March 11, 2011

Sudanese survivor, enslaved as child, asks Marin Catholic to help build school

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Francis Bok puts a human face on the reality of human slavery in the 21st century – and on building a country.

Bok, a Catholic Dinka tribesman from southern Sudan, was 7 and on his first trip with older children to sell peanuts and boiled eggs at a marketplace when he was captured during a raid by Arab Muslim marauders from the country’s north in 1986. He spent 10 years as a slave to a wealthy Arab Muslim family in northern Sudan, sleeping with animals, herding goats and sheep, and then cows, and eating food scraps, often rotting, from the family’s table. He was forced to become a Muslim, even as he was taunted as “abeed” – or black slave. The wife of the man who captured him regularly threatened to kill him, the man threatened to cut off his arm if he fled, and the children beat him.

“When you are in trouble, you have to turn to God,” Bok told the students at Marin Catholic during a March 4 visit to thank the students for their prayers and ask their help in building a 12-classroom school, complete with a traditional boarding high school, in his village in the newly created country of South Sudan.

At 17 – on his third escape attempt – Bok walked away from his life as a slave, making his way to Khartoum, Sudan’s capital, then to Egypt and finally to the U.S. In 2000, Bok was the first escaped slave to testify SCHOOL IN SUDAN, page 6

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By Valerie Schmalz

A Maronite Catholic wears a cross of ashes after attending Ash Monday service in Beirut March 7.

Eastern Catholic churches mark the start of the penitential season of Lent before the Latin-rite church.

Double win for SHCP in basketball sectionals; girls beat rival SI

By George Raine The Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory girls and boys basketball teams are riding high on San Francisco’s Cathedral Hill.

Special sports section inside Both have moved on in Northern California competition, after the Fightin’ Irish girls defeated the St.

Ignatius College Preparatory Wildcats 64-48 and the boys clinched their third consecutive CCS title by beating Burlingame, 41-32. Both games were played March 5 at Santa Clara University.

On paper, the girls team, and head coach Mike Carey, faced a formidable opponent. The Wildcats beat them badly, by 29 points, on Jan. 11 at the University of San Francisco. The Irish girls turned the ball over 28 times in that game. The Wildcats beat them a second time during the season, by a margin of 10.

“It’s all that we had heard – that they were the best team in the city – but we can play with them,” said Carey, in his second year as varsity head coach after serving as Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep junior varsity coach for 12 years, and before that varsity coach at Mercy High School in San Francisco for six years.

Carey said he studied film of the Wildcats and watched them play in a game last week and crafted a plan: “If we could limit their second opportunities to shoot, not give SHCP BASKETBALL, page S2

Priest-composer meets new challenges in setting missal to music Should he scrap his worldly life plan in favor of becoming an other-worldly liturgical music minister? After more An invitation by his pastor to give religious educadiscernment, a second question emerged: Should he comtion students lessons in singing liturgical bine music ministry with the priesthood? music became a life-changing event for Today, now-Father Manalo is doing Ricky Manalo. just that as a Paulist priest/composer, Manalo accepted the priest’s offer living at Old St. Mary’s Cathedral in San one day 25 years ago but had no plans to Francisco’s Chinatown. He was ordained continue with church music. He was comin 2000 at St. Paul the Apostle Church in pleting his studies in classical composition New York City, the mother church of the at the Manhattan School of Music in New Paulist fathers.

York. After graduation he planned to comFather Manalo grew up in a deeply pose Broadway musicals, film scores and religious – and deeply musical – FilipinoTV commercials. His career plans were set.

American family. Every night his physician Or so he thought. dad’s stereo would blast Beethoven and Paulist Father Manalo’s Mass music teaching stint Mozart. Meanwhile, mom the pharmacist Ricky Manalo turned out to be a new adventure for the would hum melodies, some of them original.

Stephen Sondheim hopeful. Introducing kids to hymns at Today, Father Manalo enjoys widespread note for St. Gabriel Parish in Marlboro, N.J., and seeing that church introducing Asian liturgical music into mainstream U.S. music had become their daily prayer deeply affected him.

Roman Catholic song books through his compositions, (PHOTO BY JOSE LUIS AGUIRRE)

By Sharon Abercrombie

“Many and Great,” “By the Waking of our Hearts,” and, “Ang Katawan ni Kristo” (the Body of Christ), published

by Oregon Catholic Press.

In 2006, he served as main facilitator for the first national gathering of Asian and Pacific Catholics at a meeting sponsored by the U.S. bishops. In 2007 his hymn, “That All May be One in Christ,” won the national competition sponsored by the National Association of Pastoral Musicians and the Atonement Friars.

This year Father Manalo, who is teaching a course in liturgical theology at the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley while completing his doctorate in liturgical studies, is experiencing new challenges in the form of the revised Roman Missal.

To be introduced in the U.S. church this Advent, this latest version of the Mass prayers returns to the formal translation of ancient Latin texts. In a recent interview, Father Manalo discussed his three-year musical involvement with the project.

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INSIDE THIS WEEK’S EDITION On the Street . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 News in brief. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 St. Joseph’s silent power . . . 12 My quartet of saints . . . . . . 13

The Gabriel Project now in 12 parishes ~ Page 3 ~ March 11, 2011

Loaves & Fishes Award ~ Page 7 ~

Film ponders discipleship’s cost ~ Page 16 ~

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On The Where You Live

By Tom Burke

Pictured at Porziuncola Nuova in North Beach are Archbishop George Niederauer, Angela Alioto and, filmmaker Ken Burns.

Angela Alioto calls Ken Burns “America’s historian.”

Angela, Archbishop George Niederauer and the filmmaker spent a recent Saturday together as a prelude to Ken’s speaking at Fort Mason about his stewardship perspective toward this nation’s past, and some upcoming projects. “Archbishop Niederauer, Ken and I went on a tour of the Porziuncola Nuova and the National Shrine of St. Francis,” Angela said in a note to this column. Next stop, she said, was Caffe Puccini for a cappuccino and a discussion of history and historians. “I absolutely loved listening to the archbishop and Ken talk about the history involved in the making of some of his films,” Angela said. “The two of them were fascinating each with such great ideas. As an eternal student, I could have listened to them all day. It was a fantastic time for me.”

A new video about the Porziuncola Nuova and its becoming part of the city’s landscape is now available. Ken has seen it and watched it twice, Angela said. “Of course his quote that

the film is 'gorgeous and a true inspiration’ will be on the cover of our next reprints.” It was a “full house” for Ken’s presentation at Fort Mason. The evening included “fascinating conversation” and a premiere from Ken’s new film 'Prohibition.’” Also in on some of the fun were Angela’s brother John and her sons Gianpaolo and Adolfo. Chef Adolfo prepared a “scrumptious dinner” for Angela, Ken and friends Friday evening, the proud mom said. Special thanks, Angela said, to Joe Subbiondo who emceed the talk, and “Café Trieste” where “Ken was amazed with the photo history on the wall.”…Rose Frances Wyrsch Cliver is among about half a dozen folks left to speak firsthand about the Earthquake of 1906. Now 108 – she’ll be 109 Oct. 9 – the St. Anthony School grad watched the effects of the temblor from the hills of Bernal Heights, son, Donald said. The family of four – Rose, now late dad, Charles, and, daughter, Roberta, and Donald - lived in St. Paul Parish with both of the kids attending the parish school. Rose now lives in Santa Rosa just two blocks from Donald who visits his mom a couple of times a week…. Hitting all the right notes are nine seventh graders from St. Matthew School in San Mateo. The singers are all part of the school’s St. Matt’s Jr. High Choir and were selected to participate in the 2011 Bay Area Honor Choir sponsored by the California Music Educators Association. “Choral director, Barbara Varian Barrett, submitted their names to the organization based on their musical and leadership skills,” the school said. “She prepared them for the rehearsals and has involved the school Pictured from left are singers from St. Matthew School’s Junior High Choir: Mikey Takla, Monica Kastilani, Meagan McEnery, Rachel Lock, Katie Polk, Miranda Escobar, Carolina Fernandez, Diana Reyes, and Lindsey Yee.

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Father John Greene, pastor of St. Monica Parish and chaplain to the San Francisco Fire Department, was ordained at St. Mary’s Cathedral in 1976. He was among St. Patrick’s Seminary choir members who sang for the cathedral dedication in 1971.

“Police officers and firefighters regularly attended the early Sunday Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral on Van Ness because they had to be to work at 8 a.m.,” Father Green said, happy to share stories of the troops that he’s heard and confirmed through the years.

“They all sat in the back ATHEDRAL and if the priest’s homily was too long, they’d all stand up and point to their EMORIES watches so not to be late for roll call.”

The cathedral fire in 1962 was a huge blaze that spread quickly, Father Greene said. “Churches can hardly ever be saved because of all the wood and construction that includes ‘voids’ that allow the fire to flash across all of the building.” It was Msgr. John

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Heaney, then chaplain to the San Francisco Police Department, he said, who put his life at risk to save the Blessed Sacrament from the fire. Msgr. Heaney was ordained in 1953 and had been a priest for fewer than 10 years at the time. He died in 2010.

“Msgr. Heaney showed great courage and suffered burns to his hands in rescuing the Blessed Sacrament,” Father Greene said.

1971: First priestly ordinations St. Mary’s Cathedral was dedicated barely three weeks before my ordination on May 29, 1971 and in addition to the hundreds of bishops and priests, and so many other attendees, I vividly recall the phalanx of demonstrators, protesting not only its cost – estimated to be $8 million – but even the building of it in the first place.

My most special memory, however, is that our ordination

Pickets protest the building of St. Mary’s Cathedral during entrance procession rites May 13, 1971.

class was the first to be ordained in the new cathedral – and I was the first one in the class to receive the laying- on of hands, making me the first priest ordained in the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption.

– Father Joe Gordon

1978: First episcopal ordinations I have great memories of St. Mary’s Cathedral – the old cathedral on Van Ness Avenue, which I first visited as a ninth grade seminarian in 1935 and where I was ordained priest with 22 fellow diocesan seminarians in 1946. In 1978, Bishop Pierre DuMaine and I had the honor of being the first bishops ordained at the new cathedral.

St. Mary’s indeed, has a special place in my heart.

– Emeritus Sacramento Bishop Francis A. Quinn

The Gabriel Project help for pregnant moms now in 12 parishes

By Tom Burke A pregnant mother might feel alone, frightened and overwhelmed by her new challenges. She might need a friend she can depend on and trust – one who will walk beside her on her journey. She might be concerned about her and her child’s future. We want her to know that we are people who care about her and want to help her. Fredi D’Alessio has been living this creed since 2009 when he took the reins of The Gabriel Project in the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

“The parish community acts as the body of Christ and brings love and hope to pregnant mothers through their acts of kindness,” D’Alessio told Catholic San Francisco.

“By employing their individual talents, collaborating with various ministries in the parish or diocese and utilizing community resources, they stand ready to provide a mother with the kinds of assistance she needs.”

The Gabriel Project, which the U.S. bishops have called an “excellent” way to fulfill Catholics’ mandate to protect human life, trains parish volunteers to help women through pregnancy with practical assistance, spiritual and emotional guidance and access to services.

Following the legalizing of abortion in 1973 under Roe v. Wade, Msgr. John Perusina, late pastor of St. Michael Parish in Houston and praised as founder of The Gabriel Project, put a sign outside his church: “If you are pregnant and need help,” the sign read, “we will help you.”

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Dr. Marcella Colbert, Respect Life director for the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, has been the national contact for The Gabriel Project for a decade. She said the project has spread to about half of the Catholic (arch) dioceses in the U.S. Dr. Colbert, a member of the Royal College of Psychiatry in England, said that as a young doctor in the U.K. she was asked to give the go-ahead on abortions for mentally ill women and the euthanasia of one patient.

“I, of course, refused,” she said in an interview with Catholic San Francisco, noting that the events “strengthened infinitely” her pro-life stance.

“Family life is the source of everything,” Dr. Colbert said, noting that The Gabriel Project is especially the place for the “gifts of women.”

“Women’s first gift is that they are women,” she said, “followed by the facts that they are good listeners and nurturers and often have the experience of being mothers.

Women who take part must be close to God and praying.

“The Gabriel Project is an apostolate of friendship,” Dr. Colbert said. “It is not social work but an apostolic endeavor.”

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Jesus’ death can’t be blamed on Jewish people, pope says VATICAN CITY – In his latest volume of “Jesus of Nazareth,” Pope Benedict XVI says the condemnation of Christ had complex political and religious causes and cannot be blamed on the Jewish people as a whole.

He also said it was a mistake to interpret the words reported in the Gospel, “His blood be on us and on our children,” as a blood curse against the Jews. Those words, spoken by the mob that demanded Jesus’ death, need to be read in the light of faith, the pope wrote. They do not cry out for vengeance, but for reconciliation, he said.

Do bad Masses weaken faith?

ROME – A weakening of faith, a rise in selfishness and a drop in Mass attendance stem from Masses that are not reverent and don’t follow church rules, said U.S. Cardinal Raymond L. Burke, head of the Vatican’s supreme court. “If we err by thinking we are the center of the liturgy, the Mass will lead to a loss of faith,” he said.

Cardinal Burke told those gathered for a book launch that he agreed with the author, Vatican consultant Father Nicola Bux, that “liturgical abuses lead to serious damage to the faith of Catholics.”

Too many priests and bishops treat violations of liturgical norms as unimportant when in fact they are “serious abuses,” he said.

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Murdered minister grieved; government inaction faulted In this 2005 photo, Shahbaz Bhatti, a Catholic and Pakistan’s minorities minister, is pictured in Islamabad showing a cross burned during an attack on a church.

LAHORE, Pakistan – Church leaders expressed “deep grief” at the assassination of Shahbaz Bhatti, federal minister for minorities, and set a three-day mourning period for

Christian institutions throughout Pakistan.

Archbishop Lawrence John Saldanha, chairman of the Pakistan Catholic Bishops Conference, and Father Shahid Meraj, vicar of the Lahore diocese, accused the government of not protecting religious minorities and urged practical steps to curb extremism, the Union of Catholic Asian News reported.

Bhatti, 42, who had called for changes in the country’s controversial blasphemy law, was attacked March 2 in Islamabad shortly after he left his residence. Reports said gunmen surrounded his vehicle and sprayed it with bullets. Eyewitnesses said there was no sign of the minister’s usual security escort vehicle or his guards.

“He was very brave,” Bishop Rufin Anthony of IslamabadRawalpindi told Vatican Radio. “He spoke the truth” and knew that as a result something could happen to him at any time.

In Vatican City March 6, Pope Benedict XVI, who met Bhatti at the Vatican last year, said he hoped the minster’s “moving sacrifice” would “wake up consciences” to work for religious freedom and dignity for all in Pakistan.

Report: Authorities back anti-Christian violence MUMBAI, India – A new independent report on antiChristian violence in the southwest Indian state of Karnataka has charged that the violence was planned and backed by the state’s highest government authorities.

Hindu extremist groups led attacks on churches, schools and homes of Christians and physically beat hundreds of people, Justice Michael Saldanha alleged in an independent Peoples’ Tribunal Enquiry, according to Catholic News Agency. The report said that the violence was covered up by the government of Karnataka.

Egyptian evacuees scramble to receive food after crossing into Tunisia fleeing violence in Libya at the border crossing of Ras Jdir March 3.

On March 6, Pope Benedict XVI called for aid to civilians caught in Libya’s growing humanitarian crisis.

Bishop praises truth tellers QUEZON CITY, Philippines – Manila Auxiliary Bishop Broderick S. Pabillo wants Filipinos to support whistleblowers in a probe of alleged graft by military officials.

The prelate, who heads the social action office of the Catholic bishops’ conference, issued the call during a “Mass for Truth” at the Jesuit-run Ateneo de Manila University. “I call on the nation to pray that more people will come forward and support those who speak the truth. They cannot do it alone,” the bishop said, the Union of Catholic Asian News reported March 4. He said truth tellers must feel that “there are believers in those who believe.”

Marriage move ‘alarming,’ ‘egregious,’ two prelates say WASHINGTON – The Obama administration’s decision to drop support of the Defense of Marriage Act is an “alarming and grave injustice,” New York Archbishop and U.S. bishops’ President Timothy M. Dolan said March 3.

The archbishop responded to President’s Barack Obama’s Feb. 23 announcement that the administration will stop defending the 1996 federal law, which defines marriage as between a man and a woman and says no state must recognize a same-sex marriage from another state.

In a March 3 letter to House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, Catholic, Protestant and Sikh religious leaders said they were “very troubled” by the decision.

In a March 4 column in his diocesan newspaper, The Catholic Voice, Oakland Bishop Salvatore Cordileone called the decision “an egregious violation of separation of powers.” He said “there is a movement of the ruling class toward taking more and more power into its own hands” and marriage is the flashpoint.

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School in Sudan . . .

Francis Bok pictured with Marin Catholic seniors and teacher Joseph Tassone March 4.

education component for parents who are mostly illiterate, Bok said. A compound to house volunteer American teachers and Sudanese teachers is part of the plan.

There is no high school in the region and because students have nowhere to go beyond primary school, they are losing hope. “I want that school to be preparing the leadership of

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before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee as part of his work with the American Anti-Slavery Group. Bok told his story in his 2003 book co-written with Edward Tivnan, “Escape from Slavery: The True Story of My Ten Years in Captivity – and My Journey to Freedom in America.”

The book was an all-school read at Marin Catholic High School when Bok visited for the first time in 2008 and is now required reading for the freshman class. Bok’s return was something of a homecoming, with the 6-foot 6-inch Sudanese terming theology department chairman Joseph Tassone “a big brother” who kept in touch, often via notes sent to Bok’s Facebook site at facebook.com/pages/The-Francis-Bok-Foundation.

But the visit also had a concrete goal. Bok, a married father of two living in Kansas, spoke with the students about building a school in the village where he was born on his father’s land. Bok’s parents and sisters were killed during the raids on southern Sudan, but he did not know what happened to them until more than a decade later, his hope of seeing them keeping him going through much of captivity, he said.

“My father was someone I looked up to. He actually served his community with zeal and care,” Bok told the students, and he said he continues to live his life with the example of his parents in mind. In regard to the genocide, and his time as a slave, Bok said he is working for his country’s future. “What you do is everything you can to keep it from happening again,” he said.

By prayer and sacrifice during Lent, Marin Catholic’s community plans to raise between $6,000 and $11,000 for the school that Bok hopes to break ground on this year, Tassone said. Marin Catholic plans to be involved with Bok’s work for years to come, Tassone said. The school will include primary school classrooms and also have an adult

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tomorrow,” Bok said. “To compete with the modern nations we have to work hard, we have to educate ourselves.”

Since a 2005 peace agreement ending decades of sectarian civil war between Sudan’s north and south, security has improved in the south and hundreds of thousands of refugees have returned to their ancestral lands. Bok’s brother, his only remaining immediate family member, now lives on the land of their father and is helping with the school. Children from first to seventh grades learn under trees on their land, Bok said.

Bok’s village of Gor-Ayen is part of the new country of South Sudan, which was created with the overwhelming approval of a referendum in January. South Sudan, which officially becomes a nation July 9, is mostly Christian and animist and is rich in oil reserves but remains undeveloped.

“People are coming back who migrated during the war,” Bok said. “During the war, the entire village was completely destroyed and everybody left and went to either to Khartoum to the refugee camps, to Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya – you name them, all those places we actually fled to because of the war.”

Michael Hill, senior communications officer for Catholic Relief Services, said South Sudan is the newest country in the world and one of the poorest. Churches, including the Catholic Church, have been the only organizations to provide any structure in the decades of destruction there, he said.

During the war militia from the north destroyed villages, killed nearly 2 million, enslaved 200,000 and displaced 4 million. Some 35,000 Sudanese are believed to remain enslaved in north Sudan, according to Christian Solidarity International.

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Father Greg Boyle receives Loaves & Fishes Award for gang outreach

By George Raine In nearly 25 years of building what is now the nation’s largest gang intervention and re-entry program, Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles, Jesuit Father Greg Boyle has never met anyone who was seeking something when he joined a gang. Quite the contrary.

“They are always fleeing from something,” Father Boylesaid March 4 at St. Ignatius Church in San Francisco.

“There are no exceptions.” Whether that be dysfunctional family, abuse, torture, alcohol and drug abuse, negligent parenting – “there is always something,” he said.

Nobody has ever met a hopeful kid who joined a gang, too, he said, so Homeboy Industries – its motto is “Nothing Stops a Bullet Like a Job” – serves up hope.

Father Boyle, the founder and executive director of Homeboy Industries, was in San Francisco Friday to receive the 2011 Loaves & Fishes Award for Faith in Action, presented by Catholic Charities CYO of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, at the St. Regis Hotel. The event also honors people who have given $2,500 or more per year in support of Catholic Charities CYO’s services to more than 30,000 clients annually.

CCCYO Executive Director Jeff Bialik had heard Father Boyle in a National Public Radio interview. Loaves & Fishes Award planners heard it too, and the decision to honor him was close to instantaneous, said Bialik, “because the work he is doing is phenomenal.”

“I think that work should be informing our work,” said Bialik, “because what we are seeing in part of our community is an increase in gang activity, a serious issue throughout the archdiocese. It is critically important that we look for ways to get in front of that.”

He added, “Father Boyle’s commitment to helping youth choose a positive path to a better future is as inspiring as it is critical for the sustainability of our communities.”

Father Boyle’s career choice of working with the poor and the marginalized took shape when he joined the Society of Jesus and was confirmed when he worked in Bolivia after his ordination.

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Also in 1988, Father Boyle started a “Jobs for a Future” program at Dolores Mission, and, in 1992, launched a business to employ former gang members, Homeboy Bakery.

Today there’s Homeboy Silkscreen, Homeboy Maintenance, Homeboy Merchandise and Homegirl Cafe – servers come with tattoos and attitude, he said – and other activities that give jobs, training and hope.

“A gang is a place kids go to when they have accounted their life as a misery,” Father Boyle said in an interview before giving a talk hosted by the Little Children’s Aid Junior Auxiliary at St. Ignatius. “And misery loves company.”

The prevailing cultural myth is that kids are “attracted, lured, drawn to gangs,” but there is no “pull factor, only a push factor,” Father Boyle said.

“Even if a gang member says, ‘Wow, when I was a kid that is what I wanted, to join a gang, see the world, wine, women and song,’ it is not true,” he said. “It’s none of the above. It is just because they can’t honestly talk about what they have had to flee. But they all have that in common.”

The day Father Boyle was honored, there was news of renewed gang activity in the Mission District of San Francisco – a man was killed, a sidewalk memorial for the victim was trashed, and, in return, a man was shot. Father Boyle’s diagnosis was this: “There are no hopeful kids engaged in this war in the Mission District.”

He added, “Hope is the antidote. The best delivery system of hope to kids who are struggling, especially younger ones, is a loving, caring adult who pays attention to them. That’s the way it works.”

His work has shown dividends. There were 1,000 gangrelated homicides in Los Angeles in 1992, “and what has happened since then is they have been cut in half and cut in half again,” said Father Boyle. “Do I think Homebody Industries had anything to do with that? Absolutely. There is no place that

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Feb. 21 at age 64 in Burlingame. A funeral “She was a strong advocate for our programs Mass was celebrated Feb. 25 at the Sisters of that dealt directly with the poor.”

The late religious served for 39 years in Mercy motherhouse chapel with interment in health care ministry. “She will be remembered Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma. for her kind, attentive manner, Born in San Francisco, irrepressible sense of humor, she attended Notre Dame and courage in the face of sufand St. Stephen schools and fering,” the Mercy Sisters said. after graduating from Mercy High School, San Francisco Her friend Mercy Sister in 1964 entered the Sisters of Terese Marie Perry said, Mercy in Burlingame. Sister “Despite her very serious heart Barbara professed vows as condition, Barbara was faithful Sister Jerome Marie in 1967. to a fault. She was faithful to Sister Barbara spent the her Sisters in Religion, to her next five years completing family, and to her many difthe nursing program at the ferent ministries. She never University of San Francisco did anything half way. She Sister Barbara Henry, with an internship at St. never missed a community RSM Joseph’s Hospital in Phoenix. gathering.”

She returned to San Francisco and St. Mary’s Survivors include her sister Joan Durling, Hospital, ministering in obstetrics, oncology her brother William and his wife, Cecilia, and and nursing services. She also served at St. her loving community of the Sisters of Mercy.

Mary’s later as assistant director of nurses and Memorial gifts may be made to the Sisters director of nurses, and community benefit coor- of Mercy, 2300 Adeline Drive, Burlingame dinator. “She did a marvelous job,” said Mercy 94010.

Mercy Sister Mary Magdalen Hoey: ‘Loved teaching the little ones’ Mercy Sister Mary Magdalen Hoey died school. “Her parents owned a bakery, and Feb. 18 and funeral services took place she remembered helping out as a child,” the Mercy Sisters said in for the late religious at the an announcement of her Mercy Sisters motherhouse death. “Being very sociable, chapel Feb 21 and 22. she became the unofficial Interment was at Holy Cross greeter, welcoming customCemetery in Colma. ers and chatting with them Sister Mary Magdalen while they waited for their was born May 2, 1931 at orders.”

St. Mary’s Hospital in San In 1950, one year after Francisco. The signature graduating from Mercy of Sister Mary Thomasine High School in Burlingame, Kelly, administrator at she entered the Sisters of St. Mary’s then and later Mercy. For the three years Superior General, was on Sister Mary Magdalen of her formation, her parents her birth certificate as well Hoey, RSM supplied sweet rolls for the as on her vows.

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Gabriel Project . . .

■ Continued from page 3 be reserved for women, men are welcome and their gifts have a real place as women’s partners and as promoters of the project, Dr. Colbert said.

“The Gabriel Project is a marvelous way to show our community that we Catholics see in the conception of each child a fresh expression of God’s unfailing love,” D’Alessio said. “We care about pregnant mothers in need and there is no reason for any mother within our boundaries to feel that she is helpless and alone.”

About a dozen parishes, 60 primary volunteers and others are on board with The Gabriel Project in the archdiocese, D’Alessio said. “We’ve only just begun.”

D’Alessio and his wife, Julie, who also takes part in The Gabriel Project, are members of St. Mary, Star of the Sea Parish in Sausalito.

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“In just over a year, he has done an incredible job of expanding The Gabriel Project here and professionalizing the program,” she said. “Our pastors have been very receptive to instituting the ministry.

“Fredi runs it all pretty single-handedly,” Evans said. “He produced all the materials and goes into the parishes to explain the program and how it helps worried new moms with practical and financial and spiritual and moral support.”

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Father Manalo has been in the company of the more than 50 composers who were invited by publishers to create new musical settings to conform to the new translation.

The revision’s impact on liturgical musicians has been significant, Father Manalo said. He admitted it was often frustrating trying to overhaul his music to fit extra words to long-familiar tunes. “The tweaking of even one syllable in any text has a cascading effect on the entire melody,” he said.

‘I have learned to appreciate the tiny textual discrepancies and the profound theological meanings behind the texts we sing during Mass that I otherwise would never have noticed.’

– Paulist Father Ricky Manalo But he also came to understand the “why” of some of the revisions.

“I have learned to appreciate the tiny textual discrepancies and the profound theological meanings behind the texts we sing during Mass that I otherwise would never have noticed,” he said.

Meanwhile the people in the pews will have their own challenges to meet, Father Manalo said: “They will have to disembody and re-embody new words and music.”

One example: ”Glory to God in the highest and peace to his people on earth,” has become, “Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace to people of good will.”

This phrasing gave Father Manalo and his cohorts the most grief.

“In fact, some of us thought, if we could just set this one phrase to music, everything else would be easier,” he said.

The composer remembers his gleeful day of inspiration

Sister Hoey . . .

■ Continued from page 8 the habit, she asked for the name Magdalen, the name of her mother and grandmother.

Sister Mary Magdalen taught primary grades at schools including St. Peter, St. Gabriel and Holy Name of Jesus in San Francisco. “She loved teaching the little ones both in the classroom and in CCD classes,” the Mercy Sisters said. “As each year began she saw her class as ‘50 little souls in front of me, and that sight filled me with love and awe.’”

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Paulist Father Ricky Manalo is pictured at Old St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco.

when the words and melody finally came together. “I celebrated by treating myself to a meal in a Michelin restaurant,” he said.

The new missal has drawn its share of objectors. And Father Manalo?

“I’m in the middle,” he said, noting that he has opted for a constructive, pastoral approach to address all sides. Every two weeks he travels the country presenting workshops on how to best implement the new missal. (He said he is open to presenting them in San Francisco as well.)

“Some of the positives include the opportunity for the people of God to delve once again into the theological mandates behind specific prayers,” Father Manalo said. “Some of the challenges include the process of power negotiations between the various levels of authority and the laity.

“Finally,” he said, “I challenge participants to ask themselves, ‘how are you reacting to these changes and to what extent will you embrace them come Advent of 2011?”’

The church is a continually changing institution, Father Manalo said.

“One day there might be another version,” he said, “but for now we need to learn how to prepare our parishioners for the changes that lie ahead.”

Father Manalo can be reached at ritualmuse@mac.com.

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SPORTS SI lineman Alfred Siniora: Family, experience mold an admired student-athlete

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By George Raine

Alfred Siniora, whose roles as a St. Ignatius College Preparatory student include football offensive lineman and co-president of the Dialogue Club, models determination, motivation, love and compassion, Principal Patrick Ruff says.

It’s a few months until graduation, but Alfred Siniora is beginning to assemble his best St. Ignatius College Preparatory memories: In football, it would have to be the 31-21 victory last year over Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory. That was huge for Siniora, an offensive lineman.

Shaharazad Williams, his Spanish teacher, gets a shout-out. Siniora didn’t shine in that class. But the teacher “molded me into the class so I could fit into the puzzle,” he said.

Then there’s the Dialogue Club, of which Siniora, a Palestinian Christian, is a co-president. It builds bridges between Palestinian and Jewish students on campus.

According to that list, athletics – he is also a four-year soccer player – represents a major part of who 17-year-old Alfred Siniora is. But there’s more to him than that. He’s also a student-athlete who is respected by his peers and the adults of St. Ignatius alike, a leader who brings his oversized character to the field, the classroom, the Dialogue Club and all the service activities expected of the students, say many of those same adults.

Schools like St. Ignatius endeavor to help turn out young people brimming with values,

educate them and play a role in making them whole. Principal Patrick Ruff’s short list of pertinent values includes determination, a motivated work ethic, love and compassion. Alfred Siniora, say Ruff and other St. Ignatius administrators, models those values every day, just as successful student athletes make other Catholic schools proud throughout the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Simon Siniora, Alfred’s father, a St. Ignatius graduate, class of 1983 – also an offensive lineman – died of cancer at age 39 in 2004. With his older sister, Jaclyn – St. Ignatius Class of 2008, now at Cal Poly – Siniora is helping his mother, Zoia, rear younger brother Tarik, an eighth grader applying to St. Ignatius, and Daniella, a sixth grader. “She has to play good cop/bad cop all the time,” Siniora said of his mother. “She does a pretty good job of holding down the fort” at their San Bruno home.

People told Siniora after his father died that he would carry more weight on his shoulders. “I had to grow up a little earlier than usual. Family members told me, ‘You are the man of the house,’ and I tried to do that every day,” he said.

Said Ruff, “He is a very resilient young man, and I think with those kinds of experiences ALFRED SINIORA, page S5

By Gideon Rubin At 5-foot-7, it’s easy for a baseball player to get overlooked.

Just don’t be so quick to blame professional and college scouts who a year ago this time missed Andre Mercurio’s meteoric rise from baseball nobody to Division I recruit.

Mercurio, a Junipero Serra High School senior outfielder who after a surprising breakout junior year signed with San Jose State last month, didn’t see it coming either.

Mercurio, a member of St. Matthew Parish in San Mateo, expected to ride the bench his junior year on a loaded roster. But after an injury opened up a few spot outfield starts, he forced his way into the lineup and never looked back.

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It became impossible to ignore Mercurio when he produced consistently against elite

West Catholic Athletic League pitching. He led the Padres in several statistical categories including batting average (.438), on-base percentage (.552), slugging percentage (.671) and walks (19), and he tied for the team lead in runs scored (28) and doubles (10), and was named a first-team All-WCAL outfielder.

Even so, when his phone started ringing off the hook last summer, it caught him off guard.

“I was very surprised,” Mercurio said. “I never thought I was going to play college baseball, let alone Division I baseball. It’s very humbling.”

Mercurio’s break came when Don Andre Clark, a St. Mary’s-bound outfielder, suffered an ankle injury early in the season.

“I was really nervous,” Mercurio said.

“I’d never started a varsity game before, just trying to calm myself down listening to soothing music on my way down there.”

Mercurio had two hits in an early game against highly-regarded Monte Vista, sin-

gling in the game-winning run in the top of the seventh of a 1-0 victory.

He has earned himself a reputation for coming up clutch.

“I just always try to put the pressure on the defense,” Mercurio said. “I just try to tell myself, ‘No way I’m getting out. No way I’m going down without a fight.’

“I feel like with that mentality something good’s going to come out of that.”

A lot of good things have come out of that.

Mercurio said his success has become an enormous source of pride for his family in San Mateo. He is his family’s second scholarship athlete. His sister, Francesca, competes in gymnastics at Arizona State.

The scholarship means something to his family, too. His father, Rafael, worked two jobs to support his family of five.

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Nobody saw him coming – and then he cleaned up for Serra baseball

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INSIDE CSF’S SPORTS SECTION Prep athletes sign letters of intent

CYO honors Salesian Club’s Randy DeMartini

20 points in 3 minutes: Autistic boy’s ‘miracle’ game

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SHCP basketball . . . them easy, easy baskets on fast breaks and limit their access to the key,” the Irish girls had a good chance, he concluded.

“We decided to make them beat us from 15 feet out,” said Carey. “That all worked.

The girls did a very good job adapting.”

The Irish-Wildcats rivalry provides the built-in motivation for both teams, but Carey, himself a former Irish basketball player, class of 1978, said the team “has been playing very good basketball” and he believed the girls could win. “There are things we can’t control, like the crowd and referees, but if we concentrate on our defense and our rebounding things will come for us,” said Carey.

Freshman GeAnna Summers-Luaula had 20 points, eight rebounds and two blocked shots. Senior Geena Giovannetti had 14 points, 11 rebounds, four assists and four steals.

Said Giovannetti, “It feels pretty good, especially after losing to SI the first two games we played and everyone expected them to win again. To come out and win proves that we have what it takes to be good.”

Said Summers-Luaulu, “Coach told us to play together as a team. It feels really good to prove everyone wrong.”

Defeating St. Ignatius March 5, Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep girls basketball won its 11th sectional title in 12 years.

Karen Giovannetti, Geena’s mother, said the game was “extremely important to her and her team because one of their goals this year had been to beat St. Ignatius in league play.” She added, “They really wanted to win this because it would make the whole season worthwhile for them.”

Moreover, said Giovannetti, of Pacifica, her daughter had been saddened by the death

SI boys soccer tops WCAL

By George Raine The boys soccer team of St. Ignatius College Preparatory in San Francisco, won its third consecutive West Catholic Athletic League championship with a 1-0 win over Bellarmine College Preparatory of San Jose.

While The St. Ignatius boys soccer team won its tournament, it is co-champion in the WCAL with round robin winner Bellarmine.

(PHOTOS COURTESY KAREN GIOVANNETTI)

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A St. Ignatius basketball player, Johnny Mrlik, broke the WCAL record for the most free throws – 85 – made in a season’s league games.

“We are very proud of all our student athletes for embodying the values of sportsmanship and teamwork that make our athletic programs such a rich and successful tradition,” said Paul Totah, St. Ignatius director of communications.

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of her longtime San Francisco Recreation and Parks basketball coach, Oscar Jimenez, who died of cancer. The death had affected Geena’s game during league play, but it improved in the post-season, she said.

The win was the Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory girls’ 11th sectional title in 12 years.

The team was the number two seed in the CCS Division III playoffs. The girls defeated Aptos 72-30 on Feb. 26. They then defeated Valley Christian 50-36 on March 2, leading up to the March 5 game.

The 29-point loss to St. Ignatius had left a bad taste in Carey’s mouth. “I watch the replay of that game. We had our opportunities. We just did not take care of the basketball,” he said. “They turned the ball over probably double digits themselves,

Freshman GeAnna Summers-Luaulu

but we did not capitalize on their turnovers while they got a lot of easy buckets off our turnovers,” he added.

In the Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep boys game, Taylor Johns, a junior, had nine points and 11 rebounds in the win over Burlingame.

Herman Pratt and Joshua Fox each had 10 points. The Fightin’ Irish boys were the top seed in the CCS Division III playoffs. They won the quarterfinal game, against Jefferson, 70-44, and they won the semifinal contest, against Aptos, 73-48.

Johns said of the win, “It’s what we set as a goal from the start of the season and what we worked so hard for. But we aren’t done yet.”

Fox, a junior, said of the school’s basketball program, “The program has a lot of great history and it’s an honor to be part of it.”

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Student-athletes from seven area schools bound for NCAA college play More than two dozen athletes from Catholic high schools in the Archdiocese of San Francisco have signed letters of intent with NCAA colleges in sports ranging from football to water polo.

The prospective student-athlete agrees to attend the institution full-time for one academic year and the institution agrees to provide athletic financial aid for one academic year.

ing, Northeastern; Rebecca Gerrity; water polo, University of Maryland

Junipero Serra High School Connor McGrath, basketball, point guard, Chico State; Andre Mercurio, baseball, outfielder, San Jose State; Chris Lewis, baseball, infielder, Sacramento State; Barry Timko, baseball, pitcher, University of Nevada

St. Ignatius College Preparatory Kevin Barker, baseball, UC Davis; Emily Bauer, crew, San Diego State; Ben Miller, crew, UC San Diego; Kendal Mitchell, crew, UCLA; Everett Watson, crew, Stanford; Hannah Farr, lacrosse, Stanford; Rachel Hinds, lacrosse, Stanford; Jimmy Callinan, soccer, Stanford; Hannah Farr, soccer, Stanford; Audrey Gibson, soccer, Duke; Cullen Roche, soccer, UC Davis

Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory Kyle Church, football, cornerback, Sacred Heart University, Connecticut; Dan Stornaiuolo, football, offensive lineman, Sacramento State Marin Catholic High School Robb Woodcock, baseball. pitcher, Santa Clara; Tony Popovich, football, defensive end, San Jose State; Caitlyn Burns, rowing, Stanford; Jess Sejud, row-

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“I’m pretty proud of myself because I know I did it on my own merits,” he said.

Mercurio’s ability to excel under pressure instantly impressed teammates.

Mercy High School San Francisco Jessica Ramirez, soccer, University of Minnesota

Sacred Heart Atherton Geena Graumann, soccer, University of Southern California; Abby Dahlkemper, soccer, UCLA; Philip Bamberg, water polo, University of Southern California; Robert Dunlevie, water polo, Stanford; Joe Wise, swimming, Loyola-Maryland

“Andre’s a unique player,” Serra senior shortstop Chris Lewis said. “He brings something to the game that not a lot of people get. In big games, thoughts in your head can get moving pretty fast and stuff, and he has this certain thing about him which he can slow everything down and get everything back into focus.

“Not many people can do that, it’s just a certain thing about him, and I admire him for that.

“I think he brings a sense of calmness to the team.”

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Mercy High School Burlingame Mary Alice O’Reilly, volleyball, San Jose State

Serra head basketball coach Chuck Rapp, left, and head baseball coach Craig Gianinno, right, are pictured with, from left, student-athletes Connor McGrath, Andre Mercurio, Chris Lewis and Barry Timko.

SHCP’s Kyle Church

SHCP’s Dan Stornaiuolo

Serra coach Craig Gianinno first took note of Mercurio watching him play summer ball in advance of his junior year. In that game, Mercurio bunted for two hits, once on a push bunt and the next time a drag bunt.

Mercurio projects to be a hard-nosed, “whatever-it-takes” type player with gap power who can hit to all fields, and is unafraid to hit with two strikes, Gianinno said. Mercurio has excellent defensive instincts, too.

His fearless approach rubs off on teammates, Gianinno said.

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“Whatever he lacks physically in size, he’s going to make up for because he’s mentally tough and believes he’s better than you,” Gianinno said.

Mercurio said his family’s support and religious faith have enabled him to reach his potential.

“My mother (Dina) always told me that underdogs come out on top a lot of the time,” Mercurio said.

“I always play with a chip on my shoulder. I love to prove people wrong.”

This story was originally published on SanMateo.Patch.com.

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Salesian Club leader helps kids in the neighborhood where he grew up DeMartini, 50, who was asked to consider a position – and a career at the club – by thenDrive down Filbert Street and look over Executive Director Fred Scolari and Gumina at the school yard next to Sts. Peter and Paul when he was a senior at Sacred Heart High Church. If the day is sunny, chances are good School. you will see Randy DeMartini pitching a An outstanding athlete, DeMartini said baseball to a crowd of kids, or kicking a soche was thinking about attending college and cer ball, on the flat cement yard outside the had quit sports briefly in junior year to focus Salesian Boys and Girls Club in North Beach. on academics and had done very well. As a For 31 years DeMartini, wearing shorts senior, DeMartini had begun hanging out at rain or shine, and with a quick word of supthe club regularly, playing with the younger port or congratulation, a pat on the back or kids, coaching and mentoring the youngsters. a short hug – and an affinity for all things The father of three – Kaytlin, Dante, and Elvis Presley – has been a fixture at the Nicholas – DeMartini grew up a couple of Salesian Club. blocks away from the club on Filbert and “There has never been a day I didn’t love Jones streets, the youngest of four boys. He coming to work,” said DeMartini, assistant is still close with his parents, George, 80, and director at the club, who organizes pick-up Marie, 78, of whom DeMartini said: “These games and coaches one or two teams every are my favorite parents.” season, basketball, baseball and soccer, as DeMartini prays the rosary daily. He is well as directing and acting in the club’s devoted to his wife Catrina (spelled with a musicals, organizing the monthly Masses, “C” – she doesn’t want to be confused with staffing the drop-in club all summer, directing Hurricane Katrina, he joked as an aside). He field trips and away camp and assisting with calls her “my love.” fundraising. “I love all kids.”

DeMartini attended San Francisco State “Randy can have 30 kids run out into the briefly but didn’t see the point of pursuing a Randy DeMartini and Salesian Club kids are pictured on a summer field trip. yard by merely announcing over the intercom degree, he said, since he already had the job that he is starting a handball or baseball and career he loved. DeMartini’s empathy for game,” said club Executive Director Russ Gumina. the kids at the club spans all ages from 9 when children can The Salesian Club was established in 1918 by Father Salesian Sisters, formally known as Daughters of Mary first join for the $10 annual fee. But it is adolescents for whom Oreste Trincheri, who came to San Francisco and found Help of Christians. he said he has the most empathy. “There’s a lot going on in that the area spawned 60 percent of the city’s juvenile delinThe sisters and in particular Sister Antoinette, who is that stage. They never communicate with their parents, they quency, according to the Salesian Club website. still a frequent visitor to the Salesian Club, are the ones communicate with their peers,” said DeMartini, who said he is The club became a corporation in 1952 and added girls in DeMartini credits with “getting me involved with Almighty not loath to offer a little advice to teens along the lines of “Let 1994. From the first, the club offered sports, music, dramat- God.” He also credits Sister Antoinette with his love of “the me tell you what’s going to happen if you keep doing that.” ics and discussion clubs in the charism of St. John Bosco, second greatest king,” the King of Rock and Roll, for showIn the past 15 years, the club has experienced tremendous who founded the Salesians of Don Bosco, originally called ing the Elvis Presley movie “Spinout” during a rainy day in growth, going from a membership of 350 boys to a nearly the Society of St. Francis de Sales, in mid-19th century Italy. his second grade classroom.

1,000 boys and girls, Gumina said.

St. John Bosco’s mission was to help the displaced children “Randy DeMartini has been an integral part of this “Randy leads by example,” said Gumina, who nominated of the poor and laboring classes of the Industrial Revolution, DeMartini for the CYO Hall of Fame. DeMartini will be growth,” said Gumina who noted that for years he and who were often left to roam the streets unwatched and inducted April 2 at St. Emydius Gym in San Francisco. “He DeMartini were the only staff members. “Randy is always uneducated in faith, academics or a trade. is a wonderful family man, the ‘father’ that some of the club ready and willing to do whatever it takes to get the job done.”

Salesian priests staff Sts. Peter and Paul Parish in San children do not have.”

But most important, Gumina said, “Randy is a true Francisco and the school is under the direction of the “I’ve been here since I was 6 years old. I love it,” said Salesian who has dedicated his life to working with youth.”

(PHOTO COURTESY SCOTT PATTERSON)

(PHOTO COURTESY CATHOLIC CHARITIES CYO/JASON STEINBERG)

(PHOTO COURTESY RANDY DEMARTINI)

By Valerie Schmalz

St. Gabriel fifth grader Michael Patterson dribbles down the court during the 2010-2011 CYO basketball season.

Archdiocesan Catholic youth sports results, fall-winter 2010-11 Final results for Catholic youth sports in the Archdiocese of San Francisco fall and winter seasons.

They are CYO winter results for boys basketball, girls soccer; fall results for boys soccer, girls volleyball; CYO Marin girls volleyball results; Peninsula Parish/Schools League results for boys baseball and girls volleyball.

Winter: CYO San Francisco / San Mateo Boys Basketball Division Champion 2nd Place Good Shepherd Stuart Hall 7-7 St. Peter Pacifica Epiphany 8-1 Holy Name Salesian 8-2 Stuart Hall 8-3 Megan Furth Academy Mission Dolores St. Charles 8-4 St. Thomas Apostle St. John 8-5 Holy Name St. Peter Pacifica 8-6 Holy Name OL Pillar 8-7 West Portal SAIC 8-8 Holy Name St. Mary 8-9

Winter: CYO San Francisco / San Mateo Girls Soccer Division Champion 2nd Place St. Gabriel 3-1 St. Cecilia (Mulkerrins) St. Monica 3-2 SVDP 4-1 St. Brendan/St. Cecilia - Downey (co-champions) 5-1 Convent OL Guadalupe 6-1 St. Cecilia - Caltagirone/St. Gabriel (co-champions) 6-2 SVDP St. Peter SF 8-1 OL Guadalupe St. Brendan 8-2 Good Shepherd/St. Gabriel - Stiegeler/Nasrah (co-champions)

Winter: CYO San Francisco / San Mateo Boys Basketball

Fall: Peninsula PPSL North / South Volleyball

Division Champion 2nd Place 3-1 Holy Name St. Cecilia 3-2 St. Ignatius St. Cecilia 3-3 St. Cecilia St. Gabriel 3-4 OLV St. Brigid 3-5 St. Finn Barr St. James 4-1 St. Stephen OLM 4-2 St. Ignatius Holy Angels 4-3 St. Anne St. Peter Pacifica 4-4 West Portal Holy Name St. John OL Pillar 4-5 4-6 Megan Furth Academy St. Thomas More St. Anne St. Peter Pacifica 5-1 St. Cecilia St. Peter Pacifica 5-2 St. Elizabeth Holy Name 5-3 Star of the Sea St. Paul 5-4 OLV Cornerstone 5-5 Cathedral School Brandeis H. Day 5-6 OL Pillar St. Anne 5-7 St. Mary Salesian 5-8 St. Cecilia St. Paul Shipwreck 6-1 Mission Dolores St. John 6-2 Star of the Sea FAIS 6-3 Epiphany Holy Name 6-4 Epiphany OL Pillar 6-5 St. Thomas More Holy Angels 6-6 Holy Name St. Gabriel 6-7 St. Finn Barr Epiphany 6-8 St. Gabriel Epiphany 7-1 St. Gabriel West Portal 7-2 OLM St. Finn Barr 7-3 Corpus Christi St. Gabriel 7-4 OLPH St. Thomas Apostle 7-5 St. Thomas More St. Charles 7-6

Division Champion 2nd Place 5 Lions St. Matthew North 5 Lions St. Veronica South 5 Cubs St. Matthew North 5 Cubs St. Gregory South 6 Our Lady of Angels Our Lady of Angels Lions (Blue) (White) 6 Eagles Our Lady of Angels Nativity 7 Our Lady St. Veronica Sharks of Angels (White) 7 JV Our Lady of Angels St. Raymond 8 St. Matthew St. Gregory Sharks (Blue) St. Matthew 8 Varsity St. Gregory

Fall: Peninsula PPSL North / South Baseball Division Champion St. Matthew 5 Cubs South 5 Cubs Immaculate Heart North of Mary 6 Eagles Our Lady of Angels St. Gregory 7 JV Our Lady 8 of Angels Varsity

2nd Place

Immaculate Heart of Mary St. Timothy St. Gregory

Fall: CYO San Francisco / San Mateo Girls Volleyball

Fall: CYO Marin Girls Volleyball Division 5 6 7A 7B 8A 8B

Champion OLL (Mann) OLL (Lucey) OLL St. Isabella St. Patrick (Osborn) St. Raphael (Rolstad)

St. Brigid School San Francisco’s third graders captured a CYO championship for the fall 2010 girls volleyball season.

2nd Place St. Hilary OLL (Whitman) San Domenico OLL St. Patrick (Bogardus) St. Patrick

Fall: CYO San Francisco / San Mateo Boys Soccer 2nd Place Division Champion St. Cecilia St. Gabriel 3-1 St. Cecilia/St. Gabriel (co-champions) 3-2 SVDP/Salesian (co-champions) 3-3 St. Stephen St. Cecilia 4-1 St. Cecilia St. Peter SF 4-2 St. Cecilia NDV 5-1 St. Stephen/St. Cecilia (co-champions) 5-2 Salesian 5-3 West Portal Stuart Hall 6-1 St. Cecilia St. Peter SF 6-2 Stuart Hall Town School 7-1 St. Gabriel St. Brendan 7-2 St. Cecilia 7-3 St. Stephen/St. Thomas More (co-champions) 8-1 St. Stephen St. Cecilia 8-2 Salesian Stuart Hall 8-3 Epiphany Waldorf

Division 3-1 3-2 3-3 3-4 4-1 4-2 4-3 4-4 4-5 5-1 5-2 5-3 5-4 5-5 5-6 6-1 6-2 6-3 6-4 6-5 6-6 7-1 7-2 7-3 7-4 7-5 7-6 8-1 8-2 8-3 8-4 8-5 8-6 8-7

Champion St. Brendan St. Brigid St. Cecilia OLV St. Gabriel Epiphany West Portal Good Shepherd Epiphany OLM West Portal OLV Cornerstone St. Peter SF Holy Angels West Portal Good Shepherd OLM St. Stephen St. Charles St. John Holy Name OLM St. Charles NDV St. Brigid St. Thomas More St. Brigid St. Cecilia OLV OLM St. Thomas More West Portal St. Finn Barr

2nd Place St. Cecilia St. Gabriel Epiphany Good Shepherd St. Cecilia St. Brendan St. John St. Thomas More St. Peter SF St. Brendan St. Anne St. Stephen Mission Dolores St. Gabriel Good Shepherd St. Cecilia Holy Name Epiphany St. Cecilia West Portal St. Brigid West Portal OLV St. Stephen West Portal Corpus Christi Mission Dolores St. Anne St. Paul St. Cecilia West Portal St. Charles St. Anne Holy Name

Websites for more information: athletics.cccyo.org for CYO information; www.ppsl.info for information on Peninsula Parish/Schools League

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ND Tigers win first CCS title since 1999

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The Notre Dame Belmont Tigers defeated Scotts Valley March 4 to win the 2011 Central Coast Section Division IV girls basketball championship. It was the Tigers’ first CCS basketball title since 1999. The Tigers earned the No. 4 seed to advance to the Nor-Cal Tournament, where they were scheduled to play the winner of Lassen/Colfax March 10 in Belmont at 7pm.

The Tigers are coached by Josh Davenport and John Caselli. Team members are Janet Brazil, senior; Gianna Bertana, junior; Claire Soderer, senior; Cynthia White, junior; Amanda Dames, junior; Katie Flaherty, senior; Kate Larson, junior; Emily Morris, senior; Elaine Cleland, senior; Claudia Arquero, freshman; Alanna Aquino, freshman; Becca Grigg, freshman.

Alfred Siniora . . .

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that he has had, he has been able to translate that into a very positive way in his life, and demonstrate to his classmates those values that we try and teach every day. I think he has transformed our community in ways that he probably doesn’t even realize.”

One of the lessons St. Ignatius drills into students, said Siniora, is that “life is not all milk and honey,” and there are ample opportunities for serving the poor and marginalized, including through a junior year activity affectionately known as GOYB – Get Off Your Butt – which for Siniora meant feeding the poor in the Tenderloin.

It happens that social justice runs in the family. Hanna Siniora, the brother of Alfred’s grandfather, is a Palestinian Christian who for 40 years has worked for peace between the Palestinian people and the Israelis. He is an influential publisher in Jerusalem, and with a Jewish counterpart also operates a Dialogue Club.

At the St. Ignatius club, which meets every Tuesday, Jews and Palestinians tell their stories, members are shown respect and friendships are made. They go out to dinner every other month and share meals at other times.

“We eat, we talk, we try to close the barrier between the two people,” Siniora said.

“Alfred brings a remarkable sense of humor to the club,” said Shelley Friedman, a French teacher and co-moderator of the club with Paul Totah, St. Ignatius director of communications. (She’s Jewish, he’s Palestinian.) “The warmth of his personality brings people together and makes people want to join the club,” she said. Building bridges, she added, “is the first step toward being able to bring peace and reconciliation in our hearts.”

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Archbishop Mitty High School in San Jose this winter season continued a six-year run of success in the WCAL, producing tournament champions in girls and boys basketball and girls soccer.

This season, the Mitty girls soccer and boys basketball teams were both tournament and round robin champions. The Mitty girls basketball team, which won the

Coaches, like head football coach John Regalia, say that, first and foremost, Siniora is “coachable” – meaning he’s willing to listen, to learn, is open to growth and is willing to put what he learns into action.

“It’s owning it, listening to it, digesting it and then putting it into action within your personality,” said Regalia. “I think Alfred, who has grown exponentially each year, is a great example of what the results of a coachable attitude is,” he said. The football coaches of the West Catholic Athletic League agreed, naming Siniora to the second team All-WCAL. Siniora, who is Greek Orthodox, said faith is a major part of his life, and the ritual of reciting the “Prayer of St. Ignatius” before games has special meaning. “We are doing it for the greater glory of God,” and, he added instinctively, “AMDG,” the Jesuit motto, Ad majorem Dei gloriam, meaning to the greater glory of God. He’ll be off to college in the fall, to either a UC or CSU campus, planning on studying business, no doubt applying what he learned as a student athlete: “The best part has to be how it keeps you on track,” he said, on the field and in the classroom.

Said Ruff, the principal, “He is not perfect. He does not have the best grades in the school. He is not the best athlete in our school. But that is not really the measure of our success.

“Jesus calls us to be human,” she said, “and with that humanity there are great moments, there are difficult moments, there are painful moments and there are incredible moments. It is when we are human when we are at our best, and Alfred, I think, really embraces that.

“I think he has a great sense of who he is,” Ruff said, “and part of that is because of some of the experiences he had to go through, which others haven’t. So he had to find himself.”

tournament championship, is co-champion with Presentation High School in San Jose, the round robin winner.

Will Scharrenberg, director of athletics at Archbishop Mitty, said that the school’s boys and girls basketball teams have played for Central Coast Section titles for six consecutive years.

He noted the WCAL is unusually balanced. In girls basketball this winter, for example, St. Ignatius beat Presentation twice; Presentation beat Mitty twice and Mitty beat St. Ignatius twice.

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more during the regular season, and Contreras had to beat both of them to reach the finals.

Contreras won five matches in a row to become a CCS champion and qualify for the state championships. The only other Riordan sophomore wrestler to win CCS was Adam Cohen in 1979.

Aherne won the CCS second place in his weight class and also earned a trip to the

(PHOTO COURTESY NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL BELMONT.)

Archbishop Riordan High School’s wrestling team has brought home the school’s first ever Central Coast Section team trophy for the sport.

The Crusader wrestlers, ranking 17th in the section, placed fourth out of 86 competing high schools in competition Feb. 25-26. This is the first time a San Francisco Catholic school has earned a team award at the sectional championships.

The 2011 team had a school record of four CCS wrestlers who placed and two finalists.

Two Crusaders – senior Paul Aherne and sophomore Zac Contreras – represented Riordan at the California Interscholastic Federation boys wrestling championships in Bakersfield March 6. Aherne won one match and lost two. Contreras won two and lost two but finished in the top 16 in his weight class out of 40 wrestlers who qualified. That put him in the top 1 percent in the sport across California’s 800 high schools.

In the sectionals, Contreras, trailing 5-8 in a critical match, pinned the top-seeded wrestler in the section. That victory clinched the Crusaders’ fourth-place team trophy.

On the way to his victory, Contreras defeated the No. 3 seed in the quarterfinal round as well as the No. 2 seed in the semifinal match. The No. 3 and No. 2 seeds were the only wrestlers to beat the Crusader sopho-

(PHOTO COURTESY ARCHBISHOP ROIRDAN HIGH SCHOOL)

Archbishop Riordan wrestlers win first team award at sectionals

Notre Dame High School Belmont and Presentation High School in San Jose face off each year in a longstanding basketball rivalry dubbed “The Catfight” because Notre Dame’s mascot is the Tiger and Presentation’s mascot is a Panther.

This year’s game drew the largest crowd for either team all season as Presentation, which came into the game ranked No. 1 in the WCAL, defeated Notre Dame 46-38.

state finals. Seeded No. 5 in the tournament, he beat the No. 4 and No. 1 seeds on his way to the final match.

Senior Mitch Magat won the fifth-place medal and junior Julian Morrisette was sixth-place medalist.

Another milestone for Crusader boys wrestling was head coach Vittorio Anastasio’s recognition with a special Central Coast Section “Steve Sterns Honor with Victory Award.”

Anastasio was recognized at the sectional championships for his years of dedication and success but most important for instilling character-building as the foundation of his program.

After a five-year sabbatical, it was the first time back to the CCS championships for Anastasio, who wrestled for Riordan and graduated in 1984.

In 1984 he was an assistant coach while wrestling locally in college. In 1988 he became head coach, and under his leadership the team has enjoyed sustained popularity and averaged rosters of 50 or more athletes.

Since 1990 Anastasio has been working full-time at Riordan and now heads the Counseling Department. In 2006, he became

Archbishop Riordan High School’s wrestling team, under head coach Vittorio Anastasio, earned a trophy in the 2010-11 sectionals – a first for the Crusaders.

the father of twins and retired as a coach to focus on raising a family. He jumped back into coaching for the 2009-2010 season and quickly revived the program by increasing participation and success.

Days before the 2010 CCS championship Anastasio experienced a sudden cardiac death episode and had to be revived through defibrillation. It was discovered that he has a rare genetic disease called Brugada, which is known to be fatal to healthy people between the ages of 35 and 50. He now has a defibrillator implanted in his chest that shocks him when he experiences a sudden cardiac death episode.

“I was advised to not go back to work for awhile and not to coach by one doctor, and another doctor said go for it,” Anastasio told Catholic San Francisco. “Over time I’ve been physically rebounding and mentally I’m coming back.”

During the CCS tournament, the excitement level was so high that Anastasio’s assistant coaches ran up to him out of concern for his health. Anastasio decided to stay in the moment: “I was a little worried but I thought, if I get shocked, I get shocked – it’s worth it.”

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Marin Catholic High School’s girls basketball team, pictured above, finished the regular season with a Marin County Athletic League championship and a 24-8 record, qualifying for the California Interscholastic Federation NorCal Tournament March 26. Marin Catholic boys basketball (20-11) also began a run at a state title as they entered the NorCal Tournament March 8. In wrestling, the Wildcats hosted and won their own Dawn2Dusk Tournament and had five MCAL champions: Nate Boutwell, Andrew Cresalia, Rocky Sitzmann, Evan Egas, and Joe Azzolino. Sitzmann also placed third in the North Coast Section tournament, where he qualified for his first state tournament.

(PHOTO COURTESY MARIN CATHOLIC)

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Two Marin Catholic football players were recognized at a dinner Feb. 17 that honored 24 of Northern California’s Outstanding High School Scholar-Athletes. Mike Padovese and Tyler Scott – pictured with coach Ken Peralta, school President Father Tom Daly and coach Mazi Moayed in the back row – received $1,000 scholarships from the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame Scholarship.

Both students will be walk-ons at UCLA’s football program in the fall.

Guest Commentary Can sportsmanship be defined by a score?

By Erick Rommel If I told you one high school basketball team beat the other by a score of 108-3, you’d probably get upset. You’d talk about a lack of sportsmanship. You’d ask what the coach was teaching his team. You’d confidently make assumptions based on two numbers and no other information.

That 108-3 is a real score. It’s the result of a game between the girls’ varsity

teams at Christian Heritage High School and West Ridge Academy, both in Utah.

A defeat of that magnitude raises questions: How does a loss like that affect the players on the losing team? Does it have repercussions off the court? Should the coach of the winning team be punished for what appears to be an unnecessary humiliation?

Some would even ask if the game should have been ended early, at least while the score total was still less than the combined ages of a team’s players.

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One team, I assume, that would be opposed to a mercy rule is Plano West High School. It suffered through a doubledigit loss to Flower Mound Marcus High School earlier in the season. Marcus is the No. 2 boys’ basketball team in Texas and the 12th-ranked team in the country.

Plano West didn’t enter its rematch prepared for another deflating defeat. Despite the previous outcome, they believed they could win. At the end of the first quarter, they’d only scored four points. The team wasn’t discouraged, though; they were winning. They held Marcus to only two points.

That quarter defined the Plano West strategy: You can’t be blown out if the other team never gets the ball.

Ignoring shouts from Marcus fans of “shoot the ball” and “bo-ring,” they slowed the game down. At the end of regulation, the game was tied. Neither team scored a point during the first overtime period.

After the second overtime, the game was still tied. It wasn’t until the third overtime that Marcus broke free and won, 38-31.

At the end of what was probably one of the most bizarre games in his career, Danny Henderson, Marcus High’s coach, gave Plano credit for attempting an unpopular strategy. “That was a lot of courage because that’s not a popular thing to do,” he said. “I really respect [Plano’s coach] for doing it.”

In the end, that’s what sports is all about: respect. You can win a game by 50 points and be classy, or you can win by a point and embarrass yourself. It really is about how you play the game.

Rob McGill, coach at Christian Heritage High School, says his team’s 105-point blowout of West Ridge was a sign of respect. “I have been on the other side of this equation,” he said. “It was very insulting when teams slowed the ball down and just passed it around. That’s why I’d rather havea team play me straight up, and that’s why I played them straight up. Because I didn’t want to taunt them, I didn’t want to embarrass them, I didn’t want them to think we could do whatever we want.”

Not everyone will agree with McGill’s decision. With a score of 108-3, it’s hard to be supportive.

But, perhaps Carli Perkins, the leading scorer on the West Ridge basketball team, said it best. “Sometimes the score doesn’t show everything. Sometimes all you can give is your fullest,” she said. “It’s really important to have sportsmanship. It makes basketball fun.”

If we all approached life the way Carli approaches sports, we’d all be winners, regardless of the score.

Erick Rommel writes a column for Catholic News Service.

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Ollie Matson, member of USF team that chose integrity over glory Ollie Matson, a star of a legendary and undefeated University of San Francisco football team that refused a bowl bid that compromised the players’ values, died of respiratory failure Feb. 19 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 80.

A running back, Matson had a 14-year professional career and was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, but he was as well known as a member of the 1951 Dons who, unanimously, turned down an invitation to the Orange Bowl, to play Clemson, presumably for the national championship, only if they left their two African-American players behind.

Those two players were Matson and Burl Toler, who died at age 81 in 2009, after a successful career as a National Football League official – the first African-American in pinstripes.

The 1951 Dons, with a 9-0 record, it is often said, were the best team in intercollegiate history. Nine of its players were drafted into the NFL, and three of them – Matson, Gino Marchetti and Bob St. Clair – went on to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. That is more than any other team in the history of intercollegiate football.

The perfect record in 1951 entitled the team to a bowl invitation, but the Dons voted unanimously to go nowhere without their black teammates. Jesuit Father Stephen Privett, the president of USF, recalled the time in a 2009 speech:

at USF. The program died that very year for lack of funds. Those USF student-athletes literally chose ‘good’ over gold’; solidarity over glitz; integrity over glory. They saw ‘good’ as ‘gold’ and went for it. This is who we are and who we want to be.”

Matson also played football at Washington High School and San Francisco City College. After earning his USF degree in 1952 and before he reported for work with the Chicago Cardinals of the NFL, he won two medals, bronze and silver, in track at the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki.

“When he finally joined the Cardinals he experienced a sensational rookie season,” reads his Hall of Fame bio.

After seven seasons, Matson was traded to the Los Angeles Rams for an unprecedented nine players. He finished his career with Philadelphia in 1966, and entered the Hall of Fame in 1972, the same year as USF’s Marchetti. During his career, Matson earned first- or second-team All-NFL honors six times and was selected to play in six Pro Bowls.

In 2006, USF honored Matson as a “Legend of the Hilltop” as one of the top 75 athletes in the university’s history at its 150th anniversary. All of the 1951 team members received an honorary degree of humane letters that year.

Father John Lo Schiavo, chancellor of USF, said, “Ollie was more than a great athlete. He was a gentleman in the best sense of that word.”

(PHOTO COURTESY USF ATHLETICS)

By George Raine

Ollie Matson is pictured in an undated photo with USF head coach Joe Kuharich.

“That vote cost them a likely national championship and the gate receipts that would have kept football alive for them

New book co-written by Catholic journalist retells basketball ‘miracle’ of Challenge, Triumph, and Growing Up Autistic.

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Taxpayer funding and Planned Parenthood In a budget amendment proposed by Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, largely along partisan lines, voted Feb. 18 to cut off Title X family-planned funds to Planned Parenthood. Proponents said taxpayer funds should not go to the nation’s largest provider of abortions. Opponents said that because Planned Parenthood provides a broad range of health services, the ban would do more harm than good to women’s health. Catholic San Francisco asked Vicki Evans, Respect Life Coordinator for the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns, for her viewpoint on the debate.

There is much information and misinformation swirling around the Pence Amendment and its potential to close down Planned Parenthood. To paraphrase Mark Twain, Planned Parenthood’s demise is greatly exaggerated, especially by Planned Parenthood itself.

The Pence Amendment is amendment No. 11 to the House appropriations bill, HR 1. It denies funding to Planned Parenthood of America and 102 of the organization’s affiliates.

Related amendments to HR 1 would eliminate funding for Title X programs, ban federal and local appropriations to pay for abortions in the District of Columbia, ban funding for the U.N. Population Fund and ban funding for foreign nongovernmental organizations that promote or perform abortions as a method of family planning. These amendments were introduced because Americans, regardless of how they feel about abortion, are not often eager to subsidize it with their tax dollars – especially abroad and especially in this economy.

Planned Parenthood’s reaction was swift and intense.

Pence’s proposal alone would cut off 48 percent of its patients, or 1.4 million people, from their source of health care, the organization said.

But let’s take a closer look at Planned Parenthood’s other sources of revenue and at the services it provides.

Planned Parenthood receives about a third of its revenues from clinic income, a third from contributions and grants and a third from government sources. According to its most recent annual report, it performed 324,008 abortions in 2008 – representing 27 percent of all U.S. abortions that year. Abortion accounted for $152 million, or 37.5 percent, of its total clinic income of $405 million. Abortion is Planned Parenthood’s most profitable activity. Contraception, sterilization, pregnancy testing, HIV and STD testing, cancer screening and a growing number of RU486 chemical abortions make up the balance of its clinic income.

The organization receives contributions and grants from the general public and large foundations such as the John D. Rockefeller and Bill and Melinda Gates foundations. Because Planned Parenthood is a nonprofit under the federal tax code, donations made to it are deductible as charitable contributions.

It is a popular misconception that nonprofits do not make a profit; they are simply not subject to income tax on their revenues in excess of expenses. Without shareholders, this excess is plowed back into operations. Planned Parenthood reported excess revenues of $63.4 million this year, down from $85 million last year.

In its most recent fiscal year, Planned Parenthood received $363 million from government sources. The greatest part was from two federal programs: Title X and Medicare waivers.

Title X of the Public Health Services Act was passed by Congress in 1970 to control population growth by distributing contraceptives to low-income families. Planned Parenthood is the largest recipient of Title X funding.

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Welcomes new missal as return to fidelity As someone who sustained the blow of losing a reverential Latin Mass in favor of informality and curious liturgical translations, I welcome the restoration of fidelity to the original. Perhaps younger Catholics may find adjustments initially disconcerting but I recommend they speak to Catholics of a certain age who not only stayed the course during (unwanted) alterations in text but endured a multiplicity of experimentations including clown Masses, jettisoning beloved devotional hymns in favor of newly minted offerings akin to the oeuvre of Peter, Paul and Mary, and other liturgical atrocities. The revised Roman Missal is not imposing uncomfortable changes to our Mass, only proposing to restore to it the excellence long overdue.

Blanche F. Smith Atherton

‘The Lord be with you’: Sublime exhortation Should they have lived long enough, the English-Catholic authors, and notorious curmudgeons, Evelyn Waugh and Anthony Burgess would both be betraying wry smiles at the overdue obsequies for the “pale and banal” response: “And also with you” to the rather sublime exhortation: “The Lord

Letters welcome Catholic San Francisco welcomes letters from its readers.

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

be with you.” It is our loss that neither is around to be the modern-day Cranmer for our new effort at a vernacular liturgy.

Msgr. Steven Otellini The writer is pastor of Church of the Nativity in Menlo Park.

Sees misguided effort to re-Latinize liturgy I am surprised that a person as liturgically aware as Archbishop Niederauer would so misread the main reason for opposition to the new translation of the Mass (“Mass changes offer deeper encounter with Eucharist,” Feb. 25). All the awkward misinterpretations that have been mentioned are only examples that result necessarily from the fatal flaw of the approach. This translation is a misguided attempt to re-Latinize the liturgy, and its result is texts consistently foreign to American worshipers. As the bishop has mentioned often in his enlightening and inspiring homilies, the mystery of the Eucharist is not an impenetrable puzzle but an inexhaustible reality to be explored the rest of our lives. Mystery is deepened not through obscuring but through illuminating. That should have been the goal of the new translation. The more worshipers can discover and celebrate the Eucharist in the expressive beauty of our own unique language, the more we can appreciate and respond to the challenge of God’s relationship with us.

Please do not allow this Latin wall to be re-assembled between the American people and the Paschal Mystery of Jesus Christ.

Michael C. Busk San Francisco

Inspired by priest’s missal revision stance It was with great joy that my colleague and I read the article about Father Anthony Ruff (“Liturgist drops speaking engagements over missal translation process,” Feb. 11) regarding his honest and courageous decision not to promote the new Roman Missal.

For all those who have convinced them-

The Medicare waivers program began in 1993, when the Department of Health and Human Services waived, for purposes of receiving free contraceptives, its usual income limits for qualiVicki Evans fying for Medicaid benefits. Medicaid is a program for eligible low income individuals and families that is jointly funded by state and federal governments and managed by the states.

Although the law stipulates that funds from either program cannot be used for abortion, states remain free to use their own funds to pay for “medically necessary” abortions for Medicaid beneficiaries. A Guttmacher Institute report indicates that 20 percent of Medicaid recipients report having used Medicaid to pay for abortions.

As a practical matter, government funds awarded to Planned Parenthood for a specific, restricted nonabortion purpose like Title X spending, for example, result in other nonrestricted funds being freed up to support its abortion segment at its discretion. It becomes a matter of which pocket the dollars come from.

Government has helped Planned Parenthood grow into a billion-dollar enterprise over the past 40 years. If Planned Parenthood doesn’t continue to offer medical care to poor women, even without further government funding, it is because it won’t – not because it can’t. It has the resources to do so.

selves that the church is doing this as return to a sense of the awe and mystery of the Latin Mass, we pray that your minds and hearts be opened to the truth. Father Ruff expressed with great authority the feelings we have had about this for a long time.

Not every liturgy we attend is a transcending experience but they all hold that possibility. When we take our heads out of the missalettes and really listen to the Word of God, when we converse in our own language with the priest and really hear the beauty of the eucharistic prayers, when we sing with whatever voice God gave us, when we surrender ourselves and become one with every person in our church building, there is not only awe, but the power of God at work. This is not something fabricated by clinging to relics from our past, but the real presence of Jesus as he exists for us today – in one another. Beyond that, we have his real presence that we eat and drink as he commanded us to do. He passes the bread of life and the cup of his blood from his hands to ours – you still need more awe? More than 2,000 years ago God the creator of the universe became a human being so he could radically change the past and the relationship he had with his chosen people. More than 40 years ago a visionary pope saw that human beings needed to reenergize the church Jesus left behind and let the light brighten all our lives. Ours is a God who looks forward, not backward.

Will we stay, pray and pay for the church we love? Absolutely, because eventually the Holy Spirit will prevail and perhaps even pull the institution apart and start all over again and again.

Debbie McAuliffe Sue Hayes San Francisco

arise. What does the Vatican do? It rejects the suggestions of the USCCB, which then caves in and agrees to a new translation of the Mass that is not accurate to the Latin or in line with other nations, is extremely poor English and has very suspect theology. As Father Rick Potts said in Liguorian magazine, our leaders are arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic but will assert their authority right to the end.

Denis Nolan Daly City

Irate at church’s, priests’ attitude toward women Response to Father Bill Nicholas, (“’What would Jesus do?’ is the wrong question,” letters, Feb. 18).

Marian Ritchie is 80 years young, has four children, is involved with and supported St. Gabriel Parish for at least 60 years. It always amazes me how cavalier priests and the Catholic Church can be with regard to parents and children.

The taking care of, feeding, educating, and being generally available for four young children is huge. If the father has to support them, will Father Bill be around, or the church, on their high horse, to take care of them? The church has been out of it for such a long time now with its antiquated views and lack of compassion for any view other than theirs. It’s so easy to preach morals and pass judgment (but not on their own) when you are not the one living with the consequences. You do not have children, nor can you bear children. Men like you have been judging women for years.

It’s not your body. God forbid you ever have to make that kind of a decision. I feel bad for the hospital and all involved. “Let those with no sins cast the first stone.”

Barbra Elzer San Francisco

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Maintains missal translation misfires The Catholic Church has fewer than 20 percent of the people in Europe going to Mass any longer, and in the U.S. the rate has been steadily dropping for 20 years. (Among the people under 30, we are in the same position as Europe.) We have to import priests from other countries – which are feeling the decline in priests themselves – and have had to close churches across the country. Over a dozen dioceses have declared bankruptcy and people around the world have lost faith in the leadership due to scandals as new ones continue to

Praises bishops on worker rights The U.S. Catholic bishops threw their moral weight behind the pro-union protesters in Wisconsin, saying the rights of workers do not abate in difficult economic times.

This time, this bunch actually got it right!

Like they say, even a broken watch is right twice a day.

Peter Mandell San Francisco

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Guest Commentary

St. Joseph’s silent loving power It was 30 years ago when Willy and I were on the porch saying goodbye. We met again recently and talked about that night and also about our years together in sports, especially football, where he was our star quarterback and I was his halfback. He could throw the football with the best of athletes (too bad I couldn’t always catch the football), and I was always so proud to be his teammate. We reminisced about his wedding, his beautiful bride Colleen and how I stood beside them as their best man. We joked about how he chose me to be the godfather of his first son – against Colleen’s wishes – for she wanted someone more spiritual!

That night went on until the wee hours of the morning, and when it was finally time for me to leave and get on the bus for my pilgrimage to the San Francisco Bay Area, Willy gave me his most precious possession: a St. Joseph prayer card. He told me that this was the prayer card that he had carried with him for years and read at daily Mass. Already, in his early life, he had become a man among us boys, and this was due in large part to his model, St. Joseph.

He told me that night that it was through the intercession of St. Joseph that he had experienced the strength, courage and peace he needed to remain faithful to the Catholic Church and to watch over his own holy family as St. Joseph

did with his. He cherished this card and gave it to me as his greatest gift. And his greatest hope was that I, too, would discover that St. Joseph, the “Silent Saint,” could make holy impressions on my heart and soul that would lead to a life of deep prayer, holiness and spirituality.

We were 23 years old then. I carried the card with me for decades. The impressions that were produced on my intellect, feelings, heart and conscience through the prayer card were cumulatively profound. They were especially profound in regard to contemplative prayer.

St. Joseph had wholeheartedly, in the depths of his being, responded to the call to be the guardian of the redeemer, Jesus Christ. We don’t hear any words from him in the Scriptures, but as Pope John Paul II says in “Redemptoris Custos,” “The Silence of St. Joseph has its own special eloquence.” How? In a silent, contemplative manner St. Joseph kept his heart always turned toward Jesus. He prayed and he worked and always grew in his communion with the Lord Jesus and his spouse, Mary, the Mother of God. This was Willy’s spiritual journey, too. A lifetime of doing this daily does great things for the soul, and Willy’s soul has become great. I, too, wanted my soul to be like both of these men, St. Joseph and Willy.

Their spiritual journey was becoming my spiritual journey.

“Prayer to Saint Joseph” O Saint Joseph, whose protection is so great, so strong, so prompt before the throne of God, I place in you all my interests and desires. O Saint Joseph, assist me by your powerful intercession and obtain for me from your Divine Son all spiritual blessings through Jesus Christ, Our Lord; so that having engaged here below your heavenly power, I may offer my thanksgiving and homage to the most loving of Fathers. O Saint Joseph, I never weary contemplating you and Jesus asleep in your arms; I dare not approach while He reposes near your heart.

Press Him in my name and kiss His fine head for me, and ask Him to return the kiss when I draw my dying breath. Saint Joseph, patron of departing souls, pray for us. Amen.

St. Joseph, pray for Willy! Amen.

– Father Vito Perrone

Finally the prayer card wore out, and so too has Willy’s body. My friend has fibrosis and leukemia. The doctors say he may have months or weeks to live. He, who led our football team with his Father incredible endurance, now has trouble walking from Vito Perrone one room to the next. We are praying for a miracle through the intercession of soon-to-be Blessed Pope John Paul II. At the same time, we are preparing for Willy’s passage into eternal life.

As I mentioned, I went to see him a few weeks back. We celebrated Masses together, prayed together and laughed and laughed and laughed. We cried, too. Finally, we had our last Mass before I came back to the monastery in San Francisco.

At the Mass, during the homily, I presented him and each member of his family with a prayer card. It was the same prayer to St. Joseph that he gave me 30 years ago. I wondered would he remember? He said immediately, “Do you know that is the same prayer that I gave to you 30 years ago?”

Yes, I know Willy; do I ever know! This is one of the reasons why the new men’s religious order in the Archdiocese of San Francisco is called the Contemplatives of St. Joseph.

I flew home to our monastery with mixed emotions.

Here is my best of friends, my brother in Christ, and he is dying. But he is dying a happy death. He is so full of joy, light, life, faith, hope and love, that we are all exclaiming: Willy is becoming a saint. But it is no wonder, for St. Joseph is the patron saint of happy deaths.

Oh, and by the way, Colleen said that she is now pleased: I have finally become spiritual enough to be a good godfather to their first son. His name is Joseph.

Father Vito Perrone, a priest of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, is founder of the Contemplatives of St. Joseph, a new monastic order in the archdiocese.

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Why go to a priest for confession?

I recently wrote an article on the new and somewhat controversial Catholic confession iPhone app. In the wake of that piece, I received a number of letters and e-mails about the practice of confession. Many expressed a rather deep impatience with the whole idea of confessing one’s sins to a priest.

Why, some asked, do we require a mediator when seeking the divine forgiveness? Why can’t we “go directly to God?” Others darkly insinuated that the Catholic obsession with confession is tantamount to an abuse of power, the institutional church asserting its control over the inner lives of ordinary Catholics.

These are very old objections, going back at least to the 16th-century Protestant Reformation. Young Martin Luther was an Augustinian monk with a somewhat unhealthy preoccupation with confession. It is said that Luther would finish an exhaustive rehearsal of his sins and peccadilloes and then return, almost immediately, to the confessional box, convinced that he had forgotten something. He tried, over and again, to receive assurance of salvation from the practice of confessing and receiving absolution, but never felt satisfied.

One day, after many years of anguished wrestling, Luther was in the tower of the monastery studying the opening of Paul’s letter to the church at Rome. A particular verse hit him with the force of a revelation: “the just man shall live by faith” (Romans 1:17). What struck him with such power was the conviction that justice or salvation came not from any external work of ours but only from God’s grace accepted in faith. And this faith, he surmised, was an act that took place in the believer’s deepest interiority.

On the basis of this experience, Luther sharply distinguished between what he called “the inner man” and “the outer man.” He asserted that what is really vital in the spiritual order is a function of the inner man, while the works of the outer man are relatively derivative and secondary.

One of the implications of this distinction is that the “external” features of religion – liturgy, vestments, rituals, pilgrimages, sacramentals and sacraments – become marginal.

Thus, Luther reduced the seven sacraments of the Catholic Church to two – baptism and the Lord’s Supper – and declared that even these are not, strictly speaking, necessary for salvation. And he directed his ire against the sacrament of confession, which, in his judgment, the Lord had never commanded and which had become simply a means by which

Roman authorities could exercise their power over the good people of Christ. I think it’s safe to say that the vast majority of Protestants have followed the lead of Luther in this regard, and many have gone beyond him in their marginalization of the sacraments and their suspicion of confession in particular.

It is fascinating to mark how thoroughly our modern secular culture has been influenced by this typically Protestant bifurcation between the inner and the outer. How blithely most of us assume that what is really important is going on “deep down inside;” and how quick most of us are to relegate the body, behavior, and action to the realm of mere “externals.” And we are deeply suspicious of a person or institution that would impose upon us any sort of behavioral conformity. Even the most cursory acquaintance with contemporary culture reveals that freedom – the sovereignty of the inner self – is our supreme value.

The church is nothing but the extension of the Incarnation through time and space, the vehicle by which Christ continues to touch and address the world.

Why precisely did the Catholic Church find itself in opposition to Luther’s accounts of salvation, the inner man and the sacraments? In a word, it was the abiding Catholic sense of the Incarnation. In Jesus Christ, the absolutely transcendent God came close to us, spoke to us in a human voice, reached out to us with human hands, looked upon us with human eyes and saved us with his crucified human body. As St. John put it so pithily, “the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.” Accordingly, from St. Irenaeus onward, orthodox Christian theologians and spiritual masters have consistently resisted the temptation to drive a wedge between spirit and matter; for they knew that the pure

Spirit of God addressed us precisely through the body of Jesus.

The church is nothing but the extension of the Incarnation through time and space, the vehicle by which Christ Father continues to touch and address the world. And Robert Barron this is why, for Catholic theology, externals matter very much indeed. Color, texture, voice, liturgical gesture, light, sound, bread, wine, oil, the touch of a hand are the material elements by which the Incarnation continues to find expression. To say that such things are secondary or peripheral is to say that the body of Jesus is secondary or peripheral.

One of the most powerful moves that Jesus made was to offer the forgiveness of sins. To the paralyzed man, he said, “my son, your sins are forgiven;” and to the woman caught in adultery, he said, “neither do I condemn you;” and to the good thief, he said, “Today, I assure you, will be with me in Paradise.” But in none of these cases did the Divine Spirit immediately commune with the human spirit; rather, the communication of forgiveness came through the voice, eyes, gesture, and embodied presence of the Word made flesh. As he administers the sacraments, the priest is operating, not in his own person, but in persona Christi (in the person of Christ). His voice, his gesture, and his embodied presence are a sacramental representation of Christ’s embodied presence.

Could God forgive outside of the rituals of the Catholic Church? Of course. God is held bound by nothing. But the stubbornly incarnational God, Catholics believe, has desired to convey his forgiveness through the body of the church.

And that’s why we go to a priest, an embodied alter Christus, for confession.

Father Robert Barron is the founder of the global ministry Word on Fire and the Francis Cardinal George Professor of Faith and Culture at University of St. Mary of the Lake in Mundelein, Ill.

March 11, 2011 A READING FROM THE BOOK OF GENESIS GN 2:7-9; 3:1-7 The Lord God formed man out of the clay of the ground and blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and so man became a living being. Then the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and placed there the man whom he had formed. Out of the ground the Lord God made various trees grow that were delightful to look at and good for food, with the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Now the serpent was the most cunning of all the animals that the Lord God had made. The serpent asked the woman, “Did God really tell you not to eat from any of the trees in the garden?” The woman answered the serpent: “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden; it is only about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden that God said, ‘You shall not eat it or even touch it, lest you die.’” But the serpent said to the woman: “You certainly will not die! No, God knows well that the moment you eat of it your eyes will be opened and you will be like gods who know what is good and what is evil.” The woman saw that the tree was good for food, pleasing to the eyes, and desirable for gaining wisdom. So she took some of its fruit and ate it; and she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized that they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made loincloths for themselves.

First Sunday of Lent Genesis 2:7-9; 3:1-7; Psalm 51:3-4, 5-6, 12-13; 17; Romans 5:12-19; or 5:12, 17-19; Matthew 4:1-11

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Have mercy on me, O God, in your goodness;

in the greatness of your compassion wipe out my offense.

Thoroughly wash me from my guilt and of my sin cleanse me.

Be merciful, O Lord, for we have sinned.

For I acknowledge my offense, and my sin is before me always: “Against you only have I sinned, and done what is evil in your sight.”

Be merciful, O Lord, for we have sinned.

A clean heart create for me, O God, and a steadfast spirit renew within me.

Cast me not out from your presence, and your Holy Spirit take not from me.

Be merciful, O Lord, for we have sinned.

Give me back the joy of your salvation, and a willing spirit sustain in me.

O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth shall proclaim your praise.

Be merciful, O Lord, for we have sinned.

A READING FROM THE LETTER OF PAUL TO THE ROMANS ROM 5:12-19 OR 5:12, 17-19 Brothers and sisters: Through one man

sin entered the world, and through sin, death, and thus death came to all men, inasmuch as all sinned – for up to the time of the law, sin was in the world, though sin is not accounted when there is no law.

But death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who did not sin after the pattern of the trespass of Adam, who is the type of the one who was to come. But the gift is not like the transgression. For if by the transgression of the one, the many died, how much more did the grace of God and the gracious gift of the one man Jesus Christ overflow for the many. And the gift is not like the result of the one who sinned. For after one sin there was the judgment that brought condemnation; but the gift, after many transgressions, brought acquittal. For if, by the transgression of the one, death came to reign through that one, how much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of justification come to reign in life through the one Jesus Christ. In conclusion, just as through one transgression condemnation came upon all, so, through one righteous

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n Greek mythology, the sirens sang so bewitchingly that the sailors would let go of the helm of their ships, with the result that the ships crashed on the rocky shores killing everyone on board. Odysseus, however, had his ship’s crew block their ears with beeswax to prevent them from hearing the siren song. He had himself tied to the mast of the ship after instructions that the crew should absolutely ignore his pleas to untie him at the song of the sirens. Thanks to his bold initiatives, everyone was saved from destruction.

On another occasion, Orpheus sang so divinely and played on the lyre so enchantingly that the seductive siren song was completely drowned out, thus saving the sailors from a shipwreck and certain death.

Siren songs are part of our lives, aren’t they? They come from within and without.

The season of Lent ushered in with the rituals of Ash Wednesday inspires us to take a closer look at the siren songs in our lives.

What is it that makes people come out of the woodwork on Ash Wednesday? There is something eerie – and haunting – about Ash Wednesday that drives people in droves into churches. Suddenly we seem unafraid of cremating our past by placing ashes on our foreheads. We seem receptive to the blunt message that we are dust and to dust we shall return. Further, we seem better disposed to the clarion call to repent and believe in the Gospel.

The Word of God this first Sunday of Lent paints colorful pictures of those influences we call temptations. These siren songs can be so charming and irresistible that we at times let

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Heeding life’s siren songs go of logic and even common sense and are plunged headlong into destruction.

In the colorful story of sin of our first parents, couched in mythic and metaphoric language, we are told of how temptations led them to militate against their creator. Sadly, they could not deal with their siren songs. They had been made in God’s own image and likeness, and yet their deliberate defiance shattered their exalted position of unimaginable closeness with God. Paul speaks of how the first parents’ disobedience and sin resulted in condemnation, judgment, and death. However, the second Adam – Jesus Christ – through his obedience brought about grace, justification and acquittal. Through Jesus, grace has overflowed and death has been overcome.

Paul’s towering theological argument is demonstrated in the Gospel story of Jesus’

siren songs. Jesus stands firm and unassailable. He is tempted but does not yield. He is like us in everything but sin.

In the first temptation, Jesus refuses to turn stones into bread. He shows us the way not to fall for the desire to turn everything as a means for our selfish and willful ways. Also, we cannot allow ourselves to be swayed from the path of grace we have set for ourselves.

In the second temptation, Jesus refuses to take the glamorous path of falling from the parapet and being held up by the angels. He has no need to impress anyone. He is his own self. How often we are tempted to be who we are not – and who we are not meant to be!

In the third temptation, Jesus is tempted to idolize. God alone is to be worshipped.

We need to put all creation in perspective in relation to the supreme place God has in our

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act, acquittal and life came to all. For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so, through the obedience of the one, the many will be made righteous.

A READING FROM GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW MT 4:1-11 At that time Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil. He fasted for forty days and forty nights, and afterwards he was hungry. The tempter approached and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become loaves of bread.” He said in reply, “It is written: One does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes forth from the mouth of God.” Then the devil took him to the holy city, and made him stand on the parapet of the temple, and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down. For it is written: He will command his angels concerning you and with their hands they will support you, lest you dash your foot against a stone.” Jesus answered him, “Again it is written, You shall not put the Lord, your God, to the test.” Then the devil took him up to a very high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in their magnificence, and he said to him, “All these I shall give to you, if you will prostrate yourself and worship me.” At this, Jesus said to him, “Get away, Satan! It is written: The Lord, your God, shall you worship and him alone shall you serve.” Then the devil left him and, behold, angels came and ministered to him. lives. When we begin to adore anything other than God we come to grief.

Interestingly, Jesus employs the Word of God in countering temptations. Here’s an invitation for us to be nourished by the wellsprings of the Word of God. Is it possible that each day of Lent, we could set aside about 10 minutes to read prayerfully some passages from the Bible, especially from the Gospels?

If we do, we are sure to encounter Jesus who will challenge us to face our own siren songs with strength, dignity, and imagination.

Other concrete suggestions I would dare to offer are: if not too inconvenient, we could find time to go to daily Mass during Lent.

This would assume that we do not fail to go to Sunday Mass. We could participate in giving to those who are in need. These would include the Archbishop’s Annual Appeal and the St. Vincent de Paul Society. We could volunteer for the ministries of the parish and those that serve the poor (St. Anthony Dining Room, Second Harvest, Catholic Worker House, etc).

This season of Lent, let our prayer and penance, our scripture reading and meditation, personal evaluation and reappraisal, silence and solitude, fast and abstinence, be combined with love and forgiveness, service and generosity, gentleness and compassion. Through our spiritual quest and social outreach, with God’s amazing grace, we will learn to deal effectively with the siren songs and reorient our lives toward deeper living and loving.

Father Charles Puthota, Ph.D., is pastor of St. Veronica Parish in South San Francisco.

My quartet of saints, and other friends “Befriend the saints!” is the best advice that someone gave me when I first returned to the faith. “Read about them, see what they have done, turn to them in prayers, respectfully and lovingly, and you’ll see how much they will help you.”

This was fairly new to me since my understanding of the communion of saints was very superficial in the beginning.

But I followed this advice, turning first to St. Francis de Sales (because he wrote so beautifully and so simply about loving God and what practical steps we can take to come closer to him – and because he is a local saint from the Alps, from Annecy, where I went to school). I started praying directly to St. Paul, too, having returned to his writings and finding in them so much encouragement and wisdom. At about the same time, I added St. Monica. I had read a little book about

her that transformed my understanding of motherly tears and love when they are permeated with total trust in God. Finally, since I now live in San Francisco, it was fitting that I should turn to the wonderful icon of charity and brotherhood, St. Francis of Assisi. Here was a true champion of respect for creation (centuries before our own green awareness), a tireless peacemaker, an advocate of simplicity and poverty. And Francis is such a terrific role model for letting go of fear: the fear of the wolf, of the leper, of the other.

This is how I found myself with quite a solid and remarkable quartet of saints.

But once I had entered this new country, this “land of saints,” I became aware of the lesser-known ones and found myself making new friends again and again. Right

behind the front line of the mega-saints, there is a huge cloud of witnesses – and they are all here to help us! Do you know the names of Philomena?

Or Ponce de Faucigny, or Ephraim the Syrian?

Gianna Beretta Molla, Michèle Edith Stein or Christina the Astonishing? Talk about Szekely diversity! Each saint has a unique charism given by QUARTET OF SAINTS, page 15

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Zealotry’s false cloak I work and move within church circles and find that most of the people I meet there are honest, committed, and for the most part radiate their faith positively. Most churchgoers aren’t hypocrites. What I do find disturbing within church circles though is that too many of us can be bitter, angry, mean-spirited, and judgmental, especially in terms of the very values that we hold most dear.

It was Henri Nouwen who first highlighted this, commenting with sadness that many of the really angry, bitter and ideologically driven people he knew he had met inside of church circles and places of ministry. Within church circles, it sometimes seems, everyone is angry about something.

Moreover, within church circles, it is all too easy to rationalize our anger in the name of prophecy as a healthy passion for truth and morals.

The logic works this way: Because I am sincerely concerned about an important moral, ecclesial, or justice issue, I can excuse a certain amount of neurosis, anger, elitism and negative judgment because I can rationalize that my cause, dogmatic or moral, is so important that it justifies my mean spirit: I need to be this angry and harsh because this is such an important truth!

And so we justify our anger by giving it a prophetic cloak.

We believe that we are warriors for God, truth and morals when, in fact, we are mostly just struggling with our own wounds, insecurities and fears. Hence we often look at others, even whole churches made up of sincere persons trying to live the Gospel, and instead of seeing brothers and sisters struggling, like us, to follow Jesus, we see “people in error,” “dangerous relativists,” “New Age pagans,” “religious flakes,”

and in our more generous moments, “poor misguided souls.”

But never do we look at what this kind of judgment is saying about us, about our own health of soul and our own following of Jesus.

Don’t get me wrong: Truth is not relative, moral issues are important, and right truth and proper morals, like kingdoms under perpetual siege, need to be defended. Not all moral judgments are created equal, neither are all churches.

But the truth of that doesn’t trump everything else or give us an excuse to rationalize our anger. We must defend truth, defend those who cannot defend themselves and be solid in the traditions of our own churches. But right truth and right morals don’t necessarily make us disciples of Jesus. What does?

What makes us genuine disciples of Jesus is living inside his Spirit, the Holy Spirit, and this is not something abstract and vague. If one were searching for a single formula to determine who is Christian and who isn’t, one might look at the Epistle to the Galatians, Chapter 5. In it, St. Paul tells us that we can live according to either the spirit of the flesh or the Holy Spirit.

We live according to the spirit of the flesh when we live in anger, bitterness, judgment of our neighbor, factionalism and non-forgiveness. When these things characterize our lives we shouldn’t delude ourselves and think that we are living inside of the Holy Spirit.

Conversely, we live inside of the Holy Spirit when our lives are characterized by charity, joy, peace, patience, goodness, long suffering, constancy, faith, gentleness and chastity. If these do not characterize our lives we should not nurse the illusion that we are inside of God’s Spirit, irrespective of our passion for truth, dogma or justice.

This may be a cruel thing to say, and perhaps more cruel not to say, but I sometimes see more charity, joy, peace, patience, goodness and gentleness among persons who are Unitarian, New Age or Father Ron Baha’i than I see among those of us who do stand Rolheiser up so strongly for certain ecclesial and moral issues but are often mean-spirited and bitter inside of our convictions. Given the choice of whom I’d like as a neighbor or, more deeply, the choice of whom I want to spend eternity with, I am sometimes pretty conflicted about the choice: Who is my real faith companion? The angry zealot at war for Jesus or cause? Or the more gentle soul who is branded wishy-washy or “New Age?” At the end of the day, who is the real Christian?

As T.S. Eliot once said: The last temptation that’s the greatest treason is to do the right thing for the wrong reason. We may have truth and right morals on our side. But our anger and harsh judgments toward those who don’t share our truth and morals may well have us standing outside the Father’s house, like the older brother of the prodigal son, bitter both at God’s mercy and at those who are receiving that mercy.

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

Guest Commentary

Mastering classroom technology “What’s the capital of Maryland?” I asked Julia, one of my second graders. “Come on up to the Smartboard and click on the correct state and please tell us the capital.”

As Julia scurried up to the front of the room, the rest of the children waited excitedly for their turn to touch the Smartboard.

Interactive computer screens that children can manipulate, Smartboards are the new wave sweeping the San Francisco archdiocesan elementary schools. They are wonderful teaching tools but have their limitations.

Most teachers question how much emphasis should be placed on using the Smartboard in their classrooms. We wonder where the balance is between keeping up with our digital age and making sure children are learning the basics. As teachers embrace new classroom technologies, we have much continuing education to do ourselves – not only to maintain our equipment but also to learn how use it effectively.

Anyone who has never seen a Smartboard before would be shocked to know that students can write on it, using colored pens, as if it were a chalkboard. We can play movies and download clips from the Internet. I often download clips from Catholic Telemedia Network to show my students. We can search the Internet together on sites such as google-kids.com, which is an excellent way to introduce researching topics on the computer.

The best part about having the Smartboard is the ability to create one’s own lessons using the “Notebook” feature.

Teachers can find ways to integrate the feature into their cur-

riculum. For example, if I am teaching a lesson on verbs I can type up my own sentences and then the students can underline the verb in each sentence using the colored pens.

Being able to cater to all types of learners is an integral part of a teacher’s job. The Smartboard can cater to both visual and auditory learners. We only have so many teaching minutes in a day, and we want to reach all of our children.

Although it is an excellent tool, this technology has its pitfalls like any other. It often freezes up or lags, making it difficult to keep pace with second grade attention spans. It helps to come in before school and orient my board for the day to save time.

It becomes frustrating when I need whiteboard space and simply want to use my old chalkboard. Quite a number of special teachers visit my classroom and do not know how to use the Smartboard. Another challenge teachers face is having the time to create lesson plans that include the Smartboard; it is definitely an extra step that teachers never had to do before, and it can be quite time-consuming. Even researching already-created Notebook pages takes time. Most important, classroom technology has to tie into one’s curriculum or it wastes teaching time.

Most teachers would agree that we cannot rely solely on the Smartboard as our teaching tool. Pulling out manipulatives for math or having children write on paper remain necessary.

We can have the Smartboard running at the front of the room

but children still need to work at their desks. This is how we assess them, which should never get lost as technology advances.

More and more technologies will enter our classrooms, and we are going to need teacher train- Megan Hamilton ing. We had a Smartboard technician visit our school and it was quite useful to see that it lagged for him, that it wasn’t just us. It happens to trained professionals, too.

Despite these frustrations, the technology’s use in the classroom far exceeds its limitations. Teachers should embrace it and encourage their principals to fund Smartboards and teacher training. Most teachers in my building are thrilled to have the equipment and will continue to work toward using it most effectively, but without forgetting about teaching the basics.

Back in the classroom, Julia touched the state of Maryland in the far northeast corner of the Smartboard and announced, “The capital is Annapolis, Ms. Hamilton.”

Megan Hamilton teaches second grade at St. Brendan School in San Francisco.

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Je me souviens (I remember)

By Tony Morgan If France were the sister of the Catholic Church then Quebec arguably would be the little sister. An area of immense size (think Texas times three), Quebec is so brutally cold that in some areas the year is split between August and winter.

But from this ice and cold the Catholic French Canadians (les Quebecois) dedicated to the glory of God created such magnificent cities as Ville de Quebec and Montreal and built churches and monuments even in the smallest villages.

From its beginning Quebec attracted some of the greatest French martyrs. Consider Isaac Jogues and Charles Garnier, two Jesuits who established Catholicism in Quebec with their blood. The seeds they planted created a new France committed to the church and her teachings. Up until the 1960s, Quebec produced some of the largest families in the world, with families as large as 12 children being quite common.

Everyday life in French Quebec was difficult. Many industries were owned by English businessmen, and French Canadians were quietly forbidden to apply for jobs. The French language was repressed and French was sometimes prohibited in public and in private. The church was the fortress in which French Canadians found comfort and security. This bond lasted until the early 1960s, when, seemingly overnight, many French Canadians abandoned the church just as they called for a separatist nation. This abandonment of the church has been nothing less than a trail of tears.

Although the Catholic presence in Quebec has decreased significantly in the past 50 years, what remains is under attack.

Pro-secular groups are pushing the prayer ban in the heart of French Canada in the city of Saguenay. And they will continue their fight to strip religion from the public space. A Mr. Alain Simoneau was awarded $30,000 in damages from a Canadian court, which ruled that a council prayer violated his freedom

of conscience. Such a ruling only confirmed that the last virtue of a debased society is tolerance. But it is a tolerance that is often one way, and anti-Christian.

The mayor of Saguenay and many Catholics are challenging these secular groups, saying that the prayers and prominent crucifix inside the provincial and local legislature is part of the provincial heritage. It would be easy to feel disgust for these secular groups but in truth are they not born from our lack of faith, our laziness to attend church and to embrace the sacraments and promote Catholicism wherever we go? To dislike these groups would be as silly as disliking a thermometer for indicating that you have the flu. In fact, paradoxically, these secular groups are doing us a favor by showing us how far we have fallen. They have increased as we have sadly decreased. But it Is not too late to turn the tide.

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God to flourish at a specific moment. And it was given to them for us, to help us grow in the love of God and love of neighbor. Once in that wonderful territory of the communion of saints, I understood better the implication of its premise.

It extends to all believers in Christ. “Now you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the holy ones and members of the household of God” (Ephesians 2:19). Thanks to prayers and grace, in turn it led me to better grasp the Trinity. Jesus challenges us to be true followers. (That is what being a Christian means – we are “little Christs.”) It is a lifelong process and we test it daily in our relationships with our neighbors. It is just amazing to realize the links between all of us, the living and the dead. I thought of my own grandmother who gave me the foundations of the faith as a child.

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the church, the weaker is the evil one. These secular groups only survive because they see a vacuum of faith. If Quebecers would return to the church, reject moral relativism and multiculturalism at the expense of Catholicism, follow the sacraments, reject the culture of death and produce vocations, they would remember how much happier they were and these anti -Catholic groups would wither away.

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I can see the fruits today of the tireless saints, anonymous or not. The communion of saints is based on faith, prayers, intercession and charity. “In this solidarity with all men, living or dead, the least of our acts done in charity redounds to the profit of all” (Catechism of the Catholic Church 953).

I am well aware of wars and crimes, sickness and torture, personal and structural sins. But that is one of the first lessons of the saints: Don’t be deterred by problems, discouraged by rejections, distracted from the goal. See – and seek – the good in the world. Be part of the sanctification of the world. Know that something else is going on, and that it starts with each one of us.

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.

entered Vienna? Was it the day you marched through Berlin in triumph? Or was it the day you were crowned emperor?”

Napoleon said, ‘’It was none of these things. The happiest day in all of my life was the day of my first Communion. I felt so close to God. I’d do anything to get that feeling back again!”

In Quebec, the motto is “Je me Souviens” (I remember).

It is a warning to Quebecers not to forget their roots, their struggle to keep their language, Catholic faith and culture alive. It is a warning that must be taken seriously, not only in Quebec but in all of the Catholic world.

Tony Morgan, who attends Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Parish in Mill Valley, lived in Montreal in the 1980s.

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Film on monks’ tragedy a profound meditation on discipleship’s cost NEW YORK (CNS) – A brilliant dramatization of real events, “Of Gods and Men” (Sony Pictures Classics) is a restrained religious masterpiece and a memorable viewing experience from which every adult – as well as many mature teens – can expect to profit.

The film recounts the fate of a small community of French Trappists living in Algeria during that nation’s civil war in the 1990s.

Targeted by violent Muslim extremists – the Algerian conflict pitted militant Islamists against a secularly oriented military government – the monks must decide whether to continue their medical and social work for the vulnerable local population or abandon them by fleeing to safety.

From the first, their headstrong prior, Brother Christian (Lambert Wilson), is resolved to stay. He also refuses the military guard that civic officials offer to put in place to protect the monastery, regarding such a measure as out of keeping with his order’s commitment to peace.

Brother Christian’s confreres, however, forcefully point out to him that, with all their lives at stake, the decision on whether to remain must ultimately be a collective one. As each individual struggles with the issue, weighing his own welfare against his sense of commitment to his vocation and to those he serves, their varied personalities are subtly but strikingly profiled.

By contrast to the tightly wound Brother Christian, for example, Brother Luc (Michael Lonsdale) emerges as an avuncular, unflappable character whose faith endows him with a courageous good humor that nothing, it seems, can disturb.

Using the tools of the monastic life itself, director Xavier Beauvois finds a path to the heart of the Gospel through simplicity, a compassionate sense of brotherhood and an atmosphere of prayer enriched by sacred music and potent silence. The result is a profound meditation on what Lutheran theologian Dietrich Bonhoffer famously termed the cost of discipleship.

While thoroughly measured in its portrayal of Muslim characters – the monks are shown to be on good terms with their sympathetic neighbors, and even one of the area’s militia leaders ultimately demonstrates his respect for other faiths – “Of

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Gods and Men” presents a timely and artistically adept testimony to the power of nonviolence in the face of anti-Christian fanaticism.

Viewers of faith will also welcome the lyrical, though not unrealistic, image of religious life presented here, conveyed most powerfully in the climactic scene of a shared meal that movingly evokes the Last Supper.

Indeed, in addition to its success on so many other levels, “Of Gods and Men” could serve as a highly effective tool for the vocation directors of various religious orders.

If that seems ironic, given the life-threatening peril that forms the dark backdrop for this masterful piece of cinema, it’s an irony – or, perhaps more accurately, a divine paradox – as old as the church itself.

The film, in French with subtitles, contains brief gory violence, some unsettling images and a single instance each of rough and crass language. The Catholic News Service classification is A-III – adults. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG-13 – parents strongly cautioned.

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

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St. Patrick’s Day Events Events commemorating the holiday continue through April 17. Also visit United Irish Societies website at www.uissf.org.

March 12, 9 a.m.: “St. Patrick’s Day Mass” at St. Patrick’s Church, 756 Mission St. in San Francisco with Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice presiding.

March 12, 11:30 a.m.: “St. Patrick’s Day Parade” beginning at 2nd and Market St. in San Francisco and continuing to Civic Center.

March 12, 6 p.m.: St. Isabella’s Parish Annual St. Patrick’s Day Dinner Dance. No host cocktails at 6 p.m. with traditional corned beef dinner at 7 p.m.

Evening includes Irish music, Irish dancers and a DJ plus an Irish soda bread contest. Tickets are $20 per person. Call (415) 479-1560.

March 13, noon – 4 p.m.: 55th Annual St. Patrick’s Day Barbecue Fundraiser at Point Reyes Station benefiting Sacred Heart Parish of Olema and St. Mary Magdalene Mission of Bolinas. Menu includes fabulous chicken, pasta with homemade sauce, salad and rolls and milk, tea or coffee. Tickets are $18 for adults and $7 for children. Beverages, Drakes Bay oysters, and desserts will be available for purchase. Raffle tickets are available, too. Come to the Dance Palace, 5th and B Street in Point Reyes.

Call (415) 663-1139. “It is a multi-generational, cross-cultural, fun for all event,” said organizer, Loretta Murphy.

March 17: “Hibernian Newman Club St. Patrick’s Day Luncheon” at the St. Francis Hotel, 335 Powell St. in San Francisco. Kathleen Ryan will be honored as Hibernian of the Year. Entertainer and youth counselor, Michael Pritchard, is featured speaker. A nohost reception begins at 11 a.m. with a corned beef and cabbage lunch at noon. Celebration includes traditional Irish music and entertainment. Tickets are $85 per person. Call (415) 386-3434.

Lenten Opportunities Daily through April 17, 8 a.m. – 8 p.m.: “40 Days for Life” Campaign of fasting and of prayer for an end to abortion. Call (415) 668-9800 or visit www.40daysforlife.com/sanfrancisco.

Daily through April 17, 7 a.m. – 7 p.m.: Join the 40 Days for Life campaign in San Mateo as part of a peaceful, non-violent prayer vigil. For more information phone Jessica at (650) 572-1468. Visit www.40daysforlife.com/sanmateo.

Wednesdays through April 20, 7:30 p.m.: The Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose offer a “Lenten Journey” to reexamine minds and hearts to enter deeply into the Paschal Mystery during Holy Week. Series includes faith sharing with a Scriptural base, time to share and explore what the scripture has to share. Takes place at Dominican Sisters of MSJ motherhouse, main parlor, 43326 Mission Boulevard, entrance on Mission Tierra Place, in Fremont. E-mail blessings@msjdominicans.org or call Sister Beth Quire, OP at (510) 449-7554.

Fridays, March 11 to April 22, 6:00 p.m.: Soup Suppers followed by Stations of the Cross in Mater Dolorosa Church, 307 Willow Ave., South San Francisco. Call (650)-583-4131 or visit www. mdssf.org March 11, 7 p.m.: Father John Moulder and his quartet perform “Trinity,” a sacred concert, at St. Mary’s Cathedral, the first Friday of Lent. The suggested free-will offering is $15, and the proceeds benefit the cathedral. Father John is a guitarist and

March 25 - 27: The Divine Mercy Eucharistic Society’s Annual Regional American Divine Mercy Congress at the San Ramon Marriott.

Program includes adult conference and a youth conference. Guest speakers include Father Matthew Mauriello, the North American representative on the Executive International Committee for the World Apostolic Congress on Mercy, as well as Father Christopher Crotty and Christine Watkins. The Divine Mercy Eucharistic Society was founded in the Diocese of Oakland, California, in 1990. The society is a member of the World Apostolic Congress on mercy in Rome. Tickets for the three days are $50 for adults and $20 for youth. E-mail DivineMercyJesus@comcast. net or visit www.DivineMercyWestCoast.org.

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This retreat is offered at no cost by the campus ministers and the parish youth ministers of the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Call Vivian Clausing at (415) 614-5654 or Janet Suzio at (415) 614-5663. composer who has played nationally and internationally at numerous festivals, clubs and concert halls. He received his masters degree in music from Northwestern University and is currently a faculty member at Benedictine University and Northwestern University. Visit www.johnmoulder.com or call the cathedral at (415) 567-2020.

March 12, 5:15 p.m.: The Serra and Men’s Clubs of Saint Raymond Parish in Menlo Park will be sponsoring and hosting a Military Religious Vocations Mass and barbeque for discernment participants from the Military Archdiocese of the USA attending St Patrick’s seminary discernment retreat weekend. Discernment candidates are all active duty military personnel who will be arriving from all branches of the armed forces, travelling in from all around the nation and overseas. Military veterans are especially welcome. Following mass, a dinner will be hosted at the Ed Kennedy Center on the St. Raymond campus. Dinner Tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for children. The public, especially families, are invited to sponsor a soldier for dinner and also help with driving them to mass. For more information contact the St. Raymond Parish Office on (650) 323 1755 or go to www.straymondsparish. org for directions.

March 19, 9:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.: “United In Prayer Day” at Most Holy Redeemer Church, 100 Diamond St. in San Francisco in Ellard Hall. Day celebrates bond of Centering Prayer groups around the globe, all praying for world peace. Centering Prayer and instructive DVD presentation by Father Thomas Keating, “Invitation from God”, plus time for reflection and discussion. Call Sister Cathy Cahur (415) 553-8776. Free Will Donation.

March 25, 7 – 9 p.m.; March 26, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.: “Revisioning Society,” a workshop teaching fundamentals in Catholic Social Teaching as methods to address issues that face society today. Sessions are facilitated by Dominican Father Michael Sweeney of the Dominican School of Theology and Philosophy in Berkeley. How do these teachings apply to political, economic and social issues? Come for an interactive exploration of what the nation’s Catholic bishops call a “…rich treasure of wisdom about building a just society and living lives of holiness amidst the challenges of modern society.” Takes place and sponsored by St. Hilary Parish, 761 Hilary Drive in Tiburon. To register or get more information, call (415) 435-1122 or e-mail vbornstein@yahoo.com.

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March 25 – 27: “Come and See Retreat for Women” at Mercy Convent in Burlingame. How do you know God is calling you? Are you longing for something more? Experience life in a convent, meet with Sisters of Mercy and hear presentations to answer your questions. No charge for the retreat. Contact Mercy Sister Cindy Kaye by e-mail at kayenun@yahoo.com or call (650) 340-7434 by March 11.

March 26, 9:30 a.m. – noon: “The Sacrament of Reconciliation,” a Lenten evening sponsored by parishes of Deanery Two with presentation by Father David Pettingill, former pastor, St. Gabriel Parish and

professor at St. Patrick’s Seminary in Menlo Park.

Father Pettingill will focus on Vatican II’s perspective on reconciliation. Reconciliation will be available from 11 a.m. The morning session takes place at St. Emydius Church, Ashton at DeMontfort in San Francisco. Call (415) 587-7066.

St. Mary’s Cathedral – Celebrating 40 years Gough and Geary Blvd. in San Francisco (415) 567-2020. Visit www.stmarycathedralsf.org April 6, 10:30 a.m. – noon: Free Grief Support Workshop in the Msgr. Bowe Room, on the west side of the parking lot level of the cathedral. Sessions include information on the grief process, and tips on coping with the loss of a loved one. Presenter is Barbara Elordi, MFT, director of the archdiocesan grief care ministry. Call Sister Esther at (415) 5672020, ext. 218.

Food and Fun March 12, 6 p.m.: “St. Luke Church Annual Crab Feed!” Tickets at $40 per person include all-youcan-eat crab or pre-ordered chicken, antipasti, salad, pasta, and dessert. Raffle and dancing will follow dinner in the Parish Center, 1111 Beach Park Blvd., Foster City. For tickets and info call (650) 345-6660.

March 12: “Fog City Lounge,” St. Monica School Annual Auction Fundraiser Dinner. Come and enjoy an evening of fun, food, and friends in the Parish Hall on 23rd Avenue and Geary Boulevard, San Francisco. This adults only event starts at 6 p.m. with a silent auction, continues with a delicious crab and chicken dinner, and a cash raffle. Tickets are $50 per person and include hors d’oeuvres, dinner, dessert and beverages. For tickets, contact fundraising@ stmonicasf.org or call (415) 751-9564.

March 16, noon: The popular third Wednesday Italian lunch at the Immaculate Conception Church in the Church Hall at 3255 Folsom St., up the hill from Cesar Chavez and Precita Avenue. Come on up to Bernal Heights for the city’s best pasta and meatballs! $8 per person, family style, includes salad. Beverages will be available for purchase.

March 19, 6 p.m.: Celebrate Mardi Gras (a bit late) at Father Lacey Hall in St. Matthias Church in Redwood City. This festive event is presented by the parish and preschool community in honor of the church’s 50th anniversary. It includes a New Orleans style buffet, live Dixie land music, balloon poppers and raffles as well as silent and live auctions. Raffle tickets and dinner reservations will be sold at weekend masses and at the preschool office or call (650) 367-1320 or (650) 366-9544.

April 1, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. and April 2, 9 a.m. – 2 p.m.: Church of the Visitacion “Annual Rummage Sale” in the parish hall, 701 Sunnydale at Rutland in San Francisco. Purchase items from among clothes, furniture, books, jewelry and a “new items booth.”

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Arts and Entertainment April 8 and 15 at 7:30 p.m. and April 9, 10, 16, 17 at 3 p.m.: The 16th Street Players are currently presenting four contemporary comedies by American playwrights. They are in the wheelchair-accessible Community Room on the second floor of Notre Dame Senior Plaza at 347 Dolores St., between 16th and 17th, in San Francisco. Everyone is welcome. Limited parking is available at NDSP and at Mission Dolores. MUNI: J-Church; BART: 16th and Mission streets. Information: (415) 864-4467 or (650) 952-3021.

April 1, 7 p.m.: “Dramatic Presentation of the Gospel of John.” See and hear a spectacular Gospel presentation by Michael Reardon and Patrick Lane at St. Matthias Church in Redwood City, (650) 366-9544. Program includes music, lighting and costumes. Michael and Patrick – who have committed their lives to proclaiming the gospel – have given over 1000 performances throughout the world. Audiences have described it as “Powerful and Prayerful!” A reception to meet the artists will follow the performance. Donations are welcome.

Good Health March 28, 11 a.m.: Free Diabetes Awareness Fair at St. Mary’s Medical Center, 450 Stanyan St.(Level B – cafeteria). Events will include: free blood glucose testing, foot screenings by a podiatrist, and diabetes educators will be on hand to give advice on general diabetes and nutrition and exercise. Call Diabetes Services at (415) 750-5513.

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. Specialized diabetes educators lead the sessions. No previous registration is necessary.

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May 2: 52nd Annual Catholic Charities CYO Golf Day at Sharon Heights Golf & Country Club. As the longest-running charitable golf tournament in the Bay Area, CCCYO Golf Day provides scholarship opportunities for summer programming at CYO Camp and CYO Athletics Summer Camps.

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415-661-2060

Handy Man

INTERIOR, EXTERIOR All Jobs Large and Small

10% Discount: Seniors, Parishioners

Call BILL 415.731.8065 • Cell: 415.710.0584 bheffpainting@sbcglobal.net Member of Better Business Bureau Bonded, Insured – LIC. #819191

Fences & Decks

Expert interior and exterior painting, carpentry, demolition, fence (repair, build), decks, remodeling, roof repair, gutter (clean/repair), landscaping, gardening, hauling, moving, welding.

All Purpose Cell (415) 517-5977 (650) 757-1946

Farmers Insurance Steve Murphy Home • Life • Auto • Renters • Apartments

Lic. # 907564

NOT A LICENSED CONTRACTOR

John Spillane • • • •

Retaining Walls Stairs • Gates Dry Rot Senior & Parishioner Discounts

650.291.4303

Lic. #742961

1655 Old Mission Road #3 Colma, SSF, CA 94080 415-573-5141 or 650-993-8036

Painting & Remodeling John Holtz Ca. Lic 391053 General Contractor Since 1980

(650) 355-4926

Painting & Remodeling •Kitchens •Baths

Contractor inspection reports and pre-purchase consulting

Painting Irish Painting Eoin Lehane

415.368.8589 Lic.#942181

www.Irishpainting-sf.com

S.O.S. PAINTING CO. Lic # 526818 Senior Discount

415-269-0446 650-738-9295

www.sospainting.net

Senior Care Painting “The most compassionate care in town”

Fully Licensed • State Certified • Locally Trained • Experienced • On Call 24/7

Interior-Exterior wallpaper hanging & removal

Kathy Faenzi, MA, Clinical Gerontologist Office: 650.401.6350 Web: www.faenziassociates.com

SUPPLE SENIOR CARE

Service Changes Solar Installation Lighting/Power Fire Alarm/Data Green Energy

BEST PLUMBING, INC. •Interiors •Exteriors

• Family • Work • Relationships • Depression • Anxiety • Addictions

QUALITY HOME CARE SERVING THE BAY AREA SINCE 1996 * Attendants * Companions * Hospice * Respite Care Competitive Rates • Screened • Insured • Bonded

➤ Hauling ➤ Job Site Clean-Up ➤ Demolition ➤ Yard Service ➤ Garbage Runs ➤ Saturday & Sunday

30% off Discount for Schools & Churches No Minimum Order • FREE Delivery

San Francisco: 415.337.9474 Complimentary phone consultation www.InnerChildHealing.com

* Member National Notary Association *

Irish Help At Home

Lic. 407271

Industrial Supply

Unhealed wounds can hold you back - even if they are not the “logical” cause of your problems today. You can be the person God intended.

415.279.1266 Lic. #582766 415.566.8646 mikecahalan@gmail.com

Exterior / Interior Additions ➮ Baths Foundations, Stairs, Dry Rot Replacement Windows ➮ Kitchen Remodeling Architect Available ➮ Senior Discount

PAUL (415) 282-2023 Do you want to be more fulfilled in love and work – but find things keep getting in the way?

Remodeles, Additions, Kitchens, Baths, Dryrot, Stucco

KEANE CONSTRUCTION Electrical

Counseling

Bookkeeping and Taxes

Cahalan Const.

DA LY

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READERS

FREE ESTIMATES

HOUSECLEANING Reasonable rates

Free Estimates Licensed, Bonded & Insured

Christopher’s House Cleaning

415.370.4341 www.christophershousecleaning.com

Licensed contractors are required by law to list their license numbers in advertisments. The law also state that contractors performing work totaling $500 or more must be state-licensed. Advertisments appearing in this newspaper without a license number indicate that the contractor is not licensed.

For more information, contact: Contractors State License Board 800-321-2752

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classifieds FOR ADVERTISING INFORMATION visit us at www.catholic-sf.org or Call: 415-614-5642 Fax: 415-614-5641 Email: penaj@sfarchdiocese.org

Help Wanted Bishop Gorman High School Principal Position Posting

heaven can’t wait Serra for Priestly Vocations Please call Archdiocese of San Francisco Fr. Tom Daly (415) 614-5683

Bishop Gorman High School is seeking qualified applicants for the position of Principal beginning in June 2011. Ideal candidates will be committed to Catholic education, have recent significant experience as a teacher and educational administrator and a graduate degree in related fields, as well as exhibit excellent oral and written communications skills. Salary will be commensurate with experience and credentials.

Please visit the school’s website at www.bishopgorman.org for a detailed job description. From the website, click on the About Us tab at the top, then click Employment Opportunities from the drop-down menu. Send cover letter and resume to principalsearch@bishopgorman.org.

San Francisco Archdiocesan Secondary

Teacher Job Faire Saturday, March 19, 2011 10 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory Sr. Theresa Piro Student Life Center 1055 Ellis Street, San Francisco, CA 94109

Host High Schools Include: Archbishop Riordan High School (San Francisco) Convent of the Sacred Heart (San Francisco) Immaculate Conception Academy (San Francisco) JunĂ­pero Serra High School (San Mateo) Marin Catholic High School (KentďŹ eld) Mercy High School (Burlingame) Mercy High School (San Francisco) Notre Dame High School (Belmont) Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory (San Francisco) Sacred Heart Preparatory (Atherton) Saint Ignatius College Preparatory (San Francisco) Stuart Hall High School (San Francisco) Woodside Priory (Portola Valley) Bring copies of your rĂŠsumĂŠ to the Faire.

Automotive

Hilltop Buick Pontiac GMC Truck I P L B A ! • Extensive inventory means selection

Elderly Care Personal companion, medications, grooming, appointments, shopping, driving, & Alzheimer’s care over 20 years experience, honest and reliable, outstanding references, bonded.

Caregiver ACACIA HOME CAREGIVERS

Compassionate, quality home care for seniors Living at home is the best way for seniors to maintain their lifestyle, not just life.

Nancy A. Concon

Call (415) 713-1366 Adult companion seeks employment with elderly woman. Personal care, doctor’s appts., driving, shopping, live-in or hourly.

Call Annabelle at 415-412-4271

Experienced Private Caregiver available. Responsible for safeguarding client, scheduling appointments, monitoring medications, household shopping, meal preparation, light housework.

415-386-0207

SELL

your house, car, or any other items with a Classified Ad in

Catholic San Francisco Call

415.614.5642

(Filipino-owned)

CALL FOR A FREE IN-HOME ASSESSMENT

Island Home San Juans Islands Home A master suite with a jetted tub, its own deck, a sitting room and 210-degree view of the Strait of Juan de Fuca and Cattle Pass are features of this 3-bedroom, 2 bath unique home on 2.1 acres on Lopez Island.

Very private, yet close to island airport and golf course.

Two-car garage. Stone fireplace.

Walk to beach. $399,000 – $115,000 under county assessed value.

E-mail Dan at cnsuncle01@yahoo.com for more info and/or photos.

(360) 299-0506

Lake Tahoe Rental

LAKE TAHOE RENTAL Vacation Rental Condo in South Lake Tahoe.

Sleeps 8, near Heavenly Valley and Casinos.

Call 925-933-1095 See it at RentMyCondo.com#657

(415) 505-7830 (415) 386-7830 (415) 374-4094

PUBLISH A NOVENA Pre-payment required Mastercard or Visa accepted

Cost $26

If you wish to publish a Novena in the Catholic San Francisco You may use the form below or call 415-614-5640 Your prayer will be published in our newspaper

Name Adress Phone MC/VISA # Exp. Select One Prayer: â?‘ St. Jude Novena to SH â?‘ Prayer to St. Jude

â?‘ Prayer to the Blessed Virgin â?‘ Prayer to the Holy Spirit

Please return form with check or money order for $26 Payable to: Catholic San Francisco Advertising Dept., Catholic San Francisco 1 Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco, CA 94109

PLEASE RECYCLE THIS PAPER! CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Chimney Cleaning

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sacred heart cathedral preparatory

program dates: June 13 thru July 22

Get a Head Start on the SHCP Experience!

Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory’s 6XPPHU LQ WKH &LW\ Program is designed to provide the youth of the San Francisco Bay Area—boys and girls ages 8 to 14—with academic enrichment courses and sports and ďŹ tness opportunities.

de paul summer learning institute

exciting summer offerings

A series of one-week courses, the de paul summer learning institute is for high-achieving students who enjoy scholarship in a challenging, collaborative, project-based environment. Courses are from 8:30am–12:30pm during each week of 6XPPHU LQ WKH &LW\ 2011. Scholars may enroll in one, two, or up to ďŹ ve weeks of courses.

6XPPHU LQ WKH &LW\ challenges young people both inside and outside of the classroom. Our facilities offer the best in academic, athletic, and technological resources. Classes and camps are instructed in a nurturing and inclusive environment, enabling participants to make lasting friendships and build valuable relationships with SHCP faculty, staff, and students.

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• Exploring the World of Science

• Introduction to HTML & Web Design

• Introduction to Spanish Language and Culture

• Engineering

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• Chess

Badminton & Table Tennis—NEW for 2011!

Baseball Basketball Fitness & Games Football

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Girls’ Softball

• Writing in the Digital Age

Golf

• Architectural Design

Soccer

Lacrosse—NEW for 2011!

Tennis Volleyball

• Green Cooking

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• Improvisation • Close Reading

Broadcast Media de paul summer learning

Science—All NEW Topics!

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Speech & Debate Visual & Performing Arts

(OLJLELOLW\ 3UHUHTXLVLWHV The de paul summer learning institute courses are for highly motivated students that are consistently achieving a GPA above 3.0 and for students entering grades 7, 8, or 9 in the Fall of 2011.

Early drop-off, late pick-up, and lunch available.

For more information and registration visit us online at www.shcp.edu/summerprogram 1055 ellis street

san francisco, ca 94109

415.775.6626

www.shcp.edu