Slovakia trip Sept. 11-14 Pope to visit front lines of battle for political, social future of Europe By John Thavis Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — When Pope John Paul II travels to Slovakia September 11-14, he’ll visit the front lines of an intensifying battle between the Catholic Church and the architects of Europe’s social and political future. In recent months, the pope has hammered the theme that Europe risks losing its “Christian soul” as it consolidates its economic unity. Bitterly disappointed that a draft European constitution lacks a specific reference to the continent’s Christian heritage, he hopes predominantly Catholic countries will help change that text and the European Union direction on other issues. At the same time, church leaders in Eastern European countries like Slovakia recognize that their own members are increasingly influenced by the material opportunities of the post-communist era and that faith may suffer as a result. In Slovakia, a majority Catholic country set to join the European Union in 2004, all these tensions will be simmering as the pope arrives for a string of liturgies and meetings. The debate in Slovakia, like the wider European discussion, also involves questions of language and history. For example, church sources said, some legislators want to remove references to Sts. Cyril and Methodius, who first evangelized the region, from the country’s constitution. But more recently the conflict has focused on a concrete and immediate issue: abortion. A bill that would strengthen provisions for legal abortion, allowing it up to the 24th week of pregnancy in cases of serious genetic defect, was passed by Parliament this summer.
When President Rudolf Schuster vetoed the bill in late July, the outcry among political factions risked bringing down his coalition government. The legislature will try to override the veto sometime this fall. Church-backed political parties, meanwhile, have mounted a constitutional challenge to the bill. What is especially unnerving to church leaders is that according to recent opinion polls 60 percent or more of Slovaks support the abortion measure. Cardinal Josef Tomko, Slovakia’s leading churchman and the retired head of the Vatican’s evangelization congregation, said one reason even Catholics may be confused is because of a “ferocious campaign” against moral values in the mass media. “Our church in Slovakia is a popular church with traditional values. At the moment, it is being attacked on every front, especially on points of liberal ‘dogma’ — sexual freedom, abortion, euthanasia, homosexual unions and aid to private schools,” Cardinal Tomko said in an interview in Rome. “The mass media are bombarding people and maneuvering public opinion. The church in Slovakia has no TV of its own to counter this,” he said. Cardinal Tomko said groups outside Slovakia, in Germany, France and the United States, were funding the media and the antichurch campaign. He said the campaign had brought together liberals and former communists and that the aim in part was to “destroy the image of the Catholic Church in Slovakia.” All this helps explain why some Slovak Catholics are of two minds about the prospect of entering into the European SLOVAKIA, page 18
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Former ‘crisis’ schools seizing opportunities By Sharon Abercrombie The Chinese symbol for “crisis” also means “opportunity.” And “opportunity” is what three Archdiocesan parochial schools and one parish with a closed school are focusing upon in this new academic year. Last February, when the first phase of the Archdiocesan Strategic Plan for Schools was approved by Archbishop William Levada, planners turned their attention to elementary schools at four San Francisco parishes, St. Paul of the Shipwreck, Sacred Heart, St. Dominic and St. Emydius. The four schools, serving primarily the African-American community, were suffering from declining enrollments and had
been deemed “crisis” schools. After a good deal of involvement by educators and members of the community, individual plans for each of the schools emerged. St. Paul of the Shipwreck would close; Sacred Heart and St. Dominic would merge; and St. Emydius would combine some classes and add new programs in science, math and technology. St. Paul of the Shipwreck’s 146 students and their parents were greatly saddened at the news the school would close, said Conventual Franciscan Father John Heinz, pastor. So last spring, when the eighth grade graduated, the parish splurged on a dinner dance for all school kids and their families. “We had a simple catered dinner, FORMER ‘CRISIS’, page 18
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On The Where You Live by Tom Burke Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the baptism of Thomas M. Bolts at San Francisco’s St. John the Evangelist Church on August 9th were his children John Bolts of Church of the Epiphany and Marianist Brother T. William Bolts, pastoral associate at Queen of the Apostles, a Marianist parish San Jose. Unable to attend but there in spirit were daughters Liz Ryan of St. Finn Barr Parish and Loretta LeBeau of Arizona. “The church was dedicated in February 1903 by Archbishop Riordan,” Brother Bolts, author of St. John’s centennial history and a St. John’s and Archbishop Riordan High School grad, told me. His mom is the late Elizabeth Pierce Bolts who died in 1993. She and his dad were marCentenarian Tony Pretel ried in St. John’s - a tradition continued by the family for three generations, Brother Bolts said - and had been wed 57 years at the time of his dad’s death in 1990. Brother Bolts, who celebrates his 49th year as a Marianist in 2003, also penned the Archbishop Riordan High School history on the occasion of its 50th anniversary several years ago….Happy 100th birthday to longtime Holy Namer, Tony Pretel who was recently honored with apt accolades at the Sunset District parish. Tony, a native of Spain, is the uncle of Holy Name pastor, Father Donald D’Angelo, and brother-in-law of his mom Anita. Remembered always is Tony’s wife and Mrs. D’Angelo’s sister, Lottie, who died “many years ago,” Father D’Angelo said….Congrats to former longtime St. Gabrielites Dolores and Pat Dunn on the marriage of their daughter Patty, a St. Gabe’s and Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep alum, to Dan Currie on July 12th at St. Gabe’s. Father John Ryan, St. Gabriel pastor, presided. The bride’s sister, Kathleen Lynch, a grad of St. Gabe’s and St. Ignatius College Preparatory served as
matron of honor. Dolores and Pat, married Aug. 12, 1972, Madeline “did all the work themselves” the mortuary has were parishioners at St. Gabe’s for 29 years before moving grown to employ more than 40 people, Dan said. “We to Chico two years ago. Both had careers in education with appreciate families entrusting us with the care of their Dolores teaching English for 13 years at Lycee Francais, loved ones. Being a funeral director is a wonderful ministry formerly housed in the buildings once known as St. Agnes we are all very proud to be a part of.”…Happy 100th Elementary, and birthday March 24th Pat remembered to Catherine Simi, a for his more than Mission Dolores a decade with the parishioner for more Civics and than 60 years. “Way American History to go, Catherine,” said departments at Jane M. Dabovich, Archbishop who filled us in on the Riordan High good news. School. Dolores is Celebrations included a member of dinner with relatives Mercy High and friends and a School, San shindig after the 10 Francisco’s first o’clock Mass on graduating class – March 25th…. It’s 1956 and hails happy 55 years marfrom St. Cecilia ried to Sophie and Parish in the Ed O’Connor of St. Parkside. Pat Bartholomew grew up and Parish, San Mateo a t t e n d e d and who were wed at From left, Bill, Maureen, Madeline and Dan Duggan. Marianist schools Church of the in Honolulu. Their new son-in-law, Dan grew up in Our Epiphany, San Francisco. Helping them ring in the occaLady of Loretto Parish, Novato. His folks are Joan and sion at Peninsula Golf and Country Club were their chilJoe Currie. Joe is recently retired from SFPD.….Helping dren Christine, Nancy, Judy and Dan and additional famfamilies since 1963 at their well-known Daly City location ily members….Celebrating 63 years as husband and are the Duggan Family - including matriarch Madeline, wife are Norma and Ernest Tealdi who took their vows at and children Bill, Maureen and Dan - of Duggan’s Serra the now National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi on July Mortuary. Always remembered are family patriarch and 7, 1940 and still live in the neighborhood. Thanks to company founder, Bud Duggan who died in 1976, and Norma’s sister, Dorothy Varacchi for fillin’ us in….It daughter Patty who only takes a moment to died in 1980. let us know about a birthMadeline, now 83, day, anniversary, special and Bud would have achievement, or special been married 60 happening in your life. Just years in 2003. “We jot down the basics and are proud to be family send with a follow-up owned – our family phone number to On the serving yours,” said Street Where You Live, Dan, who is the firm’s One Peter Yorke Way, SF president. The 94109. You can also fax to Duggans’ longstand(415) 614-5633 or e-mail, ing tradition of giving do not send attachments, to a fully prepared tburke@catholic-sf.org. In turkey to families in a all cases be sure to include Ernest and Norma Tealdi time when they might that follow-up phone not have the time or inclination to cook for themselves con- number. Photos can only be returned if a SASE is tinues today with more than 30,000 having been supplied included with the mailing. You can reach Tom Burke at during the last four decades. From a time when Bud and (415) 614-5634….
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Events mark 100 years of Filipino presence The Archdiocese of San Francisco, which is celebrating its 150th anniversary, will honor 100 years of Filipino presence in the Bay Area at events planned for September 12 and 13. Noemi Castillo, director of the Office of Ethnic Ministry for the Archdiocese, said the two-day celebration presents an opportunity “to remember the past in order to give meaning to the present.” She hopes the participants will “discover the gifts that we are to each other, to the community and to the Church.” The 1902 end of the SpanishAmerican War in the Philippines paved the way for Filipino migration to the United States. In 1903, the first Filipino young men receiving government schol-
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arships to study in the States arrived in the Bay Area. In 1920 the first large wave of Filipinos began when young men from the northern Philippines settled as American nationals in Salinas, Stockton and San Francisco. Many worked as farmers, cooks and dishwashers. Archbishop Edward J. Hanna established the Catholic Filipino Club in San Francisco in 1922 as centers to assist newly arrived immigrants find housing and employment. The 1934 Tydings-McDuffie act leading to Philippine independence meant migrating Filipino’s were no longer considered American nationals and their immigration was restricted by quota. The 1965 Immigration Act allowed for reunification of families and loosened quotas on Filipino immigration. In 1983, the Office of Filipino Catholic Affairs was established in the Archdiocese of San Francisco, and in 1990 the first National Conference on Filipino Ministry was hosted by the Archdiocese. Today, more than 100,000 Filipinos live within the Archdiocese of San Francisco working in all professions and trades and enriching some of the Bay Area’s most active Catholic communities. A formal dinner-dance will be held in honor of the centenary at the San Francisco Marriott on September 12. An all day centennial celebration is planned for September 13 at Saint Mary’s Cathedral, including workshops, prayer, entertainment, a Barrio Fiesta, and closing Mass celebrated by A r c h b i s h o p William J. Levada.
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Archbishop asks for 9/11 Mass intentions Archbishop William J. Levada has asked all priests of the Archdiocese of San Francisco to commemorate on Sept. 11 the second anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks and to offer prayer intentions at all Masses for the victims and safety personnel who lost their lives in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.
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Conservatives to meet bishops regarding sex abuse crisis WASHINGTON — Several leading U.S. bishops are expected to attend a discussion forum with self-styled conservative Catholic voices on the clergy sexual abuse crisis Sept. 8 in Washington. “We should be talking about the 25-year legacy of our pope and how that can guide our actions for the immediate future,” said Deal W. Hudson, editor and publisher of Crisis magazine and an organizer of the meeting. Several initial news reports on the planned meeting described it as a counterpoint to a similar meeting of about 40 lay Catholic leaders with some of the same bishops in July — a meeting Hudson publicly criticized, saying it was “stacked with left-wing dissidents. There wasn’t a conservative to be seen.” Bishop Wilton D. Gregory of Belleville, Ill., president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, other executive officers of the USCCB and Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick of Washington attended the first meeting. Hudson said those bishops and two others “suggested by the conference” have been invited to the second.
FCC commissioner ties radio-TV indecency to media consolidation WASHINGTON — The prevalence of indecency on TV and radio can be tied to growing media concentration, according to Michael Copps, a Catholic who is one of two Democratic commissioners on the five-member Federal Communications Commission. It’s a consequence of “when you do all the programming out of an advertising agency or corporate headquarters,” Copps said. Media consolidation “adds to the coarsening of the programming,” he added. Copps also criticized current FCC methods for dealing with indecency complaints. “Too much of it is done at the (regional) level,” he complained, saying the commissioners should get more involved with complaints. One of the more highprofile complaints — an attempt at sexual intercourse inside St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York as a stunt to get on “The Opie and Anthony Show” — has been “sitting for a year” somewhere inside the FCC, Copps said. When he issued a press release in early August about the inaction, he said he got a call telling him, “Well, there’s an item on the way up there.” “I don’t see any item yet,” Copps told Catholic News Service in an Aug. 20 interview in his Washington office.
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Msgr. Murnion’s dying wish to bishops: dialogue Actor Ossie Davis reflects on the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech during a commemoration by Georgetown University at the Kennedy Center in Washington Aug. 28, the 40th anniversary of the speech made by Rev. King from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Americans share a dream that "only Americans can fulfill or deny," said Davis at the ceremony. "I too have a dream that someday, and that right soon, the American dream ... will finally come true. And just as (Rev. King) promised, we will all be free; free from hatred, free from fear, free from hunger and unemployment, free from guns and bombs and the killing of innocent children, free, best of all, to study war no more."
NEW YORK — In a letter from his deathbed, Msgr. Philip J. Murnion asked the bishops of the United States to “dialogue, dialogue, dialogue.” The New York priest, nationally known for his work in promoting effective parish ministry, quoted Pope John Paul II’s call to practice “the ancient pastoral wisdom which, without prejudice to their authority, encouraged pastors to listen more widely to the entire people of God.” He said the “theology and spirituality of communion” that the pope urged for the church involves, in the pope’s words, “a fruitful dialogue between pastors and faithful.” The quotes were from the pope’s 2001 apostolic letter, “At the Beginning of the New Millennium.” Msgr. Murnion founded the National Pastoral Life Center, a research and resource center for church life, in 1983 and directed it until a couple of weeks before his death Aug. 19 of colon cancer.
DETROIT — Sister Constance Phelps said Aug. 24 she saw no special significance in her becoming the first AfricanAmerican to serve as president of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious. Having been elected vice president last year of the organization that represents most U.S. congregations of women’s religious, Sister Phelps — a Sister of Charity of Leavenworth, Kan. — automatically moved up to president on the final day of the LCWR’s Aug. 21-25 national assembly in Detroit. With the theme, “Tending the Holy,” the assembly a wide range of factors that the magazine has used in its 20 focused on environmental justice in keynote addresses by years of conducting this survey: peer assessment, academic repFranciscan Sister Nancy Schreck and popular environmental utation, retention rates, faculty resources, student selectivity, TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The bishops of Florida have spirituality author Brian Swimme, as well as in workshops. financial resources and alumni giving. urged that Terri Schiavo continue to receive artificial nutrition and hydration “while all parties pursue a more clear understanding of her actual physical condition.” Schiavo, 39, who is Catholic, has been on a feeding tube since a collapse in 1990 during which her brain was deprived of oxyWASHINGTON — Once again, Catholic colleges and uniBOSTON — Negotiations for a settlement of 542 sexual gen for several minutes. She has been the subject of a bitversities made it into U.S. News & World Report’s annual rank- abuse lawsuits against the Boston Archdiocese apparently ter 10-year battle between her husband, who says further ing of the nation’s best colleges. And as in previous years, they moved into a higher gear in late August as the archdiocese treatment is useless and seeks to have nutrition and hydrafared best in the rankings of regional universities, topping the reportedly offered up to $65 million Aug. 21 to settle all tion ended, and her parents and other relatives, who are lists in the North and Midwest. In the national ranking, three cases. That was $10 million more than the offer of $55 mil- fighting to keep her alive. Last year Circuit Court Judge Catholic colleges made the top 50, including the University of lion that Archbishop Sean P. O’Malley had made through his George W. Greer of Clearwater ruled that the feeding tube Notre Dame in Indiana (19th), Georgetown University in attorney Aug. 8, the week after he was installed as the new should be removed, but he stayed his ruling pending the Washington (23rd) and Boston College (40th). The College of archbishop of Boston. In a separate action Aug. 23 the arch- resolution of appeals. The appellate court rejected several the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass., was 27th among national diocese announced that four priests who face allegations of appeals and Greer was expected to issue a final ruling at a liberal arts colleges. This year’s college rankings, published in abuse have accepted voluntary leave of absence from their Sept. 11 hearing. On Aug. 26 he rejected husband Michael the Sept. 1 edition of U.S. News & World Report, were based on posts, pending a full investigation and resolution of the BRIEFS, page 5
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Minnesota grandmother wins missionary honor for ministry CHICAGO — For the past 30 years, Mary Larsen has been saying “yes” to anyone who is hungry, sick or just simply in need. Her We Care project — which she operates out of her four-car garage — provides nearly 20,000 pounds of food to more than 150 families each month. “We never say ‘no’to anyone,” said the 76-year-old grandmother from Morgan, Minn. “If they are hungry, we don’t care what color they are, or what religion; it makes no difference.” Larsen is the 2003 recipient of the Lumen Christi Award, a national award presented by Chicago-based Catholic Extension for outstanding missionary work in America. Catholic Extension is the leading supporter of missionary work in poor and remote parts of the United States.
Bob Hope remembered at memorial Mass for his joy LOS ANGELES — Hollywood stars, politicians, sports figures, military generals and Catholic clergy gathered Aug. 27 at St. Charles Borromeo Church in North Hollywood for a memorial Mass celebrated in memory of comedian Bob Hope, who died at 100 on July 27 of pneumonia. Cardinal Roger M. Mahony of Los Angeles, who grew up with the Hope family at St. Charles Borromeo Parish, gave a moving homily for the man whose humanity and talent touched so many. “The gift of Bob Hope is not so much in the gift of telling stories and being funny ... but he was leading us from
the temporary human emotions of laughter to something deeper —- joy. Because it is joy that lasts. It is joy in this life that transcends into the everlasting joys of heaven,” said Cardinal Mahony. Bob Hope was married to his wife, Dolores, a lifelong Catholic, for more than 69 years and was active at St. Charles Borromeo. But it wasn’t until 1996 that he officially became a member of the Catholic Church.
Vatican official says stories about Galileo oversimplified ROME — The Catholic Church erred when it pressured Galileo Galilei to repudiate his finding that the Earth revolves around the sun, but it did not persecute or torture the 17th-century astronomer, a Vatican official said. Archbishop Angelo Amato, secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, said it was an oversimplification to view Galileo as a symbol of human freedom and progress against a dogmatic and immobile church. “The reality is very different from such far-fetched perceptions,” he said in an interview in mid-August with the Italian magazine Famiglia Cristiana. Archbishop Amato made the comments in light of a letter revealing that church officials acting on behalf of Pope Urban VIII wanted a speedy end to the Inquisition’s heresy trial because they were worried about Galileo’s poor health. The letter was uncovered in 2001 by historian Francesco Beretta in the archives of the doctrinal congregation, but only recently attracted media attention in Italy. The doctrinal congregation was founded in the 16th century as the Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition, and Galileo’s trial was held there.
Activists say minority religions being driven from Bangladesh WASHINGTON — Rosaline Costa and Sitangshu Guha see parallels between the treatment of religious minorities in their home country of Bangladesh and recent notorious genocides in other lands. Costa, a former Sister of Charity who runs a human rights n e w s l e t t e r, Hotline Bangladesh, said
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Christians, Hindus and Buddhists are being systematically driven out of their country by those who want Bangladesh to become a Taliban-style Islamic state. Costa and Guha, a Hindu Bangladeshi immigrant to the United States and member of the Bangladesh Hindu, Buddhist and Christian Unity Council, USA, point to violence against non-Muslims that goes unpunished — including rapes of whole families or villages of women — as evidence of a systematic campaign to squeeze minority religions out of the country. In Bangladeshi society, women who have been raped are considered to bring shame to their whole family, often leading them to move away from their home villages. Census figures show the population of minority religions has shrunk from about 30 percent in the 1940s, at the end of British rule of the region that was then a part of Pakistan, to less than 10 percent today.
Jerusalem’s Christian churches denounce Israeli-built wall JERUSALEM — The Israeli-built wall separating Israel and the Palestinian territories “constitutes a grave obstacle” to peace in the Middle East, said the heads of Christian churches in Jerusalem. “For both nations, the wall will result in a feeling of isolation. Moreover, for many Palestinians it means the depravation of land, livelihood, statehood and family life,” the Christian leaders said in an Aug. 26 statement. “Occupation remains the root cause of the conflict and the continuing suffering in the Holy Land.” Israel says it is building the wall to keep out suicide bombers, but Palestinians say it is forming ghettoes, cutting them off from jobs, tourists and, in some cases, family. The church leaders said the wall would have a major negative psychological impact on daily life.
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A new voice for Catholics in the public square Former Boston Mayor leads Catholic lobbying, education effort A new Catholic lay educational and political organization begun locally just months ago is spreading quickly across the country and attracting the assistance of important Catholic leaders from various professions and across the political spectrum. Ray Flynn, former Democratic Mayor of Boston and Bill Clinton’s Ambassador to the Holy See, is the National President of Your Catholic Voice. Bill May, a local Catholic long involved in California Republican politics is National Field Director. What holds these men from different backgrounds together in common cause is their commitment to Catholic faith and principals. They are leaders of “Your Catholic Voice,” an organization that seeks to become an important force for Catholics of any party — joining together to advocate for the “pillar” principles of life, family, freedom and solidarity. According to the group’s web site (www.yourcatholicvoice.org) these four pillars form the basis of their educational efforts and advocacy. The organization is dedicated to the faithful application of Catholic social teaching and is “not beholden to any political party.” The principle of life affirms “the dignity of every human being from conception to natural death.” Supporting the “primacy of family” indicates a “philosophy of government” that is “predicated upon the understanding that family is the first government and that all other government is first at its service,” according to the group. Your Catholic Voice embraces a freedom, which it says “is bounded by truth and has a moral constitution within which it must be exercised.” Finally, solidarity demands a fundamental core commitment to the poor and an obligation “to those who have no voice and compassion toward all those in need.” Ambassador Flynn says that for many Catholics, “neither political party speaks or fights for them.” He worries that the Church and Catholics have lost their political clout and need a strong moral political voice. “We need to become an impor-
tant voice once again for life, family, freedom, and solidarity.” embattled Catholic, pro-life, attorney general of Alabama, The stated motto of the group, “Cultivate your faith - William Pryor, to the Federal Court of Appeals. Activate your voice,” indicates the Bill May believes that the reach creorganization’s two-fold purpose. An ated by access to these technologies and educational arm of the group is dedistrict adherence to common Catholic cated to informing and educating core principles will give the organizaCatholics about the core social teachtion success where previous attempts at ings of the Church and promoting Pope modern Catholic action have failed. John Paul II’s “theology of the body.” Your Catholic Voice has planned The political arm is working to activate two local activities in the near future. and support the Catholic faithful in fulThe group will be supporting a public filling their baptismal call to “Faithful lecture series sponsored by Campion Citizenship” through political and College of San Francisco “Celebrating social participation. Pope John Paul II’s Culture of Life.” Supporting both aspects of this The first lecture will explore solidarity mission are the tremendous database, and its meaning in the life and theology organizational and Internet communiof Pope John Paul II. Professor Steven cation capabilities of Catholic Online Cortwright of Campion College and (www.catholic.org) founded by Saint Mary’s College in Moraga will Michael and Sandy Galloway of San speak on the pope’s vision of solidarity Bernardino, Calif. and “its implicit demands for each of Catholic Online hosts more than us.” Professor Cortwright is the found1,000 web sites including numerous ing director of the John F. Henning Ray Flynn Catholic dioceses and contains milInstitute for Catholic Social Thought. lions of pages of content including exhaustive resources The lecture begins at 7:30 p.m. on September 12 at Saint from the social teaching of the Church. Monica’s parish hall at 5900 Geary Blvd., San Francisco. In addition, the Galloways have compiled enormous Your Catholic Voice volunteers also will be encouraging databases of Catholics and registered voters and have Catholics to register to vote as part of their obligation to developed a web-based campaign management and voter “Faithful Citizenship” over the next few weeks. relationship program called Intelect, which has been used Parishes can obtain assistance in coordinating a non-partisan by both the Republican and Democratic parties. voter registration drive by contacting Catherine Conway (415Your Catholic Voice already has tested these capabili- 824-6541) or Bea Smalley (415-221-5150) in San Francisco; ties, sending out more than 600,000 targeted emails Gloria Gillogley Accosta (650-345-9076) in San Mateo encouraging Catholics to support the nomination of the County; or Richard Sweeney (415-927-7318) in Marin County.
Philippine bishops call for end to political turmoil “Our people have many valid issues to complain about, especially about the economy and ‘too much politics,’” the MANILA, Philippines (CNS) — Philippine bishops bishops said. The permanent council also expressed support for a proposal expressed concern over the “present political turmoil” and “political intrigues” in their country and called for an end to hold a political summit, saying this “would contribute significantly to the renewal of politics” and to “economic recovery.” to political bickering. A few days before the council’s statement was issued, The 10-member permanent council of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines issued a “pastoral statement on the Archbishop Fernando Capalla of Davao issued two statepresent political situation” that called the turmoil and intrigue ments on the political turmoil in the country. Archbishop Capalla, whose archdiocese is in the southdeeply disturbing. The Sept. 1 statement called on government officials “to desist from political grandstanding and seemingly ern Philippines, will take over as president of the bishops’ endless power games and political jockeying,” reported UCA conference in December. He told UCA News he was first moved to remark on the country’s situation after hearing News, an Asian church news agency based in Thailand. “We are especially concerned about the impression that government officials he met recently in Manila describe a our political leaders are out to destroy one another and in the state of silent “revolution” in the government. Archbishop Capalla’s Aug. 28 and Aug. 30 pastoral stateprocess bring down the entire Filipino family. All these must stop, for certainly the Lord is not pleased,” the bishops wrote. ments appealed to the public for prayer, dialogue and forDays before the pastoral statement was issued and cir- giveness in this time of brewing “political turmoil.” In the culated, local media seized on an allegation by a senator latter statement, he commended the proposal for the political that the Philippine president’s husband amassed millions of summit as a “political master stroke so necessary to dissipate pesos in campaign contributions and hid the money in the present political turmoil and avert anarchy and chaos.” secret bank accounts. On Sept. 2 the Senate began a nationally televised inquiry into the allegation. Four days earlier, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo accepted the resignation of her defense secretary, accused of Servicing the Bay Area For Over 50 Years corruption by junior officers and soldiers who mutinied July 27. For Three Generations The bishops said Filipinos “are suffering politically and economically.”
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Historian uncovers new evidence Pius XII strongly opposed Nazis By Jerry Filteau Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — Newly uncovered documents from the archives of two U.S. diplomats provide some of the strongest evidence yet of Pope Pius XII’s vigorous opposition to Nazism, said historian Charles R. Gallagher in the Sept. 1 issue of America, a New York-based national Catholic magazine. In high-level diplomatic meetings as Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli — the future Pope Pius XII — severely criticized Nazism as pagan and anti-religious, he wrote. Cardinal Pacelli himself called compromise with Hitler’s regime “out of the question,” Gallagher wrote. One diplomatic report he found said the cardinal regarded Adolf Hitler “not only as an untrustworthy scoundrel but as a fundamentally wicked person” — a characterization Gallagher described as “an extraordinary moral condemnation” of the German dictator by the future pope. A Jesuit scholastic currently studying at St. Louis University, Gallagher earned a doctorate in American history and taught before joining the Jesuits. He is currently writing a biography of Archbishop Joseph P. Hurley, an American who was in Vatican diplomatic service under Pope Pius XII. In a telephone interview with Catholic News Service, Gallagher said the clear anti-Nazi and anti-Hitler views of Cardinal Pacelli in the documents he has uncovered contrast sharply with the attempts of some recent historians to portray the World War II pope “as a Nazi sympathizer.” Among the more notable such books recently was John Cornwell’s “Hitler’s Pope.” In the America article, Gallagher focused on two diplomatic documents in particular — a personal report by Cardinal Pacelli that he gave to Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, then U.S. ambassador to Britain, during an April 1938 meeting in Rome, and a 1939 report by Alfred W. Klieforth, then U.S. consul general in Cologne, Germany, following a three-hour meeting with the cardinal in Rome to discuss “the situation in Germany.” Cardinal Pacelli was elected pope in March 1939. Gallagher quoted from Klieforth’s report: “He (Cardinal Pacelli) opposed unilaterally every compromise with National Socialism. He regarded Hitler not only as an untrustworthy scoundrel but as a fundamentally wicked person. He did not believe Hitler capable of moderation, in
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invited the ambassador to pass “these personal private views of mine on to your Friend” — a reference Gallagher called “a cryptic yet clear allusion to President Franklin D. Roosevelt,” whom Cardinal Pacelli had met during an extensive U.S. visit 18 months earlier. “In his report,” Gallagher said, “Pacelli made clear that the Nazi program struck at the ‘fundamental principle of the freedom of the practice of religion,’and indicated the emergence of a new Nazi ‘Kulturkampf’(culture war) against the church.” He added, “Sounding beleaguered and perhaps a bit frightened, Pacelli expressed the view that the church ‘at times felt powerless and isolated in its daily struggle against all sort of political excesses from the Bolsheviks to the new pagans arising among the young “Aryan” generations.’ Nevertheless he assured Kennedy that any political compromise with the Nazi regime was ‘out of the question.’” For 65 years, until the recent limited opening of the Kennedy files for scholarly study, this report by the future Pope Pius XII “had been viewed only by three people” — Kennedy, Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, Gallagher wrote. He also cited a later report from Kennedy to the State Department, regarding his series of meetings with Pope Pius immediately after the pope’s coronation in 1939. He said Kennedy reported that the new pope held a “subconscious prejudice that has arisen from his belief that Nazism and Fascism are pro-pagan, and as pro-pagan, they strike at the roots of religion.” The reports show that “Pacelli employed private diplomacy to make clear to the Allied leadership his intense disdain of the Nazis” even though “both Kennedy and the new pope deemed it prudent to keep such sentiments out of the public sphere,” Gallagher wrote. He suggested that much of the controversy in recent decades over Pope Pius’ so-called silence — critics argue he should have forcefully denounced Nazi atrocities in public, especially Hitler’s extermination campaign against the Jewish people — stems from a misunderstanding of the “old world” rules of diplomacy in which Pope Pius was thoroughly trained. Under those rules, he said, “secrecy in negotiations was paramount, finalized treaties were inviolable and rules of formality reigned supreme. In cases of import, governments and their heads of state were addressed almost exclusively behind closed doors.” ST. CLARE’S RETREAT Santa Cruz
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Fire behind Marine from gas separation plant. By Evelyn Zappia
All scheduled ports were cancelled, except for East Timor, then the ship headed for the Persia hile world leaders debated whether the U.S. should go to war with Iraq, 19-year-old, Gulf. Anthony spent more than a month in Pakistan and another two weeks in Afghanistan. Anthony Uzeta, was asking himself the same question - only he was near the border After a short stay back home at Camp Pendleton in San Diego, Anthony was ordered back to Kuwa of Iraq in Kuwait, compliments of the U.S. Marine Corp. on Feb. 3, 2003. Controversy was brewing about what would be called, “Operation Iraqi Freedom.” Anthony was 17, just 2 weeks shy of his eighteenth birthday when he signed up for the U.S. “No one wanted to go to war,” said Anthony, “but we knew, if needed, we had a job to do.” Marine Corps. in August of 2000. A Marine recruiter lured the senior of Archbishop Riordan The kid from Pacifica, California was sent off with an enormous support network of fami High School with tales of “traveling the world, while earning extra money for his college edu- ly and friends. Later, 22 second graders of San Francisco’s St. Elizabeth Elementary adopted him cation.” It was exactly what he wanted. “The kids made crosses for him and his troop, and prayed for everyone,” said Sonia Ino, One year later, the young Marine’s anticipated tour of duty listed the exotic ports of their teacher. “They sent cards, Easter candies, and in turn, Nancy Uzeta, his mom, gave us Australia, Singapore, Japan, Taiwan, a brief humanitarian aid stop in East Timor, and Africa. copies of his e-mails to read.” The new recruit from Good Shepherd Parish in Pacifica grew up like most Catholic kids, The “adoption” became a great learning experience, according to Ms. Ino. “We talked protected by his Catholic ghetto of friends and schools, and striving to live up to the standards about the war. Some were for it, while others were not. Yet the students got the insight of what of his Church, and parents, Joe and Nancy, instilled in him. it was like being an American soldier during war time, espe Looking back, Mrs. Uzeta said, “I would have discouraged cially their sacrifices. The kids prayed for his safety, his pla him to join, if I knew about 9-11. But it never entered our toon’s, and for all the people caught up in the war.” minds. It was peacetime. It was a chance for him to figure out Mrs. Uzeta remembered one letter her son received saying what he wanted to do with his life. It made sense.” “Thank you for being so brave. I like Pizza. I hope you don’t die. Pam Harris of Good Shepherd Elementary School rememThe Sergeant’s 14-year-old brother, Steven, who attends Sa bers Anthony as “a very polite kid, who followed all the rules.” Francisco’s Sterne School also had his class writing to his brother But perhaps, he was best known as “the 11-year-old kid who The “hard work” of the U.S. Marines began long before fell out of his bunk bed and broke both arms - and still directthe war started, according to Sergeant Uzeta. He described the ed school traffic while clumsily holding the traffic sign. Shortly first tactical maneuver devised by the U.S. as “an opportunity after, with arm casts discarded, he pitched a no hitter for the for the Iraqi soldiers to retreat or surrender.” It was the reason Pacifica National Little League. the news media began reporting that the Iraqi soldiers were At Archbishop Riordan High School where he played football, surrendering before the war began. the crowd would chant “Rudy, Rudy,” while he was battling on the “We did our training close to the border almost continu field. The first time his mother heard the chant she was annoyed, ously for nearly a month,” said Sergeant Uzeta. “We wanted thinking the cheering crowd did not even know his name. them to hear the shooting and bombing, giving them some Yet the seemingly deliberate misidentification of Nancy’s thing to think about.” The strategy was hoping to save lives on son was really a display of admiration. The football fans both sides by preventing the first major battle, just inside the likened Anthony to the central character of the movie “Rudy” border of Iraq, where the U.S. knew the Iraqi artillery and mis about University of Notre Dame football player Daniel “Rudy” siles were waiting for them. “At one point, we heard that 20 to Ruettiger, who never let his small stature, or any obstacle, deter 40 percent of them had retreated and went into hiding while him from bringing out his personal best. we were training,” he said. Anthony gave his finest efforts to the U.S. Marines, rank“Our general was hoping that their general, would meet ing first out of 90 in Artillery School at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. He him at the border and surrender. But that didn’t happen,” said truck that tows expertly operated a Howitzer, a huge 16,000 pound canon-like Sergeant Uzeta. Consequently, a three-day battle ensued. 16,000 pound Howitzer. gun that shoots as far as 18.5 miles. Before the war started, the general told the 1st Marin In just two short years, the Marines promoted him to Sergeant and he commanded his own Division, “the only Marines out there,” that compassion for the innocent people was critical. “H platoon of men, some much older than he. gave us a saying he wanted us to live by while in combat -’No better friend, no worse enemy.’ I Where parents and friends of the 20-year-old still saw the “boy” in him, Coach Ron Isola meant, no better friend to the people if they were not against us. We would be more than kin of Archbishop Riordan High School considered the men under him very fortunate. “He is very to them and help them in anyway we could. No worse enemy, well, if they were against us w disciplined, will lead by example, and be responsible for his own actions,” said the coach. fight as hard as we could. We were willing to die for our country, but preferred that they did.” Anthony’s first routine “float” (Marine time spent on Navy Ships) aboard the U.S.S. “At times, there would be so many surrendering we didn’t know what to do with them,” he Dubuque was headed for Darwin, Australia. After many weeks afloat, he was granted liberty. said. Frequently, the Marines just searched the Iraqi soldiers, took their weapons and ammo, Halfway through the night, he and his buddies were called back immediately. They were told, and released them. “the World Trade Center and Pentagon were bombed.” As the soldiers got through the initial fight in the southern part of Iraq they saw “hun The young Marine was stunned by the news. Almost instantly, he was considered a wartime dreds” of people walking from Baghdad. The majority were obviously Iraqi soldiers, according solider in what President George W. Bush called “Operation Enduring Freedom.” to the Sergeant. “We knew they were soldiers, and they were aware of that fact. They were bet
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raq 1st Batallion, 11th marines artillery unit. ter fit and better dressed, as compared to the occasional person who obviously looked poor, and At one time, terrible rumors spread about the 15 American soldiers who had been taken prisonappeared to lack food, and didn’t seem as healthy as the rest of them.” er. “We heard they had all been shot, and their body parts scattered around the town.” The unconAt one point, several Iraqi people began walking beside the U.S. trucks and tanks. When firmed report just make the young Sergeant pray even more. the U.S. soldiers decided to rest for the night, the large group of Iraqi abruptly stopped too and “I asked for God’s help all the time, to protect not only me but everyone, ” Sergeant Uzeta said. rested close by the Marines under an overpass. The next morning when the soldiers began mov“ I was more concerned about losing one of my men I was in charge of. I prayed all the time.” ing so did the Iraqis. Starting to be suspicious, some of the Marines began stopping them ranThe U.S. soldiers also heard about the antiwar protests throughout the U.S. and other parts domly, only to find out that all of them were armed with automatic rifles and could have start- of the world. “Our mentality, usually, was the people were protesting the war, not us. It wasn’t our ed firing on the U.S. troops during the night. fault that we were doing what we had to do. If they didn’t agree with the war, that was fine,” he The Marines asked for a translator, who told them, “They were Iraqi soldiers who wanted to desert. said. “But if they were protesting the troops that would have really upset us.” hey had been following the rules for surrendering from the U.S. flyers that the government had Inside Baghdad, the Sergeant’s platoon saw very few civilians. “They knew to stay out of the ropped from the skies throughout Iraq. It read, ‘if you are going to retreat or give up, do it during the streets,” he said. “On the way back from Baghdad the streets and roads were filled with “kids and ay and not at night because it is difficult at night to tell if hands are up or if they are aiming.’” adults, waving and cheering the soldiers,” he said. “That’s why they slept so close to us that night,” said the When the Marines patrolled Baghdad, the locals would ergeant. “They were hoping that everything would go smooth in the clear the roads for them. “The kids would come running up to morning for them. It did. We just took their weapons and ammo, and us with markers, and ask us to write on their forearms ‘Good roceeded toward Baghdad, but it was quite a wakeup call for us.” Bush,’ along with their names in English,” he said. “Hundreds As they reached the outskirts of Baghdad, they left their of kids kept stopping us.” owitzers behind, getting rid of the ammo, and taking the gear used The Marines were cautious, knowing there could always o fire the guns. “No artillery in Baghdad,” he said. “When you get be the possibility of suicide bombers, an idea inconceivable to nto a city, then you’re among people’s homes, and you can’t just the Marines who always demonstrated a strict code of brotherake down a whole building because of one or two snipers inside.” hood, according to Sergeant Uzeta. Everyone, especially the Marine Corp, according to Sergeant Each Marine he explained has a “buddy” that goes everywhere zeta, fears the urban environment. “It is the one thing we train with you and looks out for you, especially in combat. “In case, for or the most because the environment makes it easy to get killed.” some reason, you get hurt there is somebody always to get help, two “You walk down the street and the buildings are so high, giving is better than one,” he said. “It is quite a brotherhood. We take it serihe enemy the advantage. They could be shooting out of one of severous, we’ll leave no one behind.” windows, and we have to go in there and clear every room. Sergeant Uzeta said, “The majority of the Iraqi people were though bombing the entire building would be easy for us, we are glad that the U.S. came. The people were always thanking us, ways aware of the innocent people who could be inside,” he said. and telling their sad stories that always came down to the same Was it difficult to have such high moral standards in the thing - Saddam Hussein’s lack of dignity for life. Most of the peomiddle of the war? “At times it was,” he said. “ You see them and ple spoke of the killings that separated their families, and the they are using their own civilians as shields. We don’t want to mothers, fathers, and children they never saw again.” shoot, and they know that.” “At first I wondered whether this whole war was for nothing,” “There was a night we were on the road and an infantry unit was he said. “But after speaking to the people, listening to their stories, head of us. They pulled into a town and everyone in the town put and seeing how bad the people lived, I know it was worth it.” Sergeant anthony Uzeta heir hands up to surrender, making the Marines happy. As the Marines “It may not seem like it to others right now, but they will be owered their weapons, letting their guard down, those civilians picked up weapons and started shoot- better off than they were, once they get a government in balance. They have the oil, and once ng. I think there were about 50 casualties.” they learn how to use that powerful commodity, the people will have the lives they deserve,” he “We were pretty upset when we found out about it. Tanks pulled out of nowhere on them said. - it was a big battle. We couldn’t cut any of them any slack.” Luckily, nobody died in Sergeant Uzeta’s unit but it did suffer a few injuries. His comWhile in the middle of a war, is it possible to treat anyone like a friend? “Yes,” he said. “For manding officer lost his right hand when his Humvee got hit with an RPG (rifle propelled example, there was one instance, right before we got to Baghdad, when we had to set up our grenade) and a “buddy” had to be flown to Germany for a hand operation after a Howitzer mispositions on someone’s farmland. An artillery unit takes up a lot of space, and we moved a lot fired. “But we didn’t’ lose anyone, thank God,” he said. of his dirt around. Although the farmer wasn’t upset, before we left, our commanding officer Sergeant Uzeta is back home now, hoping to complete his last year in the service at Camp gave him some money to say that we were sorry.” Pendleton in San Diego. “On another farm where we had to set up our positions, the farm owner had a young child “I want the people to keep remembering the soldiers still in Iraq. They are doing somewho had a pretty bad eye infection. We had our doctors look at her eye and give her some med- thing extremely dangerous, and they need a lot of prayers,” he said. ication. We felt bad going on the people’s land. They had nothing to do with the war, but some“Most of all, don’t forget those who are never coming back – the people who died out times it was absolutely necessary to shoot from the site.” there. Those are the heroes, the ones who gave the ultimate sacrifice so others could be free.”
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In the spirit of Labor Day In 1893, as the nation was caught up in a stock market panic and an economic depression, the Pullman Company, which manufactured railroad sleeping cars, laid off hundreds of workers and cut the wages of those who remained. Pullman employees went on strike and the American Railway Union, led by Eugene V. Debs, supported a boycott of all trains carrying Pullman cars. Rioting and violence ensued and the strike became a national concern. President Grover Cleveland, faced with nervous railroad executives and interrupted mail trains, declared the strike a federal crime and deployed 12,000 troops to break the strike. In 1894, Debs went to prison, his railway union was disbanded and Pullman employees pledged never again to unionize. But the harsh methods used by President Cleveland to end the strike made appeasement of the nation’s workers a political necessity. Legislation was rushed through both houses of Congress, and the bill establishing Labor Day quickly reached President Cleveland’s desk. Thus, the national holiday we know as Labor Day’s arose in the political context of a need to mollify workers prior to the election of 1894. The commitment of the Catholic Church to workers, however, arises from a religious perspective – a concern for justice, equality, fair treatment, respect and concern for fellow human beings. Catholic religious orders of nuns provided the first safety net of social services to working men and women in San Francisco’s early days with a constant presence in schools and hospitals. Historian William Gleeson wrote of the work of the Mercy Sisters, “They did not stop to inquire whether the poor sufferers were Protestant or Catholics, Americans or foreigners, but with the noblest devotion applied themselves to their relief.” Responding to calls in the 1870s of “The Chinese must go” by the Workingmen’s Party of California (WPC) led by Dennis Kearney, San Francisco’s first Archbishop, Joseph Sadoc Alemany, admonished Catholics to stay away from meetings of the group, “We, therefore, admonish and even require, everyone to stay away from such seditious, anti-social and anti-Christian meetings.” San Francisco’s Father Peter Yorke was a champion of labor, taking a leading role in the 1901 Teamsters’strike. Catholic support for labor grew out of the 1891 papal encyclical, Rerum Novarum, which at the time brought the San Francisco Pacific Coast Laborers Union to write a letter of thanks to Pope Leo XIII saying, “We find it difficult to express our pleasure and gratitude for the Encyclical. It comes to us like rays of the sun, dispelling the gloom of our despair.” President Roosevelt in 1934 appointed San Francisco Archbishop Edward J. Hanna chairman of the National Longshoreman’s’ Board with a mandate to arbitrate an end to a bitter strike by longshoreman led by Harry Bridges seeking to end the brutal policy known as “shape-up hiring.” Professor William Issel of San Francisco State University has described the impact of Catholic teaching in the aftermath of the strike. “There continued to be a tension in the city’s public life, as business leaders’ rhetorical affirmation of labors’ rights clashed with their practical desire to limit union power, but the Catholic principles that had shaped the outcome of the Great Strike became increasingly a part of San Francisco’s public cultures in the decades to come.” A few decades later, farm worker union founder Cesar Chavez wrote of the influence of a San Francisco Archdiocesan priest, “Father McDonnnell sat with me past midnight telling me about social justice and the Church’s stand on farm labor and reading from the encyclicals of Pope Leo XIII in which he upheld labor unions. I would do anything to get the Father to tell me more about labor history.” More recently, San Francisco Archbishop William J. Levada and priests such as Father Don D’Angelo, Father Luis Vitale, Presentation Sister Kathleen Healy and the late Father Peter Sammon were involved with leaders of other faiths in bringing to an end the longestrunning labor dispute in the city, involving the Marriott Hotel and hotel and restaurant workers. Catholic teaching, the real spirit of Labor Day, has informed the actions of a multitude of individuals involved in the labor movement both locally and nationally. Professor Issel has written, “Although previously neglected by historians, the religious foundations for San Francisco political culture were also important, particularly the role of Catholic teachings.” In this week, which includes the national holiday known as Labor Day, it gives us a great deal of pride and gratitude to note the extraordinary and positive influence of the Catholic Church on efforts to provide justice and fairness to workers. MEH
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I regularly read a copy of your paper that my sister provides when she is finished with it. In the July 25 edition on page 21 was a seathing review of the new mivie “The Magdalene Sisters” which was classified as “morally objectionable.” Immediately below the article was a movie advertisement for the same movie. The ad was a rare item for your paper - I don’t recall seeing an ad for a movie for quite a number of issues. I find it surprising to see an ad for a movie of questionable morality in your publication. Perhaps it is a desire for revenue, or perhaps since you accept advertising you cannot refuse ads from certain selected parties. If the latter is the case maybe we’ll see ads for “massage parlors” or “adult hot lines” in the future. Maurice Wahlgren Napa Ed. Note: The Magdalene Sisters movie has received varied reviews by Catholics. Some have seen it as an important expose of a tragedy in Irish culture and others as a vindictive propagandistic car icature. Catholic San Francisco sided with the latter in its r eview, but movie watchers are free to make up their own mind. While the film is ahistorical, the ad did not violate our advertising policy.
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Roman Catholics celebrate 150 years in San Francisco and the Chronicle and Don Lattin’s only angle is that there was scandal way back then. Scant mention of the hundreds of thousands of people baptized, taught in schools, confirmed, married, visited while sick, presided over the death and burials of Roman Catholics and others in the last 150 years. The Roman Catholic social services, feeding the hungry, finding homes for the homeless, counseling for the crazed are far back in importance to the hard news of scandal caused by some priests. Good news is not newsworthy, I suppose. It would be better to ignore the anniversary than to dwell mainly on the sad and painful faults of a few and not give tribute to the magnificent pastoral and social work of the Roman Catholic Church in San Francisco during the last 150 years. Rev. Robert Warren Cromey San Francisco
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I enjoyed you article on Mission San Rafael and look forward to other parish pieces. I do not believe that only San Rafael was completely destroyed before being rebuilt. Santa Cruz is also a replica and is not even full size but in a smaller scale than the original. Chris Stoll San Francisco
Living proof Regarding Natural Family Planning myths and facts in your July 25 edition, I have a 42 year old verification of the recent Canadian study which found that women sometimes ovulate more than once per month. Virginia Dolar Novato
Keen eyes and ears Just a not to tell you I very much enjoy reading Evelyn Zappia’s articles in Catholic San Francisco. They always make me feel and understand what caring, vital people are living and ministering in the Archdiocese. Thanks for her keen eyes and ears and gift of writing. Kate Martin San Rafael
Regina second century
Feast – September 7 Almost nothing is known for fact about this virgin and martyr. The Roman Martyrology says only that she died for her faith. According to legend, she was the daughter of a pagan man, and her mother died in child birth. She was cared for by a woman who introduced her to Christianity. After discovering this, her father rejected his child, but later attempted to have her marry a local prefect. When she refused, she was imprisoned and tortured. The night before she was killed, Regina was consoled by a vision that told her that her suffering would soon end.
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The Catholic Difference
What Gene Robinson means While U.S. Episcopalians struggled through a difficult convention in Minneapolis last month, a Baltimore Sun reporter put the following lead on his story: “As they battled over confirmation of the nation’s first openly gay elected bishop — and wrestled with charges that he had engaged in sexual misconduct — a subtle subtext emerged in the public comments of some Episcopal clergy last week: We handle these issues differently than the Roman Catholic Church.” They certainly do. No one in Minneapolis made that clearer than the controversial bishop-elect in question, Gene Robinson. Agreeing that his confirmation reflected a profound change in Anglican teaching on homosexuality, Canon Robinson remarked, “Just simply to say that it goes against tradition and the teaching of the Church and Scripture does not necessarily make it wrong.” Which, in fact, says it all. If neither Scripture, nor tradition, nor the settled teaching of the Church for two millennia is authoritative, then what is? The “signs of the times,” evidently — whether those be the “signs of the times” as read by Henry VIII, or the “signs of the times” as defined by New York Times editorials today. It’s striking that in both the 16th century and the 21st century the question for Episcopalians has come down to this: What is authoritative for the Church? Scripture, tradition, and consistent teaching, apostolically rooted? Or the “signs of the times”? The decisions taken at Minneapolis will have serious consequences throughout the Anglican Communion. Leaders of the most vibrant Anglican churches in the world,
in Africa, will almost certainly not recognize the validity of a decision to ordain an avowed and practicing homosexual to the episcopate; they also fear what this decision means for their relations with Muslims. Moreover, the decision in favor of Canon Robinson’s ordination, and the rationale given for it, are going to make the international AnglicanCatholic theological dialogue even more difficult. In retrospect, the handwriting was on the wall years ago for this once-promising dialogue. In a 1984-1986 exchange of letters, Pope John Paul II, Cardinal Johannes Willebrands (then the Holy See’s chief ecumenical officer), and Archbishop Robert Runcie of Canterbury (titular head of the Anglican Communion) discussed the ecumenical difficulties created by the decision of some Anglican churches to ordain women to the priesthood. Archbishop Runcie agreed that such a dramatic shift in practice could not be justified by a mere appeal to the culture of the day — to the “signs of the times,” as it were. But then the archbishop argued that a male priesthood weakened the Church’s witness at a time “when exclusively male leadership has been largely surrendered in many human societies.” So sociology trumps theology. As it did in Henry VIII’s 16th century, when an expansive government and a rising entrepreneurial class needed the vast financial resources of the monasteries of England — and took them. As it did in the 1930s, when the Anglican Communion became the first Christian community to justify the use of artificial contraceptives as a means of family planning. As it did these past three decades, when Anglican communities ordained women as priests and bishops. And as it did in Minneapolis, when the claims of gay liberation
were deemed of more consequence than, as Canon Robinson himself put it, “tradition and the teaching of the Church and Scripture.” Like many others, I once looked forward to the George Weigel day of “full ecclesial unity” between Rome and Canterbury, as Archbishop Runcie aptly put the ecumenical goal in his letter to the Pope. That grand dream has been shattered. John Henry Newman was right: Anglicanism does not stand between Rome and the communities of continental Protestantism (Lutheran, Calvinist, and so forth). Anglicanism is a theologically unstable form of Protestantism. Indeed, as the Anglican Communion has evolved, much of its British, North American, and Australasian leadership typifies what Newman bitterly critiqued in 1879 as “liberal” religion — religion that we make up as we go along, rather than revealed religion to which we submit ourselves in the obedience of faith. “Just simply to say that it goes against tradition and the teaching of the Church and Scripture does not necessarily make it wrong.” That’s Newman’s “liberal” religion in a sentence. And it is killing the Anglican-Catholic dialogue. George Weigel is a senior fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.
Family Life
Receive the kingdom of God like a child Our youngest child received her first Holy Communion this past May, and every time she approaches to receive Our Lord, I am struck by how far the ministers of the Eucharist must bend down to reach her. Maybe I am growing more sentimental with age, but the scene brings tears to my eyes. The image somehow sums up for me my whole relationship with God. He stooping down to me – first by becoming a man and then by becoming as bread and wine to be consumed by me and by even the smallest and weakest members of the human family. My little daughter is small for her age, and now and then a priest or layman will hesitate before giving her Communion and look to me for some sign that she is to receive. Gee, I wonder in that moment, which of us standing in this line is truly worthy to receive Him? I never understood until now why the Eastern Catholic and Orthodox churches gave all of the sacraments of initiation to mere infants. I suppose my time in the Baptist
Church, which made my personal faith in Jesus a condition for my baptism, prejudiced me. Certainly our own act of faith is essential for our growth into mature Christian discipleship, and I owe a lot to my Protestant brothers and sisters, who gave me a love of the Scriptures and who taught me a great deal about loving Jesus. But the true ratio between how much of our salvation is due to God and how much is due to our own efforts is so beautifully revealed in Jesus’ own words, “Let the children come to me, do not hinder them; for to such belongs the kingdom of God. Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.” (Mark 10:14&15). One of the happiest moments of my life was when the priest who was giving me instruction in the Catholic faith asked me if I had been baptized. “Oh, yes, Father,” I said. “I have been baptized three times. Once as an infant in the Episcopal Church, once in a swimming pool by an itinerant preacher, and lastly in the
Baptist Church, which taught that the other two baptisms were not valid.” “Well,” Father said with a smile, “Any one of those would have been sufficient.” I knew then and there that I had come home to the true church. Vivian W. Dudro And I am confirmed in this faith every time I go to Mass and watch all of the faithful, from every race and nationality, from among the rich and the poor, thestrong and the weak, going to Communion, and with them my own young children. Vivian W. Dudro is a parishioner at St. Mary’s Cathedral and the mother of four children, ages 7 to 15.
Spirituality
Gospel challenge to walk tall The Gospels point out that, before his conversion, Zacchaeus was a short man, someone lacking in height, but that, after his conversion, the tall man gave back what the small man had stolen. Meeting Jesus, it seems, made Zacchaeus grow bigger in stature. That’s what goodness does to us; it makes us grow taller. For example, a friend of mine shares this story: He has a neighbor who frequently drops round to drink coffee and chat. The neighbor is a good man from a wonderful family and has been blessed with lots of love and good example in his life. But, like the rest of us, he has his weaknesses — in his case, gossip and occasional pettiness. One day, as he was sitting with my friend, he made a very racist remark. My friend, instead of accusing him of being a racist or shaming him with the inappropriateness of his remark, called him instead to his own essential goodness: “That comment surprises me,” he said, “coming from you. I’ve always considered you and your family big-hearted people, with class, never petty. I’ve always envied your family for its goodness and understanding. That remark simply doesn’t sound like you!” The man’s reaction was instant, positive. Immediately he apologized. “You’re right,” he said. “I don’t know why I sometimes say stupid things like that!” Like Zacchaeus, the taller man gave back what the smaller man had taken. It’s interesting to note that the word “gospel” means “good news,” not “good advice.” The Gospels are not so much a spiritual and moral theology book that tell us what we should be doing, but are more an account of what God has already done for us, is still doing for us, and the wonderful dignity that this bestows on us. Morality is not a com-
mand, it’s an invitation; not a threat, but a reminder of who we truly are. We become taller and less petty when we remember what kind of family we ultimately come from. In essence, we all have two souls, two hearts, and two minds. Inside of each of us there’s a soul, heart and mind that’s petty, that’s been hurt, that wants vengeance, that wants to protect itself, that’s frightened of what’s different, that’s prone to gossip, that’s racist, that perennially feels cheated. Seen in a certain light, all of us are as small in stature as the pre-converted Zacchaeus. But there’s also a tall, big-hearted person inside each of us, someone who wants to warmly embrace the whole world, beyond personal hurt, selfishness, race, creed, and politics. We are always both — grand and petty. The world isn’t divided up between big-hearted and small-minded people. Rather, our days are divided up between those moments when we are big-hearted, generous, warm, hospitable, unafraid, wanting to embrace everyone and those moments when we are petty, selfish, over-aware of the unfairness of life, frightened, and seeking only to protect ourselves and our own safety and interests. But, as we all know, we are most truly ourselves when what’s tall in us takes over and gives back to the world what the short, petty person wrongly takes. John of the Cross, the great mystic, made this insight the centerpiece of his theology of healing. For him, this is the way we heal: We heal not by confronting all of our wounds and selfishness head-on, which would overwhelm us and drown us in discouragement, but by growing to what he calls “our deepest center.” For him, this center is not first of all some deep place of solitude inside the soul, but rather the furthest place of growth that we can attain, the optimum of our potential.
Thus, if John of the Cross were your spiritual director and you went to him with some moral flaw or character deficiency, his first counsel would be: What are you good at? What have you been blessed with? Where, in Father your life and work, does God’s goodness and beauRon Rolheiser ty most shine through? If you can grow more and more toward that goodness, it will fan into an ever larger flame which eventually will become a fire that cauterizes your faults. When you walk tall there will be less and less room for what’s small and petty to manifest itself. But to walk tall means to walk within our God-given dignity. Nothing else, ultimately, gives us as large an identity. That’s useful, too, to remember when we challenge each other. Gospel challenge doesn’t shame us with our pettiness; it invites us to what’s already best inside us. Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser is a theologian, teacher and award-winning author. He currently serves in Toronto and Rome as the general councilor for Canada for his religious order, the Oblates of Mary Immaculate. Father Rolheiser can be contacted at info@ronrolheiser.com
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Former San Francisco Mayor John Shelley (center) joins Examiner staffers on a Newspaper Guild picket line at the 5th and Mission Chronicle-Examiner headquarters.
Eamon de Valera (center), who served as Taoiseach (Prime Minister) and later President of Ireland, visits the tomb of Father Peter Yorke with prominent labor leaders.
The Catholic Church and Labor, from the 1890s to the 1950s By Dr. William Issel In 1939, a young San Franciscan, John F. (Jack) Henning published an essay in the Moraga Quarterly entitled “The Catholic College Graduate and Labor.” The author, a recent graduate of St. Mary’s College, later became the head of the California State Federation of Labor as well as Undersecretary of Labor in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. In his 1939 article Henning argued “The army of the Church is today engaged in a stern struggle” and “the need of the Catholic Church for an articulate laity in Labor is too gigantic to question.” He stressed that union members needed to fight both “American Way” individualism and the “painted panaceas” of “the land of communism or the land of fascism.” Jack Henning’s 1939 call to action drew upon a robust San Francisco tradition of Catholic support for the cause of labor. From the boisterous Barbary Coast days of the 1890s and the formation of the Coast Seamen’s Union to the tense days of the Cold War and the 1955 merger of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) with the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), Catholics in San Francisco built independent and democratic unions and worked to limit the influence of both the labor left and the business right. In the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century, Catholics comprised a critical mass in the population at large, as well as among the city’s business and political leadership. Catholic influence in public life ensured that the notions of a moral economy in Pope Leo XIII’s 1891 labor encyclical Rerum Novarum became an explicit part of San Francisco’s political culture. The first American labor organization to send an official letter of gratitude to the pope came from the Pacific Coast Laborer’s Union in San Francisco. The union’s officers assured his holiness that his endorsement of the dignity of workers and the legitimacy of unions “brings to us an assurance that fills our breast with hope. It nerves us on to the battle against injustice with renewed energies.” The Rev. Father Peter C. Yorke played a central role in establishing the city’s Catholic labor philosophy at the beginning of the twentieth century. During a prolonged strike by teamsters and waterfront workers in 1901, Yorke criticized “the manifest disposition betrayed by the favored money class to disregard the sentiment of the common people.” When the city’s Employers’ Association objected, Archbishop Patrick W. Riordan responded that Yorke was “merely explaining the Encyclical of the Pope.” Then, from the “lean years” of unionism before the mid1930s to the high point of labor success during and after World War II, Archbishops Edward J. Hanna, John J. Mitty and priests of the Jesuit order worked with unionists to shape the city’s labor movement along the lines laid out in the labor encyclicals of Popes Leo XIII and Pius XI. In 1931, Pope Pius XI issued Quadragesimo Anno, reaffirming and extending the principles of the 1891 labor encyclical, and in 1937 he condemned communism in Divini Redemptoris.
Catholics in San Francisco used the encyclicals in a called for by Catholic leaders. Business leaders agreed to communal effort to shape a labor movement with multi- arbitration and expressed a public commitment to respect ple dimensions. Labor organizers, officials, and negotia- the rights of labor and to treat workers with dignity. tors pointed to the encyclicals as The settlement of the Great evidence that God was on their Strike of 1934 represented a vicside as they fought to build and tory for the unions, which owed sustain their unions. Labor their success in good part to the priests explained the encyclicals determination of Catholics from in their sermons and lectures business and labor, working demanding justice and dignity closely with the Church and for workers. The archbishops local government. The Catholic cited the encyclicals as authority principles that shaped the strike for their calls to resolve differsettlement became increasingly a ences between labor and capital part of San Francisco’s public through compromise and arbitraculture in the decades to come. tion, and they quoted the encycliThe new Archbishop, John J. cals as ammunition when they Mitty, kept a low public profile, condemned laissez faire busibut he also kept the Archdiocese nessmen and left wing unionists. involved in the labor movement Catholic principles played a by relying upon trusted intermerole in shaping the Pacific Coast diaries recruited from both the maritime strike from May through clergy and the laity. Mitty (1935 July of 1934. On June 9, the offito 1961) preferred to delegate cial Catholic newspaper, The authority when it came to direct Monitor, ran a front-page editorial involvement in labor relations, on “The Maritime Strikes.” “The but he also spoke out on labor rights of the ship-owners over issues using his office as a “bully their ships do not give them the pulpit.” He liked to point out that right to impoverish the whole a “religion is worthless unless it community. Nor do the rights of Father Hugh Donohoe gives the invocation has a message for human beings the striking workers include the at a 1951 Railway Clerks Union convention. in every phase of human life” right to pursue their aims regardand he frequently invoked the less of the consequences to the third party in the dispute, Labor Encyclicals and exhorted the city’s Catholics to namely the people who are not directly involved, but who practice their Christian principles. depend upon cargoes for their livelihoods and sustenance.” The city’s annual Labor Day celebration provided an On July 13, with the city in the throes of a opportunity to promote Catholic unionism. Initiated in General Strike, Archbishop Hanna 1910 by Archbishop Riordan, the Labor Day Mass was a addressed San Franciscans in a speech city tradition by 1935. Archbishop Mitty used the Mass broadcast over radio stations KGO, KPO, both to preach at length on labor issues and to allow the and KFRC. He explicitly endorsed both Church hierarchy to appear in public with labor leaders labor unions and collective bargaining, and in a dramatic gesture of support for unions. Labor Day he condemned employer exploitation that sermons dwelt almost exclusively on the teachings set ignored “the human character of the work- forth in the Labor Encyclicals and included frequent verer.” Then, in a blunt rejection of the batim quotations from the documents. Labor leaders also Communist Party slogan “class against regularly sought Church representation at a variety of class,” Hanna criticized unionists who union functions, such as the 1947 AFL national convenpremised their activities on the necessity of tion at the Civic Auditorium, and the Archbishop regu“conflict between class and class.” The larly participated in order to demonstrate solidarity with Archbishop warned leftist unionists “rights organized labor. must be religiously respected wherever As part of his strategy to promote the practice of they are found.” Both sides in the water- Catholic unionism during World War II the Archbishop front strike, Hanna insisted, should move appointed Father Hugh A. Donohoe to succeed Gordon quickly to accept the results of arbitration, O’Neill as editor of The Monitor in November 1942. keeping in mind the “underlying principles Donohoe was a close confidant of the Archbishop and a which have ever been the teaching of rising star within the local Church hierarchy. A product Christianity during 2000 years.” of the Irish Catholic Mission district, Donohoe was a Settlement of the waterfront strike came classmate of John F. Shelley at St. Paul’s school. Shelley during the next two weeks, partly because became president and secretary treasurer of the Labor of the work of the National Longshoremen’s Board on Council, president of the state labor federation, state senwhich Hanna served and partly because of the influence of ator, congressman, and mayor, and the two men remained John F. Neylan, a prominent Catholic lawyer close to the close friends. Ordained in 1930, Donohoe earned the Archbishop. The strike settlement realigned the relation- confidence of the labor movement by his support for the ship between organized labor and business in the direction CHURCH AND LABOR, page 17
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Francisco native, one of six sons of a Mission district barber. Like Donohoe, Boss saw the establish■ Continued from page 16 ment of a local branch of the longshoremen and the sailors during national network of Jesuit labor the 1934 waterfront strike. schools as a way to enhance the Like his Baltimore counterpart status and power of the mainFather John Francis Cronin, Donohoe stream labor movement as well as also played a key role in Archbishop more effectively compete against Mitty’s efforts to support moderate the Communist Party. Father Boss alternatives to radical unionism. Even became the Director in 1950 and before Pope Pius XI’s 1937 encycliserved in that position until his cal condemning atheistic commuretirement in 1975. By 1969, gradnism, Catholic teaching condemned uates numbered over 5000 and communism as a modernist conceit of included representatives of colossal proportions. Long before the approximately five hundred differpost-World War II Red Scare and ent labor unions and two hundred McCarthyism, San Francisco businesses. Catholics regarded principled antiDuring the late 1940s and communism and militant trade union1950s, Archbishop Mitty continism as fitting together as comfortably ued to put the influence of the as the two halves of a walnut. During Church on the side of the labor the 1910s and 1920s, Catholic unionmovement at a time when business ists such as AFL leader Patrick H. sought to roll back some of the McCarthy and Catholic businessmen gains unions had made since the such as Frederick J. Koster of the New Deal. This position often Law and Order Committee and the placed him at odds with the more Industrial Association differed on conservative business leaders of many issues. However, they agreed the city. Many of them endorsed that left-wing unionists and commumeasures such as the Taft-Hartley nist party activists should be allowed Act of 1947 and the unsuccessful no legitimate place in the city’s pubstate Proposition 18 state ballot lic life. initiative in 1958, both aimed at Archbishop Mitty continued the limiting the powers available to long-established local campaign labor unions. The Archbishop, on against communism while also supthe other hand, put the Church on porting the struggle by anti-communist record as being strongly opposed unions for greater influence. To his to Taft-Hartley, and The Monitor credit, the Archbishop refused to provided considerable space to encourage the personal vilification and national and local union leaders character assassination practiced by who condemned the measure durRed baiting super patriots elsewhere. ing Congressional debates and Catholic labor activists followed suit. deplored its passage when it was In the late 1940s, during the frenzied passed over President Truman’s fear mongering that accompanied the veto. exposé of Soviet espionage, Jack In the case of, the so-called Shelley outspokenly defended individ“Right to Work” initiative of 1958, uals unfairly targeted as subversives Archbishop Mitty published a and victimized by guilt by association newspaper ad that rejected the tactics. In 1954, labor activist Jack claim “that so-called ‘voluntary Henning condemned local zealots who unionism’ is the official teaching called the civil rights movement a of the Catholic Church” and concommunist plot. “The Communist demned the anti-labor side of apparatus must be opposed if democra“gross misrepresentation of the cy is to survive,” Henning argued over facts.” He urged voters to “vote as radio station KNBC, “but to associate they see fit on any issue in accorthe campaign for racial justice with the dance with their conscience.” The Communist movement is . . . the last John F. Henning (center), Undersecretary of Labor in the Kennedy administration, places a wreath ad also contained explicit critirefuge of those who are morally sterile at the statue of James Cardinal Gibbons following the annual Labor Day Mass in Washington D.C. cisms of Proposition 18 by Msgr. and philosophically bankrupt.” He is joined by D.C. Aux. Bishop Philip Hannan (left) and Archbishop Patrick O'Boyle (right). Matthew Connelly, the Chaplain of Archbishop Mitty also endorsed the San Francisco Port, and Father the San Francisco branch of the Association of Catholic active years from 1939 to the mid-1950s. Like Donohoe Boss, Dean of the USF Labor-Management School. When Trade Unionists (ACTU). The ACTU was founded in and John Shelley, Maguire graduated from St. Paul’s gram- the election was over and the votes had been counted, New York in March 1937 to promote unionization and to mar school. During the first fifteen years, San Francisco California voters rejected the measure by a substantial marincrease the practice of Catholic principles within the ACTU members worked to make a difference in the San gin, and the president of the State labor federation sent a labor movement, and a local chapter was founded in Francisco labor movement, particularly on the waterfront. warm “Thank You” letter to the Archbishop. September 1938. ACTU stressed both the rights and the Waterfront unionists dominated the organization, and the In another 1950s initiative, a group of archdiocesan duties of workers. The rights included job security, an most dramatic evidence of ACTU’s work occurred in Local priests known as the Spanish Mission Band began working income high enough to allow a 10 of the ILWU, where ACTU among migrant workers. They repeatedly urged the workfamily to live a decent life, colmembers made a concerted effort ers to organize. Despite complaints from many growers, lective bargaining through indeto compete with left-wing candi- Archbishop Mitty stood behind the Band’s efforts. Perhaps pendent, democratic unions, a dates for local offices. In 1943, the greatest contribution the Band made was the discovery decent share in employer profJames Stanley Kearney, who of two young Mexican-American workers, Cesar Chavez its, the right to strike and picket joined ACTU in early 1940, ran and Dolores Huerta. Huerta and Chavez went on to found for a just cause, a just price, and against Communist Party mem- the National Farmworkers Association (which later became decent hours and working conber Archie Brown in the election the United Farmworkers, UFW). ditions. Duties included perfor Local vice-president. San Francisco Catholics thus entered the 1960s forming an honest day’s work, Kearney won the election. Then, endowed with a tradition of support for the dignity of joining a union, striking only during the subsequent twenty- working men and women, the rights of labor unions, and for a just cause, refraining from seven years, Kearney won elec- the principle that Americans should build a moral econoviolence, respecting property tions for nine two-year terms as my, jointly managed by labor unions, business organizarights, living up to agreements the president of Local 10. This tions, and government, the latter representing the interests freely made, enforcing honesty record is even more impressive of the community at large. Catholics would face many and democracy in the union, in light of the fact that incum- daunting challenges to their tradition in the last decades of and cooperating with employers bents were required to stand the twentieth century, challenges related to dramatic demoin establishing industry coundown after each term to keep a graphic and cultural changes associated with the Vietnam cils and producer cooperatives. president from succeeding him- War, the end of the Cold War, and the globalization of the In San Francisco and elsewhere, self. When Kearney died sudden- world economy. ACTU sponsored educational ly in 1970 he was still serving as programs designed to increase president, and the entire waterWilliam Issel, coauthor of San Francisco, the number and effectiveness of front shut down in honor of his 1865-1932: Politics, Power and Urban Catholic unionists as organizmemory. Development, teaches in the History ers, officers, and negotiators. In Along with ACTU, the Department at San Francisco State University. 1948, the local chapter amended Former University of San Francisco University of San Francisco the constitution to add clauses (USF) Labor Management Dean of Labor-Management School, requiring “strict honesty within School also promoted alternaFather Andrew Boss, S.J. This is one in a year-long series of the union and a square deal for tives to radical unionism. The articles marking the 150th anniversary of the everybody regardless of race, color, or creed” and pro- idea for the establishment of the labor management school Archdiocese of San Francisco. Jeffrey Burns, hibiting membership to anyone “who is a member of any came out of a series of discussions in 1946 between Father archdiocesan archivist and author of a history subversive organization.” Donohoe and Jesuit Father Andrew C. Boss. Like John F. Maguire served as president of ACTU during its Donohoe, Henning, McGuire, and Shelley, Boss was a San of the Archdiocese, is coordinating the series.
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That makes younger generations all the more important to the church’s future in Slovakia. “I’m relatively optimistic about the religious future of the new generations,” Cardinal Tomko said. He noted that there is good participation in parish life among the young, lay movements are thriving and there’s been a boom in vocations. One of the pope’s main events will be the beatification of two people martyred under communism, and the challenge will be to reach out and make them significant figures to Slovakia’s young people. During a Mass in Bratislava, the capital, on the final day of his visit, the pope will proclaim as blessed Eastern Catholic Auxiliary Bishop Vasyl Hopko of Presov, 190476, and Holy Cross Sister Zdenka Schelingova, 1916-55. Both were imprisoned by communist authorities in a country known for its policies of religious persecution. “Unfortunately, the new generation has no experience of this. Most young people in Slovakia today do not remember any direct experience of persecution, and those who do are trying to forget,” Cardinal Tomko said. “The pope realizes there is a risk of losing the memory of this, which makes the beatifications all the more important,” he said. Vatican officials will be carefully watching the 83-yearold pontiff during the four-day visit, which features few
major events but considerable internal transportation. In recent weeks, the pope has appeared tired in the summer heat, and his aides are hoping Europe will cool off by the time he lands in Bratislava. The pope will meet with state and government figures shortly after his arrival and then visits a cathedral in Trnava. The remaining days include Masses in three cities, private meetings with bishops and a departure ceremony. Slovakia’s large Gypsy, or Roma, minority also is interested in the papal visit, and its leaders recently expressed hope that the pontiff would meet with them and speak about their situation. Schuster said he hoped the pope would meet a Roma delegation after his Mass at Roznava Sept. 13. According to the Vatican, nearly 75 percent of Slovaks are Catholic. The church runs 148 schools and two universities in Slovakia, serving more than 37,000 students. It also owns or administers two hospitals, eight clinics, 20 homes for the elderly or disabled, 18 orphanages and day nurseries, 24 social education centers and two family counseling centers. The vocations picture in Slovakia is encouraging to church leaders. After some 13 years of religious freedom, nearly 90 percent of Slovakia’s parishes are staffed by priests. The rate of seminary students per 100,000 Catholics is 21.5, more than twice that of the European average.
one get acquainted and begin feeling at home. Since the two schools are only a mile apart, “the older kids walked.” A few days before school was to open, Ms. Fernandes ■ Continued from cover reported that things were moving along smoothly. “We’re still and one of the teachers was a deejay for the dancing.” a work in progress but the kids are happy and so are the parSince many of the students didn’t belong to the parish, Father ents, especially those with children in the lower grades. ” They Heinz doesn’t have figures on where most are going to school are particularly thrilled because of the new grouping arrangethis fall, but he said that some have enrolled at St. Emydius. ment. Without the older students around, K through fourth Parent Lee Hubbard found a place for his son in the sev- grade youngsters can stay young and stay focused. “You know enth grade at St. John Elementary School. He said most of how kids are. They always want to be older than they are.” But the students at St. Paul of the Shipwreck found places in this way there will be more harmony on each campus, because Catholic schools. the learning styles are the same, she elaborated. She expects Father Heinz said he misses the youngsters. He has sent student enrollment to be 254. The principal said she was extra tables and chairs over to St. Emydius, and said he will expecting 25 in the kindergarten, but already there are 30. help any other way that he can. Other changes at the school: Fifth grade will be self-conThe former school has been leased to the new Bay View tained, but sixth through eighth grades will be departmentalized. Kipp Academy. Kipp is a charter school, which will open There will be core teachers for the three classes, each teacher with a fifth grade and will add a new grade each year. specializing in his or her subject. Holy Names Sister Ann Meanwhile, the parish is sponsoring a youth basketball Gilcrist will teach math and San Rafael Dominican Sister Anne team on Sundays. Father Heinz is also looking at ways to Providence will teach religion and oversee the entire religion help put together a sports program for neighborhood chil- program. San Rafael Dominican Sister Gloria Montanez will dren. He hopes to have girls’volleyball and a CYO basket- teach second grade and serve as dean of students. ball team by December. Another innovation: The school will have a director of At the newly merged Sacred Heart/St. Dominic School, curriculum, longtime Sacred Heart parishioner Norma Reese Fernandes chuckles and predicts that she is “going to Dahnken, whose children attended the school. “She’s been need a skateboard to get from one campus to the other.” Last behind the scenes here for a long time,” said Ms. Fernandes. year these two schools were also dealing with shrinking stuJesuit Father Charles Gagan, pastor of St. Ignatius dent enrollments. Sacred Heart had 111 students and St. Parish, will act as a tutor for the children. When Sacred Dominic 186. This fall the new school is educating kinder- Heart was in danger of closing three years ago, Father gartners through fourth grade at St. Dominic’s with fifth Gagan went to bat for the school and rounded up benefacthrough eighth graders going to Sacred Heart. San Rafael tors to keep it going, said the principal. Dominican Sister Pat Farrell, former principal of St. Dominic Things are upbeat at St. Emydius, too. Judy Borelli, School now is serving on her community’s leadership team. principal, reports parents and kids had a welcome barbecue At first, both students and their parents were “a little the Friday before school opened. And each day is a surreluctant,” about the new arrangement, said Ms. Fernandes, prise, because “people are still walking off the streets to former principal of Sacred Heart. So to help them feel bet- register their kids.” Ms. Borelli has built in a budget for ter, last spring she and Sister Pat arranged for students and 145 students. Since St. Emydius has also been in crisis, their parents to visit one another’s campuses several times. “Anything over 145 will be a blessing,” she said. They set up games and ice breaker exercises to help everySt. Emydius is combining grades. First and second
grades will be together, as will third and fourth, while grades five, six, seven and eight will be separate. The curriculum is being reconfigured, also, with an expansion of math support, technology, and science, said Ms Borelli. Grades fifth through eighth will become involved in the Algebra Project, a national program which grooms children in math, so that by the time they reach high school, students can go right into geometry. Also, Kindergarten through fourth grades will be learning math-building skills, so that by the time they reach the fifth grade, they too will be ready to jump into algebra. In the science department, there are exciting new changes as well, said the principal. This year, parent volunteers converted an old storage room into a science laboratory. Thanks to some grant money, the principal was able to furnish the lab with tables, microscopes scales and petri dishes. Another grant has enabled St. Emydius to bring in a program called MAD science. Once a month, MAD teachers will come into St. Emydius to help the children do experiments based on what they have been studying in past weeks. “So if they are studying the solar system, the teachers will come in with their own equipment and do something exciting around that theme.” MAD is its own word rather than being initials for something else. Teachers “want to make science exciting, so the kids will love it.” Supporting the focus on technology are 28 PC’s in the computer lab, given to the school by the U.S. Mint. Once again, a grant made it possible, said the principal. Tom Weed, a part-time computer teacher will come to the school three days a week, to give classes to every child in the school. This year Weed will do staff development so teachers can become computer-savvy. St. Emydius is also tuning in the Catholic Television Network, which can supplement whatever the teacher is teaching. Ms Borelli hopes to have a technique called streaming video up and running by June of 2004. The parish is presently negotiating with Head Start and the Archdiocese about bringing in a Head Start program, but nothing is final yet, she added.
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Laura M. Held, principal Mercy High School, Burlingame Ms. Held has been and educator for 25 years and is “very committed to Catholic education and in particular women’s single gender education.” She has served as principal at Catholic elementary schools in the Diocese of Oakland and held administrative posts at Holy Names High School. Ms. Held believes the school has “a profound challenge to inspire each Mercy student to reach her full potential and become a woman of faith, knowledge, compassion, service and wisdom.”
■ Continued from cover Union next year. The fear is that in exchange for economic opportunities the country may be forced to fall into line with policies that go against church teachings. Pope John Paul is expected to address the abortion issue as well as the wider questions of church-state relations during his appearances in four cities of western Slovakia. His public comments will come primarily during liturgies and will be aimed primarily at Slovak Catholics, Vatican sources said. He wants to motivate Catholics to join the battle, especially when it touches on human life issues. “The church in Slovakia has a very beautiful cultural, sacramental and parish life. But now it has to find a way to penetrate into public life, through lay people,” Cardinal Tomko said. “In this way, the pope will oppose the message coming from the other side — that religion is strictly a private affair,” he said. Church leaders like Cardinal Tomko believe the church’s current political struggles are caused in part by the generation that currently holds political power, a generation raised under the atheistic programs of Czechoslovakia’s communist regime.
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■ Continued from page 9 Lars Lund, principal Junipero Serra High School, San Mateo Mr. Lund is a former assistant superintendent of schools for the Archdiocese of San Francisco and last year served as Junipero Serra’s associate principal. He is a former dean of the school’s theology department having taught religion at Serra for 16 years previous to
accepting the assistant superintendent’s position in 1999. Peter Imperial, interim principal Marin Catholic High School, Kentfield Mr. Imperial is “a veteran of 22 years of Catholic high school education in San Francisco and Marin county” teaching history, government, and English. He holds an undergraduate degree in history from UC Berkeley and a graduate degree in European history from San Francisco State. He is currently completing studies toward a doctorate in educational administration at the University of San Francisco.
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Lutheran Pastor, advocate for life, remembered at St. Cecilia Lutheran Pastor William Victor Holt who was well known and loved by his own community, but also by numerous Catholics throughout the Bay area died August 15 after a two year battle with cancer. Because the number of people wishing to honor Pastor Holt would be too l a rge for the local Lutheran church, his memorial service was held at Saint Cecilia on August 30. As a minister, Pastor Holt had in fact helped organize and lead services bringing people of many faiths together at Saint Cecilia to pray for respect for all human life. It is entirely appropriate that people of many faiths gathered in the same church to honor his life. Wilbert Victor Holt was the second of six children born to Walter and Lydia Hoeltje in Oak Park, Illinois in 1918. Influenced by a strongly religious mother who had a great care for the poor and destitute during the Great Depression, Wilbert decided at age 17 to serve the Lord “full time.” He graduated from seminary, married Geraldine Bierworth and was ordained a Lutheran minister in 1945. That same year, he and his wife left to Enshiah, Hupeh in western China where the Evangelical Lutheran Church of China had a church, school,
orphanage and hospital. Away from his home and family on an evangelical tour, Pastor Holt left Chungking the day before it fell to the Communist Chinese. Following the Communist takeover of mainland China, he and his family moved to Hong Kong where he helped minister to the thousands of refugees arriving there daily. Pastor Holt became cofounder of the Hong Kong Lutheran Synod, associated with the Missouri Synod. He was a founder and the first president of their seminary in Hong Kong. Pastor Holt and his wife were also strong advocates for the blind and deaf in Hong Kong. When he left Hong Kong in 1962, there were 20 Lutheran congregations, seven primary schools and a secondary school. Moving back to the States, he accepted a call to minister to the Chinese in San Francisco. He founded Holy Spirit Lutheran Church, a storefront on Jackson St. in 1964. The congregation thrived and moved to a new building on Washington St. in 1969. It is now located on Noriega. Many Chinese Lutheran ministries and congregations throughout the Bay Area are “offsprings” of this church. Pastor Holt is remembered by numerous Roman
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Oct. 18: Annual reunion St. Brigid High School, SF.All alumnae invited to Castagnola’s, 280 Jefferson at Fisherman’s Wharf. Luncheon at noon. Call Evelyn Vanucci Carrignani at (415) 775-0491 or Lorraine Pengel Grenfell at (650) 345-2476. “We’re trying to find as many of our classmates as possible,” said Barbara Graham, class of ’42. “The school closed over 50 years ago but last year we had 101 ladies attending our reunion. It was a wonderful school.” Nov. 1: Class of ’53 from Marin Catholic High School at Deer Park Villa in Fairfax. Class members should call Rosemary Penna U’Ren at (415) 4640489 or mennau@aol.com. Oct. 11: Class of ’58, Mercy High School, SF. Postcards have been sent “to all the addresses we have,” said Kathe McDonnell Farrell. “If any classmates did not get a postcard, we don’t have your address.” Call Kathe at (415) 681-2876 or Clare Breen Mayne at (415) 826-5255. Nov. 29: Holy Name of Jesus, class of ’53. Classmates should call Jerry Ames at (415) 454-1394. Class of ’54, from Corpus Christi Elementary, SF, “Where are you?” A 50th reunion is in the works. Call Joe Giusto at (650) 588-5220 or Carol Faber Gallucci at (650) 697-4768. Looking for members of the class of ’53, Star of the Sea Elementary, SF. 50th reunion is being planned. Contact Rose Fitzpatrick Barnett, (650) 589-2231, Merle Caruso Bellanti, (650) 366-3200, Carole Musante Noonan, (650) 756-6699, Virginia Reyes Frenkel, (650) 755-6550.
A Police – Fire Memorial Mass in honor of those who gave their lives on September 11, 2001, will be prayed on the second anniversary of the tragedy at 9:30 a.m. at St. Monica Church, Geary Blvd at 23rd Ave., San Francisco. Father Michael Healy, pastor, St. Philip the Apostle Parish and chaplain to the San Francisco Police Department, will preside. Father John Greene, St. Monica pastor and chaplain to the San Francisco Fire Department, will be homilist. Recently deceased police officers and firefighters will also be remembered. Sponsored by SF Firefighters Local #798 and the SF Police Officers Association. Sept. 14: St. Thomas the Apostle continues celebrations of its 80 Years of Serving God and Community with a Homecoming Liturgy at 11 a.m. honoring those who were baptized, confirmed or made first Communion at the Richmond district parish. Rites honoring those who entered the priesthood or religious life from St. Thomas take place Oct. 19th. Couples married there will be honored Nov. 16th. The parish school, Religious Education program and Chinese School graduates will be remembered on Dec. 7. Parishioners and friends from then and now are invited. Call (415) 387-5545. Sept. 15: Second annual Invitational Golf Tournament benefiting Athletic Department of Notre Dame de Namur University, Belmont at Peninsula Golf and Country Club in San Mateo. Includes lunch, a round of 18 holes, awards reception, gifts and prizes. Hole-in-one prize is brand new Mercedes Benz. Reserve now! Call (650) 508-3590. Sept. 15: The 11th annual Capuchin Seminarian Golf Tournament takes place at Sharon Heights Country Club, Menlo Park. A shotgun-start begins the18-hole Scramble followed by cocktails and dinner in Our Lady of Angels Parish Hall at 6 and 7:30 p.m. Fee of $225 per person includes golf, cart, tee prizes, lunch, beverages and dinner. Tickets are available for dinner only at $50 per person. Sponsorships are available from $50.. For ticket information and reservations, call Mike Stecher at (650) 342-4680. Sept. 17: Hear the much-acclaimed San Francisco Saxophone Quartet, a concert benefiting the work of the St. Vincent de Paul Society of Mill Valley’s Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Parish. Performance takes place in OLMC church, 3 Oakdale Ave., at 7:30 p.m. Gen. Adm. $20/students $5. Call (415) 388-4404 or 388-0139. Sept. 18: Luncheon of St. Thomas More Society featuring Chad Evans, former director, Spiritual Life Center, St. Agnes Parish, SF. Chad will demonstrate spiritual tools for busy people including a guided meditation and faith sharing. Takes place at noon at the Bankers Club, 52nd floor, Bank of America Building, 555 California St., SF. Tickets $30 members/$40 non-members. Call Stacy Stecher at (415) 433-1400. Sept. 19-20: Holy Jalapeno!!! It’s the annual Fall Fiesta benefiting Our Lady of Angels School, Burlingame on the school campus at 1721 Hillside Dr. Celebrate with rompin’ rides, game booths fantastic foods and mingling mariachis. It’s a “handclapping, feet-stomping weekend,” said publicity chair, Laura Elmore. Fri, 6 – 10 p.m.; Sat. 2 – 11 p.m. Alumni night Friday features line dancing. Call (650) 343-9200. Sept. 20: Lady of Light, a Pageant on St. Clare at St. Boniface Theater, 135 Golden Gate Ave., SF at 2 p.m. Tickets $5 per person or 6 for $25. Acommemoration of the life of this great saint who died 750 years ago. Music by the Schola Cantorum of the National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi. Produced by the St. Francis Fraternity. Call (415) 621-3279 or contact ssclare4000@juno.com. Sept. 20: Screening for Peripheral Vascular
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Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma announces a Founders’ Day Tour “honoring early pioneer members of our Catholic community” on Sept. 13th from 10 a.m. to noon. “The rich history of Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery is filled with so many notable historic figures,” said Katherine Atkinson, cemeteries director for the Archdiocese. “Our tour will highlight a representative few of these individuals who made important contributions to the Archdiocese and early San Francisco.” Here, Holy Cross staffers, Al McDonnell, left, and Sue Majeski stand by grave of John G. Downey, California’s seventh governor. Those taking the walking-tour are asked to meet in the rotunda of Holy Cross Mausoleum Chapel, site of the crypt of Most Rev. Joseph Sadoc Alemany, first Archbishop of San Francisco. Additional burial sites to be visited include those of Father Peter C. Yorke, legendary labor leader; Sister Dolores Armer, founder of the Sisters of the Holy Family; and James Smith, who started the Young Men’s Institute. Refreshments follow. Call (650) 756-2060. The tour is a commemorative event of the 150th anniversary of the Archdiocese. Disease at St. Mary’s Medical Center, 450 Stanyan St., SF. If your legs hurt when you work or exercise you should take advantage of this service. Call (415) 750-5800 to schedule an appointment. Sept. 20: Annual Food Fest and Yard Sale benefiting St. Thomas More Parish, 50 Thomas More Way at Brotherhood Way, SF, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. “Come for great finds and taste the international flavors of our community,” said Kathy Sanford. Call (415) 452-9634.
Performance/Auditions Admission free unless otherwise noted. Sept. 8, 15, 22, 29: Golden Gate Boys Choir School, St. Mary’s Cathedral Choir Room from 4:30 – 6:30 p.m. Call (415) 431-1137. Boys age 7 to 12 with unchanged voices are welcome to audition. Ongoing: Auditions/rehearsals for the St, Mary’s Cathedral Choir of Boys and Girls. Beginners meet Thurs. 4 – 5 p.m.; advanced singers meet Tues. 4 – 5:30 p.m. No musical experience is necessary. To schedule an audition, contact music director, Christoph Tietze at (415) 567-2020 ext. 213 or ctietze@stmarycathedralsf.org.
Reunions Oct. 2003: Class of ’53, St. Philip Elementary School. SF. “Where are you? We need you,” said classmate Consuela Hooper-Aguilar. Call (415) 435-0941, e-mail consuela24@msn.com; or fax info – name, address et al - to (925) 671-2684. Oct. 4: Class of ’83, St. Philip Elementary School, SF is planning a Family Picnic/20th Reunion If you’re a classmate or know of some, contact Ellen McCarthy Perieff at (415) 330-9897 or ellen.perieff@sfgov.org. Oct. 5: San Francisco’s St. Peter School celebrates its 125th anniversary. Milestone celebrations so far include Mass with Bishop John Wester presiding in the beautifully restored parish church plus homecoming, and thanks to all the clergy and religious who have contributed so much here. Call the school at (415) 647-8662. Oct. 8: Presentation High School, SF, class of ’46 mark “58 years at Basque Cultural Center, SSF, at 12:30 p.m.,” said Carolyn Bacigalupi, who is waiting for classmates’ calls at (415) 821-2541. Oct. 18: 1st annual reunion of St. Monica Elementary School alumni. Call Bret Allen, principal, for an invitation, (415) 751-9564.
Sept. 13: Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur inaugurate Saturday Mornings of Prayer with Prayer: Creating a Life with God, 9:30 – 11:30 a.m. in the congregation’s Notre Dame Province Center Chapel, 1520 Ralston Ave., Belmont, across from Ralston Hall and on the campus of Notre Dame de Namur University. Call (650) 593-2045, ext. 350 or www.SistersofNotre DameCa.org. Sept. 20: Memorial Mass remembering babies who have died and for healing of their families and friends who mourn them at 11 a.m. at Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma. Father Robert Cipriano, pastor, St. Rita Parish, Fairfax, will preside. Call (415) 7176428 or (415) 614-5572. Use cemetery’s main gate and follow signs. Sponsored by Rachel Ministry of the Archdiocese and the Cemeteries Department.
Young Adults Office of Young Adult Ministry: Connecting men and women in their 20s and 30s to the Catholic Church. Contact Dominican Sister Christine Wilcox, (415) 6145595, wilcoxc@sfarchdiocese.org, or Mary Jansen, (415) 614-5596, jansenm@sfarchdiocese.org. Sept. 7: Welcome back and Mass of the Holy Spirit for students at Notre Dame de Namur University, Belmont. Contact Bob Mallon at mallon@ndnu.edu. Sept. 20: Memorial Mass at Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma, for children who died before, during or shortly after birth. Call (415) 614-5672. Oct. 25: Fall Fest 2003 at USF’s McLaren Center. Why Listen? Why Follow? Hearing God, Making Connections, an all day event featuring keynote talks, exhibits, workshops, liturgy, dinner and dance. Contact Mary Jansen at jansenm@sfarchdiocese or (415) 614-5596.
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Room Wa n t e d
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Inexpensive room in San Francisco wanted by a very quiet, 53 year old, former Catholic monk. Roommate share arrangement ok. I am a non-smoker and I have no pets. I am easy going and prayerful. Call David at (650) 839-0428.
Irish Handyman
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available. Carpentry, plumbing, stone work, landscape construction.
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or call 212-461-2563 (recording), then call 888-960-1597.
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Violin & Viola
Special Needs Companion Services We are looking for you.
Work Full or Part-time in San Francisco – Marin County • Provide non medical elder care in the home • Generous benefit package Fax your resume to: Jeannie McCullough Stiles, RN 415-435-0421 Send your resume: Jeannie McCullough Stiles, RN Special Needs Nursing, Inc. 98 Main Street, #427 Tiburon, Ca 94920
Special Needs Nursing, Inc. RNs or LVNs We are looking for you.
Private Lessons
Piano lessons
All Levels Reasonable Rates Evenings & Saturdays Available
Piano Lessons
Al Bautista (650) 61-MUSIC
By a Conservatory Graduate
Children of all levels
Yearly Recitals At Clarion Hotel $50 mo. once a week lesson
650-869-5479
Nurses are needed to provide specialized nursing care for children in the San Francisco Public School setting. Generous benefit packages for generous nurses.
Organist Adult Beginners
Work FULL or PART time while your children are in school.
Fax your resume to: Jeannie McCullough Stiles, RN 415-435-0421
ORGANIST WEDDINGS • FUNERALS Worship Services,Catholic Experience Marie DuMabeiller 415-441-3069,Page: 823-3664 VISA,MASTERCARD Accepted Please confirm your event before contracting music!
Send your resume: Jeannie McCullough Stiles, RN Special Needs Nursing, Inc. 98 Main Street, #427 Tiburon, Ca 94920
Youth Minister Large vibrant parish on the San Francisco Peninsula is seeking a Youth Minister to run their youth program for high school students. Responsibilities include coordinating the Confirmation program, coordinating the high school youth ministry and junior high youth ministry, coordinating the youth mass on Sunday evening, planning and implementing retreats, special events and summer program. Need to be available to youth during “after school” hours. Good communication and interpersonal skills necessary. Send resume, salary requirements and references to: Youth Minister Search St. Pius Church 1100 Woodside Road Redwood City, CA 94061 Phone (650) 361-1411 Fax (650) 369-3641 e-mail barb@pius.org
Director of Music Ministries Cathedral of the Annunciation,Stockton is seeking full-time person for 1850+ family parish to coordinate unified music ministry program. Must have background in liturgy, esp as a organist and choir director. Implements diocesan liturgies. Collaborative planning & organizing for 5 Sunday liturgies & other sacramental celebrations. Recruits, rehearses and schedules cantors, musicians, singers. Min Qual: baptized Catholic, BA in Music or related,excellent organist, understanding of liturgical documents & norms of Vatican II,5 yrs directing choirs. Prefer Spanish speaking. Starting: $36,000 to $42,900 yrly plus exc. benefits. Call (209) 546-7653 or email holaso@stocktondiocese.org for app Closes 9/15/03 4:30 pm
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Catholic San Francisco
September 5, 2003
Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery, Colma invites you to participate in the
Founders’ Day Tour Commemorating the 150th Anniversary Of the Archdiocese of San Francisco Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery Saturday, September 13, 2003 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. The tour will begin in Holy Cross Mausoleum Chapel At the tomb of Archbishop Joseph Sadoc Alemany, OP The Founder’s Day Tour will honor early pioneer members of our Catholic Community instrumental in the founding of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. The rich history of Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery is filled with many notable historic figures. Our tour will highlight a representative few of these individuals who made important contributions to the Archdiocese and early San Francisco.
P A short historical presentation and blessing will be given at each of the sites with refreshments to follow in the receiving chapel
Please call (650) 756-2060 for more information.
Memorial Mass
For babies who have died and for healing their families and friends who mourn them
Saturday, September 20th, 2003 11:00 a.m. Outdoor Mass at the Rachel Mourning Shrine Rev. Robert P. Cipriano, Principal Celebrant Sponsored by Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery And the Archdiocese of San Francisco Respect Life Commission For more information please call Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery at (650) 756-2060 or Respect Life Office at (415) 565-3672
The Catholic Cemeteries Archdiocese of San Francisco Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery 1500 Mission Road Colma, CA 94014 650-756-2060
Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery Intersection of Santa Cruz Avenue Menlo Park, CA 94025 650-323-6375
Mt. Olivet Catholic Cemetery 270 Los Ranchitos Road San Rafael, CA 94903 415-479-9020
A Tradition of Faith Throughout Our Lives.