February 4, 2011

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By Valerie Schmalz California’s bishops have sent letters to the state Legislature opposing budget cuts to three programs that help the working poor – particularly single mothers, disabled people and children of poor families.

“A basic moral test of our society is how we treat the most vulnerable in our midst,” Edward E. Dolejsi, executive director of the California Catholic Conference, said in a Jan. 24 letter to the chair of the state Senate budget committee. The California Catholic Conference is the public policy arm of the state’s bishops.

California faces a $25.4 billion budget shortfall in the current and upcoming fiscal year ending June 2012. The Catholic Conference has said it generally supports Gov. Jerry Brown’s efforts to close that gap by $12 billion in tax extensions and $12.5 billion in spending cuts to health care, higher education and other areas. The proposed $127.4 billion budget leaves spending for K-12 public schools and prisons untouched.

On Jan. 31 Brown devoted his State of the State address to urging the state Legislature to place the $12 billion five-year income and sales tax extension on the June ballot. The Legislature must act

by March for the proposed taxes to be included in the June ballot. Brown has said without the tax extension another $12 billion in government spending must be slashed as California law requires a BUDGET CUTS, page 15 balanced budget.

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‘Steel butterfly’: Formidable Sister Mary Jane

By Liz Dossa Presentation Sister Mary Jane Floyd stands on the porch of a wood frame house in Redwood City, supervising a flock of chattering students and holding Blossom, her grey terrier. The children have just emerged from the Catholic Worker tutoring program, which she has held in this house for 17 years.

Going down the front steps and through the white picket fence, one child says jubilantly: “I’m done!”

Sister Mary is pleased. “There’s been a big improvement in that little girl!”

This winter day Sister Mary Jane, bundled up in a lavender hat, fleece jacket, and blue and green scarf, looks like a bright, small bird. Earlier that afternoon, she set out name cards on tables, considering which student should sit with which tutor today. She knows who is struggling with reading and who has improved in math. A teacher to her core, she’s organized and careful, making sure there are resources like dictionaries, tissues and extra pens. Her main resource is insight into what the children need to succeed in school. Many parents in this largely Hispanic neighborhood despair over helping their young students with school work because of their lack of English, but they care deeply about their children’s school success.

When the doorbell rings, Blossom barks insistently, to alert Sister Mary Jane, whose hearing she confesses is not what it used to be. At 4 p.m. sharp, the students file in, going to their assigned spots. The 28 students who come these days range from second graders who need help with spelling to ninth graders who work on geometry problems.

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Bishops say budget cuts target single mothers, working poor, disabled

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WASHINGTON (CNS) – In an exchange of letters with the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, the head of the Catholic Health Association has affirmed that the local bishop is the “authoritative interpreter” of the ethical and religious directives that guide Catholic health care.

Sister Carol Keehan, a Daughter of Charity who is CHA president and CEO, said her organization “has a sincere desire to work with the church and individual bishops to understand as clearly as possible clinical issues and bring the majesty of the church’s teaching to that.”

In response to the letter, Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan of New York, USCCB president, said the church must “speak with one voice” against the “increasing political and social pressures that are trying to force the church to compromise her principles,” including “the problem of illegitimate government intrusion in our health care ministries.”

The letters followed telephone conversations among Sister Carol, Archbishop Dolan and Bishop Robert N. Lynch of St. Petersburg, Fla., who serves on the CHA board.

Bishop Kevin W. Vann of Fort Worth, Texas, the bishops’ liaison to CHA, “was also part of the consultation,” according to a USCCB news release.

CHA and the USCCB took opposing stands on whether CATHOLIC HEALTH CARE, page 7

Sister Mary Jane Floyd with Blossom Sister Mary Jane talks to each one of them each day, checking their work, asking, “How are you?” and then, bending down, listening to the answer.

This Catholic Worker-sponsored tutoring program which began in 1994 is the latest in the series of ministries that Sister Mary Jane has carried out since she entered the Sisters of the Presentation May 27, 1948.

Following the Presentations’ primary mission, she was assigned to schools in Los Angeles, San Francisco, San STEEL BUTTERFLY, page 11

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San Francisco Auxiliary Bishops William J. Justice and Robert W. McElroy with Santa Rosa Bishop Daniel Walsh at Walk for Life West Coast Jan. 22.

Where You Live Hats off to honorees at last month’s Walk for Life West Coast. The pro-life community remembered pioneers in the work including Father Larry Goode, Father Francis Filice, Alice Asturias, Evelyn Eaton, Beatrice Smalley, Catherine Conway, Mary Ann Schwab, the late Gloria GillogleyAcosta, and Santa Rosa Bishop Daniel F. Walsh. Mary Ann Schwab had a special memory about Bishop Walsh, who, as a younger priest, was vital to establishing the movement here in 1974. “There would not have been a Catholic pro-life program in the archdiocese without Bishop Walsh,” Mary Ann told me. “When the idea came forward he took it under his wing and with his encouragement and belief in the good the work could do, Archbishop McGucken affirmed it. We owe Bishop Walsh great thanks.”… Fond farewells at St. Raymond School for Sister Ann Bernard O’Shea, a Sister of St. Joseph of Carondelet and principal at St. Raymond’s for 16 years. “These 16 years have been fulfilling in a very meaningful way for me,” Sister Ann Bernard said in a statement. “My years in Catholic education have contributed to my own faith life and community experience and for this I am most grateful.” Father William Myers is pastor of the Menlo Park parish. “Sister Ann Bernard’s

Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange celebrated Jubilees in 2010. Their good work has been known throughout the archdiocese at schools including San Francisco’s All Hallows School, Corpus Christi School, St. Mary’s Chinese Day School, and Daly City’s Our Lady of Perpetual Help School. Pictured from left are Sister Celine Auton, CSJ and Sister Therese Fortier, CSJ (60 years); Sister Helen Louise Pike, CSJ (80 years); Sister Elaine Moffette, CSJ and Sister Bridget Murphy, CSJ (70 years).

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dedication to St. Raymond School is without question,” he said. “She has helped create a learning environment here that is second to none.”…The annual Anniversary Mass for those celebrating special wedding day anniversaries has been postponed, said Deacon John Norris, director of Pastoral Ministry for the archdiocese. “This Mass is important,” John told me. “People in successful marriages need to be acknowledged.

We will reschedule and everyone should watch Catholic San Francisco and their parish bulletins for updates.” … Happy 50 years married Jan. 28 to Mary and Keith Sister Ann Bernard Wenquist parishioners O’Shea, CSJ of Our Lady of Angels Parish in Burlingame. The couple took their vows at St. James Church in San Francisco. A dinner with family including their four children, children-in-law, and five grandchildren helped mark the milestone. Thanks to family friend, Kathleen McKenney, for the good news…. Knights of Columbus from Council 3950 at Our Lady of Loretto Parish in Novato honored Armed Services veterans in November. The evening included U.S. Marine presence and singing of the “Star Spangled Banner” and “God Bless America.” Among those taking part in the rites were Knights Dick Caldwell, Chick Kretz, and Jim Quinn.… Happy to publish this update on the sister-parish good work between Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Redwood City and St. Francis Xavier in Tanzania near Mount Kilimanjaro. “We are glad, very glad indeed, to inform you that the work toward completion of our

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Jesuit priest reflects on 40-year ministry to divorced Catholics Now almost 40 years “in training” as counselor and friend to divorced men and women, Jesuit Father Al Grosskopf is known as a leader in the ministry.

If there is one statement he has heard most often from divorced people since the beginning of those four decades, it may be this: “I thought the church was against divorce.”

He tells them they’re right. And then he tells them something else: “The church is against divorce and divorced people are strongly Jesuit Father against divorce, Al Grosskopf but the church is not against divorced people.”

Father Grosskopf recounted that typical exchange with a ready smile. His easy and knowing manner has brought comfort to probably thousands of people through the years, although he is reticent to guess at an exact number.

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The priest established one of the first Catholic divorce support groups in California at a parish in San Jose. The group, New Horizons, continues its work today.

Father Grosskopf said divorce can evoke feelings of isolation and loneliness from those involved and often the notion that the divorced person is the first person ever to go through the experience.

People also may feel excluded from the church, and burdened with a sense of failure and a sense of loss that hinges on “loss of a dream – the dream of a successful marriage,” Father Grosskopf said.

Divorce support groups furnish a means for people to share their painful experiences with others who also know the experience, Father Grosskopf pointed out.

In his work today, at age 80 and a parochial vicar at San Francisco’s St. Ignatius Parish, Father Grosskopf includes ministry with a divorce support group. He assists many couples in preparing petitions for declarations of nullity – known commonly as annulments.

“I prefer declaration of nullity to annulment,” Father Grosskopf said. The idea that children born of subsequently voided marriages are illegitimate is a myth, he said.

“That is not true,” he explained. “There was a legal marriage, although it might have fallen short of being an intimate partnership of married life and love established by God and as taught by Vatican II.” People seeking nullifications of marriage work their causes through diocesan tribunals. “I find the men and women of our tribunals are very sensitive to the pain of the petitioners,” Father Grosskopf said. “Theirs is a ministry of remarkable compassion and sensitivity.”

The first step for anyone investigating a declaration of nullity is to approach a priest they know and trust. “This can be vital to the journey,” Father Grosskopf said.

Good marriages begin with strong marriage preparation, Father Grosskopf said. “My many years of ministry with divorced people have convinced me of the importance of the church’s insistence on adequate marriage preparation.”

He said a major problem in marriages today is fear both of failure and of a lifetime commitment, especially if the person has not witnessed a healthy and loving marriage in his or her growing-up years.

“Only in an environment of shared trust can love grow and develop, a love that can form the basis for a shared sacramental,

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covenantal relationship for a lifetime,” Father Grosskopf said.

Father Grosskopf, who was a Jesuit brother for 34 years before his ordination as priest in 1983, is a major collector and restorer of fountain pens, smoking pipes and lighters.

“I love to work with my hands,” he said.

A prize among his pens is a Conklin, a writing instrument popular with Mark Twain. The company went out of business in 1937.

“The design of the pen kept it from rolling off the table,” Father Grosskopf said with a laugh, “and Mark Twain was then saved from shouting profanity if it had.”

Father Grosskopf – Grosskopf@ usfca.edu – recommends the following divorced ministry websites: North American Conference of Separated and Divorced Catholics, www.nacsdc.org; Faith Journeys for issues facing children of divorce, www.faithjourneys.org; Beginning Experience, a weekend of healing for the divorced and widowed, www. beginningexperience.org.

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‘Bunga bunga’: Vatican tiptoes around latest Berlusconi scandal arena,” said Massimo Franco, who covers the church and politics for the newspaper Corriere della Sera.

By John Thavis VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The uproar over the latest sex scandal involving Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has found Vatican and other church leaders mostly keeping mum, hesitant to be perceived as meddling in politics.

Although clear moral issues are involved — Berlusconi is being investigated on accusations of having relations with an underage Moroccan and paying other women to engage in sex parties — the Vatican’s media have yet to report on the saga, which has been front-page news in Italy for weeks.

Italian bishops have limited themselves to oblique references to morality in civil life, choosing not to mention Berlusconi’s name.

The episode illustrates the limitations on the church’s role in a country that, despite its overwhelmingly Catholic population, has a long history of resentment over clerical interference in politics.

“Toward the Holy See, (Italian) political power has a mixed attitude: reverence for its huge moral influence, and indifference or even impatience when it tries to enter the political

After meeting Pope Benedict in 2008, Berlusconi proclaimed their common views on ‘the sacred nature of the human person and the family.’

Franco told Catholic News Service that one reason the Vatican has been cautious is that it doesn’t see any real alternative to Berlusconi, at least not yet.

“It considers the Italian center-left too liberal and hostile.

But that creates a slippery situation: moral divergences and political alliances are more and more at odds,” he said.

The Berlusconi scandal centers on his relationship with a young Moroccan known as “Ruby,” who at the age of 17 attended parties at the premier’s residence and, in exchange, reportedly received gifts, including jewels and large amounts of money. According to Italian press reports, she and other girls told investigators that Berlusconi hosted what he called “bunga bunga” parties that involved stripteases and sexual acts.

Berlusconi has defended his pleasure-seeking lifestyle but denied paying for sex. He has portrayed himself as the victim of politically motivated prosecutors, who are investigating him for allegedly using his office to cover up the scandal.

Reactions to the revelations have threatened Berlusconi’s hold on power, and Italian and other media have tried their best to drag Pope Benedict XVI into the fray. When the pope, addressing Rome policemen in mid-January, made a bland comment on the need for morality in civil society, one headline the next day read: “Ruby: The condemnation of the Vatican.”

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John XXIII’s secretary recounts 1959 VII speech ROME – Pope John XXIII prayed and “remained kneeling longer than usual” on Sunday, Jan. 25, 1959, the day he addressed the Roman Curia with a momentous announcement: He would convene an ecumenical council.

Bishop Loris Capovilla, 95, former personal secretary of Pope John XXIII, recalled the announcement of the Second Vatican Council in an article published Jan. 25 by L’Osservatore Romano, Catholic News Agency reported.

The pope addressed the Curia “with trembling and a bit of excitement” about his plans to hold “a two-fold celebration: a diocesan synod for the city and an ecumenical council for the universal church,” Bishop Capovilla recalled.

Bishop Capovilla said the council was given three clear directives: to promote interior renewal among Catholics, to raise awareness among Christians of the reality of the church and of the tasks it is charged with carrying out, and to call on bishops, with their priests and the laity, to assume responsibility for the salvation of all mankind.

The bishop said that 52 years after announcing the council and 46 years after its conclusion in 1965, four popes have continually emphasized that it was “an event willed by God” and led by “an old man who rejuvenated the church” at a time when many thought John XXIII was going to be a “transitional pope.”

St. Thomas Aquinas produced 8 million written pages, of which some of the most significant were penned in the Santa Sabina priory in Rome after 1265. These included the first part of the “Summa Theologica,” with its depictions of angels.

“From what St. Thomas had to say on the angels we can get an insight into what he had to say not only about God but about ourselves,” Procurator General of the Dominicans Father Robert Ombres, OP, said in a reflection carried by Vatican Radio to mark the saint’s feast day, Jan. 28.

Man is wavering in mind and will, and the angels matter because they remind us of the glory and creativity of God, Father Ombres said.

St. Thomas — known as the ‘Angelic Doctor’ because of his extensive writings about angels — described angels as beings of pure intellect in spirit form, a required part of God’s plan to perfect the universe.

“Each of us is given a guardian angel who in a mysterious way does the will of God,” Father Ombres said. “For Thomas, our guardian angel will co-reign with us in heaven. Here on earth and in life, the angel brings heaven on earth and brings us to heaven.”

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Muslim-Christian dialogue must go on, says cardinal

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI named U.S. Cardinal Raymond L. Burke and Canadian Cardinal Marc Ouellet to the council of cardinals and bishops advising the Vatican Secretariat of State on diplomatic matters, the Vatican announced Jan. 29. He also named Bishop John C. Wester of Salt Lake City to the Pontifical Council for Migrants and Travelers. Bishop Wester, former chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Migration, will be a member of the pontifical council that promotes the pastoral care and rights of migrants, refugees, seafarers and others who are far from home.

VATICAN CITY – The Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue will still move forward in its efforts to promote Christian-Muslim dialogue despite the fact that top Muslim academics in Egypt suspended talks with the Vatican. The head of the council, Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, said he believed the boycott could be resolved and that he was still scheduled to meet in February with Muslim academics from Cairo. The president of al-Azhar University in Cairo and members of the Islamic Research Academy NEWS IN BRIEF, page 5

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U.S. faith study finds dramatic Latino growth, polarized environment

By Mark Pattison WASHINGTON (CNS) — The rate at which Latinos are entering U.S. Catholic life is “sudden” and “dramatic,” according to the co-author of a recently published book chronicling trends in U.S. religious life.

But, said David Campbell, who co-wrote “American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us,” it is just one manifestation of a shifting U.S. religious landscape.

“Of those Catholics under 30 who were at Mass last weekend — pick any weekend — but last weekend, 60 percent of them were Latino. Sixty percent. And that group is only going to grow,” Campbell said during a luncheon organized by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life.

“Latinos are more likely to remain within the faith; they don’t intermarry as much. They hold onto their young — they also have a higher birth rate. And so those two factors together mean that the Catholic Church is on the leading edge of the Latinoization of America,” said Campbell, the John Cardinal O’Hara associate professor of political science and founding director of the

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■ Continued from page 4 announced Jan. 20 that they were freezing all dialogue with the Vatican to protest Pope Benedict XVI’s remarks about anti-Christian violence in Egypt and the need to protect religious minorities there. Cardinal Tauran told the Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, Jan. 29 that they were still trying to understand what compelled Cairo’s Muslim academics to suspend dialogue. He said he believed “an attentive reading” of the pope’s remarks would help clear up any misunderstanding. “If we want to move forward with dialogue, one must first of all find the time

Rooney Center for the Study of American Democracy at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind. “It’s an interesting story because having diverse ethnic groups within the Catholic Church — that’s nothing new. The Catholics have welcomed immigrants from around

that is itself a remarkable fact and, I think, should be noted,” he added.

“American Grace” profiles several congregations, including two Catholic parishes in the Archdiocese of Chicago whose ethnic focus has shifted in recent decades from European to Latin American.

The percentage of Americans reporting no religious affiliation has tripled in a generation. the world for generations. What’s new is that it used to be the Poles, the Lithuanians, the Italians and the Irish. And now it’s the Guatemalans and the Mexicans, and to see the interplay between those groups is interesting,” Campbell said.

“It means that of all the religious groups in America, the one group that’s most likely to report attending a racially diverse congregation are American Catholics. And even though there are obviously a lot of tensions and it’s not like everything’s smooth sailing,

The book, which Campbell wrote with Robert Putnam, also goes back a half-century and sometimes longer to examine how Americans’ thoughts about religion changed “American Grace” is based in part on a Pew survey of roughly 3,000 Americans in both 2006 and 2007.

“You find that Americans in the 1950s said, ‘Yeah, religion has a huge influence in our society.’ But then by the time you hit the ‘60s, that drops off dramatically, and it correlates very tightly with all of

to sit and talk face-to-face, not through the newspapers,” he said.

“We support the political process without any armed or religious interference. It is imperative to separate religion from state matters.”

The commission sponsored a program in Lahore Jan. 31 to discuss concerns about the country’s crippled economy, increasing extremism and a lack of direction to address social ills, reported the Asian church news agency UCA News. Organizers said 500 people attended the event, with most speakers being politicians.

“The prevalent mindset is a major concern for us,” said Hina Jilani, Punjab chairwoman of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan. “Religious parties are using street power for political gains. Instigative fatwas (decrees) are being issued without any check, and TV anchors are highlighting opinions of banned religious outfits.”

Pakistan’s bishops seek to curb rising extremism LAHORE, Pakistan – Church commissions and human rights organizations in Pakistan have called on the government to allow “freedom of conscience and expression” by curbing increasing extremism in the country.

“We strongly condemn target killings and judicial ruling on journalists, especially in cases against political workers,” said the Pakistan Catholic Bishops’ Conference’s National Commission for Justice and Peace.

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these other changes, particularly those related to sexual beliefs and attitudes, and customs and practices in the United States,” Campbell said.

“That’s the shock. But it was followed by two aftershocks,” he noted. The first is that “throughout the 1970s, all the way through the mid-1990s, we see a growth in evangelical Protestantism.”

The second, Campbell said, “consisted of a dramatically increasing percentage of Americans who report, when asked, that they have no religious affiliation.” Tallied at 5 percent a generation ago, that cohort has more than tripled in size to 17 percent, according to the Pew surveys.

Campbell noted the paradoxes in American society’s attitudes about religion, including its political spillover.

“The two parties have fallen into a way that they talk about religion. Maybe a better way to put it is that the Republicans have a way they talk about religion and a way they exploit religiously oriented issues,” he said.

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Church leaders follow Egyptian unrest with interest, concern

“We all see how in the Middle East, in the Holy Land and in Jerusalem, passions can blind people. Instead, to have real freedom, we need a certain distance from things in order to see them more clearly,” he said.

Francesco Zannini, who teaches at the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies in Rome, said the situation in Egypt reflected the weakening political power of Arab leaders who have ruled as “monarchs” but who are threatened by changes brought by globalization.

Zannini said that although Islamic extremists had begun to join the protests in Egypt, he doubted whether they would ever present a governing alternative there. He said he thought radical Islam was losing influence among the populations of the Middle East, and had shown itself too inflexible to have

success on a political level, where consensusbuilding is needed.

“Christians and Muslims, we’re all together,” the demonstrator said. “We want him to go away.”

As clashes between anti-government protesters and Egyptian police intensified on Jan. 28, some Coptic Orthodox Christians disregarded their church’s call for peaceful non-involvement – in hopes that Mubarak’s possible abdication could advance the cause of their freedom, Catholic News Agency reported from Cairo.

Professor Emad Shahin, a political scientist at the University of Notre Dame, specializes in Islamic affairs and has been monitoring the Egyptian situation closely. He told CNA that many Coptic Christians were joining with Muslims to express their frustration with three decades of authoritarian rule.

“The different statements that called for today’s demonstrations were calling on participants to come ‘from the mosques and the churches,’ to go to public squares,” Professor Shahin explained. “We have seen evidence that some Copts have been participating in the demonstrations.”

The protesters, he said, “need an end to corruption. They need the rule of law. They call for freedoms, and dignity – for social justice, and of course, for democracy.”

Catholic Relief Services’ international staff and their families in Cairo were evacuated Jan. 31 as pro-democracy demonstrations entered their seventh day.

“Our current thinking is that we will be out for no more than two days,” CRS country representative Jason Berlanger said in a phone interview with Catholic News Service as he was on his way to Cairo’s international airport with his wife and two children.

“The church evaluates politicians on the facts, not so much on their private life,” he said.

In short, the prevailing attitude among Italian church leaders is that a politician’s personal moral failings are best addressed in the confessional, not in the pulpit.

The problem posed by Berlusconi is that he claims to work in the church’s best interests — which may be true on certain issues like aid to private schools, but not when the premier, now twice-divorced, shows up for the church’s annual “Family Day” celebration of traditional values.

After meeting Pope Benedict in 2008, Berlusconi proclaimed their common views on “the sacred nature of the human person and the family” — and gave the pope a jewel-studded crucifix.

The German pope has tended to de-emphasize the church hierarchy as a political player in Italy. In a major address to Italian Catholics in 2006, he said it was the responsibility of Catholic laypeople — and not the church as an institution — to bring the Gospel to political life, operating “as citizens under their own responsibility.”

There are historical reasons why such a strategy makes sense in Italy, where the church’s temporal and political power

of past centuries is still a source of resentment. In March, Italy is celebrating 150 years as a unified nation, and for the church it’s a reminder of a painful transition that included the loss of the Papal States.

After decades of revolts that were resisted by popes, the first Italian Parliament proclaimed an Italian kingdom in 1861 and declared Rome to be its capital. Pope Pius IX told Catholics not to support this effort, under threat of excommunication. Rome was defended by the papal army for years, but was captured in 1870. Pope Pius declared himself a prisoner in the Vatican — a situation that was repaired only in 1929, when the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini made a treaty that regulated the church’s position and its much-reduced territories in Italy.

Italians often point to those events to explain persistent anticlericalism and antipathy toward the church as a political actor.

The upcoming 150th anniversary celebrations will give Vatican and Italian church leaders a chance to revisit that chapter of history, and perhaps draw some lessons in churchstate relations. If the past is any guide, “Rubygate” and “bunga bunga” will not be part of that reflection.

As a result, “we have, now, a polarized religious environment in the United States because we’ve seen a growth in conservative religion. That growth has largely stopped and it’s begun to decrease a little bit, but it’s still a sizable fraction of the American population,” he said.

One seeming contradiction among young people, who are least likely to claim denominational affiliations, is that “young people today are actually more likely to be pro-life or at least ambivalent about abortion than are their parents’ generation,” Campbell asserted, adding “there will be an opening for political entrepreneurs to come in and construct a new coalition.”

Still, religious tolerance prevails amid the politics.

Jews and Catholics, whom Campbell noted were the most vilified religions in America a century ago, are now “the most popular” religious groups today, based on the Pew surveys.

More than half of all U.S. marriages today are between people of different faiths, he added, more than double that of a century ago, when he noted that the issue of Catholics marrying Protestants looked like strife in Northern Ireland.

This level of tolerance and acceptance even extends into the afterlife, according to the Pew surveys. “Ninety-eight percent of Mormons, 93 percent of Catholics, even 83 percent of evangelicals say, yes, people who are of another faith or good people can go to heaven,” Campbell said.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Church leaders were watching the unfolding political drama in Egypt with a mixture of hope for reform and concern over potential violence, said the head of the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land.

Father Pierbattista Pizzaballa told Vatican Radio Jan. 30 that the widespread unrest that has weakened the 30-year rule of President Hosni Mubarak came as a surprise to Catholics in the region.

“We all sense that these are epochal changes.

None of us would have imagined these kinds of developments a few months ago,” he said.

“This means that there are currents, especially in the Arab world, that now have found visible expression. This is certainly a positive sign, but it’s also worrying because we don’t know how all this will end – we hope with the least possible amount of violence and bloodshed,” he said.

Father Pizzaballa said he hoped that “respect for religious minorities will be preserved” in Egypt. His concern appeared to reflect the fact that Mubarak’s opponents include both radical and moderate Muslim groups, and it was unclear who might assume power if the president resigns.

Father Pizzaballa spoke on a church-sponsored day of prayer for peace in the Holy Land. At the Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI marked the day with a prayer to “lead minds and hearts toward concrete projects of peace.” He did not specifically mention the unrest in Egypt.

In his comments to Vatican Radio, Father Pizzaballa said the search for peace and freedom involves “not allowing oneself to be dominated by passions.”

Berlusconi scandal . . .

■ Continued from page 4 In fact, the pope and his aides have been careful to avoid any hint of taking sides. The head of the Italian bishops’ conference, Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, tried to walk a middle line, referring to reports of “behavior contrary to public decorum,” but also questioning why these reports have received so much attention from investigating magistrates.

Anyone expecting the church’s “excommunication” of the prime minister has been disappointed, the Italian newspaper Il Giornale commented.

The church’s low-profile approach may reflect the fact that when the Vatican or the bishops take too specific aim at political figures, there’s often a public backlash.

“The church is not looking for sinners to hang from poles or to burn in the public square. It is seeking the salvation of souls, the good of individuals and the good of all,” Father Piero Gheddo, an Italian missionary and commentator, told the newspaper Il Foglio.

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■ Continued from page 5 survey reported saying grace daily or more often, while 46 percent said it only occasionally or never — “I actually know a lot about you,” Campbell added.

“I can probably predict how you vote,” he continued.

“I can probably predict where you land on the political spectrum, and I can predict a lot of things about what you believe and what you might even do in your life. This is a pretty useful indicator of the level of an individual’s own religiosity.”

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■ Continued from cover the health reform bill passed last March would adequately protect against the possibility of federal funding of abortion and guard the conscience rights of health care providers and institutions.

Sister Carol also sided with Catholic Healthcare West, the health system that sponsors St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix, in the hospital’s dispute with Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted of Phoenix over whether an abortion that occurred at the hospital in late 2009 violated the “Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services,” often referred to as the ERDs. Hospital officials had contended that the mother’s life was the only one that could have been saved in the case and that the directives had been followed.

But Bishop Olmsted disagreed and in December 2010 decreed that the hospital could no longer identify itself as Catholic, because he could not verify that it provided health care consistent with “authentic moral teaching.”

During the controversy, Sister Carol had defended the hospital’s action in a “heartbreaking situation” and said personnel there “carefully evaluated the patient’s situation and correctly applied” the directives, to which all Catholic hospitals in the United States are required to adhere.

Archbishop Dolan said in his Jan. 26 letter to Sister Carol that “any medical case, and especially one with unique complications, certainly requires appropriate consultation with medical professionals and ethical experts with specialization in the teaching of the church.”

“Still, as you have reasserted, it is the diocesan bishop’s

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authentic interpretation of the ERDs that must then govern their implementation,” he said. “Where conflicts arise, it is again the bishop who provides the authoritative resolution based on his teaching office. Once such a resolution of a doubt has been given, it is no longer a question of competing moral theories or the offering of various ethical interpretations or opinions of the medical data that can still be legitimately espoused and followed. The matter has now reached the level of an authoritative resolution.”

Sister Carol said in her letter, dated Jan. 18, that CHA has always told sponsors, board members and clinicians that “a bishop has a right to interpret the ERDs and also to develop his own ethical and religious directives if he chooses.”

“We are absolutely convinced that the teaching of the church, in combination with a clear understanding of the clinical situation, serves the people of God very well,” she added.

Archbishop Dolan welcomed the CHA support, expressed in a Jan. 24 letter from Sister Carol to Rep. Joe Pitts, R-Pa., for the congressman’s Protect Life Act, which would amend the health reform law to ensure there is no funding for abortion or abortion coverage.

But the archbishop said the USCCB also has “significant and immediate concerns” about threats to conscience rights in the health reform law passed last year.

“We should work together to confront this and similar threats to conscience,” he said.

In an interview with the National Catholic Reporter newspaper published online Jan. 31, Archbishop Dolan said Sister Carol “feels very strongly that the decision (to revoke the Catholic status of St. Joseph’s Hospital) was terrible, but she knows that the bishop of the diocese is the authentic interpreter and implementer” of the directives.

“She wholeheartedly believes that, and CHA believes that,” he said.

The archbishop also said that “defending the integrity” of health care might mean that other Catholic facilities will have to cut their ties with the church.

“The worry is that our Catholic hospitals are now where our universities were back in the 1980s, slowly drifting out of the Catholic orbit,” he said.

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By Jeff Kurowski ALLOUEZ, Wis. (CNS) – If the Super Bowl is anything like the National Football Conference championship game, Norbertine Father Jim Baraniak said he expected an overflow crowd.

The Packers’ Catholic chaplain wasn’t referring to the attendance at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, but rather the Mass to be celebrated before the big game Feb. 6.

In Chicago, before the Packers beat the Bears Jan. 23, “everybody showed up. We maxed out the room,” said Father Baraniak.

“It was just unbelievable,” he added. “The Mass was full of energy. I felt nervous during the homily.”

Father Baraniak, now in his 14th year with the team, has enjoyed an up-close view throughout the regular season and the playoff run. When the Packers play on the road, he watches the action from the visiting owner’s box before making his way onto the field for the fourth quarter.

In addition to his ministerial duties, he assists in the locker room. Father Baraniak, pastor at St. Norbert College Parish in De Pere, is responsible for returning players’ valuables from safekeeping after the game.

The job was tougher this season with all of the injuries.

Father Baraniak, who also serves as sacramental minister at Green Bay Correctional Institution, credits Coach Mike McCarthy for keeping the team playing at a high level despite 16 players on injured reserve. His praise for the Packers leader, a Greenfield, Pa., native, extends beyond football.

“Coach McCarthy is one of the most decent people I know,” said Father Baraniak. “He has never forgotten where he came from. He treats people with decency and respect. He is not afraid to be a real man with his players, whether he’s talking X’s and O’s or his Irish Catholic faith.”

The readings for the Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time were a good fit for Super Bowl Sunday, he added.

“Christ was calling the apostles,” he said. “We at the Packer Mass know each other by name. There is such a spirit, such a prayerfulness at the Mass. These are beautiful reflections, beautiful readings for the day.”

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For a relationship to flourish, it must be nurtured

By Lisa M. Petsche Recently my husband and I celebrated 16 years of marriage. We’re not much more than newlyweds, though, compared to my parents, who just marked their 46th wedding anniversary.

National Marriage Week USA, Feb. 7-14 In today’s fast-paced, me-oriented, throwaway society, it’s an increasing challenge to keep a marital relationship alive and healthy for a lifetime.

Unfortunately, many people are under the illusion that if only they choose the right mate, their marriage will effortlessly and continuously be wonderful, involving sustained passion and little or no conflict.

Such fairytale notions of destined lovers and perfect matches, while appealing, are unrealistic. However, in this era of instant gratification, many people don’t want to acknowledge that successful marriages require an ongoing investment of time and effort, or that they involve compromise and sacrifice.

In her bestselling book, “Surrendering to Marriage: Husbands, Wives and Other Imperfections,” journalist and speaker Iris Krasnow contends that even in a good marriage, partners will not feel happy all of the time. She urges couples to recognize and accept that feelings of boredom and resentment are a normal part of any long-term relationship, and that there may even be times when we’d like to pack it in. We should interpret these feelings as a sign that we need to work harder at fostering intimacy, not a sign that it’s time to move on.

Adjusting our expectations leads to increased marital satisfaction, Krasnow writes. When the going gets tough, our understanding that difficulties are inevitable and can be overcome will sustain us. Moreover, the marital bond becomes strengthened through facing tough times together with determination and faith.

If a marriage relationship develops serious problems, it’s important to seek professional help as soon as possible.

One means of facilitating healing is a Catholic ministry called Retrouvaille – meaning “rediscovery” – which focuses on restoring communication in order to rebuild intimacy. It involves a

weekend retreat and several follow-up sessions. Information is available from parish priests and at www.retrouvaille.org.

As we emphasize in the marriage preparation program I help facilitate, marriage is a primary relationship that needs to have top priority in both spouses’ lives. They must make a conscious, ongoing effort to protect it from potentially destructive outside influences, including well-intentioned but sometimes demanding relatives and friends, career advancement and other individual pursuits, technology (satellite television, the Internet, cell phones and pagers) and the popular culture.

Unfortunately, especially once they are parents, partners’ lives can easily become so busy that they no longer spend much time communicating on an intimate level. (Talking about the kids and instrumental things like bills and errands doesn’t count.) But their relationship, if it’s to flourish, must be nurtured on a regular basis, in spite of other obligations.

My husband and I, for example, have been going on monthly dates ever since our first child was born. Usually we go out for dinner or for an evening walk followed by coffee and dessert.

LISA PETSCHE, page 9

Bishops call for national effort to promote marriage, support couples WASHINGTON –Two marriage initiatives in February affirm the priority of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to support and strengthen marriage, said Bishop Kevin Rhoades of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Ind. In a letter to all U.S. Catholic bishops, Bishop Rhoades, the new chairman of the bishops’ Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth, highlighted World Marriage Day and National Marriage Week USA. “I encourage you to share this information with the clergy and lay leaders of your diocese so that together we might strive to become ‘marriage building’ communities of faith and action,” he said.

World Marriage Day, which is promoted by Worldwide Marriage Encounter, is being sponsored Sunday, Feb. 13, in U.S. dioceses and parishes. Its theme is “Love One Another.”

World Marriage Day received the apostolic blessing of John Paul II in 1993 and has grown among many countries

and faith expressions ever since, Bishop Rhoades said.

Resources for celebrating World Marriage Day can be found at http://wmd.wwme.org.

Bishop Rhoades also highlighted National Marriage Week USA, which will be observed Feb. 7-14 with the theme “Let’s Strengthen Marriage.”

“This project – now in its second year – is a collaborative effort to influence the culture by faith communities, business, media, education and non-profit groups,” Bishop Rhoades said.

It is designed to “focus national attention on the need to strengthen marriage” through new efforts for marriage education and crisis intervention and promoting the benefits of marriage.

Bishop Rhoades noted that National Marriage Week USA also recognizes that children are best served when raised in the context of a marriage with a father and a mother.

Thank you!

Bishop Rhoades also recommended numerous online resources of the USCCB, including www.foryourmarriage. org and its Spanish counterpart www.portumatrimonio. org; the pastoral letter on marriage, “Love and Life in the Divine Plan,” www.usccb.org/loveandlife; advocacy resources on why marriage should be promoted as the union of a man and a woman, www.marriageuniqueforareason. org; a collection of briefing papers entitled “Making A Case for Marriage,” www.usccb.org/npim; a collection of essays, teaching materials, and resources for prayer and celebration developed for Catechetical Sunday 2010, the theme of which was “Matrimony: Sacrament of Enduring Love,” www.usccb.org/catecheticalsunday; and cards with a “Prayer for Married Couples” in English and Spanish, available in packages of 100 from USCCB Publications (www.usccbpublishing.org).

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Church must help parents in their ‘arduous’ task, Pope Benedict says

By David Gibson Collaboration between the church and the family is especially “necessary,” given the daunting challenges parents encounter today when it comes to raising children, Pope Benedict XVI said Jan. 9 when he baptized 21 infants in the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel. He urged parishes to “do their utmost” to sustain families in their role of passing on the faith.

Pope Benedict has spoken a number of times in recent weeks about the invaluable educational roles the family fulfills, as well as about the kinds of religious and social support married couples and their families need. He has been suggesting that if families not only are to fulfill their mandate, but to survive and thrive under difficult circumstances, they require support both from the church and from society.

In his Sistine Chapel homily, he said that “collaboration between the Christian community and the family is especially necessary in the contemporary social context in which the family institution is threatened on many sides and finds itself having to face numerous difficulties in its role of raising children in the faith.”

The pope commented that a “lack of stable cultural references and the rapid transformation to which society constantly is subjected” combine to make the task of raising children “arduous.”

But he believes that the vital religious educational role parents can fulfill in their children’s lives needs to be recognized and supported. “A journey begins” for children with baptism, he said. Later, of course, they will need to make a “free and conscious” commitment to a life of “faith and love.” For that reason, “after baptism they must be educated in the faith.”

Lisa Petsche. . .

■ Continued from page 8 Even if it’s not feasible to regularly get a sitter and go out on formal dates, there are many creative ways to build in quality time. It can be as simple as sitting down together to talk about your day after the kids are in bed, instead of automatically turning on the television or computer.

When my sisters and I were young, my parents would periodically postpone their dinner until after we were in bed.

The church, together with their parents and godparents, must “accompany them on this journey of growth,” the pope said.

The church’s collaboration with parents and families also was addressed by Pope Benedict in a major document titled “The Word of the Lord,” an apostolic exhortation made public Nov. 11, 2010. “Part of authentic parenthood is to pass on and bear witness to the meaning of life in Christ: Through their fidelity and the unity of family life, spouses are the first to proclaim God’s word to their children,” the pope said.

He added that the church should “support and assist” families “in fostering family prayer, attentive hearing of the word of God and knowledge of the Bible.” Help for families in such matters “can be provided by priests, deacons and a well-prepared laity,” Pope Benedict said.

In his message for the Jan. 1, 2011, World Day of Peace, Pope Benedict called attention to the far-reaching, positive effects of the religious educational efforts that begin in homes. He suggested that the world’s nations need to acknowledge that “parents must be always free to transmit to their children, responsibly and without constraints, their heritage of faith, values and culture.”

Religious education is “the highway that leads new generations to see others as their brothers and sisters with whom they are called to journey and work together so that all will feel that they are living members of the one human family from which no one is to be excluded,” the pope said in his peace day message.

The family “remains the primary training ground for harmonious relations at every level of coexistence – human, national and international,” he explained. Thus, “wisdom suggests that this is the road to building a strong and fraternal social fabric.”

The public policy support parents and families need was very much on Pope Benedict’s mind Jan. 14 when he addressed

public officials of Rome and Italy’s Lazio region. The family must be supported by public policies that address not only immediate problems, but that “aim to consolidate and develop the family,” he said.

For, he commented, “it is in the family that children learn the human and Christian values which enable them to have a constructive and peaceful coexistence. It is in the family that they learn solidarity between the generations, respect for rules, forgiveness and how to welcome others. It is in their own home that young people, experiencing their parents’ affection, discover what love is and learn how to love.”

Motherhood ought to be supported in concrete ways by public policy, the pope said. And “women with a profession” should be assured “the possibility of balancing family and work.” For, the pope observed, too often “women are put in the position of having to choose between the two.”

Pope Benedict urged that local government promote and support maternity rights, including public or privately run child-care centers, to help ensure that “a child is not seen as a problem but as a gift and a great joy.” Furthermore, he encouraged action to aid women and families who are finding it “difficult to welcome” a new pregnancy. He said: “May public institutions understand how to offer their support so that family counselors are in a position to help these women overcome the causes that can induce them to terminate pregnancy.”

They’d order Chinese food and enjoy a distraction-free meal in the dining room, complete with candlelight and wine. It was a time to really connect and enjoy each other’s company.

Attending a Marriage Encounter weekend is another good idea. The program targets couples whose relationship is healthy but could use some enrichment. (For more information, call your parish rectory or go online to www. wwme.org).

Marriage veterans can attest that loving your partner in an ongoing way is a conscious decision involving activity and continual growth. This long-term commitment to the

development of another, and to building a Catholic family together, involves moral and spiritual obligation.

Without question it’s a challenge, but well worth the effort. Because a good marriage is a source of refuge from the trials and tribulations of life, providing fulfillment and joy while mirroring God’s unconditional, everlasting love for us.

Especially in this day and age, it is truly an accomplishment of which to be proud.

The writer served for 37 years on the editorial staff at Catholic News Service. The article was first published on the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ “For Your Marriage” website.

Lisa M. Petsche is a social worker and a freelance writer specializing in inter-generational issues.

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Marin woman’s work to remove land mines expands to Holy Land well. Now, White, as chair of the Campaign for a Mine-Free Middle East, and Yuval are Heidi Kuhn’s world view from her office in joining with Roots of Peace to call attention San Rafael includes her beloved St. Raphael to the menace.

Church and Mt. Tamalpais and, far over the “It was a beautiful day and a very rare horizon, 70 nations in which more than an snowfall,” said Kuhn, “so Daniel and his estimated 70 million land mines are buried. family packed a picnic to go up to the snow, Some 26,000 just as we would do people are killed if there was snow on and maimed by the Mt. Tamalpais – and explosions every boom, there was year, nearly half of blood everywhere,” them children, maksaid Kuhn of the ing off-limits fertile incident. land that could othThe initial effort erwise be planted. at the two historThirteen years ago, ic sites is coming Kuhn became an together after less advocate for land than a year of dismine victims and cussions with Israel, people whose land the Palestinian is held hostage – by Authority, the U.S. transforming “mines Department of to vines.”

State, the U.N. Mine Her humanitarAction Service and ian, interfaith, nonSurvivor Corps, a political nonprofit land mine survivors organization, Roots network. Completion of Peace, yanks land of the work will lay mines out of the Heidi Kuhn is pictured at Jesus’ baptism the groundwork and ground and replaces site on the Jordan River. Her San Rafael- generate support “to them with bounti- based organization removes land mines carry this work to all ful vineyards and in former war zones and plants fruit and the sacred sites and orchards. Roots of lands of Israel and other commodities in land once too Peace is currently Palestine” contamidangerous to cultivate. managing a major nated by land mines land mine-removal and unexploded ordeffort in 28 of the 34 provinces in Afghanistan, nance, said Kuhn, a former CNN reporter. having generated $60 million in funding, and There is already precedent for demining in this month it reaches into the Middle East, the the region. Over 10 years, neighboring Jordan land mine heartland of the world. cleared minefields along its border with Israel, The effort begins with demining two at a cost of $60 million, at the insistence of the sacred sites: Qasr el Yahud, the baptismal site late King Hussein and his widow, Queen Noor. of Jesus on the Jordan River, and the Fields Kuhn said she is embarking on the project of Bethlehem at the ancient Palestinian vil- in early February even with the volatility in the lage of Husan. With final approval anticipated region posing a threat because of the payoff this month from the Knesset, the legislative it may yield. branch of the Israeli government, the broader “The big prize is peace,” said Kuhn. “This effort in the area is the estimated one mil- is not an easy place to go to nor do I take lion land mines and unexploded ordnance my footsteps lightly as a mother, but this is a believed hidden over more than 50,000 acres very grassroots, pragmatic way to diplomatiof land in Israel and the West Bank, where the cally wage peace by doing something that is Palestinians are supportive of Roots of Peace. universal and is respectful to all.”

Indeed, she said, Christians, Jews and “The Holy Lands are not holy when there are land mines in the ground,” said Kuhn. “What we Muslims all have an interest in land mine are doing by removing a land mine is literally removal in the region. Qasr el Yahud is not removing a seed of hatred from the ground and only very likely the place where Jesus was the heart as well,” she said. “Whether stepped baptized by John, but it is also the site of the on by the boot of a soldier or the sandal of a Israelites’ crossing into the Holy Land and the child, it is a weapon that doesn’t differentiate.” place of Elijah’s rise into heaven. In Islam, The Roots of Peace Middle East campaign, this area is on a route traveled by the prophet “Demine-Replant-Rebuild,” is in large part Moses, between Mount Nebo and Nabi Musa.

Kuhn was impressed by the work of the inspired by an 11-year-old Jewish boy, Daniel Yuval, who was playing with his family in the late Princess Diana in clearing land mines and, snow in the Golan Heights on Feb. 6, 2010, shortly after her death in 1997, she launched when he stepped on a land mine. He lost a leg. Roots of Peace when she raised a glass in Thirty years earlier, Jerry White, a Catholic a toast saying, “Mines to vines” – and then who was then a Brown University student realized her spontaneous words captured the walking in the footsteps of Jesus in the same essence of what could be done globally.

Since then, Roots of Peace has removed area, lost a leg when he tripped a mine as

(COURTESY OF ROOTS OF PEACE)

By George Raine

Land mines are a menace in many places in the Holy Land. The latest phase in Heidi Kuhn’s work to eliminate land mines is about to begin at Jesus’ baptismal site, indicated by the number 5 on the map.

land mines and planted fruits and other commodities in Angola, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Cambodia, Croatia, Iraq, Vietnam and, currently, in Afghanistan. Roots of Peace received a $30.4 million grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development, assisting farmers in 28 of 34 provinces. It is the largest agricultural development grant the federal government has given to a nongovernmental organization, according to USAID. Another $30 million has come from multiple sources, including the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Asian Development Bank, the European Union and the World Bank, and Roots of Peace is using that $60 million to help plant grapes, pomegranates, oranges, apples and cherries in formerly dangerous land. The income from exports improves the lives of the Afghan people.

That work is overseen by Gary Kuhn, the nonprofit’s executive director and a former hightech executive who is Heidi Kuhn’s husband.

The Kuhns are parishioners at St. Raphael – Heidi and Gary Kuhn were married there, as were her parents and grandparents – and while the work of Roots of Pease is interfaith, Heidi Kuhn’s Catholic faith gives her motivation, said George Wesolek, director of the Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

“Heidi Kuhn is a very special person,” Wesolek said. “She has created Roots of Peace from nothing but a desire to make a difference in moving toward peace in small steps. She has a unique way of bringing people to an awareness of the problem and then moving them to action. She is one of the true heroes of our archdiocese.”

Archbishop: Africa’s AIDS epidemic bares ‘poverty of moral thinking’

By Bronwen Dachs CAPE TOWN, South Africa (CNS) – Noting that AIDS is primarily an African problem, the president of the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference criticized the “poverty of moral thinking in Africa” and dependency on “AmericanEuropean thinking” in developing solutions to a growing epidemic of the disease.

AIDS “is a disease Africa shares with gay people in Europe and North America,” Archbishop Buti Tlhagale of Johannesburg told his fellow bishops Jan. 25 at the start of a nine-day plenary meeting in Pretoria.

“When Europe thinks about moral issues around HIV and AIDS, they think of gay people. In Africa, we think about millions of ordinary men, women and youth,” he said.

UNAIDS, the joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS, estimated that about 5.6 million South Africans had HIV or AIDS

in 2009. Sub-Saharan Africa remains the region of the world most heavily affected by HIV worldwide, accounting for 67 percent of all people living with the disease and for about 72 percent of AIDS-related deaths in 2009, according to the U.N. “It is high time we challenged our moral theologians to assess the moral challenges of HIV and AIDS,” Archbishop Tlhagale said.

He called upon the bishops’ conference to “invest in the training of moral theologians in a more systematic fashion.”

“Cynics would say, ‘What more is there to think about? We have the Ten Commandments!’ We have a duty not to allow the imaginative genius of the human spirit to stagnate or die,” he said.

Archbishop Tlhagale also spoke of the need for morality in order to build compassionate human communities.

“Government can only do so much,” he said.

The archbishop challenged southern African church leaders “to invest resources and time” to address the development of a moral society.

The countries represented by the conference, Botswana, South Africa and Swaziland, are “developing democracies” that are “politically stable, but fragile,” Archbishop Tlhagale said.

“To varying degrees, they are characterized by graft, violent crimes, corruption, the serious lack of service delivery and self-enrichment by those in positions of responsibility,” he said.

Noting that South Africa’s “jails are overflowing with prisoners,” Archbishop Tlhagale said that to most citizens “the promises of democracy and rule of law are not only dreams that have failed but ... a reminder of the painful experiences of the (apartheid) past.”

With “our materialistic society” promoting

the rights of individuals to accumulate wealth, “Christian principles of fairness, equality and justice have fallen by the wayside,” he said.

Charging that the rich “have become incapable of postponing their own personal interests,” Archbishop Tlhagale said society as a whole has failed to raise up “those who have a greater need.”

“What is missing in the public spaces of our societies is the voice of the Catholic Church that genuinely seeks to engage the public on moral-ethical issues which impinge on the society at large,” he said.

Archbishop Tlhagale also said the bishops’ conference must develop a mechanism that will ensure that the results of “groundbreaking conferences and documents,” such as the 2009 Synod of Bishops for Africa, are systematically discussed and implemented.

“Unless we have a way of monitoring implementation, we run the risk of reinventing the same ideas every few years,” he said.

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Religious in remote North ask Congo to quit downplaying violence DUNGU, Congo (CNS) – Religious from the Diocese of Doruma-Dungu have asked the government to quit downplaying the threat posed by the Lord’s Resistance Army in the far reaches of northern Congo.

They also asked the government to establish a special commission to investigate the murder of Augustinian Sister Jeanne Yengane. The Congolese nun, an ophthalmologist, was the victim of an LRA ambush Jan. 17 as she traveled by car toward the village of Ngilima, near Dungu, in the northern part of the country’s Kasai-Oriental province.

“For the love of our people, we can no longer remain silent about the central government’s policy of playing down the gravity of the LRA and its attacks,” said the statement, signed

by Bishop Richard Domba Mady of Doruma-Dungu and 38 priests and nuns.

The religious said the Congolese and Ugandan governments and the international community maintain a “deliberate and ongoing confusion” regarding those responsible for acts of violence against the civilian population in the remote area. It said the government deliberately attributes the crimes of the LRA to other groups and claims that the LRA in the region number only 18 rebel fighters, when they are actually far more numerous. The government also falsely accuses civilians of being spies for the LRA, they said.

“The LRA are there. The facts speak for themselves. There

have been murders, people wounded and people have disappeared,” they said.

In reference to the millions of dollars in aid money that other countries send to reinforce the Congolese government, the religious said the international community should “concern itself more with the displaced and the victims of the atrocities of the war rather than develop a lavish bureaucracy, to the detriment of the suffering people.”

The religious said several armed groups – including the LRA and the Congolese and Ugandan armies – operate in the diocese. They said some former LRA fighters have been integrated into the Ugandan army, and the chief of army operations against the LRA is a former fighter, a fact which, the religious said, raises questions about the real will of Uganda to put an end to the rebels’ activities.

The identity of those responsible for crimes against the civilian population is further confused by the presence in the forests of nomadic cattle breeders known as the Mbororo, who are often accused of crimes.

In the statement, the religious also urged the international community to establish a special international tribunal to try the perpetrators of crimes against civilians and to try the LRA leader, Joseph Kony.

“We are convinced that the international community knows the whereabouts of this rebel chief and has the means to arrest

him and stop his capacity to turn our region into a theater of notorious atrocities and bring him to justice,” they said.

International human rights groups, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, have reported on massacres and atrocities – including grotesque bodily mutilations – carried out by the LRA in northern Congo. Violations include a massacre of some 200 civilians in the village of Faradje, close to the Sudanese border, on Christmas in 2008; 96 civilian killings in the same area; and dozens of abductions between January and April 2010.

In 2009, the U.S. Congress passed the LRA Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act, which calls for the arrest and trial of Kony.

In November, the U.S. government announced a new strategy for the areas of northern Congo and Southern Sudan and the Central African Republic where the LRA maintains its campaign of terror. The strategy, whose stated aims are protecting the civilian population and working with the Ugandan army to apprehend Kony, has been criticized for being short on details of how to actually achieve those aims.

The U.N. stabilization mission in the Congo, MONUSCO, has said that it does not have enough troops to protect the civilians of this vast country, which is the size of Western Europe. It says that remote areas such as the Diocese of Doruma-Dungu – an area of nearly 17,000 square miles – are particularly difficult to cover effectively.

Parish spurs children’s faith with games, singing, dancing YANGON, Myanmar (UCA News) – A parish in Yangon archdiocese has stepped up efforts to deepen the faith of Catholic children through a fun-filled monthly faith formation program.

“It’s very important to form Catholic children in Yangon archdiocese and this can be easily done when they are young,” said Father Simon Tin Maung, parish priest of St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Yangon.

Parents give priority to academic studies and extra tutoring and care very little about their children’s faith formation, Father Tin Maung said.

During the latest program on Jan. 30, some 102 children and 30 parents participated in a Mass, singing competition, games and dancing, led by four nuns and 12 seminarians from Yangon’s Catholic major seminary.

During the Mass, the children read the epistles, led the choir and made offerings of bananas, papayas and cakes which they bought using their own pocket money, said Sister Augusta, who is in charge of catechism classes.

“Only about 20 percent of children aged 5 to 15 cares for Sunday Mass and catechism classes,” said Father Tin Maung.

Most of the Catholic families live within a surrounding non-Christian culture. Therefore children are exposed to non-Christian beliefs, ideologies and practices, Father Maung said.

“In this day and age, parishes need to take initiatives to form the younger generation in the Catholic faith,” he said.

About 80 percent of parish marriages are mixed. In spite of promises made by the non-Catholic partner, the choice of religion for their children is one of the main causes of family problems, according to the parish priest.

Steel butterfly . . .

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(PHOTOS BY JOSE LUIS AGUIRRE/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO.)

Pedro and San Jose, serving as principal for five years. But that wasn’t enough.

“As a novice, I’d read about the priest workers in France in the factories,” she said. “They propelled me to want to find work within the ordinary system, outside the church.”

She was drawn to the Catholic Worker movement with its commitment to voluntary poverty, non violence, prayer and hospitality. She helped found the Catholic Worker house on Cassia Street in Redwood City with Larry Purcell and Presentation Sister Joan Murphy in 1975. In the Catholic Worker tradition, they became both staff and family for the troubled teens they welcomed. Mary Jane went to work as a secretary at Dole Food in San Francisco, commuting on the bus to support the house.

Sister Mary Jane was adamant.

‘I’m not taking the sign down.

This is a perfect chance to start my jail record.’

“She was a timid spirit in those days,” Purcell said. “She didn’t want to carry flags in demonstrations, but she believed in making money so that another nun could work with the poor. That other nun was Joan. The first three years we lived off of Mary Jane’s salary.”

By the early 1990s, the Sisters of Presentation helped the Catholic Worker group purchase and refurbish another house on Heller Street within walking distance of the first. Sister Mary Jane moved to that house to take care of her stepmother and at the same time began working at an adult day health center in Palo Alto as a receptionist. A group of retired teachers set up an English-language school for women in the garage of the Heller street house in 1991. Three years later, Sister Mary Jane saw that the women’s children might need tutoring. Grateful to have help with their students’ homework, the women began sending their children, and the program grew, as tutors from nearby parishes volunteered. The Sisters of the Presentation support Sister Mary Jane’s living expenses and fund specific parts of her program. Purcell raises money for the tutoring and for the Cassia Street house through his newsletter.

Sister Mary Jane is very clear about her motives: “I did this, one, because of the Gospel teaching of Jesus about reaching out in compassion; two, our community’s charism of working with the poor; and three, because it is the right thing to do.”

“A good description of her is a steel butterfly,” Purcell said.

Presentation Sister Mary Jane Floyd is pictured at the house on Heller Street in Redwood City where she gives English lessons to immigrant children. Drawn to the Catholic Worker movement with its commitment to non-violence, prayer and hospitality, she has been called the “Mother Teresa of Redwood City” for her leadership in educating the children of poor families.

“She is really tough, but gentle and unassuming. Her compassion sometimes gets her into trouble.”

He remembers her encounter with local government. Last year, a Redwood City official questioned the small sign outside the house announcing “English classes” and said it would have to go. Sister Mary Jane was adamant.

“I’m not taking the sign down,” she said. “This is a perfect chance to start my jail record.” She didn’t have to do civil disobedience. The city backed down and the sign remains.

Sister Mary Jane retired from her job at the adult day health center in 2000 to devote her energy to both the tutoring program and the English language and computer school for women held in the garage. A wise administrator, she cultivates her tutors who hear about the program through parish bulletins and through Purcell’s regular newsletter to his supporters for the Catholic Worker House on Cassia Street. She’s quick to acknowledge their contributions. “Credit goes to the 41 tutors and 17 teachers in the evening classes for the success of the program,” she said.

Sister of Notre Dame de Namur Mary Pat Hutchison, a retired history professor from Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, comes three afternoons a week and takes pleasure in the bright, responsive students who come to her. Patrick Crevell, cartographer for the city of Redwood City, tutors students in math and enjoys working one on one with students.

“For Algebra II, I’m one lesson ahead,” said with a grin. “I’m a resource. It’s satisfying because I can meet their needs in homework. I always wanted a tutor myself.”

“The key thing I think is wonderful,” said Purcell, “is that as an 18-year-old Mary Jane felt compelled to join a teaching order. As an 80-year-old she has come full circle. The order was to teach thve poor and that is what she is doing.”

Dr. JoAnn Stenger, who began tutoring when she retired from her plastic surgery practice in 2009, is in awe of her work.

“She’s the Mother Teresa of Redwood City,” she said.

Those interested in volunteering or donating may contact Sister Mary Jane at (650) 366-8315.

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The victory of life over death Archbishop George Niederaur delivered the following homily at the Mass for the Walk for Life West Coast Jan. 22 at St. Mary’s Cathedral.

Our Gospel reading describes the evening of the first Easter Sunday, the day Jesus Christ rose from the dead.

The apostles are hiding behind locked doors, desperately afraid. The enemies of Jesus have killed him, and his followers are afraid that those same enemies will now come looking for them.

The risen Jesus is suddenly in the room with them, and he says, “Shalom.” “Peace” is not an adequate translation of this word, “Shalom.” It does not mean the absence of fear, trouble, anxiety and violence. Certainly it includes all that, but so much more. Literally it means, “May God give you every good thing.” It signifies the communion that exists between humankind and God, as a seal upon the covenant. Probably among Christians, St. Francis of Assisi, the patron of our city and our archdiocese, came closest, with his greeting in Latin, “Pax et bonum” (Peace and all good.)

Then Jesus shows them the wounds he received on the cross. The risen Jesus Christ is the Savior born in Bethlehem, raised in Nazareth, who has walked with these disciples for years. The Father has raised up his son from death to the fullness of life eternal; this is the victory of life over death, for Jesus and for all of us his disciples, for us and for all the victims of the culture of death. This is the heart of the Good News. If the tomb had not been empty on Easter morning, there would have been no Good News, and the Gospels would not have been written.

Eternal life overcomes the culture of death.

Sometimes the enemies of Christianity contend that we cheapen the value of the life we live here on earth with our faith in eternal life, a life beyond the grave. The opposite is true: our faith in eternal life makes us value this life all the more highly, because the course of our life here on

earth, the choices we make and the actions we perform, determine the course of our life for all eternity. For us the hungry woman or man is Christ, who will judge us at the end. The depersonalized phrase “terminated pregnancy” fails completely to describe the violent ending of a human life, a gift of the living God. “He breathed on them and said to them, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit.’” From the first chapters of the Bible, in the Book of Genesis, breath stands for life; breath gives life, because the Creator God breathed life into Adam and Eve. Earlier in the Gospel of John, Jesus says why he came among us: “I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full” (John 10:10).

Jesus says to the apostles, and therefore says to all of us, “As the Father has sent me, so I send you.” Jesus sends us to proclaim and live the Good News, to be filled with his life, to live his life, to share his life, and to defend his life.

Jesus needs us, the church, his body, so that we can take his Good News to all peoples of all times and all places; so that we can share life and defend life, life here and life eternal, everywhere we go, everywhere he sends us.

Even more so, we the church need Jesus. It is his message that we carry and deliver, not our own; it is his work we do, not our own; it is his power that sustains us, not our own. When we begin to think it is solely we who are transforming the world, then Jesus is no longer transforming the world through us.

Jesus tells the apostles that he is sending them in the same way the Father sent him. Jesus perfectly loved his Father and perfectly obeyed him. “I do always the will of him who sent me.” To the extent that we follow Jesus and do his will in humble love, to that extent we disciples become apostles. This is a constant theme in the letters of St. Paul the Apostle: it is not I but Christ living in me.

The witness Jesus sends us out to give, and the work he assigns us to do, demand that we stay rooted in him

Catholic san Francisco Northern California’s Weekly Catholic Newspaper

Praising Fr. Perrone Father Vito Perrone (“New order of monks founded,” Jan. 14) is the most exceptional priest we have ever met. Father Vito spent many hours with us through difficult times. His patience, understanding and unwavering faith helped us to remember to trust in God. We are in awe of his knowledge and understanding of how to live our faith. We thank him and pray for the Contemplatives of St. Joseph on their journey.

Tony and Lauri Lottice Redwood City

Thanks for worship director’s column Thank you for publishing Pat VallezKelly’s occasional columns during this archdiocesan Year of Renewal in worship and for his extraordinary article in your Jan. 28 edition (“Toward liturgical renewal.”) I encourage everyone to read it – again and again – as we move forward in 2011. Readers who may have already recycled that particular edition can find the article at www.catholic-sf.org.

Let’s all take to heart Pat’s keen pastoral insight: “To move toward renewal someone must first have the desire for it. Renewal

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of the spirit is largely God’s work, but the church community has to want it enough to say, ‘OK, God, we’re ready. We need it. Let it be done according to your will.’”

Who can deny God’s plan for our renewal in and through the liturgy? Let’s pray for the willingness to cooperate with what God wills and be open to that renewal.

Let’s look forward to Pat’s upcoming articles, which will guide us through the experience.

And let’s be sure to thank God for Pat VallezKelly, who is such a gift to this archdiocese.

Msgr. John Talesfore Pastor and Rector St. Mary’s Cathedral

Questions columnist’s view in hospital case In “Reaffirming Catholic identity” (Jan. 14), George Weigel criticizes the emergency abortion performed at Phoenix’s St. Joseph’s Hospital to save the life of a mother of four children. This cannot have been an easy decision for the hospital, the doctors, or the mother and father to make, but life is not always made up of easy decisions as some in the church would like to believe. In this case, we have a mother and an 11-week-old fetus. If the mother continues the pregnancy, she has a 100 percent chance of death. An 11-week-old fetus cannot survive outside the womb. Therefore, the hospital chose to save the life of at least one of the two individuals. Mr. Weigel doesn’t say this, but he must think the “Catholic” thing to do is to let both the mother and fetus die. How is this morally superior to saving only the life of the mother?

Richard Morasci San Francisco

What would Jesus do?

Phoenix Bishop Thomas Olmsted (“Bishop strips hospital of church affilia-

as branches in a vine.

Many of God’s gifts to his Church keep us rooted in Jesus Christ the vine and keep us nourished with his life. The most powerful of these gifts is this Eucharist we Archbishop celebrate, offer and receive this morning.

George Prayer is indisNiederauer pensable for rooting us, and what we do, in Christ. In our first reading we hear St. Paul urge us: “By prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, make your requests known to God.” We ask God to protect us on this walk today: to protect us physically, of course, but also to protect us from pride, selfrighteousness and angry or dismissive judgment of others.

Jesus forgave his enemies literally until his dying breath: “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” Jesus also taught us to forgive, and in our Gospel reading we hear him tell the first priests of his church that they are commissioned to forgive sins in his name and power.

We are called to witness to the priceless value of each human life, in the midst of a world where human life is often seen as cheap indeed. However, we are not on our own personal crusade; rather, we walk with Christ, in Christ and for Christ. Jesus sends us along the way and companions us along the way, often very powerfully through one another. As we go forth let us remember and follow the last piece of advice St. Paul gives us in our first reading: “Keep on doing what you have learned and received and heard and seen from me. Then the God of peace will be with you.”

tion,” Jan 14), I have two questions I hope you will answer.

What would you have done if you had to make the decision to save the life of a mother of four or watch both mother and fetus die?

What would Jesus have done?

I am a practicing Catholic.

Marian Ritchie San Francisco

No hate speech Thank you for giving front page attention to the members of the Angels Project lining the way into Elizabeth Ann Seton Church for the Tucson funeral for Judge John M. Roll (Jan. 21). What your caption omitted is that the group of volunteers was moved to protect the family from having to see the hate speech spewed by members of Westboro Baptist Church, who among other things, like to carry huge signs with horrible, homophobic language. We need, as church, to condemn hate speech whenever we come across it.

Bob Nelson Daly City

Challenges bishops on health reform

national health insurance seek treatment in the U.S. that they cannot get in their homeland. In 2005 the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that access to a waiting list is not health care.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act – as presently written – is opposed by a majority of Americans, especially seniors. It will curtail care to the elderly, the disabled and the terminally ill. It cuts $500 billion from Medicare and restricts certain diagnoses and treatments. It encourages end-of-life wellness assessments that would justify restriction of costly treatments. The U.S. bishops should support its repeal and its revision to protect the inalienable right to life and a health care system that has done more for the common good than any other.

Mike DeNunzio San Francisco The writer is a California Commissioner on Aging.

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The inalienable right to life – the fundamental teaching of the church – also is enshrined in the Declaration of Independence.

America’s founders boldly reminded a powerful king that this God-given right is endowed to all men. It demands ceaseless protection.

The ancient Spartans left their aged, the disabled and sickly infants on hillsides to die. Today advanced nations with national health care also deny lifegiving care to their least-productive. Great Britain determines treatment based on patient age – Quality Adjusted Life Years.

Britain and other European Union nations deny renal dialysis and certain drugs to the elderly. Holland permits voluntary euthanasia, and lethal injection of newborns diagnosed as unable to have a meaningful life. National health insurance is not health care: Every year over 100,000 patients from Canada and EU countries with

Thanks columnist for Bethlehem report I’d like to thank you for Tony Magliano’s column about Bethlehem (“O ‘Troubled’ Little Town of Bethlehem,” Dec. 10, 2010). We spent Christmas 2010 in Bethlehem and visited the Creche with Sister Sophie.

They are indeed in need of help.

Isadore and Helene Rosenthal San Francisco

Correcting the record

I wanted to alert you to a factual error in how you describe the Guttmacher Institute in your article “Former Planned Parenthood director to convert to Catholicism” (Jan. 21).

The Guttmacher Institute is an independent nonprofit research and policy organization and is not affiliated with Planned Parenthood, as your article incorrectly stated. Also, the institute in 2005 dropped the “Alan” from its name; it’s now simply known as “Guttmacher Institute.”

Joerg Dreweke Guttmacher Institute New York

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Paul’s conversion and the church’s mission On Jan. 25 the church celebrated the great feast of the conversion of St. Paul, and this celebration provided the occasion for thinking about who we are as followers of Jesus Christ. As I have often complained, most of us Christians in the West more or less follow the protocol of the secular society, which dictates that religion is an essentially private matter, something that individuals can cultivate for their own personal edification — but decidedly not something that ought to show up in the public arena. Well, it’s perfectly impossible to understand the meaning of Paul’s conversion under that distinctly modern rubric. Luke’s Acts of the Apostles —in the ninth chapter of which the story of Paul’s initial encounter with Jesus can be found — is all about how the first Christians bore the message and power of Jesus to the ends of the earth, and how they got into quite a bit of trouble doing it.

To grasp the significance of the conversion of Paul, we must turn to the very end of the Gospel of Luke where we

read that, after the ascension of Jesus, the disciples “returned to Jerusalem with great joy; and they were continually in the temple praising God.” One of the deepest and most abiding hopes of ancient Israel was that a Davidic Messiah would come and purify the holy temple in Jerusalem, making it a place of rightly ordered praise. Luke is telling us here that the church — the mystical body of Christ — is this new temple. And this is also why in the beginning of the Acts of the Apostles, the disciples are so often in and around the temple: Peter and John cure a lame man who was being carried into the temple through the Beautiful Gate; the disciples are arrested in the temple precincts; and “every day in the temple … they did not cease to teach and proclaim Jesus as the Messiah” (Acts 5: 42). They were convinced that in Jesus, risen from the dead, God had purified and reestablished the place of right praise; and this was of tremendous moment, for the Old Testament prophecies had stated

that once the temple was restored, the nations could stream toward Jerusalem.

Israel understood itself as the people specially chosen by God — but for the sake of the world. Formed by the true God in right Father Robert doctrine, right praise, and right action, Israel would Barron become a magnet for the rest of the nations: “The Lord’s mountain” (where the temple is found) will be raised above all the other hills — and to it all nations will come,” Isaiah had prophesied.

And this is exactly the story that unfolds throughout the FATHER ROBERT BARRON, page 15

Spirituality for Life

Rolling the dice on the Gospel They hadn’t understood about the loaves! The Gospels use those words to describe the crowd that Jesus had miraculously fed with five barley loaves and two fish. They ate, but they didn’t understand. What didn’t they understand?

This is the story: Jesus had been preaching to a large crowd, several thousand people. But they were in a remote place and, after a time, the people had been without food for a long time. They were hungry, so famished in fact that they lacked the strength to return to their own towns and villages.

The disciples approached Jesus and asked him whether they should go into the neighboring towns and buy food for the crowd. Jesus told them instead to feed the people themselves.

They protested that they had too little food, almost none.

Jesus asked them what they in fact did have. Their answer: “Only five barley loaves and two fish.” And this came with a question: What good is that among so many? The equation is hopeless: so little food, so many people.

And so Jesus asked them to bring the loaves and fish to him. He blessed the food and asked the disciples to distribute it among the hungry thousands. We know the rest of the story: They set out the food; everyone ate as much as he or she wanted, and they gathered up twelve baskets of scraps left over afterwards. And the crowd was impressed, so much in fact that the next day they followed Jesus around the lake, hoping for another such feeding. Jesus, for his part, was saddened by their lack of understanding: They hadn’t understood about the loaves.

What hadn’t they understood? Two things: First: When the disciples initially approach Jesus and ask him whether they should go into the neighboring towns and buy bread, their question betrays that they are unaware that

they are with the bread of life. They are in the presence of that which is the object of all the world’s hungers and which, in its bounty, is unlimited and infinite. Yet they want to go off and buy food elsewhere. The lesson: When you are with the bread of life there is no need to go off to buy food, or anything else, elsewhere! You have all the resources you need to feed every kind of hunger. The disciples’ wanting to go off to buy food elsewhere betrays their lack of awareness of this.

They didn’t’ see the incongruity, the irony, in their request: Jesus is the bread of life, food for the life of the world, and they ask him if they should go off elsewhere to buy what is needed to feed the crowds.

The second thing they didn’t understand was the meaning of the equation: so little food, so many people. A few small loaves of bread and a few fish are hopelessly inadequate to feed a crowd of thousands. It goes against common sense to put such a pathetically meager fare before so many people.

How can five loaves and two fish feed a crowd of thousands?

Sometimes well-meaning homilists have tried to explain what might have happened by suggesting that Jesus’ invitation to share drew out from the people the privately guarded resources of food that each had brought and, when everyone shared what he or she had, all were fed and there was food to spare. Such a homily has its own good lesson, but the point of the story is precisely the hopelessness of the equation. In essence, the resources of the Gospel always seem hopelessly dwarfed by the world’s power, the world’s hunger, the world’s sin, and the resources that the world itself seems to offer.

Five loaves and two fish set out to feed a crowd of thousands is the Gospel equivalent of the famous story in

the Jewish scriptures of the young shepherd boy, David, standing before the giant, Goliath: A young boy, barefoot, holding a boy’s plaything, a slingshot, standing before a giant, a trained soldier, Father Ron clothed in iron, with a sword-bearer carrying his Rolheiser weapons, is also a hopeless equation: So little power against so much strength. But the young boy triumphs because God is on his side. It’s the same with the loaves and the fish.

What do we need to understand about the loaves? We need to understand that we are with the bread of life, everything we need to feed the world we already have. We don’t need to go anywhere to buy anything. We have the resources already; though on the surface those resources will always look over-matched, hopeless, dwarfed, nonsensical, wishful thinking. On the surface, invariably, we will look like David before Goliath, puny and pathetic, not up to the task of defeating a giant or feeding a hungry, greedy world.

The challenge is to roll the dice on the reality of the Gospel.

The Gospel works! It is adequate to the task, both of feeding the world and defeating the giant. It only needs to be trusted.

Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser, theologian, teacher and award-winning author, is president of the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, Texas.

Twenty Something

A short life bookended by tragedy The youth choir Christina Green belonged to performs just once a month, on the second Sunday at the 9 o’clock Mass. And sure enough, the day after the 9-year-old was killed in Tucson, Ariz., the youngest victim of the shooting targeting Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, St. Odilia’s youth choir sang.

It was Jan. 9, the feast of the baptism of the Lord, and there was just one baptism at that Mass, a 9-year-old girl.

That wasn’t lost on Father Richard Troutman, pastor of St. Odilia.

“You realize how small they are,” he told me, “how much potential they have, how you really want to protect a 9-year-old.”

Father Troutman has been a priest since 1968, yet he approached that Mass as if it were his first, putting in extra prayer and still feeling a bit unprepared, like “a work in progress” pastor. He had heard the gun shots the day before and he was just as shocked as everyone else.

The first reading was done by a child, and the words from Isaiah seemed fitting. “Thus says the Lord: Here is my servant, whom I uphold ... He shall bring forth justice to the nations, not crying out, not shouting, not making his voice heard in the street.”

In his homily Father Troutman spoke longer than usual, preaching about mystical union with God, a state that is preceded by unnecessary death. Baptism propels us toward

community engagement and service, he said, which leads to events like “Congress on your Corner,” the public gathering where Christina was killed.

Then came the prayer of the faithful, with one petition for all of Saturday’s victims and one for Christina.

Communion was the high point, when Christina’s friends in the youth choir performed “We Are One Body,” an apt anthem for a devastated community being fed by the Eucharist. “We do not stand alone,” the grade schoolers sang.

“He who believes in me will have eternal life.”

There it all was inside that sloping church on the foothills of the Santa Catalina Mountains, where the desert heat meets the snow-capped peaks: darkness and light; silence and song; grief and hope; one more baptized member, one less.

“Faith and doubt go really close together,” Father Troutman said on the eve of Christina’s wake. “God is the God of death and resurrection.”

Christina’s very arrival, born on 9/11, demonstrated that strange juxtaposition. Her mom says she took pride in being a grace note to a dark day. And surely Christina feels the same way about the loving acts performed after the Tucson shooting: parents who extended their kids’ bedtimes, giving an extra kiss or cookie; neighbors who offered heaping helpings of pasta and prayer.

The older I get the more I accept the contradictions in life, understanding how tears and laughter can mingle, springing from what feels like the same origin. Life’s contrasts bring meaning, just as a Christina symphony has crescendos and decrescendos, rests Capecchi and triplets.

I’m also coming to appreciate the richness and rhythm of the liturgical calendar.

Sometimes we fall into stride with it, naturally matching its tenor. Sometimes its melody feels miles away, but we hear the invitation and jump in at a key change, singing out or humming along.

This short month is hinged on Valentine’s Day, and in Christina’s honor we should interpret it broadly, to gather all the love we can, to nurture it, celebrate it and act on it.

Christina Capecchi is a freelance writer from Inver Grove Heights, Minn. She can be reached at www.ReadChristina.com.

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A READING FROM THE BOOK OF ISAIAH IS 58:7-10 Thus says the Lord: Share your bread with the hungry, shelter the oppressed and the homeless; clothe the naked when you see them, and do not turn your back on your own. Then your light shall break forth like the dawn, and your wound shall quickly be healed; your vindication shall go before you, and the glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard. Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer, you shall cry for help, and he will say: Here I am! If you remove from your midst oppression, false accusation and malicious speech; if you bestow your bread on the hungry and satisfy the afflicted; then light shall rise for you in the darkness, and the gloom shall become for you like midday.

RESPONSORIAL PSALM PS 112:4-5, 6-7, 8-9 R. The just man is a light in darkness to the upright.

Light shines through the darkness for the upright;

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Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time Isaiah 58:7-10; Psalm 112:4-5, 6-7, 8-9; Corinthians 2:1-5; Matthew 5:13-16 he is gracious and merciful and just.

Well for the man who is gracious and lends, who conducts his affairs with justice.

R. The just man is a light in darkness to the upright.

He shall never be moved; the just one shall be in everlasting remembrance.

An evil report he shall not fear; his heart is firm, trusting in the Lord.

R. The just man is a light in darkness to the upright.

His heart is steadfast; he shall not fear.

Lavishly he gives to the poor; His justice shall endure forever; his horn shall be exalted in glory.

R. The just man is a light in darkness to the upright.

A READING FROM THE FIRST LETTER OF PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS 1 COR 2:1-5 When I came to you, brothers and sisters,

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ne of England’s most popular television programs is a reality show called Britain’s Got Talent. Similar to American Idol, it auditions performers in front of a panel of judges while a studio audience and millions of others at home look on. It can be quite intimidating, but last year a determined woman named Susan Boyle decided to give it a try.

Susan walked bravely on to the stage and announced she was going to sing Les Miserables’ “I Dreamed a Dream.”

From the reaction of the judges and the audience, it was obvious they expected the worst. Middle-aged and plainly dressed, Susan seemed overmatched.

Questions from the judges were patronizing and condescending, while the audience whispered and rolled their eyes as Susan prepared to sing. Shortly after she began, however, all who were watching were stunned into silence. Her voice was powerful, beautiful, vibrant. At the end of the song, deafening cheers filled the concert hall and many were moved to tears.

Literally an overnight sensation, Susan Boyle would soon become a best-selling recording artist.

Among those most surprised by her triumphant performance and ensuing success was Susan herself. She’d always had this tremendous gift, yet a lack of confidence and a fear of failure had kept her from sharing it with the world. Only after decades of uncertainty and indecision did she resolve to take that courageous step that would change her life. All of us who’ve heard her sing will be forever grateful.

Scripture reflection DEACON MIKE MURPHY

Letting our light shine forth Of course, I think Ms. Boyle’s years of hesitation and fear of failure resonate with many of us because we’ve all been there. It can be very scary to put ourselves in front of people, risking ridicule and the disappointment that might come with it. We’re often reluctant to try as it’s much easier to stay where we are, cozy and safe on the sideline, protected from the scorn and laughter of others.

But in our Gospel this week, Jesus gives us a gentle push, a little nudge, urging us to leave our comfort zones and get into the game. He asks us to take our light out from whatever bushel basket it might be hidden under, set it on a lamp stand, and let it shine out. Jesus hopes we will take our many God-given gifts and put them at the service of others, joyously building his

kingdom while creating a world of peace, harmony and love.

The most difficult part may be getting us to recognize that we do indeed have an abundance of God’s generous gifts to share. The Lord has graced us with all sorts of talents and abilities. However, like Ms. Boyle, we may not appreciate how much we have to offer and the difference we can make in the world. Instead, we tend to be far too hard on ourselves, selling ourselves short, focusing on our weaknesses and downplaying our strengths. Our challenge this week is to open our eyes and see ourselves as God sees us, as the precious, beautiful people he created us to be. It’s time to let our light shine out into the world.

Our gifts might not be as obvious as Susan Boyle’s, but they can be incredibly

proclaiming the mystery of God, I did not come with sublimity of words or of wisdom.

For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified. I came to you in weakness and fear and much trembling, and my message and my proclamation were not with persuasive words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of Spirit and power, so that your faith might rest not on human wisdom but on the power of God. A READING FROM THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW MT 5:13-16 Jesus said to his disciples: “You are the salt of the earth. But if salt loses its taste, with what can it be seasoned? It is no longer good for anything but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot. You are the light of the world. A city set on a mountain cannot be hidden. Nor do they light a lamp and then put it under a bushel basket; it is set on a lampstand, where it gives light to all in the house. Just so, your light must shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your heavenly Father.”

powerful and just as life-changing. Perhaps our loving hearts will allow us to reach out and welcome those whom others have forgotten. Maybe our kind and patient nature will give us the strength and wisdom to comfort those who feel alone and misunderstood.

Our ability to find and embrace the positive, even in the darkest of times, may bring hope and renew the faith of people on the edge of despair. We might find the quiet courage to do the right things at the right times for the right reasons, even when the odds are against us and everyone else tells us to just give up or give in.

Of course, our light can take many forms: a loving touch, a kind word, a helping hand.

It’s inside of us, just waiting to burst out. It may often seem as if the world doesn’t notice or doesn’t care; we certainly won’t receive thunderous applause or be written up in the latest magazines. Yet the audiences that count — God and the people whose lives we’ve touched — will fill the heavens with our praise. Revealing the light that God has given us, we will dispel the darkness and illuminate every corner of the universe. As the Lord makes clear, it’s time to come out from underneath those bushel baskets and share our light and our gifts with a world that so desperately needs both. We’ll be glad that we did.

Mike Murphy is a permanent deacon serving at St. Charles Parish in San Carlos. He teaches religion at Sacred Heart Schools, Atherton.

Of Scriptures and prayers, Facebook and food During Advent, I decided to read the story of Jesus again. I wanted to rediscover the story of the Incarnation one more time, so I decided to read every night a few chapters of the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles. (Yes, I am that kind of a person — I assign myself reading projects.) I decided to read it as I would read an adventure story, without checking footnotes, without researching words, without doing any crossreferencing. I wanted to let the story flow of its own and to immerse myself in it.

So I started reading every night. And the most interesting thing happened. As I was progressing daily on my reading assignment, I could not help but notice that “the story” was surfacing again and again at other moments in my day: It was getting fleshed out, and it was coming from a variety of sources. First, I noticed it during prayers, and then during the liturgy. Sudden insights were bringing the story to a new level. My reading was enlarging it, revealing more and more of the bigger picture, teaching me about the transcendence of God. And it delighted me.

What surprised me most is that I started picking up additional bits and pieces of “the story” in the most unusual places, even on Facebook. At night, I was reading about this amazing Good News. And, during the day, I kept noticing the “goodness of my neighbor.” The links between the original story and the one unfolding itself today were becoming highlighted like golden threads.

Jesus brought us a whole new worldview, coupled with

the ultimate interior journey — the Christ-like inner path — and it is summarized in the two commandments of love of God and love of neighbor. And this is exactly what I was able to see on Facebook. Once in a while (and you can never know when it will happen) one post will generate the most interesting discussion. It starts with a quirky statement or a profound one and then suddenly there is a flurry of comments. It can be about abortion or the death penalty or the criteria for a just war, or it can follow simple questions: “Why do we dream?” or “Is God reading our status updates?” (By the way, my answer was, “Yes, since he knows every hair on my head.”) There is a lot of honest seeking and searching, and much kindness and caring, underneath the quick exchanges. I love my friends’ jokes and the gentleness that can shine from one end of the world to the other just because someone said they were struggling that day. Those are precious, blessed moments. And I was able to pick up on them because my “grace and goodness antennas” were sharpened by my nightly readings.

I finally finished reading the Acts of the Apostles after Christmas. The following night, as I was standing in my parents’ kitchen fixing an apple pie and listening to Nick Cave’s haunting song, “I Let Love In,” it all seemed to come together like pieces of a puzzle: the preparing of food for others, the will to focus on love and caring, the golden links between people and the blessed moments. I thought it was very appropriate that the conclusion would

happen over food. I love cooking, and my epiphany moment even got me to change the recipe halfway through it: Since my mother cannot really eat the crust of pies anymore, I decided to switch to a Clafoutis and I created my Michèle very own apple Clafoutis Szekely (a baked French dessert) right there on the spot. It turned out to be a hit.

Does it really matter to be able to see the golden threads? Absolutely. It is the only way to face the constant avalanche of natural disasters, global conflicts and local crimes. Isn’t it interesting how a simple reading of the Incarnation fueled a deeper and larger reading of life? I already know what I will do for Lent: I am going to reread the Gospel of John and the Letter to the Romans.

Michèle Szekely is a member of Notre Dame des Victoires Parish in San Francisco. She has published two books of nature photography and writes a French-American Catholic blog, Le blog de la Bergerie, at leblogdelabergerie.com.

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Father Robert Barron . . .

■ Continued from page 13 book of Acts. At Pentecost, Jews from all over the world come to Jerusalem for the feast and hear the apostles preaching the message about Jesus: “Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia … even visitors from Rome” were amazed as they heard the disciples speaking in their own languages. After the stoning of St. Stephen, the apostles stayed in Jerusalem, but the other Christians fled for the country, where they were able to spread the word far and wide. Philip, at the prompting of an angel, goes south of Jerusalem on the road to Gaza and there he meets an exotic foreigner, an Ethiopian eunuch, who is reading the book of the prophet Isaiah. When Philip asks him whether he understands, the man responds, “How can I, unless someone guides me?” At this, Philip explains how the words of Isaiah are fulfilled in Jesus, crucified and risen from the dead. No first-century Jew would have missed an extraordinary parallel here. In the 56th chapter of Isaiah, in that lyrical section dealing with the arrival of all the nations in a restored Jerusalem, we find this: “For thus says the Lord, to the eunuchs who keep my sabbaths, who choose the things that please me … I will give a monument and a name.” Acts is telling us, not so subtly, that it’s happening; the nations are being gathered in.

Now the story of Paul’s conversion follows immediately upon this account of the

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Ethiopian eunuch, and it has much the same import. After knocking Paul to the ground and blinding him, the Lord appeared to Annanias and said in regard to the former persecutor of the church: “Go, for he is an instrument whom I have chosen to bring my name before the Gentiles …” Paul’s entire mission and purpose will be to carry the God of Israel to the world, or to switch the metaphor, to bring all the nations to Jerusalem. And Paul fulfills this charge by preaching everywhere and anywhere he could: in Cyprus, Ephesus, Athens, Corinth, Phillipi, Thessalonica, even in Rome itself. Indeed, the Acts of the Apostles end with Paul proclaiming Christ in Rome and, by implication, through Rome to all the world.

How wonderful that those who are reading these words are residing on a continent that Paul never even dreamed existed. And yet you know about Jesus because of Paul; you are being invited to worship the God of Israel because Paul and his colleagues had the courage to proclaim him. In Greek, the title of the book we’ve been considering is not “Acts of the Apostles” but simply “Acts of Apostles.”

The implication is clear: The very acts in which those first apostles engaged are the acts in which we twenty-first century apostles must engage. We must overcome our propensity to privatize and interiorize our Christianity and we must, in charity and non-violence, carry the message of Jesus to the nations.

Budget cuts . . .

■ Continued from cover Families with children will suffer particularly if the Legislature enacts Brown’s proposed cuts of $1.7 billion from Medi-Cal, $1.5 billion from the CalWorks welfareto-work program and $135.7 million from Healthy Families, California’s health insurance for children and teens, the Catholic Conference said in letters to Sen. Mark DeSaulnier, D-Concord, chair of the Senate Budget Subcommittee on Health and Human Services.

“The proposed cuts are potentially devastating and must be reviewed thoughtfully,” Sen. DeSaulnier said in a written statement, noting that dozens of budget committee hearings are scheduled. “These proposed cuts are difficult, but given our economic condition even the most vital of services must be examined and considered.”

All three programs are substantially funded by the federal government with a state government match, Dolejsi said, and the poor people who are receiving assistance will still need it.

“What are they going to do? They are going to go to their county and go on general assistance,” said Dolejsi, saying that

Father Robert Barron is the founder of Word on Fire and Francis Cardinal George Professor of Faith and Culture at Mundelein Seminary, Mundelein, Ill.

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will shift $500 million in costs to the state’s counties without the federal matching funds because general assistance does not qualify for federal funding.

A proposed cut of $1.5 billion from CalWorks almost entirely targets working single mothers who need help paying for child care as they transition from government assistance to independence, Dolejsi said.

“These are the orphans and widows of the Old Testament. They are the people who we are asked to take special concern for,” he said.

Funding for all three programs has already been cut in past budget cycles, he said.

Brown’s budget proposes reduced benefits and premium hikes of up to 88 percent for children and teens on the state’s Healthy Families health insurance program, which will affect 565,000 or nearly two-thirds of those enrolled in the program, the Catholic Conference said.

Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment provides income support to those who are 65 or older who are blind or disabled and to some children who are blind or disabled.

“We ask the Legislature to reconsider the impact on those who are most poor and vulnerable,” Dolejsi said. “While this is the time for sacrifice, not everyone is able to make the same sacrifice.”

“Here’s wishing happiness and wellbeing to all the families of the Archdiocese. If you ever need our guidance please call at any time. Sincerely, Paul Larson ~ President.”

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Exorcism chillfest ‘The Rite’ affirms faith and priestly ministry NEW YORK (CNS) – Any movie that opens with a quotation from Pope John Paul II and ends with the sight of a dedicated priest hearing his parishioners’ confessions is well calculated to win the support and approval of viewers of faith.

And so it is with the religiously honorable drama “The Rite” (Warner Bros.).

Considered purely as a piece of cinema, however, this descent into the tortured world of the demonically possessed, and of those who courageously minister to them, proves aesthetically tentative, its ultimate impact weakened by the effort to showcase its main character’s spiritual journey – a conversion tale based on real events – as an old-fashioned chillfest.

That central character is skeptical seminarian Michael Kovak, played by feature film newcomer Colin O’Donoghue in an impressive first outing.

Having pursued priestly studies mainly to get a free college education and avoid following in the footsteps of his undertaker father, Istvan (Rutger Hauer) – with whom he shares a tangled relationship – Michael sends off a resignation e-mail soon after his ordination as a transitional deacon.

But the recipient of his message – his superior, Father Matthew (Toby Jones) – is convinced that Michael possesses at least the pastoral qualities of a good priest. So, to forestall his departure, Father Matthew dispatches Michael to Rome to complete a Vatican-sponsored course in exorcism.

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well – both to fellow student Angeline (Alice Braga), an Italian reporter who has enrolled in the class for research purposes, and to their instructor, Dominican Father Xavier (Ciaran Hinds).

Knowing a hard case when he sees one, Father Xavier arranges for Michael to serve an informal apprenticeship with

veteran demon fighter Father Lucas (Anthony Hopkins), a forthright Welshman renowned for his unusual but effective approach to his work.

The inexplicable experiences that follow, as Father Lucas and his initially reluctant protege wrestle with the dark forces at work on pregnant teen Rosaria (Marta Gastini, another newcomer), force Michael to reassess his secular certainties.

The idea that a contemporary doubter should be moved toward belief in the source of absolute good by witnessing the effects of absolute evil run amok is certainly an intriguing one.

And a few shaky details along the way – as when Michael, though only a deacon, appears to be giving absolution to a dying victim at the scene of a car accident – can easily be overlooked in light of screenwriter Michael Petroni and director Mikael Hafstrom’s resounding affirmation of faith and the value of priestly ministry.

But Michael’s story – a fictionalized version of the life of Father Gary Thomas of the Diocese of San Jose, as recounted in journalist Matt Baglio’s 2009 book, “The Rite: The Making of a Modern Exorcist” – would have been more effectively presented on its own terms.

Instead, it has been wedged, somewhat uncomfortably, into the mold of a conventional horror movie. The effect is to diffuse – and slightly diminish – its valuable underlying message, though enough of that endures to make the picture, despite its objectionable features, possibly acceptable for mature teens.

Mulderig is on the staff of Catholic News Service. More reviews are available online at www.usccb.org/movies.

Men’s stories of Northern Ireland tell of enmity, loyalty, tenderness “VOICES FROM THE GRAVE: TWO MEN’S WAR IN IRELAND” by Ed Moloney. PublicAffairs (New York, 2010). 544 pp., $19.95.

Reviewed by Rachelle Linner (CNS) — “Voices from the Grave” is a remarkable study of war, told through the words, memories and moral passion of two paramilitary veterans: Brendan Hughes of the Provisional Irish Republican Army and David Ervine of the Ulster Volunteer Force.

The men, interviewed under the auspices of the Boston College Oral History Archive on the Troubles in Northern Ireland, were guaranteed that nothing they said would be used without their consent or until after their death. (Ervine died in 2007 and Hughes in 2008.)

It is evident from the interviews that a strong level of trust existed between the subjects and interviewers Anthony McIntyre (Hughes) and Wilson McArthur (Ervine).

The transcribed interviews were edited and annotated by journalist Ed Moloney, author of “A Secret History of the IRA” and “Paisley: From Demagogue to Democrat.” Moloney’s concise and fluid narrative makes this book accessible to readers not overly familiar with the politics and history of the Troubles.

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colleague, Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams. It is hard to overstate the personal and political loss Hughes experienced from Adams’ repeated insistence that Hughes was never a member of the Provisional IRA. “I would have died for him; I would have jumped in front of him to save him from being shot and took the bullet myself.

I would have done that because I believed, really believed what he was saying in his writings, in his talks. ... I believed him and I feel betrayed by him; I feel really betrayed. I feel it personally.”

Hughes implicated Adams in the torture, killing and disappearance of the body of Jean McConville, a widow and mother of 10 who was accused of being a British informant. He also revealed that the IRA was responsible for the 1973 murder (by fabricated suicide) of 22-year-old Patrick Crawford, an internee in Long Kesh prison.

One of the most compelling sections of “Voices from the Grave” is Hughes’ narration of the campaign to re-obtain political status for IRA internees in the H block of Long Kesh prison. The protest began when prisoners wrapped themselves in blankets instead of wearing uniforms, escalated to the “dirty protest” (defecating in the cells when those “on the blanket” were refused use of the toilets) and eventually hunger strikes in 1980 and 1981.

David Ervine had a much different war. Born and raised in East Belfast, he was 19 when he joined the Ulster Volunteer Force, “the most deadly Loyalist outfit in Northern Ireland.”

Moloney notes that although Ervine “did not speak in detail

about his role,” he offered enough hints to suggest that his specialty was explosives.

Ervine was arrested in 1974 and sentenced to 11 years in Long Kesh, where he would be influenced by UVF leader Gusty Spence. He left prison with a commitment to the political peace process and, as a member of the Progressive Unionist Party, was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly.

If the logic of war seems inexorable, there are moments when human connection allows men to talk about how they became enemies. Hughes was in prison when he met Robert “Basher” Bates, a member of the Shankill Butchers, and forged an unlikely connection over empathy for each other’s marital problems.

“And I remember asking him during the many conversations I had with him, trying to find out where the hatred was coming from and how they could cut people up, how they could butcher people,” Hughes said. “Hatred had been preached to him all his life. And it’s an example of how you can turn a human being into a monster because that was the environment he was brought up in.”

These compelling narratives provide rich details about the history of Northern Ireland, but it is more than a book about one particular conflict. It is also a vivid story about enmity, resistance, tribal loyalty and human tenderness. It is worth reading on both levels.

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

BOXES Lifting the Lid on an American Life

by Donnan Beeson Runkel

Everyone has a collection – stamps, receipts, seashells, pictures, figurines. These objects, when gathered together, imbue more meaning than each has on its own. For the author, the varied containers crowded on top of her dresser became not just a collection on boxes to hold her jewelry, but a link to people in her life who made major contributions to who she is today – a successful businesswoman with a wide array of friends and connections around the world.

Each one of these boxes contains a rich story of transformation that, when woven together, becomes a unique memoir. This collection of influences and experiences, changes and challenges is responsible.

In Boxes: Lifting the Lid on an American Life, readers will witness vivid, often hilarious, recollections of a life that began in awkward self-doubt and blossomed into the discovery of true love and the challenges and triumphs of motherhood and career. Through this journey, readers will learn as she has that the pain of life folds into the many-faceted depths of becoming.

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Good Health Mondays, 4 p.m.: Join us on level C of St. Mary’s Medical Center in the Cardiology Conference Room.

This series of eight classes covers everything related to diabetes. It is a great way to learn more about diabetes in a relaxed and friendly environment.

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Vocations/Serra Clubs Feb. 10, noon: San Francisco Serra Club luncheon at Italian American Social Club, 25 Russia Ave. off Mission St. in San Francisco. Marianist Brother John Samaha will talk about Franciscan Friar, Blessed Junipero Serra. Tickets are $16 for lunch. Nonmembers welcome. Contact Paul Crudo at (415) 566-8224 or e-mail pecrudodds@aol.com. Enter Serra on subject line.

Feb. 11, 12: Overnight “Religious Life Discernment Retreat” Is God calling you to consider Consecrated Life as a Dominican Sister? Come and join our discernment retreat for single Catholic women (18-40). Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose Motherhouse 43326 Mission Blvd. in Fremont (entrance on Mission Tierra Place). Free-will offering accepted. Contact vocations@msjdominicans.org or (510) 933-6333.

Feb. 24, noon: San Francisco Serra Club luncheon at Italian American Social Club, 25 Russia Ave. off Mission St. in San Francisco. Patrick Vallez-Kelly, director of the Archdiocese of San Francisco Worship Office will talk about the coming changes in the liturgy.

Tickets for lunch are $16. Non-members welcome.

Contact Paul Crudo at (415) 566-8224 or e-mail pecrudodds@aol.com. Enter Serra on subject line.

Gough Street and Geary Boulevard in San Francisco (415) 567-2020. Visit www.stmarycathedralsf.org Feb. 12, noon: Archbishop George Niederauer presides at a Mass and Anointing of the Sick. Mass is commemoration of World Day of the Sick instituted

by Pope John Paul II. People living with any serious or acute illness as well as their families and caregivers are especially invited. Plenty of parking is available in cathedral lot at bottom of church steps. Please arrive by 10:30 a.m. Assistance to cathedral from parking lot will be available. Observance is sponsored by the Order of Malta of the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

E-mail kenmryan@aol.com or call (415) 788-4550.

Feb. 16, 10:30 a.m.: Free Grief Support Workshop in the Msgr. Bowe Room, on the west side of the parking lot level of St. Mary’s Cathedral Gough St. and Geary Blvd. in San Francisco. Workshop provides information on the grief process, and tips on coping with the loss of a loved one. Presenter is Barbara Elordi, MFT, director of Archdiocesan Grief Care Ministry. Call Sister Esther at (415) 567-2020, ex. 218.

LA PORZIUNCOLA NUOVA Columbus at Vallejo in San Francisco’s North Beach The Porziuncola and “Francesco Rocks” Gift Shop are open every day but Monday from 10 a.m.

– 6 p.m. Visit www.knightsofsaintfrancis.com The Shrine church is open every day 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. with Mass Monday through Saturday at 12:15 p.m. and Sundays at 10 a.m. Rosary daily in Porziuncola at 4:30 p.m. Call (415) 986-4557 or visit www.shrinesf.org or e-mail info@shrinesf.org or herbertj@shrinesf.org.

Feb. 26, 7 p.m.: “The Better Angels of Our Nature” an evening with famed documentarian, Ken Burns, at Cowell Theater, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco.

Burns’ in-depth, truthful and caring films have made him a trusted chronicler of the United States and its history. Among his works are “The Civil War,” “Baseball,” and most recently, “The National Parks: America’s Best Idea.” The Knights of St. Francis of Assisi of La Porziuncola Nuova are sponsoring the event. Evening includes sneak-peek at the filmmaker’s new history of Prohibition documentary.

Tickets are available at $45, $35 and $25 per person.

Call (415) 345-7575 or visit www.fortmason.org/ boxoffice.

Social Justice / Lectures / Respect Life Feb. 7, 7:30 p.m.: A presentation and workshop on “Expanding Health Care: The Affordable Health Care Act” at St. Matthias Parish social hall, 1685 Cordilleras Road in Redwood City. Contact Evie Dwyer at (650) 368-9372.

Feb. 16, 9:30 a.m. – 2 p.m.: “The Practice of Compassionate Presence,” with Father Joe Nassal at Santa Sabina Center, 25 Magnolia Ave., San Rafael.

Suggested offering is $20. Call (415) 457-7727 or e-mail info@santasabinacenter.org.

Feb. 22: Grand Opening of new location of Pauline Books & Media your source for Catholic books and media run by the Daughters of St. Paul at 935 Brewster Street in Redwood City. Free parking now available behind the building. Call (650) 369-4230 or e-mail redwood@paulinemedia.com.

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Holy Family Day Home is making a special request to alumni who attended the Day Home from the 1920’s through 2010. Light refreshments will be served and the children of the Day Home will present a short program. There is no admission charge. If you would like to attend, please email or call Kathleen Hayden at (415) 565-0504 ext.

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Saturdays: San Mateo Pro-Life prays the rosary at 2211 Palm Ave. in San Mateo at 8 a.m. and invites others to join them at the site. The prayer continues as a peaceful vigil until 1 p.m. The group is also open to new membership. Meetings are held the second Thursday of the month except August and December at St. Gregory Parish’s Worner Center, 138 28th Ave. in San Mateo at 7:30 p.m. For more information, call Jessica at (650) 572-1468 or visit www.sanmateoprolife.com.

Saturdays, 9 a.m. – 10 a.m.: Rosary for Life 815 Eddy St. in San Francisco.

Food and Fun Feb. 12, 6 - 11 p.m.: Valentine’s Day Dinner Dance at Mater Dolorosa Parish Hall, 307 Willow Ave. in South San Francisco. Evening includes cocktails, silent auction, dining and entertainment. Tickets are $20 per person in advance and $25 at the door.

Event is sponsored by Knights of Columbus Council #14818. E-mail frances@mdssf.org; jrod253@yahoo. com; or call (650) 583-4131 or (650) 703-2251.

Feb. 12, 5:30 p.m.: Mercy High School Booster Club Crab Feed Dinner in the school’s Barrett Hall. Tickets are $40 per person/$75 per couple. Contact Teresa Lucchese at (415) 334-7941 or events@mercyhs.org.

Feb. 12, 8 p.m.: “Zydeco Dance” at St. Paul of the Shipwreck Gym, 1122 Jamestown (corner of Third and Jamestown) in San Francisco. Tickets are $20 in advance/$23 at the door. Music is by Andre Thierry and the Zydeco Magic Band. Call (415) 468-3434.

Feb. 19, 5:30 p.m.: Mission Dolores and Notre Dame Elementary Alumni present “A Night at the Races” at Mission Dolores Auditorium, 3371 16th St. in San Francisco. Enjoy a great dinner, prizes, laughter and fun, as the MD Auditorium transforms into “Dolores Downs”. Tickets at $40 per person include dinner and a ‘funny money’ packet. An additional $100 will give you naming rights for a horse. Make checks payable

to Mission Dolores School, and mail to MD/NDE c/o Katie O’Leary, 440 Panorama Dr., San Francisco 94131. Reservations must be received no later than Feb. 9, 2011. E-mail dolorians@aol.com or call Katie at (415) 282-6588. Spouses and friends are welcome.

Feb. 27, noon: Columban Fathers Annual Lunch, “An Afternoon of Fun,” at United Irish Cultural Center, Sloat Boulevard at 45th Avenue in San Francisco.

Honorees are Peggy and Mike Cooney. No-host cocktails at noon with lunch at 1 p.m. Choices include pot roast and chicken pomodoro. Tickets are $40 per person. Call Pam Naughton at (415) 566-1936 or Anne Quilter at (415) 586-8017.

March 2, 6:30 p.m.: Epiphany Center’s Benefit Party & Show “Café Fugitive” at the Great American Music Hall, 859 O’Farrell Street, 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, 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 www.cccyo.org/loavesandfishes.

Reunion Feb. 27, 2 p.m.: All Presentation alumnae are invited to celebrate what it meant and continues to mean to be part of the Presentation Family at the Fourth Annual Presentation Honor at El Patio Español Restaurant in San Francisco. For more information e-mail Rosana Madrigal at rmadrigal@ pbvmsf.org or call (415) 422-5020.

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St. Vincent de Paul Society of San Francisco – SVdP works to provide direct person to person service to San Francisco’s poor, homeless, and victims of domestic violence. Serving more than 1,000 children, women and men every day, volunteers make a critical difference in the community. For more information contact Tim Szarnicki at tszarnicki@svdp-sf.org or (415) 977-1270 x3010.

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9 Days 15 Meals: 7 Breakfasts 1 Lunch 7 Dinners Caesarea Nazareth Basilica of the Annunciation Cana Tiberias Capernaum Mount of Beatitudes Sea of Galilee Transfiguration Church Tel Megiddo Jaffa Jerusalem Mount of Olives Via Dolorosa Church of The Holy Sepulcher Wailing Wall Mount Zion Bethlehem Church of the Nativity Daily Mass

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Archbishop’s Annual Catholic Appeal 2011 san Francisco Northern California’s Weekly Catholic Newspaper

Special Supplement FEBRUARY 4, 2011 ISSUE INSIDE

Dear Friends in Christ,

“From His fullness we have all received, grace upon grace.”

(Gospel of St. John, 1:16) God gives his graces, his gifts, freely, out of unconditional love for us and all women and men. In particular God has given us his Son as our Savior, Jesus Christ, the fulfillment of the Old Covenant in the New Covenant of Calvary and the empty tomb on Easter morning.

God continues to give us gift after gift, particularly in the life we live in Christ’s Church. The Mass and the Sacraments, the Catholic faith we share with our families, friends and neighbors, the moral teachings, the experiences of prayer and devotion, the Church’s outreach to the poor and neediest among us here and around the world: these are the daily, loving gifts God gives in Jesus Christ, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

We hear God’s call to respond to his love, especially by sharing his gifts with others. Our local Catholic Church, the Archdiocese of San Francisco, acting through the programs funded by the Archbishop’s Annual Appeal, channels your generous gifts of your resources to Catholic education and religious instruction, formation for priestly, diaconal and lay ministries, service to the many diverse ethnic groups among us, Catholic communications, the protection of children and young people, and many other works.

Indeed, we have received grace upon grace. I urge you to join me this year in sharing our resources through the Archbishop’s Annual Appeal so that the works of our Catholic Church may continue and grow in strength.

With my gratitude for your continued support of the Archbishop’s Annual Appeal, I am Sincerely yours in Christ,

Most Reverend George H. Niederauer Archbishop of San Francisco

Purpose of the Annual Appeal The purpose of the Archbishop’s Annual Appeal is to assist in funding the overall budget of the Archdiocese of San Francisco and to maintain awareness of needs in the Church beyond each parish. Along with other funding sources, the Annual Appeal enables the Archbishop to provide ministries, programs and services that benefit all parishes and people in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. The total budget of the Archdiocese of San Francisco is about $10 million. This amount includes a projected expenditure of $6.93 million for ministries and services.

The Archbishop’s Annual Appeal is the method used to help fund these expenditures for ministries and services. The Archbishop’s Stewardship Council, which includes 11 pastors of the Archdiocese - one from each of the 11 deaneries, oversees the process and recommends individual parish assessments for the Annual Appeal. The pastors of the Archdiocese have agreed that 16.85 percent of the aggregate ordinary income of the parishes will be provided to fund ministries and programs that support the work of all the parishes. The assessment process takes a wide-range of factors into consideration, and assessments for individual parishes may be above or below the aggregate average. The process also includes the approval of the Archbishop and an opportunity for appeal.

The total contribution from parishes to the 2011 Archbishop’s Annual Appeal is $5.51 million. This amount represents over half of the total budget of the Archdiocese, money required to support the ministries and programs of the parishes, Archdiocesan direct ministry, and centralized administrative services that benefit parishes. The Annual Appeal supports ministries provided through the parish and provides direct ministry when the scope is too large or complex for any one parish. It also maintains centralized services and support for all parishes and schools, and provides for support of clergy and support of the Universal Church. (See “HOW YOUR GIFTS ARE SHARED” on page AAA2 and AAA3.)

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How Your Gifts Are Shared NOTE: The amounts shown represent the anticipated contribution of Archbishop’s Annual appeal funds to the ministries listed during the coming fiscal year.

Archdiocese Direct Ministry - $807,400 Ethnic Ministries celebrates the rich diversity of cultures, languages and races through programs and gatherings geared toward intercultural education, dialogue, communication and understanding. Ethnic Ministry provides support for 24 different ethnic communities including African-American, Chinese, Filipino, Spanish-speaking and others. They also sponsor multicultural celebrations, collaborate with other Archdiocesan offices in developing the multicultural component of programs and works to integrate the different communities into the church of the Archdiocese.

The Office of Public Policy & Social Concerns embodies the teachings found within the parable of the Good Samaritan by seeing injustice as a personal call to action, and making a commitment to relieving the needs of the suffering person.

This Office provides education and advocacy on behalf of the unborn, the poor, the elderly, the imprisoned, the homeless, the disabled and the marginalized in our society. It conducts numerous programs including Respect Life, Restorative Justice, Catholic Campaign for Human Development, Advocacy Training and Parish Organizing. In collaboration with the California Catholic Conference and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, it provides representation to local and national government officials and civic leaders. Every April the Office participates in Catholic Lobby Day with (arch)dioceses from across the state of California to lobby for current legislative issues that are of great importance to all Catholics, due to their moral implications.

Centralized Services - $1,881,900 The Office of Human Resources strives to ensure archdiocesan personnel policies & programs are understood by all and display the appropriate degree of consistency throughout the organization. As a strategic partner in the Department of Administration we strive to meet the human resources challenges that our local church faces consistent with the USCCB’s document “Co-Workers in the Vineyard of the Lord”. We support over 4,300 employees with a comprehensive HR framework. We provide and support a cutting edge competitive array of benefits including health, dental & vision insurance, a pension plan, 403(b) retirement savings plan, long-term disability insurance, and an employee assistance program to name a few. We facilitate numerous training programs and coaching on Employment Laws, Performance Management, Wage and Hour regulations, Sexual Harassment Prevention, and Salary Administration (e.g. Parish Pay Guidelines). Acts to protect the interests of those serving the Archdiocese by ensuring that all personnel policies and programs comply with applicable federal, state & local laws.

Real Estate and Property Services assists with acquisitions and sales of real estate, manages all the leases of the Archdiocese as well as on-going maintenance issues and construction projects. In addition, this Office resolves all personal property issues when a parish is closed or sold, and handles Property Tax Exemptions for the Archdiocese.

The Finance Office maintains financial records for the Pastoral Center programs and administrative activities, prepares the Archdiocesan Financial Accounting and Reporting Systems used by parishes and schools in their own financial administration, coordinates the various banking relationships, and assists all Archdiocesan operating entities with their financial administration activities where needed.

The Office of Development oversees the functions of capital campaigns, planned giving and fundraising efforts of the Archdiocese, its agencies, parishes and schools and ensures that all fundraising is done within applicable ethical and legal standards. Additionally, the Office of Development administers the Archbishop’s Annual Appeal to help fund the ministries and services of the Archdiocese.

Metropolitan Tribunal & Canonical Affairs serves as a resource to the Archbishop of San Francisco and the Catholic community as they strive to maintain and uphold the universal and particular laws of the Church. The Tribunal also assists individuals seeking to reconcile with the Church by evaluating the status of individual marriages, as the Church understands that bond. It seeks to protect the rights of the faithful, including the right to a good reputation, while mindful of the obligations inherent with being a member of the Roman Catholic Church.

The Vallombrosa Retreat Facility, the Archives Office and the Department of Cemeteries are also Centralized Functions.

The Office of Ecumenical and Inter-Religious Affairs represents the Archbishop and the Archdiocese of San Francisco in our relationships with approximately 70 other Christian and non-Christian spiritual communities – within the Christian church – Episcopal, Evangelicals and others; and outside Christianity (inter-religious) – Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, Sikh, and others. The influence and work of the office go beyond the boundaries of the Archdiocese – regional in California, Nevada, Utah and Hawaii; national in Washington D.C.; and international in Rome.

The mission of the Office of the Vicar for the Clergy is to provide an ongoing source of support to priests, deacons, and seminarians, and to assist them in their ministry to the people of this Archdiocese. The Vicar for Clergy oversees the work of the Priest Personnel Board, the Retirement Board and the Ongoing Formation of Priests Board, and works with the Director of Vocations, the Director of Ongoing Formation of Priests, the Director of Diaconate Formation, the Director of Permanent Diaconate, the Vicar for Spanish-speaking, and the Vicar for the Filipino Community. The Annual Appeal assists in this work by providing the funding for clergy formation and ongoing studies, clergy retreats and days of recollection, clergy sabbaticals, and supplemental retirement needs.

Ministry for Spanish-Speaking supports small Christian communities and other groups who, along with the bishop, are effective instruments of evangelization for the Spanish-speaking community.

Affirms and empowers the laity in their baptismal vocation of service by providing regular and organized programs of adult faith formation to develop leadership and the enrichment of spiritual life.

Recognizes and empowers Spanish-speaking youth and young adults to put their gifts in service to others. Develops teamwork and collaboration among pastoral ministry offices in serving parishes in their pastoral needs for the Spanish-speaking community.

The Office for Women Religious serves as a liaison between the Archbishop and Women Religious of the Archdiocese and between women religious and both the clergy and the Faithful. In consultation with the Archbishop, this Office arranges for annual gatherings of the Archbishop and the Auxiliary Bishops with the Women Religious of the Archdiocese. The Director of this office represents the Archbishop at meetings or functions of congregations, visits religious houses, is available to individual Sisters, is present for congregation elections and professions of Vows, and evaluates and provides guidance to new religious communities.

Marriage and Family Life supports the Catholic Family through Marriage Preparation training and instruction in Natural Family Planning (NFP), Marriage Encounter, Retrouvaille, and Divorced and Separated programs. Marriage and Family Life also oversees the FOCCUS program (a marriage compatibility inventory administered as part of the marriage preparation process).

In addition to overseeing the effort of other offices/ministries within the department, Pastoral Ministry provides support to parishes that have, or wish to have, a special outreach to Young Adults. It is also the liason between the Archdiocese and the Campus Ministry programs of local colleges and universities. Pastoral Ministry provides assistance to parishes in creating, maintaining, and revitalizing effective Parish Councils. It also provides support in Grief and Consolation ministry by conducting workshops for the bereaved, helping parishes in support of bereavement ministry, and training facilitators for this work.

Parish/School Ministry Support - $797,900 The Department of Catholic Schools provides educational programs that prepare students for a Christian life by providing policies and programs for religious and general education in elementary and secondary schools, support for 62 elementary and middle schools (17,092 students in kindergarten through Eighth grade) and 14 high schools (8,094 students) and more than 1825 full-time and part-time teachers, administrators, counselors, librarians, and support personnel. The cost per student is $5,600 (elementary school) versus approximately $8,000 in public schools.

The Office of Religious Education and Youth Ministry nurture the life-long faith formation of people by animating leadership training in a holistic approach to their ministry. OREYM provides Catechist and Youth Ministry formation, enrichment and guidance, basic and master catechist certification, classes in Sacramental preparation and Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults (RICA). This ministry also provides adult faith and youth leadership formation and classes for special needs individuals for sacraments and catechesis.

The Office of Worship provides the Archbishop, parishes, and other diocesan agencies with liturgical resources and services in an effort to foster worthy celebration of the Roman Rite. They prepare special liturgies throughout the year for major celebrations. They offer presentations on liturgical spirituality, theology and ministries (i.e. training of extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion, lectors and catechesis on the Roman Rites). The Office can assist parishes in placement of qualified liturgical personnel. With the Archdiocesan Worship Commission, the Office consults on church art & architecture, formation and work of liturgy committees, etc.

Clergy Support - $1,191,500

The Office of Vocations helps to foster and support a Vocations Culture in the parishes, Catholic schools and religious education programs of the Archdiocese. Responding to Jesus’ mandate: “The harvest is rich, but the laborers are few, so ask the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his field”, (MT. 9:37), the office places special emphasis on prayer resources and discernment materials that help candidates discover their individual calling in life. In addition to the promotion of vocations to the diocesan priesthood and religious life, the office collaborates with the various seminaries and houses of formation that educate the priestly candidates of the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

The Office of Permanent Diaconate supports the ministry and lives of the deacons and their wives who serve the Archdiocese.

This Office addresses concerns relating to the ministry assignments and the on-going education of deacons giving attention to the spiritual, financial and health concerns of the deacons & their families. It arranges annual retreats and social events, supports 19 parishes in San Francisco with 27 deacons, 26 parishes in San Mateo with 41 deacons and 8 parishes in Marin with 11 deacons, and assists with screening and admission of candidates for the five-year program of formation of new deacons.

Support for Universal Church - $836,100 General Church - The addition to the services and ministries of the Archdiocese listed here, the Archbishop’s Annual Appeal (AAA) also contributes to the larger work of the California Conference of Bishops, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, and the Vatican.

The responsibilities of the Archdiocesan Office of Communications include internal communications to pastors, clergy, religious and laity, and external communications such as media relations, public relations, public information and special projects. Publications include Catholic San Francisco, which is mailed 39 times a year to 80,000 households in the Archdiocese; El Heraldo Catolico, distributed monthly to approximately 35 parishes in the Archdiocese, and the Official Archdiocesan Directory. Television and radio programs include “Mosaic” on KPIX-Channel 5, and “The Archbishop’s Hour” on Immaculate Heart Radio/1260 AM. Communications also operates two websites http://www.sfarchdiocese.org and http://www.catholic-sf.org, as well as the Intranet site www.sfarchdiocese.net. Incomeproducing activities of the Office of Communications (newspaper and directory advertising, publication sales, direct contributions and other sources of revenue) fund approximately one half of its total expenses.

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February 4, 2011

Catholic San Francisco

Archbishop’s Annual Appeal 2011 Total Goal = $ 5,514,800

How Your Gifts Are Shared rch Chu

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22% Clergy Support $ 1,191,500

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15% Support of Universal Church $ 836,100

15% Archdiocesan Ministry $ 807,400

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34% Centralized Services $ 1,881,900

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2011 Parish Assessments San Francisco County PARISH

ASSESSMENT

PARISH

ASSESSMENT

PARISH

ASSESSMENT

(101) Cathedral of St. Mary

$ 54,000

(128) St. Gabriel Church

$ 89,700

(152) Our Lady of Lourdes Church

$ 15,900

(103) St. Agnes Church

$ 69,900

(131) Holy Family Mission

$ 5,100

(153) St. Patrick Church

$ 48,400

(105) St. Anne of Sunset Church

$ 48,000

(132) Holy Name of Jesus

$ 53,300

(155) St. Paul Church

$ 59,100

(107) St. Anthony of Padua Church

$ 23,900

(133) St. Ignatius Church

$154,100

(156) St. Paul of the Shipwreck Church

$ 19,600

(109) St. Boniface Church

$ 17,500

(136) St. James Church

$ 18,00

(157) St. Peter Church

$ 21,500

(111) St. Brendan Church

$118,500

(137) St. John the Evangelist Church

$ 29,300

(159) Saints Peter & Paul Church

$ 50,500

(113) St. Cecilia Church

$118,700

(138) St. John of God

$ 13,950

(160) St. Philip the Apostle Church

$ 42,500

(115) St. Charles of Borromeo Church

$ 20,200

(140) St. Kevin Church

$ 23,200

(163) Star of the Sea Church

$ 32,900

(116 Corpus Christi Church

$ 45,000

(141) Old St. Mary Church

$ 26,700

(164) St. Stephen Church

$ 62,500

(117) St. Dominic Church

$202,600

(143) St. Michael Korean Church

$ 44,600

(165) St. Teresa Church

$ 26,600

(120) St. Elizabeth Church

$ 29,300

(144) Mission Dolores Basilica

$ 30,100

(167) St. Thomas the Apostle Church

$ 23,400

(121) St. Emydius Church

$ 38,800

(145) St. Monica Church

$ 50,000

(168) St. Thomas More Church

$ 53,400

(123) Church of the Epiphany

$ 80,800

(147) Most Holy Redeemer Church

$ 53,600

(169) St. Vincent de Paul Church

$107,000

(124) St. Finn Barr Church

$ 27,200

(148) Church of the Nativity

$ 15,800

(171) Church of the Visitacion

$ 33,200

(127) St. Benedict Parish

$ 4,700

(149) Notre Dame Des Victoires

$ 40,800

(173) Our Lady of Guadalupe Mission

$ 4,100

Marin County PARISH

ASSESSMENT

PARISH

ASSESSMENT

PARISH

ASSESSMENT

(210) St. Rita Church

$ 39,900

(212) St. Anthony of Padua Church

$ 87,100

(233) St. Isabella Church

$ 98,900

(203) St. Sebastian Church

$ 58,800

(213) Our Lady of Loretto Church

$104,400

(235) St. Hilary Church

$112,100

(205) St. Cecilia Church

$ 6,100

(215) Sacred Heart Church

$ 16,700

(237) Church of the Assumption of Mary

$ 7,600

(207) St. Mary Nicasio Church

$ 4,700

(219) St. Anselm Church

$ 84,500

(241) St. Helen Mission

$ 2,100

(209) St. Patrick Church

$ 66,500

(221) St. Raphael Church

$129,300

(211) Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church

$ 60,400

(231) St. Mary Star of the Sea Church

$ 28,500

San Mateo County PARISH

ASSESSMENT

PARISH

ASSESSMENT

PARISH

ASSESSMENT

(301) Immaculate Heart of Mary

$ 87,700

(321) Our Lady of Refuge Mission

$ 2,500

(347) St. Bruno Church

$ 36,300

(302) St. Mark Church

$ 42,000

(323) St. Anthony Church

$ 43,400

(349) St. Robert Church

$ 86,200

(303) St. Catherine of Siena Church

$121,300

(325) St. Denis Church

$ 86,000

(351) St. Charles Church

$112,900

(305) Our Lady of Angels Church

$178,400

(327) Church of the Nativity

$119,800

(353) St. Bartholomew Church

$149,200

(307) Holy Angels Church

$ 60,700

(329) St. Raymond Church

$ 58,900

(355) St. Gregory Church

$111,700

(308) St. Andrew Church

$ 55,100

(331) St. Dunstan Church

$ 85,600

(359) St. Matthew Church

$107,500

(309) Our Lady of Mercy Church

$ 71,300

(333) Church of the Good Shepherd

$ 50,600

(361) St. Timothy Church

$ 49,400

(311) Our Lady of Perpetual Help

$ 31,500

(335) St. Peter Church

$ 67,600

(363) All Souls Church

$ 55,800

(313) St. Francis of Assisi Church

$ 26,750

(341) Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church

$ 68,200

(364) St. Augustine Church

$ 88,400

(314) St. Luke Church

$ 61,400

(343) St. Matthias Church

$ 64,100

(365) Mater Dolorosa Church

$ 48,300

(315) Our Lady of the Pillar Church

$ 58,600

(345) St Pius Church

$119,400

(367)St. Veronica’s Church

$ 50,500

(319) St. Anthony Mission

$ 3,100

Ways To Give OnLine Giving - If you are a member of a participating parish, the Archbishop’s Annual Appeal offers the convenience of making your gift and pledge payments online by credit card or direct debit from your bank account. To make an online gift, please go to www.sfarchdiocese.org.

One Time Gift : If you would like to make a one-time donation to the Archbishop’s Annual Appeal, please contact the Office of Development or your local parish to receive an AAA donation brochure and return the donation form completed with all required information to your local parish.

Check - Please make checks payable to the “Archbishop’s Annual Appeal 2011.”

Credit Card - You can take full advantage of the benefits offered by your credit card such as bonus points and airlines miles.

Matching Gifts - Many employers have matching gifts programs which provide employees with the opportunity to enhance their charitable contributions. Please contact your company’s Human Resource professional to determine if your company participates in the Matching Gift Program.

Pledge Your Gift Over Ten Months - A gift to the Archbishop’s Annual Appeal may be paid over ten months. If you are able, please include your first month’s payment when you mail your pledge envelope. Pledges are not legally binding. Gifts are tax-deductible to the full extent provided by law.

Suggested Pledge Giving Total Gi

10 Monthly Payments of

Total Gi

10 Monthly Payments of

$2000

$200

$500

$50

$1500

$150

$250

$25

$1000

$100

$100

$10

For more information - Please contact your parish or the Office of Development at (415) 614-5580 or email us at development@sfarchdiocese.org.