On church altar, priest memorializes Shoah’s ‘staggering’ evil and that the story of the genocide of six million European Jews, recalled in a small All of the photographs in the small but telling way at the purgatory altar at St. Holocaust memorial on a side altar at Dominic, deserves our attention. St. Dominic Church in San “I wanted images to sink Francisco are arresting and into their hearts,” Father disturbing, but the one that Lavagetto said of the parishcaptures a pretty woman ioners and visitors who pass about to be executed at by, “because unless you pray the death camp at Belzec, with your heart it can remain Poland, will stop you cold. very academic.” She was standing in the Father Lavagetto is the snow. She was holding her son of an iconic professional hands as in prayer. It was baseball player and manager, her last day. Cookie Lavagetto, who made Dominican Father It’s a reminder, said his name as an infielder for Dominican Father Xavier the Brooklyn Dodgers, in Xavier Lavagetto Lavagetto, the pastor, that the 1930s and 1940s. He had “the size of inhumanity is staggering,” many Jewish friends, said his son. “To dad,
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anti-Semitism was repugnant, and he gave it no truck,” said Father Lavagetto. The lessons from the Holocaust – chief among them that we are all brothers and sisters – have long been part of Father Lavagetto’s portfolio, as teacher and pastor. He was a Christian Brother for 25 years, before his ordination as a priest in 1996, and taught chemistry and religion for 11 years at Cathedral High School in Los Angeles – and to the religion students he showed film on concentration camp liberation. He recently visited the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., where he wept, and, once home, assembled his own memorial. There are three candles illuminating the collected pieces, which also include three framed photographs; a map of the
major concentration camps in Europe in 1944; the back story on the Shoah, meaning calamity in Hebrew; a copy of Psalm 130, “A Cry from the Depths;” the Kaddish Prayer, required in Jewish law to be recited for the dead but which is also a prayer for peace, and a copy of Pope John Paul II’s speech at Yad Vashem, in which he noted that “only a world at peace, with justice for all, can avoid repeating the mistakes and terrible crimes of the past.” In the book of photographs, there is an image of a burning synagogue in Siegen, Germany, during “Kristallnacht,” meaning Night of Broken Glass, on Nov. 10, 1938; a shot of the crematorium furnaces in SHOAH, page 8
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Enhanced curriculum, and lighter backpacks, seen as Mercy adopts iPads By Valerie Schmalz A pilot iPad program begins in the fall at Mercy High School, Burlingame with all teachers beginning to teach with iPads and students encouraged to bring iPads to class. If all goes well with the pilot program, in the 2012-13 school year students will be required to purchase iPads and will download available texts onto their com-
puters rather than purchasing hard copies of the texts, said principal Lisa Tortorich. The pilot program is a way to work out the bugs before iPads become mandatory, social studies chair Linda Townsend said. “It’s an absolute shift in our institutional strategy,” said Tortorich, saying the impetus for the change came from the faculty. “We are very proud that we are leading the area of technology.” “There are so many apps that are creative
and fun,” said the principal, who also teaches technology and education at the University of San Francisco. Several Catholic high schools in the Archdiocese of San Francisco are investigating implementation of iPad technology, said Schools Superintendent Maureen Huntington. Setting up a one-to-one system for iPads or laptops requires sinking funds into a school technology upgrade to handle the
increased traffic and to ensure there are sufficient firewalls and monitoring tools. Mercy Burlingame is installing a wireless Internet system this summer in preparation for the changeover to the tablet, which weighs slightly more than 1 pound, Tortorich said. The system is designed so the students log on to it and have limited access to sites that are IPAD, page 8
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On The Where You Live By Tom Burke Happy birthday April 20 to Norma Tealdi from sisters, Dora Varacchi and Lottie Peradotto. Norma, now 95 years old, Dora, 87, and Lottie, 91, all live together in a North Beach apartment building left to them by their dad. The sisters are longtime members of the Italian Catholic Federation Branch 38 and Norma’s birthday was recently celebrated with the larger ICF group. Dora told me the sisters all receive Catholic San Francisco and like it very much for keeping up with the news‌. Celebrating her 100th birthday is Maria del Refugio Mota de Carson of St. Brendan Parish in San Francisco. Father Dan Nascimento, pastor at St. Bren’s, was principal celebrant of a Norma Tealdi Mass commemorating the milestone. Helping plan the liturgy was Canossian Sister Catherine Capello. Maria’s nieces, Anita Villarreal and Caroline Mota, hosted a reception for the many family and friends. Anita said that dancing was a big part of the after-party and Maria took a spin on the dance floor with “every gentleman who attended.â€?‌Nice to speak with Nellie Picolotto, who has lived at Bay and Gough in San Francisco for 61 years, and admits – thank you – to being a regular reader of this column. Nellie is a parishioner of Sts. Peter and Paul in North Beach and will be 88 years old Oct. 1. Happy birthday!... Congratulations to David and Sandra Mehrwein of St. Elizabeth Parish on the celebration of their 25th wedding anniversary May 9. Father Charito Suan, pastor, witnessed their renewal of vows. The couple also received a special blessing from Pope Benedict XVI. . Also wishing them well are their children David, Rebecca and Sarah. Sandra is the parish secretary at St. Elizabeth’s‌ The San Francisco Archdiocesan Federation of Teachers announced this year’s winners of its annual $500 awards recognizing “seniors who have distinguished themselves over four years in academics, character, and commitment and devotion to their school.â€? Archbishop Riordan High School, David Capistrano,
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Adonis Gonzalez; Junipero Serra High School, Brandon Tineo, Siaosi Tuitavake; Marin Catholic High School, Sandra Colindres, Evan Egas; Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory, Maritza Sazo. “Approximately 180 fulltime teachers, counselors, and librarians at Marin Catholic, Riordan, Sacred Heart Cathedral, and Serra belong to the SFAFT,â€? David and Sandra Mehrwein said President Christian Clifford, of Junipero Serra High School‌.Thanks to San Domenico Schools for this note about compost. They’re calling the stuff `black gold.’ Last summer, a compost committee, including parent volunteers and school staff, piloted the first large-scale horse manure – they have stables there ya’ know? - composting system on a hill above the school’s 1-acre organic garden. The first finished pile, measured about 20 cubic yards of vital nutrients. “Onsite composting of the school’s horse manure is a responsible environmental business practice, minimizing waste while at the same time eliminating the fossil fuels needed to truck compost to the school,â€? San Domenico said.â€? The economic savings is more than $750 in retail compost costs plus a savings for manure disposal feesâ€? With its Garden of Hope solar installation, and sustainability program, San Domenico is proud to be “a leader of green practices all year long.â€?‌ Speaking of horses, San Domenico’s equestrian team riders advanced to the Interscholastic Equestrian Association’s National Finals. Coach is Lisa Durbrow. “This year has been a great season for our young team,â€? Durbrow said. “Our riders worked very hard throughout the year and their success is earned.â€? Congrats to San Domenico Mathletes now
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St. Paul Church – called city’s ‘most beautiful’ – marks centennial By Tom Burke Msgr. James O’Malley, now 91, was born and raised in San Francisco’s St. Paul Parish. “It was the only parish I ever knew growing up,” the retired pastor of St. Kevin Parish, said. “We were so very proud to belong to St. Paul’s. It has so many great people and now memories. It was a bastion of faith and strength.” A continuing center of empowerment for the parish has been St. Paul Church, which is being celebrated May 29 for wrapping its walls around generations of people and prayer during the last 100 years. Archbishop Msgr. James George Niederauer is principal O’Malley celebrant of the 12:15 p.m. Mass of Thanksgiving. Father Mario Farana has served as pastor of St. Paul’s since 1993. Father Farana has shepherded St. Paul through
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some 20 years now and events that have included a threatened closing of the parish in 1993 and major upgrades of the church from effects of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. “This is a day we celebrate our faith and make it a springboard to the future,” Father Farana said. “We stand on the shoulders of those who have gone before us and helped make St. Paul’s what it is today.” The priest said former St. Paul pastors, priests and staff have been invited to the Mass and reception. Jim Woods, a St. Paul parishioner and historian, wrote a comprehensive accounting of the well-known Noe Valley faith community five years ago. More recently, he focused on the construction and history of the hallowed St. Paul Church generously donating his research for use in this report. Woods and his wife, Kate, were married in St. Paul Church in 1992. St. Paul Parish began as a mission in 1876 and was made a parish in 1880. Before St. Paul Church was built, Catholics traveled to Mission District neighbor, St. Peter Church, for Mass and special occasions. “It was a difficult trip on good days and a perilous one when the rains fell and the many creeks that lined the valley overflowed their banks,” Woods said.
George D. Shadbourne took requests for a church a little closer to home to Archbishop Joseph Sadoc Alemany and it was approved. Cost of the property on which the church and surrounding compound would be built was $2,800. The parcel included a lot at 29th Street and Church Street and three additional lots facing Church Street. Construction of the original church and residence began in the spring of 1880. Archbishop Alemany laid the cornerstone. The church had a seating capacity of 750. Cost of construction and equipping the church was $18,000. In 1897, Father M.D. Connolly, pastor, began construction of today’s St. Paul Church. He built slowly, constructing only as much as his current money supply would permit, never incurring a debt his parishioners would have to repay. Parishioners had a wonderful spirit and eagerly donated time and talent to the project. It was common to see pupils from Saturday morning catechism classes pitching in. In 1902, Thomas Dolphin, a carpenter’s apprentice, died in a fall from the church. A concrete cross remembering him rests in the sidewalk at the corner of Church Street and Valley Street. ST. PAUL CHURCH, page 11
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By Valerie Schmalz One of the youngest and fastest growing orders of religious is coming to teach at Marin Catholic High School in the fall, complete with their floor-length 800-year-old-style habits. Four sisters from the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist, will teach mathematics, science, social studies and theology. The order, founded in 1997 in Ann Arbor, is growing so fast it has outgrown its 100-capacity house of formation in Ann Arbor, Mich., and is building a second priory in Loomis, near Sacramento. The order’s lifestyle intrigued Oprah Winfrey, who featured the sisters twice on her show in 2010. As a result they have been nicknamed the “Oprah sisters.” “I can’t tell you how excited I am personally,” said Marin Catholic President Tim Navone. In addition to teaching, the sisters will help with student clubs, campus ministry and the retreat program, he said. The sisters’ presence will reinforce the school’s emphasis on Catholic identity, which includes daily 7:30 a.m. Mass. “The Dominican sisters have a rich tradition of educational excellence since the 13th century,” said Navone, who said the sisters’ presence is reassuring to him as the first lay president in the school’s history. In the past sisters from the Dominicans of San Rafael and the Dominicans of Mission San Jose have taught at Marin Catholic, Navone said. The order is part of a worldwide resurgence among religious orders who embrace the traditional religious life as part of Blessed Pope John Paul II’s call for a new evangelization, said Dominican Sister Mary Samuel Handwerker, who is overseeing the California mission and the building of the new house of formation. The sisters were invited to the archdiocese by Archbishop George Niederauer and Bishop-elect Thomas Daly, who was president of the archdiocesan Catholic high school until his election to bishop and appointment to the Diocese of San Jose as auxiliary bishop. “One of our focuses is to revive the Catholic schools in America,” said Sister Samuel, one of the four Dominicans who founded the teaching order. “We are committed to Catholic education.” The average age of the order’s sisters is 28, with about a third having professed final vows. Each religious obtains a teaching credential usually during her eight-year formation before final vows. In addition to teaching in Sacramento, where they began teaching at Presentation of the Blessed Mother School in the fall at the invitation of Sacramento Bishop Jaime Soto, the sisters teach in Michigan, South Carolina, Arizona, Texas and Florida. “God’s in charge. We’re excited, very excited about being in the San Francisco archdiocese and being in the high school,” said Sister Samuel. “These young people are opening their hearts. We are seeing a whole revival,” she said, as part of a “springtime in the church.”
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Bishops say critique not meant to question Catholic author’s service By Dennis Sadowski WASHINGTON (CNS) — The harsh critique by the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Doctrine of a Fordham University theologian’s popular book was not meant to question the “dedication, honor, creativity or service” of the theologian’s work, said a letter to faculty members at the university. Written by Capuchin Franciscan Father Thomas G. Weinandy, executive director of the Secretariat for Doctrine of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, the letter was sent April 28, 10 days after 179 Fordham faculty members from various academic departments offered their unconditional support to author Sister Elizabeth A. Johnson, a Sister of St.Joseph and professor of theology at Fordham. It was Johnson’s 2007 book, “Quest for the Living God: Mapping Frontiers in the Theology of God,” that was criticized by the committee for having “misrepresentations, ambiguities and errors” related to the Catholic faith. The doctrinal committee decided to assess the book in late 2009, after it became a popular choice of faculty who teach introductory theology classes on college campuses. The faculty members expressed dismay in their letter that the committee acted without talking with Sister Elizabeth, whose theological work is recognized internationally and has been honored with several awards. They also urged the bishops to “take steps to rectify the lack of respect and consideration your actions have shown for Sister Johnson both as a scholar and as a dedicated woman religious who has given a lifetime of honorable, creative and generous service to the church, the academy and the world.” The critique also stirred response from theologians across the U.S. Leaders of the Catholic Theological Society of America and the College Theology Society expressed concern over the committee’s action. Of particular concern to the theologians was that they said the bishops failed to follow procedures established in the document “Doctrinal Responsibilities: Approaches to Promoting Cooperation and Resolving Misunderstandings Between Bishops and Theologians” approved by the bishops in 1989. The document calls for an informal conversation to discuss concerns with a theologian during any review of work. Sister Elizabeth said March 30 she was never invited to discuss the concerns that doctrine committee members had with the book. She also said the conclusions by the committee “paint an incorrect picture of the fundamental line of thought the book develops.” Father Weinandy suggested in his letter that it may be time to review the 22-year-old document. He said the document calls for “timely review to see if modifications are needed” and that such a review might help parties “see how well its provisions are understood and applied.”
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ROME – The Gospel can be preached differently so its message reaches the heart, Cardinal Peter Turkson of Ghana told a conference organized by the Pontifical Justice and Peace Council, Vatican Radio reported. “We need to depart from that view of simply making converts or simply teaching catechism which provides people with notions but doesn’t touch the heart,” he said. “When conversion takes place – like the example of Zacchaeus in the Gospel – he was a tax collector, he used to get rich at the expense of the poor until something touched him, until he met Christ,” the cardinal said. “For a lot of people it’s the same, if the love of Christ was enough to Cardinal Peter Turkson open Zacchaeus’ heart and make him realize he was hurting his brothers. That’s the type of conversion that can make the social doctrine work.”
VATICAN CITY — In a world marked by new forms of slavery and injustice, the church must evangelize constantly and fearlessly — even in the face of persecution, Pope Benedict XVI said. The pope, addressing directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies May 14, said Catholic activity at every level needs to be infused with the missionary spirit. “All the sectors of pastoral life, of catechesis and of charity should be characterized by the missionary dimension: the church is mission,” he said.
Pope: End Libya, Syria strife VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI renewed his appeal for a negotiated settlement in Libya and called for an end to bloodshed in Syria, where civil strife has left hundreds of people dead. Speaking at his noon blessing at the Vatican May 15, the pope said he was following the conflict in Libya with “great concern,” and was especially worried about the suffering of civilians. “I renew a pressing appeal that the way of negotiation and dialogue may prevail over violence, with the support of international organizations that are working to find a solution to the crisis,” the pope said.
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VATICAN CITY — India’s Christians should be models of charity and patience, demonstrating tolerance for people of every religion, Pope Benedict XVI said. “Even if he encounters opposition, the Christian’s own charity and forbearance should serve to convince others of the rightness of religious tolerance, from which the followers of all religions stand to gain,” the pope told a group of bishops from India May 16.
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MEXICO CITY — The Interior Ministry fired seven top officials in charge of immigration matters in regions where the abduction of undocumented migrants by organized gangs has been rampant and local officials increasingly are being implicated as complicit in the crimes. The ministry said in a May 12 statement that National Immigration Institute employees in seven states with a large northward flow of undocumented migrants would be subjected to additional screening and oversight. The move follows revelations from judicial and human rights officials that immigration officers allegedly hand over migrants to criminal groups, who then demand ransoms from the victims’ relatives. Catholics working with undocumented migrants welcomed the decision but also expressed skepticism with the timing. “We’ve been telling them about this for a long time,” Father Jose Alejandro Solalinde, director of the Brothers of the Road migrant shelter in Oaxaca state, told Radio Formula. “They accept it when it’s evident, when they can no longer hide it,” he said.
Dominican prelate urges nation to face down violence SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — The Caribbean nation is troubled by “unmistakable signs of serious violence,” Santo Domingo Archbishop Cardinal Nicolas de Jesus Lopez Rodriguez warned in a May 12 homily at a Mass celebrating Nurses Day, the church missionary news agency Fides reported. “Violence is a harsh reality that is felt in all environments, even though many do not want to recognize the seriousness of this evil,” the archbishop said, urging the authorities to clarify the murder of a young dentist who was killed by a stranger while he was returning home in Mirador Sur in the capital.
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VATICAN CITY — A new Vatican instruction calls on local bishops and pastors to respond generously to Catholics who seek celebration of the Mass according to the 1962 Roman Missal, commonly known as the Tridentine rite. The instruction, issued May 13, said pastors should approve such Masses for groups of faithful, even when such groups are small or are formed of people from different parishes or dioceses. These faithful cannot, however, contest the
LONDON — The bishops of England and Wales are reestablishing the practice of abstaining from meat on Fridays as a penance to identify with Christ on the cross. In resolutions published from their spring plenary assembly, which concluded May 12, the bishops announced the re-establishment of the practice, to take effect Sept. 16, the Union of Catholic Asian News reported, citing an article by Zenit. “Every Friday is set aside by the church as a special day of NEWS IN BRIEF, page 5
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House speaker challenged to uphold church’s teaching on the poor speaker to join the U.S. bishops and other religious leaders as part of the recently announced Circle of Protection network to protect the most vulnerable Americans from budget cuts. Stephen Schneck, director of the university’s Institute for Policy Research & Catholic Studies and one of the signers, told Catholic News Service May 12 that the correspondence serves to “call attention to the speaker the church’s teaching on addressing the needs of the poor.” “We view this as an opportunity to educate the speaker and urge him to take the concerns of the poor much more seriously in his policy efforts,” Schneck said. Another signer, Daniel K. Finn, professor of economics and theology at St. John’s University in Collegeville, Minn., said Boehner “seems to be unaware of the implications” of the House vote to pass the proposed budget, which cuts programs such as the Women Infants and Children nutrition program and begins to reshape Medicaid and Medicare. “It is long-standing Catholic conviction that government has a very important and essential role to play in support of the poor. It’s not an option,” Finn said, citing Pope Pius XI’s 1931 encyclical “Quadragesimo Anno,” which discussed society’s responsibility to the poor and was published in the midst of the Great Depression. Vincent J. Miller, a professor of religious studies at the University of Dayton, said he signed the letter because he was
concerned that many politicians treat the church’s social teaching as if it were negotiable when it’s not. “It is very difficult to force what (Pope) Benedict XVI described as the ‘truth’ of caritas into policy,” he explained, referring to the pope’s 2009 encyclical “Caritas in Veritate” (“Charity in Truth”). “But that will never happen if major Catholic public figures such as Speaker Boehner simply ignore it and he is honored without note of the ways in which his policies fall short of the church’s teaching. If we don’t speak up on this, millions of Catholics could be misled to think that these policies are morally acceptable,” he said. In his commencement speech, Boehner focused on the values of humility, patience and faith. He recounted his own Catholic education, including the example of his high school football coach, Gerry Faust, who taught his players that “life is a precious gift from God” and that “there’s nothing in life you can’t achieve if you’re willing to work hard enough and make the sacrifices necessary to succeed.” John H. Garvey, who is finishing his first year as Catholic University president, gave the concluding commencement remarks, telling the students not to forget about the virtue of mercy, which will “soften the sharp edges of your ideals just enough.” “You must make it your rule to give and forgive,” he said.
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presentation of a recent report by Ireland’s child safety watchdog might discourage the church’s child protection workers. Dublin Archbishop Diarmuid Martin said he was concerned that the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church presented its report May 11 by emphasizing negative things, not the progress being made. “I’m actually worried that the manner in which the national board decided to present as their primary dimension of their report, negative aspects, will have damaged — not the credibility of the bishops, but the confidence of the people who are working in the diocese like mine.” After the discovery of thousands of cases of clergy sexual abuse, most of them from the 20th century, thousands of volunteers were trained in child protection, and each Dublin parish now has someone monitoring the situation. “If they (volunteers) feel that their time is being wasted, when in fact it isn’t, I think that could be damaging,” Archbishop Martin told Catholic News Service May 16.
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WASHINGTON (CNS) — More than 70 Catholic scholars and others have challenged Republican House Speaker John Boehner, a product of Catholic schools in his native Ohio, to uphold the church’s teaching on support for the poor. The group, including about two dozen faculty members from The Catholic University of America, where Boehner delivered the commencement address and received an honorary degree May 14, said in a letter to the speaker that his voting record varies from the church’s long-standing moral teaching that “those Speaker John Boehner in power are morally obliged to preference the needs of the poor.” The signers pointed to Boehner’s efforts to shepherd a 2012 budget plan through the House that they said “guts long-established protections for the most vulnerable members of society,” particularly pregnant women and children. They also invited the
■ Continued from page 4 penance, for it is the day of the death of Our Lord,” a statement of resolutions from the assembly reminded. “The law of the church requires Catholics to abstain from meat on Fridays, or some other form of food, or to observe some other form of penance laid down by the bishops’ conference.” The bishops want to reinstate Friday penance for the faithful “as a clear and distinctive mark of their own Catholic identity,” the statement announced.
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Spirit-filled Catholics gathering for annual charismatic conference By Valerie Schmalz Does talking in tongues and prophesying sound like the Catholic Church you know? The 24th annual charismatic conference for Northern California would be a good way to discover more about the fullness of the Lord’s power and the gifts of the spirit that are bestowed upon all of us through the sacraments of confirmation and baptism, says Msgr. James Tarantino, who is the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s vicar for administration and also serves as liaison to the charismatic community. The 24th annual Northern California Catholic Charismatic Convention will be held May 27-29 at the Santa Clara Convention Center and bills itself as “a time of praise, worship and reconciliation, with teaching, miracles and healing.” Organizers urge Catholics to “come expecting the fullness of God’s power.” Speaking in tongues and prophesying are common at the conference, said Msgr. Tarantino, but “what is at the heart
Cemeteries head retiring Katherine E. Atkinson, director of cemeteries for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, has announced her intention to retire as of June 30, 2011. Atkinson started her career with the archdiocese in 1982 as school secretary at St. Cecilia Parish and joined the Cemetery Department in 1986, where she held the positions of receptionist, accounting clerk, family services counselor, assistant to the general manager and general manager and was appointed director in 1988. The department includes Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery in Colma, Holy Cross Cemetery in Menlo Park, Mount Olivet Cemetery in San Rafael, Our Lady of the Pillar in Half Moon Bay, St. Anthony Cemetery in Pescadero, Pilarcitos Cemetery in Half Moon Bay and Tomales Catholic Cemetery in Tomales. Monica Williams, assistant family services manager, has been appointed to succeed Atkinson. Williams found her vocation in funeral service as a summer employee at Holy Kathy Atkinson Cross Cemetery.
of the movement is to bring people together to learn how to pray together. “Charismatic renewal is not new. It is the core, central, vital part of what the church is all about, rooted in the Holy Spirit and has been through the church down through the ages,” Msgr. Tarantino said, noting the charismatic movement dates to the descent of the Holy Spirit on the disciples at Pentecost. The charismatic movement as it is now experienced began in 1968 with a group of college students and teachers who gathered to pray together and experienced the gifts of the spirit much as the apostles in the locked room at Pentecost did, Msgr. Tarantino notes. For those who are interested but can’t put aside a weekend to attend the conference, Msgr. Tarantino suggested: “Come to the closing Mass. See how excited a couple thousand people can be in the Holy Spirit. And how powerful that is.” This year on May 27, San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice will celebrate the opening Mass for the convention. Msgr. Tarantino will celebrate the closing Mass on May 29. For more information, ncrcspirit.org/Convention.
About 70 Catholic charismatic prayer groups meet in the Archdiocese of San Francisco, most at parishes. At the conference May 27-29, Northern California charismatic Catholics will attend from the Archdiocese of San Francisco, and dioceses of Monterey, Oakland, Santa Rosa, Sacramento, Stockton and San Jose. In the archdiocese, charismatic prayer groups meet for a First Friday night Mass at one of the parishes. Information about charismatic prayer groups and events in the archdiocese can be found at sfspirit.com. The Archdiocese of San Francisco has a Charismatic Renewal Board and each ethnic group is represented, Msgr. Tarantino said. Each U.S. diocese has a liaison to the charismatic community, according to a directive from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, he said. “This is the life of the local church. It is not extraordinary,” Msgr. Tarantino said. “It is more of the mainstream than out of the mainstream. Whether people think it is out of the mainstream, I actually consider it very mainstream. It’s why I became a priest. It was the first time my faith became real to me.”
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Sister Mary Esther McCann, CSJ Sister Mary Regina Sutton, RSM Sister Mary Esther McCann, CSJ, a native San Franciscan and a Sister of St Joseph of Carondelet for 81 years, died on April 8, 2011 at the age of 101. A funeral Mass was celebrated at Carondelet Center in Los Angeles April 18, with burial at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City. Sister Mary Esther graduated from Star of the Sea Academy in San Francisco, where she met the St. Joseph sisters. She entered religious life after a few years of working in a bank. During a period of more than 50 years beginning in 1935, she served in leadership and line positions at Catholic hospitals Sister Esther McCann in several states. In the `70s she initiated a program, “Alternative to Abortion,” and was delighted that many babies were given a chance to live through financial and compassionate assistance given pregnant women. Survivors include nephews and nieces Lorna Berry, John Buick, Maureen Murphy, Jeanne Boswell, Don McCann, Phillip Conger, John McCann, Father Peter Talcott, Dr. James Talcott, Sarah Randt and Suzanne Anderson. Donations may be made in Sister Mary Esther’s memory to the Sisters of St Joseph of Carondelet, 11999 Chalon Rd, Los Angeles 90049.
A funeral Mass was celebrated March 19 for Mercy Sister Mary Regina Sutton, 84, who died March 15. Interment was in Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma. A Sister of Mercy since 1944, Sister Regina was an electronics expert and a certified locksmith — skills that earned her the nickname “Sister Fix-it” at St. Peter and Mercy high schools in San Francisco, where she taught for 22 years. She enjoyed taking road trips across the country to visit family and did intense research before the trips. Her planning skills made her a key member of the committee that helped plan Marian Oaks, the sisters’ retirement home in Burlingame. “She was one of the brightest women I’ve ever worked with,” said Jean Hastie, campus administrator. “She could look at blueprints and calculate dimensions in her head.” She is survived by a brother Richard and her Sister Regina Sutton extended family. Memorial gifts may be sent to the Sisters of Mercy, 2300 Adeline Drive, Burlingame 94010.
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Kinship of three sets of brothers called key to Gators’ league sweep By Valerie Schmalz Next year when Cole McConnell dons a Gators basketball uniform, he will be playing without his two big brothers, William and Reed. Austin Baloff won’t have his brother Cal at his elbow either. Matthew McNamara’s brother Pat will be at Indiana University.
More sports news, Page 16 No matter how next season plays out for Sacred Heart Atherton, the golden era of three sets of brothers playing basketball together will be at an end. The Gators won two West Bay Athletic League championships in 2010 and 2011, as well as Central Coast Section IV titles, with a 14-0 league record, 25-3 season record this season. Best memory? “Winning CCS for a second year in a row because that hadn’t been done yet for our school,” said Pat McNamara. “Winning CCS my first year on the team,” said Austin Baloff. The year has a bittersweet tinge, though. “This is the last time. We have been playing together since we could walk,” said Cole McConnell, a junior, who with brothers William and Reed was among the scoring leaders this season. Both of his older brothSacred Heart Atherton’s McConnell brothers: Cole, Reed and William.
ers were recruited to play college basketball next year, with William going to Dartmouth and Reed going to UC Irvine, said school spokeswoman Millie Lee. Many of the boys had been playing together since grammar school on club teams in the Atherton and San Mateo area, Matthew McNamara said, which also built cohesion. The seven boys who were brothers and the six who did not have siblings on the team all worked together, with the existing brother relationships and earlier friendships a source of cohesion more than rivalry, said Pat McNamara. “We were all The Sacred Heart Atherton Gators ran up a 14-0 record in West Bay Athletic League pretty close,” Pat said. play this year and 25-3 overall. William’s average per game was 15.3, Reed’s was 14.4, and Cole’s was 8.3, according to MaxPreps.com. Point a brother,” said he enjoyed watching the various brothers. guard Colin Terndrup –who was among the six players without “There is obviously some rivalry there but they were also looking out for each other,” said Martinelli. For instance a sibling on the team — had a game average of 8.5. Colin, a senior, says playing with the three sets of brothers Cal gave Austin Baloff tips on recovering from injuries, gave the Gators an edge because the brothers had an intuitive Martinelli and Austin said. “The guys who would fight the most would be Cole and sense of where their siblings would be on the court. “Each set of brothers contributed greatly to the outcome of the season, Reed. Cole and Reed were the most competitive,” Martinelli and without any set of them, we would have had difficulty said, probably because they played the same positions, shooting guard and small forward. having another very successful season,” Colin said. Overall, the team came together much more easily and During practice, the brothers’ familiarity with each other sharpened everyone’s skills, he said. “The brothers were very stayed cohesive, in contrast to some other teams where familiar with their counterpart’s style of play and moves, which the seniors aren’t willing to hang out with the juniors and younger players, Martinelli said. “For the most part we didn’t made it tough for them to score on each other,” Colin said. Coach Tony Martinelli, who grew up sandwiched have to force them to get together,” the coach said. “The ties between two sisters, and was “a guy who always wanted they had were already established.”
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Shoah . . . ■ Continued from cover the Gusen concentration camp in Austria, and numerous wrenching images of emaciated Jewish survivors. The Holocaust is an example of a horror that can flow from taking on any group “and making them ‘other,’” Father Lavagetto warned. “We’ve done that to the immigrants,” he said. The purgatory altar at St. Dominic’s has hosted other memorials, including one noting the earthquake in Haiti and also the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, as well as the book of the dead for parishioners. The Holocaust memorial will be on display through May. “It is significant because it shows great sensitivity to the concerns of another faith,” said Rita Semel, executive vice chair of the San Francisco Interfaith Council. “It also means that Father Lavagetto and his Dominican colleagues are concerned about people getting to know and understand each
iPad . . . ■ Continued from cover not relevant to school, she said. Every few seconds a screen shot is taken of each student’s iPad to encourage staying on task, she said. St. Ignatius College Preparatory in San Francisco is gearing up for an all school iPad program perhaps as early as the 2012-13 school year, said Paul Totah, school spokesman. The school has begun a $500,000 server and wireless upgrade and 100 teachers are using iPads in preparation, he said. Bishop O’Dowd High School in Oakland converted to a one-to-one laptop system beginning with the entering freshmen in 2008-09 and this year the entire school will be on the laptop system, said chief information officer Romeo Baldeviso. An in-house technology expert repairs the computers which until this year were required to be Toshiba laptops sold by the school. For 2011-12, incoming Bishop O’Dowd freshmen can choose a Mac Notebook or Dell or other laptops, but about half still chose the Toshiba because of the guaranteed in-house repair aspect, Baldeviso said. Baldeviso said there are still more texts easily available for laptops and the technology and software are easier to support. The biggest advantages to the iPads are curriculum enhancements and lighter backpacks, said Tortorich. The computer tablet makes research and interactive learn-
other and living without conflict. People have disagreements but will understand each other and will be able to cope with them in a peaceful fashion.”
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Part of the Shoah exhibit on the purgatory altar at St. Dominic Church
ing easier, with a camera, audio, and the ability to zoom in on a map, for instance, said social studies teacher Townsend, noting there was a faculty consensus in favor of the iPad for any technology conversion. Particularly appealing are “smart” features such as annotating, highlighting and returning the user to their place when they open an e-book again, said Mercy sophomores Carly Eppler and Amanda Odasz who suggested an iPad change to the principal. Carly, 15, said she found Charles Dickens’ tale of the French Revolution, “A Tale of Two Cities,” difficult to read so she got it on i-Tunes. “I can have it play and then read along. You can fast forward through chapters and different parts. It makes it a lot easier, particularly if you are an auditory learner.” The 10-hour battery life and quick boot up time are advantages over laptops which generally require five minutes to come to life, with the lids blocking teachers’ views, said Eric Castro, St. Ignatius educational technologist. Shifting apps is harder, with hitting “alt” key enough to change screens on a laptop while the iPad requires multiple steps making covert gameplaying or Facebooking more difficult for students, Casto said. No matter what technology a school uses, Baldeviso said it is important to give students options to support different types of learners. “There are some kids who really need to mark up and write on the text books and then there are kids who are fine with the electronic medium,” said Baldeviso.
A Family Rosary Crusade much akin to the famed “Rosary in Golden Gate Park” with Father Patrick Peyton in 1961 takes place Oct. 15 at noon in San Francisco’s Civic Center Plaza. The event is sponsored by the San Francisco Legion of Mary, and all Catholics are invited. “Join us as we pray the rosary, adore the Blessed Sacrament, listen to inspirational speakers, and ask the blessings of God for ourselves and our community,” organizers said. To view footage of the 1961 Rosary Crusade, visit YouTube. For more information, visit www. familyrosarycrusade2011.com.
The change definitely will make backpacks lighter for the girls at Mercy Burlingame. “History is my heaviest book. I’d say it weighs five to eight pounds,” said Carly, who estimated her backpack weighs close to 30 pounds, when all her books, binders and notebooks are packed in. “I play sports and my back hurts a lot.”
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Vatican orders bishops to draft guidelines to handle abuse cases By Cindy Wooden
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Every bishops’ conference in the world must have guidelines for handling accusations of clerical sex abuse in place within a year, said the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. In a letter dated May 3 and released by the Vatican May 16, U.S. Cardinal William J. Levada, congregation prefect, said that in every nation and region, bishops should have “clear and coordinated procedures” for protecting children, assisting victims of abuse, dealing with accused priests, training clergy and cooperating with civil authorities. Describing sexual abuse of minors as “a crime prosecuted by civil law,” the doctrinal congregation said bishops should follow local laws that require reporting cases of sexual abuse to police.
Advocates for victims of clergy sexual abuse demonstrate in Sydney, Australia in July 2008.
Since the early 1990s about two dozen bishops’ conferences, starting mainly with English-speaking countries, have drawn up guidelines for dealing with accusations of sexual abuse of minors filed against clergy and other church employees. Other conferences — for example, the Italian bishops’ conference — have said they did not draw up guidelines because bishops were obliged to follow canon law and special provisions enacted in 2001 by Blessed Pope John Paul II and in 2010 by Pope Benedict XVI. Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman, said the fact that conferences were given a precise deadline and only 12 months to draft their guidelines demonstrates how seriously the Vatican takes the matter. “The aim is to give bishops a strong common denominator for drafting guidelines appropriate to their own national situation, with its unique culture and legislation,” he told reporters May 16. The guidelines of several countries, including the United States, have been adopted as mandatory norms in those countries and approved by the Vatican. The guidelines the doctrinal congregation now is seeking throughout the world do not have to be binding, the letter said, although they must reflect the binding provisions of canon law and the special provisions enacted in 2001 and last year. The special provisions issued in the past 10 years expanded or extended several points of church law: they defined a minor as a person
under age 18 rather than 16; set a statute of limitations of 20 years, instead of 10 years, after the victim’s 18th birthday for bringing a church case against an alleged perpetrator; established an abbreviated administrative procedure for removing guilty clerics from the priesthood; and included child pornography in the list of serious crimes which could bring expulsion from the priesthood. Barbara Dorris, a spokeswoman for the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, known as SNAP, said in a statement May 16 that “the Vatican abuse guidelines will change little,” particularly because they do not insist that the national guidelines be binding. “Bishops ignore and conceal child sex crimes because they can,” the SNAP statement said, adding that “any ‘reform’ that doesn’t diminish bishops’ power and discretion is virtually meaningless.” Father Lombardi said the point of the letter was to make clear that an individual bishop “cannot abdicate his responsibility” for ensuring child safety and handling abuse cases, even though he may avail himself of the advice of outside experts. He said the fact that the guidelines do not have to be binding does not lessen a bishop’s responsibility or the church’s commitment to ending abuse. Rather, he said, it is a recognition that in many countries all the bishops have agreed to follow the same procedures and, culturally, did not feel a need to have a Vatican stamp on them in order for them to be binding. “The responsibility for dealing with the
delicts of sexual abuse of minors by clerics belongs in the first place to the diocesan bishop,” the letter said. But the adoption of national guidelines is meant to “lead to a common orientation within each episcopal conference, helping to better harmonize the resources of single bishops in safeguarding minors.” Citing Pope Benedict’s meetings with representative victims of child sexual abuse during his trips outside Italy, the doctrinal congregation’s circular letter encouraged bishops or their representatives to meet with victims and their families. The letter reiterated the need for bishops and religious communities to exercise special care when accepting candidates for the priesthood or religious life and to provide “a healthy human and spiritual formation” and a clear understanding of the value and meaning of chastity. The “Causes and Context Report on Sexual Abuse by Clergy” by the John Jay School of Criminal Justice was set to be released at 2 p.m. EDT May 18 in Washington, D.C. See catholic-sf.org for coverage. twitter@catholic_sf retweeted the AP story on a Commonweal magazine article by the head of the Philadelphia archdiocese’s panel on priest sex abuse. Read it at http://fb.me/Se9m8huN. On catholic-sf. org, read the CNS version and a response from the Philadelphia archdiocese.
Human rights’ report lists Vatican for failure to protect children By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Amnesty International named the Vatican in its annual report on human rights’ concerns for not sufficiently complying with international mandates on protecting children from abuse. It marked the first time the Vatican was named in the group’s Annual Report on the state of human rights around the world. The 2011 Annual Report covered human rights in 157
countries, looking particularly at rights abuses and restrictions and at failures to implement international rights’ agreements. The report, released May 13, said, “The Holy See did not sufficiently comply with its international obligations relating to the protection of children,” specifically regarding sex abuse. The Vatican is party to the United Nations’ Convention on the Rights of the Child. Article 19 of the convention says that states
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parties “shall take all appropriate legislative, administrative, social and educational measures to protect the child from all forms of physical or mental violence, injury or abuse, neglect or negligent treatment, maltreatment or exploitation, including sexual abuse.” The article also says measures should be implemented to aid in prevention, reporting and investigation of abuse as well as care for victims and, “as appropriate,” the involvement of the court system. The Amnesty International report said, “Increasing evidence of widespread child sexual abuse committed by members of the clergy over the past decades, and of the enduring failure of the Catholic Church to address these crimes properly, continued to emerge in various countries.” “Such failure included not removing alleged perpetrators from their posts pending proper investigations, not cooperating with judicial authorities to bring them to justice and not ensuring proper reparation to victims,” the report said. The report recognized Pope Benedict XVI’s efforts to combat the abuse of children by clergy and his call for better prevention programs, an improved selection process for priestly candidates and “just penalties,” including removing abusers from ministry. The report also mentioned the pope’s pasto-
ral letter to Irish Catholics in 2010 in which he called for an apostolic visitation to look at how abuse allegations and cases were handled. The Amnesty report quoted the pope apologizing that “a misplaced concern for the reputation of the church and the avoidance of scandal” had ended in the “failure to apply existing canonical penalties and to safeguard the dignity of every person.” The pope had called on bishops around the world to fully implement church norms concerning child abuse and to continue to cooperate with civil authorities, it said. “Canon law does not include an obligation for church authorities to report cases to civil authorities for criminal investigation. Secrecy is mandatory throughout the proceedings,” the Amnesty report said. Vatican norms maintain the imposition of “pontifical secret” on the church’s judicial handling of clerical sex abuse and other grave crimes, which means they are dealt with in strict confidentiality. Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman, has said that the provision on the secrecy of trials was designed “to protect the dignity of everyone involved.” The Vatican’s policy is to encourage bishops to report such crimes wherever required by civil law, the spokesman has said.
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USF honors activist who risks deportation to fight for reform our stories and let people know that we are not criminals,” said Castillo, who has led marches calling attention to The University of San Francisco on May 20 will confer the Dream Act in Washington, D.C., championed the an honorary doctorate on Isabel Castillo, an undocument- legislation in Virginia and helped defeat anti-immigrant ed immigration activist who can be deported at any time. bills in her state. The 26-year-old, Mexican-born Virginian, who came Castillo’s openness about her own status has drawn to the U.S. with her family at the age of six, has seen her considerable media attention nationwide, and her story future stalled because of her immigration caught the attention of Jesuit Father status, but her vigorous activism has made Stephen A. Privett, the president of USF, her one of the faces of a dogged campaign who will present her with the honorary for citizenship for undocumented young degree during graduation ceremonies for people. undergraduate students in art, architecture, Castillo, of Harrisonburg, Va., a city of performing arts and social sciences at noon 48,000 in the Shenandoah Valley, has been May 20 on the USF campus. an advocate for the Dream Act, legislation “We honor Isabel Castillo for her selfthat would provide conditional permanent less courage in advancing the cause of residency to certain undocumented stuundocumented college students and to dents whose parents brought them to the underscore the fundamental unfairness of U.S. illegally when they were children. our denying a path to citizenship to some The nonpartisan Immigration Policy of the most motivated college students in Center in Washington, D.C., estimates the country,” said Father Privett. “Isabel that there are 1.9 million undocumented challenges our graduates to use the knowlchildren and young adults in the U.S. who edge and skills they have acquired here to might be eligible for legal status under the fashion a more just world for all.” Isabel Castillo Dream Act. Castillo was an excellent high school The bill was approved by the House of Representatives student in Harrisonburg who had limited options for last fall but it failed in the Senate in December as it lacked college as she lacked a Social Security card. She was the necessary 60 votes for passage, at 55-41 in favor. It accepted, however, at Eastern Mennonite University in was reintroduced on May 11 by Democratic Sens. Richard Harrisonburg, and was graduated in 2007 with a bachDurbin of Illinois, Harry Reid of Nevada and Robert elor’s degree in social work. One of her teachers, in a Menendez of New Jersey. The ebb and flow of the leg- class in cultural perspective, got her to talk about her islation have disappointed and emboldened Castillo and immigration status in class, but the setting was small and other immigration activists. safe and she felt no fear of deportation. “I think it is important that we get out there and share Then, as time passed and she became a Dream Act (COURTESY OF EASTERN MENNONITE UNIVERSITY)
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activist, Castillo used only her first name and did not allow photographs of her face. Ultimately, she went public. “I said, ‘You know what? I am Isabel Castillo. I am who I am. I am a person who grew up in Harrisonburg, Va., and I am not ashamed and I am not afraid.’” Her first task as an activist, in 2009, was to form an organizing group in Harrisonburg that collected hundreds of signatures seeking a resolution from the city council endorsing the Dream Act – and it passed unanimously. “That really motivated us to keep going and keep educating and sharing our stories,” said Castillo, who went on to organize rallies and to participate in a march in Washington that included a nonviolent sit-in at the office of Nevada Democratic Sen. Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader. Castillo was arrested, but not deported. In Virginia, Castillo led the effort last year to defeat 10 of 12 anti-immigrant bills in the Legislature, including a proposed ban on all undocumented students from all Virginia universities and colleges. “I could be deported any day now, especially with the work I am doing,” said Castillo. “I’m putting myself out there and letting people know I am undocumented. I am not afraid any more. I didn’t commit a crime when my family brought me here.” Castillo is making her first trip to California to receive the degree, and laughs at the seemingly improbable scenario of a waitress in Harrisonburg, working off the books, now receiving an honorary degree from USF. “I can’t believe it until I get there,” she said. “But there is a movement of undocumented youth from all across the country. We’re pretty strong now and I know that if something would happen to me I have that movement, that family, that backs me up. They are my inspiration, and I will be receiving the degree on behalf of all of them.”
Catholic runs across nation to pray rosary, encourage trust in God By Maryann Gogniat Eidemiller SMITHTON, Pa. (CNS) — Jeff Grabosky dipped his hands in the Pacific Ocean Jan. 20 then started running toward the East Coast where in late May, he plans to jump into the Atlantic Ocean. His route took him through the Southwest, Midwest and the Northeast through Ohio and Pennsylvania. Then in early May, his 3,700-mile solo journey was stalled in Virginia while he waited for his injured legs to heal. The whole time, he prayed. Grabosky, 28, carries a rosary ring and prays for people he knows and people he never met. “If it weren’t for prayer, I wouldn’t be here,” he said in an interview as he passed through Smithton. “I am running to encourage people to pray and to put their trust in God. It’s amazing what we can do with our lives if we do.” He was managing a runners’ sports store in Virginia last year when he began planning a cross-country journey that started in Oceanside, Calif., and will end in Smith Point, N.Y., tentatively May 25. As of midday May 16, he was in Englishtown, N.J., in the eastern central part of the state. His website, jeffrunsamerica.com, posts his progress and location. Grabosky grew up in New Jersey and graduated from the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, double-majoring in business and theology. His 50-year-old mother, Valerie, died of cancer in 2006, and his wife left him that same week.
“You think you are living a good life and all of a sudden you find yourself very lost,” he said. “Prayer was the only thing I had to turn to, and that’s how I went on with my life.
‘I have always believed that God has a plan, and I stayed true to him.’ — Jeff Grabosky I continued to pray for direction. I never gave up. I never thought that God didn’t care. I have always believed that God has a plan and I stayed true to him.” As a youngster, Grabosky ran with his mother, who prayed the rosary as she ran. He was in track and cross-country running in middle school, high school and college, and later entered organized runs. His lung collapsed on the morning of a 10-mile event in Annapolis, Md., and part of it had to be removed. He recovered and went on to other runs, including two 100-mile ultramarathons. “I believe strongly in God and in the power of prayer,” he said. “I wanted to use this run to deepen my own personal prayer life and hopefully to help others strengthen theirs, whether or not they have the same beliefs.” Through his website about his run, he takes prayer
requests from around the world. “Everyone seems to be concerned about the well-being of others and wants prayers for parents, spouses, children and friends who are ill or going through tough times,” he said. “I think this shows how much people need prayer in their lives, and how much they care about each other. It’s humbling for me to get their requests.” Grabosky packs his gear in a baby jogger, a type of stroller with three inflatable wheels. He sleeps in motels, camps out when there are no nearby towns, and stays with family, friends and others who host him along the way. Depending on the weather and terrain, he runs 20 to 50 miles a day, and was able to run 60 miles a day on nine days. He ran when it was 11 degrees, struggled through a powerful dust storm and encountered a mountain lion and other challenges along the way. In the White Mountains of Arizona, he navigated switchback roads that ascended and descended an 8,100-foot elevation. He met people of many faiths and people of no faith, people who were kind and sometimes people who were not. And for hours on end, he had only his thoughts, his prayers and the rosary ring on his finger. “I think that finishing this run is going to be the beginning because I have learned so much,” Grabosky said. “I don’t know what I’m going to be doing or where I’m going, but life is going to start anew. Whatever it is, I will have a renewed spirit to helping those around me.”
By Tami Quigley READING, Pa. (CNS) — St. Margaret Parish in Reading long enjoyed the shade of its 125-year-old giant elm tree. Although the tree was diagnosed with Dutch elm disease in 2006 and later taken down, it has remained part of the parish “landscape” through individual crosses designed from its wood. The giant elm was more than 80 feet tall and its branches extended 120 feet. The trunk alone was 6 feet in diameter and the cut wood weighed more than 50 tons. “As the Good Book says, ‘See how the cross of Christ stands revealed as the tree of life.’ That big old elm gave much life and shade here to our neighborhood for years,” said Father John Gibbons, pastor of St. Margaret. “The crosses made from its wood remind us that Jesus’ life and care endure forever,” the priest told The A.D. Times, newspaper of the Allentown Diocese. After the tree was taken down, several parishioners took a pickup truck full of wood to the Reading Muhlenberg Career and Technological Center with the intention of making crosses for the parish. The wood needed to be cured and the vocational school arranged to get a special piece of equipment that could be used to fashion “pocket” crosses. Because of state funding, the equipment was delayed in
coming and only arrived in the fall. Once it was in place, students at the center began working on the cross project. This year during Lent, the parish fundraising committee sold crosses for $10 each. The crosses, along with information about the elm tree and the students who made them, were placed in a light purple bag and tied with a ribbon. Christine Earl, who heads the parish fundraising committee and has been involved in all kinds of fundraising efforts, said the crosses were “just very special and truly unique.” “We were all so sad when we lost our incredible tree,” Earl said, adding that no one would have thought that several years later “we would have crosses as a remembrance.” “God certainly works in mysterious ways — and I believe with a sense of humor,” she said. The tree had survived the great Dutch elm blight of the 1920s through the 1940s, and when it was found to have the disease in 2006, local tree experts tried to save it. Unfortunately, a city arborist later declared it dead. Geraldine Wernicki, a member of the parish finance committee pointed out that the “massive and gorgeous tree” was part of a historic garden tour in 2007. “Hundreds of people came to see it,” she added. The parish still has the tree stump outside the church and a collage of pictures of the tree coming down to remind them of how the crosses came to be. “We think this is wonderful. We got to resurrect the tree,” Wernicki said.
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Parish ‘resurrects’ lamented, disease-felled elm by making crosses from its wood
Volunteer Carol Goldberg and Kevin Brumbach pose with St. Margaret Crosses on the stump of a 125-yearold giant elm tree outside St. Margaret Church in Reading, Pa., March 12.
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Bishop-elect Daly reflects on his nine years as vocations director and being not exactly family- and vocation-friendly, After nine years as vocations director for the Archdiocese to have 19 to 21 seminarof San Francisco, it would be easy to bemoan obstructionist ians is a blessing. Are there parents and a hostile culture that can make an already dif- enough? No. Should we be ficult job frustrating, but Bishop-elect Thomas Daly doesn’t grateful? Yes.” want to go there. The median age for men Here’s his big picture: “My experience is that God calls being ordained in the U.S. what is needed at a given moment in time. That I see. And is in the low- to mid-30s he works where people are.” and has been for some 10 There’s more: Over those nine years, Bishop-elect Daly years, said Mary Gautier, – he will be ordained May 25 as bishop for service as an senior research associate auxiliary in the Diocese of San Jose – said he has seen pros- at the Center for Applied pects become more focused on being open to the call of the Research in the Apostolate priesthood. at Georgetown University, “That is the good news,” he said. “In the nine years I have which produces an annual been vocations director I have seen more guys of quality who survey of ordinands. “They are younger saying, ‘I am going to see if this call is authentic look for a role model, someand I am going to enter the seminary.’ This has been great.” one who they admire and Bishop-elect Thomas Daly pictured with brother bishops May 5 at the 40th anniverBishop-elect Daly, who is also president of Marin Catholic say to themselves, ‘I could sary Mass for the dedication of St. Mary’s Cathedral. High School, is to be succeeded as vocations director by do that, too,’” said Gautier. Father David Ghiorso, who continues as pastor of St. Charles “If the only priest they Parish in San Carlos. He has largely attempted to help develop have at their parish is 75 and he’s pastoring in three different He told the story of an excellent Catholic student who, the vocations of young men of quality who are coming of parishes and has to run from here to there, he is probably not when he asked him where he went to Mass on Easter, replied age in the local church, although the roster also includes projecting a real healthy, happy, wholesome image of the that he hadn’t gone – that he went to a San Francisco Giants seminarians born outside the country but educated here and priesthood,” she said. “It can’t look like much fun.” game, with a 1 p.m. starting time. Bishop-elect Daly gave seminarians of the “young adult” category, embarking on a Much of the 2011 report is predictable: Most of the mem- him an earful. second career, although the growth area in priestly vocations bers of the ordination class have been Catholics since infancy, “That just shows you how, I think, insidious secularism in recent years is younger men from the suburbs. while nearly one in 10 became Catholic later in life. Four in five can be,” he said. Currently, there are 18 seminarians being trained at St. say that both parents are Catholic, and a third of the members There are, he said, other odds facing a vocations director: Patrick’s Seminary & University in Menlo Park for the have relatives who are priests or religious. — “We live in a sexually charged society and it may be Archdiocese of San Francisco. “God willing,” said BishopGautier noted that in the survey 23 percent in the 2011 that the concept of chaste living is a harder sell than it was elect Daly, three potential seminarians in the process of class said the vocational advertising of websites influenced 50 years ago.” applying at the seminary will be accepted, and that will cre- their discernment – compared with 14 percent in the 2008 — “At one time I think the church strongly shaped the ate a pool of 21 men — six of whom may be ordained in the survey. “I think that is indicative of the changing communica- culture. Now, it’s the culture less influenced by the church spring of 2012. tions pattern,” she said of the Internet and social media. “It’s that is still shaping individual lives.” These are relatively good numbers, said Bishop-elect an emerging trend. You should not ignore it. You ignore it at — “Parents may see me or a vocations director interfering Daly. The numbers move higher and lower from year to year, your own peril.” in their hopes and dreams for their children … Of our younger for a host of reasons, and it would be preferable to have a Based at a Catholic high school, Bishop-elect Daly under- seminarians, at least half had to deal with lack of enthusiastic reliable ordination of four priests per year. With formation stands the power of social media, as well as the mountain support by their parents. I like that. That is a tactful way of lasting seven years, that would produce 28 seminarians for of distractions and “busyness” that young people create for saying it.” the archdiocese. themselves. “Is the first choice or the second choice God?” At the same time, Bishop-elect Daly has seen “a real, “But, we have 21, and where we live, with the wealth he asked. “That is the challenge we face today.” genuine passion for vocations by a group – not all – but by a group of our seminarians and that has been inspiring. We have a handful of seminarians who really want to go out and be disciples. They really want to talk about their calling and they want to encourage others to consider, to pray.” Bishop-elect Daly’s job description for a vocations director By Armando Guiterrez also includes: “Pray for vocations. You can’t build a vocation culture unless you have a culture of prayer. Second, have semiAs a leader firm in his priesthood, Bishop-elect Thomas Daly has been very reliable in my formation since we narians assist you who have a passion for vocations. Third, don’t first met in 2004. Here are some examples: get in a numbers game (to inflate the rolls) because one crazy, Since 2002, I have had a Temporary Protected Status (a temporary immigration status granted to eligible nationals weird seminary candidate will chase away five normal guys.” of designated countries) and Bishop-elect Daly trusted me and my research in the immigration laws and he allowed At about the time Bishop-elect Daly took over vocations, me to travel to visit family in El Salvador and re-enter the United States. He heard me. I would not have traveled he remembered when the seed was likely planted in him. He without my vocation director’s consent. was an altar boy at Our Lady of the Visitacion Parish in San Bishop-elect Daly wisely assigned me to work and live one year at St. Cecilia Church in San Francisco. Since Francisco, looking for a way to escape the obligation. He my background is the Hispanic/Latino community, he wanted me to experience the local culture, rich with Irish and asked his mother to tell the pastor the family would be on Italian descendants. This will help me in the dialogue of both cultures and in ministering to both. vacation all summer. That didn’t fly. It happened the church Also, St. Patrick’s Seminary gives us a field education assignment. Bishop-elect Daly and I became the first to was being painted and weekday Mass was moved to the small create a field project for vocations. We, the seminarians, pray for Bishop-elect Daly and wish him the best. Daughters of Charity Convent chapel, where only one altar boy was needed. “For some reason I said yes, I would serve Armando Gutierrez, a theology student at St. Patrick’s Seminary & University in Menlo Park, from the at the Masses,” said Bishop-elect Daly, “and from that point Archdiocese of San Francisco, expects to be ordained in the summer of 2012. on the Mass took on something different.”
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Student says vocation director’s guidance valuable
St. Paul . . . ■ Continued from page 3 “Father Connolly’s half-built church emerged undamaged from the 1906 earthquake,” Woods writes. The fire did not reach St. Paul’s Parish, but the earthquake did damage the old church. Parish tradition is unanimous in asserting that the pastor mobilized his parishioners to haul cobble stones and rubble up Church Street to complete St. Paul’s. Some say that there are many parts of the old City hall in today’s church.” Fourteen years after it had begun, St. Paul Church was ready for dedication. Archbishop Riordan blessed the church on May 29, 1911. Parish musicians are looking forward to the May 29 Mass. “The music was chosen by a committee to reflect the
power and guidance of God who has sustained this parish community throughout the years and to help celebrate 100 years of worship in this building,” said Mark Tomsic, music director. Margaret Anne Kerns, who grew up in St. Paul’s and currently serves as music director at Holy Angels Parish in Colma, is among the participating musicians. “Margaret Anne was taught how to play the organ in this church building and has been a huge part of this community having gone to grammar school and high school, and even having taught at St. Paul,” Tomsic said. Songs will be sung in English and Spanish, Tomsic noted. People from around the world now know St. Paul Church from its place as a principal location for the 1992 film “Sister Act” starring Whoopi Goldberg. Some interior improvements, carpets and a grand piano seen in the film remain at the church. Interior and exterior shots of St. Paul Church from Stanton Architecture. The firm completed a major renovation of the 1,400-seat church in 2002.
1911 news item: Parish’s 11 years’ labor created ‘most substantial temple’ “San Francisco is on the eve of witnessing an event of transcendent importance in the history of the Golden Gate City, namely, the dedication of the New St. Paul’s Church. The event will be of such unique significance ... because it will constitute the formal, inauguration of one of the most beautiful and most substantial temples ever erected ... in any land or in any age. It will be an event marking the successful culmination of eleven years of unceasing labor on the part of clergymen and parishioners to provide an adequate place of worship for one of the largest and most rapidly growing parishes in the archdiocese.” The church and its contents cost $260,000. The entire amount had been paid in full by the time of the dedication. From The Monitor, newspaper of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, May 27, 1911.
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Grace and discipline After six years of intense philosophical and theological study for the priesthood, I get a change in the next school year: I will serve a pastoral year at a yet-to-be-determined parish in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. According to our pastoral program coordinators, studies have shown that dioceses that have their seminarians go on a pastoral year have a much lower percentage of newly ordained priests leaving the priesthood due to being overwhelmed by the reality of busy parish life. I am looking forward to this opportunity to work closely with a pastor and propel myself into parish life by getting to know parishioners, teaching classes at the school, being present at funeral vigils, visiting the sick, facilitating religious programs, offering reflections at daily Mass (permitted by some dioceses such as this one to gain experience), and all other duties and surprises that come up. This pastoral year will be an important discernment tool as to whether God truly calls me to the priesthood. One factor that bodes well for my pastoral year is the satisfaction I get from providing service to people, and it will offer much opportunity for that. The deepest satisfaction this school year — as well as clearest discernment tool — has been my assignment at Seton Medical Center in Daly City, where I provided pastoral care for a whole range of patients, though generally most were in serious condition. Each time before I entered a patient’s room I would ask God to work through me, to know when to be silent and listen, when to speak, when to pray if the patient so desired. God’s grace worked the majority of the time as invariably time after time these visits became so rich with hope, laughter and intimate sharing. I was inspired by the consistent grace and courage I saw from patients and their families under such challenging conditions. The dozens of patients and their families I saw
included several dying from cancer, those recovering from cancer, individuals with severe heart problems, several in comas and unable to communicate, many in congenital pain, and young mothers, exuberant at having given birth the day before, able to hold their babies. Each time I left the hospital I felt more energized than when I had gone in: a good sign of what St. Ignatius calls spiritual consolation. My most important discernment realization in terms of the priesthood came about from a research assignment in human sexuality class on the controversial area of celibacy. The Catholic Church defines celibacy as the state of those who have chosen to remain unmarried in order to give themselves entirely to God and the service of his people. It is a discipline of the church, which means it can be changed. That, however, is unlikely as it has been cherished since Christ’s time, encouraged from the fourth century on and mandated from the 11th century. The church feels celibacy is of benefit. I have discovered that celibacy is an entirely separate call from the call to the priesthood and is a gift/grace from God, though they interrelate. I was under the assumption that celibacy was part of the “package” of the priesthood that had to be accepted. When I discovered that it was a separate call it changed my view of both celibacy and priesthood. That it was a separate call helped to explain why, from the first moment I chose celibacy when I discerned the priesthood in September 2004, I have always had a deep, unexpected peace about never getting married (though admittedly with some regret) and have received a profound satisfaction from pastoral service that tells me that God has called me to celibacy and that it is a gift. Brothers and sisters, I have to honestly tell you I never thought celibacy would be something so beautiful and positive, but it is an
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Cathedral anniversary Role models compared We’d like to acknowledge how much we enjoyed all the articles and photographs on St. Mary’s Cathedral’s 40th anniversary. It brought to life the importance of the cathedral to our Catholic community. We are members of this parish and are glad others are informed of the cathedral’s presence. Richard and Stella D’Agostino San Francisco
Clerical ‘martyrs’? There’s a word for what Maryknoll has made of Father Roy Bourgeois and for what Pope Benedict has made of Bishop William Morris: witnesses, or, if you prefer the word of Greek origin, martyrs. Carolyn M. Daniel San Francisco Editor’s note: Father Edward Dougherty, superior general of the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers, said it was “with a lot of sadness” that he issued a canonical warning to Maryknoll Father Roy Bourgeois that he would be dismissed from the order unless the priest recanted his continued support for the ordination of women as Catholic priests (Catholic News Service, April 19). Pope Benedict XVI removed Australian Bishop William M. Morris of Toowoomba from office five years after he wrote a pastoral letter indicating he would be open to ordaining women and married men if church rules changed to allow such a possibility. In an open letter to Catholics in his diocese released May 1, Bishop Morris said the 2006 letter “has been misread and, I believe, deliberately misinterpreted” by a small group within the diocese (CNS, May 2). Bishop Morris was asked to resign six times by three Vatican congregations and Pope Benedict before the pontiff finally insisted that he leave office May 2, said documents obtained by The Record, Perth archdiocesan newspaper (CNS, May 12).
Re: “California bishops oppose bill that highlights sexuality of historical figures” (news story, April 15). I was educated in a small parochial school in a predominately Yankee Protestant town in New England where being Catholic was not seen as something good. The textbooks used highlighted the important roles Catholics played in Western culture and these United States. These textbooks gave me a grounding and pride in my Catholic heritage. I believe the same holds true for students today relative to their own sexuality and I see no harm in giving positive role models to our youth. Patrick J. Quinn San Francisco
Says doubts on judge’s partiality well-founded In his letter (May 13) opposing the move to have Judge Walker’s Prop. 8 ruling vacated, Mr. Jim McRae imagines an argument which is not there, and then proceeds to refute his imagination. He writes, “We learn that they (Prop. 8 attorneys) are challenging Judge Vaughn Walker’s right to rule on gay marriage because he is gay.” That’s nonsense. The relevant section of the U.S. Code, Section 455 of Title 28, begins: “Any justice, judge, or magistrate judge of the United States shall disqualify himself in any proceeding in which his impartiality might reasonably be questioned….” which then lists various circumstances for judges to recuse themselves. The issue is not Judge Walker’s sexual orientation; it is the fact that he had been in a long-term relationship with another man, including when hearing the case. Thus, he has a significant interest in the outcome. That would not be the case, if, for example, Judge Walker had been ruling on “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” He would still be homosexual, the issue would still be one of great interest to homosexual persons,
important positive factor in my discernment for the priesthood. Finally, God continues to send me Tony Vallecillo on unexpected adventures. Last summer, as you may recall, I went to Omaha for what turned out to be a wonderful spirituality program. This summer I am going to Mexico City for the first time for a seven-week Spanish immersion program in order to improve my Spanish. Presently, it is functional but needs development so I can truly serve the needs of the Hispanic community of the archdiocese. Thank you for your support and prayers, which have allowed me to follow God’s Will. Tony Vallecillo, who is studying at St. Patrick’s Seminary & University in Menlo Park, wrote this reflection for friends and supporters as he prepared for the next step on his path to the priesthood. On his page on the seminary’s website, Vallecillo, a native San Franciscan and member of Holy Name of Jesus Parish, answers the question of how he knew God was calling him: “A friend of mine who is a mystic (in the sense of having a very close relationship with God) had a vision of me as priest consecrating at the altar while we were both attending daily Mass in July 2003. When she told me of the vision I knew God was calling me.” Vallicello is scheduled to be ordained in June 2014.
but, given his age, Judge Walker would not be personally affected by the outcome, and thus would not be in the position of conferring a significant right to himself and his partner. Even some legal experts who support same-sex “marriage” agree that Walker should have recused himself. Jack Marshall, an attorney, ethicist, and former professor of legal ethics at American University, who is also a same-sex “marriage” supporter, wrote: “The problem was not Judge Walker’s homosexuality, which in itself should not raise reasonable doubts about his ability to be fair and impartial, but his long term samesex relationship. He had a duty to disclose this at the outset, and based on the generally understood meaning of words like ‘reasonable’ and ‘independence,’ was ethically bound to recuse himself. Not doing so was a breach of judicial ethics.” Gibbons Cooney San Francisco
not the Catholic social thought that I am familiar with. Where is the preference for the poor? I thought that was Catholic social policy. Weigel states that “Catholic social thought is about empowerment of the poor.” He never really defines those words other than assuring the reader that voting Republican will bring true Catholic social thought to America. The author is somewhat deceptive, however, since he never uses the word “Republican.” But reading between the lines of his writings, one sees small government, personal responsibility, private business, public/private collaboration and local, not national, government approaches to society’s problems. Do we really need the federal government in our affairs? Weigel suggests that a panoply of small programs varying from locale to locale and state to state is what we need. Anything else smacks of Old European socialism. Buy your own retirement plan and health insurance. Why be dependent on the federal government? If you are unable to build that security for yourself and your family, you’ve really “messed up” and created your own problems for yourselves. You don’t need or deserve federal government help since you are betraying both Pope Leo XIII and Pope Benedict XVI! I thought that Catholic San Francisco was a religious affairs newspaper and did not serve partisan mouthpieces without providing a balance of opinion about important matters that affect us all. It seems not so! Joseph C. Barbaccia, M.D. San Francisco
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RepublicanCatholic paper? It continues to astound me that Catholic San Francisco features pieces such as George Weigel’s column. Is the paper a Republican or a Catholic medium? Or perhaps a Republican-Catholic medium? Why one-sided politics in a religious newspaper? When I noted Weigel’s article entitled “Catholic social thought and 2012” (May 13), I wondered why I had to wait until 2012 to see Catholic social thought implemented. I realized that the author was indicating that if I voted Republican in 2012, the era of Catholic social thought would begin. Thank goodness! As I read on, I learned that what we have suffered with up until 2012 is a ruinous “Nanny State” – the result of the socially destructive policies of the Democratic Party. Those policies have given us Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and “Obamacare” (health care reform of 2010) and labor unions. Yuk! But if we are clever enough to see through all this “bunk” and vote Republican in 2012, we can kill Nanny and finally replace these programs that “create generation after generation of serfs on the state welfare plantation.” Replace them with what? Hard work, private health insurance and a free economy, for example. Obvious! Sounds to me like good old Calvinism
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Aquinas and horses Lander, Wyo., is not an easy place to get to. I got there in February by flying from Washington to Denver and then sitting around the Denver airport for hours, while the local commuter airline that flies to the airport nearest Lander tried to get its small planes refueled in 15-below-zero weather. While waiting, I was informed that the flight schedule of this particular airline, which will remain nameless, is more subjunctive than indicative. Yet the wait, the aggravation, and the bitter cold were worth it, for they were part of getting introduced to a new venture in Catholic higher education that’s unfolding in Lander: Wyoming Catholic College, where students read Thomas Aquinas in the original Latin, take a mandatory freshman course in horseman-
Justice, charity and bin Laden Following up on Jesuit Father James Martin’s reflection on Osama bin Laden and forgiveness in our May 13 issue, we posted two more commentaries on the topic at catholic-sf.org. Father Robert Barron says we should celebrate that a wicked man has been brought to justice but shouldn’t celebrate that our enemy is dead. As hard as it is to say, he says, we should pray for him as an act of “enemy love.” Father Gregory Coiro, OFM Cap, rector of the National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi in San Francisco, says charity toward bin Laden may be difficult but is possible with God’s grace. He cites Ezekiel 33:11: “… As I live, says the Lord God, I swear I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked man …”
ship, and go on a three-week, survival-skills trek through the Rockies before they crack a book. Oh yes: at Wyoming Catholic, students are not allowed to have cell phones, but the college provides a gun room for their rifles. A visitor from the Ivy League found this combination disconcerting. I found it charming. Wyoming Catholic College celebrated its first commencement on May 14 — outdoors, of course — with one of its founding fathers, Bishop David Ricken, now of Green Bay, in attendance. Bishop Ricken came to the Diocese of Cheyenne, Wyo. (2001-08), straight from the Roman Curia, which must have been something of a culture shock (or a relief). But he quickly caught the adventurous spirit of the place and decided that Wyoming, which has something short of 70,000 Catholics, needed a Catholic college. Starting such an enterprise these days is an act of faith. But Bishop Ricken, who is not short on faith (or hope, or charity), found partners with a similar pioneer attitude and a similar passion for classic Catholic liberal arts education (cowboy style). Thus Wyoming Catholic College was launched, before the good bishop was translated to a diocese where one of his principal catechetical challenges is explaining why the Lombardi Trophy is not a fit object of Christian worship. Wyoming Catholic is a byproduct of the most striking exercise in unintended consequences in the history of federal higher education funding. In 1970, Washington’s largesse led the University of Kansas to create a pilot project in classic liberal arts education called the Pearson Integrated Humanities Program, or IHP. The program was led by John Senior, Dennis Quinn and Frank Nelick, three brilliant teachers who believed passionately that higher education meant immersion in the classic texts of Western civilization and civilized conversation about them. Many IHP students soon discovered that wrestling with the liter-
ary and philosophical classics of western civilization meant encountering, and thinking seriously about, the Catholic Church. Conversions, intellectual and religious, followed. Those conversions later George Weigel produced numerous vocations to the priesthood and the religious life, and two bishops. Authoritarian liberals on the KU faculty killed the IHP in 1979. But for several glorious years, your federal tax dollars were building a wholly unexpected vocations factory. As the late Peter Rossi used to say, there are many ironies in the fire. The people who designed the curriculum at Wyoming Catholic College are disciples of John Senior and the IHP approach to liberal learning. The program they offer students is, obviously, not for everyone, just as reading Aquinas in Latin on horseback (metaphorically if not literally) is not for everyone. But serious students who want to be stretched intellectually, who want to deepen their friendship with Jesus Christ, and who love the outdoors should give Wyoming Catholic College a serious look. Nature makes me sneeze, which is one reason why I’m a confirmed urbanite. I appreciate the beauty that surrounds Lander, however, and I wish the school and its students the very best as Wyoming Catholic sends its first graduating class out into a world that can use more young men and women steeped in the western classics, serious in their Catholic faith, and ready for just about anything. George Weigel is Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.
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The Cross of Nails: How charity rose from destruction together, and set them up in the ruined sanctuary. Again, it was the imagination of provost Howard that led to the words “Father, forgive” being inscribed behind the charred cross. At the same time, a local priest, the Rev. Arthur Wales, created another cross by binding together three of the huge medieval nails that littered the debris. The Cross of Nails became the symbol of Coventry’s international ministry of reconciliation and was also placed in the ruined sanctuary, on a simple stone altar, built there as an “altar of reconciliation.” The profound eloquence of the ruins is not, A sculpture in the ruins of Coventry Cathedral, under which is inscribed: “In the face then, simply architectural. of destructive forces, human dignity and love will triumph over disaster and bring It is the story they tell that nations together in respect and peace.” gives them their meaning. Their ability to gently heal Most of the ruined churches of England are the outcome memories bears witness to the healing power of the words: of the violence of an early age, the dissolution of the monaster- “Father, forgive.” Not “Forgive them,” which would create an ies. But the ruins of St. Michael’s Church in Coventry are the us-and-them polarity, but simply “Forgive,” because we too consequence of the violence of modern times. On the night have committed acts of destruction and violence. The new cathedral, build at right angles to the destroyed of Nov. 14, 1940, the German Luftwaffe devastated the city of Coventry. And as it burned, the cathedral burned with it. A one, is a laboratory of the spirit, a workshop. This forward and outward looking approach to the role of a cathedral began in total of 568 people lost their lives. This past summer I co-led a group on a Reconciliation 1940 when it began to proclaim a ministry of reconciliation and Unity study pilgrimage, and Coventry, the only English in an effort to say and do something about the situation of city to lose its cathedral as a result of aerial bombardment, was division and hatred which accompanied the destruction of the one of the places we visited. It would not have been surpris- city and the cathedral. The International Centre in the ruins was opened in 1960 ing if, following the raid, another kind of flame were to have been fanned into being — the fire of bitterness and hatred. It by the Bishop of Berlin, Otto Dibelius, and the money for it was largely due to the inspired, prophetic leadership of the was furnished by a Berlin donor who had himself lost his cathedral provost at the time, Dick Howard, that a different entire family in an Allied air raid. The center was subsequently extended by young volunteer Christians from Germany, the spirit prevailed. On the morning after its destruction, the resolve to rebuild name of whose organization, Action Reconciliation, sums up the Anglican cathedral was born, not as an act of defiance, but so much of what the early days of the cathedral’s life stood rather as a sign of faith, trust and hope for the future of the for then and continues to represent today. The ministry of international reconciliation is, perhaps, world. Shortly afterward, the cathedral’s stonemason, Jock Forbes, observing that two of the charred medieval roof tim- the unique contribution that Coventry Cathedral, because of its bers had fallen across each other amid the rubble, tied them story, has been able to make to church life. The Community
of the Cross of Nails was founded as a practical expression of the work of reconciliation, supporting the rebuilding of a hospital wing in Dresden which the English air force had bombed; the building of the Father House of Reconciliation in Corrymeela, Northern Thomas Ryan Ireland; and a house for friendship and dialogue between Jewish, Christian and Muslim people in Galilee. The cathedral continues to be actively involved in areas of conflict such as Northern Ireland and Central America, while groups, inspired by the symbol of the Cross of Nails, have sprung up in many parts of the world where they, too, work for reconciliation, justice and peace. Disparate churches and organizations now belong to Coventry Association. It also includes members of other religions. “It’s as much about the Punjabi Sikh and the Punjabi Muslim as about Anglicans and Roman Catholics,” said Canon David Porter, whose fulltime ministry at the cathedral is reconciliation. Having worked for reconciliation for 20 years in Northern Ireland, Canon Porter noted how often times those involved in social justice issues become disconnected from the church. This has led him to put at the center of his work the development of a theology and spirituality of reconciliation that helps people engage with social justice issues precisely as committed church members. Within the cathedral complex is a Center for Leadership Training in reconciliation whose educational department hosts about 15,000 students annually. In the old cathedral’s ruins, beneath the sculpture of a man and woman kneeling with their arms around each other, reads the inscription: “In the face of destructive forces, human dignity and love will triumph over disaster and bring nations together in respect and peace.” On the outer wall of the new cathedral there is a sculpture of the archangel Michael standing with sword in hand, triumphant, over the fallen Satan: “Why choose such a warlike image for a cathedral dedicated to reconciliation?” asked Canon Porter. “Because just as we wage war, we must wage peace and solidarity with the same kind of energy and resolve.” The writer directs the Paulist North American Office for Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations in Washington, D.C.
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A READING FROM THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES ACTS 6:1-7 As the number of disciples continued to grow, the Hellenists complained against the Hebrews because their widows were being neglected in the daily distribution. So the Twelve called together the community of the disciples and said, “It is not right for us to neglect the word of God to serve at table. Brothers, select from among you seven reputable men, filled with the Spirit and wisdom, whom we shall appoint to this task, whereas we shall devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word.” The proposal was acceptable to the whole community, so they chose Stephen, a man filled with faith and the Holy Spirit, also Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicholas of Antioch, a convert to Judaism. They presented these men to the apostles who prayed and laid hands on them. The word of God continued to spread, and the number of the disciples in Jerusalem increased greatly; even a large group of priests were becoming obedient to the faith. RESPONSORIAL PSALM PS 33:1-2, 4-5, 18-19 R. Lord, let your mercy be on us, as we place our trust in you. Exult, you just, in the Lord; praise from the upright is fitting. Give thanks to the Lord on the harp;
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Fifth Sunday of Easter Acts 6:1-7; Psalm 33:1-2, 4-5, 18-19, 1 Peter 2:4-9; John 14:1-12
with the ten-stringed lyre chant his praises. R. Lord, let your mercy be on us, as we place our trust in you. Upright is the word of the Lord, and all his works are trustworthy. He loves justice and right; of the kindness of the Lord the earth is full. R. Lord, let your mercy be on us, as we place our trust in you. See, the eyes of the Lord are upon those who fear him, upon those who hope for his kindness, To deliver them from death and preserve them in spite of famine. R. Lord, let your mercy be on us, as we place our trust in you. A READING FROM THE FIRST LETTER OF PETER 1 PT 2:4-9 Beloved: Come to him, a living stone,
rejected by human beings but chosen and precious in the sight of God, and, like living stones, let yourselves be built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. For it says in Scripture: Behold, I am laying a stone in Zion, a cornerstone, chosen and precious, and whoever believes in it shall not be put to shame. Therefore, its value is for you who have faith, but for those without faith: The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone, and A stone that will make people stumble, and a rock that will make them fall. They stumble by disobeying the word, as is their destiny. You are “a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of his own, so that you may announce the praises” of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
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homas said to him, “Master, we do not know where you are going; how can we know the way?” (John 14:1-12) The Gospel comes from John’s Last Discourse of Jesus, the conversation and prayer with his disciples the night before Jesus died. This passage is reassuring because Thomas wonders about his direction in life. After the sudden death of someone you love — a spouse, a parent, a friend, a counselor, your heart specialist, a charismatic political leader — what do you do next? Remember that Thomas is also the one later in the Gospel who doubts the claim that Jesus is alive. He doesn’t believe the women and the other apostles. If we ever thought that faith means we repeat catechism answers to ourselves, Thomas is the model for just the opposite stance. Thomas has to get answers for himself, after he asks and then thinks matters through, until his own questioning is satisfied. If you had a child who asked “Why,” or, “How come,” or, “How do you know,” or, “When,” repeatedly, that child’s ancestor is Thomas. The answers of Jesus to his disciples are maternal and mysterious. On one hand, the deepest response to every question the heart could raise is, “Do not let your hearts be troubled,” spoken like a parent who puts an arm around her fussing child to calm him down. Jesus anticipates the question on the lips of the disciples, “Where are you going now?” He recasts the whole question as one of relationship. “Where are you going?” is not the real question. Thomas is anxious about
Scripture reflection SISTER ELOISE ROSENBLATT
Justice in the early church where to go, what to do next, and he speaks for all the followers. Jesus answers this yearning, “I am the way and truth and the life.” You are on the way to Jesus himself. He is the answer to the question, “Where?” Jesus’ response is not a printout from MapQuest. Rather, it is a life-course, the movement of the self toward its destiny in God. “Show us the Father,” asks Philip. The journey of life is not an answer to the question, “What job shall I get training for?” or, “Who should I marry?” or, “Shall I have children?” or, “When should I change careers?” or, “What should I do about mom?” or “When should I retire,” or, “How can I be dying now?” Rather, the way for the follower of Jesus is a life of communion in God, the source of all life. The follower of Jesus who
does “even greater works” is seeing evidence of the Father’s power as arising from within — healing the sick, teaching as Jesus did, delivering people from the grip of evil, protecting the less powerful, feeding thousands, and calming storms — the work of peacemaking. That’s how you know you are on the way and seeing the Father. “The Hellenists complained against the Hebrews because their widows were being neglected in the daily distribution” (Acts 6:1-7) The first reading is a good companion piece to the mystical Gospel passage. I like Luke because he is both idealistic and realistic. The early church was filled with fervor, shared all things in common, and enjoyed massive
A READING FROM THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JOHN JN 14:1-12 Jesus said to his disciples: “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You have faith in God; have faith also in me. In my Father’s house there are many dwelling places. If there were not, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back again and take you to myself, so that where I am you also may be. Where I am going you know the way.” Thomas said to him, “Master, we do not know where you are going; how can we know the way?” Jesus said to him, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you know me, then you will also know my Father. From now on you do know him and have seen him.” Philip said to him, “Master, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us.” Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you for so long a time and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father?’ Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on my own. The Father who dwells in me is doing his works. Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else, believe because of the works themselves. Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever believes in me will do the works that I do, and will do greater ones than these, because I am going to the Father.” increase of numbers. All were aglow with spirit of Jesus and one effect was making sure that everyone in need was being cared for. At the same time, all was not well. Hebrew-speaking widows, who belonged to the same language group as the Twelve and Jesus himself, looked favored. They were getting enough to eat from the charitable distribution of food. But the Greek-speaking widows were being neglected and going hungry. The discrimination became something of a scandal. Greek-speaking men took up the cause of the women, and complained loudly enough to get the attention at the top. The Twelve consulted the whole community and came up with a more representative way to meet the needs of the poor — who were, then and now, composed mostly of single older women. The fact that the women complained resulted in a change in the way the early church governed itself. In the first generation of the church its leadership heard and responded to the injustice done to women. Reflection questions: Is there a question in your life that could be eased if you heard Jesus say to you, “Do not let your heart be troubled.” What injustice done to others do you feel needs to be addressed? You have a choice to remain silent or to say something. What’s holding you back from complaining? Mercy Sister Eloise Rosenblatt, Ph.D., is a theologian and an attorney in private practice in San Jose. Her e-mail is eloros@sbcglobal.net.
A lesson from the Visitation By Ginny Kubitz Moyer Over the last 10 years, airplane travel has become a serious pain. There are the security lines, where you hop around on stocking feet while retrieving your shoes from a bumper-car pileup of bins. Instead of an actual in-flight meal, you now pay $5.99 for a box of snack food. And the chances of spreading out into an empty seat? Those days are long gone. And for me, something else has happened in the past few years to make flying even more challenging. I had kids. Flying with small children is its own kind of penance. I was reminded of this a few weeks ago, when my family and I flew cross-country to Florida to visit my husband’s parents. We had two of everything: two little boys, two suitcases, two backpacks, two bulky car seats, a double stroller. It was Noah’s Ark, airplane style. The logistics of hauling all of this gear into and out of two airports and one rental car shuttle was complicated, to say the least. Add the epic challenge of keeping two cranky kids contained during a six-hour flight, and I arrived back home feeling like an excellent candidate for canonization.
But though it is tempting to let the headaches of travel tip the balance in favor of staying home, I’m fighting that feeling. I want my children to see their grandparents, and vice-versa. I want to see them myself. And it’s that end-of-journey prize that makes it all worth it. In my book “Mary and Me: Catholic Women Reflect on the Mother of God,” one chapter focuses on the Visitation, an event that has inspired numerous artists over the centuries. These paintings invariably show Mary and Elizabeth at the point of meeting, embracing each other lovingly on the threshold of Elizabeth’s home. They almost never show Mary on the journey itself as she travels over rocky, hilly terrain. It’s not that the trip is unimportant, just that it pales in comparison to the arrival itself. The point of communion, of two cousins being present for each other’s miraculous pregnancies, is the vivid image upon which our minds and imaginations rest. In the end, the joy of family trumps the hassles of travel. “The Visitation proves that even the most difficult journey is worth it,” I wrote in that chapter, and I still believe that today. The challenges Mary had to face on that trip recede from
view once she reaches out for the cousin who reaches out for her. And the aches and pains of our own long flight, tempting though it is to complain about them, are not what I will ultimately remember about that week in Florida. I’ll remember Luke in his orange life vest, “Visitation,” Jacques Daret, 1434-1435 splashing in the swimming pool with Grandma Joan. I’ll remember Matthew on the patio, chomping Goldfish crackers with Grandpa Bob. I’ll remember my in-laws’ gratitude at our willingness to come all that way, and I’ll remember how good it felt to arrive and be welcomed, Visitation-style, with joyful greetings and wide-open arms.
The writer can be contacted at www.blog.maryandme.org.
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The other side of orthodoxy There are more ways than one in which our belief system can be unbalanced so as to do harm to God and to the church. What makes for a healthy, balanced, orthodox faith? The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church defines orthodoxy as “right belief as contrasted to heresy.” That’s accurate enough, but we tend to think of this in a very one-sided way. For most people, heresy is conceived as going too far, as crossing a dogmatic boundary, as stretching Christian truth further than it may be stretched. Orthodoxy, then, means staying within safe perimeters. This is true in so far as it goes, but it is a one-sided and reductionist understanding of orthodoxy. Orthodoxy has a double function: It tells you how far you may go, but it also tells you how far you must go. And it’s the latter part that is often neglected. Heresies are dangerous, but the danger is two-sided. Faith beliefs that do not respect proper dogmatic boundaries invariably lead to bad religion and to bad moral practice. Real harm occurs. Dogmatic boundaries are important. But, equally important, we don’t do God, faith, religion, and the church a favor when our beliefs are narrow, bigoted, legalistic, or intolerant. Atheism is invariably a parasite that feeds off bad theism. Anti-religion is often simply a reaction to bad religion and thus narrowness and intolerance are perhaps more of an enemy to religion than is any transgressed dogmatic boundary. God, religion, and the churches are, I suspect, more hurt by being associated with the narrowness and intolerance of some believers than they are by any theoretical dogmatic heresy.
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Right truth, proper faith, and true fidelity to Jesus Christ demand too that our hearts are open and wide enough to radiate the universal love and compassion that Jesus incarnated. Anyone who reads the Gospels and misses Jesus’ repeated warnings about legalism, narrowness, and intolerance is reading selectively. Granted, Jesus does warn too about staying within the bounds of proper belief (monotheism and all that this implies) and proper morals (the commandments, love of our enemies, forgiveness), but he stresses too that we can miss the real demands of discipleship by not going far enough in letting ourselves be stretched by his teachings. True orthodoxy asks us to hold a great tension, between real boundaries beyond which you may not go and real borders and frontiers to which you must go. You may not go too far, but you must also go far enough. And this can be a lonely road. If you carry this tension faithfully, without giving in to either side, you will no doubt find yourself with few allies on either side, that is, too liberal for the conservatives and too conservative for the liberals. To risk just one example: You see this kind of pained, but more fully Catholic, orthodoxy in a person like the late Sulpician Father Raymond Brown, the renowned biblical scholar, a loyal Roman Catholic thinker who found himself attacked, for opposite reasons, from both sides of the ideological spectrum. He upset liberals because he stopped before they thought that he should and he upset conservatives because he suggested that proper truth and dogma often stretch us beyond some former comfort zones.
And this tension is an innate, healthy disquiet, something we are meant live daily in our lives rather than something we can resolve once and for all. Indeed the deep root of this tension lies right within Father Ronald the human soul itself. The human soul, as Thomas Rolheiser Aquinas classically put it, has two principles and two functions: The soul is the principle of life, energy and fire inside of us, even as it is equally the principle of integration, unity, and glue. The soul keeps us energized and on fire, even as it keeps us from dissipating and falling apart. A healthy soul therefore keeps us within healthy boundaries, to prevent us from disintegrating, even as it keeps us on fire, lest we petrify and become too hardened to fully enter life. We live always in the face of two opposing dangers: disintegration and petrification. To stay healthy we need to know our limits and we also need to know how far we have to stretch ourselves. The conservative instinct warns us about the former. The liberal instinct warns us about the latter. Both instincts are healthy because both dangers are real. Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser is president of the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, Texas.
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Marin Catholic mountain bikers win third straight title Marin Catholic’s mountain bike team rode to victory for the third time in three years in the 2011 NorCal Division II Series Championship. The May 1 Series consisted of five races in venues ranging from Laguna Seca near Monterey to Boggs Mountain north of the Napa Valley. Each race covered around 12 miles for freshman, 18 miles for junior varsity boys and varsity girls, and as many as 24 miles for Victoria Yoham negotiates varsity boys. Overall for the season, six Marin an S-curve. Catholic riders finished
in the top 10, four in the top five. Here are the results: Varsity girls team captain and senior Victoria Yoham maintained her consistently blistering pace to finish sixth for the day and sixth overall in the league series. On the varsity boys team, sophomore Taylor Smith finished sixth for the day and fourth overall in the NorCal series. On the junior varsity boys team, sophomore Larry Smith dashed across the finish line third for the day and third overall. In a “never give up” effort, Austin Gooder, despite suffering a devastating mechanical breakdown, running nearly a mile with his broken-down bike and then repairing it, fought back to finish the race and take fourth place overall in the league. Sophomore Peter Patrakis finished an impressive fourth securing him sixth for the season. Freshman Reid Gordon finished the regular season with a personal best, finishing seventh. Junior varsity sophomore Ryan Gum continued to climb in the standings with a strong finish in 17th place in the race despite a fall caused by another rider. Freshman Ben Spurr, despite being on injured
reserve, had earned enough points to still capture an impressive fifth place overall in the League. The writer is a Marin Catholic parent.
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By David Gooder
Marin Catholic’s mountain bike team won the NorCal Division II title for the third time in three years.
CYO adds tennis, expands summer offerings to Marin County By Valerie Schmalz Kids signing up for CYO sports camps and summer recreation leagues will have a new option this summer: tennis. That is in addition to boys and girls basketball leagues and weekend skills workshops and coed volleyball leagues and camps. For the first time, the Catholic Youth Organization is expanding its summer offerings to Marin County, too, said Courtney Johnson Clendinen, director of CYO Athletics. In San Francisco and north San Mateo County, the summer league begins May 23 with coed volleyball and the boys and girls basketball summer league starts July 5. Tennis recreational league begins June 6. No experience is required and in the case of tennis, where matches will be played at the San Francisco Tennis Club at Brannan and Fifth streets in San Francisco, the club will supply loaner
offers weekend skill workshops but no basketball camp, Clendinen said. In Marin County, summer recreation league play and camps start June 20. This year the only offering in Marin will be boys and girls basketball, with more to come if there is enough interest, Clendinen said. Unlike during the school year, when the parish-based elementary school sports teams compete by parish and school, the summer leagues mix it up, says Clendinen. And that is on purpose, she said. The goal is “changing the competitiveness across the net and across the court. We found great success in San Francisco because I think it changes the mentality when you go to play your opposing team within the school year,” said Clendinen. “It’s just become so ultracompetitive that it’s taking away some of the fun.” For information and to sign up, go to ccccyo.org.
The Catholic Youth Organization is sponsoring a track and field meet from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on June 11 at Archbishop Riordan High School. All students in grades 3-8 are eligible to enter. There is a $10 fee for non-CYO participants. For information and to sign up, go to ccccyo.org. racquets and balls for the players without racquets. The tennis league will run for six weeks at night from 5-9 p.m. and matches will be played on the outdoor courts on the roof, she said. “They can just show up and play tennis,” Clendinen said. There will be two five-day all-day tennis camps beginning July 18. Volleyball camp begins June 20. There are many other basketball camps in the area, so CYO
San Domenico equestrians compete in nationals Three San Domenico School secondary students and five middle school students competed in the 2011 Interscholastic Equestrian Association National Finals, held April 28-May 1 in Upper Marlboro, Md. The girls had each qualified by placing first in their classes at the California/Nevada finals in April. The San Anselmo team’s achievements included sixth graders Lindsay Cobb’s third place in Future Novice Over Fences Ellie Cox’ third place in Team Future Beginner Flat. Pictured at the Parade of Teams at the national finals are Sinclaire Parer, Lindsay, Cobb, Brooke Raabe, Madeline Parrish, Lindsay Levine, Ellie Cox, Lisa Durbrow.
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Catholic Charities CYO The social services arm of the Catholic Church in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Information: (415) 972-1200, www.cccyo.org, moreinfo@ cccyo.org. May 21, 10 a.m.: Catholic Charities CYO Junior Board volunteer event at St. Vincent’s School for Boys. Join this volunteer young professionals’ organization for a day at St. Vincent’s. Participants will be helping paint the program’s barn and will receive a tour of the facility. Boxed lunches will be provided. Respond or direct questions to juniorboard@cccyo.org. May 24, 6:30 p.m.: Catholic Charities CYO Junior Board General Meeting. The Catholic Charities CYO Junior Board is a volunteer organization of young professionals who are committed to supporting the works of Catholic Charities CYO serving people of all faiths through effective community action, including volunteer service and social fundraising. Membership is open to volunteers, ages 21-40. For more information, visit www.cccyo.org/juniorboard or email juniorboard@cccyo.org. The next meeting will be held at the St. Regis Hotel, San Francisco. June 8, 6-8:30 p.m.: Catholic Charities CYO’s 2011 Red House. This donor event will celebrate over twenty years of service to those living with disabling HIV/AIDS in the San Francisco. This cocktail party of friends and major supporters will welcome Joseph (Mike) McCune, Ph.D. who will speak about recent advances in HIV/AIDS care. For more information about this and other Red House events running through June 17, visit www.cccyo.org/redhouse.
Good Health Mondays, 4 p.m.: Join us on level C of St. Mary’s Medical Center in the Cardiology Conference Room. This series of eight classes covers everything related to diabetes. It is a great way to learn more about diabetes in a relaxed and friendly environment. 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.
Mary in May May 28, noon: The annual “Public Square Rosary Crusade” will be prayed at United Nations Plaza in San Francisco at Hyde Street and Market Street. Everyone is invited. Call Juanita at (415) 647-7229.
National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi LA PORZIUNCOLA NUOVA Columbus at Vallejo in San Francisco’s North Beach The Porziuncola and “Francesco Rocks Gift Shop” are open every day but Monday from 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. Rosary is prayed daily in Porziuncola at 4:30 p.m. Visit www.knightsofsaintfrancis.com The Shrine church is open every day 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. with Mass Monday through Saturday at 12:15 p.m. and Sundays at 10 a.m. Call (415) 986-4557 or visit www.shrinesf.org or e-mail info@shrinesf. org or herbertj@shrinesf.org.
Social Justice/Lectures/ Respect Life May 27 – 29: “24th annual Northern California Catholic Charismatic Convention” at Santa Clara Convention Center, 5001 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara. “Come expecting the power of a faithful God!” organizers said. Event theme is “Hearts On Fire for Jesus.” Opening Mass May 27 at 8 p.m. San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop William Justice will preside. Praise begins at 7 p.m. Convention speakers include Father Chris Crotty, Richard Lane, Martha Fernandez-Sardina, Msgr. James Tarantino. Registration information is at ncrcspirit.org or call (925) 828-0944. Weekend is sponsored by Northern California Renewal Coalition serving the dioceses of Monterey, Oakland, Sacramento, San Jose, Santa Rosa and Stockton and the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Saturdays: San Mateo Pro-Life prays the rosary at 2890 El Camino Real in Redwood City, corner Renato Court. at 8 a.m. and invites others to
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Food and Fun June 11, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.: “Classic Car Show” at Holy Angels School in Colma. See many oldies but goodies plus refreshments and a raffle. Day is sponsored by Holy Angels alumni association. Proceeds benefit Holy Angels School.
Prayer/Special Liturgies May 22, 11:30 a.m.: St. Gabriel Parish, 40th Avenue at Ulloa in San Francisco, celebrates its 70th year with a Mass and reception. All parishioners present and former as well as friends are welcome. Former pastors, parochial vicars, teachers have been invited. Call (415) 731-6161. May 29, 12:15 p.m.: St. Paul Parish celebrates the 100th anniversary of its beautiful church building. Archbishop George Niederauer is principal celebrant. Father Mario Farana, pastor, is among the concelebrants. A reception and memorabilia display will be held immediately following Mass in the Parish Center at Church and Valley Streets in San Francisco. Call (415) 648-7538. Sundays, 1:30 – 2:30 p.m.: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament with Benediction at Notre Dame des Victoires Church, 566 Bush St. between Stockton and Grant in San Francisco. Convenient parking is available across Bush Street in StocktonSutter garage. Call (415) 397-0113. Taize Sung Prayer: First Fridays, 8 p.m.: Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Drive, Burlingame with Mercy Sister Suzanne Toolan. Call (650) 340-7452; young adults are invited each first Friday of the month to attend a social at 6 p.m. prior to Taize at 8 p.m. Tuesdays, 6 p.m.: Notre Dame Des Victoires Church, 566 Bush at Stockton, San Francisco with Rob Grant. Call (415) 397-0113. Third Fridays, 8 p.m.: Dominican Sisters of MSJ Motherhouse Chapel, 43326 Mission Boulevard, entrance is on Mission Tierra Place, between Ohlone College and the Old Mission San Jose in Fremont. Call (510) 449-7554. Third Wednesdays at 8 p.m. at the Dominican Sisters of MSJ motherhouse chapel, 43326 Mission Boulevard, entrance is on Mission Tierra Place, in Fremont. Call (510) 449-7554. May 18, 7 p.m.: Santa Sabina Center, 25 Magnolia Ave., San Rafael. Suggested offering $10. Call (415) 457-7727 or e-mail info@santasabinacenter.org.
Reunions July 9, 11:30 a.m. : St. Emydius School, class of 1956, at Sinbad’s Restaurant 141 The Embarcadero in San Francisco. Family and friends are welcome. Contact Jack Sutcliffe at (408) 257-4671 or e-mail jaksut@aol.com or Joy Boito Walsh at (408) 996-3162 or e-mail joy.walsh@ sbcglobal.net. July 27, 11:30 a.m.: St. Joseph College/School of Nursing reunion luncheon at the Irish Cultural Center, 45th Avenue at Sloat Boulevard in San Francisco. Reservations are required by July 1. Tickets are $35.00. Contact Betty Jerabek at (650) 589-6233 or Anne Politeo at (415) 221-8382 or e-mail tajsf@att.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. Oct. 22: Presentation High School, San Francisco class of ’66. Contact Martha Kunz Willis at (650) 763-1202 or e-mail mwwmtw@ comcast.net or Marilyn Mathers at (51) 232-4848 or mmathers@deloitte.com.
Mass in Latin 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.
Holy Cross Cemetery 1500 Old Mission Rd. in Colma, (650) 756-2060 May 30, 11 a.m.: Memorial Day Mass in Holy Cross Mausoleum. Archbishop George Niederauer is principal celebrant.
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
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Single, Divorced, Separated Information about Bay Area single, divorced and separated programs is available from Jesuit Father Al Grosskopf at grosskopf@usfca. edu (415) 422-6698. Would you like support while you travel the road through separation and divorce? The Archdiocese of San Francisco offers support for the journey. The Separated and Divorced Catholics of the Archdiocese of San Francisco (SDCASF) offer two ongoing support groups at St. Bartholomew Parish, 600 Columbia Drive, San Mateo, on the first and third Tuesdays, at 7 p.m. in the spirituality center, and in O’Reilly hall of St. Stephen Parish near Stonestown, San Francisco, on the first and third Wednesdays, at 7:30 p.m. Call Gail (650) 591-8452, or Joanne (650) 347-0701 for more information. Catholic Adult Singles Association of Marin County: We are Catholics, single or single again, who are interested in making new friends, taking part in social activities, sharing opportunities for spiritual growth, and becoming involved in volunteer activities that will benefit parishes, community, and one another. We welcome those who would share in this with us. For information, call Bob at (415) 897-0639.
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President and Rector, Franciscan School of Theology, Berkeley Fr. Mario has a PhD in New Testament, has lived in the Holy Land and has 34 years experience in leading pilgrimages to the Holy Land Write , call or e-mail for free brochure Fr. Mario DiCicco, O.F.M. 1712 Euclid Ave. Berkeley Ca. 94709
*Prices per person, based on double occupancy. Airfare is extra.
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to join in the following pilgrimages
IRELAND
Cliffs of Moher
Sept. 26 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Oct. 6, 2011 Departs San Francisco 11-Day Pilgrimage with Fr.
Chris Coleman
3,099 per person
only $
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($3,199 after June 18, 2011)
Visit: Dublin, Shannonbridge, Galway, Knock, Croagh, Patrick, Kylemore Abbey, Connemara, Cliffs of Moher, Bunratty Folk Park, Cratloe, Adare, Slea Head, Gallarus Oratory, Dingle, Ring of Kerry, Killarney, Dingle, Gougane Barre Park, Blarney Castle, Cork, Kinsale, Rock of Cashel, Dublin, Glendalough, Wicklow
SPAIN, LOURDES & FRANCE October 3 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 14, 2011 Departs San Francisco 12-Day Pilgrimage with Fr.
Garry Zerr
2,999 per person
only $
($3,099 after June 25, 2011)
Visit: Madrid, Toledo, Avila, El Escorial, Segovia, Burgos, Garabandal, Bilboa, Loyola, Javier, Lourdes, Zaragosa, Barcelona, Manresa, Montserrat
FRANCE
e-mail: mdicicco@fst.edu
Lourdes
October 6 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 16, 2011
Israel â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Pilgrimage to the Holy Land 9 Days 15 Meals: 7 Breakfasts 1 Lunch 7 Dinners
Caesarea Nazareth Basilica of the Annunciation Cana Tiberias Capernaum Mount of Beatitudes Sea of Galilee Transfiguration Church Tel Megiddo Jaffa Jerusalem Mount of Olives Via Dolorosa Church of The Holy Sepulcher Wailing Wall Mount Zion Bethlehem Church of the Nativity Daily Mass
Departs San Francisco 11-Day Pilgrimage with Fr.
2,899 per person
only $
9 Days 14 Meals: 7 Breakfasts 1 Lunch 6 Dinners Fatima
Aljustrel Valinhos Grotto of Massabielle
Nazare Alcobaca Monastery Cathedral of Burgos Lourdes Holy Hill Carcassone Barcelona La Sagrada Familia
Oct 17th, 2011 = $1599 per person land only
Lisieux
($2,999 after June 28, 2011)
Visit: Paris, Nevers, Ars, Lyon, Annecy, Toulouse, Lourdes, Roven, Lisieux, Bayeux, Normandy
Oct 26th, 2011 - $1499 per person land only Pilgrimage to Fatima & Lourdes with Barcelona
Don Hying
ITALY Jan. 6 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 17, 2012
Basilica of St. Francis
Departs San Francisco 12-Day Pilgrimage with Fr.
Chris Crotty, C.P.M.
2,699 per person
only $
($2,799 after Sept. 28, 2011)
Shrines of Italy 11 Days 15 Meals: 9 Breakfasts 6 Dinners Rome Vatican City Papal Audience* St. Peterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Basilica St. Paul Outside the Walls Christian Rome City Tour Saint Mary Major St. John in Lateran Madonna del Rosario Abbey of Santissima Trinita San Giovanni Rotondo Tomb of Padre Pio st
Nov 1 , 2011 = $1849 per person land only
DOOR TO DOOR Airport Transportation w/air inclusive tours
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Visit: Rome, Assisi, Cascia, Manoppello, Lanciano, San Giovanni, Monte Sant'Angelo, Bari, Naples, Mugnano del Cardinale
For a FREE brochure on these pilgrimages contact: Catholic San Francisco (415) 614-5640
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