March 25, 2011 by Catholic San Francisco

Northeast Japan’s ‘profound loss’; battered diocese counts its dead

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More than 300,000 displaced people were living in makeshift shelters across the ravaged region of northeast Japan as of March 23, and physical, mental and social privation was widespread. Blankets by the tens of thousands poured in from Tokyo, from Canada and elsewhere to comfort survivors, especially the elderly, exposed to the winter cold. The National Police Agency reported more than 22,000 dead or missing, and the number was climbing daily. The Japanese Catholic Church was counting losses that included kindergarten children who were swept away and parishes that disappeared. The church opened an aid center at the Sendai cathedral to serve victims in the Sendai diocese, which includes four devastated provinces. In his message on the center’s opening, Sendai Bishop Martin Tetsuo Hiraga invited every Christian to become involved and recalled that in difficult times “it is important not to forget the infinite mercy of God,” the church news service asianews.it reported. Lack of such basic needs as water, electricity, fuel and medicine, and lack of immediate prospects for improvement, is causing great physical and mental fatigue among the displaced, the news agency said. The chancellor of the Sendai diocese, Father Peter Komastu, confirmed that an unspecified number of pupils of the Catholic diocesan kindergarten lost their lives. Buildings at four parishes were damaged. All the parishes on the south PROFOUND LOSS, page 10

Daly: Ordination set for Bishop-elect Associates and family members celebrate Bishop-elect Thomas A. Daly’s appointment to the Diocese of San Jose as that diocese’s first auxiliary bishop. Bishop-elect Daly’s episcopal ordination will be held May 25 (Page 3).

A man grieves next to his destroyed house where his dead mother is buried in the rubble in Onagawa, Japan, March 17.

St. Brendan Parish joins Christian ministry outreach to imprisoned youth The two priests wondered, “Who are the people in darkness in our area?” the pastor said. They found that while Who is my neighbor? the parish was working with Laguna Honda Hospital, “No The Gospel question strikes at the heart of Christianity. one was going to juvenile hall,” Father Nascimento said. St. Brendan the Navigator pastor Shortly thereafter a new parishioner, Father Daniel Nascimento and a handful Mary Jean Chan, who was baptized of parishioners have found the answer two at Easter last year, approached Father blocks away from the parish church — at Nascimento about working with the youth the new San Francisco County Juvenile at juvenile hall. The Juvenile Justice Center Justice Center. The center houses youths put St. Brendan in touch with Comunidad ages 11-18 who are being held on susSan Dimas. Founded in 1992, Comunidad picion of crimes ranging from burglary San Dimas works with imprisoned and to murder. Most are gang affiliated, and gang affiliated teens and preteens. estranged from their parents. Some are The call from St. Brendan’s was an undocumented, with family in Mexico, answer to a prayer for Comunidad San Central America or South America. Dimas Director Julio Escobar, who had “Basically I believe a parish is called to Father Dan Nascimento been asking God for a way to expand the be a light to wherever it is planted, “said Spanish-speaking ministry to include an Father Nascimento, who took the helm at the parish on English training so volunteers could work with youth Laguna Honda Boulevard near Portola Drive July 1, 2009 at whose primary language is English or Chinese. U.S.-born, the same time as his associate pastor Father Michael Quinn. Father Nascimento speaks some Spanish and Cantonese. (PHOTO BY JULIO ESCOBAR)

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The first English-language training was held Jan. 22 and 29. Volunteers came from the East Bay and San Mateo as well as from St. Brendan Parish. St. Brendan parishioner Amy Feasey, a mother with two small children, drives past juvenile hall and asks herself, “Who wants their child there?” She felt called to help. Her first visit to juvenile hall as a volunteer was for a Monday night Bible study. A group of older teens stopped watching TV and joined in, she said. “They were definitely interested in the readings and talking about them,” she said. “I hardly have time to do Bible study. The fact they made me sit down and think about the reading of the week – I was really impressed.” St. Brendan parishioner Naveen Sharma said the focus of the ministry is very much different than social work. “We are not going there as professionals,” she said. “We are not going there with a treatment plan or treatment goals. We are going there with an open heart to really express love to these children.” St. Brendan parishioner Paul Detweiler, who lives ST. BRENDAN, page 8

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Thanks for this homily exhortation from Capuchin Father Flavian Welstead, parochial vicar at Our Lady of Angels Church in Burlingame. “Lent is a time to say `No’ to ourselves,” Father Flavian said, “while at the same time realizing that `No’ is a love word and can help us live better lives.”… Happy 60 years married to Barbara and Carmello Pulizzano who celebrated their special day on March 10. They will be honored with a special anniversary Mass at their parish of 60 years Star of the Sea, San Francisco on April 10 at 12:15p.m. with a reception following for family and friends. In the spring they will visit Our Lady of the Snows Church in Reno where they exchanged vows 60 years ago….Congrats to Arnett Caviel, a senior at Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory, San Francisco; Flavious Abellana, a junior at Burlingame High School; and Chelsea Price, a senior at Notre Dame High School, Belmont. The three are orators all and were honored for their pro-life words March 10 at St. Gregory Parish in San Mateo by San Mateo Pro-Life. The talks, all written by the young speechmakers, were 5-7 minutes long and addressed abortion and organ donation. Prizes of $100 for Arnett, $75 for

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Bishop-elect Daly named first auxiliary bishop for San Jose diocese Pope Benedict XVI has appointed Archdiocese of San Francisco vocations director Father Thomas A. Daly as auxiliary bishop for the Diocese of San Jose. The appointment was announced in Washington, D.C., March 16 by Archbishop Pietro Sambi, the Vatican’s U.S. apostolic nuncio. Bishop-elect Daly becomes the first auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of San Jose, which was formed from the Archdiocese of San Francisco in 1981. He will be ordained to the episcopate May 25 at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Joseph in San Jose. “On behalf of the clergy, religious and laity of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, I express sincere congratulations and best wishes to Bishop-elect Thomas Daly,” San Francisco Archbishop George Niederauer said. “In all of his priestly work, Bishop-elect Daly has been devoted to serving the people of the local church. While we will most certainly miss him and his many contributions to the archdiocese, we wish him well in his new post. May God bless him in his new assignment.” “I congratulate Bishop-elect Daly on his appointment and I look forward to collaborating with him in my min-

istry as Bishop of the diocese,” San Jose Bishop Patrick J. McGrath said in a statement sent to personnel of the diocese March 16. Bishop-elect Daly was ordained for the Archdiocese of San Francisco in 1987. He is a graduate of San Francisco’s Sacred Heart High School – now Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory — and holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of San Francisco, Boston Bishop-elect College, and St. Patrick’s Thomas A. Daly Seminary & University in Menlo Park. Bishop-elect Daly, 50, has been archdiocesan vocations director since 2002 and president of Marin Catholic High School since 2003. His other pastoral assignments have

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Tim Navone named first lay president at Marin Catholic Marin Catholic High School’s new president will be Tim Navone, director of advancement and varsity golf coach at the Kentfield school. Navone, who has worked at Marin Catholic for 15 years in a variety of roles, takes the position left vacant with the appointment of Bishop-elect Thomas Daly as auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of San Jose. Msgr. James Tarantino, vicar for administration and moderator of the curia for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, made the announcement to the Marin Catholic Board of Regents March 16, on behalf of Archbishop George Niederauer and schools Superintendent Maureen Huntington. Navone, 42, is married with two children. They are members of St. Patrick Parish in Larkspur. During the past three years, he worked closely with Bishop-elect Daly in many areas including the funding of the $13.3 million Pope John Paul II Student Center. Marin Catholic is the last of the archdiocese’s four high schools to appoint a lay president. “I am humbled and honored by this appointment as the first lay president of Marin Catholic,” Navone told Catholic San Francisco.”I look forward to continuing to grow the rich Catholic tradition that has been built by Bishop-elect Daly, Msgr. Tarantino and the others that came before me.”

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Vatican hails ‘historic’ crucifix display ruling VATICAN CITY – The European Court of Human Rights ruled March 17 that crucifixes are acceptable in public school classrooms, a decision Vatican spokesman Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi hailed as “difficult but historic.” The ruling overturns a previous lower court decision in a 2009 Italian case that said the crucifix could be disturbing to non-Christian or atheist pupils and it will be binding in 47 countries, Vatican Radio said.

Libya’s apostolic vicar says war solves nothing TRIPOLI, Libya — “We heard a heavy bombardment on the outskirts of the city. Tripoli is emptying, the population fleeing from fear of being bombed,” Bishop Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli, apostolic vicar of Tripoli, told the church missionary new agency Fides March 21. Bishop Martinelli said he opposed the air bombing campaign by a U.S.-led coalition directed at forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. “War does not solve anything. I don’t know how this new war will finish,” he said. “I keep repeating that we need to cease shooting immediately and begin mediation straight away to resolve the crisis peacefully. Why have diplomatic means not been considered?” In remarks of recitation of the Angelus March 20 at the Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI said “the disturbing news from Libya has given rise to keen anxiety and fears also in me.” He prayed that the combatants keep the welfare of Libya’s citizens foremost in mind.

Church pledges $14 million for Ireland abuse victims DUBLIN — Ireland’s Catholic leaders have pledged a further 10 million euros ($14.2 million) to provide support

Father Perrone on “Mosaic” Father Vito Perrone, founder of the Contemplatives of St. Joseph, speaks about the new religious community on “Mosaic,” March 27, at 5 a.m. on CBS 5 KPIX. On April 3, the show welcomes Father Ed Murray, chaplain, and Cheri Goudy, nurse patient navigator, for the new CHW Cancer Center at St. Mary’s Medical Center in San Francisco. Mosaic is produced by the Archdiocese of San Francisco Office of Communications and Outreach in cooperation with CBS 5.

services for victims of clerical abuse and announced plans for spiritual support to people whose faith has been damaged by the abuse. In a pastoral letter, “Towards Healing and Renewal,” the bishops also acknowledge that “the inadequate response (to abuse) by some church leaders has left a deep wound that may never be fully healed. “We are deeply ashamed of this and we are profoundly sorry for any failures on our part,” said the letter, released March 19 to mark the first anniversary of Pope Benedict XVI’s letter to the Catholics of Ireland dealing with the abuse crisis.

Bishops: New Ways is not a Catholic group WASHINGTON — The publication of a booklet about a “Catholic approach” to same-sex marriage by New Ways Ministry prompted the chairmen of two bishops’ committees to reaffirm a year-old statement that the organization cannot be considered a Catholic group. “Marriage Equality: A Positive Catholic Approach” is a 45-page booklet written by Francis DeBernardo, the executive director of the Mount Rainier, Md., organization that describes itself as a “gay-positive ministry of advocacy and justice for lesbian and gay Catholics and reconciliation within the larger Christian and civil communities.” Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl of Washington, chairman of the Committee on Doctrine Committee, and Bishop Salvatore J. Cordileone of Oakland, chairman of the bishops’ Ad Hoc Committee for the Defense of Marriage, issued a statement March 11.

Speaker: Church needs work of faithful Catholic artists WASHINGTON — Faithful Catholics have all but disappeared from the arts in America — leaving the arts “spiritu-

Pope Benedict XVI smiles as doves are released at the end of his visit to St. Corbinian Church in Rome March 20. A parish church is a place for people to get to know God better, to worship him together and to learn how to take the message of his love to the neighborhood and the world, the pope said at the dedication of the new church.

ally impoverished” and undercutting the ways the church “speaks to the world,” according to Dana Gioia, Catholic poet and former chair of the National Endowment for the Arts. “Catholic artists today are virtually invisible,” Gioia observed in a lecture on “The Catholic Writer Today” he delivered at The Catholic University of America. Gioia’s talk Feb. 28 was part of a series of events celebrating the January inauguration of the university’s new president, John Garvey.

Priest placed on leave pending investigation The Archdiocese of San Francisco released the following statement March 18: Last week an allegation of sexual abuse of a 17-yearold young woman surfaced against Father Daniel Keohane, the associate pastor of St. Cecilia Parish in San Francisco. The alleged abuse took place in the late l970s when Father Keohane was assigned to Church of the Epiphany. The archdiocese has deemed this allegation to be credible (i.e., warranting further investigation), and thus in accord with archdiocesan policies for the protection of minors, Father Keohane has been placed on immediate administrative leave pending a comprehensive investigation. He has denied the allegation. Also in accord with archdiocesan policy, the district attorney has been informed about this allegation. The Independent Review Board of the archdiocese has been consulted and will be responsible for an evaluation of the findings and a recommendation of action to the archbishop once the comprehensive investigation has been completed. Any other allegations of sexual abuse involving Father Keohane should be directed to the civil authorities, and to Archdiocesan Victim Assistance coordinator, Ms. Barbara Elordi. Her secure phone line is (415) 614-5506, and her email is elordib@sfarchdiocese.org. Ms. Elordi is also available to assist with any pastoral concerns that may arise as a result of this matter.

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Father William Knapp, 88; priest for 62 years Father William Knapp died March 20 at Nazareth House in and Bill told them that ‘Just because we’re brothers, that doesn’t San Rafael where he had lived since 2008. A priest for 62 years, mean we have to share a room,’” Msgr. Knapp said with a laugh. the retired pastor of St. Stephen Parish in San Francisco was Father Clement Davenport and Father Knapp were ordained ordained by Archbishop John J. Mitty Dec. together in 1948. “Bill was a great priest, a 18, 1948. He was 88 years old. holy priest,” Father Davenport, retired pastor Father Knapp was born in Oakland and of Church of the Nativity Parish in Menlo Park, attended Our Lady of Lourdes School there said. “I’m very grateful to have been ordained before entering St. Joseph College Seminary with him and to have known him.” in Mountain View and later St. Patrick’s Ordained at a time when the Archdiocese Seminary &University in Menlo Park. of San Francisco covered a major part of Father Knapp’s brother, Msgr. Richard Northern California, Father Knapp served Knapp, the retired pastor of St. Raphael Parish as parochial vicar at parishes including St. in San Rafael, was ordained in 1955. Msgr. Basil in Vallejo and St. Joseph in Alameda. Knapp spoke with Catholic San Francisco from He also served at St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Nazareth House where he also lives. Francisco, Holy Angels in Colma, and St. “Bill was a very good priest and a very Charles in San Carlos. He is a former pastor of good brother,” Msgr. Knapp said. “I followed Mater Dolorosa Parish in South San Francisco, Father William Knapp in his footsteps to the seminary. He’ll still be former assistant director and principal of St. helping us all from heaven.” Vincent’s School for Boys in San Rafael, and Msgr. Knapp said the two “complemented one another” with former director of field education at St. Patrick’s Seminary. Father Bill carrying the traits from their German heritage and Msgr. Father Knapp resided at St. Isabella Church in San FATHER KNAPP, page 16 Knapp the Irish traits. “We once had a chance to share a suite here

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blessed to have spent my almost 25 years of priestly ministry serving the families and young people of Marin, especially at Marin Catholic High School and St. Vincent School for Boys in San Rafael. “I ask for your prayers as I come to serve the people of the Diocese of San Jose,” the bishop-elect said. Msgr. James Tarantino, vicar for administration and moderator of the curia for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, said, “Bishop-elect Daly and I have been close associates for many years. I consider him a very good friend in our common work for the Lord in this archdiocese. I know him well enough to say that he is passionate about the Lord, the church, education and youth.

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Archdiocesan parishes, schools pray, collect funds to help Japan By Valerie Schmalz Parishes and schools in the Archdiocese of San Francisco prayed and launched fundraisers for the people of Japan following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Parishes in Marin, San Mateo and San Francisco counties took up a second collection for Catholic Relief Services in Japan Sunday, March 20, at the request of Archbishop George Niederauer. Schools launched fundraising efforts and included the country’s people in daily prayer intentions. In San Francisco, St. Charles Borromeo School eighth graders were making “Help Japan” bracelets and selling them while St. Anne of the Sunset School students were making and hanging 1,000 paper cranes around the school “in the spirit of hope and healing.” St. Anne students were also making and hanging SCHOOLS PRAY, page 10

“The Diocese of San Jose will be blessed to have him,” Msgr. Tarantino said. “His enthusiasm and intelligence will continue to serve him well in all of his endeavors. I understand and realize that he will be missed here in the archdiocese. However, Bishop-elect Daly realizes that he was called to serve where the Lord leads. I congratulate him and I will pray for him as he continues to respond to God’s call. I also thank his loving family for their support and encouragement in his vocation. The church has been and will continue to be well served by the grace of God’s call to Bishop-elect Thomas A. Daly.” Cameron Faller, a seminarian for the Archdiocese of San Francisco at St. Patrick’s Seminary & University in Menlo Park, said, “On behalf of the seminarians for the archdiocese, I would like to thank Bishop-elect Tom Daly for all his work with vocations and to acknowledge how blessed we were to have him as our vocations director. Not only did he set a great example for us to follow, but he was also always present in our formation process to offer guidance and support.” Bishop-elect Daly’s mother, Marian Daly, said, “Of course, the Daly family is very proud of Tom and his new appointment. What a blessing!” She added, “His many years at Marin Catholic High School have brought him much joy. I’m sure that the students and their families will miss him dearly, as he will miss them. Being there has made him a better priest and educator for sure. In his new position, we are hopeful that he will continue to inspire young men to consider entering the priesthood.” Unfortunately, she added, Bishop-elect Daly’s late father, Don, is not here for his son’s ordination, “but he was lucky enough to have him at his ordination as a priest.” Bishop-elect Daly’s brother Patrick Daly is president of Archbishop Riordan High School. He is currently in China on the school’s behalf and sent his congratulations via e-mail. “I am very proud of my brother on his appointment as the first auxiliary bishop-elect of the Diocese of San Jose, and from a selfish standpoint saddened to see him leave his positions as president of Marin Catholic and director of vocations for the archdiocese. Tom’s relationship with people and his fostering of the faith is a gift God has graced him with. His ability to relate to the youth has inspired some excellent young men to answer the call from God to enter the priesthood.” — Catholic San Francisco staff report

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Five accused in sex abuse scandal appear in court in Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA (CNS) — A March 14 preliminary hearing for three priests, a former priest and a male former lay teacher was recessed until March 25 by presiding Common Pleas Judge Renee Cardwell Hughes. On March 11. the District Attorney’s office requested that charges of conspiracy be added to the original charges against all five. On Feb. 10, a Philadelphia grand jury released a report and a presentment following an investigation into allegations that two priests and a teacher sexually abused a 10-year-old boy at St. Jerome Parish in Philadelphia, and that another priest assigned to St. Jerome sexually assaulted a 14-year-old boy. The presentment recommended criminal charges, including rape and indecent sexual assault, against a former archdiocesan priest, Edward V. Avery; Father Charles Engelhardt, 64, of Wyndmoor and an Oblate of St. Francis de Sales; an archdiocesan priest. Father James J. Brennan, 47, of Linfield; and a former lay teacher, Bernard Shero, 48, of Bristol. All four were arrested Feb. 10. The grand jury also recommended charging Msgr. William J. Lynn, a former secretary for clergy for the archdiocese and current pastor of St. Joseph Parish in Downingtown with two counts of endangering the welfare of a child in connection with his role as secretary for clergy, from 1992 to 2004. In that position, he was responsible for recommending the assignment of priests in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. He is believed to be the first high-ranking diocesan official indicted under a criminal statute in the United States for charges related to the sexual abuse scandal that came to light in 2002. In findings filed Jan. 21 with the Philadelphia Common

Pleas Court, the grand jury alleged that Msgr. Lynn had a “lengthy history of failing to investigate allegations of sexual abuse, allowing known abusers unsupervised access to children, and recommending transfers of credibly accused priests to unsuspecting parishes. ... We believe that legal accountability for Msgr. Lynn’s unconscionable behavior is long overdue.” According to the grand jury report, the alleged abuse caused the 14-year-old victim “to turn to drugs and alcohol and contributed significantly to a substance abuse problemthat affected his performance in school, damaged his relationship with his family and caused a crisis of faith. At one point, (the minor) attempted to kill himself by overdosing on pills before undergoing counseling.” The 10-year-old boy experienced physical symptoms, “a dramatic change in his personality that coincided with the abuse” and began to abuse drugs, the report said. The report added that he first told someone about his abuse when he was at an inpatient drug treatment facility. Within a week of the grand jury report, Philadelphia’s archdiocese hired attorney Gina Maisto Smith to review personnel files of 37 priests named in the report as continuing in ministry despite credible allegations of sex abuse against them. The cases concerned allegations ranging from sexual abuse of a minor to other incidents involving what the archdiocese termed “boundary issues” — discussions or behavior by a clergyman that might indicate a pattern leading to later abuse. After an initial review, Smith recommended that Philadelphia Cardinal Justin Rigali place 21 priests on admin-

istrative leave. Three weeks later Cardinal Rigali did just that, an unprecedented step to remove such a large group of priests. Smith told Catholic News Service that the large number of cases she reviewed in a short period of time was only possible through the support of archdiocesan officials who made sure she had access to all records. “I moved with the urgency expressed by the archdiocese,” she said March 16. Smith said that in the next phase of the review various outside experts will determine which priests can return to ministry and which are unsuitable for active priesthood. Barbara Blaine, president of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, known as SNAP, publicly criticized Smith’s hiring, saying the attorney, because she is Catholic, could not objectively review the reported cases of abuse by priests. Smith does not buy that argument, pointing out that the city’s district attorney, Seth Williams, is also Catholic. “This isn’t a witch hunt into the Catholic Church,” Williams said Feb. 10. “The criminal acts that occurred here are not representative of my religion. They are the bad acts of individual men.” Likewise, Smith said her Catholic faith gives her the “voice to do the right thing” for victims and to be heard by outsiders, other Catholics and the archdiocese. Williams said he respected Cardinal Rigali’s choice of Smith and applauded the archdiocese for suspending 21 priests until further investigation. “Cardinal Rigali’s actions are as commendable as they are unprecedented, and they reflect his concern for the physical and spiritual well-being of those in his care,” he said.

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Father Corapi, a popular preacher, put on administrative leave CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (CNS) — Father John Corapi, a popular author and preacher who has had speaking engagements all over the world, has been placed on administrative leave from priestly ministry over an accusation of misconduct. “We have received an allegation that Father Corapi has behaved in a manner unbecoming of a priest and are duty-bound to conduct an investigation into this accusation,” said Father Gerard Sheehan, a spokesman for Father Corapi’s community, the Texas-based Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity. Father Sheehan, who has the title “regional priest servant,” issued the statement March 18 on behalf of the community. “It is important to keep in mind that this action in no way implies Father Corapi is guilty of the allegation,” Father Sheehan said. “It is equally important to know that, based on the

information we have received thus far, the claim of misconduct does not involve minors and does not arise to the level of criminal conduct.” The matter will “be investigated internally,” he said. Father Sheehan did not reveal the nature of the allegation. In a March 19 statement, Father Corapi said, “All of the allegations in the complaint are false, and I ask you to pray for all concerned.” His statement was posted on his website, www.fathercorapi.com. He said he learned on Ash Wednesday, March 9, that a former employee “sent a threepage letter to several bishops accusing me of everything from drug addiction to multiple sexual exploits with her and several other adult women.” Father Sheehan told Catholic News Service that Bishop William M. Mulvey of Corpus Christi has instructed the religious commu-

nity to ask two priests who are not clergy of the diocese and who are not members of the Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity to investigate the allegation. The two priests have not yet been named. In his statement, Father Sheehan added that “unless and until information suggests otherwise,” the allegation made against Father Corapi “will not be referred to civil authorities.” If officials of the religious community learn that the accusation involves a violation of criminal civil law, he said they would refer the matter to civil authorities. In his statement, Father Corapi complained that the bishops’ procedures to protect minors from sex abuse by church personnel are “being applied broadly to respond to all complaints,” whether the complaint is deemed “to be credible or not.” “I’ll certainly cooperate with the process, but

personally believe that it is seriously flawed, and is tantamount to treating the priest as guilty ‘just in case,’ then, through the process, determining if he is innocent,” Father Corapi said. “The resultant damage to the accused is immediate, irreparable and serious, especially for someone like myself, since I am so well known. “I am not alone in this assessment, as multiple canon lawyers and civil and criminal attorneys have stated publicly that the procedure does grave damage to the accused from the outset, regardless of rhetoric denying this, and has little regard for any form of meaningful due process,” he added. It was not the first time Father Corapi has criticized the zero-tolerance policy mandated by the U.S. bishops’ “Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People.” In an address at the Call to Holiness FATHER CORAPI, page 16

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When Father Dan Nascimento and Father Michael Quinn came to St. Brendan Parish in 2009 they wondered, “Who are the people in darkness in our area?” The question led to the formation of a parish outreach to juvenile offenders housed at the nearby San Francisco Juvenile Justice Center.

violence and crime that provides the same kind of support for a better life.” The commitment of the San Dimas volunteers is remarkable and the “connection with spirituality,” helps the teenagers, Siffermann said. Comunidad San Dimas is named for St. Dismas, the “good thief” who hung next to Jesus on the cross. “We don’t pay them at all. It’s their vocation and their commitment that brings them here and has a great stabilizing influence on the institution,” Siffermann said. “When kids feel comfortable and they feel safe, they don’t feel they have to fight or engage in conflict with their rivals.” Comunidad San Dimas volunteers hope that whether the connection is short or longer term, that the jailed youth will grow with God, Escobar said.

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St. Brendan Pastor Father Dan Nascimento and parish volunteers Amy Feasey, left, and Naveen Sharma are pictured outside San Francisco’s Juvenile Justice Center.

“Some youth receive positive results. Some youth die. Some go to adult prison and those we don’t see again, our hope is that God is with them and that we planted seeds that God will take care of,” said Escobar, who noted that volunteers are not all Catholic, but come from other Christian faiths too. Comunidad San Dimas is in the process

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Profound loss. . . ■ Continued from cover coast of Fukushima, near the damaged nuclear power plant, were destroyed by the March 11 tsunami. Guadalupe missionary Father David Uribe told asiannews. it March 21 that the diocese has not yet been able to contact most of the parishes under its jurisdiction since the tsunami hit. “There are long walls of wrecked cars and destroyed houses,” Father Daisuke Narui, executive director of Caritas Japan, reported March 18 from Sendai. “Towns and villages have been flattened and destroyed, and life has been stopped in its tracks.” The tsunami wrecked the commercial center of the busy port of Kamaishi, killed 450 people and beached the 6,000-ton freighter Asia Symphony on the docks. Construction worker Mazakatsu Sano said everything still feels “unreal, like a dream,” Voice of America reporter Henry Ridgwell wrote March 19. He said everything will have to be rebuilt from scratch and it will take at least a year to finish the job. A Sydney Morning Herald correspondent in the leveled city of Minamisanriku said the tsunami “forced its way several kilometers up creek valleys, to an astonishing altitude of more than 30 meters, and left almost nothing standing.” Between a third and a half of the city’s people were drowned. “Some bodies were buried under mud or deposited in pine plantations but most were sucked back out to sea,” the correspondent wrote. “Rescue workers arriving from around the world found little rescue work to do.” “My heart is heavy for the grave loss of human life,” Father Brian Bale, a St. Columban missionary who was in Japan for many years and now lives in Australia, told the church missionary news service Fides. “I remember the beauty of the coastline and the spectacular cliffs overlooking the sea. People now feel a profound sense of loss. They have lost everything:

Schools pray . . . ■ Continued from page 5 prayer flags honoring the victims, survivors and families as well as collecting funds, Principal Thomas White said Catholic Relief Services is the U.S. bishops’ foreign aid arm and is working with Caritas Japan, the domestic aid arm of the Japanese Catholic bishops’ conference, said George Wesolek, director of the Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns for the archdiocese. “We need to stand in solidarity with our brothers and sisters in Japan in the midst of this disaster,” Wesolek said. He recommended www.crs.org for online giving. “Japan is one of the most prepared and economically wealthy countries in the world. The disaster there should also give us pause to think about our own vulnerability and to prepare ourselves,” Wesolek said.

Police carry bodies retrieved from the debris in Rikuzentakata, Iwate prefecture, in northern Japan March 16.

family, homes and friends. It should be remembered that this is a very difficult and painful thing in Japanese culture, where personal identity depends very much on being part of a group.” Survivors of the tsunami and the 9.0-earthquake that preceded it continue to suffer from lack of food, warmth and comfort, said Caritas Japan’s Father Narui. People are flocking to shelters out of fear of being alone, Father Narui said. Some return to their houses during the day but go back to the shelters for dinner and sleep, he said. The victims need counselors, he said, because “as time passes, (they) will become traumatized and lonely.” Caritas is working with parishes to provide food and blankets, Father Narui said. “The North Sendai parish soup kitchen almost ran out of food today,” he said. “It’s difficult to buy food here as the shops are closed. We had to send a priest to Yamagata, the next prefecture, to buy beef, potatoes, carrots and Bishop Martin Tetsuo Hiraga stock to make stew.” Everyone is worried about the possible danger from radiation from exposed nuclear fuel at the Fukushima power plant 70 to 100 miles away, he said. “A local told me that in this season, the wind blows from north to south and Sendai is to the north of Fukushima,” the priest said. “I don’t know if this is true, but today I saw a sign at a shelter that warned people not to go out because it was going to rain.” Despite everything, spirits are high in Sendai and people keep offering each other encouragement, Father Narui said.

At St. Gregory School in San Mateo, the student council sponsored a bake sale March 21 while at St. Gabriel School, Principal Sister M. Pauline Borghello turned the school’s traditional St. Patrick’s Day celebration into a fundraiser. Students wore green accessories along with their uniforms “to stand in solidarity with the people of Japan who had much of their environment destroyed by the earthquake and tsunami,” Sister Pauline said. The March 17 event netted $1,972.70, Sister Pauline said, “without counting pennies.” St. Dunstan School in Millbrae took up a collection, while the St. Peter School student council voted to send $500 from its “Pennies from Heaven” drive. Holy Name of Jesus School plans to collect funds for the International Red Cross the week of March 28, said Judy Cosmos, principal. St. Brigid was collecting funds through an envelope sent home to parents in the Wednesday envelope with school information.

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A woman comforts her dog during an aftershock at an evacuation center for pets and their owners in Kesennuma, northern Japan.

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A woman walks past snow-covered rubble in Minamisanriku, Miyagi prefecture, in northern Japan, March 16.

“Everyone keeps saying “ganbaro!,” which in English would mean, ‘Let’s do our best,’” he said. Voice of America’s Steve Herman said the region that includes the Fukushima “is grinding to a halt.” “With transportation routes destroyed or disrupted, the precious reserves of supplies that survived the natural disaster are quickly disappearing,” he said. “Even when the roads are patched, truck drivers may be fearful of venturing too close to the crippled nuclear power plant.” Fewer and fewer restaurants and stores open and those that remain open have fewer items for sale, he said. “In Sendai, a three-hour drive to the north, he said, “vegetable prices have doubled after the tsunami destroyed a chunk of the Miyagi prefecture’s capital.” But he said “the traditional Japanese stoicism is on full display. There’s a touch of bitterness in a few voices and some subtle signs of frustration but no show of open anger. Everyone seems to take in stride the dwindling supplies of goods and services. Maybe this part of Japan will soon see what followed in the dark days immediately after Japan’s defeat in World War II: a thriving black market in scarce and rationed goods.” Tokyo Archbishop Peter Okada Takeo urged the Japanese and foreigners who left the country not to be afraid, but pray instead for Japan, asianews.it reported. In a message March 20, the prelate expressed his spiritual closeness to all those in difficulty. “In many parts of the world, people are praying for Japan,” he said. The World Bank said economic losses could be as high as $330 billion. “Estimates of suffering, loss of life and physical damage challenge our ability to grasp the reality of such an event,” Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said in a March 14 letter to Archbishop Leo Jun Ikenaga, SJ, of Osaka, president of the Japan bishops’ conference. — Compiled by Catholic San Francisco

Archbishop Riordan High School was collecting funds for Catholic Relief Services the week of March 21. Students made posters that are up around school and also produced commercials that are running on Riordan’s daily closed circuit television broadcast, said Alex Datoc, director of campus ministry and community service. Stuart Hall High School juniors were organizing a fundraising dodgeball tournament and the school community was organizing a two-day bake sale, said Tony Farrell, head of school. Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory devoted one week of its Lenten campaign, Change for Our World, to Japan relief and raised $1,500. Mercy San Francisco is hosting a dance on April 29 for Japan Relief. At St. Ignatius College Preparatory, the Social Justice Club planned a bake sale and sale of ribbons and stickers during a week and half of fundraising, said Paul Totah, school spokesman.

March 25, 2011

Catholic San Francisco

The day the sisters stood on the pews By Sister Pat Hunter Catholic San Francisco is inviting readers to contribute their first-person Cathedral Memories to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the dedication of the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption. The paper will collect ATHEDRAL the articles, including the following one, in a EMORIES special anniversary issue planned for April. A Mass to celebrate the anniversary will be held May 5.

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Following the devastating fire that destroyed St. Mary’s Cathedral on Van Ness Avenue in 1962, Archbishop Joseph McGucken initiated a campaign to rebuild. Funding was sought, often door-to-door, and we heard discussion and dissension over design and cost as well as comments about the rising “Bishop’s Bendix”— a comparison to its looking like the inside of a washing machine. The opening public Mass was a very low-key event so as not to attract adverse publicity on that special day. The 40 years since the reopening of St. Mary’s Cathedral form a kaleidoscope of events and people that mark pivotal moments in the life of our local church. The following memories are ones that continually call to mind the essence and dynamic life of our archdiocesan church. For me, my 24 years as an RCIA director made for a very special celebration each First Sunday of Lent. We came to join a cathedral full of catechumens and candidates who were presented to the archbishop to become the elect for the Easter sacraments. Truly these people saw an example of the larger church in those gathered from the many parishes. My years of involvement with the field education program at St. Patrick’s Seminary allowed me to witness the ordination of several men who had enriched our parish

community with enthusiasm and witness for service. How impressive that silent moment of imposition of hands when one is called to serve others in the manner of Jesus. Parish life also afforded the opportunity to accompany in prayer and ministry those called to study and prepare for the permanent diaconate. Their ordination day was likewise a festive celebration in the company of family, friends and fellow parishioners. There is one unique gathering that evokes special memory. That was the visit of Pope John Paul II and his meeting with women and men religious of the archdiocese in September 1987. I was among the group of religious women who were honored to be ushers for the event. Jesuit Brother Douglas Draper saw that our transportation was provided to the cathedral. There was great excitement in the air. The one scene I will never forget happened when John Paul arrived at the cathedral entrance — the entire church erupted — many sisters standing on the pews waving and screaming words of welcome. Certainly this was a great departure from the usual decorum experienced in the presence of sisters. But then, the visit of a pope is no ordinary event. Of course, the reflections of the speakers, among them, our own now late Presentation Sister Mary Thaddea Kelly and the response and blessing of the Holy Father were at the heart of what that spectacular evening experience offered. Our “new” cathedral of the past 40 years has been a source of blessing and celebration. Unique in design, it has

Pope John Paul II is pictured with Archbishop John R. Quinn and women and men religious at St. Mary’s Cathedral in September 1987.

become a cornerstone for our archdiocese and its presence in the San Francisco Bay Area. May many more years of dedicated service and hospitality help build the body of Christ in our midst. Sister Pat Hunter, SNJM, is a member of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary who have served the Archdiocese of San Francisco since arriving from Canada in 1868.

Share your St. Mary’s Cathedral Memories The Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption celebrates the 40th year of its dedication May 5, 2011. Catholic San Francisco looks forward to commemorating the milestone with stories and pictures of the cathedral and its history. Do you have a special memory of St. Mary’s Cathedral? Were you baptized or married, there? Was it a refuge of prayer for you during a trying time in your life? Is it special to you for other reasons? Please let us know what St. Mary’s Cathedral has meant to you. If you have a picture of an event at the cathedral, we’d like to see those, too. Please e-mail the information to burket@sfarchdiocese.org. Please include the data of the event, a picture as applicable, your name and a phone number where you can be reached. You may also mail the data and picture to Cathedral Memories, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco 94109. St. Mary’s Cathedral has blessed the Archdiocese of San Francisco for four decades. Let us know what the mother church has meant to you.

Rite of Election Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral The Rite of Election and Call to Continuing Conversion for those taking part in the Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults was celebrated March 13 at St. Mary’s Cathedral. Archbishop George Niederauer was principal celebrant and homilist. Concelebrants included Auxiliary Bishop Robert W. McElroy. “We welcomed 178 catechumens, 62 candidates for full communion and 155 Catholic candidates completing initiation into the faith through confirmation and Eucharist,” said

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Book bearers gather at the front of the cathedral holding the Book of the Elect for their respective parishes.

Patrick Vallez-Kelly, director of the Office of Worship for the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Catechumens are unbaptized persons being formed in the faith who are to be baptized into the Catholic Church on Holy Saturday. Candidates for full communion are persons baptized in other Christian ecclesial communities to be received into the Church with confirmation and Eucharist on Holy Saturday. Vallez-Kelly said 55 parishes were represented.

Left, book bearers are pictured with the Book of the Elect after signing by catechumens. They are, from left, Suzanne Hockel, St. Thomas More Parish; Ryan Martin-Spencer, St. Pius Parish; and Janet Ross, Sts. Peter and Paul Parish.

Right, a young catechumen signs his parish’s Book of the Elect.

Patrick Vallez-Kelly leads the book bearers in procession.

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March 25, 2011

Guest Commentary

Journeying to find a new spring Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice delivered this homily March 12 at the St. Patrick’s Day Parade Mass at St. Patrick Church in San Francisco: What is in a name? Just look into the face of a young person who says, “Hi! Remember me? Remember my name? You confirmed me last year!” Of the hundreds of persons I am confirming, it’s not easy for me to remember each individual by name — as much as I’d like to! That young person’s question probably comes from the idea that to know his or her name was to know the person’s unique value. He or she hoped I recognized that value. We have just begun the season of Lent in our Western Christian churches, a precious time of preparation for Easter. What is interesting is that the names we use in English to describe this season — Lent and Easter — help us to know a particular value concerning this time. It is a value not as clearly emphasized in the names used for this season in other languages. In most European languages and languages that borrow European words, this season is expressed in some form of Cuaresma and Pascua. Cuaresma means 40 days as in Jesus’ time of temptation in the desert; Pascua means the death and Resurrection of the Lord. In English, however, our words Lent and Easter put a slightly different slant on the meaning of this season. Lent comes from the Anglo-Saxon word to lengthen, as daylight lengthens from the darkness of winter. Easter comes from the name of the Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring. So, in the English language, this new season has a name that recalls to us not so much 40 days in the desert but a journey, a time of moving from darkness to sunlight. This in turn calls us as Christians to remember that life itself is like that journey. This journey challenges us to look at where there is darkness in our souls, where there is the isolation of despair, anger, selfishness, and to journey by means of prayer, works of charity and fasting toward the increasing light and warmth of the sun, the blossoming trees, the new lambs in the flocks, to spring, the resurrecting earth and the Lord Jesus’ Resurrection on that Sunday morning after his death on the cross for the salvation of us all. It is a journey that arrives at Easter to invite us to

renew our baptismal commitments to living in the risen life of Christ and caring for one another as members of the one Lord Jesus, our Lord and Savior. This is what is in a name: Lent leads to Easter on a challenging journey from the “…winter of our discontent …” to the great joy of the new life of spring. For we Irish, both Emerald Isle-born, and of Irish descent, the idea of a journey that leads from the dark and windy slopes of Donegal, the tropical shores of Bantry Bay, Antrim and Cork to hope in Boston, New York, Helena, Chicago and San Francisco is not far-fetched. My maternal grandparents were married in Bessbrook, County Armagh, in 1902. My grandmother sailed from Ireland on her honeymoon – alone because they did not have the money for the passage of both of them – to Boston where relatives who had journeyed there before got her a job as a domestic. Two years later she had earned enough money to buy a ticket for the passage of her husband, John, to Boston. They began their family of six children. The journey continued as a son, James, became an assistant to the governor of Massachusetts, and later a judge; one of his sons, Thomas, was elected to the lower house of the legislature in Massachusetts, married a Rockefeller and is now a fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. A cousin of his became one of the two highest-ranking civil servant lawyers in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and another cousin is speaking to you now. This is like the Lenten journey: from the darkness of poverty and racial, religious and economic prejudice to the family blossoming with Irish strength and courage into the joy of new life and freedom-loving new generations. It was a long Lent but the springtime of Easter arrived. The problem with the journey from the darkness to the springtime of Easter is that just when one spring has sprung, the cruelest things can happen. A storm can come in from the Atlantic and bang against the Aran Islands, hit the Cliffs of Moher and roar over the Dingle Peninsula and announce spring has not yet arrived. The journey has still miles (kilometers) to go. Sadly, that has happened to generations of Irish, and now just when it seemed, after centuries of youth

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Overdue for another Lenten prayer revision? Re “An ideal Lenten prayer” by Brother John Samaha (March 4). “The Three O’Clock Prayer,” slightly revised over the years since the early 19th century, includes the verse, “We ask your pardon for our sins which are the cause of your death.” Compare this theology to Father Robert Barron’s commentary, “The last acceptable prejudice” (Feb. 24), in which he states the purpose and meaning of Christ’s death on the cross. Father Barron writes, “The correct doctrine is that God, in Christ, entered, out of love, into the depth of human misery, sin and failure in order to bring the divine light even to those darkest places. It is in this sense that he took away the sins of the world and brought us life from the Father.” In John’s Gospel, Jesus said simply, “I have come that you might

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have life and have it to the full….” Would another revision be in order for this 19th-century prayer that leads us to understand more fully this Christian doctrine? Margaret Govednik Orinda

Ending death penalty makes economic sense I agree with Cardinal Bernadin’s argument against the death penalty in your recent article about Gov. Quinn’s decision to sign a bill abolishing capital punishment in Illinois (“Illinois governor cites church teaching in ending death penalty,” March 25). I also feel that life in prison without parole “satisfies our need for retribution, justice, and protection.” If California were to abolish the death penalty, the state would stand to save $1 billion over the next five years. With two punishments that have the same ultimate effect, why not choose the cheaper alternative? John MacGregor San Francisco

Thoughts on liturgy Ten years ago I was in Paris. On a sundappled Sunday morning I walked across the city, up the winding streets of Montmartre to the Basilica of Sacré-Cœur. As I entered the majestic old church with the other tourists who were circling the perimeter, the sun streamed through the tall stained glass windows illuminating the interior. I went to

leaving Ireland to be able to make a living, that the Celtic Tiger was bringing a wave of sunlit prosperity, it collapsed. The darkness returned (and the scandals in the church added to the gloom). Bishop William The journey has once again begun. J. Justice The fullness of spring for many of the young Irish cannot be seen at home. The journey has begun again to find spring — Resurrection Easter — abroad, to follow the paths of generations before. And here is the challenge for us. When we received the ashes on Ash Wednesday, we proclaimed we would walk the journey from the darkness of winter to the brighter and brighter days of spring so as to arrive at Easter, the death and Resurrection of our Lord Jesus, our Savior. So now we are called to trust our journey, first of faith in the Lord Jesus who is always with us leading us to the springtime of hope in Easter, and second that in that trust of Easter we must welcome and help the new Irish journeyers to our shores We who have trusted in the goodness of the Lord are challenged at this season to ask how we can help our cousins, friends, fellow Irish, children of our ancestors to continue their journey to spring, here among us. We are challenged to share our joy with those who have survived the latest false spring in the Isle of Saints and now are journeying to find a new spring. We are challenged to go back to our own roots and remember what St. Patrick brought us: in the journey of the Lord, winter gives way to spring and Easter. Joy is just around that green hill and lovely valley. “May the road rise up to meet you. May the wind be at your backs (the wind of God’s courage-giving Spirit) and may God hold you in the palm of his hand.” It’s a challenging but a fine season. The Luck of the Irish. The journey of Lent to Easter. What’s in a Name? Hope. Everything.

the center of the building where the raised sanctuary and ornate altarpiece were lit with candles. The Mass began with a choir of nuns singing as they processed to the altar. It was one of the most moving and meaningful services I have ever participated in; I didn’t understand a single word, but Christ was there. I was raised with the Latin Mass and experienced the tumultuous transitions of Vatican II. I wandered away from the church after college and returned to Mass at St Joseph’s parish on Capitol Hill in Seattle during a time of great personal loss when the liturgy and the words spoke directly to my heart. Our Lord spoke in Aramaic. His church was born and grew in Greek during its childhood. The church matured in Latin, a language that “died” but maintained its currency among the scholarly and religious as the babble of modern languages developed over the centuries. It is only in the most recent of times that its language has been in the vernacular, but it has been true to Christ’s message throughout. Prior to Vatican II Catholics attended and observed the celebration of the Mass. Now we participate. The passion, reverence and energy of those engaging in the debate over the upcoming changes in the liturgy on both sides are healthy signs. They all deeply care about our church and our faith. Et cum spiritu tuo. Nick Scales San Francisco

programs for 30 years and can testify how important it is for our fellow students to have wonderful examples in their lives: friends to know, follow and imitate. These are real persons who live in our presence and in our cities: St. Francis, St. Rose, St. Monica, St. Raphael and St. Augustine, to name just a few. Saints have been a real part of my life. Just as Michele’s saintly grandmother strengthened her faith, my early beloved mother, Agnes, whom I consider to be a saintly person in heaven, strengthened my faith. Living by the feast days is a helpful way to remember saints. Reading the lives of the saints is another wonderful way to learn about the saints who teach us so much about love, compassion, suffering, death and life. They are imitators and reflections of Christ for they can truly say with St. Paul, “I no longer live but Christ lives in me.” God has given us these friends. He realizes how important it is for us to have help along the way and to become saints ourselves. Yes, it is a communion of saints and we are part of it. We can do this not because of our goodness but because of God’s goodness and love for us. Marguerite A. Mueller San Rafael

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Inspired by the saints “My quartet of saints, and others friends,” (Guest Commentary, Michele Szekely, March 11) was quite inspiring and faith-filled. Yes, how true it is that we should “Befriend the saints!” and that our country is this “land of saints.” I taught in the Catholic schools and religious education

Calls on bishops to speak out for marriage To the bishops: Please sound the bell and call all of your parishes to stand up for marriage and to walk on the Capitol or City Hall in San Francisco, peacefully. You may even have talks for all Catholics and Christians to unite in favor of a walk for marriage and to send letters to Congress to defend marriage. Thank you for your continued support and evangelization work. May God guide us and help us. Gabriela Matturano San Francisco

March 25, 2011

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Guest Commentary

In praise of Shahbaz Bhatti By Deacon Brian Bromberger Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, celebrated a memorial Mass in Rome organized by Pakistani Christians in Italy for the murdered Pakistani Christian leader Shahbaz Bhatti. “We give thanks to God for having placed an authentic martyr in our path, a witness to Christian faith …,” the cardinal preached. “Shahbaz Bhatti is a reminder that in the cross we find true hope: the cross propels us to give our lives for others.” Cardinal Tauran also confided that when he visited Pakistan last November, Bhatti had told him, “I know that they will kill me. I offer my life for Christ and for interreligious dialogue.”

See related story, Page 16 Modern ecumenism may indeed have a martyr in Bhatti, the 42-year-old Minister for the Defense of Minorities, the first and only Roman Catholic in a cabinet of the Pakistan government, who was shot and killed outside his home in Islamabad March 2. A new alliance of al-Qaida and the Punjabi Taliban, calling Bhatti a blasphemer, claimed responsibility. Like Salman Taseer, the governor of the Punjab province, assassinated in January, Bhatti called for the reform of Pakistan’s blasphemy law, which imposes a mandatory death sentence on anyone convicted of insulting Islam or Muhammad the prophet. The law is routinely manipulated to settle rivalries and persecute minorities, especially Roman Catholics. Late last year, Bhatti had led a government investigation into the case of a Christian woman, Asia Bibi, sentenced to

death on blasphemy charges, which drew international attention. Bhatti had determined she was innocent and deserved to be pardoned. President Asif Ali Zardari had then appointed him to a committee reviewing the blasphemy laws and possibly amending them. It was Bhatti’s presence on that committee that led to his slaying. Bhatti’s life’s work was to campaign for tolerance and moderation in Pakistan He had founded a nongovernmental organization dedicated to helping Christians who are routinely discriminated against legally, live in poor neighborhoods and are forced into menial jobs. Shortly before his shooting, according to Time magazine, Bhatti foretold his death by Islamic extremists and recorded a video released after his slaying. He boldly proclaimed, “I am receiving death threats, but my faith gives me strength … I believe in Jesus Christ who has given his own life for us and I’m ready to die for a cause. I’m living for my community and suffering people. I will die to defend their rights.” Even as a child, family members and friends said Bhatti was deeply moved by the sacrifices Jesus made for humanity and vowed to try to emulate him. When he accepted his cabinet post in 2008, he publicly remarked, “Jesus is the nucleus of my life and I want to be his true follower, through my actions and share the love of God with the poor, oppressed, victimized, needy, and suffering people of Pakistan.” In an interview with the freedom of expression advocacy group, First Step Forum, four months ago, he vowed not to give into the dark forces of extremism, declaring he was ready to lay down his life for the sake of his fellow Christians and all oppressed minorities in Pakistan. Bhatti was a pacifist who listed Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, as one of his heroes, trying to fulfill

Jinnah’s vision of a secular state where every person has equal rights, especially freedom of worship. Bhatti viewed Islam as a religion of peace, earning the respect of many in the Muslim majority. He launched a national campaign to promote interfaith harmony, banned all hate speech and literature, organized seminars to promote interfaith dialogue, and proposed the introduction of comparative religion as a curriculum subject in public schools. In 2004, he was awarded the International Religious Freedom Award in Finland for his courageous and steadfast peace-building efforts for human equality and religious freedom. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who had met with Bhatti recently, called him a brave patriot and a person of great conviction. Bhatti could easily have sought and probably would have been granted political asylum in the U.S., escaping execution. But to a man who declared in his spiritual testament that he wanted a place at Jesus’ feet, such a move would have been unthinkable, for as he mentioned in the First Step Forum interview, “I know the meaning of the cross and I’m willing to follow it no matter where it leads.” We can only pray that the Pakistani government will prosecute those guilty of Bhatti’s murder and in his memory, continue to protect religious minorities and work for the advancement of human rights and religious freedom in Pakistan. As we journey through Lent and its spiritual meaning in our lives, it would be worth our time to meditate on the witness of Shahbaz Bhatti, who paid the ultimate price for his beliefs. Brian Bromberger is a permanent deacon serving at St. John of God Parish in San Francisco.

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A Muslim-Christian holiday By Brother John Samaha Since 2010, Christians and Muslims in Lebanon have shared the feast of Mary’s Annunciation as a national holiday. For the three years prior to 2010 Muhammad Al-Sammak, secretary general of the Christian-Muslim Committee for Dialogue, and his colleagues had worked on this project with the Lebanese government to make the March 25 feast of the Annunciation a national feast day. Lebanese government authorities then issued a formal decree in this regard. For many centuries Christianity and Islam have coexisted peacefully in Lebanon. At times, especially in recent decades, outside political factions from other countries have tried to upset that balance, but the Christians and Muslims native to Lebanon are determined to resist such disturbance. This is a free choice, since they have built a common life on the basis of this choice. Both religious groups recognize the differences and work together to create a culture founded on living together in understanding and respect. Al-Sammak indicated that some Muslims from various countries confuse what is really religious and what is a national or local tradition to which religious identity is given. This often leads to misunderstanding of Islam and Islamophobia.

Few Christians realize that Muslims hold the Virgin Mary in high esteem. Mary is mentioned frequently, over 30 times, in the Quran. During the past century the people of Lebanon have observed two official national religious holidays: Ramadan for the Muslims and Mary’s Assumption for the Christians. Now a shared religious feast will be observed March 25 by both religions. Muslim-Christian dialogue groups gather March 25 to honor Mary’s Annunciation, reciting verses from the Gospel and from the Quran about

Mary, and discussing what is common to Christianity and Islam. Now with the endorsement of former and current Lebanese government leaders, March 25, the feast of Mary’s Annunciation has been formalized as a shared national day of celebration for both Muslims and Christians. Marianist Brother John Samaha resides at the Marianist Care Center in Cupertino and has been a religious for more than 60 years.

Virgin Mary Mosque Brother Samaha shared this item from a correspondent in Sydney, Australia. It refers to a 2007 report in the Sydney Morning Herald on a mosque that opened in 2004. In an effort to show there’s a common ground between Christians and Muslims, an Australian imam named his house of worship in the sheep country between Melbourne and Geelong the Virgin Mary Mosque. “Let us prove that Christianity and Islam have many things in common,” said the blind Somali named Sheik Isse Musse. “We both revere the Virgin Mary. Second thing is that generally Muslims name their schools, their mosques, their streets, everything after men. Let us show there is nothing wrong in naming a mosque after a person like Mary.” He added, “Some people could not digest it, but I kept explaining, ‘Look, is not the Virgin Mary mentioned in the Holy Quran? Isn’t she a very high and pious person?’ Yes. So what’s stopping us giving her name to our mosque?”

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A compassionate gaze By Ginny Kubitz Moyer Not long ago, while grading papers, I read one that made me pause. “Once when my family was in San Francisco for the day, I saw lots of homeless people,” wrote a freshman boy. “I felt really sorry for them. My mom told me I shouldn’t because they obviously didn’t study hard enough in school, and being homeless was their own fault. But I still felt bad for them.” It’s rare that a student paper packs an emotional and spiritual wallop, but this one definitely did. And it got me thinking about youth, about compassion and about the relationship between the two. On the one hand, I can understand this mother’s response. Here’s a chance to hammer home the importance of studying, she clearly thought. And yet something in her words makes me profoundly sad. If her motive was to sharpen her son’s academic drive, it comes at the risk of eroding his instinctive compassion for others. And which quality is more

important? Which is more fragile? Which one is more likely to be nurtured by our society, and which is more likely to be discouraged by it? Our world is quick to reward achievement and success. It’s not so quick to celebrate those who feel solidarity with the wounded and marginalized. In his remarkable book, “Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion,” Jesuit Father Gregory Boyle writes, “Here is what we seek: a compassion that can stand in awe at what the poor have to carry rather than stand in judgment at how they carry it.” For most of us, standing in awe is much harder than standing in judgment. Our time and energy are short, after all. If we assume that others’ bad luck comes from their own misguided choices, then we are absolved of the responsibility of caring about them … or so we think, until we crack open the Gospel and learn otherwise. The phrase “deserving poor” is often bandied about, but Jesus never actually made that distinction. He did not run background or GPA checks before entering into others’ pain. He sat with them and touched

them and showed them that they were worthy of love, regardless of what they had done or failed to do. I sometimes wonder if this Christ-like compassion comes more naturally to the young. There is something beautiful and pure in this teenager’s instinctive sympathy for the homeless, a trait that many kids have. And what happens to it? Often it gets leached out of them, slowly, by a world that defaults to cynicism instead of love. As parents, the question then becomes how we can stop that process from happening, and how we can keep that compassion alive, in its purest, most concentrated form. I’m starting to believe that when Jesus told us we have to be like children to enter the kingdom of Heaven, maybe this compassion is what he meant. His words and life challenge us to see the world not with jaded eyes that judge, but with the eyes of the young, whose vision is often so much clearer than our own. Ginny Kubitz Moyer is the author of “Mary and Me: Catholic Women Reflect on the Mother of God.” Contact Moyer via her blog at www.maryandme.org.

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A READING FROM THE BOOK OF EXODUS EX 17:3-7; In those days, in their thirst for water, the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “Why did you ever make us leave Egypt? Was it just to have us die here of thirst with our children and our livestock?” So Moses cried out to the Lord, “What shall I do with this people? A little more and they will stone me!” The Lord answered Moses, “Go over there in front of the people, along with some of the elders of Israel, holding in your hand, as you go, the staff with which you struck the river. I will be standing there in front of you on the rock in Horeb. Strike the rock, and the water will flow from it for the people to drink.” This Moses did, in the presence of the elders of Israel. The place was called Massah and Meribah, because the Israelites quarreled there and tested the Lord, saying, “Is the Lord in our midst or not?” RESPONSORIAL PSALM PS 95:1-2, 6-7, 8-9 R. If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts. Come, let us sing joyfully to the Lord; let us acclaim the Rock of our salvation. Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving; let us joyfully sing psalms to him. R. If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts. Come, let us bow down in worship; let us kneel before the Lord who made us. For he is our God, and we are the people he shepherds, the flock he guides. R. If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts. Oh, that today you would hear his voice: “Harden not your hearts as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the desert, Where your fathers tempted me; they tested me though they had seen my works.” R. If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts. Moses and the Samaritan woman in Sunday’s readings each offer a profile about what the practice of faith involves. For those in the catechumenate, faith involves instruction, but faith is not measured by passing a written test. This is because faith involves a practice. The practice of faith is different from acquiring new information. The practice of faith is shared with a community, but this practice is very personal, as unique as each person’s spiritual history. I joke to friends that even though I live in my head, when I’m on the elliptical machine at the gym, I know I have a heart. However, it took me awhile to learn the “practice” of the more vigorous elliptical. It’s not like the treadmill or the stationary bike. When I first mounted the machine, I was exhausted after one minute. Taking a cue from the G-Cycle, which moves side to side, I applied this to the elliptical. That was my breakthrough. By swaying back and forth instead of trying to climb a hill, the elliptical suddenly “worked” for me. I had discovered the solution, not by thinking, not by looking at what other people were doing, but by finding my own rhythm with the machine’s design through a different practice. This solution wasn’t something I expected. There was no “catechism answer” I could have found in a manual. In the Exodus reading, Moses has to feel his way through a crisis. He is facing social pressure, a revolt of the Israelites who don’t have enough water, who are grumbling and losing heart. Actions he has taken before don’t provide the answer now. People had confidence in him when they followed his lead out of Egypt, but that has melted away. He fears for his life. He prays desperately to God. The answer to his prayer gets translated into a strange set of actions that seem counterintuitive. His practice is the very opposite of what the logical mind would expect. Why didn’t he gather a small group of influential Israelites, answer their questions, and then send them among the tribes to buck up morale? Why didn’t he preach a homily and give them a heartfelt testimony? Why didn’t he hold a dispute-resolution consulta-

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Third Sunday of Lent Exodus 17:3-7; Psalm 95:1-2, 6-7, 8-9; Romans 5:1-2, 5-8; John 4:5-42 A READING FROM THE LETTER OF PAUL TO THE ROMANS ROM 5:1-2, 5-8 Brothers and sisters: Since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith to this grace in which we stand, and we boast in hope of the glory of God. And hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. For Christ, while we were still helpless, died at the appointed time for the ungodly. Indeed, only with difficulty does one die for a just person, though perhaps for a good person one might even find courage to die. But God proves his love for us in that while we were still sinners Christ died for us. A READING FROM THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JOHN JN 4:5-42 Jesus came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob’s well was there. Jesus, tired from his journey, sat down there at the well. It was about noon. A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” His disciples had gone into the town to buy food. The Samaritan woman said to him, “How can you, a Jew, ask me, a Samaritan woman, for a drink?”— for Jews use nothing in common with Samaritans — Jesus answered and said

to her, “If you knew the gift of God and who is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.” The woman said to him, “Sir, you do not even have a bucket and the cistern is deep; where then can you get this living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us this cistern and drank from it himself with his children and his flocks?” Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again; but whoever drinks the water I shall give will never thirst; the water I shall give will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I may not be thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water.” Jesus said to her, “Go call your husband and come back.” The woman answered and said to him, “I do not have a husband.” Jesus answered her, “You are right in saying, ‘I do not have a husband.’ For you have had five husbands, and the one you have now is not your husband. What you have said is true.” The woman said to him, “Sir, I can see that you are a prophet. Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain; but you people say that the place to worship is in Jerusalem.” Jesus said to her, “Believe me, woman, the hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You people worship what you do not understand; we worship what we understand, because salvation is

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The practice of faith tion with the complainers and work out a rationing system for the water? Why didn’t he dowse for an underground aquifer? Why didn’t he use a shovel to dig a well? Why didn’t he instruct the complainers to head forward to scout for an oasis? Instead, contrary to logic, he takes his stand facing the people he is afraid might stone him. He doesn’t let fear determine what he will do. He gathers the elders in a show of solidarity. Their presence means he’s not going to do anything behind their backs. A couple of chapters later, he will go up to Sinai alone to receive the tablets. But here, he is doing nothing alone. He holds his staff up as encouragement. He doesn’t use his power to threaten the people with disciplinary action for their grumbling. He doesn’t freeze in immobility. He walks forward, modeling the walk they are making together. Then Moses strikes a rock -- the last place anyone would expect water to be found. Here is the faith of Moses, as an act of confidence, not a scientific explanation for how water can flow from rock. The people’s faith is restored when they receive the water they need to go forward on their journey. Faith is their conviction that God is the source. What was the faith of Moses? His practice of reliance on God, his prayer of familiarity. Moses clearly expects guidance from some-

one nearby when he asks, as if to someone across the table, “What shall I do with this people?” Faith is his habit of asking the Lord for assistance with his pastoral task. Faith is also his spiritual flexibility. He is willing to move toward a solution to the problem in an unexpected place, to have his mind turned upside down. He strikes a rock with his staff. He doesn’t know what God will do, but he acts from a voice he hears speaking to him. The Samaritan woman, model for the practice of faith, doesn’t approach Jesus with courteous, silent, conventional female deference to men. Jesus asks her for water, but she spends the rest of the scene asking her own questions about a variety of controversial topics. She gets personal. Why is Jesus, a Jewish man, asking her for water? What’s he doing here on her turf? She lets Jesus know she is doing him a favor, because there is no way he will get water without her supplying her bucket. She acts as though this is a familiar relationship, even though he is not well known. But she makes herself known to him. She is candid about her theological issues. Who has the better claim to be the founder of Jewish faith -- David in Jerusalem, or Jacob at this well in Samaria? She makes no secret that she would like her life to be easier. If he has free-flowing water to give away, she will take him up on his offer. She is willing to

from the Jews. But the hour is coming, and is now here, when true worshipers will worship the Father in Spirit and truth; and indeed the Father seeks such people to worship him. God is Spirit, and those who worship him must worship in Spirit and truth.” The woman said to him, “I know that the Messiah is coming, the one called the Christ; when he comes, he will tell us everything.” Jesus said to her, “I am he, the one speaking with you.” At that moment his disciples returned, and were amazed that he was talking with a woman, but still no one said, “What are you looking for?” or “Why are you talking with her?” The woman left her water jar and went into the town and said to the people, “Come see a man who told me everything I have done. Could he possibly be the Christ?” They went out of the town and came to him. Meanwhile, the disciples urged him, “Rabbi, eat.” But he said to them, “I have food to eat of which you do not know.” So the disciples said to one another, “Could someone have brought him something to eat?” Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of the one who sent me and to finish his work. Do you not say, ‘In four months the harvest will be here’? I tell you, look up and see the fields ripe for the harvest. The reaper is already receiving payment and gathering crops for eternal life, so that the sower and reaper can rejoice together. For here the saying is verified that ‘One sows and another reaps.’ I sent you to reap what you have not worked for; others have done the work, and you are sharing the fruits of their work.” Many of the Samaritans of that town began to believe in him because of the word of the woman who testified, “He told me everything I have done.” When the Samaritans came to him, they invited him to stay with them; and he stayed there two days. Many more began to believe in him because of his word, and they said to the woman, “We no longer believe because of your word; for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is truly the savior of the world.” receive something from him. She talks about her personal life. It must have included her periods of happiness, sadness and disappointment with men. Jesus knows she is a survivor of many relationships. “Go call your husband,” is almost humorous, because she has clearly presented herself as a woman who claims to be a person in her own right, not defined by whether she has a husband or not. “I do not have a husband.” She can act on her own without someone’s permission. She is not bound by the rules of women’s place in the home. She brings up new topics -- the prophets, where to worship God, the tradition of her ancestors, and her expectation of the Messiah. There is a lot on her mind. She has positions. She is a thinker. Her dialogue with Jesus is the place to lay it all out. She has been frank about herself, and this allows Jesus to reveal himself to her, “I am he,” when he has not made this declaration to the male disciples yet. So her dialogue with him anticipates what will be the fuller disclosure he will make later to his closest followers. She then takes her enthusiasm about having talked with Jesus back to her neighbors. “Come see a man who told me everything I have done.” That must have been a triumphant declaration, about how Jesus understood, affirmed and respected her for her ideas and her history as a survivor of many difficult relationships. He was not her accuser. How extraordinary was the way the man-woman relationship was reimagined by Jesus. Within the narrative of her own life was the moment she heard Jesus say, “I am he, the one who is speaking to you.” Faith was experiencing herself as a messenger, not of her own story, but of what Jesus was doing to reconcile people who felt themselves at loggerheads with each other. The promise to the Samaritan woman is also an expression of Christian faith in practice, “Whoever drinks the water I give will never thirst … it will become a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” Mercy Sister Eloise Rosenblatt, Ph.D., is a theologian and an attorney in private practice in San Jose.

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Saved by one man’s sacrifice We are saved by the death of Jesus! All Christians believe this. This is a central tenet of the Christian faith and the center of almost all Christian iconography. Jesus’ death on a cross changed history forever. Indeed, we measure time by it. The effect of his death so marked the world that, not long after he died, the world began to measure time by him. We are in the year 2011 since Jesus was born. But how does this work? How can one person’s death ricochet through history, going backward and forward in time, being somehow beyond time, so as to affect past, present, and future all at the same time, as if that death was forever happening at the present moment? Is this simply some mystery and metaphysics inside of the Godhead that isn’t meant to be understood within any of our normal categories? Too often, I believe, the answer we were given was simply this: It’s a mystery. Believe it. You don’t have to understand it. And there’s wisdom in that. How we are washed clean in the blood of Christ is something we understand more in the gut than in the head. We know its truth, even when we don’t understand it. Indeed we know its truth so deeply that we risk our whole lives on it. I wouldn’t be a minister of the Gospel and a priest today if I didn’t believe that we are saved through the death of Jesus. But how to explain it? In my quest as a theologian and simply in my search to integrate my Christian faith, I have searched for concepts, imaginative constructs, and a language within which to understand and explain this: How can one man’s death 2,000 years ago be an act that saves us today? One of the things that helped

me in that quest was a counsel from Edward Schillebeeckx who, in his ground-breaking book on Jesus as the Sacrament of God, stated simply that we have no metaphysics within which to explain this. C.H. Dodd, whom I will quote below, simply states, “There was more here than could be accounted for upon the historical or human level. God was in it. Part of this is mystery. But, with those limits being admitted, I want to offer here two passages, one from Thomas Keating and the other from C.H. Dodd that, for me at least, have been helpful in trying to understand something which is for a large part ineffable. Keating’s insight is more mystical and poetic, but wonderfully stunning; Dodd’s is more phenomenological, but equally helpful: Thomas Keating offers his comment in response to a question: Have we ever really understood how we are saved by Jesus’ death more than two millennia ago? Scripture provides examples of persons who actually had an insight into this - for instance, Mary of Bethany, anointing Jesus at Simon the leper’s house. By breaking the alabaster jar of very expensive perfume over the whole body of Jesus and filling the house with that gorgeous scent, she seems to have intuited what Jesus was about to do on the cross. The authorities were set on killing him. What her lavish gesture symbolized was the deepest meaning of Jesus’ passion and death. The body of Christ is the jar containing the most precious perfume of all time, namely, the Holy Spirit. It was about to be broken open so that the Holy Spirit could be poured out over the whole of humanity — past, present, and to come —

with boundless generosity. Until that body had been broken on the cross, the full extent of the gift of God in Christ and its transforming possibilities for the human race could not be known or remotely foreseen. Father Ronald C.H. Dodd describes how Jesus’ death ricochets Rolheiser through history in these words: There was more here than could be accounted for upon the historical or human level. God was in it. The creative purpose of God is everlastingly at work in this world of his. It meets resistance from the recalcitrant wills of men. If at any point human history should become entirely nonresistant to God, perfectly transparent to his design - then from that point the creative purpose would work with unprecedented power. That is just what the perfect obedience of Jesus brought about. Within human nature and human history he established a point of complete nonresistance to the will of God, and complete transparency to his design. As we revert to that moment, it becomes contemporary and we are laid open to the creative energy perpetually working to make man after the image of God. Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser is president of the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, Texas.

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History of Christianity in Japan marked by resilience, devotion By Rick DelVecchio The Japanese Catholic Church has a history of rebounding from adversity ranging from centuries of persecution to natural disasters to such man-made calamities as the firebombings of Tokyo in 1945 and the atomic bomb attack on Nagasaki, the historic center of the church in Japan, in August of that year. If the martyrs of Japan’s four-and-half centuries of Christianity could be counted, they would number 20,000, Bishop Francis Xavier Osamu Mizobe of Takamatsu said in 2008 at the beatification Mass for 188 Japanese martyrs tortured and killed in different cities between 1606 and 1639 after the Japanese government outlawed Christianity. On Feb. 5, 1597, 26 Christians were crucified outside Nagasaki. Twenty were native Japanese, including a 12-year-old and a 13-year-old. A Jesuit witness wrote that the persecutors were struck by the Christians’ courage in meeting death. Nagasaki became a center of Japanese Christianity from the arrival of the Portuguese Jesuit St. Francis Xavier in 1549. “Christianity spread quickly from Nagasaki, so that by 1580, just over 30 years, there were 200,000 converts in Japan,” Brother Anthony Josemaria, a member of the Third Order of the Franciscans of the Immaculate, wrote in a 2010 article in Homiletics and Pastoral Review. The plutonium bomb dropped on Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945, detonated less than a quarter-mile from the cathedral dedicated to the Virgin Mary. It killed 8,500 of the 12,000 Catholics in the surrounding Urakami district, the physical and spiritual center of Japanese Christianity for 400 years, Brother Anthony Josemaria wrote. Thirty people were in the cathedral at the time, including two priests hearing confession. All were killed.

Father Josemaria recalled two stories told by Nagasaki den under pain of torture and death, many Christians, who survivor Takashki Nagai. One concerns women heard singing continued to practice their faith in hiding, passed on the faith hymns in Latin on the midnight after the blast. “The next from generation to generation, including prayers to Mary day they found the 27 nuns from the nearby Josei Convent. in a mixture of Latin, Spanish, Portuguese and Japanese,” The convent was demolished and all were dead, horribly he wrote. “They even concealed a statue of Mary inside the Buddhist statue of Kannon, goddess of mercy!” burned to death; and yet they died singing!” The epicenter of the March 11 earthquake is located “The other incident concerned girls from Junshin, a near the site of an apparition in which school where (Nagai’s) wife Midori had Mary warned about a worldwide disaster taught, run by nuns that he knew well. that could afflict humanity, Catholic News During the dark days of 1945, when the Agency reported. The northeastern city of people worried of being firebombed, the Sendai is less than 90 miles away from the girls had been taught by the principal nun apparition site of Our Lady of Akita in the to sing, “Mary, my Mother, I offer myself to town of Yuzawa. you.” Remarkably, after the bombing, though In 1973, the Virgin Mary was said to have many of the Junshin girls were instantly predicted a number of future events – includkilled, Nagai heard several reports of difing natural disasters even more serious than ferent groups of Junshin girls who had been Friday’s earthquake and tsunami – during working in factories, fields and other places, three appearances to a Japanese religious singing, “Mary, my Mother, I offer myself sister, Sister Agnes Sasagawa. to you.” Many would be dead within days, The purported appearances of the Virgin but they were heard singing.” Head of a Marian statue Mary in Japan were reviewed by Cardinal Marian spirituality has been an important from the Catholic catheJoseph Ratzinger in 1988. During his time as part of Catholic Japan since the time of St. dral in Nagasaki, Japan, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine Francis Xavier, who arrived in Nagasaki on damaged in the Aug. 9, of the Faith prior to his election as Pope the Feast of the Assumption. “St. Francis Xavier himself began all his 1945, atomic bomb blast. Benedict XVI, he let stand the local bishop’s judgment that the apparitions and the mesinstructions by teaching the children and adult catechumens to chant the Hail Mary and to sing other sages were acceptable for the faithful. The messages warned of chaos within the church and hymns in honor of Mary. The rosary and these hymns would be heard in the towns and villages where he preached long disasters that could afflict the world. Two years after the last message, the statue of the Virgin after he had moved on to preach in other places,” Jesuit Father Jerry Bourke wrote in 2004 in an article in the Irish Mary in the chapel where the apparitions had occurred began to emit tears and drops of blood. The occurrence continued Jesuits’ publication The Sacred Heart Messenger. “During the long period when Christianity was forbid- for more than six years.

Interfaith outcry: “Whoever killed Bhatti, killed humanity” LAHORE, Pakistan — Muslim civil society groups and individual members of the Muslim faithful are publicly condemning the March 2 murder of Pakistan’s minorities minister, Shahbaz Bhatti, demanding that the guilty not go unpunished, denying Islamic fanaticism and calling for interreligious harmony, the church missionary news agency Fides reported March 18. The Muslim non-governmental organization Minhajul-Quran International organized a demonstration March 17 in Lahore. The organization, which promotes moderate Islam and interreligious dialogue, gathered faithful Muslims, Christians and other religious minorities who stood side-by-side to condemn the Bhatti’s murder and demand Shahbaz Bhatti that the government put urgent measures in place to combat the rampant religious extremism throughout the country. “Islam is a peaceful religion and does not permit anyone to kill innocent people,” said G.M. Malik, coordinator general for the Center for NGO Interreligious Relations. He recalled that the Prophet Mohammed “gave full rights to non-Muslims in Medina.” Hafiz Ghulam Farid, director of the center, said “those who killed Bhatti, did not just kill one person, but the entire humanity.’’ Meanwhile, in Karachi, Pakistan, the Catholic Church

called for more facts on the death of Qamar David, who was found dead March 15 in a Karachi jail, Fides reported. A Catholic, David had been condemned to life in prison for blasphemy. The church is “calling for clarity” and “wants an official report of the facts, which indicate heart failure as the cause of death,” Fides reported, quoting Father Mario Rodriguez, national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies. The Catholic Church in Karachi, through the Justice and Peace Commission for the diocese, has been looking after the case, offering moral and financial assistance to the family. The church hopes to convince the family of David to authorize an autopsy to be assured of the cause of death. “The news of David’s death has shocked us,” Father Rodriguez told Fides. “Yesterday we interrupted our Lenten spiritual retreat to address the situation. We have contacted the prison authorities and spoken with the detainee who shared David’s cell. He told us that David was fine but he was very afraid. Given that he was accused of blasphemy, he was often badly beaten. The story of a heart attack is unconvincing.” Haroon Barkat Masih, director of the Masihi Foundation, called the death “serious situation.” “A death in prison always raises all sorts of questions,” he told Fides. “We haven’t forgotten other cases of Christians accused of blasphemy and killed in prison. I am convinced that David is dead due to beatings by staff and other inmates. The police and the hospital board want to cover up the true cause of death. Because of poverty and fear, the families of the victims often do not ask for new medical examinations and do not have the courage to denounce the prison authorities. Hence David’s family currently needs the full support of the church and civil society so that they can get to the truth.” Bhatti, three weeks before he was murdered, noted that

Father Corapi . . .

than 2 million miles preaching the Gospel since his 1991 ordination by Pope John Paul II. He has preached in 49 of the 50 states, all of the Canadian provinces except Newfoundland, and several other foreign countries. Father Corapi often tells audiences his story of his late vocation to the priesthood and his life before that, when he knew both success and failure, from gaining millions of dollars in real estate to being penniless, homeless and addicted to cocaine. He is a veteran of the U.S. Army. Besides television and radio, he also preaches about the Catholic faith using the Internet and various other multimedia formats. He is the author of several books and has produced a number of multimedia products.

■ Continued from page 8 conference in Michigan in 2002, Father Corapi called the policy “unjust.” He said there was no question the church needed to remove serial molesters or any priest who posed a threat. But he said there was “a radical difference” between a child-molester priest who “just wallows in it” and a priest removed because he was accused of one long-ago incident but who repented and went on to have 25-30 years of fruitful ministry. According to his website, Father Corapi has traveled more

Father Knapp . . . ■ Continued from page 5 Rafael for more than 15 years before his move to Nazareth House. A vigil service is scheduled for March 28 at 7:30 p.m. at St. Isabella Church, One Trinity Way in San Rafael. A funeral

Mass will be celebrated at St. Isabella’s March 29 at 11 a.m. with interment at Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma. In addition to Msgr. Knapp, Father Knapp is survived by nephew Tom Knapp, his wife, Laurie, and their daughters, Shannon and Kristen. Memorials may be made to the Priests’ Retirement Fund, Archdiocese of San Francisco, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco 94109.

from Pakistan’s founding in 1947 to 1987 blasphemy was never used as a pretext for communal violence or persecution. Since the law came into being, however, hundreds of people, mostly Christians, have been targeted by extremists who use it to pursue personal vendettas, he told Catholic News Service. Bhatti said he hoped to amend the law to stop its misuse. “These religious extremists are terrorizing everyone who is speaking against blasphemy,” he said. “They think speaking against the blasphemy law is also blasphemy.” Bhatti had been virtually the only public figure speaking against the law since the Jan. 4 assassination of the governor of Punjab, Salman Taseer, by one of his bodyguards. Taseer had protested the death sentence given to a Christian mother of five, Asia Bibi, who was found guilty of blasphemy. Taseer also supported reform of the law. Bibi learned of David’s death in a prison visit from her husband. “With every minute that passes, I think it may be the last,” she told Fides. “Each time the door of my cell is opened, my heart beats a thousand miles an hour. I am in the hands of God. I do not know what will happen to me. In prison anyone can be judge and killer.” — Compiled by Catholic San Francisco

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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 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, ex. 218.

Datebook April 10, 3 p.m.: Comedian, actor, talk show host, Brian Copeland, brings his “Not a Genuine Black Man” to Holy Names High School in Oakland. Copeland, a Catholic and East Bay resident, is donating his performance. Proceeds benefit the all-girls school, where the entertainer’s goddaughter, Danielle Pomeroy, is a student. Special invitations are in the mail to Oakland Bishop Salvatore Cordileone and retired Oakland Bishop John Cummins, organizers said. Individual tickets are $50 per person and $35 for seniors. Cabaret tables for four with libations and appetizers are available for $1,000. Front row seats are $100 each. All preferred seating includes a reception with Copeland following the performance. Call Kathryn Moir at (510) 450-1110, ext. 118 or e-mail kmoir@hnhsoakland.org.

Lenten Opportunities March 28, 29, 30, 7 – 8:30 p.m.: Parish Mission at St Gabriel Church, 2559 40th Ave. in San Francisco with Father Christopher Crotty. “Attendees will be introduced to the wonders of the Catholic Faith, the potency of the preached Word, and the mystery of the sacramental,” information about the retreat said. Father Crotty is well known for his healing ministry and preaching. Call Engrid Tjia at (415) 608 8173 or Marilyn Lee at (415) 753 3732. 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 April 1, 8 p.m.: “The Way of the Cross” The Mystery Players of Salesian High School will present “The Way of the Cross” a dramatic presentation of the Passion and Death of the Lord. Through the use of special lighting and sound, this moving dramatic meditation promises to be a high point in the Parish Lenten journey. No charge, a free will offering encouraged. Enjoy this unique and prayerful presentation at Sts. Peter and Paul Church, 666 Filbert St. in San Francisco. Free parking available. (415) 421-0809. April 9, 9 a.m. – 2 p.m.: “The Brown Scapular: Mary’s Garment,” a day of recollection at St. Anthony Church rectory, in San Francisco. Hear talks on the topic by Father John Jimenez and Father Mark Taheny. Continental breakfast and lunch served. Call (415) 282-0773 or e-mail gemaloof2003@yahoo.com. April 13, May 11: Bioethics Seminars, 2580 McAllister St. in San Francisco, and sponsored by the San Francisco Catholic Medical Guild. “The Dying Experience” will be presented by Catherine Conway and Mary Ann Schwab with Raymond Dennehy, Ph.D. Refreshments provided. Donation is $15. Call (415) 282-0773 or e-mail gemaloof2003@ yahoo.com. April 24: Msgr. Harry Schlitt celebrates the TV Mass on Easter, April 24, and all Sundays of the year! Now produced by the retired priest’s God Squad Productions, the TV Mass is broadcast throughout Northern California and also distributed to hospitals, retirement communities, assisted living and senior centers as well as San Quentin State Prison. The Mass is for anyone who cannot get to Church on Sunday. The TV Mass, taped at the Porziuncola Nuova in North Beach, can be seen

on KTXL FOX-40 Sacramento (Comcast CH 8), Sundays at 5:30 a.m.; KTSF- CH 26 San Francisco (Comcast CH 8), Sundays at 6 a.m.; KOFY – CH 20 San Francisco (Comcast CH 13), Sundays at 6 a.m. Contact, TV Mass, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco 94109 or call (415) 614-5643. 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 at 815 Eddy St. between Van Ness and Franklin in San Francisco. 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 in a peaceful, non-violent prayer vigil on the sidewalk at 2211 Palm Avenue, San Mateo. Signs and pamphlets will be provided. 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 Blvd., entrance on Mission Tierra Place, in Fremont. E-mail blessings@msjdominicans.org or call Sister Beth Quire, OP at (510) 449-7554. Fridays, through 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.

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April 1, 8:30 a.m. – 4 p.m.: May Superman Pray? a conference on the role of faith-based schools in school choice at Boalt Hall Law School, University of California at Berkeley. Registration fee is $40. Contact Peter Hanley at the American Center for School Choice at (650) 533-9256 or e-mail phhanley@amcsc. org or register online at www.amcsc.org. Day is sponsored by the Berkeley-based American Center for School Choice and faith-based student groups at Boalt Hall, including Catholic, Christian, Jewish, and Muslim students, speakers, and participants. How may parent choice in the schooling of their children, including faith-based education, be supported and expanded by wise public policies? What are the crucial issues for families, children, society, and the common good?

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The traditional Latin Mass celebrated according to texts and rubrics of the Missal of Blessed John XXIII of 1962 is celebrated at these locations: Sunday, 12:15 p.m.: Holy Rosary Chapel at St. Vincent School for Boys in San Rafael. For more information, call St. Isabella Parish at (415) 479-1560; first Fridays, 7 p.m. at St. Francis of Assisi Church, 1425 Bay Road. at Glen Way in East Palo Alto. For more information, call (650) 322-2152. Father Lawrence Goode, pastor, is celebrant; first Sundays, 5:30 p.m. at Mater Dolorosa Church, 307 Willow Ave. South San Francisco. For more information call (650) 583-4131; second Sundays, 5:30 p.m. at St. Finn Barr Church, Edna St at Hearst in San Francisco. Call (415) 333-3627; third Sundays at Holy Name of Jesus Church, 39th Avenue at Lawton in San Francisco. Call (415) 664-8590 for time.

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 present four contemporary comedies by American playwrights. They are performed 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) 8644467 or (650) 952-3021.

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. Questions, please 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. Take advantage of this education opportunity. If you have any questions or would want more information please call Diabetes Services at St. Mary’s (415) 750-5513.

Food and Fun 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.” Call (415) 494-5517. Muni buses 8, 9, 56, and the T Line will get you there. April 2, 6:30 p.m.: Fourth Annual Catholic Charities CYO Athletics Hall of Fame Dinner. The 2011 inductees, Roger Bross, Randy DeMartini, and Jenifer Spinale, will be honored for their extraordinary impact on the CYO Athletics community at St. Emydius Gym in San Francisco. For more information about the CYO Athletics Hall of Fame Dinner, tickets or sponsorship opportunities, visit http://athletics.cccyo. org/hof/ or call Mary Beth Johnson, (415) 972-1252.

Reunion May 1, 9 a.m.: The Catholic Alumni Club of the San Francisco Bay Area invites current and former members, married and single, guests and friends for a reunion at Mass and buffet breakfast at the Embassy Suites Hotel, 150 Anza Blvd., Burlingame at SFO. Reservations are required by April 15 and the breakfast cost is $30. Contact Elinor Tanck at (408) 738-2511 or e-mail tancke@sbcglobal.net. Aug. 13 or Nov.26: All alumni of St. Anne of the Sunset School, class of 1981 are invited to a reunion. Location/date are undecided. E-mail George Rehmet at georgerehmet@yahoo.com or call (650) 438-9589.

TV/Radio Fridays at 9 a.m.: The Archbishop’s Hour on Immaculate Heart Radio, KSFB - 1260 AM, San Francisco. Enjoy news, conversation and in-depth look at local and larger Church. Program is rerun Friday at 9 p.m. and Sunday at 11 a.m. E-mail info@ sfarchdiocese.org with comments and questions about faith. Visit www.ihradio.org Sunday, 6 a.m., KOFY Channel 20/Cable 13 and KTSF Channel 26/Cable 8: TV Mass with Msgr. Harry Schlitt presiding. Sunday, 7 a.m.: TV Mass on the Filipino Channel (TFC) Channel 241 on Comcast and Channel 2060 on Direct TV. Saturday, 4 p.m.: Religious programming in Cantonese over KVTO 1400 AM, co-sponsored by the Chinese Ministry and Chinese Young Adults of the Archdiocese of San Francisco.. First Sunday, 5 a.m., CBS Channel 5: “Mosaic,” featuring conversations on current Catholic issues. EWTN Catholic Television: Comcast Channel 229, AT&T Channel 562, Astound Channel 80, San Bruno Cable Channel 143, DISH Satellite Channel 261, Direct TV Channel 370. For programming details, visit www.ewtn.com

Holy Cross Cemetery 1500 Old Mission Rd. in Colma, (650) 756-2060 April 2, 11 a.m.: First Saturday Mass in All Saints Mausoleum.

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