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Bishop Ricardo Ramirez of Las Cruces, N.M., and Bishop Armando X. Ochoa of El Paso, Texas, foreground, share the sign of peace with Bishop Renato Ascencio Leon of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, through the fence separating Anapra, Mexico, and Sunland Park, N.M., during the annual border Mass Nov. 2.
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Border Mass unites Mexicans, Americans on both sides of fence By Joseph J. Kolb ANAPRA, Mexico (CNS) – The Mexican bishop often exchanged glances with his American counterpart as they celebrated the All Souls’ Day Mass. But instead of embracing at the kiss of peace, they touched palms – though the chain-link fence. Hundreds of Mexicans and Americans joined their bishops for the Mass, enduring dusty wind that created a brown haze. On the Mexican side of the border, on a lot surrounded by trash, wandering dogs, and food vendors, a handful of the 200 attendees paid little attention to the Mass but clung to the fence and stared longingly at the congregation on the U.S. side. Bishop Armando X. Ochoa of El Paso, Texas, Bishop Ricardo Ramirez of Las Cruces, New Mexico, and Bishop Renato Ascencio Leon of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, concelebrated the annual border Mass on either side of the fence. The theme for this year’s Mass was Remembering Our Dead; Celebrating Life; Working for Justice. Betty Hernandez, 30, a mother of three and a youth minister at Corpus Christi Church in Anapra, said the Mass helps unify El Paso and Ciudad Juarez in a common cause of remembering those who have died in the drug violence as well as those who died in the nearby deserts, hoping to immigrate to the United States. Making this Mass even more poignant for Hernandez was the death of
seen as enemies,” he said. “These people give so much to her neighbor, who was gunned down at a nearby burrito the U.S. in terms of work, culture, and money.” stand the previous week. During the Mass, Bishop Ascencio accepted symbols “Where there is an abundance of pain and death is God’s of the migrants’ journey to the United States: flags from glory for us to hope,” she said. Latin American countries of origin, a portrait of Our Lady As a youth minister in Anapra, which has seen of Guadalupe, a gallon jug of water, a more than its share of the violence, and tennis shoes. Hernandez tries to keep the teens The fence shouldn’t backpack When the Mass was initiated involved in church activities, from the in 1999 it was at the height of the band and singers for Masses to ushers stop those on both infamous murders of Daughters of wearing their red smocks as a deterrent Juarez, female factory workers who to the temptation of the easy money and sides from loving disappeared and were later found to be violence associated with drug cartels. sexually assaulted and murdered. Some Many of these teens sat on the outskirts were buried in shallow graves not far of the celebration amid the trash and each other ‘as from where the Mass was celebrated. wood-pallet fences that surrounded The number of these victims has been some of the nearby homes. the brothers and projected as high as 400. Since 2006, Behind Bishop Ascencio on the Ciudad Juarez has seen about 8,500 altar were seminarians from Seminario sisters they are in murders as a result of a brutal drug war. Conciliar in Ciudad Juarez. Father Marco Raposo estimated that on Hector Villa, rector, said their presthe eyes of God.’ the U.S. side, 300 people attended ence underscores much of what they the Mass, celebrated in Sunland Park, are learning for their future ministries. – Bishop N.M., in the Las Cruces diocese. “This Mass is a sign of solidarity, Raposo is director of the El Paso diocespecially for immigrants who try to cross the border and encounter so many Ricardo Ramirez esan Peace and Justice Ministry, which helped arrange the liturgy. troubles to reach their goal,” Father Villa In his homily, Bishop Ramirez said said. “We’re asking the authorities in the the Massgoers had come together “once again to ask forU.S. to be more just with the people who want a dignified life giveness” for crimes, sins, violence and injustice that the through work, and this is also a subtle sign for Mexico that border fence represents. He cited examples of violence and they are responsible for providing work for these people.” death on the part of both Mexico and the United States. Father Villa said he would like his 94 seminarians to He said the physical barrier of the fence shouldn’t stop be more exposed to real-life issues – such as violence and those on both sides of the border from loving each other immigration – sooner rather than later. “as the brothers and sisters they are in the eyes of God.” “The church can definitely help more by being more – Contributing to this story was Andy Sparke. organized and active in this moment where immigrants are
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On The Where You Live By Tom Burke Archbishop George Niederauer returned to the pastoral center for limited duty Oct. 31 still on the mend from heart surgery. The always gentle shepherd made no attempt to bypass us chancery grunts, though, and celebrated Mass with the gang at noon. Archbishop Niederauer reminded us in his homily that “we are always on the way” and “Eucharist is our nutrition Archbishop for that journey of faith.” He added, Niederauer with the smile we’ve come to rely on, that he ought to know “being now in my 76th year” and all. • “I live at St. Mary, Gilroy – I crave warm weather – but I remain a proud Archdiocese of San Francisco priest,” Father Joe Gordon, retired pastor of St. Francis of Assisi Parish in East Palo Alto, said in a note to this column. In addition to assisting at the Gilroy church, Father Gordon is researching and putting to paper history about sites here as well as priests who have served Father Joe here. So far, he’s compiled a history of Gordon Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish in Daly City where he and his family lived after moving to the West Coast from New England, and is currently working on a history of Mater Dolorosa Parish, his first priest assignment. Ongoing - “my big project” – Father Gordon said, is drawing up brief profiles of deceased priests of the archdiocese. “I’d like readers to take away an idea of how our late priests have provided shoulders on which all of us are building our own ministries today,” Father Gordon said. “From me to y’all a happy, blessed Thanksgiving!” • Holy Angels School class of 1961 – and a few students from the class of 1960 – gathered for a reunion Oct. 22. “Classmates came from as far as Florida. Georgia, Montana and Southern California,” said Susan Murphy McGuirk of the reunion committee. The day included a tour of the school, Mass and dinner at the Elks Club in South San Francisco. “It was a very special celebration,” Susan said. • St. Paul High School class of 1941 filled the United Irish Cultural Center with laughter and memories Oct. 8 as they
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A woman attends a memorial Mass Oct. 31 at the Syriac Church of Our Lady of Deliverance in Baghdad. The Mass was in memory of the dozens of people, mostly worshippers, who died in the Oct. 31, 2010, terrorist siege of the church and the military raid that followed.
Baghdad Mass commemorates 2010 church massacre By Doreen Abi Raad BAGHDAD (CNS) – In a somber Mass commemorating the 2010 massacre at the Church of Our Lady of Deliverance, Catholic leaders urged their faithful to have hope for the resurrection of Iraq. Syriac Catholic Patriarch Ignatius Joseph III Younan and Maronite Catholic Patriarch Bechara Rai traveled from Beirut for the Oct. 31 Mass. A year earlier, the church came under siege, and after a military raid to free the hostages, 48 people – including two priests – had been killed and more than 100 wounded. A large poster was displayed on the altar, depicting the image of Jesus crucified, surrounded by headshots of each of the victims – the youngest just 3 years old. On each side of the crucifix was a full-length photo of the dead priests. Many in the crowded pews, dressed in black, clutched pictures of relatives killed in the incident. Blood-stained walls, pock-marked with bullet holes, remain a reminder of the attack on the church, which is still under renovation. Syriac Archbishop Ephrem Abba Mansoor of Baghdad told those at the memorial Mass that targeting Iraqi Christians “comes from an evil plan to destroy the unity of Iraq and its social and religious diversity.� He urged the Iraqi government to work to halt the exodus of Christians from their homeland. Before the U.S.-led invasion, Christians in Iraq numbered 800,000 to 1 million. Now just 400,000 to a half million remain. In his homily, Patriarch Younan emphasized the importance of living a true democracy and working together in unity for the progress of all Iraqi citizens. “The Church of Our Lady of Deliverance is a witness to the steadfast faith of her children rooted in Iraq in order to accomplish love, peace and justice, which are fundamental to every citizen in Iraq aspiring to a bright future,� Patriarch Younan said. “If the secret of martyrdom is in the heroism of the victims that we remember today, the act of forgiveness of the wounded and the victims’ families and all of us should shine in the sky
of our wounded land plagued with hatred and violence, as a sign of our faith in the one that forgave his crucifiers and rose, glorified, preaching the true peace,� he said. In closing remarks to a church that included other patriarchs, bishops and religious as well as lay Christians, Patriarch Rai likened the victims to “the grain of wheat, who died in order for the people of the new Iraq to have new life.� “This precious blood of the victims awakens our consciousness, the consciousness of the leaders of Iraq and outside Iraq,� he said.
FRIBOURG, Switzerland (CNS) – The patriarch of the Coptic Catholic Church in Egypt blamed Islamic fundamentalists for the increasing number of attacks on Christians and criticized a growing division between Muslims and Christians since the country’s February revolution. “Islamic fundamentalists have come out of the woodwork, and there are recurring attacks on Christians,� Cardinal Antonios Naguib, Coptic Catholic patriarch of Alexandria, said during an Oct. 30 event organized by the Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need. The Coptic Christian minority makes up a tenth of the 81 million inhabitants of Egypt, where the peaceful February revolution ended the 30-year dictatorial rule of President Hosni Mubarak. The cardinal said the unity that existed during the revolution as Christians and Muslims prayed together for peace has virtually ended. On Oct. 9, 30 Christians were killed and more than 320 injured by security forces during a protest against discrimination in Cairo’s Maspero Square. It was the latest against the mostly Coptic Christian minority, which makes up a tenth of the 81 million inhabitants of Egypt, where the peaceful February revolution ended the 30-year dictatorial rule of President Hosni Mubarak. Cardinal Naguib said evidence suggested the Oct. 9 incident had been planned. He said television reporters had “incited attacks against peacefully demonstrating Christians� and that Egyptian authorities later “blamed the Copts� for the violence. “Acts of violence are being committed against Christians and churches, without action by the authorities or sanctions against the guilty,� he said. Earlier, in an interview with the Aid to the Church in Need news agency, Coptic Orthodox Bishop Estaphanos of Beba, Samasta and El Fashn said “daily vexations� have included demands for a boycott of Christian shops and refusal to employ people “without veils over their heads.� He said he believed attempts were under way for a general expulsion of Christians.
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VATICAN CITY – After the Nazi atrocities of World War II, Germany’s new constitution recognized the dignity of each human being, a value that is starting to be questioned in the country, Pope Benedict XVI said. “Only a society that respects and unconditionally defends the dignity of every person from conception to natural death can call itself a humane society,” the pope said Nov. 7 as he welcomed Reinhard Schweppe as Germany’s new ambassador to the Holy See. Human dignity was recognized “in our constitution of 1949 and in the human rights declaration after the Second World War because, after the horrors of the dictatorship, people recognized the general validity of these values” common to all men and women of good will, no matter their culture or religion, he said. “However, some of these fundamental values of human existence are being put into question again,” the pope said. “To talk about a particularly important issue, it’s not up to us to judge whether an individual is ‘a person yet’ or ‘still a person,’” the pope said.
CCHD rebuts charges over funding propriety WASHINGTON – Officials with the Catholic Campaign for Human Development rebutted a report that 55 agencies funded by the U.S. bishops’ anti-poverty program in 2010-11 were in conflict with church teaching. Sacramento Bishop Jaime Soto, Stockton Bishop Stephen E. Blaire and Ralph McCloud, CCHD executive director, said the charges leveled in an American Life League study against all but one of the agencies were unfounded. McCloud told Catholic News Service Nov. 4 that funding was withdrawn from one organization cited in the report. That case involved the immigrant rights group Centro Campesino in Owatonna, Minn., which was found to be distributing condoms. McCloud acknowledged the league’s role in pointing out the organization’s practice. McCloud also said the 54 remaining agencies were found in compliance after a follow-up investigation by CCHD staff that involved contacting each named group.
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U.S. bishops begin Vatican visits U.S. bishops on their “ad limina” visits to the Vatican attend Mass in the grotto of St. Peter’s Basilica Nov. 4. Bishops from Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut were the first group of U.S. prelates to visit the Vatican to report on the state of their dioceses.
The 212-page report – completed in March but not made public until October when it was posted on the American Life League’s website, according to its primary researcher – accused the grass-roots organizations of promoting abortion, homosexuality and Marxist ideology contrary to church doctrine.
Catholics, Jews urged to work together NEW YORK – Catholics and Jews can most effectively capitalize on five decades of progress in their relations by joining forces to promote religious freedom, defend immigrants, face a common threat from fanatics and advocate for civility in politics and society, said New York Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan. He addressed more than 250 Jewish leaders assembled in New York Nov. 3 for the annual meeting of the Anti-Defamation League, an organization that fights anti-Semitism. Reflecting on the current state and future of
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Rare quake: Turret falls at Catholic university WASHINGTON – A turret fell from the main building at St. Gregory’s University in Shawnee, Okla., during a rare earthquake the night of Nov. 5. The 5.6-magnitude quake also
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Correction In the Nov. 4 issue, the name of the rector of the National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi was inadvertently omitted in a story describing the Interreligious Convocation for Peace and Understanding on Oct. 27. Shrine Rector Capuchin Franciscan Father Gregory Coiro hosted the event and also spoke.
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Lost fatherhood: Men, suffering and abortion By Tom Jozwik WAUWATOSA, Wis. (CNS) – If you see abortion as a woman’s issue, you see it differently than Greg Hasek. Hasek, 48, a Portland, Ore., area marriage/family therapist and professor of counseling at George Fox University, lectured and led a workshop during the 13th annual Healing Vision Conference Oct. 26-29 in suburban Milwaukee. The conference drew academics, medical and mental health professionals, clergy and other post-abortion caregivers from the United States and abroad. The National Office of Post-Abortion Reconciliation organized the conference, which was sponsored by Our Sunday Visitor, the Knights of Columbus and Marquette University. In an interview, Hasek, a self-described nondenominational evangelical Christian, noted that, based on a 2008 Guttmacher Institute report that indicates 35 percent of U.S. women had abortions by age 45, likely one-third of the men in the United States have lost a child to abortion. “Our culture basically hasn’t allowed men to address that issue,” he said. “Our culture hasn’t communicated to men that it is OK to hurt from abortion.”
Men of the Vietnam era were more likely to receive a diagnosis of the stress disorder as combat veterans. America identified with the aggravation of abused women and male soldiers, but the victims of what has come to be called lost fatherhood weren’t really in the picture, Hasek said. The “I have a right to my body” philosophy stems from society’s empathy for the suffering of abused females, he said. “The women’s rights movement is fueled by emotional pain,” he said. “Culture got stuck in a developmental stage of viewing women as victims and men as the abusers,” he explained, suggesting men don’t generate sympathy. In counseling males entangled in pornography and sex addiction, Hasek realized that “oftentimes there was an abortion in the man’s history.” He organized the original Men’s Summit post-abortion conference in Kansas City, Mo., six years ago – having sensed, he says today, “a call from God” – then helped develop the national Men and Abortion Network. “I represent what culture doesn’t represent,” he said. “What we’re doing is (creating) awareness that men do hurt and (providing) programs of healing.” While just a few years ago, according to Hasek, three-
Adviser resigns after column linking gay attraction with devil WASHINGTON (CNS) – A policy adviser to the U.S. bishops has resigned following a controversy over an opinion piece he wrote suggesting that same-sex attraction could be the work of the devil. Daniel Avila, policy adviser for marriage and family to the U.S. bishops’ Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage since June 20, offered his resignation Nov. 4 and it was accepted, effective immediately. Avila’s opinion piece was published in the Oct. 28 edition of The Pilot, Boston’s archdiocesan newspaper. It also was posted online before being removed Nov. 2 and replaced with an apology by Avila who previously worked as associate director for policy and research at the Massachusetts Catholic Conference in Boston. Terrence Donilon, spokesman for the Boston archdiocese, Daniel Avila told Catholic News Service the column was pulled because Avila “retracted it and apologized and because it simply should not have been printed/published in The Pilot.” Avila has written several columns for The Pilot during the past year and has been a contributor to the newspaper for at least seven years, according to Donilon. The most recent column, which generated reaction in the blogosphere was titled: “Some fundamental questions on same-sex attraction.” In the column, Avila attempted to answer the question about what causes same-sex attraction. He pointed to possible explanations such as “random imbalances in maternal hormone levels” which he said could have “disruptive prenatal effects on fetal development.” But he said Catholics need to look for spiritual answers to this question. And as he sees it, “the ultimate responsibility, on a theological level, is and should be imputed to the evil one, not God,” he said. “Applying this aspect of Catholic belief to interpret the scientific data makes more sense because it does not place God in the awkward position of blessing two mutually incompatible realities – sexual difference and same-sex attraction.” In Avila’s retraction and apology statement he said his column did not represent the position of the USCCB and was not authorized for publication. “The teaching of sacred Scripture and of the Catechism of the Catholic Church make it clear that all persons are created in the image and likeness of God and have inviolable dignity. Likewise, the church proclaims the sanctity of marriage as the permanent, faithful, fruitful union of one man and one woman.”
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fourths of the nation’s post-abortion recovery programs did not involve men, “now males are (largely) integrated into the verbiage and into the programming.” “Abortion is not the problem in our country,” Hasek said. “The problem is the unspoken and unresolved trauma between the sexes. If we as a nation don’t start talking about that, don’t start to address the elephant in the living room of our country, the very trauma that allowed abortion in the first place is the very trauma that will continue to perpetuate it.”
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November 11, 2011
War’s toll prompts ‘penance’ letters from congressman WASHINGTON (CNS) – When President Barack Obama announced plans Oct. 21 to pull the 44,000 U.S. troops out of Iraq by the end of the year, perhaps no one on Capitol Hill was more pleased than Rep. Walter B. Jones. The conservative Republican from Farmville, N.C., has been pushing the Obama administration to end the military occupation of Iraq since the president took office in 2009. To be fair, he pressed President George W. Bush to do the same for nearly five years. Surely, that’s a bold stance for someone whose congressional district is home to Camp Lejeune, the country’s largest Marine Corps base, as well as tens of thousands of retired military veterans. Jones, who was born a Baptist and became a Catholic in 1977, told Catholic News Service in his office in the Rayburn House Office Building that he opposes the Iraq War because of his Christian values. It all started, he says, soon after the March 19, 2003, U.S.-led invasion to oust Saddam Hussein on grounds that the longserving dictator possessed weapons of mass destruction and was poised to use them against American allies. But until then, Jones approved, at least politically. He was among the majority in Congress who voted in October 2002 to authorize the use of force in Iraq. However, he now maintains that the Iraq invasion was pursued under the guise of deceit, fed by misinformation and the manipulation of intelligence by key leaders of the Bush administration. He also sees no need for U.S. troops to remain in Afghanistan because al-Qaida’s Osama bin Laden was killed in May. Bush and key members of his administration have denied repeatedly that intelligence was manipulated or manufactured to support the
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By Dennis Sadowski
Rep. Walter B. Jones, R-N.C., is pictured in his Capitol Hill office Oct. 24 with the dog tag belonging to Army Spc. Matthew Creed, 23, of Covina, Calif., who was killed by a sniper while on foot patrol in Baghdad in 2006.
cause of war. They have said to the best of their knowledge the information gathered indicated that weapons of mass destruction had been built and warehoused throughout Iraq. Jones has been among Congress’ most vocal critics of the wars. He has teamed with Jim McGovern, D-Mass., liberal Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, and conservative Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, in introducing legislation calling for the pullout of U.S. troops from Iraq and Afghanistan. His position has cost him standing with fellow Republicans, having been passed over for a leadership position on a key subcommittee of the Armed Services Committee. Jones, 68, said he’s at peace with his stance and how his life has unfolded over the past eight years. He also said he’s trying to make amends for his vote through a self-imposed penance: writing to the families of each and every soldier killed in those two far-off conflicts. By his count, Jones has signed more than 10,400 letters – and counting – to the families of the approximately 5,500 military personnel who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan since late 2003.
“This was my way to say to God, ‘Forgive me for not trusting you,’” he said. A member of St. Elizabeth Parish in Farmville, Jones admits that political considerations and an eye toward re-election won out over concerns that the Bush administration was
A politician feels an obligation to keep fallen fighters’ stories alive. not telling the whole story to Congress and the American people. “I just didn’t believe it,” he explained of the Bush administration’s reasoning for going to war. “I’ve always said I should have trusted God and voted my conscience. ... But knowing that I don’t have a military background and all those retired military veterans in the third (congressional) district, the three military bases, most of the veterans in my district were buying what was being said.”
It wasn’t long before Jones had misgivings about his vote. He said he realized his vote helped send innocent men and women to their deaths for a dubious cause. It took the funeral of 31-year-old Marine Sgt. Michael Bitz, killed four days after the invasion began, to get Jones to act. At the funeral at Camp Lejeune on a warm day in April 2003, Jones met Bitz’s family, including wife Janina, sons Christian, 7, and Joshua, 2, and twins, a boy and a girl, born one month after he was dispatched to the Persian Gulf. Janina read Michael’s last letter to her, written the day before he died in a gunfight. “The important part of the letter I will never forget,” Jones recalled. “It was three pages and of course, she’s emotional reading certain parts. It brings tears to her eyes. I’m sitting there myself crying. “He said in the last paragraph, and I’m paraphrasing, ‘I do not know what God has in store for me, Janina, but whether it’s on earth or in heaven we will be together again. I’ve always been faithful to you. Love, Michael.’ “So when I leave Camp Lejeune I’m asking God, ‘What am I supposed to take back from this?’ It all reminds me of my weakness of not trusting God. Here I am a pro-life person, and isn’t that 18- or 19-year-old just as much a gift from God as a baby in the womb?” It turns out that since he went public with his views on the wars, Jones’ fears about challenges to his political career have not materialized; he has been re-elected four times, each by an overwhelming majority. Primary opponents have tried to capitalize on his anti-war position, but without much success. His opposition to the wars hardly is indicative of his support for the military. His office is full of photos and memorabilia of soldiers from around the country. Ask him about any one of the pieces and he begins telling the story behind it. He said he feels an obligation to keep the stories of the brave young men and women serving in the military alive. Among them is the dog tag of Army Spc. Matthew Creed, 23, of Covina, Calif., who was killed by a sniper while on foot patrol in Baghdad in 2006. “He died for a lie,” he said.
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November 11, 2011
Leading Catholic laity urge civility in presidential run
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At a glance – A group of 41 prominent lay Catholics ask for civility and religious freedom in presidential campaigns. – Anti-Catholic bias was a part of the 1928 and 1960 presidential elections.
Forty-one prominent U.S. Catholic lay leaders have signed a statement in which they urge the 2012 major presidential candidates to conduct their campaigns with civility and to honor religious freedom. The letter, sent to the candidates on Nov. 2, comes four weeks after a Baptist minister told reporters that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s Mormon faith is a cult, a claim that, the lay leaders say, held Romney up for ridicule. “You should not be attacking because of religion,” said Thomas Patrick Melady of Washington, D.C., a former U.S. ambassador to the Vatican as well as to Burundi and Uganda, who helped organize the effort and draft the statement. “People have strong feelings one way or another, but you should keep the debate on the issues and avoid this whole thing of this religion, that religion,” he said. “It is not in the spirit of the American Constitution.” Melady, a conservative, gathered a bipartisan group behind the statement that was triggered by the Texas minister, Rev. Robert Jeffress, pastor of the 10,000-member First Baptist Church of Dallas, when he said in part, “Mitt Romney’s a good, moral person, but he’s not a Christian. Mormonism is not Christianity. It has always been considered a cult by the mainstream of Christianity.” The comment, the lay leaders say in the statement, “(brings) to the forefront the unfortunate prospect that the discussion of a man’s particular religious belief may become a major divisive political issue.” While Jeffress’ subject was Romney, his view would also cover Republican GOP candidate Jon Huntsman, the former governor of
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By George Raine
Memorial prayer Nun prays after Communion as Pope Benedict XVI celebrates Mass Nov. 3 in St. Peter’s Basilica in memory of cardinals and bishops who died in the past year.
Utah, also a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Catholics are particularly sensitive to the history of anti-Catholic bias in presidential races, at its worst in 1928 when Al Smith, the Catholic governor of New York, was the Democratic nominee. The anti-Catholic rhetoric was vitriolic. There were widespread fears that Smith, if elected, would listen to the pope, not the American people, and rumors that the pope would move to the United States to manage American political life. There was also an anti-Catholic element in the 1960 race won by John F. Kennedy. The second signature on the lay leaders’ statement, after Melady’s, is Alfred E. Smith IV, the great-grandson of the former governor, who had a long career on Wall Street and is a director of the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation. Melady said he was “very pleased when I obtained” Smith’s interest.
“Our history in this country is replete with examples where we experienced not only the worst kind of overt persecution but also the subtle bigotry of exclusion,” said Stephen Schneck, director of the Institute for Policy Research & Catholic Studies at The Catholic University of America, in Washington, who also signed the statement. “I remember in my own life the ugly discrimination that shadowed the presidential campaign of Jack Kennedy. So, I’m very proud to join Ambassador Melady and the many other notable signers of this statement in standing up against religious discrimination in our current political life,” he said. In San Francisco, George Wesolek, director of communications and of the Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, while not a signatory, said, “It is important to see a statement about civil
– The lay Catholics’ statement, sent to 2012 candidates, was triggered by a minister’s claim that Mormonism is a cult. – The U.S. Constitution bars a religious test for office. dialogue in the poisonous, partisan atmosphere of presidential campaigns. I hope this kind of thinking becomes more commonplace.” The statement notes that an article in the constitution reads, “…no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.” It adds that while progress has been made in religious tolerance since the late 1700s, “progress remains to be accomplished.” It also reads, “While there is no question that a candidate’s character, moral beliefs and reputation for integrity should be subject to public review, there is significant danger to the goal of our forefathers; maintaining harmony and understanding among all faiths and rejecting bigoted questions and comments about personal religious beliefs.” The lay leaders add, “As Catholics … we share the concern of many of our citizens of all religious faiths that allowing the question of a candidate’s religion to be subject to public ridicule is a grave regression from what we have accomplished in our forward movement as Americans since the establishment of our republic.” Those signing include many educators and former elected officials, including former Sen. Lawrence Pressler, R-S.D.
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November 11, 2011
Parish school golfers play S.F.’s Gleneagles in educational outing Fourteen students from Our Lady of Visitacion School had a chance to play five holes at nearby Gleneagles Golf Course on Oct. 21 as part of a uniquely San Francisco golf program called The First Tee. A handful of the older OLV students show promise as competitive golfers, Coach Tony Anderson said. “Several of the OLV kids love it,” he said. “They just love to play golf.” The First Tee is a collaboration between San Francisco’s Recreation and Park Department and Harding Park Golf Course that combines life lessons and golf instruction. Begun at Harding in 2004, it is in its third year at Visitacion Valley Middle School, where the classes are held at the Visitacion practice facility atop the school campus, Anderson said. It is open to students ages 6-17 and provides entry with discounted youth fees to area golf courses as well as affordable golf lessons. “OLV has a great group of kids,” said Anderson. “There are four of them who are first graders. They have so much energy. Golf is one of the things we try to focus them on but they are looking at the trees ….” Ten of the OLV golf students began with the program in the summer, Anderson said, after he made a presentation at the school in the spring. Enrollment is up to 15 now. “The First Tee is a youth development program. We teach the kids not only golf skills but life skills,” Anderson said, noting self-confidence, integrity, perseverance, sportsmanship and honesty are important in both golf and life. “We teach them simple things like how to meet and greet people.” The Catholic school students were invited to join the program at the end of last school year, said Anderson, who is The First Tee site administrator at Visitacion Valley Middle School, where the classes are held after school for an hour each Wednesday and Thursday. “They not only learn how to play but they actually have an opportunity to go out and play on a regular golf course,” said Anderson, noting nine-hole Gleneagles Golf Course is 10 blocks from the school and the Oct. 21 trip was the first of several he hopes to arrange. More information is available at thefirstteesanfrancisco.org.
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By Valerie Schmalz
Our Lady of Visitacion School students played five holes Oct. 21 at Gleneagles Golf Course, a nine-hole course 10 blocks from school. The students are part of The First Tee, an after-school youth golf program.
Bishop Blaire: Protect God’s gift of clean air LOUISVILLE, Ky. (CNS) – The gift of clean air provided by God to humanity deserves to be protected through strong environmental stewardship by making changes in daily life so that fewer pollutants enter the atmosphere, said the chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice Human Development. Bishop Stephen E. Blaire of Stockton urged an audience at the interfaith Festival of Faiths conference Nov. 7 that taking steps to live more simply, use natural resources wisely and reduce personal consumption, air pollution and one’s carbon footprint could ensure clean air for all and ease the effects of climate change on the world’s poorest people. Citing the creation story in the Book of Genesis and how God placed humanity in dominion over the earth, Bishop Blaire said human beings have the responsibility to
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Bishops urge Senate committee to uphold federal marriage law WASHINGTON (CNS) – The U.S. bishops have urged the Senate Judiciary Committee not to repeal the federal Defense of Marriage Act, known as DOMA, calling it important for human rights and the common good. “DOMA advances the common good in a manner consistent with the human dignity of all persons,” Bishop Salvatore J. Cordileone of Oakland, chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage, wrote in a Nov. 2 letter to committee members. DOMA defines marriage as a union between one man and one woman and gives states the authority to reject same-sex marriages that may have been legally recognized in other states. The Senate Judiciary Committee began debate Nov. 3 on legislation to repeal the law. Called the Respect for Marriage Act, the legislation would end what its supporters consider illegal discrimination against legally married same-sex couples. However, advocates for traditional marriage said the Senate bill, S. 598, and an identical House bill, H.R. 1116, would open the door to redefining marriage and would eventually force states where same-sex marriage is illegal to recognize such unions. “All persons have a rightful claim to our utmost respect,” wrote Bishop Cordileone. “There is no corresponding duty, however, for society to disregard the meaning of sexual difference and its practical consequences for the common good; to override fundamental rights, such as religious liberty; and to re-define our most basic social institution.”
Donald W. Wuerl of Washington, who serves as university chancellor. The title of his talk was “Fundamental Aspects of Ecumenism and Future Perspectives.” Cardinal Koch said progress toward Catholic-Orthodox unity became nearly “shipwrecked by the problem” of differences over papal primacy. Churches that arose from the Protestant Reformation, on the other Swiss Cardinal hand, sometimes diverge from the Kurt Koch Catholic Church on the handling of ethical questions, he said, mentioning homosexuality as a “fundamental problem” in particular between the Catholic and Anglican communities. Some Anglican churches, including the Episcopal Church in the U.S., have ordained openly gay priests and bishops. Cardinal Koch said Protestant churches have in the past generally agreed with the Catholic Church on ethical issues while disagreeing on matters of faith. “Today that has been turned on its head, and we can say that ethics divide but faith unites,” he said. Christian unity would be advanced if all churches could “speak with one voice on the great ethical questions of our time,” the cardinal added.
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Dominican Sister Mary of the Holy Spirit; singer found ‘greater loves not of earth’ Dominican Sister Mary of the Holy Spirit of earth – Jesus and Mary, my constant (Aida Martignetti) died Oct. 14 at Corpus companions.” She won several Kodak awards for her Christi Monastery in Menlo Park. Before entering the Dominican con- photography, which was also published in national magazines. Her gregation, she had begun memories were set down a career in theater as a in her self-published book, singer. “New insights Her memories “Memoirs of a Nutty Nun.” into religious life made “When anyone was her aware of her real were set down in suffering in body, mind or vocation and she entered spirit, she loved to interCorpus Christi Monastery her self-published cede for them, and always in Bronx, N.Y. in 1944, had consoling words that and in 1967 transferred to strengthened the person in Corpus Christi Monastery, book, ‘Memoirs trial,” the sisters said. Menlo Park,” her commuA funeral Mass was nity said. of a Nutty Nun.’ celebrated Oct. 19 with In what she called “her interment in a crypt under vocation story,” Sister the monastery chapel. Mary said she came easily to religious life. “Dancing and singing were Remembrances may be made to the the very loves of my earthly life,” she wrote. Dominican Nuns, Corpus Christi Monastery, “However, there were yet greater loves not 215 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park 94025.
Sister Mary of the Holy Spirit, OP, loved singing and dancing but found her true calling in Jesus and Mary.
Dominican Sister M. Emilia Techtman, 95 Emilia was active in community service and the apostolate of prayer. A funeral Mass was celebrated Oct. 18 at the Dominican Sisters Chapel. Burial was in the Dominican Sisters Cemetery. Remembrances may be made to the Dominican Sisters Retirement Fund, 43326 Mission Blvd., Fremont 94539.
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Dominican Sister M. Emilia Techtman died Oct. 13, at the Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose motherhouse in Fremont. She was 95 years old and a religious for 76 years. Sister Emilia served 56 years in elementary education at schools including St. James, San Francisco. In retirement Sister
Sister Roberdette Burns, BVM; educator, 102 from 1988–94. Her princiSister Roberdette Burns, pal work, however, was as BVM, died Nov. 3, at her faculty and administrator at congregation’s Caritas Center Clarke University in Dubuque, in Dubuque, Iowa. A funeral a Catholic liberal arts university Mass was celebrated in the founded in 1843 by the Sisters motherhouse chapel Nov. 8 of Charity of the Blessed Virgin with burial in the Mount Carmel Mary, and where she served for cemetery. Sister Roberdette was almost 50 years. 102 years old and a Sister of Remembrances may be made the Presentation of the Blessed Sister Roberdette to the Sisters of Charity, BVM Virgin Mary for 85 years. Burns, BVM Support Fund, 1100 Carmel Sister Roberdette volunteered at San Francisco’s St. Paul School Drive, Dubuque, Iowa 52003.
Archdiocesan Youth Mass Andrew Ginter, right, and Patrick Summerhays left were two of four Archdiocese of San Francisco seminarians who participated in the archdiocesan Youth Mass at St. Anne of the Sunset Church Oct. 9. Bishop William J. Justice celebrated the Mass, which was attended by 800 teens.
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Don Bosco study group sets meetings In anticipation of the 200-year anniversary of the birth of St. John Bosco, a study group is forming at Sts. Peter and Paul Parish “to study his remarkable life.” “All are invited, regardless of your level of interest or commitment. We hope to rediscover his life, teachings, spirituality, and the continued relevance within our own lives of the Salesian charism,” said parishioner Frank Lavin.
The group will meet three or four times a year at the parish center at 666 Filbert St., San Francisco, with the first meeting Nov. 10 at 7 p.m. “Don Bosco: History and Spirit” by Salesian Father Arthur Lenti will be the primary source for study and discussion. Contact Lavin at (415) 310-8551 or franklavin@comcast.net.
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21.8 million: Number of military veterans in 2010 1.6 million: Number of female veterans in 2010 2.4 million: Number of black veterans in 2010
they didn’t care if they lived or died.’
1.7 million: Number of veterans younger than 35 7.6 million: Number of Vietnam-era veterans in 2010 3: States with 1 million or more veterans in 2010: California (2 million), Florida (1.6 million) and Texas (1.6 million). $35,367: Annual median income of veterans, in 2010 inflation-adjusted dollars, compared with $25,605 for the population as a whole.
(PHOTO BY JOSE LUIS AGUIRRE/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)
26 percent: Percent of veterans for whom poverty status is determined with a disability in 2010
Three generations of military veterans are pictured at the Homeless Veterans Emergency Housing Facility in Menlo Park. Miguel Ramirez, left, saw combat in Afghanistan as a Navy heavy equipment operator. World War II Army veteran John “Jack” Taylor, 95, center, is the facility’s oldest resident. At right is Irvin Goodwin, a formerly homeless veteran who started the center 11 years ago.
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Veterans’ recovery stories constantly inspire Irvin Goodwin. ‘There’s nothing like it. They have jobs, new relationships, and it’s like the sky is the limit for them. Before,
9 million: Number of veterans 65 and older in 2010
Miguel Ramirez, pictured on duty in Afghanistan in 2009, is receiving treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Irvin Goodwin had been a drug addict for 30 years that day in 1995 when, living in People’s Park in Berkeley, a man from the Veterans Administration came by and said the government wanted to help homeless vets, get them clean and give them hope. Goodwin qualified. In 1962, at 15, he ran away from home and joined the Army. He had lost interest in Berkeley High School. He served three years, was discharged and fell into addiction. He was in and out of jail, even prison. By 1995, he had lived in the park for nearly three years. He took the man from the VA up on his offer. He figured he would eat VA food, “lay up on the VA,” as he put it. Three weeks into a VA treatment program he was a changed man. He had gained weight. His self-esteem was coming back, and he went on to make the rest of his life’s work doing the same good deed for many other homeless veterans – 7,000 and counting – providing transitional housing and a cornucopia of support services at his nonprofit on the Menlo Park VA campus. In 2000, five years after his own VA intervention, Goodwin opened the Homeless Veterans Emergency Housing Facility, taking vets off the streets and beginning a process of rehabilitating them mentally, physically and spiritually. Goodwin even rehabilitated the abandoned building in which he established the program, and many services are provided there – including Bible study, drug and alcohol addiction counseling, skills and employment training, VA health referral and more. Clients receive treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder, other mental care and VA services around the campus. The goal is to make the vets independent. There’s poignancy in the building around Veterans Day, because these men and women who served their country in the armed services are still not out of the woods. Goodwin, at 66, recalls his own transformation, which began just three weeks into a year-
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so troubling was his drinking and anxiety and paranoia disorder. But he’s going to make things right, he said. And he thanks Goodwin, “a role model.” “I hear it gets better as time goes on” Ramirez said of PTSD. “And my wife and I are planning on getting back together as soon as I stop all the drinking.” That’s what Goodwin likes to hear – success stories in the making. For him, the payback is seeing people put their lives back together. “This is really the last house on the block for these people,” said Goodwin. “You see people come in with holes in their tennis shoes, no underwear, no socks, no hope, no faith, no nothing. Homeless. Addicted. Everybody has written them off in life. And to see them much later – when they have rebuilt their relationship with their children, they have their parents back in their lives, sisters and brothers come to visit them. There’s nothing like it. They have jobs, new relationships, and it’s like the sky is the limit for them,” he said. “Before, they didn’t care if they lived or died.” The oldest client at the facility is John “Jack” Taylor, 95, a World War II veteran with the 104th Infantry Division which fought its way through France and Germany. He wasn’t homeless per se, but had a string of bad luck at board and care facilities “where they do their level best to get as much money from you as they can.” Taylor has lived at the facility off and on for three years, and while he has never had addiction problems, he’s seen Goodwin and his staff do wonders. “I hear a few people squawk,” said Taylor, “but I don’t think there is a place in the state of California to equal it.” That’s so, he said, because of the effectiveness of addressing addiction and giving people hope. “They take people and try to square them around, get them a home, if they had a family, and get them back with the family,” he said. “If you come in here without a dime in your pocket you know you are going to get a place to sleep, you will get food and the next day they are going to talk to you about school and things, bettering yourself, getting you on your feet and on again.”
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An emergency shelter for homeless veterans gives deeply troubled men a last chance for dignity and hope. There are 150 beds – always full. long program he agreed to that day in People’s Park. “The reflection that was coming back in the mirror was somebody I hadn’t seen in three years,” said Goodwin. “The real Irvin Goodwin started to surface again – the Irvin Goodwin that was healthy, the Irvin Goodwin that was shaven every day, the Irvin Goodwin that I had not seen in a long time, man, and that started making a difference in my life. I did not want to return to looking like I used to look.” He’s the CEO of a busy nonprofit. Its 150 beds are always full. There are 25 couches scattered around the 32,000-square-foot facility and there have been times when many of them are used for overflow until beds are available. Ninety percent of the clients have addiction problems. The Menlo Park Police sometimes drop off homeless vets at the facility knowing they’re better off there than in jail. Goodwin has a house motto: “Never deprive a homeless veteran of hope. It might be all that he or she has.” Goodwin was hired by the VA in 1999, as administrators figured he would do much to help people because the program had made such a profound change in him. He flourished. That year, he made contact with 975 homeless veterans in the Bay Area and neighboring counties, and he brought 400 in for treatment. However, he lost 575 veterans because at the time there was no transitional housing he could offer as immediate help and shelter. Housing was the impetus for the nonprofit, which is supported by a federal grant and a contribution from most of the clients. Currently, there are 138 men and 12 women at the facility, and of them 30 are in emergency beds – people like Miguel Ramirez, a 36-year-old former U.S. Navy Seabee, a heavy equipment operator, receiving treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of serving in a combat area in Afghanistan in 2009, and for alcohol dependence. He said he lived in “constant terror” of hidden explosives and endured mortar attacks while building a helicopter pad. Ramirez is homeless as his wife ordered him out of the apartment they shared with their child,
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John “Jack” Taylor, 95, was an infantryman in France and Germany during World War II. He believes the emergency shelter for veterans has no equal in California. “They take people and try to square them around,” he said.
3.4 million: Number of veterans with a service-connected disability rating. Of this number, 698,000 have a rating of 70 percent or higher. Severity of one’s disability is scaled from 0 to 100 percent and eligibility for compensation depends on one’s rating. – U.S. Census Bureau
Homeless vets work stenciling headstones Inside the nonprofit Homeless Veterans Emergency Housing Facility on the Menlo Park Veterans Affairs campus is a for-profit enterprise that Irvin Goodwin, the CEO, developed to provide jobs for his homeless clients and to honor the dead. The business is the Veterans Employment Agency, and its workers provide the inscriptions that appear on headstones for the graves of deceased veterans at national cemeteries around the country. Goodwin – who for the purposes of the employment agency is a federal contractor – saw a critical need to put homeless veterans to work because of the disadvantage they face: “When a company looks at the resume of a homeless veteran they see a gap,” said Goodwin. “The company may ask, Workers at ‘Where have you been for four or five the Menlo years?’ Goodwin said. “That applica- Park facility tion goes into the garbage can.” have created Goodwin also knew there was a need for inscrip- nearly 47,000 tion contractors and so six years ago headstone he created the forprofit employment stencils. agency. In those six years, workers at the Menlo Park facility have created nearly 47,000 stencils for headstones – writing the name of the deceased, his or her birth and death dates and any accompanying epitaph, etc., the family requests. Those stencils are shipped to national cemeteries where a sandblaster is used to inscribe the information on headstones. The Veterans Employment Agency is contracted for work at national cemeteries in Alabama, Michigan, Florida, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, as well as in Dixon and Bakersfield. The work is only going to grow, said Goodwin. –George Raine
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A poem for veterans By Christina Conry We yearn for fruited plains, we vision no more lies! We adore our shining seas, and the banner of the free, Selfish gain no more, for we are the land of the free! We have heroes who protect us, and grace from up above, We have success in nobleness, and neighbors that we love! Our music is cheerful, we sing songs of thanks. Our laughter is endless, we laugh every day. For we live in America, the land of the free, We live in America; God’s grace is on thee. The song of freedom beats long and dear, We shout it out for all to hear. When life seems tough, just think of the days, When we all became free, when we all became brave.
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We dream of purple mountains, we hope for spacious skies.
Christina Conry A U.S. Army soldier prays while holding a rosary during Sunday Mass at a forward operating base in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, Sept. 18.
Christina Conry is a seventh-grader at Good Shepherd School in Pacifica. She wrote this poem for the school’s Veterans Tribute Dinner Nov. 11. Thanks to Yvonne Aurich, seventh-grade social studies and homeroom teacher.
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Technology and Spirit Re “Technocrats beware,” Letters, Nov. 4): In a letter to the editor on Nov. 4, a gentleman from San Mateo seemed most upset that our parochial school is using modern technology as part of the teaching process. After reading his letter a few times, I am still puzzled about why he was so disturbed. Every Catholic school in which I have served uses computers, which is neither eccentric, nor against our religion. True, some Christian denominations have laws against technology, others prohibit the use of musical instruments (such as the organ) A St. Hilary student with one of the during worship, and still others school’s new iPads maintain that all prayers must be spontaneous, not written down. But this is not the case in the Catholic Church. Pope Benedict started a Facebook page shortly after his election; the Holy See has encouraged Catholics to use all resources at our disposal to teach, evangelize, and help the needy – including modern technology. In one email message to young people, “Pope Benedict XVI asked young Catholics to use their computers, Facebook accounts, blogs and Internet video posts to share with their peers the joy of faith in Christ” (Catholic News Service, Jan. 23, 2009). In June of this year, the pope began tweeting using his own iPad. The author of the Nov. 4 letter points out that God does not need email but can hear us just fine when we pray. This is true – but for those of us who are not
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Is this subsidiarity? I was horrified to see that a council of the Catholic Church is calling for, what is effectively, one world government. Are you kidding me? The Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace takes a grand look at all the inequities and suffering of the world and comes up with the following: establishment of a world banking central authority; an international tax; redistribution of wealth; authority over peace and security, translating into power over individual countries’ militaries; disarmament and gun control; management of migration; management of food. So let me get this straight. They suggest we establish a one world government with control over everyone’s money, military, personal safety, ability to travel and food. But don’t worry because they hasten to say that it should never be done by force or coercion. I’m sure that we can believe this because this wonderful new governing agency would clearly be voluntarily embraced by all. This is an offense against church teaching on the principle of subsidiarity, which states that the people closest to the problem are the best suited to solve it. You can understand the wisdom of this church teaching if you just imagine a cold impersonal top heavy government that works with the efficiency and courtesy of the post office or DMV.
At a time when the world is on fire with our major cities being “occupied” by people, many of whom are openly calling for revolution and the end of capitalism, it shocks me that this agency would release a document that corresponds exactly with their message. This is a kick in the teeth to the faithful who look to the church to guide us to do what is right. I do take comfort from the fact that the pontifical council is advisory and educational only and does not have actual authority. While I thank them for their good intentions their advice is not new; Marx, Stalin, Mao and today’s progressives all teach some variation of the same thing. I take comfort also in the fact that history shows how evil is the result of such governments. In the end, after you establish a government with absolute authority you have sinful men to govern it. And here we arrive back at our original problem, the problem of sin. The church does have a solution for that. May I suggest that the pontifical council focus on converting the world and stop advising its overthrow. Cheryl Amalu Belmont
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Oct. 28. However, nowhere did I read about a prominent figure who has helped millions of people who’ve turned to him when there was nowhere else to turn. He pleads their case to the highest authority; his win record is astounding and he never charges a dime. I speak of St. Jude Thaddeus, saint of the impossible and cousin of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Your paper could have shown his picture and a short comment regarding his feast day, which was also Oct. 28 (surprise!). Perhaps you didn’t want to offend other saints who were listed in the All Saints’ Day category, so you said nothing. Well, excuse me, but this saint has been around a long time, with great accomplishments, and deserves a special acknowledgement. Great things have been done in the name of St. Jude. Many shrines have been built, people have been healed, and lives have been changed for the better. In the 1950s the then struggling comedian, Danny Thomas asked St. Jude, “Help me find my way in life, and I will build you a shrine.” Danny’s career soared and the shrine was built; today it remains St Jude’s Children’s Hospital. In San Francisco, St. Dominic’s has a huge shrine with candles dedicated to St. Jude. Nearly every church has his statue. He is special to millions of people who have experienced a miracle because of his intercession. Barbara Hamann San Francisco
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The front page Oct. 11 featured a misleading report by (Catholic News Service Vatican correspondent) John Thavis headlined, “World body needed to rein in market ‘distortions and inequalities.’” He makes the left-wing, New World Order accusation about the “growing inequality between the rich and poor of the world,” as if those were the thoughts of the pontifical council’s document and a summary of their very words. In truth the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace states in its original document its objectives and mandate to “promote justice and peace in the world, in light of the Gospel and social teaching of the church.” Nothing in the document highlights the author’s words citing “a supranational authority” but it stands on its own in jubilant, Christ-centered reasoning, far from the shouts of mobs who would invade our civic squares. Let us not allow any more seemingly enlightened “news” like this to shoulder its twisted political misdirection into our pages. Above all, there are the words of the universal church, coming out of the Vatican itself. Robert Jimenez Burlingame
Remember St. Jude I read your latest publication dated
Laity must evangelize
George Weigel’s “Lay reform of church and world” (Oct. 21) is about evangelization. It calls for a renewed awareness on this basic church responsibility during these times when there is a need to strengthen Christian values. The call is primarily addressed to laity. Weigel mentioned the work of a philosopher and businessman/ philanthropist and exhorts the laity to actively perform their roles in order to help the priests and bishops be freed from being overwhelmed in their administrative tasks. The roles of the laity are many. But there is one role that I believe has not been given enough attention, which I would like to highlight. As we know, today there are many sects. Each of these sects is claiming to be the true church of Christ and is seeking to convert people to become a member of the sect. Among these sects there are those that have called the Catholic Church false, LETTERS, page 15
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But she said that “only a small minorMost people overestimate the number of Catholic clergy who are guilty of child ity of priests were guilty of this terrible abuse, according to a poll commissioned crime and in the interests of justice, and by Ireland’s Iona Institute for Religion in fairness to the vast majority of priests, it is essential that this and Society. fact becomes univerThe most authoritaknown among the tive estimate to date The results ‘should sally public at large.” puts the true number She added, “It of accused priests at 4 be a matter of might be understandpercent but 70 percent able if the public of the public believe deep concern to were overestimating the figure is higher, the number of guilty the institute said on its all fair-minded priests by a factor of website Nov. 2. two or so, but the fact Here are the details: that so many mem– 42 percent believe people.’ bers of the public are that more than one in five priests are guilty – Professor grossly overestimating the number of guilty of child abuse. should be a – 27 percent believe Patricia Casey priests matter of deep conthe number exceeds 40 cern to all fair-minded percent people. –18 percent put it “It could be claimed that the fact above 50 percent. – 5 percent believe that between 90 for this overestimation lies exclusively percent and 100 percent of all Catholic with the church. However, as a normal rule when responsible media outlets are priests are guilty of child abuse. The institute’s conclusion: Nearly half reporting crimes by certain groups, great of the public overestimated the number care is taken not to stereotype or demonof guilty priests by a factor of at least ize these groups,” she said. Casey concluded, “Therefore, when five to one. Professor Patricia Casey, a senior cases of clerical abuse are being reported, consultant psychiatrist at the Mater a similarly responsible attitude should be Hospital in Dublin and a lecturer at adopted, that is, the cases should be factuUniversity College, Dublin, commenting ally and objectively covered, but it should on the findings on behalf of the institute, be made clear each and every time that acknowledged that there was “very deep only a very small minority of Catholic and completely justified public anger over priests are guilty of child abuse.” The poll also found that almost half the scandal of child sex abuse by clergy.”
Letters . . . ■ Continued from page 14 or apostate – even labeling her Babylon or harlot. I believe members of the laity should have the ability to respond to these critics to convert them and be able to answer the accusations. For the laity to be able to do this they should be familiar with what these sects believe and should have enough knowledge to respond to their enticements as well as to answer the accusations that the church is false or apostate. The laity should go beyond just being able to respond: They should be able to explain the faith and proclaim the truth – to evangelize. Luis P. Magarro San Francisco
Fighting the stigma Thank you for the excellent article on Franciscan Sister Maureen Sinnott and her work with NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness). She has been a real asset to our local NAMI San Mateo County affiliate since joining our board of directors earlier this year. It was a pleasure to see the spread in Catholic San Francisco (Oct. 21). Your article and the photographs accompanying it provided great coverage of our organization and your efforts are greatly appreciated. Because of the wide circulation of Catholic San Francisco you are helping us to get out the word that those affected by mental illness are not alone, there should never be guilt or shame, and there are many resources available to better understand and cope with the situation when there is a diagnosis of mental illness in the family. Statistics show that one in four families will deal with the mental illness of a loved one at some time or other. It is vital to continue to fight the stigma which for too long has been associated with mental illness. Patricia Way NAMI co-president San Mateo
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Poll: Public ‘grossly overestimates’ number of Ireland’s guilty priests
A child shakes hands with Cardinal Sean Brady following a 2010 Mass in St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Armagh, Northern Ireland.
of Irish people questioned say they now have an unfavorable view of the Catholic Church. John Murray, a theologian at the Mater Dei Institute in Dublin, told Catholic News Service that “having an unfavorable view of the church doesn’t necessarily mean that a person is anti-Catholic per se.” “The poll indicates that around a quarter of the population can be put in this category. That is quite a high percentage, but given the huge amount of understandable anger at the church because of the scandals, perhaps it is surprising the number isn’t higher than that,” Murray said. Since 2005, the Irish Catholic church
Help wanted solving `06 mystery
I’m a Conventual Franciscan at St. Paul of the Shipwreck Parish in San Francisco. I’ve been trying to solve a historical mystery. These two sisters are waiting to board a cable car in front of the Ferry Building. The images come from a short, silent film made four days before the great earthquake and fire of 1906. The film is on line at http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=oubsaFBUcTc. It is the clearest version I could find, but I recommend turning off the sound because of the distracting, non-period music. A movie camera mounted on a cable car travels the length of Market Street toward the Ferry Building. You watch everyday San Franciscans passing amid the hustle and bustle of traffic and commerce. It’s fascinating. Just before the film ends, the cable car reaches the Ferry Building turnaround and these two sisters can be seen waiting in line to board. It was quite gusty that day; both sisters are trying to keep their habits from blowing around too much. Notice how the right hand holds the left sleeve in place while the left hand holds both sides of the veil together in a tight grasp over the heart. Unfortunately, this hides the true size and shape of the guimpe, the white circular part that covers the neck and shoulders, and so we lose a key point of identification. That leads to my big question: Who are they? I’ve already talked to Mercy Sisters and Presentation Sisters, who had members working in San Francisco at the time. They don’t know who these sisters are. If you have any clues please contact me at markfolger2002@yahoo.com. Brother Mark Folger, OFM Conv. San Francisco
Gadhafi images sicken We heard virtually nothing from Rome or the U.S. bishops’ conference after the shameful celebrations in American streets upon learning of the death of Osama bin Laden. In that instance, there were no photos. But with Moammar Gadhafi, the images were everywhere and a public that has been largely desensitized to gore and visual inhumanity relished in their being broadcast and printed by nearly every
major news agency, both domestic and international. This was morally reprehensible and it sickened me that the Vatican would not take the moral high ground that it is obligated to stand on, and inform its followers of how wholly un-Christian they behaved. When will Catholics begin acting like Catholics? For 2,000 years, those Catholics who have spoken the loudest have sadly spoken for those of us who try to genuinely
and various dioceses have been the subject of four different independent inquiries into physical and sexual abuse and its cover up. Irish government officials had strong words about the Vatican, which recalled and reassigned its ambassador. Irish Catholics are currently awaiting the report of an apostolic visitation ordered by Pope Benedict XVI. The Vatican says the report of the visitation – conducted by senior prelates, including Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley of Boston and Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan of New York – will “assist the local church on her path of renewal.” – Catholic San Francisco and Catholic News Service
live the Gospel message of Jesus Christ. Rather than turning the other cheek, they have often gone beyond an eye for an eye and sought to inflict far greater and more vile methods of retribution on their perceived enemies, the enemies whom we were commanded to love and pray for. I write these words not for myself, and not on behalf of myself, but because it is my Christian duty to do so. This serves as a warning to all self-proclaimed Catholics who place their own desires and blackened hearts before bearing the crosses they were born to bear. Joseph Michael Di Marius Walnut Creek
Honesty is best policy on state of our church I have enjoyed the new emphasis in Catholic San Francisco on more local feature articles and interviews with people in our parishes and hope to see this continued as well as the exchanges of different viewpoints in the letters page, even those critical of the church. It has always bothered me that so many people depart from parishes without a word to anyone, perhaps because they feel no one really cares about their opinions on anything. We have nothing like an “exit interview” either for religious leaving or lay people. Maybe this is an idea for modern times. Why not ask people what their main complaint is? I get very tired of reading the word “secularism” as a blanket excuse for why longtime Catholics no longer attend Mass regularly. It is clear that our country was founded with a separation of church and state, a structure that has mostly benefited our church as well as others here. Membership here has always been voluntary. So, if that is so, there must be other reasons for why our numbers here are declining or why people choose not to get married in our churches or why our young people are not entering the priesthood or religious life in the numbers they did 50 years ago. Maybe honesty is still the best policy. Rosemary K. Ring Kentfield
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A READING FROM THE BOOK OF PROVERBS PRV 31:10-13, 19-20, 30-31 When one finds a worthy wife, her value is far beyond pearls. Her husband, entrusting his heart to her, has an unfailing prize. She brings him good, and not evil, all the days of her life. She obtains wool and flax and works with loving hands. She puts her hands to the distaff, and her fingers ply the spindle. She reaches out her hands to the poor, and extends her arms to the needy. Charm is deceptive and beauty fleeting; the woman who fears the LORD is to be praised. Give her a reward for her labors, and let her works praise her at the city gates. RESPONSORIAL PSALM PS 128:1-2, 3, 4-5 R. Blessed are those who fear the Lord. Blessed are you who fear the Lord, who walk in his ways! For you shall eat the fruit of your handiwork; blessed shall you be, and favored. R. Blessed are those who fear the Lord. Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine in the recesses of your home; Your children like olive plants around your table. R. Blessed are those who fear the Lord. Behold, thus is the man blessed who fears the Lord. The Lord bless you from Zion: Why does the lectionary leave out the section of the “valiant woman” reading from Proverbs that refers to her stellar skill in money management? “She picks out a field to purchase; out of her earnings she plants a vineyard …. She enjoys the success of her dealings; at night her lamp is undimmed” (Proverbs 30:16, 18). I don’t understand why liturgical editors would leave out key passages, especially verses that show the woman’s financial expertise, economic smarts and sound investment strategy. So open your Bible and read all of Proverbs 30. In the badly edited version we have here, she sounds like a domesticated wife who pleases her husband, weaves cloth, and is kind to the poor. Actually in the full-screen version, she’s a canny woman who wouldn’t have been taken in by Bernie Madoff’s charms and promises. She is a hands-on manager who would never leave her business ventures to someone else’s decision-making. This is a bad time for investors. Who will get us out of the financial recession? The scriptural answer lies in the first reading: a wife who uses her talents to manage her household with foresight and diligence. She is the one to emulate. Everything she did turned a profit; everyone in her household, even the lowliest servants, had their needs met; all her work was productive. Her laudable, steady management of her entire household – while
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Thirty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time Proverbs 31:10-13, 19-20, 30-31; Psalm 128:1-2, 3, 4-5; 1 Thessalonians 5:1-6; Matthew 25:14-30 may you see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life. R. Blessed are those who fear the Lord. A READING FROM THE FIRST LETTER OF PAUL TO THE THESSALONIANS 1 THES 5:1-6 Concerning times and seasons, brothers and sisters, you have no need for anything to be written to you. For you yourselves know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief at night. When people are saying, “Peace and security,” then sudden disaster comes upon them, like labor pains upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. But you, brothers and sisters, are not in darkness, for that day to overtake you like a thief. For all of you are children of the light and children of the day. We are not
of the night or of darkness. Therefore, let us not sleep as the rest do, but let us stay alert and sober. A READING FROM THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW MT 25:14-30 Jesus told his disciples this parable: “A man going on a journey called in his servants and entrusted his possessions to them. To one he gave five talents; to another, two; to a third, one–to each according to his ability. Then he went away. Immediately the one who received five talents went and traded with them, and made another five. Likewise, the one who received two made another two. But the man who received one went off and dug a hole in the ground and buried his master’s money. After a long time the master of those servants came back and settled accounts with them.
Scripture reflection SISTER ELOISE ROSENBLATT, PH.D.
Valiant woman, wise manager her husband sits with other men at the city gates – is the model for the end-time Christian. Her energy, pastoral concern and practical skill at estate management seem odd stances to feature at the end of life, or at the end of time. Shouldn’t we be emphasizing the sober counsel, “Watch and wait”? No, that’s not the message of today’s readings. At the end of time, seek to emulate the woman’s accomplishment of an amazing diversity of household tasks. Behave at the end the way you have lived – fully engaged. The parable from Matthew is preoccupied with what goes wrong with the third servant’s
attitude and business strategy. The message: Don’t emulate the third servant entrusted with the one silver talent who buried the money, didn’t lose anything, but didn’t gain anything, either. Most investors these days who have gained nothing would still feel enormous relief to be “back where they started” from a few years ago. Even if their stocks and bonds didn’t enjoy investment managers like those at Harvard and Yale who realized 19 percent and 20 percent increases in their portfolios, they would still be happy to have lost nothing. This is not at all the attitude the master
The one who had received five talents came forward bringing the additional five. He said, ‘Master, you gave me five talents. See, I have made five more.’ His master said to him, ‘Well done, my good and faithful servant. Since you were faithful in small matters, I will give you great responsibilities. Come, share your master’s joy.’ Then the one who had received two talents also came forward and said, ‘Master, you gave me two talents. See, I have made two more.’ His master said to him, ‘Well done, my good and faithful servant. Since you were faithful in small matters, I will give you great responsibilities. Come, share your master’s joy.’ Then the one who had received the one talent came forward and said, ‘Master, I knew you were a demanding person, harvesting where you did not plant and gathering where you did not scatter; so out of fear I went off and buried your talent in the ground. Here it is back.’ His master said to him in reply, ‘You wicked, lazy servant! So you knew that I harvest where I did not plant and gather where I did not scatter? Should you not then have put my money in the bank so that I could have got it back with interest on my return? Now then! Take the talent from him and give it to the one with ten. For to everyone who has, more will be given and he will grow rich; but from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away. And throw this useless servant into the darkness outside, where there will be wailing and grinding of teeth.’” in today’s parable would accept. The servant “watched and waited” in fear of his master’s financial skills. Instead of showing respect by emulating him, the servant tries to defend his “prudence” in burying the principal sum entrusted to him. In a way, the servant says to the master, “You weren’t worth any effort on my part.” The master condemns him and calls him wicked, lazy and useless. Why the harsh rejection? The third servant didn’t bother consulting his two productive friends, getting their advice on business practice, even if it meant only getting a measly 1.1 percent at the bank. That would have been more than nothing. The master is furious at the third servant’s non-productivity, his disengagement from real life, his failure to cultivate relationships with his friends, and his lame excuses. He can have no part of life in the future because he’s disengaged himself from living productively in the present. Consider these questions: – After you read Proverbs 30 in its entirety, what cornucopia of management skills and expression of human compassion makes the woman a model for end-time living? – If you love God the master, what ways can you be productive, even if your principal sum feels like less than what others got? Mercy Sister Eloise Rosenblatt, Ph.D., is a theologian and an attorney in private practice in San Jose.
Spirituality for Today
Sex and the Trinity There are those who see sex merely as an X-rated phenomenon, far removed from the Trinity. But they are blind. The fact is, every human person is made in the image and likeness of God, including their sexuality. The three divine persons of the Trinity are united in a love that transcends our understanding. The church teaches that the Trinity is love in action. Poets and theologians have tried to describe God as a “furnace of love.” This comparison captures the idea that there is an intense activity within the Trinity. The Father and the Son are bound together by the love that passes between them, namely, the Holy Spirit of love. Human love has that same divine power in it. Lovers desire to be one, to be totally absorbed into one being. The same intense love that unites the Father and the Son into one God, motivates human love, for it is the Holy Spirit who elevates human love to supernatural heights. When St. Augustine said, “You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you,” he was alluding to the human desire to find an ecstasy beyond this world. Noble human sexuality is, therefore, a foreshadowing of the divine love that is found in the Trinity. We can only experi-
ence the fullness of this love in the beatific vision. The church teaches that there is no sin in the sexual pleasure shared between lovers who are in a true marital commitment. Far from being sinful, legitimate sexual passion is noble human love that is grace-filled. Where, then, is the sinfulness of sexual activity? When human sexuality is reduced to the merely animal level, it becomes lust. Do you remember this passage in the Bible: “For the love of money is the root of all evils” (1 Timothy 6:10)? St. Paul does not condemn money; rather, he condemns the excessive love of money. So it is with sex, which is not evil. The very purpose of sex is procreation. Every infant that is born into the world should be welcome and cherished. Lust, however, will risk an unwanted pregnancy without the slightest thought. The Holy Spirit is cast aside, and the baby is unwelcome or rejected from the outset. When people tamper recklessly with the next generation, the abuse is far more serious than with sexual pleasure for its own sake. The full consenting to excessive sexual desire can lead to addiction. In time, it robs a person of his or her human dignity and self-respect. Every addiction is self-destructive. It causes men
and women to use one another as mere objects. Without the Holy Spirit, human sexuality can become a nightmare. Human beings are not perfect, and many good people make mistakes, and some of these Father mistakes are more serious John Catoir than others. If you are troubled by occasional lapses, do not be afraid. The Lord has compassion on the sinner. Jesus said that fear is useless; what you need is trust. Study the 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous. All of the wisdom that you will ever need to reform your life is contained in the third step, whereby you agree to turn your will and your life over to the care of the Lord of your understanding. May the Lord be your strength and your joy. Father Catoir’s column is carried by Catholic News Service.
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Love, faith and ritual It’s not easy to sustain love, at least not with constant emotional fervor. Misunderstandings, irritations, tiredness, jealousies, hurt, temperamental differences, the familiarity that breeds contempt, and simple boredom invariably chip away at our emotional and affective edges and, soon enough, fervor gives way to routine, the groove becomes the rut, and love seems to disappear. But we can easily misread this. First, just because the surface of a relationship seems clouded with misunderstanding, irritation, and hurt doesn’t mean we don’t love each other. Love sits at a place beneath the ebb and flow of irritation and boredom. You can be willing to die for someone, even as at that very moment you are seething with anger at him or her. John Shea, in the brilliant series of homilies published through Liturgical Press, gives us a wonderful example of this. He shares the story of a woman who took in her aging mother to help her while she was recovering from a stroke. The daughter was painstakingly attentive to her mother’s every need; yet, at a point, a dreadful fight broke out – over a trivial incident regarding a hard-boiled egg. In the middle of their war of words, the mother asked her daughter: “Why are you doing all of this for me anyway?” Her daughter responded by listing her reasons: “I was afraid for her; I wanted to get her well; I felt maybe I’d ignored her when I was younger. I needed to show her I was strong. I needed to get her ready to go home alone; old age, and on and on. I was amazed myself. I could have gone on giving reasons all night. Even she was impressed. “Junk, “she said when I was done. “Junk?” I yelled. Like, boy, she’d made a real mistake with that remark. “Yes, junk,” she said again, but a little more quietly. And that
little more-quiet tone got me. And she went on: “You don’t have to have all those reasons. We love each other. That’s enough.” Irritation, anger, and boredom within a relationship do not necessarily mean that love has died, as this story illustrates. Love rests at a deeper place. But how do we touch that place inside less-than-idyllic feelings? We do it through ritual. Our lives together within every kind of community are sustained by small and big rituals that keep us together, keep us respectful, and let us wait in patience throughout
Faith, like love, needs to be sustained through ritual. the ups and downs of shared life. For example; sometimes we greet each other with real warmth and sometimes our greetings barely mask our irritation or boredom. But, we still greet each other. Saying “Good morning” is a ritual act, an important one. It says that we love and care for each other, even when that isn’t exactly what we may be feeling on a given day. That’s also true of the perfunctory peck on the cheek as we greet or say goodbye, the ritual hug, the sign of peace in our churches, and (especially) our commitment to sit down with each other at regular times for meals and other “get-to-gathers.” These are important rituals that say with our action and our commitment what our feelings sometimes cannot say, namely: “I love you! I’m here for you, even when we are both too tired, too over-familiar with each other, too preoccupied and busy, and too irritated by our differences to feel much fervor in our love at this moment.” Ritual speaks for love, even as it needs always to be undergirded by love. The same holds true for faith. In faith, just as in love, there
is a surface and there is an undergirding. The deeper reality is in the undergirding and we should be prepared for lots of shifting ground on the surface. In our faith journey, there will be moments of fervor, of emotional Father Ron warmth, of warm security; Rolheiser but there will also be periods, long periods, sometimes bitter ones, where on the surface we will feel only dryness, boredom, a sense of God’s absence, and perhaps even a positive distaste for the things of God and faith. This doesn’t necessarily mean we lack effort or that we are suffering in our faith from the familiarity that breeds contempt. We can, as Chesterton classically suggested, try to look at things familiar until they look unfamiliar again, but that won’t, as the mystics assure us, always cure the problem. Faith, like love, needs to be sustained through ritual, through ritual acts that let our commitment and our action say what we cannot always say in our words and our feelings. And our faith tradition provides these rituals for us: reading the Scriptures, participating in the Eucharist, praying the office of the church, praying the rosary, praying from various kinds of prayer books, sitting in silent centering prayer, and, most important of all, simply showing up regularly for church. All of these say what the woman whose story we shared said to her daughter: Beneath all this, we love each other. That’s enough! Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser is president of the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, Texas.
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Pope prays G-20 summit helps world’s poor By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Pope Benedict XVI prayed that a summit of the leaders of countries with the world’s largest economies would find ways to overcome the current economic crisis and promote real development. At the end of his weekly general audience Nov. 2, the pope issued a special appeal to
Pleading for ‘authentically human’ development the leaders of the G-20 nations ahead of the leaders’ meeting Nov. 3-4 in Cannes, France. “I hope the meeting will help overcome the difficulties, which – on a global level – block the promotion of an authentically human and integral development,� the pope said. The G-20 members are: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa,
People in Nice, France, demonstrate against the G-20 summit and globalization Nov. 1.
South Korea, Turkey, the United Kingdom, the United States and the European Union. The agenda for the Cannes meeting aimed at finding ways to coordinate economic policies to reduce global imbalances between rich and poor; strengthening the regulation of financial markets; and promoting development in the world’s poorer countries despite the global crisis. In view of the Cannes summit, the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace released a document Oct. 24 calling for the gradual creation of a world political authority with broad powers to regulate financial markets, rein in the “inequalities and distortions of capitalist development,� and promote development and the common good. The G-20 leaders met under threat of a
default by Greece. President Barack Obama said after talks with his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy that Europe had made some important steps toward a comprehensive solution to its sovereign debt crisis, Vatican Radio reported Nov. 3. He said the leaders must deal with the crisis before it spreads to other parts of the globe. Vatican Radio quoted Kishore Jayabalan, director of the Rome office of the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty, who said the summit culminates three or four years of European and American politicians’ unwillingness to deal with countries’ debt burdens. It is time for the leaders to be frank with one another and realize that “the entire scheme was based on promises that can’t be kept,� he said
At a glance – Climate change and inequalities in health, education and income threaten to reverse 40 years of progress in improving people’s lives, a U.N. agency reported. – “Bold action� is needed on global development financing and environmental controls, and such measures are both essential and feasible, the agency said. – At the Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI prayed that a Nov. 3-4 summit of the leaders of countries with the world’s largest economies would find ways to overcome the current economic crisis and promote real development. – The pope expressed hope that the summit will remove obstacles that “block the promotion of an authentically human and integral development.�
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U.N.: ‘Disturbing reversal’ of rising living standards Climate change and inequalities in health, education and income threaten to reverse 40 years of progress in improving people’s lives, a U.N. official told Vatican Radio Nov. 3. Helen Clark, head of the U.N. Development Programme, spoke on the launch of the 2011 Human Development Report in Copenhagen, Denmark. The report features the Human Development Index, an annual ranking of national achievement in health, education and income covering 187 countries and territories. “This report says the rate of progress we saw in the last 40 years cannot be maintained unless we get these equity, sustainability issues and challenges tackled,� Vatican Radio quoted Clark as saying. “And the impact in the worst case scenario, which is put in this report, is that countries that are already low on the Human Development Index would see widening inequalities and very little progress if the challenges aren’t tackled,� she said. Norway, Australia and the Netherlands lead the world in the 2011 index while the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Niger and Burundi are at the bottom. The United States, New Zealand, Canada, Ireland, Liechtenstein, Germany and Sweden round out the top 10 countries in the 2011 rankings, but when the index is adjusted for internal inequalities in health, education and income, some of the wealthiest nations drop out of the top 20: The United States falls from No. 4 to No. 23, the Republic of Korea from No. 15 to No. 32, and Israel from No. 17 to No. 25, the U.N. agency said in a statement on the report. The United States and Israel dropped in the report’s inequality-adjusted index “mainly because of income inequality, though health care is also a factor in the U.S. ranking change, while wide education gaps between generations detract from the Republic of Korea’s performance, the agency said. The author of the report, Jeni Klugman, said there is a huge gap between the top and bottom ranked countries, Vatican U.N., page 20 Radio reported.
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Latin America’s indigenous want voice on land use By Barbara J. Fraser LIMA, Peru (CNS) – Most of the environmental battles Brother Paul McAuley fights seem endless, mainly conflicts between indigenous communities and loggers operating on their lands or oil companies that have spilled toxic substances into their waterways. Sometimes, however, there’s a victory. In mid-October, the Peruvian government overturned a law that would have allowed water from one of the main tributaries of the Amazon River to be diverted to irrigate export agriculture operations on Peru’s desert coast, a measure critics called a political-patronage boondoggle. “We’re not sure it’s dead, in the sense that it will never come back, but for the moment it has been put on hold,” said Brother Paul, a La Salle brother from Portsmouth, England, who works with indigenous students and founded the Loreto Environmental Network in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon. But he has his eye on other threats to the region’s rivers, especially a plan for 20 dams along the Maranon River, a project that would flood three indigenous communities. The world’s growing thirst for fossil fuels, electricity and minerals is squeezing indigenous people throughout the Amazon basin, who often inhabit lands rich in oil and gas, timber or minerals. Sometimes indigenous areas are slated for flooding by dams to produce hydroelectricity. Increasingly, indigenous groups are demanding the right – often protected by their countries’ constitutions and enshrined in international treaties – to have a voice in decisions affecting their lands. But resources such as oil, gas and water are considered public property, and political leaders argue that they must exploit them to ensure economic growth. In September, the government of Bolivian President Evo Morales cracked down on one group of Amazonian lowlands Indians who were marching over the Andes Mountains to the capital to protest plans for a highway. One government minister resigned in protest over the violent police action against the protesters, and the interior minister was eventually forced to step down. Morales finally announced that the highway would not go through the park, although he did not scrap the project altogether. The protesters argued that they had not been consulted about the highway construction, which they feared would entice illegal loggers and coca farmers. That highway, as well as roads and hydroelectric dams planned for the Peruvian Amazon, was to be bankrolled and built by Brazilian companies. Brazil’s energy consumption grew by nearly
Bolivian indigenous people of the Isiboro Secure National Park and Indigenous Territory march toward La Paz Oct. 18 in the last leg of a walk of more than 300 miles. Latin America’s indigenous peoples, often backed by church officials, are demanding the right to have a say in decisions affecting their lands.
8 percent in 2010, driven by a 10 percent jump in industrial consumption over the previous year. With its eye on Asian export markets, Brazil is also financing the construction of highways to the Pacific coast through Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. One of the most controversial projects in the Amazon region is on the Xingu River in northern Brazil, where a large hydroelectric dam would reroute the river, reduce the flow and flood a number of villages inhabited by indigenous people and fishing families. While courts decide a series of appeals over the project, construction has proceeded, bringing thousands of people to the area near the town of Altamira in search of jobs. “Our communities are suffering,” said Sheyla Juruna, a Juruna Indian who lives in a tiny community near the river. “The social and environmental impacts are already being felt,” as forests are cleared and wild game becomes scarce, she said. Although local residents want roads and jobs, the dam will ultimately create more environmental and social problems, said Bishop Erwin Krautler of Xingu, in the Brazilian state of Para. “The Amazon is unique in the world, and development must be adapted to the region,” said Bishop Krautler. “That isn’t being done. Amazonia is being treated is if it were just any state in the country. It is considered an area to be exploited for the benefit of others, leaving nothing. That strikes a blow to the heart of Amazonia.” Similar arguments are raised about oil exploration in the Amazon. The Ecuadorean government has made a novel offer to refrain from drilling for oil in Yasuni National Park – an area of high biodiversity that is also home to two indigenous tribes that shun contact with the outside world – if industrialized countries, which use the most fossil fuels, compensate it for the lost revenue.
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billion value of the 850 million barrels of oil under the park. But critics say Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa is sending a mixed message by threatening to go ahead with plans to drill for oil if other countries do not contribute at least $100 million by the end of this year. “We want to safeguard our forest. We want them to respect our nationality, our territory and our forest,” said Manuela Ima, a leader of the Waorani people, who are related to the isolated tribes in the park. “It would be best if the oil stayed in the ground.” Brother Paul sees environmental issues as a challenge to people of faith, and he finds hope in the indigenous students with whom he works. They are using GPS equipment and video cameras to document oil spills, incursions by loggers and toxic dredging. “The appetites of China and Asia and other countries for raw materials are not going to go away,” Brother Paul said. The students “will be able to educate their own people and be the bridge between indigenous communities – which are often uninformed and don’t understand the value of their natural resources – and the Western world.”
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Authors offer fresh, accessible views on an ancient church “NEW SHORT HISTORY OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH” by Norman Tanner, SJ. Continuum (New York, 2011). 344 pp., $22.95. “CATHOLICISM: A JOURNEY TO THE HEART OF THE FAITH” by Robert Barron. Image Books (New York, 2011). 320 pp., $29.99.
Reviewed by Brother Jeffrey Gros, FSC (CNS) Jesuit Father Norman Tanner’s “New Short History of the Catholic Church” and Father Robert Barron’s “Catholicism” give a fresh view to important perspectives on Catholicism. They are welcome additions for the Catholic reader interested in a brief overview either of the church’s story or of the central mysteries of the faith. They are also accessible and brief introductions suitable for the interested non-Catholic reader or the returning Catholic who has been estranged from the tradition or uninformed by its history and content. The history, by the premier Jesuit English historian of the church’s councils, provides a remarkably brief, clear and readable account of the Catholic component of Christianity from its biblical foundation to the 21st century. It includes some penetrating questions in its conclusion about Catholicism’s future as it continues to work out the implications of the First and Second Vatican Councils in the context of a newly globalizing church, in dialogue with the great world religions; economic, technologi-
cal and political forces; ecumenical progress among Christians; and a commitment to inculturation in a variety of new contexts. Father Tanner’s mastery of conciliar history enables him to give a harmonious and integrated account of the continuities, discontinuities and unresolved issues at each moment in history. His account of the relationship between Trent (1545-1563), Vatican I (1870) and Vatican II (1962-1965), and summary of their results and continuing contribution are worth the whole of the book. Amid the debates about history circulating in popular Catholicism and the critics of the church today are caricatures of these three councils and their results, in both the serious literature and in journalistic accounts. These caricatures are a burden on both the relations among Christians and their witness in contemporary society. This brief, comprehensive and careful history should be a good resource for correcting distortions. The author balances the history of institutions, doctrines and leaders, with an account of popular religion, saints, the arts and the wider society within which the church operated and operates today. As a brief account, his judgments will be challenged by
those who have a broad knowledge of the story, and some of his factual errors will be corrected. Father Barron gives a fresh and appealing account of the Catholic faith, enhanced by a beautifully illustrated volume. The treatment of the Christian faith, while richly informed by Catholic doctrine, literature and the arts, is presented from the standpoint of beauty. The book includes 10 chapters covering revelation, the beatitudes, the mystery of God and classical approaches to understanding, Our Lady, Peter and Paul, the church, the Eucharist and other sacraments, the communion of saints, the Christian life in prayer and the Holy Spirit, ending appropriately with the last things: heaven, hell and purgatory. Each of the themes are enriched by an aesthetic sense of the Catholic doctrine as well as a variety of imaginative and creative forms in which it has been embodied in the lives of Christians and the arts they have produced to honor God, Mary, the saints and the church. This book is suitable not only for those who want to be informed and enriched by the Catholic faith. It will also make for serious spiritual reading for expanding and deepening the appreciation of all aspects of the rich treasures provided in Catholic teaching. The book is a witness to the conviction that the Christian Gospel is about the abundance of life in Christ, and not just about the accuracy of orthodox doctrine or a disciplined life. Both volumes provide a rich foundation for Catholic understanding and witness and could also provide resources for those who wish to enrich their Catholic witness within conversation among Christians, or to inform those outside who wish to discover the richness of Catholic self-understanding. Brother Gros, a member of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, is resident scholar in Catholic studies at Lewis University in Romeoville, Ill.
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■ Continued from page 18 “Life expectancy in the Democratic Republic of Congo is 48 years for someone born today while for someone born in Norway it is 81 years so it is a huge difference,” she said. Aid to poorer countries grew 23 percent from 2005 to 2009 but was still far short of the amount pledged by wealthy countries. “Bold action is needed on both fronts if the recent human development progress for most of the world’s poor majority is to be sustained, for the benefit of future generations as well as for those living today,” the U.N. agency said. “Past reports have shown that living standards in most countries have been rising – and converging – for several decades now. Yet the 2011 report projects a disturbing reversal of those trends if environmental deterioration and social inequalities continue to intensify, with the least developed countries diverging downward from global patterns of progress by 2050,” the agency said. The agency said the report highlights “how the world’s most disadvantaged people suffer the most from environmental degradation, including in their immediate personal environment, and disproportionately lack political power, making it all the harder for the world community to reach agreement on needed global policy changes.” “Bold new approaches to global development financing and environmental controls” are needed, the agency said, maintaining that these measures are both essential and feasible. – Research by Catholic San Francisco
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Advent Opportunities 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., San Francisco, across from the Stockton/Sutter garage. The economy, culture, peace and violence are all on the agenda. How are Catholics to understand these aspects of human life? What does the church teach about them? Call (415) 397-0113. Nov. 13: Elfrieda Langemann O’Neill, soprano; Nov. 20: Angela Kraft Cross, organist. All performances are at 3:30 p.m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street and Geary Boulevard, San Francisco. Admission free but freewill donations welcome. Ample free parking. Nov. 19, 9 a.m.-noon: Talks with Paulist Father Terry Ryan: “The Dark Night of the Soul,” at Old St. Mary’s Paulist Center, California Street at Grant Avenue, San Francisco. Darkness experienced by many in prayer is really part of spiritual growth, and not something to fear or worry about. Coffee and treats at 9 a.m. Workshop is free but donations are gratefully accepted. Call (415) 288-3845. Nov. 28, 4 p.m.: Christmas Tree Lighting and Holiday Boutique at St. Patrick’s Seminary & University, 320 Middlefield Road, Menlo Park. See the seminary all decked out for Christmas. Boutique opens at 4 p.m. followed by tree lighting and caroling. Bring your family for an enjoyable evening. Open to the public. Nov. 29, Dec. 6, Dec. 13, 7 p.m.: “Christianity and Social Progress Today,” Advent lectures at St. Rita Church, 100 Marinda Drive, Fairfax. Speakers are retired Washington. D.C., Cardinal Theodore McCarrick on religion and American diplomacy; Santa Clara University professor Kristin E. Heyer on a Christian response to migration; and Jesuit Father James R. Stormes on justice and economic development. Talks are free. Call (415) 456-4815 or email saintritafairfax@att.net.
Volunteer Catholic Charities CYO: Contact Liz Rodriguez at erodriguez@cccyo.org or (415) 972-1297 to fill out a volunteer application. A list of current open volunteer positions is available at www.cccyo.org/volunteer. St. Vincent de Paul Society of San Francisco: Contact Tim Szarnicki at tszarnicki@svdp-sf.org or (415) 977-1270 x3010. St. Anthony Foundation: Visit www.stanthonysf. org and fill out a volunteer opportunity request form or contact Marie O’Connor at (415) 592-2726. The Society of St. Vincent de Paul of San Mateo County: Call Atrecia at (650) 373-0623 or email svdpinfo@yahoo.com. Handicapables: Call Jane at (415) 585-9085. La Porziuncola Nuova at National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi: Contact Jim Brunsmann at jimbrunsmann@comcast.net or go to www.knightsofsaintfrancis.com and follow the Volunteer Application link at the bottom of the home page.
Church Anniversaries San Francisco’s Church of the Epiphany Parish holds a “Centennial Celebration Gala” Nov. 19 beginning with Mass at 4 p.m. A ticketed formal dinner follows at the South San Francisco Conference Center beginning at 6 p.m. “We hope to see you all there so that together as one united family of Christ we can honor our past, celebrate our present, and look forward to our future,” organizers of the event said. Call the Epiphany parish office (415) 333-7630.
Good Health Nov. 30, 5-6 p.m.: “Vestibular and Balance: I Feel Dizzy!” Do you ever feel dizzy or off balance? Come and learn about dizziness and balance including different types of dizziness, diagnoses, and physical therapy rehabilitation. Appropriate for all ages. A free event presented by physical therapist, Cary Lehman, at St. Mary’s Medical Center, 450 Stanyan St., San Francisco, 3 East Conference Room. Call (888) 4575202 to register.
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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 honored Golden Belles. Contact Katie O’Leary at nuttydames@aol.com or call (415) 282-6588. Nov. 18: St. 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. Nov. 19, 5 p.m.: Class of ’61 from St. Cecilia School, San Francisco. Contact Christopher Diner at dinersf@sbcglobal.net or (415) 566-7500.
Nov. 15, 16, 17: St. Mary’s Medical Center Auxiliary’s “Holiday Boutique” in the hospital main lobby, 450 Stanyan St., San Francisco. Tuesday hours are 4-7 p.m. with refreshments and parking for a fee of $10. Wednesday hours are 10 a.m.-4 p.m. and Thursday hours are 10 a.m-2 p.m., both with free admission. A raffle and silent auction will be held with many lovely prizes. Start your Christmas shopping early. Proceeds benefit the hospital. Call (415) 750-5646. Pictured here with the season’s Jolly Old Elf are Pauline McArdle and Mary Perata.
Holy Cross Cemetery 1500 Old Mission Road in Colma, (650) 756-2060 Dec. 3, 11 a.m.: First Saturday Mass in All Saints Mausoleum Chapel. Father Jerome Foley, pastor, St. James Parish, San Francisco is principal celebrant. Dec. 10, 11 a.m.: Christmas Remembrance Service in All Saints Mausoleum Chapel. Msgr. John Talesfore, pastor, St. Mary’s Cathedral, will preside.
Arts and Entertainment Young Adults The Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose have announced retreats for young adult women and men as well as several retreats for young adult women interested in exploring religious life. Visit www.msjdominicans.org or call (510) 933-6335 or (510) 657-2468. You may also email blessings@msjdominicans.org or vocations@ msjdominicans.org. Nov. 19, 8 a.m.: St. Vincent de Paul Parish Young Adults Thanksgiving Meal Drive in collaboration with the St. Vincent de Paul Society conference at the San Francisco parish. Gather in the church parking lot at Steiner and Green Street. Help prepare meal boxes then travel in small groups to deliver the boxes to families around San Francisco. All meet up for lunch afterward. The St. Vincent de Paul Society takes care of the logistics and the young adults provide the volunteers and vehicles. Contact Julie Screbant at stvincentsyoungadults@gmail.com.
Food and Fun Nov. 12, 5:30 p.m.: “Around the World with Serra,” benefiting Junipero Serra High School. Evening includes silent and live auction, dinner and dancing. Tickets are $100 per passenger. To purchase your boarding pass, visit www.serrahs.com/auction. Nov. 18, 6:30–10 p.m.: St. Finn Barr Parish Athletics “Spaghetti Dinner & Dance” with tickets $10 at the door or $8 in advance. Menu includes pasta, salad, roll and dessert. Beverages will be available for purchase. Proceeds benefit the sports program. Email sfbsports@yahoo.com. Nov. 18, 19, 10 a.m.–4 p.m.: “Sisters of Mercy Holiday Boutique at Marian Oaks,” 2300 Adeline Drive, Bldg. D, Burlingame. Numerous holiday items for sale including homemade jams, handcrafted blankets and crafts, alloccasion handmade cards, baked goods, and fudge. Call Debbie Halleran at (650) 340-7426.
Nov. 16, 17: “Christmas Boutique” benefiting Holy Angels Parish, 107 San Pedro Road in Colma: Saturday 11 a.m.-6:30 p.m. and Sunday: 8 a.m.6:30 p.m. Fun for the whole family. One-of-a-kind handmade gifts, plus lunch and snacks including baked goods will be available for purchase. Photos with Santa and activities for children are also available on site. Nov. 17, 19: “La Festa di Natale Holiday Boutique” at St. Anne’s Home, Little Sisters of the Poor, 300 Lake St. San Francisco. Preview Evening Gala Thursday from 6-9 p.m. featuring cocktails, dinner buffet, silent auction and boutique shopping. Holiday Boutique Shopping Saturday from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Luncheon by reservation only at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Complimentary valet parking is available both days. Contact Dawn Hahn at (415) 661-6530. Nov. 30, 5-9 p.m.: “Holiday Boutique,” sponsored by alumnae of Mercy High School, Burlingame at the school’s Kohl Mansion, 2750 Adeline Drive in Burlingame. Docent tours of the grand home at 6:30 and 7:30 p.m. More than 65 vendors will be on hand with products for sale. Admission donation of $7 is requested. Parking in campus lots as well as at Our Lady of Angels Church, 1721 Hillside Drive off El Camino Real where shuttles will take shoppers to and from the boutique site. Call Carol Fraher at (650) 762-1190. Dec. 3, 4: “St. Brendan School Christmas Boutique & Children’s Carnival,” Saturday 10 a.m.–8 p.m. and Sunday 10 a.m.–2 p.m. at Laguna Honda and Portola Drive, San Francisco. Enjoy carnival games and prizes, large inflatable slides, holiday shopping, gourmet booth. Email sbsboutique@gmail.com. Dec. 4, 11 a.m.–1 p.m.: “Holiday Open House & Craft Fair” benefiting Hanna Boys Center, 17000 Arnold Drive in Sonoma. Enjoy a festive day including refreshments, Santa photos, handmade crafts,
Dec. 1, 7 p.m.: Mercy High School, San Francisco’s Dolce Choir performs its “Winter Pops Concert.” Email events@mercyhs.org or call (415) 334-7941.
Vocations Nov. 14, 7:30-9 p.m.: All interested men and their wives, if married, are invited to attend an information meeting about the permanent diaconate at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Lower Level, Hall B. Deacon Rich Foley, program will lead an overview of diaconal ministry, a description of the formation program and the application process. Any man who feels called to service and seeks to discern this call further should attend. Applicants must be 35 years old at the time of ordination, not recent converts, and an involved member of their parish. If married, he must have the consent of his wife, and if not married, must commit to remaining celibate. All candidates must have the recommendation of their pastor. Call (415) 614-5531.
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Fully Licensed • State Certified • Locally Trained • Experienced • On Call 24/7
Construction Cahalan Const. Remodels, Additions, Paint,Windows, Dryrot, Stucco
John Spillane • • • •
Retaining Walls Stairs • Gates Dry Rot Senior & Parishioner Discounts
650.291.4303
415.279.1266 Lic. #582766 415.566.8646 mikecahalan@gmail.com
QUALITY HOME CARE SERVING THE BAY AREA SINCE 1996 * Attendants * Companions • Insured • Bonded www.irishhelpathome.com
San Francisco 415 759 0520 Lic. #742961
DEWITT ELECTRIC
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415-205-1235
Electrical
Home Care
Garage Door
Senior Home Care ACACIA HOME CARE Most compassionate and loving care.
20 years experience – LVN Nancy A. Concon,
Remodeling
Licensed
Argos Construction
CALL FOR FREE CLIENT ASSESMENT
G ARAGE D OOR R EPAIR
(415) 505-7830
Same price 7 days
Senior Care
Residential Commercial
650.892.3550 Argosconstruction1.com
Lic. # 376353
Lic. #918864
BETTER HEALTH CARE
(415) 931-1540 24 hrs.
Painting & Remodeling John Holtz Ca. Lic 391053 General Contractor Since 1980
(650) 355-4926
Marin 415.721.7380
Lifetime Warranty on All Doors + Motors
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We Provide reliable & experienced caregivers to help seniors in their own home. *Companionship, Bathing, Alzheimer, Dementia & more.
Painting & Remodeling
For more information, contact: Contractors State License Board 800-321-2752
Long hrs. - $10, Short hrs. - $18, Live-in - $170
McGUIRE & SONS
•Interiors •Exteriors •Kitchens •Baths
Counseling
SUPPLE SENIOR CARE
GENERAL BUILDING CONTRACTOR State License #346397
Contractor inspection reports and pre-purchase consulting
Lic.# 593788
Contractor FINE WOOD WORKING SINCE 1978
• Family • Work • Relationships • Depression • Anxiety • Addictions
415.454.2719
Painting
Painting BILL HEFFERON
PAINTING INTERIOR, EXTERIOR All Jobs Large and Small
10% Discount: Seniors, Parishioners
Bonded, Insured – LIC. #819191
Handy Man Expert interior and exterior painting, carpentry, demolition, fence (repair, build), decks, remodeling, roof repair, gutter (clean/repair), landscaping, gardening, hauling, moving, welding.
All Purpose Cell (415) 517-5977 (650) 757-1946 NOT A LICENSED CONTRACTOR
Dr. Daniel J. Kugler Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Over 30 years experience • Reasonable Fees
Confidential • Compassionate • Practical (415) 921-1619 • Insurance Accepted
Irish Painting Discount to CSF Readers
Eoin Lehane
415.368.8589 Lic.#942181
www.Irishpainting-sf.com
Call BILL 415.731.8065 • Cell: 415.710.0584 bheffpainting@sbcglobal.net Member of Better Business Bureau
When Life Hurts It Helps To Talk
S.O.S. PAINTING CO. Interior-Exterior wallpaper hanging & removal Lic # 526818 Senior Discount
415-269-0446 650-738-9295
www.sospainting.net FREE ESTIMATES
(650) 580-6334 / (925) 330-4760
“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
1537 Franklin Street • San Francisco, CA 94109
Do you want to be more fulfilled in love and work – but find things keep getting in the way?
Healthcare Agency
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
The Irish Rose
Home Healthcare Agency Specializing in home health aides, attendants and companions. Serving San Francisco, Marin & the Peninsula.
Contact: 415.447.8463
Lila Caffery, MA, CCHT San Francisco: 415.337.9474 Complimentary phone consultation www.InnerChildHealing.com
Visit us at www.catholic-sf.org For your local & international Catholic news, Datebook, On the Street, website listings, advertising information, “Place Classified Ad” Form and much more!
Notary
Breen’s Mobile Notary Servics Timothy P. Breen Notary Public
Certified Signing Agent PHONE: 415-846-1922 FAX: 415-702-9272
* Member National Notary Association *
November 11, 2011
Rental Available
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Chimney Cleaning
Catholic San Francisco Classifieds
CITY TOWERS WAITING LIST OPENING One Day Only, Wednesday, December 7, 2011, for studio’s and 1 bedroom units only.
Summ e Speciar/Fall ls
Must qualify. Must apply in person and all adults must be present. Only 100 applications will be distributed and accepted.
Hours are 10am-12pm and 1pm-4pm at 1065 8th Street Oakland.
Help Wanted
Archdiocese of San Francisco
$89
$119
$139
Insurance
1-bedroom for rent in 2-bedroom condo. Available immediately. Apartment will be shared with retired lady. Includes WiFi internet, utilities, washer/dryer, kitchen. Call (415) 841-9103
Associate Director of Development
PLEASE RECYCLE THIS PAPER!
Full-time exempt position reports to the Director of Development We are is seeking a qualified Associate Director of Development to assist in building, directing and coordinating comprehensive fund development programs of the Archdiocese of San Francisco and its agencies by ensuring that the proper planning, communications and Catholic stewardship-based, fund-raising activities are implemented. This full-time exempt position reports to the Director of Development. We offer a competitive salary in a non-profit environment plus excellent benefits (including free, gated parking at our downtown San Francisco central office.)
Principle Duties and Responsibilities: • Work on the $5 million + Archbishop’s Annual Appeal • Track and report on Bequests to the Archdiocese • Monitor a 30,000+ database
Work Experience/Qualifications: Three to five years experience in nonprofit Development, preferably management duties in fundraising • Knowledge of development and fund raising principles and procedures • Outstanding interpersonal/relationship skills; organizing the work of self and others • Active member of a Catholic parish within the Archdiocese preferred. Excellent written and oral presentation skills Experience in public speaking Knowledge of capital campaigns, annual appeals, bequests, endowments, fundraising techniques, direct mail
Qualified applicants will have extensive computer skills: Microsoft Office - ability to utilize and navigate within and interact between programs Raiser’s Edge – knowledge of the program and able to garner data through queries HTML - utilization of Internet or web-based program language
Roommate Wanted ROOM FOR RENT IN SAN FRANCISCO.
Looking to make a difference?
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FOR ADVERTISING INFORMATION
Call: 415-614-5642 Fax: 415-614-5641 Email: penaj@sfarchdiocese.org or visit catholic-sf.org
CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
For Sale
PUBLISH A NOVENA
San Juans Islands Home A master suite with a jetted tub, its own deck, a sitting room and 210-degree view of the Strait of Juan de Fuca and Cattle Pass are features of this 3-bedroom, 2 bath unique home on 2.1 acres on Lopez Island. Very private, yet close to island airport and golf course. Two-car garage. Stone fireplace. Walk to beach. $449,000 – $65,000 under county assessed value. E-mail Dan at cnsuncle01@yahoo.com for more info and/or photos. (360) 299-0506
Pre-payment required Mastercard or Visa accepted
Cost $26
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
Name Adress Phone MC/VISA # Exp. Select One Prayer: ❑ St. Jude Novena to SH ❑ Prayer to St. Jude
❑ Prayer to the Blessed Virgin ❑ Prayer to the Holy Spirit
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
Help Wanted GOSPEL CHOIR DIRECTOR POSITION AVAILABLE
Education: Bachelor of Arts or Science degree No reimbursement for relocation expenses For more details about this position please go to: http://www.sfarchdiocese.org/media/files/open-positions/Associate%20Director%20of%20Development%20Sept%2027.pdf For consideration, please e-mail resume and cover letter to: Archdiocese of San Francisco Attn: Patrick Schmidt 1 Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco, Ca 94109 E-mail: schmidtp@sfarchdiocese.org
St. Paul of the Shipwreck Catholic Church is looking for a Gospel Choir Director to direct its choir and musicians at the 10:30 a.m. Sunday Gospel Mass. Salary negotiable within range of Archdiocese of San Francisco established guidelines.
heaven can’t wait Serra for Priestly Vocations Please call Archdiocese of San Francisco (415) 614-5683
Email Resume/Application to spswoffice@aol.com, or FAX to (415) 468-1400. For more details, call Rev. Mr. Larry Chatmon, Deacon, daytime at (415) 557-5330, or evening (510) 430-0353.
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JUNIPERO SERRA HIGH SCHOOL 451 West 20th Avenue San Mateo CA 94402 650.345.8207
www.serrahs.com
At Serra, ordinary moments become extraordinary experiences.
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unípero Serra High School in San Mateo is much more than an outstanding Catholic college preparatory school for young men.It is a place where teachers become mentors and classmates become brothers. Located in the heart of the Peninsula between San Francisco and Silicon Valley, Serra students take advantage of all that the Bay Area has to offer. Teachers help students to explore their talents in a variety of places—academics, the arts, athletics, clubs and service learning experiences—all in the context of our core values of Faith, Wisdom, Service, Community and Leadership. The Serra spirit is unmistakable. At Serra, you will be known and you will belong. Students form bonds that are strengthened every day—in the classrooms, on the athletic fields, at retreats and on the performing arts stage—which ultimately transform into a brotherhood that lasts a lifetime.
learning. They are equipped with Smart Board and digital camera technology, student laptops and wireless computer connectivity. The second floor science wing features five classroom/lecture labs. The first floor has expanded facilities for the Academic Resource Center and the arts—including a music rehearsal hall, a Green Room and spacious art rooms. Tri-School Program We have the best of both worlds. The Tri-School Program is a partnership among Serra, Notre Dame, Belmont and Mercy, Burlingame. This collaborative effort allows our schools to remain single gender, while providing significant coeducational opportunities on each other’s campuses, including classes, retreats, dances, clubs, music and drama programs.
Curriculum Serra prepares students not only for the rigors of university, but also for the challenges of 21st century adulthood. Our students have an 82.7% AP pass rate, which is one of the highest in the entire Bay Area. Ninety-nine percent of our graduates go on to college. The Class of 2011 received $7.5 million in college scholarships and performed more than 31,000 volunteer hours of Christian service. In August, we opened the doors to our brand new Center for the Arts and Sciences. The $21 million project includes a major expansion of the aquatics facilities. Contemporary classrooms feature the latest instructional technology to maximize student
junipero serra high school
open house Thursday, December 1, 2011 7 p.m. Serra Blue is GOLD