviction and punishment. Examples: the all, transgression of the law of God. God alone is the Nuremberg trials after World War II, and more recently, arbiter of human life and it is to God alone that those who transgress his law will have to answer. the conviction and execution of Saddam Hussein. The question of capital punishment belongs in this Father Basil De Pinto is a retired priest context. It was practiced from the dawn of history and until recently had church approval. Indeed the church of the Oakland diocese. kill.” To kill in this context means to murder. It cannot be used, for example, to object to killing in a so-called “just war” – there are other cogent theological objections to such killing. But there should be no doubt in anyone’s mind that the deliberate, face-to-face killing
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Another swing at the Catholic straw man tray Poggio as a culture warrior, battling against a retrenched and oppressive Catholicism. This is where his book goes off the rails. Whereas Lucretius, Poggio and their modern successors had a restless curiosity to explore the physical universe, Catholics, Greenblatt maintains, were dogmatic, repressive, exclusively other worldly. As evidence for this claim, he cites the medieval conviction, cultivated especially in the monasteries, that curiositas is a sin. If he had searched what medieval Christians meant by that term, he would have discovered that curiositas names, not intellectual curiosity, but what we might call gossip or minding other people’s business. In fact, the virtue that answers the vice of curiositas is studiositas (studiousness), the serious pursuit of knowledge. This virtue was exemplified by some of the greatest spirits that Western civilization has produced: St. Albert the Great, Aquinas, Bonaventure, Duns Scotus, William of Occam, Alexander of Hales, Henry of Ghent, Roger Bacon. These are just some of the most prominent figures who pursued scientific, practical and metaphysical questions with a curiosity rarely rivaled. I grant that an intellectual paradigm shift occurred in the 16th century, but to claim that science emerged out of superstition is simply a calumny. Greenblatt also maintains that medieval Christianity was dualistic, morose, deeply opposed to the pleasures of the body and masochistic in its asceticism. He brings forward the many accounts of monastic self-flagellation and use of the “discipline.” No one can deny that such practices were part of medieval religious life, but to take them as paradig-
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Guest worker outrage I am so grateful to Anne Johnson for her letter “Where’s the outrage?” (Sept. 30) as well as for her suggestion to Google “Global Labor and Human Rights to sign a petition to stop this.” I want to express other ways to show one’s outrage to the working conditions in Jordan by major outlets Target and Walmart. Stop shopping at these stores and let them and our friends know why. We can also bring or send a copy of Tony Magliano’s article “Guest worker outrage” (Sept. 9) to the manager of our nearest Target or Walmart to question and protest the companies’ practice. Knowledge of an unjust situation needs to be made known, but the knowledge must lead to actions that will bring about justice. That is why I appreciated Anne Johnson’s letter. Marietta McGannon, RSM Millbrae
Blame misplaced Re Tony Magliano, Oct. 7 (“America’s longest war: 10 years and counting”): How can you blame President Obama along with Congress for laid-off teachers, police officers and firefighters and for threats to Medicare and Social Security? You can blame the Republican members of the House and Senate but you can’t blame the president. The president has been fighting for teachers and police and to roll back President Bush’s tax cut for the wealthy and have the millionaires pay their fair share. At every step, the Republicans have filibustered, balked and threatened catastrophic results. Obama and the Democrats are for funding and protecting Medicare and Social Security.
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It is wrong to lump the president with Congress and conflate the actions of Republican and Democrat members of Congress. It is just not right. Phyllis Hall San Francisco
Where is evangelization? Father Ring criticized “The Grace of Everyday Saints” author Julian Guthrie for not putting enough history in the book, or at least his version of the history. Other than being a true story, did anyone expect the book to be a history book by its title? It is not like a few years back when the archdiocese published the multi-volume “History of the Archdiocese of San Francisco,” there we do rightfully expect it to have the complete history. However, we all know there is no mention of St. Brigid Church and its 130plus years (1863-1994) of contributions to the diocese. There is only a paragraph in the third volume briefly stating the closed churches and the effort to save them. One other thing that bothers me a lot is that the archdiocese keeps saying they have to close churches because there are no families in the city anymore. I am very troubled by this mentality. With the explosion of population, the future (of America and the world) is going to be families with fewer children and cities with apartments. It is not going to be like the old days. Looking at all the residential buildings around St. Brigid, there is a huge population, maybe not families with children, maybe not (yet) Christians, but nonetheless people. Has the church no interest in evangelizing and serving non-families anymore? After all, Jesus only started off with 12 apostles and sent them on to the four corners of the (nonChristian) world. So sad the church gives up and shrinks, and they don’t seem to have a vision for the future! Siu-Mei Wong Former St. Brigid parishioner San Francisco
Call to chastity October is Respect Life month, reminding us to respect all people from
matic of the medieval attitude toward the body is ridiculous. Nowhere in world literature do we see more boisterous and even bawdy celebrations of the body than in Dante’s “Divine Comedy,” Father Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales” and Boccaccio’s Robert Barron “Decameron.” And even a glance at the figures in the colored glass windows of Chartres Cathedral or the Sainte Chapelle reveals a celebration of the energy of ordinary life. The Catholic Middle Ages did not require Lucretius to learn the importance of either curiosity or joy of life. In fact, the modern world that emerged through the work of Descartes, Pascal, Galileo, Newton, Jefferson and company owed a great deal to the medieval period. The story of modernity’s rise is far more complex and finally far more interesting than the one told by Stephen Greenblatt, and it is possible to celebrate the legitimate achievements of modern culture without knocking down a straw-man version of Catholicism. Father Robert Barron is the founder of the global ministry Word on Fire and the Francis Cardinal George Professor of Faith and Culture at University of St. Mary of the Lake in Mundelein, Ill.
An inmate’s story, Part 2: Message of faith, hope Peace and all good. I am writing to thank you for printing my story (“‘What happened?’ An inmate’s story,” Sept. 16).You did an excellent job. My reason for writing the story was that hopefully it will reach people who are thinking of leaving the church. Not everyone who leaves the church will commit crimes and do drugs, such as myself, but after they make the choice to leave, the road they follow will not be a good one. If my story can help change the life of just one person who is struggling with their choices in life, one teenager thinking of doing drugs for the first time then that, of itself, is a blessing. Enclosed is a drawing as a token of my appreciation for printing my story. I haven’t done too many positive things in my life lately, and I look at this as a move in the right direction as I practice again being a good Catholic. (Prison ministry volunteer) Ray McKeon is a good man and he has helped me immensely in understanding the Bible and God’s message. I’d be lost without his guidance. James M. Flanagan San Francisco conception to natural death, regardless of the circumstances of their conception. However, since sexual acts and conception are intimately linked, sexual acts are a concern in respecting life. For since a large percentage of babies are born out of wedlock, there must be much fornication or adultery occurring. Therefore, there must be great need to frequently remind our youth that such serious sins, when unrepented and unconfessed, can prevent their attainment of heaven. Likewise can homosexual acts, which according to the Catechism of the Catholic Church (#2357), are “acts of grave depravity,” “intrinsically disordered” and “under no circumstances can they be approved.” Conversely, there is clearly great need to frequently encourage our youth in the virtue of chastity, especially in thought, speech, dress, posture and behavior. Our youth need to know of the freedom, joy and holiness that practicing chastity can bring. And also to know that throughout church history the great saints have all practiced chastity assiduously in order to attain heaven, which, after all, should be the goal of every Catholic. Jessica Munn Foster City
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In 2005, Harvard scholar Stephen Greenblatt published a wonderful book on Shakespeare, “Will in the World.” Witty, insightful, surprising, it caused thousands of people, me included, to look at the Bard with new eyes. Thus it was with great anticipation that I opened Greenblatt’s latest, “The Swerve: How the World Became Modern.” Like its forebear, this book is lively, intelligent and fun to read. But as I moved through it I grew irritated and finally exasperated by its insistence on one of the most tired myths of the academy: that the modern world emerged out of a desperate struggle with Roman Catholicism. The unlikely hero of Greenblatt’s story is Poggio Bracciolini, a humanist of the early-15th century and scribe at the papal court who in his spare time searched for ancient texts in monastic libraries across Europe. On one expedition Poggio liberated a text that, Greenblatt holds, shaped the evolution of the modern mind: the philosophical poem “De rerum natura” (On the Nature of Things), by the Roman writer Lucretius. Lucretius argued that the universe is made up of atoms that randomly arrange themselves and then fall apart. He taught that there is no divine mind governing the process; the soul is as mortal and dissoluble as the body; there is no afterlife; humans are not unique in the cosmos but rather are animals somewhat more evolved than others; religion is fear-based and cruel; and the point of life is to maximize pleasure and avoid pain. Greenblatt takes Lucretius’ cold and grim vision of the universe as a harbinger of today’s “modern” view. To make his story more dramatic, Greenblatt had to por-
And Jesus wept In the Oct. 14 issue (“Anti-bank protests target Wall Street, major U.S. cities,”) a Father Robert Sirico is quoted as saying, “Occupy Wall Street reminds me of the demonstrations of the `60s ... misdirected.” I see: Protests against an immoral war and nuclear proliferation were misdirected. Okay, so then he says, “The ethos of this all is the rage against wealth for wealth’s sake. How do you alleviate poverty without creating wealth? You don’t alleviate poverty by redistributing wealth; you alleviate poverty by creating wealth.” I have to wonder if the priest is reading the same Gospel I am. “Woe to you rich, you have had your reward.” “Blessed are the poor ... the Kingdom of God is theirs.” “Whatsoever you do to these, the least of my brothers and sisters, you do to me.” A number of papal encyclicals, including “Rerum Novarum” and “Quadragesimo Anno,” have spoken to this issue, in favor of creating a more equitable distribution of wealth, but maybe Father Robert has been neglecting his reading while defending the rights of the rich to get richer and the poor to become even poorer, no matter how hard they work, assuming they can get a job. And Jesus wept. Sue Malone Hayes San Francisco
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A READING FROM THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET MALACHI MAL 1:14B-2:2B, 8-10 A great King am I, says the Lord of hosts, and my name will be feared among the nations. And now, O priests, this commandment is for you: If you do not listen, if you do not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name, says the Lord of hosts, I will send a curse upon you and of your blessing I will make a curse. You have turned aside from the way, and have caused many to falter by your instruction; you have made void the covenant of Levi, says the Lord of hosts. I, therefore, have made you contemptible and base before all the people, since you do not keep my ways, but show partiality in your decisions. Have we not all the one father? Has not the one God created us? Why then do we break faith with one another, violating the covenant of our fathers? RESPONSORIAL PSALM PS 131:1, 2, 3 R. In you, Lord, I have found my peace. O Lord, my heart is not proud, nor are my eyes haughty; “Do and observe all things whatsoever they tell you, but do not follow their example.” – Matthew 23:3 You may have heard the saying: “The Gospels according to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John are read by more than a few, but the one most read and commented on is the gospel according to you.” It goes on to say that we are writing a gospel, a chapter each day, by the things we do and the words we say. People read what we write, whether faithless or true. Is our gospel too full of malice and strife? Does our life speak of evil or good? Do others read God’s truth and his love in our life? Say, what is the gospel according to you? A source of crisis in society today stems from this fact: That the gospel according to each one of us does not contain truthfulness and authenticity enough for the world to be able to see hope and optimism. This sad situation would apply to politics, government, business, religion and culture, not to mention personal lives. Somewhere along the way individuals and organizations seemed to have concluded that they do not have to live by the values they profess in public discourse. Politicians, for instance, can speak about family values all they want but they do not actually have to practice it in legislation and their personal lives. Governments elected to office to govern can let the weak and vulnerable fall by the wayside. Businesses professing service
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Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time Malachi 1:14b-2:2, 8-10; Psalm 131:1, 2; Thessalonians 2:7b-9, 13; Matthew 23:1-12 I busy not myself with great things, nor with things too sublime for me. R. In you, Lord, I have found my peace. Nay rather, I have stilled and quieted my soul like a weaned child. Like a weaned child on its mother’s lap, so is my soul within me. R. In you, Lord, I have found my peace. O Israel, hope in the Lord, both now and forever. R. In you, Lord, I have found my peace.
A READING FROM THE FIRST LETTER OF PAUL TO THE THESSALONIANS 1 THES 2:7B-9, 13 Brothers and sisters: We were gentle among you, as a nursing mother cares for her children. With such affection for you, we were determined to share with you not only the gospel of God, but our very selves as well, so dearly beloved had you become to us. You recall, brothers and sisters, our toil and drudgery. Working night and day in order not to burden any of you, we proclaimed to you the gospel of God. And for this reason we too give thanks to God unceasingly, that, in receiving the word
Scripture reflection FATHER CHARLES PUTHOTA
Show, don’t tell to humanity do not have to practice fairness and social responsibility. Religions preaching love and compassion do not actually have to promote harmony, peace, and reconciliation. Cultures professing to embody the noblest and best can lose their soul in insatiable appetite for consumerism, sports and entertainment. How did we get to this point? The Word of God acts both as a mirror and lamp, reflecting the reality and shedding light for our path. In Malachi, the context is one of sadness and disillusionment on return from the Babylonian exile. The religious leaders, who should have been a source of great hope and good example, act against the covenant, show
partiality, turn away from God’s ways, and make others falter by their instruction. Instead of setting the highest ethical standards, they turn out to be hypocrites. In the Gospel, seeing the hypocrisy of the Pharisees and scribes, Jesus tells the people to follow what they teach but not their example because “they preach but they do not practice.” What an indictment of the religious leaders! They lay heavy burdens on people but will not lift a finger to help those in need. Their religion consists in pursuing places of honor and titles and showing off signs of piety, but their lives are hollow. Time and again we find Jesus in the Gospels speaking the truth
of God from hearing us, you received not a human word but, as it truly is, the word of God, which is now at work in you who believe. A READING FROM THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW MT 23:1-12 Jesus spoke to the crowds and to his disciples, saying, “The scribes and the Pharisees have taken their seat on the chair of Moses. Therefore, do and observe all things whatsoever they tell you, but do not follow their example. For they preach but they do not practice. They tie up heavy burdens hard to carry and lay them on people’s shoulders, but they will not lift a finger to move them. All their works are performed to be seen. They widen their phylacteries and lengthen their tassels. They love places of honor at banquets, seats of honor in synagogues, greetings in marketplaces, and the salutation ‘Rabbi.’ As for you, do not be called ‘Rabbi.’ You have but one teacher, and you are all brothers. Call no one on earth your father; you have but one Father in heaven. Do not be called ‘Master’; you have but one master, the Christ. The greatest among you must be your servant. Whoever exalts himself will be humbled; but whoever humbles himself will be exalted.” bluntly about the insincerity of religious and civil authorities. The second reading provides an oasis in the midst of a vast desert of hypocrisy. St. Paul writing to Thessalonians paints a picture of authenticity about his profession and practice. He shares with “affection … not only the Gospel of God, but our very selves as well.” His deeds authenticate his words: “Working night and day in order not to burden any of you, we proclaimed to you the Gospel of God.” Jesus is the ultimate paradigm for us who seek to align our external deeds with our profession of faith and values. He preached the kingdom of God, and went about practicing that kingdom. His healings, table fellowship, call of the apostles, and the skirmishes with the evil were ways of actualizing the kingdom of God. In Jesus, there was – and is – the perfect union of profession of faith and practice. The world longs to see more authenticity and truthfulness in all walks of life, especially in religion. We need more doers than preachers, more witnesses than teachers. The message is loud and clear: “Don’t tell me what to do; show me what you have done.” Can we say with Gandhi: “My life is my message”? Hey! What is the gospel you are writing – the gospel according to you? Father Charles Puthota, Ph.D., is pastor of St. Veronica Parish in South San Francisco.
Question Corner
Breaking of the host, general confession Question: I recently attended Mass where I heard an audible “snap” after the priest said, “He took the bread and broke it,” before the words of consecration. Is this an illicit Mass? What are the effects of an illicit Mass on the souls of the priest and the laity? (Rockford, Ill.) Answer: You are referring to a priest’s actually breaking the large host in half as he is saying the words you quoted. That is something which is improper and clearly in violation of the church’s official rubrics. The Roman Missal simply says that the priest “takes the bread ... raising it a little above the altar” before pronouncing the words of consecration. It is later on in the liturgy – at the part of the Mass called, in fact, “the breaking of the bread” – where the priest is instructed, following the prayer honoring Jesus as the Lamb of God, to “take the host and break it over the paten.” On a few occasions over the course of 45 years in the priesthood, I have witnessed priests do exactly what you say; they break the host at the consecration. I believe that they feel that they are better illustrating the words of the Mass, which say that Jesus “broke the bread.” But the eucharistic prayer is a narrative, not a dramatization. The priest is simply recalling what Jesus did, not showing it. (If the words were meant as a dramatization then by the same logic, when the priest goes on immediately to say, “He gave it to his disciples,” he should distribute Communion to the faithful right at that point, rather than wait to do it following the eucharistic prayer.)
The rule is clear. The Vatican’s Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, in its 2004 instruction “Redemptionis Sacramentum,” said this: “In some places there has existed an abuse by which the priest breaks the host at the time of the consecration in the Holy Mass. This abuse is contrary to the tradition of the church. It is reprobated and is to be corrected with haste.” Truthfully, though, what bothers me even more than a priest’s making that well-intentioned mistake is for you to think that this might render that Mass illicit. Of course, it would not. What you are really asking is whether, because the priest broke the host in half five minutes before he should have, that means this particular Mass brings no honor to God and no benefit to the worshippers. I don’t think that God is “technical” in that way. Remember when Jesus said that his disciples could pick grain and eat it when they were hungry, despite the fact that it was the Sabbath? He did this because “the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath” (Mark 2:27). True, God’s thinking is far beyond our own powers; but I believe that it’s generally safe to assume that what seems most reasonable to us probably makes sense to God too. Question: Some years ago, when I was making a retreat, the priest mentioned the possibility of making a “general confession.” What is it, when is it appropriate to make one, and how does one go about doing it? (Detroit, Mich.)
Answer: The term “general confession” usually refers to a confession of sins which covers an individual penitent’s entire life. Often it may include sins that have already been forgiven in the Father sacrament of penance, but the retelling of those Kenneth Doyle sins may be helpful in assessing where the penitent stands on the journey to heaven and in guiding the penitent’s future. Sometimes the setting may be a retreat experience or the entrance into a new phase of life (e.g., immediately before ordination or the sacrament of marriage) or the return to the sacraments after a lengthy absence. A general confession, to be most fruitful, requires a longer period of preparation than a regular weekly or monthly confession. Surely any serious sin not already forgiven should be mentioned, as well as habits of behavior that slow the progress toward holiness. Father Doyle’s column is carried by Catholic News Service. Send questions to askfatherdoyle@gmail.com and 40 Hopewell St., Albany, N.Y. 12208.
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The ecumenical future The Evangelical Church in Germany is a theological muddle, being a federation of Lutheran, Prussian Union, and Reformed (or Calvinist) Protestant communities. Still, it must have been a moving moment when the council of this federation met with Pope Benedict XVI last month in the chapter hall of the former Augustinian priory at Erfurt: the place where Martin Luther had studied theology, had been ordained a priest, and had, as the pope put it, thought with “deep passion” about one great question: “How do I receive the grace of God?” As Benedict put it, “For Luther, theology was no mere academic pursuit, but the struggle for oneself, which was in turn a struggle for and with God.” One hopes the Catholic Theological Society of America was listening. Benedict then went on to note that, in bringing Luther’s question to life again in the 21st century, there were new realities to be confronted. One, which is killing Europe, is spiritual boredom. Moreover, in trying to preach the Gospel today, what Benedict called the “mainstream Christian denominations” themselves face a new situation. For the “geography of Christianity” had “changed dramatically in recent times, and is in the process of changing further still.” There is a “new form of Christianity, which is spreading with overpowering missionary dynamism, sometimes in frightening ways … a form of Christianity with little institutional depth, little rationality and even less dogmatic content, and with little stability.” By which, I think we can assume, the pope meant the explosion of evangelical (in the American sense of the term),
Pentecostalist, and fundamentalist Christianity throughout the developing world. “What is this new form of Christianity saying to us, for better and for worse?” the pope asked. Perhaps I might venture an answer to that question. The first thing that is being said is that preaching Jesus Christ crucified and the transforming power of personal friendship with the risen Lord is going to win out, every time, over
The church must meet the challenge of Pentecostalism in the developing world. enticing men and women into a religious trade union or cultural club. Surely Benedict, whose pontificate has been characterized by the theme of intimate friendship with the Lord, knows that. One hopes he is saying it to the “bishops from all over the world” who are “constantly” complaining to him about evangelical inroads into their flocks. For example, the Catholic Church has been active in Latin America for over half a millennium. If it has poorly catechized that territory, such that the church cannot retain the loyalty of traditionally Catholic peoples, it should look first to its own incapacities and failures, rather than blaming well-funded
American evangelical and Pentecostalist missions. As scholars like David Martin and Amy Sherman have demonstrated, it is the power of these missions to change self-destructive patterns of behavior through George Weigel radical conversion to Christ that has given them their purchase in areas where 500 years of Catholicism have failed to build a culture of responsibility – especially male responsibility. The second thing this “new form of Christianity” is saying is that the old ecumenism – the bilateral dialogues between Catholicism and mainline Protestantism – is over. Throughout the world, mainline liberal Protestantism is dying from its own theological implausibility. The serious ecumenical dialogue of today is with these “new forms of Christianity.” They may lack “dogmatic content,” and some may be unscrupulous proselytizers. But at least some among them are searching for a deeper, richer theology. And they are finding it in serious conversation with Catholics. The times are indeed “a-changin’.” What remains unchanged is the power of the Gospel. Preach it, and they will come. George Weigel is Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.
Spirituality for Life
God and sex Our world thinks it understands sex. It doesn’t. Moreover it is beginning to ignore and even disdain how Christianity views sexuality. And we are paying a price for this, mostly without consciously realizing it: Sex, outside of its proper containers, respect, unconditional commitment, and love, isn’t bringing more joy into our lives, but is leaving us more fragmented and lonely Part of what’s happening to us is expressed in a haunting line in Leonard Cohen’s song, “Famous Blue Raincoat,” where a man reminds a friend of the consequences of his having had sex with a woman to whom he was not committed: And you treated some woman to a flake of your life; and when she went home she was nobody’s wife. Casual sex: A flake of our lives. Frivolously given away. There’s a lot of sex in culture, but it isn’t taking a lot of people home, home to that place where they feel fully respected, unconditionally safe, able to be themselves, comfortable, and confident that the joy of their love-making is making their hearts bigger, softer, more gracious, more joyous. With this as a background, I would like to recommend a book, “Sex God,” by Rob Bell. He is pastor of a Christian church in Michigan and does something in this book that has been often tried, but rarely done well. What he does is take seriously the raw
power, brute earthiness, and befuddling complexity of sex and sets that into an anthropological, biblical and Christian perspective that properly honors both the earthiness and the holiness of sex. Unlike many Christian commentators, he accepts, without denial, denigration, or pious encrustment, our sexual complexity. But, unlike most secular commentators who accept the full impact of our sexual complexity but then lose sight of its deeper meaning, he marries the earthiness and the holiness of sex into a perspective that is at once both earthy and holy. For too many of us, sex is a search for something we’re missing, a restless quest for an unconditional embrace; and so we go from relationship to relationship, looking for this. But, as Bell suggests: Sex is not the search for something that’s missing; it’s the expression of something that’s been found. It’s designed to be the overflow, the culmination of something that a man and a woman have found in each other. In Bell’s view, sex inside of its proper containers (unconditional commitment, respect, love) is designed to counter the brokenness of our lives and the fragmentation of our world. The “oneness” experienced in sexual embrace is meant to help bring “oneness” into the world: This man and this woman who have given themselves to each other are supposed to give the world
a glimpse of hope, a display of what God is like, a bit of oneness on earth. Is that where the phrase “making love” comes from? And Bell is clear on the holiness of sex and how that in fact undergirds its unrelenting grip: In heaven Father Ron we will be fully known Rolheiser .... Which is what people crave in sex, isn’t it? To be known and still loved, still embraced, still accepted. Is sex in its greatest, purest, most joyful and honest expression a glimpse of forever? The problem with sex is that the churches don’t take passion seriously enough, while the world doesn’t take chastity seriously enough. Healthy sex is predicated on the vibrancy of both: passion and chastity, earthiness and holiness. Rob Bell’s book honors that. Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser is President of the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, Texas.
Intellect and Virtue
‘The better angels of our nature’ By John Garvey Steven Pinker, a psychology professor at Harvard, recently published a book entitled “The Better Angels of Our Nature,” which argues that the age that we live in is less violent than any other period in history. Archeological studies of pre-state societies suggest that as many as 15 percent of the population met violent deaths. Murder rates in Europe today are 10 to 50 times lower than they were in the Middle Ages. Pinker attributes this “civilizing process” to a number of causes – the increasing power of the state, the growth of commerce, improvements in the status of women and even progress in our moral reasoning. Whether we actually do get better at moral reasoning is a very complicated question. It may be that we reach different conclusions when we apply the same principles in different social situations. Take the issue of capital punishment. The church has long taught that the state can take a criminal’s life if that is the only way to defend human life. Some of the early church fathers tolerated and even approved of the practice. Augustine mentions capital punishment as an exception to the commandment against killing. Aquinas argues for the execution of men dangerous to the community “in order to preserve the common good.”
In recent years, though, the Catholic Church has been increasingly insistent in its condemnation of executions. In his 1995 encyclical “Evangelium Vitae,” Blessed Pope John Paul II noted the growing demand, both in the church and in civil society, that we restrict or abolish the death penalty. I have been thinking about Pinker and the pope the last few weeks, when our attention has been fixed on two prominent death penalty cases. One involved Lawrence Brewer, a white supremacist convicted of the brutal 1998 Texas dragging murder of a black man named James Byrd. Brewer was executed by lethal injection on Sept. 21. The day before his execution, Brewer reportedly said, “I have no regrets. No, I’d do it all over again.” The other was Troy Davis, convicted of shooting a police officer in Georgia. Unlike Brewer, Davis maintained his innocence and became a focal point for the anti-death penalty movement. His case drew pleas for clemency from Pope Benedict XVI, among others. He was executed the same day as Brewer. Was it right to execute Brewer and Davis? The church’s clear contemporary teaching is that Texas and Georgia should do so only if it was necessary to protect their people from further attacks. Given the quality of the state prison systems, it’s hard to make that claim. Many folks would say that the punishments were justified
because Brewer and Davis were bad men who, as they say in the South, needed killing. Let us assume the truth of the evidence against Davis, as we might do after 20 years of legal review. He was, on that account, a bad man; or at least a man who did some very bad things. He was convicted of shooting another man and was executed. Davis was in the act of pistol-whipping a homeless man when he was approached by the doomed officer. As for Brewer, he was a cruel, sadistic racist who tortured and eventually beheaded his victim. Sometimes society simply demands revenge for crimes that are genuinely heinous, twisted and evil. This is, however, an urge that the church calls on us to resist, no matter how difficult that may be. The reason isn’t just that we might make a mistake, though we might. The reason is that human life is sacred because it results from the creative action of God. It is not our place to destroy it, though that might satisfy our desire for revenge. It is right to punish criminals to redress the harm that they have caused. But the better understanding of the Gospel is that we should stop short of killing. Garvey is president of The Catholic University of America in Washington. His column is carried by Catholic News Service.
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Revised missal: More answers to common questions (CNS PHOTO/GREGORY A. SHEMITZ)
Nicene Creed
By Laura Bertone As we all become accustomed to the new words and responses from the revised Roman Missal being implemented Nov. 27, the First Sunday of Advent, one of the texts that may cause most of us to trip over our tongues Sixth in a series is the revised wording of the creed. The profession of faith, or creed, is said after the homily and before the universal prayers (prayers of the faithful) on Sundays and feasts. We most often recite the Nicene Creed (technically the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed), but some churches use the Apostles’ Creed. A number of small but significant changes raise numerous theological and linguistic questions. A few are discussed below: Why do we now say “I believe” rather than “We believe?” Right from the beginning of the revised translation of the creed there is a significant change: from “we” to “I.” Since the creed was added to the liturgy in the 11th century, the Latin has always used the singular (credo). Most other language groups also use the first person singular to begin the creed, so like the response “And with your Spirit,” English now matches the rest of the world. The singular form also echoes what we say when we renew our baptismal promises (we say “I do” after each question, not “we do”) and acts as a personal attestation of this profession of faith.
Literature is displayed on a table during a workshop to prepare priests for the implementation of the third edition of the Roman Missal at St. Elizabeth of Hungary Church in Melville, N.Y., in May. The new Roman Missal will go into use in the U.S. at Advent.
How is “visible and invisible” different from “seen and unseen?” This change is one of the nuances of the revised translation that allows us to be much more specific in the use of words. Linguistic experts have pointed out that there are some things that are “unseen” in most cases but do exist (the nucleus of a cell or the cosmos). This is opposed to things that are invisible (such as angels). The intention of the line is to say that God created not only those things that are capable of being seen, but that God created everything whether it is visible to the human eye or not. This can seem like splitting hairs, but the new translation has allowed us to get more specific and precise in language which was not always the case previously. Why is it important to say that Jesus is the “Only Begotten Son of God?”
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In many cases in the 1970 translation of the Roman Missal, the Latin term Filium Dei Unigenitum was translated as “only Son of God.” This is incorrect since God has many, many sons and daughters (all baptized persons) through adoption and the Spirit. Therefore, in the new translation, every time the Latin term Filium Dei Unigenitum is used, it is translated as “only begotten Son” to emphasize, as the Latin does, that Jesus was the only son created by God. This same change from “Only Son” to “Only Begotten Son” is also in the revised Gloria. People keep mentioning the word “consubstantial.” What does it mean and why all the fuss? We have changed from “one in being” to “consubstantial” – a word we probably don’t use very often in day-to-day speech. Consubstantial is a highly theological word which is a direct translation of the Latin (consubstantialem). It means Christ possesses the same divine nature as the Father. The word can be a tongue twister and may seem foreign to most of us, but often in liturgy we use words and
Changes in the new missal are marked in bold. I believe in one God, the Father almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all things visible and invisible. I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten Son of God, born of the Father before all ages. God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, consubstantial with the Father; through him all things were made. For us men and for our salvation he came down from heaven, and by the Holy Spirit was incarnate of the Virgin Mary, and became man. For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate, he suffered death and was buried, and rose again on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures. He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead and his kingdom will have no end. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son, who with the Father and the Son is adored and glorified, who has spoken through the prophets. I believe in one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church. I confess one baptism for the forgiveness of sins and I look forward to the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come. Amen.
phrases that refer to theological and doctrinal matters and they are quite specific and perhaps unfamiliar to us. Many have objected to the use of a word that is not in our regular vocabulary, but this happens in many places in the liturgy (such as “hallowed” or “hosanna”), and liturgical language has always been more formal and multifaceted than everyday speech. REVISED MISSAL, page 19
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125th Anniversary Cookbook of Memories As food has always been a comfort to families who have experienced a loss, it seems only fitting that Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery would create a cookbook in honor of its 125th Anniversary. We would like to create a cookbook of memories – special recipes of your loved ones who are interred in Holy Cross. As the families we serve are from so many different cultures and backgrounds, our book should be a delicious mix of memories and interesting dishes to make. If your Grandmother, Mom, Dad or Great Uncle Sam made a special dish and is interred in Holy Cross, we hope that you will share that favorite recipe.
You may forward your recipe to the attention of Christine Stinson by email costinson@holycrosscemeteries.com, by mail to Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery, P.O. Box 1577, Colma, CA 940l4 or drop it off at our office (or All Saints Mausoleum on the weekends). Please include your loved one’s name, date of burial and grave location with the recipe. Also, please include your name and contact information.
We hope to have the cookbooks ready at the beginning of 2012 – our Anniversary Year. Proceeds of this cookbook will go to a special cemetery restoration fund allowing us to preserve our history and the stories of all who are interred here.
More Information: 415-586-1256 www.riordanhs.org
Brotherhood Begins Here! Thank you for sharing your recipes, stories and memories with us!
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High-school theater: Moral choices, comedy, romance on fall lineup By Valerie Schmalz The importance of moral choice in a flawed society predominates in “To Kill a Mockingbird,” “Dracula,” and “The Crucible,” plays staged this fall by high schools in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. For those seeking lighter fare, Marin Catholic High School offers an Italian romantic comedy of mistaken identity, “The Servant of Two Masters,” and Sacred Heart Preparatory in Atherton performs “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.” At Mercy High School in San Francisco, Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” has been cut and adapted with reference to well-known outer space adventures such as “Star Trek,” said Teresa Lucchese, community relations director. San Domenico School touches on love and death with a modern version of the Greek myth of a groom who travels to Hades to retrieve his bride who died on their wedding day. “Eurydice” uses a pool “to allow for the ebb and flow of life and death to be represented with the actors traveling in and out of the water,” says Beth Kellermann, drama director at the San Anselmo girls school. Moral choices are at the heart of “The Crucible,” at both Woodside Priory School in Portola Valley and St. Ignatius College Preparatory in San Francisco. In telling the story of the Salem witch trials as an allegory for the blacklisting of alleged communists in the McCarthy era of the 1950s, playwright Arthur Miller addresses two themes, said St. Ignatius drama director Ted Curry. The first is the importance of a person’s good name. “The second theme is this: All it takes for evil to succeed is for good people to say or do nothing,” Curry said. “To Kill a Mockingbird,” a story about racism and moral courage in a small Alabama town, is being staged in San Francisco by Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory and in San Mateo County by Tri-School Productions, a joint effort of Junipero Serra High School, Mercy Burlingame High School and Notre Dame High School in Belmont. SHCP drama director Francine Torres-Kelly calls the play “a fascinating look at racism, perspective and empathy.” At Archbishop Riordan High School, Christopher Fern is making his directing debut with “Dracula.” Fern said, “This show has something for everyone: the corruption of power, the naivety of youth, the wisdom of age, the quest for eternal life and the battle for your soul.” The production enlists the technology department, which created special fangs for Dracula and other actors, he said. Marin Catholic’s choice of an Italian comedy is being billed as “outrageous fun for all,” as young love is hindered by mistaken identity and bumbling servants. At Sacred HeartAtherton, “The 25th Annual Putnam Spelling Bee” – the last performance is Oct. 29 – centers on a fictional spelling bee and stars six quirky adolescents and three adults on the outside range of normal. Said director John Loschmann, “The students learn that winning isn’t everything and that losing doesn’t necessarily make you a loser.”
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Drama schedule “The Crucible” St. Ignatius College Preparatory, Bannan Theatre, 2001 37th Ave., San Francisco; Nov. 15-19, 7 p.m.; Nov. 18, 2 p.m; tickets $11 purchased at the school or $12.50 online at siprep.org “The Crucible” Woodside Priory School, Rothrock Performance Hall, 302 Portola Road, Portola Valley; Nov. 10-12, 7 p.m.; Nov. 13, 2 p.m.; tickets $5 student, $12 adult; http://priory.ticketleap.com “Dracula” Archbishop Riordan High School, Lindland Theatre, 175 Phelan Ave., San Francisco; Nov. 11, 12, 18, 19, 8 p.m.; Nov. 20, 2 p.m.; $5 student/senior, $8 adult; (415) 587-5866, riordanhs.org “Eurydice” San Domenico School, 1500 Butterfield Road, San Anselmo; Nov. 10-12, 7:30 p.m.; $5 student/senior, $10 adult; (415) 258-1989, sandomenico.org/arts “The Servant of Two Masters” Marin Catholic High School, Poetz Theater, Marin
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“We should not be afraid to propose new ideas, even if they might destabilize pre-existing balances of power that prevail over the weakest,” it said. The “new world dynamics,” it said, call for a “gradual,
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Catholic Campus, 675 Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Kentfield; Nov. 3-5, 7 p.m., Nov. 5- 6, 1 p.m.; $8 student/senior; $10 adult; (415) 464-3828 “To Kill a Mockingbird” Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory, Sister Caroline Collins Theater, 1100 Ellis St., San Francisco; Nov. 4, 5, 11, 12, 7:30 p.m., Nov. 12, 2:30 p.m.; $7 student/ senior, $12 adult; shcp.edu “To Kill a Mockingbird” Tri-School Productions (Mercy Burlingame, Notre Dame-Belmont, Junipero Serra), Gellert Auditorium, Serra High School, 451 W. 20th Ave., San Mateo; Oct. 28-29, Nov. 4-5, 7:30 p.m.; $8 student/senior; $12 adult; (650) 345-8207, ext. 560, www.trischoolproductions.com “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” Sacred Heart Preparatory, Campbell Center, 150 Valparaiso Ave., Atherton; Oct. 21, 22, 28, 29, 7:30 p.m.; $5 student/ senior; $10 adult; jloschmann@shschools.org “The Tempest” Mercy San Francisco, 3250 19th Ave.; Nov. 4, 5, 11, 12, 7:30 p.m.; $8 student/senior, $10 adult, $12 Red Carpet Reception, Nov. 4; (415) 334-7941, events@mercyhs.org
balanced transfer of a part of each nation’s powers to a world authority and to regional authorities.” “In a world on its way to rapid globalization, the reference to a world authority becomes the only horizon compatible with the new realities of our time and the needs of humankind,” it said. Helping to usher in this new society is a duty for everyone, especially for Christians, it said. While the Vatican document focused on financial issues, it envisioned a much wider potential role for the global political authority. The agenda also includes peace and security, disarmament and arms control, protection of human rights, and management of migration flows and food security, it said. Establishing such an authority will be a delicate project and will no doubt come at a cost of “anguish and suffering” as countries give up particular powers, the document said. The authority should be set up gradually, on the basis of wide consultation and international agreements, and never imposed by force or coercion, it said. The authority should operate on the principle of subsidiarity, intervening “only when individual, social or financial actors are intrinsically deficient in capacity, or cannot manage by themselves to do what is required of them,” it said. Countries’ specific identities would be fully respected, it said. The authority should transcend special interests, and its decisions “should not be the result of the more developed countries’ excessive power over the weaker countries” or the result of lobbying by nations or groups, it said. “A long road still needs to be traveled before arriving at the creation of a public authority with universal jurisdiction. It would seem logical for the reform process to proceed with the United Nations as its reference,” it said. At a news conference Oct. 24, the Vatican spokesman, Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, emphasized that the document was “not an expression of papal magisterium,” but instead was an “authoritative note of a Vatican agency.”
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Halloween Oct. 28, 7–10:30 p.m.: “Sock Hop – Halloween Social” at Immaculate Conception Academy auditorium 24th and Guerrero in San Francisco. Proceeds benefit St. James School – “challenging the mind, nurturing the spirit.” Evening includes costume contest, pumpkin carving contest, music and dancing. Tickets are $20 per person. Food and beverages will be available for purchase. Buy tickets or donate at www.saintjamessf.org or call (415) 647-8972. Must be 21 years old to attend.
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Single, Divorced, Separated San Francisco’s All Hallows Chapel celebrates its 125th anniversary Nov. 3 and 5 with prayer and song. All Hallows Samoan Choir joins visiting vocalists Nov. 3 at 7 p.m. for a concert that “is sure to fill All Hallows Church and your soul with good gospel sounds,” event organizers said. All are invited to a bilingual Mass Nov. 5 at 4 p.m. A ticketed reception and dinner follow. Call (415) 285-3377 for dinner reservations and ticket price information. Visit www.lourdesbayview.org. Pictured are parishioners gathered in front of the hallowed space Oct. 16.
Serra Clubs Nov. 2, 6 p.m.: “Serra Appreciation Dinner for the Religious Sisters and Brothers of the Archdiocese of San Francisco,” at El Patio Espanol Restaurant, 2850 Alemany Blvd. in San Francisco. Tickets are $35 per person. Contact Vivian Mullaney at (415) 239-8280 or vivianmullaney@yahoo.com and write “sisters dinner” on subject line.
Vocations A monthly discernment group for single, Catholic women ages 18-40 from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. with the MSJ Dominican Sisters. Day includes group discussion and reflection on your vocation, and Eucharist and lunch with the sisters at their Motherhouse, 43326 Mission Blvd., Fremont (entrance on Mission Tierra Place) in Fremont. Email vocations@msjdominicans.org with questions or for more information.
Office of Worship Call (415) 614-5586 Workshops on the “Liturgy and the Revised Roman Missal” Nov. 6, 12:30–1:30 p.m. at St Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard in San Francisco. Laura Bertone, interim director, Office of Worship, Archdiocese of San Francisco will facilitate the sessions. For more information, call the Office of Worship at (415) 614-5586. All are invited free of charge.
Catholic Charities CYO Nov. 4, 6 p.m.: “Vincenzo Wine Tasting & Auction” at San Francisco’s Galleria in the San Francisco Design Center. Proceeds benefit Catholic Charities CYO services to at-risk youth. Guests will enjoy an enchanting evening complete with exclusive tastings from premier wineries, hors d’oeuvres and dessert by McCalls Catering and Events, and a festive live auction featuring rare wines and unique travel packages. Tickets start at $175/sponsorship opportunities available. For information visit www.vincenzo.org, phone (415) 972-1213 or email aayala@cccyo.org.
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Food and Fun Nov. 4: “Casino del Kohl” benefiting Mercy High School, Burlingame. An entertaining evening of poker, blackjack, craps, roulette and the Wheel of Fortune with prizes galore! In between hands, enjoy cocktails and dinner in the high rollers’ lounge or browse the silent auction and raffle while listening to live entertainment. Tickets are $40 per person. Contact the Mercy Advancement Department at (650) 762-1190 or visit www.mercyhsb.com. Nov. 5, 6:45 p.m.: “Night at the Races,” an action packed evening of fun and excitement benefiting St. Finn Barr School! Enjoy eight horse races with exciting commentary and close finishes, free hors d’oeuvres, and tasty desserts and coffee. $10 donation at the door covers all food (21 and over only). Cash bar will feature beer and wine. Come support St. Finn Barr School and maybe win a few prizes in the process. Takes place at St. Finn Barr Parish Hall, 415 Edna St. in San Francisco. Advance tickets and sponsorship opportunities available, contact Lisa_walsh@yahoo. com or Kathy Mylett Morgan, Kmylett@sbcglobal.net. Nov. 6: The Ladies Ancient Order of Hibernians Columbia Division #2 Fall Fashions Show at the United Irish Cultural Center, 45th Avenue and Sloat Boulevard in San Francisco. Contact Maureen Hickey at (650) 375-0277 for reservations or further information. Please respond by Oct. 28. Nov. 12, 6 p.m.: “Event of the Century” benefiting the St. Paul’s Preservation Fund. Evening includes opening reception, silent auction, dinner, dessert and live auction, and dancing until midnight. Tickets are $65 per person, sponsorship opportunities also available. Call (415) 648-7538.
Faith Formation Nov. 7, 7 p.m.: Presentations on vocation, work and Catholic Social Teaching at Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, 2301 Vine St., Berkeley. Talks include “Beyond Career to Calling: Understanding Work as a Vocation within the Catholic Social Tradition,” by Michael Naughton and “Open to Possibilities: Understanding How Calling Unfolds
Reunions Notre Dame de Namur High School, San Francisco, is looking for members of the class of 1962, in preparation of a 109th Annual Alumnae Mass and Luncheon. The Ladies of the Class of 1962 will be our honored Golden Belles. Contact Katie O’Leary at nuttydames@aol.com or call (415) 282-6588. Nov. 5: St Brendan Class of ‘61. Meet for Mass at 5 p.m. Reception and dinner to follow in the church hall. Contact Suzanne McCarthy at (415) 731-2665 or email sbmccarthy@yahoo.com. Nov. 5: Holy Name School class of ‘64 will meet in the Flanagan Center. Contact Andi Laber Heintz at AHeintz@redpoint.com. Nov. 5, 11 a.m.: “St. Paul’s High School Annual Mass and Homecoming Luncheon” begins with Mass at 11 a.m. in St. Paul Church, followed by lunch in the Parish Hall. This year’s Golden Belles, the Class of 1962, will be honored guests. Cost of the luncheon is $40. For a reservation call (415) 648-7538. Nov. 6, 2 p.m.: St. Peter School Memorial Mass at St. Peter Church, 24th and Alabama Streets in San Francisco. Father Daniel J. McGuire, former pastor of St. Peter, is principal celebrant. Parking is available in church and school lot. Call (415) 647-8662. Nov. 18: Saint Ignatius College Preparatory, class of ’45, at Basque Cultural Center in South San Francisco. Door prizes and entertainment are on program. Call Jack Campbell at (650) 583-1882.
Social Justice/Lectures/Prayer Nov. 12, 9 a.m.–3 p.m.: “Marriage and Family” with Marist Father Thomas Ellerman at Notre Dame des Victoires Church hall, 566 Bush St. in San Francisco across from Stockton/Sutter garage. Focus of the talks are the economy, culture, peace and violence. How are Catholics to understand these aspects of human life? What does the church teach about them? Call (415) 397-0113.
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Information about Bay Area single, divorced and separated programs is available from Jesuit Father Al Grosskopf at grosskopf@usfca.edu (415) 422-6698. Marriage Help – Retrouvaille (pronounced retrovi) a Catholic program has helped thousands of couples at all stages of disillusionment or misery in their marriage. For confidential information about the next Bay Area weekends or to register for the program call (415) 893-1005 or email: SF@Retrouvaille.org or visit www.Retrouvaille.org or www.retroCA.com” Would you like support while you travel the road through separation and divorce? The Archdiocese of San Francisco offers support for the journey. The Separated and Divorced Catholics of the Archdiocese of San Francisco (SDCASF) offer two ongoing support groups at St. Bartholomew Parish, 600 Columbia Drive, San Mateo, on the first and third Tuesdays, at 7 p.m. in the spirituality center, and in O’Reilly hall of St. Stephen Parish near Stonestown in San Francisco, on first and third Wednesdays, at 7:30 p.m. Call Joanne (650) 347-0701 for more information. Catholic Adult Singles Association of Marin County: We are Catholics, single or single again, who are interested in making new friends, taking part in social activities, sharing opportunities for spiritual growth, and becoming involved in volunteer activities that will benefit parishes, community, and one another. We welcome those who would share in this with us. For information, call Bob at (415) 897-0639.
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The National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi Vallejo and Columbus in North Beach Nov. 2, 7 p.m.: Requiem for All Souls at La Porziuncola Nuova. The clergy and choir of Our Lady of Fatima Russian Byzantine Catholic community will serve the Panikhida (Requiem) for the feast of All Souls. This is a rare opportunity for our brothers and sisters in the Catholic community of the San Francisco Bay Area to experience the beauty of Russian Orthodox liturgical music in this historic setting. This memorial celebration is arranged in cooperation with the National Shrine of Saint Francis of Assisi and the community of Our Lady of Fatima Russian Byzantine Catholic Church. For more information, visit http://knightsofsaintfrancis.com. The Porziuncola and “Francesco Rocks” Gift Shop are open every day 10 a.m.–5 p.m. with Mass in the shrine church Monday through Saturday at 12:15 p.m. and Sundays at 10 a.m. Rosary is prayed daily in Porziuncola at 4:30 p.m. Call (415) 986-4557.
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Senior Home Care SERVICE DIRECTORY ACACIA HOME CARE Most compassionate and loving care.
For information about advertising in the Service Directory, visit www.catholic-sf.org, Call 415-614-5642, Fax: 415-614-5641 or E-mail: penaj@sfarchdiocese.org
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Breen’s Mobile Notary Servics
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Certified Signing Agent PHONE: 415-846-1922 FAX: 415-702-9272
Painting & Garage Door Remodeling
John Holtz Ca. Lic 391053 General Contractor Since 1980
* Member National Notary Association *
(650) 355-4926
Senior Care
Painting
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SUPPLE SENIOR CARE “The most compassionate care in town”
1655 Old Mission Road #3 Colma, SSF, CA 94080 415-573-5141 or 650-993-8036 *Irish owned & operated *Serving from San Francisco to North San Mateo
Home Care
BILL HEFFERON
•Interiors •Exteriors •Kitchens •Baths
PAINTING INTERIOR, EXTERIOR All Jobs Large and Small
10% Discount: Seniors, Parishioners
Call BILL 415.731.8065 • Cell: 415.710.0584 bheffpainting@sbcglobal.net Member of Better Business Bureau
Healthcare Agency The Irish Rose
QUALITY HOME CARE SERVING THE BAY AREA SINCE 1996
Marin 415.721.7380
Do you want to be more fulfilled in love and work – but find things keep getting in the way? Unhealed wounds can hold you back - even if they are not the “logical” cause of your problems today. You can be the person God intended. Inner Child Healing Offers a deep spiritual and psychological approach to counseling: ❖ 30 years experience with individuals, couples and groups ❖ Directed, effective and results-oriented ❖ Compassionate and Intuitive ❖ Supports 12-step ❖ Enneagram Personality Transformation ❖ Free Counseling for Iraqi/Afghanistani Vets
Lila Caffery, MA, CCHT San Francisco: 415.337.9474 Complimentary phone consultation www.InnerChildHealing.com
When Life Hurts It Helps To Talk • Family • Work • Relationships • Depression • Anxiety • Addictions
Dr. Daniel J. Kugler Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Over 30 years experience • Reasonable Fees
David Nellis M.A. M.F.T. • Marriage counseling • Grief and Trauma • Depression • Anxiety and Panic
(415) 242-3355 www.counselingforchristians.com
Clinical Gerontologist Care Management for the Older Adult Family Consultation –Bereavement Support Kathy Faenzi, MA, Clinical Gerontologist Office: 650.401.6350 Web: www.faenziassociates.com Striving to Achieve Optimum Health & Wellbeing
ALL ELECTRIC SERVICE 650.322.9288
415.383.6122
Lic.# 593788
➤ Hauling ➤ Job Site Clean-Up ➤ Demolition ➤ Yard Service ➤ Garbage Runs ➤ Saturday & Sunday
Expert interior and exterior painting, carpentry, demolition, fence (repair, build), decks, remodeling, roof repair, gutter (clean/repair), landscaping, gardening, hauling, moving, welding.
Remodeling Argos Construction
Cell (415) 517-5977 (650) 757-1946
Residential Commercial
Exterior / Interior Additions ➮ Baths Foundations, Stairs, Dry Rot Replacement Windows ➮ Kitchen Remodeling Architect Available ➮ Senior Discount
Call: 415.533.2265 Lic. 407271
Contractor McGUIRE & SONS GENERAL BUILDING CONTRACTOR State License #346397
FINE WOOD WORKING SINCE 1978
415.454.2719
650.892.3550
NOT A LICENSED CONTRACTOR
Argosconstruction1.com Lic. #918864
Fences & Decks Painting S.O.S. PAINTING CO.
John Spillane Retaining Walls Stairs • Gates Dry Rot Senior & Parishioner Discounts
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KEANE CONSTRUCTION Service Changes Solar Installation Lighting/Power Fire Alarm/Data Green Energy
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For more information, contact: Contractors State License Board 800-321-2752
Electrical DEWITT ELECTRIC YOUR # 1 CHOICE FOR Recessed Lights – Outdoor Lighting Outlets – Dimmers – Service Upgrades • Trouble Shooting!
Ph. 415.515.2043 Ph. 650.508.1348
Affordable Decks • Additions • General Remodel • Carports
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PAUL (415) 282-2023
Serving San Francisco, Marin & the Peninsula.
Confidential • Compassionate • Practical (415) 921-1619 • Insurance Accepted 1537 Franklin Street • San Francisco, CA 94109
Electrical
Specializing in home health aides, attendants and companions.
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Lifetime Warranty on All Doors + Motors
CONSTRUCTION
Home Healthcare Agency
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(415) 931-1540 24 hrs.
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Lic. #742961
www.irishhelpathome.com
San Francisco 415 759 0520
Same price 7 days Cellularized Mobile Shop
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Irish Help At Home * Attendants * Companions • Insured • Bonded
Contractor inspection reports and pre-purchase consulting
G ARAGE D OOR R EPAIR Lic. # 376353
(415) 505-7830
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Interior-Exterior wallpaper hanging & removal Lic # 526818 Senior Discount
415-269-0446 650-738-9295
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Plumbing HOLLAND Plumbing Works San Francisco ALL PLUMBING WORK PAT HOLLAND CA LIC #817607
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415-205-1235
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Plumbing and Heating 415-661-3707 Michael T. Santi
Since 1972 Ca License # 663641 24 Hour Emergency Service
Roofing
Irish Painting Discount to CSF Readers
Eoin Lehane
415.368.8589 Lic.#942181
www.Irishpainting-sf.com
Construction
Cahalan Const. Remodels, Additions, Paint,Windows, Dryrot, Stucco
415.279.1266 Lic. #582766 415.566.8646 mikecahalan@gmail.com
(415) 786-0121 • (650) 871-9227 Lic. # 907564
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heaven can’t wait Serra for Priestly Vocations Please call Archdiocese of San Francisco (415) 614-5683
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If you wish to publish a Novena in the Catholic San Francisco You may use the form below or call 415-614-5640 Your prayer will be published in our newspaper
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Please return form with check or money order for $26 Payable to: Catholic San Francisco Advertising Dept., Catholic San Francisco 1 Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco, CA 94109 May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be adored, glorified, loved, and preserved throughout the world, now and forever, Amen. Sacred Heart of Jesus, pray for us. St. Jude, worker of miracles, pray for us. St. Jude, help of the hopeless, pray for us. Pray nine times a day for nine days together with one each Our Father, Hail Mary, and Glory Be. Publish a thanksgiving notice when favor is granted. My own gratitude is beyond words. AFL
Prayer to the Blessed Virgin never known to fail. Most beautiful flower of Mt. Carmel Blessed Mother of the Son of God, assistme in my need. Help me and show me you are my mother. Oh Holy Mary, Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and earth. I humbly beseech you from the bottom of my heart to help me in this need. Oh Mary, conceived without sin. Pray for us (3X). Holy Mary, I place this cause in your hands (3X). Say prayers 3 days. C.O.
Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery 125th Anniversary Cookbook of Memories As food has always been a comfort to families who have experienced a loss, it seems only fitting that Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery would create a cookbook in honor of its 125th Anniversary. We would like to create a cookbook of memories – special recipes of your loved ones who are interred in Holy Cross. If your Grandmother, Mom, Dad or Great Uncle Sam made a special dish and is interred in Holy Cross, we hope that you will share that favorite recipe. You may forward your recipe to the attention of Christine Stinson by email costinson@holycrosscemeteries.com, by mail to Holy Cross Cemetery, P.O. Box 1577, Colma, CA 94014 or drop it off at our office or All Saints Mausoleum on weekends. Please include your loved one’s name, date of burial and grave location with the recipe. Also, please include your name and contact information.
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Volunteer Needed Franciscan Covenant Program, a unique opportunity for a lay volunteer to live, Pray, and serve with the Franciscan friars of the St. Barbara Province in California, seeks full time volunteers (married couples or singles) for a 1 year commitment. Members serve in Retreat Centers, Missions, Native American Reservation, and Foundation providing direct service to the poor. It’s more than volunteering. It’s a fulfilling life experience! Contact Paul Barnes & Phyllis Becker, Directors, 831-623-1119, covprg@yahoo.com, www.franciscanconvenantvolunteers.org. Job Opening
Business Manager for Church & School St. Hilary Parish in Tiburon, CA is looking for a Business Manager for the Church with 1100 families and School with 250 students. The ideal candidate should be a practicing Catholic with five years experience managing business operations to include financial management, facilities management and administration for employee benefits. The applicant should be skilled in Microsoft Office applications and have experience with database systems. The Business Manager reports to the Pastor and works closely with the Principal as well as all staff members and volunteers. A flexible work schedule may include some evenings and weekends. Archdiocesan salary guidelines plus benefits apply.The position will become available on January 1, 2012. Interested candidates should send a cover letter, résumé and references to Rev.William E. Brown, Pastor, St. Hilary Church, 761 Hilary Drive,Tiburon, CA 94920. For more information you may call Bill Tiedje at 415-435-1122 or email him at: billt@sthilary.org
Elementary School Principal Sought St. Anthony Immaculate Conception School San Francisco, CA St. Anthony-Immaculate Conception School which serves students in Kindergarten through eighth grade provides a dynamic, values-based academic curriculum. The partnership between the school staff and families is focused on helping students develop their God-given gifts and talents through a rich academic program found in a dynamic community of believers, committed to faith, service and worship. A successful applicant should have the following qualifications: • A practicing Roman Catholic who sees Catholic education as a ministry • A valid teaching credential • A Master’s degree in educational leadership • An Administrative Services credential (preferred) • Five years successful teaching experience at the K-8 level (at least three in Catholic schools) • Five years successful administrative experience at the K-8 level (preferred, at least three in Catholic schools) • Experience working in, and with underserved communities •
Basic Spanish language skills required(at a minimum)
APPLICATION AND INTERVIEW: Applicants must complete an application and establish a personnel file with the Department of Catholic Schools. Materials may be downloaded from the Department of Catholic Schools website, www.sfdcs.org ➟ Employment ➟ Principal Application. The requested material plus a letter of interest should be returned to:
Mr. Bret E. Allen, Associate Superintendent Department of Catholic Schools One Peter Yorke Way San Francisco, CA 94109
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