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Various editions of “Gone With the Wind,” including ones from Spain, Germany, Iran, Finland and Vietnam, are part of a multimillion-dollar bequest to the Atlanta archdiocese. The bequest includes a 50 percent share of the trademark and literary rights to the novel.

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ATLANTA – The Archdiocese of Atlanta has received a multimilliondollar gift from the estate of Margaret Mitchell’s nephew, Joseph Mitchell, including a 50 percent share of the trademark and literary rights to “Gone With the Wind.” The inheritance includes a collection of signed “Gone With the Wind” first editions published in various languages and some of Margaret Mitchell’s personal effects, including her wallet with her press card and library card, and furniture from her apartment. First published in 1936 by Macmillan, “Gone With the Wind” sold 176,000 copies at its original release and was a

runaway success. According to Publishers Weekly, by the end of 1938 more than a million copies had sold, and that number doubled after the release of the movie in 1939. Today, an estimated 30 million copies have sold worldwide. Simon and Schuster now publishes the book, which sells an estimated 75,000 copies every year in hardcover and other formats. According to “Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind: A Bestseller’s Odyssey From Atlanta to Hollywood,” by Ellen F. Brown and John Wiley Jr., the publisher expects a “profitable future for the remainder of the copyright term,” which ends in the U.S. in 2031, some 95 years after the first publication. The book has been translated more

than 30 times, including in countries as diverse as Albania, Chile, Denmark, Ethiopia, Lebanon, Turkey, Japan, Finland, the former Yugoslavia and Burma. New editions continue to be published in Europe and Asia, although the copyright has expired in Canada and Japan. The archdiocese has created a corporation with the Eugene Mitchell trust to manage the literary inheritance. “We want to continue to make ‘Gone With the Wind’ available to the widest possible audience and to do it in a way that is respectful and dignified and in line with the wishes of the late Stephens Mitchell,” said Deacon Steve Swope, who has been overseeing the transition of the bequest on behalf of Atlanta Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory.

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The worst drought in half a century decimating crops in the Midwest is rippling through the economy and on track to punish the most vulnerable among us, from California to Mozambique, as global food prices have spiked 6 percent and are climbing. For some people the effects are very

real, not mere projections. Cattle farmers, relying on a corn crop that will be one-third smaller than thought at planting time, are suffering as their costs skyrocket, the reverberation is being felt all the way to Menlo Park, home of St. Anthony’s Padua Dining Room, which has fed the hungry since 1974. There, Maximiliano Torres, the operations manager, has seen the price of beef jump. Some donors have cut back

on the excess food they contribute. The demand for food six days a week, as well as the clothing the nonprofit dispenses, is constant, growing, and the dining room is in what Patricia Papalian, a spokeswoman, calls “a state of preparedness.” “We know it is going to hit hard,” meaning the continuing effects of a SEE FOOD, PAGE 8

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NEW YORK – New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan said some people have called inviting President Obama to the annual Al Smith dinner “a scandal,” but he said the church’s posture “toward culture, society and government is that of engagement and dialogue.” “It’s better to invite than to ignore, more effective to talk together than to yell from a distance, more productive to open a door than to shut one,” he said, adding that recent popes have received “dozens of leaders” with whom they disagree on serious issues. The Al Smith dinner in New York brings people of faith together for “an evening of friendship, civility and patriotism to help those in need,” not to endorse either candidate running for the U.S. presidency, Cardinal Dolan said. The purpose of the dinner is to show the nation and the Catholic Church “at our best,” he said in an Aug. 14 posting on his blog titled “The Gospel in the Digital Age.” “An invitation to the Al Smith dinner is not an award, or the provision of a platform to expound

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CONSCIENCE AND THE CATHOLIC VOTER: The November election challenges Catholics voters to examine their consciences on a variety of issues, including abortion and euthanasia, marriage, the rights of immigrants, economic disparity, state-sponsored violence and religious freedom. “Serious people feel overwhelmed going into the 2012 election” U.S. bishops’ spokeswoman Sister Mary Ann Walsh said in a recent post on the bishops’ blog. “Seeing many choices or none, some seek a rationale to stay home on Election Day, but to give in to such discouragement is political despair.” Find resources at www.usccb.org/ issues-and-action/faithful-citizenship. CITIZENSHIP FORUM: San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop Robert W. McElroy is keynote speaker Oct. 13 at parish forum organized by St. Dunstan Social Awareness Committee, “Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship” – addressing Catholic responsibility in the electoral process and how to meet it. Event is at the parish center, 1133 Broadway, Millbrae, 9 a.m.1 p.m. Seating is limited. Send reservations by Oct. 8, including name and parish and number attending, to Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship, PO Box 1188, Millbrae 94030. POVERTY USA WEBSITE: Catholics can learn about the state of poverty in the United States and concrete ways they can make a difference at a new website from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. The site, www.povertyusa. org, was launched Aug. 15 and offers tools and resources to spread the word about poverty in America. Resources include an interactive poverty map with state and county level poverty statistics, a Poverty Tour video which gives viewers a sense of what it is like to live at the federal poverty line, videos and links to Poverty USA’s social media sites, including www.facebook.com/povertyusa. The website, an initiative of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development and USCCB’s Department of Justice, Peace and Human Development, will feature selected news stories related to the state of poverty in the United States. ARCHBISHOP-DESIGNATE ON KCBS: A KCBS radio interview with San Francisco Archbishop-designate Salvatore Cordileone airs Saturday, Aug. 25, at 5:30 a.m. and Sunday, Aug. 26, at 8:30 a.m. and 8:30 p.m., at 740 AM or 106.9 FM.

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Impressed by the integration of native culture into its liturgies, inspired by the warmth of its congregation and incited to action by its dilapidated condition, Celeste Chapman has set out on a rescue mission for an impoverished Hawaiian parish. Active at St. Sebastian the Martyr in Greenbrae and Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Mill Valley, the stewardship-minded Marin County native is planning fundraisers, learning to write grant proposals and making personal donations for St. Rita Church in Nanakuli, Oahu, whose rotting, rodent-riddled structures have been threatened with closure and are threatening the pastor’s health. “The need at St. Rita is so great, I cannot idly stand by,” said Chapman, who felt at home the minute she first stepped inside the worn but welcoming 114-year-old church during a September 2007 family vacation to the Waianae coast, a mountain range and world apart from the island’s bustling tourist center. “I truly feel that God is calling me to help the parish and the pastor,” she said. In response, she has volunteered to help raise an estimated $5.5 million needed to rebuild, renovate, refurbish and restore the buckling buildings and relocate the pastor, Father Alapaki Kim, who suffers from chronic respiratory infections developed

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tilted floors, moldy ceilings and cracks and holes that invite termites, roaches and rats, which elude abatement measures and make mincemeat of his bedding, furniture and clothing. “I caught 25 mice in my bedroom alone in a threeweek period,” said Father Alapaki, noting his health improves significantly when he’s away from the premises. Moving the swiftly growing parish’s only priest to less hazardous housing takes priority in a recently approved four-phase master plan, which, among other steps, calls for: demolishing the rectory and a moldencrusted World War II-era Quonset hut that serves as a food pantry; disposing of four 1940s trailers used as offices and classrooms and declared illegal and ordered closed by the City and County of Honolulu; buying and building replacement facilities, and renovating and expanding the historic church, which seats only 197 of the 450 regular Massgoers whose number is projected to top 2,000 in the next two to four decades. As head of the fundraising committee, Chapman has enlisted her sister and is recruiting other volunteers to pray and/or participate as she cooks up a luau and other ways to raise the needed revenues for the parish that captured the family’s heart at first sight. From the moment Chapman, husband Scott, son Bobby, 24, and daughter Gina, 20, first received the ritual welcome hug, kiss on the cheek, blessed shell lei and community greeting and heard the “reverent, beautiful, spirit-filled” liturgy that incorporates Hawaiian language, music, culture and sacred Catholic traditions, “we could truly feel the spirit of aloha in everyone present.” The pastor and parishioners extend that spirit across the Waianae coast, where U.S. Census figures place the per capita income at just over $13,000. As the largest church in one of Oahu’s poorest areas, home to 80 percent of native Hawaiians, St. Rita answers “a special calling to stand together in truth and justice for indigenous people.” Situated on Hawaiian Homelands, the equivalent of the mainland’s reservations, the parish serves a community beset by “the same type of problems of alcoholism, drug abuse, homelessness, domestic violence that are found in many Indian nations,” Father Alapaki said. Housing and schools sag in disrepair, although the roads got a facelift with the entry of Disney’s Aulani resort and Marriott’s hotel and timeshare club in nearby Ko’Olina that lured tourists to the coast, and to St. Rita. The congregation should bulge further with the construction of a 4,200-home subdivision and the longer-range addition of 10,000 new housing units within parish boundaries recently expanded beyond the Nanakuli area. Most current parishioners work minimum-wage service jobs or in construction. In typical fashion, Father Alapaki’s cousin houses five families – including one in a backyard tent – in his three-bedroom home. Sacramental, Baptisms, First Communion, Confirmations and RCIA Gifts

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‘Bless you Fathers’ is spirit of October lunch The St. John Vianney Luncheon for retired priests who have served in the Archdiocese of San Francisco will come to order Oct. 26 at St. Mary’s Cathedral Conference Center. More than 100 priests will be honored. Bringing 99 years ordained to the table are brother priests Father John K. Ring, ordained June 10, 1961, and Father Vincent D. Ring, ordained June 13, 1964. Father John is retired pastor of San Francisco’s Father John K. St. Vincent de Paul Parish where Ring he served for 24 years through 2011. He is a former pastor of Mater Dolorosa Parish in South San Francisco. Father Vincent is retired pastor of St. Denis Parish in Menlo Park, where he served from 2004 until his retirement in 2008. Father Vincent served as pastor of St. Robert Parish in San Bruno from 1990-2004. He is also Father Vincent a former pastor of St. Timothy D. Ring Parish, San Mateo, and Sacred Heart Parish, San Francisco. For the record, the idea that the lunch will come to order should be applied very loosely. While I missed last year’s repast, I understand it was a mighty fun couple of hours in the hands of Father Dave Pettingill, an esteemed member of the honored retirees and now 50 Michael years a priest. This year the good Pritchard times continue with comedian Michael Pritchard as emcee. Mike has successfully held the floor at many events of the local church including the papal visit of 1987 and will certainly keep the laughs coming at this most worthy meal. “I’ll be bringing laughter to the lights of our world, our Catholic priests,” Mike told me noting he’d also be “bringing an appetite.” The food will again be quite good, I understand. Information about the lunch – both ticket and other ways to support the effort – is available from the Office of Development at (415) 614-5580 or email development@sfarchdiocese.org. ANNIVERSARY: Nancy and John Singleton, married June 2, 1962, at Most Holy Redeemer Church, San Francisco, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with family at a Mass at St Cecilia Church. Father Jerry Singleton, John’s cousin now serving as a pastor in Florida, celebrated the Mass and witnessed a renewal of vows. Celebrating continued at the Irish Cultural Center.

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ST. LOUIS – Members of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious announced Aug. 10 at the close of their four-day assembly in St. Louis that they will continue to dialogue with church officials about the Vatican’s doctrinal assessment of their organization. LCWR’s outgoing president, Franciscan Sister Pat Farrell, said the group’s leaders would begin dialogue with Seattle Archbishop J. Peter Sartain, who is charged with overseeing the group’s reform. He attended the organization’s board meeting the following day. Sister Farrell said LCWR members hoped its leaders would have “open and honest dialogue” that would lead to greater understanding and to greater opportunities for women to have a voice in the church. She said the officers would “proceed with these discussions as long as possible but would reconsider if LCWR is forced to compromise the integrity of its mission.” Archbishop Sartain said that along with LCWR, he remained “committed to working to address the issues raised by the doctrinal assessment in an atmosphere of prayer and respectful dialogue.” “We must also work toward clearing up any misunderstandings, and I remain truly hopeful that we will work together without compromising church teaching or the important role of the LCWR,” Archbishop Sartain said in a statement released Aug. 11 after his meeting with the LCWR board. “I look forward to our continued discussions as we collaborate in promoting consecrated life in the United States.” In its assessment issued in April, the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith said a reform of LCWR was needed to ensure its fidelity to Catholic teaching in ar-

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WASHINGTON – Nellie Gray, who started the annual March for Life parade to protest the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion nationwide, was found dead in her home Aug. 13 in Washington’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. She was 86. From its start in 1974, the March for Life has grown into one of the signature events of the pro-life movement. Each year, Gray exhorted pro-lifers to promote and adhere to a series of “life principles” that would eliminate abortion and enhance life, to which she said there should be “no exception! No compromise!” U.S. Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., who is co-chairman of the House Pro-Life Caucus, called Gray an “extraordinary pro-life leader.” Because of her leadership, the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion “has been marked annually with a somber remembrance that gives voice to the defenseless unborn and the women wounded by abortion,” Smith said Aug. 14. “In Nellie’s name we will continue her legacy of unceasing commitment to defending the unborn.” ©CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

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WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Paul Davis Ryan, whom Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney announced Aug. 11 as his running mate for the White House, is a lifelong Catholic whose children attend their parish school in Wisconsin. Ryan’s inclusion on the presumptive Republican ticket marks the first time both halves of the major party matchup will have Catholics seeking the vice presidency. Vice President Joe Biden, a Democrat, is the first Catholic to hold the post. The last time the Republican nominee for vice president was a Catholic was in 1964, when New York Rep. William E. Miller was the running mate of Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater. Ryan, 42, was born and raised in Janesville, Wis., where he lives with his wife, Janna, and their three children. The fifth-generation Wisconsin native gradu-

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ated from Nativity of Mary Elementary School and Joseph A. Craig, a public high school, both in Janesville. After graduating from Miami University in Ohio in 1992 with a double major of economics and political science, Ryan began working in the Washington office of Sen. Bob Kasten of Wisconsin, for whom Ryan had served as an intern while in college. After Kasten lost a re-election bid, Ryan worked as a speechwriter for a think tank called Empower America, then as a speechwriter for Jack Kemp, former Housing and Urban Development secretary and a former New York congressman, during his run for vice president in 1996. Ryan then was on the legislative staff of Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., before returning to Wisconsin to work for his extended family’s construction business in 1997. Ryan first ran for public office in 1998, winning election to the 1st Congressional District seat vacated by Republican Rep. Mark Neumann, who sought a Senate seat that year. Ryan has since been re-elected six times and will remain on the ballot for his congressional seat as he seeks the vice presidency. Msgr. Delbert Schmelzer, a priest of the Diocese of Madison who was pastor in Janesville for 12 years during Ryan’s youth, told the Catholic Herald, the diocesan newspaper, that Ryan comes from a strong Catholic family. Msgr. Schmelzer said he believes Ryan’s Catholic faith influences his public life. “He emphasizes that our rights come from God and nature. He has a strong vision for the future,� said the priest, calling Ryan “a great gift to our country.� Ryan’s great-grandfather founded Ryan Incorporated Central, a mass excavation construction business, and his grandfather served as U.S. attorney for western Wisconsin. His father, Paul Davis Ryan, an attorney, died of a heart attack at age 55. His son, Paul, the youngest of four children, was 16. As chairman of the House Budget Committee, Ryan is the principal author of a Republican budget plan that delineates a decade-long plan to reduce spending on nonmilitary programs as a step toward reducing the country’s $15 trillion deficit. The GOP budget also calls for remaking Medicare, establishing Medicaid as a block grant program for states to administer and simplifying the tax code by closing loopholes and lowering individual and corporate tax rates. Ryan cited the principles of subsidiarity and solidarity as keys to securing a future in which everyone has the opportunity to achieve and to preserving the public safety net for those citizens who are truly in need. The principle of subsidiarity as found in Catholic social teaching calls for decisions to be made and actions taken at the most local level possible. Ryan’s argument that the budget reflects Catholic social teaching brought criticism from some within the church, including theologians and social ministry

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The Romney and Ryan families wave to the crowd after Republican U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney, center, introduced Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., as his vice-presidential running mate during a campaign event in Norfolk, Va., Aug. 11. activists. Two bishops who head committees of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops called for a more measured approach to the budget. The congressman co-sponsored the Sanctity of Human Life Act and the Right to Life Act, which both would write into law that life begins at the moment of conception. He has voted to ban use of federal money to pay for abortion or any part of a health plan that covers abortion. He also has voted against allowing same-sex couples to adopt and opposed repealing the ban on gays serving openly in the military, reported The Associated Press. The AP said Ryan has supported a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. He also has supported immigration legislation calling for expanding the fence along the U.S.-Mexican border and backed a 2005 bill passed by the House that would have criminalized the act of offering basic assistance to undocumented immigrants.

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Nun: Uprising worse than regime SARAH MACDONALD CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

DUBLIN – A Carmelite nun said the armed insurrection in Syria is “producing a totalitarianism that is worse” than that of Bashar Assad’s regime. Mother Agnes Mariam of the Cross, superior of the community at the monastery of St. James the Mutilated in Qara, Syria, also appealed to the international community to stop supporting violent militias linked to al-Qaida and other extremist groups guilty of atrocities against innocent Syrian civilians. “We know now that those people are not fighting for freedom, they are fighting for their values, and those values are not even those of moderate Islam, they are fundamentalist,” the Lebanese-born nun said. “What has really scandalized us and leaves us in distress is that the Western world seems to be encouraging this rise of sectarian violence just to topple the (Assad) regime,” she said. Mother Agnes Mariam, spokeswoman for the Catholic Media Center of the Melkite Catholic Archdiocese of Homs, said the insurgents were targeting religious minorities and executing moderate Sunnis such as journalists, researchers, doctors and engineers to pressure their families and communities into supporting an Islamist state. She claimed they were “destroying the delicate religious and ethnic balance” in Syria.

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A man carries the body of a boy after an airstrike by Syrian forces near Aleppo, Syria, Aug. 15. “You don’t know when it will be your turn to be considered a collaborator,” she explained of the arbitrary abductions, beheadings and killings being carried out as part of a campaign of terror by the insurgents against those they claim are working for the Assad regime. “It is a life of fear and insecurity.” She described the international community’s public utterances in support of peace as “paradoxical” in view of the financial support recently pledged by Britain and the United States to the insurgents, whom she warned are “paralyzing civilian life.” The Sunni Muslim rebels are also backed by Arab states such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey.

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VATICAN CITY – The Catholic population worldwide is growing, but how strong is the faith itself ? That question emerges in a working document for the upcoming world Synod of Bishops on the new evangelization. The paper contains more than a dozen references to a “weakening of faith” or “declining practice.” The document was written on the basis of the responses to a Vatican questionnaire submitted by 114 bishops’ conferences, 26 Vatican offices and the international unions of superior generals of religious orders. All the responses, the document said, described “a weakening of faith in Christian communities, a diminished regard for the authority of the magisterium, an individualistic approach to belonging to the church, a decline in religious practice and a disengagement in transmitting the faith to new generations.” At the same time, the Vatican’s Statistical Yearbook of the Church reports that the number of Catholics in the world – almost 1.2 billion – continues to grow with the global population, holding steady at about 17.5 percent of the world’s people. The number of priests has shown a steady increase since 2000, and the number of seminarians has gone up each year for the past 15 years. Enrico Nenna, the chief statistician in the Vatican’s Central Office for Church Statistics, believes

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VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI will present a papal document addressing the church’s concerns in the Middle East, meet with representatives of local Christian and Muslim communities, and address political and cultural leaders on a three-day visit to Lebanon Sept. 14-16. Pope Benedict’s primary task on the trip will be to present a document, called an apostolic exhortation, based on the deliberations of a special Synod of Bishops held at the Vatican in 2010. That two-week meeting, which was attended by 185 bishops, most of them from the 22 Eastern Catholic Churches in communion with the Holy See, focused on the precarious circumstances of 5.7 million Catholics in 16 Middle Eastern countries. A document released by participants at the end of the synod called for “religious freedom and freedom of conscience” in Muslim lands, a theme Pope Benedict is likely to address on his visit.

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VATICAN CITY – The president of the Nigerian bishops’ conference Aug. 20 called for international help to stop the “fundamentalist, fanatic” Boko Haram terrorist group, which has been blamed for more than 1,400 deaths of Christians, Muslims and police officers in its two-year campaign to impose Islamic law on the country. “We are not at war between Christians and Muslims. The Boko Haram is at war with Christians, because they have vowed they will kill Christians because they are ‘infidels.’ This is a fact, but it is not the whole Islamic community,” Archbishop Ignatius Ayau Kaigama of Jos told Vatican Radio, the day after attacks on a Catholic church, an elementary school and a police station in Damagun.

there are signs of declining religious practice in the data he collects. For example, figures on the number of first Communions and confirmations celebrated point to a decline, particularly in Europe, where Pope Benedict XVI and other church leaders already have sounded the alarm. In the 20 years between 1990 and 2010, the global Catholic population grew from 928.5 million to almost 1.2 billion, a 29 percent increase. Europe was the only region reporting a drop in the number of Catholics and, according to the statistical yearbook, it was down less than 1 percent. However the 29 percent increase in Catholics worldwide is not mirrored in the reported number of first Communions (down 5 percent) or confirmations (up 10 percent).

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hike in food prices, said Papalian. “Our experience of the economic downturn tells us, as more folks on the margins are squeezed – forced to choose between paying rent and buying food – we see increasing numbers coming through our doors, and with much greater need,” she said. The global food price surge was mostly driven by a jump in grain and sugar prices, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. The blow to U.S. corn has enormous significance as its price has doubled and the yield affects the global food supply, pushing maize prices up by 23 percent in July, according to the U.N. World Food Program, which said in an analysis, “There are many signs that high food prices and volatility will continue in coming years, making farmers, consumers and countries more vulnerable to poverty and food insecurity.” St. Anthony’s Padua Dining Room has faced many challenges in its 38 years, most notably in the recession of 2008-09 when there was a significant increase in the number of people who came in for a free meal – 15 to 20 percent – while there was a sharp falloff in donations, said Bob Dehn, who heads the development committee at the dining hall. That led to a significant deficit, he said. Some cost-saving steps were taken, and the development committee sought help from foundations with emergency funds set aside to provide “survival basics to the underprivileged in times of crisis,” said Papalian. “They have helped us immensely,” she said. “Still, such emergency funds are neither unlimited nor guaranteed. Right now we are surviving but naturally very apprehensive about rising food prices, what the future will bring and from where our sources of support will come.” The dining room has provided a service, no questions asked, because of the generosity of people. “People are willing to and ready to contribute not only with their time and effort but also monetarily and that is what makes a program such as this successful for such a long time,” said Torres. On the grounds of St. Anthony Church in a Latino neighborhood of Menlo Park, the dining room is a stone’s throw from Atherton, a wealthy enclave, and has been befriended by a steady stream of volunteers

views at odds with the church,” the cardinal said. “It is an occasion of conversation; it is personal, not partisan.” President Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney, his Republican opponent, have accepted the invitation to be the keynote speakers at the 67th Annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner Oct. 18 at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York. In presidential election years, in a tradition of bipartisanship, the foundation’s board has usually invited the presidential candidates of the two major parties to speak. Cardinal Dolan used his blog to respond to criticism of the invitation to Obama, who supports legal abortion. He said he is receiving “stacks of mail” protesting the invitation to Obama and some objecting to inviting Romney. “The objections are somewhat heightened this year, since the Catholic community in the United States has rightly expressed vigorous criticism of the president’s support of the abortion license, and his approval of mandates which radically intruded upon freedom of religion,” Cardinal Dolan said. “We bishops, including yours truly, have been unrelenting in our opposition to these issues, and will continue to be,” he said. But he pointed out that those who started the Smith dinner 67 years ago were people who “believed that you can accomplish a lot more by inviting folks of different political loyalties to an uplifting evening, rather than in closing the door to them.” Pope Benedict XVI received Obama, he noted, and “in the current climate, we bishops have maintained that we are open to dialogue with the administration to try and resolve our differences.” “What message would I send if I refused to meet with the president?” Cardinal Dolan asked. He suggested that the “vibrant solidarity of the evening” might illustrate for Obama and Romney “that America is at her finest when people, free to exercise their religion, assemble on behalf of poor women and their babies, born and unborn, in a spirit of civility and respect.” Civility in politics is what a majority of Americans say they want, he added, quoting a recent poll on the topic.

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Bob Dehn, Patricia Papalian and Maximiliano (Max) Torres of St. Anthony’s Padua Dining Room in Menlo Park help run the operation in its 38th year. and benefactors – from very wealthy individuals and corporations to the incarcerated, sent there to perform a service by judges. The burden on staff, volunteers and benefactors grows, commensurate with need. Peter Kasenchak, the chair of the dining room advisory council, said some clients have approached him asking “if there is any way we can help them buy gas,” and the answer is no as the emphasis remains on food and clothing. Bob Dehn said the dining room spent $74,000 on beef last fiscal year – the dining room needs from 150 to 200 pounds of meat for one meal – and the plea has gone out to donors to give money in lieu of meat because the dining room can get breaks from vendors when buying in bulk. Notwithstanding generosity, breaks aren’t routine. Raj Patel, a San Francisco-based author and academic who has written extensively on causes of the global food crisis, said that in parts of the Third World, people spend more than 50 percent of their income on food, and it’s 60 percent in Mozambique. Those people will suffer. “We may well be within a 2 percent inflation threshold because the price of everything else is pretty much staying the same,” he said, “but that does not come as any comfort to people who are not buying televisions or heavy machinery for their businesses. They are trying to feed their families.” There are nearly 50 million people who are foodinsecure in the U.S., meaning at some point during the year they don’t know where their next meal is coming from, but there are a billion people undernourished in the world, which means “they don’t have enough calories to make it through the day, a much stricter criterion of hunger,” said Patel.

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Bishop: Unions essential in renewing ‘broken economy’ MARK PATTISON CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – Labor unions and other worker associations are necessary to help propel workers and their families out of poverty amid a “broken economy,” said the chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development. “Economic renewal that places working people and their families at the center of economic life cannot take place without effective unions,” declared Bishop Stephen E. Blaire of Stockton. “This renewal requires business, religious, labor and civic organizations to work together to help working people defend their dignity, claim their rights, and have a voice in the workplace and broader economy,” he said. “Everyone and every institution has a role to play in building a more just economy,” which “serves the person rather than the other way around.” Bishop Blaire made his remarks in the annual Labor Day statement issued by the committee he heads. Dated Sept. 3, this year’s observance of the federal Labor Day holiday, the statement, “Placing Work and Workers at the Center of Economic Life,” released Aug. 13, looks at economic issues through church teaching. “Our country continues to struggle with a broken economy that is not producing enough decent jobs. Millions of Americans suffer from unemployment, underemployment or are living in poverty as their basic needs too often go unmet. This represents a serious economic and moral failure for our nation,” Bishop Blaire said. Bishop Blaire said Catholic agencies and institutions are trying to provide help and hope “to exploited and mistreated working people.” He singled out the work of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, the bishops’ domestic anti-poverty arm, and its Department of Migration and Refugee Services, which works to resettle immigrants arriving in the United States. “The broken economy also places

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People wait in line to meet with recruiters during a job fair in Melville, N.Y., July 19. additional strain on other Catholic organizations such as Catholic Relief Services, Catholic Charities and the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, that struggle to fulfill our Gospel mandate in the face of increased demand and fewer resources,” Bishop Blaire said. “This broken economy also contributes to the danger that workers will be exploited or mistreated in other ways. For example, many employees struggle for just wages, a safe workplace, and a voice in the economy, but they cannot purchase the goods they make, stay in the hotels they clean, or eat the food they harvest, prepare or serve,” Bishop Blaire said. “Immigrants and their families are especially vulnerable, which highlights the urgent need for comprehensive immigration reform.” He cited Pope Benedict XVI’s 2009 encyclical on economic and social issues, “Caritas in Veritate” (“Charity in Truth”), for the link between work and dignity. “In many cases, poverty results from a violation of the dignity of human work,” the bishop said, “either be-

cause work opportunities are limited – through unemployment or underemployment – or ‘because a low value is put on work and the rights that flow from it, especially the right to a just wage and to the personal security of the worker and his or her family.’” Bishop Blaire quoted Blessed John Paul II, who in his 1991 social encyclical “Centesimus Annus” (“The Hundredth Year”) said that “society and the state must ensure” adequate wages for workers and their families.

“This requires a continuous effort to improve workers’ training and capability so that their work will be more skilled and productive, as well as careful controls and adequate legislative measures to block shameful forms of exploitation, especially to the disadvantage of the most vulnerable workers, of immigrants and of those on the margins of society,” the late pope said. “The role of trade unions in negotiating minimum salaries and working conditions is decisive in this area.” “Unions and other worker associations have a unique and essential responsibility in this needed economic renewal,” Bishop Blaire said. “At their best, unions demonstrate solidarity by bringing workers together to speak and act collectively to protect their rights and pursue the common good. Unions are a sign of subsidiarity by forming associations of workers to have a voice, articulate their needs, and bargain and negotiate with the large economic institutions and structures of government.” He acknowledged that like other institutions, unions “sometimes fall short of this promise and responsibility.” But even when they do fall short, Bishop Blaire said, “it does not negate Catholic teaching in support of unions and the protection of working people, but calls out for a renewed focus and candid dialogue on how to best defend workers.”

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The labor priest, a once-familiar Catholic figure, rises anew GEORGE RAINE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

It’s going to come as a surprise to some – but certainly not to those who know Catholic social justice teaching – that the church long ago sided with labor. In the 1891 encyclical “Rerum Novarum,” or “On the New Things,” Pope Leo XIII supported the rights of labor to form unions, and called for ameliorating “the misery and wretchedness pressing so unjustly on the majority of the working class.” In 1919, the U.S. Catholic bishops offered President Woodrow Wilson their ideas about re-ordering American society following the Great War. It was called the Bishops’ Program for Social Reconstruction and one of its themes was support for labor, while, at the same time, it became a blueprint for the New Deal and also later would influence federal labor law and worker protection. That’s the historical context for a new coalition of American priests that is forming, to comfort the many working people and poor people in their parishes, letting them know that the church supports their campaigns, including organizing, to give them a better life. “We’re not coming at this out of thin air,” said Father Richard Vega, the outgoing president of the National Federation of Priests’ Councils in Chicago, helping to form a group of priests advocating for workers. “We are talking about what our principles have always been. From Leo XIII to Benedict XVI there is a consistency. There is no break.” Father Vega and Father J. Cletus Kiley, a priest of the Archdiocese of Chicago who is on leave while working as director of immigration policy for UNITE HERE, the hotel, restaurant and textile workers’ union, in Washington, D.C., in May brought together about 30 priests from around the nation to talk about their common concerns for the plight of today’s working class, particularly poor immigrants, many of whom are Catholic. It’s a movement so nascent it doesn’t have a name – call it labor priests or the priests’ labor initiative – and is housed at the National Federation of Priests’ Councils in Chicago. “So many of our immigrant workers are our own people and they don’t know this history with labor,” said Father Kiley. “When we sit down with them and share with them what the church has been teaching for the last century or more about their rights they

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Father J. Cletus Kiley, a priest from the Archdiocese of Chicago, is pictured in the lobby of the AFL-CIO headquarters in Washington July 5. The priest is director of immigration policy for UNITE HERE, a union for hotel, restaurant and textile workers. have this look like the cavalry has just arrived. We say, ‘Yes, you are on high moral ground.’” You can find Father Kiley on YouTube, giving the invocation at a Sheet Metal Workers’ International Association conference in 2011, asking God to back workers’ righteous anger: “Something has gone awry in this land, and guided by you, we must speak, we must act,” he said. “There was a time in this country when a man who worked hard could count on a fair day’s pay, but not today … For the working people of this country the stakes have

never been higher … We are the sheet metal workers and in your name, Lord, we are going to do our part to make change happen and to put things back on track, so help us God. Amen.” Father Kiley was approached by UNITE HERE two years about the staff job – immigration is a keen interest of the U.S. bishops, of course – and Cardinal Francis George of Chicago approved. He and Father Vega, the pastor of St. Francis of Rome Church in Azusa (Los Angeles County), met with the initial group of labor-friendly priests in Chicago and heard a group of workers, mostly immigrants, some organized, some not, tell stories about their working conditions. They told stories about wage theft, disrespect of culture, pressure, unsafe environments and more. “It was rather stunning,” said Father Kiley. “This is going on in America?” Interestingly, it was people like those immigrant workers who the Catholic church evangelized in the 1930s and 1940s, said Father Kiley, but knowledge of the historic connection between church and labor faded as the children of that earlier generation “became more wealthy, stable and filled the ranks of managers and owners, as Catholics rose up the ranks,” said Father Jon Pedigo, pastor of Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in San Jose, who was at the Chicago session and who has a long history of involvement with the United Farm Workers and other labor and environmental issues. A mentor at St. Patrick’s Seminary, the late Father Frank Norris, “helped me make the connection between the Eucharist and social justice,” said Father Pedigo, whose congregation is 98 percent Latino, working class, mostly poor. Many of them are attempting, unsuccessfully so far, to form a union at a San Jose grocery store where they’re employed. Father Pedigo, who a decade or more ago brought a group of priests to Watsonville to support UFW efforts to organize strawberry workers, said what drives him is hearing the stories of economic hardships of parishioners. “I hear stories about the lack of upward mobility for so many people,” he said. “The only thing that really allows for any kind of stability is the capacity of people to form into these worker associations. Hearing the stories in your parish really motivates us to get involved and engaged,” he added. Father Pedigo added, “What we are looking for is to have a better life. And many of the immigrant workers directly benefit from unionized jobs.”

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Archbishop Hanna and the dock strike President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed San Francisco Archbishop Edward J. Hanna, center, as chairman of the National Longshoremen’s Board with a mandate to arbitrate an end to the International Longshoremen’s Association strike of 1934, which shut down West Coast ports for 83 days. Archbishop Hanna’s history of advocacy for working men and women and his renown as a fair arbitrator helped facilitate an end to the strike.

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Technology still a jobs machine, but for how many? GEORGE RAINE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

When Michael Bernick received his law degree from UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall in 1979 and developed an interest in job training, the first training program he organized was in typewriter repair. The shops were common on Howard and Folsom streets and in other areas in San Francisco’s South of Market district, but technology, of course, would outrun them. The training program succeeded for a number of years, but by 1990 the repair shops had all closed down – “and in their place,� marvels Bernick, “were businesses with jobs such as software engineer, Web designer and video graphic artist, jobs which we did not envision in 1979.� Bernick, who was director of the California Employment Development Department from 1999 to 2004, noted that the job world is constantly changing and evolving in San Francisco and elsewhere, and that in the past decades technology has destroyed jobs but it also has created more than an equal number of jobs. “This is reason for optimism on Labor Day 2012,� he said. “At the same time, just because technology has succeeded in sufficient job replacement in the past does not mean it will continue with sufficient job generation in the future. This is our reason for concern on Labor Day 2012.� Indeed, it’s a mixed bag of optimism, hope and frustration in the labor market, including among union members, as the Bay Area and state continue to recover from a brutal recession. The good news is that from the recessionary low in September 2009 through June 2012, California gained 475,300 nonfarm jobs, for an average monthly gain of 14,400 jobs per month. The bad news is that 1,360,800 jobs were lost in California during the recession. Despite the 475,300-job gain, total nonfarm employment in the state in June remained 885,500 jobs below its pre-recession peak in July 2007. “If California could sustain the 42,100 jobs per month average pace of growth it experienced in May and June – admittedly a large ‘if ’ – it would take 21 months to recover all the remaining jobs that were lost during the recession,� EDD said in a report in July. While the recession officially ended two years ago, the jobs crisis that began with the recession and has yet to be resolved, continues to take a toll on unionization rates, the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment said in its end-of-year analysis in 2011. Although it decreased to 16.9 percent in 2010-2011, the unionization rate in California remains around its average for the past

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Mike Casey, president of the 12,000-member UNITE HERE Local 2 in San Francisco, said many union workers lost work in the recession and while some hiring is returning amid talk of a rebounding economy, “you don’t see that translated into employment numbers.� decade. However, at 11.8 percent, the unionization rate in the U.S. is at an historic low, UCLA found. The figure for California in 2012 will very likely remain the same – flat – said Mike Casey, president of the 12,000-member UNITE HERE Local 2

“My experience is that this is qualitatively different than previous recessions. The difficulty in getting a job, the number of people competing for jobs – there is great difficulty in seeking jobs for anyone over 50.� MICHAEL BERNICK in San Francisco, the hotel and restaurant workers’ union. He said that is so because “in addition to all the ways lawyers and managers are able to suppress unionization efforts,� and because of the lag time before unions can find justice through the labor board, “labor ourselves has not put near the

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amount of resources we need to into organizing.� Casey, who joined UNITE HERE as an organizer in 1986 and became local president in 1994, said only a handful of unions, including UNITE HERE, the California Nurses Association, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and SEIU, put significant resources into organizing efforts, “and so the numbers slightly rise or fall but pretty much stay in large measure the same.� Many Local 2 workers lost work in the recession and while some hiring is returning amid talk of a rebounding economy, “you don’t see that translated into employment numbers,� said Casey. “It seems like the definition of a healthy economy has been redefined as a handful of people and corporations making a whole lot of money regardless of the unemployment rate,� at 10.7 in California, and 8.3 percent in the U.S., in July, he said. He added, “Still, I believe that the future is actually bright. Long term, things will change for the better for working people in general because this current economic model that exists is unsustainable. Having fewer people owning greater wealth is not sustainable at all.� On this Labor Day, said Kathryn Lybarger, a gardener at UC Berkeley and president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299 at UC, “How many of us still believe that our children will have better lives than we did? The standard of living for working families is plummeting. The loss of good jobs – public and private sector – hurts all of us. Who could have imagined a few decades ago that simply having a decent wage and some retirement security in the form of a pension would make you an outlier? Yet this is the reality we face today with less workers having middle class jobs, and more and more money going to the wealthiest 2 percent.� Jean Hamilton, a BART principal financial analyst in fare collection who is also president of AFSCME Local 3993 at BART, said she is fortunate she has a good employer, in the black. No one has been laid off at BART but vacancies are not being filled, “so we all have been doing a little bit of double duty,� and there have been no raises for four years. “But I think if you sit down and think about it we are all pretty thankful we’ve got jobs and we have medical benefits,� said Hamilton, who was born on Labor Day. “I think it is a good thing that, collectively, we have a voice. I think when we are united and raising our voices together for a good cause it is a good thing,� she said. Bernick, a lawyer at the Sedgwick law firm in San Francisco, for years has done volunteer work for community groups and individuals, helping people find jobs. Here’s his assessment: “My experience is that this is qualitatively different than previous recessions. The difficulty in getting a job, the number of people competing for jobs – there is great difficulty in seeking jobs for anyone over 50. San Francisco is as good a place as you can be for finding a job and even here it is qualitatively different.�

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | AUGUST 24, 2012

Local author looks at Catholic role in 20th-century San Francisco politics GEORGE RAINE

Catholic moral economy tradition “calls for a repudiation of both unconstrained individualism at one extreme and unregulated laissez faire at the other extreme.”

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San Francisco Catholics have always been all over the spectrum of opinion in debates about the common good and public interest, but they’ve been influential, particularly so in shaping the labor movement, from the late 19th century to the 1960s and 1970s when Catholic clout receded, an historian notes in a new book. The common good, in the Catholic view, in part is a moral economy, which is what the third and fourth archbishops of San Francisco, Edward J. Hanna and John J. Mitty, sought for their people and city, William Issel, professor of history emeritus at San Francisco State University, notes in “Church and State in the City: Catholics and Politics in Twentieth-Century San Francisco,” forthcoming from Temple University Press. “It is an economy that treats working men and women as human beings, not as pieces of machinery and that takes issue with what today would be called a free market fundamentalist-inspired definition of how the economy should operate,” Issel said in an interview. Other historians, including Jeffrey Burns, the archivist for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, have described the key role San Francisco Catholics played in the city’s development. By 1906, Burns has written, Catholics accounted for 34 percent of the city’s population and 81 percent of its churchgoers. Between 1897 and 1934, four of the city’s six mayors were Catholic. But even earlier, in 1891, Pope Leo XIII issued the encyclical “Rerum Novarum” (Latin for “On the New Things”), in which the church sides with labor, supports the rights of labor to form unions, rejects communism and unrestricted capitalism and comforts the working class. Catholic moral economy tradition, said Issel, “calls for a repudiation of both unconstrained individualism at one extreme and unregulated laissez faire at the other extreme,” and that was the case that Father Hugh Donohoe – Archbishop Mitty’s point person on labor issues – made when he

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Bill Issel edited The Monitor, San Francisco’s Catholic newspaper, from 1942-47. Father Donohoe, who would go on to become bishop of Stockton, 1962-69, and bishop of Fresno, 1969-80, where he worked alongside Cesar Chavez who was organizing the United Farm Workers, played a key role in Archbishop Mitty’s “efforts to support moderate alternatives to radical unionism,” in the course of the church’s efforts to influence labor relations and shape the character of public life in the 1940s, Issel writes. He writes, “The Catholic Church undoubtedly enjoyed a high degree of credibility among the working class largely because a great many priests and bishops were themselves from working-class backgrounds and were thus quite sympathetic to the demands of organized labor. At the same time, where issues of labor were concerned, the church also enjoyed considerable credibility among business leaders. Archbishop Mitty supported the struggle by anti-communist unions for greater influence in the city’s public life while he simultaneously waged a campaign against communism.” In fact, in the same vein, it was a speech given by a St. Mary’s College student from North Beach, Joseph L. Alioto, on Nov. 24, 1936, that put him on the political map. Alioto called communism a cancerous growth and said only the Catholic Church can defeat it, “The battle lines … are clearly marked: It is to be the Catholic Internationale arrayed against the Communist Internationale; Rome against Moscow; Christ against Anti-Christ,” said Alioto. Alioto, who would go on to champion New Deal liberalism in the public

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square, was then off to law school. Upon his return, Mitty gave him assignments, while, Issel writes, “The struggle between Catholic Action activists and the Communist Party profoundly influenced the debate over how to define the public interest in San Francisco from the early 1930s through the 1950s.” Archbishops Mitty and Hanna “were very forthright in their call to Catholics to live their religion in public and not merely in private,” said Issel, and would bemoan the privatization of religion – keeping it close to the vest.

The church continues to speak its mind on public policy and social concerns, Issel noted, even if its influence has ebbed. The causes of the reduction are many, but just look at the chaotic time between 1967, when Alioto was elected mayor, to 1975, when George Moscone was elected, said Issel. “It was to a lesser extent than the gold rush, but the world rushes into San Francisco – (eight years) of demographic changes where you have young men and women from all over the world arriving for their San Francisco experience, and probably most of them do not see their San Francisco experience as defined by attending Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral,” he said. He added, “And San Francisco becomes a kind of laboratory for changes that are taking place all over the United States, where several different notions of citizenship and identity in the U.S. are being debated.” “Church and State in the City” will be released in November. Issel is also the author of “For Both Cross and Flag: Catholic Action, Anti-Catholicism and National Security Politics in World War II San Francisco” (Temple).

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Court clerks fight to hold ground amid recession, fiscal crisis GEORGE RAINE

“Wages have been cut, there have been furloughs and a bunch of people have been laid off over the past five years. So, people are getting pretty tired of that.�

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The union representing clerks and other workers in the San Francisco Superior Court and their employer, having been at an impasse in contract negotiations, have returned to the bargaining table hopeful resolution to the dispute is near. Some 250 clerks working at the San Francisco Civic Center Courthouse, the Hall of Justice and the Youth Guidance Center, represented by SEIU Local 1021, staged a one-day strike on July 16 to call attention to the dispute, and by month’s end there was progress toward resolution – the first since the beginning of the year. While the dispute may involve only 250 workers, it illustrates how prolonged and barbed labor issues can get, particularly when exacerbated in a poor economy and amid a state budgetary crisis. Courts are funded through the state, but the money passes through the Administrative Office of the Courts and the union has long contended that it should not bear the burden of concessions while the AOC allegedly has wasted money. It was against that background that contract negotiations between the court and SEIU and two other unions began in 2011. At the time, said T. Michael Yuen, the court executive officer for the San Francisco Superior Court, the court requested a 7.5 percent wage decrease to address $20 million in permanent revenue cuts faced by the court. He said SEIU did not respond to his

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San Francisco Superior Court clerks picket July 16 during a one-day strike at the Civic Center Courthouse. request to meet to discuss a successor contract to one expiring on Feb. 28, 2012, until six weeks after he had made initial contact with union negotiators. “By this time (the other two unions) at the court had already agreed to a 5 percent wage concession, so the court started negotiations with SEIU seeking a 5 percent reduction in hopes of reaching an agreement expeditiously,� said Yuen. He said that the court imposed a 5 percent reduction on SEIU workers on July 1 “after discussions between my bargaining team and SEIU reached impasse, both at the bargaining table and at a mediation.� He said he personally met with SEIU on May 2 and gave them a June 1 deadline to reach an agreement. He added, “SEIU did not subsequently produce any proposals nor reach agreement with the court. Therefore, we informed the SEIU membership on June 4 that imposition would begin July 1.� The court bargained separately with SEIU Local 1021 and two other unions with members working at the court – the Municipal Executives’ Association and IFPTE Local 21 (International Federation of Professional, Technical Employees), with both supervisors and a unit of court reporters. While those unions accepted a five percent wage cut, said Steve Stallone, a spokesman for SEIU Local 2021, his union rejected the offer by a nearly 2-1 margin.

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Members of the other two unions are supervisors and relatively well paid, said Stallone, while SEIU-member clerks earn less, on average $60,000 to $70,000. “Wages have been cut, there have been furloughs and a bunch of people have been laid off over the past five years,� Stallone said of the Local 2021 members. “So, people are getting pretty tired of that,� he said. Meantime, Local 2021 filed an unfair labor practice charge against the court workers’ employer at the Public Employment Relations Board, alleging the court employer had not provided the union with information it needed to participate in informed bargaining. Progress toward resolution came on July 25, when an agreement was reached between the court and the San Francisco Labor Council (including negotiators for SEIU and the other two unions). The court said it would lift imposition of the wage cut if SEIU would agree to no more strikes, withdraw the unfair labor charges and sign on to a joint statement to court employees regarding professional behavior and demeanor. SEIU agreed, although Stallone said the union would suspend the charges, not withdraw them. In addition, the court said it will revisit the agreements reached with the two other unions, based on current budgetary information. Stallone said the one-day strike was supported by 95 percent of the clerks. “In the process, the workers have organized into a very tight knit group and have gained a lot of courage and confidence in themselves,� said Stallone. “Now we’re back to the starting block,� said Stallone. “We have to negotiate a contract.� Yuen said, “The court has been hopeful since we began negotiations with SEIU in January that an agreement would be reached.�

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Small-scale Philippine miners defend rights against foreign interests PAUL JEFFREY CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

MOUNT DIWATA, Philippines – Daylien Elejorde suspects that mining for gold in the mountains of northern Mindanao is not going to result in a windfall of precious metal. The small mine she operates with her husband keeps the family fed and a roof over their heads, but not much more. Yet, Elejorde faces losing even the little she has to foreign mining interests eyeing the land and the network of hundreds of hand-excavated tunnels she and her neighbors mine day in and day out. Elejorde told Catholic News Service she is determined to hang on to what is rightfully hers. The family lives in Mount Diwata, a community of more than 40,000 clustered around the tunnels that pierce the mountains above the Compostela Valley. The area is commonly known as Diwalwal, which comes from a local indigenous word for one’s tongue hanging out after climbing to a great height. Since gold was discovered here in the 1980s, tens of thousands of small-scale miners have fled lowland poverty to seek their fortune. Elejorde arrived in 1984. A catechist in the local St. Michael the Archangel Parish, Elejorde said the church is an essential part of the miners’ life. Another miner, Vicklyn Ebanes, who has a tunnel just down the mountain from Elejorde, is parish council president. Both women said the parish priest and bishop support their struggle. On June 4, Elejorde led the miners in prayer as they began a public protest against a plan to throw them off the mountain. The protesters gathered outside the local offices of

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Vicklyn Ebanes, 44, poses outside a small-scale gold mine she operates with her husband in the Diwalwal area on the Philippines’ southern island of Mindanao. the Philippine Mining Development Corp., which local residents say is a front for large mining companies from China, Canada and elsewhere. The corporation obtained a government permit to dig an open-pit mine where Elejorde now digs by hand. It got a court to order several dozen mining families to vacate the mountainside by June 5. On that day, Elejorde and her neighbors went to work in their tunnels, saying they are not going anywhere. “I’m hungry, and the tunnel I own is the only way I’m going to provide food for my family,” Elejorde said. “The big capitalists want to kick me out, but we’re going to stay on this land and fight. And we’re going to win.”

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Bearing quiet witness to the dignity of life

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n mid-July, the proposed merger of two large hospital systems in suburban Philadelphia – Abington Memorial Hospital and Holy Redeemer Health System – fell apart. Abortion was the reason for the breakup. Holy Redeemer is a widely respected Catholic health care organization. It describes itself as “a Catholic health system, rooted in the FATHER WILLIAM tradition of the J. BYRON, SJ Sisters of the Holy Redeemer” and specifies that “we care, comfort and heal following the example of Jesus, proclaiming the hope God offers in the midst of human struggle.” The system’s “key values” include respecting “all life as sacred” and valuing “each person as one created by God,” and caring “for all of creation, human and material, that has been entrusted to us by God.” In addition to these values of respect and stewardship, hospitality, holistic care, collaboration and justice round out the list. Regrettably, this was not good enough for many physicians and health care providers in Abington Township. They, with many others in the community, opposed the merger because it would mean an end to abortions (about 50 to 60 a year) at Abington Memorial. Holy Redeemer had insisted on the elimination of abortions at Abington as a deal breaker in the merger proposal. The hospitals issued a joint statement announcing the end of their merger talks. Abortion was not mentioned. The statement said in part, “While we are disappointed, we believe this decision is in the best interest of both organizations.” Community activists and many who wanted Abingdon Memorial to continue performing abortions fueled opposition to the merger by using social media and other weapons of war in cyberspace. Holy Redeemer was pilloried for standing strong on its basic convictions. An editorial hailing the breakup appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer under the headline: “Merger’s Failure is Good Medicine.” Accompanying that editorial was a cartoon depicting two physicians at Abington Hospital – “Dr. of Obstetrics” and “Dr. of Gynecology” – seated at their desks. Next to them sits a mitred bishop at a desk labeled “Dr. of Theology.” They are looking at the bishop and saying, “It just isn’t a good fit.” The Catholic conviction that no one has the right to choose to terminate incipient human life in the womb remains standing, now that this brief battle is over. At bottom, this is not a question of faith. It is a reasoned and reasonable position. Holy Redeemer is neither condemning nor complaining. It is simply bearing quiet witness to the fact that unborn human life is sacred and worthy of protection at any cost. JESUIT FATHER BYRON is university professor of business and society at St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia. Email: wbyron@ sju.edu. ©CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

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Mystery photo nurses’ class was St. Mary’s, late ‘40s The unidentified photo in the Aug. 10 Catholic San Francisco is of the 1948 graduating class of St. Mary’s College of Nursing, San Francisco. I have a class picture with names on my wall and another copy somewhere. I can supply you with the exact date – I believe it was in August 1948. The Sisters of Mercy ran the hospital and school and it was located on Hayes Street at Stanyan, the present location of St. Mary’s Medical Center. Frances Leonard Rohrbacher Foster City

‘I am in that picture’ What a surprise! I am in that picture. The graduation was held at the old cathedral. I graduated in the class of 1946. I believe the graduation was held in January. St Mary’s College of Nursing. I finished in August 1946.

This San Francisco archdiocesan archives photo of Archbishop John J. Mitty (1932-61) and an unidentified class of Catholic nurses appeared in the Aug. 10 issue as part of the paper’s Mysteries of the Archives feature. We had 35 in our class, so the rest, I’m pretty sure, are the previous class six months before us. During the war years St. Mary’s took in this in-between class because of the need for nurses.

Chaplain’s prayer brought safe landings A June 22 Mysteries of the Archives photo of San Francisco archdiocesan priest and Army Air Force Maj. William Clasby addressing airmen in Santa Ana in 1942 drew a number of letters, including the following two, recalling the chaplain’s devotional group Our Lady’s Knights of the Skies. I, too, have a membership card of Our Lady’s Knights of the Skies. As a child I lived 100 yards away from where Msgr. Clasby grew up, but I didn’t get to know him until he became our pastor at St. Vincent de Paul Church, where I still attend. My children attended school there while he was pastor. Enclosed, you will find a list of my 50 missions, as radio operator/ gunner, on a B-24 Liberator bomber, 15th Army Air Force, out of Foggia, Italy. That prayer brought me safely through unbelievable flak-filled skies and once our plane was damaged and could not keep up with formation and was attacked by an FW-190 German fighter plane. We shot it down and returned safely to base. Al Lucchesi San Francisco

Recalling prayerful Msgr. Clasby My name is David McPhee, Msgr. Clasby’s grand-nephew. I recently read your piece on Our Lady’s Knights of the Skies. My memory is hazy on the subject, but I can remember him speaking fondly about a group of airmen singing around the piano. I think the group he would continually refer to was Our Lady’s Knights of the Skies. The picture shown in the article was taken in Santa Ana. It may interest you to know of my uncle talking of what may be an Alaskan tie to this group. What also may be of interest to you are the speeches he gave at the Air Force officers’ club when the human-powered airplane Gossamer Albatross and the solar-powered variant Solar Challenger were big in the news. He was the final speaker during the presentation given there

San Francisco archdiocesan priest and Army Air Force Maj. William Clasby, seen addressing recruits at the Santa Ana Air Base in 1942, began a little-remembered devotional group called Our Lady’s Knights of the Skies. He was pastor of St. Vincent de Paul Parish in San Francisco from 1965 until his death in 1986. in the early ‘80s. He concluded the speech with something akin to “when man reached up and touched the face of God.” The part about his infusing the lectures he gave with humor are certainly accurate. The Brooklyn accent alluded to is off the mark, I think; he grew up in the Sunset District of San Francisco. David McPhee Seattle

If bishops served sisters In Catholic San Francisco’s July 27 issue I found an interesting analogy between Agostino Crotti’s experience as an altar boy at the Vatican and the same issue’s “Sister: Inquiry raises questions of conscience” on a later page. Crotti said: “You know what I learned from the very beginning? I never forget. Either you do what they want or you are out. I learned

The nurses had a choir and we would sing at the ordination of the priests at the old brick cathedral. Such memories! Laura Giovannoni Larkspur

that the two key words to be successful in that business are humility and obedience. So never be pretentious, and always, whatever they tell you, no matter what, you say ‘yes.’” The Leadership Conference of Women Religious is composed of highly intelligent, educated Catholic women who have devotedly served the church humbly and obediently over the centuries. They are following Christ’s footsteps doing God’s work. The sisters’ ministries have them dealing with many diverse and complicated issues that do not have black-and-white answers. The cardinals and bishops are learned men. However, it’s one thing to read reports and another to be dealing directly with the issues. It would be an excellent experience for the bishops and cardinals to spend sabbaticals of six months or more working directly with the sisters and seeing firsthand the issues they see in their ministries. Marian Ritchie San Francisco

Abortion is a dominant moral issue I was disappointed in the interview tone set by the Catholic Voice publishing team as noted in the Catholic San Francisco article of Aug. 10 on Archbishop-designate Cordileone. To detour the archbishop around one of the archdiocese’s (actually the entire state’s) most egregious problems by limiting them to considering only same-sex marriage, homosexuality, immigration, social justice, homelessness and poverty, was outrageous. Each year in the San Francisco archdiocese there are conservatively 15,000 pre-born babies killed by abortion, yet abortion is not even mentioned by the Catholic Voice team or the archbishop. Is San Francisco’s immigration problem a big moral issue? Is it more of a culture-of-death issue than abortion and many of the other moral atrocities committed against women and babies in the city? How disappointing! Laurette Elsberry Sacramento

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Labor organizing is founded in religious freedom

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his Labor Day we celebrate the contributions of all men and women who work, remembering that Our Lord sanctified work in his daily life. Workers as co-creators find meaning in their activities and achievements as well as sustenance for their families. Pope Leo XIII’s social encyclical “Rerum Novarum” was vital to the birth and development of the U.S. labor movement, and Catholic men and women have a lengthy history of supporting and belonging to unions. The livable wages, benefits, and working conditions respecting the dignity FATHER GEORGE of the human person are the E. SCHULTZE, SJ result of union organizing efforts and collective bargaining, and the church has recognized the importance of worker associations because of such goods. In recent years organized labor has strongly advocated for immigrant workers and their families and combated human trafficking. Today more than ever Catholic labor union members and leaders have a key role to play in sharing the fullness of Catholic social teaching in society at large. For example, Pope Benedict XVI’s encyclical “Caritas in Veritate” (“Charity in Truth”) teaches us that we cannot show charity to others without speaking and living the truth. He uses “Populorum Progressio” (“The Development of Peoples”) and “Humanae Vitae” (“Of Human Life”), both written by Pope Paul VI, to underscore link between social and life issues. This past March the AFL-CIO executive council issued a statement supporting the U.S. Health and Human Services mandate. The HHS mandate denies religious freedom by requiring Catholic employers to contribute to health plans that include artificial contraception and abortion-producing drugs. The AFL-CIO leadership has mistakenly concluded that in the name of equity, religious freedom is deniable and human life is ultimately expendable. The United States was founded on “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” and obviously one cannot have liberty and happiness without life. The church’s moral and social doctrine teaches that some acts are intrinsically evil. It is intrinsically evil to kill innocent and defenseless human life; it is also intrinsically evil to condone or engage in racism, torture or genocide. Laudable efforts at protecting workers, creating jobs, improving education or providing universal health care will never justify a “choice argument” or utilitarian calculus that permits the killing of children in the womb. While Catholics can debate the merits of various public policy proposals, a faithful Catholic cannot debate the sacredness and dignity of every man and woman from conception to natural death. Life ethics are inseparable from social ethics in Catholic social teaching; and, therefore, Catholics have a duty to live and speak the truth in defense of life while seeking justice and providing charity for the poor and needy. Labor forgets that it is religious freedom that is foundational to the right to organize. With regard to life issues and their link to social issues, “Caritas in Veritate” also raises up “the centrality and the integrity of the family founded on marriage between a man and a woman, the primary vital cell of society.” We all come from mothers and fathers, and children desire to know the love of the men and women who have given them life. Yet across the nation, some unions have used their financial, social and political clout to support attempts to redefine marriage. This life issue has real social consequences because increases in childhood poverty and behavioral problems are related to the unfortunate decline of “traditional” marriage. Labor advocates for the dignity and welfare of workers – essential for any free society – but it needs to uphold religious freedom and fully understand issues impacting children and future generations. JESUIT FATHER SCHULTZE is a spiritual director and teacher of Catholic social doctrine at St. Patrick’s Seminary & University, Menlo Park.

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Celebrating Mary’s assumption into heaven A girl lights a candle during an Aug. 14 evening celebration of the feast of Assumption in the Turkish town of Tokacli. The Aug. 15 feast celebrates the belief that Mary was taken, body and soul, into heaven at the end of her life.

The great both/and of Catholic social teaching

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or many on the left, Paul Ryan is a menace, the very embodiment of cold, indifferent Republicanism, and for many on the right, he is a knight in shining armor, a God-fearing advocate of a principled conservatism. Mitt Romney’s choice of Ryan as running mate has already triggered the worst kind of exaggerated hoo-ha on both sides of the political debate. What is most interesting, from my perspective, is that Ryan, a devout Catholic, has claimed the social doctrine of the church as the principal inspiration for his policies. Whether you stand with First Things and affirm that such a claim is coherent or with Commonweal and affirm that it is absurd, Ryan’s assertion FATHER ROBERT prompts a healthy thinking BARRON through of Catholic social teaching in the present economic and political context. Ryan himself has correctly identified two principles as foundational for Catholic social thought, namely subsidiarity and solidarity. The first, implied throughout the whole of Catholic social theory but given clearest expression in Pope Pius XI’s encyclical “Quadragesimo Anno,” is that in the adjudication of matters political and economic, a preferential option should be given to the more local level of authority. Only when a satisfactory solution is not achieved by the local government should one move to the next highest level of authority. This principle by no means calls into question the legitimacy of an overarching federal power (something you sense in the more extreme advocates of the Tea Party), but it does indeed involve a prejudice in favor of the local. In Catholic social theory, subsidiarity is balanced by solidarity, which is to say, a keen sense of the common good, of the natural and supernatural connections that bind us to one another, of our responsibility for each other. I vividly remember former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo’s speech before the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco in 1984, in the course of which he effectively lampooned the idea that individual self-interest set utterly free would automatically redound to the general welfare. Catholic social thought does indeed stand athwart such “invisible hand” theorizing. It also recognizes that, always in accord with subsidiarity, sometimes the federal and state governments are the legitimate vehicles by which social solidarity is achieved. Does anyone today, outside of the most extreme circles, really advocate the repeal of Social Security, unemploy-

ment compensation, medical benefits for the elderly and food stamp programs? Solidarity without subsidiarity can easily devolve into a kind of totalitarianism whereby “justice” is achieved either through outright manipulation and intimidation or through more subtle forms of social engineering. But subsidiarity without solidarity can result in a society marked by rampant individualism, a Gordon Gekko “greed is good” mentality, and an Ayn Rand/Nietzschean “objectivism” that positively celebrates the powerful person’s dominance of the weak. Catholic social theory involves the subtle balancing of these two great principles so as to avoid these two characteristic pitfalls. It consistently advocates the free market and it holds out against all forms of Marxism and extreme socialism. But it also insists that the market be circumscribed by moral imperatives and that the wealthy realize their sacred obligation to aid the less advantaged. This last point is worth developing. Thomas Aquinas teaches that ownership of private property is to be allowed but that the use of that privately held wealth must be directed toward the common good. Pope Leo XIII made this principle uncomfortably concrete when he specified, in regard to wealth, that once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest of what one owns belongs to the poor. And in saying that, he was echoing an observation of John Chrysostom: “If you have two shirts in your closet, one belongs to you; the other belongs to the man who has no shirt.” In his wonderful “Orthodoxy,” written over 100 years ago but still remarkably relevant today, G.K. Chesterton said that Catholicism is marked through and through by the great both/and principle. Jesus is both divine and human. He is not one or the other, nor is he some bland mixture of the two. Rather, he is emphatically one and emphatically the other. In a similar way, the church is radically devoted to this world and radically devoted to the world to come. In the celibacy of its priests, it is totally against having children, and in the fruitful marriage of its lay people, it is totally for having children. In its social teaching, this same sort of “bi-polar extremism” is on display. Solidarity? The church is all for it. Subsidiarity? The church couldn’t be more enthusiastic about it. Not one or the other, nor some bland compromise between the two, but both, advocated with equal vigor. I think it would be wise for everyone to keep this peculiarly Catholic balance in mind as the debate over Paul Ryan’s policies unfolds. FATHER BARRON is the founder of the global ministry Word on Fire and the rector/president of Mundelein Seminary, Mundelein, Ill.

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SUNDAY READINGS

A time for choosing

Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time “The words I have spoken to you are Spirit and life. ”

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6: Thursday of the Twenty-Second Week of Ordinary Time. 1 Cor 3:18-23. Ps 24:1bc-2, 3-4ab, 5-6. Lk 5:1-11. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7: Friday of the Twenty-Second Week of Ordinary Time. 1 Cor 4:1-5. Ps 37:3-4, 5-6, 27-28, 39-40. Lk 5:33-39.

FATHER NICHOLAS is parochial vicar at Mission Dolores Basilica, San Francisco. Visit his website at www.frwcnicholas.com.

JOHN 6:60-69 JOSHUA 24:1-2A, 15-17, 18B Joshua gathered together all the tribes of Israel at Shechem, summoning their elders, their leaders, their judges, and their officers. When they stood in ranks before God, Joshua addressed all the people: “If it does not please you to serve the Lord, decide today whom you will serve, the gods your fathers served beyond the River or the gods of the Amorites in whose country you are now dwelling. As for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.” But the people answered, “Far be it from us to forsake the Lord for the service of other gods. For it was the Lord, our God, who brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, out of a state of slavery. He performed those great miracles before our very eyes and protected us along our entire journey and among the peoples through whom we passed. Therefore we also will serve the Lord, for he is our God.” PSALM 34:2-3, 16-17, 18-19, 20-21 Taste and see the goodness of the Lord. I will bless the Lord at all times; his praise shall be ever in my mouth. Let my soul glory in the Lord; the lowly will hear me and be glad. Taste and see the goodness of the Lord. The Lord has eyes for the just, and ears for their cry. The Lord confronts the evildoers, to destroy remembrance of them from the earth. Taste and see the goodness of the Lord. When the just cry out, the Lord hears them, and from all their distress he rescues them. The Lord is close to the brokenhearted; and those who are crushed in spirit he saves. Taste and see the goodness of the Lord. Many are the troubles of the just one, but out of them all the Lord delivers him; he watches over all his bones; not one of them shall be broken. Taste and see the goodness of the Lord. EPHESIANS 5:21-32 Brothers and sisters: Be subordinate to one another out of reverence for Christ. Wives should be

subordinate to their husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is head of his wife just as Christ is head of the church, he himself the savior of the body. As the church is subordinate to Christ, so wives should be subordinate to their husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ loved the church and handed himself over for her to sanctify her, cleansing her by the bath of water with the word, that he might present to himself the church in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. So also husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one hates his own flesh but rather nourishes and cherishes it, even as Christ does the church, because we are members of his body. For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. This is a great mystery, but I speak in reference to Christ and the church. JOHN 6:60-69 Many of Jesus’ disciples who were listening said, “This saying is hard; who can accept it?” Since Jesus knew that his disciples were murmuring about this, he said to them, “Does this shock you? What if you were to see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before? It is the spirit that gives life, while the flesh is of no avail. The words I have spoken to you are Spirit and life. But there are some of you who do not believe.” Jesus knew from the beginning the ones who would not believe and the one who would betray him. And he said, “For this reason I have told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by my Father.” As a result of this, many of his disciples returned to their former way of life and no longer accompanied him. Jesus then said to the Twelve, “Do you also want to leave?” Simon Peter answered him, “Master, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. We have come to believe and are convinced that you are the Holy One of God.”

Liturgical calendar, daily Mass readings MONDAY, AUGUST 27: Memorial of St. Monica. 2 Thes 1:1-5, 11-12. Ps 96:1-2a, 2b-3, 4-5. Mt 23:13-22.

First Week of Ordinary Time; St. Jeanne Jugan. 1 Cor 1:1-9. Ps 145:2-3, 4-5, 6-7. Mt 24:42-51.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 28: Memorial of St. Augustine, bishop, confessor and doctor of the Church. 2 Thes 2:1-3a, 14-17. Ps 96:10, 11-12, 13. Mt 23:23-26.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 31: Friday of the Twenty-First Week in Ordinary Time. 1 Cor 1:17-25. Ps 33:1-2, 4-5, 10-11. Mt 25:1-13.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29: The Memorial of the Passion of St. John the Baptist. 2 Thes 3:6-10, 16-18. Ps 128:1-2, 4-5. Mk 6:17-29.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1: Saturday of the Twenty-First Week of Ordinary Time. 1 Cor 1:26-31. Ps 33:12-13, 18-19, 20-21. Mt 25:14-30.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 30: Thursday of the Twenty-

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 2: Twenty-Second Sunday of Ordinary Time. Dt 4:1-2, 6-8. Ps 15:2-3, 3-4, 4-5. Jas 1:17-18, 21b-22, 27. Mk 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23.

ST. JEANNE JUGAN 1792-1879 Feast: August 30 Born in Brittany, in France, Jeanne Jugan Jeanne was 4 when her fisherman father died. Jeanne became a kitchen maid at 16, and her mistress took her on visits to the sick and poor. She joined a third order at 25, working in a hospital for six years, then returned to domestic service. Soon, however, she began devoting herself entirely to care of the poor, especially widows, living in community with two other women. Though she established the Little Sisters of the Poor in 1842, she was not recognized as the order’s founder until 1893. Canonized in 2009, she is considered a patron of the elderly.

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t key points in the holy Scriptures people are given an opportunity to choose. After a clear, sometimes moving, and often tumultuous experience of God, they are given a chance to decide who they are, where they are going and where their loyalties lie – with sin or grace, with slavery or freedom, with the God of their fathers or the gods of the pagans. One such time is found in the Book of Joshua. After the Hebrew conquest of the Promised Land, after wandering in the desert for 40 years following their liberation from Egypt by the mighty hand of God, FATHER WILLIAM the people of Israel are NICHOLAS given a choice: “Decide today whom you will serve.” Joshua, whose leadership won for God and his people the land of the Amorites, makes his choice clear: “As for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.” In the Gospel of John, the apostles are faced with a similar choice. Jesus gives his followers the promise of eternal life for those who “eat my flesh” and “drink my blood,” a teaching so central to our faith that we celebrate it Sunday after Sunday as the source and summit of our life as Catholics. In the Gospel, however, we are given the people’s reaction – they leave. Finding this teaching too hot to handle, too difficult to accept – a teaching that Jesus knows shakes their faith – they abandon the man they once proclaimed a prophet, leaving him alone with the Twelve. To this mass exodus, Jesus gives a response. Just as important, however, is what he does not say. Jesus does not say, “Wait, come back! I will change that teaching so you won’t leave.” He does not say, “Maybe I was too rigid, too unbending. I should be more open to disagreement and other ‘opinions.’” He does not say, “I guess I am too conservative for this more liberal group and should go more with the times to attract people rather than drive them away.” He does not say, “I guess I should take note that the majority of my followers don’t agree with that particular teaching.” Instead, Jesus turns to the only Twelve remaining of a multitude of five thousand and asks, “Do you want to leave me too?” In the face of the majority abandoning him, Jesus gives his closest companions a choice – stay or leave. In response, Peter does not seek to finesse, or persuade Jesus to adjust this teaching so as to be more popular, attractive, or appeasing to a stubborn, easily agitated crowd. Rather, undistracted by what “everybody else” does, Peter responds on behalf of his associates “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.” Despite his own lack of understanding, Peter professed his choice, “… you are God’s holy one.” The church was established by Christ on the foundation of those Twelve who did not abandon him, to maintain, profess and pass on the universal truths of faith. These truths touch us personally, socially and even morally. They often call us to a complete change in outlook, lifestyle and loyalty. At times they so shake our popular sensitivities that, for some, they even shake our faith. As in the Gospel stories, many choose to abandon Christ because of an unpopular teaching, a homily we don’t like, a priest (or archbishop) whose leadership challenges us, just as Jesus challenged his own multitude of followers. In the midst of this Jesus presents to us all a time for choosing; asking each of us, in a very personal way, “are you going to leave me too?”

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3: Memorial of St. Gregory the Great, pope and doctor of the church. 1 Cor 2:15. Ps 119:97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102. Lk 4:16-30. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4: Tuesday of the TwentySecond Week of Ordinary Time. 1 Cor 2:10b-16. Ps 145:8-9, 10-11, 12-13ab, 13cd-14. Lk 4:31-37. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5: Wednesday of the Twenty-Second Week of Ordinary Time: Blessed Teresa of Calcutta. 1 Cor 3:1-9. Ps 33:12-13, 14-15, 20-21. Lk 4:38-44.

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Why so many priestly beards?

Cultivating reverence and gratitude

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Why are so many priests these days wearing beards? Is it required? Even the priests on EWTN sport them. (Baltimore, Md.) Among the Jews in Old Testament times, a beard was cherished as a sign of virility. This carried over to the time of Christ, and the apostles in most ancient monuments are represented as bearded. Quite likely, although it canFATHER not be shown KENNETH DOYLE conclusively, Jesus wore a beard. (If so, this calls into question the letter writer’s observation that bearded priests today “are trying to hide something.”) Among Romans, on the other hand, it was customary for men to be clean shaven. As Christianity spread through the West, Western customs were assimilated and, throughout the Middle Ages, church law from time to time dictated that Latin-rite clergy should refrain from. wearing beards. (Easternrite clergy, on the other hand, have commonly worn beards down to our day.) There is no universal rule in canon law regarding the wearing of beards. I believe that most Catholics measure priests by what they say and do rather than on the presence or absence of facial hair.

People carry the remains of a statue of Mary that survived the Nagasaki atomic bomb as they march through the streets Aug. 9, the 67th anniversary of the bombing in Nagasaki, Japan. About 70,000 people died when the U.S. weapon detonated about a quarter-mile from Urakami Cathedral, known at the time as the “largest cathedral in the Orient.”

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akes reduced to puddles, driedup rivers, wild storms, fires and drought have distinguished 2012 as the year of weather-breaking records. We can do without a frightening distinction like this one. Before we try to erase the travails of this year, prudence would dictate we understand the lessons it can teach us. FATHER EUGENE On the HEMRICK practical level, we are learning never to underestimate the awesome powers Mother Nature has over this earth. Even with our human efforts to harness her, she is still in control, and we are at her mercy. On the spiritual level, we are being encouraged to embrace the meaning of fear of the Lord in its fullest sense. When we first think of this virtue, it has a frightening tone. But it is not meant to terrorize us. Fear of the Lord is a gift of the Holy Spirit that punctuates God’s majesty and God’s use of it to show his love for us. When we realize how wonderful God is, it prompts us to step back in reverence. And to stand back in this awesome reverence of God is to practice fear of the Lord. A way to spiritually understand a drought is to see it in light of the fear of the Lord. This light emanates from Christ. Think of the farmer who plants seeds but knows not their mystery of life. Each day he looks over his field and suddenly the seeds begin to sprout at a time of their choosing. He has no power over this mystery. All he can do is marvel at and respect its awesome powers. Our country is a horn of plenty. Grocery store shelves are filled with every type of food imaginable. One way to interpret our drought is to see it as a reminder that we must never take abundance for granted. In a mysterious way, it should encourage us to recall the mystery of life a seed possesses and God’s goodness in bringing it to fruition. We have entered a new age of ecological awareness. It is a time of new sensitivity to making the best of our resources. The powers of the sun and wind are being harnessed. Recycling is now a part of life and even garbage is considered a valuable resource. Humans are making great efforts to meet the demands of our growing world. Many driving forces are at work. To succeed, however, the main driving force must be fear of the Lord: an awesome sense of reverence and gratitude for the majesty of God at work on the Earth.

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Fear of the Lord is a gift of the Holy Spirit that punctuates God’s majesty and God’s use of it to show his love for us.

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Only the power of love ultimately stands

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he New York Times described last year’s French movie “Of Gods and Men” as “perhaps the best movie on Christian commitment ever made.” Based on a true story it tells how, in 1996, an Islamic terrorist group kidnapped a small community of Trappist monks from their remote monastery in FATHER RON Northern AlgeROLHEISER ria, held them, and eventually killed them. But the movie is about something deeper than these bare facts. It focuses on how each of the monks, ordinary men with no ambitions for martyrdom, had to accept possible martyrdom. Each had his own struggle, and for several of them it was a mammoth one. The film climaxes with a “Last Supper” scene where the camera locks in on the face of each monk. Each face manifests both joy and agony in that man’s unconscious realization that he is soon to die and yet how, because of what he has already worked through and accepted within his soul, that death will be a triumph. At one point in the story, just as it

was becoming clear to the monks that the violence surrounding them would at some point invade their monastic enclosure, the movie presents us with a very poignant scene. Military helicopters hover over their little village and their monastery, with their propellers sounding ominously like war drums. As this war beat drowns out most every sound, the monks respond by going to their chapel, putting on their monastic robes, linking arms and chanting gentle songs of trust and praise to God. We are left staring at the contrast: gentle songs of trust in the face of hovering military hardware. Which of these is more powerful? That scene is paralleled in the Gospels when they describe the birth of Jesus: A world filled with violence, under the fist of the Roman Empire, is looking for an answer from above. And what is God’s response: A helpless baby asleep in the straw. How will this baby ultimately triumph? How do gentleness and meekness inherit the earth? Jesus hints at an answer to that question in his response to his disciples when they ask why they do not have the power to cast out certain demons, when Jesus can cast them out. Jesus’ answer is metaphorical but deep. He replies, in essence, that “demons” are cast out not through a superior cultic power, but through a

superior moral power, namely, by the power that is created inside someone when he or she sufficiently nurtures a deep private integrity, graciousness, love and innocence and holds these in fidelity in the face of all temptation. Nurturing these things connects a person to the source of all being, the ultimate power, the power that Jesus called his “Father.” And this power alone ultimately stands; everything else eventually gives way to age, rust and death. The helicopters that hovered above those chanting monks now lie in junkyards; the monks’ chant goes on. That isn’t easy to accept. The perennial temptation is to try to defeat violence with a morally superior violence, the kind we see at the end of every cathartic movie where the hero outguns the bad guys. The demon is then cast out by a superior violence. But that is not the way of Jesus or of the Gospels; nor was it the way of those martyred Trappist monks in Algeria. In the face of impending violence, our first action should not be an attempt to marshal a superior violence. Like those martyred monks, we are meant to link arms and sing songs of love and trust. OBLATE FATHER ROLHEISER is president of the Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, Texas.

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Saints show that church is holy despite failings NEWEST SAINTS AT A GLANCE

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VATICAN CITY – Catholic devotion to the saints appears to be alive and well, and Pope Benedict XVI continues to proclaim new saints at a regular pace. The official calendar of saints’ feast days will grow in October when the pope canonizes seven men and women, including Mother Marianne Cope of Molokai and three lay people: the Native American Kateri Tekakwitha, the Filipino Peter Calungsod and the German Anna Schaffer. The canonization Mass Oct. 21 – World Mission Sunday – will be one of the first big events of Pope Benedict’s Year of Faith, which is designed to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council and to launch a strengthened commitment to the new evangelization. The celebration will be echoed here in San Francisco at St. Mary’s Cathedral, with an 11 a.m. Mass celebrating the saints who represent a cross section of ethnicities and cultures, said Canossian Sister Maria Hsu, director of the Office of Ethnic Ministries for the Archdiocese of San Francisco. “All the saints show us how to live the Gospel,” said Sister Maria, quoting Pope Benedict XVI’s remarks in a Aug. 20, 2008, general audience, adding that the multicultural dimension of this set of canonizations is particularly of interest. “Out of seven saints, there are six nationalities,” said Sister Maria. “It shows our multicultural church, especially here in San Francisco.” The cathedral Mass will begin with the image of each of the seven saints carried into the cathedral as part of the entrance procession, Sister Maria said. Mass will be celebrated in English but the prayers of the faithful will reflect the languages of each of those being canonized – Tagalog, French, German, Spanish and Italian. According to Cardinal Angelo Amato, prefect of the Congregation for Saints’ Causes, the appeal of the saints and their concrete examples of holiness give them “an undeniably positive role to play in this time of new evangelization,” since they are living proof that the church is holy. In a new book, currently available only in Italian, Cardinal Amato writes that it’s easy to understand how people can question the church’s holiness when they see the sinful

These seven men and women will become the newest Catholic saints when they are canonized Oct. 21 in Rome. BLESSED KATERI TEKAKWITHA was the daughter of a Christian Algonquin mother and a Mohawk father in upstate New York. She will be the first Native American to be canonized. She fled to a Christian village in Canada in 1677 to lead a life of prayer, intense penitential practices, love for the Eucharist and devotion to chastity. She taught prayers to children, worked with the sick and elderly and attended Mass several times a day.

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Juana Cortez holds the statue of St. Toribio Romo she keeps in her home in Tijuana, Mexico. Cortez said that she recovered from cancer through the intercession of the saint. Pictured at left is her daughter, Lilibeth Rodriguez, with the family’s dog, Bobby. behavior of some of its members. But the good, loving and charitable activities of other members are the best evidence that the church truly is the holy body of Christ, he says. “The holiness of the church is not the sum of the holiness of its children, but is a spiritual gift received from the spirit of the risen Christ,” he writes. “Throughout history, the church carries the treasure of its holiness in earthen vessels. Being aware of that, the historic church can do nothing other than continually convert to the cross of Christ.” The saints and martyrs officially recognized by the church are the “demonstration that the church, even if it is not already perfect, given the misery of many of its sons and daughters, is not less holy, but continues to produce the fruits of holiness and always will.” The saints and martyrs officially recognized by the church are the “demonstration that the church, even if it is not already perfect, given the misery of many of its sons and daughters, is not less holy, but continues to produce the fruits of holiness and always will.” Individual Christians and Christian communities thus have an obligation to pursue holiness “to counterbalance the humiliations” Christ’s body suffers because of the sins of its members, he writes. For Jesuit Father Paolo Molinari, who served as an expert at Vatican II and shepherded Blessed Kateri’s

sainthood cause for 55 years, saints are not mythic heroes but real men and women who show all Christians that it’s possible to live holy lives no matter where they were born or what their state of life. It’s not a matter of demonstrating extraordinary courage in a dangerous situation, but “living an ordinary life in an extraordinary way,” a way that “comes from the spirit of Jesus poured into our hearts,” Father Molinari said in an interview with Catholic News Service. Another great thing about the saints, Father Molinari said, is that they are ready, willing and able today to help the church’s members along the path of holiness. The Second Vatican Council “purified” exaggerated practices related to the veneration of the saints, for example, where the faithful would “enter into a church and go to the statue of St. Anthony or St. Rita and touch it, but not even think that the Lord is present in the tabernacle,” he said. But the council still emphasized the fact that those friends of God are part of the church and will intervene on behalf of those still living on earth, he said. Veneration of the saints, the Jesuit said, is a sign of “the link between the pilgrim church (on earth) and the ones who have gone to God.” VALERIE SCHMALZ OF CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO CONTRIBUTED TO THIS STORY.

BLESSED MARIANNE COPE OF MOLOKAI led a group of sisters from New York to the Hawaiian Island in 1883 to establish a system of nursing care for leprosy patients. She assisted St. Damien of Molokai, the saint of the lepers. PETER CALUNGSOD, a lay catechist and teenager, was born in Cebu, Philippines, and martyred April 2, 1672, in Guam. He will be the first native Filipino to be canonized. CARMEN SALLES Y BARANGUERAS, the Spanish founder of the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception, worked with disadvantaged girls and prostitutes and saw that early education was essential for helping young women. She died in 1911. The Sisters of the Immaculate Conception administer and teach at St. Brigid School in San Francisco. JESUIT FATHER JACQUES BERTHIEU, born in France, was martyred June 8, 1896, in Madagascar. FATHER GIOVANNI BATTISTA PIAMARTA, an Italian priest, was founder of the Congregation of the Holy Family of Nazareth for men and the Humber Servants of the Lord for women. He died in 1913. ANNA SCHAFFER, a lay German woman who wanted to be a missionary but could not because of a succession of physical accidents and diseases, accepted her infirmity as a way of sanctification. Her grave has been a pilgrimage site since her death in 1925.

In Philippines, US, Catholics prepare to welcome new teen saint SIMONE ORENDAIN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

MANILA, Philippines – Catholics in the Philippines and the U.S. are preparing to celebrate the Oct. 21 canonization of Blessed Pedro Calungsod, a teen catechist killed in Guam in the 17th century. Witness accounts in the records of Jesuit missionaries show Blessed Pedro died trying to protect his mentor, Jesuit Father Diego Jose Luis San Vitores, a missionary who was also killed in the attack. Two Chamorro chiefs pursued the missionaries when they learned Father San Vitores had baptized a chief ’s daughter without his consent. Blessed Pedro, a native of Cebu

province in the Philippines, “was the first to be attacked in the assault,” explained Msgr. Ildebrando Leyson of the Cebu archdiocese. “And they marveled how he was so skillful in evading the darts of the spears ... until finally he was hit in the chest. He fell and Blessed Pedro the other assassin Calungsod split his skull.” Blessed Pedro’s martyrdom has captured the imagination of some admirers, but it was his intercession that made the Vatican take notice. Msgr. Leyson, rector of the Shrine of Blessed Pedro Calungsod, spent

about 15 years looking into Blessed Pedro’s history. He was part of a team of clergy that had to verify miraculous works attributed to the martyr, who was beatified in 2000. Msgr. Leyson said there were many claims of sick people being healed because they asked for Blessed Pedro’s intercession. In 2003, an unnamed patient recovered from a type of deep coma that is rarely survived. When such patients do survive, they normally remain in a vegetative state. One afternoon a doctor in Cebu, who worried he might lose his patient, implored Blessed Pedro to intercede, and four hours later the patient started showing vital signs, according to Msgr. Leyson. Over

several weeks, the patient – who had never heard of Blessed Pedro – was up and about. Scientists could not explain the situation, and the Vatican’s team of expert doctors and clergy studied the phenomenon for six years before deeming it a miracle in 2011. Msgr. Leyson said the archdiocese is careful not to focus on the identity of the person who was healed to respect their privacy and to help keep a spiritual perspective. “We would want that the attention should be focused on God, who did the miracle,” he said. “And to Pedro Calungsod whose intercession it was that occasioned the miracle ... otherwise we would be worshipping something else!”

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Book recounts Augustine’s baptismal training REVIEWED BY DAVID GIBSON CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

“FONT OF LIFE: AMBROSE, AUGUSTINE AND THE MYSTERY OF BAPTISM” by Garry Wills. Oxford University Press (New York, 2012). 194 pp. $21.95. The great St. Ambrose of Milan met 60 times during a period spanning Lent and the days after Easter with those he baptized in the second half of the fourth century, according to Garry Wills’ new book “Font of Life.” St. Augustine, who would become one of the most influential church fathers of all time, was among those Ambrose prepared for baptism in Milan in the year 387. Augustine was 33; Ambrose was 48. Wills writes that “the weeks of baptismal instruction Augustine received twice daily were of crucial importance to him.” Daily, but probably not weekends, Ambrose instructed those to be baptized on Easter. As one who frequently leads a single, hourlong session to prepare parents in my parish for their babies’

baptisms, I always have cited St. Cyril of Jerusalem for the benefit of anyone tempted to imagine that baptism ever was a mere formality for the church. Cyril’s historic “Catechetical Lectures” indicate he spoke at least 23 times to those he prepared for baptism earlier in the fourth century. But now, after reading Wills’ book, I doubt I ever will omit mention in the parish class of Ambrose’s quite amazing regimen. What I appreciated most about “Font of Life” was how it described baptism in the early church and demonstrated the esteem accorded this sacrament. In Milan, “baptism took place at the earliest dawn” on Easter, Wills says. After baptism, “the neophytes in their ‘snow white’ garb” probably led a procession out of the baptismal site. Wills’ goal in this little book is not just to point out baptism’s meaning for these early church fathers. He also investigates the extent to which Ambrose may have influenced Augustine’s future theology. That is of interest because Ambrose and Augustine, together with St. Jerome,

“make up the core of the church’s ‘Western fathers,’” Wills suggests. But he insists it was not Ambrose who converted Augustine. It seems Ambrose initially did not overly impress Augustine. “Ambrose and Augustine were temperamentally very different,” Wills observes. Moreover, the scope of Ambrose’s responsibilities and public defense of the church apparently meant he was not as available for conversation as Augustine might have wished. So, Wills says, “though Augustine received from Ambrose a wonderful scriptural education in the Lent and Easter season of 387,” it would take decades for him “to warm to Ambrose as a person.” Yet, Ambrose made a “real impact” on Augustine during his weeks of baptismal preparation. Ambrose’s approach to interpreting Scripture would leave a “lasting mark” on Augustine’s “later readings of the Bible.” The era of the church fathers is a source of endless fascination. In that light, many more general readers could be drawn to the book. I did feel, though, that the book presumed some basic awareness of the often

hostile turmoil surrounding the Christological controversies of the church’s early centuries. Not only bishops and theologians, but imperial leaders in the Milan of Ambrose’s time were caught up in debates and struggles over Christ’s identity – whether, indeed, he was divine from all eternity or was created by God. Augustine’s baptism “was especially dramatic in 387 because, among other things, it marked the first anniversary of Ambrose’s most emotional conflict with his imperial opponents and their heretical allies,” Wills says. The book, I must confess, left me wanting to visit Milan to learn more of its history in Ambrose’s time. “The story of Ambrose and Augustine is a tangled one, full of surprises,” Wills says. He adds that whether “by luck or providence,” they, with Jerome, “helped one another transcend their individual shortcomings.” GIBSON was the founding editor of Origins, Catholic News Service’s documentary service. He retired in 2007 after holding that post for 36 years.

Book highlights church’s difficulties in resolving Galileo case REVIEWED BY AGOSTINO BONO CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

“THE CASE OF GALILEO: A Closed Question?” by Annibale Fantoli. Translated from the Italian by George V. Coyne, SJ. University of Notre Dame Press (Notre Dame, Ind., 2012). 271 pp. $28. Annibale Fantoli gives a highly nuanced reading of the cultural and academic environment of 17thcentury Italy and Catholic Europe, including the relationship between theology and science as a separate academic discipline. During astronomer Galileo Galilei’s time, “natural philosophy,” as science was then called, was considered subordinate to philosophy and theology. Thus, the scientist Galileo was open to accusations of heresy by simply trying to spread his telescopic observations and mathematical calculations.

Though heliocentric theories predated Galileo – accused of suspected heresy and sentenced to house arrest for the last nine years of his life – they lacked concrete proofs, so his evidence was a threat to mainstream theology that the earth was the center of the universe. In theory, the Galileo case should never have happened. As the book informs, the issue was set in perspective 1,200 years earlier by St. Augustine of Hippo, who wrote that the Lord intended the Gospels to make people Christians, “not mathematicians.” Pope John Paul II paraphrased Augustine in 1979 when announcing the formation of a church commission to restudy the Galileo case. Fantoli criticizes the commission’s findings as not rectifying an injustice but “saving the decorum of the church,” in much the same way as church officials did during Galileo’s era. He faults the commis-

sion for shoddy scholarship and for scaling down the church’s responsibility by laying blame on lower officials and judges while brushing over responsibility at the top as two popes and the highest church offices at the time were directly involved in condemning Galileo. Fantoli’s advice for the contemporary church is that it should be more tolerant and prudent in judg-

ing the discoveries of science and technology which seem to challenge the faith. He calls for the Catholic Church to work together with other Christian churches and with the other great world religions to analyze and absorb the novelties of the modern secular world. BONO is a retired CNS staff writer and former Rome bureau chief.

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Modern message seen in story of Augustine’s conversion CATHERINE MCDONOUGH

WASHINGTON – St. Augustine’s “Confessions,” the autobiographical account of his sinful youth and eventual conversion to Christianity, may be a centuries-old story but its message still resonates today, according to the head of San Francisco-based Ignatius Press. For the first time, a feature film – titled “Restless Heart” – will tell the story of the fifth-century doctor of the church’s journey to faith, said Mark Brumley, CEO of Ignatius Press. “Catholics who have children who stray and leave the faith, or a spouse who is not Catholic ... can learn from the example of St. Augustine,” Brumley said in a telephone interview with Catholic News Service. St. Augustine of Hippo (A.D. 354430) “was raised in a family situation where his mother was a Christian and his father was not. He was not baptized as a child. He went off to school and was exposed to many perspectives at odds with faith,” he said. Later, after he converted to Christianity in 386 and was baptized, he “came to be a major figure,” Brumley said. The title of the movie is taken from a famous quote of St. Augustine: “Thou hast made us for thyself, O

Brumley said. “They will be moved and inspired by the story of St. Augustine.” “Ignatius Press, for some time, has had the use of the media, especially film, as a way of evangelizing and teaching Catholics about their faith,” Brumley told CNS. The other film, “Cosmic Origins,” brings together physicists from NASA, Harvard, Vanderbilt and Cambridge universities, and other well-known institutions. They discuss the scientific evidence for God’s existence and his role in creating the universe, and counter the view some hold that faith and science are not compatible, according to the film’s executive producer, Jesuit Father Robert J. Spitzer. A former president of Gonzaga University in Spokane, Wash., Father Spitzer is founder and president of the Magis Center of Reason and Faith in Irvine. “There is nothing that points away from God” in science, the priest told CNS in a telephone interview. “There is evidence for a Creator from spacetime geometry. ... Without a Creator, you can’t have space and can’t have time.” There is a “creative entity outside space and time itself. That’s hard to put our arms around, but we must ... even as physicists,” Father Spitzer added.

For the first time, a feature film tells the story of Augustine’s journey of faith.

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Franco Nero portrays St. Augustine later in his life in a scene from the movie “Restless Heart.” Lord, and our hearts are restless until they find their rest in thee.” The U.S. debut of the film was scheduled for Aug. 29 during the 2012 Catholic Marketing Network Trade Show at the Arlington, Texas, Convention Center, according to an Aug. 20 announcement from Ignatius. Ignatius Press is working with parishes, organizations and individuals who want to arrange a screening

of the film at a local theater or some other appropriate venue. Information about arranging a screening can be found online at www.restlessheartfilm.com. “Restless Heart” is one of two films Ignatius Press is currently behind. The other is called “Cosmic Origins,” about the intersection of faith and science, which is being made available for showings in parishes and schools. Information for private screenings of “Cosmic Origins” can be found at www.cosmicoriginsfilm. com. Either movie can be a fundraiser for parishes or groups, Brumley told CNS. Also, each can be a “faith raiser,” he noted, which can help people deepen their faith during Pope Benedict XVI’s Year of Faith, which starts in October. Produced by an Italian public broadcasting station, “Restless Heart” was originally filmed in English as a miniseries and, with Ignatius Press as a partner, has made it to the U.S. as a full-length film. “It is a truly inspirational film and I think people will be greatly moved,”

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SUNDAY, AUG. 26 WEEKLY CATHOLIC TV MASS: Catholic TV Mass is broadcast Sunday 6 a.m. on Bay Area’s KTSF Channel 26 and KOFY Channel 20, and in the Sacramento area 5:30 a.m. on KXTL Channel 40. It is produced for viewing by the homebound and others unable to go to Mass by God Squad Productions with Msgr. Harry Schlitt, celebrant. Contact Catholic TV Mass, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco 94109 or Jan Schachern, (415) 614-5643 or janschachern@aol.com.

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THURSDAY, SEPT. 13 PRO-LIFE MEETING: San Mateo Pro-Life meets at St. Gregory Parish Worner Center, 135 28th Ave., San Mateo, 7:30 p.m. Group is open to new membership. Meetings held second Thursday except December. Visit smprolife@yahoo.com, call Jessica, (650) 572-1468.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 8 ROSARY: Pro-life rosary, 9 a.m., Planned Parenthood, 35 Baywood Ave., San Mateo, each first Saturday. Event is sponsored by San Mateo ProLife. Call Jessica at (650) 572-1468.

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SATURDAY, SEPT. 29 REUNION: St. Brigid High School reunion at Pier 2 at the Ferry Building, San Francisco. Contact Pat Sabatini at (650) 685-5666 or email Pat.Sabatini@ sbcglobal.net.

FRIDAY, OCT. 5 3-DAY FESTIVAL: “Pirates of the Caribbean: Fall Festival” at St. Dunstan Parish, 1133 Broadway, Millbrae. Enjoy carnival rides, games, food and drink, chili cook-off, dunk tank, bingo, raffle, silent auction, Sunday champagne brunch. Hours are Friday 5 p.m.-closing; Saturday noon-10 p.m.; Sunday noon–8 p.m. Call (650) 697-4730 or email secretary@saintdunstanchurch. org.

REUNION: Immaculate Conception Academy, San Francisco, class of 1967, 11:30 a.m.-4 p.m. at Basque Cultural Center, South San Francisco. Email Trudy Moesch May may@ usfca.edu or call (415) 647-7286. ROSARY RALLY: San Francisco’s United Nations Plaza is the site for a rosary rally. Last year’s event drew more than 1,000 faithful. Call (415) 505-9777 or visit www.rosaryrallysf. com/.

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VETERAN’S HONORED: St. Cecilia Parish, 17th Avenue and Vicente, San Francisco, rededicates its veteran’s plaque at the 9:30 a.m. Mass. Names of living and deceased parishioners who have served in the Armed Forces during wartime will be permanently inscribed. All current and former St. Cecilia veterans and persons who know of a St. Cecilia veteran who would like to be considered for this special honor should contact Terry Howard at (415) 336-4746 or email tall76@aol.com for details.

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RED MASS: Liturgy for members of the legal profession, Sts. Peter and Paul Church, 666 Filbert St. on Washington Square, San Francisco, 5:30 p.m. with banquet, 7 p.m., San Francisco Italian Athletic Club, 1630 Stockton St. Honorees are attorney J. Dennis McQuaid and late attorney Don Casper. Tickets to banquet are $90 per person, $45 for clergy and students. Email Timothy. crudo@lw.com.

San Francisco’s Patio Espanol on Alemany Boulevard. Tickets are $75 per person, adults only, and reservations are due no later than September 15. Ad space for personal and business messages in the souvenir booklet are available with reservations due by Aug. 30. Contact the parish office at (415) 468-0820 or stelizabethcentennial@ yahoo.com.

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OBITUARY

Presentation Sister Mary Agnes Curran – longtime teacher

(PHOTO COURTESY DENNIS CALLAHAN)

Deacon candidates move forward Pictured at the installation of archdiocesan deacon candidates to the ministry of reader, June 15 at Our Lady of Mercy Church in Daly City, are, front row from left, David Previtali, Robert Meave, Alvaro Ortega, Romeo Cruz, Marcos Cobillas and Charles Seagren; back from left, Rory Desmond, Abel Mejia, Fred Totah, Ireneo Tabasa, Mynor Montepeque, Deacon Mike Ghiorso, Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice, Eddy Gutierrez, Deacon Richard Foley, Martin Schurr, Arthur Sanchez, Graham Cumming and Father Youssef Keikati, OAM, parochial vicar at St. Thomas More Church.

Presentation Sister Mary Agnes Curran died Aug. 2 at the Presentation Motherhouse in San Francisco. She was 94 years old and a Sister of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary for 77 years. Sister Agnes began her ministry Sister Mary in Catholic educaAgnes Curran, tion in 1937 teachPBVM ing kindergarten and first grade in Catholic schools in San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Jose, and Berkeley.

In 1975, after 38 years in the classroom, Sister Agnes retired from full time teaching. She helped at St. John Vianney School, San Jose, until 1993. Since 1993, Sister Agnes has lived at the Presentation Motherhouse and has been engaged in the ministry of prayer and corresponding with women in the Chowchilla Prison. A funeral Mass was celebrated Aug. 8 at the motherhouse chapel with interment at Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma. Remembrances may be made to Sisters of the Presentation, Development Office, 281 Masonic Ave., San Francisco 94118.

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St. Dunstan School (K-8) in Millbrae, has two part-time teachers aide positions openings for the 2012-13 school. Interested applicants are asked to contact Principal Dr. Bruce Colville by email: principal@st-dunstan.org or by phone (650) 697-8119. Experience in teaching or as an aide in primary grades is required for consideration.

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Oh, Holy St. Jude, Apostle and Martyr, great in virtue and rich in miracles, near Kinsman of Jesus Christ, faithful intercessor of all who invoke your special patronage in time of need, to you I have recourse from the depth of my heart and humbly beg to whom God has given such great power to come to my assistance. Help me in my present and urgent petition. In return I promise to make you be invoked. Say three our Fathers, three Hail Marys and Glorias. St. Jude pray for us all who invoke your aid. Amen. This Novena has never been known to fail. This Novena must be said 9 consecutive days. Thanks. PR

Prayer to the Blessed Virgin never known to fail. Most beautiful flower of Mt. Carmel Blessed Mother of the Son of God, assist me in my need. Help me and show me you are my mother. Oh Holy Mary, Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and earth. I humbly beseech you from the bottom of my heart to help me in this need. Oh Mary, conceived without sin. Pray for us (3X). Holy Mary, I place this cause in your hands (3X). Say prayers 3 days. P.M.

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Duties: • Serves visitors by greeting, welcoming and directing them appropriately • Assists funeral directors upon arrival and coordinates handling of services with field personnel • Responds to visitor, telephone and email inquiries • Provides clerical support to the Family Services Department in activities such as filing, mailings, maintaining statistics and interment register • Assists in completion of various projects as directed by supervisor • Maintains office record-keeping system • Schedules appointments and assists in maintaining office calendar • Maintains safe and clean reception area by complying with office procedures • Maintains telecommunication system for house phone, console and radio operation Skills/Qualifications: • Telephone Skills, Verbal Communication, Microsoft Office Skills, Listening Professionalism, Customer Focus, Organization, Handles Pressure, Supply Management, Detail and Deadline attention. Interpersonal Skills, must have skills to learn additional software, knowledge of internet usage • Practicing Catholic in good standing with the Church, preferred • Spanish speaking, a plus • High school diploma (or equivalent) required • 2-4 years previous office experience required • Valid CA Driver’s License required • Position requires moderate lifting (20 lbs) Hours • Monday, Thursday, Friday: 10am - 2pm • Saturday: 8:30 am-5pm • Additional work hours are offered to provide coverage as needed for the full time receptionist This position is governed by a Collective Bargaining Agreement. Qualified applicants should submit introductory letter with resume and references to: Christine Stinson, Family Services Manager Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery P.O. Box 1577 Colma, CA 94014-0577 EMAIL: costinson@holycrosscemeteries.com

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In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of July

HOLY CROSS COLMA

Angela J. Farley Thomas James Farley Tosca D. Fazio Katharin “Peggy” Ferguson Alda W. Ahern Joseph “Giuli” Ferrando Iris E. Allegrini Stella Hannah (Desmond) Foley Constance Amado Emily D. Freeman Francisco “Paco” Amigo William C. Fritz, Jr. Candido A. Amoyan Anthony J. Galletta John Baccin Joan Gilmartin Hortensia Basoco Michael D. Gilmartin Yolanda C. Battad Michele D. Granados Fr. Edward Blee Leona E. Growney Joseph Louis Bonfigli Charles E. Handy Julianita A. Bugarin Thelma A. Hartlein Benito Mario John Bugatto Evelyn M. Hayes Remedios “Remy” Bumagat Marilyn Haynes Efren C. Bustos Ramona M. Henderson Blanca Caamano Felida Rosa Icabalceta Maria L. Casaretto Marie Intaschi Norma L. Castro Eric P. Jensen Charles J. Catania Richard “QB” Jordan Aldo J. Cavallero Nery Eduardo Corona-Castillo John “Johnny” Kaplan Junenye Theresa Kim Frank Covey Janice King Evelyn R. Crescio Florence D. Kubes Herminia B. Cruz Shukry “Chuck” Anton Lama Maria Luisa V. Diguangco Charles J. Lee Alice A. Disse Anne Lien Chen Lee Rose Marie Donlin Fred “Ted” Loftus Dolores Dornell William J. Maher Harry Salvador Dudley Adolfo R. Maldonado Claire Marie Dunn Frank C. Maradiaga Grant Easley George Maravilla Mary L. Ellis Michel Marticorena Robert C. Escobar Luz “Marina” Martinez Jean Etcheverry

Richard M. “El Rich” Martinez Josephine A. McHugh John F. McVeigh, Jr. Arleen R. Meneguzzi Helen Merletti Sammy Milon Anne Marie Monahan June Ann Nash Regina Talon Nebre Jamie Michael O’Rourke Bernard Olives Mario A. Ottonello Barbara Parnow John Pastorino Claire Nunan Pederson Frank L. Perasso Elaine Phelan Kevin R. Phelan Margaret “Muffy” Pometta Edelberto N. Rada Mary F. Ramirez Jorge Rosillo Patrick D. Ryan Marion T. Silva Pierre A. Sirhan Philip Smith Fuaimamao Taamai Margarita “Margo”Tafoya Douglas Gilbert Taylor Eloisa F. Tengco Alvera B. Tomasello Constance Totah Raymond Totah Katherine Velez-Lee Luis Felix Montes Villaverde Cristina Araceli Villeta

Elisabeth Viranyi Catherine Walsh Kenneth B. Wilson

MT. OLIVET, SAN RAFAEL LaVerne Ball Virginia M. Johnson Eleonora M. Lafranchi Eileen L. McBride James J. McCallister Milagro Nelson Maria Luisa Rubio De Aguila Lois Marie Scanlon Daniel L. Tylman

HOLY CROSS MENLO PARK Herminia Arreola Colin Dale Brown Laukau Eteaki Dorothy Mae Jaroch Ricardo Mendoza Bertha Molina Elizabeth Kotter Schriber

ST. ANTHONY’S PESCADERO Carl “Guppy” Maidt

HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY, COLMA FIRST SATURDAY MASS – Saturday, September 1, 2012 11:00 am – All Saints Mausoleum Chapel Rev. Charito E. Suan, Celebrant • Pastor, St. Elizabeth Church TOMB WALK All new Saturday morning walking tour with Professor Michael Svanevi specialist in cemetery lore. Saturday, September 8, 2012 • 10am to 12pm Please register at San Mateo Senior Center (650) 522-7490 • $25 per person

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