Archbishop: Mass changes offer deeper encounter with Eucharist Archbishop George Niederauer delivered this keynote address Feb. 22 at St. Mary’s Cathedral at a summit meeting on the implementation of the revised Roman Missal. “The Roman Missal, Third Edition,” the ritual text containing prayers and instructions for the celebration of the Mass, has been approved for U.S. dioceses by the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments and will be used for the first time on the First Sunday of Advent, Nov. 27, 2011. This article has been condensed from the archbishop’s full address, which can be viewed at catholic-sf.org.
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n an undertaking as extensive and detailed as the translation of the entire Roman Missal into English you may be sure that there is something for everyone to dislike. However, we bishops, priests, religious, deacons, and lay ministers are called to a broader vision of what is happening and of the task before us, a vision that sees beyond this or that particular phrasing or wording. Such a vision will see the opportunity for a catechesis about Eucharist and worship that will recall all of us to a deeper understanding of what Eucharist is and of what our full, active and conscious Eucharistic participation means for us and for the entire church. Forty years ago such a catechesis was spotty at best, but now we have a chance to get it right. As shepherd of Catholics in the Archdiocese of San Francisco I am convinced that I must issue a call to leadership to pastors and parish ministers, to those in Catholic schools and in other Catholic communities in this local church, to work together conscientiously, cooperatively
and responsibly to implement the new translation of the Roman Missal throughout the Archdiocese. I acknowledge that among us are fine Catholic leaders with sincere doubts and critical concerns about the translation. Nevertheless, I believe that we can work together honestly and with integrity as we implement the new Roman Missal. In order to do that let us first consider the catholicity of our church. We cannot leave it up to each celebrant or each congregation to fashion their own texts. If it’s every presider for himself and every parish for itself, then each personnel change can mean a change in Mass texts for the congregation. As Msgr. Phil Murnion liked to say, “Ordination is not a license for private practice.” We are called and sent to do what the church does in the way the church calls us to do it. That does not make us robots or automatons, but ministers responsive to Christ, who is leading us together in the Spirit. MASS CHANGES, page 7
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DUBLIN (CNS) – Repenting for the crimes of priestly sex abuse does not mean that the Irish Catholic Church can return to business as usual, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin told abuse survivors during a Feb. 20 prayer service joined by an American cardinal. However, seeking forgiveness can be an important step toward healing and overcoming the pain that survivors feel, he added as Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley of Boston listened during the “Liturgy of Lament and Repentance” at Dublin’s Pro-Cathedral. Both prelates offered apologies for the church’s failure to respond to reports of abuse during the afternoon service attended by 1,000 survivors and their families and supporters. Many in attendance were visibly moved when Archbishop Martin and Cardinal O’Malley washed the feet of eight survivors as a sign of humility. “The Archdiocese of Dublin will never be the same again,” Archbishop Martin said. “It will always bear this wound within it. The Archdiocese of Dublin can never rest until the day in which the last victim has found his or her peace and he or she can rejoice in being fully the person that God in his plan wants them to be.” Cardinal O’Malley was in Dublin conducting an apostolic visitation of the archdiocese in the wake of a scandal that found church leaders doing little to investigate abuse claims and working to keep abuse reports under wraps to protect the clergy involved and the church’s reputation. Other prelates also visited various Irish dioceses and religious congregations as part of the visitation. “On behalf of the Holy Father, I ask forgiveness for the sexual abuse of children perpetrated by priests and past failures of the church’s hierarchy, here and in Rome, the failure to respond appropriately to the problem of sexual abuse,” Cardinal O’Malley told the congregation in his concluding remarks. “Publicly atoning for the church’s failures is an important element of asking the forgiveness of those who have been harmed by priests and bishops, whose actions – and inactions – gravely harmed the lives of children entrusted to their care,” he said. Planned principally by survivors, the service began with the two prelates lying prostrate in repentance before a silent congregation. A handful of protesters gathered outside insisting they could “neither forgive nor forget” the abuse. ABUSE, page 6
Boston Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley and Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin, Ireland, lie prostrate before the altar during the “Liturgy of Lament and Repentance” at Dublin’s Pro-Cathedral Feb. 20.
Deacon impressed by inmates’ ‘hunger’ for Christ By George Raine There are enough house rules as is at San Quentin State Prison, and it is not Deacon Larry Chatmon’s place to add to them when he serves inmates in his prison ministry. He does have some friendly advice for them, however, when they leave the chapel after services. “I tell them, ‘You have to take what is in that chapel with you when you go back to the yard,’” he said. “I tell them, ‘For you to Deacon Larry go in there and receive the Chatmon Spirit and just leave it there and go back to where you are is not life-changing. If you want life-changing, if you want to truly experience Christ, take him with you.’”
Chatmon, in fact, was promised a life-changing experience himself when three years ago he added prison ministry to his list of duties and volunteerism at St. Paul of the Shipwreck Parish in San Francisco, where he and his wife, Loretta, have worshiped for more than 25 years. He got what he hoped for. Here’s what Chatmon found: There are people in prison who are probably closer to Christ than most of us, closer to Christ than many people would realize. He was amazed, in fact, by how committed to their faith many inmates are – that they want to learn more about the Catholic Church. “We don’t find a lot of people in our parishes with that hunger,” said Chatmon. “There is a hunger that they have. Part of that comes from where they are and the circumstances in which they have to live.” He added, “It brings about an eagerness. People begin to search for God when they hit the ground, when they hit a brick wall. They start looking for some other way.” DEACON CHATMON, page 8
INSIDE THIS WEEK’S EDITION On the Street . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Operation Rice Bowl . . . . . . . 4 Wedding Guide . . . . . . . . 9-12 Archbishop’s Journal. . . . . . 14 Father Rolheiser . . . . . . . . . 17
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Terry Hanley, principal, and Father Brian Costello, pastor, smile at inventive “groundbreaking” that started construction of the new “Father Bill Duggan Science Lab” at Star of the Sea School in San Francisco. Funded through donations from alumni, parents, parishioners and grants, the facility was dedicated Jan. 15. Father Bill Duggan, now deceased, served at Star of the Sea Parish some 50 years ago.
Where You Live By Tom Burke Happy 90th birthday Feb. 20 to Ray Hollasch. Ray and his wife, Rosalie – married 59 years – have been parishioners of Our Lady of Angels in Burlingame since 1964. Thanks to their daughter, Debbie Bruni, for the good news…. Happy 85th birthday to Con Maloney, a 50-year parishioner and usher at St. Stephen’s in San Francisco. Con is a retired Con and Marilyn Maloney teacher and counselor at City College. He and his wife, Marilyn, have been married since 1952. More recently, Con has assisted on funeral services with Duggan’s Serra Mortuary of Daly City. “Billy Duggan is his neighbor and asked if he’d like a part-time job,” Con and Marilyn’s son, Jim told me. “Dad is very people oriented and very Catholic so it was a great fit.” Con and Marilyn commemorated the milestone at a celebration that included their children, children’s spouses and grandchildren… Holly and `Ho, Ho, Ho’ along with treats of the Yule season marked a special High Tea at San Francisco’s Ritz Carlton Hotel in December. “More than 70 seniors dressed in holiday finery made the trip from Our Lady of Angels Parish in Burlingame,” said Denise Rich in a note to this column. “This was a time to make new friends and renew old ones.” Denise with volunteers including Kelli Benz, Frances Cannizaro and Doris Rudolph organized Aaron De Ocampo carries the afternoon of games, anniversary banner at prizes, laughter and Mass commemorating the fun. Capuchin Father occasion Jan. 30 at Michael Mahoney, pasSt. Timothy’s in San Mateo.. tor, also enjoyed the good
time. Seniors at OLA are treated to a monthly lunch in their honor and students from OLA School help serve the meal as well as entertain…. Father Bill Brown, pastor of St. Hilary Parish, leads an “all hats off” for parishioner, Ellen Lieber, for whom a memorial Mass was celebrated Jan. 25. A longtime member of the Tiburon church, Ellen was an activist for the rights of the disabled. “Ellen fought hard to make sure St. Hilary Church would become handicapped-accessible during our renovations some years back, including a ramp leading up to the altar itself,” Father Brown said in a note to this column. “I have been told that for some time Ellen also served as a lector at Mass, propelling her wheelchair up to the pulpit and proclaiming the Scriptures from there.” Despite ill health, Ellen continued to attend Mass and was also a member of St. Hilary’s women’s Bible Study Group and she will be missed by them, according to Father Brown…. As many already know, radio’s Carter B. Smith, a St. Hilary parishioner and reader for many years, has also gone to God. Prayers for them both, please…. Congratulations to St. Timothy School in San Mateo on the occasion of its 50th anniversary. The St. Timothy Church and School community celebrated this milestone with a Mass of Thanksgiving Jan.
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By Valerie Schmalz The man who led the University of San Francisco Dons to greatness on the basketball court in the 1950s was honored by President Barack Obama with the nation’s highest civilian honor Feb. 15. President Obama honored 77-year-old basketball icon Bill Russell with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in a ceremony that also honored former President George H.W. Bush, cellist Yo Yo Ma, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and 11 others. In remarks during the medal ceremony, President Obama said the recipients represented “the best of who we are and who we aspire to be.” Although they were not the first African-American college basketball players, by their undisputed excellence Russell and fellow African-American teammates K.C. Jones and Hal Perry helped break the color barrier as they led the University of San Francisco Dons on a 55-game winning streak. The team captured the NCAA championships in 1955 and 1956, but the black players endured invective on the basketball court and were refused service as they travelled in the South and Midwest. As a Boston Celtic, Russell led his team to 11 NBA championships in 13 years, two of those as a player coach. President Obama praised Russell as “someone who stood up for the rights and dignity of all men.” “When Bill Russell was in junior high, he was cut from his basketball team,” President Obama said at the awards ceremony. “He got better after that,” said President Obama. A five-time NBA Most Valuable Player and a 12-time All-Star, the 6-foot 9-inch center amassed 21,620 career rebounds, an average of 22.5 per game and led the league in rebounding four times. He led the U.S. Olympic basketball team to a gold medal in the 1956 games before joining the Celtics. Russell was the first African-American ever to hold a position as a coach in a major league sports team of any sort, said the president. “More than any athlete of his era, Bill Russell came to define the word ‘winner.’” Russ Gumina, who runs the Salesian Boys and Girls Club in North Beach, was recruited by the Celtics while Russell was coach and eventually turned them down in favor of an academic scholarship to USF’s law school, but said Russell sent him Celtics tickets for a couple of years hoping he would change his mind. Gumina remembers Russell playing at the Sts. Peter and Paul gym when the Salesian Club sponsored an open league for college-aged players and USF put a team in the league. “Believe it or not, they didn’t win the league,” said Gumina, who was 10 at the time. “The league was won by a team sponsored by the Booker T. Washington Recreation Center. I was still a young boy but I can remember the intensity of those games” in the “pit” of the gym with its 20-foot ceilings, he said. To Gumina, Russell was an exceptional athlete – “arguably the best of all time.” He noted that Russell’s demeanor could be intimidating but at the Celtics training camp his trademark “cackle” let everyone know he was around. “He was a fierce competitor when he played and demanded that from his teammates and the players he coached,” Gumina said. “Probably his best trait was the fact that he made everyone around him better. Player coaches traditionally weren’t very successful in those days because coaching is a full-time job. Russell, however, Your source for the best Catholic books – Bibles music – movies – ministry resources – greeting cards rosaries – medals statues – gifts for Catholic occasions Material en Español 935 Brewster
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still managed to win, mainly because he refused to settle for anything less.” Russell was born in Louisiana but had moved to Oakland with his family and was playing at McClymonds High School when he was recruited by USF Coach Phil Woolpert in 1952. USF did not even have a gym, so the team practiced and played at nearby Kezar Stadium and then-St. Ignatius High School. The War Memorial Gym, constructed in 1958, is nicknamed “The House that Russell Built,” for the outpouring of alumni donations that followed the championship seasons. The Dons basketball team stuck together, white and black, as Russell, Jones and Perry were barred from hotels and restaurants in New Orleans, Wichita, Oklahoma City and other places the USF Dons travelled, recalled Mike Farmer, who played with Russell at USF and then for the New York Knickerbockers for seven years. “It took a lot of grit,” Farmer said, “not to respond to some of the things that went on then.” Catholic News Service contributed to this story.
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February 25, 2011 Cardinal Georges Cottier, the former theologian of the papal household, said Feb. 18. Cardinal Cottier said even if it may be confusing in the case of Pope Benedict, who was famous as a theologian before being elected pope, it is important for people to understand that theology is a human exercise, which is open to debate and criticism; but because of the Holy Spirit’s gift to the church and to the individual elected, the teaching of a pope requires a greater degree of assent.
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Pope says Lent is time to renounce selfishness VATICAN CITY – Lent is a time for self-examination and to let go of all traces of selfishness, which is the root of violence, Pope Benedict XVI said. “The greed of possession leads to violence, exploitation and death,” which is why during Lent the church encourages almsgiving, “which is the capacity to share,” the pope said in his annual message for Lent.
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ROME – As the second volume of “Jesus of Nazareth” was about to be published, a Swiss cardinal said it’s important that people realize the book was written by the theologian Joseph Ratzinger and not by Pope Benedict XVI. “This distinction is not a matter of splitting hairs,”
Christchurch, New Zealand, schoolgirls are pictured after a Feb. 22 earthquake that killed at least 65 people, toppled churches and other buildings and badly damaged the city’s historic cathedral.
PHILADELPHIA – The Catholic Church in Philadelphia has pledged a re-examination of the cases of 37 priests who a grand jury report says remain in active ministry despite credible allegations of sexual abuse of minors. Three priests named in the report were immediately prohibited from publicly exercising their priestly ministry until the latest review is complete. “Change begins with action,” the Philadelphia archdiocese said in a Feb. 16 statement. “The grand jury report makes it clear that for as much as the archdiocese has done to address child sexual abuse, there is still much to do.”
Resolution condemning church appealed to U.S. Supreme Court ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Two San Francisco residents and the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court Feb. 15 asking that it reverse a federal appeals court decision that upheld the constitutionality of a San Francisco Board of Supervisors resolution strongly critical of the Catholic Church. The resolution, adopted March 21, 2006, refers to Vatican ruling as “meddling” in the affairs of the city and calls the church‘s teaching on homosexuality “insulting to all San Franciscans.” Sparked by a Vatican ruling that Catholic Charities could not place children for adoption with same-sex couples, the resolution urged the archbishop and Catholic Charities to defy the Vatican directive. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling that the resolution was constitutional. The appeal, filed by the Thomas More Law Center, argues that the resolution was a violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the Constitution.
State’s high court to decide key issue in Prop. 8 appeal The California Supreme Court will decide whether backers of Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage in the state, have the right under state law to appeal a federal judge’s decision that the measure is unconstitutional. The court Feb. 16 was responding to a request from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which in December, in the course of taking up the appeal from a group called Protect Marriage, questioned whether the group has what is known as “standing,” or is a legitimate appellant. The state court said it would hold a hearing as early as September, followed by a decision within 90 days.
Operation Rice Bowl starts Ash Wednesday; rising food costs spike global poverty rate BALTIMORE – Every year, millions of Catholics in the U.S. participate in Operation Rice Bowl, Catholic Relief Services’ annual Lenten program that starts on Ash Wednesday, March 9. Each Lent, Catholic parishes and schools from more than 12,000 communities use symbolic rice bowls as the focal point for their prayer, fasting and learning. Getting involved in the program is a tangible way to help people living in poverty around the world. Participants make the small sacrifice of preparing simple, meatless recipes each week and putting the money they otherwise would have spent on a big meal into symbolic rice bowls. That money goes to support CRS’ mission to fight global hunger and poverty. With active participation in almost every diocese in the U.S., many communities and families have adopted Operation Rice Bowl as a way to observe Lent. “Participating in Operation Rice Bowl provides Catholics with 40 days of making a real difference in the lives of people struggling with hunger and poverty,” said Beth Martin, program manager for Operation Rice Bowl. “Learning about our brothers and sisters in developing countries and following the call to sacrifice helps thousands of people onto a path out of poverty every year.” An Operation Rice Bowl calendar provides daily reflections and learning opportunities – told through the eyes of people helped by the program – that reinforce ORB’s message and mission. To help families, schools and parishes participate in Operation Rice Bowl, CRS also makes a number of resources available, including an Educator’s Guide containing lesson plans and a Coordinator’s Guide to help Catholics participate as a group. Last year, Catholics raised more than $6 million through Operation Rice Bowl, 75 percent of which is used to fund hunger and poverty projects in 40 countries. The remaining 25 percent stays in U.S. dioceses to support food pantries and soup kitchens. Resources to participate in Operation Rice Bowl, including stories, photos and multimedia, are available at orb.crs.org. Rising food prices have driven an estimated 44 million people into poverty in developing countries since last June as food costs continue to rise to near 2008 levels, the World Bank Group reported Feb. 15. Global food prices are rising to dangerous levels and threaten tens of millions of poor people around the world, said World Bank Group President Robert B. Zoellick, adding that the poor spend more than half of their income on food.
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Cardinal urges social ministry workers to continue church’s legacy By Patricia Zapor WASHINGTON (CNS) – Telling an audience of Catholic social ministry workers Feb. 13 that they are “still contributing to writing the book on Catholic social doctrine,” the president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace offered historical context and encouragement for their efforts. “We are the heirs and inheritors of ‘Rerum Novarum,’” the 1891 encyclical by Pope Leo XIII considered the starting point of modern social teaching, said Cardinal Peter Turkson, the council’s president, speaking to the annual Catholic Social Ministry Cardinal Peter Turkson Gathering. The conference is co-sponsored by a dozen Catholic organizations, including various departments of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Catholic Charities USA, JustFaith, the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, the Conference of Major Superiors of Men, the Roundtable
Association of Diocesan Social Action Directors, the Catholic Daughters of the Americas and Catholic Relief Services, among others. Cardinal Turkson explained that his role at the Vatican is to apply “Rerum Novarum” and the related social teaching documents of the past 120 years to the current challenges of church organizations that seek to address the world’s social needs. Sometimes that means reminding organizations of the differences between political involvement and the church’s social justice obligations, he said. Church and state are distinct from one another, each serving its own sphere, he said. But the church must also “scrutinize the signs of the times” to ensure that its efforts and resources are meeting people’s needs, he continued. The former archbishop of Cape Coast, Ghana, and the first cardinal from his country, Cardinal Turkson was warmly greeted for his speech by an audience that included dozens of Ghanaians, many wearing colorful traditional woven fabrics and elaborate head scarves of their native country. His talk was the opening plenary session of the four-day annual gathering of more than 300 social ministry workers from around the country. He traced the history of major social teaching documents since “Rerum Novarum,” noting that each arrived at a time of societal struggles in a changing world. For example, Pope Leo’s encyclical came as the Industrial Revolution reshaped a previously agrarian soci-
ety. In 1931, Pope Pius XI’s “Quadragesimo Anno,” marking the a 40th anniversary of “Rerum Novarum,” came amid the Great Depression, a worldwide economic crisis. Subsequent social encyclicals – Pope John XXIII’s “Mater et Magistra” (1961), Pope Paul VI’s “Populorum Progresso” (1967), Pope John Paul II’s “Sollicitudo Rei Socialis” (1987) and “Centisimus Annus” (1991) and Pope Benedict XVI’s “Caritas in Veritate” (2009) – have aimed to address the emergence of Marxism, the fall of the Berlin Wall and Eastern Europe’s political upheaval, and the contemporary struggles with globalization, underdevelopment and other “financial, economic, moral and anthropological crises.” In these documents, Cardinal Turkson said, “the insights of theology, philosophy, economics, ecology and politics have been harnessed coherently to formulate a social teaching that places the human person (his total and integral development) at the center of all world systems of thought and activity.” “The social encyclicals of the popes have fulfilled the need to actualize the same principles of the church’s application of Christian faith and the charity of Christ to the various contexts of human life,” he said. Quoting from “Gaudium et Spes,” the Second Vatican Council document on the church and society, Cardinal Turkson reminded the audience that “the church, which has long experience in human affairs and has no desire SOCIAL MINISTRY, page 12
Stockton Bishop Blaire to Congress: Place needs of the poor first Federal budget decisions are not just about money – they are “significant moral choices” and the country has an obligation to take care of the poor, Stockton Bishop Stephen Blaire wrote in a letter to Congress on behalf of the national bishops’ conference. “We call on Congress to place the needs of the poor, the unemployed, the hungry, and other vulnerable people first, in setting priorities,” Bishop Blaire, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, wrote in a Feb. 14 letter. The U.S. faces a $1.5 trillion budget deficit in 2011, according to analysis by the non-partisan Congressional
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) – The top church official in Libya said the country’s current unrest was based on legitimate requests by young people for a better future. Libya, unlike Tunisia and Egypt, has the resources to satisfy those requests, Bishop Giovanni Martinelli, the apostolic vicar of Tripoli, told Vatican Radio Feb. 21. “The people are asking for some things that are just. And they are fundamental requests of young people: to be able to have a house, a better salary, a job,� Bishop Martinelli said. The comments came after several days of protests and armed retaliation by the forces of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. Bishop Martinelli said A man waves a Libyan it was difficult to foresee flag during a protest a resolution of the crisis. outside the U.N. building He said the Catholic in New York Feb. 21. Church, which represents a tiny minority in Libya, wanted above all a “form of reconciliation that allows the Libyan people to have what is just.� Witnesses in Tripoli have described Libyan forces firing “randomly� at protesters in the capital on Feb. 21 and 22, Human Rights Watch said Feb. 22 on its website. The organization said it could not verify the reports but noted that sources at two hospitals in Tripoli reported that at least 62 bodies had been brought into their morgues since Feb. 20. The organization said one witness reported seeing men driving around shooting at passersby in Tripoli’s Ben Ashour neighborhood. – Catholic San Francisco contributed to this report.
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of those involved in the ceremony but also when proceedings were interrupted on three separate occasions by survivors who wished to share their experiences and sense of betrayal. ■Continued from cover Cardinal Desmond Connell, retired archbishop of Dublin Marie Collins, who was abused as a 12-year-old in 1960 who was heavily criticized in judicial reports for his handling and was one of the first survivors in the archdiocese to go of abuse cases, sat quietly at the back of cathedral and heard public, told Catholic News Service that the ceremony was Archbishop Martin denounce the church’s response to abuse “to ask God’s forgiveness for sins and crimes of sexual, as “a silence which is a failure of courage and truth.� Cardinal O’Malley said that during his visit he discovered physical, emotional and spiritual abuse perpetrated in the “there is a window of opportunity for the church here to Catholic Church against the young.� “Conscious of ourselves as members of the body of respond to the crisis in a way that will build a holier church Christ we collectively repent of these great evils,� she said. that strives to be more humble even as it grows stronger.� “While we have underArchbishop Martin paid standably heard much anger tribute to the survivors who and learned of much sufferhad the courage to raise their Archbishop Martin paid tribute ing, we have also witnessed voices and not be silenced a sincere desire to strengthen by the church. to the survivors who had the and rebuild the church here. “Some of you in your have seen that there is a hurt and your disgust will courage to raise their voices and We vast resource, a reservoir of have rejected the church faith and a genuine desire to that you had once loved, but not be silenced by the church. work for reconciliation and paradoxically your rejection renewal,� he said. may have helped purify the church through challenging Near the end of the serit to face the truth, to move out of denial, to recognize the vice, a “candle of protection� was blessed and lit from the Easter evil that was done and the hurt that was caused,� he said. Candle as a sign of hope for the future. It will remain “as a sign “I, as archbishop of Dublin and as Diarmuid Martin, stand for all who worship� in the cathedral, Archbishop Martin said. here in this silence and I ask forgiveness of God and I ask Speaking to CNS after the service, the archbishop for the first steps of forgiveness from all of the survivors described the event as “very moving.� of abuse,� he said. “You’d really want to have a hard heart not to be moved Excerpts from judicial reports that uncovered the extent by the honesty and dignity of the survivors,� he said. of abuse suffered by children in church-run institutions and Cardinal O’Malley told CNS he hoped that his “presence parishes were read aloud during the service. The pain still felt would underline just how seriously the Holy Father is taking by many survivors was on display not only in the reflections the need for healing and renewal in Ireland.�
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Mass changes . . . ■ Continued from cover
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admit that we have work to do as we implement the new missal, but I believe it is largely a work of catechesis. We should not overestimate the changes themselves: there are no changes of gesture, posture, or movement. The textual changes are not wholesale departures from familiar texts, and we will get used to them. The catechetical opportunity this year is enormous. The changes in the 1970s were introduced incrementally, even piecemeal, and often enough a priest could be heard to say something like, “You’re not going to like this. I don’t like it myself, but we have to do it!” We can get it right this time. We can introduce changes in the greater context of teaching that in Eucharist God makes us Catholics who we are, by making us one with Christ and one with one another in Christ. How God does this, and the difference it makes, and how we are called to respond can be front and center in our consciousness this year. The Catholic churches of the Englishspeaking world have arrived at this new text by way of a lengthy consultative process. I know that because I was part of it. During my first eight years as a bishop I did not submit a single amendment to a draft of a document submitted to us members of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. I am not particularly proud of that “clean” record, but I usually read the documents on the plane, on my way from Salt Lake City to Washington, D.C. too late to mail in an amendment. Then, about seven years ago, I received the preliminary drafts of the missal text we are now implementing. Before the next meeting I submitted 45 amendments! Accompanying those amendments were my explanation for each, as well as the alternate reading I was suggesting for the passage. Many other American bishops submitted amendments, and quite a few of them submitted more amendments than I did. In this process of multiple drafts and consultations there was much give and take. Some of the bishops’ amendments were incorporated in
subsequent drafts of the missal text and others were not. The principle that guided the process was this: Be as faithful as possible in English to the meaning of the Latin missal text that is the model for translations into all languages. Following that principle, the translators sometimes departed from the English translation of the missal that we have been using since 1970.
the task of preparing for the reception of the new translation by clergy and lay faithful. Many will find it hard to adjust to unfamiliar texts after nearly 40 years of continuous use of the previous translation. The change will need to be introduced with due sensitivity, and the opportunity for catechesis that it presents will need to be firmly grasped. I pray that in this way any risk of
‘It is wrong to believe that the universal church is imposing this translation on the English-speaking churches in an insensitive and unsympathetic manner, with no concern for our own pastoral situations.’ – Archbishop George Niederauer One reason the universal church is giving special care to the English translation of the missal is that English is the dominant international language at present. The Vatican understands that many of those who translate the new missal into other languages and dialects are likely to be much more familiar with English than with Latin. Consequently, as they translate they are likely to look to the English translation as a standard and a guide. With popularity and nearuniversality goes a sense of responsibility to be as accurate and faithful as possible in translating the original Latin.
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t is wrong to believe that the universal church is imposing this translation on the English-speaking churches in an insensitive and unsympathetic manner, with no concern for our own pastoral situations. On April 28, 2010, Pope Benedict addressed the Vox Clara group on the subject of the implementation of the new English translation of the Roman Missal, in words that sound sensitive and caring to me. Listen to what our Holy Father said: “A new task will then present itself … which in one way or another will involve all of you –
confusion or bewilderment will be averted, and the change will serve instead as a springboard for a renewal and a deepening of Eucharistic devotion all over the English-speaking world.” Certainly there is no infallibility attached to the choices made by the translators in the text of this new missal. On the other hand, I strongly assert that the translators have not perversely set out to choose obscure, quaint, unfamiliar, or awkward readings, as some critics have contended.
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arly in our process of implementation and catechesis we need to remind ourselves of the meaning and importance of what we are doing. The Catholic Church is constituted as church by the gift of Eucharist: common belief, shared history, and a code of law would not suffice by themselves. In 1992 the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued a letter on some aspects of the church understood as Communion, which stated, “Eucharist is the
creative force and source of communion among the members of Christ precisely because it unites each one of them with Christ.” The fathers of the 1985 Synod of Bishops observed that the most visible fruit of the whole conciliar effort in those first 20 years since 1965 had been the liturgical renewal, which had been received prayerfully and fruitfully by the faithful, even though there had been some difficulties. They went on to say that the active participation that so happily increased after the Council had not consisted only of external activity, but above all in interior and spiritual participation, in living a fruitful participation in the Paschal Mystery of Jesus Christ. At its best the liturgical renewal has deepened the people’s appreciation of the meaning of Eucharist and their own participation in it. Herein lies a reliable source of hope and direction for us as we approach a catechesis in preparation for the new edition of the missal, a catechesis that must move beyond information and training to a more prayerful appreciation of Eucharist in the life of the church and in the life of the individual Catholic. We can be hopeful because we know that Jesus Christ the High Priest unites us bishops and priests in himself for the life and the service of the church. Individualism and isolation in ministry weaken unity while fraternal cooperation and collaboration strengthen it. Because Eucharist is the very source of our presbyteral unity in Christ, this year will present us with a number of opportunities for strengthening that unity. We all will be introducing the new Roman Missal in different contexts to different groups. If we can plan and carry out those introductory moments so that we move beyond providing merely information and training, and beyond wrestling with this particular response or that particular phrasing, we can engage in a catechesis that shows how Eucharist unites everyone at Mass in the church, all the parishes in the diocese, all the dioceses in the country and all the local churches in the universal church.
Key Mass changes explained In his speech, Archbishop Niederauer gave examples of the most talked-about Mass changes. One example is cited here. Let us take a look at some of the translations from the Ordinary of the Mass that have drawn forth the most vigorous criticism. With a closer look I believe you will find that, in each instance, there is a rationale for choosing the wording. You may not agree with that rationale. However, in each case there is a longstanding tradition behind the change, not an impulsive switch to something new and unheard-of before. In the present Sacramentary, the priest is called upon to greet the congregation at the beginning of Mass by saying “The Lord be with you.” The people’s response is: “And also with you.” In the new Missal the people’s response will be, “And with your spirit.” This is a literal translation of the Latin text, “Et cum spiritu tuo.” In several of St. Paul’s epistles we hear the apostle greet his fellow Christians by wishing that the Lord will be with their spirit. In French, German, Italian and Spanish the response all along has been the equivalent of “And with your spirit.” For nearly 2,000 years that was the translation in all those languages and in English as well. By joining Roman Catholics from throughout the world with this new greeting we will also join the longstanding practice of Eastern Catholics and many within the Anglican communion who have echoed St. Paul’s greeting for generations.
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We don’t find a lot of people in our parishes with that hunger. Part of that comes from where they are and the circumstances in which they have to live. – Deacon Larry Chatmon What Chatmon found behind the walls of San Quentin – an eagerness in inmates to grow in their faith – comes as no surprise to the prison’s Catholic chaplain, Jesuit Father George Williams, who arrived for duty in January after serving as a chaplain in a Massachusetts prison. “A lot of these guys are lifers,” he said. “They have grown up since they committed their crime and reflected on their lives. They found in their Catholic faith a sense of stability and meaning and so they really are sincere about their faith.” Newer arrivals, he said, are disoriented and are looking for “some sense of stability, meaning, purpose.” Others, of course, Father Williams added, “just come to get a set of rosary beads, or as they often ask, ‘rosemary beads,’ which are their favorite form of jail jewelry.” Those with sincerity, noted Chatmon, know Matthew 25: “I was in prison and you visited me … I tell you, whenever you did this for one of the least important of these brothers of mine, you did it for me.” The least of these brothers, Chatmon learned, know Scripture, do a lot of praying and need to connect with
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The spiritual place in which many of the inmates dwell – closer to Christ – is one Chatmon, 60, tries to occupy himself as a deacon and volunteer at St. Paul of the Shipwreck, where, by his own account, he uses his skills “to help build up the body of Christ.” He brings to the tasks a body of work experience in the private sector, the nonprofit sector and, for the past 13 years, the public sector, as senior contract manager at the Human Services Agency of the City and County of San Francisco. He was baptized in the Catholic Church at age 36, and introduced to St. Paul of the Shipwreck by Loretta. It has been a good fit for 25 years. He is one of the Ministers of Christian Service, parish lay leaders who oversee all aspects of the Sunday, 10:30 a.m. African-American spirituality or gospel Mass which, according to Conventual Franciscan Father Paul Gawlowski, the pastor, has the best qualities of the parish itself. “This is a place of vibrant worship. There is a felt sense of the Holy Spirit during Mass,” he said. Chatmon, said Father Gawlowski, “brings to parish life wisdom based on his age, based on raising a family (there are four kids), working in the world.” He added, “He brings that wisdom into the parish and helps work with me to make wise pastoral decisions, based on his perspective and my perspective.”
Deacon Larry Chatmon, a member of St. Paul of the Shipwreck Parish in San Francisco, arrives at San Quentin State Prison Feb. 20 to assist at Mass in the prison chapel.
people on the outside so they can share a vision. He listens a lot, he said, during his monthly visits. “I make sure they know I am there to serve them, but I tell them all the time, I think it’s the other way around. I’m the one being fed here. I’m the one closer in touch with the real meaning of our ministry and the real meaning of what being Catholic means.” Chatmon tells them, too, that he can’t change their circumstances, but he can help in an important way. “I can let them know that I represent the one who changes all things for all of us,” he said. “I tell them that we collectively work together to give praise and thanks, and that our lives are enriched by everyone who we meet who also believes.” Chatmon, added Father Williams, “does a better job of connecting than a lot of people who come in here.” He added, “He speaks from the heart and he uses very clear,
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concrete examples from real life and the guys like that. He comes in here with that spirit of openness. These guys are not empty vessels who need all this wisdom poured into them. They have a lot of life experience, a lot of things to teach us.” It’s also true, said George Wesolek, director of the Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, that Jesus was executed as a common criminal “on a cross with our sins and the sins of the whole world on his shoulders,” and, accordingly, inmates can relate. “The suffering helps us to connect more quickly with the life of Christ,” said Chatmon. “Because we can’t believe that suffering is all that there is. Tragedy is not all that there is. Having endured a lot in their lives, they start seeking something else. The message is, if you have tried everything else, try Christ.”
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Wedding Guide Marriage: A life laboratory where we find love’s true meaning By Mary Jo Pedersen I love weddings! It’s a good thing because we’re going to a lot of them lately! It never gets old for me … that courageous and touching moment when the beaming couple faces each other and says “for better or worse, for rich or for poorer, in sickness and in health until death ….” Of course, they haven’t got a clue about what that means. Few of us, standing there lighting up the church with smiles on our wedding day, really understood what that promise meant. The promise to “love and honor” one another slowly unfolds over time as we learn to adjust to the fact that our spouse talks excessively in the mornings and we prefer quiet, or that he or she consistently leaves the cap off the toothpaste. Observers of this annual flurry of summer weddings sometimes ask themselves: “Who in their right mind would ever make a promise like that?” “Why marry?” The not-very-serious response is that you are not in your right mind when you decide to marry … you’re in love and the first stage of love is blind, though sight returns swiftly in the first couple of years. The more serious response from the Christian perspective is that we believe people choose marriage because God calls them to it. We regard marriage as a vocation, a call to holiness not unlike the call to priesthood or consecrated or single life. Every baptized person is called to be “holy,” to become an image of God and ultimately to reach heaven through whatever pathway they choose whether it be marriage, religious life, ordination or the single life. Marriage is one way God chooses to continue our development into more patient, loving, self-sacrificing and lifegiving people. Marriage is a life laboratory in which we discover the real meaning of
We regard marriage as a vocation, a call to holiness not unlike the call to priesthood or consecrated or single life. Every baptized person is called to be ‘holy,’ to become an image of God and ultimately to reach heaven through whatever pathway they choose whether it be marriage, religious life, ordination or the single life. faithfulness, belonging, forgiveness and unconditional love. If you have kids, you know that they speed up the learning curve on all these things. At a recent conference on marriage, I discovered that marriage therapists and academicians who have thoroughly researched marriage have concluded that marriage is also good for you personally, not to mention its many benefits for children. In their book “The Case for Marriage” based on authoritative research, Linda Waite and Maggie Gallagher argue
that being married is actually better for you physically, materially and spiritually than being single or divorced. Married people live longer, have better health, earn more money, feel more fulfilled in
their lives than people who remain single, cohabit or get divorced. The book outlines numerous other advantages of marriage both to individuals and to society. Celebrating wedding days takes on a deeper meaning when one realizes that a couple’s success in married life has vast repercussions not just on them but on all of church and society. In addition to giving gifts and throwing showers, we might all benefit from a more intentional effort to continue our support for married couples long after the wedding. How to do that? Here’s a list to get you started: – Remember to celebrate anniversaries, your own and other couples’. – Read a good book or watch a video program on marriage and share it with another couple. – Take your own marriage in for an annual checkup…like attending a retreat or workshop to improve communication skills. – Support married friends during their difficult times. – Trade baby-sitting (or dog-sitting for empty-nesters) so couple friends can get away alone together now and then. Pray with your spouse, and ask for God’s help. Recent research shows that shared religious practices are predictors of marital stability. The writer is with the Family Life Office of the Archdiocese of Omaha. This article is reprinted from the U.S. bishops’ For Your Marriage website, foryourmarriage.org.
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Wedding Guide Advice to the groom: Honor is matrimony’s most underappreciated vow By John Przybysz Dear Dave, When your mother and I got married, we used the standard vows right out of the book. I did not even know what my promises would be until the priest read them to me at the rehearsal. Just in case you have not read ahead, they go like this: “I, David, take you, Lisa, to be my wife. I promise to be true to you in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health. I will love you and honor you all the days of my life.” No trick phrases. No hidden clauses. These vows are simple enough for Forrest Gump. “I take you to be my wife,” is a very vague job description. Who will cook? Who will clean? Fix the car? Mow the lawn? Change the diapers? Different couples work it out different ways. It is not about who does what. The important thing is with whom you do it. In the Song of Songs, the groom says, “There are sixty queens, eighty concubines, and maidens without number. One alone is my dove, my perfect one.” Songs 6:8-9. There are beauty queens, video stars, and girls everywhere you look. This vow says, “Of all the girls, in all the world, you are the one for me. I take you”
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“I promise to be true.” No cheating. No fooling around. Enough said. “I will love you.” Do not confuse romance with love. Romance is an unreliable feeling that incites romantic notions such as, “I will climb the highest mountain for you. I will fight dragons for you. I will die for you.” Real life poses a different challenge:
A marriage can die the death of a thousand tiny cuts. Avoid negative humor. It is not funny. You are sitting on the couch, watching TV, and go looking for a snack during a commercial. You find some apples in the refrigerator and pick out a good one. Then you call, “Lisa, do you want an apple?” “Sure, Dave. Thanks.” But there is no second apple that looks good. Heading back to the couch, you ponder which apple to give her. Romance says, “I will die for you.” Real life
asks, “Are you going to give her the good apple?” Love says, “Yes, give her the best.” “I will honor you.” This was the surprise vow for me. I did not expect to make a promise to honor her. But I gave it a try, and it worked out well. I stopped teasing her and made it a habit to defend her and take her side when friends or family wanted to pick on her. Honor is the most unappreciated vow. Some husbands make jokes about their wives, with little put-downs that are supposed to be funny. These are bad jokes. They cut, they wound and they destroy trust. A marriage can die the death of a thousand tiny cuts. Avoid negative humor. It is not funny. Honor is about respect. Treat her like a queen. Make your children respect their mother. Don’t let anyone put her down. She is your lady, and your lady always gets treated with respect. God bless you, Dave. Love, Dad The writer is president of the Christian Family Movement-USA. The article is reprinted from the U.S. bishops’ For Your Marriage website.
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people, of course. Any traumatic event – death, disease and unemployment, for example – forces us to cry “Uncle!” and to put our trust in God. However, when we lose control over our finances, relationships or health, we have fewer options – and several distractions. In this way, helplessness is sometimes the necessary push we need to tell God he has our full attention. 2. Take care of yourself. This step is harder than it sounds. For Rowland, this meant keeping busy in her job as a newspaper reporter and as a graduate student. It meant following a consistent exercise program, diet regimen and pre-bedtime ritual to ensure enough sleep. For my mom, this step involved taking a brain-dead job to force her mind onto something other than the divorce. 3. Protect yourself. Most of us are well-intentioned, but
Marriage Encounter weekend March 4-6 in San Mateo Married couples who are interested in “making a good marriage better” are invited to join a Marriage Encounter Weekend March 4-6 in San Mateo County. Marriage Encounter, sponsored by the marriage enrichment program Worldwide Marriage Encounter, is supported by the Archdiocese of San Francisco and endorsed by the Catholic Church. Its premise is that God is fundamental to any successful marriage. The spiritual dimension is present as couples improve their communication skills and their relationship. While it is Roman Catholic, Marriage Encounter welcomes married couples of other faiths. Two people who are intensely involved with Marriage Encounter are retired Half Moon Bay residents Dean and Claire Simonich. The couple, who will help lead next weekend’s event, say Marriage Encounter was a way to reinvigorate a marriage they already felt pretty good about. “Claire did not want to go,” Dean Simonich recalled about their decision to go on a Marriage Encounter weekend. “After all, why mess with a good thing? But on our weekend, she was drawn in, and so was I, even though it wasn’t what I expected. By lunch on Saturday, we were both into it, and so began a process of ever-increasing intimacy. We arrived with a good marriage and left with a great one.” For information about attending the upcoming weekend, contact Paul Ziemba or Yvonne Leyba at (650) 366-7093. The website is sf.wwme12.org.
gossip is so much more interesting than conversations about the weather. No wonder the more socially inclined among us like to squeeze from newly single folks any juicy bit on their marital status or custody battle to spice up the smalltalk at doughnut hour. Rowland’s psycholoTherese J. gist helped her to come up Borchard with a simple statement that she could tell people when they inquired about her separation and divorce: “I cannot stay in a/an (pick the word) marriage.” You fill it in with: failed, fake, indifferent, stagnant, unhealthy, unloving, unreal and unworkable – whatever you want. And that’s all you really have to say. 4. Grieve ... at your pace. I have no doubt that the grief process for a broken marriage is as complicated, long and exhausting as when you lose a loved one to cancer, heart disease or in a car accident. Rowland writes: “Take the time to grieve. If you skip this step, you will never fully recover, never really heal and be able to go on with life.” 5. Forgive. Rowland distinguishes between forgiveness and pardon. “Forgiveness,” she writes, “is an internal thing. It takes place in the heart of the forgiver. It is a refusal to hold something against someone else in the heart.” Pardon is less sincere, and doesn’t have to include forgiveness at all. It is external, and can lead to resentment. Therese J. Borchard writes a column for Catholic News Service.
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Panel passes same-sex marriage bill following heated testimony ANNAPOLIS, Md. (CNS) – Several days before they approved a bill to legalize same-sex marriage in Maryland, members of the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee heard passionate testimony for and against the proposal in a hearing room filled beyond capacity. Supporters of the measure argued that same-sex marriage should be a civil right, while opponents maintained that marriage is the fundamental building block of society. On Feb. 17 in a 7-4 vote, the committee approved the measure and sent it to the Senate floor, where it was expected to pass. Gov. Martin J. O’Malley has said he will sign the bill into law if it reaches his desk. At the Feb. 8 Senate committee hearing, Father Erik Arnold, pastor of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Ellicott City, joined several other religious leaders in pointing out that marriage has always held a special place in society as the union of a man and a woman. It is “the one relationship,” he said, “that is capable on its own of bringing a new baby boy or girl into the world and of providing that baby with a unique and complementary love of his father and mother.” Maryland has held marriage in a special place, Father Arnold said, because of the contribution husbands and wives make to building up society. Committee member Sen. Jennie M. Forehand asked Father Campbell whether his church welcomed gay people. “We welcome all people because all people are created in the image and likeness of God,” Father Campbell responded. “The church accepts people as they are. What we do with who we are is a different story.”
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And the blind will see Archbishop George Niederauer delivered this homily at the World Day of Prayer for the Sick Mass Feb. 12 at St. Mary’s Cathedral. Once again Our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, has proclaimed a World Day of the Sick, set aside for prayers for healing, perseverance, gentleness and patience – gifts of God the loving Father of us all. The Old Testament prophets constantly told the people of Israel that God was the Creator and guardian of all life. If the people would respond to God and to their neighbors in love, the land and the people would experience great fruitfulness, richness, fertility and all blessings. Just as strongly Isaiah proclaimed that the sins of the people, especially the sins of turning away from God and turning against one another, would bring suffering and death. War, injustice, violence destroyed and maimed human life, and these sins led to devastation of the land as well: no flocks, no crops, and new deserts where fertile fields had been. In our first reading from Isaiah today, we hear a joyful and confident word, proclaiming the kind of deliverance and reconciliation that can come from repenting and turning back to the Creator God. Isaiah foresees that feeble hands and weak knees will come strong, that the blind will see, the deaf will hear, and the lame will walk. The renewed healthfulness of the land will mirror the renewed healthfulness of the people. We hear these words of the prophet: “The desert and the parched land will exult; streams will burst forth in the desert; the burning sands will become pools, and the thirsty ground, springs of water . . . ” Once the Son of God is born among us, our redeemer Jesus Christ, this vision of Isaiah is astonishingly and personally fulfilled. Jesus proclaims that he has come to make us one with himself and one with God the Father, with whom Jesus is one. Jesus comes to restore us to integrity as children of the Father: physical, emotional and spiritual integrity. True, Jesus is concerned most of all to bring us to forgiveness of sins, to faith in God’s love for us, to a life lived in loving service to God and neighbor, and, finally, to live with him and his Father and the Spirit of their life and love for all eternity. We know that sin can cause both spiritual and physical suffering. Several years ago I read a striking story about this relationship between spiritual and physical suffering, a story from my hometown of Long Beach, California. It was a story in the New York Times Magazine about 100 Cambodian refugee women living in Long Beach. Before they fled their native land they had been eyewitnesses of the horror of “killing fields under the murderous Pol Pot
regime. These Cambodian women were certifiably blind, even though doctors said their eyes functioned perfectly well. They suffered from psychosomatic, or hysterical, blindness. In other words, their being unable to see was caused by damage to their minds, not to their bodies. Scientists really do not understand this phenomenon, only that it shows the power of the mind over the body. One researcher explained it this way: “Losing eyesight makes sense if you are trying to escape the stress of a situation . . . . At the movies you don’t cover your ears when grotesque violence comes on the screen. You always cover your eyes.” What those Cambodian women saw was so horrible that they stopped seeing, and still cannot see. The sinfulness of Pol Pot’s soldiers destroyed not only the lives of the people they killed, but also the vision of those women who were forced to watch the unspeakable and the unbearable.
Jesus sends his disciples into neighboring towns and villages, to proclaim the kingdom and to cure disease and illness. In our own time, those who work with the sick and the dying are intimately one with Jesus, the Divine Physician. Still, the light of God’s love for his children breaks through the most intense darkness. Listen to the imagery of the reading from Matthew’s Gospel today and hear the resonances and echoes from Isaiah, indicating the fulfillment of Isaiah’s vision in Jesus: The Savior goes up the mountain and sits down, whereupon great crowds come to him, and with them the lame, the blind, the deformed, the mute and many others. Jesus cures them all. The crowds are amazed, and, Matthew tells us, “they glorified the God of Israel.” Our Christian faith is supposed to lead us to value this life here on earth more, and not less. The way we
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Correcting the record on Corpus Christi School Although it will not alter the present regrettable situation of Corpus Christi School, it is good to remember one of its countless assets overlooked – and misstated – in Ms. Schmalz’ recent article (“Corpus Christi School closing after 83 years,” Feb. 11). Well into the 1970s the school was staffed by those who established it, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange. Many of the sisters who had served at Corpus Christi are
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live this life determines the way we live eternal life. One outcome of this truth is the endless concern with bodily suffering that we witness in the ministry of Jesus Christ. Jesus sends his Archbishop disciples into neighGeorge boring towns and villages, to proclaim the Niederauer kingdom and to cure disease and illness. In our own time, those who work with the sick and the dying are intimately one with Jesus, the Divine Physician. And the mercy and healing of Jesus go out to the Gentiles as well as the Jews, to rich and poor alike, to neighbors and strangers. Jesus teaches us that when we minister to the sick we minister to him in person, and this love in action draws us toward eternal life. Mary, the Mother of Jesus and our Mother, witnesses to the concern of Jesus for the bodily suffering of his sisters and brothers, most powerfully in her presence and power at Lourdes in France, and elsewhere throughout the world. Mary also continues to show us the close connection between physical and spiritual healings, especially in the powerful realization of both kinds of healing together at the wondrous shrine of Lourdes. The Knights and Dames of Malta, serving here among us today, heed the call of our Holy Father, indeed the call of Jesus and Mary, to minister to the sick in the name and power of Christ. We give thanks to God for their service and we pray to God for continued gifts of grace to their order. It is most appropriate that we gather for this World Day of the Sick around this altar of Eucharist. One commentator on Scripture points out that, at the end of three successive stages of his public ministry Jesus Christ set a meal before his followers: after the miraculous feeding of the 5,000, after the feeding of the 4,000, and, finally, at the Last Supper. After the resurrection, Jesus appeared to his disciples in Jerusalem and shared their supper, broke bread with two of his followers in Emmaus, and ate breakfast with disciples at the lakeside, in John’s Gospel. In this Mass today, in both the anointing and the Eucharist, we are united again with the healing and nourishing ministries of the risen Christ in his church.
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Consider the saints for high school reading As summer quickly approaches I ask that the Catholic high schools of the Bay Area include at least one book about whom the school is named after on the 2011 summer reading list. For example, St. Ignatius College Prep students would be required to read the biography of St. Ignatius. The Bellarmine incoming freshmen would be required to read about St. Robert Bellarmine. For those schools named after an archbishop or a religious order I am sure a suitable book could be found on the order or on the archbishop. This would not only inspire the students to reflect on these great saints and religious leaders but might even inspire many to contemplate a religious life. Surely, as a graduate of a Jesuit high school I would have much preferred to read about the life of St. Andre, Jewish convert Edith Stein or St. John of the Cross than that colossal bore, “Catch 22.” As of now, an overwhelming majority of Catholic high school graduates are completely ignorant of the saint or religious leaders their school is named after. By implementing the above suggestion, we not only bring glory to God but create thousands of students better prepared to absorb the Catholic life and defend the faith. Tony Morgan Mill Valley
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I thank Father Anthony Ruff, OSB, for his insight and honesty (“Liturgist drops speaking engagements over missal translation process,” Feb. 11). I, too, weep. Allanah Cleary Beh Menlo Park
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The last acceptable prejudice Anti-Catholicism has long been a feature of both the high and the low culture in America. From the 19th century to the middle of the 20th, it was out in the open: Many editorialists, cartoonists, politicians and other shapers of popular opinion in that era were crudely explicit in their opposition to the Catholic Church. But then, in the latter half of the 20th century, anti-Catholicism went relatively underground. It still existed, to be sure, but it was considered bad form to be too obvious about it. However, in the last 10 years or so, the old demon has resurfaced. There are many reasons for this, including the animosity to religion in general prompted by 9/11 and the clerical sexabuse scandal that has, legitimately enough, besmirched the reputation of the Catholic Church. I’m not interested here so much in exploring the precipitating causes of this negative attitude as I am in showing the crudity and unintelligence of its latest manifestations. Permit me to share two examples. I’m reading James Miller’s “Examined Lives,” a biographical study of 12 great philosophers, from Socrates to Nietzsche. I found Miller’s treatment of St. Augustine to be extraordinary, not because it shed any particularly new light on the saint’s work, but because it was so unapologetically anti-Catholic. Miller comments approvingly on the young Augustine, the intellectual seeker who moved from Manichaeism to neo-Platonism in the open-minded quest for the always elusive truth. But on Miller’s reading, the seeker’s fall from grace was his embrace of the “closed system” of Christianity, which led Augustine to become a coldly oppressive sectarian. Here is how Miller brings his analysis of Augustine to a close: “He lay the conceptual grounds for creating perhaps the most powerful community
of closed belief in world history – the Catholic Church that ruled over medieval Western Europe as an all-encompassing, if not quite totalitarian theocracy, unrivalled before or since by any other religious or secular one party state, be it Muslim or Communist.” The not so subtle implication (despite that little “not quite” in front of “totalitarian”) is that the Catholic Church has proven more oppressive than the Taliban and the states fronted by Lenin, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot. But Miller’s excursions into anti-Catholicism seem as nothing, compared to the exertions of Mark Warren, the executive editor of Esquire magazine. In a piece on his blog last week, Warren drew attention to a recent expose of the church of Scientology which appeared in the pages of the New Yorker magazine. He praised the author for revealing the ridiculous beliefs of Scientology, which are based upon the wild, science fiction-like musings of L. Ron Hubbard. But then Warren commented that these claims are no wilder, no more irrational, than those of any other of the “great” religions, including and especially Christianity. What follows is one of the most ludicrous “summaries” of Christian belief I’ve ever read. Here are some highlights: “I grew up believing that every breath I drew sent a god-made man named Jesus Christ writhing on the cross to which he had been nailed – an execution for which he had been sent to earth by his heavenly father.” And “yet I was born not innocent but complicit in this lynching, incomprehensibly having to apologize and atone for this barbarism for all my days and feel terrible about myself and all mankind.” One notices here something that is also on display in the anti-Christian polemics of Bill Maher and Christopher Hitchens, namely, a presentation of Christianity that
is informed by a painfully childish “theology,” something out of a halfunderstood grade school catechism. For example, Maher, Hitchens, Warren and many other critics speak of the Christian Father belief in a “sky god,” betraying no sensitivity to Robert Barron the dynamics of symbolic language in a religious context. The “heavenly” Father of whom biblically minded people speak is not a being who dwells in the clouds but rather a reality that radically transcends the categories of ordinary experience. And I can only smile at the sheer weirdness of Warren’s characterization of the purpose and meaning of Christ’s death on the cross. The correct doctrine is that God, in Christ, entered, out of love, into the depth of human misery, sin and failure in order to bring the divine light even to those darkest places. What is most remarkable in all of this is not the unintelligence of the explicit claims being made but rather the blatancy of the contempt for the church. When this hoary old prejudice shows itself, Catholics have to stand up to it, lest it be allowed to evolve into something even more dangerous. Father Robert Barron is the founder of the global ministry Word on Fire and the Francis Cardinal George Professor of Faith and Culture at University of St. Mary of the Lake in Mundelein, Ill.
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Lord, help us spring ahead and leap again Five inches of snow melted yesterday, and I could hear it dripping off the roof. It sounded like rain and looked like hope. We have been buried in five feet of snow over the course of this Minnesota winter, which isn’t over. One December Saturday brought nearly two feet, collapsing the roof of the Vikings’ Metrodome and capsizing our weekend plans. But today the sun is shining. A chickadee is singing. And the stems of my trimmed hydrangeas are popping out from the snow. It is a marvel to think they have slept all winter and eventually will sprout bright, fluffy bouquets. I’m reflecting on the symbols of spring in my life, the people and things that show me what it looks like to defeat winter. There’s the old oak in the backyard, spotted by moss and choked by a vine. Though it’s lost limbs and endured wood peckers, it stands firm, fanning its gnarled branches with a peacock’s pride. Then there are the people, like the meteorologist who produced today’s snow report. Paul Douglas was laid off three years ago, but he hasn’t stopped tracking heat waves and cold fronts. He created a blog and a Twitter account, and he’s got 3,287 followers, which isn’t bad. “Entrepreneur & father of 2 amazing boys, making the transition from old (dying) media to new media,” his Twitter profile reads.
There’s the mom in snowy Fargo, raising five kids and pinching pennies, who posted on her blog a Luci Shaw poem that begins “Blessed be God for thaw.” There’s the widow in Wisconsin, who bought a new memory-free house and a 105-pound Labradoodle named Gabe. They go on walks down to the lake and she’s begun taking him out at night to star gaze. Enveloped in the dark, she’s focusing on the tiny, twinkling lights overhead. My 80-year-old grandma buried her husband at 44, with six children at her side, and stood beside a snow-covered gravesite this February, bidding farewell to her beloved companion Dick. During the visitation I watched her hug and comfort others, true to form. On such a sad day, there was my grandma, so beautiful and vibrant. She called the other day, and I saved her voicemail. “Just know that I’m getting along real well,” she said. “It’s just kind of one special blessing after another going on around me.” That’s the promise of spring, packed in each sunrise, in each day we try to make a little better. This month we enter into Lent, the sober liturgical season that carries us into the ultimate springtime victory. We are prepared for the 40-day journey by a Sunday Gospel reminding us how to weather the winter. Like the wise man St. Matthew describes, we must heed God’s commandments and build our
homes on firm foundations. “The rain fell, the flood came, and the winds blew and buffeted the house. But it did not collapse; it had been set solidly on rock.” I’m grateful for the people in my corner who Christina model resilience, who live with the faith that spring Capecchi will always follow winter. They demonstrate the Latin meaning of the word: to be resilient, “to leap again.” We 20-somethings may seem fearless, but we need to observe resilience in action, 30- and 50- and 70-somethings diving into new careers and new relationships, new homes and new hobbies. They help us imagine our lives in unrestricted terms, to see that older can mean better. They teach us how to forgive ourselves and our loved ones, to find new strength and to leap again. Christina Capecchi is a freelance writer from Inver Grove Heights, Minn. She can be contacted at www.Readchristina.com.
Guest Commentary
Send in the missionaries By Deacon Patrick Moynihan Hollywood has released a mixed bag of films about missionaries. Two of my favorites are “The Mission” and “Mosquito Coast.” “The Mission” juxtaposes the good and the bad missionary. “Mosquito Coast” provides mostly the ugly in the form of two dueling zealots, one a crazed genius inventor and the other a ludicrous evangelical preacher. Although both are well acted and worthwhile, neither movie gives a realistic presentation of a missionary or the range of positive contributions that missionaries have made in lesser developed countries over the years. To be fair to Hollywood, history does contain a mishmash of good, bad and even ugly missionary outcomes. When God chooses to work through his naturally good but fallen agents, there is bound to be a range of results. It is just not that easy to facilitate positive and necessary change in others without making some very human mistakes. My favorite missionaries are the Missionaries of Charity, the order started by Blessed Mother Teresa that pro-
vides care for dying adults and abandoned children around the world. Whenever I feel that my job is tough, I visit them. They do their work cheerfully regardless of the outcomes. They are clearly inspired by the Holy Spirit.
We are not called to solve but to work with others in making social advancements. However, success in a mission is not solely reliant on divine guidance. It is accomplished by following two very important principles: subsidiarity and solidarity. Subsidiarity requires that solutions to problems are sought at the most basic social level. What is solvable by an individual or small group should never be taken over by a larger group. In short, we are not called to solve but to work with others in making social advancements.
Solidarity requires that we work in proximity to others that we take on the aspect of those we intend to assist. At the most basic level, solidarity asks that we live with and how those we desire to assist live. This involves more than adopting simplicity as a new bohemian chic. True solidarity allows the missionaries to gain an empirical understanding of what they are fighting to change. Adherence to these two principles helps to avoid unintentionally making the people one is trying to help even more dependent. It also keeps one from drowning already struggling people in unsustainable and locally inappropriate solutions. Finally, it allows the appropriate local authorities to establish priorities in order to ensure that money is directed to what is really needed rather than to what is the easiest to provide. Unfortunately, these principles have been largely ignored as the world has come to help Haiti. Haiti’s prime minister, Jean-Max Bellerive, has gone as far as to accuse the nongovernmental organizations of not only making Haitians more MISSIONARIES, page 20
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A READING FROM THE BOOK OF ISAIAH IS 49:14-15 Zion said, “The Lord has forsaken me; my Lord has forgotten me.” Can a mother forget her infant, be without tenderness for the child of her womb? Even should she forget, I will never forget you. RESPONSORIAL PSALM PS 62:2-3, 6-7, 8-9 R. Rest in God alone, my soul. Only in God is my soul at rest; from him comes my salvation. He only is my rock and my salvation, my stronghold; I shall not be disturbed at all. R. Rest in God alone, my soul. Only in God be at rest, my soul, for from him comes my hope. He only is my rock and my salvation, my stronghold; I shall not be disturbed. R. Rest in God alone, my soul. With God is my safety and my glory, he is the rock of my strength; my refuge is in God. Trust in him at all times, O my people!
Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time Isaiah 49: 14-15; Psalm 62:2-3, 6-7, 8-9; 1 Corinthians 4:1-5; Matthew 6:24-34 Pour out your hearts before him. R. Rest in God alone, my soul. A READING FROM THE FIRST LETTER OF PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS 1 COR 4:1-5 Brothers and sisters: Thus should one regard us: as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God. Now it is of course required of stewards that they be found trustworthy. It does not concern me in the least that I be judged by you or any human tribunal; I do not even pass judgment on myself; I am not conscious of
anything against me, but I do not thereby stand acquitted; the one who judges me is the Lord. Therefore do not make any judgment before the appointed time, until the Lord comes, for he will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will manifest the motives of our hearts, and then everyone will receive praise from God. A READING FROM THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW MT 6:24-34 Jesus said to his disciples: “No one can serve two masters. He will either hate one and
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family sat two rows in front of me last Sunday in my parish, a mother and her three children. The sober older brother was about 15, and his twin siblings, a boy and a girl, were about 10. Just before the Gospel, the twins marched shoulder to shoulder, amidst a throng of children heading for their special instruction, to an area behind the sanctuary. They returned later in the liturgy to their pews. I noticed the twin brother had separated himself from his siblings, and was cozying up to his mom’s right side for special reassurance. I don’t know what he was feeling, but mom was very responsive, giving him a special hug and patting his back. She intermittently offered these gestures of reassurance until everyone got up to receive Communion. It struck me that boys don’t seek this kind of intimacy with their dads. A dad generally permits a young son to lean against him, and will put an arm around his shoulder. But a dad doesn’t get cozy and stroke his son’s head in church the way this mom was doing. By contrast, the greatest show of manly affection by a dad seems to be autonomy. He allows his son to squeeze in front of him out to the aisle for a solo stride to the rear of the church. Isaiah addresses the worriers who feel that God is absent, and wonder whether God’s love is still there for them. They feel distanced, forgotten and abandoned. Isaiah, referring to a less common image of the divine, assures believers that God is as responsive as the mother I saw. “Can a mother forget her infant, be without tenderness for the child of her womb?” God is like this mother — drawing a child close to her side, stroking her child’s head, patting the child’s back, offering the child a special word of tenderness. Her child, in a moment of need, doesn’t have to worry about his mother’s availability. Mom never forgets. Isaiah’s image provides a theological basis for describing God in feminine terms and through women’s experience. Mothers could offer the church an enhancement of its theological assertions about God — if they were welcomed as partners in the Magisterium’s explanation of Catholic doctrine.
Scripture reflection SISTER ELOISE ROSENBLATT
Reassurance to worriers The passage from Corinthians offers a sharp emotional contrast to Isaiah, but it also deals with the theme of worry. Paul is accustomed to getting a mixed review by the congregations he visits. His enemies dog him from town to town. He regularly suffers attacks against his reputation and challenges about his authorization to preach. His usual response is to stand up to his opponents as he does here. “It does not concern me in the least that I be judged by you or any human tribunal … I am not conscious of anything against me … the one who judges me is the Lord.” But he also subtly shifts his defense to include those among the Corinthians who may themselves feel under siege. Perhaps his correspondents have also suffered from factional power plays and gossip mongering. No subtle reading of the epistle is required. The Corinthian community was polarized and had a number of competing religious factions. Paul says to believers on his side who feel targeted, “Don’t worry. Put your trust in God’s judgment.” He assumes that Corinthians who are sympathetic to him also have good motives. Eventually all their good intentions will come to light. At the end, “everyone will receive praise from God.” Here, the solution to worry is a robust self-confidence that you will
be vindicated by God’s inevitable judgment in your favor. When I read the Gospel refrain, “Do not worry …” I was reminded of my community’s missionary work in Peru starting in the 1960’s. The Sisters of Mercy, like many other congregations, sought out the poorest of the poor in response to the Vatican’s call that first world communities send 10 percent of their membership as missionaries to countries most in need. In our experience, the desire to “spread the Gospel” gave way very quickly to realities on the ground. The indigenous population, living far from the commercial capital of Lima, did not have enough to eat, enough to wear, a place to be educated, modern medical aid , or more than a subsistence economy. Worry was a way of life because worry was the key to survival. This passage could never be used as the basis for teaching religion to impoverished campesinos. For the economically poor and illiterate of the world, most of them women, this counsel, “Do not worry about what you are to eat or drink, or your body, what you will wear,” is little more than fantasy. Poor women have to worry because otherwise they and their children will die. No matter how strong one’s faith, it does not produce food on the table.
love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds in the sky; they do not sow or reap, they gather nothing into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are not you more important than they? Can any of you by worrying add a single moment to your life-span? Why are you anxious about clothes? Learn from the way the wild flowers grow. They do not work or spin. But I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was clothed like one of them. If God so clothes the grass of the field, which grows today and is thrown into the oven tomorrow, will he not much more provide for you, O you of little faith? So do not worry and say, ‘What are we to eat?’ or ‘What are we to drink?’or ‘What are we to wear?’ All these things the pagans seek. Your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be given you besides. Do not worry about tomorrow; tomorrow will take care of itself. Sufficient for a day is its own evil.”
The logic of the Gospel passage lies in its original audience. Matthew’s community, historically associated with the coastal port area of Caesarea Maritima, was materially stable. It was not a place where children were dying of hunger or geographically cut off from an urban center. So the counsel not to worry must refer to something else than material survival. Was it a reminder to people with material resources to drop their habit of worrying, because it was not based on anything they were truly deprived of, or that was needed for survival? Did “food and clothing” refer to intangibles that felt like survival needs — a fulfillment of career goals, moving up the economic ladder, gaining political power, achieving the glow of social acceptance and importance? The Gospel invites believers to re-orient their mental focus, if for no other reason than to escape the pain of worry and anxiety. Locate yourself in the beautiful world where you live; stop imagining life is elsewhere. Clarify what you can change, and what are the givens of life, symbolized by your height, which you can’t. Learn from nature what God’s providence means, and recognize that God’s benevolence envelopes you. Distinguish the great matters of God’s concern — relief of human suffering — from smaller matters of no consequence, like grass growing one day and withering the next. What should be most important to you? Not your own kingdom, but the kingdom of God. What is “his righteousness”? When you do something to close the gap between rich and poor, promote a peaceful end to conflicts, and act as God would. The Gospel does not promote a carefree, magical, irresponsible attitude about God’s providence — as though God will take care of it all, no matter what it is. Rather it’s about the ethical horizon that characterizes the following of Jesus. Worry and anxiety are not Gospel emotions. Mercy Sister Eloise Rosenblatt, Ph.D, is an attorney in private practice in San Jose. Her email is eloros@sbcglobal.net.
Einstein vs. atheism By Father John Catoir Atheists want us to prove with empirical evidence that God exists even though they are unable to demonstrate with scientific proof that God does not exist. This is a bit disingenuous of them because no one can either prove or disprove God’s existence by scientific methods alone. Most atheists, certainly not all, put on the air of intellectual superiority when they scoff at the faith of believers. The fact that they believe in a theory that cannot be proven scientifically, namely that God does not exist, disqualifies them from judging others with any degree of objectivity. Most scientists would agree that Albert Einstein (1879-1955) was the greatest genius who ever lived. Since he believed in the existence of a supreme intelligence behind the universe, it makes one wonder why atheists feel so confident in denying God’s existence. Here are some of my favorite quotes from Einstein found in Peggy Anderson’s “Great Quotes From Great Leaders” (Naperville: Simple Truths).
1. “It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.” 2. “When I examined myself, and my methods of thought, I came to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.” 3. “The only real valuable thing is intuition.” (We do not need scientific verification to prove that there is a God, since we know it by intuition, that is, we know it in our bones). 4. “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” (Walt Whitman agreed with Einstein, when he wrote: “A single mouse is miracle enough to convert a trillion infidels.”) 5. “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” (Einstein’s intuition gave us his theory of relativity, quantum physics and the computer chip. Knowing that God exists is not something we learn from science; people of every age have known it by instinct. The Neanderthal man worshipped the god of his understanding.)
6. “The intuitive mind is a sacred gift. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.” (Einstein was praised all over the world for his genius, but here we find him saying that God is the one who should be honored.) 7. “Truth is what stands the test of experience.” (Billions of people throughout history have wondered what they would ever do without their faith in God.) 8. “The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. ... Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.” Atheists usually ignore the connection between conscience and the human instinct to do God’s will. Most of them do not want to be burdened by any religious obligation. In the Bible, we see that the angels were absolutely certain of God’s existence; nevertheless they rebelled by saying that they would not serve. Father John Catoir, head of St. Jude Media, writes a column for Catholic News Service.
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Log off and reclaim the Sabbath A comedian recently quipped that today’s information technologies have effectively rendered a number of things obsolete, most notably phone books and human courtesy. That’s also true for human rest. Today’s information technologies (the Internet, e-mail, software programs like Facebook, mobile phones, iPhones, pocket computers, and the like) have made us the most informed, efficient and communicative people ever. We now have the capability, all day, every day, of accessing world events, world news, whole libraries of information and detailed accounts of what our families and friends are doing at any moment. That’s the positive side of the equation. Less wonderful is what this is doing to our lives, how it is changing our expectations and robbing us of the simple capacity to stop, shut off the machines, and rest. As we get wrapped up more and more in mobile phones, texting, e-mail, Facebook, and the Internet in general, we are beginning to live with the expectation that we must be attentive all the time to everything that’s happening in the world and within the lives of our families and friends. The spoken and unspoken expectation is that we be available always – and so too others. We used to send each other notes and letters and expect a reply within days, weeks, or months. Now the expectation for a reply is minutes or hours, and we feel impatient with others when this expectation is not met and guilty inside of ourselves when we can’t meet it. And so we are, daily, becoming more enslaved to and more compulsive in our use of mobile phones and the Internet. For many of us it is now existentially impossible to take off a day, let alone several weeks off, and be on a genuine holiday or vacation. Rather the pressure is on us to constantly check for texts, emails, phone messages, and
the like; and the expectation from our families, friends, and colleagues is precisely that we are checking these regularly. The “sin du jour” is to be, at any time, unavailable, unreachable, or non-communicative. But the rhythm of time as God designed it is meant to give us, regularly, weekly, some time off the wheel, some “Sabbath-time” when ordinary life, ordinary pressures, ordinary work and ordinary expectations are bracketed and we give ourselves permission to stop, to shut things down and to rest. Today, nowhere is this more appropriate and urgent than in regard to our use of phones, notebooks and computers. They, more than anything else, constitute regular time, servile work and the occupations and preoccupations from which the commandment to keep holy the Sabbath asks us to refrain. I know a woman who works for her church, as does her husband. Since they are both in ministry, they need to work on Sunday mornings and often into the afternoon as well. So they begin celebrating the Sabbath late afternoon on Sunday. Here is how she describes what they do: We start our celebration of the Sabbath at 4 p.m. on Sunday and we begin it symbolically by unplugging our computers, turning off our mobile phones, disconnecting our house phone, and turning off every information gadget that we own. For the next 29 hours we don’t receive any calls and we don’t make any. We are on a cyber-fast, non-contactable, off the wheel, unavailable. At 9 p.m. on Monday we end our Sabbath the way we began it, symbolically: We break our cyber-fast and fire up again our phones and our computers and begin answering our messages. We get back on the wheel for another week. Sometimes making ourselves unavailable like this irritates our families and friends, but if we are to celebrate Sabbath, given
our pressured lives, this pulling away is the most important single thing that we have to do. It’s either that – or working seven days a week! When I was young both our churches and Father Ron our culture still took the concept of Sabbath (for Rolheiser Christians, especially the idea of not working on Sunday) more seriously. A popular question was always: What are you allowed to do on a Sunday and what are you not allowed to do? Mostly this focused on different kinds of physical labor: May you work in your garden on a Sunday? May you harvest your apple tree on a Sunday? Today, I worry less about gardening or picking apples on a Sunday. The more important issue is: Can we step off the treadmill of phones and computers on Sundays and be genuinely available to celebrate Sabbath? Sabbath, as Wayne Muller tells us, is time off the wheel, time when we take our hand from the plow and let God and the earth care of things, while we drink, if only for a few moments, from the fountain of rest and delight. Today that plowlooks a lot like a mobile phone or a computer. Centuries ago, the mystic poet, Rumi, wrote: “I have lived too long where I can be reached!” Haven’t we all! Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser, theologian, teacher, and award-winning author, is president of the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, Texas.
Guest Commentary
A visit to an ‘unrecognized’ Bedouin village AL ARAQIB, Israel – When I arrived in Haifa in July 2010, I learned of an “unrecognized village” which had just been demolished by the Israeli military. The few images reported in the media showed a desert village razed by bulldozers, swarming with police as its residents watched their homes reduced to rubbish. It was at this time that I first learned of the oft-ignored history of the indigenous Bedouin of the Negev Desert (Naqab in Arabic). Four months later news broke of the village’s sixth demolition, and I promptly boarded a bus south. The first demolition took over an entire day. Today the entire process amounts to an hour’s work since the residents live in makeshift tents which are easily flattened and then rebuilt over and over again. The Bedouin of Israel (not the occupied Palestinian territories) are ethnically Arab and traditionally seminomadic. As the age of modernity imposed itself on indigenous people around the world, the Bedouin were forced to become sedentary, establishing themselves in communities throughout the southern deserts of historical Palestine (today the Negev of Israel). After the state of Israel was established they were relocated in the 1950s and 1960s to a restricted zone called the Siyag (“closure”) in the northeast of the Negev, with the promise that they would be allowed to return to their homes in six months. However, between 1950 and 1966, the new state of Israel imposed a military administration and designated 85 percent of the Negev as state land. When the Bedouin realized the expulsion from their land was permanent, many decided to move back to their original lands. All Bedouin habitation on this newly declared state land was retroactively termed illegal and “unrecognized.” Today about 75,000 Bedouin live in some 40 unrecognized villages, disconnected from any infrastructure and deprived of the most basic modern necessities such as running water and electricity.
In general, the Israeli government views the Bedouin of the Naqab as “squatters” and does not recognize a right to their original lands. Israel has built or partially built eight recognized villages and is attempting to force the Bedouins to move to them. The closest one to Al Araqib is Rahat – most of the village has moved into it already. I arrived to Beersheva midmorning where I waited at the nearest bus stop for one of the villagers to collect us since the unrecognized villages have no access to public transportation. Shortly we arrived at a faint path and drove onto its rocky surface with caution. After a brief and bumpy ride we arrived at what looked like a barren desert dumping ground. I couldn’t imagine that there was much to demolish to begin with. However, after one of the village women, Hakmeh Abu Mdeghem, showed me pre-July 2010 demolition photos, I was shocked to see that the town had consisted of concrete homes with all the modern conveniences – kitchens, bathrooms, couches, television sets, bedrooms, etc. – only a few months earlier. The earth was green and fertile with olive trees that had provided them with food and life for centuries. As I photographed what was left of the village I watched her children play among the rubble; alongside them chickens and geese plucked away at scraps of food. Hakmeh spoke to me for three hours. Her warmth and generosity made my heart doubt whether she had just experienced her sixth demolition, or was now living in a makeshift tent with her family, but my eyes were witnessing the proof of the operation. In the evening the weather cooled and the calm of the night was unbelievable. It felt like a camping ground, but this wasn’t a few days away from civilization – it was the villagers’ lives. I was invited to a meal by the daughterin-law of the village sheik, another distinctively resilient Bedouin woman. During dinner, another woman told us of the psychological impact on her children. She told us
that she used to be able to leave for hours to visit her sisters while the kids would play. Today, she can’t leave them for more than an hour. The children have become exhausted and paranoid for fear of Linda Khoury soldiers reentering. The village men are constantly on the lookout. They’ve developed preemptive plans to save their remaining belongings, their priorities being the children’s school clothes and books – their most expensive and valuable possessions. The same woman told us that during one of the demolitions she threw a stone at one of the soldiers. She said he responded by shoving her onto the ground. She proudly told us that she has filed a complaint with the police. I was shocked and thought, “Don’t those police officers come from the same establishment which sent these men to destroy your homes and livelihoods in the first place? What would they do for her?” She reiterated that they could use the law to fight these demolitions. She told me, “I’m not scared anymore. I can’t be.” I believed her. Linda Khoury is a Palestinian-American who was born and raised in San Francisco. She is studying for a master’s degree in Global and International Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara, focusing on options to the Palestine-Israel conflict. She has been in Haifa, Israel, for the past six months working in the Media and International Advocacy Department of a non-governmental organization, Adalah: the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights.
Israeli Bedouin village a symbol of a broader fight over land rights The Negev desert village of Al Araqib has been rebuilt and demolished repeatedly since the razing described by Linda Khoury in the above article. In the latest demolition, Feb. 16, villagers tried to turn back a bulldozer at the village cemetery, according to the website of the organization Bedouin-Jewish Justice in Israel. News reports said two people were injured. The village is on the front line of a broader battle
over land rights, with tribes demanding that Israel honor land claims they obtained under British and Ottoman rule and the Israeli courts denying the validity of records predating the creation of Israel in 1948. “This is their only form of protest,” said Devorah Brous, an American-born Israeli civil rights organizer who founded a Jewish-Bedouin organization, Bustan, and now lives in Los Angeles as co-director of the Campaign for Bedouin-Jewish Justice in Israel.
“What they’re doing is something called ‘sumud’ – they’re clinging with a steadfastness to the land, which is the only thing they have,” she said. Brous said the denial of land claims is part of a policy to remove the Arab population from lands deemed suitable for Jewish use only. “In essence the uprooting of this village is the representation of a policy of forced urbanization,” she said. LAND RIGHTS, page 19
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tive, there is the stunning collection of art. Pubols points to the tabernacle from Mission Santa Barbara, which includes abalone inlay, and processional objects used during Holy Week, including a figure of Christ. “These were not images designed for a museum, but for living, breathing culture,� Pubols said. Other pieces that might be familiar to mission-goers are a sacristy cabinet from Mission San Juan Bautista and silver pieces from Mission San Francisco Solano. There are also pieces of work by native people, including a Chumash basket, which might have been destined as a gift to be sent to Europe. For Californians accustomed to visiting the state’s 21 missions, “This is something that is dear to our hearts.� Pubols said, “connecting us to our history, heritage and faith.� Contemporary Coda, a companion show accompanying the traveling exhibition in Oakland, features 17 works by contemporary artists that address issues of immigration and regional connections across the current border; religion and Latino identity; and the cultural survival of the native peoples of California. The show, which contains images aimed at an adult audience, will be separate from the main exhibition and clearly labeled, museum officials say. As will some of the more challenging subjects – such as depictions of martyrdom – from the traveling show, which is also aimed at an adult audience, Pubols said. “We knew in California we’d get a lot of interest from schools.� Viewers will be able to make their own decisions whether to view those parts of the exhibition after being informed of the nature of the images, she said. The Oakland Museum of California is
By Michele Jurich The Catholic Voice Artwork from missions in California, the southwestern U.S. and Mexico have been moved from their intended settings in places of worship to the Oakland Museum of California for the Feb. 26 opening of the exhibition “Splendors of Faith/Scars of Conquest: Art of the Missions of Northern New Spain, 1600-1821.� This exhibit, which runs through May 29, originated at the Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso in Mexico City. It features about 110 objects, including paintings, sculpture, furniture and liturgical objects and vestments, from collections in Mexico, the U.S. and Europe, shown together for the first time. The Oakland museum is the only California venue for this traveling exhibition. Louise Pubols, the museum’s chief curator of history, said she feels “very fortunate to bring this exhibition here.� The exhibition, she said, “works very well on both sides of the border. The region often falls through the cracks.� For Mexico, it offers the opportunity to “recover the region as part of the Mexican story,� she said. Also critical is the understanding that “California is connected to the larger story of Mexico.� The artwork itself is stunning, Pubols said, and “not many people have looked at the artwork of the missions, what it was intended to convey.� The images themselves are “very powerful and very important,� she said. The Academy of American Franciscan History is one of the sponsors of a panel discussion on Feb. 27, with curators Clara Bargellini and Michael Komanecky, on a panel discussion on contemporary reflections on the Spanish conquest. Aside from the historical perspec-
Oakland Museum of California staff members uncrate the mid-17th century carved sculpture of Christ Entombed in preparation for the Feb. 26 opening of “Splendors of Faith/Scars of Conquest.â€? (Christ Entombed. Santo Entierro. Mid-17th century. Carved and polychromed wood. Museo de las Misiones JesuĂticas. Loreto, Baja California Sur, Mexico)
located at 1000 Oak St., Oakland; (510) 238-2200; www.museumca.org. Admission
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Land rights . . . ■ Continued from page 17 “It’s a discriminatory policy that is by no means reflective of the people who actually believe in sustainable Jewish-Arab partnership and fellowship. There is enough room for Arabs and Jews to live side by side and to share resources and develop with equitability and justice.” “Invisible Citizens,” a 2006 study on the Israeli Bedouin by researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, was subtitled, “Israelis without solid ground beneath their feet: From lords of the Negev to inhabitants of a reservation.” The authors said the state’s refusal to recognize numerous Bedouin villages – both those that existed pre-1948 and those that came into being in the 1950s and ‘60s – “condemns tens of thousands of Israelis to conditions of existence unbefitting a society that calls itself civilized and developed. No other group in Israel suffers from such egregious discrimination.” The authors said the situation of the inhabitants of the ‘unrecognized’ villages “is particularly flagrant given the fact that nearby, the government is encouraging the establishment of small Jewish localities,
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Missionaries . . . ■ Continued from page 15 dependent but infantilizing them. In truth, the NGOs have done worse to the Haitian government: They have made it a scapegoat for every issue that they have accepted funds to address but have yet to deliver on. A lot of the frustration over the lack of progress in Haiti is a direct result of NGOs not just falling into these three pitfalls, but jumping into them. A clear consequence of ignoring these principles is the decision to dedicate hundreds of millions of dollars to temporary shelters, which will do nothing long term to change the quality of life in Haiti. If those who championed the shelter
programs had asked any local, rich or poor, they would have said to give out land, not shelters. (In two years, we will see the wisdom of this alternative idea.) In my experience, what makes missionaries more effective than the new mega-industry of world relief workers is not necessarily the quality of their character but the nature of their mission. Authentic missionaries are methodical institution builders, not adrenaline driven relief workers. They adhere to subsidiarity and solidarity because their drive comes from the privilege of working with people attempting to develop into better communities and nations, not from the rush created by the latest natural disaster. Living in a country overrun by an alphabet soup of transitory relief organizations and pop-up, well intended, but often
misguided do-gooders drawn by the ease of raising funds for the sympathetic victims of a cataclysmic event who also happen, unfortunately, to be citizens of the poorest country in the hemisphere, I find myself wanting to scream, “We’ve had it with the clowns; send in the missionaries.” The writer, a permanent deacon for the Diocese of Rockford, Ill., lives in Haiti and is president of The Haitian Project, a Catholic Mission that operates a tuition-free secondary school for underprivileged Haitian children. He writes a weekly column for Catholic News Agency and the Daily Journal in Seneca, S.C.
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St. Patrick’s Day Events Events commemorating the holiday begin Feb. 27 and continue through April 17. Visit United Irish Societies website at www.uissf.org. March 4: “Grand Marshall Dinner” at the United Irish Cultural Center, 45th Avenue at Sloat Boulevard in San Francisco. No-host cocktails available at 7 p.m. with dinner followed by entertainment at 8 p.m. Call Cathy Mibach at (415) 753-0234 or Margaret McAuliffe for ticket information. March 12, 9 a.m.: “St. Patrick’s Day Mass” at St. Patrick’s Church, 756 Mission St. in San Francisco with Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice presiding. March 12, 11:30 a.m.: “St. Patrick’s Day Parade” beginning at 2nd and Market St. in San Francisco and continuing to Civic Center. March 12, 6 p.m.: St. Isabella’s Parish Annual St. Patrick’s Day Dinner Dance. No host cocktails at 6 p.m. with traditional corned beef dinner at 7 p.m. Evening includes Irish music, Irish dancers and a DJ plus an Irish soda bread contest. Tickets are $20 per person. Call 415 479-1560 March 17: “Hibernian Newman Club St. Patrick’s Day Luncheon” at the St. Francis Hotel, 335 Powell St. in San Francisco. Kathleen Ryan will be honored as Hibernian of the Year. Entertainer and youth counselor, Michael Pritchard, is featured speaker. A nohost reception begins at 11 a.m. with a corned beef and cabbage lunch at noon. Celebration includes traditional Irish music and entertainment. Tickets are $85 per person. Call (415) 386-3434.
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March 25, 7 – 9 p.m.; March 26, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.: “Revisioning Society,” a workshop teaching fundamentals in Catholic Social Teaching as methods to address issues that face society today. Sessions are facilitated by Dominican Father Michael Sweeney of the Dominican School of Theology and Philosophy in Berkeley. How do these teachings apply to political, economic and social issues? Come for an interactive exploration of what the nation’s Catholic bishops call a “…rich treasure of wisdom about building a just society and living lives of holiness amidst the challenges of modern society.” Takes place and sponsored by St. Hilary Parish, 761 Hilary Drive in Tiburon. To register or get more information, call (415) 435-1122 or e-mail vbornstein@yahoo.com. Freewill donations accepted.
Feb. 27, 12:30 p.m.: “Organ Concert” by Father Paul Perry at St. Sebastian Church, Sir Francis Drake Boulevard at Bon Air Road in Greenbrae. Enjoy selections by Bach, Rachmaninoff, Wagner and others. Program with commentary is about one hour. All are welcome. No admission charge. Feb. 27, 2 p.m.: “Lessons from a Holocaust Survivor,” a presentation by Helen Farkas at St. Matthias Church, Cordilleras Road in Redwood City. Talk is sponsored by the St. Matthias Social Justice Committee and the Belmont Inter-faith community. Co-founder of the Helen and Joe Farkas Center for the Study of the Holocaust in Catholic Schools, located at Mercy High School in San Francisco, Helen shares her journey through the horrors of the Holocaust and her quest, together with her late husband, to demonstrate the sources of prejudice and indifference, showing that through God’s love and compassion hate and intolerance can be overcome. Call Cindy Gammer at (650) 906-8836. March 4, 7 a.m.: Monthly Mass and meeting of Catholic Marin Breakfast Club at St. Sebastian Church, Sir Francis Drake Blvd. at Bon Air Rd. in Greenbrae. Guest speaker is television producer, Peter Casey, a native San Franciscan. The son and grandson of San Francisco police officers, he graduated from St. Ignatius College Preparatory and San Francisco State University. In 1989, he and David Lee and David Angell, formed production company, Grub Street Productions going on to create television series “Wings” and “Frasier.” Casey is a 15 time Emmy nominee and a seven time winner. Members’ breakfast is $7 and non-members’ $10. E-mail sugaremy@aol.com to register and for other details. March 5, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.: “Food Fast for Youth” at St. Peter Church in Pacifica. This event invites youth to fast in solidarity with those who do not have food, and to engage in hands on activities to learn about hunger. CRS speaker Scott Campbell will talk about relief efforts in Haiti. The day ends with a Youth Mass. Suggested donation for CRS is $10 per person. Questions or to register, call Vivian at (415) 614-5654. March 8, 6 p.m.: “Kickoff” of “40 Days for Life” campaign in St. Mary’s Cathedral Conference Center Room C, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard in San Francisco. Mass at 6:30 p.m. Following Mass a procession to Planned Parenthood for a brief service and then back to the Cathedral for fellowship and potluck snacks. Call (415) 668-9800 or visit www.40daysforlife.com/sanfrancisco. Daily March 9 – April 17, 8 a.m. – 8 p.m.: “40 Days for Life” Campaign of fasting and of prayer for an end to abortion at Golden Gate Community Health (former Planned Parenthood) at 815 Eddy St. between Van Ness and Franklin in San Francisco. Call (415) 668-
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9800 or visit www.40daysforlife.com/sanfrancisco. Wednesdays, March 9 – April 20, 7:30 p.m.: The Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose offer a “Lenten Journey” to reexamine minds and hearts to enter deeply into the Paschal Mystery during Holy Week. Series includes faith sharing with a Scriptural base, time to share and explore what the scripture has to share. Takes place at Dominican Sisters of MSJ motherhouse, main parlor, 43326 Mission Boulevard, entrance on Mission Tierra Place, in Fremont. E-mail blessings@msjdominicans.org or call Sister Beth Quire, OP at (510) 449-7554. March 10, noon: Serra Club of San Francisco St. Patrick luncheon at Italian American Social Club, 25 Russia Ave., off Mission Street in San Francisco. Diamuid Philpott, president of the United Irish Societies will talk about the streets in San Francisco with Irish names and how they got that way. Tickets are $20 per person. Contact Paul Crudo at (415) 566-8224 or e-mail pecrudoddss@aol.com. March 11, 7 p.m.: Father John Moulder, an accomplished jazz guitarist, and his quartet will perform “Trinity,” a sacred concert, at St. Mary’s Cathedral, the first Friday of Lent. The suggested free-will offering is $15, and the proceeds benefit the cathedral. “This is a great way to have this Lent’s spiritual journey start on a new note,” organizers said. Father John is a guitarist and composer who has played nationally and internationally at numerous festivals, clubs and concert halls and has performed with artists such as Eddie Harris, Bob Mintzer, Kurt Elling, Paul Wertico, Gary Burton and Terry Callier. He received his masters degree in music from Northwestern University and is currently a faculty member at Benedictine University and Northwestern University. He has lectured, taught master classes and conducted clinics at universities, high schools, music institutes and other settings. Visit www. johnmoulder.com. March 11, 6 p.m. – March 12, 6 p.m.: “Young Adult Lenten Retreat: How to Walk the Healing Journey” with Dominican Sister Rebecca Shinas at Dominican Sisters of MSJ motherhouse, 43326 Mission Blvd. in Fremont, entrance on Mission Tierra Place. Learn the eight steps of forgiveness, hear remarkable testimonies of conversion, healing, and repentance; receive sacrament of reconciliation plus great food, great company, great talks and time for prayer, reflection, sharing. Special appearance by Christine Watkins, author of “Full of Grace: Miraculous Stories of Healing and Conversion through Mary’s Intercession.” E-mail blessings@ msjdominicans.org or call (510) 933-6335. March 25 – 27: “Come and See Retreat for Women” at Mercy Convent in Burlingame. How do you know God is calling you? Are you longing for something more? Experience life in a convent, meet with Sisters of Mercy and hear presentations to answer your ques-
tions. No charge for the retreat. Contact Mercy Sister Cindy Kaye by e-mail at kayenun@yahoo.com or call (650) 340-7434 by March 11. March 26, 9:30 a.m. – noon: “The Sacrament of Reconciliation,” a Lenten evening sponsored by parishes of Deanery Two with presentation by Father David Pettingill, former pastor, St. Gabriel Parish and professor at St. Patrick’s Seminary in Menlo Park. Father Pettingill will focus on Vatican II’s perspective on reconciliation. Reconciliation will be available from 11 a.m. The session takes place at St. Emydius Church, Ashton at DeMontfort in San Francisco. Call (415) 587-7066. March 27, 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.: “Shadows to Light” with Bishop William J. Justice at St. Thomas More Parish in San Francisco. This mini-retreat invites youth to reflect on Lenten themes of grace and forgiveness through youth led proclamation of the stories of the Woman at the Well, the Man Born Blind and Lazarus. This retreat is offered at no cost by the campus ministers and the parish youth ministers of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Questions, call Vivian Clausing at (415) 614-5654 or Janet Suzio at (415) 614-5663.
Food and Fun March 2, 6:30 p.m.: Epiphany Center’s Benefit Party & Show “Café Fugitive” at the Great American Music Hall, 859 O’Farrell St., San Francisco. Showtime is 8 p.m. with cocktails at 6:30 p.m. Proceeds benefit the Epiphany Center (Mount St. Joseph-St. Elizabeth), serving San Francisco’s at-risk families since 1852. Tickets are $175 per person, $500 sponsorship for two tickets Call (415) 351-4055. March 4, 5, 6: St. Elizabeth Parish Annual Flea Market, 490 Goettingen St. in San Francisco. Items of all kinds will be available for purchase plus a snack bar. Hours are Friday from 6 – 6 p.m.; Saturday from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m., and Sunday from 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. Tables are available for rent. Call Patti Spiteri at (415) 244-0506 or Laurrie Digneo at (415) 468-7493. March 4, 6:30 p.m.: 14th Annual Loaves & Fishes Dinner & Gala, benefiting the programs and services of CCCYO. The event will recognize extraordinary charitable works in our communities and honor Jesuit Father Greg Boyle, founder of Homeboy Industries and author of “Tattoos on the Heart, the Power of Boundless Compassion.” Event information can be found at http://www.cccyo.org/loavesandfishes. March 16, noon: The popular third Wednesday Italian lunch at the Immaculate Conception Church in the Church Hall at 3255 Folsom St., up the hill from Cesar Chavez and Precita Avenue. Come on up to Bernal Heights for the city’s best pasta and meatballs! $8 per person, family style, includes salad. Beverages will be available for purchase.
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Priest-sociologist signs off with study of Catholics in Chicago “CHICAGO CATHOLICS AND THE STRUGGLES WITHIN THEIR CHURCH” by Andrew M. Greeley. Transaction Publishers (New Brunswick, N.J., 2010). 205 pp., $49.95.
Reviewed by Daniel S. Mulhall (CNS) – Many people are quick to express their opinions about the state of Catholicism in the U.S. but few can back their opinions with data. Father Andrew Greeley – Chicago priest, novelist and sociologist – is one of those who can and has over a long and storied career. This new book presents the results of a research study designed and analyzed by Father Greeley and reflects data collected in the Archdiocese of Chicago between 2005 and 2007. The book is divided into four sections, along with a page of references and a one-page index. Father Greeley’s analysis of the data is found in the first 61 pages. Appendix A provides the survey questionnaire along with an explanation of how respondents were chosen. Appendix B explains in detail the methodology used to conduct the study and provides clear guidance for understanding survey results. Appendix C, the longest section in the book, provides the interviews of 12 respondents who participated in the qualitative aspect of the study. According to Father Greeley, here’s what we learn about the Catholics in the Archdiocese of Chicago based upon this research: – They have a very strong belief in the resurrection of Jesus (81 percent), the presence of God in the sacraments (81 percent), the presence of Jesus in the Eucharist (75 percent), concern for the poor (75 percent) and devotion to Mary (75 percent). More than half of respondents also recognized the
importance of daily prayer (63 percent), an emphasis on justice (63 percent) and a belief in angels and saints (63 percent). – Fewer than half of respondents saw the importance of participating in Mass weekly (46 percent), agreed with a universal rejection of abortion (39 percent) or saw the importance of an infallible pope (34 percent), the sacrament of confession (30 percent) or a celibate priesthood (24 percent). – They define good Catholics as those who believe in Jesus’ resurrection and real presence ce in the Eucharist, donated money to the poor andd to their parish and have their marriage approvedd by the church. – Chicago Catholicism is still closely associated with neighborhoods and communities, although those neighborhoods and communities are changing. Ethnic groups, especially Hispanics and Poles, make up a significant part of the current Chicago Catholic Church. – They love their priests, religious and cardinal and wish they had more priests and religious. – They give these reasons for not attending Mass weekly: too busy (52 percent), get nothing out of Mass (45 percent) and sermons are poor (44 percent). In this, as in his previous sociological works, Father Greeley has a tendency to use the data to make selective, personal points. While it is important to separate his opinion from his analysis of the data, usually this is not too difficult to do. A bigger issue here is the quality of the editing. As is made clear in the front matter, this is Father Greeley’s final book, which he finished writing and reviewing a month before he was seriously injured in an automobile accident from which he has
not recovered. Thus, he wasn’t able to assist in the editing, and those who did the editing seemed reluctant to make changes to Father Greeley’s work. This has led to some sloppy writing – repetitive words, claims unsupported by data (a more diligent editor would have had Father Greeley claim his own opinions and state what they were based on) – and, in several places, data that are simply bizarre (a reference to nonpracticing Catholics reads “400 thousands”). Such errors can undermine what otherwise seems a very credible study. Regardless, this book provides important data for the life of the church in Chicago and for the rest of the country. While local data would be far more valuable W tto have, data about Chicago Catholics may bbe the most reliable information on Catholic attitudes and practices that people in most at U.S. dioceses will be able to access. Research U of this type is needed for every diocese and section of the country so that decisions are sec made on data, not on wishes and dreams. ma What sets Father Greeley’s work apart from other research done by and for the Catholic Church is that he published what he Cath learned, warts and all; he held nothing back. learn The results may not always make us happy and we may not always agree with the analysis, but the data is always better than our best guesses ever could be. For that we owe Father Greeley a great deal of thanks. Mulhall is director of catechist and professional development for RCL Benziger. He lives in Laurel, Md.
By Michele Jurich The Catholic Voice When you move a bookstore, it is good to have friends. As the Daughters of St. Paul pack up and move Pauline Books & Media just around the corner from their previous location in Redwood City, they are grateful to organizations and parishes that came forward to help move boxes of books and bookshelves. The store reopened Feb. 22 in its new location at 935 Brewster Ave. in Redwood City. Like the saint from whom they take their name and mission, they “go into the marketplace, where the people are,” said Sister Armanda Santos, manager of the store that is a big part of their ministry. The Daughters of St. Paul are called to communicate Christ to the world using all the most modern means of communication. This mission is carried out in a variety of ways, from their publications for children and adults to their newest apps for the iPhone and iPod touch, to moving swiftly into the world of electronic publications. The Daughters of St. Paul have served the Bay Area for
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almost 50 years. They operated a book and media center in San Francisco from 1971 until the move to Redwood City in 2006 and before 1971 the women religious had a facility in Oakland. Their store here is one of 13 Pauline Books & Media centers in the U.S. The sisters often visit parishes around the area and they see such outreach events as an integral part of their mission. “The priest has people one hour a week,” said Sister Armanda, the author of “Facing Paul: The Apostle’s Image in Art. “We can help people keep growing their faith.” In the bookstore, she sees the sisters as facilitators, recommending books for specific needs in life – such as for a gift, or at times of loss or a difficult diagnosis. In addition, the book center hosts three different book clubs meant to facilitate faith sharing and adult faith formation. The first book club in Redwood City was the Women’s Spirituality Book Club. The Catholic Fiction Book Club and the Saints Book Club soon followed. On the first Friday of every month the sisters host Faith & Film Lectionary Night where they show a movie from pop culture and ask the audience to view it through the lens of the upcoming Sunday’s Gospel. The Bible and Scripture study resources remain the store’s No. 1 bestseller, with the Catechism of the Catholic Church and other Catholic faith formation resources following close behind, says Sister Jamie Paula. Other authors who are particularly popular in terms of spiritual reading are Jesuit Father James Martin, Oblate Father Ronald Rolheiser and now deceased Father Henri Nouwen, she said. “Healing and Coping is also a particularly important section, with a book written by one of our sisters topping those charts: ‘Surviving Depression: A Catholic Approach’ by Sister Kathryn James Hermes,” she said. The book center also carries movies, music, rosaries, religious articles and gifts for Catholic occasions. But, the sisters emphasize, it is also a place to come and look around.
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Sisters’ Pauline bookstore moves to new location in Redwood City
Sister Kathleen Thomas, FSP, and Arnulfo Lopez in the Pauline bookstore.
“People can have an encounter with Christ, through the sisters, through a book, through a movie,” said Sister Armanda. “Everything we do facilitates that encounter with Christ.” Pauline Books & Media is located at 935 Brewster Ave., Redwood City 94063; (650) 369-4230; redwood@paulinemedia.com; www.pauline.com. Store hours are Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
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“The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything: A Spirituality for Real Life,” by James Martin, SJ. “Practical guidelines to living life to the fullest. It is both humorous and wise.” – Sister Kathleen Thomas. “Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion,” by Gregory Boyle. “This book profoundly touched me. I haven’t stopped recommending it, and those who read it often come back for additional copies for friends and family.” – Sister Armanda Santos. “Discernment: Acquiring the Heart of God,” by Marko Ivan Rupnik, SJ. “This is a book for the serious sojourner. Father Rupnik reminds us that ultimately, the art of discernment isn’t so much about making decisions as it is about growing in relationship and conformity with Christ.” – Sister Jamie Paula. “Holding on to Hope: The Journey Beyond Darkness” by Kathryn James Hermes, FSP. “This is an itinerary for a spiritual journey firmly rooted in Sacred Scripture, a real aid to spiritual growth. I recommend this book to any who have come through a difficult or dark time, those who have known depression, burn-out, financial ruin, the death of a dear one, emotional or mental anguish and are still “holding on.” It would certainly be a great Lenten companion this 2011.” – Sister Leonora Wilson. “Home Tonight: Further Reflections on the Parable of the Prodigal Son,” by Henri J.M. Nouwen. “This book offers a raw and honest look at Nouwen’s own journey through darkness into the arms of the Father. Interspersed with thoughtprovoking quotes and questions for reflection, Nouwen’s vulnerability opens the door for each reader to explore more deeply their own journey toward understanding themselves as beloved sons and daughters.” – Sister Jamie Paula. – Michelle Jurich
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