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By Nancy Frazier O’Brien BELLEVUE, Wash. (CNS) — The U.S. bishops overwhelmingly approved extensive revisions to their 2002 “Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People” June 16, but the bishop who heads up their efforts to confront the clergy sex abuse crisis said it must remain “a front-burner issue.”

Bishop Blase J. Cupich of Spokane spoke at a news conference after the bishops closed the public sessions of their June 15-17 spring general assembly near Seattle with a 187-5 vote in favor of the charter revisions, with four abstentions.

Bishop Cupich, who chairs the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on the Protection of Children and Young People, said another review of the charter would take place within two years, in order to incorporate any recommendations that the National Review Board might make as a result of the recently released report on “The Causes and Context of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Catholic Priests in the United States, 1950-2010,” which had been mandated by the charter.

The report, prepared by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and released in Washington May 18, concluded that there is “no single identifiable ‘cause’ of sexually abusive behavior toward minors” and encouraged steps to deny abusers “the opportunity to abuse.”

Noting that 125 new U.S. bishops had been appointed since the charter was approved in 2002, along with countless new staff members in dioceses around the country, Bishop Cupich said one of the committee’s next challenges is to find ways to ensure that everyone stays informed about the charter’s requirements.

“We must provide training for the new generations, in order to keep fresh the insights” gained from experience over the years, he said, adding that the bishops’ major responsibility is to provide healing for victims of clergy sex abuse.

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Youth page Nuns release dove-shaped balloons during a June 17 Mass for peace and reunification of the Korean peninsula at Imjingak Peace Park in Paju, near the demilitarized zone separating North Korea from South Korea. About 20,000 South Korean Catholics participated in the Mass.

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Solo sister’s ‘heartbreaking’ departure ends era for Marin parish, archdiocese

By Lidia Wasowicz Amidst a chorus of tearful farewells portending the end of an era, the last Sister of the Holy Faith in the San Francisco archdiocese, Dolores Maguire, is leaving St. Hilary Parish and its school, founded by her Irish order in 1963.

The musically gifted, spiritually giving pastoral minister developed a rich repertoire of programs for every age and inclination during her nine years at the parish in Tiburon. Everyone from the 4- to 8-year-olds singing in the “Angel Choir” she founded to the seniors sharing meals and swapping stories at the monthly luncheons she organized hates to see her go.

She will miss them as well, but the years as a solo act away from her congregation have taken their toll.

“Being on my own is fine for a time, but I’d like to be with my religious community,” she said, noting the only other Sister of the Holy Faith in the parish retired to Ireland in 2005. “I decided to take a sabbatical because I’m very tired.”

Following a visit to her order, family and friends in her native Ireland in July, a retreat on the East Coast in September and some “unstructured time for renewal, refreshment and revitalization,” Sister Dolores likely will rejoin her community in Los Angeles, home to most of the 28 Sisters of the Holy Faith in the U.S. Her last official act, scheduled June 23, was to hold

the popular senior lunch to which she had recruited St. Hilary students. The second graders would delight the attendees with song, poetry and storytelling and visors, sunglasses, beach bags and other table favors they and the eighth graders had decorated.

“Sister Dolores had a great love of seniors, many of whom were housebound or transitioning to assisted living, and was terrific at taking very special care of them,” said Vicki Bornstein of Tiburon, a pastoral minister whose children attended St. Hilary. “I’ve known the sisters for many years, and it’s so sad to see the last one go because it’s the end of an era.”

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Five generations! Yolanda Actis, 97, her daughter Marge Cummings and granddaughter Karen Secor, great grandaughter Lisa Viccaro and great-great granddaughter Abby Viccaro on Abby’s first birthday. The family represents Epiphany, St. Isabella, and St. Anthony, Novato parishes.

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By Tom Burke Happy birthday to Lester Jones, 95 years old on May 13. Lester, two-time past Grand Knight of Knights of Columbus Golden Gate Council, marked the milestone with his wife, Alma, and their five children, nine grandchildren, and five great grandchildren. Alma celebrates her 94th birthday in September. The couple belongs to St. Dominic Parish. “For years, mom and dad went to St. Dominic’s and now St. Dominic’s comes to them,” their daughter, Carmen Herbert, told me…. Catchin’ up is Stanley Doughty who was 90 years old June 21. His son, Douglas, and daughter, Celeste, led a celebration for their dad’s milestone on Father’s Day. Also in on the good wishes is Stanley’s wife of “many, many years” Marjorie.

Douglas told me his dad makes it to the pool and gym two to three times a week. “He takes BART over and swims a half-mile and pedals five miles,” Douglas said. Stanley and Marjorie are longtime parishioners of Our Lady of Mercy in Daly City….Mill Valley’s Our Lady of Mount

Retired Msgr. Floro Arcamo and retired Msgr. Harry Schlitt in video with longtime San Francisco Serra Club member, Connie Mertes. Video was shown at April 7 appreciation dinner for priests sponsored by Serra Club. Bishop William Justice led prayer. Much missed was Connie’s husband, Chuck, also a longtime Serran, whose funeral Mass was celebrated at Holy Name of Jesus Church February 5.

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Carmel Parish is celebrating its 100th year and Ed Addeo, at pastor, Father Pat Michaels, request, is doin’ the jottin’ down about the 10 decades. “I’m looking for former parishioners who might want to contribute any info or anecdotes,” Ed told me in a note to this column.

Ed can be reached at egaddeo@gmail.com. …. St. Gabriel School’s Academic Decathlon Team competed in a state-level contest May 7 in Sacramento taking third place overall. Other team awards included second place in Logic. Individual first place awards went to Nicole Arima in English, Nicole Morris in literature, and Caitlyn Yu in fine arts. St. Gabe’s won an archdiocesan-wide decathlon in March…..San Francisco Fire Chief, Joanne Hayes White spoke at Immaculate Heart of Mary School in Belmont on the school’s Leadership Day, May 26. “She told of her challenging job and how much she enjoyed it and also how she coped with being a working mom,” the school said. IHM students came together in May in a school day of service with “IHM Students Have a Heart” and a focus on participating in life as “active Christians.” Projects in each of the classes were aimed at sharpening awareness of others at school, home and the larger world. The day evoked “a true feeling that we are living the Gospel” at IHM, the school said…. Megan Furth Catholic Academy’s annual Fun Run on June 6 raised $1,485! “We are giving to Catholic Relief Services to help victims of tornadoes and also sending some of it to the Holy Childhood Association,” said Chris Unruh, assistant principal…. Finn Semling, a seventh grader at St. Raphael School in San Rafael, was awarded a $75 check for his essay in a contest sponsored by the Young Men’s Institute. He read the prize-winning essay to the Young Women’s Institute at St. Raphael rectory….Hope you’re thinkin’ of enjoying the Pilgrimage Concert by the combined choirs of St. Mary’s Cathedral and St. Cecilia Parish July 10 at 3:30 p.m. The ensembles are then off to Ireland and Scotland. Choir directors are the

cathedral’s Christoph Tietze and Russell Ferreira of St. Cecilia. Russ will be joined on the trip by his wife, Renae.

See Datebook…. School’s out so please let me thank all the principals, teachers, and communications staff who helped keep this column full of fun and accomplishment during the school year and beyond. Thanks, too, and always to all of you for submitting items to “Street.” This is, truly, an empty space without you!... E-mail items and electronic pictures – jpegs at no less than 300 dpi – to burket@sfarchdiocese.org or mail them to Street, One Peter Yorke Way, SF 94109. Include a follow-up phone number. My phone number is (415) 614-5634.

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Appeal set as court denies move to dismiss gay jurist’s Prop. 8 ruling

By George Raine The San Francisco federal judge who last year ruled that California’s ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional was not obliged to disqualify himself from the case because he has been in a 10-year relationship with another man, another federal judge ruled June 14.

Supporters of Proposition 8, the ballot measure held to be discriminatory, had sought to vacate the ruling by then-Chief U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker because, they alleged, his long-term same-sex relationship must show that he has an interest in the outcome and should have disqualified himself.

That theory was rejected by Chief Judge James Ware, who succeeded Walker as chief judge and also took over the Prop.

8 case when Walker retired earlier this year. Ware, responding to a motion to vacate a judgment, said the Prop. 8 sponsors cited no evidence “that Judge Walker would be incapable of being impartial.”

The sponsors cannot rely on speculation to show he had a conflict, and the fact a judge is in a relationship does not necessarily mean he is “so interested in marrying the person

Former Seton Hall head to Marin Catholic post Msgr. Robert Sheeran, president of Seton Hall University for 15 years, has been appointed director of mission and ministry at Marin Catholic High School, effective Aug. 1.

The appointment was announced by Marin Catholic President Tim Navone, who succeeded Bishop Thomas Daly at the Kentfield school, when he assumed duties as auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of San Jose.

Msgr. Sheeran, currently concluding a yearlong sabbatical after concluding his tenure at Seton Hall, a Catholic institution in South Orange, N.J., will oversee Marin Catholic’s mission and identity as well as perform all the regular pastoral and sacramental duties for the school community, including daily Mass, student body liturMsgr. Robert Sheeran gies and retreats.

Msgr. Sheeran, a priest of the Archdiocese of Newark, lived on the Marin Catholic campus last fall while he was studying Islam at UC Berkeley and the Graduate Theological Union’s Center for Islamic Studies.

“I am thoroughly delighted to be returning to Marin Catholic in this newly created position, mirroring similar positions recently established in many Catholic universities across the country,” said Msgr. Sheeran. “At this point in my priesthood to focus not primarily on administration but on pastoral work is a special joy.”

that he would be unable to exhibit the impartiality which, it is presumed, all federal judges maintain,” Ware wrote.

“The presumption that Judge Walker, by virtue of being in a same-sex relationship, had a desire to be married that rendered him incapable of making an impartial decision is as warrantless as the presumption that a female judge is incapable of being impartial in a case in which women seek legal relief,” Ware concluded.

Walker ruled last August that denying marital rights to same-sex couples violates their constitutional right to equality, although it is expected that the U.S. Supreme Court may have the last word.

Lawyers for Prop. 8 sponsors, who are also appealing Walker’s ruling in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, argued separately in the motion before Ware that federal law requires a judge to disqualify himself whenever the judge knows that he has any personal interest that could be substantially affected by the outcome of the case, or any other circumstances in which the judge’s impartiality might reasonably be questioned.

That Walker is gay was not raised by either Prop. 8 sponsors, largely a faith-based group called ProtectMarriage.com, nor two

same-sex couples and their advocates on the other side of the case at trial. The motion to vacate was filed eight months after Walker issued his ruling in August.

Charles Cooper, a Washington, D.C.-based lawyer for ProtectMarriage.com, said, “The ProtectMarriage.com legal team obviously disagrees with today’s ruling. Our legal team will appeal that decision and continue our tireless efforts to defend the will of the people of California to preserve marriage as the union of a man and a woman.”

When the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals received the appeal from Protect Marriage.com, judges said they not only had to look at the constitutional question but also whether the faithbased group had legal standing to challenge Walker’s ruling.

ProtectMarriage.com appealed when then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and then-Attorney General Jerry Brown refused to do so, as they endorse the Walker ruling.

The appellate court put its review on hold, asking the California Supreme Court – final arbiter of California law – to determine whether the group can defend Prop. 8 in the absence of elected officials. The state high court took up the matter and said it would hold a hearing in September.

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Time for action, ‘not inertia’ VATICAN CITY — The phenomenon of child sex abuse within the church calls for a strong response that is “not inertia, a culture of silence or repression,” said the Vatican’s top clerical sex abuse investigator. Msgr. Charles Scicluna, promoter of justice for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, said June 18 that the church must do all it can to respond to the problem and emphasize that protection of children is integral to the good of the universal church. He said a symposium on the sexual abuse, to be held in Rome in February, will contribute to a “global culture” of transparency and commitment to keeping children safe within the church.

Pope decries hedonism’s false lure VATICAN CITY — Hedonism clouds people’s judgment and risks annihilating morality, Pope Benedict XVI said. It also fools people into thinking their real worth lies in their social or personal standing and their ability to control reality, he said during a June 19 visit to the Republic of San Marino.

“The temptation has crept in that says man’s richness is not

faith, but his personal and social power, his intelligence, his culture and his ability to scientifically, technologically and socially manipulate reality,” he said.

Rector sees ‘dark times’ in Ukraine OXFORD, England — The U.S.-born rector of Ukraine’s Catholic university said his country is “living in dark times” and accused state security services of placing him under surveillance.

“Our telephones are tapped — the stationary ones probably, the mobile ones certainly. Lists of my telephone conversations have been shown to colleagues, and an assistant was followed through the city,” said Father Borys Gudziak, rector of the Lviv-based Ukrainian Catholic University.

“I have seen fundamental change, some in hopeless situations — from communism to an independent Ukraine, from growing authoritarianism to the Orange Revolution. Although I believe we’re living in dark times, I’m convinced the spirit and human dignity will prevail,” he told Austria’s Die Presse daily June 16.

In his Die Presse interview, Father Gudziak said current government reforms were undermining university autonomy in Ukraine, adding that he believed other rectors had received “visits” from the security services and were afraid to speak out.

“In view of these developments, one has to ask whether the Orange Revolution hasn’t been ineffective,” the priest said, in a reference to December 2004 mass protests that helped bring a pro-Western president, Viktor Yushchenko, to power.

Father Corapi leaves priesthood WASHINGTON – Father John Corapi, a priest of the Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity who had a popular televi-

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Mexican martyr venerated A woman visits a shrine to St. Toribio Romo, one of the martyrs of the 1920s Mexican Cristero War between the government and supporters of the Catholic Church, June 12 at St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco. The shrine contained a bone relic of the martyr, which is visiting parishes in the archdiocese and in the Oakland and Sacramento dioceses. The martyr is known as the patron of immigrants.

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sion ministry, declared June 17 he was leaving the priesthood. He contended that he could not get a “fair hearing” on misconduct allegations lodged against him in March and which included what the priest said were sexual abuse charges.

The announcement, which took the forms of a YouTube video and a blog posting on one of his websites, www.theblacksheepdog.us, was made two days before his 20th anniversary of priestly ordination.

“For 20 years I did my best to guard and feed the sheep.

Now, based on a totally unsubstantiated, undocumented allegation from a demonstrably troubled person I was thrown out like yesterday’s garbage,” Father Corapi said. “I accept that.

Perhaps I deserve that.”

A spokesman for the Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity told Catholic News Service June 20 that Father Corapi had not formally notified the order of his intent to leave. “Not directly,” said Father Gerard Sheehan, the order’s regional priest-servant and Father Corapi’s superior. “We heard it just like everyone else did, from YouTube.”

Father Corapi had been suspended from priestly ministry by his religious order shortly after the allegations first surfaced.

Eternal Word Television Network also took his television program off the air in March, saying it would not knowingly put a priest on the air whose priestly faculties had been suspended.

The National Catholic Register, which is published by EWTN, reported that a complicating factor in the case was a breach-of-contract lawsuit filed by Father Corapi against his presumed accuser, forbidding her to reveal details of her tenure at Santa Cruz Ministries, the company owned by the priest that sells his CDs, DVDs and books.

It was not immediately known whether an investigation into the alleged misconduct by Father Corapi would continue given the recent developments.

“They can’t prove I’m guilty of the things alleged because I’m not, and they can’t prove I’m innocent because that is simply illogical and impossible,” Father Corapi said in his statement.

CUA returns to single-sex dorms WASHINGTON — John Garvey, president of The Catholic University of America in Washington, announced June 13 that the university would be taking a stand against binge drinking and the “culture of hooking up” by phasing out coed dorms.

He likened the move to a “slightly old-fashioned remedy” to combat what he described as the “two most serious ethical challenges college students face.”

The shift will begin with next year’s freshmen, who will be assigned to single-sex residence halls.

Garvey made the announcement public in an op-ed piece in The Wall Street Journal where he said the transition will “probably cost more money” and will involve architectural adjustments as well as a change in the ratio of students admitted each year. “But our students will be better off,” he wrote.

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Seminarians want to be ‘part of the solution’ on abuse issue

By Patricia Zapor WASHINGTON (CNS) — Most of them weren’t born yet when the events occurred that came to define the U.S. crisis of sexual abuse by priests. But for men who entered the seminary in the past decade, a point of commonality seems to be that they want to prove that priests are good people.

A decade after the U.S. Catholic Church scandal about clergy sex abuse exploded in the news, several seminaries contacted by Catholic News Service reported the same motivation among the men who have entered the schools in the past decade. “They all said they want to be part of the solution,� said Father Thomas Baima, vice president and provost at Mundelein Seminary in Illinois.

Seminaries have adapted their admissions process and their curriculum somewhat to reflect an increased emphasis on understanding the role and demands of celibacy and on what is called “human development� in academia.

But the common theme voiced by seminary administrators asked about what has changed was that applicants say they want to counteract the negative image of the priesthood that the abuse scandal created.

“More often than not they say they come because they want to prove that there are good priests,� said R. Scott Woodward, dean at the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio. “They want people to know that religious life, the priesthood, are still valuable. They feel that’s a part of their mission.�

Father Peter Drilling, rector of Christ the King Seminary in East Aurora, N.Y., said he also has noticed a marked change in attitudes in the 25 years he has been associated with the seminary. More recent applicants are much more aware of and willing to discuss the problems behind the abuse scandal.

All three administrators said their seminaries didn’t add material to the curriculum related to celibacy and appropriate behavior so much as they began emphasizing it more, and in more parts of the course of studies.

In a “causes and context� report on sexual abuse released by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in May, the section on seminaries described a slow evolution in the emphasis on chaste celibacy in the curriculum at seminaries.

The report, by researchers at John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York, said that in the five editions of the “Program of Priestly

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putting more emphasis on healthy development of relationships and on the role of celibacy.

Human development instruction also focuses on the role of self-respect. Which “translates into respect for others,� Sister Katarina said.

Like the seminary administrators, Sister Katarina said the subjects of celibacy and appropriate behavior have long been addressed in seminaries but perhaps without the understanding of the psychology of those topics and appropriate education about how they affect one. “You won’t avoid problems with humanity simply by prayer,� she said. “There’s nothing wrong with pious practices, but pious practices can’t make up for not understanding how to behave.�

By the time an applicant gets to a seminary these days, he’s already been thoroughly vetted by the diocese or religious order which he hopes to join.

Underwood said that 20 years ago, “you would mention the word ‘celibacy’ and everyone froze. It was like you took all the air out of the room.� Even 15 years ago, said Underwood, “it was as if they had never heard the word, as if it had not been mentioned as a part of the job description, even though we know it had been.�

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Formation� published between 1971 and 2005, the section devoted to formation for chaste celibacy grew from “four relatively brief paragraphs on celibacy,� in the first edition to a few more paragraphs in 1976 and up to 11 paragraphs in the third edition. It noted substantial changes in the 1992 fourth edition, but still described the depth in terms of paragraphs, 33 in this case. Though it also described “a clear delineation of behavioral expectations appropriate to a life of celibacy.�

By the fifth edition in 2005, the publication noted, the program greatly expanded the topic of celibacy and the integration of “human formation� into all other aspects of formation. “High standards and vigilance are urged pertaining to sexuality, affective maturity and capacity to live celibate chastity,� the report found. It also commented on expanded norms for admission, with reference to “psychosexual development, capacity to live a celibate life and a minimum of two years of continent living before entry.�

Franciscan Sister Katarina Schuth, a professor of religion at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn., and an expert on seminary education who consulted on the John Jay study, told Catholic News Service that the early and mid-1990s was when seminaries first started

SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco Archbishop George Niederauer celebrated his 75th birthday June 14.

The same day, he sent a letter to Pope Benedict XVI in accordance with Canon Law 401, Sec. 1, which states, “A diocesan bishop who has completed the 75th year of age is requested to present his resignation from office to the Supreme Pontiff, who will make provision after he has examined all the circumstances.�

The process of accepting a resigna-

tion and selecting a successor can sometimes take a year or more.

Archbishop Niederauer was ordained to the priesthood April 30, 1962, for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. He was appointed eighth bishop of the Diocese of Salt Lake City Nov. 3, 1994, by Pope John Paul II and ordained to the episcopate Jan. 25, 1995.

Archbishop Niederauer was named eighth archbishop of the Archdiocese of San Francisco by Pope Benedict XVI Dec. 15, 2005.

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Touched by the Spirit, led by the Spirit

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Archbishop George Niederauer gave this homily at Mass the good news, the Gospel, of Jesus Christ to the people June 12, 2011, at St. Vincent de Paul Church in San Francisco for the first time after the death and resurrection of Jesus. commemorating Father John K. Ring’s 50 years as a priest. Peter, who betrayed Jesus on Holy Thursday evening The Irish theologian Michael Paul Gallagher, in the for fear of the people and their leaders, was now filled introduction to his recent book, “Faith Maps,” quotes with the Holy Spirit, as he fearlessly shouted out: “God an Irish journalist who told him that you can go into a has made both Lord and Messiah this Jesus whom you pub in Ireland and find an argument about God or the crucified! God raised this Jesus!”

In that first reading, St. Luke begins his story of church, but you seldom hear an argument about Jesus Christ! That’s an interesting insight, and perhaps it’s Pentecost by saying that “they were all in one place together.” We need to note true because God without that fact carefully. Being Christ can seem remote a follower, a believer and vague, and the church in Jesus Christ is not a without Christ can disapsolitary experience. It’s point and disillusion us. not about individualism.

It’s Jesus who makes God There are some experipresent in his church; ences you cannot have it’s Christ who makes alone: you can’t get marChristianity our faith. At ried alone and you can’t any rate Father Gallagher’s have a friendship alone. point is a good one, That’s also true of followespecially on the feast of ing Jesus Christ. He saved Pentecost, the birthday us together as a people of the church, and on the and he wants us together 50th anniversary of a man as church. who has lived as a priest of Also, note the power Jesus Christ for 50 years of the Holy Spirit. Luke (and two days).

Father John K. Ring at Mass commemorating his 50 Pentecost is the great years as a priest June 12 at St. Vincent de Paul Church compares the Spirit to wind and fire. Why? feast of the Holy Spirit, the where he has served as pastor since 1987.

Because you can’t conSpirit of the life and love trol the wind, and fire is of the Father and the Son, the Spirit they give to the church so that we can continue nearly untamable too. Moreover, the Holy Spirit can the life and ministry of Jesus Christ among his people of and does overcome the divisions of language as well. every place and every time. On the first Pentecost, which As a poet has said, the Tower of Babel crumbles before we heard about in our first reading, St. Peter proclaimed the Gospel of Jesus Christ. On that very first Pentecost people visiting Jerusalem, speaking different languages, each heard about Jesus Christ in his or her own language.

From the first day, there was diversity in the church.

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Our Gospel reading for Pentecost is the same passage we heard proclaimed six weeks ago, on the Sunday after Easter. Why? Because the mystery, the reality of the Risen Jesus Christ becomes the mystery, the reality of the church. Jesus, newly risen, appears to those 10 frightened, discouraged apostles and says, “Peace be with you.” The presence, the closeness, the power of Christ’s love brings peace. Then they learn that they are to continue the life and work of Jesus, generation after generation: “As the Father has sent me, so I send you.” Then he breathed on them. (We need to remember that in the languages of the Bible, the same word is used for breath and for spirit.) Then Jesus said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit.” After that he sent them forth, in the Spirit, to do something only God can do, for now they act on God’s behalf: “Whose sins you forgive are forgiven them.”

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Ordination planned June 25 for linguistics scholar to serve archdiocese Deacon John Mary Chung, a linguistics scholar who earned a Ph.D. at UC Berkeley and chaired a Korean program at Smith College before responding to a call for a vocation, will be ordained by Archbishop George Niederauer June 25 at 10 a.m. in St. Mary’s Cathedral. He will serve in the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Deacon Chung is a graduate of Blessed John XXIII National Seminary in Weston, Mass. The school is a seminary for older candidates for the priesthood. Now 48, Deacon Chung was born and raised in South Korea and baptized into the Catholic faith at age 24. He earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in English and English education at Seoul National University, and studied theoretical linguistics at Berkeley, earning his doctorate in 1998. He taught at Smith in Northampton, Mass., from 1998 to 2006.

Deacon Chung spent a pastoral ministry year at St. Hilary Parish in Tiburon. Msgr.

James Tarantino, then pastor at St. Hilary and now moderator of the curia and vicar of administration for the archdiocese, played a significant role in his formation, Deacon Chung said.

The future priest was interviewed by Catholic San Francisco’s George Raine.

How did your conversion to the Catholic Church come about at age 24?

Did you convert from Buddhism?

I was born and raised in a very closeknit family, but none of us were Catholic.

My mother was a very strong Buddhist for was related to the Eucharist and the Blessed almost four decades. I inherited religiosity Virgin Mary. I rediscovered the treasures of from her. I was naturally influenced by her the Catholic Church. I started to go to Mass religion and took some interest in Buddhism. daily and to pray the rosary. I did not know I would also attend Protestant services since that the rosary is the weapon in spiritual warfare, as Padre Pio used my closest brother was a to say. I thought that praying member of a Protestant the rosary was the pastime ecclesial community at the of older people. I also made time. regular confession.

But when I was a student I found myself spending at Seoul National University, more and more time before Korea was still under a the Blessed Sacrament. I dictatorship, and there was had a couple of unexplaina group of priests who able spiritual experiences. were deeply involved in the Around this time, I also democratization of Korea. made several pilgrimages to I was deeply impressed by Europe, especially to Marian their unselfish efforts. So shrines. At each shrine, I I decided to set foot in the prayed mainly for the conCatholic Church in order to version of my family to the be involved in social justice.

Deacon John Chung faith, and for discernment of Finally, I was baptized when the will of God for the rest I was a graduate student at of my life. Then, back in the Seoul National University.

Tell me something about your vocation United States, one day I had a dream about and the decision to leave academia and Padre Pio, the Italian Capuchin priest canonenter the seminary. Can you describe the ized by Pope John Paul II in 2002.

In the dream, he did not say anything to call to the vocation that you heard and when did you know it was unmistakable? me, but gave me a very stern look. It was like When I came to Berkeley, I was already he was saying, “What are you doing, and why lukewarm in my faith and practice. Basically, are you hesitating to enter the priesthood?”

I did not do anything other than to go to Mass I woke up and it was Sept. 23, his feast day. on Sundays. Then, toward the end of my A year later, I found myself in the seminary.

Why do you want to be a priest? stay at Berkeley, I had a big conversion. It

70 adults confirmed on Pentecost Sunday It was a joyful celebration of the sacrament of confirmation at the 11a.m. Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral on June 12, Pentecost Sunday, according to Patrick Vallez-Kelly, director of the Office of Worship for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice was principal celebrant, giving his homily in both English and Spanish.

“The assembly graciously prayed with the candidates for confirmation as they renewed their baptismal vows and then came forward in procession to be anointed on the head with the sacred chrism by Bishop Justice,” Vallez-Kelly said.

The more than 70 candidates who went to the cathedral to receive confirmation are from all walks of life. Some were a part of their parish RCIA process. Many others were young adults

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preparing to be married and seeking to complete their sacramental initiation in the church. They were also youth and young adults who had missed the celebration of confirmation at their parishes for one reason or another.

Those being confirmed represented 31 parishes including All Souls, Good Shepherd, Holy Angels, Immaculate Heart of Mary, Mater Dolorosa, Old St. Mary’s, Our Lady of Loretto, Our Lady of Mercy, St. Andrew, St. Anne of the Sunset, St. Bartholomew, St. Brendan, St. Dominic, St. Hilary, St. Ignatius, St. James, St. Mark, St. Matthias, St. Michael Korean and St. Patrick, San Francisco. Also, St. Paul, St. Pius, St. Raphael, St. Raymond, St. Robert, St. Sebastian, St. Thomas the Apostle, St. Veronica, St. Vincent de Paul, Sts. Peter and Paul and Church of the Visitacion.

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I am interested in all aspects of priestly life and of life in a parish. But most of all, as a priest, I am most interested in leading people to deeper communion with God. In order to have deeper intimacy with God, a rich and strong sacramental life is essential. So I would like to help people have a fervent sacramental life, especially through the sacraments of the Eucharist, and of reconciliation.

Do you at all feel constrained, as your work as a priest is about to begin, by the church’s sexual abuse crisis?

Personally, this is really a fascinating time for me to enter the priesthood, as Blessed Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict have repeatedly indicated. If we look at church history, the church has always undergone downturns and upturns, like a business cycle. I believe that we have come out of one of those downturns. I have to remind myself that after rain comes fair weather. I believe that the church, as a divine institution, will shine more brightly and become much stronger, even if it becomes smaller, especially with the rich legacies of Blessed John Paul and the arrival of Pope Benedict XVI. Pope Benedict is a guiding light in this dark world.

Tell me about your middle name, Mary.

I adopted Mary as my middle name because she played a pivotal role in my conversion and in my priestly formation. It is a sign of my profound respect and strong affection for her, our mother.

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Jesuit education expert: Catholic schools must be more Catholic Catholic schools of education do little to prepare teachers to teach in Catholic schools — a failure with serious consequences for American Catholic schools, the former president of Loyola University in Chicago told a seminar at Marin Catholic High School June 13.

“For teachers preparing to work in Catholic elementary or high schools, most offer little that is specifically Catholic,” said Jesuit Father John Piderit, president of the Catholic Education Institute, who served as president of Loyola from 1993-2001.

“Why is this important for administrators?” asked Father Piderit’s colleague Melanie Morey, senior director of research at the institute. “Every year you bring young faculty into your schools” and they are by and large unprepared to teach specifically as Catholics, she said.

That means the task of forming faculty in Catholic teaching methods falls almost entirely upon the shoulders of administrators, the two educators said. Bringing the Catholic faith and the Catholic view of the world and of the human person into the classroom “is adding texture and depth and meaning,” Morey said.

Father Piderit and Morey spoke at a seminar for

Solo sister’s departure . . .

■ Continued from cover thought and prayer, Sister Dolores said. “But once it was made, I felt at peace, so I knew it was the better thing to do.”

Parishioners foresee a significant void with the departure of the last of the 42 sisters who have ministered to the St. Hilary community over the past 48 years.

Maureen Buscher of Tiburon, who has known all of them as a St. Hilary teacher, parent and parishioner since 1960, couldn’t hold back her tears.

“I was with the sisters from the beginning, and the loss of Sister Dolores is devastating for me,” she said. “My husband called her ‘the angel’ because she was a real blessing to the parish and the community.”

Sister Dolores ministered to the sick, disabled, lonely and materially and spirituSister Dolores ally needy. She started a book Maguire club, movie night and an “Art and Meditation” series that had participants paint images inspired by Scripture readings. She led searching souls to the Catholic Church through the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults.

“We won’t be able to replace her,” said Francine Osenton of Tiburon, who worked with Sister Dolores on the RCIA. “We’ll have to find other ways to reach out to people that

administrators as part of Marin Catholic’s second annual Substantially Catholic Conference, a three-day event presented by the Catholic Education Institute to help Catholic high school teachers and administrators infuse Catholicism across the curriculum and in the school culture.

Father Piderit said that when comparing Catholic schools of today with those of 50 years ago, schools are more tepid in presenting the faith even as American society has become more aggressively secular. Some of that can be traced back to departments and schools of education at Catholic colleges and universities which, he said, are so concerned with keeping pace with secular competitors and meeting ever-changing requirements for accreditation, that they are not teaching, or doing research into, ways to present Catholic faith and culture in subjects other than religion.

“The Catholic cultural component is relatively weak in our schools,” said Father Piderit.

Catholics find God in Scripture, tradition and the church but also in the book of nature, in art, music and in literature, said Father Piderit and Morey. Morey, who has a doctorate in education from Harvard, and Father Piderit co-authored “Catholic Higher Education: A Culture in Crisis” (Oxford University Press, 2006). Morey’s forthcoming book, also from Oxford University Press, is, “Teaching the Tradition: A

Disciplinary Approach to the Catholic Intellectual Tradition.”

Father Piderit’s forthcoming book, from the same publisher is “Sexual Morality: A Natural Law Approach to Intimate Relationships.”

“It can’t be one comment once a year on something Catholic,” Father Piderit said. “Why is this so important?

If you compare Catholic culture with what it was 50 years ago, the secular culture is more secular, less supportive of religion.”

At the same time, Father Piderit said, Catholic culture has become “much more gentle” and “tepid.”

In a Catholic school, God should be present in the way subjects are presented and in the way problems are tackled, he said. Father Piderit, who taught at both the college and high school level, gave the example of encouraging a lackadaisical student he named George to study hard so that he uses the gifts he has been given by God. “You’ve got to talk to Christ about that,” Father Piderit told the imaginary student.

In another example, Father Piderit modeled how he would tell students that the hard work involved in sorting through the confusion of graphing in Algebra I is similar to the effort required to build a relationship with God. “There is a tendency in Catholic education to say we are JESUIT EDUCATION, page 11

she served and do the best we can, but it will be different.”

Sisters of the Holy Faith have faith the parishioners will succeed.

“It’s always good to get new blood and new ideas,” said Sister Liz Curtis, who worked at St. Hilary in the early 1990s and is now principal of the Holy Spirit School in Fairfield, founded by the order 50 years ago.

“Sister Dolores’s legacy will live on because of the extraordinary people of faith here,” said Sister Angela Hallahan of the Department of Catholic Schools in Los Angeles. She considers her 1974-83 tour at St. Hilary “a Camelot moment in my life that left me with much gratitude in my heart for the parents of St. Hilary who gave generously of their time and talent with a commitment that was very encouraging and supportive of our ministry of education.”

For Sister Dolores, that ministry began early. Born and raised in Dublin, she joined the 144-year-old order dedicated to teaching and faith formation at age 17. She studied theol-

ogy and piano, for which she had an affinity since age six.

After earning her teaching diploma, she spent 15 years in K-12 classrooms. For most of that time, she taught music to older boys and girls. Her award-winning high school girls’ choir became widely known in Ireland and even took first place at a festival in Chester, England.

In 1984, she landed in Southern California where she received a degree in music from Loyola Marymount University, taught elementary school, conducted an adult choir and performed pastoral work until coming to St. Hilary in 2002.

At a special farewell Mass and reception on Pentecost Sunday, Sister Dolores told a story of an Irish sister who wondered what instrument Jesus might play. The response: “We are all instruments Jesus plays.”

“To you, the orchestra of St. Hilary,” she told the packed church, “I ask [that you] be conducted by the Spirit and that the music you make be spread to the ends of the earth.”

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By Valerie Schmalz A new six-story building down the street from Portsmouth Square in Chinatown continues St. Mary’s School’s nearly century-old tradition of Catholic education focused on the Chinese community.

Times have changed, but immigrants and families with generations of ties to San Francisco continue to find a home at the archdiocesan school. The school also welcomes nonChinese who seek an opportunity for their children to learn Mandarin and absorb Chinese culture in a Catholic environment, says Principal Nancy Fiebelkorn.

An open house June 25 at St. Mary’s School and Chinese Catholic Center’s new location at 838 Kearny St. will showcase the school, she said. Over the summer, a playground will be completed on the roof.

“St. Mary’s is a unique entity. Once a family comes, they just embrace the school philosophy and the school community even if they don’t become Catholic,” Fiebelkorn said.

Its new location, close to Montgomery Street and the financial district as well as Chinatown, is ideal for commuting parents, Asian and non-Asian, who want a multicultural experience for their children, said Larry Wong, chair of the parents’ association, and parent of a third grader and of an older son who graduated from St. Mary’s and now attends UCLA. “It’s very family oriented, in the sense they give the children a sense of caring for each other,” said Wong, who commutes with his wife and daughter from Alameda.

School children spent the last month of school in the new building, following its dedication by San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop Robert McElroy May 2. Building requirements following the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake mandated remodeling that would have shrunk the 910 Stockton St. location by 25 percent. That led to the decision to build a new school, but regulatory and political difficulties meant the school stayed in temporary digs for 16 years before moving to the spacious 45,000 square foot digs, said pastor Paulist Father Daniel McCotter.

The new building is the latest step in a Catholic com-

mitment to the Chinese community that goes back to 1921 and the school’s founding, said Catholic Schools Superintendent Maureen Huntington. Chinatown is still the first stop for many Chinese immigrants and the student body includes children who live in the neighborhood or have grandparents nearby, said Huntington.

“This was the Catholic outreach to the Chinese immigrants coming to this country,” Huntington said in a recent interview. “Moving forward that is still our commitment,” Huntington said.

“Chinatown continues to be the spiritual heart of the Chinese community in the archdiocese. For this Members of the St. Mary’s School Class of 2011 are pictured at commencement ceremonies June 3. Graduates received leis from the younger children in their school reason, St. Mary’s exercises “Spirit Families,” which include students K-8. an immensely powerful symbolic role in proclaiming the church’s unswerving commitment to serve all peoples in faith, especially immigrant Lau, said Dr. Collin Quock, who spearheaded the capital communities,” Archbishop George Niederauer said at the campaign. The retired cardiologist’s five children attended Oct. 27, 2009, ceremony, “The Bolting of the Golden Beam,” St. Mary’s and his four oldest grandchildren are there now. marking the beginning of the school’s construction. Another Dr. Quock, a Catholic convert who attended St. Mary’s $4 million needs to be raised to fully complete the project, at the end of World War II and afterward, said during his the chapel, the gym, the science laboratory, library and all time almost all the students came from within a two-block of the offices on the second floor, said Father McCotter, radius. “We now serve a much wider base. We have kids school director and pastor of Old St. Mary’s Cathedral and coming from all over the Bay Area,” he said.

Holy Family Mission.

Rick Yuen, an administrator at Stanford University, St. Mary’s alumni include retired San Francisco police graduated from St. Mary’s in 1970. The fourth-generation chief Heather Fong, 1950s University of San Francisco bas- San Franciscan’s forebears arrived in the late 1800s. ketball standout Willy “Woo Woo” Wong, and the first Asian Yuen’s father died when he was 8, and Yuen said he spent member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Gordon most days at the school, the associated Chinese school, the Chinese library and the boys’ club as his widowed mother worked. “St. Mary’s was really my living room for many years,” said Yuen.

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Dominican priest wages peace through dialogue in troubled Pakistan The odds that a Catholic priest can help bring peace and make interfaith dialogue and religious tolerance flourish in troubled Pakistan would seem long.

Some 35,000 people have been killed in the country since Sept. 11, 2001. In a population of 180 million, 96 percent are Muslim, 2 percent are Hindu and Christians are but 1.8 percent. Extremists – perhaps 10 percent of Pakistanis, while 90 percent are peaceful people – grab the headlines in the seemingly endless wave of religious violence.

But Dominican Father James Channan is an optimistic man, and has been for the 35 years he has waged peace in Pakistan, the last 14 years as regional coordinator for San Francisco-based United Religions Initiative, the world’s largest grassroots interfaith organization.

Father Channan was in San Francisco for speaking engagements this month and said that he continues to be inspired to bring people of different faiths together, in particular accommodating Muslim-Christian dialogue.

“In Pakistan I see great hope,” said Father Channan. “The dialogue is not just coming together, sitting around a table to talk and have a cup of coffee. My work is aimed at having dialogue at every level of life.”

The United Religions Initiative was

Jesuit education . . .

■ Continued from page 9 just like public education except we teach religion and can talk about God,” said Morey. That is not enough, the two educators said.

“If there are not distinguishable differences, what is the point?” asked Father Piderit.

Jesuit Father The goals of secular schools, John Piderit

launched in 2000 by the former head of he noted, often succumb to the temptation the Episcopal Church in California, Bishop of joining radical extremists.

William Swing, as a kind of United Nations “People are poor and they lack vocational for religions. Officed in the Presidio of training,” said Father Channan, a 59-year-old San Francisco, it Pakistani. “We work is now a global with them. Another network of more group may work for than 500 grasschildren in schools, roots organizations, promoting harmony called Cooperation in the minds of chilCircles, dedicated dren. Another may to peace and justice make posters that through interfaith demonstrate a sense and cross-cultural of unity and peace. cooperation. It has Another group is a presence in 78 working for the betcountries. terment of women, Father Channan promoting educamanages the URI tion, providing them effort in Pakistan, with vocational having organized training, and helping 44 interfaith groups, women who become Dominican Father James Channan is as well as directing victims of domestic a new Dominican pictured June 9 in San Francisco. He is violence and also Peace Center in regional coordinator for San Franciscowho have been sexubased United Religions Initiative in Lahore with a simially abused,” he said. lar agenda. Each of It is not uncomPakistan. these groups has mon, he added, for an emphasis, while Christian women to all of them keep front of mind working be kidnapped and forced to convert to Islam. toward bringing down Pakistan’s staggering Those women are helped as well, he said. illiteracy rate of more than 50 percent, and The work is accommodated by mutual giving people a lift out of poverty. The poor, respect and the rewards are meaningful, but

Pakistan is a dangerous place for minorities, he said.

Indeed, the country’s lone Christian cabinet member, Shahbaz Bhatti, the federal minister for minorities who was an outspoken critic of Pakistan’s blasphemy laws and a Catholic, was assassinated in March, triggering condemnation around the world.

His position has not been filled. Meantime, a radical Islamic party this month launched a campaign seeking a ban on the Bible, described as a “pornographic” and “blasphemous book.” In recent years, the homes of 300 Christians have been set afire.

“Nobody in Pakistan is safe,” said Father Channan. “A person goes to the market, whether Muslim or Christian, and she does not know whether she will be coming back home or not. Police officers are not safe.

Our army is not safe. Our political leaders are not safe. Our human rights leaders are not safe. Some of them have been killed,” he said.

“I don’t feel safe. However, I am not afraid to do the work which I am doing,” said Father Channan, “to promote harmony, to bring reconciliation, to bring a message of respect and tolerance. That is my mission. That is what I am inspired to do, and it was what Jesus Christ taught me by his example.” He added, “He suffered. He died, and he rose up on the third day, so that is a great model for me and an inspiration.”

people should view pornography; whether students should treat those in authority with respect; what students should do to become good friends, spouses and parents as opposed to good citizens,” said Morey.

Leading by example, praying with students, speaking of faith and morals, as part of everyday instruction are all ways the Catholic faith becomes real to students, Father Piderit and Morey said. And that

includes sexual morality, a tough subject to broach, Morey said. “Sometimes our silence is just deafening,” Morey said.

The first Substantially Catholic Conference was held in 2010. Next year’s conference is set for June 11-13, 2012, also at Marin Catholic. For more on the conference presentations, go to wiki. marincatholic.org/groups/substantiallycatholic.

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We’re going to encourage students to follow Christ,” he said. In contrast, the goal of public schools is to create good citizens in a democracy, Morey said. “It’s a virtue of getting along without any substance,” Father Piderit said.

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Former San Quentin warden leads campaign to end death penalty For years, when she was a single parent, Jeanne Woodford wouldn’t turn the lights out in her house. In a 30-plus-year career in corrections and as a former warden of San Quentin State Prison, she has known horrific crimes, and worthy punishment.

She took no pleasure, however, in being a party to executions. There were four on her watch.

“Just imagine asking public servants to wake up every day and have them go to work planning to kill somebody,” said Woodford, who now leads a campaign to eliminate capital punishment in the nation. “It takes a toll on you. You begin to realize how much you are affected by participating in an execution. You have spent 30 to 60 days planning to kill somebody. How can that not affect you?”

Woodford, newly appointed as executive director of Death Penalty Focus, a San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to eliminating the death penalty in favor of prison terms without the possibility of parole, is not a recent convert to the cause.

A lifelong Catholic, she long opposed capital punishment on moral grounds, although she said she does not try to convince people regarding personal moral decisions.

Rather, she took the Death Penalty Focus position to make a case that cost, the potential for executing an innocent person, the lack of assistance to victims, the belief that the death penalty does not deter crime “and many other practical reasons” argue for its abolition.

Woodford also believes the death penalty does not bring resolution to the extended circle of victims and otherwise is a hollow promise.

“It doesn’t seem to me that the death penalty brings any solution,” said Woodford.

A year-old Field Poll found that 70 percent of California voters support the death penalty, although about 42 percent would opt to impose a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole. However, a poll by David Binder Research in San Francisco, released in April, showed much more support for the alternative: 63 percent in the poll supported converting all current death row sentences to life imprisonment without any possibility of parole.

Binder Research framed the poll question in fiscal terms, telling voters of California’s need to close a budget gap.

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By George Raine

Jeanne Woodford is pictured near her office on Market Street in San Francisco. “Our goal is to end capital punishment in California and across the nation,” she said.

along with some $400 million in death row housing estimated by the state adds to $1 billion.

“Our goal is to end capital punishment in California and across the nation,” said Woodford. “We are hoping to convince the governor that he should commute the sentences for those on death row. He (Gov. Jerry Brown) made the decision not to build a new death row,” she said, referring to Brown’s cancelation in April of a $356 million replacement death row as the state can’t afford, “and now the public is in favor of commuting sentences,” said Woodford.

Does that give Death Penalty Focus encouragement? “We hope,” said ‘Just imagine asking public servants to wake up Woodford.

The Catholic Church vigevery day and have them go to work planning to kill orously opposes capital punishment. The church teaches somebody. It takes a toll on you. You begin to realize that each person is created in God’s image and that killing is wrong. The U.S. bishops, how much you are affected by participating in an in a 1999 statement, also said the death penalty perexecution.’ petuates a cycle of violence promotes “a sense of --Jeanne Woodford and vengeance in our culture.” In 2010, the California Catholic Conference said life without Woodford and Death Penalty Focus argue that converting the possibility of parole is an alternative that protects society.

Woodford, too, believes that the cycle of violence of crime the sentences will lead to a $1 billion savings over five years.

The number comes from the California Commission on can be interrupted by programs helpful to inmates.

“The doors to a prison swing both ways,” she said. “For the Fair Administration of Justice, a commission formed by the Legislature in 2006, which found that the annual cost of some people the door opens only going in and not going out the death penalty above and beyond the cost of incarcerating and that is appropriate. For those people for whom the door prisoners for life is at least $125 million annually (largely swings both ways, we need to make sure we are not sending appellate court costs). The $125 million times five is $625, people out worse than when they came in.”

Woodford sought to introduce rehabilitation into the overcrowded and many will say broken state corrections system.

Indeed, the California Department of Corrections was renamed the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation during her tenure as department head appointed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Woodford, a native of West Marin County, had risen in the ranks at San Quentin to become warden, beginning her career as an officer at the prison in 1978.

She had some successes in rehabilitating prisoners. For example, she created the “success dorm” at San Quentin, which only housed inmates paroling within two years and who participated in three self-help groups a week and developed a successful parole plan, but often she was not supported by governors of both major parties as they were unwilling to risk political or budgetary capital, she said.

“And so all the suggestions I made to the governor (Schwarzenegger) were delayed, the governor saying, ‘After the election.’ My response was, ‘There is always an election.’ Everybody is always looking at the next election instead of looking at what constitutes good public policy,” said Woodford.

Frank Zimring, a professor of law at the UC Berkeley School of Law, has followed Woodford’s career – he is also a member of the Death Penalty Focus Advisory Board – and said, “There is in American history a long tradition of prison wardens who identify with the humanity and aspirations of the prisoners. You also have a divide between administrators who saw this as an adversarial relationship and administrators who saw it as a branch of human services, and Jeanne Woodford came from the psychology of human services. It’s a great tradition.”

In her new role, he said, Woodford “completes a transition which she has been making personally for a long time. I think it is a way of exploiting systemic credibility – the fact that she paid at the office on an issue of high moral principle.”

companions them in their joys, their sorrows, their struggles, and their very going home to God. A sinner himself, he does what Jesus told those first apostles to do on God’s behalf, to forgive sins in the power of the Spirit. The pastor cares about the place and the manner of worship, and we recall that Father John Ring helped to make Mater Dolorosa a fitting place of Catholic worship, and here at St. Vincent de Paul, under his stewardship, the church is a beautiful, inviting spiritual home and place of worship for parishioners and visitors as well.

That doesn’t just happen; it takes constant devotion and attention.

As Christ the Prophet, a pastor feeds his people from the two-fold table of the Word, the Scriptures and the Eucharist. Father John Ring proclaims the Gospel clearly and powerfully, and his careful preparation of his homilies generously nourishes his people, week by week. As a teacher of the faith he has enthusiastically supported and encouraged the work of the Young Adult Ministry in St. Vincent de Paul Parish, guiding them in becoming a model for other parishes. He has worked at adult faith formation here, as well as helping to make St. Vincent de Paul Parish School a place of strong Catholic identity and excellent educational standards.

As Christ the Shepherd, a pastor gathers his community together in service to one another and to the world around them. He can do that only by a ministry of presence, day by day, year by year. Many years ago

a famous English Catholic bishop pointed out the close connection between the sacraments of the church and its teaching on social justice. He said that a church that baptizes and confirms its children must care about their physical welfare, their access to a good education, and their growth in their faith; that a church that joins couples in the sacrament of marriage must care about the health of family life, the ability to find work and a decent place to live, and peace and justice as well as human dignity in daily life; that a church that anoints the sick must be devoted to health care that is available to all; that a church that feeds its people with the bread from heaven in the Eucharist must care about all people having enough food to eat; that a church that forgives sins in the power of the Spirit must care about reconciliation and peace between individuals, within families, within communities, and among nations. Father John Ring has preached the full meaning of this gospel throughout his priesthood. Without any fanfare, he has used his own resources and the resources of his parish to assist other parishes and schools in greater need. I cannot help but think that the Good Shepherd sees that kind of shepherding and is pleased indeed.

One retires from being a pastor, but never from being a priest. In the name of the Archdiocese of San Francisco I thank Father John Ring for his years of service to the church here and I assure him of our prayers for him. Ad multos annos — many more years!

Archbishop’s Journal. . .

■ Continued from page 6 church are given and activated by the Spirit: preachers, teachers, missionaries, administrators, models of prayer and service to others — the Spirit orchestrates all those unique, individual gifts into the one life of faith that we live together in the church.

Which brings us to Father John K. Ring, pastor of St. Vincent de Paul Parish. (“And not a moment too soon,” some of you may be mumbling.) It is important, though, to remind ourselves why Pentecost is such a perfect day for a priest to celebrate his golden anniversary. Fifty years ago Jesus Christ the High Priest called John Ring to be a priest, to be ordained to open his life to the Holy Spirit as a witness, a leader and a servant of the life of Jesus Christ in his people, the church. Father Ring and I were ordained a year apart, in the days when John Kennedy was president and Blessed John XXIII was pope. The Second Vatican Council began the year after Father Ring’s priestly ordination. That Council, in its document on the Ministry and Life of Priests, taught that priests were to serve the church by being Christ the Priest, Christ the Prophet, and Christ the Shepherd for his people.

As Christ the Priest, a pastor celebrates the Eucharist and the other sacraments, leads the people in prayer,

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The poor helping the poor: Vincentian group forms at county hospital that takes place. You see how people can develop spiritually and make a dramatic change.”

Striding down the hallway of the new Laguna Honda A parishioner at Sts. Peter and Paul Church in North Beach, Hospital and Rehabilitation Center in cowboy boots and jeans, Brockway responded to a call from Engelhardt to help form the with a religious medal dangling outside his button-down shirt, new conference two years ago. Working with Canossian Sister Richard Engelhardt recalls the doubts that surfaced while preparElizabeth Johnson, Catholic care coordinator at Laguna Honda, ing for the first meeting of San Francisco’s newest St. Vincent they created a conference in which the residents would play as de Paul conference. active a role as possible.

Officially recognized by the St. Vincent de Paul Society earlier this year, forming the new conference required a lengthy Christ at Laguna Honda: First of two parts preparation process, including educational training of its mem“I remember saying, ‘God, this is not working.’ I’d bers. They meet first and third Saturdays of the month in be up on the sixth floor to pick up a member and he’d a room across from the new hospital’s community center. say, ‘Oh, just a minute, I’m gonna have a smoke first.’

“They are very enthusiastic about it,” says Engelhardt.

Then I’d run down to the third floor to get someone else “They have that negative attitude toward meetings someand they would say, ‘Can you give me a few minutes? times that we all have, but it works out well.”

I have to make a phone call.’”

On a rainy first Saturday of June, the members of While rounding up members of the new conference the Conference of St. Francis and St. Clare, including — officially known as the Conference of St. Francis and Engelhardt, Brockway and Sister Elizabeth, gathered in a St. Clare — occasionally produced doubts, the meeting first-floor meeting room. that followed often laid them to rest.

Don, the conference’s president and a long-time “Especially.” says Engelhardt, “when we’re having resident of the hospital, opened the meeting — which, spiritual sharing.” following the society’s guidelines, is designed to be one The sharing that Engelhardt finds inspirational is that long prayer. It begins with a Gospel reading and ends offered by the 20 members of the new conference: longfollowing a closing prayer of petition. term and permanent residents of the hospital whose seriDuring the discussion period, Don talks about the ous medical issues often stem from horrific accidents or necessity of studying the readings, and then listening debilitating diseases. Many are confined to wheelchairs. quietly to God for inspiration on how to implement them.

Despite daunting challenges and limitations, they have “You have to be able to shut your mouth sometimes,” managed — with the help of Engelhardt and several he says, which prompts laughter from the group. others — to create a compassionate ministry devoted Carol, a resident who dressed for the occasion, to serving the needs of new residents. responds to the readings and talks about how she lost The St. Francis and St. Clare Conference is one control over her life when she was confined to her bed of only two St. Vincent de Paul Society conferences for a year following surgery. This was her first meeting in San Francisco not formed in a parish. But the most since the surgery. unique aspect of it has to do with its members and their “You pray and you ask for help because you need his ministry: the poor serving the poor.

(God’s) help, and you get it,” she says, “I can attend this “Nobody knows more than the residents about what meeting. I can get up twice a day. I can stand for five the needs of the new people are,” says Engelhardt, a minutes. I can rejoin the community.” parishioner at St. Thomas More Church and a 20-year Following discussion about planning a retreat, the costs Patients and caregivers are pictured at Laguna Honda Hospital veteran of the society. “It’s the people here helping each related to a resident’s memorial service and the status of and Rehabilitation Center in San Francisco. Members of a new St. other, which is what I think is cool.” the budget, the group finally breaks up into smaller groups It is the new residents, says Engelhardt, a founder Vincent de Paul Society conference at the hospital bring prayer and to visit new residents. and treasurer of the new conference, who often have it Engelhardt and Don visit a resident named Michael in fellowship to residents. the hardest. Some are lonely. Others are angry or scared. one of the hospital’s wards, who happens to be watching Most didn’t decide to be here.

TV when they arrive at his room.

Jesus, a resident at Laguna Honda and a founding member not interested in praying to him.”

After introducing themselves, they take some time to learn of the new conference, remembers being mostly angry when he “Well then, do you mind if I pray?” Engelhardt asked him. something about Michael’s life. To many of the questions, entered the hospital, and struggling to accept the enormity of Through subsequent visits, Engelhardt continued to pray Michael replies that his father was a chef and that he was fired what had happened to him: One day he was a healthy young man while Frank remained mute. from his job. Occasionally, he laughs involuntarily while speaking. fond of cruising around town in his 1965 Chevy Impala. The One day, Engelhardt arrived for a visit.

Engelhardt asks the new patient if they can pray with him. next day, after the auto accident, he was laying in the hospital “Are we going to pray today?” said Frank.

“That seems … extreme,” Michael says. fighting for his life. For the past 16 years he has been cruising “It’s really amazing sometimes,” says David Brockway, also “But a good extreme — right?” says Englehardt. around the hospital in his wheelchair. a conference founder and vice president. “You can get some very “I guess so,” says Michael.

“There are times when I still feel angry,” he says. cantankerous individuals, but you can also see the transformation From his wheelchair, Don begins, “Our Father …”

When the conference was being formed, Jesus and the other members decided that their mission would be to visit the newest residents of the hospital. The idea was to visit them in small groups, to welcome them and offer friendship. They would answer any questions they might have about their new home, and then pray together.

“To pray with them,” says Engelhardt, “is one of the most rewarding aspects of the mission.”

Not everyone, however, felt like praying. When asked if he would like to join the group in prayer, a patient named Frank said, “I figure God hasn’t done so much for me lately, so I’m

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By Dana Perrigan

Marin woman speaks to Vatican group on work to eliminate land mines of Jerusalem. Kuhn notes that the region, that also includes Qasr el Yahud, the baptismal site of Jesus on the Jordan River, is important to Christians, Jews and Muslims.

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the encyclical letter She is hoping that donors will note that they are blessed “Mater et Magistra,” a document focused on the principles not to live in a world of land mines – there are an estimated of Catholic social teaching, the Vatican invited a San Rafael 70 million in 70 countries – and is hopeful she will reach her woman to tell an international gathering how her simple congoal by October, “so that it can be done by Christmas.” She cept of replacing land mines with grape vines yields global added, “We could say that we got it started there – deminharvests of hope. ing the Middle East, with all that is going on. It would be a Heidi Kuhn, the founder and CEO of Roots of Peace, a wonderful, laudable gift to say, here is a gift to the Holy humanitarian, interfaith and nonpolitical nonprofit Land,” said Kuhn. organization, was invited to the May conference at the Kuhn, with her husband, Gary, the executive director Vatican, as well as to meet with Pope Benedict XVI, to of Roots of Peace, traveled to Rome in mid-May for the describe how the effort meets the test Pope John XXIII appearance despite her having had surgery around Easter, established in the 1961 encyclical when he wrote: “It and over her doctor’s protest. “There was a purpose,” she is not enough merely to formulate a social doctrine. said. “I’m going on faith, not fear. I could raise the visIt must be translated into reality.” ibility of the land mine issue as part of this international In major campaigns currently under way in congress. That was a great reward.”

Afghanistan and Vietnam, and about to launch in the She added, “Without removing the land mines you Holy Land, Roots of Peace identifies areas where land cannot rebuild society and that has been our best practice mines are buried, removes them and plants in their that I wanted to share.” place fruits and other commodities that can be sent to In March, Kuhn was in Afghanistan, where Gen. market for the benefit of people who have lived amid David Petraeus, U.S. commander of the International the scourge of buried explosives.

Security Assistance Force, honored her and the nonprofit Since its founding in 2003, Roots of Peace deminfor the humanitarian effort in the country. ing and replanting has also taken place in Angola, There, Roots of Peace is on track to plant 5 milCambodia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Iraq, and the lion trees, said Kuhn, including 1,000 cherry trees that Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, which arranged Heidi Kuhn greets Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican in May. have been planted beneath the Giant Buddha statues in the conference, was particularly interested in the best Bamyan that were bombed by the Taliban. practices of the San Rafael-based nonprofit, in the Land mines, according to the United National Mine context of “Mater et Magistra” – “Mother and Teacher.”

Kuhn said that Rome was keenly interested in plans to Action Services, a clearing house of land mine information, “I am a mother and teacher,” said Kuhn. “We have been able to teach on a worldwide scale the ability to remove land mines demine the Holy Land because, as she said, “The holy lands can be buried at a cost of $3 and removed for some $1,000.

They can be detonated with 8 pounds of pressure – the averand to teach a farmer what has been lost to the ravages of war are not holy when there are land mines in the ground.”

They date to the 1967 war, and while the Israeli Knesset age weight of a newborn child. Some 26,000 people are killed and how to plant whatever seed will grow, and to be able to go this year unanimously approved a demining campaign in the and maimed by the explosions every year, nearly half of them one step further and create export markets.”

Indeed, as Kuhn told an audience that included cardinals, region, Roots of Peace has launched a capital campaign to raise children.

“We need to clean up our mess,” said Kuhn. “It’s global archbishops and bishops, as well as other heads of nonprofits $100,000 to begin the work in the area of Husan, a Palestinian from around the world, Roots of Peace – demining in 28 of the community a few kilometers west of Bethlehem and southwest housekeeping.”

By George Raine

34 provinces in Afghanistan — has shown farmers that they can earn approximately $7,000 in net income for growing fruits and nuts compared with some $3,000 for growing poppies.

That market opened in 2010: Roots of Peace helped establish markets for Afghan pomegranates in Canada and Holland. In Vietnam, where Kuhn said there may be more than 3 million land mines still buried 35 years after the war ended, Roots of Peace has helped 1,000 farmers plant cacao, for which they can earn $7,000 in net income.

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Spirit and heresy Responding to Peggy Saunders’ lengthy letter (“Teachers’ conundrum,” June 10): For 2,000 years heretics have invoked a “holy spirit” to support their heresies. That explains why we now have over 30,000 “Christian” denominations.

Father Andrew Johnson San Francisco

Sees policy mistake While I don’t doubt the bishops’ good intentions on immigration, for many of us their actions and policies seem untethered to reason or justice, and, fortunately, to any hope of success. Bishop Thomas Wenski’s recent Guest Commentary (“Leadership gap on immigration reform,” June 10) urging opposition to a necessary and just law (E-Verify) in an effort to wring more concessions is Machiavellian in its strategy, and reckless and sinister in its implication.

Certainly illegal immigrants should be treated compassionately, fairly and respectfully. But we don’t have to promote corruption, reward dishonest businessmen or jettison our sense of fairness just to make life easier for illegal immigrants.

And if we do, America will be no different from the places they left. They have created enormous problems for themselves, society and the nation. There are no easy solutions. But let’s not make matters worse.

To many it seems exceedingly arrogant of the bishops (not one of whom was elected or appointed to his position by any American) to be proposing detailed strategies and policies far outside their areas of expertise for 300 million Americans — policies that undercut the U.S. rule of law, make a mockery of America’s most cherished values and discriminate against poor Americans and legal immigrants, seemingly in an effort to favor a group of predominantly Catholic foreigners and corrupt businessmen.

This is the ninth year of the bishops’ ill-advised pursuit of a destructive immigration agenda that appears neither wise nor moral. It is way past time for the bishops to clean house on their advisers and reconsider.

John J. Wallace Menlo Park

Debating discontinuity Thank you for publishing the editorial by the editor of the archdiocesan newspaper of Perth, Australia (“A bishop who finally had to go,” May 27, on the removal

by Pope Benedict XVI of Bishop William Morris of Toowoomba, Australia). It begins with a learned-sounding discussion of the hermeneutics of continuity and discontinuity, but soon the poison seeps through. As one reads along, it becomes clear that the writer has his own, tortured definition of “discontinuity” as “a mentality that seeks to reverse some or much church teaching, not excluding the dogmatically defined magisterium ....”

That of course is nonsense. The writer sees continuity as the Garden of Eden and discontinuity as the snake in the garden. It’s a nasty, common technique, but shows what Morris may have been up against if the writer is the voice of the Send letters to Catholic San Francisco, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco CA 94109; fax (415) 614-5641; e-mail delvecchior@ sfarchdiocese.org, and include “Letters” in the subject line.

Perth archdiocese. The division between continuity (defined by the writer, and others like him, as all the good things you can think of) and discontinuity (all the bad things) is a phony distinction. It is one sometimes made by some archconservatives and fundamentalists, to throw mud against elements of Vatican II with which they still don’t agree. The Second Vatican Council saw 2,540 bishops meet over three years and hammer out in vigorous discussion some 14 major documents describing the church in our world. As is often the case, not everybody got everything they wanted, but among those who didn’t were some in key places of power and they have continued to wage their debate even after the fathers of the council had overwhelmingly approved documents. The key document describing the church, for example, was approved 2,151 to 5.

But all this is beside the point. Vatican II said nothing about women priests or married priests. The editorial reminds me of the saying that if all you have is a hammer, then everything looks like a nail. Bishop Morris, at least what most of us have heard, wrote a pastoral letter suggesting that “if the church changed its doctrine … other options may well need to be considered” to address the growing shortage of priests, including “ordaining married or single men … welcoming former priests, married or single … ordaining women … recognizing Anglican, Lutheran or Uniting Church Orders.”

Of course Pope Benedict is bringing in married priests by the carload as he has created an ordinariate for Anglican priests, including many who are married. One newspaper recently had a lovely photo of a new Catholic priest (recently Anglican) with his wife and six children. So the pope has said yes to several of Morris’ suggestions (Anglican orders and married priests) but mentioning women priests is a third rail. We understand that Pope John Paul II has ruled women priests off limits and that Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as head of the confraternity ruled that this is part of the church’s teaching to which we must all assent. So sadly we must accept this unfortunate position. Of course those Anglicans (now Catholic priests) have had long experience working with fellow priests who are women, including the woman they elected as bishop to lead the U.S. Anglican Church. The more Anglicans that Pope Benedict brings in, the more one wonders whether a camel is getting its nose under the tent.

John W. Weiser Kentfield

Local AIDS response This month’s 30th anniversary of the first known case of HIV/AIDS has brought to mind the tremendous response of Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of San Francisco to the epidemic.

In 1985 when HIV/AIDS was rapidly spreading in San Francisco, Catholic Charities was among the first to step up and provide assistance to people living with HIV/AIDS, particularly those at risk of losing their housing because of medical or other expenses. Thanks to a grant obtained from the St. Joseph Hospital Foundation, a needs assessment was made and funds were set aside to provide much needed care for individuals to cover medical expenses and housing. Catholic Charities of San Francisco also hosted the nation’s first interfaith conference on AIDS, bringing together Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim and Christian leaders.

Thanks to private donations and government grants, the program grew into the largest provider of housing to people with HIV/AIDS west of the Mississippi, it is

still so. The population has always been people with dual or triple diagnosis (HIV, substance use or mental health issues).

This is the hardest population to house, but Catholic Charities has always seen these as people in need of compassion, even when others did not.

Even though I have not been affiliated with Catholic Charities for many years, I will always feel a debt of gratitude for their vision and service.

Bob Nelson Daly City The writer is a former executive director of Catholic Charities in the archdiocese.

Boomers’ legacy

than the columns.) Keep up the good work, give us the variety of thought in our community, and never be afraid to show both sides of an issue. That helps us think, an ability that God gave us so that we can find him.

Denis Nolan Daly City

Repay Social Security Re: The letter by Philip Feiner (“Weigel right on debt,” June 10) concerning the Congressional Budget Office report that Social Security will effectively run a $45 billion deficit in 2011 and continue to run deficits totaling $547 billion over the coming decade.

This would not happen if the members of Congress and the Senate would stop dipping their sticky fingers into Social Security funds and repay every penny they owe Social Security.

Walter E. Marston San Francisco

L E T T E R S

A recent federal survey stated that 48 percent of the population lives in a marital setting — marital being cited as the long held and valid definition of a union of man and woman in a state of matrimony. The “Boomer generation” must begin to reassess the direction which society has traversed under its auspices. The presence of a stable family structure is the sinew which stabilizes a society. The sense of commitment which the male and female genders develop provides the nurturing environment that is necessary for children to develop and to lead useful, constructive lives. No government, no redefinition of marriage, no social bureaucratic complex can replace the stability which a traditional family provides. Perhaps some good can be derived from the present fiscal policies of the aforementioned bureaucratic complexes by examining if said policies are in themselves detrimental to the traditional family.

Mike McAdoo San Francisco

Praising Fr. Greene Quite naturally all people, including people of faith, feel powerless in the face of death. And so I am certain that, like all San Franciscans, we Catholics are struggling to find something more we might do to support the families and colleagues of Anthony Valerio and Vincent Perez, two firefighters killed in the line of duty.

As we pray for those who feel this loss the most, I ask that we each take a moment to offer up a prayer of thanksgiving to God for the ministry of Father John Greene, who has so faithfully served the firefighters and their families as chaplain to the SFFD since 1983. In the name of Jesus Christ and on our behalf, Father Greene is a genuine minister of God’s compassion, healing and strength to a community all too familiar with crisis and trauma.

Father Greene’s pastoral care for the Valerio and Perez families, the SFFD personnel and all San Franciscans who gathered here to grieve throughout the week was nothing less than heroic. May Father Greene continue to enjoy the unfailing support of his parishioners at St. Monica Parish, who so generously share their pastor with the SFFD for this demanding ministry, one which he so obviously loves and performs with such distinction.

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

Opinion range a plus In the June 10 issue there were a number of letters criticizing Catholic San Francisco for being too conservative and slanted. In that same issue, there were two pages of letters which covered many topics from a number of positions.

Showing both sides of an issue is far from being slanted one way or another, and I compliment the editors for doing just that. In many ways, the letters are far more important than the columns. They show us what our community is thinking. They give us food for thought that the columns often miss. (Unfortunately, they are also often far more interesting

Not God’s fault

Re: “Violent or nonviolent,” (Letters, June 10).

If the writer would ponder Father Ron Rolheiser’s article, “God and violence” (May 27). It is not God who is violent but we who killed Jesus Christ, God’s only beloved son? What would you do if your beloved children, grandchildren, parents or friends were victims of human violence?

Human beings will deal with “kill for a kill,” a tooth for a tooth, but God in his holy Trinity is loving and forgiving and still waiting for us — for our change of heart.

Rose M. Jardin San Bruno

Conserve paper I think if the San Francisco archdiocese is serious about care for the environment, then Catholic San Francisco should not be mailed out in paper and ink form every week.

If Catholic San Francisco asked people to e-mail in their addresses if they prefer an electronic newspaper, it would probably reach and be read by more young people. Studies show that young people get all of their information online. They simply do not read paper newspapers anymore.

Please do the planet a favor and offer the option of getting the newspaper electronically. I know I could cancel my paper and go find Catholic San Francisco on the website every week, but most people won’t remember to do that.

The amount of wood pulp, ink, fossil fuel burned in transport, etc., to deliver Catholic San Francisco in paper form is enormous. The archdiocese needs to join the “green ethic” of almost all other organizations that offer their publications electronically.

The Catholic Church is supposed to be a moral voice on protection of God’s creation. Stop the unnecessary damage to the planet and offer this newspaper electronically.

Laurie Joyce San Anselmo Editor’s note: We welcome reader comments on Laurie’s concerns and note that the paper is working to expand and diversify its non-print distribution, which includes a PDF version of the print issue, published on catholic-sf.org the Tuesday night before the Friday of each publication date; individual articles from the print issue posted on catholic-sf.org; and an e-Newsletter sent to subscribers, containing links to a sample of current stories in print and on the Internet.

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Guest Commentary

Explaining church teaching on marriage The Minnesota House and Senate have placed a constitutional amendment on the November 2012 ballot that will define marriage in the state of Minnesota as the union between one man and one woman.

Regrettably, the media and some secular commentators have chosen to mischaracterize this measure as anti-gay, mean-spirited and prejudicial. This is not the case or the intent behind the initiative.

The Minnesota Catholic Conference, made up of the seven Catholic bishops from the state, support this amendment not for prejudicial or political reasons, but rather for reasons that are theological, biological and pastoral.

Theologically, the definition of marriage predates any government or religious denomination. As we read in the Bible, it reflects God’s plan for man and woman to share in his creative power of bringing new life into the world (Genesis 1:27-28). This is ratified by Jesus himself in Matthew 19:8-9.

It is a truth that is also evident in light of the natural moral law, which grounds our understanding of the dignity that belongs to each human person.

In addition, the very biological, not to mention spiritual, complementarity of the two sexes defines the reproductive nature of their relationship which, in turn, enhances the wellbeing and joy of that union. The enfleshed oneness of a man and a woman is indeed a communion of life and love.

Pastorally, children flourish best in the context of having both a mother and a father. Every scientific study confirms this reality. We know that many single parents strive mightily to raise children in as normal a context as possible — and many do an excellent job at this. Nevertheless, it is a proven fact that boys and girls develop better with the influence of a mother and a father, living in the same home.

It should also be remembered that the teaching of the church is always meant to uphold and enhance the inherent dignity of the human person as a son or daughter of God. In this regard, I publish here with his permission an article written

by Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York. His argumentation is hard to refute: “Marriage: the core of every civilization” It was one of the more uncomfortable moments in my life.

Outside of St. John the Evangelist Cathedral in Milwaukee, where I, as archbishop, was celebrating Sunday

Mass on an otherwise magnificent Wisconsin autumn day, were a couple dozen very vocal protesters, representing some off-brand denomination, shouting vicious chants and holding hateful signs with words I thought had gone the way of burning crosses and white hoods.

This frenzied group, taunting the people as they left Mass, were rabid in criticizing the Catholic Church, especially her bishops, for our teaching that homosexuals deserve dignity and respect.

To be more precise, this group was yelling at us because, they objected, the Catholic Church was so friendly, welcoming, and defensive of gay (they used other foul words) people.

They waved placards explicitly quoting and condemning No. 2358 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which affirms the dignity of those with same-sex attraction, and warns against any form of prejudice, hatred or unjust discrimination against them, and insists that homosexual acts, not persons, are not in conformity with God’s design.

Never have I faced such a vitriolic crowd, blasting the church for simply following the teaching of Jesus by loving and respecting people regardless of anything, including their sexual orientation.

When a reporter asked me for a comment, I replied, “They’re right: we do love and respect homosexual people.

These protesters understand church teaching very well.”

I’ve been recalling that episode often of late, because now I hear Catholics — and, I am quick to add, Jews, other Christians, Muslims and men and women of no faith at all — who have thoughtfully expressed grave disapproval of the current rush to redefine marriage, branded as bigots and bullies who hate gays.

Nonsense! We are not anti-anybody; we are pro-marriage.

The definition of marriage is a given: It is a lifelong union of love and fidelity leading, please God, to children, between one man and one woman.

History, natural law, the Bible (if you’re so inclined), the religions of the world, human experience and just plain gumption tell us this is so. The definition of marriage is hardwired into our human reason.

To uphold that traditional definition, to strengthen it and to defend it is not a posture of bigotry or bullying. Nor is it a denial of the “right” of anybody. As the philosophers

remind us, in a civilized, moral society, we have the right to do what we ought, not to do whatever we want. Not every desire is a right.

To tamper with that definition, or to engage in some Orwellian social Archbishop John engineering about the C. Nienstedt nature and purpose of marriage, is perilous to all of us. If the definition of marriage is continually being altered, could it not in the future be morphed again to include multiple spouses or even family members?

Nor is it “imposing” some narrow outmoded religious conviction. One might well ask just who is doing the “imposing” here: those who simply defend what the human drama has accepted from the start, a belief embedded in nature and at the core of every civilization — the definition of marriage — or those who all of a sudden want to scrap it because “progressive, enlightened, tolerant culture” calls for it.

Sadly, as we see in countries where such a redefinition has occurred, “tolerance” is hardly the result, as those who hold to the given definition of marriage now become harassed and penalized.

If big, intrusive government can redefine the most basic, accepted, revealed truth that marriage simply means one man + one woman + (hopefully) children, in a loving family, then, I’m afraid, Orwell’s works will no longer be on the fiction shelf. As someone commented to me the other day, “Wouldn’t it be better for our government to work on fixing schools than on redefining marriage?”

And resistance to this rush to radically redefining the ingrained meaning of marriage cannot be reduced to an act of prejudice against people with a same-sex attraction.

God love you!

The writer is archbishop of the Archdiocese of Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minn. The article appeared in the June 9 issue of the archdiocesan newspaper The Catholic Spirit.

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Years removed from Dallas In his March 2011 address to the Administrative Committee of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, conference President Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan of New York referenced the Philadelphia grand jury’s Feb. 10 report mandating the Archdiocese of Philadelphia to “review all of the old allegations against currently active priests and to remove from ministry all of the priests with credible allegations against them.”

The grand jury’s 124-page report cited 37 priests as continuing in active ministry in the archdiocese despite credible allegations of sex abuse against them. Subsequently, 24 priests were suspended, others were found innocent, and some have left the priesthood.

See related story, Page 1 He named the grand jury’s findings “painful [and] needing our careful attention.” He reaffirmed the USCCB’s 2002 Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People and the Essential Norms which carry the force of law. The protection of children, he said, is “of the highest priority” and the bishops “remain especially firm in our commitment to remove permanently from public ministry any priest who committed such an intolerable offense.” Zero tolerance is the dominant principle of the charter: Even a single offense, no matter the mitigating circumstances, is deemed sufficient to debar a priest for life from the exercise of ministry, including the possibility of laicization.

While Archbishop Dolan’s remarks are fundamentally and understandably canonical in nature, his St. Patrick’s Day “Pastoral Letter on the Sacrament of Penance” places his concerns in an important moral context. He persuasively argues that in the midst of these scandals Christ “does not release his grip on the church. In spite of [our] weakness ... he keeps the church in his grasp.” If there is one thing the sexual abuse scandals has taught “in a most painful way (it is) the reality of sin.”

A number of events landscape Archbishop Dolan’s reflections: April was National Child Abuse Prevention Month; the USCCB’s June meeting in Seattle to review the charter and norms; the April 4 keynote address at Marquette University

Law School by Dublin Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, “Harm, Hope and Healing: International Dialogue on the Clergy Sex Abuse Scandal,” where he argued the need to “examine clericalism and other elements of church culture that may have contributed to the scandal’s longevity;” and the March 2011 letter to Archbishop Dolan from the USCCB’s National Review Board that two dioceses and five eparchies are not in compliance with the charter.

As the U.S. bishops revisit their policies on clergy sex abuse, some members of the church are raising two controversial points: (a) The bishops should re-examine their zero tolerance policy on the grounds that all sexual breaches against children are not of equal weight, whereby creating disproportionate inequities by making no distinctions among different degrees of gravity of sex abuse, and (b) because there are insufficient safeguards against false accusations, the automatic suspension after a charge is lodged and while it is being investigated needs rethinking.

Such concerns constitute major challenges. It seems apparent at the moment, however, that bishops are not disposed to any fundamental revisions in the charter or essential norms.

At the same time, certain ongoing moral issues do seem to call for further consideration: First, the meaning of sexual abuse. The Essential Norms of 2002 defined sexual abuse in terms of inappropriate behavior, conduct or interaction with a minor. The 2006 revision replaces this understanding by stating that “sexual abuse shall include any offense by a cleric against the Sixth Commandment of the Decalogue with a minor as understood in ... canon[s] 1395:2 and ... 1453:1.” Additionally, in light of John Paul II’s 2001 motu proprio, Sacramentorum santitatis tutela (article 4:1), “the more grave delicts against the Sacrament of Penance [are] reserved to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.”

The footnote to this revision states that “if there is any doubt whether a specific act qualifies as an external, objectively grave violation, the writings of recognized moral theologians should be consulted, and the opinions of recognized experts should be appropriately obtained.” Ultimately, however, it is the responsibility of the diocesan bishop “to determine the gravity of the alleged act.”

Classical moral theologians include intention as an intrinsic part of judging the morality of an act but also recognize that intention is not always easy to prove. Nevertheless, if a bishop determines that a child has been deliber- Father Gerald D. ately used in any way as Coleman, SS an object of sexual gratification by an adult, this constitutes sexual abuse according to the definition above. Chapter 5 of Matthew is the biblical foundation for this moral reasoning: “... I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart” (v. 28). Sexual abuse may include, therefore, not only sexual contact but also grooming behaviors and the viewing of child pornography.

Second, the need in justice to protect priests who are falsely accused. Accusations of sexual misconduct against a cleric are considered the most serious claim one could make against a priest. Unfortunately at present, the process unintentionally implies guilt until innocence is proven. Some believe that priests have been sacrificed to the bishops’ desire to protect children. Archbishop Dolan recognizes that under current policy any credible but unsubstantiated allegation triggers suspension pending a preliminary investigation and “in the vast majority of instances you can’t remove a guy without people jumping to conclusions.” Mary Jane Doerr, associate director of the USCCB’s Office of Child and Youth Protection, insists that the bishops do care about the rights of accused priests and “they have no reason to ruin a man’s career.”

Third, many accused priests find themselves assumed guilty on the basis of allegations alone, charges that often do not have corroborating evidence or support. Since all accusations represent an intrinsic threat to diocesan credibility in its care for children and youth, the vast majority of accused priests who have been tried and exonerated by a diocesan tribunal have not been fully reinstated in active ministry. The concern YEARS REMOVED, page 20

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A READING FROM THE BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY DT 8:2-3, 14B-16A Moses said to the people: “Remember how for forty years now the Lord, your God, has directed all your journeying in the desert, so as to test you by affliction and find out whether or not it was your intention to keep his commandments. He therefore let you be afflicted with hunger, and then fed you with manna, a food unknown to you and your fathers, in order to show you that not by bread alone does one live, but by every word that comes forth from the mouth of the Lord.

“Do not forget the Lord, your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that place of slavery; who guided you through the vast and terrible desert with its saraph serpents and scorpions, its parched and waterless ground; who brought forth water for you from the flinty rock and fed you in the desert with manna, a food unknown to your fathers.”

RESPONSORIAL PSALM PS 147:12-13, 14-15, 19-20 R. Praise the Lord, Jerusalem.

“I am the living bread that came down from heaven …” John 6:51.

In September 1994, Nicholas Green, age 7, an American boy vacationing in Italy with his parents, was shot and killed by bandits on a highway. The heartbroken parents spontaneously donated Nicholas’ organs to seven different young people.

Their dramatic generosity stunned the whole of Italy. Everyone was astonished at how much life could flow from a single donor, a little boy. While the Greens were showered with the highest civilian awards, the organ donation went up 25 percent, a phenomenon dubbed as “The Green Effect.”

This Sunday, the feast of the Body and Blood of Christ, we bask in the “Jesus Effect.” He impacts our lives in an awesome way. He gives us his own body and blood. This was done on the cross when he was broken and pierced.

Before his suffering and death, at the Last Supper, Jesus blessed the bread and the cup and said: “This is my body, this is my blood. Eat and drink. Always remember me when you do this.” The effect of this donation of Jesus’ life lies in our becoming Christ-like. This is what St. Leo the Great meant when he said: “The effect of our sharing in the body and blood of Christ is to change us into what we receive.”

This is the “Jesus Effect!” It’s no

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Solemnity of the Most Holy Body & Blood of Christ Deuteronomy 8:2-3; 14b-16a, Psalm 147:12-13, 14-15, 19-20; 1 Corinthians 10:16-17; John 6:51-58 Glorify the Lord, O Jerusalem; praise your God, O Zion. For he has strengthened the bars of your gates; he has blessed your children within you.

R. Praise the Lord, Jerusalem.

He has granted peace in your borders; with the best of wheat he fills you. He sends forth his command to the earth; swiftly runs his word!

R. Praise the Lord, Jerusalem.

He has proclaimed his word to Jacob, his statutes and his ordinances to Israel. He has not done thus for any other nation; his

ordinances he has not made known to them.

Alleluia.

R. Praise the Lord, Jerusalem.

A READING FROM THE FIRST LETTER OF PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS 1 COR10:16-17 Brothers and sisters: The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ?

Because the loaf of bread is one, we, though

Scripture reflection FATHER CHARLES PUTHOTA

The ‘Jesus Effect’ longer we who live, but Christ who lives in us, as St. Paul proclaims. The result will be for us to become eucharists in our own turn by sharing our body and blood, our time and energy, our material and spiritual gifts, so that others can have life and hope.

The gospel about Jesus being the “living bread that came down from heaven” is a popular passage for first Communion Mass. I explain to the second graders eager to receive Communion for the first time — and to the captive congregation of their families — that even as we enjoy our

favorite breads which are essential to feed our physical hunger, Jesus is the “bread of life,” in the sense that he is essential for our life. We cannot manage without him, however hard we might unconsciously keep trying. To the degree that we can live consciously from this conviction, we would experience the Jesus Effect: the capacity to live a life of grace and service.

To live such a life of grace and service is not a walk in the park; it might be a treacherous journey through a desert, as Israelites in Deuteronomy discovered.

God’s gift of manna, which foreshadows

many, are one body, for we all partake of the one loaf.

A READING FROM THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JOHN JN 6:51-58 Jesus said to the Jewish crowds:”I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world.”

The Jews quarreled among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day. For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him. Just as the living Father sent me and I have life because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on me will have life because of me.

This is the bread that came down from heaven.

Unlike your ancestors who ate and still died, whoever eats this bread will live forever.”

Jesus’ gift of his body and blood, is essential for the survival of a people journeying toward the Promised Land. Eucharist, therefore, mediates God’s presence in Jesus, through our trials and temptations, dangers and despair. The Eucharistic Jesus is essential for our survival.

In the second reading, we realize that as we journey together, despite our differences, we are forged into one body, because we eat the same bread and share the same cup of Christ. Eucharist thus becomes a powerful symbol — and sacrament — of unity and harmony for the whole world.

Some concrete actions for our consideration: Do I and my family make a sincere effort to participate in the weekend Eucharist, an essential identifying quality for being Catholic?

Do I experience the “Jesus Effect” in my “eucharistic” deeds of love and selflessness?

How can I be a unifier and reconciler?

Knowing that Eucharist originated in the context of love and suffering, how can I help alleviate pain and suffering in my community?

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

The church was catholic from the first moment In his homily June 12 at Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica on the feast of Pentecost, Pope Benedict XVI said that “the Spirit which created all things, and the Holy Spirit which Christ caused to descend from the father upon the community of disciples, are one and the same. Creation and redemption are mutually intertwined and constitute a single mystery of love and salvation.”

Pope Benedict XVI

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“The Holy Spirit,” he went on, “is first and foremost the Spirit of creation; and so Pentecost is the

Pope Benedict XVI kisses a baby as he leaves after celebrating Mass on the feast of Pentecost in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican June 12.

feast of creation. For we Christians the world is the result of an act of love by God, who made all things. ... Thus God is not the absolute other, indescribable and obscure, God reveals himself, he has a face, God is reason, God is will, God is love, God is beauty.”

Benedict XVI explained that “the Holy Spirit is the one who enables us to recognize ourselves in Christ the Lord, and causes us to pronounce the church’s profession of faith: ‘Jesus is Lord.’” In this context, he also pointed out that “by reciting the creed we enter into the mystery of the Pentecost. ...

The creed brings us together from all over the world.

Through the Holy Spirit, it ensures we understand one another though speaking different languages.

Through faith, hope and love, the new community of the church of God is formed.”

“The Holy Spirit animates the church,” the pope said. “The church is not the result of human will, of reflection, of man’s abilities or his capacity for organization. If this were the case she would have passed out of existence a long time ago, just as all human things pass. She is, rather, the Body of Christ animated by the Holy Spirit.”

“The church was catholic from the first moment of her existence. Her universality is not the result of the subsequent inclusion of different communities: From the first instant the Holy Spirit created her as the church of all peoples. She embraces the entire world, crossing frontiers of race, class and nation, breaking down barriers and uniting mankind in the proclama-

tion of the one and triune God. From her beginnings, the church was one, catholic and apostolic. This is her true nature and as such she must be recognized. She is holy, not thanks to any capacity of her members, but because God himself, with his Spirit, continuously creates, purifies and sanctifies her.”

The pope finished his Pentecost Sunday liturgy by singing the Regina Coeli – or Queen of Heaven – the traditional Easter season anthem to the Blessed Virgin Mary.

In his address to accompany the Regina Coeli, he drew upon the words of the 19th century Italian priest, Blessed Antonio Rosmini, who explained, “in the day of Pentecost, the Christian God ... promulgated his law of love, writing with the Holy Spirit not on tablets of stone but in the hearts of the Apostles, and through the Apostles, then communicating it to the whole church.”

The pope concluded by entrusting the church to “the Virgin Mary, temple of the Holy Spirit” and imparting his apostolic blessing on departing pilgrims.

Pentecost is one of the most prominent feast days in the Christian calendar. It is often referred to as the “birthday of the church.”

It marks the day, nearly 2,000 years ago, when the Holy Spirit descended upon the Apostles, who had been living in fear for 50 days following the resurrection of Jesus Christ on Easter.

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What are your gifts? The Holy Spirit and teens This May I visited with a group of students preparing for the sacrament of confirmation. All year, they had been meeting, studying about the sacrament, attending retreats, and spending time with their sponsors. They had also been taking tests, writing papers, playing sports, and squeezing in time with friends. When I asked them to share one thing that they were good at with the group, I was amazed at how much talent was in the room.

“I guess soccer is my talent,” one student said, “My team has gone to the playoffs every year.”

“I’m a good listener,” said another, “My friends always talk to me about their problems.”

“Music,” said someone else.

“Dance,” said another.

One thing was certain: Everyone was amazingly busy with their lives. Sometimes it feels like there are more opportunities than hours in the day. How do we decide what is right for us?

How do we make good choices about where to spend our time?

We start by praying about and reflecting upon what God has given us, both in opportunity and in ability. And we listen to and talk with others, to help discern where we might be needed.

Me, gifted? Yes! All of us have gifts, given by God, to use freely in our lives. In addition to gifts like music, sports, kindness and leadership skills, as baptized Catholics, we have certain spiritual gifts — those of the Holy Spirit—which are poured onto us when we are confirmed. The gifts of the spirit are wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety, wonder and awe. These strengthen us to live out our faith as mature Christians.

Pentecost Sunday, this year June 12, is when the Catholic Church particularly celebrates the Holy Spirit coming down upon the Apostles in the locked room, marking the beginning of the church as an evangelizing church. At confirmation, each of us receives the gifts of the Spirit that were bestowed on the Apostles nearly 2,000 years ago.

What a wonderful thing to contemplate! With the laying on of hands by the bishop during confirmation, we are strengthened.

Wisdom gives us the ability to learn from our lives and the lives of others. Understanding helps us to see the point of view of the other, a gateway to developing the virtue of compassion.

Right judgment helps us to make good choices. Courage gives us the strength to stand up for ourselves and those weaker than we are. Knowledge helps us to know God’s voice in our lives, and reverence helps us to treat God and others with respect.

Wonder and awe fill us as we sense God’s presence in nature, and in other people. Did you ever imagine that God could give you so much?

A few weeks after the confirmation retreat I saw some of the participants and asked them what it felt like to be confirmed.

(PHOTO COURTESY OF ST. MATTHIAS PARISH)

By Vivian Clausing

Alex Casarez and Kristen Dames of St. Matthias Parish were among more than 70 youths and adults confirmed

by Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice at St. Mary’s Cathedral on Pentecost Sunday.

“Do you feel any different?” I asked.

The answer, surprisingly, depends on you. In confirmation, we begin to take on an adult faith journey that calls us to engagement and responsibility. As disciples, we are called to make the effort to identify our gifts and figure out how to offer them to others.

Post-confirmation is about commitment — to the faith, to the community, and to God. We are called to live out our faith by showing our compassion and love to the world. We are called to make a difference.

How might we figure out how to live this commitment?

Pray-Ask-Act! — Prayer life. Take time to develop your relationship with God. Go to Mass with your family. Pray in the car on the way to the soccer game. Say the rosary. Step back and take a moment of silence before a test. Bless your friends on Facebook. Thank God for the good things that happen to you, and reach out to God when there are difficulties in your life.

— Find mentors. All of us need guidance in our spiritual

lives. Seek out your sponsor, your parents, your campus minister, your pastor. Stay in touch in person or by e-mail. Ask for advice.

Study the lives of the saints and consider what they did to live a strong Christian life.

— Take a chance. Volunteer to use your gifts to help others.

Offer to help with the younger kids in your parish faith formation program. Be willing to serve on, or to start a youth advisory group.

Be willing to help at retreats. Help at a soup kitchen. Be willing to share your story of faith. Sign up for leadership training. Look for opportunities to serve in your school, and in your community.

— Have faith. Strengthened by the spirit, you will be amazed at the wonders that God has in store for you! The God who knew you before you were born will guide you through the roughest of times, and rejoice with you in the best of times. Be open to the spirit, and be not afraid!

Vivian Clausing is Associate Director of Youth Ministry and Catechesis for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

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Why does everyone in the Bible seem so old?

Dear Father Dave, It doesn’t seem like there are many stories in the Bible about teenagers. If some of the people mentioned are actually teenagers, why does everybody seem so old/mature to me?

— Hannah Sorensen, Carlmont High School, Belmont Dear Hannah, It is difficult to see “teens” in the Bible, as that is a term not used until recently. There are some great young people, although we might think of them as old and mature. These young people actually struggled through their teen years often failing, but in the end, accomplishing what God wanted of them. Remember, these youths lived at a time, and in a culture, that forced them to make life-changing decisions much earlier in their lives.

Look at the twin brothers, Esau and Jacob, in the book of Genesis. Esau would barter away his birthright for momentary pleasure, to quench his appetite. His brother Jacob would exploit his family and friends for his own pleasure and gain, contrary to God’s call. Esau would struggle with his decisions throughout his life while Jacob would eventually wrestle with his life and change, focusing on doing God’s will.

There are others who found their teenage years challenging but would be able to live heroically. Look at the story of Rahab and Samson or young people like Samuel, Jonathan, David, and

“Ask Father Dave,” a question-and-answer column for teens by Father Dave Ghiorso, is a new feature of Catholic San Francisco. The column will appear on a page devoted to Catholic youth topics, with contributing writers including Vivian Clausing, Associate Director of Youth Ministry and Catechesis for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Jeremiah the prophet. They would all become great figures in our faith history, but not everything was perfect or easy in their lives. The lure of society and its pleasures would at times win out, but, as they placed their trust in God, they saw their lives become more successful.

In the New Testament the most famous of young people would be Mary. Imagine the struggles and questions as she undertook such a task. She faces scorn and ridicule for being pregnant before marriage, but that did not stop her from reaching out to help her cousin during her pregnancy. You also have the young boy, nameless, who approaches Andrew with his lunch offering his meager gift to Jesus. That small act, given in kindness, was the start of one of the greatest miracles in the Gospels, the feeding of the multitude.

The hardest part for all these young people is knowing how to live in a society with so many competing values and voices calling out for attention. Sometimes they failed but other times they were able to exceed all expectations. If there is a common thread that runs through all their stories, it is how one listens and responds to God’s call in the midst of the world’s noise. You have many voices calling out to you as a teenager; you are bombarded every waking moment (and sometimes even in your sleep) to messages that are difficult to decipher. Do not lose heart, you are in good company. These young people in the Bible would know how difficult it is to live out God’s will. You are not alone. Trust in God who will never let go of you.

Father Dave Father Dave Ghiorso, pastor of St. Charles Parish in San Carlos and vocations director for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, writes a column answering teen questions about faith and life. E-mail Father Dave your questions at askfatherdave@sfarchdiocese.org. Questions also are given to Father Dave by parish youth ministers.

Mercy junior confirmed in time for prom

Cristina Engh and Chris Triguero

Cristina Engh discovered during lunch with her friends that she had a really big scheduling conflict: The Mercy, Burlingame junior prom and her confirmation at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish were both May 13.

“I was kind of freaking out,” said Cristina. “I was really lucky in that my mom was able to talk to the person in charge of doing prom at my school and I was able to come to prom later, after the doors closed.”

And Cristina’s mother, Marti Engh also persuaded the

confirmation organizers to let Cristina quickly change into her prom dress after the confirmation ceremony concluded. Her date, incoming student body president at Archbishop Riordan High School, Chris Triguero, met her at the church and both had their photo taken with Bishop Robert McElroy before taking off for the prom.

Cristina said when she and Chris met Bishop McElroy, he took in her dress, and said, “‘So where are we going?’

And it was really cool.”

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June 24, 2011

Spirituality for Life

Meaning and happiness Am I happy? Is my life a happy one? Am I happy inside my marriage? Am I happy with my family? Am I happy in my job?

Am I happy with my church? Am I happy inside my own skin?

Are these good questions to ask ourselves? No. They’re questions with which to torture ourselves. When we face our lives honestly this kind of question about happiness is more likely to bring tears to our eyes than solace to our souls because, no matter how well our lives are going, none of us live perfectly fulfilled lives. Always there are unfulfilled dreams. Always there are areas of frustration. Always there are tensions. Always there are deeper hungers that are being stifled. And always, as Karl Rahner so poignantly puts it, we are suffering the torment of the insufficiency of everything attainable as we are learning that here in this life there is no finished symphony. Our lives are always lived in quiet desperation. A lot of times it is not easy to feel happy.

But we are asking the wrong questions. The question should not be: Am I happy? Rather the questions should be: Is my life meaningful? Is there meaning in my life? Is there meaning in my marriage? Is there meaning in my family? Is there meaning in my job? Is there meaning inside my church? We need to ask the deep questions about our lives in terms of meaning rather than in terms of happiness because, for the most part, we have a false, over-idealized, and unrealistic concept of happiness.

We tend to equate happiness with two things, pleasure and lack of tension. Hence we fantasize that for us to be happy we would need to be in a situation within which we would be free of all the tensions that normally flood into our lives from: pressure, tiredness, interpersonal friction, physical pain, financial worry, disappointment in our jobs, frustration with our churches, frus-

tration with our favorite sports teams, and every other headache and heartache that can appear. Happiness, as it is superficially conceived of, means perfect health, perfectly fulfilled relationships, a perfect job, no anxiety or tension in life, no disappointments, and the time and money to enjoy the good life.

But that isn’t what constitutes happiness. Meaning is what constitutes happiness and meaning isn’t contingent upon pain and tension being absent from our lives: Imagine if someone had come up to Jesus as he was dying on the cross and asked him the question: Are you happy up there? His answer, I am sure, would have been unequivocal: “No! And today in particular I am not happy!” However, the perspective is quite different if, while on the cross, Jesus would have been asked this question: “Is there meaning in what you are doing up there?” There can be deep meaning in something even if there isn’t happiness in the way we superficially conceive of that.

We more easily grasp this when we reflect back on various periods of our lives. Looking back we see that sometimes certain periods of our lives that were fraught with all kinds of struggles and within which we had to make do with very little were indeed very happy times. We look back on them now with fondness and warmth. They were meaningful times and our present perspective purges the pain and highlights the joy. Conversely, we can also look back on certain periods of our lives when there may have been pleasure in our lives but that phase of our lives now appears clearly as an unhappy time. We look back at it with a certain heaviness and regret. What seemed like light then seems like a time of darkness now.

C.S. Lewis taught that happiness and unhappiness color

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In his autobiography, “Surprised by Joy,” C. S. Lewis tells his readers that his journey to Christianity was not an easy one. By his own admission, he was “the most reluctant convert in the history of Christendom.” But one of the things that ultimately brought him around to the Christianity was precisely the realization that meaning trumps our normal conception of happiness. He came to understand, he writes, that the harshness of God is kinder than the softness of man.

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■ Continued from cover Bishop Cupich said the experiences of the past nine years have shown that “the charter works.”

“The charter has served the church well,” he said. “It is a helpful tool as we keep our pledge to protect children, promote healing and rebuild trust.”

The proposed revisions reflect changes in church law since the last revision in 2005, bringing it in line with recent Vatican instructions in response to the crisis of sexual abuse of minors by priests. These include mentioning child pornography as a crime against church law and defining the abuse of someone who “habitually lacks reason,” such as a person with mental retardation, as the equivalent of child abuse.

They also outline procedures to follow if a bishop is accused of having sexually abused a child and another bishop becomes aware of it.

Bishop Cupich said the recent Vatican documents related to sex abuse have “reinforced the commitment we bishops made in 2002.”

“They are also a source of encouragement that the decisions we made are making a positive impact on the universal church,” he added.

There was little debate on the proposed revisions before the vote. But not every bishop is on board with the charter’s provisions, as evidenced by the 28 amendments proposed

by Bishop Fabian W. Bruskewitz of Lincoln, Neb., and rejected by the committee.

Most of the amendments suggested by Bishop Bruskewitz were aimed at weakening the charter’s wording because, the bishop said in a rationale included with the amendments, “The USCCB bureaucracy cannot bind bishops to obey the charter.”

“It is fundamentally dishonest to tell the faithful and the general public that the USCCB has any authority

Years removed . . .

■ Continued from page 15 recidivism plays a critical role here.

Fourth, significant concerns have been raised about unmonitored, unreinstated priests who have been found guilty of sex abuse of children and youths. While zero tolerance makes the institutional church safer, it does so potentially at the cost of putting society at greater risk. (Chicago) Cardinal (Francis) George commented, for example, that “we have to keep looking at the process, so that predators are permanently removed but in a way that also doesn’t harm people who are innocent.”

Fifth, the critical issue of forgiveness of abusers has never been adequately explored. When addressing clergy offenses against children, for example, John Paul II made clear that sex abuse is both a sin and a crime against society. He added, “At the same time ... we cannot forget the power of Christian conversion, the radical decision to turn away from sin and back to God, which reaches to the depths of a person’s soul and can work extraordinary change.” Because of their legal nature, the charter and essential norms do not explicitly address the real possibility of forgiveness, healing and reconciliation for abus-

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whatsoever to bind dioceses/eparchies to obey the charter,” Bishop Bruskewitz wrote. “The more commitments, the more grounds for lawsuits.”

Retired Archbishop Francis T. Hurley of Anchorage, Alaska, also raised questions June 16 about the “zero tolerance” policy outlined in the charter, which requires the permanent removal of any priest who admits or is found to have abused a child.

The archbishop said a zero tolerance policy is contrary to the Catholic principles of reconciliation and forgiveness, treating every case “as if everyone is the same type of person, and they are not.”

He said Catholic priests and laypeople are experiencing “anger at the bishops at the way we have failed to handle this situation, and we need to start handling it.”

Bishop Cupich said the charter does not affect the spiritual value of reconciliation, but “the sacrament of reconciliation does not lift the penalty against crimes.”

Responding further at the news conference to Archbishop Hurley’s remarks, Bishop Cupich said the zero tolerance policy is “not just effective, but necessary” for a variety of reasons.

“We bishops learned the hard way, by following the advice of the world of psychology,” that abusers cannot be allowed to return to ministry, he said. “It was bad advice, and children were put in harm’s way,” he added. “We just cannot take that chance.”

A change in the zero tolerance policy also would send the message that “we are going to put priest offenders first,” and that is not the case, Bishop Cupich said. “We are putting the victims first.”

In other action at the bishops’ spring assembly: — The bishops declared suicide “a terrible tragedy, one that a compassionate society should work to prevent.” By a vote of 191-1 June 16 they approved a policy statement called “To Live Each Day With Dignity” — the first document on assisted suicide by the bishops as a body.

“With expanded funding from wealthy donors, assisted

suicide proponents have renewed their aggressive nationwide campaign through legislation, litigation and public advertising, targeting states they see as most susceptible to their message,” the document says. “If they succeed, society will undergo a radical change.”

It criticizes the former Hemlock Society,”whose very name reminded people of the harsh reality of death by poison,” for changing its name to Compassion & Choices — Oakland Bishop Salvatore J. Cordileone urged his fellow bishops to fight back in the war of words over efforts to redefine traditional marriage.

The chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage said organizations advocating the legal redefinition of marriage have been using words like “human rights” and “hate” in discussions of same-sex marriage.

“Strategies of language are crucial here, and what we see happening in the marriage debate with terms such as ‘equality’ is similar to the manipulation of language found in the pro-abortion rhetoric of ‘choice,’” Bishop Cordileone said.

“Many of our young people have now come to see what ‘pro-choice’ really means, and embrace instead a culture of life,” he added. “A similar task lies before us in our efforts to protect marriage.”

— The bishops voted overwhelmingly to authorize preparation of a 50-page document on preaching for consideration in November 2012. St. Louis Archbishop Robert J. Carlson said the document would be “at once inspirational and practical, ... grounded in the tradition of the church” and would aim to “adequately convey the purpose of the homily at Mass: the personal encounter with the Incarnate Word.”

The topic seemed to light a spark in the bishops, more than a dozen of whom spoke in favor of the proposed document.

Describing himself as a member of “the first lost generation of poor catechesis,” Bishop Alexander K. Sample of Marquette, Mich., said his generation of post-Vatican II Catholics – he was born Nov. 7, 1960 — had “raised up another generation that is equally uncatechized.”

ing priests. Clergy sex abuse has become an unforgiveable sin.

This anguishing phenomenon finds moving testimony in David Spotanski’s April 2002 letter to Wilton D. Gregory, then bishop of Belleville, Ill. He writes as a parent and emphasizes that “our children are more important to Sharon and me than anything in the world ... No priest, no religious, no lay person who is not a parent can truly appreciate the incredible weight of that single sentence.”

Perhaps forgiveness too easily translates for many as absolution without justice. A better notion might be compassion which prompts a virtuous response. Compassion is “the painful emotion caused by the awareness of another person’s undeserved misfortune” (Martha Nussbaum, “Upheavals of Thought.”) Compassion recognizes that the abuser is still a human being but one who suffers from a profound and dangerous psychological disorder that tempts the person to engage in destructive behaviors that can become compulsive.

Compassion does not absolve the offender from injustices committed. The abusing priest must be resolved to desist from continuing or repeating his evil actions and to use the professional help that he needs to do so, and he must be prepared to make satisfaction as far as possible. Compassion does not take the place of justice nor does it imply indulgence toward evil or the real injury caused to victims of abuse.

Finally, when an abusive priest is laicized, church documents once used the term “reduced to the lay state.” This is why Spotanski’s letter to then Bishop Gregory, (now archbishop

of Atlanta), states that “I’m offended by the connotation that the worst church penalty an abusive priest can endure is to be `thrown back’ to the laity.” As evidenced in the 2006 rescript from the Congregation for the Clergy, however, the terminology now employed is “the loss of the clerical state” and the loss of the “rights proper to the clerical state.” (See also Canon 290).

This language more clearly identifies an authentic meaning of laicization and does not compromise the theology of priesthood. Considering the ontological nature of ordination, it seems persuasive to say that a priest who abuses children can be removed from the clerical state, even though his priesthood sustains an indelible character (The Directory on the Ministry and Life of Priests, Congregation for the Clergy, 1994, nos.

5-6). Vatican II’s Presbyterorum Ordinis, no. 2, and Pastores Dabo Vobis, John Paul II’s extensive 2002 treatment of the priesthood, address this “special character,” in terms of a “configuration” at “the very being” of a priest who is “ontologically assimilated to Christ” (nos. 11-16). It thus seems more understandable to speak of abusive priests being stripped of their clerical state. While the nature of their special character has been badly tarnished, it remains a permanent definition of his very being.

Sulpician Father Gerald Coleman is vice president for corporate ethics for the Daughters of Charity Health System, a lecturer in moral theology at Santa Clara University and a former vicar for priests for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

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Mon., July 18, 8:45am, 2:30pm & 7:00pm Tues., July 19, 8:45am, 2:30pm & 7:00pm Wed., July 20, A Day of Reconciliation 8:45am, 2:30pm & 7:00pm Thurs., July 21, A Day for the Homebound 8:45am, 2:30pm & 7:00pm Fri., July 22, A Day for the Homebound 8:45am, 2:30pm & 7:00pm Sat., July 23 Novena & Procession 10:00am Sun., July 24, Blessing of the Children 9:00am & 10:30am Mon., July 25, Annointing of the Sick 8:45am, 2:30pm & 7:00pm Tue., July 26, The Feastday 8:45am, 2:30pm & 7:00pm

St. Anne of the Sunset 850 Judah St., Bet. Funston & 14th Ave. San Francisco, Ca. 94122 (415)665-1600 / www.stanne-sf.org

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Consolation Ministry 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) 614-5506.

Ministry to Grieving Parents: Our Lady of Angels, Burlingame; call Ina Potter at (650) 347-6971 or Barbara Arena at (650) 344-3579.

Vallombrosa Center 250 Oak Grove Ave. in Menlo Park is a ministry of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Visit www. vallombrosa.org. Call (650) 325-5614 July 12: Vallombrosa Center commemorates the feast of its patron, St. John Gualbert.

Catholic Charities CYO The social services arm of the Catholic Church in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Information: (415) 972-1200, www.cccyo.org, moreinfo@ cccyo.org.

July 17, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.: Alumni Day at CYO Camp! Are you a former camper of CYO Camp?

Come see today’s CYO Camp in action and enjoy activities with campers. CYO Camp Alumni seeks to rekindle the spirit of camp among every generation of alumni, reconnect summer camp alumni with their contemporaries and share what is going on at CYO Camp today. We are seeking interested alumni from all generations, from Summer Camp’s opening in 1946 through the present day. Learn more at www. cyocamp.org/alumni and join us! Space is limited, RSVP by July 12 to 707.874.0200 or email summercamp@cccyo.org.

The National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi and La Nuova Porziuncola 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 the Porziuncola at 4:30 p.m. Call (415) 986-4557 or e-mail info@shrinesf.org.

Reunions Mater Dolorosa Parish in South San Francisco celebrates its 50th year with events June 25, July 23, Aug. 21, Sept. 18, and Oct. 1. Call (650) 583-4131.

July 9, 11:30 a.m. : St. Emydius School, class of 1956, at Sinbad’s Restaurant 141 The Embarcadero in San Francisco. Family and friends are welcome.

Contact Jack Sutcliffe at (408) 257-4671 or e-mail jaksut@aol.com or Joy Boito Walsh at (408) 996-3162 or e-mail joy.walsh@sbcglobal.net.

July 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.

June 25, 6:30 p.m.: Mater Dolorosa Parish presents “Talents of the Stars” multicultural talent show in the parish hall at 307 Willow Ave. in South San Francisco. “The program promises foods from around the world, an international fashion show, and colorful singing and dancing talents from various ethnic groups,” the parish said. All welcome! Tickets at $10 in advance and $15 at the door include a taste from the international buffet. Proceeds benefit stainedglass window restoration. Call (650) 583-4131.

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San Jose Auxiliary Bishop Tom Daly dined with friends from Marin Catholic High School at Sausalito’s Spinnaker Restaurant on June 12. “Bishop Daly shared some of his fondest memories at Marin Catholic with a special group of people that he had met through the years,” said Trish George, a Marin Catholic High School mom.

Father Daly served as president of Marin Catholic until recently being named the Diocese of San Jose’s first auxiliary bishop by Pope Benedict XVI. “We will truly miss him and wish him all the best,” George said. Pictured are Bishop Daly and, from left, Marin Catholic moms, Joan Gavney, Julie White, Susan Conroy, Wendy Calcaterra and Trish George.

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.

Sept. 17: Presentation High School, San Francisco class of 1951. Contact Audrey Sylvester Trees at (650) 592-0273 or e-mail audreytrees@sbcglobal.net.

Sept. 24, 25: St. Timothy School Alumni Weekend Mass and Reception on the St. Timothy Parish campus, 1515 Dolan Ave., San Mateo. Visit www.sttimothyschool.org or call the school office at (650) 342-6567.

Sept. 24: Mercy High School, San Francisco “Pioneer Class of 1956” celebrates. Contact Pat Hanley Davey at (650) 593-8768 or e-mail 3marypat@comcast.net.

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) 3333627; 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.

Sunday, 7 a.m.: TV Mass on the Filipino Channel (TFC) Channel 241 on Comcast and Channel 2060 on Direct TV. Saturday, 4 p.m.: Religious programming in Cantonese over KVTO 1400 AM, co-sponsored by the Chinese Ministry and Chinese Young Adults of the Archdiocese of San Francisco..

First Sunday, 5 a.m., CBS Channel 5: “Mosaic,” featuring conversations on current Catholic issues.

EWTN Catholic Television: Comcast Channel 229, AT&T Channel 562, Astound Channel 80, San Bruno Cable Channel 143, DISH Satellite Channel 261, Direct TV Channel 370. For programming details, visit www. ewtn.com

Single, Divorced, Separated Information about Bay Area single, divorced and separated programs is available from Jesuit Father Al Grosskopf at grosskopf@usfca.edu (415) 422-6698.

Would you like support while you travel the road through separation and divorce? The Archdiocese of San Francisco offers support for the journey. The Separated and Divorced Catholics of the Archdiocese of San Francisco (SDCASF) offer two ongoing support groups at St. Bartholomew Parish, 600 Columbia Drive, San Mateo, on the first and third Tuesdays, at 7 p.m. in the spirituality center, and in O’Reilly hall of St. Stephen Parish near Stonestown, San Francisco, on the first and third Wednesdays, at 7:30 p.m. Call Gail (650) 591-8452, or Joanne (650) 347-0701 for more information.

Catholic Adult Singles Association of Marin County: We are Catholics, single or single again, who are interested in making new friends, taking part

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Listing must reach Catholic San Francisco at least two weeks before the Friday publication date desired. Mail your notice to: Datebook, Catholic San Francisco, One Peter Yorke Way, S.F. 94109, or fax it to (415) 614-5633, e-mail burket@sfarchdiocese.org, or visit www.catholic-sf.org, Contact Us.

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Catholic Charities CYO is an independent nonprofit organization operating as the social services arm of the Catholic Church in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Contact Liz Rodriguez at erodriguez@ cccyo.org or (415) 972-1297 to fill out a volunteer application. A list of current open volunteer positions is available online at www.cccyo.org/volunteer.

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

St. Anthony Foundation serves thousands of poor and homeless individuals and families through its food program, drug and alcohol recovery, free medical clinic, clothing program and other programs. For more information, visit www.stanthonysf.org and fill out a volunteer opportunity request form or contact Marie O’Connor at (415) 592-2726.

The Society of St. Vincent de Paul of San Mateo County is the safety net every year for over 40,000 San Mateo County residents in need, including more than 17,000 children. Call Atrecia at (650) 373-0623 or e-mail svdpinfo@yahoo.com.

Handicapables continues its 40-year tradition of prayer and fellowship each month at St. Mary’s Cathedral. Volunteers are always welcome. Call Jane at (415) 585-9085.

La Porziuncola Nuova at National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi invites you to volunteer. Contact Jim Brunsmann at jimbrunsmann@comcast.net or go to www.knightsofsaintfrancis.com and follow the Volunteer Application link at the bottom of the home page.

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For information, call Bob at (415) 897-0639.

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July 10, 3:30 p.m.: Pilgrimage Concert by the combined choirs of St. Mary’s Cathedral and St. Cecilia Parish at St. Cecilia Church, 2555 17th Ave. at Vicente in San Francisco. Choir directors are the cathedral’s Christoph Tietze and Russell Ferreira of St. Cecilia. “Come send off the choirs, as they prepare for their tour of Ireland and Scotland,” Russ said. The choirs will perform works of Palestrina, Schutz, Berger, Rutter, Copeland, Dawson and more.

Suggested donation is $10 per person at the door. For information, call (650) 588-7493.

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

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Ticket cost is only $10 presale and $15 at the door and includes food. Proceeds are for the restoration of our beautiful, stained-glass windows.

All donations accepted and may be sent to the Rectory at the above address or call 650-583-4131.

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Catholic San Francisco

June 24, 2011

In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of May HOLY CROSS COLMA Marilyn Abbott Jose Luis Alarcon Lois I. Bailey Frances M. Balich Remy B. Balingit Maria A. Barry Rev. Fr. Albert Bitangjol Rozalia Blacha Rowena Bothe Patricia E. Brauer Ceferina P. Breiz Francis William Bryan Delores Caccia Ramona Ruiz Camacho Steve Caodonico Frank T. Cannizzaro Guillermo Casillas Amalia Rosillo Castillo John S. Christensen Juanita Ciolino Vincent Ciolino Thomas E. Clark Portacio A. Combes David B. Conrad Isidro R. Contreras Bruno A. Costa Isabel L. Cremer Eileen Criss Salome G. Cristobal Gerald R. DeMartini Thomas Desey Joseph A. Desmond Mary L. Direnzo Carmen N. Dowell Richard Albert Duncan Kathleen E. Durney Geronimo O. Estacio Herman P. Estrella Beverly E. Fannin Virgie Lee Ferrara Consuelo Figueroa Mary D. Firpo-Halbe Barry Fitzgerald Lillian C. Foley Lutgardo A. Fortunado Sandra Fowler Minnie M. Francesconi Rosemarie Frank Reola Louise Freeman John Gavigan Eduardo S. Genoves Joseph Giannini Mary Antoinette Green Donald Hamilton Edward “Eddie” Harvey

Lucille M. Hogan Kathleen M. Hurley Terri (Tatone) Imboden Ray Piriano Johansen Louise A. Kemmitt Grace Helen Kennealy Edward J. Korn Martin Kurtela Margarita Borromeo Lagandaon Marion J. Lamaysou Robert S. Lansche Clemens J. Lautze Mary G. Lazalde Gabino S. Leon Richard Joseph Leonard Ida V. Lewis Alfredo Llemos Rose D’Orazi Lombardi Joseph S. Lopez Ralph Lozano William Lucca, Jr. Evelyn Torres Lucero Niobe Villacorta Luis Gloria R. Magistrado Grace H. Magnaghi Magdalena H. Mai Vicenta I. Marte Maria P. Mauricio Deidre J. McBride Helen Sinnott McCarthy Alice McCarthy Paula H. McGowan George Peter McLaughlin Marilyn McNamara Georgia M. Meador Virginia M. Meagher Karen L. Moher Mitchell Basilia L. Molinar Myrna J. Monina Walter A. Monina Madge M. Moran Steven P. Morena Marceli Mrzyglocki Dorothy R. Nagy Lorraine R. Nevin Nieves V. Nido Donald W. Nunes Thomas O’Brian Alfred O’Connor Daniel J. O’Keefe Antonio M. Orbeta Severina Payad Ortega Lucia Ortisi Vincenzo Ortisi Lydia G. Pagsolingan Maria Panganiban Larry Michael Pearl Benvenuta Maria Perencin Raymond J. Petrucci

Clara R. Pooley Claire J. Powers Toshiko Reagan Richard W. Richardson Marie Mulvihill Roberts Elizabeth R. Robertson Juan (Johnny) Oro Rojo Jean Romeo Tessie Schembri William V. Scott III Mary Seed Gloria Ann Sevilla Christine J. Sherratt Carmen P. Silva Anna Sindicich Marjorie Souza Ronald J. Souza Chiara Mae Tevini Paul R. Tobin Feiloakitoni Veimau Mireya Velez Cristeta C. Villanueva Thomas D. Villatore Lawrence A. Vincenzini, Jr. Humbert F. Vine Arlene Vorsatz Ellen V. Walker Bridie Walsh Wilson S. Warda Bernardine A. Washburn Victoria Zamora de Bolanos

HOLY CROSS MENLO PARK JBeatrice M. Fox Dorothy Guidici Suzanne Theresa Jonas Mildred Newton Mary Ann Naylor Pavack

MT. OLIVET SAN RAFAEL Lucille August Lucille Ronnie Klapperich George Andrew Kroncke Steve Medeiros Elmo Petterle Kevork Sarkissian Elisane Thermidor

OUR LADY OF THE PILLAR James Garrison Eric J. Magana-Mejia

HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY, COLMA FIRST SATURDAY MASS – July 2, 2011 All Saints Mausoleum Chapel – 11:00 a.m.

Rev. Daniel Nascimento Celebrant

The Catholic Cemeteries Archdiocese of San Francisco www.holycrosscemeteries.com HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY 1500 Mission Road, Colma, CA 650-756-2060 PILARCITOS CEMETERY Hwy. 92 @ Main, Half Moon Bay, CA 650-712-1676

HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY Intersection of Santa Cruz Avenue, Menlo Park, CA 650-323-6375 ST. ANTHONY CEMETERY Stage Road, Pescadero, CA 650-712-1679

MT. OLIVET CATHOLIC CEMETERY 270 Los Ranchitos Road, San Rafael, CA 415-479-9020 OUR LADY OF THE PILLAR CEMETERY Miramontes St., Half Moon Bay, CA 650-712-1679