November 4, 2011

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Bishop addresses House panel on ‘grave threats to religious liberty’

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Veiled in white A statue of St. Francis of Assisi is seen outside St. Anthony Church in Butler N.J., after an Oct. 29 snowstorm dropped more than 2 feet of snow on parts of the East Coast.

Evening classes for ‘thinking Catholics’ A new adult faith formation program created by the Archdiocese of San Francisco, Forward in Faith: Educational Enrichment for the Thinking Catholic, begins in January, with sign-up starting Nov. 12-13. Evening classes will be held in parishes throughout the archdiocese. More on Page 7.

WASHINGTON (CNS) – Recent “grave threats to religious liberty” serve as “grim validations” of the U.S. bishops’ decision last June to create a special committee to address those issues, Bishop William E. Lori of Bridgeport, Conn., told a House subcommittee Oct. 26.

Bishop Lori, appointed in late September to chair the bishops’ new Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty, said the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence require government “to acknowledge and protect religious liberty as fundamental, no matter the moral and political trends of the moment.”

But in recent days, he said, “the bishops of the United States have watched with increasing Bishop William E. Lori alarm as this great national of Bridgeport, Conn. legacy of religious liberty, so profoundly in harmony with our own teachings, has been subject to ever more frequent assault and ever more rapid erosion.”

In written testimony before the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution, Bishop Lori called for “corrective action by Congress” to address six issues: – Regulations issued by the Department of Health and Human Services in August that would mandate coverage of contraception and sterilization in most private health insurance plans.

– A new requirement by HHS that would require the bishops’ Migration and Refugee Services to agree to provide the “full range” of reproductive services, including abortion and contraception, to human trafficking victims and unaccompanied refugee minors.

– The U.S. Agency for International Development’s requirement that Catholic Relief Services and other contractors include condom distribution in their HIV prevention activities and provide contraception in a range of international relief and development programs.

– The Department of Justice’s actions to mischaracterize the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which states that marriage is the union of a man and a woman, as an act of bigotry and to actively attack its constitutionality.

– The Justice Department’s efforts to undermine the RELIGIOUS LIBERTY, page 8

Archbishop Niederauer back to work at chancery Archbishop George Niederauer returned to work at the Pastoral Center of the Archdiocese of San Francisco on Oct. 31 following a period of recuperation from cardiac double bypass surgery in Southern California on Aug. 29. The archbishop’s physician has allowed him to return to work on a part-time basis, according to an announcement by the archdiocese.

The extended surgery followed the archbishop’s suffering chest pains while on vacation in Southern California in late August.

Archbishop Niederauer marked his return by celebrating Mass with chancery staff, who welcomed him with a round of applause. “I thank you for your prayers and ask you to continue them as I continue my recovery,” he said. Archbishop Niederauer is expected to return to his regular work schedule in December.

Archbishop Niederauer was ordained a priest in 1962 for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. A former professor of St. John’s Seminary in Camarillo, he was appointed San Francisco’s eighth archbishop Dec.15, 2005.

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By Tom Burke It was an evening for “the small church” but there was nothing small about the Oct. 8 celebration of the third anniversary of the Porziuncola Nuova and Knights of St. Francis of Assisi. Television star Annie Potts was special guest and emcee at the tented dinner served on the plaza of the National Annie Potts and Shrine of St. Francis of Angela Alioto Assisi in North Beach. In her remarks, Potts said she was a convert to Catholicism who started her walk to the church because she liked the idea of being able to go to daily Mass. “Annie loves the Knights of St. Francis and got in touch with us about two months ago,” Angela Alioto, founder of the knights, said. Lunch with the Designing Women star was among items auctioned at the gala.

“Proceeds benefit sustaining the Porziuncola, feeding the poor and the homeless programs that the Knights of St. Francis vote on, all with the tenets of St. Francis in mind,” Angela said.

• Archbishop Riordan High School football Crusaders went against cross-town rival Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep Oct. 8. The school joined thousands of football teams across the nation celebrating the centennial birthday of former President Ronald Reagan – born Feb. 6, 1911 – and a memorial coin toss commemorating his lifelong interest and appreciation for football.

Riordan took the coin toss but SHCP won the game, 35-7. Enhancing the homecoming event was Pat Daly with Reagan coin a pregame barbecue for alumni and a U.S. Coast Guard color guard presentation arranged by Riordan alum, Mike Uland, whose son Patrick is a senior at the school.

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• Marnie Barrett of St. Charles Parish and school in San Carlos is crazy about the monthly lunch for seniors Father Dave Ghiorso has put in place. “We are invited to lunch free served by the staff and some of the eighth graders,” Marnie said. “It started out as lunch for women but soon was invaded by the retired men. Needless to say, it’s been a huge success.”

Parishioner Mimi Ahern continues the cheer for the pastor’s good idea: Mimi said the parking lot was jam-packed for the Father Dave noontime fest. “The aroma from the kitchen was tantalizing,” she said. “A back to school lunch in September was complete with coins to buy lunch and ice cream. What a creative and generous staff we have here at our parish.”

• Congrats to Sean Traynor, of St. Pius Parish, on his $1,000 Kohl’s Cares Scholarship for “outstanding volunteer service.” Sean, who attends Carlmont High School in Belmont was one of 210 winners selected for the honor from 37,000 candidates, the department store said in a statement.

• Catholic Charities CYO Junior Board, young adults who support the agency’s work and ministries, recently helped paint the horse barn for the Therapeutic Equestrian Program at St. Vincent’s School for Boys in San Rafael.

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CCCYO joins national effort to promote federal nutritional aid for needy Catholic Charities CYO has found that a high percentage of people eligible for food stamps in the Bay Area are not participating and thus are not receiving valuable supplemental nutrition.

It is estimated the percentage is as high as 78 percent in San Mateo County and 70 percent in Marin County, while nearly 53 percent of eligible San Francisco residents have not applied for the stamps through California’s CalFresh program. Statewide, 52 percent of those eligible are not participating, according to Catholic Charities of California Inc. in a survey of California poverty data.

“This is really startling,” said Jeff Bialik, executive director of Catholic Charities CYO in San Francisco, San Mateo and Marin counties.

“If people are struggling to get nutrition we want to make sure they are getting access to it. To have 78 percent or 70 percent eligible and not apply – we want to cut those numbers in half,” he said, noting that many not participating are elderly.

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At a glance – More than half of California residents eligible for federal food aid are not participating in the program.

– Some 44 million low-income Americans rely on the program but barriers to participation, including stigma, remain.

– Immigrant communities are often wary of the program, and seniors may not be aware.

– Catholic Charities USA has joined other faith groups in lobbying for the program as Congress considers budget cuts.

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Retired priests celebrated Archbishop George Niederauer is pictured with Father Dave Pettingill Oct. 21 at St. Mary’s Cathedral at the first annual St. John Vianney Luncheon honoring retired priests of the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

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the food-stamp program is called, but there are barriers to participation, including stigma associated with the benefit, Bialik said. That has prompted Catholic Charities USA, along with CCCYO in the Bay Area, to launch an effort to boost enrollment.

Catholic Charities USA has joined faith groups in the Fighting Poverty With Faith National Food Stamp Challenge, to underscore the importance of the supplemental program just as Congress is considering budget cuts.

Bialik said that he and his office have been working with a former Catholic Charities official in Maine, Kevin Concannon, who is now undersecretary for food, nutrition and consumer services at the Department of Agriculture, to “shine a light on the fact that we have a very low percentage of our eligible population participating in this nutrition program.”

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Religion part of holistic education, pope says VATICAN CITY – A holistic education of children and young people must include religious education in accordance with the wishes of the children’s parents, Pope Benedict XVI told Brazil’s new ambassador to the Vatican. The teaching of religion in public schools, “far from signifying that the state assumes or imposes a specific religious creed, indicates a recognition of religion as a necessary value for the holistic formation of the person,” the pope said Oct. 31.

A mother’s prayer A mother offers a prayer at her son’s tomb in Navotas, Philippines, Nov. 1.

More than 80 percent of Filipinos are Catholic and observe All Saints’ Day Nov. 1 and All Souls’ Day Nov. 2 with cemetery visits.

Pope: Resist customs that counter Gospel VATICAN CITY – Angolan Catholics must resist customs in their country that go against the Gospel, including the practice of cohabitation without marriage, shunning or even killing children and old people accused of being witches, and divisions based on tribal origin, Pope Benedict XVI said. “Christians breathe the spirit of their time and experience the pressure of the customs of their society, but through the grace of baptism, they are called to renounce the dangerous prevailing tendencies,” the pope told the bishops of Angola and Sao Tome.

Meeting the bishops Oct. 29 at the end of their “ad limina” visits to the Vatican, Pope Benedict said there were three practices widely accepted in Angolan society that are contrary to the Gospel and the good of the human family. The first, he said, is what Angolans call “amigamento,” or cohabitation, which the pope said “contradicts God’s plan for procreation and the human family.”

Pope Benedict said the low rate of Catholic marriages in Angola indicates a serious problem, including for social stability.

Group: Urgent need to focus on world poverty LONDON – The urgent need to address global poverty and the threat of climate change may be overshadowed by the financial

crisis engulfing the world’s richest nations, a British aid agency said in a statement Oct. 31.

The Catholic Agency for Overseas Development, the aid agency of the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, warned the leaders of the Group of 20 nations that they will perpetuate the global economic crisis if they fail to put international development “at the core” of their agenda when they meet Nov. 3-4 in Cannes, France.

Goals reached by G-20 leaders in Seoul last year to rein in a “socially useless” financial sector and deal with poverty and climate change “have been shamefully cast aside in the face of the global downturn,” said Christina Weller, CAFOD’s economic analyst, in the statement.

Nun who died of TB exemplified generosity MADRID – A Spanish nun who died of tuberculosis after spending her life caring for the sick exemplifies the “generous care and human closeness” needed today, said Cardinal Angelo Amato, prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for Saints’ Causes.

Cardinal Amato compared Sister Maria Catalina Irigoyen Echegaray (1848-1918), who worked in the Spanish capital as a

member of the Servants of Mary, with the good samaritan. “She saw in the ill and needy the face of the suffering Christ and enjoyed unceasing popularity among the infirm because of her deep-rooted faith in Christ,” Cardinal Amato said Oct. 29 in his homily at her beatification Mass in Madrid’s Almudena Cathedral.

“It was humiliating and tiring work, which she experienced with love – walking the streets, going up and down staircases, caring for her companions, receiving charitable donations with gratitude,” the cardinal told the assembly. “We badly need such gestures and examples of fidelity to the Gospel – today, more than ever.”

Bishops: Drop charges against protesters BANGALORE, India – Meeting with the top government leader of the Karnataka state, 14 Catholic bishops called for the withdrawal of dozens of “false cases” against Christians protesting a series of 2008 attacks on three dozen churches.

Led by Archbishop Bernard Moras of Bangalore, the prelates urged Chief Minister Sadananda Gowda Oct. 28 to withdraw all pending cases against “innocent Christian

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The protests followed a series of attacks in September 2008 around Mangalore by Hindu fundamentalists. Witnesses said police broke into churches and beat the protesters, including nuns and women. Charges were subsequently filed against them.

Religion teachers critical to new evangelization WASHINGTON – The cardinal recently selected by Pope Benedict XVI to play a key role in the October 2012 world Synod of Bishops on the new evangelization told high school religion teachers Oct. 28 that catechesis, confidence in the faith and sharing the faith are critical to carrying out the new evangelization. “You are on the front line of the new evangelization – an effort that mirrors so clearly the work of the early church and the first disciples,” Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl of Washington said. “The new evangelization is not a program. It is a mode of thinking, seeing and acting,” he said. “It is a lens through which we see the opportunities to proclaim the Gospel anew.

It is also a recognition that the Holy Spirit is actively working in the church.”

Charges against CUA ‘without foundation’ WASHINGTON – The president of The Catholic University of America has disputed a complaint filed with the District of Columbia’s Office of Human Rights over the ability of Muslim students to engage in worship at the university. “That charge is completely without foundation,” declared president John Garvey in a statement sent to all students, faculty and staff Oct. 28.

John Banzhaf, a public-interest law professor at George Washington University, also in Washington, filed the complaint against Catholic University in early October.

“The fact is that no Muslim student at Catholic University has registered a complaint with the university about the exercise of their religion on campus. And today we learned from an article in The Washington Post that Mr. Banzhaf himself has not received any complaints from our Muslim students,” Garvey said.

He added, “I regret very much that our Muslim students have been used as pawns in a manufactured controversy.”

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Manila’s new archbishop called simple, generous, able to laugh at himself

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IMUS, Philippines (CNS) – Archbishop Luis Tagle, named Oct. 13 as head of the influential Manila archdiocese, is the kind of person “everyone always wants to be around,” said Father Allan Valero.

“He enjoys what he does; whenever he has bloopers or makes mistakes, he can still laugh at himself,” said Father Valero. “He can be serious, of course, when need be, but he can always look at the lighter side of things.”

Father Valero, the parish priest at the cathedral in Imus, where the archbishop served as bishop from 2001 until his recent appointment, said the dismantling of the traditional top-down structure in the church is one of the reasons he has enjoyed working with the new archbishop.

Archbishop Luis Tagle, “He encourages people, 54, is to be installed to he delegates work,” the priest said. “He trusts lead the Archdiocese of people to work with him.

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Archbishop Tagle, who earned a doctorate in sacred theology at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., honed his theological expertise at the Vatican under then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger. He seems to break from tradition in certain areas, such as the organizational structure he instituted in the Imus diocese and holding the position of longtime editorial board member of the sometimes dubbed “liberal” Italian publication on the history of Vatican II, Storia del Concilio Vaticano II. But he does not deviate on issues such as the reproductive health legislation being debated in the Philippine Congress.

Many Catholics are looking to him to reunite the Philippine church, which has splintered over the reproductive health issue.

Admirers have widely lauded the theological gifts of the 54-year-old prelate known as Chito.

“The depth of his understanding of theology was already at a far more superior level during our college years,” said Ricardo Jalbuena, who attended a prominent Jesuit university with Archbishop Tagle. “It was always enlightening to have Chito around.”

Jalbuena described the archbishop as a gifted speaker who does not shy away from modern media.

The newly named archbishop was hard to reach in the days following his Oct. 13 appointment, but was not to be missed on his weekly Gospel program on the YouTube channel of Ateneo de Manila University’s Jesuit Communications Foundation.

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bishop, who speaks with ease on the show, haltingly chose his words about his challenging new assignment as head of a highly influential archdiocese in this predominantly Catholic country.

The mission is “much heavier than what I can handle,” he said. “It’s overwhelming. I cannot imagine how a person like me with my own limitations and my sinfulness could embrace such a – such an immense mission.”

He said the appointment was a test of his ability to love.

“Can I say yes and give my soul, my mind, my strength to God who has loved me first?” he asked. “And can I love neighbors, those to whom I’m not related, especially ... the teeming masses of the poor in Manila, would I love them as I love myself? I hear this calling and I tremble before it but I know, I know, it is the real calling: to love.”

Cathedral’s stolen bell found three days after theft The announcement quoted San Francisco Police Inspector Brian Danker as saying the bell could have been very close The historic bell stolen Oct. 23 from the grounds of St. to being broken down for its metal value.

Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco was recovered Oct. 26 The 5,300-pound bell, which is 80 percent copper, was in West Oakland across the street from a scrap metal yard manufactured in Maryland in 1889. It was a gift to the church near the Port of Oakland docks, San Francisco police said. from a San Rafael man, Duriham Carrigan, that same year.

There was widespread news coverage of the theft of After the 1962 fire at the former cathedral, the bell was the bell, which was given to the church moved to the grounds of the new cathedral in 1889 and in service at the former St. at Geary Boulevard and Gough Street, Mary’s Cathedral on Van Ness Avenue where it was placed in an outside garden. until it burned to the ground in 1962. It “This is wonderful news, a mini-miracle was moved to the current cathedral site in of sorts,” said George Wesolek, director of 1970, when it opened. An informant noticommunications. “The wide press coverage fied San Francisco police Oct. 26 at 2 p.m. of the theft helped make it harder to get that the bell was resting on beams in a field away with this. Our thanks to the public at the corner of 9th and Pine streets in West for their proactive response, to the press Oakland, said Officer Albie Esparza. and especially for the effective work of the Esparza said the bell was in an open pubSan Francisco Police Department.” lic area and was covered with a tarp when In August 2010, a bell that marked the Police are keeping inspectors found it. On Oct. 31, he added entrance to St. Michael Korean Church in the bell safe. that the bell will remain in police custody San Francisco was stolen. Parish members in San Francisco until the cathedral finds arriving for Mass found that it had been a secure place for it. “We don’t want it stolen again,” said removed from its supports. The bell was installed in 1901 Esparza, who thanked the media for police telling the public and its value was described as “priceless.” about the case and distributing photos and video.

Copper theft is a plague in the Bay Area, said Danker.

Esparza said no arrests have been made and the investi- “The worst nightmare going for a contractor in San Francisco gation is continuing. or the Bay Area is to make the mistake of going on a threeThe archdiocese announced that the police said the bell day weekend. You come back to your job site and see copper was “dirty and covered with dirty canvas tarps, but it is intact.” has been ripped out of your building,” said Danker.

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Christ-like or too far left? Economy note from Vatican council sparks mixed views

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Here is a sampling of reaction to the document on the world economy issued by a pontifical council Oct. 24.

By Carol Zimmermann WASHINGTON (CNS) – U.S. Catholics have mixed feelings about the Vatican’s ideas on how to fix today’s troubled global economy.

The proposals, outlined in a document released Oct. 24, include overhauling the world’s financial systems, establishing a global authority to manage the economy and creating a “world reserve fund” to support poor countries.

Catholic reaction to the document was immediate, with critics and supporters of the ideas issuing statements soon after the document was released in several languages including 18 pages of a provisional translation in English.

The text, “Toward Reforming the International Financial and Monetary Systems in the Context of Global Public Authority,” was prepared by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. The document doesn’t entirely break new ground, because much of it reiterates the development of Catholic thought on economic disparity and need to work for the common good. It highlights encyclicals from Pope John XXIII’s 1963 “Pacem in Terris” (“Peace on Earth”) to Pope Benedict’s 2009 “Caritas in Veritate” (“Charity in Truth”).

Almost 50 years ago, Pope John XXIII spoke of the need to develop some type of universal financial authority to address the growing inequality between the world’s rich and poor. And just two years ago, Pope Benedict called for a rethinking of economics guided not simply by profits but by “an ethics which is people-centered.”

Those who disliked the new document and some of the attention it received were quick to point out that it was not officially signed by Pope Benedict and therefore didn’t have

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Bishop Howard J. Hubbard of Albany, N.Y., chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on International Justice and Peace, said the document would “resonate well with those in that movement” but wasn’t meant to coincide with the protests, which began Sept. 7.

John Sniegocki, associate professor of Christian ethics at Xavier University in Cincinnati, told Catholic News Service in an Oct. 27 email that he saw the link between the protesters and the document. He said it is not that the protesters are necessarily knowledgeable about church teaching or that the Vatican has been directly influenced by them “but rather that both take an honest look at the realities of the world and express deep concern at the inequalities and injustices that they see.”

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George Weigel, www.nationalreview.com/corner This brief document from the lower echelons of the Roman curia no more aligns “the Vatican,” the pope, or the Catholic Church with Occupy Wall Street than does the Nicene Creed. Those who suggest it does are either grossly ill-informed or tendentious to a point of irresponsibility.

Steve Schneck, http://catholicsinalliance.org From the 19th century onward encyclicals and other church teachings have preached that unregulated market forces endanger the common good. Valuable as they are for economic development, without moral safeguards markets are perceived to foment attitudes toward others and toward the community that not only oppose Christian values but also are unsustainable for an enduring and just social and political order.

Samuel Gregg, www.nationalreview.com/corner Unfortunately, many of its authors’ ideas reflect an uncritical assimilation of the views of many of the very same individuals and institutions that helped generate the world’s most serious economic crisis since the Great Depression.

Jesuit Father Thomas J. Reese, http://www.npr.org This will surprise most Americans who think the pope is a Republican because he opposes abortion and gay marriage. But when it comes to economic justice, Pope Benedict XVI is to the left of President Obama. Heck, he is even to the left of Nancy Pelosi.

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John Allen, National Catholic Reporter One way of sizing up the note’s significance is as an indication that the demographic transition long under way in Catholicism, with the center of gravity shifting from north to south, is being felt in Rome.

WASHINGTON (CNS) – The Supreme Court declined to take up a 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling from Utah that it is unconstitutional to allow memorial crosses on state land along highways because reasonable observers could conclude the markers were a state endorsement of Christianity.

In a dissent from the 8-1 order Oct. 31, Justice Clarence Thomas said the court missed the chance to “provide clarity to an Establishment Clause jurisprudence in shambles.”

He said lower courts’ decisions “remain incapable of coherent explanation. It is difficult to imagine an area of the law more in need of clarity.”

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By Valerie Schmalz If you wish you knew more about your faith but just don’t have time to do much about it, the Archdiocese of San Francisco has been listening.

Forward in Faith: Educational Enrichment for the Thinking Catholic debuts the week of Jan. 17, 2012, at 12 parish locations throughout Marin, San Mateo and San Francisco counties. The cost is $50 a year for 20 sessions crafted for average Catholics as well as parish leaders, said Auxiliary Bishop Robert W. McElroy.

The Boston College School of Theology and Ministry will supply the lectures via its online Church in the 21st Century Center.

Sign-up begins the weekend of Nov. 12-13 with flyers Classes will be in church bulletins.

“We understand people work, they come home from offered at 12 work and they have to fit this in, so we wanted to make it as parish sites, accessible as possible,” said Bishop McElroy, who drew on and sign-up 15 years as a pastor to devise the program in cooperation begins Nov. 12. with Boston College, the Archdiocesan Pastoral Council and the Council of Priests.

The first semester will focus on Christ in Scripture and the identity of the church. The second semester will address the sacramental life of the church and the Christian moral life.

In addition to the 12 parish sites, the course will be offered online to young adults for $200 with password-protected moderated chat rooms led by experienced Boston College educators, said Barbara Radtke, director of continuing education at the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry. The online course will be the same as the parish course but limited to 200 young adults at a cost of $100 each. Sign-up is available only through the archdiocesan young adult networks, according to the archdiocese.

Boston College is providing the online lectures, edited from a 110-minute format to a 40-minute length, at no cost, as a pilot program. This is the first time this model of adult education is being tried at the diocesan level, Bishop McElroy said. Boston College’s C21 Online is a program of Boston College School of Theology and Ministry that offers non-credit courses and workshops for spiritual renewal and ongoing faith formation.

The archdiocesan curriculum was developed by Father Dave Pettingill, former director of the School of Pastoral Leadership, an adult education initiative in 1994-95, and Sister Celeste Arbuckle, director of the archdiocesan Office for Religious Education and Youth Ministry.

Each class will include a Boston College lecture on DVD followed by facilitated discussions led by local faith educators. The program will be held from 7-8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings the weeks of Jan. 17 through March 20 with the second semester from September through December.

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Bishops reaffirm doctrinal concerns with scholar’s book

At a glance – A U.S. bishops’ committee affirmed its doctrinal critique of a book by Fordham theologian Sister Elizabeth Johnson.

– The committee said the book, “Quest for the Living God: Mapping the Frontiers in the Theology of God,” “does not sufficiently ground itself in the Catholic theological tradition as its starting point.”

WASHINGTON (CNS) – The nine members of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Doctrine have reaffirmed their concerns that a 2007 book by Fordham University theologian Sister Elizabeth Johnson is “seriously inadequate as a presentation of the Catholic understanding of God.” In an 11-page response to Sister Elizabeth’s extensive June 1 defense of her 2007 book, “Quest for the Living God: Mapping Frontiers in the Theology of God,” the bishops said her explanation did nothing to change their minds.

Sister Elizabeth said then that the bishops misunderstood and misrepresented the book’s main points.

The committee, chaired by Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl of Washington, said that Sister Elizabeth’s response to their original critique of March 24 had “not in fact demonstrated that the committee has misunderstood or misrepresented the book.”

Sister Elizabeth, professor of systematic theology at Fordham and a member of the Congregation of St. Joseph, said in a statement in response Oct. 28 that she read the committee’s statement with “sadness.”

“I want to make it absolutely clear that nothing in this book dissents from the church’s faith about God revealed in Jesus Christ through the Spirit,” she said.

The statement “does correct some errors

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The U.S. bishops’ Committee on Doctrine has reaffirmed its concerns that the 2007 book “Quest for the Living God,” by Sister Elizabeth A. Johnson, is an “inadequate” presentation of the Catholic understanding of God.

made in the committee’s original reading of my book, and the vituperative rhetoric has been toned down. Yet there is little movement in understanding,” she said.

She said the statement “disappoints” because it “ignores the breadth and depth of God’s self-gift in history (revelation) and the people’s living response (faith).”

While commending Sister Elizabeth “for her stated intention to help the church progress in her understanding of divine realities,” the bishops said the book “fails to fulfill this task because it does not sufficiently ground

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itself in the Catholic theological tradition as its starting point.”

The statement added that “multiple readings of the words themselves point at least to serious ambiguity” and a close look at particular points confirmed the committee judgment that the scholar’s word choices do not “adequately express the faith of the church.”

The bishops reiterated that the book is a “particular pastoral concern” because it is written for a broad audience and widely used as a college text.

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Religious liberty . . .

■ Continued from cover “ministerial exception” that exempts religious institutions from some civil laws when it comes to hiring and firing.

– State actions on same-sex marriage that have resulted in Catholic Charities agencies in Illinois being “driven out of the adoption and foster care business” and some county clerks in New York state facing legal action for refusing to participate in same-sex unions.

Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., the ranking minority member of the subcommittee, questioned Bishop Lori about whether he saw a difference between state employees who said in the civil rights era that they oppose interracial marriage and those who oppose same-sex marriage today, when both decline to follow state laws because of their religious beliefs.

“No, I would believe marriage between two people of different races is an entirely different matter,” he replied.

“Marriage is a unique relationship. It takes a man and a woman.”

The bishop said he found it “troubling” when opposition to same-sex marriage “is portrayed as bigotry” and when some try to draw a “parallel between racial discrimination and (opposition to) same-gender marriage.”

– In response, Sister Elizabeth said the committee’s opinion “disappoints” because it “ignores the breadth and depth of God’s self-gift in history (revelation) and the people’s living response (faith).” director of the Secretariat for Doctrine for the bishops, told Catholic News Service Oct. 25 that the bishops understood that Sister Elizabeth’s central argument revolved around the idea of expressing the Catholic faith in “new ways, creative ways.” However, he added, “the words and concepts she used did not in fact state the truth” and were “inadequate, sometimes ambiguous, sometimes erroneous.”

Mercy Sister Mary Ann Walsh, director of media relations for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, told CNS that Cardinal Wuerl invited Sister Elizabeth to meet with him to discuss the book and the bishops’ concerns.

Sister Elizabeth’s statement said she was not afforded the opportunity to meet with doctrine committee members despite her stated willingness to do so after she provided her June response to the bishops’ initial criticisms.

Other witnesses at the hearing on “The State of Religious Liberty in the United States” were the Rev. Barry W. Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and Colby M. May, director and senior counsel of the Washington office of the American Center for Law and Justice.

May said court decisions “have restricted religious freedoms on public college and school campuses” and in other arenas.

“In light of ever-changing discrimination laws and harassment policies, religious people often face a troublesome choice: Violate deeply held religious beliefs or receive punishment from state or local officials,” he said.

Rev. Lynn disagreed with the other witnesses, however, saying that “the most imminent and egregious threats to religious freedom today are those that are suffered by members of minority faiths and nonbelievers in this country.”

What the other witnesses “see as threats can easily be characterized as attempts to obtain sweeping exemptions that harm the rights of innocent third parties; attempts to seek privileges reserved for religious entities even though they are engaged in commerce, acting as a traditional business or serving as a government provider of services; and attempts to obtain religious exemptions even when such exemptions could deny others their fundamental rights, health or even life,” Rev. Lynn said.

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Marin teens form Catholic group for social action, faith formation

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– All Marin County teens are invited to join a new Catholic youth group.

Fernando Cruz, adult coordinator for the newly formed Marin teen council, is pictured with Baylin Vreeland, left, and Britt Lindberg at St. Hilary Church Oct. 24 during group members’ training to be Mass lectors.

passed, she saw little personal significance in her religion. It took some effort before her eyes finally opened.

“I want to make sure other teens who have the same problems and questions that I had can open up about these issues and get the message of truth from their peers, that God is real, that God is good, that God will answer them if only they put their faith in him,” Britt said.

She added, “Teen involvement is important because we are the future of church and country, yet many of us are uninformed and very naive about both.”

The group is busy expanding recruiting and adding activities, which thus far include monthly teen-themed liturgies and a stay at a Mexican orphanage planned for next summer.

In affluent Marin, she said, few adolescents recognize the bounty of their

blessings. The trip south of the border is intended to awaken their awareness.

For five days, the Marinites will live alongside 800 boys and girls at the Pequenos Hermanos – “little brothers” – home in Miacatlan, Mexico.

“My plan is to pair them up, to have them get into the orphans’ skin and compare those five days with any five days here,” said Fernando Cruz, the girls’ Spanish teacher, mentor and fellow St. Hilary parishioner, who has been taking student groups for retreats at the orphanage since 1979.

Recalling the influence a youth group at St. Isabella Parish in San Rafael had on his son and daughter nearly two decades ago, Cruz approached the girls after Mass last May to gauge their interest in starting one in southern Marin.

– Britt Lindberg and Baylin Vreeland, both 17-year-old seniors at Tamalpais High School, began the group.

– No teen-specific topic is off the table at the group’s weekly meetings.

– The group is working on teenthemed liturgies.

– A stay at a Mexican orphanage is planned for next summer.

They’ve been running the show ever since.

“This is a really great opportunity to give back to my community and church and to play a bigger part in my parish, which I’ve wanted to do for a long time,” Baylin said.

The project has support from Clarence Mamaril, director of the parish youth council at St. Isabella, which has 150 members from Terra Linda, Marin Catholic, Novato and Branson high schools.

“It’s important to provide teens with an open, nonjudgmental venue for talking about life issues they wouldn’t normally discuss with their parents,” he said.

Southern Marin lacks a formal youth ministry program, especially for schools feeding into Tamalpais high, said Jonathan Lewis, director of religious education at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish in Mill Valley.

“This initiative started by the girls is most refreshing and important,” Lewis said.

“What the girls are doing is desperately needed.”

For more information, contact Britt at brittlindberg@yahoo.com or Baylin at baylin@me.com.

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By Lidia Wasowicz Two Marin County teens have formed a parish teen council to promote faith formation and parish participation among their peers.

Britt Lindberg and Baylin Vreeland, both 17-year-old seniors at Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley, are inviting all Catholic eighth-graders and high school students in Marin to join their newly formed council, organized and run by adolescents and sponsored by St. Hilary Parish in Tiburon.

Begun in September, the program seeks to stimulate spiritual, social and academic growth in a “safe, fun and open atmosphere” that encourages participants to share with each other and with the community.

“Bad habits acquired when you’re a teen, like drinking or taking drugs, will be hard to break while good ones, like serving food to the homeless or helping out in church, are bound to stay with you for a lifetime,” Baylin said.

No teen-specific topic is off the table at the group’s weekly meetings, which foster frank discussion of matters minors may shy away from in adult company: The relevance of the Catholic Church to their daily lives, or the temptation to experiment with risky behavior as they leave childhood.

“We want to provide an environment where members can freely talk about any issue or concern that’s important to them,” said Britt, noting she could have used such a forum while going through a crisis of faith that left her doubting God’s existence.

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Are you ready?

The new translation of the Roman Missal will be implemented in the U.S. church Nov. 27. Are you ready? On Oct. 29 after 5 p.m. Mass, Catholic San Francisco put that question to parishioners at St. Monica Parish in San Francisco.

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I am. I have faith in my church. I feel there are enough good minds there.

Rebecca P. Garza They’ve been promoting it. If you analyze it, the changes are very small.

Brian Henning I don’t know. I’ll go with it. We’ll figure it out.

Mary I don’t like the new version. All these years I’ve memorized it. Now it’s changing.

Maybe I’ll get used to it.

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I just take what they give us.

Jack Norton We will be. It’s just repetition to get it.

Ben Jayme We’ll get there.

Kathi Jayme No, I’m not ready but it sounds good.

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November 4, 2011

Revised missal: More answers to common questions

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Over the last few weeks, this column has covered some of the changes and of the revised Roman Missal, which we will all begin using Nov. 27, the First Sunday of Advent. Here are a few practical questions.

Do I need a new missal at home?

If you have a small missal at home such as the St Joseph’s Missal or Vatican II Missal, it will be out of date after Nov. 27. The readings will be the same, but the Order of Mass and the prayers for each day as well as the calendar of saints will be the old translations and will not match what the priest says at Mass. If you use your missal to review the readings and reflect on the prayers, you do not need to urgently buy a new missal, although you may eventually want to. If you use your missal to follow along at Mass or, if you are a priest, to say Mass from, then you will need to buy a new one. The publishers expect new missals to be ready at the beginning of 2012.

Are there any other new or revised books that are going to be published?

An illustration of St. Michael is seen on a page proof of the new edition of the Roman Missal at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Washington May 26. The new Roman Missal will go into use in the United States Nov. 27, the First Sunday of Advent.

Yes. Since there is a new approach to translation from Latin into the vernacular languages of the world, every book used in liturgy must be retranslated and issued. The church started with the Roman Missal, since it governs the majority of liturgies we take part in. But all the other books we use, such as Rite of Marriage and Rite of Christian Funerals all need to be translated and approved by the bishops and Rome.

Are any of our gestures changing?

When the Missale Romanum was approved

by Rome in 2002, the Institutio Generalis Missalis Romani (the General Instruction of the Roman Missal) was also approved. The GIRM is the guidebook for those who use the Roman Missal. Since this is not a book of prayers but of directions, it was easier to translate into English and other languages and was approved for use in the United States by the bishops in 2002.

Since 2003, we’ve been using the instructions for the Third Edition of the Roman Missal while still using the Second Edition of the Roman

Missal in liturgies. Eight years ago we began standing at a different part of Mass than we had before – we now stand at the invitation to prayer. And we were reminded of other gestures, such as making a simple bow before receiving Communion and standing after, not while, we say “Amen” at the end of the eucharistic prayer.

Because these changes have been implemented, we should already be performing the gestures and movements included in the new missal. One new change in sync with the revised translation is the practice of striking the breast with a closed fist three times while saying, “Through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault.” This practice has been reinstated and many people will begin performing it during the confiteor. As with all Mass parts, this transition to the new missal is a great time to reacquaint yourself with the liturgy and what it means to you.

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

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People’s parts of the new missal

By Laura Bertone

Is every parish buying a new Roman Missal?

Every parish, chapel or place of worship has bought a new missal. These books will be blessed for use in the liturgy in the week before Advent and then used for all Masses going forward. If a parish or school uses missalettes, the publishers have already updated these and the ones the parish puts out on Nov. 27 will have all the new translated prayers and information.

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Changes are marked in bold.

Invitation to Prayer People: May the Lord accept the sacrifice at your hands for the praise and glory of his name, for our good and the good of all his holy Church.

Preface Dialogue Priest: The Lord be with you.

People: And with your spirit.

Priest: Lift up your hearts.

People: We lift them up to the Lord.

Priest: Let us give thanks to the Lord our God. People: It is right and just.

Sanctus All: Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God of hosts.

Heaven and earth are full of your glory.

Hosanna in the highest.

Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.

Hosanna in the highest.

Mystery of Faith (formerly the Memorial Acclamation) Priest: The mystery of faith.

Form A People: We proclaim your death, O Lord, and profess your Resurrection until you come again.

Form B People: When we eat this Bread and drink this Cup, we proclaim your death, O Lord, until you come again.

Form C People: Save us, Savior of the world, for by your Cross and Resurrection, you have set us free.

Catholic San Francisco is serializing the people’s parts of the new missal. The paper will publish the people’s parts in full Nov. 18.

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Assisi encounter: Sensing a deeper crisis in modern society (CNS PHOTO/PAUL HARING)

Participants cite environmental damage, the rich-poor divide, erosion of cultural traditions and threats to society’s weakest members as worrisome trends.

Pope Benedict XVI greets unidentified delegates from the Assisi gathering Oct. 28 at Vatican. and happiness of a generation,” said the Rev. Olav Fykse Tveit, a Lutheran minister and secretaryASSISI, Italy (CNS) – A common thread ran general of the World Council of Churches. through many of the words at this year’s “prayer The pro-democracy movements in Arab counfor peace” encounter in Assisi: Unease that the tries may end up leaving Christian minorities less world is facing not merely conflict but also a protected than before, said Orthodox Ecumenical broader crisis that affects social and cultural life Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople in every country.

People’s relationship with nature is increasingly Environmental damage, the rich-poor divide, distorted, said Cardinal Peter Turkson, the head erosion of cultural traditions, terrorism of the Pontifical Council for Justice and new threats to society’s weakest and Peace. Resource competition members were cited as increasingly threatens to “devastate the very order The Cold worrisome developments by speakers of creation which St. Francis praised at the interfaith gathering Oct. 27. in his ‘Canticle of the Sun,’” he said.

In 1986, when Blessed John Paul In Vatican City Oct, 28, the pope War is over II convened the first Assisi meeting, thanked the Assisi crowd and said they the world was caught up in a battle represent billions of people – believers but discord between two ideological blocs. Today, and nonbelievers – committed to makPope Benedict XVI said in addressing ing the world a better place. has taken the 300 pilgrims gathered for the secThe gathering was “a vivid ond encounter in Assisi, this discord expression of the fact that every day, on ‘new and throughout the world, people of differhas taken on “new and frightening guises.” He singled out terrorism and ent religious traditions live and work frightening the spiritual erosion in highly seculartogether in harmony,” the pope told ized societies. the delegates Oct. 28, the morning “The worship of mammon, posafter they had gone by train with him guises,’ the sessions and power is proving to be to Assisi. a counter-religion, in which it is no He said the “day of reflection, diapope said. longer man who counts but only perlogue and prayer for justice and peace” sonal advantage,” he said. also was a sign of “the friendship and The growing risk of cultural fraternity which has flourished” thanks conflicts was highlighted by Ja-Seung, a Korean to the efforts of pioneers in interreligious dialogue.

Buddhist. Other speakers warned that globalization Pope Benedict gave special thanks to the four has sometimes prompted a backlash among those guests – philosophers and secular humanists – who fear the weakening of cultural identity. “who represent people of good will who follow The world is ignoring massive loss of life among no religious tradition, but are committed to the the poorest, said Anglican Archbishop Rowan search for truth.”

Williams of Canterbury.

“They have been willing to share this pilgrimage With high unemployment among young people, with us as a sign of their desire to work together “it feels as though we are gambling with the welfare to build a better world,” he said.

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A protester in Assisi holds a message as the pope and other religious leaders pass by.

The pope blesses a baby as he and other religious leaders arrive in Assisi. Oct. 27.

Franciscan friars free doves at the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi Oct. 27.

By John Thavis

Representatives of Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism gathered to speak of peace at the National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi in San Francisco at the same time that Pope Benedict XVI was meeting in Assisi, Italy, with representatives of world religions as well as with atheists.

Both meetings were held Oct. 27 and titled “Pilgrims of Truth, Pilgrims of Peace.”

At the shrine’s Interreligious Convocation for Peace and Understanding, representatives spoke briefly of their commitment to peace. The ceremony concluded with a signing of a peace document and the lighting of candles.

The document signed in San Francisco duplicated the one signed 25 years ago by religious leaders in the first Assisi peace convocation called by Blessed John Paul II, said George Wesolek, director of the Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Those speaking at the event were Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice; Jewish Rabbi Stephen Pearce of Temple Emmanu-El; Metropolitan Gerasimos of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of San Francisco; Bishop Marc Andrus, episcopal bishop of the Diocese of California; Ameena Jandali, content director of Islamic Networks Group, a nonprofit dedicated to educating the public about Islam; Hindu Sister Elizabeth Padilla of the Brahma A worshipper is pictured at the Kumaris Meditation Center; Rev. Heng Sure, director of Berkeley Buddhist Monastery; and Rev. James DeLange of National Shrine of St. Francis in St. Francis Lutheran Church and chair of the San Francisco San Francisco during the interfaith Interfaith Council. prayer service Oct. 27.

– Valerie Schmalz

Participants at the “Pilgrims of Truth, Pilgrims of Peace” interfaith prayer service at the National Shrine of St. Francis in San Francisco Oct. 27 gather at La Porziuncola Nuova, a scale model of St. Francis’ first church near Assisi. The participants included representatives of Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism. The gathering took place the same time that Pope Benedict XVI met in Assisi, Italy, with representatives of world religions as well as with atheists.

(PHOTOS BY JOSE LUIS AGUIRRE/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

Religious leaders gather to sign peace document in San Francisco

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Guest Commentary

City Hall’s heavy hand

By Shari Plunkett San Francisco’s city government prides itself as a nationwide trendsetter and leader in enacting progressive legislation to further the equal protection and interests of all San Franciscans.

Yet, in the midst of this election season, the Board of Supervisors has endorsed a national pro-choice political organization’s agenda to pass “disclosure” laws against pregnancy care centers that, ironically, have been failing throughout the country.

All three such ordinances that passed and were contested in court have been ruled unconstitutional.

But such facts didn’t stop San Francisco supervisors from approving Supervisor Malia Cohen’s legislation, the so-called “False Advertising by Limited Services Pregnancy Centers” bill Oct. 18, with final passage a week later.

Sadly, the legislative sponsor and cosponsors such as mayoral candidates David Chiu and John Avalos and draftsman City Attorney Dennis Herrera want to emulate the largely unsuccessful national campaign by a pro-choice political organization to limit

crisis pregnancy centers’ communications with women they serve.

First Resort is a nonprofit pregnancy counseling medical clinic serving women facing unplanned pregnancies by providing no cost

The law unnecessarily limits the free speech rights of pregnancy care centers. medical care and counseling services. All three First Resort clinics, in San Francisco, Redwood City and Oakland, are fully licensed by the California Department of Health. Two board-certified OB/GYNs serve as medical directors and we employ registered nurses available to our clients during all operating hours. A counselor who has a master’s degree or who is a licensed clinical social worker either supervises or conducts all counseling.

Catholic san Francisco Northern California’s Weekly Catholic Newspaper

Liturgical clarification I think your writer has made a significant error in this sentence: “Therefore, in the new translation, every time the Latin term Filium Dei Unigenitum is used, it is translated as ‘only begotten Son’ to emphasize, as the Latin does, that Jesus was the only son created by God” (“Revised missal: More answers to common questions,” Oct. 28).

The point is that Jesus was not created

by God the father.

Frank J. Hartge Columbus, Ohio Laura Bertone, archdiocesan interim worship director, responds: Mr. Hartge is correct in that I did not express my thoughts well. It would be more accurate to say that Filium Dei Unigenitum is translated as “only begotten Son” to stress that Jesus was the only one in history who was “begotten, not made” – just as we say later in the creed.

Thank you, archbishop We are very pleased that Archbishop Niederauer took the time and made the effort to tell us about his surgery and what it meant to him. It was most kind of him. We wish him the best.

Betty and Roy Dy San Francisco

Generous giving Thanks to Sister Therese Marie Perry for her wonderful letter (Oct. 21) about the Retirement Fund for Religious, and thanks to you for including it in your online edition of Catholic San Francisco. The generous people of San Francisco have donated nearly $4 million over the 23 years that this appeal has been in existence. Over this same time period, the religious communities with headquarters in the

Letters welcome Catholic San Francisco One Peter Yorke Way San Francisco, CA 94109 Fax: (415) 614-5641 E-mail: delvecchior@sfarchdiocese.org, include “Letters” in the subject line.

Archdiocese of San Francisco have received more than $5.6 million from the national appeal.

Religious throughout the country join Sister Therese Marie in her gratitude for all who help to make the Retirement Fund for Religious a success and for all who so generously share in the care of our senior religious.

Sister Janice Bader, CPPS National Religious Retirement Office Washington, D.C.

St. Monica history In the Oct. 14 issue, there was an article about the 100th anniversary of St. Monica Parish. As was mentioned, St. Monica School has been in existence since 1919, ably serving thousands of San Franciscans in its 92-yearyear history. The school would never have existed without the education provided by the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary.

They are noted for bringing forth the gifts of children of all ages. The leadership of the school was continuously provided by a succession of SNJM principals, including Sister Stephanie Rose Stemberger and Sister Sally Thompson. For years, Sister Miriam Jean Murphy served as music director. I appreciate the wonderful tradition that I inherited, one which had already been established by this outstanding religious community.

I am aware that no article can encompass every aspect of a parish, but I also know that without the past work of the Sisters of the Holy Names, the parish would not be what it is today.

Sister Anne Kendall, BVM San Francisco

Technocrats beware Re “St. Hilary School adopts iPads” (Oct. 21): Watch out that you don’t put the cart before the horse. Computers are great as learning tools, but not an end-all.

What the Catholic elementary educator in the U.S. has done exceptionally is teach generation after generation how to read and write, be self-disciplined, and what it means to be a good Christian and American. The high schools have done a great job at teaching how to think critically. These are needed in our society more than ever.

I recently heard a teacher say that in a few

Unlike Planned Parenthood, we receive no government dollars to perform our work, nor do we have a financial interest in a woman’s decision. Our sole focus is helping women make healthy, well-informed choices consistent with their own beliefs and values in an unpressured, supportive, and confidential environment. Allowing responsible centers that provide valuable services on the issue of unintended pregnancy equips women with facts, emotional support and practical resources to make what is ultimately their own choice.

City Attorney Herrera and now the Board of Supervisors have erroneously decreed that First Resort and other pregnancy centers engage in deceptive marketing tactics. This is unsubstantiated and simply untrue. We provide all clients with full disclosure of the types of services we provide. Our communications are clear, honest and appropriate.

The fact that First Resort does not perform or refer women for abortions should not trigger government restrictions. One has to question what problem the board is seeking to remedy, since First Resort operates in full compliance with all laws.

Existing consumer protection laws prohibit deceptive practices – and they should be enforced if they are being violated. The ordinance unnecessarily limits the constitutional free speech rights of pregnancy care centers. It is redundant of existing laws.

And it thrusts San Francisco into costly litigation undoubtedly headed to court to defend a deeply flawed ordinance. It is not just another law prohibiting “untrue and misleading” speech. If it were, it would be unnecessary because those laws already exist. It is instead a thinly veiled unconstitutional restriction of speech by one or two organizations with whom the proponents of the ordinance disagree.

The Cohen legislation is unwarranted, unnecessary and unfair. Voters of San Francisco, now you know the Board of Supervisors (with the exception of Sean Elsbernd, the sole dissenting vote) is legislating that any organization that disagrees with their established pro-choice position on abortion must have their communications, marketing and advertising dictated and approved by the government. How’s that for heavy-handedness?

Shari Plunkett is CEO of First Resort.

years pens and paper will no longer be used.

Seems shortsighted to me. Students today are still prone to not bringing the necessary materials to class, doing sloppy work, not turning assignments in, whining about doing anything they don’t want to and making excuses – and this is the so-called “technology” generation.

Moving from teacher-centered to studentcentered is a movement that needs to be well thought out (see Therese J. Borchard, “Alarming trends of emerging adulthood,” Guest Commentary, Oct. 21). Teachers today must still be the adults who model how to love seeking truth.

Be careful what you wish for technocrats – we may be raising children and young adults who don’t know how to be quiet and reflect because they never were taught the importance of doing so. I hope the children at St. Hilary School are somehow informed of the fact that life does not always move at the speed of a mouse and that prayers are heard by God (and he doesn’t even have an email address).

Christian Clifford San Mateo

in Rome and others behind locked doors now somehow know much better what will make all things right – but exactly how? Will this reverse turn back toward Latin via a contrived Old English translation bring us closer to God? Not likely. Will it help answer the growing hunger issues? No. Will it do anything more to eradicate the continuing reports of abuse that occurred and worse, were covered up by many of the church authorities even to this day? No. Will it solve the questions regarding the falling attendance at churches around the world? I predict the opposite effect.

When will Rome start treating all as adults. This is a better church today; no longer one of pray, pay and obey, and ignore the man behind the curtain. Who in their right mind ever figured that yet another change to the missal – reversing the work of Vatican II – would somehow improve the church’s ability to better serve the people? Does the church hierarchy really believe this will make for a closer relationship to God? Peter Mandell San Francisco

Article insulting

L E T T E R S

Your article regarding the allarchdiocese Hispanic Mass (Oct. 14) is somewhat insulting. The fourth line states that the celebration “was intended to celebrate the 40th anniversary ....”

Obviously you did not attend, because the Mass did celebrate the 40th anniversary of the cathedral that has served the Hispanic community in the archdiocese.

It seems that you intended to downplay the importance of the relationship the Hispanic community and the archdiocese have enjoyed and prospered for all these years. Shame on you, shame.

Alfonso Murillo San Francisco

Selling of the missal It’s very sad that an organization so rooted in hierarchy in arriving at all decisions is now pretending to be so interested in public acceptance. I speak to the process that Rome and the church leaders used in rewriting the missal. The Vatican and conservative church higher-ups that dictate church policy are now actively involved in political spin – the selling of the new missal. Very much like a new box of soap from Madison Avenue, we are supposed to accept their word that this is the new and improved, ergo more honest, liturgy.

Like I said – pure spin.

We are told that the more open talks of Vatican II were evidently misguided – or somehow limited in their vision. The powers that be

Laity are coequals

George Weigel’s “Lay reform of church and world” (Oct. 21), after taking an expected gratuitous slap at Sen. John Kerry, Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Vice President Joe Biden, indicates that lay people need to take their rightful place in the world in order to, among other things, “(take) roles that will free priests and bishops from being overwhelmed by administrative tasks.”

How is the laity supposed to react to popes, bishops and priests who for years have known about the problems in that they now want help, and done little or nothing about their root causes? Pastoral councils serve at the whim of the pastor. Finance councils, even though mandated by canon law, can only “advise” pastors, who are free to ignore that advice at will.

What guidance have church leaders given the laity other than implying that they should shut up and mind their own business, because father (or indeed papa) knows best? Why has the church been content to ignore the continuing de-evangelization throughout the world, as men and women, unable to stand prevarication and deception any more, simply pick up and leave – in the United States, in Ireland, in Germany, in other countries?

If and when the clergy treat the laity as coequals then they can rightfully complain if that laity does not take roles that rightfully belong to them and free the clergy to be teachers and sanctifiers.

Jim McCrea Piedmont

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realize this type of exchange and learning and faith formation is not limited to this particular school, but I sat there thinking, Seven years ago, my wife Donna took “This is church in action; this is our church me to Medjugorje. I was a reluctant pil- alive and well.” grim, but Medjugorje proved to be the Earlier that week I had read of statemost prayerful experience I have ever ments and efforts of Stockton Bishop had. On Oct. 15, Donna took me to the Stephen E. Blaire urging Congress and Rosary Crusade at the San Francisco Civic the White House to look at their budgetCenter. I was far less reluctant to go this ary decisions through the lens of Matthew time, because it was a 25, “Whatever you do for short trip. I had been at me,” the least of my brethFather Patrick Peyton’s ren, you do for me,” and crusade 50 years ago, and I thought that this is our I thought it would be a church at its most effecwonderful way to pray the tive. And when I think of rosary, and a grace-filled the work of St. Vincent de experience. It was. Father Paul, Catholic Charities, Larry Goode, pastor of St. St. Anthony Foundation, Francis of Assisi parish Holy Family Day Home in East Palo Alto and one and Little Sisters of the of the best priests I know, Poor, I know that this is was the master of ceremoour church at its most I realized that nies. He set the tone for compassionate. the day, a tone of faith, When my oldest son focusing on the prayer and gentle love, John took his life almost with a reminder of the three years ago, my church flaws of our special role Mary plays in was there for him and for our lives. The atmosphere our family, not just in the church risks of collective faith and 13 priests on the altar, prayer, the public recitain the wonderful hommissing the tion of the rosary and the ily, the moving readings, music were for me and the beautiful music and I am sure many others, the welcoming pastor. It sources of faith a striking and beautiful didn’t matter how my son manifestation of church. died or that he had not and hope and Just a day earlier, I witbeen inside a church in nessed another wonderful years. Church embraced love that arise manifestation of church. us, church comforted us.

I was scheduled to have Church began the healing from the very lunch with a seminarian process for us. Karen, who is a year or two away John’s mother, who is not same church. from ordination, and is a Catholic, told me a week spending his weekends at after the funeral, “There a parish in San Francisco. was grace and healing in He had to speak to the eighth-grade reli- that church.” This is our church at its most gion class before we went to lunch, and he loving and forgiving and welcoming. asked me to sit in while he met with the I know these are only a handful of thoustudents. He spoke briefly on what God sands of regular manifestations of church, expects from us in terms of how we respect but the Rosary Crusade, the eighth-grade others and how we forgive others. He was religion class, Bishop Blaire’s advocacy pastoral, humorous and effective. He gave coupled with the work of our social serthe students the opportunity to ask ques- vice agencies, and my son’s funeral are tions and express themselves, which they uppermost in my mind as I write this. In did in the most genuine and natural way. I “Amazing Grace,” Kathleen Norris writes,

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Our Catholic Church and healthy tensions

By Brian Cahill

Worshippers are pictured at the Rosary Crusade in San Francisco’s Civic Center Oct. 15.

“Church is other people, a worshipping community. The worship, or praise of God, does not take place only when people gather on Sunday morning, but when they gather to paint the house of an elderly shutin, when they visit someone in the hospital or console the bereaved. If a church has life, its programs are not just activity, but worship.”

I have written freely, and I hope respectfully, of my perceptions of some of the failures of our church, lack of personal accountability and lack of pastoral sensitivity of some of our church leaders. But as I sat in that eighth-grade classroom and as I stood in the Civic Center Plaza, I realized that focusing on the flaws of our church risks missing the multiple and recurring sources of faith and hope and love that arise from the very same church. I want to concentrate on those sources of grace, but I am not able to ignore the failures and the flaws.

At the Rosary Crusade, when each decade was being recited by a different family, I was unable to ignore that many different types of families were not present.

In fact the only families represented were those with a husband and a wife, and three to five children. I was also unable to ignore that morning’s newspaper report of the criminal indictment of a Catholic bishop for allegedly failing to report suspected child abuse. And as I stood in the Civic Center, looking at this wonderful gathering, I was unable to ignore the serious issues that divide faithful Catholics.

As loyal Catholics, we are not bound to ignore the failings and the abuses within our church, and among some of our church leaders. But if we feel called to take on

a role of respectful criticism or dissent, we have an obligation, not only to our church, but to ourselves, to shed at least as much light on the benefits and virtues of our church as we do on the failures and flaws. I am not wise enough to know how to resolve the tension within our church, although I know it begins with prayer and it begins with the Eucharist.

In “The Emerging Catholic Church,” Tom Roberts wrote that “the differences need not split us apart. I think they can be reduced to the level of healthy tensions on which a community builds a future.”

Perhaps those of us who are inclined to a deficit perspective on our church can commit to spending more time and energy acknowledging the assets of our church, and those who ignore or deny the limits of our church, can ask themselves if there are any ways church can be made better.

I’m going to start by continuing to focus on the power and the beauty and the grace I felt at the eighth-grade religion class and the Rosary Crusade. And when those images fade, as I know they will, and something pops up that moves me toward anger and criticism, as I know it will, I will remember what the great seminary professor and church theologian Father Frank Norris said about church. In the conclusion of “God’s Own People,” he wrote, “The church on earth is a mystery that calls for faith. Only the gift of faith can enable man to see beyond the human element in the church to the divine presence of Christ within it.”

Brian Cahill is the former executive director of Catholic Charities CYO in the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

The Human Side

By Father Eugene Hemrick “Listen, God, to my prayer; do not hide from my pleading. ... I say, ‘If only I had wings like a dove that I might fly away and find rest. Far away I would flee; I would stay in the desert. I would soon find a shelter from the raging wind and storm.’”

I don’t know how many times I have read these thoughts in Psalm 55 over the years, but as I read them while staying at the St. Vincent Archabbey in Latrobe, Pa., they touched my very soul more than ever before. If ever I, like so many of us, could find that rest these days, what a blessing it would be!

There is anything but rest around us.

The daily news is filled with discord in our government and governments worldwide.

Storms, earthquakes, flooding, fires and tornadoes seem to be more regular occurrences. Nothing seems to be going right in this world.

Would that we could escape it all! But we can’t.

We can, however, cope with it in a way

that allows us to better achieve the peace we desire.

And how do we accomplish this?

One good starter is to spend more time reading uplifting books rather than being glued to the news. Books abound that contain stories of people making this world better. Many books contain creative ideas that raise our level of enthusiasm for the world. Others offer inspiring stories of people uniting and helping one another in troubled times, exemplifying an indomitable human spirit at its best.

Another way to achieve peace of mind is to get lost in a space filled with beauty and quiet, a garden spot or botanical garden that reflects God’s splendor and peace at its best.

And then there is music – soothing or energizing music! Music speaks to our soul and is one of the most excellent tools we possess for lifting our spirit.

In addition, cultivating daily meditation can’t be beat for pulling our thoughts and feelings together. It encourages us to practice interiority, going within ourselves to

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Getting away from it all

Flowers bloom in the Vatican Gardens Sept. 15.

see more fully what is disturbing us. More than this, in meditating we stop our time to enter into God’s time and to see God’s hand in everything around us.

It helps us to see God’s reasoning in moments that are often chaotic.

Down on the farm, there is an old saying: “There are many ways to skin a cat.”

It means that there always can be found a

way to get around or cope with difficult challenges. This saying reminds us that God has given us the gift of imagination, one of the finest advantages we have in our turbulent times for creating the peace we seek.

Father Eugene Hemrick’s column is carried by Catholic News Service.

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A READING FROM THE BOOK OF WISDOM WIS 6:12-16 Resplendent and unfading is wisdom, and she is readily perceived by those who love her, and found by those who seek her. She hastens to make herself known in anticipation of their desire; Whoever watches for her at dawn shall not be disappointed, for he shall find her sitting by his gate. For taking thought of wisdom is the perfection of prudence, and whoever for her sake keeps vigil shall quickly be free from care; because she makes her own rounds, seeking those worthy of her, and graciously appears to them in the ways, and meets them with all solicitude.

RESPONSORIAL PSALM PS 63:2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8 R. My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord my God. O God, you are my God whom I seek; for you my flesh pines and my soul thirsts like the earth, parched, lifeless and without water.

R. My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord my God. Thus have I gazed toward you in the sanctuary to see your power and your glory, For your kindness is a greater good than life; my lips shall glorify you.

R. My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord my God. The Boy Scouts have as their motto the simple phrase “Be Prepared” – to do a good turn daily, to respond to an emergency, to take care of themselves and others in a life of service.

Jesus encouraged his disciples to do the same with regard to the coming of the kingdom and his return in glory. Be prepared, stay awake, “gird your loins and light your lamps and be like servants awaiting their master’s return, ready to open immediately when he comes and knocks” (Luke 12:35-36). The parable of the wise and foolish bridesmaids takes that teaching to another level as Jesus elaborates on what it means to “be prepared.”

The wise bridesmaids had diligently prepared themselves for the arrival of the bridegroom. They not only brought enough oil for the present but prepared for its necessity in the future. The foolish bridesmaids, on the other hand, had no doubt prepared themselves at first but did not prepare for the future. They had oil to begin with, but trusting in their previous accomplishments, decided they had done enough. But their oil ran out and they had nothing to burn when the bridegroom finally arrived. They found themselves not only in dire need of oil but unknown to the bridegroom, who refused to let them enter the wedding feast.

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Thirty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time Wisdom 6:12; Psalm 63:2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18; Matthew 25:1-13 Thus will I bless you while I live; lifting up my hands, I will call upon your name.

As with the riches of a banquet shall my soul be satisfied, and with exultant lips my mouth shall praise you.

R. My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord my God. I will remember you upon my couch, and through the night-watches I will meditate on you: You are my help, and in the shadow of your wings I shout for joy.

R. My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord my God. A READING FROM THE FIRST LETTER OF PAUL TO THE THESSALONIANS 1 THES 4:13-18 We do not want you to be unaware, broth-

ers and sisters, about those who have fallen asleep, so that you may not grieve like the rest, who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose, so too will God, through Jesus, bring with him those who have fallen asleep. Indeed, we tell you this, on the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will surely not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself with a word of command, with the voice of an archangel and with the trumpet of God, will come down from heaven, and the dead in Christ will rise first.

Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. Thus we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore, console one another with these words.

Scripture reflection FATHER WILLIAM NICHOLAS

A time to prepare In reflecting on the foolish bridesmaids, we can draw certain conclusions about the nature of the preparedness in which Jesus is calling us to engage.

First, proper preparedness is not retroactive. The foolish bridesmaids believed that the oil they had stored would get them through until the bridegroom returned. But in the end they had nothing to burn and missed the arrival of the bridegroom, who denied ever knowing them.

Second, preparedness is not transferrable.

The foolish bridesmaids were hoping that their wise sisters would be able to share the oil they had saved. The wise, however, could not share their oil with the foolish, who were left to rush to make up for lost time only to discover that it was too little, too late.

The parable should give all of us pause, especially those who presume that in the end no one will be left out when the kingdom of God comes. Christ repeatedly warns us that this is not the case. There will be those who are left out. There will be those who thought

A READING FROM THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW MT 25:1-13 Jesus told his disciples this parable: “The kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish and five were wise. The foolish ones, when taking their lamps, brought no oil with them, but the wise brought flasks of oil with their lamps.

Since the bridegroom was long delayed, they all became drowsy and fell asleep.

At midnight, there was a cry, ‘Behold, the bridegroom! Come out to meet him!’

Then all those virgins got up and trimmed their lamps. The foolish ones said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’ But the wise ones replied, ‘No, for there may not be enough for us and you. Go instead to the merchants and buy some for yourselves.’ While they went off to buy it, the bridegroom came and those who were ready went into the wedding feast with him. Then the door was locked. Afterwards the other virgins came and said, ‘Lord, Lord, open the door for us!’ But he said in reply, ‘Amen, I say to you, I do not know you.’ Therefore, stay awake, for you know neither the day nor the hour.”

Jesus knew them but in their foolishness and complacency never realized they were drifting away to the point that Christ no longer knows them.

Where do we see ourselves in this parable?

As priests called to preach the faith, laity called to live their faith, parents called to teach that faith to their children, and as a church called to gather as one body to celebrate the mysteries of our faith? Do we find ourselves growing lax in our preparedness for Christ’s return? Do we find ourselves “resting on our laurels” rather than “girding our loins”? Have we grown complacent in how we shepherd the faithful, in how we practice the faith and in how we teach it to our children?

Do we expect that the zeal and faithful practice of others will somehow be transferrable to us, despite our foolish complacency?

As we approach the end of our liturgical year, let this be a time to prepare for the renewal of our commitment to communal worship as Christ’s church and our observance of Christ’s Gospel as individual followers. Let us be caught with plenty of oil in our own lamps when the bridegroom finally makes his appearance, whenever and however that may be.

Father William Nicholas is parochial vicar at Mission Dolores Parish in San Francisco.

Question Corner

Baptism when parents are not practicing Catholics Question: About a year ago, I listened to a priest tell the story of how a relative of his asked him to baptize their infant child. The priest refused because the parents had not been attending Mass. Later, the parents started coming to Mass again, and the baptism was performed.

I was under the impression that we believe that, for a child to get into heaven, the child has to have been baptized. What are the church’s guidelines for baptism? Is it common for a priest to refuse a request for baptism if he feels that the parents are unworthy?

Answer: Your question is an interesting one because the answer involves (as in many pastoral situations) a blending of church teaching and tactical strategy. Here, the goal of every priest is the same: to bring the parents back to regular attendance at the sacraments so that their child will have the best chance of growing up a faithful Catholic. Priests will differ, though, as to how best to reach that goal.

I should probably clear up one misconception first that has to do with your belief that a child must be baptized to get to heaven.

In 2007, the Vatican’s International Theological Commission, with the approval of Pope Benedict XVI, said that the concept of limbo reflected “an unduly restrictive view of salvation,” that the mercy of God offers good reason to hope that babies who die without being baptized can go to heaven.

(Limbo, understood as a place of natural happiness but without communion with God, had been a common belief for

centuries; significantly, though, it had never been defined as dogma and is not even mentioned in the current Catechism of the Catholic Church.)

Now, to the heart of your question: what to do about parents who rarely, if ever, come to Mass but want to have their child baptized.

The relevant guideline is Canon 868 of the church’s Code of Canon Law, which states that, “for an infant to be baptized licitly ... there must be a founded hope that the infant will be brought up in the Catholic religion.” The same canon goes on to say that, “if such hope is altogether lacking, the baptism is to be delayed ... after the parents have been advised about the reason.”

The wiggle room, I suppose, is in the phrase “altogether lacking,” and that’s a subjective call on the priest’s part.

Surely, baptism does involve the pledge of the parents to raise and educate their child in the beliefs and practices of the Catholic faith. (The very wording of the baptismal ritual itself requires an affirmative response by the parents to that pledge.)

So a priest acts properly when he seeks some assurance of that parental commitment before agreeing to do a baptism.

My own approach on this is to give to parents the benefit of the doubt. A week or two before the baptism, I meet for half an hour individually with each couple who are having their first child baptized. I am particularly direct with those parents whom I haven’t seen regularly in church, and we talk

specifically about their willingness to support the child’s growth in faith by their own practice. And I have to say that, only on one or two occasions, have I ever sensed that this commitment was “altogether lacking.”

Father I know that some priests would differ, and I Kenneth Doyle grant them that right. I’ve even seen parish websites which demand, for example, that in order to have their child baptized, parents must “show their willingness to practice their own faith by attending Mass each Sunday for at least three months” and must verify their attendance “by placing a note in the collection basket.”

These, I think, are special times for tenderness. A priest’s response at a moment like this can dictate a family’s relationship to a parish – and even to the church – for years down the line.

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

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By Simone Orendain MANILA, Philippines (CNS) – Dr. Junice Melgar has worked in women’s health for more than three decades. In metropolitan Manila’s most impoverished neighborhoods, her nongovernmental organization dispenses contraception and information on family planning and other women’s health issues.

Melgar said in more than 15 years, she has seen patients’ fertility rates go from six children on average to now three, maybe four, and some want to have even fewer offspring.

Her patients are savvy about family planning, but still, she said, the country needs a law to promote it.

“There are very few NGOs like ourselves,” she said. “There’s a handful of us and there’s only a handful providing women’s health services. So it’s a great disservice to the poor in other places.”

Melgar remembered a time when contraceptives were used freely. Then, she said, when the U.N. Population Fund first declared in 1994 that fertility, health, poverty, patterns of production and consumption and empowerment are all interconnected, and 179 countries agreed, the Philippine Catholic Church took notice and fought any state-instituted form of population control.

With the late-October release of the U.N. agency’s State of the World Population 2011 report, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines reiterated its stance. The report highlights that high fertility rates persist in developing, poor countries, where it says there is a need for better access to reproductive health care and more freedom for women to decide how they will plan their families.

The global population hits 7 billion this year, continuing a rapid growth that began around the 1950s.

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Msgr. Pedro Quitorio, director of the bishops’ media office, said population control arguments such as those made in the world population report do not address the real problem behind poverty in the Philippines.

“The truth is mismanagement; bad governance is one of the primary reasons the country is very, very poor,” he told Catholic News Service. “To look at it just from the point of view that the equation of ‘we are growing in population, therefore we are going to be very, very poor’ – we look at that as something not really true and not fair.”

President Benigno Aquino III has made the legislation a priority this year, giving this 16-year-old proposal its first tangible boost in recent memory. Melgar said in the past decade, Aquino’s predecessor, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, instituted bans on family planning down to the smallest local governments and quashed virtually any legislative proposals on the issue.

The reproductive health proposals provide for full access and government assistance to the poor to pay for contraception. While abortion is against the law, the bills would require fair and humane medical treatment for women who suffer complications from illegal abortions. The bills also allow health workers who are conscientious objectors to refer patients to someone else in nonemergency cases The proposals also have provisions for sex education for young people, 10-19, on a wide

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range of what are called “age-appropriate topics” such as birth control and population and development. Parents can opt to have their children skip the sex education courses.

Father Melvin Castro, executive secretary of the bishops’ Commission on Family and Life, questioned the need for legislation, especially when contraception is widely available.

“The Catholic Church, in particular, does not believe in contraceptive use,” said Father Castro. “So our contention is, the moment you legislate it, you will be imposing such policy on the Catholic people as well, and (the worst part) is the taxes being paid by the Catholics themselves, you will be using it against their own principles.”

An advocacy group that calls itself Catholics for Reproductive Health said it is “only right” to support such legislation. Luz Frances Chua is one of the original founders of the group.

“What are the signs of the times?” she asked. “The signs of the times include: More and more people are becoming poor, more and more people need reproductive health services, more and more young people need information, and there is also growing health concern over HIV-AIDS. So what are we going to do about it? ... It is our obligation as Catholics to do what we can do. If people need reproductive health services, then we have to give it to them.”

Chua said she and others in her group are

– Mismanagement and misgovernance, not overpopulation, are the real reasons behind poverty in the Philippines, a church spokesman said.

– President Benigno Aquino III has made reproductive health legislation a priority this year, giving this 16-yearold proposal its first tangible boost in recent memory.

– The reproductive health proposals provide for full access and government assistance to the poor to pay for contraception.

– A proponent of the legislation, Luz Frances Chua, said “more and more people are becoming poor, more and more people need reproductive health services, more and more young people need information, and there is also growing health concern over HIVAIDS. So what are we going to do about it?”

– Surveys by the two leading, nonpartisan researchers in the Philippines show 82 percent of Filipinos favor giving couples the choice to plan their own families. convinced they are right because they have gone through a serious process of discernment, a form of prayerful decision-making taught by the church. She said they have been branded as children of Satan by some who oppose the legislation.

“This has to stop,” she said. “We are all for helping women. We are all helping lower maternal mortality. We are all for lowering incidences of abortion and teenage pregnancy.

Why are you calling us names? We are also Catholics.”

Surveys by the two leading, nonpartisan researchers in the Philippines show 82 percent of Filipinos favor giving couples the choice to plan their own families, and more than 70 percent favor both the Senate and House versions of the reproductive measures.

Sex trafficking, indentured labor bedevil victims and foes alike WASHINGTON (CNS) – The scourge of human trafficking, be it in the form of sex slavery or immigrant work gangs, not only bedevils people victimized by those practices but even those who campaign against them.

During an Oct. 26 conference on trafficking at The Catholic University of America, Ethiopian trafficking victims told of going through a dozen different countries at the behest of smugglers before arriving in the United States, where their treatment by federal Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents was even harsher than in their home country.

“I am a survivor from two countries: from Ethiopia, and here in America, too,” said Fineam Benjamin, who fled his homeland in 2006 amid repression from the Ethiopian government, which is still in power in the East African nation.

Benjamin said he arrived in Laredo, Texas, expecting hospitality. Instead, he said, he was tortured by border police.

“They took away all my cellphone numbers,” rendering him unable to reach anyone, Benjamin said. “For six months, no communication. I am in a single room in Laredo, Texas,” he added, pausing to choke back tears. “I’m sorry,” he told his audience. “I’m just feeling a little bit sad about what was happening to me.”

In Ethiopia, “God gave me a chance to escape,” Benjamin said. “Here, you have no way to escape. You have no way to kill yourself if you are desperate.” He added, “I am the only one they keep that long. I don’t blame the country. (But) I still hurt.”

Luis CdeBaca, director of the State Department’s Office to Monitor and Combat

(CNS PHOTO/KHAM, REUTERS)

By Mark Pattison

Nuns profess vows Nuns attend a Mass for the profession of vows for the Lovers of the Holy Cross of Hung Hoa Sisters in Son Tay, Vietnam, Oct. 29. Vietnam has the second-largest Catholic community in Southeast Asia, after the Philippines.

Trafficking in Persons, also addressed the conference, sponsored by the Franciscan Action Network, Franciscans International, the Franciscan Federation and the Institute for Policy Research & Catholic Studies at the university.

CdeBaca said “human trafficking” became the agreed-upon term at the United Nations to describe the practice because “modern slavery” sounded too blunt.

CdeBaca said he personally comes up short in trying to practice what he preaches as head of the monitoring office. For example, he said, “I still don’t know where the cotton in my shirt comes from,” as children are frequently used in some countries to pick the cotton crop. Even with the McDonald’s Filet-O-Fish sandwich, which he said he loves to eat during Lent, “there’s a 60 percent chance that fish was caught

by someone enslaved somewhere south of New Zealand.”

CdeBaca praised the efforts of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility and Manpower Strategies to reward good employer conduct and undercut exploitative employers.

“If you ask politely but firmly enough, it sounds like demands to these corporations,” he said, adding that people should check the supply chain on consumer products.

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Spirituality for Life

The Catholic press loses a friend No community should botch its deaths! Those are the words of the famed anthropologist, Mircea Eliade, and I use them here to introduce a tribute to Otto Herschan, a longtime Catholic publisher, who died on July 12 at the age of 84.

For many years he was the publisher and managing director of a number of national Catholic weekly newspapers, including the Catholic Herald in England, the Scottish Catholic Observer in Scotland, and the Irish Catholic in Ireland. He brought an interesting background to Catholic journalism.

He was born in Austria and, at age 10, came to England as refugee with his mother just before World War II. His father, who put his wife and Otto on the Orient Express bound for London just before he died, had been an Austrian army officer and in the first chapters of Otto’s autobiography, “Holy Smoke,” he describes the trials of Catholicism in Austria as it was passing into Nazi control.

Upon arriving in England, Otto was educated by the Benedictines at their school in Herefordshire, Belmont Abbey.

After graduating, he worked briefly in accountancy and advertising, before enrolling for a college degree, but lack of funds obliged him to leave after a year. Otto then turned his energy to the theater, joining the Boltons Theatre, the best known of London’s theatrical clubs in the 1940s. He worked there in a number of capacities: scene painter, actor of small parts, and eventually as theater manager, becoming at the tender age of 21

the youngest theater manager in London. But financial troubles forced the Boltons Theatre to close in 1950. He then worked for a time in television, helping found the first commercial TV station in England.

This led him back to the theater where, in 1954 at a fundraising event, he met the chairman for the Catholic Herald who invited him to take over the management of the paper. He protested, saying that he knew nothing about running a newspaper and was told in reply: “That may be a very good start!”

He then served as managing director of the Catholic Herald for nearly 50 years.

Under his vision and guidance, the Catholic Herald evolved from serving a small, closed constituency within which the purchase of a copy was regarded as an act of piety to become a national and international Catholic weekly that appears on newsstands through the English-speaking world. He recruited talented journalists from the secular press and the Catholic Herald became a feisty and highly sought-after newspaper. As publisher of a number of Catholic newspapers both during and after Vatican II, he was always able to have his newspapers walk that fine tightrope between liberal and conservative ideologies. Invariably his newspapers were considered too liberal for the conservatives and too conservative for the liberals. Not a bad critique.

As a publisher with a very limited budget, Otto was good at spotting talented young journalists, hiring them to edit his

newspapers, and then after a few years giving them his fullest blessing as they moved on to more profitable jobs within the secular press. In this way, he helped launch the careers of a number of very good young journalists; but it was a Father Ron win-win situation for both, Rolheiser the aspiring young editors looking to make a start and for the Catholic press who benefited from their talent. During his years in publishing he also developed lifelong friendships with leading church people everywhere, including Archbishop Denis Hurley of South Africa and Cardinal Franz Konig of Vienna.

No community should botch its deaths! And so it’s important to highlight that in Otto Herschan’s passing the church and the world lost a true gentleman, a good friend, a man of wit, and man who, like Jesus, tried to draw people of very persuasion together around a common table of friendship and faith.

Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser is president of the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, Texas.

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Books view divisive parish closures from different sides

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“THE GRACE OF EVERYDAY SAINTS: HOW A BAND OF BELIEVERS LOST THEIR CHURCH AND FOUND THEIR FAITH” by Julian Guthrie. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Boston, 2011). 288 pp., $25. “ N O C L O S U R E : C AT H O L I C PRACTICE AND BOSTON’S PARISH SHUTDOWNS” by John C. Seitz.

Harvard University Press (Cambridge, Mass., 2011). 322 pp., $39.95.

Reviewed by Rachelle Linner (CNS) Julian Guthrie, a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle and author of “The Grace of Everyday Saints,” first met the “everyday saints” of St. Brigid Parish in 2004. By then, the Committee to Save St. Brigid Church had been meeting for 10 years in an effort to reopen their beloved church, which had been inexplicably suppressed in 1994.

Guthrie is a good writer and she has a palpable affection and admiration for the diverse people of this community, but she offers the fullest profiles of the group’s leaders: – Irish-born Father Cyril O’Sullivan (“Father O”) risked being ostracized to confront nowretired Archbishop John R. Quinn, and despite his transfer to a parish in Marin County, he remains the spiritual center of this community in exile.

– Robert Bryan, a death penalty lawyer, a Southern Baptist married to a Catholic woman, was in the RCIA program when St. Brigid’s was closed. Bryan used his prodigious legal skills to discover evidence of then-unknown clerical sex abuse, the reason why a historic, pastorally and financially vibrant parish was slated for closure.

– Joe Dignan, to whom the book is dedicated (he died after a heart attack in 2006), successfully led the committee’s efforts to obtain landmark status for the exterior of St. Brigid’s after it was sold to the private Academy of Art University. Without losing focus on St. Brigid’s, Guthrie narrates Joe’s personal journey from

Brightening for All Saints’ Day A man paints a tombstone at the Casabermeja cemetery near Malaga, Spain, Oct. 26. The cemetery was being spruced up ahead of All Saints’ Day, the Nov. 1 Catholic holy day.

closeted gay man in a tumultuous marriage to an acceptance of his homosexuality.

Despite its strengths, Guthrie’s book is flawed by her decision to cast this as a black and white morality play, with beleaguered but indomitable parishioners confronting obdurate, deceitful church officials. Given the circumstances it is an understandable narrative, one that appeals to our delight in the resourcefulness of the underdog. Unfortunately her reliance on caricature instead of context fails to convey complexity, and what could have been an edifying book remains shallow and selfcongratulatory.

John Seitz’s “No Closure” is a sophisticated and nuanced analysis of occupying vigils in the Boston archdiocese.

In 2004, facing severe financial problems, a shortage of priests and declining attendance, then-Archbishop (now Cardinal) Sean P. O’Malley announced plans to close or con-

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around sacrifice, sacred presence, belonging and obedience to religious authority.

These themes surfaced in many situations faced by the vigilers, from how to handle sacred objects that remained in the church building and the proper manner in which to conduct lay-led religious services, to ruptured relationships with former friends who were perceived as traitors because they joined the receiving parish.

Vigilers, Seitz writes, were involved in “the search for an acceptable Catholic maturity” and to this end they had to acknowledge, grieve and re-examine many aspects of their loyalty to the sacred spaces that were suddenly wrested away from them.

Seitz is a theologian, not a therapist, but this solid academic book is, ultimately, a sad one.

It is impossible to read “No Closure” without wondering what could have been achieved, and what heartache avoided, if archdiocesan officials had listened to parishioners with the same empathy and desire for understanding that Seitz brought to his work.

solidate 80 parishes. In response to the closures members at some parishes began 24-hour occupying vigils; five of these continue as of 2011.

The vigils became the focus of the doctoral research of Seitz, then a Harvard student and now an assistant professor of theology at Fordham University. Seitz is a capable and empathic writer who is an insightful observer of the occupations he observed most closely – suburban St. Jeremiah’s in Framingham, Mass., and the urban Italian national parish, Our Lady of Mount Carmel in East Boston.

Seitz situates the vigils in the context of Boston’s religious, social and political history, including its long-standing racial and ethnic tensions. The shift in theology and practice that was introduced by the Second Vatican Council had an impact on people’s experience and expectations of Catholic life, but the more immediate issue in Boston was the sexual abuse crisis. Anger toward the hierarchy did not dissipate with the December 2002 resignation of Cardinal Bernard Law. The book’s greatest contribution is Seitz’s reflective consideration of how resisters wrestled with, rejected or appropriated teachings

Linner, a freelance writer and reviewer, lives in Medford, Mass.

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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.

San Francisco’s All Hallows Chapel celebrates its 125th anniversary Nov. 5 with prayer and song.

All are invited to a bilingual Mass at 4 p.m. A ticketed reception and dinner follow. Call (415) 285-3377 for dinner reservations and ticket price information. Visit www.lourdesbayview.org.

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Holy Cross Cemetery 1500 Old Mission Road, Colma, (650) 756-2060 Nov. 5, 11 a.m.: First Saturday Mass in All Saints Mausoleum Chapel.

Nov. 11, 11 a.m.: Veterans Day Service in cemetery’s Star of the Sea section Msgr. Michael Padazinski, chancellor of the Archdiocese of San Francisco and U.S. Air Force colonel, will preside.

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.

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 director, 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. For more information call (415) 614-5531.

Nov. 8, 5-6 p.m.: “Managing Joint Pain and Arthritis,” free seminar presented by physical therapist, Fiona McCusker, at St. Mary’s Medical Center, 450 Stanyan St., San Francisco, 3 East Conference Room. Parking and refreshments included. Call (888) 457-5202 to register.

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.

Office of Worship Call (415) 614-5586 Workshops on the “Liturgy and the Revised Roman Missal” Nov.6, 12:30-1:30 p.m. at St Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard in San Francisco.

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

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.

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Single, Divorced, Separated 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, all-occasion handmade cards, baked goods, and fudge. For information please contact Debbie Halleran at (650) 340-7426. Pictured are Mercy Sister Estelle Small and Mercy Sister Guadalupe Dominguez whipping up some of their famous blackberry jam.

Food and Fun Nov. 12, 5 p.m.: St. Luke Mass and Banquet at St. Thomas More Church, One Brotherhood Way, San Francisco. Father Mark Taheny will preside at Mass.

Dinner is at 7 p.m. at nearby Alma Via residence.

Harpist Anna Maria Mendieta and Liliane Cromer, soprano, will entertain during a reception before dinner at 6 p.m. also at Alma Via. Guest speaker is Michael DeNunzio of the Commission on Aging on “The Need to Protect Seniors from Elder Abuse and Assisted Suicide.” Tickets for dinner are $25 per person/$10 for clergy, religious and students. Contact George Maloof at (415) 305-2408 or email gemaloof2003@yahoo.com.

Nov. 12, 6 p.m.: “Event of the Century” benefiting the St. Paul’s Preservation Fund. Evening includes opening reception, silent auction, dinner, dessert and live auction, and dancing until midnight. Tickets are $65 per person, sponsorship opportunities also available. Call (415) 648-7538.

Nov. 12, 13, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.: All Souls Christmas Faire benefiting All Souls School, Walnut Avenue at Miller Avenue, South San Francisco. Christmas Lunch Saturday at 11:30 a.m. and Breakfast with Santa Sunday at 10 a.m. Great shopping, too! Call (650) 871-8944 or email allsoulssfwomensclub@yahoo.com.

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 for more information.

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.

Dec. 4, 11 a.m.-1 p.m.: “Holiday Open House &

Faith Formation Nov. 18, 19: “Go! Glorify the Lord with your life!”

Be among the more than 2,500 religious education professionals and Catholics looking to deepen their faith at the annual “Faith Formation Conference” sponsored by the Archdiocese of San Francisco with the dioceses of San Jose, Oakland, Monterey and Stockton at Santa Clara Convention Center. Local experts and nationally known speakers will facilitate 84 workshops. More than 70 exhibits relevant to the day will be on display. Visit www.faithformationconference.com.

Social Justice/Lectures/Prayer Sundays, 1:30-2:30 p.m.: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament with Benediction at Notre Dame des Victoires Church, 566 Bush St. between Stockton and Grant in San Francisco. Convenient parking is available across Bush Street in Stockton-Sutter garage.

Call (415) 397-0113.

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 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?

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Craft Fair” benefiting Hanna Boys Center, 17000 Arnold Drive in Sonoma. Enjoy a festive day including refreshments, Santa photos, handmade crafts, campus tours. Visit www.hannacenter.org or call Tamara Stanley at (707) 933-2504.

Information about Bay Area single, divorced and separated programs is available from Jesuit Father Al Grosskopf at grosskopf@usfca.edu (415) 422-6698.

Marriage Help – Retrouvaille (pronounced retro-vi) a Catholic program has helped thousands of couples at all stages of disillusionment or misery in their marriage. For confidential information about the next Bay Area weekends or to register for the program call (415) 893-1005 or email: SF@ Retrouvaille.org or visit www.Retrouvaille.org or www.retroCA.com” Would you like support while you travel the road through separation and divorce? The Archdiocese of San Francisco offers support for the journey. The Separated and Divorced Catholics of the Archdiocese of San Francisco offer two ongoing support groups at St. Bartholomew Parish, 600 Columbia Drive, San Mateo, on first and third Tuesdays at 7 p.m. in the spirituality center, and in O’Reilly hall of St. Stephen Parish near Stonestown in San Francisco, on first and third Wednesdays, at 7:30 p.m. Call Joanne (650) 347-0701 for more information.

Catholic Adult Singles Association of Marin County: We are Catholics, single or single again, who are interested in making new friends, taking part in social activities, sharing opportunities for spiritual growth, and becoming involved in volunteer activities that will benefit parishes, community, and one another. We welcome those who would share in this with us. For information, call Bob at (415) 897-0639.

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Nov. 6, 2 p.m.: St. Peter School Memorial Mass at St. Peter Church, 24th and Alabama streets, San Francisco. Father Daniel J. McGuire, former pastor of St. Peter, is principal celebrant. Parking is available in church and school lot. Call (415) 647-8662.

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Pray nine times a day for nine days together with one each Our Father, Hail Mary, and Glory Be. Publish a thanksgiving notice when favor is granted.

My own gratitude is beyond words.

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Associate Director of Development 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

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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.

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.

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

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November 4, 2011

(CNS PHOTO/KEITH DANNEMILLER)

Day of the Dead takes on new meaning amid Mexico’s pain

By J.D. Long-Garcia TEPOZTLAN, Mexico (CNS) – “Dia de los Muertos,� the traditional Mexican commemoration of deceased loved ones, has taken on a deeper meaning in light of drug-related violence in recent years.

Drug-related killings have been on the rise since 2006, surpassing 15,000 in 2010, according to a study commissioned by the TransBorder Institute at the University of San Diego. “We’re living in a barbarian age,� said Argelia Barcas Bello, a teacher at Santiago in Tepoztlan, a town built on Tepozteco Mountain near Mexico City. The town receives many visi-

A young man holds a statue of St. Jude Thaddeus, the patron of hopeless causes, during Mass at St. Hippolytus Church in Mexico City Oct. 28.

but instead the Time of Calaveras,� he explained in an interview with a reporter visiting from The Catholic Sun, newspaper of the Phoenix diocese.

Father Paredes said the tradition grew out of an Aztec belief in Mictlantecuhtli, the god of the dead. After the Spanish brought Catholicism to the area, the Aztec belief blended with All Souls’ Day. But for many, the religious custom is simply an extension of their Catholic faith. “The Catholic faith is the only one that commemorates the dead this way, not the other religions,� Barcas said. “We’re welcoming our deceased loved ones.�

Ana Elisa Rodriguez, who works with the local church, said it wasn’t pagan, either.

Children in Tepoztlan are forbidden to dress up as witches, she said, and if they do, they don’t get any candy.

Flowers are used to lead the spirit of the deceased loved one to the memorial altar with their sweet fragrance, Rodriguez said. A candle is left so that the loved ones can make their way back to purgatory.

tors who come to see a nearby ancient pyramid.

Barcas and other merchants set up shops, selling items for “ofrendas,� altars set up to remember deceased loved ones for the annual Day of the Dead observance. “We’re seeing many more deaths because of the delinquency,� Barcas said, adding that those who died accidentally or due to violence are remembered in her town Oct. 28.

Alejandro Alvarez, another merchant, said Mexico has many ways of representing death – the skull, or “calavera,� and “Catarinas,� dressed-up female skeletons, are two such ways. “Since the Aztecs, we’ve been laughing at death,� Alvarez said.

The calaveras and Catarinas are placed on the memorial altar along with other items cherished by the deceased beloved. It might be tequila or a pack of cigarettes, but those are always accompanied by the departed’s favorite foods. “It’s more of a lived popular religiosity than Catholicism,� Father Martin Paredes Apolinar, a priest at the town’s Our Lady of the Nativity Parish, said of the Day of the Dead. “Here, the word Halloween doesn’t exist,

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