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By George Raine San Francisco Archbishop George Niederauer, who underwent cardiac double bypass surgery Aug. 29 at a hospital in Long Beach, was released over the weekend. He is recuperating in Southern California, and the recuperation is on schedule and in line with the expectations of his physicians, according to the archdiocese. “The archbishop has expressed his deep appreciation for the prayers of the priests, deacons, religious and laity of the archdiocese,” the archdiocese said in a statement. After experiencing some chest discomfort during the Aug. 27-28 weekend, Archbishop Niederauer, 75, was taken to the emergency room of a Long Beach hospital on Aug. 28 by Cardinal William Levada, the archdiocese said. They had been in the final days of their vacation in Southern California. The archbishop was given an angiogram and his doctors Archbishop George recommended he stay overnight Niederauer at the hospital for observation. On Aug. 29, at the recommendation of his cardiologists, the archbishop underwent successful cardiac double bypass surgery. ARCHBISHOP, page 13

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Time management for kids: K-8 school attacks ‘middle school muddle’ “You get to school, and ‘where is it? Where’s the paper?’” Notre Dame des Victoires School Principal Mary Ghisolfo posed that question by way of describing one of the characteristic struggles of middle school: the plight of many students overwhelmed by the blizzard of assignments, class changes and busy schedules. “It’s a state of being. You come in and you have anxiety, because ‘where is my stuff?’” said Ghisolfo. The downtown San Francisco school is taking on the “middle school muddle” and hoping to help students, teachers and parents make sense of it all by implementing a new organizational system developed by Los Altos-based consultant Ana Homayoun. Homayoun’s book, “That Crumpled Paper Was Due Last Week: Helping Disorganized and Distracted Boys Succeed in School and Life” (Penguin Ana Homayoun 2010) focuses on boys but the tools she describes work for both boys and girls, Homayoun told an auditorium full of NDV parents Aug. 31. Homayoun is also writing a book directed toward girls’ education, she said. “Everyone wants to be successful, even if they don’t show how much they care,” Homayoun said, noting “Every kid and every adult has different study styles.” CRUMPLED, page 7

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St. Rita Elementary School (Fairfax) seventh graders Matthew Barham, left, and Stephen Wilmott are pictured with Fossil, a spiny – and friendly — bearded dragon. It was all part of science teacher David Ciancutti’s program focusing on sparking interest in science through hands-on experience with his burgeoning collection of birds, reptiles and fish. More on Page 13.

INSIDE THIS WEEK’S EDITION News in Brief . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Serra grads’ service . . . . . . . 10 Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Beatitudes for students . . . . 18 Father Rolheiser . . . . . . . . . 19

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On The Where You Live By Tom Burke Right around the corner are two ways we can all say “Thanks” to the retired priests of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. The annual collection for retired priests is at Masses Sept. 17 and 18. This is always a very successful effort resulting in a building of the burse that helps our 90 retired “Fathers” with living and medical expenses. Also coming up is the first “St. John Vianney Luncheon for Retired Priests.” It’s Oct. 21 at 11:30 a.m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral and will honor these special men who have done do much for so many for so long. It promises good chow and a chance to visit with the priests, many of whom you might have met through their good work through the years. Tickets are $100 per person. Patron opportunities are available as well as sponsorship of a retired priest at the event. Reservations are requested by September 18. For information, call (415) 614-

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Understanding the revised missal: Answers to common questions By Laura Bertone

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Several weeks ago, I was appointed interim director for the Office of Worship for the archdiocese. Although this position has a long list of responsibilities — foremost among them is to support and promote worthy celebration within the archdiocese under its chief liturgist, the archbishop — one of the highest priorities at this time is assisting in the implementation of the revised Roman Missal. Everyone I talk to seems to have heard rumors about the revision, including what is and isn’t changing and what it will mean for priests and people in the pews. Opinions on the impact of the changes to the Mass, how the translation from Latin to English was completed, and the reason for the changes, have been freely shared with me. I enjoy hearing comments, from the positive to the negative, and from those who will wait and see; I am most disheartened when a Catholic I encounter is completely unaware that changes are being made. With less than three months until the revised Roman Missal is impleGraphic designer Nicole mented in every parish in Brown shows the cover of the United States, I hope to the new missal at the U.S. dispel some of the rumors bishops’ headquarters in that are circulating and Washington. educate Catholics on what is going to happen. Below are two of the most common questions I hear every day. Over the next 11 weeks, Catholic San Francisco will have a series of articles to present the revisions to the Roman Missal. We hope they will enlighten, educate and perhaps entertain Catholics about the liturgy and their faith. What is the “new” Roman Missal? Actually, the “new” Roman Missal isn’t really “new.” It is a third edition/revision of the Roman Missal which was first issued in 1969 following the Second Vatican Council. This third edition added prayers for new saints’ days, combined prayers into one book, and added vigil Masses for special feasts. Just

like all revised editions of a book, the aim was to improve and update the content, correct any previous errors and clarify points of confusion. As with all Vatican documents, the entire book was written in Latin — the official language of the church. After this third edition was approved by Pope John Paul II in 2000, experts immediately set out to translate the revised Roman Missal into vernacular languages, including English. The translation of church texts is a very long and complex process, and in 2010 the English translation of the 2000 revised missal was complete and approved by all responsible parties. To make sure there was time for printing and preparation, the first Sunday in Advent (the first day of the new liturgical year) Nov. 27, 2011, was chosen for everyone in the U.S. (and in fact in most of the English-speaking world) to start using the revised Roman Missal. How much of the Mass is changing? Perhaps it is most important to point out what is not going to change at this time: The Order of Mass – what we do in most eucharistic celebrations, the flow of the Mass, the participation of the people, etc. — has not been changed. Unlike when the Roman Missal was issued in 1969 when significant changes to the arrangement of the celebration were made, in this case the revision only adds, alters and retranslates the words, not the actions. There are essentially two different types of textual changes in the revised Roman Missal: 1) changes because the revised Latin edition added, updated or removed some text, and 2) changes due to how all those Latin texts (old and new) were translated into English. What most people notice first is that many of the congregation’s responses and words are not the same. Prayers we are all accustomed to saying by rote have been revised to better reflect the Latin text, the underlying Scripture, and the tradition they were meant to echo. What has probably gotten the most press has been the revision of the people’s response to the priest’s greeting “The Lord be with you” to “And with your Spirit.” We’ll address some of the specific changes in the coming weeks, including the rationale and source of the changes. But it is important to remember that none of the changes were made lightly. The translators worked to be true to the Latin. We all know that change is difficult, but many of the revisions of the presider’s and people’s parts should lead to a richer and more meaningful liturgy as long as people understand them.

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Reviewed by Brian T. Olszewski (CNS) — It could be that those charged with instructing Catholics about the new Roman Missal realize that in an age where messages are transmitted with a minimal amount of characters and as quickly as possible, instruction will need to be conveyed as succinctly as possible. Not only can they expect the tweeters and text-messagers to want information as concisely as possible, but those who use neither of those media may also welcome “the short form” — to use a liturgical term — of instruction. “Understanding the Mass” is even more basic than “The Mass: The Glory, the Mystery, the Tradition,” the book Aquilina and Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl co-wrote earlier this year. Basic but thorough. In a question-andanswer format, Aquilina provides information about which worshippers have wondered, but never knew who or how to ask, e.g., What are rubrics? How does the church pick the Bible readings for each Mass? Why does the priest mix water with wine? To liturgical scholars and planners, these might not be critical questions, but to the people who occupy the pews and who aren’t privileged to have advanced degrees in liturgy, they could be. And simply stated answers might help them understand what it is they are celebrating, and, in turn, living what they have celebrated. MASS BOOKS, page 4

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September 9, 2011 to the ancient usage of the Fathers [of the Church]” (SC 50). This same principle had been enunciated four centuries earlier by Pope Pius V when he promulgated the Roman Missal issued after the Council of Trent. Scholarly research since the time of Christ: the two great seasons of Advent/ of Trent has brought to light a wealth of Christmas and Lent/Easter, solemnities of liturgical texts unknown in the 16th centhe Lord, and the Sundays in ordinary time. tury. Those responsible for the revision of The second half of the missal contains the the Roman Missal after the Second Vatican proper of saints as well as Mass prayers for Council drew on these when arranging and the celebration of the sacraments and other composing the texts to be used at Mass. In occasions, and prayers to be used in Masses some cases, those who prepared the new for the dead. Although Roman Missal adopted the themes that inspire prayers totally from ancient these prayers are many Sacramentary texts; at other and varied, the changetimes they used phrases able prayers themselves from these prayers, or are very few: there is an were inspired by texts from opening prayer, called the Fathers of the Church the collect; a prayer over — also known as early the offerings of bread and Christian theologians. wine; and a prayer after Why a third edition? Communion. The other The Roman Missal of the significant changeable Second Vatican Council was prayer is the opening promulgated in 1969, with section of the Eucharistic a second edition following prayer, the preface. in 1975. Because the Mass Many such prayers is central to our lives as have been composed Catholics it was understandA page from an illuminated over the long history of able that the missal would the church, and one of be given priority in the liturmissal from 11th-century the goals of the liturgical gical reforms set in motion Umbria, Italy. renewal set in motion by the council. Over the by the Second Vatican ensuing years other liturgiCouncil was to make this rich patrimony cal books were emended or corrected; a new available to us. The council fathers directed translation of the Latin Vulgate Bible, whose that: “Some elements … are to be restored origins date back to the fourth century, was

produced; a new Code of Canon Law was promulgated, as well as various instructions pertaining to liturgical matters. In the early 1990s it became apparent to those responsible for regulating the church’s worship that at the very least it would be necessary to emend the Roman Missal to integrate all of the significant liturgical developments of the past 25 years. In 1996 the Congregation for Divine Worship chose to make a virtue of necessity: Since the Roman Missal would have to be emended anyway, this was an excellent opportunity to review the text and make some revisions. In part this re-examination was inspired by the fact that the church now had the lived experience of praying the “new Mass” for 25 years, and it could be evaluated and the manner of its celebration improved. This also provided an occasion to add new prayers, especially where the same oration was used more than once, and to make minor corrections or improvements in many of the prayers. Finally, prayers for the saints added to the calendar since 1975 could be incorporated into the Roman Missal. The changes made in prayers were minor, sometimes just a word or a phrase, but they are not insignificant. It is true that the theological ideas expressed by these prayers can hardly be savored when they are heard by the assembly during Mass, but the Roman Missal is also a resource for study and personal prayer. The new English translation of our Roman Missal allows us to delve more deeply into the rich liturgical and theological patrimony of the Roman rite.

or which, at the very least, doesn’t appear so overwhelming that the reader doesn’t even try to comprehend it. “Catholic Update Guide to the Mass” makes that comprehension possible. If the instructions each writer contributes don’t spur the reader to reflection, the questions at the end of each chapter will, e.g., How has your understanding of the Mass changed since your first Communion? These questions are also what make this a user-friendly resource for groups meeting to learn about

the new Roman Missal. As individuals and parishes prepare for the introduction of the new Roman Missal this Advent, they are seeking information about it. Both volumes provide that instruction in formats that are inviting, able to reach readers at their level of spiritual development, and at an affordable price. The investment is good catechesis and good stewardship. Olszewski is general manager of the Catholic Herald, the publication serving the Archdiocese of Milwaukee.

The following article was prepared by the Office of Worship of the Archdiocese of San Francisco to educate Catholics in the archdiocese on some of the first changes to occur in the language of the Mass since the first U.S. Sacramentary was issued in 1974. There is a great deal of discussion about the new translation of the Roman Missal, but little attention has been paid to the revisions made in the third edition of the missal, published in 2002, which is the text being translated. In this first article, we will look at the context from which the third edition emerged. Next week, we will examine some of the specific changes in it.

First of two parts The structure of the Roman Missal is familiar to us from our participation in the Mass, but it is likely that many of us have never paused to think about it. The backbone of the missal is the ordinary of the Mass: introductory rites, Liturgy of the Word, Liturgy of the Eucharist, concluding rite. With the exception of certain seasonal variations — we omit the Gloria during Advent and Lent — this fundamental structure is always the same. The first half of the book contains what is known as the proper of time. Throughout the church year we celebrate different aspects of the mystery

Mass books. . . ■ Continued from page 3 The simplicity of Aquilina’s questions and answers are not the second coming of the singsongy style of the Baltimore Catechism. These are substantive, drawing from Scripture, the writings of the church fathers and other sources. Individuals can certainly read and learn from it, but the greater value of “Understanding the Mass” might be found when used as a guide

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for group instruction, led by someone with a background in theology and/or liturgy. While Aquilina uses the texts of Mass prayers from the new Roman Missal, the book is not specifically about that missal. Nonetheless, it will serve as a good general instruction for all who have been celebrating Mass for years, and who wish to grow in their understanding of it. As a newsletter, Catholic Update has proven its ability to present complicated material in a way that is easy to comprehend

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We have learned that it takes great courage for a victim/survivor to come forward with his or her story after years, sometimes decades, of silence and feelings of shame.

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We have learned that, while each individual’s story is different, what is common is the violation of trust; some survivors trust absolutely no one to this day, while others have been able to work through this pain with the help and support of loved ones.

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We have learned that today there are methods of therapy that work particularly well with and for survivors of childhood sexual abuse and that individuals can be helped even after many years of unsuccessfully trying to simply “forget about it.”

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We have learned that very many victims/survivors have lived for many years with the belief that they were the “only one” to have been abused by a particular priest.

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We have learned that, while some victims/survivors have been unable to succeed in various areas of life (marriage, employment, education and parenting, for example) as a consequence of the great emotional/psychological harm, others have gone on to lead very healthy and productive lives. We have learned that between those two “ends of a continuum” there is as much variation as there are numbers of victims.

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We have learned that to the victim/survivor it is so important to finally simply be believed. We have learned that in spite of their own pain and suffering, many victims/survivors are just as concerned that the Church prevents this abuse from happening to more children as they are about themselves and their own needs for healing.

We have learned that the abuse has robbed some victims/survivors of their faith. For some this means loss of their Catholic faith, but for others it means loss of any faith in a God at all.

A Prayer for Healing Victims of Abuse God of endless love, Ever caring, ever strong, Always present, always just; You gave Your only Son to save us by the blood of His cross. Gentle Jesus, shepherd of peace, join to Your own suffering the pain of all who have been hurt in body, mind, and spirit by those who betrayed the trust placed in them. Hear our cries as we agonize over the harm done to our brothers and sisters. Breathe wisdom into our prayers, soothe restless hearts with hope, steady shaken spirits with faith; Show us the way to justice and wholeness, enlightened by truth and enfolded in Your mercy. Holy Spirit, comforter of hearts, Heal Your people’s wounds and transform our brokenness. Grant us courage and wisdom, humility and grace, so that we may act with justice and peace in You. We ask this through Christ, our Lord. Amen Copyright © 2004, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. All rights reserved.

We have learned that to be privileged to hear an individual victim/ survivor’s story is a sacred trust, to be received with great care and pastoral concern.

We have learned that we still have much to learn.

The National Review Board is an advisory group of 13 laypersons with expertise in such areas as law, education, media, and psychological sciences. The board was established in 2002, when the U.S. bishops adopted the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People to oversee efforts of the Office for Child and Youth Protection. The National Review Board is responsible for a three-year Causes and Context Study being undertaken by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and due for release in 2011. The study looks at the clergy sexual abuse of minors problem to ascertain what factors led to it and how it can be prevented going forward.

SAN FRANCISCO INDEPENDENT REVIEW BOARD Archbishop Niederauer has identified a group of well educated and highly skilled professionals to advise the Archdiocese on matters relating to abuse by clergy. This group includes a psychologist (Dr. Suzanne McDonnell Giraudo), a pediatrician (Dr. Eileen G. Aicardi), an attorney (Sr. Mary Gemma O’Keeffe, RSM), a retired judge (Honorable Claude D. Perasso), a retired policeman (Mr. Dan L. Lawson) and one pastor (Fr. John Ryan). There is a balance of men and women and most members are also parents. The board oversees the “Safe Environment” program of the Archdiocese and has acted as a consultant to religious orders of priests. The Vicar for Clergy and the Archbishop meet regularly with this Board. The Victim Assistance Coordinator, the Diocesan Attorney, and the Judicial Vicar serve in an ex officio capacity. The Archdiocese’s Victim Assistance Coordinator can be reached at (415) 614-5506, and works with the Archbishop, the Independent Review Board, and the Vicar for Clergy to coordinate support for victims and their families.

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In church, love includes calling each to responsibility, pope says CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy — The community life of the church must be motivated by love, which includes humbly calling each other to responsibility for error, Pope Benedict XVI said. The notion of “fraternal correction,” he said, “is not a reaction to an offense suffered, but is motivated by love.” The pope’s exhortation was to pilgrims gathered Sept. 4 for the recitation of the Angelus at his summer residence outside of Rome. A church member should first point out the problem in private and, if that does not bring a change, approach the person again with two witnesses. If that does not work, take the matter before the community. If the person still does not acknowledge the error, “one must help him perceive the detachment from the community that he himself provoked, separating himself from the communion of the church,” the pope said.

Cardinal Deskur dies at 87 VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI mourned the death of Polish Cardinal Andrzej Deskur, a longtime promoter of media and communications and close friend of Blessed John Paul II. The cardinal died at home in Vatican City Sept. 3 at the age of 87. “I recall with gratitude his precious decades-long collaboration with the Holy See, serving six pontiffs” and his special dedication to promoting Christianity in the fields of media and communications, the Cardinal Deskur pope wrote in a telegram sent to Polish Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz of Krakow.

Mafia-fighting priest threatened VATICAN CITY — A southern Italian priest who is outspoken against the Mafia said gunshots fired at his car were likely meant to show him and the public that members of organized crime are still in charge of the area. “I think it was just a serious warning,” Father Giuseppe Campisano, the pastor of St. Rocco Parish in Gioiosa Ionica, told Vatican Radio Aug. 31. The shots were fired late Aug. 29, “not in the middle of the night, but at a time when there were still a lot of people around, so I think they wanted to be heard.” Father Campisano was not in the car at the time. For years, the priest has received threatening phone calls and letters mailed with bullets in the envelope because of his commitment to fighting the ‘Ndrangheta, the organized crime ring of Italy’s Calabria region.

Correction An Aug. 26 brief on the Catholic makeup of Congress was indeed news – in 2008. It appeared because the editor erred in sorting wire service copy. Sorry for the confusion.

Irish leaders confer on Rome’s critical response to abuse report DUBLIN — Irish government officials planned to meet in early September to discuss the Vatican response to criticisms by Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny over the findings of an Irish judicial report on the handling of clerical sex abuse. Kenny said Sept. 3 he wanted to read the Vatican’s response — issued that day — before responding officially. However, in a row that shows little sign of abating, Kenny said he did not regret his July 20 remarks to the Irish Parliament in which he accused the Vatican of attempting to “frustrate an inquiry in a sovereign, democratic republic as little as three years ago.” The Vatican, in its 11,000-word response, described Kenny’s claim as unfounded and said the Irish prime minister had “made no attempt to substantiate” it.

Cardinal, priests discuss reforms ROME — Cardinal Christoph Schonborn of Vienna is not playing “a game of chicken” with priests calling for reforms in church practice, but is interested in getting the priests to work with him to bring new life to Viennese parishes, his spokesman said. “The situation is not as dramatic as the Austrian media make it seem,” said Michael Pruller, archdiocesan spokesman. “There has been no discussion of sanctions, no ultimatum, no talk of punishment,” the spokesman told Catholic News Service Sept. 6. The leaders of the “Initiative of Parish Priests” launched a “Call to Disobedience” in late June, urging priests to join them in saying a public prayer at every Mass for church reform; giving Communion to everyone who approaches the altar in good faith, including divorced Catholics who have remarried without an annulment; allowing women to preach at Mass; and supporting the ordination of women and married men.

Bishops urge panel to heed poor WASHINGTON — The chairmen of the U.S. bishops’ international and domestic policy committees urged the 12-member Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction — popularly known as the “supercommittee” — to remember the poor and vulnerable as they come up with a plan to deal with the nation’s financial deficit. “The poorest and most vulnerable do not have powerful lobbyists, but they have the most compelling needs and a special claim on our individual consciences and national choices,” said Bishop Howard J. Hubbard of Albany, N.Y., chairman of the bishops’ Committee on International Justice and Peace, and Bishop Stephen E. Blaire of Stockton chairman of the Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, in their Aug. 31 letter.

Malawi priests condemn president’s verbal attacks LILONGWE, Malawi — Malawi’s priests and religious have condemned the president’s “irresponsible verbal attacks” on the head of the bishops’ conference, Bishop Joseph Mukasa Zuza of Mzuzu. “The threat of war is a major concern, especially coming from the head of state,”

the Association of Diocesan Catholic Clergy of Malawi, the Association of Religious (Women) Institutes of Malawi and the Association of Men Religious Institutes of Malawi said in a Sept. 3 statement. Bishop Zuza invoked the ire of President Bingu wa Mutharika when, in a mid-August sermon, he said Malawi’s social, political and economic problems “are of our own making, depending on our respective roles.” Responding to the bishop’s remarks in an Aug. 25 speech in Blantyre, Mutharika said he would “deal with the nongovernmental organizations which are leading people to protest against my leadership,” adding that his “patience is wearing thin, let us fight.”

Court rejects appeal of rancher convicted in nun’s 2005 murder SAO PAULO — A court in the state of Para rejected an appeal by rancher Regivaldo Galvao, convicted of being one of the masterminds behind the February 2005 assassination of U.S.-born Sister Dorothy Stang. With the Sept. 6 court decision an arrest warrant was issued for Galvao, who in April 2010 was sentenced to 30 years in prison for his role in the murder of Sister Dorothy, 73, a member of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur and a naturalized Brazilian citizen. The other four men involved in the murder are in jail, serving sentences that range from 17 to 30 years. Sister Dorothy, a native of Dayton, Ohio, lived in the Amazon region for nearly four decades. She worked closely with the Brazilian bishops’ Pastoral Land Commission in favor of land rights for the poor and for sustainable development in the region.

‘Shortcomings’ in abuse cases KANSAS CITY, Mo. — An independent report commissioned by the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph to examine its policies and procedures on assessing child sexual abuse allegations found “shortcomings, inaction and confusing procedures,” said Todd P. Graves, the former U.S. attorney who headed the investigation. The key finding of the report, released Sept. 1 by the diocese, was that “diocesan leaders failed to follow their own policies and procedures for responding to reports” relating to abuse claims lodged against two priests.

Catholic official among foes of Pennsylvania ‘security’ bills PHILADELPHIA — A series of bills introduced in the Pennsylvania Legislature this session as the “National Security Begins at Home Legislative Package” could harm citizens and legal permanent residents as well as undocumented immigrants, a Catholic official told legislators. “Every human possesses inherent dignity, regardless of his or her immigration status,” said Mark Shea, administrator of the immigration program of Philadelphia archdiocesan Catholic Social Services, at a hearing of the Committee on State Government of the House of Representatives Aug. 31 in Harrisburg. He was testifying on behalf of the Pennsylvania Catholic Conference, the public policy arm of the state’s Catholic bishops. One proposed bill, H.B. 738, would make it a misdemeanor for a “person who is unlawfully present in the United States to knowingly apply for work, solicit work in a public place or perform work as an employee or independent contractor” in Pennsylvania.

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HAVANA (CNS) — Havana’s Ladies in White, who advocate for the liberation of political prisoners, have asked the Catholic Church to mediate with President Raul Castro over harassment which they were subjected to in August. The Spanish news agency EFE reported that Berta Soler, a leader of the Ladies in White and wife of ex-prisoner Angel Moya, told journalists that the chancellor for the Archdiocese of Havana, Msgr. Ramon Suarez Polcari, and the archdiocesan spokesman, Orlando Marquez, were very receptive to the request, made in a meeting Aug. 30. EFE said that Soler, speaking for the women’s group, said they asked the church for help because the women have been subjected to “harassment, repudiation and repression” over their efforts to bring attention to the situation of political prisoners. In the summer of 2010, Havana Archbishop Jaime Ortega Alamino and

other Cuban bishops intervened with the government after harassment of the women escalated. For years the women and other family members of prisoners have waged peaceful protests, typically marching silently, dressed in white, after Mass on Sundays. Not long after the church leaders first wrote to Castro in May 2010 and then began meeting with government authorities, Cardinal Ortega announced that the government had promised to release the last of 75 prisoners who had been held since a 2003 crackdown on dissidents. Those prisoners and others, totaling 126 people, were released over the next nine months. Most went with their families to Spain, although a few were permitted to remain in Cuba. This summer, the Ladies in White have reported various types of harassment, including the arrest of a few of their members, both in Havana and in the eastern province of Santiago de Cuba.

Crumpled . . . ■ Continued from cover She said “today’s academic environment is exponentially more challenging than the one in which you grew up — and in ways that tend to be more difficult for boys than for girls.” Without the tools to succeed in this new multitasking, technology-saturated world as students and as individuals, boys in particular “are at risk of giving up before ever finding their own version of success.” There are five reasons students struggle with disorganization, Homayoun told the NDV parents: Multitasking is more pervasive; parents organize their children’s lives and the “parent crutch” slows children from managing their own time; love of technology — “the average kid sends 1,800 text messages a month;” sleep deprivation – few are getting the 9.25 hours a night recommended by the National Sleep Foundation; and a crippling fear of the unwise choice. In her book Homayoun describes a specific process to help create an environment in which a child can develop and maintain organization and time management skills. “Because boys struggle with multitasking, I realized that developing a system that allows them to focus on singular tasks –one at a time—is one of the crucial elements in helping boys find their own personal success,” Homayoun writes. NDV is implementing a fivebinder system with each binder including dividers for handouts, notes, tests and quizzes, homework, paper. The school is using the system for third through eighth grades. But the biggest emphasis is on the middle school — where life gets more complicated, Ghisolfo said. NDV already issues planners to the students. “The teachers are three-holepunching everything they give the kids,” Ghisolfo told parents. “The teachers are really wonderful in embracing this,” Homayoun said. She added that during her presentation to students, when she asked if they were ready, one jumped up and said, “Yes, yes, I am so ready!”

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Bishops from India on their “ad limina” visits to the Vatican celebrate Mass at the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls in Rome, Italy, Sept. 2. Bishops are required to make such visits to the Vatican every five years to report on the status of their dioceses. The Archdiocese of San Francisco is preparing for its “ad limina” visit in 2012.

Parents said the system is promising. “Any time I hear a Catholic school use the term, ‘different styles,’ it’s a good thing,” parent Jeanine Alexander said. “I think it is helpful for the kids and the families to have support around organizing their school work,” said Megan Bourne, whose daughter is in fifth grade. “Because if it can’t be organized; they can’t get it done.” In addition to the binder system, Homayoun recommends scheduled backpack cleanouts weekly, setting aside scheduled no-technology study blocks of two hours a night Monday through Thursday, and another two, two-hour scheduled study blocks on the weekend. Building this routine includes free time. Homayoun said that means that after children successfully complete their study time, they get to do what they want — including “screen time.” She recommends a “technology box” where kids put all

their technology during those study blocks. She also recommends kids have two to three different technology-free places to study around the house. Any homework that requires a computer should be left to last. And, she reminded parents, even a phone can be a computer if the student has an i-Phone. Homayoun recommends parents keep healthy, tasty snacks in the fridge so kids can eat something that will keep their energy level up while studying. “Value incremental progress over perfection,” she said. “Even if kids want to make changes, none of these changes are going to happen overnight.” As a parent, she said, your role is “not to fix but to support. Resist trying to make excuses for them; allow them to make mistakes on their own path.”

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Ron Isola shepherded 12,000 summer campers, led Riordan basketball to 368 wins and still says: ‘I never feel like I go to work.’

Ron Isola is pictured in the dugout July 18 during baseball training at Archbishop Riordan High School.

Legendary Riordan athletic director loved winning but not at the cost of good sport By Valerie Schmalz As Ron Isola tells it, he almost didn’t go to Archbishop Riordan High School. It came down to a misdelivered acceptance letter, says the man who coached varsity basketball during a decade of dominance and whose name is synonymous among generations of parents for the grade-school summer camp, Camp Crusader. “The letter for Riordan had gone to the lady next door. In those days, you didn’t call the school,” said Isola, recalling those anxious days in 1957. “Finally the lady came over, and my mom said, ‘Here’s your letter. You’re going to Riordan.’” For more than five decades, Isola has been associated with the boys’ Catholic high school on Phelan Avenue: First as a student, graduating in 1961; then returning to teach and coach from 1967 until today. He retired in June as athletic director, a job he had held since 1979 as well as for a four-year stint in the early ’70s. “The whole family grew up here,” said Isola, whose only son Jeff for the past few years has coached and taught history alongside his father. ” I remember when I was coaching

basketball and Jeff was 3 or 4 years old, out there, throwing up shots at half time. You don’t get a family deal like that and not appreciate it.” From 1979 to 1994, Isola coached Riordan’s varsity basketball teams as they won 368 games and lost just 110. The Crusaders had a leaguerecord 44-game win streak in the West Catholic Athletic League and did not lose a home game from 1983 to 1989. Riordan’s basketball team won the Central Coast Section title in 1994. From 1995 to 2010, Isola coached varsity baseball, and this summer he ran baseball training at Riordan. “I never feel like I go to work,” said Isola, sitting in his office near the school gym as coaches and students came and went without knocking. No one knocks, Isola said, in response to a question – “It’s a tradition.” Another tradition is Camp Crusader, a grade-school-age summer camp started by Isola and fellow coaches in 1973. About 12,000 kids have attended the fourweek camp, whose ubiquitous plastic yellow, white and purple stadium cups are awarded for pee-wee golf and bowling in the cafeteria, street hockey, soccer and basketball. The cups turn up everywhere, including at Holy

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Cross Cemetery holding flowers, Isola said. When his wife had to call an ambulance for him late at night after he finally admitted a baseball injury to his spleen was too painful to bear a few years back, the first thing the paramedic said coming in the door was, “Hey coach, remember me, from Camp Crusader?” “I call it the anti-camp,” said Isola. Twentyfive years ago Isola’s father built the electricpowered windmill for miniature golf. Isola cribbed ideas for the wooden props that make up the course during a trip to Lake Tahoe. The owner almost threw Isola off the course afraid he was competition, Isola recalls. The first week of camp with 200 plus kids in 1973, Isola and his fellow coaches had laid out drills for each of the sports. “After two days, we said, ‘this is awful. The kids are bored to death.’ Then we came up with this idea — why don’t we just organize them and let them play and let them have fun and be kids? We’ve been doing that for 38 years.” “We used to be fifth through the eighth grade. Then when my son was going into second grade my wife said you’re getting him out of the house, you’re moving it down to second grade,” Isola said. “Parents always say it’s such a wonderful camp. I always say, well it’s pretty hard to screw up recess.” In 2005, in an article about Isola’s induction into the San Francisco Preps Hall of Fame, San Francisco Chronicle sports writer Mitch Stephens described him as the “coach who

Grade-school-age athletes on the field during Archbishop Riordan High School’s Camp Crusader, the summer camp co-founded by retired Athletic Director Ron Isola.

helped Riordan dominate (the West Catholic Athletic League) like no other school.” Today, Isola sees youth and high school sports as veering out of control, turning something that should be fun into a business. In terms of high school sports, Isola said he would like to be remembered as “somebody that enjoyed athletics and kept them in perspective. “We had some really good basketball teams in the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s. We had some very talented kids who played for us,” said Isola. “I would like to be thought of as someone who realized when you have great players, you become a brilliant coach.” “One guy said to me, ‘With all these championships, how do you handle the pressure? You are one step away from college.’ I said, ‘Well, no, now, I’m one step up from CYO.’” “I think we tend to take ourselves much too serious,” said Isola. “I would like to be remembered as someone who was competitive but hopefully the kids had a good time playing for us.”

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For new cemeteries director, families’ stories are key to ministry By George Raine

not only celebrates the cultural diversity of the archdiocese but recalls the tradition of bringing food to comfort family and friends when death occurs. “It’s a great way of sharing your grandma’s story, you dad’s story, in a cookbook of memories,� said Williams. A death in the family, of course, can be a chaotic, dizzying time for people, noted Williams, who long ago learned that emotional and thoughtful balance in her work is a requirement. “You have to have that balance of still having that humanity to be touched by what these people are going through, but be able to balance that, put it into perspective so that you can help the next family who has an equally heart-wrenching story,� she said. Meantime, said Msgr. Tarantino, he is conferring with Williams about an educational program “that really pushes people to understand the importance of the theology around death and dying.� It will underscore the respect due the departed as well as the CEMETERIES DIRECTOR, page 11

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Legend has it that on June 7, 1887, two coachmen driving carriages bearing the remains of Timothy Buckley and Elizabeth Martin neared Holy Cross Cemetery on its opening day in the nascent town of Colma when they decided to make a race of it: Both wanted their passenger to be the first to be buried in the Catholic cemetery, which was also Colma’s first cemetery. For the record, the Buckley carriage edged our Martin’s, and captured the honor. People sometimes ask Monica Williams, the new director of cemeteries for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, whether Buckley and Martin were Irish. “Of course,� she tells them. “Who else would race to be the first to be buried?� Williams can say that because she’s Irish — and sixth-generation San Franciscan — and also a firm believer that cemeteries are full of stories. Indeed, she intends, as her tenure as director begins, to remind parishioners of the archdiocese that this is their cemetery, that there are 370,000 stories that can be told about as many unique residents, and that it’s family. “This is where their families are, this is where they should come back with us and be a part of our story,� said Williams. On June 30, Williams succeeded Katherine Atkinson, the director of cemeteries since 1988, who retired with a reputation

— a ministry, really. For her, it is the ideal combination of being employed at something she loves and being of service. It also happens that Holy Cross itself has long been an important venue for the Williams family, a place rich in family camaraderie that, as she puts it, is akin to that of a Thanksgiving dinner gathering. “When I grew up we came here on Father’s Day and Mother’s Day, and we would go to the graves and we would say a prayer and then my parents would say, ‘That was your grandpa Bob and your grandpa Bob loved this and that,’ and I learned the family story that way,� said Williams. “It was very much akin to sitting around the Thanksgiving dinner table and somebody saying, ‘Your great-granddad made the best mashed potatoes.’ This is a place where you can really do that. It is the coming back together of family.� Indeed, one of the projects for Holy Cross’ 125th anniversary next year is to assemble a “cookbook of memories,� a collection of recipes of the departed, one that

for not only a strong business sense but for “sensitivity and gentleness that is rooted in very Catholic principles,� said Msgr. James Tarantino, the vicar for administration at the archdiocese. Williams, he said, “will bring that same set of skills that you have to have on both sides, the business aspect and also the compassion aspect. You can’t be all business.� Williams is certainly all San Franciscan: She was born and raised in the Sunset District, and again calls it home. Her father, uncle, grandfather and great-uncle were all San Francisco police officers. She’s a product of St. Cecilia School and St. Rose Academy, both in San Francisco, and The Catholic University of America, Phi Beta Kappa in Latin and classical humanities. In 22 years in the funeral service industry — which began as a summer and winter employee at Holy Cross during her college years — she has worked the full spectrum of jobs: She was a funeral director and operations manager at Duggan’s Serra Mortuary in Daly City for eight years, worked in sales for a casket company and was general manager of a funeral home complex in Portland, Ore., returning to San Francisco as an executive at the Neptune Society and San Francisco Columbarium. Now, she’s come full circle, returning to Holy Cross in 2005 as assistant family services manager. Her Catholic faith was nourished early, enhancing her desire for a career in service

Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma is the major property in the Cemeteries Department of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, but others are Holy Cross Cemetery in Menlo Park, Mt. Olivet Cemetery in San Rafael, Our Lady of the Pillar in Half Moon Bay, St. Anthony in Pescadero, Pilarcitos Cemetery in Half Moon Bay and Tomales Catholic Cemetery in Tomales. With Mt. Calvary Cemetery at Geary Boulevard and Masonic Avenue nearing capacity, Archbishop Patrick W. Riordan in 1886 purchased 300 acres of the Buri Buri rancho for the new cemetery, in what would eventually be called Colma. Enough room remains to serve Catholics for several hundred years. The most frequently visited grave is that of baseball great Joe DiMaggio, where visitors sometimes leave bats, balls and gloves. The words “Grace, Dignity and Elegance Personified� are written on the private mausoleum. Other notables at Holy Cross are California Gov. Edmund “Pat� Brown, San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Bank of America founder A.P. Giannini.

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Monica Williams, pictured at Holy Cross Cemetery Aug. 27, is a firm believer that cemeteries are full of stories that can bring families together. As a project marking Holy Cross Cemetery’s 125th anniversary next year, she plans to create a “cookbook of memories� — a compilation of personal stories in the form of recipes of the departed.

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Serra grad led crew of 288 in action against high-seas piracy By Antonia Ehlers The idea of piracy is shocking to most people. It is hard to fathom that pirates still exist in modern times. Yet U.S. Navy Cmdr. Juan Orozco, a 1986 graduate of Junipero Serra High School, has met more than his share of criminals on the open waters. As captain of the USS Winston S. Churchill, a Navy guided missile destroyer ported in Norfolk, Va., Orozco led 288 sailors during a seven-month overseas deployment in 2010. Almost two months were spent accompanying the USS Harry S. Truman, a supercarrier as high as a 24-story building and more than 1,000 feet long. “The crew flawlessly performed duties as Air Defense Commander for the USS Harry S. Truman in support of Operation Enduring Freedom strike missions into Afghanistan,” Orozco said. “My job was to protect the aircraft carrier and to conduct counter-piracy and counter-narcotics operations in the Gulf of Aden and Gulf of Oman. To be able to work with a tremendous crew was incredible.” Orozco’s crew saved 70 lives in three rescues at sea, and saw action in counter piracy scuffles. Modern day pirates — clad in jeans, T-shirts and shorts — carry AK47s and rocket-propelled grenades. During the deployment, Orozco met refugees at sea. “We had our challenges,” Orozco said. “It was eye-opening. It made me appreciate life and how good we have it in

More Serra grads reflect on their military service On the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, three Serra graduates responded to a request from Catholic San Francisco to share their military experiences.

Marine Capt. Nathan Woodside I actually applied for Marine Corps OCS (Officer Candidate School) in June 2001, a few months before 9/11. After wrapping up graduate school, I wanted to do some meaningful public service while I was still young and figured the Marine Corps was the best way, the most exciting way, to serve my country. I felt I had a responsibility to serve my country, even if my service was only for a few years. On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, while watching the terrifying events unfold on television, I received a call from the Marine Corps telling me that I was selected for OCS and that I had to report to Quantico for training by the beginning of October. The timing was surreal. I finished my officer training just in time to report to my infantry battalion and participate in the initial liberation of Iraq in March 2003. I returned to Iraq on two later

the United States. So many refugees are out in the open ocean trying to leave their home countries. Most of them don’t know how to swim and are spending their life savings just to get to another country.” Orozco admits rarely getting a full night’s sleep at sea. “We are an international on-call police force when merchants are concerned about something approaching them,” Orozco said. “We respond to everything, all day and all night. It is difficult for us to distinguish pirates from the Somali fishermen. U.S. Navy Cmdr. There are a lot of fisherJuan Orozco men in skiffs out there, and it’s hard to determine who’s who. It also takes a lot of evidence to arrest them. There are thousands of pirates out there.” One of the most memorable moments for Orozco and the crew was when President Barack Obama called the ship to wish

sailor Tabatha Figueroa a happy Thanksgiving. The Los Angeles native performed CPR reviving a man during a rescue operation. “I couldn’t be prouder of my crew,” Orozco said. “They gave it their all for seven months, with a positive attitude and tremendous resolve. This crew has been challenged and has excelled in the most difficult of situations. “ In December 2011, Orozco will take on a new role as the reactor officer of the USS George Washington, a nuclearpowered supercarrier based in Yokuska, Japan. Orozco, his wife, Jennifer, and sons, Andrew and John make their home in Virginia. Orozco stays in touch with them through the Internet, he said. The boys hope to follow their dad to his alma mater, the U. S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. Orozco grew up in Foster City, where his parents live today. His brothers, Alvaro and Jimmy are also Serra graduates. Their sister, Maria, attended Aragon High School. “Serra High School played a key part in helping me succeed in the military,” Orozco said. “I developed leadership skills at Serra. My teachers and coaches were mentors who stressed the importance of a balance between academics and athletics. While I was at Serra, I realized that the methodical life of the military would fit my personality and lifestyle. It has been everything I expected it to be and more.”

occasions, most recently as an embedded military adviser to an Iraqi infantry unit in Al Anbar. I am now a captain in the Marines, serving as a reservist attached to the First Marine Division. Today, the events of 9/11 remind me that we live in a dangerous world and security is not certain. As a citizen, I feel a personal responsibility to contribute to our national defense. There are many ways to serve our country. For me, it is being a Marine. I am very impressed with the young men and women who are currently joining our military. They are under no illusions about what they are signing on to do. We are still at war and will be involved with this difficult conflict for decades to come. Serra High School has a mission of producing young men of “faith, service, and wisdom.” With an ethos like that, it is not surprising that some of the young Padres are stepping up to serve in uniform.

spent a few years in the fleet Navy before getting assigned to an East Coast SEAL team, and afterward deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. Right now, I’m out of the Navy, looking to take advantage of GI benefits and to make a positive, local impact. I miss the guys and the adventure but it was about your teammates. What we did was our job and for most had nothing to do with God or country. But now? We should be focused more on what’s happening internally, in our country.

Brian Rafferty, Navy veteran I signed up prior to 9/11, just after graduating college, enlisting in the Navy to become a SEAL. I had an idea of what I was getting into, and when 9/11 hit, it just became more real. I didn’t join for patriotic reasons; I just didn’t want to get into a normal job. Being a swimmer and playing water polo in high school and college I wanted to maintain the team element and the SEALs seemed a good fit: Do something extreme with a bunch of like-minded guys. It didn’t require too much thinking. I

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New Mission Dolores Academy features weekly Mass, lots of computers By Valerie Schmalz The new Mission Dolores Academy in San Francisco is starting its existence as a pilot program for an experiment in using technology to make Catholic education more economically sustainable and affordable. “Even though there are a lot of computers in the building, God is still there,” said Scott Hamilton, managing partner of Seton Education Partners, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit which launched its first pilot program in “blended technology” with more than a half-million dollars in investments at the new independent Catholic school in the Mission District. The goal is to reverse the gradual decline of Catholic schools by developing more cost-effective models. Since 2000, 1,600 Catholic elementary schools have shut down nationally, most in urban areas. The new Mission Dolores Academy combines the student bodies of both Mission Dolores School and

Cemeteries director . . . ■ Continued from page 9 centerpiece of Catholic faith, that death is not an end “but a transition to eternal life with God.” He added, “We are all in the process of dying, but a person of faith needs to take a look at that in very different and unique

Megan Furth Academy, housed in the Mission Dolores School with the governing board of Megan Furth. The school offers lower than average tuition of $5,000 for one student and $9,000 for families of three or more students as well as other subsidies, including free uniforms Technology plays a key and tuition scholarships role in the classroom. based on need. The 233 students of the K-8 school attend Mass each Friday at the neighboring Basilica of Mission Dolores. Priests from Mission Dolores and St. Dominic parishes celebrate Mass, said Principal Dan Storz, and the school is relying on

ways, and instead of being afraid of it and trying to run away from it, we need to embrace the full totality of our faith.” The Catholic cemeteries of the archdiocese will play a key role in that educational process, said Williams, reaching out to parishes with information about its service at a difficult time. “We are their cemetery,” she said, “and so it is really up to us to be their resource for all things funeral-related.”

Mission Dolores for first Communion and confirmation preparation. Seton Education Partners provided 15 computers for each classroom, paid for wiring and Internet and is funding a staff person for the year to support the program, Hamilton said. The investment is for one year after which the school should be able to go forward with per-pupil costs that are about 25 percent lower, he said. The computer programs in language arts, mathematics and Spanish incorporate adaptive or responsive learning so each question the child answers cues the computer-based subject to what the student should do next. “Each child is getting individualized instruction on the computer so it’s called adaptive learning,” said Storz. “What direction you take depends on your answers or your performance.” In a classroom of 30 children, 15 can work on a MISSION DOLORES, page 22

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Holy Cross notables There’s a story attached to every cemetery grave. Here are a few from Holy Cross: Mae Ella Nolan, a Republican, was the fourth woman elected to Congress and the first from California, in 1923. Joseph Musto founded the Musto Steam Marble Co. in San Francisco in 1868 and was responsible for the marble work at City Hall and the Palace of the Legion of Honor. George Flournoy served as city and county attorney in San Francisco. But prior to that, he co-authored the Texas Declaration of Secession and commanded the 16th Texas Infantry Regiment during the Civil War. Maj. Charles Kendrick was a decorated World War I veteran and manager of Schlage Lock Co. His son, Marine Corps Lt. Charles Kendrick, a pilot, was shot down at Guadalcanal in 1942. He was buried there, but his father recovered the body a few years later and arranged for burial at Holy Cross. A cemetery supervisor instructed his staff to salute Lt. Kendrick when they passed his tomb.

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The head of the Catholic Church in Jerusalem will celebrate a Mass for Peace at St. Thomas More Church in San Francisco at noon on Sept. 11, the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. The Mass will be celebrated in Arabic and English. Patriarch Fouad Twal is the head of the Latin-rite Catholic Church in Israel, Jordan, Palestine and Cypress and will visit California Sept. 9-12 on his first pastoral visit to the Bay Area. There will be a reception after Mass at the South San Francisco Convention Center , 255 South Airport Blvd., South San Francisco. Patriarch Twal Phone (650) 877-8787. Tickets are $75 and the proceeds will benefit Christians in the Holy Land. St. Thomas More Church is located at 1300 Junipero Serra Blvd. at Brotherhood and Thomas More ways. Phone (415) 4529634; website www.STMchurch.com; Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem website www.LPJ.org. The Jordanian-born patriarch, 70, was ordained in 1966 and took possession of the Jerusalem see in 2008. “I carry in the Latin Patriarchate the responsibility of ‘the Mother of all churches’ which includes Palestine, Israel, Jordan and Cyprus, with Jerusalem as the center and in the heart of the most significant expression in which the Lord tells us, ‘You will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, throughout Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth’” (Acts 1, 8), Patriarch Twal says in a parish announcement for the event. “And despite insurmountable difficulties,” he says, “we believe in God’s plan; we believe in the mission of the church and in the spirit of the letter of St. Paul to the

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The San Francisco Interfaith Council will gather to pray Sept. 11 in Sharon Meadow in Golden Gate Park in conjunction with the city’s annual Opera in the Park to commemorate the 10th anniversary of 9/11. Mozart’s “Requiem in D Minor” will be presented, with inspirational works by American composers Harold Arlen, Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland and John Williams and music by Christopher Theofanidis, composer of “Heart of a Soldier.” The 2 p.m. event is free and will include brief reflections and a “procession of faiths” by Catholic and other clergy who were asked to participate by Mayor Ed Lee.

St. Anne of the Sunset School (San Francisco) students, above, greet the new academic year as two Convent of the Sacred Heart Elementary School (San Francisco) youngsters pose for a keepsake photo Sept. 1.

Remembrance for San Bruno fire victims St. Robert Church in San Bruno will hold a Mass of Remembrance at 9:30 a.m. Sept. 11 for victims of the Sept. 9, 2010, gas pipeline explosion and fire. “We are going to invite those who have been affected to that Mass,” said pastor Father Roberto Andrey, who said the Mass will be particularly to remember the eight people who died in the disaster. Dozens of people were injured, 38 homes were destroyed and 70 homes were damaged in the fire and explosion, which was caused by a ruptured natural gas pipeline below the Crestmoor neighborhood. The National Transportation Safety Board found that the probable cause of the accident was Pacific Gas and Electric Co.’s “inadequate quality assurance and quality control in 1956 during its Line 132 relocation project, which allowed the installation of a substandard and poorly welded pipe section with a visible seam weld flaw that, STATE AND LOCAL, page 13

Good Shepherd Parish’s new school Principal Andreina Gualco and new pastor Father Jess Labor are pictured outside the Pacifica K-8 school Aug. 30. Instruction at Archdiocese of San Francisco schools began Aug. 24.

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Respect Life conference Sept. 10 “End of Life Decisions” is the focus of this year’s archdiocesan Respect Life Conference, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Sept. 10 at St. Mary’s Cathedral. The morning starts with a breakfast talk on euthanasia by Wesley J. Smith. Dr. Marie Hilliard of the National Catholic Bioethics Center will speak on end of life issues. The sessions conclude with a workshop on preparing Advance Health Care Directives with a view to Catholic teaching, presented by Vicki Evans, the respect life coordinator for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, and attorney Dana Cody of Life Legal Defense Foundation. “If anyone has questions about the purpose of advance directives, what they mean to the patient and the family, and how to avoid common pitfalls when completing them, this is the time to have your questions answered,” Evans said. The $40 cost includes breakfast in the cathedral’s St. Francis Hall. For reservations and information, contact Evans at (415) 6145533 or email vevans1438@att.net.

Youth parole bill narrowly defeated The California State Assembly narrowly defeated a bill that would give youth sentenced to life imprisonment a chance for parole. The measure, which was scheduled for reconsideration Sept. 6, received as many as 40 votes Aug. 25 before ultimately failing 36-36-8 when the final roll was called, sponsor Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, said in an announcement.

Archbishop . . . ■ Continued from cover On Sept. 1 employees of the archdiocesan Pastoral Center attended a special Mass, organized and celebrated by Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice, to pray for Archbishop Niederauer’s quick recovery. Archbishop Niederauer was ordained to the priesthood April 30, 1962, for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. He was appointed eighth bishop of the Diocese of Salt Lake City Nov. 3, 1994, by Pope

SB9 is supported by the California Catholic Conference and other youth advocates, who say that sentencing a teenager to prison with no chance for parole eliminates any chance for rehabilitation. Under the bill “courts could review cases of juveniles sentenced to life without parole after 15 years, potentially allowing some individuals to receive a new minimum sentence of 25 years to life,” Yee said in the announcement. “The bill would require the offender to show remorse and be working towards rehabilitation in order to submit a petition for consideration of the new sentence. “The neuroscience is clear — brain maturation continues well through adolescence and thus impulse control, planning, and critical thinking skills are not yet fully developed,” said Yee, who is a child psychologist. He said there are some 290 people in California serving life without parole for crimes they committed as minors. No other country allows children to be sentenced to life without parole, he said. — Catholic San Francisco staff

Initiative to ban death penalty A coalition of law enforcement professionals, victim advocates, and individuals exonerated from wrongful conviction are backing a 2012 ballot initiative to replace the death penalty with life imprisonment without chance of parole. Advocates of the initiative, which is being circulated for signatures, say it will save hundreds of millions of dollars each year. Among those supporting the initiative, called the SAFE California Act, are former Los Angeles District Attorney Gil Garcetti; former San Quentin warden Jeanne Woodford, who oversaw four executions; Gloria Killian who was wrongfully accused of murder in a case where the district attorney, at first, tried to seek death and who spent 16 years in prison; and Judy Kerr, sister of Bob Kerr, who was murdered eight years ago and whose killer is still at large. Supporters of the death penalty repeal cite a June report that says California has spent $4 billion since 1978 to fund California’s death penalty system. — Valerie Schmalz John Paul II and ordained to the episcopate Jan. 25, 1995. Archbishop Niederauer was named eighth archbishop of the Archdiocese of San Francisco by Pope Benedict XVI Dec. 15, 2005. Archbishop Niederauer celebrated his 75th birthday June 14. The same day, he sent a letter to Pope Benedict XVI in accordance with Canon Law 401, Sec. 1, which states, “A diocesan bishop who has completed the 75th year of age is requested to present his resignation from office to the Supreme Pontiff, who will make provision after he has examined all the circumstances.”

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Ciancutti invites his fourth-grade parents to a science talk once a week at noon. “It’s good for the parents to see that the kids love science,” he said. “The animals are just another dimension of enriching science.” In addition to doing animal-related research projects on animals, the students get special opportunities to handle animals. “Some kids are scared of snakes, including the teacher!” Ciancutti said. “Some are paranoid of spiders. We don’t let kids handle the tarantula due to a toxic substance they exude. Everything is safety-oriented.” — Ben Davidson

Priests for Life invites the public to a Mass at Oct. 5 at 6 p.m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral to mark the ministry’s 20th anniversary. The homilist will be Father Frank Pavone, the group’s national director. A reception will be held following

Mass. Those wishing to attend should email Anniversary@PriestsForLife.org. Priests for Life had its start in California and has been headquartered in New York since 1993. It mobilizes clergy in the effort to end abortion and euthanasia and includes a number of related ministries.

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Couple keeps up hope despite double hit of job, health crisis Millions of Americans are dealing with the economic and psychological impact of a national jobs market that has been described as paralyzed. This is the first in a series of profiles of San Mateo County residents coping with diminished means and expectations in a weak and increasingly stratified economy.

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Mary and her husband are pictured together near their home in Pacifica. “We were never rich but we always had what we needed,� Mary said in an interview with Catholic San Francisco. But illness and job loss have changed their circumstances dramatically.

Sitting in the cafe, talking about the reality of her family’s situation, Mary started to cry. In an effort to hide her tears, she averted her face and looked down at the tabletop. She rose quickly from the table, walked to the counter and pulled a couple of tissues from a box near the cash register. “I’m sorry,� she said, returning to the table. “Sometimes it just gets to me.� Mary, who is in her early 40s, has worked hard most of her life. Initially, she worked in the trades — painting, tile and carpentry. Later, after earning the degree in film and photography, she did part-time and contract work for Bay Area production companies as a videographer. Shortly after Mary’s husband could no longer work, the couple decided to sell their home in Oregon and return to the Bay Area, where they had lived during the `80s. They found a small house to rent in Pacifica. Mary felt the move would improve her chances of finding work. For a while, she was right. “I got a job the second week we were here,� she recalled. “I felt like I was on top of the world.� It was a six-month contract job with a production company in Berkeley. When it ended, Mary started looking for work again. And while she has occasionally found temporary work, a permanent,

full-time position has proven elusive. The savings she hoped would last until she found one ran out. Since then, she has had to borrow money from her mother to cover the family’s monthly bills. “I mean, I’d be happy just answering the phone for a production company,� said Mary, “or bringing coffee to someone if it meant getting my foot in the door.�

• Despite feeling increasingly insecure, Mary begins each day with hope. If she doesn’t have to take her husband to one of his many doctor’s appointments that day, she scours the job listings — both full-time and temporary —on Craigslist. She fires off resumes to postings that appear promising. She also checks in with various production companies for openings. After lunch, she works on her sewing projects. One, which she said is a new improvement on an old idea, she hopes to market to stores in the area. In addition, she has entered a training program that would enable her to teach tai chi to those suffering from debilitating arthritis, something Mary suffers from herself. Sometime during the afternoon, Mary climbs on her bicycle and pedals along the coastal trail for at least half an hour — a much-needed respite from her troubles, and one that works far better for her than the antidepressants her doctor once prescribed. She stopped taking them almost immediately, she said, because she didn’t like the way they made her feel. “I told the doctor that I didn’t need antidepressants — I needed a job,â€? she said. “I get on the bike and I breathe. I hear the ocean and the birds. I sit and watch the hawks soaring. I feel like I’m rejuvenating my soul.â€? Following her bicycle ride, Mary shops for the evening meal. She enjoys preparing food for her family. She often makes soup from scratch, she said, and homemade tamales. During a recent visit to the Pacifica Resource Center for help with a tax problem, Mary discovered that she was

Mary begins each day with hope, searching the job listings and sending out her resume. She works on sewing projects in the afternoon and sometimes bikes the coastal trail. “I hear the ocean and the birds. I sit and watch the hawks soaring. I feel like I’m rejuvenating my soul,� she said.

Many of those asking for help, said qualified to take part in the center’s food Rees, are families like Mary’s that have pantry program. She is extremely gratenever had to ask for help before. Too often, ful, she said, to be able to pick up food at they wait until they the center a couple are down to almost of times a week. It nothing before they alleviates some of come in, making it the stress. too late perhaps to (It was durget help with the ing a visit to the rent or mortgage center that Mary payment or other volunteered to be forms of assistance interviewed for designed to help this story.) struggling families. “We’ve seen “Because they a 50 percent were just hoping increase in the that they would number of people find that full-time applying for our job in a couple of services this year,� said Anita Rees, Mary takes therapeutic bike rides along the more weeks,� said beach: “I hear the ocean and the birds.� Rees. director of the San Mateo Pacifica Resource County residents are increasingly turning Center. “The year before that there was to safety-net services for assistance with a 100 percent increase.�

housing, food and job training, according to a county government statement on the introduction of the county’s new budget. For Mary, the economic struggle has taken a psychological toll. “I’ve had some low, low days during all of this� she said. “Sometimes I’ve felt worthless. I just felt so doomed when we found out my husband had cancer. I had so many plans. But then I felt I had to change my plans, my road map. It’s just been hard to figure that out.� Her husband, said Mary, has good and bad days. Her older son is away in college and fending for himself, working part-time and receiving grants to get an education. She has tried to shield her younger son who, at 13, is at a vulnerable age, from as much of the pain of their situation as possible. “People really do need to count their blessings when things are good,� she said, “when you don’t have to figure out if you should buy bread or milk.�

‘Now I’m just sort of in survival mode — trying to find as many ways to get through the day without spending money as I can.’ — Mary

Bishop: The human costs, moral challenges of a broken economy (CALIFORNIA EMPLOYMENT DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT)

Six years ago, Mary didn’t spend time agonizing over whether to buy bread or milk because she couldn’t afford both. She didn’t feel pangs of anxiety when her teenage son brought friends home after school and raided the refrigerator for snacks, depleting the family’s food supply. She didn’t have to struggle daily to meet the physical needs of her family. And she didn’t have to battle depression and a growing sense of doom. “Now, I feel I’m up against the wall,� said Mary, sitting in a cafe in Pacifica with a cup of coffee. “I would do almost anything: I would clean toilets at this point; I would be a maid; I would join a hazmat team and clean up toxic spills on the freeway if it meant paying the rent and utilities.� Mary and her family are struggling to keep up in a labor market that has less to offer the middle class than it once did. The market has been battered by two double hits a row: the 2008 financial meltdown and housing debt crisis of the Great Recession at its worst, followed in the new decade by the lower economic growth and government debt crisis marking the recession’s long aftermath. Although San Mateo County has one of the state’s strongest labor markets, state data show an ominous trend: a growing gap between the size of the civilian labor force and the population of employed civilians.

name to protect the privacy of her family — lived in her own home in Oregon. Her husband worked as a general contractor. Mary, who has a bachelor’s degree in film and photography from San Francisco State University, kept the books. The kids went to local schools. “We were never rich,� said Mary, “but we always had what we needed. The kids played on softball teams and had musical Ominous Gap: Jobs data for San Mateo County show changes instruments they were since 1990 in the civilian labor force -- all civilians 16 and over learning to play. There classified as employed or unemployed -- and civilian employment. was money in the bank for emergencies.� An emergency no one could have Regionally, a closer look shows a anticipated struck: Her husband, then in strong bounce in the past year in comhis early 50s, was diagnosed with Stage puter-related and technical, professional IV prostate cancer — an advanced stage and scientific services jobs but little to of the disease that Mary believes should impress elsewhere in the economy. have been caught much sooner, since her This background combined with the husband had complained to his doctor misfortune of illness contributed to a of symptoms commonly associated with double income dislocation for Mary’s prostate cancer during routine office family – all it took to put them on the visits to monitor his high blood pressure. brink. Eventually, the regimen of radiation treatments left her husband too weak to continue working. He then went on Six years ago, Mary — who requested disability. that she be identified only by her middle From that point on, Mary’s family began an economic descent that, over the course of the next few years, went from middle-class American dream to nightmare of insecurity. Since the economy worsened several years ago, the story of Mary’s family has become an increasingly common one in the wealthiest country in the world. “It doesn’t take long,� said Mary. “Now I’m just sort of in survival mode — trying to find as many ways to get through the day without spending money as I can.�

(CALIFORNIA EMPLOYMENT DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT)

By Dana Perrigan

Mary’s husband is pictured walking on the beach near the couple’s Pacifica home.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — “This Labor Day, the economic facts are stark and the human costs are real: millions of our sisters and brothers are without work, raising children in poverty and haunted by fears about their economic security,� Bishop Stephen E. Blaire of Stockton said Sept. 5 in “Human Costs and Moral Challenges of a Broken Economy,� the annual Labor Day statement of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. “These are not just economic problems, but also human tragedies, moral challenges, and tests of our faith,� he said. Bishop Blaire, chairman of the U.S. Bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, said this Labor Day comes at a time when 9 percent of Americans are looking for work and cannot find it, while others live in fear of losing their jobs. He cited Pope Leo XIII’s groundbreaking encyclical “Rerum Novarum� as the inspiration for this year’s statement. “We need to look beyond the economic indicators, stock-market gyrations and political conflicts and focus on the often invisible burdens of ordinary workers and their families, many of whom are hurting, discouraged, and left behind by this economy,� the bishop said. “An economy that cannot provide employment, decent wages and benefits and a sense of participation and ownership for its workers is broken in fundamental ways,� he said. Bishop Blaire also emphasized the church’s tradition of supporting the rights of workers to organize to protect their dignity and the dignity of work. Bishop Blaire concluded by outlining a Catholic response to the economy and joblessness, stating, “We are called to Bishop Stephen renew our commitment to the God-given task of defending human life and dignity, celebrating work, and defending workers E. Blaire with both hope and conviction. This is a time for prayer, reflection, and action.� The annual statement offers Catholics an opportunity to reflect on the state of unemployment and the American economy, and how Catholic teaching can guide a response. The full text of the Labor Day statement can be found online in English at http://www.usccb.org/about/domesticsocial-development/upload/Labor-Day-2011.pdf and in Spanish at http://www.usccb.org/about/domestic-social-development/upload/LaborDay-2011-espanol.pdf. — USCCB

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A law striking at the heart of what it is to be Christian A new Alabama state law intended to control immigration at the state level has prompted legal challenges by the U.S. Department of Justice, civil rights advocates and religious organizations, including the Catholic Church. The law, according to a U.S. Justice Department press release, “is designed to affect virtually every aspect of an unauthorized immigrant’s daily life.” It will subject citizens and noncitizens alike to criminal penalties for such daily activities as giving a ride to a neighbor, hiring a day laborer or renting a room to a friend, a separate action by civil rights groups says. And it puts churches, according to a suit by religious groups, in the position of checking ID before following God’s word to “love thy neighbor.” A federal judge has suspended enforcement of the law until Sept. 29 to consider the lawsuits. Mobile, Ala., Archbishop Thomas J. Rodi wrote the following letter for members of his church Aug.1. It is reprinted with permission. “If someone who has worldly means sees a brother in need and refuses him compassion, how can the love of God remain in him? Children, let us love not in word or speech but in deed and truth” (1 John 3:17-18). Bishop Baker of the Catholic Diocese of Birmingham, Bishop Parsley of the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama, Bishop Willimon of the North Alabama Conference of the United Methodist Church, and I have joined together to bring a challenge to the recently enacted state immigration law. It is with sadness that we brought this legal action but with a deep sense that we, as people of faith, have no choice but to defend the right to the free exercise of religion granted to us as citizens of Alabama. The new state law is broadly Guest Commentary written. Both supporters and opponents of the law agree that it is the broadest and strictest immigration law in the country, affecting every part of the life of undocumented immigrants. In doing so, however, the law makes illegal the exercise of our Christian religion which we, as citizens of Alabama, have a right to follow. The law prohibits almost everything which would assist an undocumented immigrant or encourage an undocumented immigrant to live in Alabama. This new law makes it illegal for a Catholic priest to baptize, hear the confession of, celebrate the anointing of the sick with, or preach the word of God to, an undocumented immigrant. Nor can we encourage them to attend Mass or give them a ride to Mass. It is illegal to allow them to attend adult scripture study groups, or attend CCD or Sunday school classes. It is illegal for the clergy to counsel them in times of difficulty or in preparation for marriage. It is illegal for them to come to Alcoholics Anonymous meetings or other recovery groups at our churches. The law prohibits almost every activity of our St. Vincent de Paul chapters or Catholic social services. If it involves an undocumented immigrant, it is illegal to give the disabled person a ride to the doctor; give food or clothing or financial assistance in an emergency; allow them to shop at our thrift stores or to learn English; it is illegal to counsel a mother who has a problem pregnancy, or to help her with baby food or diapers, thus making it far more likely that she will choose abortion. This law attacks our very understanding of what it means to be a Christian. “For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, a stranger and you welcomed me, naked and you clothed me, ill and you cared for me, in prison and you visited me. Then the righteous will answer him and say, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? When did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? When did we see you ill or in prison and visit you?’ And the king will say to them in reply, ‘Amen, I say to you, whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me’” (Matthew 25:31-41). The control and regulation of our national borders is the responsibility, first and foremost, of the federal government. An argument can be made that the federal government has not acted adequately to control and regulate our borders and to implement a just and workable immigration policy. Laws, such as this new one in our state, are born out of frustration with this governmental failure. However, the church is not in charge of our borders. We do not determine who enters our country. But once immigrants are in our midst, the church has a moral obligation, intrinsic to the living out of our faith, to be Christ-like to everyone. This is our right as Americans and as citizens of Alabama. Sometimes people will say that the U.S. Constitution gives us the freedom to worship. Actually, the Constitution gives us the right to the free exercise of our religion. “Freedom to worship” means that we can come together on Sunday to worship. “Free exercise” means that, when we leave church on Sunday, we have the right to exercise our faith in our daily lives. This new law prevents us as believers from exercising our life of faith as commanded by the Lord Jesus. No law is just which prevents the proclamation of the Gospel, the baptizing of believers or love shown to neighbor in need. I do not wish to stand before God and, when God asks me if I fed him when he was hungry or gave him to drink when he was thirsty, to reply: yes, Lord, as long as you had the proper documents.

Praising Fr. Rolheiser Thank you for Father Ron Rolheiser each week. He is so very sane and speaks wonderfully on each subject. I enjoy most articles in each paper. Marian Sweeney San Bruno

War is intrinsically evil Thank you so much for the Aug. 12 article on Father George Zabelka and his beliefs on the atomic bomb and on war itself. It means so much to me and is the first time I’ve heard or read of a Catholic priest, bishop or layperson really condemning war and the slaughter of innocents. President Harry Truman was wrong ordering the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki when we knew what the bombs would do – kill thousands and thousands of innocent people. We knew it was wrong, knew it was evil. I knew in my own heart, soul and conscience that it was wrong. All war is wrong. There is no such thing as a “just war.” It’s time the pope and the whole Catholic Church declare war to be against Christ’s teachings. I agree with Father Zabelka. Christ taught us to “love our enemies.” I agree with Father Zabelka that the pope should call an ecumenical council of all Christians to declare that war is totally incompatible with the teachings of Christ and that Christians cannot and will not engage in or pay for any war from now on. I am 87 years old and have seen such horror. I had relatives die in World War I before I was born, had two brothers and many friends in World War II, had one son in Vietnam and another in the Korean War. Now we have all the wars in the Middle East. It never ends. War is never just. It is intrinsically evil. I was glad to finally see an article in a Catholic paper against war. Patricia Calhoon San Rafael

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Why the Gov. Perry photo? I am writing because I do not know why the photo of (Texas) Gov. Rick Perry was in the Aug. 12 issue of the Catholic San Francisco. It was not part of an article and there was no explanation. Does this picture mean that Catholic San Francisco is endorsing Mr. Perry for president? Does

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Veil of anonymity? Permit me to comment on this week’s “unsigned” guest editorial (“President Obama and Catholic teaching,” Aug. 26). The mysterious author tells us that when the bishops “urged the president and Congress not to pass budget cuts that would hit hardest the poorest and most vulnerable” President Obama was “eager to make a deal “ so he ignored the bishops’ pleas and stood with Congress to pass a plan that would cut social programs for the most needy. Anyone who paid attention to the debt ceiling crisis could tell our anonymous editorialist that that is pure fabrication. Republican Rep. Paul Ryan, a Catholic, was the author of a budget which was passed in the House but defeated in the Senate, and which slashed social programs for the elderly, handicapped, poor and vulnerable. Rep. Ryan was praised by New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan for his understanding of Catholic social teaching. House Speaker John Boehner, a Catholic, walked out of meeting after meeting and refused to negotiate until he got what he wanted, which was social programs slashed to the bone. After the whole debacle was over, when Mr. Obama held out until there was no more holding out without the U.S. defaulting, Mr. Boehner “bragged” that he got “98 percent” of what he wanted. Yes, some Democrats objected, and Mr. Obama was in agreement with them, but he couldn’t allow a default. Are there things that we as Catholics would like to see done differently than they are? Of course. Is Mr. Obama governing with only Catholics in mind? His job doesn’t work like that. However, our mysterious guest contributor really needed to tell the truth, and in this instance, he/she failed. Of course, we as Catholics might have more influence in public life if we acted from the Gospel and the awesome body of Catholic Social Teaching instead of from the writings of the atheist, self-absorbed Ayn Rand, Rep. Ryan’s role model. Sue Hayes San Francisco

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I had to take a moment to write. I just read the “Ask Father Dave” in your Aug. 26 issue. I have known Father Dave (Ghiorso) for many years in youth ministry and as I began my teaching career 21 years ago in the archdiocese I came to know of his great homilies to children and youth alike. In having this experience of him as priest, I found it very interesting to read, as he put it, that “what God wanted me to do, which seemed very foreign to me,” could ever be true. Father Dave is a priest who I hope gets many opportunities to work with new priests in the seminary. He has a very natural way of speaking with people, no matter what their age, and helping them to know Christ as a person in their lives today. I hope his response to the question will encourage other young people to answer their call to vocation. Thanks Father Dave for being such an amazing example of priest, person, friend and mentor! Joanne Bartolotti St. Robert Parish San Bruno Editor’s note: Father Dave Ghiorso is pastor of St. Charles Parish in San Carlos and vocations director for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

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it mean that because he had this prayer meeting that he is a wonderful person? I saw parts of this prayer meeting on the news and the speakers were ludicrous and demeaning of other religions and peoples. If Catholic San Francisco supports these far-right fundamentalists, I will no longer support this paper and will stop having it delivered to my home. Rose Milani Fairfax Editor’s note: News and comment are strictly separated in this newspaper. The referenced photo, with a caption, was distributed to clients of Catholic News Service in the usual news photo stream. We selected it because it was a record of a national event and a glimpse of a newsmaker with rising visibility. We also thought the image was visually interesting.

No name, no credibility I was truly surprised to read CSF’s (unsigned) guest editorial criticizing our president. Shall those of us wishing to debate these views be afforded the same privacy? I certainly hope not! The opinion of anyone who is afraid to sign his or her name isn’t going to have much credibility. Patricia Cady San Francisco Editor’s note: The editorial by The Tennessee Register, newspaper of the Diocese of Nashville, was redistributed by Catholic News Service as part of an effort “to respond to editors’ requests for a regular sampling of current commentary from around the Catholic press.” We contacted Rick Musacchio, editor in chief of The Tennessee Register. He said the paper “has always run our editorials in that fashion because it’s the official position of the paper and not a personal opinion.” At Catholic San Francisco our aim is to present a range of responsible comment. A previous example, from the Aug. 12 issue, was the America magazine editorial critical of Rep. Paul Ryan and other Catholics “who find much to admire about the objectivism peddled by the late Ayn Rand.”

Editorial’s narrow viewpoint Regarding the guest editorial, I would like to say this: About the supposed accomplishments of the president, the editorial said, “… this administration must be seen as a disaster.” In connection with the president’s campaign speeches, it said, “Catholic voters … were simply duped.” While these were expressed with reference to Catholic teaching, they are extreme expressions based on a narrow point of view. As we know the president is the president of the whole country. Laws enacted must, if possible, respond to the interests of all sectors. And as we also know the enactment of laws resides in Congress. The president as leader has ideas. But in the process of enacting a law that would embody his ideas, politics come into play. The editorial claims the president duped the voters in his campaign speeches. Yet we could see in the president honesty and sincerity in his efforts to give his best. LETTERS, page 17

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Among the ‘progressed’ Thomas Merton is usually thought of as a liberal or progressive Catholic, which in many respects he was: He certainly tilted left politically,on civil rights and Vietnam; he wanted to explore new modes of monastic life, putting the Western monastic tradition in conversation with Eastern religions; he chafed under authority throughout his Trappist life; he had a strong sense of self, the 20th-century equivalent of what the Reformation controversialists called “private judgment.” I’ve no ideas what Merton’s liturgical practices were, but it’s not easy to imagine him a rubrical traditionalist. Yet for all of that, I’ve often had the sneaking suspicion that, had he lived beyond his untimely death in 1968, Merton might — just might — have become one of the first Catholic neoconservatives. Why? One reason is that he was too smart to swallow the juvenile political leftism into which Catholic progressives fell from the late ‘60s through the ‘70s. Merton had known the real thing —that is, real communists — in his Columbia undergraduate days, and I suspect he would not have been much impressed with the Woodstock-generation imitation. Merton’s rivalry with Daniel Berrigan might have been another factor pushing him toward a critique of progressive Catholicism: As Berrigan, the Church’s other poet-activist, moved farther and farther left, Merton might have recoiled in a different direction. Then there was Merton’s interest in religion in Asia: Had he lived to see the vast persecution wrought by communists on Catholics and Buddhists alike in Vietnam, Tibet and China, the cause of religious free-

dom might have been for him, as it was for Richard John Neuhaus, a pathway out of “The Movement.” No one will ever know for sure where Thomas Merton would have ended up, ideologically speaking. But we do know that he was not altogether comfortable with the Catholic progressives of his own time, and we know that from his own hand. Merton and his old friend Robert Lax wrote each other a long series of what they called “nonsense letters,” crafted in a deliberately zany style but making serious points from time to time. Here, in that inimitable style, is Merton to Lax in 1967 on the subject of Catholic progressives: “I am truly spry and full of fun, but am pursued by the vilifications of progressed Catholics. Mark my word man there is no uglier species on the face of the earth than progressed Catholics, mean, frivol, ungainly, inarticulate, venomous, and bursting at the seams with progress into the secular cities and Teilhardian subways. The Ottavianis was bad but these are infinitely worse. You wait and see.” It’s hard not to see real prescience on Merton’s part here. Today’s progressive Catholic world seems to be coming unglued. Examples abound; here are two particularly ripe ones. In May, Archbishop Timothy Dolan, president of the U.S. bishops’ conference, wrote to Congressman Paul Ryan, laying out basic principles of Catholic social doctrine and welcoming a conversation with the House budget committee chairman on the application of those principles to political reality. This entirely sensible letter was greeted

by one progressive blogger with a lengthy and vaguely paranoid post hinting at a vast and dark conspiracy to starve children and welfare mothers, the co-conspirators being Dolan; Ryan; Msgr. George Weigel David Malloy (general secretary of the bishops’ conference); the Prefect of the Papal Household; Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz of Lincoln, Neb.; your columnist; and a parish in Milwaukee I had never heard of. Very odd. Then there was The Tablet, England’s premier progressive Catholic journal, which marked the April 29 royal wedding with an editorial recommending premarital cohabitation. The practice, it was argued, had proven such a good preparation for marriage (cf. William and Kate) that the church ought to get with the program. Biblical morality and two millennia of church teaching jettisoned because of ubiquitous contemporary randiness and despite empirical data showing that premarital cohabitation is a good predictor of eventual divorce: Odder still. Merton told us to “wait and see” about that “ungainly” species he called “progressed Catholics.” Well, we’ve waited. We’ve seen. The picture isn’t a pretty one.

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holy, sacramental union of a man and woman together, in matrimony. One wonders why these letter writers, and other proponents of gay sexual unnaturalness, argue for the rights of gays to fornicate while the same right is denied to single Catholics. In both instances, the acts are gravely sinful, as are any sexual acts outside of marriage. True love is sacrificial, not self-indulgent. True love puts selfish desires of gratification aside to protect the beloved from indulging in sin; of mistaking evil for good. True love does not put the beloved’s soul at risk in order to use the beloved’s body. As Father Pacholczyk tells us in his excellent article, gays called to chastity, find, “It (chastity) is done by being true to themselves and others in a chaste and loving way.” Using and abusing others for sex is an unchaste, unloving and lustful way. Bruce Levandoski Tiburon

certainly isn’t just for the bishops to “decide” that I should be burdened with the costs of what this act would entail. What about the people in Somalia who are suffering from a drought as well as persecution from rebels when they try to flee into neighboring countries? That’s not fair either. What about the Christians who are being persecuted by the Communist Party in China or the Middle East? These things aren’t fair either. As Pope Benedict admonishes, we should collect our thoughts in silence each day and meditate on what the Lord wants to teach us. So far, I have not heard him telling me that what the bishops want to impose is something I am responsible for. Virginia Hayes San Francisco

■ Continued from page 16 We do not get everything we want. In the health care law, while there are Catholic values not being met, there are also provisions upholding Catholic values. We should be cognizant of the reality of government. Living in this reality, we must keep our faith in the inherent goodness in us and in the eternal justice of God and not fall to despair even to the point of saying “disaster.” Luis Magarro San Francisco

What and what not to do In the Aug. 26, 2011, issue, you seek reader ideas on the “redesign of Catholic San Francisco.” I present my ideas on what to do and what not to do. What to do: Exactly what you did 75 percent of the time in the Aug. 26 issue. Have news that is local – concerning the local church written by local people that is Catholic, of interest to all not just 80-year-olds or 8-year-olds; that is faithful and full of faith that is alive and enlivens; that is pertinent to us and written for us not just “cut and paste” from national and international news services as has unfortunately been the way Catholic San Francisco has been composed since it began a decade ago. What not to do: Anything that is in any way different from what I have written above — in particular, anything by an unidentified author in regard to our faith and our church and our nation and our beliefs and our lives. Specifically, no space should be filled by a so-called “guest editorial.” Whose guest is he or she? Certainly not mine. We have an editor. Let the editor write and be responsible to those who respond. If the editor does not write, let the space be empty. Catholic San Francisco and all of us would have profited greatly by an empty space in the left column of Page 16. The words that filled that space were by an unnamed, unknown person. What those words presented was an atrocious article attacking the president of the United States. It was a theologically and politically and hopelessly garbled embarrassment to the Roman Catholic faith and church and each of us. Let us live and proclaim the Gospel with trust and with charity. Father John K. Ring Pastor emeritus St. Vincent de Paul Parish San Francisco

Writers ridiculed real love The two letter writers (Aug. 26) taking issue with Father Tad Pacholczyk’s excellent article, “Gay genes, sex and the call to chastity” (Aug. 12) declare that the priest “has never been in love” and that “there is love and chastity in gay unions.” Both remarks ridicule real love by attempting to equate unnatural sexual behavior with the

‘Critical but loyal’ clarified Here I repeat my whole sentence that Robert Jimenez (letters, Aug. 26) fragmented. “It is foolish to write about the generality of embryonic cell research when the real concern is preservation of the life of individual embryos.” I believe this sentence is in good faith with the commandment, “Thou shalt not kill.” I continue to emphasize this separation of the research from the killing of embryos because, if accepted, it would vastly improve the opportunity for Catholics to succeed in preventing the killing. Robert Jimenez’ says, “ … possibly embryonic cell research is the source of his steady income.” I wish I had a steady income other than Social Security, being 80 years old! Jimenez’ quote from the Catechism is compatible with the life of a practicing scientist. Also, being critical but loyal is compatible with the life of a practicing Catholic, as frequently stated in the Vatican II documents. Alex M. Saunders, M.D. San Carlos Editor’s note: The writer refers to his article, “Critical but loyal: Render unto Caesar,” which appeared in the July 29 issue in response to a query from the editor soliciting reader ideas to redesign the paper.

Consider meditation, not politics I disagree with the decision of the U.S. Catholic Bishops and George Wesolek, director of Public Policy and Social Concerns for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, to support the DREAM Act. The Catholic Church in some instances should take a hands-off policy on political issues. I cannot give any money in support of the church when the bishops come out with decisions that are directly opposed to what I believe. Of course it is unfortunate that the youth of illegal immigrants are barred from opportunities in this country because of what their parents chose to do. But it certainly isn’t just to let them step ahead of the children whose parents came here legally or those who were born here. It

George Weigel is Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.

Unable to go in peace Last week I attended Mass at a Marin parish. Following the commonly spoken words, “Mass has ended let us go in peace,” we exited to find that the ushers had set up a table for petitioners to solicit signatures from us. It was in regard to SB48, the California law requiring schools to teach about the contributions of gay Americans. As much in the law is unspecified and left to schools to determine how to implement the law, conservative media outlets have ignored common sense and raised a lot of fear, outrage and ignorance over it. The petitioners, being no wiser, approached us and explained, “It will teach homosexuality to kindergarteners.” As you may have guessed, I was unable to go in peace. Individual opinion aside, I have not received any spiritual guidance from the church regarding what Catholic teaching SB48 violates. Last I checked, the church is against homosexual practice but has no concern regarding the historical accomplishments of self-proclaimed homosexuals. More importantly, the church needs to be much wiser when bringing political agenda to the Mass experience. We go to Mass seeking prayer, peace, love and communion with Jesus. Politics usually detracts from those goals. There are many other forums to address political concerns, such as Catholic San Francisco. Steve Underhill Novato Editor’s note: SB 48 was introduced by Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, last December and approved by Gov. Jerry Brown July 13. It amended the state Education Code to “update references to certain categories of persons and additionally require instruction in social sciences to include a study of the role and contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans, persons with disabilities and members of other cultural groups, to the development of California and the United States,” according to the legislative counsel’s digest of the measure. The California Catholic Conference opposed the bill “as unnecessary and overly intrusive,” on the grounds that “it gives legislators rather than parents, professional educators and historians oversight of the social studies curriculum in California’s public schools. Those nearest the students together with the professionals — not politicians — should be determining the content of the curriculum.”

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A READING FROM THE BOOK OF SIRACH SIR 27:30, 28:7 Wrath and anger are hateful things, yet the sinner hugs them tight. The vengeful will suffer the Lord’s vengeance, for he remembers their sins in detail. Forgive your neighbor’s injustice; then when you pray, your own sins will be forgiven. Could anyone nourish anger against another and expect healing from the Lord? Could anyone refuse mercy to another like himself, can he seek pardon for his own sins? If one who is but flesh cherishes wrath, who will forgive his sins? Remember your last days, set enmity aside; remember death and decay, and cease from sin! Think of the commandments, hate not your neighbor; remember the Most High’s covenant, and overlook faults. RESPONSORIAL PSALM PS 103: 1-2, 3-4, 9-10, 11-12 R. The Lord is kind and merciful, slow to anger, and rich in compassion. Bless the Lord, O my soul; and all my being, bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits. R. The Lord is kind and merciful, slow to anger, and rich in compassion. He pardons all your iniquities, heals all your ills. “Should you not have had pity on your fellow servant, as I had pity on you?” (Matthew 18:33) Two neighbors, Kevin and Jack, had a long standing quarrel. One day Kevin suddenly took seriously ill. Calling the parish priest for the last rites, his wife requested him to patch up her husband’s quarrel with Jack. After a great deal of persuasion, Kevin agreed to Jack’s being called to his deathbed for reconciliation. Jack said readily, “Let’s make up, Kevin. Let bygones be bygones.” Kevin agreed rather reluctantly. But as Jack was preparing to leave, Kevin, raising himself on one elbow in bed and shaking his other fist, said: “Remember, Jack, this counts only in case I die.” Forgiveness does not come easy for most of us. It is perhaps the most difficult gift we are called to give. When others have wronged us and we have suffered the sad consequences on account of that, it is extremely hard for us to let go of the hurts and offer forgiveness. This Sunday, the 10th anniversary of the heartbreaking 9/11 tragedy, we cannot but view the Word of God in light of what happened a decade ago and the ongoing sorrow, grief, and anger. On my family visits to New York, my brother and I usually walk by ground zero and silently watch with deep sadness the sacred spot and the bustling construction activity as the Freedom Tower rises like phoenix from the ashes. It is obvious that justice must be

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Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time Sirach 27:30, 28:7 Psalm 103: 1-2, 3-4, 9-10, 11-12; Romans 14: 7-9; Matthew 18: 21-35 He redeems your life from destruction, he crowns you with kindness and compassion. R. The Lord is kind and merciful, slow to anger, and rich in compassion. He will not always chide, nor does he keep his wrath forever. Not according to our sins does he deal with us, nor does he requite us according to our crimes. R. The Lord is kind and merciful, slow to anger, and rich in compassion. For as the heavens are high above the earth, so surpassing is his kindness toward those who fear him. As far as the east is from the west, so far has he put our transgressions from us. R. The Lord is kind and merciful, slow to anger, and rich in compassion.

A READING FROM THE LETTER OF PAUL TO THE ROMANS ROM 14:7-9 Brothers and sisters: None of us lives for oneself, and no one dies for oneself. For if we live, we live for the Lord, and if we die, we die for the Lord; so then, whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s. For this is why Christ died and came to life, that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living. A READING FROM THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW MT 18:21-35 Peter approached Jesus and asked him, “Lord, if my brother sins against me, how often must I forgive? As many as seven times?” Jesus answered, “I say to you, not seven times but seventy-seven times. That is why the kingdom

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Necessity of forgiveness served; that no one ever has the right to destroy life, and individuals and nations must protect themselves against violence and aggression. At the same time, we know in the depths of our hearts that only through forgiveness can we hope to find peace, healing, and grace. Calling us to a constant and continuous process of forgiveness (“not seven times, but seventy seven times”), Jesus makes the insightful and intimate connection between God’s forgiveness and ours. It is along the lines of Jesus establishing the inalienable connection between love of God (Deuteronomy 6:5) and love of neighbor (Leviticus 19: 18), thus forging the love commandment. In the Gospel parable, the forgiven servant

should in turn have forgiven the fellow servant. When he was not able to do it, it resulted in the first forgiveness being taken away. The servant was worthy of the forgiveness of the king only to the extent that he was able to extend it to others. Even as God forgives, we have to forgive. God forgives our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. When we cannot forgive those who harm us, we lose our moral and spiritual grounding for God’s mercy. It is not God who stops forgiving us, but we deny ourselves the possibility of receiving God’s forgiveness. This insight is also enshrined in the book of Sirach: “Could anyone nourish anger against another and expect healing from the Lord?”

of heaven may be likened to a king who decided to settle accounts with his servants. When he began the accounting, a debtor was brought before him who owed him a huge amount. Since he had no way of paying it back, his master ordered him to be sold, along with his wife, his children, and all his property, in payment of the debt. At that, the servant fell down, did him homage, and said, ‘Be patient with me, and I will pay you back in full.’ Moved with compassion the master of that servant let him go and forgave him the loan. When that servant had left, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a much smaller amount. He seized him and started to choke him, demanding, ‘Pay back what you owe.’ Falling to his knees, his fellow servant begged him, ‘Be patient with me, and I will pay you back.’ But he refused. Instead, he had the fellow servant put in prison until he paid back the debt. Now when his fellow servants saw what had happened, they were deeply disturbed, and went to their master and reported the whole affair. His master summoned him and said to him, ‘You wicked servant! I forgave you your entire debt because you begged me to. Should you not have had pity on your fellow servant, as I had pity on you?’ Then in anger his master handed him over to the torturers until he should pay back the whole debt. So will my heavenly Father do to you, unless each of you forgives your brother from your heart.” There are three dimensions of forgiveness. The spiritual forgiveness is God’s prerogative. Psalm 103 rightly celebrates it: “The Lord is kind and merciful, slow to anger and rich in compassion.” God has indeed thrown all our sins into the deepest ocean and has posted a sign that reads: No fishing! Practically, we could celebrate and cherish God’s forgiveness through the sacrament of reconciliation at least twice a year — before Christmas and Easter — and live daily in the spirit of it. The spiritual forgiveness can happen only if we choose to practice personal and social forgiveness. Practically, on the personal level, we can start with our own family and friends. Forgiveness will salvage marriages and families, and help build peace and harmony in our personal and professional arenas of life. The social forgiveness is also necessary between nations and religions and among racial, ethnic, tribal groups. Wars and violence are perpetrated because we have not so far learned the art of forgiveness. Haven’t we learned any lessons at all from all the wars, bloodshed, hatred, and anger that have ravaged human history? Practically, we could influence nations and governments toward legislation and policy that promote dialogue rather than confrontation. Father Charles Puthota, Ph.D., is pastor of St. Veronica Parish in South San Francisco.

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Beatitudes for college students With colleges and universities beginning a new academic year, it is time to review some Beatitudes for College Students: Blessed are students who stay in touch with God during their academic life, they will always have a friend by their side. So many times students see college as a good way to escape from church. It is important and very fruitful to pray daily and to be involved in one’s parish or campus ministry. Don’t wait until you have a test. It is amazing how thoughts of God come at exam time. When I was a campus minister I could always tell it was exam time when daily Mass was overflowing with students. Blessed are students who study and go to all their classes, they will become educated. Unlike high school teachers, very few college professors watch what students do. Most students are free to go to class or not. College calls for greater responsibility. Those who waste their education regret it later. They are often left with big loans to pay and little knowledge to show for them. Blessed are students who get involved in extracurricular activities, they usually develop into well-balanced people. Study alone does not make for an educated person. It is very enriching to become part of campus ministry and other student organizations. It helps a student become a well-rounded individual.

Blessed are students who volunteer to help others, they will deepen their capacity to love. Service to others is a major part of being Christian. There are many opportunities at most schools to reach out to others. Working for Habitat for Humanity, homeless shelters, tutoring, are a few. In addition to God’s call to love, reaching out helps a person feel good about himself or herself. Blessed are students who keep away from drugs, alcohol and other dangerous activity, they are least likely to get into trouble. Using chemical substances may seem fun but this behavior often ends in tragic accidents, pregnancies, poor grades. Furthermore abusing one’s body is sinful. Blessed are students who pray about and think through important decisions, they will probably do God’s will. Often people make major decisions without enough thought or prayer. It is important to learn the art of discernment and reflection to make good choices for one’s life. Blessed are students who keep in touch with family and friends, they will have a good support system. In some ways college is a form of liberation. Even so, it is important to stay connected to one’s family and the values learned there.

Blessed are students who take time to discover their gifts and use them to better the world, they will develop into mature Christians. All of our talents and abilities are gifts from God Sister Margie to be used to build God’s kingdom. When we keep Lavonis those gifts hidden under a bushel basket the world and the church suffer. May this new academic year be a time of growth and self-discovery for all students everywhere. May each student stay close to the Lord and get to know God more deeply, knowing that God is with him or her in all the ups and downs of life. Good luck, especially, to first-year students. You are beginning a new and exciting journey. Holy Cross Sister Margie Lavonis is a freelance writer living in Notre Dame, Ind.

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Feeding off life’s sacred fire See the wise and wicked ones, who feed upon life’s sacred fire. That’s a lyric from a song by Gordon Lightfoot that tries to interpret the struggle going on in the heart of Miguel de Cervantes’ mythical hero, Don Quixote. Goodness separates him from the world, even as he understands that wickedness has the same source. And there’s perplexing irony in this, both the wise and wicked, saints and sinners, feed off the same, sacred source. The same energy that fuels the dedicated selflessness of the saint who dies for the poor fires the irresponsible acting-out of the movie star who proudly boasts of thousands of sexual conquests. Both feed off the same energy, which, in the end, is sacred. Godliness in this world is just used for very different purposes. But it’s easy to misinterpret this. For example, one of the major criticisms made of religion and the churches is that they too frequently use God to justify every kind of war and violence. We commonly see terrible violence being fueled by faith and religion, as is the case with extreme Islam today. But Christianity is hardly exempt. In the Crusades and the inquisition we have our own history of violence in God’s name and there is more violence than we have the courage to admit still being done today by Christians who draw both their motivation and their energy from their faith. We can protest that, in these cases, the energy is misguided, perverted, or usurped for self-interest, but the point remains the same. It’s still sacred energy, even if it is being perverted. John Lennon (“Imagine”) famously suggested that we would move more easily toward love and peace if religion were eliminated (“Nothing to kill or die, and no religion too”). There’s

a dangerous naivete in that, but he’s right in saying that the sacred energy found in religion often works against peace and love in this world. Misguided religious zealots also feed upon life’s sacred fire. However what this criticism, and many others, do not see is this: Misguided, misused, and perverted religious energy does not witness against God’s existence. The opposite: The very awfulness of its power, its blind grip, its capacity to totally take over someone’s life, and its sick overconfidence, point precisely to its godliness, its awe, its sacredness, and it roots within a reality and energy that dwarfs our own. Sick religion is so powerful precisely because it’s real, not a fantasy. It may be sick, but it’s real. That’s also why religious cults are dangerous. They’re dangerous because they’re real, monstrously so. Religious cults feed upon life’s sacred fire; but tragically they do so without the proper precautions and filters that the great spiritual traditions have taught are necessary in accessing the divine. Cults are naïve to why scripture warns us to approach the divine with care: “No one can see God and live!” What we see in bad religion is true too in our personal lives. This is sometimes hard to see (and often difficult for religious people to admit) but what’s wild and wicked in the world is also fueled by life’s sacred fire. Our over-restless energies for creativity, sexuality, achievement, enjoyment, and to know and be known within human community, are often used irresponsibly, excessively, narcissistically, manipulatively and destructively. The wild and wicked ones, those with sufficient nerve and insufficient conscience, often simply take what they want from life,

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Learning from 9/11: Stories of love, heroism and courage It is easy to dismiss these accounts as sentimental. images of sacrifice, death and heroic generosity. In one image a young fireman, Michael Kehoe, a 9/11 survivor, But I found in people like Labriola, Dwyer and Judge a Historians know that there is History and history, that is ascending the stairs as office workers quickly descend. populist realism, an awareness that we are all limited, that is, what actually happened and our stories evil and sin are real, but that hope, faith and about what happened. In a reference to love happen right here in the middle of life. photographs that caught the experiences of The experience of 9/11 reminded me Sept. 11, 2001, Garrison Keillor wrote: “The that I am an Americanist. Growing up in mainstream media seized upon inspirational a Catholic, cold war subculture, I never and patriotic images, such as the picture of understood that I might have to choose three firemen (placing the flag on the mound between being Catholic and American. I thus of rubble); thus began a sort of mythification became an American historian, not a church of the day into which George W. Bush and historian, interested in, worried about, taking Rudolph Giuliani entered, bearing spears responsibility for, as best I could, the past, and shields.” present and future of American Catholics, But these were not the only stories. While who were Americans as much as Catholics. national leaders prepared for war, many The events of 9/11 left me determined Americans paused in wonder amid the pain. to contest the countercultural, sectarWe met people who lost loved ones, each ian Catholicism increasingly dominant in with a story; we attended remarkable cerour church. This Catholicism thinks we emonies and heard about others; there was a Catholics can define ourselves by our diflot of silence. I recall a reflection session at ference and distance from other Americans. the College of the Holy Cross where some Such views are sometimes challenging; more expressed strong political reactions, but Jesuit often they are hypocritical, irresponsible, Father William E. Reiser, then a professor of blaming of others while exempting ourreligious studies, said quietly that he found selves, standing apart. In contrast, Father Police officers and firefighters hold the National 9/11 Flag during a pregame it too overwhelming to offer a thoughtful Judge stood with his people. ceremony at Frontier Field in Rochester, N.Y., Aug. 22. The flag flew atop a response quite yet. Later I read of ministers On 9/11 this country was tested and, for severely damaged building across from ground zero and was left tattered by at the site, who simply listened to the anguish a shining moment, found worthy. debris from the fallen World Trade Center. of stricken families and exhausted rescuers. That experience led me to a recommitFranciscan Father Mychal Judge, a chaplain ment to the United States and Americans, with the New York City Fire Department, who has been Later one of those office workers, John Labriola, an and to the American—and Christian—vision of a single called “the saint of 9/11,” employee of the Port Authority of New York and New human family. That vision was grounded in memories of asked his Lord to take Jersey, reportedly said: “The one conclusion I came to family and anti-communist Catholicism. It was challenged him where he was sup- on 9/11 is that people in the stairwell … really were in and revised by encounters with a diverse group of people, posed to go, then “keep ‘a state of grace.’ They helped each other. They didn’t like Pope John XXIII, Norman Thomas, Martin Luther me out of your way.” He panic. Most people are basically good. I know this, with King Jr. and members of the Catholic Worker Movement. died that day. certainty, because I had gone through the crucible. What After 9/11, I found myself drawn to shared responsibility Although distressed a great example people left: Be selfless, help the person by history itself. by the quick, public around you and get through it.” History is not made by somebody else in some other talk of war, I was also From life stories of victims, unending stories of time and place. No, we ourselves make history by our absorbed by stories of the helping and remarkable reports of mourning, I learned, choices. The meaning of 9/11, an example of history as people of 9/11 — people maybe relearned, lessons of love. How many stories told story, will be constructed from the choices we continue into whose lives history of airline passengers and workers at the twin towers, to make in its wake. as actuality exploded that knowing they would die, who called others to say “I love So far too many public choices have promoted civic September day. I could you.” I learned that American individualism is real and, idolatry and empire, or even death. But the story is not not get enough of those for the most part, good; we Americans, at least among over. Look at all the love that day. Love can write another stories, captured in the our own, value persons as persons, thank God. Selfish chapter and keep hope alive for a better future. The meanreporting of superb jour- individualism is another myth, for when the chips of life ing of 9/11 lies ahead. It is in our hands and in our hearts. nalists like Jim Dwyer were down, many endangered Americans thought not of David O’Brien is the University Professor of Faith A man covered with ash and in the profiles of vic- themselves but of others. I have always cherished the line and Culture at the University of Dayton in Ohio, and walks on a street following tims published day after from “Lumen Gentium” (No. 31) that describes the many emeritus professor at the College of the Holy Cross in day, week after week, in relationships we have in family, workplace and neighbor- Worcester, Mass. the collapse of the World The New York Times. hood as a complex fabric from which “the very web of Reprinted from America Aug. 29, with permission Trade Center towers in And I could not stop our existence is woven.” As fascinating stories of such of America Press, Inc., 2011. All rights reserved. For New York in this Sept. 11, looking at those powerful webs were told, it became clear to me (why had it been subscription information, call (800) 627-9533 or visit 2001, file photo. iconic photographs — so dim?) how much love really does matter. www.americamagazine.org. (CNS PHOTO/SHANNON STAPLETON, REUTERS)

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Ten years after 9/11 I was wrong. Things did not change very much. I thought that they would. Ten years ago, I wrote that my plans had changed as a result of the terrible crimes of Sept. 11. Now, 10 years later, things are pretty much the same. Life continues on as before. But for a little while, things did change: — The world was filled with sympathy for the United States. — The country became united in grief and common purpose. There was an outpouring of patriotism and piety. Members of Congress stood together and sang “God Bless America.” Public meetings began with the Pledge of Allegiance. People flew the flag everywhere. — On Capitol Hill, partisan divisions disappeared. The government passed one piece of anti-terrorism legislation after another, almost without reflection. — Airport security became much more rigorous. — Access to public buildings was limited. Whole areas of Washington, D.C., for example, were cordoned off. I got searched while driving to celebrate a wedding at St. Joseph’s on Capitol Hill. So did the guests. — For a little while after the attacks, the churches were full. People were united in their sorrow and prayer. Every candle was lit. Daily Mass was overflowing. People talked openly of their stories of grief and their faith. For weeks we watched the sorrowful funerals of firefighters, police and EMT workers. Our little Maryland community held a common prayer service at the local high school. It included Christians, Muslims and Jews. Nearly everyone participated, except for

the evangelicals. They would not pray with non-Christians. — Support for the military was also overwhelming 10 years ago. As the United States took action in Afghanistan nine years ago, there was a sense that it was just and necessary. We began praying for the safety of our troops at every Mass. Indeed, 10 years after Sept. 11, 2001, the memory remains, but the shock is gone. It does not seem like things are fundamentally changed: — The fervor of piety evident in the weeks after September 2001 has disappeared. — Church attendance has returned to normal levels. — The national unity of purpose is gone, for we seem to be divided over even We have ordinary things. — The sympathy that the United States surrendered our once enjoyed around the world after 9/11 privacy and even has evaporated; it was burned away by our civil liberties. the war in Iraq. — We have surrendered our privacy and even our civil liberties. Metal detectors are at every public building. We even go through metal detectors to enter our local DMV. My 90-year-old mother was subjected to a pat-down search when she got on a plane last summer. Today support for the military remains very high, but

our veterans are suffering greatly. We still pray for them every Sunday, but with an emphasis on their being returned to us. Many military personnel come back trauFather matized by war. Many are unemployed. Some Peter J. Daly are homeless and even suicidal. Thousands of lives have been lost and a trillion dollars spent in Iraq. There still is no peace there. People have gotten used to bad news. The fact that our government was torturing people in secret CIA prisons and incarcerating even American citizens without trial was greeted with a shrug by most Americans. One hundred years ago, the Catholic writer G.K. Chesterton observed that the one doctrine of the church that you could prove by picking up the morning newspaper was original sin. The human condition is the human condition. Sin and grace will always be part of our lives. Ten years after Sept. 11, 2001, we still remember the events with horror and grief. But the struggle between good and evil goes on. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Father Peter J. Daly writes a column for Catholic News Service.

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Guest Commentary By Father Robert Barron I have just completed one of the most extraordinary weeks of my life. For the past eight days, I participated in World Youth Day in Madrid, a gathering of some 1.5 million Catholic young people with Pope Benedict XVI. I met enthusiastic teen and twentysomething Catholics from the United States, Canada, Mexico, the Netherlands, Sweden, Nigeria, England, Australia, New Zealand, China, the Philippines, India, Denmark and many other countries. The universality of the church has never been, for me anyway, on fuller and more thrilling display. Some images that will be forever burned in my memory: a 20,000-seat arena, absolutely filled with young Catholics rocking, stomping and singing; Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York, striding the stage like a pro, delivering one-liners worthy of David Letterman, and sharing the unvarnished Gospel with his youthful audience; giving a talk in a very hot room, jammed to the rafters with kids eager to hear about the process of discerning a vocation; hordes of young Catholics, wearing their distinctive yellow World Youth Day T-shirts, carrying overloaded backpacks, and marching through the streets of Madrid like a nonviolent army; hundreds of fresh-faced religious in their distinctive habits, joyfully making their way through the various venues; tens of thousands of people kneeling in silent

adoration of the Blessed Sacrament; the successor of Peter presiding over a crowd of 1.5 million at an airfield southwest of Madrid; a steady stream of kids asking where they could find the adoration chapel or how they could arrange for confession; Benedict XVI himself, drenched with rain, but willing to stick it out with the giant crowd that was enduring a downpour in order to hear him. All of it rich, splendid, unforgettable. But I would like to focus my reflections on a phenomenon that would actually be funny if it weren’t so tragic. I’m talking about the mainstream media’s extraordinary capacity to miss the point. Every night that I was in Madrid, I would return to my room after an incomparably rich day moving among the throngs of pilgrims and I would watch the news on CNN and the BBC. World Youth Day was, invariably, among the top stories, but the coverage was, not to put too fine a point on it, just bizarre. “Protesters descend on Madrid as the pope arrives,” the BBC announcer would gravely intone; “The pope was met today with strong opposition from secularists, gay rights activists, and Spaniards angry over World Youth Day’s cost to taxpayers,” the CNN anchorwoman would say, frowning into the camera. By the admission of the news reporters themselves, the number of protesters never reached beyond a few thousand, and not one event of World Youth Day was interrupted in the least by their demonstrations. There were, at

most, a few scuffles between pilgrims and the protesters. But judging from the tone of the coverage, the average listener in the U.K. or the United States would have concluded that the Chicago riots of 1968 had broken out in the streets of Madrid. I actually laughed out loud when I focused in on some video of a “confrontation” between protesters and World Youth Day participants and noticed that at least half of the people in the picture were camera crews and reporters. A million-and-a-half young Catholics from all over the world come to celebrate their faith and to declare their solidarity with the pope — and the networks obsess over a handful of protesters! I know that controversy sells papers and pleases sponsors, but anyone who was on the ground for World Youth Day couldn’t help but conclude there was something more at work in the gross discrepancy between reality and reportage. The dirty little secret is that the actual World Youth Day doesn’t fit the standard secularist narrative, according to which Catholicism is a corrupt, backward-looking, moribund ideology, destined to fade away as science advances and subjectivist moral relativism becomes normative. A small percentage of priests engage in sexually deviant behavior? Blanket coverage. An international army of young people marches through the hot sun and then sits patiently through a rainstorm to see the pope? Ho-hum. That’s called reporting the news according to a set of fairly rigid

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Pope Benedict XVI arrives to celebrate the final Mass of World Youth Day at Cuatro Vientos airfield in Madrid Aug. 21.

ideological assumptions and imperatives. The Catholic Church — at least in the West — is passing through a dark period, largely of its own making. But has the Catholic Church lost the future? The mainstream media wants you to think so. But any of those who experienced World Youth Day firsthand would say “Don’t you believe it.” Father Robert Barron is the founder of the global ministry Word on Fire and the Francis Cardinal George Professor of Faith and Culture at University of St. Mary of the Lake in Mundelein, Ill.

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Facing up to the crisis in Catholic modernity By Father William J. Byron, SJ There’s a new book of scholarly essays that I warmly recommend to all Catholics — lay and clergy, hierarchy and lowerarchy. It is co-edited by Michael Lacey and Francis Oakley, lay Catholics who are retired historians, and is titled “The Crisis of Authority in Catholic Modernity” (Oxford University Press). In his prologue, Lacey identifies the issue that looms the largest in the inquiring minds of ordinary practicing Catholics today as “the developing crisis of ecclesiastical authority, particularly the teaching authority of the clerical hierarchy, the magisterium.” He adds that the “quiet insistence upon thinking for oneself is the chief characteristic of Catholic modernity.” How are the “thinking for themselves” modern Catholics and their appointed hierarchical leaders getting along? That’s another way of asking: How does a teaching church learn? The question suggests that, if authority becomes authoritarian, it can expect a collision sooner rather than later with modernity. Evidence of the collision abounds in surveys of Catholic opinion and practice cited in this book. Lacey and Oakley present a dozen essays that burrow into

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Guest worker abuse outrage “Sexual predators and serial rapists run wild at Wal-Mart supplier in Jordan” is the title of a new shocking report written by the highly respected Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights. According to the report, thousands of poor guest workers mostly from Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and India, labor at a frantic pace for 13 to 18.5 hours a day, six days a week sewing clothing for retail giants Wal-Mart and Target at the Classic Fashion sweatshop in Jordan. There, these oppressed women are cursed at, hit and shortchanged of their extremely low wages for not meeting their exhausting production goals. While these poor workers are paid on average only 61 cents an hour, Wal-Mart’s daily profits are over $38 million. These workers are housed in primitive bed bug-infested dorms that lack heat and hot water. Furthermore, Charles Kernaghan, executive director of the Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights, explained to me that these women workers are only allowed out of Classic Fashion’s compound six hours a week. Now, on top of all this tremendous injustice, scores of

Mission Dolores . . . ■ Continued from page 11 computer and 15 can interact with the teacher and teacher’s aide, increasing the amount of individualized attention, said Hamilton. Hamilton, who ran the KIPP Foundation supporting KIPP schools, said a similar program was tried in a KIPP Academy in Watts in Los Angeles and surprised everyone because the students performed “best in class” among KIPP schools. KIPP, the Knowledge Is Power Program, is a national network of free,

women continue to suffer sexual abuse, rape and even torture at the hands of several Classic Fashion managers, said Kernaghan. In December 2010, Kernaghan traveled to Jordan to secretly meet with several Classic Fashion workers. There he was handed several clandestine cell phone recorded testimonies. Kernaghan said the translated testimonies are so sad that he and his associate actually cried when they listened to the pain these women are forced to endure while sewing clothing for WalMart and Target — who are doing nothing to end the oppression. One testimony from Kamala — a false name for her protection — reveals how these abused, raped workers feel hopeless, some even to the point of considering suicide. “I am completely destroyed. I have nothing more to lose. I cannot face my parents. I cannot take my own life because I am extremely poor. I am the only one to take care of my parents.” Because their families desperately need what little money these workers earn, the women feel compelled to stay and suffer as long as they can endure the pain. But Kernaghan said the back to school buying season going on right now is an ideal time to put the pressure on WalMart and Target — where the majority of shoppers go to buy

open-enrollment, college-preparatory public schools focused on students in underserved, poor communities. At present there are 109 KIPP schools nationally. Among them is KIPP Bayview Academy, housed in the building of the former St. Paul of the Shipwreck School in San Francisco. “Seton Education Partners gets the picture,” said one of Catholic education’s more influential voices, Jesuit Father John Piderit. “Secular education is being shaken up and Catholic education is also in the maelstrom. The traditional parochial school model has worked well for over a hundred years,

back to school supplies. He said the nearly $69 billion spent on back to school clothing and supplies for elementary, high school and college students offers consumers tremendous potential power. Tony Magliano But that power needs to be activated by parents, students, teachers and other caring people who are willing to take a few moments to email and call Wal-Mart’s CEO Mike Duke and Target’s CEO Gregg W. Steinhafel. Ask your family, friends, school and parish to get involved. And please go to www.globallabourrights.org and sign the petition to end sexual abuse at Classic Fashion. Certainly Jesus, who had a special love for the poor and oppressed, would have us do no less. Tony Magliano writes a column on social justice for Catholic News Service.

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Church assets, abuse, parish closures all figure in new book on money sions occur in a context influenced by the high cost of settling cases involving clergy sexual abuse of minors. In other words, a large part of Berry’s book is devoted to the church’s handling of money at a time of extraordinary financial demands. He hardly is uncaring about the church. However, readers familiar with his past work will not be surprised to find he is unafraid to present his viewpoints and conclusions drawn from his the conclusion research and extensive interviewing in aan emphatic, often manner. critical man “Render Unto Rome” is “Rende comprehensive study. not a com Berry says he wantRather, B take “a deep look at ed to ta handling of church the ha assets” in the archasset dioceses of Boston dioc and Los Angeles, an and the Diocese of an Cleveland, interlacC ing these accounts “with events from other dioceses and a recurrent ces focus on the Congregation for the Clergy, the Vatican office that monitors bishops it hhow bi h sellll property.” Controversies surrounding the suppression and closing of parishes represent an important object of Berry’s attention. Changing demographics may well motivate the closing of a parish, but “Render

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Reviewed by David Gibson (CNS) — The story of money in the Catholic Church “is a story of personality” — how each individual vidual bishop tends to his own diocese’s “infrastructure, funds, property, investments, tments, social service programs and parish life,” Jason Berry writes in “Render Unto Rome: The Secrett Life of Money in the he Catholic Church.” For Berry, the church’s ch’s financial system “resembles mbles a constellation of medieval dieval fiefdoms in which each bishop manages his fisc ideally to serve his people, but with an eye ye riveted on Rome.” The Vatican largely has “rubberstamped bishops’ financial al decisions,” the author states. Yet, the he interactions of Vatican officials with th officials of U.S. dioceses are of sufficient i i t interest i t t tto constitute a key point of focus in this book. In one of its “narrative lines,” the book “follows a series of property and financial decisions that link certain American bishops and Vatican officials.” Many of these deci-

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By Lou Baldwin PHILADELPHIA (CNS) — Matthew, Mark, Luke and John told us all about what Jesus said and did, but not one of them mentioned what he looked like. The vaguely European-featured Jesus with a brown beard and hair was pretty much the standard for most of history, at least until Rembrandt van Rijn, the greatest painter, draftsman and printmaker of the Dutch Golden Age, came along. In the mid-17th century he and students at his Amsterdam studio painted a series of at least eight heads of Christ which set the liturgical art world on its ear. Rembrandt’s studio was in a section of Amsterdam with a fairly large Jewish population, and it is believed the same young Jewish man was the model for all the portraits, which look remarkably like the olive-skinned and dark-haired men you would see strolling the Galilee shore today. For the first time six of these paintings are brought together for an exhibit, “Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus,” which was first exhibited at the Louvre in Paris and now at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (Aug. 3-Oct. 30) after which it will travel to the Detroit Institute of Art (Nov. 20-Feb. 12). “’Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus’ marks the first time that an exhibition including a substantial group of paintings by Rembrandt will be seen in Philadelphia,” said Timothy Rub, director and CEO of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. In his day Rembrandt was ridiculed for his innovative portrayal of the Savior. By long-standing tradition, the head

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in “Render Unto Rome.” One chapter, titled “Father Maciel, Lord of Prosperity,” delves into the religious order’s reputed wealth and the uses made of this money. “Money is a mighty force in any religion,” Berry comments in his discussion of Father Maciel and the Legionaries. The author holds that Father Maciel “embodied the theology of prosperity” and “used religion to make money.” Berry reports how Father Maciel endeavored in an ongoing way to curry favor and influence in offices of the Roman Curia through significant financial gifts to officials. As a writer, Berry often adopts a storytelling approach, attempting to reveal the personality, feelings or motivations of individuals involved in the events he covers. At times this works quite well, drawing the reader into the story. Where does the church’s money go? Berry suggests to readers that this is a basic question to ask. However, he says, “a true financial profile of the church is elusive.” There is no “inherent structure for accountability” when it comes to the handling of church finances, Berry insists. He writes, “As Catholics we know too little about how well, or poorly, bishops and religious leaders manage the money we give and the larger sphere of church assets.”

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of Jesus was taken from three sources — Veronica’s veil, which according to tradition was imprinted with the image of Jesus after a woman wiped his face on the road to Golgotha; the Mandylion of Edessa, a similar icon venerated in the East; and the Lentulus letter, a written description of Christ purportedly written by the governor of Judea who preceded Pontius Pilate. However, the Lentulus letter is generally dismissed as a 15th-century forgery, and neither Veronica’s veil nor the Mandylion can be definitively traced to the first century. In addition to the six heads of Jesus, the Philadelphia museum exhibit contains other Rembrandt works drawn from the great “Head of Christ” attributed to Rembrandt van Rijn museums of America and Europe showing the artist’s transition from the traditional to the innovative. Especially noteworthy are “Supper at Emmaus” and “Christ Preaching” (The Hundred Guilder Print), both from the Louvre. Although a number of the paintings and prints in the exhibit are from the Philadelphia museum’s collection, it includes only one “Head of Jesus.” It is part of the vast John G. Johnson collection and was until recently in storage, because it was thought to be a more recent copy of Rembrandt’s work. Typical of Rembrandt’s period, it is painted on oak, and by close examination it was originally a smaller portrait pieced into a larger panel, with a background almost seamlessly painted to form a single panel. When Lloyd DeWitt arrived at the museum a decade ago as associate curator of the Johnson collection, he was “extremely puzzled why someone would take such time on a copy and piece it together,” said Jennifer Thompson, associate curator of European paintings and sculpture before 1900. DeWitt consulted with Peter Kline, a wood biologist who has an international reputation for dating the panels works are painted upon. Through examination of the pattern of tree rings on the two panels, he was able to determine the main panel was from a tree harvested during Rembrandt’s Amsterdam years, and the surrounding panel was even earlier, about 1610, which made it almost a certainty the picture was from Rembrandt’s studio, not a later copy. With the “Head of Jesus” authenticated, DeWitt conceived the notion of the exhibit with the Philadelphia museum’s work as a starting point. Although DeWitt himself recently moved on to the Art Gallery of Toronto in his native Canada, “he was the first to think about bringing all of the heads together for an exhibit,” Thompson said.

September 9, 2011

9/11Memorial Events Sept. 11, 10:30 a.m.: “Annual Police/Fire Memorial Mass” at St. Monica Church, Geary at 24th Avenue in San Francisco. Liturgy is sponsored by SFPD and SFFD. Father John Greene, pastor of St. Monica and chaplain to the SFFD, is principal celebrant. The Mass prays for all firefighters and police officers who have died. Reception follows. There is ample parking on 23rd Avenue. Sept. 11, 2 p.m.: Concert commemorating the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks at the annual Opera in the Park in Sharon Meadows of Golden Gate Park. Music Director Nicola Luisotti will conduct the San Francisco Opera Orchestra, chorus and acclaimed soloists from the company’s fall 2011 season in a concert featuring Mozart’s masterpiece, Requiem, and inspirational works by American composers Harold Arlen, Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland and John Williams. During the Mozart Requiem, meditational texts will be read by representatives of various religious traditions that make up the San Francisco Interfaith Council. Opera General Director David Gockley will serve as master of ceremonies joined on stage by a roster of distinguished political, interfaith and civic dignitaries. Admission is free. Sept. 11: “Interfaith Prayer Service and Artist’s Project” at Manresa Gallery of the University of San Francisco. Rites begin at sundown with showing of video piece by artist Ben Wood projected onto side façade of St. Ignatius Church at Parker and Fulton. Prayer service is in church at 8 p.m. Reception follows. Visit www.manresagallery.org or email info@ manresagallery.org.

Respect Life Oct. 5, 6 p.m.: Anniversary Mass commemorating 20th year of Priests for Life at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street and Geary Boulevard in San Francisco. Father Frank Pavone, Priests for Life national director, is homilist and among the concelebrants. Reception follows. Email Anniversary@ PriestsForLife.org.

Youth Ministry Oct. 4, 4:30–8:30 p.m.: “Catholic College Fair” at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street and Geary Boulevard in San Francisco. Meet with representatives from Catholic colleges including Ave Maria University, Belmont Abbey College, Creighton University, Gonzaga University, Notre Dame de Namur University, University of Notre Dame, University of San Francisco, Holy Names University, St. Mary’s College and other Catholic schools. Event is sponsored by the Office of Religious Education and Youth Ministry of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Call (415) 614-5650. Sept. 24: OnFire 2011 at Six Flags in Vallejo. San Francisco Auxiliary Bishops William Justice and Robert McElroy are expected to attend. Email clausingv@sfarchdiocese.org or call (415) 614-5654. Oct. 9, 4 p.m.: Youth Mass at St. Anne of the Sunset Church, Judah at Funston in San Francisco. Email clausingv@sfarchdiocese.org or call (415) 614-5654.

Young Adults The Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose have announced retreats for young adult women and men as well as several retreats for young adult women interested in exploring religious life. Visit www. msjdominicans.org or call (510) 933-6335 or (5100 657-2468. You may also email blessings@msjdominicans.org or vocations@msjdominicans.org.

Food and Fun Sept. 10, 9 a.m.–3 p.m.: St. Isabella’s Annual Parking Lot Sale, on parish grounds, One Trinity Way in San Rafael. Proceeds benefit parish and school. Come by and shop. Snack bar and bake sale, too. There is plenty of parking. Call (415) 479-5609 or email ginny@lucasvalley.net. Sept. 16 and 19: “Annual Golf and Tennis Classic” benefiting Sonoma’s Hanna Boys Center. The racquets come out on Friday at Napa’s Silverado Country Club and the clubs on Monday at Sonoma Golf Club. Cost to participate in the tennis tourney is $150 per person and includes court fees, gifts, lunch photo, and hosted cocktail hour. Admission

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to the golf event is $275 per person and includes greens fees, cart, gifts, continental breakfast, lunch, and cocktail hour. Visit www.hannacenter.org. Oct. 7: Catholic Marin Breakfast Club meets for Mass and breakfast at St. Sebastian Church, Sir Francis Drake Boulevard and Bon Air Road in Kentfield. Email sugaremy@aol.com. Oct. 8, 8 p.m.: “Dance the Night Away – Zydeco Style” at St. Paul of the Shipwreck gym, corner of 3rd and Jamestown in San Francisco. Enjoy Creole-Cajun cuisine, raffles, and a fun time on the dance floor. Free dance lessons at 7 p.m. Music by André Thierry and Zydeco Magic. Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door. For tickets or more information call Warren Semien at (415) 374-6698 or Benetta Gipson at (415) 822-5188. Oct. 10: 19th Annual Capuchin Golf Tournament at Green Hills Country Club in Millbrae with registration and lunch at 10 a.m. and a shotgun-start 18-hole scramble. Entry fee of $300 per person includes golf, range, cart, tee prizes, lunch, beverages, and dinner. Dinner-only tickets are available at $50 per person. Call Bill Mason at (650) 906-1040 or Roy Nickolai at (415) 760-6584. Proceeds benefit service programs of the Capuchin Franciscans of the Western America Province.

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

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Oct. 21, 11:30 a.m.: “First Annual St. John Vianney Luncheon” honoring retired priests of the Archdiocese of San Francisco at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street and Geary Boulevard in San Francisco. Proceeds benefit Priests Retirement Fund. For information, call (415) 614-5580 or email development@sfarchdiocese.org.

Thursdays, 7:30-9 p.m. beginning Sept. 15: Classes on the Greek Fathers and the Desert Fathers of the fourth century with Father David Anderson. Classes begin at St. Sebastian Church, Bon Air Rd. and Sir Francis Drake Boulevard in Kentfield and move to nearby Marin Catholic High School Sept. 22. Donations accepted but all are welcome to audit the series for free. . Call Mary Ann (415) 454-0979 or Paul at (415) 385-1720 or visit www.leblogdelabergerie. com/FrDavid.htm. Sept. 20, 7-8:30 p.m.: “Sing the Music of Hildegard of Bingen” This gentle, contemplative practice of listening and singing the music of Hildegard together is led by Devi Mathieu and requires no previous experience with the music of Hildegard or with medieval music. Suggested offering is $10-20. Santa Sabina Center, 25 Magnolia Avenue, San Rafael. Call (457) 7727 or email info@santasabinacenter.org. Sept. 21, 9:30 a.m.-2 p.m.: A contemplative Day of Prayer led by Dominican Sister Mary Neill. Suggested offering is $20. Santa Sabina Center, 25 Magnolia Avenue in San Rafael. Call (415) 457-7727or email info@santasabinacenter.org.

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

Rosary Rallies Oct. 15: Family Rosary Crusade. The San Francisco Legion of Mary invites all Catholics

Good Health/Seniors Sept. 24, 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.: “Navigating the Cost of Senior Care,” a free education event sponsored by the California Knights of Columbus at San Rafael Community Center Auditorium, 618 B St. in San Rafael. Topics include myths and realities about senior services and aging, the spectrum of housing and facility options for seniors, in-home care, Medicare, Medi-Cal, veteran’s aid, and longterm care insurance. Lunch will be provided. Call (800) 273-0068. Alma Via, 515 Northgate Drive in San Rafael, announces an educational series for older adults and caregivers. All talks are from 4-6:30 p.m. Sept. 21: Fall Prevention; Oct. 19: Safe Exercise; Nov. 16: Better Nutrition. Call (415) 491-1900.

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Sept. 14, noon: Class of ‘48/’49 from St. Anthony Elementary School in San Francisco at Basque Cultural Center, 599 Railroad Ave. in South San Francisco. Contact Jean Ferlick Kniffin at (650) 341-0282 or Elizabeth Caltani Cesca at (650) 588-5798. Sept. 17: Presentation High School, San Francisco class of 1951. Contact Audrey Sylvester Trees at (650) 592-0273 or email audreytrees@sbcglobal.net. Sept. 17: Class of ’61, School of the Epiphany in San Francisco. Contact Ralph Barsi at (650) 355-6614 or email rebarsi@comcast.net. Sept. 24, 11:30 a.m.: All-school/class reunion for St. Brigid High School at Caesar’s Restaurant in San Francisco. Call Clara Hansbury at (415) 456-1573. Sept. 24, 6 p.m.: Calling St Matthew School Alumni for first annual Alumni Reception at the Carnival. Come along for drinks and nibbles. Check in with old classmates. Alumni families and parents welcome too! Spread the word. Stay afterward and enjoy our wonderful carnival atmosphere featuring live music, international foods, games and much more. Carnival and reunion are on campus at 910 El Camino Real in San Mateo. Sept. 24, 25: St. Timothy School Alumni Weekend Mass and Reception on the St. Timothy Parish campus, 1515 Dolan Ave., San Mateo. Visit www.sttimothyschool.org or call the school office at (650) 342-6567. Oct. 16: Class of 1951 from Lone Mountain College in San Francisco/SF College for Women. Contact Anstell Ricossa at (415) 921-8846 or Toni Buckley at (415) 681-5789. Oct. 16: Class of 1961 from Lone Mountain College. Contact Pat Mazza Gallagher at (415) 472-7865 or Carolyn Zullo Giannini at (415) 921-4407. Oct. 21: Tee off in St Matthew School 48th Annual Golf Tournament! Enjoy a fun afternoon of golf and friends at Poplar Creek Golf Course in San Mateo. For more details, registration and sponsor opportunities visit www.stmatthewcath.org or email Jeff at jmstevens1@ gmail.com. Alumni should let him know you are a St. Matt’s graduate. Oct. 22: Presentation High School, San Francisco class of ’66. Contact Martha Kunz Willis at (650) 763-1202 or email mwwmtw@comcast.net or Marilyn Mathers at (51) 232-4848 or mmathers@deloitte.com. Nov. 5: Holy Name School class of ‘64 will meet in the Flanagan Center. Contact Andi Laber Heintz at AHeintz@redpoint.com. Nov. 26: St. Anne of the Sunset School, class of 1981. Email George Rehmet at georgerehmet@yahoo.com or call (650) 438-9589.

Single, Divorced, Separated Information about Bay Area single, divorced and separated programs is available from Jesuit Father Al Grosskopf at grosskopf@usfca.edu (415) 422-6698. Oct. 14-16: Widowed, Separated and Divorced Weekend at Vallombrosa Center, 250 Oak Grove Ave. in Menlo Park. Event sponsored by Beginning Experience. For information, call Helen at (415) 388-9651 or Cathy at (408) 263-3718 or email SJBeginExp@aol.co. or visit www.beginningexperience.org. Nov. 4-6: “Marriage Help – Retrouvaille” (pronounced retro-vi), a Catholic program, has helped thousands of couples at all stages of disillusionment or misery in their marriage. For confidential information about, or to register for the program on Nov. 4-6 call (415) 893-1005 or email: SF@Retrouvaille.org or visit www.Retrouvaille.org or www.retroCA.com.

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SEEKING TEMPORARY CUSTODIAL HELP Mercy High School in San Francisco is looking for someone to work as a custodian in their Maintenance Department. This is a temporary, full time position, Monday through Friday. The work shift begins at 1 pm and ends at 9:30 pm. Persons applying for this job need to be hardworking and able to work well with others. Custodial duties will include vacuuming and washing floors, dusting, and waste management. There will also be light lifting involved. In addition, the position will include setting up and breaking down events, involving the moving of furniture. Successful applicant will be subject to background check and fingerprinting, according to SF Archdiocesan Rules and Regulations, and will need to provide references. Interested candidates please submit a cover letter along with a copy of your resume or work history to: Ms. Lorelei Zermani, Mercy High School, 3250 19th Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94132, or via email to lzermani@mercyhs.org.

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Seek Comfort in Prayer Together At the Rachel Mourning Shrine. Remembering our babies who died before, at, or after birth. We hold these children gently in our hearts and pray for all those who mourn for them.

“For I will turn their mourning into joy.”

Jeremiah 31:13

Mass and Healing Liturgy in memory of our Little Ones Sponsored by The Archdiocesan Project Rachel Ministry and Holy Cross Cemetery

Saturday, September 17, 2011 – 11:00 a.m. Bishop Robert Mc Elroy, principal celebrant Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery 1500 Mission Road, Colma, CA Rachel Shrine A gathering and light luncheon will follow the Mass. For further information, please contact the Project Rachel Ministry at 415-717-6428. or the Respect Life Program at 415-614-557o. To reach the Rachel shrine, please enter by the Main Gate at Holy Cross Cemetery, 1500 Mission Road, Colma. Signs will be posted to direct you.

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Issuu converts static files into: digital portfolios, online yearbooks, online catalogs, digital photo albums and more. Sign up and create your flipbook.