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By John Thavis VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Vatican reported a budget surplus for the first time in four years in 2010, a dividend from tourism and financial markets rebounding from the global slump of 2008. But the Holy See said contributions from Catholics and dioceses around the world had gone down. The budget of the Holy See, which includes offices of the Roman Curia and related agencies, ended 2010 with a surplus of about $13.1 million. The separate budget of Vatican City State, which includes the Vatican Museums, ended 2010 with a surplus of about $28 million, according to a Vatican statement July 2. The figures were released following a three-day meeting of a council of cardinals charged with reviewing Vatican finances. The statement said the Vatican’s financial picture continued to improve, but it cautioned that the global financial picture still presented “elements of uncertainty and instability.” Worldwide giving to the pope decreased in 2010, the statement said. Peter’s Pence collected $67.7 million, compared to $82.5 million in 2009. Peter’s Pence is the sum of gifts made to the pope by particular churches, from institutes of consecrated life and societies VATICAN REPORTS, page 5

Lenience is strength, Sharon K. Perkins says in a reflection on this Sunday’s Scripture readings. And Effie Caldarola worries that the anonymity of today’s technology makes keeping a cool head a challenge many of us are failing. Page 16.

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Chinese cardinal visits San Francisco Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-Kiun is pictured on the roof of the new St. Mary’s School and Chinese Catholic Center in Chinatown July 7 with Paulist Father Daniel McCotter, Old St. Mary’s Cathedral pastor. Cardinal Zen, emeritus bishop of Hong Kong, was in San Francisco on a North American pilgrimage to visit Chinese Catholics and urge them to pray about threats to church independence in China. Story on Page 11.

Bishops urge faithful to oppose bill blocking parental rights on vaccine By Valerie Schmalz The California bishops’ conference is urging Californians to contact their legislators to oppose a bill that would remove the requirement of parental permission for the vaccination of children 12 and older against sexually transmitted diseases. The bill would allow children to consent to treatment with the controversial Gardasil vaccine intended to prevent HPV or human papillomavirus, which can cause cervical cancer. Ninety-one deaths attributed to Gardasil vaccinations have been reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System as of January, the California Catholic Conference said in a legislative alert. “Minors do not have adequate judgment to make a decision about a vaccine that, as

The bill, set for committee hearing on Aug. 15, would apply to both girls and boys. While vaccination against HPV is touted as a way to lower rates of cervical cancer, many pediatricians also recommend that boys receive the vaccine. The vaccine is recommended by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which said it is safe. The CDC recommends the vaccine for ages 11-26. California law already allows children 12 and older to consent, without parental involvement, to treatment for sexually transmitted disease. The law would expand that right to immunizations against sexually transmitted disease. “Most parents are involved in the lives of their minor children and need to know if they are seeking medical care – regardless of whether the care is curative or preventative,” the Catholic conference wrote. “This bill appears

of Jan. 15, 2011, had 21,171 adverse reactions and 91 deaths reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System,” the California Catholic Conference said. AB499 was passed by the Assembly June 2 and approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee 3-1 June 14. It was sent to the Senate Appropriations Committee July 6 because of new concerns that it could cost the state $300 to $500 per child’s vaccination. The concerns center on a provision that removes parental financial responsibility if a child chooses to be vaccinated without parental consent. “Who will pay if their parents are not knowledgeable or consenting? Since their parents’ insurance would not cover it, the local school or community health clinic would presumably bill the state,” said California Catholic Conference Executive Director Ned Dolejsi.

to be an ‘end run’ following the failure in 2007 to mandate HPV vaccination for all girls entering public junior high school — a measure strongly opposed by parents rights groups and vetoed by the governor,” the conference said. William May, chairman of the lay apostolate Catholics for the Common Good, joined representatives of the Catholic conference in testifying against the bill at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. He said that by removing parental rights, the bill gives inordinate power to doctors and other health care officials. Additionally, if there are allergic reactions, parents may not know why and may not be able to react in a timely manner, he said. “Children can be easily intimidated VACCINE, page 6

INSIDE THIS WEEK’S EDITION Local papal honors . . . . . . . . 3 News in brief. . . . . . . . . . . 4-5 Obituaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Father Rolheiser . . . . . . . . . 18

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Scholarships to Joseph Rinaldi of St. Cecilia Parish and Cornelius O’Sullivan of St. Gabriel Parish. Both Joe and Gus are entering freshmen at Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory School in San Francisco. “The Ben Legere Memorial Scholarship provides support for an eighth grade student participating in the San Francisco Parishes & Schools Baseball League,” said Jeff John, league president. The $1,500 awards are named for longtime San Francisco youth official and league co-founder Ben Legere. Entrants submitted essays on why they are the best candidates for the honor plus letters of recommendation. “The young men wrote on their service to the parish and community and their involvement,” said Maureen Huntington, superintendent of schools. “They explained not just that they were good baseball players but how they give back even as eighth graders.”… All members of the class of ’56 — the first graduating class from Mercy High School, San Francisco — are invited to a 55th reunion Sept. 24. Classmate Pat Hanley Davey is taking names and numbers from the school’s “pioneer class” at (650) 593-8768 or 3marypat@ comcast.net. See Datebook… Catherine Paul of St. Gabriel

Parish sends congrats and hats off to the Archbishop Riordan High School marching band. The ensemble played in the Independence Day Parade in Washington, DC on July 4, and visited Ford’s Theater, the Holocaust Museum, the Capitol, and the White House. Catherine’s grandson is Anthony Trigueiro, a Riordan junior and band member, who plays the clarinet and is at work learning the cello and violin. “I’m very proud of him,” Catherine said. Catherine’s husband, John, died in 1999. “He used to tell people he had the name `John Paul’ even before that Polish fellow,” Catherine recalled with a smile….And thanks for the smile to Msgr. Harry Schlitt who recalled a visit to a 100-year-old parishioner who insisted she wanted God to call her home immediately. When Msgr. Harry asked why, the woman said, “Well all my friends are dead and I’m sure they’re all together in heaven thinking I went to hell.”…This is an empty space without ya’! 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.

“Food Network” star Guy Fieri and Mercy Sister Mary Kilgariff at St. Mary’s Medical Center’s “Benefit Gala” for hospital’s new cancer center.

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St. Mary’s Medical Center’s “Benefit Gala” was a “smashing success,” the hospital said. The sold-out event brought “record-breaking funding for the new CHW Cancer Center at St. Mary’s.” Guy Fieri, known from TV’s “Food Network” and the game show “Minute to Win It” was the evening’s special guest. I love that “Diners, Drive-ins and Dives” show he does. Every place he showcases has meat loaf on the menu. I remember my first Communion day some 50 years ago when my folks took me after Mass to the Philadelphia Zoo and dinner — meat loaf for me please — at the Mayfair Diner…. Teeing off May 2 for summer youth programs were benefactors of the annual Catholic Charities CYO Golf Day, raising more than $150,000. More than 50,000 youth have attended CYO Summer Camp since 1946 with many receiving scholarships from CYO Golf Day. For more information, visit http://cyo. cccyo.org.... Hitting all the right notes is Dominic Cheung, a junior at Stuart Hall High School and longtime singer with the Golden Gate Boys Choir and Bellringers. Dominic is a member of this year’s National Catholic Youth Choir and spent two-weeks in June enjoying music camp and a concert tour covering several states. Headquarters for the choir is St. John’s Abbey and University in Collegeville, Minn. “He’s been singing since kindergarten,” said Dominic’s proud mom, Christine Cheung. Also bustin’ at the seams is dad, David LaCounte. Following in Dominic’s footsteps is his brother, Dante, an eighth grader at St. Vincent de Paul School and also a singer. The national Catholic choir program began in 2000. In addition to his choral work, Dominic often cantors at St. Vincent de Paul Parish’s Sunday evening Mass at 5:15 p.m…. The San Francisco Parishes & Schools Baseball League recently presented its first Ben Legere Memorial

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Archbishop honoring 16 local faithful receiving papal service awards Archbishop George Niederauer will honor individuals of the Archdiocese of San Francisco “who have given outstanding, faithful and dedicated service” at a prayer service Aug. 14 at 4 p.m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral. Six of the men and women will be presented with the Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice (“For the Church and The Holy Father”) award and 10 will receive the Benemerenti (“good merit”) award. Both are papal honors with the former dating to 1888 and the latter to 1791. The 16 faithful were nominated for the recognition by Archbishop Niederauer in a letter to Vatican Apostolic Nuncio Archbishop Pietro Sambi in late 2010. Receiving the Pro Ecclesia award are: Katherine

Atkinson, retired director of cemeteries; George Bovone, a member of St. Brendan Parish; Dominican Sister Anne Bertain, director of community services at St. Dominic Parish; Barbara Elordi, director of grief ministry and abuse victim/survivor support coordinator; Pedro Garcia, a member of St. Mary’s Cathedral and founder of Cruzada Guadalupana, an annual pilgrimage of sometimes more than 10,000 people in honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe; and Lorraine Moriarty, executive director of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul for San Mateo County. Receiving the Benemerenti award are: Doug Benbow, director of liturgy at St. Mary’s Cathedral; Vicki Evans, respect life program coordinator for the Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns; Delia Herrera, of the Office of Religious Education and Youth Ministry and who at 36 years of service

is the longest serving staff member in the Pastoral Center; Joan Higgins, a member of St. John the Evangelist Parish and former president of organizations including the Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women; Nellie Hizon, coordinator of Filipino Ministry; Diane Luporini, coordinator of the Event Center at St. Mary’s Cathedral; Deacon Jeff Burns, archivist and Catholic Church historian; Betty Reichmann, member of Pastoral Center staff for three decades in areas including vocations and marriage and family life; Mary Schembri, care manager for priests; and Christoph Tietze, organist and choir director, St. Mary’s Cathedral. The Pro Ecclesia award “recognizes the commitment of men and women and their service to the ecclesial community.” The Benemerenti award “is given to those who have shown exemplary service to their church, family and community.”

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Prayer for seafarers CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy — Marking World Maritime Day, Pope Benedict XVI met with a dozen people who have family members being held captive by pirates. At the end of his recitation of the Angelus prayer July 10, he prayed for seafarers “who unfortunately have been kidnapped during acts of piracy.” As the crowds were leaving the papal summer villa at Castel Gandolfo, the pope met privately with an international group of family members of piracy victims.

Austrian priests want reforms VATICAN CITY — Austrian bishops have criticized an effort by a group of priests calling for reforms in church practice, including opening the priesthood to women and married men, but the bishops have not taken or threatened disciplinary action. Michael Pruller, spokesman for Cardinal Christoph Schonborn of Vienna, said the cardinal plans to meet in late August or September with the Viennese priests who are among the leaders of the “Initiative of Parish Priests,” which launched a “Call to Disobedience” in June. The initiative, which says it has more than 300 members, suggested saying a public prayer at every Mass for church reform; giving Communion to everyone who approaches the altar in good faith, including divorced Catholics who have remarried without an annulment; allowing women to preach at Mass; and supporting the ordination of women and married men.

Belfast bishop urges restraint BELFAST, Northern Ireland — The bishop of Belfast appealed for Catholic and Protestant residents to prove to the world they can live together in peace after fresh sectarian violence flared during the region’s contentious Protestant marching season. Bishop Noel Treanor of Down and Connor appealed to both sides to show restraint and respect toward police after 22 police officers were injured July 11. He urged local residents to ensure that “events are not manipulated by destructive influences from outside the communities where parades take place.” Police have expressed concern that fringe elements opposed to the 1998 Good Friday peace accord might be orchestrating communal strife.

Greek church faces disaster OXFORD, England — Greece’s Catholic Church faces disaster because the current economic crisis is forcing it to end vital social and charitable projects, said Archbishop Nikolaos Foskolos of Athens. “This crisis could be the worst in our history,” Archbishop Foskolos told Catholic News Service July 6. “There’s corruption everywhere, especially among our politicians. We get no help from the state or other Western churches, and our faithful can’t give any more. Our parishes and dioceses are in deep trouble, and in a few months we won’t be able to support our staffers and employees.”

Fr. Corapi says he won’t go WASHINGTON — Father John Corapi said he will not follow the order of his religious superior to leave his home in Montana to live in community with his fellow priests. In a posting on his website July 7, Father Corapi also said he was told to support himself and his ministry financially by Father James Flanagan, the founder of his congregation, the Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity. Father Corapi, who lives near Kalispell, Mont., also denied com-

CSF wins 2 press awards Catholic San Francisco columnist Father Charles Puthota won a Catholic Press Association first-place award for Best Regular Column, Scripture, at the association’s 2011 convention in Pittsburgh June 21-25. Father Puthota, pastor of St. Veronica Parish in South San Francisco, is a longtime contributor to the paper’s rotating Scripture reflection column. “These well constructed columns are interesting and intellectually stimulating but at the same time accessible to many,” the judges wrote. “The examples and references and anecdotes make the truth and wisdom of the Scriptures relevant and applicable to readers.” Freelance journalist John Wildermuth won a third-place award for Best Sports Feature or Column for “Inside the West’s epic prep sports rivalry: SHCP vs. SI,” which appeared Jan, 27, 2010. “When 4,500 screaming basketball fans instantly cut the cheers and the chatter as someone starts the traditional prayer of the Christian Brothers: ‘Let us remember … we are in the holy presence of God,’ it’s clear that this is a different type of a rivalry,” Wildermuth’s article opens. “Since 1893, San Francisco’s two oldest Catholic high schools, St. Ignatius College Prep and Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep, have squared off in what’s billed as the oldest high school athletic competition west of the Rocky Mountains.” The judges wrote, “Smooth, graceful writing on a Catholic sporting rivalry with a long and varied tradition.”

mitting sexual improprieties with a female former employee whose allegations in letters to church leaders nationwide prompted officials of his religious community to place him on administrative leave in March. The statement from the widely popular speaker on Catholic catechetical and contemporary issues came in response to a July 5 press release from the society outlining transgressions related to Father Corapi’s lifestyle that it said were uncovered during an investigation by a three-member fact-finding panel appointed by the religious order. Information about Father Corapi learned during the inquiry, the release said, included “years of cohabitation” with a woman, repeated abuse of alcohol and drugs and “serious violation” of his promise of poverty based on his ownership of more than $1 million in real estate, numerous luxury vehicles, motorcycles, an ATV, a boat dock and several motor boats.

With new law, Catholic agencies out as foster care providers WASHINGTON — The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services has informed four Catholic dioceses that it will not renew their contracts to provide foster care and adoption services because there has been “no meeting of the minds” about providing services to same-sex couples. Erwin McEwen, the department’s director, told the Catholic agencies for the dioceses of Peoria, Springfield, Joliet and Belleville in separate July 8 letters that their contracts would not be renewed “because your agency has made it clear that it does not intend to comply with the Illinois Religious Freedom Protection and Civil Union Act.” The law, which took effect July 1, permits civil unions for same-sex couples and stipulates that they would have the same rights and benefits as married couples in the state, such as parental and adoption rights. July 1 also marked the beginning of fiscal year 2012, when the new contracts would have begun.

End nuke ‘scourge’ KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Nuclear weapons have “threatened humanity” for far too long and world leaders lack the political will to remove “this scourge,” said the Vatican’s ambassador to the U.N. “Now is the time for a profound rethinking and change in our perception of nuclear weapons. Nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation are essential from a humanitarian point of view,” Archbishop Francis Chullikatt told an audience in Kansas City July 1. He stressed the urgency of a “world without nuclear weapons.”

Bishops oppose textbook bill SACRAMENTO — The California Catholic Conference opposes a bill passed by the state’s legislators that requires social studies texts for kindergarteners through high school seniors in public school to specifically include the role and contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans. The bill also would prohibit the state Board of Education from adopting instructional materials that disNEWS IN BRIEF, page 5 Yoursource sourcefor for the the best best Your Catholic books books -– Bibles Bibles Catholic music -– movies movies -–ministry ministry music resources – greeting cards resources - greeting cards rosaries – medals rosaries - medals statues -–gifts gifts for for statues Catholic occasions Catholic occasions Material en Español Material en Español

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criminate on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. The state Assembly July 5 passed the bill, called the Fair, Accurate, Inclusive and Respectful Education Act. It passed the state Senate in April and was awaiting a signature or veto from Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown, who has not indicated whether he will sign the document. A similar bill was vetoed in 2006 by former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez said the bill “amounts to the government rewriting history books based on pressuregroup politics.”

Bishop looks into Crystal Cathedral ORANGE — Bishop Tod D. Brown of Orange asked a group of diocesan advisers July 6 to “explore possibilities” regarding the Crystal Cathedral, once the home church of the Rev. Robert Schuller, a noted television preacher. The cathedral complex in Garden Grove was put up for auction earlier this year as part of the cathedral ministries bankruptcy proceedings. The organization founded by Rev. Schuller, who is now retired, filed for bankruptcy last October. — Catholic News Service

Vatican budget . . ■ Continued from cover of apostolic life and from foundations and individual members of the faithful, especially on occasion of the Solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul. In addition, the contributions of dioceses toward supporting the central structures of the church amounted to about $27.4 million, compared to $31.5 million the previous year. The diocesan and Peter’s Pence figures represented a cumulative decrease of nearly 20 percent from 2009. Contributions from other institutions, including the Vatican bank, added about $73 million to the pope’s funds, which are used to support works of charity and mission around the world. In breaking down the 2010 figures, the Vatican statement said:

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— The Holy See, which depends largely on investments for its annual income, had income of about $326 million and expenses of about $313 million. The number of Holy See employees in 2010 was 2,806, up slightly from 2009. — Vatican City State had income of about $340 million and expenses of about $312 million. The Vatican said a major factor in the surplus was a boom in visitors to the Vatican Museums, which occurred despite a general crisis in the tourism industry. The Vatican also underlined that the Vatican City State not only pays its employees but also spends a considerable amount each year in maintenance and restoration of its artistic and architectural treasures, which it said can rightly be described as “one of the most important historical and artistic patrimonies of humanity.” — Vatican Radio contributed to this story.

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ALBANY, N.Y. (CNS) — Bishop Howard J. Hubbard of Albany celebrated Mass June 28 to close a tribunal formed to review a possible miracle attributed to the intercession of Holy Cross Father Patrick Peyton. The priest, whose popular radio and television programs promoted family prayer, was known for coining the phrases “The family that prays together, stays together” and “A world at prayer is a world at peace.” Father Peyton emigrated from Ireland to the United States in 1928 when he was 19. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1941 and founded Family Rosary in Albany the following year. He conducted rosary crusades in 40 countries, drawing 28 million people. Father Peyton died in 1992 and the cause for his canonization was opened 10 years ago. Father Patrick Peyton The tribunal in the Albany diocese was appointed at the request of the postulator of the cause, Andrea Ambrosi. Bishop Hubbard conducted “a thorough review of all aspects of this possible healing,” according to a statement from Holy Cross Ministries, which was founded by Father Peyton. The findings have been closed and will be sent to the Vatican Congregation for Saints’ Causes. “While the details of the possible miracle cannot be shared at this point in the process, we can share with you that a man in his 60s was admitted to the hospital with life-threatening, multiple organ failure. His family prayed to Father Peyton and they strongly felt that he was healed through intercessory prayer.

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Immaculate Heart Radio with the San Francisco Legion of Mary is among the sponsors of an Oct.15 Family Rosary Crusade at noon in San Francisco’s Civic Center Plaza. “Pray the Rosary, adore the Blessed Sacrament, listen to inspirational speakers, and ask the blessings of God,” according to sponsors. For more information, visit www. familyrosarycrusade2011.com. Father Peyton’s Rosary Crusade in San Francisco on Oct. 7, 1961, has been described as a “symbolic high point of Catholicism in the Archdiocese of San Francisco.” More than 500,000 Catholics gathered in the Polo Fields of Golden Gate Park to pray the rosary led by Father Peyton. In 1945, Father Peyton persuaded the-media giant Mutual Broadcasting Co. to give free airtime for family programming. On that promise, the priest recruited actors including Bing Crosby, Jimmy Stewart, Lucille Ball, and other then-Hollywood and Broadway stars for a project that grew into what were called Family Theater Classics. Through it he produced more than 600 radio and television programs that had more than 10,000 broadcasts. The radio dramas air even today with the same impact they carried some 65 years ago. Family Theater episodes can be heard Sundays at 8:30 a.m. on Immaculate Heart Radio, 1260 AM.

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The medical community has offered information to support this belief,” said Holy Cross Father John Phalen, president of Holy Cross Family Ministries. “We hear from people around the world frequently, who believe they were healed by Father Peyton. Many others simply share stories of being touched by his holiness. While they may already consider him a saint, we are all pleased to see progress in his cause,” added Father Phalen. In the church’s process leading to canonization, the first step is the declaration of a person’s heroic virtues, after which the church gives him or her the title venerable. In general, the church must then confirm two miracles before sainthood is declared. The first miracle is needed for beatification and the second for canonization. Father Peyton founded Family Theater Productions in Hollywood in 1947. Through it he produced more than 600 radio and television programs that featured hundreds of movie stars

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Candidates for the diaconate were installed to the Ministry of Acolyte by San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice at a Mass at Our Lady of Mercy Parish in Daly City. “This is a final step before ordination,” said Deacon Rich Foley, director of deacon formation, noting the men are scheduled for ordination in June of 2012. Pictured in the sanctuary at Our Lady of Mercy is Bishop Justice with, front from left, Ernie Von Emster, Joseph Ramos, Mario Zuniga, Dana Perrigan, Nestor Fernandez, Bob Leathers. Second row from left, Jerry Quinn, Juan Antillon, Jose Penate, Deacon Mike Ghiorso, Tom Kelly, Deacon Foley, Ven Garcis, Deacon Chito Zamora, Rich Younkin.

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Proposed law would give California voters option of repealing death penalty By George Raine Legislation that would give voters the option of repealing the death penalty and convert the death sentences of 714 inmates to life imprisonment with no possibility of parole is under consideration at the California Legislature. If passed and signed by Gov. Jerry Brown, the bill, by Sen. Loni Hancock, D-Berkeley, would authorize a ballot initiative in November 2012. California’s death penalty became the law by initiative in 1978 and it can only be changed by initiative. The Catholic Church opposes the death penalty, with the belief that all life is valuable. In 2010, the California Catholic Conference, composed of Jeanne Woodford the state’s Catholic bishops, said life without the possibility of parole is an alternative that protects society, although public support for the death penalty – Catholics among them – remains high. Hancock, the chair of the Senate Public Safety Committee, said her motivation is largely the high cost of the system. “Capital punishment is an expensive failure and an

example of the dysfunction of our prisons,” she said. “California’s death row is the largest and most costly in the United States. It is not helping to protect our state. It is helping to bankrupt it.” Hancock’s case is supported by a study published in June by Loyola Law School in Los Angeles that found that since the death penalty was reinstated in 1978, California taxpayers have spent $4 billion to fund what the authors say is a “dysfunctional death penalty system that has carried out no more than 13 executions.” The authors, Judge Arthur Alarcon, senior judge of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and Paula Mitchell, an adjunct professor of law at Loyola Law School, wrote that, given the elongated appellate process, it will be well more than 20 years before the current backlog of death penalty cases are resolved. Jeanne Woodford, a former San Quentin State Prison warden who now heads Death Penalty Focus, seeking to eliminate the penalty, said at a hearing on the bill July 7, “It is wasteful and counterproductive to public safety to spend our precious resources pretending we have a death penalty when we know this sentence will not be carried out 99 percent of the time. It is also terribly unfair to the victims’ families in these cases.” At the hearing before the Assembly Public Safety Committee, Ron Cottingham, the president of the Peace Officers Research Association of California, acknowledged the system is expensive but argued it can be streamlined with the deterrent value – he believes – of the death penalty kept in place.

In an interview he added, “But what price is justice? How do you tell the mother of a (murder victim) that this person will have three hots and a cot for the rest of his life? How do you tell a women’s group and victims’ families that someone who kidnapped, tortured and raped women that lives did not really mean that much to the state because the state is not going after the ultimate punishment?” Said Hancock, “Today, we’re not tough on crime. We’re tough on the taxpayer. Every time we spend money on failed policies like the death penalty, we drain money from having more police officers on the street, more job training, more education, more of the things that would truly make for safer communities.” Sixteen states have opted for life without parole in lieu of the death penalty. The authors of the Loyola Law School study, Alarcon and Mitchell, said that rather than weight in on the debate over the proper application of or morality of the death penalty, their purpose is to “educate the voters on the costs in tax dollars of implementing the death penalty” in California. The high costs in the appellate process, in particular, are unwieldy, they wrote. They calculate that maintaining the penalty is costing some $184 million more a year than it would were the condemned inmates in prison for life without parole. They concluded, “California’s voters must decide whether the death penalty system should be reformed or abolished, because the cost of maintaining the current system without reform is unsupportable.”

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Sister Elizabeth Pleas, BVM Sister Elizabeth Pleas, BVM, 88, formerly known as Sister St. Laura, died June 7 at her congregation’s Marian Hall in Dubuque, Iowa. A funeral Mass was celebrated June 10 with burial in Mount Carmel Cemetery. In the Archdiocese of San

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Brother James Dods, SM Marianist Brother James Dods died June 25 in Hawaii. He was 72 and a religious for 52 years. Brother Jim, who served for almost 20 years at San Francisco’s Archbishop Riordan High School in roles including principal, was born in Honolulu and was part of the Hale Malia Marianist Community there. Marianist Father Tim Eden met Brother Jim in San Francisco in the early 1970s. “Brother Jim was very devoted to the Society of Mary, and took brotherhood seriously,” Father Tim said. “He was a pleasure to live with.” Brother Jim often kept up acquaintances with students long after they graduated. “He was totally dedicated to his students,” Marianist Brother Tom Payne said. A former student sent a note containing these words as Brother James Dods Brother Dods approached death. “Thank you for being so kind and caring toward everyone. Thank you for helping me pave the path for the rest of my life. I want you to know you’ve truly made a difference in my life and showed me the meaning of family spirit. Your kindness and love for people cannot be beat. Thanks for having an impact on my life.” Brother Jim held an undergraduate degree from the Marianists’ Chaminade University in Hawaii and served additionally in schools in Southern California, Washington, Hawaii and Japan.

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In 1977, her husband became ill and was hospitalized at Laguna Honda. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I came every day to see my husband.â&#x20AC;? she recalls, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Then I started to help feed some other patients.â&#x20AC;? Soon, Leano, a parishioner at San Franciscoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s St. Agnes Parish, was attending Mass at the hospitalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chapel, and singing in the choir. Later, she started bringing Communion to patients and leading a rosary. Her husband died in 1986, the same year as DeVeraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s husband. â&#x20AC;&#x153;One week after my husband died,â&#x20AC;? she says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I started coming back. I liked working with the patients. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m serving them, but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m also serving God â&#x20AC;&#x201D; thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s who Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m really serving.â&#x20AC;? A parishioner at San Franciscoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s St. Thomas More, Vangie Tan began volunteering at Laguna Honda after one of the women in the Verbum Dei Missionary Fraternity she belongs to arranged to have her help at the Spanish Mass. It was a little scary in the beginning, she recalls, to see patients slumped over and to occasionally hear them yelling incoherently. But now, she says, she looks forward to being with them, to helping them any way she can. At first, Tan â&#x20AC;&#x201D; who owns and operates what she calls a mom-and pop-store at Serramonte Mall with her husband, Joseph Espinueva â&#x20AC;&#x201D; volunteered once a week. Now she assists the patients twice a week. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When they see you, you see the joy in their eyes,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And you know that when you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go there, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re alone in their rooms.â&#x20AC;? DeVera, Leano and Tan â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and about 120 other volunteers

Corazon Leano converses with a Laguna Honda Hospital and Rehabilitation Center resident. A volunteer for 34 years, she says she is serving the residents but â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m also serving God â&#x20AC;&#x201D; thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s who Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m really serving.â&#x20AC;?

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; work under the guidance of Canossian Sister Elizabeth Johnson, director of pastoral care for Catholics at Laguna Honda. She believes effective service at the hospital requires that â&#x20AC;&#x153;you see Christ in these residents.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;It doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean that you just feed them,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It means to love and care for them. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the way you relate to them. It is the way you acknowledge them. It is the way you make them feel that someone loves them.â&#x20AC;? The first article in this series, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The poor helping the poor: Vincentian group forms at county hospital,â&#x20AC;? appeared in the June 24 issue of Catholic San Francisco and can be viewed at catholic-sf.org.

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As a little girl growing up in the Philippines, Judith DeVera was taught by her parents how to be an apostle of the poor. Following their instructions, she would sit outside the house in the morning and watch eagerly for a couple of blind beggars â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a man and woman who, along with other impoverished residents of the community, were in the habit of coming to her house for food, clothing and comfort. With the man carrying a large cane, the couple reminded the little girl of the Nativity story. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When I saw them,â&#x20AC;? she says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I would run to my parents and say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Here comes St. Joseph and Mary!â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? Many years have passed since DeVera â&#x20AC;&#x201D; now an 81-yearold retired elementary school teacher who lives in BayviewHunters Point â&#x20AC;&#x201D; kept Christ at Laguna Honda: a close watch for the blind couple. But she Second of two parts never forgot the lesson her parents taught her. For the past 23 years she has been serving the poor at Laguna Honda Hospital and Rehabilitation Center as a volunteer. Her many years of service place her among a small but select group of longtime Catholic volunteers at the public hospital who have taken Christâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Gospel message about serving the poor to heart. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The only way we can truly be apostles of the poor,â&#x20AC;? says DeVera, â&#x20AC;&#x153;is to share what little we have with others. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what I was taught by my father and mother.â&#x20AC;? On a recent Friday morning, DeVera and several other volunteers help about 20 patients â&#x20AC;&#x201D; nearly all of whom are in wheelchairs â&#x20AC;&#x201D; celebrate Mass in the hospitalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Community Center. Arranged in several rows facing the makeshift altar, the patients form a congregation that has been severely impaired by a host of devastating diseases. In addition to the burden of their physical ailments, most are poor and, all too often, without friends or family. DeVera and the other volunteers transport them from their rooms to the Community Center, where they can celebrate Mass and participate in other activities. They also spend oneon-one time with them, forming lasting relationships that give patients the social contact many so desperately need. DeVera, who for many years was in charge of scheduling lectors and eucharistic ministers for the Masses, wanted to have as many patients as possible serve as lectors. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re part of the congregation,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wanted them to feel that they could participate.â&#x20AC;? A parishioner at Our Lady of Lourdes, DeVera immigrated to the U.S. in 1953. She worked as a hat-check girl at the Fairmont Hotel in the evenings and a clerk at the California State Automobile Association during the day while going to school. After earning a masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree in education, she taught at All Hallows School for nearly 30 years. She also made sandwiches for the homeless during this time, and volunteered at Home Sweet Home Convalescent Home in Daly City. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everything was volunteering for me, except teaching,â&#x20AC;? she says. Two years after the death of her husband in 1986, she started volunteering at Laguna Honda. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was so lonely at home,â&#x20AC;? she recalls. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So when he left, I decided to do this.â&#x20AC;? Corazon Leano, another volunteer helping at the Mass, also associates the beginning of her 34 years of service at Laguna Honda with her husband. Leano grew up as an orphan living with her sister in the Philippines. In 1957, when she was 27, she married an American citizen and came to the U.S. The couple had three children.

(PHOTO BY JOSE LUIS AGUIRRE/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

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Judith DeVera who is among a small but select group of longtime Catholic volunteers at Laguna Honda hospital, prepares for Mass in the chapel.

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The integrity of the church in China is at stake as China’s Communist government aggressively challenges papal authority, Chinese Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun said during a visit to San Francisco July 7. In an interview with Catholic San Francisco, Cardinal Zen, emeritus bishop of Hong Kong, expressed alarm over the threat to church independence posed by the election of government backed bishops by a “very aggressive” and “defiant” regime. “The situation is very bad,” the 79-year-old prelate said. He added that “there are too many opportunists who have been ordained Cardinal Joseph as bishops.” Zen Ze-kiun He said the faithful are unsure who is in charge and insisted that Rome assert its independence by taking a hard line against all those who participate in questionable ordinations. “Otherwise the people are confused,” the Shanghai-born cardinal said. “The majority want to be faithful but they are confused.” Cardinal Zen said “this situation does not favor the growth of the church.” Cardinal Zen, a Salesian of Don Bosco ordained in 1961, was in San Francisco on a North American tour to visit Chinese Catholics. He said one of his goals was to urge Chinese Catholics to pray for the situation in China and to stay informed. “It’s not always easy to have the right information,” Cardinal Zen said. “People may be optimistic but it would be wrong optimism.” Cardinal Zen, an outspoken proponent of human rights, wore a silver jasmine lapel pin as a symbol of freedom. He said China’s attitude toward human rights is “very bad. It’s hardening; it’s getting worse.” He judged the chances of a Middle Eaststyle populist movement as “impossible” in China under current conditions. Cardinal Zen’s visit came in the wake of the second ordination of a Chinese government-backed bishop since November. On June 29, in southwestern Sichuan province, Father Paul Lei Shiyin was ordained bishop of Leshan — without a papal mandate — in the presence of about 1,000 guests and government officials at Our Lady of the Rosary Church in Emeishan, reported the

Asian church news agency UCA News. The same day the government forced postponement of an ordination that had the approval of the pope. Last November, Father Joseph Guo Jincai was ordained bishop of Chengde in the first ordination of a bishop without papal approval in four years. The Vatican condemned the November ordination as having “unilaterally damaged” hopes of improved relations with China. On July 5 Rome issued even stronger language in response to the second governmentbacked ordination. The Vatican said the ordination was a wound to church unity and had “deeply saddened” Pope Benedict XVI, who desires communion for the church in China. “An episcopal ordination without papal mandate is directly opposed to the spiritual role of the supreme pontiff and damages the unity of the church,” the Vatican said. “The Leshan ordination was a unilateral act which sows division and, unfortunately, produces rifts and tensions in the Catholic community in China,” it said. The Vatican said the survival and development of the church in China can only take place in union with the pope “and not without his consent.” “If it is desired that the church in China be Catholic, the church’s doctrine and discipline must be respected,” it said. — Catholic News Service contributed to this story.

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Marin parish mission group builds school in rural Guatemala Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church. These and other gifts are not totally free: The funds come from St. Rita; the Mayans do the labor. Ten years ago, what passed for education El Sitio is one of 28 small villages surin the Guatemalan village of El Sitio was a rounding the town of Patzun and in both mud hut school with a dirt floor. Thirty Mayan those communichildren, shoeless, sat around a teacher, who ties as well as in did the talking. Santiago Atitlan, The kids’ fathers were working in the a municipality fit fields — corn, broccoli, carrots, cauliflower, snugly between cabbage — for $2 a day. It doesn’t go far in two volcanoes the mountains of Guatemala. on Lake Atitlan, It’s a world removed from Bill Cuneo’s life has gotten Marin County surroundings and his 36-year somewhat better career at Dean Witter’s San Francisco office, for the indigbut he was drawn to the Mayan people. In fact, enous Mayans he loved them. He loved them so much that he thanks to the larlaunched a Guatemalan mission project based gesse of Cuneo at his parish of 45 years, St. Rita, in Fairfax. and his wife, Pat, The mud hut is gone, and in its place is a two-story elementary school, called Our Lady Father Kenneth Weare the parishioners of St. Rita and of Mount Carmel, courtesy of the St. Rita the pastor whose passion is social justice, Guatemala Mission Project. When it was built, Father Kenneth Weare. it only made sense to have a secondary school “We are living the Gospel,” said Father and, indeed, next door is the two-story Our Lady Weare of the Catholic dimension of the misof Mount Carmel High School — along with the sion project. “We are doing just what Jesus new church the project built, appropriately called did. That is, we are reaching out to people in need, particularly those who have significant need and a right to education, health care and giving them hope for the future.” There’s been a major payoff in El Sitio: In addition to the new school buildings, there have been other major contributions, including the 500 pairs of shoes for the school children collected by the St. Rita eighth grade confirmation class last year along with other pupils, a continuous supply of notebooks and other school supplies and chewable vitamins that help the children of El Sitio stay healthy and eager for school. As a result, Our Lady of Mount Carmel last year was ranked the leading school in academic achievement in Guatemala. “It blows my mind,” said Cuneo, 73, particularly proud Bill and Pat Cuneo of St. Rita Parish are greeted by that four teachers at the school children as they arrive for a visit at El Sitio, Guatemala, matriculated as students when where the parish operates a mission project. the doors opened in 2005.

(PHOTOS COURTESY OF ST. RITA CHURCH )

By George Raine

The third grade class at Our Lady of Mount Carmel School in El Sitio, Guatemala is all smiles when a St. Rita delegation visits. The Mayan students are learning Spanish.

Cuneo retired from Dean Witter in 1999 and the following year went to El Salvador on an anniversary of the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero, for whom a cause for beatification and canonization has been opened, as well as Guatemala, and was won over by the Mayans. He had done well in the markets and wanted to give back. “As you get older you see it is nice to have material things but if you don’t share them what good are they?” asked Cuneo, a graduate of Saint Ignatius College Preparatory and Santa Clara University. “I try to live my life based on the Gospel of Matthew” (Chapter 25, 35-36), quoting the

famous lines, “For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, a stranger and you welcomed me.” The Cuneo largess also includes contri-

Santiago and other towns and villages in the mountainous region of central Guatemala. The St. Rita project is also contributing money for two new classrooms in the village of Panabaj as well as providing funds for three meals per day for 50 needy children for a year. “Remember,” said Cuneo, “the men work for $2 a day for the whole family. Some families live on the ground. They might have a couple pieces of sheet metal over them. They cook on the ground. They sleep on the ground. If they want to send a child to school to buy one spiral notebook, it costs them approximately $1.50 — and there goes the $2 wages. So, among the thing we send them are school supplies.” He added, “You look at how they live and you want to cry.” When St. Rita parishioners visit the mission, Cuneo said, they often return home “and kiss the kitchen floor.” Taylor Beggs, 20, a Michigan State University student who is part of a family of St. Rita parishioners, visited Guatemala with Father Weare, Bill and Pat Cuneo and a few other people in June, and was stunned by the divide between the U.S. and Guatemala in access to information and learning. “It gave me a lot more motivation,” said Beggs, to push himself academically as well as to consider how he can help the Mayans when he completes his studies. “I was shocked to see how lucky we are to have all the access to information we do have,” he said. “It is a humbling experience,” said Pat Cuneo of her visit. She saw an immediate need: 50 shoes for a group of kids, which she

The patio of the Our Lady of Mount Carmel mission project is the centerpiece of the development, which includes the secondary school, left, and old and new church.

thinks $300 will cover. “The conditions they live with — limited running water, bathroom facilities. They wash their clothes in the river. They bath in the river. We have so much to be grateful for.” The secondary result of the mission project for parishioners — the first is their contributions — is to make them more socially conscious, said Father Weare. St. Rita is the only Catholic parish in Marin County that participates in a winter shelter program for homeless women, opening up its parish hall. The Guatemala experience, said Father Weare,

helped make the homeless project possible. “It was possible because they were set up in the Gospel framework,” said Father Weare. “I think the development of a social consciousness is one of the most successful dimensions and effects of the program.”

The 2011 graduating class at Our Lady of Mount Carmel School.

butions, along with other donors across the U.S., for a hospital being built in Santiago Atitlan, Hospitalito Atitlan, and he and St. Rita parishioners have also contributed funds for a multi-purpose building in El Sitio, as well as a convent and carpentry school in Patzun — another success story. Saws and other tools — often bargains found on eBay by parishioners — are donated to the popular program whose students find jobs within weeks of their graduation, and the school has found a market for its furniture in France. “Imagine,” said Father Weare, “a Mayan village is exporting furniture to France.” School supplies and other goods are sent to

Children of El Sitio.

By Sarah MacDonald Catholic priests face arrest and torture by Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s secret police masquerading as Mass goers as the dictator’s instruments of repression turn their attention to the church, branding it an enemy of the state. In a pastoral letter at the beginning of this year the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Zimbabwe said “corruption is a cancer destroying our nation.” The bishops urged the country’s political parties to engage in a “serious discussion” about the state of the nation, warning that the alternative was to allow Zimbabwe to “continue to be dogged by violence, political intolerance, injustice, rigging of elections, fear, deception.” For messages such as this the church is currently paying a heavy price, with the government of Zimbabwe now treating it as one of its major internal enemies. Just what that means for ordinary priests ministering to a million or so Catholics is revealed in chilling detail by one of their number who describes how intimidation of celebrants at Mass has become the norm through the presence in their congregations of secret police loyal to Mugabe and his party, the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front, better known as Zanu-PF. Speaking anonymously to The Tablet for fear of arrest and torture, Father B said: “The whole Catholic Church has become an enemy of the state.” He gave the example of a peace service at the Church of the Nazarene in the high-density Glen Norah suburb of Harare (the capital’s suburbs are divided into the

lucky you are interviewed and let go; if you are not so lucky you are tortured a little bit,” he states matter-of-factly, before adding: “Our phones are tapped. When you talk you can actually hear someone interfering! We know our Internet lines are tapped all the time and so sending messages outside is very dangerous.” Even wearing a Roman collar is extremely dangerous, says Father B, because “the moment the authorities know you are a priest you are labeled an enemy.” A few weeks ago priests were impris‘People are disappearing day in and day two oned and were humiliated by being forced to undress out. After some time their bodies are before female police officers, he said. Father found in some disused mine or dam.’ B himself had a close escape recently when he — Father B was stopped in the road by armed police. “I was almost killed. I had to humble myself,” he said of the pleadin his congregation who report back on his ing that helped save his life. “They had guns homilies. “There’s no freedom of speech. You and told me: ‘We can make you disappear in preach that people are hungry and the moment a moment and you will never be found.’ Then you say people are hungry those in authority someone said: ‘Let him go.’ I was shaking.” He feel attacked. So you are an enemy,” he said. underlines that threats to “disappear” people “Zimbabwe has become a police state.” are not idly made. “People are disappearing As a result, priests in Zimbabwe “don’t day in and day out. After some time their bodhave any freedom to preach the Word as we ies are found in some disused mine or dam.” would want to even within the church because It is government policy, he says, to foment you never know what kind of visit you may divisions between Christians by courting get after Mass. You know that the secret police indigenous or “apostolic” churches that have are attending and the moment you finish, sprung up in villages and suburbs under selfthings happen.” This might mean a telephone appointed pastors. Supporters of Zanu-PF visit call telling the priest to come to the police these churches campaigning for votes. “Their station where he is interrogated. “If you are formerly white “low-density” suburbs and the old “high-density” African townships) that was broken up by riot police. A week later Father Mark Mkandla was arrested in Lupane in Matabeleland by police unhappy with the content of his homily. Father B said that priests are today routinely subjected to arbitrary arrest and questioning. He himself feels hindered and censored by the constant presence of secret service personnel

language is to attack the Catholic Church,” Father B explains. These political agitators try to blame the church for the country’s ills and play the loyalty of the apostolic churches off against the “treachery” of the Catholic Church. Pastors who try to resist their propaganda have found their congregations divided as those willing to support Mugabe are offered the means to start new churches and given land to do so. Of President Mugabe’s much publicized attendance at the late John Paul II’s beatification, Father B said: “Just the week before he was attacking us publicly and the next week he is in Rome for the beatification!” Though he accepts that the Vatican did not issue a personal invitation to the tyrant, he added: “Mugabe being Mugabe — whatever chance arises he takes advantage of because he can’t go to another European country because of the sanctions.” “We live in fear,” said Father B, adding of the 87-year-old president: “The old man is no longer in charge: It is the army and the police intelligence who are actually running the affairs of the country and they decide whatever they want.” For that reason, Zimbabweans also know that the departure or death of Robert Mugabe won’t solve their problems. Mugabe, who has dominated the political scene in Zimbabwe for more than three decades, now wants national elections brought forward, a move church leaders and opposition parties are against. Early elections would undermine, they say, the Global Political Agreement that was agreed between Zanu-PF and the Movement for Democratic

(CNS PHOTO/ALESSANDRO BIANCHI, REUTERS)

Fear in the pulpit: Oppression in Zimbabwe

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace, center, leave St. Peter’s Basilica after paying their respects at the casket of Blessed Pope John Paul II at the Vatican May 1. Mugabe, a Catholic, has been widely rebuked for human rights violations.

Change, or MDC, led by Morgan Tsvangirai, in September 2008. The GPA came about as a result of the refusal of Zanu-PF to concede that the MDC had secured a parliamentary majority in that year’s election. A brutal campaign of violence rained down on MDC members until Tsvangirai opted to withdraw rather than expose his followers to further violence. Under the agreement Mugabe was allowed to retain

the presidency and Tsvangirai became prime minister. But as the history of Zimbabwe since independence in 1980 shows, Zanu-PF has no intention of ceding power. “We were hoping that in forming the Global Political Agreement things would go OK. But that hope has faded now because we know that even if the opposition wins, they won’t get into government because of the army,” said

Father B, adding that he believes that the situation in Zimbabwe will only change through international intervention. But in a country of 91 percent unemployment, where people are barely surviving, how long can they or should they have to wait? Referring to the economic wasteland created by the government, Father B highlights how the regime exploits people’s desperation, saying: “The government knows people are poor and they use that, telling them: ‘If you want to get some money — come to us.’” This is code for the payments the government makes for carrying out orchestrated beatings of its opponents. The terms of the GPA call for a new constitution and new elections. But as negotiations on these are ongoing between Zanu-PF and the MDC, an early election would stymie the formulation of a new constitution and its approval by a referendum. It would also ensure that the electoral roll would not be overhauled in time for the vote. According to historian and writer R.W. Johnson, in “Preventing Electoral Fraud in Zimbabwe” — a report written for the South African Institute for Race Relations, the earliest date for elections following a referendum on a new constitution would be June 14, 2012. But Johnson suggests that hopes for free and fair elections are threatened by the manipulation of Zimbabwe’s electoral rolls. He shows that 360,500 new voters have been added to the register in just two years, despite documented mass emigration from Zimbabwe. A sure indicator that something is amiss is the presence on the roll of hundreds of

young people under the age of 17, some small children. At the other end of the scale he documents thousands of people over the age of 100! There are 16,033 new voters over the age of 70 years, of whom 1,488 of these are over the age of 100 — some as old as 109 years of age. (According to the World Health Organization, life expectancy in Zimbabwe, at 43 for men and 44 for women, is one of the lowest in the world.) In his estimation there are as many as 2.5 million “phantom voters” currently on the register. Johnson’s quotation from Joseph Stalin at the beginning of his report is a telling reminder of the importance of an impartial electoral process: “The people who vote decide nothing! The people who count the votes decide everything!” In Johnson’s view, only a completely new electoral roll drawn up by an independent body would make the next election credible. His report concludes that the current roll is not only “a wholly incredible document but an extremely dangerous one, which lends itself to all manner of electoral manipulation or ballot-stuffing. It is more or less guaranteed to produce disputed results.” As Zimbabwean human-rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa, like the Catholic bishops, acknowledges in the foreword to Johnson’s report, a road map to free and fair elections under a new and democratic constitution is the Holy Grail for Zimbabwe. This article appeared in the June 25, 2011, issue of the British Catholic weekly The Tablet and is reprinted with permission. The publication’s website is www.thetablet.co.uk.

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July 15, 2011

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Good Fr. Greene After reading Msgr. Talesfore’s letter on Father Greene (June 24) I wanted to put my two cents in on the good father. We first met Father Greene when he came to Church of the Epiphany to assist Father Patrick McCarthy. One of the first functions we attended, arranged by Father Greene, was a quinceanera for one of my students. I taught at Epiphany for 20 years. It had everything, including a mariachi band, which really sounded quite fantastic inside the church. We loved Father Greene’s homilies and we were lucky to hear many of them, not only at Epiphany, but also at St. Thomas More and St. Stephen parishes where he also served. It was always a pleasure to bump into Father Greene in various parts of the city. About a week ago, two of my friends were visiting the graveside of their friend who had died a year ago. It just so happened that the gravesides of the two firemen were close by. They saw Father Greene standing there praying at their graveside. The San Francisco Fire Department has to be so proud of this great chaplain. We have a friend who will be 104 years old in July. Her husband was a fireman and she has made arrangement that Father Greene will say her funeral Mass. Is it any wonder that that is her request? Helen M. Thomas San Francisco

Warden’s story perplexes The June 24 article about former San Quentin State Prison warden Jeanne Woodford’s long opposition to the death penalty on “moral grounds” was very perplexing. As the chief agent in command of California’s death chamber, Woodford administered death to four condemned men while, at the same time, claiming to hold deep moral opposition to what she herself was doing. She asks us to “imagine asking [her] to go to work . . . planning to kill somebody.” And off to work Woodford went, choosing to accept her high-paying state post as warden of San Quentin and, with the pay, the duty to kill those condemned by the state. Woodford willingly accepted the high pay of a government job with duties that included “killing somebody”— four somebodies, to be exact. Now, while still accepting the rich retirement pay and benefits given by the state, in part, for her administration of the death penalty, Woodford takes additional pay and benefits to lead the fight against the death penalty. This isn’t really morally ambiguous, once you look carefully. Edmond Francis McGill Larkspur

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Mystery of God’s love I offer one more comment on Father Ron Rolheiser’s article “God and violence” (May 27) and the letter writer who responded to my query of why God would choose to send his son as a sacrifice for our sins (June 24). Of course I agree with everything the letter writer says about human beings being violent and that it was humans, not God, who killed Jesus. But my confusion was that God would choose to send his only son into this violence in the first place. After further reflection, I now realize that as God, the son and the Holy Spirit are one and the same and that it was actually God who sacrificed himself in the form of his son Jesus. That, to me, reflects love, not violence as I first thought. B. C. Leon San Bruno

This reader prefers holding a newspaper Obviously Laurie (Joyce, letters, June 24, urging Catholic San Francisco to offer the paper to more readers electronically), is of the modern generation. I am not. Nor am I of the upper or even the middle strata financially. I have no computer, no Twitter, no e-mail. I look forward to the Catholic San Francisco newspaper each week. Please don’t even think of replacing it. I believe I speak for many nonplugged-in senior citizens. Juanita Douglass Redwood City

Saluting Marin Catholic sisters In the May 20 issue, I was delighted to see that there will again be a strong presence of religious women on the Marin Catholic campus. I also wanted to note that the article omitted the mention of the decades of ministry by the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary. The sisters taught several generations starting at St. Anselm High in the late 1930s, and subsequently at Marin Catholic into the 1990s. Thank you to all the Holy Names sisters who gave so many a wonderful education. We are so grateful and blessed to have had your presence in our lives. Judy Ross, Marin Catholic ’64 Christopher Ross, Marin Catholic ’89 Alice Egisti Silveira, St. Anselm High ’39

Reclaim classroom rigor The June 24 article, “Jesuit education expert: Catholic schools must be more Catholic,” explains all the reasons that I cannot send my kids to “Catholic school.” For a cut rate most parents send their children to these schools, not because they are Catholic but because they are “un-public.” For the years that we tried sending our kids to these schools we found the institutional culture at the high school level offensive, and at the lower levels, disappointing. I would bring to light, besides the things mentioned by the CSF’s next issue is July 29.

writer, this question: “Why are Catholics, the pioneers of classical education, on the John Dewey bandwagon?” I am a private learning coach and not a teacher, yet my students learn Latin, which is the root language for Western languages. My students read the classics and get short lessons in philosophy and theology. They also are tutored in virtues and morality and develop logic skills and, later, rhetorical skills at the high school level. All of these things are absent in the standard “Dewey-esque” education, where children use “temporary spelling” instead of phonemic and linguistic awareness. A standard fourth grade reader should be an abridged version of Homer’s “Odyssey” and “Iliad,” so that they can understand what is the cultural definition of a “Trojan horse,” or, an abridged version of “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” so that they can see that the struggle between good and evil is in each of us and the more we indulge in evil the more evil takes over. Shocking at age 10? I think not. As usual, and the Catholics said it first, the educating of children is up to the parents. Be careful, be watchful and be vocal. Yes, Catholic schools need to correct course to become more Catholic, starting with the curriculum and the process of interviewing prospective students and faculty. Why not return to our roots of the classical model? I must say on a personal note that I and other people who take both parenting and education seriously take heart in the possibility of education reform in Catholic schools. At this point many people don’t donate to support Catholic education because those of us “in the know” are aware that Catholic schools are marginally better than the public and that they follow most of the same models. What we need is to stop impersonating the system that is already recognized by the whole world as failing and innovate, by exceeding standards and remembering our coveted roots in rich tradition, fidelity and raising “moral thinkers.” Every Catholic child beyond the second grade should know and be able to state, “Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini” (Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord). It ought to be the standard morning greeting in every Catholic classroom, but instead parents have to remind the teachers to pray. I would know, because I was one of those parents before I gave up and instead decided to rescue my children. Lynne Santamaria San Mateo The writer recently decided to homeschool her 10-year-old in order to provide more expansive academics and religious education.

we should go back to having your father arrange whom you should marry. Taking the archbishop’s suggestion, let’s try to define marriage as the Bible does. Shall we look at Abraham, the great patriarch, who slept with his servant when he discovered his beloved wife Sarah was infertile? Or to Jacob, who fathered children with four different women (two sisters and their servants)? Abraham, Jacob, David, Solomon and the kings of Judah and Israel — all these fathers and heroes were polygamists. The New Testament model of marriage is hardly better. Jesus himself was single and preached an indifference to earthly attachments — especially family. St. Paul regarded marriage as an act of last resort for those unable to contain their animal lust. “It is better to marry than to burn with passion,” says the apostle, in one of the most lukewarm endorsements of a treasured institution ever uttered. Would any contemporary heterosexual married couple — who likely woke up on their wedding day harboring some optimistic and newfangled ideas about gender equality and romantic love — turn to the Bible as a how-to script? I recommend readers of Catholic San Francisco study John Boswell’s book, “Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality” (University of Chicago Press, 1980), in which he documents legally recognized homosexual marriage in ancient Rome extending into the Christian period, and his “SameSex Unions in Pre-modern Europe” (Villard Books, 1994), in which he discusses church-blessed samesex unions and even an ancient Christian same-sex nuptial liturgy. Jim McCrea Piedmont Editor’s note: We asked Bill May, chairman of the San Francisco-based lay apostolate Catholics for the Common Good, to respond. He writes: “Yes, there was polygamy in the Bible; it was condemned. Yes there is an attempt at surrogacy when Sarah tried to have a child through the service of her maid, Hagar; it was a disaster. Let’s get to the heart of what the archbishop said about marriage. “When he said it can be known by reason and experience, this recognizes every person without exception desires a connection with the man and woman from whom they originated. Marriage makes that possible when a man and woman freely chose to make themselves irreplaceable to each other in preparation for receiving a child as a gift. That starts the cycle of irreplaceability that we call the family. “Inherent in Mr. McCrea’s conclusion is an assumption that marriage is merely the public recognition of a committed relationship between loving adults. However, it is much more. Marriage unites a man and a woman with each other and any children born from their union. This is what marriage is; this is what marriage does. It is a human reality that is independent of belief in God. It cannot be created or changed, but only recognized as it has been recognized by every culture and religion throughout time.”

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Marriage and the Bible In his June 24 column, Archbishop John Nienstedt of Minneapolis-St. Paul states that — quoting from a recent column by New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan — “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 (the current definition of marriage) is so. The definition of marriage is hardwired into our human reason.” So much of what is viewed as what is time-honored Catholicism simply highlights one way that the faith has been lived in the past, determines this to be normative, and then dismisses what might depart from it as being somehow less Catholic. This tends to be quite dismissive of the constitutively changing nature of the traditions of such things as marriage. Sacramental marriage was not part of the Christian religion until 1545 at the Council of Trent. There was no sacrament of matrimony before that. In 1200 there first came the concept of marriage for love. Prior to that, women were given to men as part of a business arrangement between families. Nothing holy about that! If we do not want to redefine marriage, then

CSF redesign We invite readers to join the staff of Catholic San Francisco in taking inventory for a potential redesign of the newspaper. Share your thoughts on headlines and type; graphics and artwork; photos; amount and variety of content; user-friendliness; design of ads, inside pages and special pages; the paper’s personality; and whatever else may be on your mind. Mail the editor, phone (415) 6145647 or e-mail comments to delvecchior@sfarchdiocese.org. Subject line: Redesign.

July 15, 2011

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Stem cell agency falls far short By Michael Hiltzik For a state agency that aims to define the term “visionary,” the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine — the stem cell bureau, as it were — has always displayed a curious lack of vision about its own responsibilities. The taxpayer-funded institute was created by Proposition 71 in 2004 to find cures for diabetes, AIDS, Alzheimer’s and a host of other conditions via stem cell research, using $3 billion in bond proceeds ($6 billion including interest). It goes without saying that it hasn’t found those cures, though not for want of spending. Nor has it managed to temper public expectations pumped up by the original initiative campaign, or resolved the persistent questions about whether its grant-making process is subject to adequate public oversight or free of conflicts of interest. Having sat in on part of the agency board’s selection process for a new chairman, I can tell you it hasn’t made much of an advance at solving its chronic management difficulties either. The chairmanship search has been a mess, and that couldn’t happen at a worse time. The agency is contemplating how to replenish its funds — possibly by going back to voters for a new bond issue — while pressure increases for it to show concrete progress toward disease cures. “They’re at a critical crossroads,” State Controller John Chiang, the only state official with direct oversight of the agency (and precious little, at that), told me recently. “The voters invested a significant amount of money for what they thought was going to be life-changing improvement. . . . [CIRM] hasn’t produced a game-changer in the public mind-set.” Proposition 71’s resounding victory at the polls followed an ad campaign featuring inflated optimism about stem cell science and spearheaded by Robert Klein, a Northern California real estate man who wrote the initiative. His authorship may explain why the measure set down qualifications for the board chairman that fit himself to a T, while shielding the agency from almost any oversight by elected state officials. Guess who got the job? Klein announced last year he was stepping down, and promptly got tangled in accusations he was trying to handpick his successor behind closed doors, though Proposition 71 dictates that it’s up to the governor, lieutenant governor, treasurer and controller to submit nominees from whom the board must choose. Klein’s choice was Alan Bernstein, a prominent Canadian research administrator who had chaired a panel of outside experts hired to produce a purportedly independent appraisal of the stem cell agency’s work. The panel’s report, issued last year, was glowing. Klein and the agency finessed

the consequent brouhaha by suddenly discovering that state law forbids the appointment of a non-American citizen, though some legal experts contended that no such obstacle exists. (I’m indebted to David Jensen of the California Stem Cell Report for pulling together the facts on the case.) The new round yielded two candidates. One is Jonathan Thomas, 56, a Los Angeles investment banker with university degrees in biology and history and experience in the biotech investment field. He’s the nominee of Gov. Jerry Brown, Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom and Treasurer Bill Lockyer. Chiang’s candidate is Frank Litvack, 55, a former cardiology professor at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and executive and investor in medical technology companies. They’re estimable candidates, either of whom would bring useful qualities to the job. Among other things, they’re committed to advancing stem cell science and they understand that making a compelling public case for the agency’s research is of paramount importance. Yet that doesn’t obscure the fact that the entire search process has been a missed opportunity. This time of managerial

Given the current research and budgetary environment, the institute probably shouldn’t exist. transition would have been the perfect moment for the board to ponder the broader issues swirling around the institute. Over the years, the agency has been criticized for being too narrowly focused on a particular field of scientific research and overly secretive. The Little Hoover Commission concluded in 2009 that the 29-member board was too large to be efficient and too lacking in independent voices — no surprise, since Proposition 71 requires that almost every member represent some group or entity with an interest in stem cell funding. But those issues aren’t on the table in the board’s discussions with the two candidates. Both told me in separate interviews that they thought the board members were more or less outstanding and, anyway, them’s the rules. I have no grounds for suspecting the candidates are simply playing up to the people who will be deciding whether to hire them, but it’s sadly typical of the agency’s governing board that such crucial issues of governance are ignored. Instead, the discussion seems to revolve more around whether the candidates think the chairmanship is a full-time handson job or a part-time oversight job and where in the board’s

stated salary range of about $150,000 to $400,000 they’d place themselves. (Litvack thinks it’s an oversight job and would be happy at the low end of the salary scale; Thomas that it’s a full-time job and implicitly warrants a higher figure.) The institute’s most glaring inadequacy as a state agency is its lack of integration with the state’s overall research investment. That shortcoming has never been addressed by the board except to give the cold shoulder to critics who raise the issue. Indeed, given the current research and budgetary environment, the institute probably shouldn’t exist. Its impetus came from the Bush administration’s strictures on research involving embryonic stem cells, but those impediments evaporated after the change of administrations in Washington. (A federal judge’s effort last year to revive the restrictions has been reversed on appeal.) There’s no question that stem cell research is important and potentially groundbreaking. But with every budget year, the folly of generously funding research in one research field while everything else withers away grows more obvious, nowhere more so than in the state’s treatment of the University of California. Plenty of the stem cell money goes to UC campuses, but plenty does not. The largest single recipient? Stanford, a private university, which has received more than $192 million of taxpayer money as of May 4. That’s more than UCLA and UC Berkeley combined. Brown’s proposed budget in January cut state support to UC by $500 million (along with $900 million in cuts to community colleges and Cal State.) UC has responded to years of budget cuts by shrinking science course offerings, so that it takes some students five or even six years to acquire all their required credits to graduate. UC has also increased the slots offered to out-of-state applicants, who pay higher tuition than state residents, raising their share of admissions to 18 percent from 11.6 percent just two years ago. That’s as many as 4,700 more slots offered to non-California students than would have been offered in 2009, based on the percentages. Of the 4,700 California students denied acceptance to some of the nation’s premier research institutions, how many might have made their own contributions to scientific revolutions bringing wealth and glory to the state of California? We’ll never know. Isn’t this a legitimate issue to be addressed by the stem cell institute’s board and its candidates for chair? Think of it this way: What does California gain if the institute gleams the more brightly because it’s the only diamond left in a research landscape it helped turn into a desert? Michael Hiltzik is a columnist for the Los Angeles Times. This article appeared in the newspaper’s June 8, 2011, edition and is reprinted with permission.

Questions on stem cell agency’s direction, results By Vicki Evans On May 4, 2011, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine approved a $25 million grant to Menlo Park’s Geron Corp. to support the first U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved clinical trial based on cells derived from human embryonic stem cells. This is the first time CIRM has funded a human clinical trial using a human embryonic stem cell therapy and it is risky, as even Robert Klein, the institute’s chairman, states: “[W]e must remember that there will be successes and interim failures as human trials proceed through the refinements necessary to achieve a successful human therapy. We need to be prepared to stand by the heroic patients and the companies as they face these challenges.” The initial phase of the trial will include a small number

of people with recent spinal cord injuries who will receive injections of cells derived from embryonic stem cells into the site of the injury. This initial phase of the three-year project is designed to test whether the cells are safe. This grant is timely for CIRM as it looks for voter support for another ballot initiative granting it 10 more years of taxpayer financing. CIRM has faced criticism because its human embryonic stem cell grants have produced no successful treatments in human subjects and are not yet in human trials. Will this award to Geron be able to blunt that criticism? At the same meeting, CIRM approved 27 Basic Biology III Awards worth $37.7 million. The awards to nine institutions will “support research that leads to new insights in stem cell biology and disease origins.” Both UCSF and Stanford University were recipients of grant money. Interestingly, one of the UCSF awards in the amount of $1,740,335 will

investigate how “human embryonic stem cells grown in cell culture makes the cells particularly susceptible to out-ofcontrol replicating, to form tumors.” Are embryonic stem cells really safe for human trials at this point? CIRM also introduced the launch of a new pilot program to support high school students carrying out interdisciplinary work in California stem cell labs. “These Creativity Awards will support 18 students who will be involved in projects that combine stem cell science with at least one added discipline including engineering, chemistry, social sciences, ethics, music or others.” This pilot program underlines the importance of students to CIRM’s goals. It should stress to us how vital it is for students to understand the ethics underlying the science. Vicki Evans is coordinator of the Respect Life Office of the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

We need to stand up for parents and families By Archbishop José H. Gomez There was a time, not too long ago, when American society encouraged family values and tried to strengthen the bonds of parents and children. Recent events in our state and nation remind us that’s not always the case anymore. The family is God’s first beautiful gift to us. Because each one of us came into this world as the fruit of a mother and a father’s love. This married love is the heart of every true family. In this love, we see the heart of God who is love. The family is vital in God’s plan for our personal lives. And the family is vital for our country. But last week, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling that will make it harder for American parents. The Court’s decision in Brown vs. Entertainment Merchants Association involved a 2005 California law that banned the sale of violent video games to minors. The Court said the law violated video game makers’ rights to freedom of speech.

That may be true. However as a pastor, I found myself more sympathetic to Justice Clarence Thomas’s dissenting opinion. Justice Thomas said that America’s founders would find it “absurd” to say that freedom of speech includes “a right to speak to minors . . . without going through the minors’ parents.” He puts his finger on a big problem in our society today. Young people are often treated as a “target audience” for corporate and media messages that bypass parents and undermine parental authority and moral values. Right now, there are two bills in the California legislature that our state’s bishops believe represent a dangerous government intrusion into parents’ rights. Assembly Bill 499 would let children 12 and under decide for themselves to get vaccines or take other medications to prevent sexually transmitted diseases. Senate Bill 48 (passed by the legislature late last week and sent to the governor for his signature) would require school textbooks to teach about the sexual orienta-

tions of figures in American history. This amounts to the government rewriting history books based on pressure group politics. It is also another example of the government interfering with parents’ rights to be their children’s primary educators. As we pray for one another this week, let us commit ourselves to promoting the God-given rights of parents and families in California and in our country. Let us work to become a people who no longer resort to abortion, birth control, in vitro fertilization and divorce. Let us build a future for our nation in which children grow up in families based on God’s law and the natural law. And let us ask Mary, the Queen of the Family, to help us win the grace we need to stand up for parents and the family in our day. The writer is archbishop of Los Angeles. Condensed from a July 8 article in the Los Angeles Archdiocese’s The Tidings newspaper.

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A READING FROM THE BOOK OF WISDOM WIS 12:13, 16-19 There is no god besides you who have the care of all, that you need show you have not unjustly condemned. For your might is the source of justice; your mastery over all things makes you lenient to all. For you show your might when the perfection of your power is disbelieved; and in those who know you, you rebuke temerity. But though you are master of might, you judge with clemency, and with much lenience you govern us; for power, whenever you will, attends you. And you taught your people, by these deeds, that those who are just must be kind; and you gave your children good ground for hope that you would permit repentance for their sins. RESPONSORIAL PSALM PS 86:5-6, 9-10, 15-16 R. Lord, you are good and forgiving. You, O Lord, are good and forgiving, abounding in kindness to all who call upon you. Hearken, O Lord, to my prayer and attend to the sound of my pleading. R. Lord, you are good and forgiving. All the nations you have made shall come and worship you, O Lord, and glorify your name. For you are great, and you do wondrous deeds; you alone are God. R. Lord, you are good and forgiving. You, O Lord, are a God merciful

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Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Wisdom12:13, 16-19; Psalm 86:5-6, 9-10, 15-16; Romans 8:26-27; Matthew 13:24-33 and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in kindness and fidelity. Turn toward me, and have pity on me; give your strength to your servant. R. Lord, you are good and forgiving. A READING FROM THE LETTER OF PAUL TO THE ROMANS ROM 8:26-27 Brothers and sisters: The Spirit comes to the aid of our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes with inexpressible groanings. And the one who searches hearts knows what is the intention of the Spirit, because he intercedes for the holy ones according to God’s will. A READING FROM THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW MT 13:24-33 Jesus proposed another parable to the

crowds, saying: “The kingdom of heaven may be likened to a man who sowed good seed in his field. While everyone was asleep his enemy came and sowed weeds all through the wheat, and then went off. When the crop grew and bore fruit, the weeds appeared as well. The slaves of the householder came to him and said,‘Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? Where have the weeds come from?’ He answered, ‘An enemy has done this.’ His slaves said to him, ‘Do you want us to go and pull them up?’ He replied, ‘No, if you pull up the weeds you might uproot the wheat along with them. Let them grow together until harvest; then at harvest time I will say to the harvesters, “First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles for burning; but gather the wheat into my barn.” He proposed another parable to them. “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard

Lenience is strength By Sharon K. Perkins (CNS) I had a conversation the other day with a group of colleagues who also happened to be parents of young children, and we were sharing stories of various parenting techniques that we observed. A couple of techniques and characteristics stood out as both exemplary and very effective. “The look” was high on our list. Having just observed “the look” used by a young mother of four during Mass, I could describe it well: Scripture reflection Whenever one of her brood became disruptive, she simply fixed her eyes on him or her with an expression that could have meant anything from “You know that there will be severe consequences for your behavior when we get home” to “I’ve taught you how to behave appropriately in church, and I’m really disappointed in you

right now” to “I know you’re hungry/tired/ need to go to the potty, but I’m sure you’re capable of lasting a while longer!” Sometimes “the look” was accompanied by a raised eyebrow, a gentle touch on the shoulder or a whispered word, but there was never any question about who was in charge. Whatever unspoken family “code” had been established, there was an obvious, underlying assumption of parental authority that was calmly communicated, justly applied, and gently enforced. It also indicated that mom was fully aware of each child’s unique limitations and capabilities and was prepared to respond accordingly to each one’s age appropriate need. Although she must have had her moments of fatigue and frustration (she is human, after all) there was no drama, no flare of temper, no demonstrated resentment. From my vantage point in the pew behind

“For your might is the source of justice; your mastery over all things makes you lenient to all” (Wisdom 12:16).

them, I was duly impressed. Today’s readings convey these same unmistakable messages of God’s just, yet gentle, treatment of all his children, regardless of our individual capabilities and

seed that a person took and sowed in a field. It is the smallest of all the seeds, yet when full-grown it is the largest of plants. It becomes a large bush, and the ‘birds of the sky come and dwell in its branches.’’ He spoke to them another parable. “The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed with three measures of wheat flour until the whole batch was leavened.” All these things Jesus spoke to the crowds in parables. He spoke to them only in parables, to fulfill what had been said through the prophet: I will open my mouth in parables, I will announce what has lain hidden from the foundation of the world. Then, dismissing the crowds, he went into the house. His disciples approached him and said, “Explain to us the parable of the weeds in the field.” He said in reply, “He who sows good seed is the Son of Man, the field is the world, the good seed the children of the kingdom. The weeds are the children of the evil one, and the enemy who sows them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels. Just as weeds are collected and burned up with fire, so will it be at the end of the age. The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will collect out of his kingdom all who cause others to sin and all evildoers. They will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be wailing and grinding of teeth. Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Whoever has ears ought to hear.”

deficiencies. God’s lenience is also God’s strength. God compensates for our inadequacies in prayer. When the seeds of goodness in our lives are contaminated by sin or evil influences, God doesn’t petulantly overreact or intervene prematurely, but he patiently entrusts us with the time and encouragement that we need to learn from our mistakes — albeit with the assurance of our eventual accountability. It’s the constant, unwavering “look” of love that gives us, God’s children, “good ground for hope.” Questions: In what specific way(s) has God dealt leniently with you? How has God’s example of kindness and justice taught you to treat others, especially those entrusted to your care? This “Word to Life” Scripture reflection is offered by Catholic News Service in cooperation with the North Texas Catholic of Fort Worth, Texas.

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Anonymous anger Are we angrier than we used to be? Or is the anonymity of technology giving folks license to unleash anger in unhealthy ways? One night not long ago, my husband and I headed out to a movie — as it turned out, the wrong movie. As Civil War buffs, we wanted to see “The Conspirator.” It was about the trial and execution of Mary Surratt, a woman accused of participating in the plot to assassinate Abraham Lincoln. Desperate for a night out but forgetting the title, we saw “The Lincoln Lawyer” advertised at a local theater and mistakenly ended up sitting through not a Civil War tale but a shallow murder mystery about a lawyer who works out of the back of a Lincoln — the car, obviously, not the president. OK, that didn’t make me angry. I’m getting to the anger part. After we arrived back home, feeling sheepish but mildly entertained, I turned on my cell phone to check for messages. Wow, four or five texts. I rarely get texts. My mouth dropped open as I began to read. “You sleep with my husband and you’ll pay for it,” an anonymous text threatened. What? I ventured through the other texts. My confused correspondent called me obscenities; she said she’d talk to my manager (what manager?). She used expletives. She

knew I was with her husband. Tell him to call, she said. What should I do? I asked my husband. Tell her she has the wrong number, he suggested. But that would mean making contact. I had an eerie feeling. I knew it was ridiculous, but I looked outside at the darkened hedges, half expecting some threatening figure to be lurking beyond my deck. How silly, I realized. My cell phone’s area code is from another city hundreds of miles from the one where I reside, and the writer had that same area code. Obviously, she was nowhere near me, not even in the same state. She didn’t have a clue as to whom she was writing, and had put the wrong number in her phone, possibly aided by alcohol and definitely by uncontrolled anger. In bed that night I thought of her, a woman somewhere feeling betrayed with no remedy but to lash out anonymously. How many people are there, I wondered, roiling with anger and unable to deal with it constructively? The next morning it continued. First came a threeword, unprintable description of me. Then, oddly, a few minutes later, this: “I just want to say that I am sorry I was mad n sad please forget me.” Emboldened by the morning light, I decided to reply with the briefest of unsigned messages: “U have the wrong number.” If she felt that she’d made a fool of herself with some-

one she knew, would that help? Or would she think that her possible betrayer was mocking her? One way or the other, I never heard from her again. As Congressman Effie Caldarola Anthony Weiner’s recent misguided tweeting illustrates, we live in an era when people can throw themselves intimately and creepily into the lives of strangers. Sending obscenity-laced phone missives without even hearing the recipient pick up the phone and say “hello” is but one example. In the old days, an angry letter had to be written, stamped and dropped in the mailbox, providing coolingoff time. And people usually signed their names; only cowards refused to stand behind their convictions. Today the blogosphere, even the Catholic blogosphere and my cell phone, fill with angry, often misdirected anonymity, unleashed by a finger click. It’s not a good thing. Effie Caldarola writes a column for Catholic News Service.

July 15, 2011

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Theologians’ vocation ‘essential’ for our time San Jose Bishop Patrick J. McGrath’s article is condensed from his keynote speech June 9 to the Theological Society of America convention in San Jose. The communion of saints is the topic for your meeting this year so I will focus my brief words of welcome on this theme. Karl Barth thought that John the Baptist was the ideal and model saint. Barth observed that the Baptist always pointed away from himself to the Christ. In Barth’s view, that is what every saint, what every Christian ought to do. Our diocese is blessed with two patronal saints. Our see city of St. Joseph is situated in the valley of St. Claire. Time prevents a reflection on both our patrons. But I would like to propose St. Joseph as an alternative to Karl Barth’s choice as the model and ideal saint. When I was young we frequently heard about St. Joseph “the Silent.” He was called silent because we know so little about him. While we certainly do not know much about Joseph’s life, we can tell some very important things about him from Jesus, since Joseph played an essential role in our Savior’s human formation. This simple observation brings us to the heart of the truth you will be reflecting on at this year’s convention. Human possibilities, who we are and what we can become, depend on other people, on the community within which we live. Even our knowledge of and our relationship with God depends on others. To put this another way, God can enter the world and touch our lives only through human cooperation, only through people like ourselves, through saintly lives. As every human being, Jesus was profoundly influenced by his family and especially by his parents. Like all of us, the adult Jesus reflected the family in which he grew up. For example, consider that as a child Jesus would have first used the word “Abba” to name Joseph. And it was from Joseph that he learned of our Eternal Abba, our gentle and merciful God. Here is an example of the truth expressed in the ancient doctrine of the communion of saints — God touches us with human hands. We encounter and come to know our God though other human beings. Who we become is formed by our community with others. As Jesus’ parent, Joseph gave Jesus to our troubled world and silently receded in the giving. In this way I offer the co-patron of our diocese to your reflection as the ideal and model saint. It is our task, like Joseph, to give Jesus to the world and recede in the giving. Joseph is first among the legions of silent saints, the millions across two millennia, whose fidelity and faith have made it possible for us to encounter the gentle face of God in Jesus. This is the multitude of unknown saints who, like Joseph the silent, recede into history. But the fruit of their forgotten lives, the gift of Christ, lives on in those of us who have been formed by their living faith.

These saints, like us, are fragile, struggling and sinful people. Yet it is on the likes of these that the Spirit of the Risen Christ depends in order to live in our world. And it is these silent multitudes who made it possible for us to encounter the Lord. In her book “Truly Our Sister,” Sister Elizabeth Johnson reminds us that the living community of saints is the only real reliquary of Jesus, the way the Spirit’s power enables the risen Christ to live in history. In each succeeding generation believers have enabled the Risen Christ to live in ever-changing circumstances. Under the guidance of the Spirit, on every continent, among every nationality and race, the faithful have found everchanging ways to live in communion with the Risen Lord. This evening we fragile saints gather to place our humble gifts at the Spirit’s service. You, members of the Catholic intellectual community, offer your unique talents and work to the Lord. Your efforts to probe and enlighten our faith are important, indeed essential to the life of the church and the work of the Spirit. In your reflections on this doctrine I do not want you to neglect your own participation in the communion of saints precisely as theologians. The theological vocation is essential to Christ’s presence in the world. For how can people of varied times and places encounter the Risen Christ if his life and mystery are not translated into and enriched by history’s ever-changing circumstances? The story of theology is familiar to us all. During the Patristic period the great theologians in the church were the bishops. The theological achievements of saints like Ambrose and Augustine were their pastoral work, the way they made the Risen Christ live for the congregations entrusted to their care. It was necessary to express the Gospel in ways their contemporaries could grasp. And new questions, unknown to earlier Christians, had to be addressed if the Risen Christ was to live on. Across the centuries the locus of theological reflection has changed — to monasteries, to universities and to seminaries. I think that our contemporary circumstance is a uniquely rich moment in the history of theology. One need only look around this room to realize that this essential vocation is now shared by lay and cleric, women and men, religious and secular of every race and nationality. In this you reflect the diversity of our truly catholic community. What a dazzlingly rich treasure you are to our church. As a member of that church and as a bishop I want to thank you for your work and express how much I appreciate your efforts. Your vocation is an ancient and time-honored task. Following the examples of Irenaeus, Rahner, and so many others, you bring our faith to the contemporary intellectual and cultural conversation. This frequently requires that you ask hard questions as we face new challenges. In doing so you enable the Christ to live and be encountered in our time and situation.

We know from our church’s history that it is a difficult and sometimes unpopular vocation. Saints are not always popular people. New and varied perspectives are not always welcome. But your efforts are essential if the Bishop Patrick Risen Christ is to live in our time. Theology is a J. McGrath saintly work. I would also like to commend and encourage you for the way in which you carry out your vocation. I think this a vitally important point. Today in our society and culture everything seems so fractured. Public discourse has become so acrimonious, even within our church. My prayer this evening is that you might continue the long tradition of the Catholic Theological Society of America, carrying on your deliberations in the Spirit of Christ, in a spirit of unity, mutual respect, trust and fellowship. If you can maintain this kind of conversation, that fact alone will rank you among the saints we sorely need. For how is it possible for people in our society to believe in the promise of Christ to establish an eternal community of love and peace, a divine Kingdom, if all we see around us are harsh judgments, acrimony and vilification? The practice of theology by members of the Catholic Theological Society, at this meeting and throughout the year, has been and remains an authentically countercultural sign. Here you share, criticize and enrich one another’s efforts in the spirit of unity, mutual respect, trust and fellowship — that is, in the Spirit of the Risen Christ. In this Spirit your conversation will culminate when you gather at our cathedral in Eucharist. Here the mystery of the communion of saints reaches its fullest expression in the celebration of the Lord’s body — head and members. All the saints — the famous and the forgotten, the living and the dead — are really present with Christ in our Eucharistic communion. Here is the living fact and promise of our eternal community in Christ. Recall St. Augustine’s reflections on the celebration of the Lord’s body. He asked his congregation, what do you take from the altar, what do you receive? His answer: You take yourself from the altar, you receive your own mystery for you are the body of Christ. Your work as a theological community is an essential part of our participation in this mystery. I refer not only to the content of your conversation but also to the Spirit in which you conduct that conversation. So, again, I thank you for your contributions as theologians to the life of our church. In the name of the church, I thank you for embracing the theological vocation.

Why we need to canonize more lay saints By Father James Martin, SJ Ever since the Second Vatican Council spoke of the “universal call to holiness,” there has been a move to recognize more lay men and women as saints, as models of sanctity for lay Catholics. Several contemporary saints have already been raised to the “glories of the altar,” among them St. Gianna Molla (1922-1962), an Italian mother who carried a child to term rather than consenting to an abortion, and who died in the process. Others on their way include Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati (1901-1925), the charismatic Italian social activist who once said, “Charity is not enough; we need social reform.” In that same vein is the redoubtable Dorothy Day, the Americanborn co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement, whose cause for canonization has just been advanced. And in 2008, Louis and Zélie Martin, the devoutly Catholic parents of St. Thérèse of Lisieux (and her equally pious sisters) were beatified in a rare instance of a husband and wife recognized together. But when it comes to recognizing saints, the church still tends to favor popes, bishops, priests and members of religious orders. Last month, Pope Benedict XVI released the latest list of 27 candidates for sainthood, which consisted of: martyrs in the Spanish Civil War, including a bishop and 13 Daughters of Charity; an Austrian priest killed in Buchenwald; the Mexican foundress of a women’s religious order; an 18th-century Italian diocesan priest and a Dominican priest who founded the Bethany community. While there are plenty of holy fathers and mothers on that list, where are the holy mothers and fathers? Fifty years after Vatican II, in the midst of the church’s continued invitation for lay people to lead holy lives, why are there still relatively few role models for the laity? Many lay people have told me, over the years, that they long for more saints who lived lives of extraordinary holiness in ordinary situations. That is, a layperson other than a

saint from the very earliest days of the church (St. Joseph); someone who wasn’t royalty (like St. Elizabeth of Hungary); someone who didn’t end up in a religious order at the end of his or her life (like St. Bridget of Sweden); someone who didn’t initially plan to live as “brother and sister” while married (like Louis and Zélie Martin); someone who didn’t found a religious order or social movement (like Dorothy Day); and someone who didn’t die in terrible circumstances (like St. Gianna Molla). While Catholics recognize that the canonized saint needs to have lived a life of “heroic sanctity,” many long for more saints they can hope to emulate in their daily lives. This raises an important question: Who is holier: Mother Teresa or the elderly mother who cares for decades for an adult child who is autistic? Pope John Paul II or the pious educator, who serves as a director of religious education in an inner-city parish while holding down another job to support his family? The answer: They’re both saintly, in their own ways. As Blessed Pope John XXIII said about St. Aloysius Gonzaga, the 16th-century Jesuit, “If Aloysius had been as I am, he would have become holy in a different way.” (And not to put too fine a point on it, but that’s still a pope talking about a member of a religious order.) “Heroic sanctity” comes in many forms — and it includes both those whose faith inspires them to found a religious order, and those whose faith enables them to care for a sick child for years on end. Currently there are three reasons that frustrate the desire for more lay saints of any stripe. The first is the persistent belief, still ingrained in many Catholics, that ordination or taking religious vows represents a higher level of holiness than does, say, raising a child. As a young boy in Sunday school class I was once given a picture to color. It featured a priest and sister on one side of the page, and a husband and wife on the other. Under the husband and wife the legend read: “Good.” Under

the priest and sister: “Better.” But even the saints disagreed with this. “Holiness is not the luxury of a few,” said Blessed Mother Teresa. “It is a simple duty for you and for me.” The second factor is the more “public” nature of the lives of many of the priests and members of religious orders who are canonized. It’s easier to see the “results” of the religious order founder or foundress; much harder is it to know about the elderly mother’s care for the autistic child: such accomplishments rarely make news. So the church’s requirement that a local “devotion” spring up around the person will naturally be thwarted. His kind of “hidden” lay holiness will be less likely to attract the devout simply because it is less well known. The third reason is the arduous, time-consuming and expensive canonization procedures, which only religious orders and dioceses can afford (or understand). Certainly it makes sense to have standards — and high ones — for someone to be canonized, and a thorough vetting process is required. But not many children of holy parents are able to navigate the complex process required by the Congregation of the Causes of the Saints (if they even know it). Once the mother of the autistic boy dies, who is there to advance her “cause?” God alone knows of her holiness, yet her example might speak to many more Catholics than even that of a pope. If the church hopes to offer relevant models of holiness for lay people, it’s time to make the canonization process far more accessible, and far less expensive, for those who knew a holy husband, wife, mother, father, friend or neighbor. Santo subito! This article appeared July 7 on America magazine’s blog “In All Things” and is reprinted with permission of America Press, Inc., 2011. All rights reserved. For subscription information, call (800) 627-9533 or visit www. americamagazine.org.

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July 15, 2011

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The internal battle for our souls Two contraries cannot co-exist inside the same subject. Aristotle wrote that and it seems to say the obvious, something can’t be light and dark at the same time. However, in terms of what’s happening inside our souls it seems that contraries can indeed co-exist inside the same subject. At any given moment, inside us, we are a mixture of light and darkness, sincerity and hypocrisy, selflessness and selfishness, virtue and vice, grace and sin, saint and sinner. As Henri Nouwen used to say: We want to be great saints, but we also don’t want to miss out on all the sensations that sinners experience. And so our lives aren’t simple. We live with both light and darkness inside us and for long periods of time, it seems, contraries do co-exist inside us. Our souls are a battleground where selflessness and selfishness, virtue and sin, vie for dominance. But eventually one or the other will begin to dominate and work at weeding out the other. That’s why John of the Cross picks up this philosophical axiom and uses it to teach a key lesson about coming to purity of heart and purity of intention in our lives. Because contraries cannot co-exist inside us, there’s something vital we need to do. What? We need to pray regularly. Contraries cannot co-exist in us so if we sustain genuine prayer in our lives eventually sincerity will weed out insincerity, selflessness will weed out selfishness, and grace will weed out sin. If we sustain genuine prayer we will never, long term, fall into moral rationalization. If we sustain genuine prayer in our lives we will never grow so blind to our own sin that we will begin to have morally exempt areas in our lives. Being faithful

to prayer will ensure that we will never, long-range, live double lives because what prayer brings into our lives, a genuine presence of God, will not peacefully co-exist with selfishness, sin, rationalization, self-delusion, and hypocrisy. Simply put, at some point in our lives, we will either stop praying or stop our bad behavior. We won’t be able to live with both. Our biggest danger then is to stop praying. And this advice is eminently practical: We cannot always control how we feel about things. We cannot always control how we will be tempted. And none of us has the strength to never fall into sin. Our incapacity to fully actualize ourselves morally leaves us always short of full sanctity. There are things beyond us. But there is something that we can control, something beyond the wild horses of emotion and temptation. We are beset by many things, but we can willfully, deliberately, with discipline and resolve, show up regularly to pray. We can make private prayer a regular discipline in our lives. We can commit ourselves to the habit of private prayer. And, if we do that, irrespective of the fact that we will have to work through long periods of dryness and boredom, eventually what that prayer brings into our lives will weed out our bad habits, rationalization, and sins. Two contraries cannot co-exist inside the same subject. Eventually we will either stop praying or we will give up our sin and rationalization. Nobody can be praying genuinely on a regular basis and be blind to his or her own sinfulness. Our task then is to sustain private prayer as a habit in our lives, even if we have neither the insight nor the cour-

age to see and address all the double standards and moral blind spots in our lives. What comes into our lives through prayer, often more imperceptible than visible, will eventually weed out (“cauterize,” in John of the Cross’ words) Father Ronald both our sin and our rationalizations about it. Rolheiser This is akin to what Ronald Knox once taught about the Eucharist. For him, the Eucharist is the singular, vital, sustaining ritual within Christian life. Why? Because Knox believed that, as Christians, we have never really lived up to what Christ asked of us. We have never really loved our enemies, turned the other cheek, blessed those who cursed us, lived fully just lives, or forgiven those who hurt us. But we have been, he submits, faithful to Christ in one major way: We have been faithful in celebrating the Eucharist, to that one command. The habit of private prayer will do the same thing for us. Since two contraries cannot co-exist inside the same subject, eventually either we will stop praying or we will stop sinning and rationalizing. The greatest moral danger in our lives is that we stop praying! Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser is president of the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, Texas.

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Twenty Something

Lessons from my 80-year-old grandpa Leave it to grandpa to put things in perspective. It was half way through our second annual Christmas party, and I was flitting around, refilling glasses and collecting empty plates. Preparing for the party had kept me moving — wrapping presents, baking shortbread cookies, stringing 3,200 white lights on our blue spruce and not exactly meditating to “Silent Night.” I brought some water to grandpa, sitting in the corner facing everyone, and sat down beside him. “Look,” he instructed me, his blue eyes misty. “What do you see?” I scanned the kitchen, nodding and laughing. Then I looked at grandpa. Somehow he had stepped outside the scene and was observing it from a distance. “No ill will,” he said, answering his own question. “Everyone’s happy. You see love.” In that moment, I glimpsed it too, rising above the particulars and seeing the picture in broader strokes. Here we all were, shoveled out from the snow, marking another Christmas together, bound by blood and by love, and standing in the sacred space where duty meets desire. It was the perfect Christmas gift, to step outside the party like the ghost of Christmas present and then re-enter, relishing all the little things that had seemed ordinary a moment before. That is grandpa’s magic. He has a painter’s grateful eye, sharpened 10 years ago by a heart attack. Surgeons patched

To experience 80 years and rejoice in each new day is his singular joy. the hole in his heart, and he steadily recovered, embracing each day as a gift from above. Three years later, at 73, grandpa taught himself to play clarinet, putting numbered tape on keys to correspond with his fingering chart. Within months he was playing the second movement of Mozart’s clarinet concerto. He is a dark-skinned, blue-eyed artist, the fifth child of a Florentine immigrant raised in the shadow of the Duomo. Grandpa spent his career painting Catholic churches, refinishing statues of saints and applying gold leaf. Now he is enjoying retirement, playing in the St. Paul Police Band, fishing at his cabin and watching “Jeopardy” with grandma. She would be a brilliant contestant, he insists. He’s on his second pacemaker and awaiting the birth of his third great-grandchild. He began writing a book called “Life Begins at 70.” He’s come to love reading, and in March he wrote to World War II prisoner of war Louie Zamperini, the subject of Lauren Hillenbrand’s bestseller “Unbroken.” “God sure must have had a mission for you in life to put you through so much,” he wrote. “We will probably never

meet in this life but look forward to meeting you in God’s heaven.” In May grandpa gave a toast at my cousin’s wedding. “May earth and heaven mingle,” he told the newlyweds. I’ve Christina seen him cry at every grandchild’s wedding, and Capecchi that evening, he found the words for his tears. In June, grandpa turned 80. We celebrated on the second Saturday of the month, which happened to be the day the cottonwood trees had been buffeted by just enough heat and just enough wind to unleash their flossy seeds. Wrapped in cotton clusters, they are designed to travel long distances. So is grandpa. To experience 80 years and rejoice in each new day is his singular joy. He has taught me that heaven brushes earth — in paint strokes and clarinet notes, in written words and spoken prayers, in first Communions, in every Communion. And when those moments happen, we hold them to our hearts, never quite the same. Christina Capecchi is a freelance writer from Inver Grove Heights, Minn. She can be contacted at www.ReadChristina.com.

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To do or to be Anyone who wants to study efficiency should take a look at mothers. Most modern moms are experts at scheduling, using random bits of free time as productively as our pioneer counterparts used scraps of calico. The other morning, I had a half-hour free while my four-year-old was at soccer practice. I considered various ways that I could productively use that time. “I’ll go buy snail bait. No. I’ll shop for the new shoes I need. Any chance I could make it to the supermarket and back in half an hour?” In the end, actually, I did none of the above. In a rare moment of rebellion, the desire for relaxation trumped the to-do list. A nearby park lured me with its shady, quiet benches. I sat down, thinking I’d polish off the last few chapters of my latest library book. But then it occurred to me that I could use this little sliver of free time in an entirely more productive way. I could do nothing at all. So I sat on the bench, looking into the huge pine tree

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above me, the sun filtered by its branches and needles and cones. And I recognized the presence of God, and just sat in the lacy shade, feeling the peace of the morning. There were a few anxieties on my mind and I identified them to myself and put them out there for God’s help. And then I sat back and noticed my surroundings. A yellow butterfly came into my line of vision, moving steadily toward me, as if I were a heroine in a Disney movie. A quotation from Nathaniel Hawthorne came to mind: “Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” In the sun I noticed a single thread of spider’s web stretching from one small Japanese maple to another, like a tightrope for insects. There was birdsong, and the voices of children playing nearby, and there was the perfect stillness of the morning of a hot day, before the strength has been sapped, when things still feel fresh and hopeful. Why don’t I do this more often? I wondered, and yet I know the answer. Life is busy, and the to-do list is long. Though it’s not unusual for me to relax, it is unusual for me to do so without a screen in front of me. I have fooled

myself into thinking that a sitcom or a visit to my favorite blogs is the most I can do at relaxation. I invite other voices into my free time — comedians, writers, pundits — and though there’s nothing Ginny Kubitz wrong with that, I need to be honest in recognizing Moyer that very few of them give me the soul peace that I find when I dial it all down and let God whisper to me in the soft still voice of a summer day. I never got the snail bait or the shoes, but in the end, it didn’t matter. Doing is all well and good, but sometimes, it’s better simply to be. Ginny Kubitz Moyer is the author of “Mary and Me: Catholic Women Reflect on the Mother of God.” Contact Moyer at www.blog.maryandme.org.

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July 15, 2011 July 23, 11 a.m.: “Big Barbecue Reunion” in honor of Mater Dolorosa’s 50th anniversary for all alumni, students, families and friends at Mater Dolorosa. Day includes games and prizes for all. Get reacquainted with MD friends. Bring a dish to share and be ready to have tons of fun. Call the Rectory (650) 583-4131 or e-mail rodriguez.angelav@hotmail.com or just show up! Please help raise funds to restore our beautiful stained-glass windows! Any donation amount is accepted to “Mater Dolorosa” 307 Willow Ave, South San Francisco 94080.

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2011 Faith Formation Conference Nov. 18, 19: “Go! Glorify the Lord with your life!” Be among the more than 2,500 religious education professionals and Catholics looking to deepen their faith meeting for the annual “Faith Formation Conference” sponsored by the Archdiocese of San Francisco with the dioceses of San Jose, Oakland, Monterey and Stockton at Santa Clara Convention Center. Local experts and nationally known speakers will facilitate 84 workshops. More than 70 exhibits relevant to the day will be on display. Visit www. faithformationconference.com.

Rosary Rallies October 15: Family Rosary Crusade. The San Francisco Legion of Mary invites all Catholics to join us for the San Francisco Family Rosary Crusade 2011. The Family Rosary Crusade will be held on October 15, 2011, at 12 noon, in San Francisco’s Civic Center Plaza. Join us as we pray the Rosary, adore the Blessed Sacrament, listen to inspirational speakers, and ask the blessings of God for ourselves and our community. For more information, visit www. familyrosarycrusade2011.com.

The National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi and La Nuova Porziuncola Vallejo and Columbus in North Beach: The Porziuncola and “Francesco Rocks” Gift Shop — online at www.knightsofsaintfrancis.com — are open every day but Monday from 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. The shrine church — online at www.shrinesf.org — is open every day 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. with Mass Monday through Saturday at 12:15 p.m. and Sundays at 10 a.m. Rosary is prayed daily in Porziuncola at 4:30 p.m. Call (415) 986-4557.

Social Justice/Lectures/ Respect Life Saturdays, 9 a.m. – 10 a.m.: Rosary for Life at Planned Parenthood, 1650 Valencia St. near St. Luke’s Hospital in San Francisco.

Prayer/Special Liturgies Sundays, 1:30 – 2:30 p.m.: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament with Benediction at Notre Dame des Victoires Church, 566 Bush St. between Stockton and Grant in San Francisco. Convenient parking is available across Bush Street in StocktonSutter garage. Call (415) 397-0113.

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18th annual “Rummage Sale” July 28, 29, 30 at St. Anthony of Padua Parish in Novato, with a special Early Bird sale July 28. The largest event of its kind in the Bay Area with great bargains on thousands of donated items. Hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday. Thursday presale is from 6 to 8 p.m. There is a $10 per person admission charge for this event only. Sale is held at the church hall and plaza at 1000 Cambridge St. near South Novato Boulevard. Call (415) 883-2177. Most remaining items are sold at half price on Sunday. Taize Sung Prayer: First Fridays, 8 p.m.: Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Drive, Burlingame with Mercy Sister Suzanne Toolan. Call (650) 340-7452; young adults are invited each first Friday of the month to attend a social at 6 p.m. prior to Taize at 8 p.m. Tuesdays, 6 p.m.: Notre Dame Des Victoires Church, 566 Bush at Stockton, San Francisco with Rob Grant. Call (415) 397-0113. Third Fridays, 8 p.m.: Dominican Sisters of MSJ Motherhouse Chapel, 43326 Mission Boulevard, entrance is on Mission Tierra Place, between Ohlone College and the Old Mission San Jose in Fremont. Call (510) 449-7554. Third Wednesdays at 8 p.m. at the Dominican Sisters of MSJ motherhouse chapel, 43326 Mission Boulevard, entrance is on Mission Tierra Place, in Fremont. Call (510) 449-7554.

Reunions July 16, 11:30 a.m.: St. Agnes Elementary School, class of ’51, Diamond Anniversary lunch at the Irish Cultural Center, 45th Avenue at Sloat Boulevard in San Francisco. Contact Charles F. Norton at (209) 835-2073 or e-mail cfn@pacbell. net or W. Urie Walsh at (415) 668-6501 or e-mail wuwkmw@aol.com. July 27, 11:30 a.m.: St. Joseph College/School of Nursing reunion luncheon at the Irish Cultural Center, 45th Avenue at Sloat Boulevard in San Francisco. Reservations are required by July 1. Tickets are $35.00. Contact Betty Jerabek at (650) 589-6233 or Anne Politeo at (415) 221-8382 or e-mail tajsf@att.net. Aug. 13 or Nov. 26: All alumni of St. Anne of the Sunset School, class of 1981, are invited to a reunion. Location/date are undecided. E-mail George Rehmet at georgerehmet@yahoo.com or call (650) 438-9589. September 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. Oct. 16: Class of 1951 from Lone Mountain College in San Francisco/SF College for Women.

Contact Anstell Ricossa at (415) 921-8846 or Toni Buckley at (415) 681-5789. Oct. 22: Presentation High School, San Francisco class of ’66. Contact Martha Kunz Willis at (650) 763-1202 or e-mail mwwmtw@comcast.net or Marilyn Mathers at (51) 232-4848 or mmathers@ deloitte.com.

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

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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.

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Volunteer 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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Oct. 22, 9 a.m. – noon: “An Interrupted Life,” with Paulist Father Terry Ryan. Etty Hillesum and all of her family but brother, Jaab, were murdered at Auschwitz within months of each other in 1943 and 1944. Jabb also died in that timeframe but from illness on his way from being liberated. Etty’s diaries, published in 1983 and again in a closer light just recently, have inspired many readers. Jesuit Father John Dear said the writings taught him, “not just how to cope, but how to grow, deepen, love and serve.” Father Terry Ryan says about Etty, “In silence and solitude she experienced self-forgetfulness, called `Spiritual Hygiene’ that makes space for God and love. Etty believed that a person could experience God in a direct and immediate fashion. She realized that she must love herself, with faults, before she can love others.” Talks take place at Old St. Mary’s Paulist Center, 660 California St. in San Francisco. Coffee and treats start the day. Workshop is free, but free will offerings are welcome. Call (415) 288-3845.

St. Mary’s Cathedral – Celebrating 40 years Gough and Geary Blvd. in San Francisco (415) 567-2020 or visit www.stmarycathedralsf.org Cathedral Viewing Times. Open every day from the first Mass until 5 p.m. Touring is not allowed during Mass times. Docents are on duty in the Cathedral from April through October, Monday through Saturday, 9 a.m. to noon, and Sunday after the 11 a.m. Mass. The Docent Program also offers special tours and a school program. Schedule a tour at (415) 567-2020, ext. 220. Mass Times, Monday – Saturday: 6:45 a.m. Chapel of Our Lady; 8:00 a.m. Chapel of Our Lady; 12:10 p.m. Main Cathedral. Saturday Evening: 5:30 p.m. (Vigil Mass), Organ and Cantor. Sunday: 7:30 a.m., Organ and Cantor; 9 a.m. (Gregorian Chant), Schola Cantorum; 11a.m., Cathedral Choir; 1 p.m. (Español),Coro Hispano. Confessions: Monday – Friday: 11:30 a.m. – noon. Saturday: 4 p.m. – 5 p.m.

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