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VATICAN CITY – Over the past five years, relations between the government of China and the Catholic Church unfortunately have been marked by “misunderstandings, accusations” and new “stumbling blocks” to religious freedom, said the prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. Cardinal Fernando Filoni, congregation prefect, said, “Control over persons and institutions has been honed and sessions of indoctrination and pressure are being turned to with ever greater ease.” In an article published in late October in Tripod, a publication of the Holy Spirit Study Center in Hong Kong, the cardinal, who spent nine years in Hong Kong as a Vatican diplomat monitoring the situation of the church in China, issued a call for dialogue with China’s communist government. SEE CHINA, PAGE 21

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Honoring loved ones on the Day of the Dead St. Rita School marked Dios de Los Muertos, the Day of the Dead, Nov. 2 with a shrine in front of the school office in Fairfax. Pictured are sixth grader Estefany Oxlaj, with a photo of her favorite auntie Silvia in a decorated frame, and sixth grader Randy Sanchez, with a framed picture of his auntie Eloisa.

CHICAGO – The treatment of immigrants in the United States violates the biblical and ethical norms that God requires of his people, according to speakers at a Nov. 2 conference on the ethics of immigration held at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. “An Ethical Perspective on the Accompaniment of Immigrants: A Faith Response” was sponsored by the Archdiocese of Chicago’s Office for Immigrant Affairs and Immigration Education, Catholic universities, religious communities and the Catholic Conference of Illinois. The conference was set against a backdrop of roughly 400,000 deportations SEE IMMIGRANT, PAGE 21

1 pastor, 2 parishes: New model of community stresses collaboration GEORGE RAINE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

When Father John Sakowski celebrates Mass these days, he always inserts an intention: “For St. Thomas and St. Monica, to work in collaboration for the people of God.” It’s for good reason. Years ago, the San Francisco parishes that bear those saints’ names, St. Thomas the Apostle Church on Balboa Street and St. Monica Church on Geary Boulevard, and their schools, may well have had a friendly Richmond District rivalry, but those days are gone – particularly now that Father Sakowski is the pastor of both of them. A demographic sea change from the once-heavily Irish and Italian

‘The big word is collaboration. I use it every day, 17 times.’ FATHER JOHN SAKOWSKI Richmond that filled those parishes years ago, the dramatic fall off in Mass attendance and a supply-demand imbalance in priests brought about a reality from which there was no escape, particularly in the Geary corridor: One pastor would have to serve two relatively small parishes – 400 families at St. Monica and some 350 at St. Thomas. It’s a first-of-its kind model for the Catholic Church in San Francisco, established here in 1776. On July 1, Father Sakowski, a 60-yearold former structural engineer ordained only seven years ago, succeeded Father

John Greene, pastor at St. Monica for 13 years, when he was transferred to be pastor at St. Robert Church in San Bruno. Father Sakowski continues as pastor at St. Thomas the Apostle, the parish he has guided since July 1, 2010. “I met with the parish councils, with the school boards and I spoke at Masses at the two parishes,” said Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice, the vicar for clergy, “and I said this is a new opportunity. And I was very clear with them that we are not merging the parishes. It’s a new model. The pastor of both parishes is the same person.”

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He added, “What was said also was that once this all gets going it would not be surprising if they began to share some things with each other,” perhaps a religious education program, for example, he said. The bishop heard only one complaint in this process. Someone at St. Monica opined during a visit that the bishop is “going to work the pastor to death.” He said, “I hope not.” Father Sakowski is actually part of a team. He is joined by Sister Noreen O’Connor, a sister of St. Joseph of Carondelet, who is pastoral associate and director of religious education at both St. Thomas the Apostle and St. Monica, a veteran administrator, SEE COMMUNITY, PAGE 21

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COLLECTION FOR RETIRED RELIGIOUS: The 25th annual collection for the Retirement Fund for Religious will be taken up Dec. 8-9 in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. The parish-based appeal is coordinated by the National Religious Retirement Office in Washington, D.C., and offers financial support for the day-to-day care of over 34,000 senior Catholic sisters, brothers, and religious order priests. Last year, the archdiocese contributed $134,622.21 to this collection. In 2012, the Capuchin Franciscan Order, Salesian Society of Don Bosco, Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and Verbum Dei Missionary Fraternity received a combined total of $242,450.69 in financial assistance made possible by the national appeal. Additionally, religious who serve or have served in the archdiocese but whose communities are based elsewhere may also benefit. Proceeds are distributed to eligible religious communities to help underwrite retirement and health care expenses.

Left, relief pitcher Sergio Romo of the San Francisco Giants rides in a vehicle during the team’s World Series winners parade along Market Street in San Francisco Oct. 31. Romo, whose 10th-inning strikeouts clinched the series for his team over the Detroit Tigers, caused a bit of a stir at the parade with his “I just look illegal” T-shirt, over which he wore a rosary. Second baseman Marco Scutaro, center right, who drove in the winning run in the series’ last game, said in a post-series interview on Major League Baseball’s website: “God had a plan for me, and this was it.” Among the thousands of parade revelers were, bottom right, St. Ignatius College Preparatory juniors Nic Aronce-Camp, Scott Wu, Jaren Yang, Trevor Dunbar, Julian Marcu. The Archbishop Riordan HIgh School marching band performed in the parade, under the direction of an orange-flag-waving Scott Souza, bottom left. Families from Holy Name School, San Francisco, joined the celebration, center left. (CNS PHOTO/ROBERT GALBRAITH, REUTERS)

‘KINSHIP ACROSS BORDERS: A Christian Ethic of Immigration’: Talk and book signing with Kristen E. Heyer and Jesuit Father Sean Carroll, looking at contemporary U.S. immigration in the context of fundamental Christian beliefs about the human person, sin, family life and global solidarity. University of San Francisco, Joan and Ralph Lane Center for Catholic Studies and Social Thought, Lone Mountain 100, Nov. 14., 4-7 p.m. Heyer is Bernard J. Hanley Professor of Religious Studies at Santa Clara University. She is the author of “Prophetic and Public: The Social Witness of U.S. Catholicism,” which won the College Theology Society’s Best Book Award, and co-editor of “Catholics and Politics: Dynamic Tensions between Faith and Power.” Father Carroll, a Jesuit from the California Province, is the executive director of the KINO Border Initiative.

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Laser-mapping Mission Dolores VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Parents working late with a procrastinating fourth grader on a California mission project just got some high-tech help. Old Mission Dolores unveiled a virtual tour and 3D visualization of the San Francisco mission, the first step of an ambitious project by nonprofit CyArk to use laser technology to digitally map and document the 21 missions, four presidios and three pueblos along the El Camino Real. The project will also conserve contemporary images of the structures in their entirety for future generations. Old Mission Dolores curator Andrew Galvan expects the new website to attract more actual visitors to Mission San Francisco de Asis after they get a chance to see a virtual version of the mission. It will also help graduate students as well as elementary school teachers, parents and students working on projects related to California’s missions as part of the state’s fourth grade curriculum. The first Mission Dolores website through CyArk went live Oct. 25. Another website that focuses in detail on Mission Dolores will be ready by the end of the academic year, and will also be designed by CyArk, said Galvan. “Mission Dolores is high profile. It is extensively researched and studied,“ said Galvan, noting graduate

A digital map of the El Camino during the Mission period, with maritime routes in blue

A drawing of Mission Dolores in 1883 and college students will make use of the website. Not only is a 3D laser view of Mission Dolores now available online, but there is also an interactive map of El Camino Real, including the marine routes that were part of the original “royal road.” The map combines maps from 1723 and 2012 to demonstrate how the Spanish established maritime routes to connect the presidios and missions in Alta California to ports in Baja California and how the land routes developed, said Tom Greaves, CyArk executive director. CyArk is a nonprofit with a mission to digitally preserve “our world’s cultural heritage” and has used digital mapping on historic sites around the world, Greaves said. The mapping by CyArk is also designed to support an effort by the state of California to have El Camino Real declared a “world heritage

route” by the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Greaves said. If it achieves that designation, it would be the first in the U.S., he said. Mission Dolores is the first of the missions, pueblos and presidios to be completely mapped so detailed information is not available beyond the actual historic route yet on the El Camino interactive website. The project will cost about $1.5 million and CyArk is still looking for investors to fund laser-mapping of many of the other missions and pueblos, he said. CyArk’s laser technology provides pinpoint accurate measurements that will help with needed retrofits and repairs for the mission, and also ensures that if disaster does strike, it can be rebuilt to exact specifications, Greaves said. CyArk has provided the first ever detailed blueprints of the mission,

built by California Indians under the supervision of the Franciscan missionaries. While the mission withstood the 1906 and 1989 earthquakes, another shaker could be disastrous, said Galvan. He is most concerned about the Baroque altar, the Reredos, that dates from 1797, he said. “We could rebuild it from their images if it fell apart,” said Galvan, noting that by serendipity the Reredos had been stabilized with new wooden frame, screws and nails in 1905 right before the 1906 earthquake. “That’s our main art piece that we need preservation work on at the moment,” he said. The 3D visualizations and virtual tour of the mission are at http:// archive.cyark.org/misin-de-nuestropadre-san-francisco-de-ass-missiondolores-intro. The interactive map for El Camino Real is available at: http://archive. cyark.org/el-camino-real-theme.

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Pivotal divots: Putts put kids through summer camp TOM BURKE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Catholic Charities CYO has announced San Francisco 49ers CEO Jed York as honorary chairman of the agency’s Catholic Charities CYO Golf Day. It is the 54th year for the tournament and will take place May 6 at Stanford University Golf Course and Sharon Heights Golf & Country Club. Proceeds from the tournament provide CYO Summer Camp and Jed York CYO Athletics Camp scholarships for Bay Area youth. “The 49ers organization is committed to improving opportunities for kids in our community and this is a great way to combine our efforts,” Jed said. “We are grateful for Jed’s leadership as we continue to build support around the Bay Area to ensure kids in need have access to enriching summer activities,” said tourney chair Jim McCabe. Call (415) 972-1246 or visit www.cccyo.org/golfday. WITTY WISDOM: Paulist Father Dan McCotter, pastor, Old St. Mary’s Cathedral and Holy Family Mission, published a “Recall Notice” in a recent bulletin. God is recalling us all he said because of a defect he identified as “subsequential internal non-morality” or SIN. “Symptoms include lack of peace and joy, selfish behavior, foul vocal emissions. Repair of the defect is offered free Father Dan of charge and a technician, Jesus, McCotter, CSP has offered to bear the cost of the repairs. The number to call is PR-ayers. When connected upload sins and download atonement into your heart. The Best Instructions Before Leaving Earth operating manual – BIBLE - comes with the transaction for future consultations. You can contact God any time by Knee-mail.” SPECIAL MEMORY: Was very glad to hear from Pat Henning, who grew up in St. Emydius Parish and is now living in Fair Oaks near Sacramento. “As a student of Sacred Heart High School’s altar server group I served the last Mass on the morning the cathedral on Van Ness Avenue burned,” Pat said in a note to this column. Pat was part of the altar crew at SH from 1960-62 and served Mass at the cathedral regularly. “I looked forward to going to a real holy place. It was so majestic. Altar service was a real honor, and a real contact with the life of the church.” Pat was ordained to the permanent

EXERCISE PRIZE: Turning in the mileage Oct. 20 for cancer awareness and cures were more than two dozen students from Mercy High School, San Francisco’s Club Hope for Tomorrow. Students’ parents and club moderators Cindy Ovares and Tanya Bolshakoff, and religious studies teacher Tanya Bolshakoff also stepped it up. was San Francisco attorney and faithful Giants’ fan William A. Gaus, who died in September and was buried from St. Agnes Church in San Francisco Oct. 1. Bill was a Giants’ season-ticket holder and he enjoyed many games with his wife, Therese, and their six grown children. In addition to a distinguished legal career and his 34-year marriage, Bill was a longtime parishioner of St. Agnes, and a CYO basketball and baseball coach. “Bill was a wonderful, faithful parishioner,” said Jesuit Father Ray Allender, pastor of St. Agnes. “He sat in the same pew each Sunday for the 8:30 Mass. I was especially taken by his humble bearing for a man of such accomplishment. He had a wonderful family and was dedicated to church and family.” BY MY SIDE: Catherine’s Companions are students of Mercy High School, Burlingame who visit and assist retired Sisters of Mercy at their Marian Oaks residence in Burlingame. Allison Cox, pictured here with Mercy Sister Mary Joanne De Vincenti, started with Catherine’s Companions about three years ago and currently is club president. The group is named for Mercy Sisters’ founder Catherine McAuley. More than a dozen young women participate in the once a month gatherings that usually include Catherine’s “comfortable cup of tea” and a shared activity. diaconate in 1992 by retired Sacramento Bishop Francis Quinn, retiring three years ago. Pat and his wife, Regina, have been married 42 years. Pat is the son of late Kennedy administration undersecretary of labor Jack Henning. ALL HATS OFF: Watching the World Series from what some may call “the best seats in the house”

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Relative’s sainthood rite ‘rocked my spirituality’ VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

A parishioner of Our Lady of Mercy, Daly City, who traces her lineage to the sister of St. Pedro Calungsod says her experience at the Filipino teenager’s canonization on Oct. 21 “rocked my spirituality.” St. Pedro left Cebu at about age 14 and traveled with Spanish Jesuits to teach the faith in Guam. St. Pedro was martyred along with Blessed Diego Luis de San Vitores, a Spanish Jesuit missionary priest, on Guam April 2, 1672. Rose Poblete and 13 relatives, including her husband Rodolfo, and her mother Olga Ouano, and three siblings, had front-row seats at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome where Pope Benedict XVI canonized St. Pedro Calungsod and six other saints, including Native American St. Kateri Tekakwitha. “They told us we were going to have good seats, but we had no idea,” said Poblete. Like Poblete and her family, St. Pedro was a Visayan, part of an ethnic minority in the Philippines who speak a dialect more similar to Spanish than to the primary official language of Tagolog. “We come from the same place where it is believed he lived, Ginatilan,” she said. Ginatilan is a small city in the province of Cebu. Poblete, who lives in San Bruno, has returned each year to Cebu City for the feast of St. Pedro, April 2, which is celebrated at the shrine where her mother devotes countless hours and has worked for decades with the postulator of the sainthood cause of St. Pedro.

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Members of the Ouano family are pictured on the steps of St. Peter’s Basilica Oct. 21 after the canonization of St. Pedro Calungsod. The family traces its lineage to Ginatilan in Cebu province, Philippines, where the teenage saint is believed to have lived. Our Lady of Mercy, Daly City, parishioner Rose Poblete and 13 relatives, including her husband Rodolfo, and her mother Olga Ouano, and three siblings, had front-row seats at the canonization. Left, St. Pedro’s picture hangs over St. Peter’s Square during the celebration. “Through these years we’ve been very close to the effort to get him sainted,” Poblete said. “He’s been very good to me,” she said, saying she has had prayers answered through the intercession of St. Pedro. In Rome, the family met many Visayans from places as distant as Africa, Abu Dhabi, Germany and Luxembourg, who had the same experience. “It was a very touching moment for the Visayans to have their own saint,” she said, describing the canonization as “beautiful.”

Very little is known about St. Pedro Calungsod. But it is known that he was martyred with Blessed Diego Luis de San Vitores, a Spanish Jesuit missionary priest, on Guam April 2, 1672. Because St. Pedro was beheaded and his body thrown into the water, the only relic is sand from the beach where he was martyred, Poblete said. There are no pictures, so the image that is used is an artist’s recreation, she said. However, Poblete says her family believes they are related to the lay catechist who was born in 1654 in

Ginatilan and who shares their Visayan ethnic heritage and dialect. Beginning with a family tradition that linked them to St. Pedro, and after prayer and signs, Poblete’s mother has come to believe firmly in the family connection, she said. St. Pedro was beatified by Blessed John Paul II as a martyr in 2000, along with Blessed Diego. The 2003 revival of a woman, who was near death and in a vegetative state after a heart attack, through the prayers of her physician in Cebu was verified by the Vatican Congregation for the Causes of Saints for his canonization. In his homily, Pope Benedict XVI said St. Pedro “displayed deep faith and charity and continued to catechize his many converts, giving witness to Christ by a life of purity and dedication to the Gospel.” “Witnesses record that Pedro could have fled for safety but chose to stay at Father Diego’s side. The priest was able to give Pedro absolution before he himself was killed,” Pope Benedict XVI recounted in his homily. “May the example and courageous witness of Pedro Calungsod inspire the dear people of the Philippines to announce the kingdom bravely and to win souls for God!” “His life has really inspired a lot of young people,” Poblete said. “It’s amazing. Because you never really see young kids gathering at church. When you go to the shrine, it is really run by young kids,” said Poblete, adding many from the shrine have gone on to become priests. “It’s amazing. It makes your hair stand.”

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Preaching, teaching, economy among topics at bishopsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; fall assembly CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Statements on preaching and ways that bishops can respond using new technologies to modern-day challenges to their teaching authority are among the items the U.S. bishops will consider when they gather in Baltimore for their annual fall assembly. Set for Nov. 12-15, the assembly also will consider a statement on work and the economy proposed by the Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development as a way to raise the profile of growing poverty and the struggles that unemployed people are experiencing. In addition, the bishops are scheduled to vote on a document encouraging Catholics to see Lent next year as an opportunity to return to regular celebration of the sacrament of penance and reconciliation. The document on confession highlights the connection Pope Benedict XVI has made between the confession of sin and the new evangelization during the Year of Faith. The proposed text from the bishops expresses their readiness to welcome Catholics who stayed away from confession for a long time. The document on preaching that the bishops are to consider encour-

ages preachers to connect the Sunday homily with peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s daily lives. Titled â&#x20AC;&#x153;Preaching the Mystery of Faith: The Sunday Homily,â&#x20AC;? the document is the bishopsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; first substantive statement on preaching in 30 years. The bishops also will consider a proposed statement on opportunities to use new media â&#x20AC;&#x201C; including blogging and social media â&#x20AC;&#x201C; in exercising their teaching authority. The statement drafted by the Committee on Doctrine, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Contemporary Challenges for the Exercise of the Teaching Ministry of the Diocesan Bishop,â&#x20AC;? has been distributed to the bishops and suggested amendments are being received, said Capuchin Franciscan Father Thomas G. Weinandy, executive director of the bishopsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Secretariat for Doctrine. The statement complements a 1989 document on the doctrinal responsibilities of local bishops that sets forth guidelines for a bishop to follow when responding to comments, statements, books or other communication from a theologian that incorrectly portrays Catholic teaching, Father Weinandy told Catholic News Service. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Given the situation and the speed and breadth in which (a theologianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s view) could be circulated, the bishops on the doctrine committee felt it would be good to encourage, in some circum-

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AT A GLANCE Topics on the table at the U.S. bishopsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; fall meeting: A NEW DOCUMENT ON PREACHING, encouraging preaching to connect the Sunday homily with peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s daily lives. A STATEMENT ON NEW MEDIA, concerning how bishops can exercise their teaching authority through digital means including blogging and social media. PORTRAYING CATHOLIC TEACHING CORRECTLY: A discussion of guidelines for a bishop to follow when responding to comments, statements, books or other communication from a theologian. A STATEMENT ON WORK AND THE ECONOMY, responding to the suffering many Americans have experienced because of economic change. A PROPOSAL TO ESTABLISH A NEW NATIONAL COLLECTION for the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services. stances, (ways) to put up more quickly a response to these situations,â&#x20AC;? Father Weinandy explained. An immediate response from a bishop would be followed up with the normal invitation to dialogue with the theologian, he said. The statement on work and the economy, titled â&#x20AC;&#x153;Catholic Reflections on Work, Poverty and a Broken Economy,â&#x20AC;? is expected to advance the bishopsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

priority of human life and dignity to demonstrate the new evangelization in action, Bishop Stephen E. Blaire of Stockton, chairman of the Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, explained during the bishopsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; June meeting in Atlanta. It would be a follow-up to a Sept. 15, 2011, letter by Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York, president of the U.S. bishopsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; conference, in which he urged bishops and priests across the country to preach about â&#x20AC;&#x153;the terrible toll the current economic turmoil is taking on families and communities.â&#x20AC;? A proposal to establish a new national collection for the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services will be weighed by the bishops. Under the proposal from Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia and Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the military archdiocese, the collection would be taken up every three years. In regional meetings, bishops are expected to spend 30 minutes evaluating the implementation of the third edition of the Roman Missal, which was introduced at the start of the liturgical year last November. In addition, the bishops will vote on a proposed â&#x20AC;&#x153;scope of workâ&#x20AC;? for revision of the Liturgy of the Hours submitted by the Committee on Divine Worship. The committeeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s request comes as the International Commission on English in the Liturgy has started work on revising some parts of the liturgy, specifically hymns, some orations and some antiphons. The bishops plan to view a Spanishlanguage video on the promotion and defense of marriage between one man and one woman.

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ANN ARBOR, Mich. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; A federal district court judge in Ann Arbor granted a Michigan business, Weingartz Supply Co., a temporary injunction from the Health and Human Servicesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; contraceptive mandate. The judge Oct. 31 also dismissed a lawsuit filed by a nonprofit Catholic group, Legatus, because he said the religious organization qualified for the Obama administrationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s temporary â&#x20AC;&#x153;safe harborâ&#x20AC;? from having to comply with the mandate. But he also stipulated the federal government must provide monthly updates on the status of the process for amending final regulations covered by the safe harbor period. The ruling was â&#x20AC;&#x153;not only a victory for our clients, but for religious freedom,â&#x20AC;? said Erin Mersino, lead counsel for Thomas More Law Center, a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, which represented the plaintiffs. Daniel Weingartz, president of the supply company, which sells outdoor power equipment and employs approximately 170 people, says the mandate conflicted with his Catholic faith.

In the ruling, Judge Robert Cleland of the Eastern District of Michigan, said the â&#x20AC;&#x153;loss of First Amendment freedoms, for even minimal periods of time, unquestionably constitutes irreparable injury.â&#x20AC;? He did not rule on the mandateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s constitutionality, but his decision keeps the company from having to comply with the mandate until the constitutional claims are resolved. The HHS mandate requires all employers, including most religious employers, to cover the costs of contraceptives, including some that can cause abortions, and sterilizations in employee health plans. It does not include a conscience clause for employers who object to such coverage on moral grounds. A narrow exemption applies only to those religious institutions that seek to inculcate their religious values and primarily employ and serve people of their own faith. In August, President Barack Obama announced a â&#x20AC;&#x153;temporary enforcement safe harbor,â&#x20AC;? a yearlong period that protects employers from immediate government action if they fail to comply with the mandate.

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Curriculum guides students on range of pro-life issues CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

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Relic recalls Cristero martyr’s courage in preaching Gospel JOSEPH J. KOLB CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

GALLUP, N.M. – When the Gallup diocese acquired a first-class relic of a martyred saint of the Mexican Cristero Rebellion, Bishop James S. Wall knew it was a spiritual intervention. In April, the diocese received a relic from the body of St. Jose Maria de Robles Hurtado, a priest martyred in 1927 in Jalisco, Mexico, during the Cristero Rebellion. One of 25 Cristero martyrs canonized by Pope John Paul II in May 2000, St. Jose is known as “The Madman of the Sacred Heart,” because he promoted greater devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus through his preaching, his personal example and his great devotion to the Eucharist. That connection could not be more appropriate for the diocese, Bishop Wall said. “Our cathedral is named after the Sacred Heart,” he said. “There’s a reason why we got this special gift.” The relic was a gift from Cardinal Jose Francisco Robles Ortega of Guadalajara, Mexico. Bishop Wall had it placed in a marble plate inserted in the altar of his private chapel to be venerated each time he says Mass there. “I come in to pray here around 5:15 a.m. every day seeking the intercession of St. Jose,” Bishop Wall said. “He had the courage to proclaim the light of the Gospel, which is so important in the world that has been darkened by secularism.” Some months before the cardinal’s gift arrived, Bishop Wall began working with the Gallup Knights of Columbus to try to locate a relic from one of the Cristero martyrs, many of whom were Knights. The bishop himself is a fourth-degree Knight. Work began with the Knights officials at the organization’s headquarters in Connecticut. Ten months later, the diocesan officials learned they would receive the relic from St. Jose, who was hanged after being found saying Mass in the home of a family who was hiding him. But you could say the quest for such a relic began after Bishop Wall’s installation in Gallup three years ago. He began renovation on the chapel in

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Journal: Anger management vital for clergy and religious CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

ROME – Anger awareness and management are vital for priests and members of religious orders because they are called to be people of dialogue, fraternity, service, peace and justice, and to treat others with charity, said an influential Jesuit magazine. If clergy and religious don’t have “an adequate integration of aggression, they can become hostile, rigid and obstinate and risk exploding the often delicate and complex balance present in the communities” where they live and work, said an article written by Jesuit Father Giovanni Cucci in La Civilta Cattolica. “The denial of rage certainly does not lead to a calmer or quieter life, but rather to a potentially more explosive situation; emotions rebel when they are not listened to, when they don’t find an adequate place” to be expressed, said the article in the journal, which is reviewed by the Vatican before publication. The article was released to journalists Oct. 31.

However, in actuality the behavior against the child was “a destructive act that sprung from their hidden rage and violence, and which leaves their victims terrified. They were reliving the violence they suffered as children with the same destructive results,” the journal quoted from Msgr. Rossetti’s findings. An awareness and acceptance of anger is critical then in trying to bring healing to perpetrators and victims of abuse, the article said. Though it seems counterintuitive, “aggression is the natural foundation of hope” because at the root of anger and rage is the belief that something can or must be done to right a wrong, protect the good or overcome a challenge, it said. In order for any good to come from feelings of rage, “it is important above all to recognize the presence of anger, paying close attention to how it is then expressed,” Father Cucci wrote. Aggression that is internalized can become “a terrible poison” causing health problems, insomnia, obsessive-compulsive tendencies or passive-aggressive behaviors, he said.

In fact, many perversions, including the sexual abuse of minors, are linked to the “dynamic of repressed anger” that often is found together with psychological wounds caused by violence and abuse the perpetrator experienced and never “recognized and worked through,” said the article written by Father Cucci, a professor of psychology and philosophy at Rome’s Pontifical Gregorian University. The Civilta article cited studies done by U.S. Msgr. Stephen Rossetti, a licensed psychologist and clinical associate professor of pastoral studies at The Catholic University of America, Washington. His years at the helm of the St. Luke Institute, a treatment center in Maryland for priests and religious with addictions or psychological problems, showed that at the root of many “deviancies and sexual pathologies there is a kind of pent-up rage or rage that has been eroticized,” the article said. The monsignor’s research showed that many priests who sexually abused minors said their acts were motivated by a desire to be a paternal figure and show the child the love they never received as children from their own fathers.

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Filipinos seek answers on government-rebel peace deal SIMONE ORENDAIN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

COTABATO, Philippines – Some Catholics in Cotabato are taking a wait-and-see attitude toward the recently signed preliminary agreement between the Philippine government and the country’s largest Muslim rebel group. While welcoming the end of fighting that has claimed more than 120,000 lives and displaced millions more over 40 years, Christians in the region are awaiting details of the deal and said they want an explanation about what the future holds for them. Their questions revolve around the agreement’s framework for the establishment of an autonomous Muslim region in the southern Philippines, where the majority of the country’s Muslims live. Sister Bernadette Baldemor, a member of the Oblates of Notre Dame based in Cotabato, said she wants to know more about what the agreement entails. “We see the need, most especially to educate the mass base, both Christians and Muslims,” she said, “because there are misunderstandings.” She said rumors were circulating that Catholics would have to leave the area. Based at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Cotabato, near the rebel group’s administrative camp, Sister Bernadette said the church community has scheduled several consultations with those familiar with the framework agreement

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A Muslim girl in Manila, Philippines, flashes the peace sign after watching the Oct. 14 arrival of a nationwide peace caravan supporting the signing of a framework agreement between the government and Muslim rebels. The agreement was signed Oct. 15, ending a 40-year conflict in the South that left more than 120,000 people dead. to give the public a better understanding of it. The Moro Islamic Liberation Front had been in on-again, off-again negotiations with the government for 15 years until the agreement was signed Oct. 15. The organization has held fast to its demand to the right to self-govern in their claimed ancestral land, which has steadily diminished in size since European Christians colonized the region beginning in the 16th century. The preliminary agreement sets

guidelines for creating an autonomous region to be called Bangsamoro, which means Muslin nation. The term was coined by the rebels to refer to themselves and all other indigenous people of the area they claim. Under the agreement, the new Bangsamoro entity would have the power to form a ministerial government, levy taxes and share in benefits from natural resources. The central government would have exclusive powers related to national security, foreign relations and monetary policy.

Negotiations were to continue for two months more on the sharing of wealth and power, intergovernmental relations and normalizing the lives of people in the region. If a deal is reached on the issues, the timeline agreed to by both parties calls for a comprehensive final agreement to be in place in 2016. The region, beset by fighting and traditionally ruled by elite families, is the most impoverished part of the country. On the sprawling grounds of the cathedral in Cotabato, Chris Guerzon and his wife lit a vigil candle. The retired 57-year-old former military official was deployed to the region in the mid-1970s to fight the rebels. The Guerzons said they wanted to learn more about what to expect from the deal. Guerzon called the agreement “a good first step between the government and the rebel group because it will put an end to the conflict.” “There should just be peace all around, so we can progress,” he added. Jordan Lauban, 42, moved to Cotabato when he was a child after his family was displaced at the height of the rebellion in the 1970s. Working as a driver-for-hire and waiting for a customer in the cathedral parking lot, Lauban said he hopes the agreement will open new opportunities for his business, which was limited to runs to the city airport because of the conflict. “If there’s peace in Mindanao, more people would travel to here,” he said. “A peaceful existence is really what we’re hoping for, especially us Muslims in Mindanao.”

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VATICAN CITY – Standing in the Sistine Chapel under Michelangelo’s famous ceiling frescoes, people are reminded that the world was created by God in a supreme act of love, Pope Benedict XVI said. “With a unique expressive intensity,” the pope said, Michelangelo depicted the power and majesty of God the creator in a way that proclaimed “the world is not the product of darkness, chaos or absurdity, but derives from intelligence, freedom, a supreme act of love.” Pope Benedict made his remarks Oct. 31 during an evening prayer service marking the 500th anniversary of the prayer service led by Pope Julius II in 1512 to celebrate Michelangelo’s completion of the ceiling paintings. Up to 20,000 people visit the Sistine Chapel each day as part of their tour of the Vatican Museums, but, “the chapel contemplated in prayer is even more beautiful, more authentic; it reveals all its richness,” the pope said.

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Pope Benedict XVI leads a prayer service in the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican Oct. 31. With a small group of cardinals, Vatican employees and guests joining him for the prayer service, the pope asked them to try to imagine what it must have been like 500 years ago to look up and see those famous paintings for the first time.

The ceiling, measuring 134 feet by 43 feet, has nine principal illustrations of events recounted in the Book of Genesis, including the various stages of creation and the great flood. The most famous of all the scenes is God creating Adam and transmitting life to him through an outstretched finger. All of the chapel’s paintings recount stages in the history of salvation, the pope said, but “in that encounter of the finger of God and the finger of man, we perceive a contact between heaven and earth. In Adam, God entered into a new relationship with his creation,” a relationship in which a creature is created in God’s image and called into a direct relationship with God. Pope Benedict noted that, 20 years after Michelangelo finished the ceiling, he concluded work on the massive wall fresco, the “Last Judgment.” Illustrating humanity’s origin on the ceiling and its ultimate destiny in the “Last Judgment,” Michelangelo painted “the great parable of the journey of humanity,” which leads to “the definitive encounter with Christ, the judge of the living and the dead,” the pope said.

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VATICAN CITY – A Vatican computer technician charged with aiding and abetting the papal butler in stealing confidential documents went on trial amid legal arguments over the definition of the charge and questions about the “anonymous source” who reported him to officials. As the trial began Nov. 5, the lawyer for Claudio Sciarpelletti, 48, argued Nov. 5 that his client and the papal butler, Paolo Gabriele, were acquaintances, not friends, and that Sciarpelletti had no motive to set aside “20 years of service to the Holy See” to help someone he wasn’t particularly close to. The court rejected the motion by Gianluca Benedetti, the defense attorney, to drop the charge against Sciarpelletti, who works in the Vatican Secretariat of State, but accepted his request for a copy of documents from the butler’s trial. After asking Benedetti how much time he needed to read the documents, the court ruled the trial will continue Nov. 10. Gabriele, who was sentenced to 18 months in jail for stealing and leaking confidential Vatican correspondence, including letters to and from the pope, was present in the courtroom along with others called as witnesses. They will be questioned Nov. 10. Sciarpelletti was arrested May 25, two days after Gabriele; Vatican police searched Sciarpelletti’s office after investigators were told that he and Gabriele had “continual contacts.” Benedetti told the court, “Everything began with an anonymous tip – from someone in the Secretariat of State, I understand – who spoke of frequent contacts between Paolo Gabriele and Claudio Sciarpelletti, and from there the idea of a friendship developed.”

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VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI praised the choice of the new patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church, saying he was confident the new leader would help build a new Egypt that would serve the common good of the nation and the whole Middle East. Bishop Tawadros, 60, was chosen Nov. 4 to lead Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church, the largest Christian community in the country. He will be ordained Nov. 18 as Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria and patriarch of the See of St. Mark. In a telegram to the new pope, Pope Benedict wrote: “I am confident that … you will be a genuine spiritual father for your people and an effective partner with all your fellow-citizens in building the new Egypt in peace and harmony, serving the common good and the good of the entire Middle East.”

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‘WE HAVE TO MAINTAIN OURSELVES BY HELPING OTHERS’ Churches open doors as New Yorkers cope with rolling disaster of Hurricane Sandy GREGORY A. SHEMITZ CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

ISLAND PARK, N.Y. – Sacred Heart Church in Island Park is in an area of the Diocese of Rockville Centre that experienced the most devastation from Hurricane Sandy, but the pastor urged parishioners not to fret about the material goods they have lost. “Don’t be angry. We lost stuff. We will get other stuff,” Msgr. John Tutone, pastor, told the congregation during his homily at Sunday Mass Nov. 4. “We still have each other and the people we love. That’s the most important thing.” “There are people on your block that need you. Knock on their doors and offer your help. We have to maintain our souls,” he said. “We have to maintain ourselves by helping others.” In the community of 10,000 people in the southwest corner of Nassau County, Long Island, 80 percent of the homes were flooded. The church, too, was flooded with about a foot of water, damaging the floor. Three feet of water was pumped out of the parish center, which is now being used for Masses. As of Nov. 4, Island Park was still without electricity and the village’s mayor, James Ruzicka, announced at the end of Sunday Mass that it would be at least another two weeks before power was restored.

Cellphones weren’t working, Msgr. Tutone told Catholic News Service. “(The) worst thing is not having communication.” He shared a story about a stranger’s generosity. After the hurricane, a man in his 70s whom the priest did not know, drove up to the church and saw Msgr. Tutone outside. He was not wearing his clerical garb. The man asked him if he was the parish priest. After Msgr. Tutone said he was, the unidentified man handed him a bank envelope and told him to “rebuild your church” before driving off. When Msgr. Tutone later opened the envelope, he found $1,500 in cash inside. In Long Beach, an island just south of Island Park that faces the Atlantic Ocean, 35,000 residents also were devastated by the hurricane, left without electricity and a working waste disposal system. Portable toilets were spread throughout the city. St. Ignatius Martyr is a sturdy 88-year-old Lombard Romanesque brick church that sits a block from the ocean. The church survived the hurricane of 1938, the worst storm to hit Long Island until Sandy, but the super storm caused minimal damage to the church, though the rectory basement was flooded to the ceiling. Nearly 200 people gathered in the cold, dark church for the 10 a.m. Sunday Mass Nov. 4, celebrated by

Msgr. Donald Beckmann, pastor, wearing tennis shoes. A 5 p.m. Mass was celebrated the Saturday evening before; two other Sunday Masses were canceled. Chris and Dawn Hagen attended with their children, son Gerrin, 7, and Tara, 5. Going to Mass “was important to restore some routine to our lives. We wanted to be with other people in a place that gives us comfort,” Chris said. “It’s good to come together and pray with people. It’s comforting to see our church is here and we can worship.” At St. Mary of the Isle Church, Bishop William F. Murphy of Rockville Centre addressed parishioners of St. Mary and St. Ignatius during Sunday Masses Nov. 4, celebrated in the parish auditorium next to the church, which was flooded. Tables with prepared meals, donated clothing and cleaning supplies were located near the folding chairs set up for Mass. “We have to address the spiritual and emotional needs of the people, give them hope,” said Father Brian Barr, the diocese’s vocations director, who was installed as St. Mary’s pastor two weeks before Sandy. “It’s important for the church to be here, to be with the people in their struggle. You have to be present. We’ve had Mass every day (since the hurricane).”

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NEW YORK – Father Richard Roemer’s usual job is ministering to the impoverished people of the central south area of the Bronx. After Hurricane Sandy, his job description has largely remained the same but has expanded exponentially. The 43-year-old Franciscan Friar of the Renewal is vicar of St. Crispin Community in the Mott Haven section of the Bronx. “There’s been no flooding damage in this part of the Bronx despite how close we are to the Hudson and East rivers,” he told Catholic News Service a couple days after Sandy made landfall. “Immediately next to us has seen some really bad damage, though. All of the trees and telephone poles got knocked down.” “It’s a miracle” it wasn’t worse, he said. The friars’ St. Crispin compound is an oasis of Franciscan peace and spirituality in the middle of an economically devastated neighborhood. It includes the Padre Pio Shelter, opened in 1989 to offer a bed, clothing and meals for 18 homeless men every night, and the St. Anthony’s Residence, which since 1993 has provided 65 units

of temporary housing for other homeless men, many of whom suffer from mental illness or have little education, a history of violence or crime, and/or substance abuse problems. The friars also take donated food and clothing to the streets, with the help of volunteers, driving around Manhattan until 3 a.m. handing out sandwiches, hot chocolate, coffee, clothing and toiletries to the homeless. The outreach is known informally as the “Jesus Run.” Since Sandy, “requests for food have gone up,” Father Roemer said. “Our food pantry serves about 50 senior citizens with disabilities every month. These are people who would have difficulty standing in lines like they would need to at other food pantries. “Most of the people we’re dealing with are looking for shelter, but we’re all full up here,” he said, “but we can offer them food and refer them to cityrun shelters and other services for the poor because of the hurricane.” In southern Manhattan’s Bowery neighborhood, the Catholic Worker movement, founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin in 1933, operates two Houses of Hospitality – Mary House, which assists women, and Joseph House, which helps men and operates the daily soup kitchen.

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Father Anthony M. Rucando, right, embraces Deacon Alex Breviario inside Our Lady of Grace Church in the Howard Beach neighborhood of Queens in New York Nov. 5.

The two facilities were spared the worst ravages of the tidal surge. Because of Sandy, food supplies were running low “as most of the people upon whom we rely can’t get food to us but we have enough for now,” said Mary Lathrop, 65, a volunteer administrator at Catholic Worker. When she spoke to CNS, the electricity was out and the two houses had to rely on gas stoves and everyone was eating by candlelight. “Frankly, I like it better than those fluorescent bulbs we usually use. It’s much more intimate and offers a family atmosphere.” “We’ve been very resourceful,” she added. “Without refrigeration, we’re mostly serving soup since vegetables can last longer than meat. And, of course, there’s always canned foods.” For the homeless, the deprivation caused by Sandy that has left tens of thousands of people without basic necessities, the situation is simply more of the same. “They don’t have electricity,” Lathrop said. “They don’t have food and water. They carry what they own. They don’t have a roof over their heads. Sandy has been a great leveler. This is how the poor normally live,” she said. “I think this disaster is a wake-up call for a lot of people about how the other half lives.”

HURRICANE SANDY’S TOLL DEATHS: At least 110 in the U.S., 67 in the Caribbean WORST-HIT STATE: New York, with 47 deaths WORST-HIT LOCALITY: Staten Island, N.Y., with 20 deaths U.S. ECONOMIC DAMAGE: $30 billion to $50 billion NUMBER OF BLANKETS DISTRIBUTED BY RED CROSS: 10,000 NUMBER OF CUSTOMERS WITHOUT POWER: more than 1 million NEW YORK CITY RESIDENTS NEEDING EMERGENCY HOUSING: under 10,000 to 40,000 PEOPLE IN FEMA TEMPORARY HOUSING IN NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY: 34,000

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A woman stands alone in water in front of homes in the Staten Island borough of New York that were heavily damaged or destroyed by flooding caused by Hurricane Sandy. The costs of recovery efforts after the widespread devastation and destruction caused by the super storm could be among the highest for any disaster in U.S. history.

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Above, Katie O’Toole is overcome with emotion during Mass in the auditorium at St. Mary of the Isle Parish in Long Beach, N.Y., Nov. 4. Left, people pray during Mass in the church. Services were moved after flooding from Hurricane Sandy damaged the church. Long Beach, which remained without electricity Sunday, was one of the worst hit areas of Long Island when the super storm swept through the Northeast Oct. 29.

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16 OPINION

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Splitting the Catholic vote he findings of a national study on the relation of faith and political views appear innocuous on the surface. But a drawback to such surveys is that they advance the idea of splitting that which is inseparable, often found useful to those in politics who want to split the Catholic vote to achieve their ends. The Public Religion Research Institute surveyed a cross section of Americans but did a subset to obtain the opinions of Catholics. Some 60 percent of Catholics surveyed said they would prefer the church to focus STEPHEN KENT its public policy statements “more on social justice and the obligation to help the poor, even if it means focusing less on issues like abortion and the right to life.” Strong support for social justice issues is admirable. What is disturbing about the survey results is the disintegration of faith beliefs. All beliefs stem from the basic belief in the dignity and worth of each human being. Support for one does not have to be done at the expense of the other. They are integrated, they are inseparable. The survey question would be similar to asking airline passengers, “Should our maintenance department focus more on the wings or the engine?” The either-or choice does not make for a successful flight. Too often, right-to-life and social justice issues, to their detriment, are associated with American political parties or political philosophy (conservative or liberal), left wing or right wing. Our beliefs, if properly and effectively presented, should appeal to those favoring less government as well as those seeking a larger government presence. “Many priests are comfortable delivering a countercultural message on life issues because they are perceived as black/white issues,” said Meghan Clark, assistant professor of theology and religious studies in moral theology at St. John’s University in Queens, N.Y. She is also a consultant to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development. While there is no doubt about church teaching on abortion, social teachings are less well understood, Clark said. It may also be a matter of comfort level. People are uncomfortable with hearing about a wrong they are able to right. They do not wish to hear about a wrong that could have a direct and immediate effect in their lives. When it comes to abortion, about the best we can do now is to keep the issue alive in the forefront of the public but with little expectation of an immediate result such as a change in the Constitution. Matters such as the economy, poverty and/or racial issues can be more readily addressed. Surveys are fine, if they are understood to be a prioritization for an action plan at a specific point in time. But the risk is that at a quick glance they imply an either-or situation. The solution is not to diminish the importance of abortion but to increase the catechesis and evangelization about social justice issues. They are not optional in the Christian faith life.

Our beliefs, if properly and effectively presented, should appeal to those favoring less government as well as those seeking a larger government presence.

KENT is the retired editor of archdiocesan newspapers in Omaha and Seattle. He can be contacted at Considersk@gmail.com. ©CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

Students campaign for Prop. 34 Students from Archbishop Riordan High School let their voices be heard in support of Proposition 34, a Nov. 6 California ballot measure that would end the death penalty in California for life without possibility of parole. The young men are members of the school’s Amnesty International/Social Justice Club. Faculty member John Ahlbach is moderator. Ahlbach was at each of the six picket sessions with two to five students each time, he said. Locations varied but always included a main San Francisco thoroughfare including 19th Avenue, Sloat Boulevard, Geary Boulevard and Lincoln Boulevard. The pickets began about Oct. 15 the day Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone sent a letter to parishes in support of the proposition. Pictured, from left, at a picket site are Gerardo Juarez, Santiago Rocha, Yianni Gogonas, Trevor Peralta, Marek Janiczek.

LETTERS Thoughtful, prayerful commentary I write to compliment Deacon Faiva Po’oi on his article “Blind Bartimaeus gives the right answer” (Scripture reflection, Nov. 2). He beautifully juxtaposes the different responses of Bartimaeus and the disciples, in a way that makes the reader wonder, “How in fact would I answer Jesus?” Thank you and him for commentary that makes me think – and pray. Susan Black San Francisco

Archbishop Chaput’s brave stand against abortion I can’t say enough about the stance of (Philadelphia) Archbishop (Charles J.) Chaput (“Archbishop: Teaching trumps party loyalty on abortion,” Nov. 2). This article is tremendous. I wish all evangelicals could read this. Our allegiance is it to God first and forever. May the Lord richly bless this man and his brave stand against abortion. Christine Bell Mechanicsburg, Pa.

Where is Weigel? George Weigel’s syndicated, weekly column “The Catholic Difference” is the most thoughtful Catholic opinion column published in the United States. It should be included in Catholic San Francisco every week. Paul D. Jones San Francisco

Catholics need weekly homily to reinforce faith The article “Bishops to consider new document on preaching” (Nov. 2) is wonderful

news. If their considerations are truly productive it may be the most important feature of the year of evangelization in the U.S. The reason is that practically the only access most Catholics have to faith re-enforcement is in the weekly homily. Here is what I hope the bishops will say: 1. It is OK to use the homily for teaching. Bishops should not complain about the ignorance of voters and of politicians on truly important doctrine, unless doctrine is continually re-enforced. 2. It is OK to discuss all three weekly readings intelligently during a homily. Ignoring two of the three readings consistently sends a message to the listeners that God suddenly appeared on the scene 2,000 years ago and that the early authors, the ones who wrote before the Gospels were written, have nothing to tell us now. 3. Theology, ethics, and morals are not dirty words. It is OK to present subjects related to these words during homilies. We Catholics may even catch up with other denominations that include these topics in their preaching. 4. It may even be OK to promote the principle that an individual’s faith is that person’s relationship with God, maybe even a relationship with the Trinity. Current preaching does fulfill the church’s current expectation. A renewal in preaching could bring back many walkers who had, but lost, their expectation of preaching that could inspire their day and their week. Alex M. Saunders San Carlos

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The Catholic answer to puritanism and Nietzscheanism any of the Catholic Church’s teachings are vilified in both the high and popular cultures, but none more than its doctrines concerning marriage and sexuality. Time and again, the church’s views on sex are characterized as puritanical, life-denying and hopelessly outdated — holdovers from FATHER ROBERT the Bronze Age. BARRON Above all, critics pillory the church for setting unreasonable limits to the sexual freedom of contemporary people. Church leaders, who defend traditional sexual morality, are parodied as versions of Dana Carvey’s “church lady” — fussy, accusatory, secretly perverse and sex-obsessed. Let me respond first to the charge of puritanism. Throughout the history of religion and philosophy, a puritanical strain is indeed apparent. Whether it manifests itself as Manichaeism, Gnosticism or Platonic dualism, the puritanical philosophy teaches that spirit is good and matter is evil or fallen. In most such schemas, the whole purpose of life is to escape from matter, especially from sexuality, which so ties us to the material realm. But authentic biblical Christianity is not puritanical. The creator God described in Genesis made the entire panoply of things physical — planets, stars, the moon and sun, animals, fish and even things that creep and crawl upon the earth — and found all of it good, even very good. Accordingly, there is nothing perverse or morally questionable about bodies, sex, sexual longing or the sexual act. In fact, it’s just the contrary. When, in the Gospel of Mark, Jesus himself is asked about marriage and sexuality, he hearkens back to the book of Genesis and the story of creation: “At the beginning of creation God made them male and female; for this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and the two shall become as one. They are no longer two but one flesh” (Mark 10:68). That last sentence is, dare I say it,

For biblical people, sexuality must be placed in the wider context of love, which is to say willing the good of the other. It is fundamental to Catholic spirituality and morality that everything in life must be drawn magnetically toward love, must be conditioned and transfigured by love. (CNS PHOTO/PAUL HARING)

Newlyweds embrace under an umbrella as Pope Benedict XVI leads his general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican Oct. 31. inescapably “sexy.” Plato might have been a puritan, and perhaps John Calvin too, but Jesus most certainly was not. So given this stress on the goodness of sex and sexual pleasure, what separates the Christian view from, say, the Playboy philosophy? The simple answer is that, for biblical people, sexuality must be placed in the wider context of love, which is to say willing the good of the other. It is fundamental to Catholic spirituality and morality that everything in life must be drawn magnetically toward love, must be conditioned and transfigured by love. Thus, one’s business concerns must be marked by love, lest they devolve into crass materialism; and one’s relationships must be leavened by love, lest they devolve into occasions for self-interested manipulation; even one’s play must be directed toward love, lest it devolve into mere self-indulgence. Sex is no exception to this rule. The goodness of sexual desire is designed, by its very nature, to become ingredient in a program of self-forgetting love and hence to become something rare and life enhancing. If you want to see what happens when this principle is ignored, take a long hard look at the hookup culture

prevalent among many young — and not so young — people today. Sex as mere recreation, as contact sport, as a source only of superficial pleasure has produced armies of the desperately sad and anxious, many who have no idea that it is precisely their errant sexuality that has produced such deleterious effects in them. When sexual pleasure is drawn out of itself by the magnetic attraction of love, it is rescued from self-preoccupation. There is a third step as well, for human love must be situated in the context of divine purpose. Once Jesus clarified that male and female are destined to become one flesh, he further specified that “What God has joined together,” no human being should put asunder. When I was working full time as a parish priest, I had the privilege of preparing many young couples for marriage. I would always ask them, “Why do you want to be married in church?” After some hesitation, the young people would invariably respond with some version of “Well, we’re in love,” to which I would respond, “I’m delighted that you’re in love, but that’s no reason to be married in church!” My point was that entering into a properly sacramental marriage implied that the

bride and groom realized that they had been brought together by God and precisely for God’s reasons, that their sexuality and their mutual love were in service of an even higher purpose. To make their vows before a priest and a Catholic community, I would tell them, was tantamount to saying that they knew their relationship was sacramental — a vehicle of God’s grace to the wider world. This final contextualization guaranteed that sexuality — already good in itself and already elevated by love — had now something truly sacred. Our culture has become increasingly Nietzschean, by which I mean obsessed with the power of selfcreation. This is why toleration is the only objective value that many people recognize, and why freedom, especially in the arena of sexuality, is so highly prized. It is furthermore why attempts to contextualize sex within higher frameworks of meaning are so often mocked as puritanism or fussy antiquarianism. Thank God that, amid the million voices advocating self-indulgent sexuality, there is at least the one voice of the Catholic Church shouting “No,” a no in service of a higher Yes! FATHER BARRON is the rector of Mundelein Seminary, Mundelein, Ill., and the founder of of the global ministry Word On Fire.

The crucial importance of the Catholic high school f I ruled the world of Catholic education from kindergarten through graduate studies, and if I were pushed up against a wall of choice and told I could have only four years under explicitly Catholic auspices, I would without hesitation take the high school years. I’m convinced that the potential for a FATHER WILLIAM positive educaJ. BYRON, SJ tional impact is greater in the secondary school years than in any other fouryear block of time allocated to the formal educational process. Every year from kindergarten through the advanced degrees is important, but there is something

special about those years between elementary school and college. Why? To explain my bias in this regard, I have to go back to what I call the “center of significance” and let it serve to make an analytical point. The newborn child constitutes the center of significance in his or her unfolding life. All experiences, all surrounding influences – warmth or cold, hunger or satisfaction, pleasure or pain, comfort or discomfort – all are measured by the infant in reference to the self. The self constitutes the center of significance in the infant’s life. As the presence and awareness of siblings and peers enter the world of the developing child, parents move into the center of significance in that child’s life. Parents become the point of reference for what the child begins to value, how the child begins to walk and talk, where the child goes, and who the child knows. Parents can expect to hold this spotlight

position in the child’s life for about a decade. At some point in the pre- or early adolescent years of the developing youngster’s life, it becomes clear that the parents no longer hold the central reference position. They no longer constitute the center of significance for the child. The center, however, is never vacant for long. Friends and peers – the gang or group – might now take center stage. Peer pressure can push anchorless youngsters into a forced march of adolescent conformity; others, often unknown, are leading the way. Or the center can be filled with a hero from the world of sports or entertainment. It can be filled by an older brother or sister, by a friend, a neighbor, uncle or aunt. Indeed, it might be filled by the child him or herself, thus signaling a reversion to infantile self-centeredness. Or, it can be, and often is, filled by a significant adult in the school setting: a teacher, coach or counselor.

The Catholic high school is especially well-suited to mediate a process of reconnection between parent and adolescent child. The Catholic high school is also quite likely to provide a positive peer group environment for the developing adolescent as well as presenting good adult role models. These are just a few of the reasons why parents choose to put their children in the Catholic high school setting. The challenge today is to find the resources needed to keep our Catholic secondary schools open and affordable for Catholic families who appreciate the unique role these high schools play in the development of the young. JESUIT FATHER BYRON is university professor of business and society at St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia. Email wbyron@ sju.edu. ©CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

18 FAITH

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SUNDAY READINGS

Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time ‘Amen, I say to you, this poor widow put in more than all the other contributors to the treasury.’ MARK 12:38-44 1 KINGS 17:10-16 In those days, Elijah the prophet went to Zarephath. As he arrived at the entrance of the city, a widow was gathering sticks there; he called out to her, “Please bring me a small cupful of water to drink.” She left to get it, and he called out after her, “Please bring along a bit of bread.” She answered, “As the Lord, your God, lives, I have nothing baked; there is only a handful of flour in my jar and a little oil in my jug. Just now I was collecting a couple of sticks, to go in and prepare something for myself and my son; when we have eaten it, we shall die.” Elijah said to her, “Do not be afraid. Go and do as you propose. But first make me a little cake and bring it to me. Then you can prepare something for yourself and your son. For the Lord, the God of Israel, says, ‘The jar of flour shall not go empty, nor the jug of oil run dry, until the day when the Lord sends rain upon the earth.’” She left and did as Elijah had said. She was able to eat for a year, and he and her son as well; the jar of flour did not go empty, nor the jug of oil run dry, as the Lord had foretold through Elijah. PSALM 146:7, 8-9, 9-10 Praise the Lord, my soul!

The Lord keeps faith forever, secures justice for the oppressed, gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets captives free. Praise the Lord, my soul! The Lord gives sight to the blind. The Lord raises up those who were bowed down; the Lord loves the just. The Lord protects strangers. Praise the Lord, my soul! The fatherless and the widow he sustains, but the way of the wicked he thwarts. The Lord shall reign forever; your God, O Zion, through all generations. Alleluia. Praise the Lord, my soul! HEBREWS 9:24-28 Christ did not enter into a sanctuary made by hands, a copy of the true one, but heaven itself, that he might now appear before God on our behalf. Not that he might offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters each year into the sanctuary with blood that is not his own; if that were so, he would have had to suffer repeatedly from the foundation of the world. But now once for all he has appeared at the end of the ages to take away sin by his sacrifice. Just as it is appointed that

human beings die once, and after this the judgment, so also Christ, offered once to take away the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to take away sin but to bring salvation to those who eagerly await him. MARK 12:38-44 In the course of his teaching Jesus said to the crowds, “Beware of the scribes, who like to go around in long robes and accept greetings in the marketplaces, seats of honor in synagogues, and places of honor at banquets. They devour the houses of widows and, as a pretext recite lengthy prayers. They will receive a very severe condemnation.” He sat down opposite the treasuryand observed how the crowd put money into the treasury. Many rich people put in large sums. A poor widow also came and put in two small coins worth a few cents. Calling his disciples to himself, he said to them, “Amen, I say to you, this poor widow put in more than all the other contributors to the treasury. For they have all contributed from their surplus wealth, but she, from her poverty, has contributed all she had, her whole livelihood.”

Pecuniary generosity to God oney is the root of all evil!” Lucky for us, it is only the root. In all fairness, however, 1 Timothy 6:10 reads, “Love of money is the root of all evil.” However, if you were to ask anyone affiliated with any organization of any time in any place in history, from the great generals of ancient times (who had to pay their soldiers), to St. Peter in the Acts of the Apostles, to Mother Teresa, to the noblest of nonprofit causes, all would agree that prayers and good wishes are important and appreciated, but very little can be done without funding. While extremely seductive, money itself is FATHER WILLIAM not “all evil.” Rather, how NICHOLAS we make use of it constitutes vice or virtue. On one hand, we admire generosity to noble causes and charitable organizations. “Giving to the poor” is held up as a noble gesture. Indeed, when wishing to “identify” our generosity to God one sees the poor among the first with whom he, himself, identifies: for “as often as

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POPE BENEDICT XVI DRAWING OUR GAZE TOWARD HEAVEN

The pope appeared at his study window above St. Peter’s Square Nov. 1 on the Feast of All Saints. In his Angelus reflection, he spoke of how the feast draws our earthly gaze toward heaven and of how the saints are where heaven and earth meet. “This feast day helps us to reflect on the double horizon of humanity, which we symbolically express with the words ‘earth’ and ‘heaven’: The earth represents the journey of history, heaven eternity, the fullness of life in God,” the pope said. “And so this feast day helps us to think about the church: the church journeying in time and the church that celebrates the never-ending feast.”

you did it for one of my least brothers, you did it for me” (Matthew 25:40). How often, however, do we identify generosity to God with generosity to our religious institutions? On at least two occasions in holy Scripture, we see this in the generosity of two poor widows. One, in the midst of a great drought gave the last of her sustenance to Elijah the prophet; the other, as observed by Jesus, gave her last coins for the Temple of Jerusalem. Since the widows, themselves, were the poor ones, giving the last of what they had, we cannot associate the gesture of either widow with generosity to the poor. Rather, we see in their gestures a recognition of and deep faith in the presence of God in his religious instruments (the prophet) and institutions (temple worship), and a profound generosity in supporting God’s work through them. In the case of Elijah, no doubt he was one of a company of prophets. However, as the Book of Kings relates, the corrupt King Ahab and his pagan queen, Jezebel, had slain the true prophets of God. Those prophets who remained likewise were corrupt, promoting the false worship of Ba’al. Nevertheless, the poor widow of Zaraphath recognized God’s action in and through the preaching of the prophet Elijah. Because of her faith and generosity, Elijah sur-

vived the drought to continue his work as a true prophet of God. In the Gospels, we are treated to numerous examples of the wayward nature of some Pharisees and priests. No doubt, there were those among them whose honor was, at the very least, questionable. The poor widow, however, did not focus on the human imperfections of temple ministry, but gave all she had out of love for God, whose presence in the temple was offered worship by the priests who served. The Second Vatican Council declares, “the church, endowed with the gifts of her founder and faithfully observing his precepts of charity, humility and self-denial, receives the mission of proclaiming and establishing among all peoples the kingdom of Christ and of God, and she is, on earth, the seed and the beginning of that kingdom” (“Lumen Gentium,” 5). While we, the followers of Christ, answer the call to “give to the poor,” we are also called, in imitation of two poor widows, to recognize God’s presence in our religious institutions; to exercise monetary generosity from our treasure to the church, which continues to be the prophetic voice of God in our midst, and through which Christ’s continues his sacramental work of sanctification. FATHER NICHOLAS is parochial vicar at Mission Dolores Basilica, San Francisco.

LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12: Memorial of St. Josaphat, bishop and martyr. Ti 1:1-9. Ps 24:1b-2, 3-4ab, 5-6. Lk 17:1-6.

FRANCES XAVIER CABRINI 1850-1917 November 13

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13: Memorial of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, Virgin. Ti 2:1-8, 11-14. Ps 37:34, 18 and 23, 27 and 29. Lk 17:7-10.

In 1946, Mother Cabrini was the first U.S. citizen to be canonized; she is the universal patron of immigrants.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14: Wednesday of the Thirty-second Week in Ordinary Time. Ti 3:1-7. Ps 23:1b-3a, 3bc-4, 5, 6. Lk 17:11-19. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15: Thursday of the Thirty-second Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Albert the Great, bishop, confessor and doctor. Phln 7-20. Ps 146:7, 8-9a, 9bc-10. Lk 17:20-25.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16: Friday of the Thirty-second Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorials of St. Margaret of Scotland; St. Gertrude, virgin. 2 Jn 4-9. Ps 119:1, 2, 10, 11, 17, 18. Lk 17:26-37. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17: Memorial of St. Elizabeth of Hungary, religious. 3 Jn 5-8. Ps 112:1-2, 3-4, 5-6. Lk 18:1-8.

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10 principles for living with less fear e live with too much fear of God. This has many faces, from the superstitious fear of the naive, to the legalistic fear of the overscrupulous, to the intellectual fear of the very sophisticated. In the end, we all struggle to believe that God is the last person of whom we need to be afraid. But in our own ways, we all struggle with fear of God. There is of course a healthy fear, not just of God but also of anyone whom we love. Scripture tells us that “fear of God is the beginning of wisdom,” but fear, in this FATHER RON context, is not understood ROLHEISER as fear of punishment or arbitrariness. Fear of God in its healthy sense is basically love’s fear, fear of not living with the proper reverence and respect before the one we love – namely, fear of violating love’s proper boundaries. But that is not fear of hellfire, as we commonly understand this. Fear is the antithesis of faith and a sign that something is wrong in our love. We aren’t afraid of what we love and of what truly loves us. Everything inside of our Christian faith invites us to move toward God in intimacy rather than in fear. Indeed in virtually every instance in scripture where God appears within ordinary life, either through an angel, a special phenomenon, or through an appearance of the resurrected Christ, the first words are invariably: “Do not be afraid!” The soothing of fear, not its intensification, is the normal criterion that the voice we are hearing is coming from love.

With that in mind, I would like to offer 10 principles, all rooted in the person and revelation of Jesus, that, hopefully, can be of help in purifying our image of God so that our faith might cast out fear rather than enkindle it. I begin with a story that, though true, can act as a parable to expose and highlight many of our unconscious fears of God: Fear that God is not as understanding and compassionate as we are. Fear that God is not as bighearted as we are. Fear that God does not read the heart and cannot tell the difference between wound and coldness, immaturity and sin. Fear that God gives us only one chance and cannot bear any missteps and infidelities. Fear that God doesn’t respect our humanity, that God created us in one way but wants us to live in another way in order to be saved. Fear that God is threatened by our achievements, like a petty tyrant. Fear that God is threatened by our doubts and questions, like an insecure leader. Fear that God cannot stand up to the intellectual and cultural scrutiny of our world but somehow needs be segregated and protected like an over-pious novice. Fear that God is less interested in our lives than we are and less solicitous for our salvation and that of our loved ones than we are. And, not least, fear that God is as helpless before our moral helplessness as we are. Here’s the parable: A number of years ago, I was at the funeral of a young man who had died tragically in a car accident. At the time of his death, on the surface, his relationship to his church and to some of its moral teachings was far from ideal: He was not attending church regularly, was living with his girlfriend outside of marriage, was not much concerned about the poor or the larger community, and was, in simple terms, partying pretty hard. But

everyone who knew him also knew of his essential goodness and his wonderful heart. There wasn’t an ounce of malice in him and heaven would be forever a less colorful and more impoverished place if he weren’t there. At the reception following the church service, one of his aunts said to me: “He was such a good person, if I were running the gates of heaven, I would certainly let him in.” I assured her that, no doubt, God felt the same way, given that God’s understanding and forgiveness infinitely surpass our own. What are the 10 principles inviting us to live in less fear? 1. God’s insight and understanding surpass our own. 2. God’s compassion and forgiveness surpass our own. 3. God respects nature, our human make-up, and our innate propensities. 4. God is a blessing parent, not a threatened one. 5. God can handle our questions and doubts and angers. 6. God reads the heart and can tell the difference between wound and malice. 7. God gives us more than one chance, opening another door every time we close one. 8. God desires our salvation and the salvation of our loved ones more than we do. 9. God is the author of all that is good. 10. God can, and does, descend into hell to help us. “There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love” (1 John 4, 18). OBLATE FATHER ROLHEISER is president of the Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, Texas.

A martyr’s life: Joseph Chiwatenhwa n Oct. 21, almost 333 years after her death, the hopes and prayers of generations of Catholics were fulfilled by the canonization of St. Kateri Tekakwitha, the first Native American saint. There is reason to hope that more will soon follow. Native American culture at the time of St. Kateri was a breeding ground for saints. Their intensely spiritual outlook on life, capacity for contemplation, humility, strong sense of communal obligations and connection to creation made those who converted uncommonly CHRISTOPHER open to the grace of God. Those characteristics still STEFANICK exist in Native American culture today. But as is the case with all missionary activity throughout history, some aspects of the culture were incompatible with the message of the missionaries. And in the uncomfortable space where the Gospel rubbed against the culture there was the constant threat of murder. To convert meant to risk one’s life at the hands of a disgruntled shaman. Lukewarm Catholicism wasn’t an option. One soul forged under these conditions was the Huron warrior Chiwatenhwa – later baptized and given the name Joseph Chiwatenhwa. His life changed while listening to the preaching of the martyr and patron saint of Canada, St. John De Brebeuf. It wasn’t a particular phrase that struck Joseph, but an experience of the Holy Spirit. He knew he was listening to words of truth flow from the missionary’s mouth. His heart was on fire. That experience started a journey that led him and his entire family to the waters of baptism, and most likely to his martyrdom. As a catechumen (someone preparing for baptism) the missionaries recognized that Joseph had a natural genius about him that would rival anyone from the top universities of Europe. They were amazed by his ability to remember literally everything they taught him. Yet more important, he grasped the central message of the Gospel and it became the driving force behind his entire life. He summed up that message beautifully in a prayer the missionaries recorded: “Now I begin to see that the reason you made us is because you

The catechumen Joseph grasped the central message of the Gospel and it became the driving force behind his life. want to share your love. Nothing attracts you as much as your people. … I know how to build a cabin and how to live in it. But you ... you made us, and you live in us. … You love us so deeply that all I can do in return is to offer myself to you. I chose you as my … chief. There is no one else.”

Fidelity a shining light

Joseph and his wife Marie (her Huron name was Aonette) became true apostles by the witness of their lives and of their words. They celebrated the first Christian marriage in Huronia shortly after their baptism. During a time in Huron history where it was common to change wives with every passing season and sometimes even sell them off during gambling, Joseph’s fidelity was a shining light. As a father he recognized that his children were not his own, but God’s. That’s easy to talk about, but tragically, Joseph had to live out the meaning of those words with profound heroism. Joseph was an exceedingly proud father of his baby boy, Thomas. When Thomas fell ill and was dying, the Jesuits recorded, “He took him in his arms and spoke to the little one as if he had the gift of reason: ‘Thomas, my dear child … we are not the masters of your life; if God wishes you to go to heaven, we cannot keep you on earth.’” After his son’s death, he approached the missionaries and said, “You taught me what I ought to say to God (to ask) for his recovery; tell me now how I shall address him when my son is dead.” They wrote how they thought it best to let his tears flow first, then “We conducted him to the holy sacrament, where he spoke like a real Abraham (offering his son to God).” Joseph worked hard to provide, like any father should, but he surrendered his wife and children to God with a childlike trust. He referred to God as the head of his family. He prayed: “I see the loving way you lead us along the path of life. You want what is best for us. If we have poverty, let us feel your love in it. If we get rich, do not let comfort make us forget that we need you. Never let us turn

into selfish people. Never let us think we are better than others who have less.” When a deadly virus struck their village, Joseph and Marie opened their home to the sick, nursing them to health. Both of them were constantly making attempts to bring the Huron to the faith, and Joseph would travel frequently with the Jesuits to catechize other tribes. They were so driven by apostolic zeal and so effective at making converts that St. Charles Garnier said of Joseph, “It was in this Christian that we had our hope after God.”

Death foretold

Joseph foresaw his violent death in multiple dreams that woke him at night. He knew he was to be scalped and killed. After fighting back his fears, he resolved to accept whatever death God wanted for him. He was found as his dream foretold in a cornfield he had been working in. He was about 38 years old. Some Huron claimed that Iroquois raiders killed him, but to this day it is unclear if that story was a cover-up for fellow tribesmen who resented his faith in Christ. Either way, Joseph lived a martyr’s life. St. John De Brebeuf, who celebrated his funeral, recorded a vision he received about Joseph: “A tent or a dome descend(ed) from the sky and settle(ed) on the grave of our Christian. Then … people rolled up the ends … and drew it upwards as if they wanted to raise it to the sky. … I felt then that God wanted to let us know his will for the soul of this good Christian.” Blessed John Paul II recognized the greatness of Joseph and his family when he visited the martyr’s shrine in Midland, Ontario, in 1984: “Joseph Chiwatenhwa … together with his wife Aonnetta, his brother Joseph and other family members lived and witnessed to their faith in a heroic manner. … These men and women not only professed the faith and embraced Christ’s love, but they in turn became evangelizers and provide even today eloquent models for lay ministry.” If I may be so bold as to repeat the cries in St. Peter’s Square following John Paul II’s death, “Santo subito!” (“Sainthood immediately!”). STEFANICK is director of youth outreach for YDisciple. Visit him at www.RealLifeCatholic.com. ©DENVER CATHOLIC REGISTER

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‘Gaudium et Spes’: The capstone of the council MARCELLINO D’AMBROSIO

MODELING A LISTENING CHURCH

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The Second Vatican Council was intended to be a “pastoral” council. It did not set out to define new dogmas. Its goal was to equip the church to restate the Gospel in such a way that the secular world could recognize it as relevant to its deepest needs. This is why many council fathers believed that the longest document of the council, the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World (“Gaudium et Spes”), was Vatican II’s crowning achievement. It was addressed not only to Catholics or even Christians, but, for the first time in conciliar history, to all men and women of good will. An important theme of the document comes from Matthew 16:3 by way of Pope John XXIII – the church must interpret “the signs of the times.” The council viewed these signs as a mixed bag of modern life ripe with challenges and opportunities. It therefore modeled for Catholics the proper sort of conversation we are to have with contemporary society in which a critical dialogue begins with sincere listening. We don’t listen, however, with an eye to changing the Gospel to suit modern tastes, but to take from society new questions that we can bring to the sources of our faith. This way we will rediscover neglected dimensions of our own tradition which we can in turn offer to a world in urgent need of solutions. This dialogue involves authentic respect and concern for those outside the visible boundaries of the church. The first two Latin words are traditionally the unofficial name of a council document and are carefully chosen. The document’s first words, “Gaudium et Spes,” mean “joy and hope.” They signal the church’s solidarity with all humanity since it identifies its own hopes and joys with those of all people.

Pope John XXIII said the church must interpret “the signs of the times.” The Second Vatican Council viewed these signs as a mixed bag of modern life ripe with challenges and opportunities. The council modeled for Catholics a conversation with contemporary society in which a critical dialogue begins with listening. We don’t listen with an eye to changing the Gospel to suit modern tastes but to take from society new questions that we can bring to the sources of our faith. (CNS PHOTO/LUCAS JACKSON, REUTERS)

“The ground to human dignity ... is the biblical truth that human beings are made in the image and likeness of God,” writes Marcellino D’Ambrosio. The key theme uniting all the parts of this extensive document is respect for human dignity as the foundation of all politics, economics and culture. After all, what is the ground of human dignity? It is the biblical truth that human beings are made in the image and likeness of God and that God actually became man, further ennobling human nature. The council provides an unabashedly religious and Christ-centered answer to humanity’s quest for self-discovery: It is only Jesus who reveals to us who we are as human beings. In No. 41, the document lays out an authentic Christian humanism as opposed to a false, atheist humanism: “Whoever follows after Christ, the perfect man, becomes himself more of a man.” At the heart of the threats to human dignity and freedom, the council is not afraid to identify sin and even Satan. The document notes, in No. 10, that underneath the surface of cultural and economic turmoil and violence between nations there is a

spiritual battle raging that is rooted in inner conflict: Imbalances in the modern world flow from the more basic imbalances rooted in the human heart. The salvation won by Christ can heal this inner wound and the gift of the Holy Spirit can empower people to live Christ’s law of love. In one of its most famous passages, “Gaudium et Spes” points out the true nature of love. Since God is a communion of persons and we are made in God’s image and likeness, man “cannot fully find himself except through a sincere gift of himself.” These are the principles laid out in the first part of the document. The second part of the document applies these principles to various areas of human life in this tumultuous, modern world. When it comes to marriage and family, the gift of the self is at the heart of the marital covenant. It explains why a total and exclusive self-giving can never have recourse to abortion, infanticide or artificial contraception.

In economics and culture, human dignity and solidarity dictate the protection of private property. But these truths also impose the obligation to eliminate barriers to the cultural and economic development of poor individuals and nations, and disallow the concentration of the world’s wealth in the hands of a select few. When it comes to war and peace, human dignity forbids the use of weapons of mass destruction and human solidarity obliges us to find effective structures to guarantee international dialogue and a way of peacefully resolving disputes. “Gaudium et Spes” models for us what Blessed John Paul II later labeled “the new evangelization” – a loving, respectful sharing of Christ as the answer that sheds liberating light on every practical problem of modern life. D’AMBROSIO is co-founder of Crossroads Productions – www.crossroadsinitiative. com – an apostolate of Catholic renewal and evangelization.

Religious freedom was on the minds of the council fathers ROBERT P. HUNT CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

At the conclusion of the Second Vatican Council, Pope Paul VI characterized “Dignitatis Humanae” as “one of the greatest texts” of the council. This judgment was shared by each of his successors, including Blessed John Paul II who consistently invoked it as one of the foundational documents of contemporary church social teaching. Its alternative title conveys more fully its subject matter and scope: “Declaration on Religious Freedom: On the Right of the Person and of Communities to Social and Civil Freedom in Matters Religious.” If Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI) was correct in saying that “the era we call modern times has been determined from the beginning by the theme of freedom,” the declaration marks the council’s critical engagement with the modern world on what the church understands to be the most fundamental of all freedoms. Prior to the Second Vatican Council, most Catholic reflection on the subject of religious liberty took its bearings from what might be described as a confessionalist perspective on church-state relations. For the confessionalist, true reli-

gious freedom was inseparable from the individual’s obligation to pursue the truth in religious matters, from the awareness that the Roman Catholic Church embodied the fullness of (theological) truth. The state, having total care of the temporal common good, had the obligation to promote the true faith. Whatever concessions were made to religious pluralism were made as practical accommodations to the fact of religious diversity rather than as requirements of the moral order. The pre-conciliar teaching distinguished between what was normative for predominantly Catholic societies and what might be acceptable for more religiously diverse societies. The document represents a dramatic development of the church’s understanding of the scope of religious liberty and its defense of

The document engages modernity’s pursuit of freedom but crucially recognizes ‘the social nature of man.’

limited, constitutional government. While acknowledging that people are bound by a moral obligation to seek the truth, it asserts that truth must “be sought after in a manner” consistent with our “dignity as persons” of reason and free will. People bear personal responsibility for the pursuit of truth and must, therefore, “enjoy immunity from external coercion,” especially by the state. The state has responsibility for that component of the common good that involves the maintenance of public order and peace, and it must be subordinated to the people, social groups, and “the church and other religious communities” in pursuing the temporal common good. “The freedom of man (must) be respected as far as possible and curtailed only when and in so far as necessary.” Religious freedom is not a subjective right asserted over and against religious truth but an objective right of a person not to be coerced into religious conformity by others or by the state. While the document engages modernity in the latter’s pursuit of freedom, it does not embrace a secular individualist view of man or of what freedom entails in the area of church-state relations. Unlike the secular individualist model of man and society, it recognizes “the social nature of man.”

Rather than endorsing a privatized religiosity or a religion that is kept in the sacristy, it acknowledges that man “should give external expression to his internal acts of religion; that he should participate with others in matters religious; that he should profess his religion in community.” Rather than erecting a wall of separation between church and state, the declaration states that government “ought indeed to take account of the religious life of the (citizenry) and show it favor, since the function of government is to make provision for the common welfare.” Today, religious freedom is imperiled around the world, most obviously in countries that ban the practice of certain faiths. But there is also a growing tendency in the West toward the privatization of religion or the subordination of religious liberty to public policy concerns. At such a time, “Dignitatis Humanae” still reminds its readers – Catholic and non-Catholic alike – of the indispensible role that religious liberty plays in a free society. HUNT is professor of political science at Kean University in New Jersey and co-editor of “Catholicism and Religious Freedom: Contemporary Reflections on Vatican II’s Declaration on Religious Liberty.”

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CHINA: Government pressure threatens church freedom IMMIGRANT: Biblical norms FROM PAGE 1

He asked for the establishment of a high-level, bilateral commission of China and the Holy See, similar to the China-Taiwan commissions that continue to discuss issues of importance even though relations between the two are strained politically. The Catholic community in China, he said, does not enjoy the freedom it should and it cannot move toward unity and reconciliation as long as the government appoints bishops unacceptable to the Holy See, pressures other bishops to participate in illicit ordinations and detains bishops who insist on maintaining their ties with the Vatican. The situation also is exacerbated by misunderstandings between what Cardinal Filoni described as the “two currents” of the Catholic Church in China: one basically underground because it “did not accept compromises and political control,” and the other existing openly, but accepting government control for what he termed “existential reasons,” by which he meant its very existence. Pope Benedict XVI, in a 2007 letter to Chinese Catholics, urged the two communities to recognize each other as Catholic and move toward reconciliation. The pope’s letter, Cardinal Filoni said, recognized that “as a whole, the church in China was never schismatic,” even though some Catholics accepted government control in order to ensure the survival of the church. China’s estimated 10 million to 12 million Catholics are divided between officially registered communities supervised by the governmentcontrolled Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association and so-called “underground” communities that recognize only the authority of the Vatican. Pope Benedict’s 2007 letter, Cardi-

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Father Liu Yong Wang distributes Communion during Mass in a makeshift Catholic chapel in a village outside Tianjin, China, in this July 17 file photo. nal Filoni said, urged a process of reconciliation among Catholics “to eliminate prejudices, interference, divisions and connivances, hatred and ambiguity” between the two communities. The pope’s hoped-for reconciliation “experienced difficulties” because of “external pressures on the church itself,” presumably by the government, “but also because of misunderstandings between the two ‘currents,’” the cardinal said. “Decades of separation had dug furrows and built walls, so that deep internal wounds inflicted on the church are present even today.” The healing of the Chinese Catholic community cannot proceed while the government continues to act in ways that further test and divide Catholics in the country, the cardinal said. The Vatican insists, he said, on the Catholic Church being able to be true to its identity and its teachings in China. For that to occur, the bishops must be united among themselves and with the pope; pastors must be holy and suitable; the community must be truly “catholic” or universal by being in communion structurally and in matters of faith with the pope and other Catholics around the world; and

the church must be apostolic, which is ensured through the proper succession of bishops recognized by the pope. Citing three specific “stumbling blocks,” Cardinal Filoni said the Chinese government and the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association have increased the divisions in the past few years. First, he said, the government-organized national assembly of Catholic representatives in 2010 “sharpened the control of the state over the church,” pressured underground clergy to join the patriotic association, and began exercising greater control over internal church matters. As an example, the cardinal cited the appointment of a government official as vice rector of the seminary in Shijiazhuang. Second, he said, “rigorous control over the appointment of bishops has led to the choice of controversial candidates, who were both morally and pastorally unacceptable.” Third, the cardinal said, the ordinations of new bishops were marred by the participation of “illegitimate bishops” as co-consecrators, “creating a dramatic crisis of conscience” for all participants.

each year, at a time when fewer undocumented immigrants are crossing the border into the United States. What’s more, most deportees are not criminals, and their deportation causes massive suffering for their families and children, many of whom are U.S. citizens. “To oppress the alien is no less than a betrayal of faith,” Jesuit Father William O’Neill, associate professor of social ethics at the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley, said in his keynote talk. “It is apostasy. Hospitality is the measure of righteousness and justice. ... Hospitality is the very heart of Christian discipleship. It is not offered to kith and kind, but to those whose only quality is vulnerability and need.” That doesn’t square with a system in which more than 11,000 unaccompanied minors have been detained rather than reunited with their families, he said. Richard C. Longworth, a senior fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, said most undocumented immigrants are acting out of desperation, trying to provide for their families. “Economic migration is an extremely moral act,” he said. “This is one of the most moral acts of all, to care for one’s family.” Lake County, Ill., Sheriff Mark Curran, a Republican elected official, once thought everyone without documents should just go home. But some friendly persuasion from faith leaders – including Chicago Cardinal Francis E. George has led him to a change of heart. “We had open borders forever, because we had schizophrenic immigration policy,” he said. “We kind of lied to these people, said they could come in, get jobs, nobody’s going to ask any questions. And then we clamped down.”

COMMUNITY: New model emerges in 2-parish collaboration FROM PAGE 1

teacher and principal, and together they are focused on creating vibrancy in two parishes. “Vibrancy comes from the fact that there is a community,” said Father Sakowski. “The community wants to step forward and take an active role and it is the role of a pastor, a pastoral associate, to enable and to empower, and I think the hardest thing to build is community. It must be treasured, for it is the easiest thing to destroy,” he said. “I think you create vibrancy,” said Sister O’Connor. “It is important when we talk to the ministers in the parish to tell them to reach out to people, to talk to the parishioners, to be inclusive, to welcome them. You greet them and they know they are not just coming in to a church. They are coming into a family, a community. So that is how I think we create vibrancy,” she said. Are the two of them spread too thin? They think not. “The big word is collaboration,” said Father Sakowski. “I use it every day, 17 times.” Monday is his day off. He’s at St. Thomas on Tuesday, at St. Monica on Wednesday and Thursday, at St. Thomas on Friday and he hears confession on Saturdays and celebrates three

‘I think it is reality. I think it was a good decision to do this because we have to have a new model, and I think Father Sakowski is going to set the example for it to happen other places.’ JUDITH BORELLI

St. Thomas the Apostle principal (PHOTO BY GEORGE RAINE/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

Father John Sakowski and Sister Noreen O’Connor, a Sister of St. Joseph of Carondelet, are working together to create new vibrancy in two San Francisco parishes. Masses every weekend, alternately at the two churches. “It is working very fine,” said Father Sakowski, who, certainly at St. Thomas, is a beneficiary of generosity of parishioners, including an electrician, a plumber and a gardener, who donate their time and material. “They take nothing for it, but Father Sakowski sings their praises from the pulpit. “We have to share,” said Sister O’Connor. “This is our parish.” Father Sakowski, of course, brings

considerable engineer skill to the two parishes. He has two degrees from New Jersey Institute of Technology, and for the last 15 years of a 20-year career in structural engineering he was a senior project manager at the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, overseeing at times up to 15 major projects at once, or several billion dollars in work, including a $1.3 billion monorail system in Newark. “I understand maintenance very well, obviously. I know what it takes,” said Father Sakowski, who has renovated St. Thomas. When he arrived, 15 buckets were collecting water from leaks. Dry rot was commonplace. But Father Sakowski was always engaged with his church, too, as extraor-

dinary minister of the Eucharist, lector – even chaplain and Bible studies teacher at the port. As a young man he entered a Franciscan seminary but left six months later to care for his dying father. He had a 20-year sabbatical before enrolling at St. Patrick’s Seminary & University. He was ordained in 2005. His platter now also includes three schools – St. Monica (195 students), St, Thomas (240), and the St. Thomas Preschool (43). Judith Borelli, the St. Thomas principal, and Vincent Sweeters, the St. Monica principal, met early and often to minimize scheduling conflicts and otherwise accommodate the new parish model, both knowing it may be the new norm and that they may be pathfinders. The first meeting with the principals and Bishop Justice was in March, and Sweeters said, “It gave us a lot of confidence to go forward toward it with an attitude of success. When that word collaboration popped up it started resonating with everybody.” “I think it is reality,” said Borelli. “I think it was a good decision to do this because we have to have a new model, and I think Father Sakowski is going to set the example for it to happen other places.” Meantime, two priests will be ordained in May for the archdiocese. The number for 2014 won’t be known until seminary evaluations are completed in the spring.

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“FROM ENEMY TO BROTHER: THE REVOLUTION IN CATHOLIC TEACHING ON THE JEWS, 193365” by John Connelly. Harvard University Press (Cambridge, Mass., 2012). 384 pp., $35. As the Catholic Church marks the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council, many are now revisiting and studying its proceedings over the years 1962-1965. The council and its 16 resulting documents addressed relations between the Catholic Church and the world. The shortest of these by far, with a text of only about 1,600 words in English, was the Declaration on the Relationship of the Church to NonChristian Religions (“Nostra Aetate”). I suggest this small document as an illuminating entry point to John Connelly’s timely and important book, “From Enemy to Brother.” This succinct document affirms the importance of “discussion and collaboration with members of other religions.” Particular emphasis is given to encouraging and furthering “mutual understanding and appreciation” in relations between Christians and Jews as they share “a common spiritual heritage.” The council and this document, and their clarion call to unity and charity across peoples and nations, is where Connelly’s book ends; the book begins at a grim point in history when many in the church and the world violently delineated common heritages of religion, race and nationality. Connelly, a historian of Central and East-Central Europe and professor of history at the University of California at Berkeley, traces the complicated progression from the church’s long anti-Semitism and persecution of Jewish people to its recognition of Jews as brothers and sisters created in God’s image. Investigating the progression of OF

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political, social and religious events, scientific, scriptural and theological research, and individual relationships across countries and traditions of faith, Connelly presents a dense story, noting in his introduction: “Rather than force linear elegance upon a crooked historical path, the narrative that follows occasionally pauses to wonder about ideas that led nowhere or roads that were not taken.” The first chapters provide the background for the hatred and suspicion in pre- and interwar Europe. Understandings of race, identity and the natural order were given different emphases in different places in these years, according to Connelly. “Catholicism can vary significantly across boundaries, and some national variants proved more open to racism than others.” And while he notes that church leaders proceeded with caution when the science of the times upheld “race” as a biological reality, the German cultural climate and its mixing of science with theology was not without its influence on the church. One avowedly anti-Nazi Catholic preacher could still declare that “baptism was powerless to cure Jews of moral defects that they carried in their genes.” The book’s middle chapters introduce the politically active Catholics outside of the Vatican, and living outside of Germany. A thread throughout the narrative is the role played by a small group of Catholic converts, most of whom were born Jewish. Connelly provides the history showing that “virtually every figure of note in the Catholic battle against anti-Semitism was a convert.” Their study of the Christian tradition and of modern science provided the materials that refocused intellectual and theological debates across international and ecclesial circles. They fought

to uphold a new vision of understanding and reconciliation between Catholics and Jews, and of cooperation with Protestants and Jews. They practiced “de facto ecumenism, an extraordinary phenomenon on the European continent of that time. ... But because these Catholics were converts it was difficult to tell them to shun contacts with the outside. The outside, after all, was their homeland.” These converts, “border-crossers” as Connelly calls them, were still considered alien in the Catholic Church since they were considered racially Jewish. These encounters with racist Christianity in Germany prompted their work to “convert their new Christian world to a true lost faith; to move discussions about race and anti-Semitism beyond stale, self-contradictory patterns; to return to original texts and bring the fold back to original understandings.” How the church is brought back to “original understandings” is the material of the book’s last chapters, as the groundwork for Vatican II is laid, the church’s relation to the Jews is reframed, and the painstaking crafting of “Nostra Aetate” is accomplished. “By answering the question ‘Who are the Jews?’ the Catholic Church had found its way across previously insurmountable boundaries to tolerance, to recognizing that God extends grace to all humans.” “From Enemy to Brother” is an exceptional resource. This nuanced and extraordinary new entry into Catholicism’s past might serve to strengthen the orientation of its future, and bolster an unwavering commitment to this statement from “Nostra Aetate”: “Therefore, the church reproves, as foreign to the mind of Christ, any discrimination against people or any harassment of them on the basis of their race, color, condition in life or religion.” KANTOR, who lives in Boston, is a writer, lecturer and adjunct faculty member at area colleges and holds a doctorate in religion and society from Harvard Divinity School.

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All Souls preschoolers celebrate Halloween All Souls Parish, South San Francisco, opened a preschool Oct. 22, just in time for the youngsters to celebrate Halloween. Pictured are teacher Marcella Elmore and her new students. The preschool curriculum is a play-based program and operates Monday through Friday 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. with the options of three or five days and full day or mornings only. For more information, visit ssfallsoulsschool.org or call (650) 871-1751.

Dominican Father Patrick O’Neil had a literal baptism of fire as new director of Vallombrosa Retreat Center in Menlo Park. “All the destruction occurred in an instant,” Father O’Neil said in an email describing the night of Oct. 9 when lightning shattered a tree at the facility. “The truly good news is that absolutely no one was hurt,” he said. That was no mean event, considering the center was packed with 60 priests of the Archdiocese of San Francisco on retreat. The lightning took out a “giant sequoia tree,” Father O’Neil said. “Evidently the bolt caused the moisture inside to heat up instantly to such a high temperature that the tree literally exploded.” Portions of the tree launched into the sky, coming down with such velocity that they spiked deeply into the Vallombrosa lawns. Some landed in swimming pools and yards of neighbors. The roof of the Vallombrosa library was crushed. Computers were fried. Neighbors including the Dominican Sisters of Corpus Christi just across the street felt such shaking they thought their building had taken the hit.

“We know for a fact that the `boom’ was heard 10 miles away,” Father O’Neil said. Everybody stayed on for the retreat and Vallombrosa staff kept nourishment coming by cooking by emergency lighting and whipping up a barbecue lunch. Father O’Neil thanks Steve Kalpakoff of the archdiocesan building department, “who was great at getting clean-up crews and repair companies” to Vallombrosa. Groups on retreat after the lightning event included priests of the Diocese of Santa Rosa and parishioners of St. Dominic Parish, San Francisco. “Again great resilience and patience,” Father O’Neil said, a compliment he shared too about the San Francisco priests there for the actual event. An opportunity for the community to reacquaint with Vallombrosa is the Thanksgiving prayer service with the Vallombrosa Choir, Nov. 18 at 2 p.m. “It is music, prayer and reflection in celebration of the great gift of God’s love,” Vallombrosa says in its online invitation. Suggested Donation $20. Contact Rachel Alvelais at rachel@vallombrosa.org or (650) 325-5614. www.vallombrosa.org.

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‘Love in action’: Holy Angels School brings medical care to Philippines Animated by the spirit of service and compassion for the poor, the administration and staff of Holy Angels School, Colma, developed an outreach program to address the health problems of people in the Philippines. In coordination with the Dominican Sisters of the Most Holy Rosary of the Philippines, and working with Dr. Daniel Jereza, of Abilene, Texas, Dominican Sister Leonarda Montealto, principal of Holy Angels, organized a medical mission team in July 2012. The outreach program served the sick and the poor, in Pasay City and Molo, Iloilo City, Philippines, who could not afford medical care. Tapping various medical companies – including MEDSHARE in San Leandro, and the Catholic Medical Mission Board in New York City –as well as the parents and friends of Holy Angels School and the local Dominican Sisters community, the coordinator received responses which came in form of medicines, medical equipment, and medical supplies that were used in the program. Four Dominican sisters – Sister Rosario Tuvida, Sister Scholastica Mondejar, Sister Merced Gumban and Sister Leonarda – from Holy Angels and St. Charles Borromeo School, San Francisco, took active part in this program. They were assisted by volunteer doctors, nurses, medical assistants, pharmacists, and medical students from the Philippines, Texas, Hawaii, and Germany. The medical outreach extended

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All Souls Catholic Church, located in South San Francisco, opened its brand new Preschool on Monday, October 22, 2012. This is a great addition, a resource and a much needed foundational stepping stone to our All Souls Catholic School. We have hired Mrs. Rosemary Omron as the Director and Mrs. Marcella Elmore as a full time teacher for the Preschool program. Rosemary comes with four years experience in elementary school teaching kindergarten and fourth grade, along with a Masters in Education & Administrative Credential. Marcella has taught children from infants to 5 years old in a variety of programs spanning over 17 years. They have designed a play based program interfacing with the Investigator Club, suggested by the School department of the Archdiocese of San Francisco and the Pre-Kindergarten Curriculum. The program offers a variety of academic components during the day in the context of our Catholic identity and encourages the students’ learning through their peers. The Preschool program started with seven children. The Preschool office will continue receiving applications until we fill our initial licensed capacity of twenty four. All Souls Preschool has three programs for children of ages from three to five years old. Tuition Fees: • 3 days: 8am-3pm Monday, Wednesday, Friday is $675/month. • 5 days: 8am-3pm Monday-Friday is $775/month & • 5 days: 8am-12pm Monday –Friday is $500/month. For more information or to schedule a tour or a visit, please view their website @ www.ssfallsoulsschool.org or call the office @ 650-871-1751.

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HELP WANTED High School President Sought Mercy High School Burlingame, CA The Board of Trustees of Mercy High School, Burlingame, is seeking an individual to serve as President and accept the challenge of continuing the educational legacy set forth by the Sisters of Mercy. Committed to educating the whole person, Mercy High School offers its students not only outstanding college preparatory and assisted learning programs but also rich opportunities for spiritual growth, a wide range of athletic sports, and service learning possibilities. Our President is the steward of this mission and legacy. The desired candidate is a collaborative, relational Catholic leader with the following attributes: ƫ đ +))%0)!*0ƫ * ƫ, //%+*ƫ"+.ƫ0$!ƫ !. 5ƫ $ .%/)ƫ * ƫ/%*#(!ƫƫƫƫƫ gender education ƫ đ .+2!*ƫ %(%05ƫ0+ƫ *%) 0!ƫ * ƫ%*/,%.!ƫ+0$!./ƫ"+.ƫ)%//%+* ƫ đĆƫ5! ./ƫ!4! 10%2!ƫ(! !./$%,ƫ!4,!.%!* ! ƫ đ !)+*/0. 0! ƫ/1 !//ƫ3%0$ƫ/0. 0!#% ƫ,( **%*#ƫ * ƫ institutional advancement efforts ƫ đ .+2!*ƫ %(%05ƫ0+ƫ) * #!ƫ ƫ +),(!4ƫ#.+1,ƫ+"ƫ/0 '!$+( !./ ƫ đ 1,!.%+.ƫ +))1*% 0%+*ƫ * ƫ%*0!.,!./+* (ƫ/'%((/ ƫ đ *+3(! #!ƫ+"ƫ * ƫ +))%0)!*0ƫ0+ƫ0$!ƫ0$!+(+#5ƫ * ƫ philosophy of Catholic education.

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THURSDAY, NOV. 15 BREAKFAST TALK: Catholic Marin Breakfast Club, Mass, 7 a.m. with talk following at St. Sebastian Church, Sir Francis Drake Boulevard and Bon Air Road, Greenbrae, John van der Zee speaks, “Setting The Record Straight About The History Of The Golden Gate Bridge.” (415) 461-0704. Sugaremy@ aol.com. Breakfast for members is $8/ non-members $10. ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY: Conversation group on ancient philosophical texts, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, Msgr. Bowe Room, 7:30-10 p.m. reynaldo.miranda@gmail.com. (415) 584 8794.

SUNDAY, NOV. 11 REUNION: St. Charles School, San Carlos, Class of ’62, 5:30 dinner, Poplar Creek Grill, San Mateo. Connie Trewin, (650) 343-6889. LMadison25@ aol.com. WEEKLY CATHOLIC TV MASS: A TV Mass is broadcast Sundays at 6 a.m. on the Bay Area’s KTSF Channel 26 and KOFY Channel 20, and in the Sacramento area at 5:30 a.m. on KXTL Channel 40. It is produced for Msgr. Harry viewing by the home- Schlitt bound and others unable to go to Mass by God Squad Productions with Msgr. Harry Schlitt, celebrant. Catholic TV Mass, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco 94109, (415) 614-5643, janschachern@aol.com.

MEET THE AUTHOR: St. Dominic Church hosts Dominican Father Nathan Castle author of “And Toto, Too, The Wizard of Oz as a Spiritual Adventure,” parish hall, 7:30 p.m., 2390 Bush St. at Steiner, San Francisco. “The book takes the familiar and much-loved film, `The Wizard of Oz,’ to a higher plane,” promotional information said. The author “bravely shares his belief that God comes in all forms and loves everybody Father Nathan wildly, extravagantly, beyond belief – and beyond belief Castle, OP systems.” Meet the author who will sign books, (415) 567-7824. The book will be available for purchase for $19.95.

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TUESDAY, NOV. 13 FICTION BOOK CLUB: Discussion based on C.S Lewis’ “The Screwtape Letters,” 7-8:30 p.m., Pauline Books & Media Center, 935 Brewster Ave., Redwood City. (650) 369-4230. redwood@ paulinemedia.com.

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4-NIGHT REVIVAL: St. Francis of Assisi Church, 1425 Bay Road, East Palo Alto, 7 p.m., Nov, 12, 13, 14, 15, with Catholic evangelist, Richard Lane, seen on EWTN and heard on Catholic radio, open to all. (650) 322-2152. www.EvangelistRichardLane.com.

VATICAN II TALKS: “The Vision of the Church” with Sulpician Father Gladstone Stevens at St. Pius Parish, Homer Crouse Hall, Woodside Road at Valota, Redwood City, 7 p.m. (650) 361-1411, ext. 121. laura@ pius.org.

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SATURDAY, NOV. 17 INTERFAITH STORY: Marty Brounstein, author of “Two Among the Righteous Few: A Story of Courage in the Holocaust,” presents story of a Dutch Catholic couple who save two dozen Jews during World War II, St. Matthias Church, 1685 Cordilleras Road, Redwood City, 2:30 p.m. Free and open to the public. (650) 366-9544. HOLIDAY BOUTIQUE: Mercy High School, San Francisco’s McAuley Pa-

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VALLOMBROSA CHOIR: Thanksgiving Prayer Service with the Vallombrosa Choir, 250 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park, 2 p.m., music, prayer and reflection. Suggested donation is $20. Contact Rachel Alvelais at rachel@vallombrosa.org or (650) 325-5614. www.vallombrosa.org. Bishop William J. Justice

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THANKSGIVING LUNCH: The Handicapables holiday meal, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Hall C, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco. Mass is at noon and lunch follows. San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice is principal celebrant and homilist. Information about Handicapables, volunteering for the event or attending is available at (415) 751-8531.

VETERANS DAY PRAYER SERVICE: Star of the Sea Section, Holy Cross Cemetery, 1500 Old Mission Road, Colma, 11 a.m. (650) 756-2060.

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CONCERT: Our Lady of Lourdes Men’s Choir presents “Real Men in Love with God,” 3 p.m., Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Hawes Street and Innes Avenue, San Francisco. CONCERT: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 3:30 p.m. featuring organists from around the world and today Angela Kraft Cross. All are welcome. A free-will donation is appreciated. INTERFAITH STORY: Marty Brounstein, author of “Two Among the Righteous Few: A Story of Courage in the Holocaust,” presents story of a Dutch Catholic couple who save two dozen Jews during World War II, Bureau of Jewish Education, Jewish Community Library,1835 Ellis St., San Francisco, 1:30 p.m. Free and open to the public. (650) 366-9544.

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FEAST DAY MASS: Schools of the Sacred Heart celebrates the feast of St. Philippine Duchesne, who brought Sacred Heart education to the U.S., at St. Ignatius Church, Parker at Fulton, San Francisco, 5 p.m. The special Mass is part of the celebration of the school’s 125th anniversary. www.sacredsf.org.

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2-DAY BOUTIQUE: St. Peter Women’s Guild Holiday Boutique, 700 Oddstad Blvd., Pacifica, Saturday 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; Sunday 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m. More than 30 vendors will showcase a wide variety of handcrafted gifts, holiday decorations, and unique children gifts. Soup, sandwiches, hot dogs, hamburgers, beverages and homemade desserts are available for purchase. Also, a supervised children’s craft room.

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MONDAY, NOV. 26 HOLIDAY BOUTIQUE: St. Patrick’s Seminary & University, 320 Middlefield Road, Menlo Park, 4 p.m. ,with Christmas tree lighting and caroling by seminarians at 5 p.m. Come and see the seminary all decked out for Christmas. Open to the public. (650) 325-5621.

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 28 CHRISTMAS AT KOHL: Holiday boutique with over 60 vendors 2750 Adeline Drive, Burlingame, 5-9 p.m. $10. www.mercyhsb.com. Proceeds benefit Mercy High School, Burlingame.

FRIDAY, NOV. 30 FIRST FRIDAY: Contemplatives of St. Joseph offer Mass at Mater Dolorosa Church, 307 Willow Ave., South San Francisco, 7 p.m. followed by healing service and personal blessing with St. Joseph oil from Oratory of St. Joseph, Montreal. WEEKEND RETREAT: Rachel’s Vineyard post-abortive retreat in Los Altos at

the Jesuit Retreat Center for women and men, therapy for the soul, Shirley (650) 964-8093, (650) 814-6185. shirley@ mycpc.org. www.rachelsvineyard.org.

SATURDAY, DEC. 1 DEATH IS NOT THE END: A workshop with Paulist Father Terry Ryan, 9 a.m.-noon, Old St. Mary’s Paulist Center, 614 Grant Ave. at California, San Francisco. Workshop is free but donations welcome. Call (415) 288-3845. MASS: Holy Cross Cemetery, 1500 Old Mission Road, Colma, 11 a.m., All Saints Mausoleum Chapel, Father Brian Costello, pastor, Most Holy Redeemer Parish, celebrant, homilist. (650) 756-2060.

SUNDAY, DEC. 2 CONCERT: The choirs and musicians of St Bartholomew Parish, 300 Alameda de las Pulgas at Crystal Springs Road, San Mateo, 3 p.m. Program features Christmas favorites old and new accompanied by a 14-piece orchestra. Free-will donations appreciated.

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 5 BOOK CLUB: Study of Vatican Council II: 50 Years, implications of the council for continuing renewal of the church in the 21st Century. New members welcome, Pauline Books & Media Center, 935 Brewster Ave., Redwood City, 7-8:30 p.m., (650) 369-4230. redwood@paulinemedia. com.

FRIDAY, DEC. 7 FILM NIGHT: “Maldonado Miracle” and Year of Faith, 6:30 p.m., Pauline Books & Media Center, 935 Brewster Ave., Redwood City, 7-8:30 p.m. (650) 369-4230. redwood@paulinemedia.com.

SATURDAY, DEC. 8: REMEMBRANCE SERVICE: Holiday prayer service, Holy Cross Cemetery, 1500 Old Mission Road, Colma, 11a.m., All Saints Mausoleum Chapel. Msgr. John Talesfore presides. (650) 756-2060.

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ENGLISH CHRISTMAS: Golden Gate Boys Choir and Bellringers and the drama, pageantry and elegance of a 16thcentury Christmas celebration, St. Mary’s Cathedral Event Center, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, 4-8 p.m. The dinner theater evening features the GGBC, raffle and silent auction. Adults $150/children $85. www.ggbc.org. (510) 887-4311. (415) 431-1137. Free parking.

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Men of faith, wisdom, service, community and leadership “Faith plays an integral part in our everyday lives – in the classroom, on the basketball court and during service projects. At Serra, I have learned to believe in my goals and work hard. Faith is climbing invisible stairs – we walk by faith, not by sight.”

– Jeramey Fields Campus Ministry Varsity Basketball Trivia Club Volunteer to St. Anthony’s Dining Room Volunteer, Second Harvest Food Bank

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