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San Francisco Giants third baseman Pablo Sandoval visited St. Peter School in San Francisco’s Mission District May 24 to help students with nutrition and heart exercise. “The Panda” has lost 40 pounds since the team won the World Series last year. Principal Victoria Butler said, “The support of the Giants has been great for our goal of quality Catholic education for our inner-city youth. Their fans at St. Peter keep (injured Giants catcher) Buster Posey and his healing in our prayers and we pray for our champions!” See more photos on catholic-sf.org.
ROME (CNS) — For the first time, an international meeting of bishops’ representatives heard testimony from a survivor of clergy sex abuse in an effort to help clerics be more aware of the impact of abuse and to show how the church can better help victims. The Anglophone Conference on the Safeguarding of Children, Young People and Vulnerable Adults has been meeting since 1996, and this year organizers invited Colm O’ Gorman, who was abused by a priest in the diocese of Ferns, Ireland, in the 1980s. Teresa Kettelkamp, head of the U.S. bishops’ Secretariat of Child and Youth Protection, told Catholic News Service it was critical for church representatives from countries where the abuse problem has not yet been fully addressed to hear directly from a victim so they can have a “fuller understanding of the seriousness of this issue.” “We can always learn more of how we can better help victims and survivors heal and find reconciliation, Teresa M. Kettelkamp but actually hearing directly from them and the impact the abuse had on them is always very powerful,” she said at the meeting, held May 30-June 3. Kettelkamp said the international conference provides an opportunity to share ideas, research and experiences about best policies and practices for safeguarding children from abuse. Kettelkamp told CNS that conference organizers made a concerted effort to invite representatives from more countries who could benefit from the experiences ABUSE SURVIVOR, page 19
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New San Quentin chaplain sees Jesus in inmates St. Raymond Parish: his “dream job” by San Francisco Archbishop George Niederauer. “I thought I had died and gone to prison chapWhere others see murderers, rapists and gangsters, lain heaven,” said Father Williams, who arrived at Jesuit Father George Williams, the new Catholic California’s oldest penitentiary in January. chaplain of San Quentin State Prison in Marin County, Walking to death beholds Jesus. row for the first time, he He sees Christ in the looked up through the Hell’s Angel shouting a razor wire to the rafters greeting, “Hey, from one and spotted a dozen redangel to another, how’s it winged blackbirds. going?” He sees Christ “They sang all day in the shackled inmate long, a reminder that seeking freedom from even in all this oppressin through baptism, in sion and darkness, God the convict with devil’s is here,” Father Williams horns tattooed on his said. shaved head asking to be That’s the message he confirmed. spreads at the 159-yearAnd he sees Christ Jesuit Father George Williams is pictured with old facility that houses in the lifers who are San Quentin State Prison in the background. nearly 6,000 prisoners, studying theology. These including some 750 on inmates, on occasion, the nation’s largest death row. About a quarter of them stump him with their insightful questions and surprise are Catholic, and they keep him busy. him with their knowledge of church teaching, which, He’s in charge of a full sacramental calendar: he admits, at times surpasses his own. three baptisms at Easter; confirmations; confessions, “God jumps out at you when you least expect it,” which are significant for their healing and forgiving; said Father Williams, who served 15 years in prison ministries in Massachusetts before being appointed to SAN QUENTIN CHAPLAIN, page 3 (PHOTO COURTESY LT. SAM ROBINSON)
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Archdiocese names interim administrator By Rick DelVecchio The Archdiocese of San Francisco named retired Msgr. Harry Schlitt as interim administrator of St. Raymond Parish as the Menlo Park congregation reacted to its pastor’s suspension over an apparent violation of church child-protection norms. Auxiliary Bishop William Justice announced after June 5 Masses at the parish that Msgr. Schlitt, who retired last year and long served as the archdiocese’s vicar for INTERIM ADMINISTRATOR, page 8
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San Quentin chaplain . . ■Continued from cover the Eucharist; and anointing of the sick. Not included are weddings and ordinations, although Father Williams says he knows inmates who would make wonderful priests and points out that St. Paul “had blood on his hands� and that prisons have a built-in monastic structure. He makes cell calls, entering when invited as he walks the prison blocks. He says three death row Masses weekly and hopes to increase the frequency so the 50 high-security felons who usually go can do so more than once a month. At most, five are allowed to congregate at a time, so only 15 can attend a week. Coming from a state without a death penalty, Father Williams was taken aback by San Quentin’s harsh conditions and security measures that make him the only priest in his community to wear a bulletproof vest to work. He was pleasantly surprised by the plethora of programs, beautiful Catholic chapel and hordes of volunteers who bring “a humanness here I didn’t expect.� Passionate about his work, the priest will be encouraging students to get involved in prison ministry when he starts teaching at the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley, his current home. “You see the Gospel in a totally different light in prison,�
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Prelate ‘impatient’ DUBLIN – Dublin Archbishop Diarmuid Martin is “impatient” with the Vatican’s pace of reform for the Irish church. “I can say that I am impatient to learn about the path that the apostolic visitation will set out for renewal for the Irish church so that our renewal will move forward decisively,” he said in remarks to Eucharistic Congress delegates at All Hallows College June 2. “At the same time I am also becoming increasingly impatient at the slowness in the process which began over a year ago. “This is not a criticism of the Holy Father,” he said. “It is an appeal to his collaborators. The pace of the change in Irish religious culture is such that the longer the delay in advancing the fruits of the apostolic
June 10, 2011 visitation, the greater the danger of false expectations and the greater the encouragement to those who prefer immobilism to reform.” Vatican representatives have completed the first phase of the visitation — an investigation of major Catholic institutions in Ireland, ordered by Pope Benedict XVI to examine the response of Irish church authorities to the clerical sex abuse scandal. A statement from the Vatican press office June 6 said that apostolic visitators to four metropolitan dioceses, as well as seminaries and religious institutes, had turned over their reports to the competent Vatican agencies. In the coming months, the statement said, bishops and leaders of religious orders will receive notices on what they should be doing “for the spiritual renewal” of the Irish church. The visitation was announced by Pope Benedict in March 2010 in a pastoral letter to Irish Catholics after an independent report showed widespread and historic abuse of minors on the part of church figures in the overwhelmingly Catholic country. The report accused church authorities of cover-
Clergy appointments announced The Archdiocese of San Francisco has announced the appointment of a pastor, administrators, interim administrators and parochial vicars, effective July 1. Father Ulysses L. D’Aquila has been named pastor at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Redwood City. Father Edward Inyanwachi has been named administrator at Our Lady of Loretto Church in Novato. Father Emilio Reyes, S.V.D., has been named administrator at St. Kevin Church, San Francisco. Msgr. Harry G. Schlitt has been named interim administrator at St. Raymond Church in Menlo Park, and Father Robert Kevin White is interim administrator at St. Anthony of Padua Church in Novato. Parochial vicars are: Father Erick E. Arauz, Church of the Epiphany, San Francisco; Father Rafael De Avila, St. Bruno Church, San Bruno; Father Hugo Esparza, CP, Our Lady of Loretto Church, Novato (through Dec. 31); Father Charles S. Fermeglia, Our Lady of the Pillar Church, Half Moon Bay; Father Michael Konopik, St. Robert Church, San Bruno; Father Piers Lahey, St. Charles Church, San Carlos; Father Matthew Link, CPPS, St. Hilary Church, Tiburon (effective Sept. 1); Father J. Eudardo Mendoza, Church of the Visitacion, San Francisco; Father William C. Nicholas, Mission Dolores Basilica, San Francisco; Father David A. Schunk, St. Gregory Church, San Mateo; and Father Peter Zhai, SVD, Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, Redwood City.
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ALLEGANY, N.Y. — Franciscan Brothers Julian and Adrian Riester, identical twins who spent 35 years working at the St. Bonaventure Friary, died hours apart June 1 at St. Anthony Hospital in St. Petersburg, Fla., St. Bonaventure University announced. Julian died in the morning, and Adrian in the evening. They were 92 years old and had been professed Franciscan friars for 65 years, the university said in an article on its website. Born in Buffalo as Jerome (Julian) and Irving (Adrian) seconds apart on Franciscan March 27, 1919, Brothers Adrian the twins entered a and Julian Riester family that already had five girls. “Dad was a doctor, and he said a prayer for a boy. The Lord fooled him and sent two,” Brother Adrian once joked, according to the St. Bonaventure article.
MADRID — Spain’s National Court has invoked a special law to order the arrest and trial of 20 former Salvadoran military officers for the 1989 murder of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter. Five of the six Jesuits were naturalized Salvadorans of Spanish birth. In announcing the charges, the Spanish court invoked its universal jurisdiction law, which says that some crimes are so grave they can be tried anywhere. Issuing an indictment May 20, Judge Eloy Velasco Nunez said El Salvador’s juridical process “was a defective and widely criticized process that ended with two forced convictions and acquittals even of confessed killers.” Among those indicted in the Spanish proceeding is a former Salvadoran defense minister. A 1993 U.N. Truth Commission report said high-ranking Salvadoran military officials were responsible for ordering the murders and ordered a cover-up. The six priests and two women were murdered Nov. 16, 1989, at their residence on the campus of Central American University. The U.N. report concluded that units of the U.S.-trained Atlacatl battalion forced their way into the Jesuits’ residence, ordered them into a garden, shot them and did away with witnesses, such as the housekeeper and her daughter. Before leaving, the soldiers scribbled graffiti blaming leftist guerrillas for the killing. In 1991, two Salvadoran officers were convicted of the murders and seven others were found innocent. The two officers were freed in 1993 as part of an amnesty in the peace agreement that ended the nation’s 12-year civil war.
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■ Continued from page 4 ried and has a 20-year-old daughter and 16-yearold son. He holds a master’s of theology from St. Patrick’s Seminary and University in Menlo Park and has served with the U.S. Marine Corps and the Army National Guard and as a commissioned officer with the U.S. Navy Reserves.
Court declines to take up in-state tuition WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court declined June 6 to hear an appeal of a decade-old California law that allows undocumented immigrants and others without state residency to attend college at in-state tuition rates. The action allows the policy to continue. Without comment, the court declined to hear the appeal of a November ruling by the California Supreme Court upholding the statute. The court often declines to intervene in issues until there are rulings from lower federal courts or state supreme courts that are in conflict on matters of federal law. Since January 2002, California has allowed students to pay lower in-state tuition if they graduated from a California high school after attending the school for three or more years. In the case of students without lawful immigration status, California requires them to file to legalize their status as soon as possible and requires that information about immigration status remain confidential. Eleven other states have similar laws. In Maryland, which passed its version this year, opponents are gathering signatures to put a question on the 2012 ballot seeking to repeal the law. Another 12 states explicitly refuse to allow in-state tuition for people who are not in the country legally. The California Supreme Court ruled that the law did not conflict with a federal prohibition on states granting residency status to undocumented immigrants, because it also allows U.S. citizens who meet its provisions to attend California colleges at in-state rates even though they lack state residency. The Los Angeles Times reported that about 41,000 students took advantage of the provision last year, with the vast majority of them attending community colleges. The paper said that in 2009, 2,019 university students paid instate tuition under the law, with about 600 of them believed to lack legal immigration status. Nationally, legislation known as the
DREAM Act would allow students who were brought to the United States as children the chance to legalize their immigration status by attending college or serving in the U.S. military. The Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act passed the House in 2010 but failed to get the 60 votes necessary to override a filibuster threat in the Senate. It was reintroduced in the Senate May 11.
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Bishops’ paper on assisted suicide WASHINGTON — When the U.S. bishops consider a proposed policy statement on physician-assisted suicide during their meeting this coming week in Seattle, they will be taking on for the first time as a body of bishops one of the most divisive issues in U.S. society. A Gallup Poll released May 31 showed that Americans are more closely divided on the issue of physician-assisted suicide than on any other issue, including abortion, outof-wedlock births, gay and lesbian relations or medical testing on animals. Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of GalvestonHouston, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities, said the time is right for the statement, titled “To Live Each Day With Dignity.” “After years of relative inaction following legalization of physician-assisted suicide in Oregon in 1994, the assisted suicide movement has shown a strong resurgence in activity,” the cardinal said.
Kevorkian ‘preyed’ SACRAMENTO — Dr. Jack Kevorkian not only promoted and performed assisted suicide but also “preyed on people’s fears at some of the most vulnerable times in their lives,” Californians Against Assisted Suicide said in a statement June 3, the day Kevorkian, known as “Dr. Death,” died in a Michigan hospital at age 83. “While Kevorkian’s peculiar and morbid notoriety also earned attention for other proassisted suicide groups like Compassionate Choices (formerly the Hemlock Society) and Final Exit Network, it also galvanized opposition from people of diverse social and political backgrounds,” said the group, a coalition of health care, disability rights, patients’ rights and civil rights organizations that has successfully fought the legalization of assisted suicide in California since 2005. — Catholic News Service and Catholic San Francisco
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Archbishop George Niederauer was principal celebrant of the annual Memorial Day Mass at Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma May 30. The cemetery was covered with flags as visitors paused at the gravesites of military veterans. See catholic-sf.org for more photos.
Funeral Mass for city firefighters A funeral Mass will be celebrated June 10 at St. Mary’s Cathedral for two San Francisco firefighters who died as a result of injuries they sustained in the line of duty, fighting a house fire June 2. The service for Lt. Vincent Perez, 48, and Firefighter Paramedic Anthony Valerio, 53, will be at 12:30 p.m., with a 7 p.m. vigil at the cathedral June 9. “Firefighter Paramedic Valerio and Lt. Perez’s deaths have left all of our members with heavy hearts,” said San Francisco Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White. “They will be greatly
missed. Our prayers are with both the Valerio and Perez families as they grieve their losses.” Interment for both firefighters will be at Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma. Valerio, a 14-year SFFD veteran, and Perez, a 21-year SFFD veteran, worked from SFFD Engine Company 26. Perez is a 1981 graduate of San Francisco’s Archbishop Riordan High School. Firefighters from around the state will be represented among the assembly at the funeral rites expected to fill all of the cathedral’s more than 2,000 seats. — Catholic San Francisco
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Bishop apologizes for response to priest accused in porn case conduct against him stemming from the 1970s and ‘80s, but said that priest, Father Michael Tierney, and Father Ratigan KANSAS CITY, Mo. (CNS) — Officials in the Diocese “are the first sitting pastors to be removed in our diocese in of Kansas City-St. Joseph are being faulted by parishioners more than 20 years.” and media for failing to more vigorously pursue allegations of At a May 22 news conference about the Ratigan case, suspicious and improper behavior made against a priest now the bishop said he would expand the role of the diocesan charged with possession of child pornography. Independent Review Board to include receiving and evaluating In a message read at parish Masses June 4 and 5 and in a reports of misconduct which fall outside the scope set by the number of forums in late May, Bishop Robert W. Finn expressed U.S. bishops for such boards in their 2002 Dallas “Charter for regret for the way the diocese handled informathe Protection of Children and Young People.” tion it received about the activities of Father In addition, Bishop Finn said he will Shawn Ratigan. consult with others to determine how best to “As bishop I take full responsibility for these change the internal structure and procedures of failures and sincerely apologize to you for them. the diocesan curia to more effectively respond Clearly, we have to do more. Please know that to reports of improper conduct by diocesan we have — and will continue to cooperate with clergy and employees. all local authorities regarding these matters,” “Things must change. I also have to Bishop Finn said in the message read at Masses. change,” Bishop Finn said. “These past few weeks all of us have In mid-December 2010, a laptop belonging endured the consequences of our human failto Father Ratigan, then pastor of St. Patrick Bishop Robert W. Finn ure,” he said. “The destructive sins of a few and Parish in Butler, was turned in to diocesan the serious lapses in communication have caused us shame, officials after a computer technician found disturbing photos on anger and confusion.” He acknowledged there are victims who the hard drive. The photos included pictures of female children “are hurting, and others who have been left vulnerable by our at parish events, including one of a naked female child who processes.” was not identifiable. Bishop Finn noted the diocese had removed a second priest Msgr. Robert Murphy, diocesan vicar general, then called a from ministry June 2 while it investigates allegations of mis- ranking Kansas City police officer and described the photo of the
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female child. In addition, the photos were provided to diocesan legal counsel. Both the police officer and legal counsel opined that the photos did not constitute child pornography as they did not contain sexual conduct or contact as defined by Missouri law. On the same day, Father Ratigan was told to appear the next day at the chancery. Instead, the next morning he was found unconscious in his garage with his motorcycle running. When Father Ratigan regained consciousness several days later, he was placed in a psychiatric unit to minimize the chances of a further suicide attempt. According to a May 20 statement by Bishop Finn, Ratigan was then sent for further psychiatric evaluation out of state. Although physically recovered, Father Ratigan was not allowed to return to St. Patrick and he was removed from pastoral duties there. After various evaluations and a stay at his mother’s house, in mid-February the priest was allowed to live and pay rent at a Vincentian priest residence. According to Bishop Finn, Father Ratigan was allowed to celebrate Mass at the adjacent Sisters of St. Francis of the Holy Eucharist community but was otherwise restricted in his activities. He was not allowed a camera or computer and was not allowed to attend events where children were present. On May 12, after repeated reports that Father Ratigan had violated these restrictions, Msgr. Murphy relayed ongoing concerns about the priest to the same police officer he had contacted earlier, who facilitated a report to the Cyber Crimes Against Children Unit. According to a report prepared by Detective Maggie McGuire of the unit, Father Ratigan was taken into custody May 18 and kept on an investigative hold. After a search of his family’s home turned up a disk and hard drive with 18 different images of child pornography, Father Ratigan was charged with three counts of possession of child pornography in Clay County. At a May 20 forum with St. Patrick parishioners, it became apparent numerous parents and school administrators had long harbored suspicions about Father Ratigan’s conduct around children, concerns that were expressed in a May 2010 memo by the principal. Bishop Finn said he had read that memo for the first time when it was released by the press this May. Asked what he felt after reading it, he said: “From a human standpoint, I felt great shame. I was ashamed at the fact we had not done enough to respond to that.” “I believe that the study and the adjustments that we are going to have to make as a diocese may be comparable to the changes our country had to make after 9/11,” Bishop Finn told The Catholic Key, Kansas City-St. Joseph diocesan newspaper. “Our desire, our determination, our attitude, all these things have to change.” JUNE 17-19 DREAMS RETREAT Dr. Jeremy Taylor JULY 1-3
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St. Hilary students’ ‘most respected teacher’ named principal St. Hilary School in Tiburon will start the new academic year this fall with a new principal: Charley Hayes, known as an old-fashioned romantic with a modern-day outlook on classroom technology. To understand Hayes’s traditionalist side, know that he popped the question to his high-school sweetheart on bended knee in front of her fifth-grade class at St. Hilary. He saw the school with its commitment to family as the perfect setting for a marriage proposal. Four years later, switching careers from technology sales to teaching, Hayes joined the St. Hilary faculty with heart on sleeve: in time the students called him “the puddle� for his tendency to tear up on the annual seventh-grade retreats to Yosemite. On Aug. 1, the seventhgrade teacher steps into his new job as the parish school’s principal, succeeding Bryan Clement, who is transferring to Marin Catholic High School in Greenbrae as the director of advancement. Hayes looks forward to applying his passions for technology and for teaching students in a Catholic setting. “I want to continue the Charley Hayes great traditions of the wonderful, values-based Catholic education we have here, but I also have a vision for a mode of learning that will move us into the 21st century,� said Hayes, a Santa Clara University graduate in business administration. “Implementing a technology roadmap is definitely at the forefront of what I plan to do.� Hayes’s personal and professional background seem to dovetail with St. Hilary’s objective to offer “a unique blend of a traditional and progressive practice.� A product and proponent of Catholic education, Hayes appears well suited to lead the pre-K-8 school, which was founded by the Sisters of the Holy Faith from Ireland in 1963 and has grown to 40 faculty and staff and 247 students. The school upgraded its library and technology center in 2004 and recently bought four Smart Boards — projec-
Charley Hayes at St. Hilary School’s recent Geography Bee, which he hosted.
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tion screens that bring interactive learning to the classroom. Hayes envisions one at every grade level. A project he plans to try next year would connect students at St. Hilary with those in other countries through Smart Boards and Skype online voice and video. These “digital pen pals� would exchange ideas centered on literature, Hayes said. “Pope John Paul II really promoted technology, asserting that it is not an enemy but rather can be a means to spread the Word of God,� Hayes said “That’s really where our role as Catholic educators is changing.� The shift is from teacher as “master at the pulpit� to guide in the moral and ethical use of technology, said Hayes, who has taught physical education, math, social studies, language arts and religion and served as dean of discipline and vice principal. He has spent his entire academic career in Catholic schools, including Marin Catholic, where he met his wife, Rita, and the University of San Francisco, where he completed The Institute for Catholic Educational Leadership program. To pay off loans and taste the “real world,� Hayes put aside his dream of becoming a teacher and strayed to Silicon Valley for seven years, until he reconnected with the woman
who would become his wife and lead him to St. Hilary. “I love this place, the sense of community, the excellent academics, faculty and staff, the partnership with parents whose core values align with the school’s,� Hayes said. “What I’m most proud of are the products of St. Hilary — the students who are such good young people.� In their turn, the students recently named him the school’s most-respected teacher. “My brother, sister and I all go to church, and that has to do with having good teachers like Mr. and Mrs. Hayes,� said Connor Geraghty, 20, of Tiburon, who attends Notre Dame University. “Charley is a special guy,� said parent Robin Mattimore of Tiburon,� who has such empathy for the children, he’s known as ‘a puddle.’� Father William E. Brown, the pastor of St. Hilary Parish, said he appointed Hayes the day before the teacher appreciation luncheon at which students named him the most-respected teacher. “I saw this vote of confidence from our students as a sign from God that I had made the perfect choice when I offered Charley the position,� Father Brown said.
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Episcopal parish’s journey led to Catholic Church By Mark Zimmermann BLADENSBURG, Md. (CNS) — In the fall of 2009, Pope Benedict XVI issued an apostolic constitution called “Anglicanorum coetibus” to provide a means for entire Anglican parishes or groups to become Catholic while retaining some of their Anglican heritage and liturgical practice. That document “opened up a door that had previously been closed,” said the Rev. Mark Lewis, rector of St. Luke Episcopal Parish in Bladensburg. At that same time, he had been studying a book on Catholicism and Anglicanism. After a long period of discernment, the Maryland congregation announced June 6 that it would seek entry into the Catholic Church. “I’m thrilled and tremendously humbled to take this journey with my people at St. Luke, and humbled that I could become a priest of the Roman Catholic Church,”
Interim administrator. . . ■ Continued from cover administration and moderator of the curia, has accepted the post while the archdiocese seeks a new parish leader to replace four-year pastor Father William S. Myers. Bishop Justice also offered his apologies and those of Archbishop George Niederauer “for what has happened and for the pain and suffering that has resulted.” In the first of a nine-day series of archdiocesan “support and presence” meetings for St. Raymond parishioners and school students and parents, Bishop Justice also apologized before 200 parish members at a church meeting June 1. People at the meeting expressed anger and grief and demanded to know how Father Myers became a priest, how he advanced to pastor of a school parish and how he was monitored. One woman rose from her pew to say, “We’re wounded, the church has been wounded.” She said the parish needs to play a role in the selection of a new leader. Bishop Justice offered additional details of Father Myers’ record at a meeting after 10 a.m. Mass June 5, stressing that no complaints or suspicions about sexual misconduct have been leveled about him during his ministry in the archdiocese. Bishop Justice said there has never been a concern that children at St. Raymond School were at risk.
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Rev. Lewis said in an interview with the Catholic Standard. Ordained as an Episcopal priest in 2001, he has been rector of St. Luke since 2006 and hopes to begin the process to be ordained a Catholic priest. Members of St. Luke will begin formal preparation to be received into the Catholic Church, likely later this year. Prayer and study, not any controversies, led the congregation toward unity with the Catholic Church, Rev. Lewis said. Over the past several years, the Episcopal Church, the U.S. member of the Anglican Communion, has approved ordaining women priests and bishops, ordaining homosexuals and blessing same-sex unions. “Those issues on the priesthood and sexuality have been around. The real issue that drove us was our study of the Catholic faith,” he said. “The more we looked at it and compared it to Anglicanism, we were drawn to the Church of Rome. It was a natural progression.”
The archdiocese learned May 26 that the priest had been involved in an incident April 19 involving an encounter with a 17-year-old male in a changing room at a Ross clothing store in San Francisco. “The police were brought in because there was suspect behavior,” said George Wesolek, communications director for the archdiocese. “The young man said there was no physical contact.” According to a statement by the archdiocese, the police determined that no criminal act had been committed. “The case is open and inspectors are conducting follow-up interviews prior to meeting with the district attorney’s office,” San Francisco Police Department Sgt. Michael Andraychak said June 6 in response to an e-mail from Catholic San Francisco. Archdiocesan officials met with Father Myers May 27, the day after they became aware of the incident. They placed him on administrative leave and referred the matter to the archdiocesan Independent Review Board as an apparent “boundary violation,” a type of inappropriate behavior that falls short of physical sexual abuse but is considered an offense under the U.S. bishops’ 2002 Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People. At the June 1 church meeting, Bishop Justice said Father Myers acknowledged the incident but denied any inappropriate behavior with children in the past. Interviewed after the June 1 meeting, parishioner Gerard McGuire cautioned against a rush to judgment on Father Myers.
California’s Catholic bishops are planning to release a public policy statement on the state’s budget crisis, Catholic San Francisco learned June 7. The statement rests on the four permanent principles of Catholic social teaching: the dignity of the human person, the pursuit of the common good, the principle of subsidiarity and the principle of solidarity, said Carol Hogan, communications director for the California Catholic Conference, the bishops’ public policy arm. “They’re challenging them (the state’s lawmakers) to rise above partisanship,” she said. The bishops decided to issue a policy statement, rather than a pastoral statement, in order to share with the general public the wisdom of Catholic social teaching, Hogan said.
McGuire, a parish member for eight months, said his impressions of Father Myers were positive. McGuire also said he was impressed with the church’s response to the crisis, which he called “tremendously fast.” The archdiocese announced that any allegations of sexual abuse involving Father William Myers should be directed to the civil authorities and to the archdiocese’s victim assistance coordinator, Barbara Elordi. Her secure phone line is (415) 614-5506 and her e-mail is elordib@sfarchdiocese.org. She is also available to assist with pastoral concerns as a result of this matter.
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Marin entrepreneur publishes papal comic book for World Youth Day By George Raine Almost everywhere one travels in Madrid this August, there will be a free-for-the-taking comic book titled “Habemus Papam!” with a beaming Pope Benedict XVI on the cover, that aims to introduce a pope that young people in particular may not know well. The style of the 32-page comic is called manga, a Japanese creation, with bold, exaggerated drawings of characters that help tell a story about Benedict, who, says the publisher, Jonathan Lin, “is a gentle, wise, very brilliant pope who deeply cares about his flock.” The title — “We Have a Pope” — is the announcement given in Latin upon the election of a new pope. Lin is the founder and publisher of Manga Hero, a San Rafael-based company that produces the Japanese-style comics with Catholic themes. This month he is preparing
to print 300,000 copies of the Pope Benedict comic book for the World Youth Day audience, June 16-21, in Madrid. Printed in both English and Spanish, the comic books will be everywhere — at churches, schools, hotels and hostels, metro stations, the airport, information kiosks, tourist attractions and other event locations, said Lin. World Youth Day, launched by Pope John Paul II in 1985, is a youth-oriented Catholic Church event that draws hundreds of thousands of young people from throughout the world — a ready audience for a modern media introduction to Pope Benedict, but also a promotional opportunity for Manga Hero, which found a Catholic-centered niche. Lin, 36, is a graduate of two Jesuit institutions, St. Ignatius College Preparatory in San Francisco, with a degree in economics from College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass. His career has taken him from market
Corpus Christi valedictory Corpus Christi School teacher Joey Zarate produced a video of the closing ceremonies for the 83-year-old San Francisco parish school, which closed at the end of the 2010-11 school year due to financial strains caused by declining enrollment. Corpus Christi was one of a handful of schools in the U.S. run by the Salesians of Don Bosco. View the video from catholic-sf.org.
research to commercial banking to Internetbased work, then back to school at Babson College in Massachusetts for a master of business administration degree then to the family business of food importing and distribution and on to toy industry. Hashing out entrepreneurial ideas with his father, the absence of manga — or animestyle presentations of biblical stories — came up, and in 2010 Manga Hero was born. In the past decade, said Lin, manga has had an enormous growth in popularity around the world, with millions of children and adults drawn to the medium that originated in Japan. The graphic novels feature a wide range of stories and have broad appeal — with 60 percent of manga readers female. “We want to use manga as a tool to show the youth and the world that the church is not afraid of modernity and evolving culture. It is not afraid to use, in this case, new and compelling forms of media to meet young people where they are.” Lin noted that Pope John Paul II had called for the use of new forms of media to reach young people in order to build a “culture of love and dignity,” and that manga is one such medium. Manga Hero has produced longer works about Judith and St. Paul, as Lin’s theory is this: “Rather than looking up to heroes who may be vampires or space cowboys, we have real heroes, people who actually existed.” He added, “My thinking was, manga is awfully popular, so let’s create stories that are not Pollyannaish, they are not cheesy, but come up with good stories that, while they are initially not used as Catechism tools per se, they actually are a form of entertainment to spark some kind of interest in our faith.” The company is also currently developing a book about Jesus’ parable about the wedding banquet. It plans a second edition, longer book about Pope Benedict
The cover of Jonathan Lin’s papal comic book, “We Have a Pope.”
that explores more of his biography and the challenges he faces. Long-term, there are plans for books about Pope John Paul II, Mother Teresa and St. Maximilian Kolbe, a Franciscan friar who, while imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz in 1941, volunteered to take the place of one of 10 inmates to be starved to death, after the other man cried out, “My wife! My children.” Growth and more titles for Manga Hero will require adding to the company roster, which today includes Lin, two writers based in San Diego, Gabrielle Gniewek and Matthew Salisbury, and an illustrator in Singapore, Sean Lam. There may be an opening for a writer: Gniewek is discerning religious life. There’s more information about the company at www.mangahero.com.
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By Carol Glatz ZAGREB, Croatia (CNS) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Pope Benedict XVI used his apostolic journey to the Croatian capital to encourage nations to build their communities on Christian values and to support the traditional family and the sanctity of life. A culture guided by truth, reason and love not only will lead to peace, justice and solidarity, the communityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very survival is dependent on such transcendent values, he said during his brief two-day pilgrimage June 4-5. If religion, ethics and a moral conscience are banished from informing the public realm, â&#x20AC;&#x153;then the crisis of the West has no remedy and Europe is destined to collapse in on itselfâ&#x20AC;? and risk falling prey to every form of tyranny, he said in an audience with Croatiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s political, religious, cultural, business and academic representatives. Free and just democracies thrive when citizensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; consciences have been formed by love and Christianityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;logic of giftâ&#x20AC;? in which the good of the whole human family is sought after, not narrow self-interests, the pope said June 4 in Zagrebâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ornate Croatian National Theater. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The quality of social and civil life and the quality of democracy depend in large measureâ&#x20AC;? on all citizens possessing and exercising a conscience that listens, not to subjective feelings, but to an objective truth that recognizes oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s duty to God and all human beings, he said.
Such moral consciences are formed in Christian families, parishes and Catholic schools, the pope said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This logic of gratuitousness, learned in infancy and adolescence, is then lived out in every area of life, in games, in sport, in interpersonal relations, in art, in voluntary service to the poor and suffering,â&#x20AC;? as well as in policy making and the economy, he said. The 84-year-old pope headed to the Croatian capital in an effort to encourage this predominantly Catholic country to resist secular temptations and hold strong to its Christian identity as it prepares for full integration into the European Union. It was Pope Benedictâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 19th trip outside Italy and 13th to a European nation. Even though nearly 90 percent of the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s population declare themselves Catholic, the bishops say the country is experiencing fierce pressure to allow adoptions by same-sex couples, ease restrictions on artificial reproduction and legalize euthanasia. Divorce and abortion are legal and same-sex civil partnerships are recognized in Croatia. Before hundreds of thousands of families and young people gathered for Mass in Zagrebâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s grassy hippodrome June 5, Bishop Valter Zupan of Krk, Croatia, decried current threats against the family saying alternative lifestyles â&#x20AC;&#x153;have no basis in European cultureâ&#x20AC;? and every child has the right to have both a mother and a father. The bishop, president of the Croatian bishopsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; commis-
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A clergyman uses a book to shelter himself from the sun as Pope Benedict XVI celebrates an outdoor Mass for 400,000 people in Zagrebâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hippodrome June 5.
sion for the family, urged the government to defend life by reconsidering its abortion laws and to stop calling something â&#x20AC;&#x153;that leads to death, progress.â&#x20AC;? The emphasis on the family came as part of the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first national gathering of Croatian families. Some 400,000 people attended, including families, bishops, priests and religious from nearby nations including Slovenia, Serbia, Albania and Macedonia. Jubilant crowds squelched through the muddy fields to chase after the popemobile as it slowly circled the giant horse track. People waved banners and Vatican and Croatian flags and many babies braved being passed over barricades and through the open popemobile window to receive a kiss and blessing from the pope. In his homily, Pope Benedict called on the government to support families and urged young men and women to be courageous and fend off trends that advocate â&#x20AC;&#x153;living together as a preparation, or even a substitute for marriage.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;The presence of exemplary Christian families is more necessary and urgent than everâ&#x20AC;? in a world that promotes false freedoms, materialism, superficial relationships and an empty, sentimental notion of love that seeks â&#x20AC;&#x153;the gratification of instinctive impulses without a commitment to build lasting bonds,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Do not be afraid to make a commitment to another person,â&#x20AC;? he said as he encouraged married couples to be open to life since the â&#x20AC;&#x153;respect for natural moral law frees people, rather than demeaning them.â&#x20AC;?
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Fathers, be rich in mercy By Father Vito Perrone Soon, it will be Father’s Day. I remember a most profound time with my own father. I was a senior in high school. I was on our wrestling team. Our team was full of confidence, life, and love for the sport, for our coaches and for the challenge of each match. It was an exciting time. But, oh, the practices were so tough! We would go for over three hours, doing hundreds of push-ups and sit-ups and wrestling intensely so that we would be strong and experienced enough to reach the state final and become state champions.
Father’s Day is June 19 My father used to come and practice with us. He would teach us wrestling moves. He also had no problem handling us high school kids, even though he was in his late 40s at the time. Of course, there are reasons that this was so: Before he married my mother, Carmel, he had been an All-American wrestler, Big Ten champion and co-captain of his Michigan State University wrestling team. So, we were a bit below his level. Finally the big week of the state wrestling tournament arrived. The day before, my father told me: “Just don’t try any foolish wrestling moves and you will be a state champion.” “OK,” I said, “I won’t do any foolish wrestling moves. I’ll stick to what
I know and do best.” And so, I indeed reached the finals. What a time it is for a young man: They turn out the lights in the arena and then in front of thousands of people the two finalists go under the spotlight and wrestle for first place. With 30 seconds left I was ahead 6-2. Then, I did exactly what my father told me not to do: a foolish wrestling move. Lo and behold, the other guy took advantage of it, and before I knew it, I was behind 7-6 and time ran out. After all that hard work, all those push-ups and sit-ups, and all the good coaching, I had failed. I walked alone into the long, dark tunnel that led to the locker room. I was so embarrassed, so ashamed. I had let down my school, my teammates, my coaches, and worst of all, my father. I stopped midway through the tunnel, hanging my head. I noticed a figure coming down the other end, coming from the light at the end of the tunnel. I could not make out who it was. I moved to the side so that I would not be in the way and he could get by me. Instead of walking by, though, the person stopped. And he put his arms around me. It was my father. He did not say anything. He just held me. I did not say anything either. I just received. He stepped back and he smiled. He then held me again. He stepped back and grabbed me by the shoulders and looked in my eyes and smiled again. In front of this great wrestler, I was no longer ashamed. I had received from my father the great gift men can give their sons and daughters:
the gift of mercy. My foolish mistake did not hold him back from being rich in mercy and, until this memory that I am sharing, I never looked back – because mercy sets one free. Fathers, this is your precious gift to your families. Be rich in mercy! So many of your children are feeling alone, unworthy, and so wanting to be forgiven their foolish mistakes. The long dark tunnel — do not leave your children there alone. Be rich in mercy! Furthermore, Blessed John Paul II, in his encyclical, “Rich in Mercy,” (“Dives in Misericordia”) states: “The Truth revealed in Christ, about the Father of Mercies (2 Corinthians1:3) enables us to see the Father as particularly close to the human person especially when he or she is suffering.” Hence, the long dark tunnel is also the place where the Father of Jesus Christ and Our Father comes from the Light to meet us and as St. Faustina states in “Divine Mercy in my Soul”: “Divine Mercy is a love which is more powerful than even the blackest, bleakest sin.” Hence, the Father comes because we are of inestimable worth, no matter the long dark tunnel we find ourselves in. Rich in Mercy is Our Father, is my father, and can be all fathers! In thanksgiving for your precious gift, we your children proclaim with joy: Happy Father’s Day! The writer is a priest in the Archdiocese of San Francisco and recently founded a contemplative order, the Contemplatives of St. Joseph.
Death penalty topic of 2011 archdiocesan Respect Life Essay Contest Is there ever a time when it is permissible for the state to resort to the death penalty? Here are the students’ answers: At the heart of Catholic teaching on the death penalty is the belief that human life is sacred because, from its beginning, it involves the creative action of God. Assuming that the guilty party’s identity and responsibility have been determined, the traditional teaching of the church does not exclude recourse to the death penalty, if this is the only possible way of defending society against an unjust aggressor. However, if nonlethal means are sufficient to defend and protect people’s safety, authority is required to limit itself to non-lethal means, such as life in prison
without the possibility of parole. This has the added benefit of allowing the offender the possibility of redemption and rehabilitation. Today, cases where execution of the criminal is an absolute necessity to protect society are very rare. The Catholic bishops in the U.S. have been calling for an end to the use of the death penalty for more than 25 years. In 2005, they invited Catholics to join the ongoing Catholic Campaign to End the Use of the Death Penalty, on the Web at http://www. catholicsmobilizing.org. God has a purpose for every person’s life and always reaches out in love and reconciliation, even to one who has committed a terrible crime and must spend his or her life behind bars.
handout to people you hate, but if you hate them God will be disappointed because they are all our brothers and sisters. In’Spire Hodgson, Megan Furth Academy, San Francisco Grades 5-6 A total of 83 grand prizes, first prizes and honorable God made each of us unique, but we were not meant to live mentions were awarded in this year’s Respect Life Essay Contest. Students, families, teachers and principals were alone. We are part of families, neighborhoods and societies …. Our church is against the honored at a liturgy and death penalty and protects reception May 8 at St. us from serious criminals Mary’s Cathedral. Bishop by putting them in prison William Justice handed out for life instead of executing certificates at the reception, them. God is the ultimate which was sponsored by the authority for our society San Francisco Chapter of …. When a convicted killer the Archdiocesan Council commits a crime, the person of Catholic Women. Savings is sent to prison for life to bonds totaling $1,750 were give them a chance to repent mailed to the grand and first and ask forgiveness from prize winners. Following God. Instead of executing are excerpts from the grand them, the person can face prize-winning essays. The greater punishment in prison names of all the winners Essays of students from Notre Dame High School, …. They have lost the freeand honorable mentions are Belmont won prizes in the 2011 Respect Life Essay dom to enjoy their lives with at www.sflifeandjustice.org/ Contest. Senior Katie Modesitt was a grand prize win- their families …. They will essay_contest. need time to turn their hearts ner, an honor she also earned in last year’s event. back to God and say they are Grades 1-2 Senior Chantal Guegler was first prize winner for San sorry. They also need a way Every baby is a gift. We Mateo County. Senior Emily Sliwkowski and junior can celebrate a special per- Juliet Takla earned honorable mentions. Pictured from to repent and ask for forgiveness …. We should pray for son’s arrival by welcoming left are Chantal, Katie, Juliet and Emily. the strength to forgive others them into the world, by treatas God forgives us. Then we ing them nicely and tenderly and by caring for them. We can say “hello” and compliment can experience God’s peace. Tammi Yuen, St. Thomas the Apostle School them on their beauty. We can welcome them into the community by baptizing them right away. This special person is Grades 7-8 called a baby. Each baby is the future of our world. When we “A Conversation” die, the babies will be the new community. You just really Hey Evan, you’re a Catholic. What does the church think got to think about it. Babies are our great future. Joya Cullinan, St. Gregory School, San Mateo about the death penalty? Well Matt, the Catholic Church’s position is based on the punishment fitting the crime… It’s like the thief on the cross Grades 3-4 There are many different ways I can help people in many that got crucified next to Jesus Christ himself. He changed at different situations to show God’s love and care .... God the last second. The power of God is pretty amazing, huh Matt? Yes, it’s very amazing. It’s like some of his kindness and wants us to treat the homeless as we would treat any other person in the world. We can show our love by giving them forgiveness rubbed off on the thief. That’s a perfect example, Matt. I mean, if that thief could something warm and good to eat …. People that are rich need to know that someone up high loves them. You always have change, any other criminal could. So the Catholic Church to make sure that they have God in their lives …. The sick doesn’t support the death penalty unless the person is very danneed to know that God is healing them everyday. Send them gerous to other people and can’t be kept from harming others. Evan Quirk, Our Lady of the Pillar “Get Well” cards to warm up their hearts …. Sometimes religious education program you have to be kind to the people you don’t like or give a
Grades 9-12 The Catholic tradition, although it acknowledges the morality of the death penalty in dire situations, opposes the use of capital punishment because it violates the sanctity of life, denies God as the giver of life, creates a cycle of violence and does not follow the example of Jesus… It is imperative that we remember the example of Jesus while examining the death penalty. The Hebrew Scriptures did, in a sense, allow for the death penalty. Evidence of this is found in Exodus, “You shall give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth.” However, in light of the cultural context, it can be inferred that the purpose of this teaching was not to incite revenge or escalate violence but rather to contradict the historical idea that “if you cut off my finger, I retaliate by cutting off your hand.” Therefore, the Catholic Church emphasizes the validity of the teaching of the New Testament and Jesus over those in the Old Testament. Jesus was a teacher of love, compassion and redemption. He emphasized that every person deserves an equal right to live. In fact, Jesus himself was a victim of the death penalty. By following Jesus’ teaching on mercy and compassion, the Catholic Church opposes the use of the death penalty …. I feel it is imperative to protect the least in our society, including convicts, in order to preserve the dignity of each human life. Katie Modesitt, Notre Dame High School, Belmont
By Vicki Evans Except for the younger students, this year’s essay contest participants took on perhaps the most nuanced of life issues: the death penalty. The church is unequivocal in her condemnation of abortion, euthanasia and the destruction of human embryos for research. But for Catholic teaching on capital punishment, we have to dig a little deeper into the Catechism of the Catholic Church and John Paul II’s Gospel of life. And that’s exactly what our students did to respond to this year’s essay questions: What exactly is the church’s position on the death penalty?
Winning essay excerpts
Three students from Megan Furth Catholic Academy were honored in the 2011 Respect Life essay contest. Pictured are Joseph Lofton, sixth grade, honorable mention for the fifth and sixth grades category; Isabel Escalante, first grade, first prize winner for San Francisco; and In’Spire Hodgson, fourth grade, grand prize winner for the archdiocese.
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More than 2,100 seniors graduating “E
ach of our Catholic high school graduates has spent the past four years preparing for adulthood and college,” said Maureen Huntington, superintendent of schools for the Archdiocese of San Francisco. “I want to extend sincere and hearty congratulations to all on a job well done! I wish the graduates and
their families a very blessed future with many successes along the way.” More than 2,100 seniors graduated from the 14 Catholic high schools in the archdiocese, with 99 percent of them going on to college and the remainder heading to the military or jobs in the marketplace.
ARCHBISHOP RIORDAN HIGH SCHOOL
MARIN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL
Archbishop Riordan High School presented diplomas to 108 seniors on May 28 at the school’s James Lindland Theatre. Patrick Daly, president, and Kevin Asbra, principal, handed out the diplomas. Valedictorian speaker was David Capistrano. Salutatorian was Student Body President Jordan Dougherty.
Marin Catholic High School presented diplomas to 174 seniors June 2 at Marin Center. Michael Costello, dean of studies, and Greg Kelly, assistant principal for curriculum and instruction, handed out diplomas. Speakers included Chris Valdez, principal; San Jose Auxiliary Bishop Thomas A. Daly, outgoing president; salutatorian, Rebecca Gerrity, and valedictorian, Jameson Haller.
Jameson Haller, Valedictorian
Rebecca Gerrity, Salutatorian
MERCY HIGH SCHOOL, BURLINGAME Samson Fong, Cameron Mau, David Capistrano, Alejandro Sanchez, valedictorians
CONVENT OF THE SACRED HEART HIGH SCHOOL
Mercy High School, Burlingame presented diplomas to 112 seniors June 5 at St. Ignatius Church in San Francisco. President Laura Held assisted by Jennifer Lambdin and Pat Bradley handed out the diplomas. Lisa Tortorich is principal.
Convent of the Sacred Heart High School presented diplomas to 52 seniors June 3 in San Francisco’s Flood Mansion. Joe Niehaus, president of the school’s Board of Trustees, and Gordon Sharafinski, director of schools, handed out diplomas. Mary Magnano Smith, former director of schools, offered a keynote address. A musical tribute was presented by Student Body President Elena Dudum and fellow graduate Katie Shulman. Andrea Shurley is head of school.
Kristy Harty-Connell, Valedictorian
Nora Wilkinson, Valedictorian
MERCY HIGH SCHOOL, SAN FRANCISCO
IMMACULATE CONCEPTION ACADEMY Immaculate Conception Academy presented diplomas to 54 seniors June 10, at St. Mary’s Cathedral. ICA President, Dominican Sister Mary Virginia Leach, and Principal Lisa Graham handed out diplomas. Jenny Novoa, a 1986 ICA alumna and now senior director of risk management for Gap, Inc., was keynote speaker. Through ICA’s Corporate Work Study Program, eight students currently work at the Gap.
Joanna Abot, Valedictorian
Cindy Santisteban, Salutatorian
Diplomas were presented to 226 Junipero Serra High School seniors May 28 at St. Mary’s Cathedral. Barry Thornton, principal, handed out the diplomas. Lars Lund is president.
Max Murphy, Valedictorian
Mercy High School, San Francisco presented diplomas to 126 seniors on May 28 at Holy Name of Jesus Church in San Francisco. Dorothy McCrea, principal, handed out diplomas. Father Gregory McGivern, a counselor at the school, addressed the assembly.
Cristina Quinonez, salutarian; Jessica Cuddihy, valedictorian, and Maria Azzolino, salutatorian
JUNIPERO SERRA HIGH SCHOOL
Derek Lee, Valedictorian
Lisa Tortorich, principal; Ripika Bedi, salutatorian; Toni Michelle Kwong, valedictorian; and Laura M. Held, school president
Spencer Hall, Valedictorian
NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL, BELMONT Rita Gleason, principal of Notre Dame High School in Belmont, presented diplomas to 132 seniors on June 1 at St. Pius Catholic Church in Redwood City.
Chantal Guegler, Valedictorian (left), Katharine Flaherty, Salutatorian
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Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory presented diplomas to 300 graduates May 21, at the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption in San Francisco. John F. Scudder Jr, school president, and Kenneth Hogarty, principal, presided.
Delaney Woo, Valedictorian
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St. Ignatius College Preparatory presented diplomas to 348 seniors June 4 at San Francisco’s St. Ignatius Church. Jesuit Father Robert T. Walsh, president, handed out diplomas. Patrick Ruff is principal.
Amy Ruth Lunde, Salutatorian
SACRED HEART SCHOOLS
Kathleen Christian, Valedictorian
Sacred Heart Schools presented diplomas to 132 seniors May 25 at the Atherton school. Director of Schools Richard A. Dioli, Board of Trustees Chair Anne Holloway, Sacred Heart Preparatory Principal James Everitt, Ed. D., Interim Dean of Students Isolina Martinez, Academic Dean Ken Thompson, and Associate Academic Dean Karen Filice presented diplomas.
Gianna Maceda, Valedictorian
Max Lelu, Salutatorian
STUART HALL HIGH SCHOOL Stuart Hall High School presented diplomas to 50 seniors on June 4 in the school’s courtyard on Pine and Octavia Streets in San Francisco. Joe Niehaus, president of the school’s Board of Trustees, and Gordon Sharafinski, director of schools, handed out diplomas. This year’s address was given by Shuja Khan, Stuart Hall admissions director. Student speaker was senior Patrick McCarville. Tony Farrell is head of school.
Rooney Pitchford, Salutatorian
Emmanuel Te, Valedictorian
SAN DOMENICO SCHOOL San Domenico School in San Anselmo presented diplomas to 27 seniors June 4 at Kesterson Field. Senior class moderator, Michael Sloan, Dean of Curriculum Tracey Kelp and Interim Division Head John Bowermaster handed out diplomas. Keynote speakers included Evangeline Crittenden, actress and writer, Tara Kelly, senior class president, and Elle Koagedal, student body president. David Behrs is head of school.
WOODSIDE PRIORY SCHOOL
Elle Koagedal, Student Body President
Corey Cheung, Student Graduation Speaker
Tara Kelly, Senior Class President
Theresa Ann Martin, Ignatian Award
Woodside Priory School will present diplomas to 67 seniors June 11 at the Priory campus. Head of School Tim Molak presents diplomas. Keynote speaker is Tina Seelig, Ph.D., executive director, Stanford Technology Ventures Program. Travis Johnson is St. Benedict Award-winner and Arturo Ferrari is salutatorian.
Elementary school teachers honored Congratulations to Theresa Poon, fifth grade teacher at Star of the Sea School in San Francisco a recipient of the The Herbst Foundation Award for Teacher Excellence. The honor was “in recognition of her dedication and commitment to the profession of teaching and who has inspired the joy of learning in her students,” the school said. Pictured are Theresa with her husband, Albert, and their children, Alyssa, seventh grade, Miles, third grade, and Mateo, first grade.
Yvonne Soracco, seen here with students from Sts. Peter and Paul School where she has taught for 29 years, has been recognized by the Herbst Foundation as a teacher of excellence. Yvonne is a 1976 graduate of Sts. Peter and Paul and her children have also attended the North Beach school.
Sascha Gurevitz, first grade teacher at Megan Furth Catholic Academy, receives Herbst Foundation Award for Teacher Excellence from foundation representative Melvyn Mark. Kathy Murray, a first grade teacher at St. Raphael School in San Rafael, was named a Teacher of the Year by the Mission San Rafael Rotary Club. Shown here congratulating Kathy is Carl Ilg. Also present was Father Paul Rossi, pastor of St. Raphael Church.
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Violent or nonviolent? After reading Father Ronald Rolheiser’s article (May 27) which states that God is nonviolent, I then saw an article on the facing page by Father William Nicholas, who wrote, “It is God who has set the standard for love by sacrificing his only son.” Is that not violence in the extreme? Can someone explain these seemingly contradictory viewpoints? B. C. Leon San Bruno
Holocaust clarifier I am very disappointed and saddened by media’s constant misinformation and negligence about the true nature of World War II concentration camps in Europe. The most recent happens to be in your May 20 edition (“On church altar, priest memorializes Shoah’s staggering evil,”) where you write about Belzec as one of the death camps in Poland without explaining that it was one of the German concentration camps in Nazi-occupied Poland. It really confuses impressionable and undereducated readers, leading them to believe that the Holocaust was executed by Poland rather than by Nazi Germany. Poland was the first country invaded by Germany, and the only country whose citizens suffered the death penalty for rescuing Jews, yet never surrendered during six years of German occupation, even though one-sixth of its population was killed in the war, approximately half of which was Christian, Ryszard Dziadur Daly City
Dialogue on women If the church’s argument against women priests is that Jesus only appointed male apostles, the church must be longing for the Dark Ages, when such an argument might have been accepted. According to this logic, American women shouldn’t be in politics because the Declaration of Independence was only signed by men. Women shouldn’t be doctors in any hospitals because the founding doctors of all our hospitals and medical schools were men. Does this make sense to any criticalthinking Catholics? That the church is now trying to get supporters of women priests to “recant” harks back to the sad days of Galileo. Does it always have to take the church such a very long time to catch up with the rest of the world? Instead of laicizing clergy who express their ideas, the church should be promoting and engaging in a dialogue with its members concerning women priests. Richard Morasci San Francisco Editor’s note: “Although the teaching that priestly ordination is to be reserved to men alone has been preserved by the constant and universal tradition of the church and firmly taught by the magisterium in its more recent documents, at the present time in some places it is nonetheless considered still open to debate, or the
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church’s judgment that women are not to be admitted to ordination is considered to have a merely disciplinary force,” Pope John Paul II wrote May 22, 1994, in “Ordinatio Sacerdotalis,” his apostolic letter to the bishops concerning the reserving of priestly ordination to men alone. “Wherefore, in order that all doubt may be removed regarding a matter of great importance, a matter which pertains to the church’s divine constitution itself, in virtue of my ministry of confirming the brethren (Luke 22:32) I declare that the church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women and that this judgment is to be definitively held by all the church’s faithful,” the pope concluded.
Re: Judge Walker Mr. Gibbons Cooney (Letters, May 20) took great umbrage at my claim that Judge Vaughn Walker’s suitability to rule on Proposition 8 is being challenged because he is gay. He asserts rather that, as a gay man in a long-term relationship, Judge Walker had (he is now retired) much to gain by the defeat of Prop. 8. For the sake of discussion, let us assume that Judge Walker is not in a relationship but, rather, unpartnered. Applying Mr. Cooney’s logic, Walker still should recuse himself because, if Prop. 8 is struck down, the judge — or any other unpartnered lesbian or gay man — could and would subsequently benefit from the decision. Will Mr. Cooney assert that same claim for any judges who could have a future interest in the results of a current matter before them for adjudication? That could be a very large number of judges covering a very wide range of issues. Recusal in all of these cases will result in judicial gridlock because of the very few “untainted” individuals left to rule. This is sort of “damned if you do and damned if you don’t,” don’t you think? Jim McCrea Piedmont
The pendulum swings I have just finished reading the May 20 issue containing news that gladdened the hearts of this family while confirming the old adage, “the pendulum swings.” It has indeed swung back. Latin is back and the Vatican has issued a new instruction insisting on generous approval by pastors for Tridentine Masses requested by parishioners. Also back are old-fashioned nuns as reported in Valerie Schmalz’s excellent article, “Oprah sisters (Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist) bound for Marin Catholic HS.” After many years of emptying convents and aging sisters in civilian clothes, these young sisters in their old-fashioned habits are ready and eager to participate in a revival of youth they call “springtime in the church.” The average age of the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist, is 28, and their order is one of the fastest growing, meaning that religious vocations are back as well. Can all this good news mean that novenas, meatless Fridays and lines at confessionals are not far behind? Bruce Levandoski Tiburon
Be fair to Boehner Unfortunately the term “Catholic scholars” is code in the modern media for secular-leaning liberals occupying chairs at Catholic institutions of higher learning. Catholic News Service is every
bit as susceptible to the practice as other news outlets. CNS should have, but did not, delve deeply into the “more than 70 Catholic scholars” critical of Catholic House Speaker John Boehner for allegedly departing from Catholic teaching in cutting federal spending for the needy (“House speaker challenged to uphold church’s teaching on the poor,” May 20). While one assumes all “scholars” spoke sincerely, their collective challenge to Boehner’s Catholic values in fulfilling his speaker duties should have been a red flag for the critically thinking “Catholic” journalist to view the letter as emanating from the usual suspects. The Cardinal Newman Society has been reporting on “Catholic scholars” compromising the faith for years, but we’ll leave that debate aside. Most fundamentally, the scholars, in taking on Speaker Boehner and the overwhelming will of the American people demonstrated at the polls, imply, wrongly, that society’s moral duty to aid the needy rests exclusively in the federal government. No tenet of Catholicism suggests the Washington-based “Caesar” is the sole, or even the preferred agent, to render to the poor the safety net which our faith commands. While the scholars, as citizens, are entitled to express their opinions whatever the merit, their criticism of Speaker Boehner on religious grounds smacks of hypocrisy. The CNS article outlined what the professors considered Boehner’s, and obviously the entire body of House Republicans’, disregard of the “protections for the most vulnerable members of society.” One can be fairly certain none of the 70 Catholic scholars cited by CNS as critical of Boehner were similarly focusing on the “most vulnerable” members of society in 2009. That was when the coterie heralded the new president’s Notre Dame invitation, and acclaiming and honoring the former Illinois state senator who had earlier voted “present” when life-giving medical treatment for Speaker John the “most vulnerBoehner able” was directly on the line. But John Boehner, though he is pro-life and does not consider this basic value “above his pay grade,” doesn’t fit the socially liberal mold preferred by the “Catholic scholars.” National bankruptcy apparently does. Donald J. Farber San Rafael
and publisher on posting George Weigel’s column. I am very thankful for the insights of the writers of Catholic San Francisco — George Weigel’s “Catholic Difference” column, Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser’s “Spirituality for Life” — who help me in discerning to live true to my vocation/ profession in imitation to the life of Our Lord Jesus Christ, the way, the truth, the life in his true Catholic apostolic church. Rose M. Jardin San Bruno
CSF, not GOP I gave up writing editors letters for Lent. This proved beneficial because the sacrifice checked my arrogance a bit, thus putting me more in line with what is meant by “poor in spirit.” Nevertheless, I will fall off the wagon and reply to the May 27 letter from Joseph C. Barbaccia, M.D., who wondered if Catholic San Francisco was a “RepublicanCatholic medium?” The target of his anger was columnist George Weigel. I think he missed the bull’s-eye by attacking CSF. Guilt by association seems to be a wellsharpened tactic in some Bay Area circles, a dangerous form of neo-McCarthyism that should be resisted. I feel that Catholic San Francisco has tried to be wellbalanced, particularly when compared to the commercial news media. For example, the same edition in which Barbaccia’s missive appeared carried guest commentaries against the use of torture and the “military-industrial complex,” which seems right out of the Democrats’ playbook. Also, if CSF was a Republican conduit it would not have printed the doctor’s letter James O. Clifford, Sr. Redwood City The writer is a member of the Catholic San Francisco advisory board.
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Do not stifle Weigel Dr. Barbaccia has written a lengthy and thoughtful letter in the May 20 issue. He seems to — no, actually — derides the newspaper for being biased by printing Mr. Wiegel’s columns. It astounds me that the doctor asks the editors to essentially stop printing Mr. Wiegel’s columns. Mr. Weigel is painted as a Republican. Perhaps, but perhaps not. I would venture to say that Mr. Weigel is a conservative in theology, in social justice and in politics. The doctor’s wish to stifle — no, silence – his views in our newspaper simply affirms the left’s intolerance to other points of view. Shame on you, doctor. Shame, shame, shame. Bill Colucci San Francisco
Appreciates CSF writers Re: “Republican-Catholic paper?” (Letters, May 20) and “Catholic social thought and 2012,” (The Catholic Difference, George Weigel, May 13). As the name implies, Catholic San Francisco is a Catholic, nonpartisan, nondiscrimatory newspaper featuring local and world news. I commend the editor
Why Weigel? In the columns written by George Weigel over the past few months, a definite pattern is noticeable. George is negative about unions, about Caritas Internationalis and about the way the government spends his money for help to seniors and the poor. At no time does he offer a solution to the problems that each of these is trying to address, only negative comments because they are misusing his money. (At no time does he criticize the financial inequalities and abuse of power by those with money.) The one time he’s happy with the government is when they spend money to create a school that gives students horses and teaches Latin (Weigel column, “Aquinas and horses,” May 20, on Wyoming Catholic College). Helping the poor is bad; creating colleges which graduate students with elitist attitudes is good. Can someone please explain to me why this man is being featured in a Catholic newspaper? Denis Nolan Daly City
Room for both I write in response to Dr. Joseph C. Barbaccia’s attack on George Weigel. The doctor appears to attack the columnist’s Catholicism. Not many years ago, Mr. Weigel published an acclaimed and admiring biography of Blessed Pope John Paul II. His political views are certainly open to criticism (I disagree with many of them myself), but an ad hominem attack on his faith is uncalled for, and uncharitable to say the least. We are, after all, the Catholic (i.e., the “universal”) Church. Invoking Catholicism, James Joyce quoted the title of the Irish ballad, “Here Comes Everybody!” There is certainly room in our great faith for both liberals and conservatives. Paul Brown San Francisco LETTERS, page 15
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Circumcision’s history This circumcision initiative (“Archbishop calls circumcision ban “misguided,” news story, May 27) would force Catholic hospitals to come into compliance with not only New Testament teaching on circumcision, but also Catholic Catechism teaching No. 2297 on “Respect for bodily integrity.” No. 2297 teaches that nontherapeutic amputations violate the moral law. Ritual circumcision from the time of Abraham until the second century after Christ removed only the tip of the foreskin extending beyond the glans. The Pharisees changed circumcision to removal of the entire foreskin. This more harmful type of circumcision is what children are forced to endure today in medical and religious settings. Many view circumcision as sexual abuse. No parent or religion has the right to harm a child, sexually or otherwise. I had hoped Catholic clergy knew this. Muslims can’t circumcise their daughters here for religious reasons. Male children deserve the same legal protections as females. Petrina Fadel Groton, N.Y.
American holocaust In the May 20 front page article, “On church altar, priest memorializes Shoah’s ‘staggering’ evil,” there is a statement by Father Xavier Lavagetto, OP, regarding the genocide of Jews during the Second World War: 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 immigrants.” It is important that we recognize that there is another group that we consider as “other” and allow to be marginalized, and killed. This group is the unborn. In California since 1967, and since 1973 in this country, we have legally exterminated more than 50 million of God’s pre-born children, and the rate continues at close to 4,000 per day. These are “other” children of God. This is the unequivocal teaching of the Catholic Church. I hope that Father Lavagetto will have a memorial on the purgatory side altar at St. Dominic Church for the more than 50 million victims of this past and still ongoing “American holocaust.” Laurette Elsberry Sacramento Editor’s note: St. Dominic Parish commemorates issues of the times on its purgatory altar on a rotating basis. An end to abortion has previously been among intentions prayed for and will be again, the parish told Catholic San Francisco.
Hearing the Spirit The tragedy of the 47 percent drop in Roman Catholic sacramental marriages in the archdiocese over the last 20 years (“Huge decline’ in Catholic weddings,” May 27) is that these couples are less likely to experience the immense benefits to the growth and enrichment of their marriage that are gained through the church’s weekly liturgical life. Perhaps Father Pacholczyk’s article (“NFP and the telos of sex,” May 27) provides a partial explanation for the reduction in Catholic weddings. By identifying possible conception and sexual intercourse, he represents the ordained celibate male ministry — the hierarchical 1 percent of the people of God who are not hearing the Spirit on the complex and amazing fecundity of marriage. Perhaps the 68 percent of sexually active Roman Catholic women who benefit from artificial contraception are hearing the Spirit. This is a situation (along with so many others in our day), when the faithful Roman Catholic might ask, “Is the church the hierarchy or the people of God?” Michael C. Busk San Francisco
Teachers’ conundrum Two articles in the May 27 issue illustrate the conundrum facing any mod-
ernization in the church today. The first, by Father Tad Pacholczyk is a clear-cut statement of the present position of the church on the issue of artificial vs. natural family planning. What it neglects is the clear position of the papal commission informing Pope Paul VI that his position on birth control, and the premise behind it, was theologically indefensible. The second article, by the Australian Peter Rosengren (Guest Commentary, “A bishop who finally had to go,” illustrates what happens when a person designated as a “teacher for the church” truly presents a controversial belief. (Toowoomba, Australia) Bishop William Morris was, of course, in error in writing a pastoral letter in which he supports a position presently contrary to church teaching. He was in error because in his position as a teacher for the church he is expected to teach only church doctrine. The conundrum is that top professionals with the most credibility are designated as church teachers, and are henceforward muzzled in regard to anything new — even if that new principle will someday become church teaching. History is replete with instances of changes in what the church teaches as doctrine as the institution became better informed by inspired theological thinkers responding to issues presented by developing culture. Yet today, as in the past, we see the church muzzling sincere attempts of professional religious teachers to illuminate new approaches to critical new issues, like the priest shortage and the AIDS epidemic, that are faithful to the promptings of the Holy Spirit. Bishop Morris was one such teacher but there are many other bishops, as well as professional theologians such as Sister Elizabeth Johnson, Father Richard McBrien and university lay teachers, who are open to new ways of dealing with modern moral issues but are intimidated from speaking out to the laity. The institutional attitude seems to be “creeping infallibility,” i.e., demanding the “assent of faith” to everything the magisterium teaches, even when not defined as infallible. The tension is that care must be taken about the forum in which new concepts are presented. A pastoral letter is too brief an introduction to new thinking unless there is sufficient opportunity to process it carefully and with guidance. Also it must be made quite clear that what is proposed is not church doctrine but the kind of theological opinion that may eventually and legitimately change church doctrine. Adult religious education is unfortunately rare and brief, so adult faith without understanding does not translate into prophetic action and necessary reform. As with the prophets of old, there would be discomfort at high levels when current dogma is publicly analyzed with clarity and opened to question by tools already in the hands of top professionals. But the credibility of the institutional church will grow if it encourages rather than inhibits the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. Advantage flowing from a prophetic understanding is that no one would mistake his (or her) statements as teaching, at least until the actual teaching would evolve. Opportunity for that change is the hope of others who also see the same sign of the times. Peggy Saunders San Carlos
Bride’s gown wrong I thought it unfortunate that the bride wore a strapless, low-cut gown (CNS photo with USCCB article, “Marriage: What Catholics believe,” May 27). It must have been embarrassing for the priest witnessing their marriage. Following up on the article I would suggest the magazine Marriage to develop communication skills. Betty Dy San Francisco
Wealth not the issue “Misguided affront to freedom” — that would be the effect of the redistribution implied by “Republic of plutocracy” (For the
Journey, Effie Caldarola, May 27.) The writer spells out a seemingly undesirable concentration of wealth in our nation. No suggestion to correct this condition is advanced, but the implication is that there should be forced redistribution to correct the imbalance. The line between “riches beyond the dreams of avarice” and the rest of us is not rigid but ever-changing. The Gates, the Googles and the Zuckerbergs are recent arrivals, and there are thousands in their train. This new wealth fertilizes the crop of new enterprises growing in the furrows. By serving the desires and needs of billions they are creating income opportunities for additional billions. We should encourage the success of these leading the field, knowing that their success will benefit all with opportunity. To suggest that the imbalance in income should be rectified by redistribution would be an affront to the freedom of all and should be resisted. Ron Gillis Larkspur
Weigel right on debt Re: Mr. Mike Burns’ letter (May 27) critical of George Weigel. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office reports that Social Security will effectively run a $45 billion deficit in 2011, and continue to run deficits totaling $547 billion over the coming decade. Hmmm. This must be Mike Burns’ “right-wing fear talk” that he speaks of in criticizing Mr. Weigel. As more of us older folk retire to Social Security, we have fewer people contributing. A homework question for Mr. Burns: If there are fewer people contributing to the pie, and more taking of the pie; how long will it be before there is no pie left? Please, Mr. Burns, if you want to help the poor and working class families, you might want to write a letter to your representative and senators, all Democrats, and ask them why they voted down a proposed oil pipeline from Canada. This pipeline would have brought down needed energy and lowered the budget-busting gas prices that the poor and working class families are struggling with, and created thousands of jobs. Could we not employ thousands upon thousands of unemployed working class Americans by drilling for our own oil, and make these unemployed Americans into taxpaying Americans, giving them dignity by having a job, instead of being at the trough of this government by default, with say, less dignity? As homework goes; Mr. Weigel gets an A+, and you Mr. Burns ... Please, no more left wing “fear talk.” Philip Feiner San Carlos
Reprimanded A sharp rap on the knuckles with a wooden ruler! In your May 20 edition, (“‘Oprah sisters’ bound for Marin Catholic HS”) neither Catholic San Francisco nor Marin Catholic President Tim Navone did their history homework. When Marin Catholic opened in 1949, the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary sisters closed St. Anselm High School in San Anselmo and moved down the road to the new Catholic high school. When I attended, the nuns taught the girls and diocesan priests taught the boys – with a courtyard to separate us! The Holy Names sisters taught at Marin Catholic until 1972 and perhaps beyond in special ministry until the 1980s. Then, Dominican and Holy Spirit nuns were on campus for special ministry contracts. Dominican sisters from San Rafael and San Jose may have
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taught as noted in the article, but they were not the first nuns there. Helen Sitchler Class of 1955 San Rafael
Sisters’ MC history The May 20 article, “‘Oprah sisters’” bound for Marin Catholic HS, mentioned the history of the Dominican sisters at Marin Catholic: “The Dominican sisters have a rich tradition of educational excellence since the 13th century,” said (Marin Catholic President Tim) 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. Interestingly, though, it was the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary who started Marin Catholic in 1949 and taught there for many years. Although the point of the article was the current presence of the Dominican sisters, perhaps the information about the Holy Names Sisters and the school’s founding can be added to your files on Marin Catholic. Deb Shannon Communications Director Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary U.S.-Ontario Province Marylhurst, Ore.
Abuse report lacking I read the front page article about the report on the sex abuse scandal in the May 27 issue (“Opportunism, poor formation, ’60s culture fueled abuse, study says.”) My jaw dropped when I read the statement that “inability to manage the discipline of celibacy” was not a contributing factor. Did the Mad Hatter take a break from Wonderland to help the “learned” group write the report? Sad to say, sometimes smart people can be really stupid. Dave Dion San Francisco
‘Shocking complicity’ The John Jay College report on sexual abuse, as described in your May 27 issue, is apparently more concerned with defending the celibacy rule of the priesthood and with parsing the clinical definition of pedophilia, than it is with the shocking and inexcusable complicity and negligence of bishops and other church officials who, for decades before and after the abuse became publicized, deliberately shuffled credibly accused priests. One wonders how many good, honest priests may have left the priesthood over all those years because they could not abide this hypocrisy in their midst. Trust in the integrity of our leadership will never be restored while compliance with the new norms to report abuse cases and deal with abusers is deemed to be voluntary. This report will not be the “last word” on the problem of sexual abuse in the church. Rosemary K. Ring Kentfield
Thanks for Rolheiser Today I received the May 27 Catholic San Francisco. On the first page you put an index, and Father Rolheiser is on it. Thank you. His column is the one article I always read, and I really miss it when it is missing. Having it listed in the index helps very much. Costanza Foran San Francisco
Fatima correction Oops! Homer nodded as I prepared the article about Our Lady of Fatima that appeared in the May 13 issue. I’m glad reader Charlene Schmitz caught my error (Letters, May 27). I did identify the visionary children incorrectly, even though I clearly knew about them after reading extensively about them. Homer nodded as I typed, and again as I was proofreading. Haste makes waste. Please excuse this unintentional error. Brother John Samaha, SM Cupertino
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A READING FROM THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES ACTS 2:1-11 When the time for Pentecost was fulfilled, they were all in one place together. And suddenly there came from the sky a noise like a strong driving wind, and it filled the entire house in which they were. Then there appeared to them tongues as of fire, which parted and came to rest on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in different tongues, as the Spirit enabled them to proclaim. Now there were devout Jews from every nation under heaven staying in Jerusalem. At this sound, they gathered in a large crowd, but they were confused because each one heard them speaking in his own language. They were astounded, and in amazement they asked, “Are not all these people who are speaking Galileans? Then how does each of us hear them in his native language? We are Parthians, Medes, and Elamites, inhabitants of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the districts of Libya near Cyrene, as well as travelers from Rome, both Jews and converts to Judaism, Cretans and Arabs, “And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit.’” — John 20 One of the things I like to do at my school is coach. Actually, “coach” may be a bit strong. Rather, I show up at the scheduled game and practice times and try to manage the chaos. My fervent hope at the end of each day is that everybody’s smiling and nobody’s gotten hurt. Bruce Bochy and Bill Walsh, I’m not. I work, though, with a fellow who is an absolutely fabulous coach. His players have fun, learn a lot and win most of their games. They would literally run through walls for him. What I really love watching is how he works with his players. He treats them all as individuals, maximizing their strengths, working on their weaknesses. During a single practice, he may be a quiet teacher, a firm disciplinarian, a shoulder to cry on. He’s always there for his players, in exactly the way they need him. Because he’s been their coach, they become better players; more important, they often become better people. I thought of him as I looked at the readings for Pentecost and the various ways in which the Holy Spirit enters the lives of the apostles. At different times, the Holy Spirit comes as tongues of fire, a strong driving wind and through the gentle breath of Jesus. These are utterly different descriptions. Yet, like my friend the coach, the Spirit in each instance touches the apostles in exactly the way they need, just when they need it. The Spirit acts with power and force, giving the virtues of courage and strength. He enters quietly, bringing to bear his calming presence. Each time,
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Pentecost Sunday Acts 2:1-11, Psalm 104:1, 24, 29-30, 31, 34, 1 Corinthians 12:3b-7, 12-13; John 20:19-23 yet we hear them speaking in our own tongues of the mighty acts of God.” RESPONSORIAL PSALM PS 104:1, 24, 29-30, 31, 34 R. Lord, send out your Spirit, and renew the face of the earth. Bless the Lord, O my soul! O Lord, my God, you are great indeed! How manifold are your works, O Lord! the earth is full of your creatures; R. Lord, send out your Spirit, and renew the face of the earth. May the glory of the Lord endure forever; may the Lord be glad in his works! Pleasing to him be
my theme; I will be glad in the Lord. R. Lord, send out your Spirit, and renew the face of the earth. If you take away their breath, they perishand return to their dust. When you send forth your spirit, they are created, and you renew the face of the earth. R. Lord, send out your Spirit, and renew the face of the earth. A READING FROM THE FIRST LETTER OF PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS 1 COR 12:3B-7, 12-13 Brothers and sisters: No one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit. There are
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The promise of Pentecost we see the same Spirit that’s present today, changing lives, forming community, bringing peace to the earth.
of God that we so need at that moment. Perhaps some young parents have been overextended and their nerves are a bit frayed.
Our challenge: To recognize that the Holy Spirit is always with us, and to then live our lives with the peace and courage that knowledge gives us. We turn to God for many reasons. Yet we see this week that no matter the reason, the Holy Spirit will be there, ready to make a difference. The face that the Holy Spirit will show to us each time will be the face
They would do anything if they could just take a nap or have a quiet cup of coffee. In that instant, the Holy Spirit might appear as a calming word from Scripture, a couple minutes of blessed silence, or even better, an understand-
different kinds of spiritual gifts but the same Spirit; there are different forms of service but the same Lord; there are different workings but the same God who produces all of them in everyone. To each individual the manifestation of the Spirit is given for some benefit. As a body is one though it has many parts, and all the parts of the body, though many, are one body, so also Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, slaves or free persons, and we were all given to drink of one Spirit. A READING FROM THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JOHN JN 20:19-23 On the evening of that first day of the week, when the doors were locked, where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst and said to them, “Peace be with you.” When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.” And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. Whose sins you forgive are forgiven them, and whose sins you retain are retained.” ing grandparent. That’s God, that’s the Holy Spirit, working and present in our lives, entering the world like the peaceful breath of Jesus. At other times, the Holy Spirit might be much more forceful and directed. Maybe we witness an injustice. We might want nothing more than to just close our eyes and hope it all goes away. Yet in this case, the Holy Spirit won’t let us rest, but instead will give us the courage and strength to go into action. We’ll be amazed at what we’re able to do, the difference we’re able to make. That’s also God, that’s also the Holy Spirit, working and present in our lives, entering the world like a strong and driving wind. Our challenge this week is twofold: To recognize that the Holy Spirit is always with us, and to then live our lives with the peace and courage that knowledge gives us. Knowing we are not alone, we can be confident he will give us the necessary graces to be good, holy, and loving people. At very different places and very different times in our lives, we may need the Spirit in very different ways. But he will be there, just when we need Him, exactly how we need him. Pentecost promises us that. Reflection questions: How do we need the Holy Spirit at this moment in our lives? Are we open to recognizing the Spirit making a difference in our lives? Mike Murphy is a permanent deacon serving at St. Charles Parish in San Carlos. He teaches religion at Sacred Heart Schools, Atherton.
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Ocean waters, streams of faith A prayer is not like a recipe. You cannot memorize it and then do it with your eyes closed (although I highly recommend keeping your eyes open while working in the kitchen, but that is another topic). What I’m trying to say is that we should not mumble and recite prayers by rote; they are supposed to be expressions of love and thanks from us to God. And in the process, they are supposed to leave us open to him. I think prayers are “minifires in the soul” because they generate new heat and new light as they keep burning, even if they do go through their own cycles of being active or dormant. Nevertheless, I am always thankful when I get to experience a little “enlightenment fire” myself. And today, it just happened during the morning prayer of the Liturgy of the Hours: Whoever thirsts will drink freely of life giving water. Worship the Lord who made the heavens and the earth, springs of water and the mighty sea. The saints will rejoice in glory, alleluia. I suddenly saw the link between the waters of the oceans and the streams of faith. First, there is the statement about the new life in Christ for every Christian
(the living waters), then the statement about God’s creation (the ocean), and finally holiness and joy (which is both the goal and the way). I love the combination of the very physical quality of the ocean. It is bigger than we are; it is larger than what we can see, which is obvious when I am standing on Ocean Beach watching the sun descend slowly into the Pacific Ocean. Then there are the living waters of faith, this enormous stream circling the globe and carrying the whole human race and it is of an entirely different nature although it is just as real. It is the world of love and forgiveness, of faith and hope, of philosophical reflections bringing human thoughts to a better point for the common good. It is easy to understand that it is bigger than we are, but what is more of a challenge is to admit that it is just as real as the visible world. And then, finally, the saints — the martyrs especially — are here to teach us about the paradoxical values of giving up your life to find it, of accepting pain and death to enter into joy and glory. They teach us that, from their own burst of self-sacrifice, there will be from now on a constant fire of prayers and praise at the mention of their names,
a loving chain of intercession and encouragement, spreading charity and faith. Today, I saw clearly the link between the waters of the oceans and Michele the waters of faith. I am sure it is thanks to the Szekely Holy Spirit because I have said these prayers for years and it had not struck me yet as it did today. This is how I explain it: I think that tiny angels of the Lord will go into our brains (once in a while) and activate some particular synapses to help us make the connection for whatever is needed, for us, for that day. Well, that is how I see it. It is both a reasonable explanation and a poetic one. So be it! Thank God for the gift of prayers and for their minifires in our souls. Michele Szekely is a member of Notre Dame des Victoires Parish in San Francisco.
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Leadership gap on immigration reform By Archbishop Thomas Wenski As Washington fiddles on immigration, the rest of the nation burns. State and local law enforcement are now being charged with immigration enforcement responsibilities, leading in some jurisdictions to roundups and racial profiling. Legal immigrants and U.S. citizens have been caught in the dragnet. States are also attempting to pass immigration laws that are inherently unconstitutional — creating conflict with the federal government and sapping political energy better used on a federal bill. The lack of immigration policy on the federal level has led to a de facto abdication to state and local governments, which are ill-equipped to handle it effectively or humanely. Now, immigration is being carried out by hundreds of governments, not just one. What are the human costs of this federal inaction? Immigrant families — many with U.S.-citizen children — are being separated; the effective working relationships and trust that once existed between immigrant neighborhoods and local law enforcement have been seriously eroded. Should federal reform be shelved indefinitely and state and local enforcement continue unchecked, the nation’s social fabric will begin to tear — to the detriment of all Americans.
The Obama administration and Congress would be wise to avoid such a legacy and forge an immigration compromise. To his credit, President Barack Obama’s recent speech in El Paso, Texas, was an attempt to show leadership and generate some political momentum for immigration reform. He will need more than a speech or two, however, to show Capitol Hill, as well as supporters of immigration reform, that he is prepared and willing to spend political capital on this. Over the next few months, he may have that opportunity. The House will very likely pass a series of immigration enforcement measures — most notably a mandatory expansion of the employment verification system. To show he is serious about immigration reform — and not merely using it for political purposes — the president needs to draw a line in the sand: no new enforcement initiatives without broader reforms. A recent White House blueprint for immigration reform says that any mandatory expansion of an e-verify system “must be accompanied by a legalization program that allows undocumented workers to get right by the law.” This language is encouraging. But the president and his administration now must put words into action — by actively opposing immigration enforcement legislation that does not address the underlying problems of our broken immigration system.
Hopefully, presidential leadership, combined with leadership in Congress, would bring both sides together to negotiate a package that balances enforcement with reforms in the legal immigration system. This must include a legalization program for undocumented immigrants. Otherwise, a permanent underclass is likely to remain in our country’s shadows, working in an underground economy and unable to fully contribute to its communities. The chaos that is now our national immigration policy is then only likely to worsen, making the American public more frustrated and dividing more U.S. families. Part of our elected officials’ responsibility is to educate their constituents and to lead — even if that means risking the loss of potential political support, at least in the short term. This statesmanship has helped our country tackle difficult issues at important moments in our history. On immigration, that trait is severely lacking. Let us hope that the president’s renewed focus on the issue is a sign that our national leadership is awakening to its responsibilities. Thomas Wenski is archbishop of Miami and a member of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Migration. Used with permission of the Archdiocese of Miami.
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End-of-life decisions By Vicki Evans Of all pro-life issues, end-of-life decisions are perhaps the most universal and the most challenging. Not everyone will be forced to make a life-or-death abortion choice, nor will we all come face to face with a decision about the future of an IVF embryo. But no one can cheat death. This leaves us wide open to the necessity of making end-of-life judgments for ourselves and our loved ones. The stakes are high — life, death, the fate of our immortal soul. The problem is not lack of clear and consistent Catholic teachings on death and dying. Euthanasia is defined in “Evangelium Vitae” as “an act or omission which of itself or by intention causes death, with the purpose of eliminating all suffering.” An Advance Health Care Directive developed by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and available on our website at www.sflifeandjustice.org/end_of_life_issues, summarizes fundamental Catholic principles: Euthanasia is not permitted. Medicating to control pain is not euthanasia since the objective is not death but rather to alleviate severe pain. We do not have an obligation to pursue or continue a life-sustaining treatment if its risks or burdens to the patient are disproportionate to its expected benefits. Failure to provide a patient with nutrition and hydration, for the purpose of ending his or her life or accelerating death, constitutes euthanasia. The devil, as they say, is in the details where abstract
concepts meet real-life situations. Medical professionals may or may not have knowledge of Catholic teachings and may or may not agree with them if they do. Hospital ethics committees may not share our particular set of ethics. Health care institutions with limited resources, dealing with medical insurance companies imposing financial limitations, may not let the family make final decisions regarding the course of treatment, its continuation or withdrawal. Even priests providing pastoral care and counseling may not feel well enough equipped to apply Catholic principles to the complexities of rapidly evolving medical situations. Often family members disagree on the best course of action for a loved one. These are real-world problems and every set of facts is different. An especially important piece of the puzzle is the appointment of a suitable health care proxy, a person empowered to make medical decisions for you in the event you can’t. This should be someone who understands your values and your wishes. Without a health care proxy and in the absence of family consensus on treatment, there are objective factors that can be considered in weighing who should have this role. Who knows the patient best and has been nearest, perhaps as a confidant or a caretaker? Are there financial or emotional conflicts of interest between the patient and family members? It’s helpful to understand not only what the church teaches but why. First, death is neither to be feared and avoided at all costs, nor sought and directly procured. Suffering has redemp-
tive value. This is something we, as Catholics, believe because we are witnesses to the passion and death of Jesus Christ. Using death as the means to escape pain and suffering is based in a false theology rooted in a false understanding of church teaching about death and life after death. It is rooted in the rejection of a possibility of suffering after death, resulting in the false belief that death is relief from all suffering. The church has stood firm against legislative efforts to legalize assisted suicide because it can never be seen as a legitimate form of “care.” Euthanasia in all its disguises attacks the person and fails to address the real issues, which are protecting the person from pain and providing for their dignity. In the final analysis intent is the defining factor. If our intent is the elimination of the patient to eliminate all suffering — for the sake of the patient, the family, the medical community, society at large — we cross the line into euthanasia. Vicki Evans is coordinator of the Respect Life Office for the Archdiocese of San Francisco. “End-of-Life Decisions” is the topic of this year’s Annual Archdiocesan Respect Life Conference, scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 10, 2011, at St. Mary’s Cathedral, St. Francis Hall. For information call Vicki Evans at (415) 614-5533.
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Blessed Pope John XXIII’s encyclical turns 50 By Tony Magliano One of the most relevant and challenging papal documents in modern history — written by one of the most relevant and challenging popes in modern history — recently celebrated its golden anniversary. The encyclical letter “Mater et Magistra” (“Mother and Teacher,” on Christianity and social progress) was written by Blessed Pope John XXIII at the beginning of the turbulent 1960s. The Cold War was hot. And countless poor in the United States and throughout the world were being ignored. Into this arena stepped “Good Pope John,” who was considered by many to be a grandfatherly figure who would not rock the boat. Wrong! Blessed John was prophetic and courageous. He challenged the economic status quo. He condemned the severe gap between the rich and poor. He rocked the boat. Coming in between his announcement that he was going to convene the 21st ecumenical council (the Second Vatican Council) and the writing of his other groundbreaking encyclical “Peace on Earth” (“Pacem in Terris”), “Mater et Magistra” was and continues to be a very relevant masterpiece of Catholic social teaching. In fact, its wisdom is needed more now than ever.
Today, the income gap between the rich and the poor is even greater than it was 50 years ago when the encyclical was written. According to Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel laureate in economics, the richest 1 percent of Americans control 40 percent of the nation’s wealth. And nearly a quarter of the country’s income goes to the richest 1 percent every year. In addition to that unjust fact of economic life, the tea party, neoconservatives and “free market” proponents heartlessly push for policies and budgets that greatly reduce government’s economic role in helping the poor and middle class. They also insist on huge tax cuts for the wealthy and an astronomical military budget. Well, that’s not what Blessed John taught in “Mater et Magistra.” He wrote: “Necessity and justice require that wealth produced be distributed equitably among all citizens of the commonwealth.” Deeply concerned about the economic imbalances of his day, he insisted that government do more, not less, in correcting these imbalances. He stated: “Consequently, it is requested again and again of public authorities responsible for the common good that they intervene in a wide variety of economic affairs and that in a more extensive and organized way than heretofore they adapt institutions, tasks, means and procedures to this end.”
Regarding government’s essential role in meeting the needs of those in rural areas, he said: “It is necessary that everyone, and especially public authorities, strive to effect improvements in rural areas. ... For example: highway construction, marketing facilities, pure drinking water, housing medical services.” On the international level, Good Pope John asserted that “we all share responsibility for the fact that populations are undernourished.” But without extensive government involvement, populations will continue to be undernourished. And yet, according to Bread for the World, the U.S. gave just 0.6 percent of its federal budget in fiscal year 2010 to global poverty-focused assistance. Here Blessed John insisted that “nations that enjoy a sufficiency and abundance of everything may not overlook the plight of other nations whose citizens ... are all but overcome by poverty and hunger.” Blessed John’s “Mater et Magistra” sets the social justice bar quite high. Will we strive to jump over it? Or just continue to lower it? Tony Magliano writes a column on social justice issues for Catholic News Service.
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Spirituality for Life
Simplifying our spiritual vocabulary Somewhere near his 75th birthday, Morris West wrote a series of autobiographical essays titled, “A View from the Ridge.” In the prologue of that book he suggests that at age 75 you need to have only one word left in your spiritual vocabulary, gratitude, and that maturity is attained precisely at that moment when gratitude begins to drown out and cauterize the hurts in your life. As he describes it: Life has served me as it serves everyone, sometimes well and sometimes ill, but I have learned to be grateful for the gifts of it, for the love that began it and the other loves with which I have been so richly endowed. I agree with West, though it necessary to add that the fruit of that maturity is forgiveness. Just as smoke follows fire, forgiveness follows gratitude. Gratitude ultimately undergirds and fuels all genuine virtue, is the real basis of holiness, and the source of love itself. And its major fruit is forgiveness. When we are grateful we more easily find the strength to forgive. Moreover, just as gratitude undergirds genuine virtue, forgiveness undergirds genuine religion and morality. Thus, as we get older, we can trim our spiritual vocabulary down to three words: Forgive, forgive, forgive! To age into and then die with a forgiving heart is the ultimate moral and religious imperative. We shouldn’t delude ourselves on this. All the dogmatic and moral purity in the world does little for us if our hearts are bitter and incapable of forgiveness. We see this, for instance, in the sad figure of the older brother of the prodigal son. He stands before his father protesting that he has never wandered, never been unfaithful, and that he has stayed home and done the family’s work. But, and this is the issue, he stands outside the father’s house, unable to enter into joy, celebration, the banquet, the dance. He’s done everything
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right, but a bitter heart prevents him from entering the father’s house just as much as the lustful wanderings of his younger brother took him out of that same house. Religious and moral fidelity, when not rooted inside of gratitude and forgiveness, are far from enough. They can leave us just as much outside the father’s house as sin and infidelity. As Jesus teaches forcefully in the Lord’s Prayer, a non-negotiable condition for going to heaven is forgiveness, especially our forgiving those who have hurt us. But the struggle to forgive others is not easy and may never be trivialized or preached lightly. The struggle to forgive, I suspect, is our greatest psychological, moral, and religious struggle. It’s not easy to forgive. Most everything inside of us protests. When we have been wronged, when we have suffered an injustice, when someone or something has treated us unfairly, a thousand physical and psychological mechanisms inside of us begin to clam-up, shutdown, freeze-over, self-protect, and scream out in protest, anger and rage. Forgiveness is not something we can simply will and make happen. The heart, as Pascal once said, has its reasons. It also has its rhythms, its paranoia, its cold bitter spots, and its need to seal itself off from whatever has wounded it. Moreover, all of us have been wounded. No one comes to adulthood with his or her heart fully intact. In ways small or traumatic, we have all been treated unjustly, violated, hurt, ignored, not properly honored, and unfairly cast aside. We all carry wounds and, with those wounds, we all carry some angers, some bitterness, and some areas within which we have not forgiven. The strength of Henri Nouwen’s greatest book, “The Return of the Prodigal Son,” was precisely to point out both the hidden cold places in our hearts and the mammoth struggle needed to bring warmth and forgiveness to those places. So much of
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the lightness or heaviness in our hearts, most every nuance of our mood, is unconsciously dictated by either the forgiveness or the non-forgiveness inside us. Forgiveness is the deep secret to joy. It is also the Father Ronald ultimate imperative. Andrew Greeley, writRolheiser ing a review of Frank McCourt’s book, “Angela’s Ashes,” praised McCourt for being brilliant but challenged him for being unforgiving with words to this effect: Granted, your life has been unfair. Your father was an alcoholic, your mother didn’t protect you from the effects of that, you grew up in dire poverty, and you suffered a series of mini-injustices under the Irish social services, the Irish church, the Irish educational system and the Irish weather! So, let me give you some advice: Before you die, forgive! Forgive your father for being an alcoholic, forgive your mother for not protecting you, forgive the church for whatever ways it failed you, forgive Ireland for the poverty, rain and bad teachers it inflicted on you. Forgive yourself for the failures of your own life, and then forgive God because life isn’t fair ... so that you don’t die an angry and bitter man, because that’s really the ultimate moral imperative. How true and how challenging!
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Abuse survivors . . ■ Continued from cover of English-speaking countries — such as the United States, Ireland and England — where the clergy sex abuse crisis has been more acute. Countries where there have been few allegations of the sexual abuse of minors by clergy are not immune to abuse, she said, rather those nations are experiencing a strong culture of silence that keeps victims from coming forward. Countries that say “they don’t have any allegations, they always seem to preface it with ‘yet.’ That doesn’t minimize that the abuse is not taking place, it’s just that the culture is not at the point where people feel comfortable to come forward,” Kettlekamp said.
Kettelkamp was one of four delegates representing the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. The others were Spokane Bishop Blase J. Cupich, chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Child and Youth Protection; Bishop R. Daniel Conlon of Steubenville, Ohio, chairman-elect of the committee; and Diane Knight, outgoing chair of the U.S. bishops’ National Review Board. Many other countries have not done the same kind of extensive research and study into the prevalence and causes of clergy sex abuse nor have they implemented the same kind of prevention programs, victim support groups and policies for dealing with allegations, the U.S. delegates said. Bishop Conlon told CNS that by bringing in countries where there have been few if any allegations, “it will help them be prepared when they do receive allegations of abuse against children, which undoubtedly they will.”
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“Hopefully they can avoid some of the mistakes those of us who had to start this (process of response and prevention) have had to go through,” Knight said. Being aware that priests guilty of abuse will often deny the abuse or will display “the kinds of defense mechanisms” characteristic of many sex offenders is one of the most important lessons learned from the abuse crisis, Knight said. Bishops and other church members, she said, will need to understand that “they can’t take everything (the accused says) at face value.” Bishop Conlon said denial is also a problem at all levels of the church community, not just among perpetrators. For example, denial exists when church authorities don’t investigate allegations or when parishioners say victims are simply seeking money through lawsuits or refuse to believe a clergy member was ever guilty, he said.
Scholarly, general readers can appreciate book about sex in Bible “UNPROTECTED TEXTS: THE BIBLE’S SURPRISING CONTRADICTIONS ABOUT SEX AND DESIRE” by Jennifer Wright Knust. HarperOne (San Francisco, 2011). 343 pp., $25.99.
Reviewed by Eugene J. Fisher (CNS) “Unprotected Texts: The Bible’s Surprising Contradictions About Sex and Desire” is a book by a scholar who knows how to write for a general, educated readership, as Jennifer Wright Knust’s witty title indicates.
Book review While footnoted with an extensive bibliography and index, the scholarly apparatus does not intrude on what is basically a good read for anyone interested in better understanding the Scriptures of Judaism and Christianity. I mention the former because Knust is adept at using rabbinic as well as ancient, medieval and modern Christian interpretations of the passages she interprets so well for the modern reader. Knust is an
American Baptist, so there are some places in which Catholic readers will take Catholic tradition into account in a way she does not. But she is a superb biblical scholar, so readers can rely on her interpretations, and at times multiple interpretations citing ancient and modern commentators, of biblical texts. Knust argues, convincingly, that the Bible cannot be used as a simple guidebook for sexual conduct. Written over such a long period of time, it reflects the changing mores of vastly different generations and times. The patriarchs of Israel, as depicted in Genesis, practiced polygamy, as did the kings of Israel as depicted in later books. Mere fornication in the Hebrew Scriptures does not cause major disruptions in Israel’s relationship with God, though adultery does. The crime of the people of Sodom was not “sodomy” in its modern understanding, but the violation of hospitality and the crime of rape, as is shown in a parallel story of the rape of the daughter of a Levite. Paul in his time, though, understands homosexual sex as a more serious sin. Sex in the Bible is at once a divine command, a source of joy and a reflection of
divine love between God and Israel and God and humanity, and a powerful desire that, out of control, can disrupt and even break the covenantal relations between tween God and the people eople of God. Knust st notes that the Hebrew Scriptures and nd the New Testament ment charge non-Jews Jews and non-Chrishristians with sexexual deviance, e, turning otherr religions into purveyors of cultic prostitution, when there is no evidence such practices existed. Prostitution in Scriptures i the th Hebrew Hb S i t and in the New Testament becomes a central metaphor for idolatry. Knust describes the fascination with and
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Survivors of clergy abuse describe how they found help toward healing
In fact, he said, it was the changes in the church after the Second Vatican Council that he credits with making it possible for him to remain in the church after his abuse experience. “I probably would not be a Catholic today if not for Vatican II,” he said. “It reinforced my ability to see the church not as a mediator between me and God.” He explained that in the preVatican II church of his childhood, he would never have felt he could speak directly to God in prayer, which was a key to being able to stay active in the church that failed to meet his needs for assistance until he hit on the Arlington diocesan programs. Robert said the turning point in addressing his psychological wounds came when someone asked him why he felt so guilty. A counselor in Seattle helped him recognize that he’d done nothing shameful and had no reason to feel guilt. “Within a year I went from having my dissertation stalled to finishing my Ph.D., defending it and I had a job back here” in the Washington area, he said. Also essential to healing, he said, was recognizing that “I’m truly a child of God,” and that he’d been allowing his sense of guilt to be a barrier in accepting that. Both Robert and Riggins said they were willing to talk to a reporter because they feel strongly that other victims of clergy sexual abuse need examples and encouragement to seek out the kind of assistance they found in the diocesan support program. “Whatever it is that makes a big cloud between you and your creator,” said Robert, “it’s a shadow that shouldn’t be there.” For too long, he said, he had the equation backward. “You are the victim, yet you have the shame.” He said that for him, it was essential to have found a good counselor — which took several attempts — and to have “a circle of trust, where survivors and victims can come together and tell their stories and create healing out of those stories.” Patricia Mudd, victim assistance coordinator for the Diocese of Arlington, said everyone’s path toward healing is necessarily different, which is why programs like the one she oversees offer a variety of services. One friend of Riggins doesn’t ever speak up in the sessions he attends, but he writes about his feelings. “He writes beautifully and has inspired me to try writing. And I’m not a writer,” Riggins said. “We all have different gifts and everyone has to participate on their own terms,” he said. Riggins noted that particularly in his generation — he’s in his mid-60s — society taught men, especially, to “don’t tell, don’t cry,” no matter what the injury. “After I told my wife, it was the most freeing feeling,” he said. “It was like opening the floodgates on the Mississippi.”
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Norm Riggins, who struggles with the psychological effects of being sexually abused by a priest as a child, participates in programs of the Diocese of Arlington, Va., to provide various kinds of assistance to survivors of abuse. He is pictured at a northern Virginia church May 19.
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ARLINGTON, Va. (CNS) — It was 1995 and Norm Riggins and his wife were driving along the interstate, listening to a National Public Radio report about how cases of sexual abuse by priests were being handled by the Archdiocese of Chicago. As if a switch had flipped, half-remembered events from nearly 40 years earlier came flooding back. Riggins began telling his wife about his own experiences of being abused by a parish priest when he was 11 and 12 years old. She was the first person he’d ever told about the young priest who supervised the altar boys and gave Norm the special attention he craved at first, but that ultimately went way too far. As the 10-year anniversary approaches of a major upheaval over the handling of sexual abuse in the U.S. church, Riggins and another survivor of abuse spoke with Catholic News Service in May, talking about how they have pursued peace abused has affected his life. He has worked hard to overcome for themselves and sought to ensure their abusers were no the worst effects, particularly depression that once prompted him to call the police to ask them to remove a gun he had in longer able to hurt people. After that first revelation, Riggins’ wife, a teacher with the house because he was contemplating suicide. Other effects training in how to help abuse victims, advised him to seek are more subtle, such as the panic that sets in if he must sit counseling. He started by talking to a couple of different in the middle of a church pew or his aversion to participating priests. The first priest “didn’t know what to do,” Riggins said, in the Stations of the Cross, which he connects to one of the and the second referred him to a psychologist whose approach shreds of memory about a particular incident with the priest he calls “my offender.” was to prescribe antidepressants. Riggins has worked through many of his struggles with As a result, “I just kept it canned up,” Riggins told CNS in an interview in a northern Virginia parish library. “I used help from a program of the Diocese of Arlington, Va., which provides various types of assistance to victims of abuse includpills, booze, TV, all to get away from it.” It took a couple more tries before he found a counselor, a ing support groups, retreats, counseling and regular meetings Franciscan nun, who helped him. “She knew how to let me with Arlington Bishop Paul S. Loverde. Another regular participant in Arlington programs, who talk, to vent.” He told her, and eventually told participants in survivors’ asked to be identified only as Robert, was abused in the early meetings and retreats, about being subjected to what he learned 1960s by a charismatic young priest in charge of the altar boys. Unlike Riggins, Robert is called “grooming behavior,” promptly told his parents as the priest preyed upon the what happened. They went young boy’s need for affecto the pastor and the priest tion. He remembered late was quickly sent away. Yet or overnight trips to visit a he also remained in ministry seminary, and time spent in a long time, before his death the priest’s big, black Chrysler a few years ago. Imperial. Robert told CNS in an Eventually, Riggins interview at the diocese’s worked up his courage and headquarters that he didn’t made an appointment to talk repress the memory, but it to the bishop who heads the New Jersey diocese where his Robert, who asked that his last name not be used, talks wasn’t something anyone discussed. For Robert, the abuser was still working. That with Catholic News Service May 24 in Arlington, Va., memory of what happened bishop, who’d only been on about his anguish and healing from being molested as was “just there.” But the the job a short time, reacted a child by a parish priest. experience had done its by saying: “Thank God. I just damage. canned him a week ago.” As a university student, he tried talking about it with someThat was in 2007. Riggins, a military veteran who retired recently from a career in training with the federal government, one whose help he sought for depression, he said, but was told researched the priest’s assignments and tracked him across “Get on with your life.” Robert said his complicated feelings related to being abused came out in stress on his marriage and multiple dioceses, where he rarely stayed long in one place. Fifteen years after he started trying to come to terms with difficulty finishing projects; in how he relates to other people it, Riggins still doesn’t remember all the details of what hap- and in a long-lingering sense of guilt. Like Riggins, who spent eight years in the seminary, includpened to him, he said. He frankly acknowledges that he’s unsure whether it’s good or bad for his healing process to not ing four years with the Benedictines, Robert remained an active Catholic. Aware that his assault by the priest was affecting be entirely clear about what the priest did. Nevertheless, Riggins has tried to understand how being him spiritually and emotionally, he pursued various types of prayer and self-help programs. He spoke about being abused in confession and originally met with unhelpful responses.
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Arts and Entertainment June 10, 7:30 p.m.: “MADZ,” the Philippine Madrigal Singers perform “One Voice of Love” at Holy Name of Jesus Church, 39th Avenue at Lawton in San Francisco. Tickets are $25 and available by calling the Holy Name Pastoral Center at (415) 664-8590 or at the door. June 17, 18 at 8 p.m.: “Music from the Basilica of St. Clotilde” by the Choirs of Notre Dame des Victoires directed by Steven Olbash with organist, David Schofield. Suggested donation is $10 per person in advance and $15 per person at the door. Church is located at 566 Bush St. at Grant in San Francisco. Call (415) 397-0113.
Social Justice/Lectures/ Respect Life 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 join them at the site. The prayer continues as a peaceful vigil until 1 p.m. The group is also open to new membership. Meetings are held the second Thursday of the month except August and December at St. Gregory Parish’s Worner Center, 138 28th Ave. in San Mateo at 7:30 p.m. For more information, call Jessica at (650) 572-1468 or visit www.sanmateoprolife.com Saturdays, 9 a.m. – 10 a.m.: Rosary for Life at Planned Parenthood, 1650 Valencia St. near St. Luke’s Hospital in San Francisco..
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The National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi and La Nuova Porziuncola at Vallejo and Columbus in San Francisco’s North Beach: The Porziuncola and “Francesco Rocks” Gift Shop – online at www.knightsofsaintfrancis.com - are open every day but Monday from 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. The Shrine church – online at www.shrinesf.org - is open every day 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. with Mass Monday through Saturday at 12:15 p.m. and Sundays at 10 a.m. Rosary is prayed daily in Porziuncola at 4:30 p.m. Call (415) 986-4557 or e-mail info@shrinesf.org. “We have hundreds of kids from schools all over the city going through the Porziuncola,” said Angela Alioto, whose energy and support built the small church modeled on its Assisi counterpart. “It’s simply amazing hearing them all talk about Francesco! They love the Knights of St. Francis, volunteers who guide their visits.” Coming up! June 11: Russian Vespers by the choir of Our Lady of Fatima Russian Catholic Church, Capuchin Father Eugene Ludwig, pastor, in La Nuova Porziuncola at 3 p.m.; June 13: Novena of Masses in honor of St. Anthony of Padua begins in the Shrine church at 12:15 p.m.; June 18, 19: Annual Blessing of the Animals in conjunction with the North Beach Festival, in the Shrine church at 2 p.m.
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 October 15: Family Rosary Crusade. The San Francisco Legion of Mary invites all Catholics to join us for the San Francisco Family Rosary Crusade 2011. The Family Rosary Crusade will be held on October 15, 2011, at 12 noon, in San Francisco’s Civic Center Plaza. 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. For more information, visit www.familyrosarycrusade2011.com. 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 St. 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.
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celebrates its 50th year with events June 25, July 23, Aug. 21, Sept.18, and Oct. 1. Call (650) 583-4131. June 25, 8 p.m.: Class of 1960 from St. Anne Elementary School, San Francisco, at Irish Cultural Center, 45th Avenue and Sloat Boulevard in San Francisco. Contact Mike Kuenzli at (415) 681-8710. 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) 9963162 or e-mail joy.walsh@sbcglobal.net. July 16, 11:30 a.m.: St. Agnes Elementary School, class of ’51, Diamond Anniversary lunch at the Irish Cultural Center, 45th Avenue at Sloat Boulevard in San Francisco. Contact Charles F. Norton at (209) 835—2073 or e-mail cfn@pacbell. net or W. Urie Walsh at (415_ 668-6501 or e-mail wuwkmw@aol.com. 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. 16: Class of 1951 from Lone Mountain College in San Francisco/SF College for Women. Contact Anstell Ricossa at (415) 921-8846 or Toni Buckley at (415) 681-5789. 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.
TV/Radio Fridays at 9 a.m.: The Archbishop’s Hour on Immaculate Heart Radio, KSFB - 1260 AM, San Francisco. Enjoy news, conversation and in-depth look at local and larger Church. Program is rerun Friday at 9 p.m. and Sunday at 11 a.m. E-mail info@sfarchdiocese.org with comments and questions about faith. Visit www.ihradio.org Sunday, 6 a.m., KOFY Channel 20/Cable 13 and KTSF Channel 26/Cable 8: TV Mass with Msgr. Harry Schlitt presiding. S u n d a y, 7 a . m . : T V M a s s o n the Filipino Channel (TFC) Channel 241 on Comcast and Channel 2060 on Direct TV. Saturday, 4 p.m.: Religious programming in Cantonese over KVTO 1400 AM, co-sponsored by the Chinese Ministry and Chinese Young Adults of the Archdiocese of San Francisco.. First Sunday, 5 a.m., CBS Channel 5: “Mosaic,” featuring conversations on current Catholic issues.
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Grief support groups meet at the following parishes: San Mateo County: Good Shepherd, Pacifica; call Sister Carol Fleitz at (650) 355-2593. Our Lady of Mercy, Daly City; call parish at (650) 755-2727. Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Redwood City; call parish at (650) 366-3802. St. Bartholomew, San Mateo; call Barbara Syme (650) 343-6156. St. Peter, Pacifica; call parish at (650) 359-6313. St. Pius, Redwood City; call parish at (650) 361-0655. St. Robert, San Bruno; call Sister Patricia O’Sullivan at (650) 589-0104. Marin County: St. Anselm, San Anselmo; call Brenda MacLean at (415) 454-7650. St. Anthony, Novato; call parish (415) 883-2177. St. Hilary, Tiburon; call Helen Kelly at (415) 388-9651. Our Lady of Loretto, Novato; call Sister Jeanette at (415) 897-2171. San Francisco County: St. Gabriel; call Monica Williams at (650) 756-2060. St. Mary’s Cathedral; call Sister Esther McEgan at (415) 567-2020 ext. 218. Alma Via; contact Mercy Feeney at (650) 756-4500. Young Widow/Widower Group: St. Gregory, San Mateo; call Barbara Elordi at (415) 6145506. Ministry to Grieving Parents: Our Lady of Angels, Burlingame; call Ina Potter at (650) 3476971 or Barbara Arena at (650) 344-3579.
Holy Cross Cemetery 1500 Old Mission Rd. in Colma, (650) 7562060 July 2, 11 a.m.: First Saturday Mass in All Saints Mausoleum.
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Sue Schultes, Realtor Director of Luxury Homes Division Seniors Real Estate Specialist
Whether you’re buying a new home or selling your current one, you have to trust your agent. Sue is committed to culSue Schultes, tivating that trust by serving all of her clients’ real estate needs: personal, professional, and financial. Sue loves what Realtor she does, and part of her passion comes from the belief in working for the greater good. Active in her parish at St. Agnes, on the Board of Little Brothers Friends of the Elderly she creates the possibility of a positive future for all of us. Contact her today.
415.307.0153
SSchultes@Paragon-re.com www.doorsofyourlife.com
SANDY FINCH Founder / Director
Born and raised in Salinas, Sandy Finch, has been a Certified Shorthand Reporter since 1977, moving to San Francisco in 1978. She co-founded Emerick & Finch Deposition Reporting in 1985. Addressing a reporter shortage, Golden State College was founded in Dublin in 2003. Now seven years later, GSC is an accredited member, ACICS, and is eligible to participate in federal student aid programs. While the mission of Golden State College is to provide training of the highest quality in the field of court reporting, Sandy believes that "each one should use whatever gift she has received to serve others..." and changing lives at Golden State College and bringing hope for a more fruitful tomorrow is her personal mission.
GOLDEN STATE COLLEGE OF COURT REPORTING (925) 829-0115 ● info@goldenstatecourtreporting.com WWW . GOLDENSTATECOURTREPORTING . COM
Sherry Plambeck Director of Marketing –
The Magnolia of Millbrae Sherry was born in New York City, an only child whose father was a diplomat for the Canadian Government. She lived in the UK, the US and Canada. She graduated from USF, Magna Cum Laude, with a double major of French and Psychology (National Honor Society, Alpha Sigma Nu). She spent many years in the pharmaceutical industry as a regional Sales Manager for Procter and Gamble and worked for Ralph Lauren and Berlex Labs. She was voted “Top Ten” in the USA by the American Business Woman’s Assn. in 1984, and hosted a television show, “Women Today” (Emmy). Sherry is presently on the healing team of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church-Burlingame, the honorary Committee for the Peninsula Stroke Assn., and board member emeritus for USF. She loves to sail, cook and entertain and has a passion for working with the senior population. She feels that they have much love to give and much knowledge to share.
The Magnolia of Millbrae www.TheMagnolia.com 650.697.7700 email:splambeck@themagnolia.com
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