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Prayer at DNC alludes to difficult issues

DNC Forum: Can you be a Democrat and be pro-life?

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conference in England titled “Redeeming Power: Overcoming Abuse in Church and Society.”

The European Society of Catholic Theology sponsored the conference at St. Mary’s University College in Twickenham as part of the International Network of Societies for Catholic Theology’s threeyear research project on “the power of theology to overcome power abuse in church and society.”

Msgr. Scicluna told Vatican Radio the conference was an important part of the ongoing conversation about how to empower all members of the church to prevent abuse and promote accountability.

“We are accountable not only to God, but to each other and to our peers in how we respond to diffi-

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – When Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York offered the closing benediction Sept. 6 at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, he made allusions to issues that have put the U.S. church and the White House at odds with each other.

“Renew in all our people a profound respect for religious liberty: the first, most cherished freedom bequeathed upon us at our founding,” Cardinal Dolan prayed, an apparent reference to an ongoing dispute between the U.S. bishops and the White House over a mandate from the federal Department of Health and Human Services that would require most religious employers to offer contraceptive coverage in violation of church teaching.

The other options would be to drop all health coverage for its workers or risk paying steep fines if contraceptive coverage is not included in their insurance package. Dozens of Catholic institutions have filed suit over the mandate, and the bishops’ early-summer “Fortnight for Freedom” was an effort to raise awareness of the issue.

“We ask your benediction on those waiting to be born, that they may be welcomed and protected,” prayed Cardinal Dolan, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. While the cardinal uttered a similar phrase in his closing benediction the week before at the Republican National Convention, the GOP’s platform on abortion is generally viewed as closer to the Catholic Church’s teaching than the Democrats’, which supports legal abortion.

Cardinal Dolan also made an allusion to same-sex marriage, which President Barack Obama voiced his support for earlier this year.

“Show us anew that happiness is found only in respecting the laws of nature and of nature’s God,” the cardinal prayed. “Empower us with your grace so that we might resist the temptation to replace the moral law with idols of our own making, or to remake those institutions you have given us for the nurturing of life and community.”

PBS reported that some Democratic officials were worried that some delegates would rebuke Cardinal Dolan during his prayer by either

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Buttons were available at the Democrats for Life of America forum Sept. 4 during the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte.

“Do We Count?” the button asks. The forum was an effort by pro-life Democrats to examine the question: “Can you be pro-life in a pro-choice party?”

The answer to both questions was mixed.

The view of many of the presenters was that there is significant room to make a dent in the Democratic Party’s staunch position in favor of keeping abortion legal. That is in spite of Democrats for Life’s recent failure to get the party to change its unequivocal support for abortion on demand in the 2012 platform.

Democrats for Life members said they also believe that much of what does get done on the abortion issue happens not because of pro-abortion rights Democrats or pro-life Republicans. Pro-life Democrats in Congress, they say, have been the key leaders.

Kathy Dahlkemper, a former member of the U.S. House from Pennsylvania, put it bluntly: Both RepubSEE PRO-LIFE, PAGE 18

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A woman from the pro-life grassroots organization America, Defend Life! prays the rosary during a demonstration Sept. 1 outside a Planned Parenthood center in Charlotte, N.C., where two national pro-choice leaders later spoke at the Democratic National Convention.

Full church must heal abuse’s ‘most tragic wound’ CINDY WOODEN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – The “most tragic wound” of clerical sexual abuse will not heal without a response from the entire Catholic Church – hierarchy and laity together – said the chief Vatican investigator of abuse cases.

“I think that slowly, slowly, slowly we are getting toward a response that is truly ecclesial – it’s not hierarchical, it’s the church. We are in this together, in suffering (from) the wound and trying to respond to it,” Msgr. Charles Scicluna told Vatican Radio.

The monsignor, whose formal title is promoter of justice in the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, spoke to Vatican Radio during a Sept. 4-5

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22 at a gala lunch in the event center of St. Mary’s Cathedral, 1111 Gough St., San Francisco, noon-3, with Archbishop George Niederauer as featured guest.

All friends of St. Benedict are invited. RSVP to (415) 567-9855, or to info@sfdeafcatholics.org.

CALLED TO ASSOCIATION?: The annual gathering of the Bay Area Conference of Associates and Religious will be held Oct. 6, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., at Sacred Heart Schools, 150 Valparaiso Ave., Atherton. Titled “Interdependence – A Shared Charism: The Future Face of Associate and Religious Life,” the conference will explore association as a call to live a religious congregation’s charism while continuing to live one’s own life.

Kate Kuenstler, a canon lawyer and member of the international congregation Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ, is speaker. Contact conference co-chair Kathy Noether at knoether@aol.com.

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iPad-equipped students begin year at Star of the Sea Seventh graders at Star of the Sea School are beginning the new school year with something different – iPads. Shown here with seventh grade teacher Paul Quintilian, the class is discussing how to download a graphics calculator onto the tablets. About 24,000 students are enrolled this fall, 16,000 at the elementary school level, in the archdiocesan Catholic schools.

Q & A: MERCY SISTER M. PAULINE BORGHELLO Mercy Sister M. Pauline Borghello this year begins here 31st year as principal of St. Gabriel Elementary School in San Francisco’s Sunset District. She spoke with CSF’s George Raine.

lieve good social skills and the ability to work cooperatively with others is a growing need. All of this needs to be put in context, a framework, of living lives of respect and concern for others.

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A. All students need to keep up with changing technology, I would say monthly, Sister Pauline and also they must be able to adequately meet the needs of academic skills. But I believe that it starts with the need to be able to make the right choices, prioritize activities, accomplish responsibilities, develop necessary self-confidence that will enable students to be self-starters when presented with new challenges. I be-

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A. We are very fortunate at St. Gabriel’s that we have parents who also believe that art is extremely important.

A program called Art In Every Classroom was started by our parents a few years ago, providing art classes to all 18 of our classes, several times a month.

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derserved or fragile populations. They often don’t have the funding that public schools can apportion those populations, but serve them better anyway. How is that done?

A. When all is said and done, I believe Catholic schools’ personnel incorporate Catholic social teaching into their mindset which then influences how they teach and a realization of what our responsibilities are for all children.

We have a special concern and awareness of God’s love for the poor. And I think every Catholic school tries to bring this understanding to our parents and to our students. Catholic social teaching frames our philosophy for teaching because it makes us aware of the needs of others and our responsibility toward them. It is ingrained. And I believe it is part of our tradition that we know we are responsible to teach all people, be they economically poor or whatever their poverty area is. Those who we teach then are able to move toward using their gifts to help others.

It is not just a job. It is a ministry.

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Bishops urge action on juvenile sentencing reform GEORGE RAINE

State Sen. Leland Yee says his bill “provides the opportunity for compassion and rehabilitation that we should exercise with minors.�

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The California Catholic bishops are urging Gov. Jerry Brown to sign a bill that could give inmates serving life sentences without parole for capital crimes they committed as juveniles a chance, albeit slim, for a hearing that could lead to a reduced sentence.

It is not a “get-out-of-jail-free card,� said the bill’s sponsor, State Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, but could provide an opportunity for someone who is remorseful and rehabilitating himself to petition for a court hearing and, potentially, to be sentenced anew to a term of 25 years to life, with 25 years behind bars the minimum. Even with that, an inmate would have to make a case at a parole hearing. “It is an incredibly modest proposal that respects victims, international law and the fact that children have a greater capacity for rehabilitation than adults,� said Yee, who has a doctorate in child psychology.

The Legislature passed the bill – it is Yee’s fourth effort to gain approval over the past six years – accepting its premise, that the brains of young people are not fully developed when they commit horrible crimes, or may be unwitting accomplices. “Brain maturation continues well through adolescence and thus impulse control, planning and critical thinking skills are not fully developed,� said Yee. Perhaps more than anything, young people don’t understand consequences, added Adam Keigwin, a spokesman for Yee. Yee said his bill “reflects that science and provides the opportunity for compassion and

rehabilitation that we should exercise with minors.�

The Catholic view, said Carol Hogan, communications director at the California Catholic Conference, the official voice of the Catholic community in the public policy arena, embraces restorative justice and healing. The U.S. Catholic bishops spelled out that policy in a 2000 statement, “Responsibility, Rehabilitation and Restoration: A Catholic Perspective on Crime and Criminal Justice.�

That focus, said Linda Wanner, the associate director of governmental relations at the conference, is justice for all – “for the victim, the offender’s family, the victim’s family, the community� – while believing that “young people have the ability to change.�

The California Catholic Conference noted that the U.S. bishops’ statement included this language: “Not all offenders are open to treatment but all deserve to be challenged to turn their lives around.� The California bishops’ group added, “Sentencing a juvenile to life without parole is cruel, unfair and unnecessary. It means giving up on a youngster before he or she ever reaches adulthood.�

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There are currently 309 inmates in California prisons who, at 16 or 17, were convicted of murder and sentenced to life without the possibility of parole, said Bill Sessa, a spokesman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. All were convicted of homicide and they range in age from their mid-20s to mid40s, said Sessa. They were all tried as adults.

The distinction is key because if a juvenile is given a sentence in juvenile court the state only has jurisdiction until age 23, and then he is discharged, said Sessa. If a juvenile is tried in adult court, they go to adult prison when they turn 18.

With the legislation, said Keigwin, the aide to Yee, “We want them to go before a judge when they do have a fully developed brain, when they will be well into their adulthood. The first time they would be able to petition the court for sentencing would be after serving 15 years – they would be in their 30s. Best-case scenario, they serve another 10 years for a total of 25 and then go before the parole board,� he said.

Still, said Harriet Salarno, the chair of Crime Victims United of California, who is urging Brown to veto the bill, these 309 inmates “are the worst of the worst� who have committed violent crimes, “and are the ones who can’t be rehabilitated.�

A lifelong Catholic, Salarno long lived in San Francisco. Her daughter, Catina, was murdered in 1979. Salarno, now living in Auburn, added, “I love my religion but there are a couple things we are not on the same page on. What are you doing to these families? They will have to relive these murders. You make laws to go forward. Why are you trying to make this law go backward?�

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Sister Marianne Smith: Still helping kids grow up Loved by all and recently honored on her 88th birthday was Holy Family Sister Marianne Smith, a member of the Holy Family Day Home staff for more than 20 years.

“The children love her dearly and flock to her side, wanting to hug and kiss her,” the day home said.

“Sister Marianne is always so happy to return each child’s love and is in many ways the centerpiece of Holy Family Day Home.”

Sister Marianne, a religious for 68 Sister Marianne years, often receives visits from now-adult children she cared for at the day home.

Pictured is Sister Marianne, wearing a hat made for her by students at the day home.

CENTENARIAN: Happy 100th birthday July 24 to Kay Hiatt, a very longtime parishioner of St. Cecilia Parish. Kay gets weekly visits from extraordinary ministers of holy Communion, watches Mass on television and is always ready to discuss the Gospel of the day.

Pink caps and a winning attitude marked SVdP’s Catherine’s Center participation in a breast cancer walk in late August in support of a center resident who is a breast cancer survivor. Catherine’s Center is transitional housing and training for women leaving incarceration. Pictured from left are Suzi Desmond, center program director; Bay Area newscaster Barbara Rodgers; Kristina Lopez, a center case manager, and Mary McTiernan, center program assistant. riman, and parishioners of St. Cecilia Parish for their help during his pastoral year at the parish ending just a few months ago. “You are a community that has helped with my formation as a future priest,” he said in a recent bulletin. “God willing two years from now, I will become a priest to serve this wonderful archdiocese. Let’s continue praying for one another.” Andrew is now back hittin’ the books at St. Pat’s.

Kay Hiatt HELLO OUT THERE: Rounding up her grade school classmates from class of ’62 St. Matthew School is Angela Harrington Norton.

“As a faithful Catholic San Francisco reader, I can’t think of a better vehicle to publicize our reunion,” Angela told me in a note to this column. The St. Bartholomew parishioner said “a good percentage of the class attended St. Matt’s from kindergarten through eighth grade” and “today, in addition to California, we live in 16 states from Vermont to Hawaii.” The big day is Oct. 27. Classmates can reach Angela at angeliz49cal@gmail.com. Details are also at www.stmatthewcath.org.

ALL ABOARD: Taking to the high seas were Anne and Bernie Cotter of Our Lady of Angels Parish, Burlingame, plus their six children, their kids’ spouses, and 19 grandchildren. Bernie called the group “the 33” and told me the trip was inspired by William Saroyan’s “directive `Now is the time of your life, live.’” The Caribbean and all ports cooperated in the “joyful week on the open sea,” Bernie said.

VETERANS HONORED: St. Cecilia Parish, San Francisco rededicates its veterans plaque Nov. 4 at the 9:30 a.m. Mass. Names of living and deceased parishioners who have served in the Armed Forces during wartime will be permanently inscribed. All current and former St. Cecilia veterans and per-

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Natalie Capangpangan, a recent graduate of Our Lady of Perpetual Help School, Daly City is this year’s winner of The Bud Duggan Scholarship for Kindness Award. The award is named for the founder of Duggan’s Serra Mortuary and sponsored by the Duggan family. Natalie received a $400 scholarship for use at Immaculate Conception Academy where she started as a freshman August 6, and four tickets to a Giants game. Pictured from left are Father Augusto Villote, OLPH pastor; Bill Kovacich, OLPH principal, Natalie, Cleo Rabellas of Duggan’s, and OLPH eighth grade teacher Sheila Ortega. sons who know of a St. Cecilia veteran who would like to be considered for this special honor should contact Terry Howard at (415) 336-4767 for details.

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Obama: ‘I never said this journey would be easy’ PATRICIA ZAPOR CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – In accepting the Democratic nomination to retain his seat, President Barack Obama reminded people of progress in his agenda and cautioned that “I never said this journey would be easy, and I won’t promise that now.”

In a Sept. 6 speech closing the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., Obama touched on many of the themes of the Catholic bishops’ quadrennial document offering Catholics guidance for election decisions. On a handful of points, his positions are in contradiction to those taken by the bishops. But on others, he echoed their stance.

Obama wove a theme of “we’re all in this together” into outlines of his agenda and a listing of goals accomplished: U.S. troops withdrawn from Iraq and a plan to withdraw from Afghanistan; passage of a health care law; auto industry jobs saved; new fuel consumption standards for cars; doubled use of renewable energy and reduced dependence on foreign fuel; a program to defer deportation for qualified undocumented immigrants; changes in student loans to reduce costs; academic gains at poorly performing schools; and improved relationships abroad, while helping advance human rights and new democracies, while keeping terrorist organizations at bay.

Many of those topics are addressed in “Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship” a 45-page discussion of Catholic teaching, how people can be involved in public policy, how church teaching relates to policy issues and what positions the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops takes on those issues.

Some of what Obama cited fits within the goals for public policy included in “Faithful Citizenship.” Others are in contradiction to the document’s goals.

For instance, the document’s section on human life counts avoiding war and promoting peace among the principles Catholics should value. Its sections on social justice and global solidarity raise protection of immigrants, access to education and supporting

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U.S. President Barack Obama waves at supporters with his family, first lady Michelle and daughters Sasha and Malia, during the final session of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., Sept. 6.

United Nations peacebuilding efforts as goals that echo some of Obama’s list.

But the bishops’ document first emphasizes ending abortion, the death penalty and euthanasia in its human life section. The section on family life explains the church’s teaching that marriage should be between one man and one woman.

Obama made note of his position supporting the right to “decide who you can marry, or control health care choices that women should be making for themselves.” He did not talk more specifically about those themes in his speech, but his administration stopped

legally defending the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as the union of one man and one woman.

The administration has been battling with the USCCB over provisions of the health care law that would require most employers – with few religious exemptions – to provide insurance coverage for contraceptives, which the church opposes as an infringement upon religious rights.

Much of Obama’s speech dealt with economic issues, emphasizing again and again his opposition to tax cuts for the wealthy, a distinction between his platform and that of his Republican opponent, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.

“I don’t believe that another round of tax breaks for millionaires will bring good jobs to our shores or pay down our deficit,” he said. “I don’t believe that firing teachers or kicking students off financial aid will grow the economy, or help us compete with the scientists and engineers coming out of China.”

He put some of his arguments in terms of poverty, one of the major themes of “Faithful Citizenship.”

“I refuse to ask middle-class families to give up their deductions for owning a home or raising their kids just to pay for another millionaire’s tax cut,” he said. “I refuse to ask students to pay more for college, or kick children out of Head Start programs, or eliminate health insurance for millions of Americans who are poor and elderly or disabled – all so those with the most can pay less. I’m not going along with that.”

Throughout, at times citing Scripture and his prayer life, Obama urged voters to stick with him.

“I never said this journey would be easy, and I won’t promise that now,” he said. “Yes, our path is harder, but it leads to a better place. Yes, our road is longer, but we travel it together. We don’t turn back.

We leave no one behind. We pull each other up. We draw strength from our victories, and we learn from our mistakes, but we keep our eyes fixed on that distant horizon, knowing that Providence is with us, and that we are surely blessed to be citizens of the greatest nation on earth.”

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Both major political parties seek Latino support in tight race RHINA GUIDOS CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – The conventions for the two major political parties in the United States have wrapped up but the fight for votes is nowhere near over.

In an election that promises to be tight, what’s clear is that both parties are emphasizing their respective support of Latinos in the United States.

One party showed off its Latino backing with the voice of Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida while the other featured the Democratic mayor of San Antonio, Julian Castro, as a keynote speaker.

Those were just two in a long lineup of Latino speakers prominently featured by both sides.

What’s foremost in the minds of some is not the immediate effect of the Latino vote in the 2012 election but its impact beyond. Line up the Republican and Democrat platform side by side, and Latinos in the United States would tend to check off more boxes favorable to the Republicans’ most prominent conservative views, said Gabriel Pilonieta Blanco, editor of El Tiempo Hispano, a bilingual, SpanishEnglish newspaper in the Philadelphia area.

Since they tend to be practicing Catholics, “many (Hispanics) are against abortion and are pro-life,” Pilonieta said. They don’t tend to favor same-sex marriage either, he added.

However, Pilonieta said, it’s rare to encounter an active Republican Latino.

Start talking about immigration and that’s what will get the attention of a Latino voter most of the time, said Pilonieta.

“It adds a lot and creates major sympathy toward (the Democrats),” he said.

Tony Yapias, director of an immigration advocacy group, Proyecto Latino de Utah, in Salt Lake City, said the reason the immigration topic attracts Latinos has to do with the way the party addresses Latinos as a group. At the heart of the issue is whether each major political party makes Latinos feel welcome in their circles, he said.

The Pew Hispanic Center found that among Hispanic voters registered so far in 2012, 42 percent are listed as Democrats, 37 percent as independents and 16 percent as Republicans.

“Democrats have done a 100 percent better job” of treating Latinos as part of this country, said Yapias, who identifies himself as an independent voter.

The Republican Party may have a platform of social issues that appeals to Latinos but the problem is the lack of respect they have shown toward them in this country, even those who are citizens, he said. Take Arizona, for example, said Yapias.

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Mayor Julian Castro of San Antonio gives the keynote address during the first session of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., Sept. 4. In both national conventions, Democrats and Republicans tried to showcase their appeal to Latinos.

Listen to the rhetoric of Republican Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, who along with her state’s Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, regularly take to the airwaves using language that makes Latinos, even those who are U.S. citizens, feel as if they will be targeted as illegal or undocumented, Yapias said.

That doesn’t make anyone feel comfortable, no matter what social issues they may espouse, he added.

“I am very conservative,” said Yapias, a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

“But I tend to watch out for the interest of Latinos.”

He sees himself as being welcomed by the Democrats, even with his conservative views, and tends to support them at the voting booth because of the way they embrace Hispanics, he said.

Though Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is a Mormon like him, Yapias doesn’t feel Romney follows the teachings of the church as he does, especially when he is aligning himself with those who don’t treat or speak well of Latinos.

“People say, ‘I want a job, I want those who will

create jobs but I want to be treated well, too,’” Yapias said.

But that’s not to say he doesn’t favor some Republicans. Yapias supported Chris Cannon in 2008 in his bid for U.S. Representative for Utah’s 3rd congressional district.

“I’m an independent,” Yapias said. “Don’t take my vote for granted.”

And that may explain the growing numbers of independent Latino voters, whom he described as not quite Democrats but not feeling welcomed by the Republicans.

“I vote for those who seek me,” Yapias said, meaning that if a politician wants his vote, he or she must find a respectful way to address Latinos. So far, he sees former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush as the only prominent Republican making a plea to his kin to stop “acting stupid” toward Latinos, Yapias said.

But as the numbers of Latinos adding to the independent roster show, it’s a voting bloc that’s complex and that no one can afford to take for granted.

Recently, Pilonieta said, he has heard more grumblings from Latinos about the Democrats’ support for same-sex marriage. He also said he has heard from many Latinos not happy with the Health and Human Services’ mandate and who believe the Obama administration had overstepped its boundaries. They view the mandate requiring most religious institutions to pay for health insurance covering contraceptives and sterilization as a religious freedom issue, he said.

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Packer heaven: Tour connects faith, football JEFF KUROWSKI CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

GREEN BAY, Wis. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Green Bay Packers fans who check out the new Packers Heritage Trail will discover a number of Catholic sites that have ties to the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s history.

The trail, designed as a self-guided walking tour, features 22 commemorative plaques located within a two-mile radius of downtown Green Bay. Seventeen plaques are part of a city walk. Five others are a part of self-guided bike tours.

One of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sites is St. Willebrord Church, known to many as the church where former Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi attended Mass.

Cliff Christl, a Green Bay native and longtime sportswriter who developed the idea for the tour, said St. Willebrord was an easy choice for the trail but he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know if placing a plaque on church property would be possible.

Norbertine Father Andy Cribben, pastor at St. Willebrord, said he was initially skeptical of the plaque but the text, which connects faith with the history of the Packers, convinced him it was worth it.

The text describes Lombardiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s connection to the church along with parish history and information about Norbertine Father David Rondou, who was pastor at St. Willebrord during the Lombardi years.

Christl said Lombardi immediately built a relationship with Father Rondou especially since they shared a common sports bond. The priest served as athletic director at St. Norbert College in the early 1930s. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was told that Father Rondou never prayed for the Packers to win, but he did pray for the Bears to lose on occasion,â&#x20AC;? said Father Cribben.

The text on the plaque also notes that visiting players attended Sunday morning Mass at St. Willebrord. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s another nice feature,â&#x20AC;? Father Cribben told The Compass, diocesan newspaper of Green Bay. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It says something about their real lives, that they were men of faith.â&#x20AC;?

A plaque was also installed on the campus of St. Norbert College, De Pere, as part of the trail. The Packers have held training camp at the college since 1958.

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A plaque is seen outside St. Willebrord Church in downtown Green Bay, Wis., Aug. 13. St. Willebrord is known to many as the church where legendary football coach Vince Lombardi attended daily morning Mass. â&#x20AC;&#x153;One of the most fascinating aspects is that Lombardi could be so intimidating when he was around his players,â&#x20AC;? said Christl, who wrote the book, â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Championship Team: the Packers and St. Norbert College in the Lombardi Years,â&#x20AC;? in 2010. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He would bark at them to the point that they would be scared to death walking around campus, and at the same time, he was so humble

when he encountered priests and nuns on campus, particularly nuns. I guess he was extremely soft-spoken and always courteous and always made a point to stop and talk with them.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;They had their meetings there,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They ate all of their meals there. It was a much different experience for the Lombardi Packers.

When you talk about the ways those teams were molded, it was on the practice field, but it was also on the campus, much more so than today.â&#x20AC;?

Christl said another site on the tour with a Catholic connection is a community center owned by the Norbertines. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Packers used the top floor as a clubhouse,â&#x20AC;? explained Christl. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They had a big stockholdersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; rally there in 1950, the stockholderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s drive that saved the franchise.

The Norbertines had a presence there through most of that period of time in Packer history.â&#x20AC;?

The gravesite of Curly Lambeau, first coach of the Packers, is also part of the walking tour.

The grave, at Allouez Catholic Cemetery, is not marked with a plaque but there is information about him on the trailâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s website: www.packersheritagetrail.com.

The website also showcases photos and information about other unmarked sites that Packer fans may find of interest such as St. Francis Xavier Cathedral where Lambeauâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first wedding was held. A Mass was celebrated for Lambeau at St. Francis Xavier three days after his funeral in 1965. His grandfatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s masonry company helped build the church.

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Bishop Finn convicted of not reporting abuse CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Bishop Robert W. Finn of Kansas City-St. Joseph was convicted Sept. 6 of one count of failing to report suspected child abuse and acquitted on another count in a brief bench trial.

Jackson County Circuit Judge John M. Torrence issued the verdict and quickly set and suspended a sentence of two years’ probation. The charges carried a possible maximum sentence of one year in jail and a fine of up to $1,000.

“I will pledge, both personally and in my capacity as bishop, to take every reasonable step to protect children from any abuse or misconduct perpetrated by clergy, diocesan employees or volunteers,” Bishop Finn said in a statement after the verdict. “I regret and am sorry for the hurt that these events have caused.”

He is the highest ranking U.S. Catholic official to face criminal charges related to child sex abuse.

Bishop Finn, 59, was indicted last October on the misdemeanor charges of failing to report suspected child abuse to state authorities. The Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph had faced similar charges, but Torrence dismissed them after sentencing the bishop.

The case began in December 2010, after a computer technician discovered child pornography on a computer used by Father Shawn Ratigan and turned it over to diocesan authorities.

Authorities were not notified until six months later, when a search of the priest’s family home turned up images of child pornography. Father Ratigan pleaded guilty in August to five counts of producing or attempting to produce child pornograBishop Robert phy.

W. Finn The Jackson County Circuit Court announced Sept. 5 that a bench, or nonjury, trial would be held the next day, rather than the Sept. 24 scheduled jury trial.

Bishop Finn’s attorneys entered a nine-page stipulation of testimony that would have been presented at a longer trial before a jury. It outlined how knowledge of Father Ratigan’s activities surfaced and how the decision was made on when to report him to state authorities.

“The diocesan process and procedures as previously existed failed to adequately identify the necessity for informing the (state) children’s

division of Shawn Ratigan’s behavior in a more timely manner,” Gerald Handley, J.R. Hobbs and Marilyn Keller, attorneys for the bishop, said in a statement. “For this the bishop is truly sorry.”

The Associated Press quoted the attorney who represents a dozen families that are suing Father Ratigan.

“I think that this is an amazing outcome, getting a bishop convicted of anything,” said attorney Rebecca Randles of Kansas City. “Of course we wish the diocese was also convicted, but we understand the process and how it works.”

Torrence set nine conditions for Bishop Finn’s probation, including a requirement that the entire administrative staff of the diocese and all clergy undergo mandatory training on their obligation to report abuse, a training program on what constitutes child pornography and how to identify signs of what is known as grooming, or steps sexual predators take to gain a victim’s confidence.

The bishop also was told to set aside $10,000 to pay for counseling for abuse victims and to specifically direct all diocesan staff members, teachers, counselors and staff to report any suspected child abuse immediately to government authorities.

Former Rep. Stupak calls HHS mandate illegal CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

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During debate over the legislation that would become the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Stupak negotiated an executive order with the Obama administration that guaranteed the act would not violate the Hyde Amendment, which forbids federal funding for any abortion or abortionrelated care. The HHS mandate violates that executive order, as well as the Hyde Amendment itself, Stupak believes.

“Specifically, as written, it violates the law and violates the executive order,” said Stupak, who decided not to seek re-election after passage of the health reform law.

Last year, as her agency set forth the nuts and bolts of the Affordable Care Act, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius declared that nearly all employers must

include free contraception and sterilization services in their health insurance policies.

HHS drafted a narrow exemption for religious employers who object to providing contraception, sterilization and abortion-inducing drugs as mandated, but to be exempted they must serve and hire people primarily of their own faith.

Stupak said he was “bewildered” and “perplexed” by the mandate when it was announced last summer.

In the face of criticism by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and other religious organizations, President Barack Obama announced a compromise giving Catholic institutions a year’s reprieve from having to comply and allowing them to pass the coverage costs onto their insurance carriers rather than pay for it directly.

But the bishops and other religious institutions argued that the mandate itself was unconstitutional because it violates the First Amendment protection for religious freedom. More than 20 lawsuits challenging the mandate are in the works.

Stupak said he agrees with the public outcry over the mandate and said the bishops are absolutely right to challenge it.

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NAVY’S YOUNGEST ‘TRAFFIC COP’ FOR D-DAY INVASION DIES AT 92

BETHESDA, Md. – At 23, Joseph P. Vaghi Jr. was the Navy’s youngest beachmaster at Omaha Beach in Normandy during the June 6, 1944, D-Day invasion, a role he likened to being a “traffic cop,” as he held a map and guided troops ashore, through minefields, mortar blasts and machine-gun fire.

Earlier this year at the age of 91, Vaghi received the Legion of Honor Chevalier from the French government, France’s highest civilian honor, in thanks for his heroic contribution to that country’s liberation during World War II. Vaghi, 92, died at a Bethesda retirement home Aug. 25, the feast day of St. Louis of France, a day when the French celebrate the liberation of Paris.

At the beginning of the Aug. 30 funeral Mass at the Church of the Little Flower in Bethesda, one of his four sons, Msgr. Peter Vaghi, that parish’s pastor, placed a cross on his father’s casket that had been carved by his dad’s own father, an Italian immigrant and cabinet maker who started his own woodworking business in Bethel, Conn.

At Normandy, Vaghi ran to a burning Jeep and pulled away gasoline cans and boxes of grenades.

He later earned the Bronze Star for his heroism, and was featured in the Ken Burns’ documentary, “The War.” In a 2004 interview with the Catholic Standard, Washington archdiocesan newspaper, Vaghi said that when he went into Normandy, “I had absolutely no fear, because I knew God would look after me. If he wanted me, that would be it.”

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Remembering 9/11 victims A woman sheds tears Sept. 11 as she and other relatives of the victims of 9/11 observe a moment of silence led by U.S. President Barack Obama and U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta at the Pentagon in Arlington, Va., to mark the 11th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the U.S.

CARDINAL URGES SEMINARIANS TO RELY ON AUTHENTIC CATHOLIC TEACHING

WASHINGTON – In a letter to seminarians of the Archdiocese of Washington, Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl encouraged them to rely on authentic Catholic teaching in their preparation for the priesthood, so that they will be able to share the truth of the church’s teachings with the people they will one day serve. He urged them to look to the Catechism of the Catholic Church as a sure guide on what the church teaches.

“Your need to be well grounded in authentic Catholic teaching is important, first for your own participation in the great, living teaching tradition of the church,” the cardinal said in his Sept. 3 letter to the archdiocese’s 74 seminarians. “One reason why you are required to take so many courses

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The cardinal titled his letter “Faith Seeking Understanding in the Life of the Seminarian.” He said that as priests, they will be ministering to people in a materialistic, secular world who, in their worldly culture and by alternative voices claiming to be Catholic, have been taught things that are counter to church teaching, especially in the area of sexual morality. ©CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

PEORIA, Ill. – Calling Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen “the model of virtue our world needs today,” friends and family of the famed media evangelist and author gathered Sept. 9 to give thanks for Pope Benedict XVI’s recent decree of “venerable” for him, advancing his sainthood cause.

Peoria Bishop Daniel R. Jenky, who formally opened the diocese’s inquiry into the cause a decade ago, was the principal celebrant of a Mass of thanksgiving that drew an overflow crowd to St. Mary’s Cathedral in Peoria.

“Today, as we give thanks for the gift of this great man, let us double our commitment to pray for the success of the cause and that we, like Archbishop Fulton Sheen, will courageously continue to spread the message of the Gospel of Christ throughout the world,” said Bishop Jenky.

On June 28, Pope Benedict XVI affirmed the heroic virtues of Archbishop Sheen and declared him venerable.

If one of three documented, alleged miraculous healings through his intercession is approved, Archbishop Sheen could become the first American-born bishop to be beatified.

The beatification ceremony also could be the first to take place in the United States, perhaps in Peoria. A second miracle must be confirmed for canonization.

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Latest Irish abuse audits show progress, concern MICHAEL KELLY CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

DUBLIN – The latest audits of the Irish church’s handling of abuse allegations show that, while substantial progress continues to be made, as recently as a year ago there were still areas of noncompliance with agreedupon procedures.

The reviews – carried out by the independent watchdog, the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church – showed that as recently as July 2011, one religious congregation was not reporting abuse allegations to the civil authorities. The reports also show that, as recently as 12 months ago, religious congregations were not following the Vatican’s procedure on reporting all allegations to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

Ian Elliott, head of the national board, said the “reviews indicate that full compliance has not yet been achieved by all of those reviewed, although many examples of excellent practice were found.”

Four dioceses and three religious congregations published the results of their independent audits Sept. 5, looking at incidents back to 1975.

Elliott said that “all allegations that were examined with the review process have been reported to the appropriate statutory authorities,” but

“Reviews indicate that full compliance has not yet been achieved by all of those reviewed, although many examples of excellent practice were found.”

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Chief executive of Ireland’s National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church added, “Sadly, some of these had been very much delayed.”

In the audit of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, the report said: “it is difficult to express adequately the failure of this society to effectively protect vulnerable children.”

In August 2011, the national safeguarding board began assessing how the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart were complying with church safeguarding procedures they had signed onto in 2009. However, the board suspended its review within a day after uncovering “very worrying” evidence that allegations had not been passed on to police. A new provincial superior had just taken over and he said he had been unaware of the allegations, He immediately began passing information on to the authorities.

The report noted that significant progress has been made since that initial review.

The audit also found that allegations against the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart and the Spiritans had

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Allegations were made against 17 members of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart. One priest has been convicted and served a prison sentence. Forty-seven members of the Spiritans have been accused of abuse since 1975. Three have been convicted.

The report on the Dominican friars praised the way the current leaders have dealt with child protection responsibilities and the way they have shown determination to improve practices. It said the order has shown a real sense of accepting past failures and has offered remorse.

However, the report was also critical of the Dominicans for not implementing canon law procedures.

Meanwhile, Bishop John Kirby of Clonfert has apologized for moving two priests from one parish to another in the 1990s after they abused children. Bishop Kirby said he did not understand the “sinister and recidi-

vist” nature of the child abuser and the lifelong damage that the destructive behavior can inflict on victims.

Allegations have been made against three priests in the diocese since 1975; one has been convicted.

A separate audit of the Cork and Ross diocese uncovered concerns about priests – including three with convictions for child abuse – retiring to Cork from Britain. It warned that information from their British dioceses was “not as forthcoming as it should have been,” leading to a lack of awareness of potential risk.

However, the report also found that Cork and Ross now has one of Ireland’s best child-protection systems.

The diocese has 26 priests against whom child abuse allegations have been made since 1975. Four priests have been convicted of offenses against children.

In the Limerick diocese, the audits found that 44 out of 48 criteria had been fully met, with the remaining four partially met. In a now-familiar pattern, the audit revealed that cases prior to the mid-1990s were routinely mishandled and allegations were not reported to the civil authorities.

Allegations were made against 18 priests of the diocese; none were convicted.

The audit issued 12 recommendations to make safeguarding procedures “more robust” in the Kildare and Leighlin diocese.

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PREPARING FOR LEBANON TRIP, POPE LAMENTS â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;ANGUISHâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; OF MIDDLE EAST

VATICAN CITY â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Less than a week before traveling to Lebanon, Pope Benedict XVI voiced solidarity with victims of war in the Middle East and called for continuing efforts to bring peace to the region. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I understand the anguish of the many Middle Eastern people who are every day immersed in sufferings of every kind,â&#x20AC;? the pope said Sept. 9, after praying the Angelus with pilgrims at the papal summer villa in Castel Gandolfo.

The pope expressed concern Pope Benedict XVI specifically for those who, â&#x20AC;&#x153;in search of a peaceful place, leave their family and professional life and experience the precariousness of being exiles.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;We must not resign ourselves to the violence and aggravation of tensions,â&#x20AC;? the pope said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Commitment to dialogue and reconciliation should be a priority for all the parties involved, and should be supported by the international community.â&#x20AC;?

Pope Benedict will visit Lebanon Sept. 14-16 to present his document of reflections on the 2010 special Synod of Bishops, which was dedicated to Christians in the Middle East. He will also meet with representatives of local Christian and Muslim communities, and address political and cultural leaders.

The visit occurs against the backdrop of unrest in neighboring Syria, where soldiers have been battling forces seeking an end to the rule of President Bashar Assad, leaving thousands of civilians dead and displacing hundreds of thousands of refugees since March 2011. Š CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

Religionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s role in Arab Spring promotes dignity, official says CINDY WOODEN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Religious communities can assist the North African and Middle Eastern pro-democracy movements by upholding human dignity and not trying to claim power for one religion or one movement within a religion, a senior Vatican official said.

Comboni Father Miguel Angel Ayuso Guixot, secretary of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, represented the Vatican at a conference in Istanbul Sept. 7-8 on â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Arab Awakening and Peace in the New Middle East: Muslim and Christian Perspectives.â&#x20AC;?

He told participants at the conference, sponsored

by Marmara University in Istanbul, that democracy presumes respect for human rights, including the right to freedom of religion and worship. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the growing efforts to enable democracy to take hold in the fabric of society in the Arab world, the hope is that it will lead to greater consideration of these basic rights,â&#x20AC;? Father Ayuso said.

A hopeful sign, he said, was the publication in January of a â&#x20AC;&#x153;bill of rights of basic libertiesâ&#x20AC;? by Muslim scholars at Al-Azhar University in Cairo.

The document encouraged recognition of the freedoms of worship, opinion, scientific research and art and creative expression in new constitutions throughout the Arab world.

The 2011 Arab Spring movements led to democratic elections in Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt where Islam-inspired political parties won the most votes.

The risk with democracy, Father Ayuso said, is that

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it â&#x20AC;&#x153;potentially could be used to legitimate extremist and fundamentalist ideologies,â&#x20AC;? which would make life difficult not only for the Christian minorities, but also for moderate Muslims.

The role of religion, he said, is to nourish an atmosphere of respect for all men and women created

by God and endowed with equal dignity, rights and responsibilities.

Father Ayuso also spoke about the ongoing violence in Syria in his interview with Vatican Radio and at the conference.

The Vaticanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s diplomatic efforts in that case are focused on achieving a cease-fire, promoting a negotiated settlement, preserving Syriaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s multiethnic and multireligious character and getting the Syrian government to recognize the international communityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s legitimate interest in the conflict as a potential source of instability to the entire region, he told Vatican Radio.

He told the conference that Syrian Christians want to live in peace and harmony with their fellow citizens, but they are â&#x20AC;&#x153;naturally fearful that the growing violence, destruction and displacement, the continuing loss of life, endangers not just Christians, but all Syrians, regardless of their ethnicity or religion.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;The specter of what happened to Christians in Iraqâ&#x20AC;? once Saddam Husseinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s regime fell increases Syrian Christiansâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; fears, he said.

The popeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hope is that â&#x20AC;&#x153;all lands needing reconciliation and tranquility will quickly find peace in coexistence, stability and respect for human rights,â&#x20AC;? wrote Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Vatican secretary of state.

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Pope’s teachings leaving mark on future priests CAROL GLATZ CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – With his personal charisma and energetic pastoral style, Blessed John Paul II famously inspired a generation of vocations to the priesthood – to the point that men whose discernment or formation had been decisively shaped by his 27-year pontificate came to be known as “John Paul II priests.”

Now Pope Benedict XVI, in his eighth year as pontiff, is making his mark on a new generation of future priests, who have embraced many of his ideas and priorities.

For Danny Pabon, a seminarian from the Archdiocese of Newark, who just began studying at the Pontifical North American College in Rome, reading Pope Benedict’s account of the meaning of Jesus’ life and teachings was a turning point in the process of his discernment of a vocation, revealing for him “that this is the Jesus of Nazareth I want to follow.”

Even before he became a Catholic in 2009, Timothy Ahn said he already saw Pope Benedict “as a great theologian” who “diagnosed the problems of the world.” Ahn is now a seminarian at the North American College from the Diocese of Raleigh, N.C. Nathan Ricci, who comes to the college from the Diocese of Providence, R.I., said he especially admired Pope Benedict’s courage in promoting Catholic teaching in a world where many “want to ignore the faith.”

Such influence is not surprising, said the college’s rector, Msgr. James F. Checchio, because Pope Benedict “is very rich in his writings about faith and the priesthood and speaks very endearingly to priests.”

Men discerning a vocation “pick that up” right away, he said.

The college has been “at capacity” for the last two years with 232 seminarians, Msgr. Checchio said, up from 150 men when he became rector in 2005. That reflects a national trend in U.S. Catholic seminary enrollment, which last year saw its highest numbers in almost a quarter century.

Msgr. Checchio said the North American College’s current enrollment is marked by diversity and enthusiasm that reflect “the vitality of our church and our country.”

Timothy Ahn said he looks to the example of St. John Vianney. The seminarian said he tries to model his life after the 19th-century parish priest, whom Pope Benedict put in the spotlight when he declared him patron of the world’s clergy during the 2009-2010 Year for Priests.

The pope called that jubilee year to help purify the priesthood after a decade when the sins of sex abusers had sullied the clergy’s public image and morale.

He also presented the French saint as a model of the fight against indifference and secularism, one soul at a time.

Msgr. Checchio said that seminarians today are acutely aware of the challenges the church faces, especially the problem of secularism.

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Five of 62 new students stand on a sports field near the logo of the Pontifical North American College at the U.S. seminary in Rome Sept. 5. Many young seminarians are now influenced by Pope Benedict XVI, including these five, pictured from left: Michael Hendershott of the Diocese of Knoxville, Tenn.; Nathan Ricci of the Diocese of Providence, R.I.; Timothy Ahn of the Diocese of Raleigh, N.C.; Danny Pabon of the Archdiocese of Newark, N.J.; and Stephen Gadberry of the Diocese Little Rock, Ark.

Because not everyone goes to Mass, priests will need to “go door-to-door” and find new ways of re-proposing the Gospel.

Seminarian Nathan Ricci “They really want to help with the work of the new evangelization,” the rector said.

The young seminarians arrived in Rome just in time for October’s world Synod of Bishops on the new evangelization, a project aimed particularly at revitalizing the church in an increasingly secular West.

Ricci said he believes the way to change hearts is to care for people “in a way that transforms.” Because not everyone goes to Mass, he said, priests will need to “go door-to-door” and find new ways of re-proposing the Gospel.

Ahn, who studied to become a Presbyterian minister before becoming a Catholic, said the church’s biggest challenge today is counteracting the despair toward life and hopelessness stemming from the belief that “we can’t know or attain anything higher than the mundane and the carnal.” He sees the priest

as an intermediary, helping draw people up to God and bring God closer to people.

Crucial to that role is the people’s need for grace from the sacraments, said Michael Hendershott. The seminarian from the Diocese of Knoxville, Tenn., said it was his exposure to the traditional Latin Mass, which his parish started to offer in 2005, “that really showed me, really clarified in my mind the idea of the priest as a man ordained to offer sacrifice for the glory of God and the salvation of souls.”

Pope Benedict lifted restrictions on the use of the Tridentine Mass in 2007 saying it should be made available in every parish where groups of the faithful desire it.

Though the seminarians at the North American College were born after the reform of the Roman liturgy, “quite a few” of them are familiar with the celebration of the 1962 Roman Missal, Msgr. Checchio said. Some want to study the Tridentine Mass “to be prepared if they are asked to celebrate it,” he said, but also because “they say it helps them understand the ordinary Roman rite.”

Msgr. Checchio said it’s auspicious for his new group of seminarians that this academic year will coincide with the Year of Faith, which Pope Benedict has called to begin Oct. 11.

Pope Benedict is helping define what it means to be a priest, the rector said, by putting new emphasis on faith. The pope is teaching them that “it’s not enough to just be a priest, you have to be first and foremost a believer.”

Misreading of Vatican II led to ‘collapse’ in Marian devotion CAROL GLATZ CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – Devotion to Mary “collapsed” in some parts of the United States after the Second Vatican Council even though the council fathers had upheld her critical place within the Catholic faith, said a leading American expert in Marian studies.

The council’s decision to integrate a draft text on Mary into a larger dogmatic text – “Lumen Gentium” – rather than publish it as a separate document – sent an unintended message to the rest of the church, Holy Cross Father James Phalan, president of the Mariological Society of America, said in a presentation at an academic conference in Rome.

Even though bishops felt Mariology, like the church as a whole, needed to be renewed in light of tradition, liturgy and the Bible, later an “overly rationalist” historical approach reduced the role of the Holy Spirit and marginalized most forms of devotion, Father Phalan said.

Worsening the problem, he said, was the timing: Post-Vatican II coincided with the upheaval of the 1970s when religious traditions and beliefs were being intensely questioned or completely dismissed by society.

Marian devotion “was caught up in this confusion” and there was a drop-off in practice, he said.

“The apparent change in emphasis on the Blessed Virgin contributed to a full-scale collapse of Mariology that has had very notable effects on the life of the church,” he said in his talk on “Mary and the Second Vatican Council.”

Father Phalan, who is also director of Family Rosary International, was one of the scholars, experts and theologians speaking at the 23rd Mariological Marian International Congress held in Rome Sept. 4-9.

In light of the upcoming 50th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council, the talks focused on “Mariology since the Second Vatican Council: Reception, Results and Perspectives.”

The council fathers had drawn up what Father Phalan called “the most complete and conclusive doctrinal statement about the Blessed Virgin Mary ever written” and made it the final chapter of the 1964 Dogmatic Constitution on the Church (“Lumen Gentium”).

Its placement within a document about the church as the body of Christ underlines the council fathers’ vision of Mary “in relation to Christ and the church,” not as someone separate or independent of Christ and the church, he said.

“The council fathers wanted us to see Mary as identified with the church,” a notion Pope Benedict XVI has often repeated, saying that Mary, as a personification of the church, should be appreciated and imitated in her contemplative and personal relationship with Christ, Father Phalan said.

Cardinal Angelo Amato, president of the congress and prefect of the Congregation for Saints’ Causes, said Vatican II was a “momentous watershed moment for Marian discourse” – steering it away from “every undeserved doctrinal and devotional exaggeration,” which would put Mary on equal ground with the Lord. Rather, it upheld her unique, yet human role in God’s plan of salvation; she is “the living vessel who, in receiving, transmits the salvation of Christ,” he said.

The church teaches that salvation only comes from God in Jesus Christ, he said, but the human being must still be open and receptive to that grace. Any sense of Mary being “co-redeemer” must be understood as cooperating “with,” not being “equal to” Jesus, because God the father generates salvation and Mary, the mother, is the recipient of that gift.

“This is the theological reason to affirm the reality of Mary and the ‘Marian principle’ in the church,” the Italian cardinal said.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Family violence kills more than 80,000 Latin American children yearly BARBARA J. FRASER CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

LIMA, Peru – Ask Maykon Quispe what kind of violence he sees in his hometown of Huancavelica, in the Peruvian Andes, and he thinks of the markets, where kids his age or younger haul sacks and crates.

“A lot of kids want to help out their families by earning a little money, but the merchants make them carry too much weight,” the 12-year-old said.

Anahi Salazar, 16, immediately thinks of death.

“Children suffer psychologically because of the violence,” she said of her native El Salvador. “There are too many murders in our country. What we want most is peace.”

Family violence kills more than 80,000 children a year in Latin America, and more than 6 million suffer severe abuse, according to U.N. figures. Experts – and even some young people – say those high levels of violence are not surprising in a region that also has the greatest gap between rich and poor.

And the younger the child, the greater the risks.

“Early childhood, from birth to age 5, is silent,” said Father Gaston Garatea, who heads a nonprofit civic group in Peru called Investment in Children. Kids that age “don’t go on strike, don’t protest, don’t set up roadblocks” to call attention to their problems, he said.

“The causes of violence are the same in nearly all countries,” said 18-year-old Sofia Melgarejo of Paraguay. “The main one is poverty, which leads children to work. That’s something we see in many countries.

Working children and street children suffer a lot of violence. There is also domestic violence by parents who think they are educating their children by mistreating them physically or verbally.”

Quispe, Salazar and Melgarejo were among about 20 children and teens who participated in a U.N. expert consultation on children and violence in Lima in late August. These young participants and adults – including government officials and representa-

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A child rides his bike past two burned vehicles Aug. 12 after five people were killed in gang-related attacks in Nueva Italia, Mexico. About 28 percent of the approximately 100,000 people murdered in Latin America and the Caribbean every year are between ages 10 and 19, according to U.N. figures. tives of nonprofit organizations that work with children and their mothers – offered a glimpse of the violence that affects children, as well as possible solutions.

The forms of violence range from gang murders to sexual abuse, from corporal punishment in schools to harsh punishment by parents or guardians. Because much of the violence occurs behind closed doors, experts say statistics are unreliable, especially for children under age 3, and that the problem is probably underreported.

The figures that do exist reveal the magnitude of the problem. About 28 percent of the approximately 100,000 people murdered in Latin America and the Caribbean every year are between ages 10 and 19, according to U.N. figures. Some killings are related to organized crime or gangs – an estimated 82,000 young people between ages 13 and 29 belong to gangs in Central America and Mexico – according to the U.S. Agency for International Development.

But while those cases grab the headlines, everyday violence at home and in school often goes undetected and may be more insidious.

A study in Peru in 2011 found that 44 percent of children in three major cities – Lima, the highland city of Huancayo, and Iquitos, in the Amazon region – had suffered violence at home and 28 percent in school. About 27 percent of the children reported having been struck with an object at home, while 6.4 percent suffered serious injury, such as cuts or burns.

When parents in Colombia were asked if they mistreated their children, all said no. When asked about specific actions, however, 60 percent said they had yelled at their children, 30 percent had spanked and about 15 percent said they had struck their children with hard objects.

The percentage of parents in Cali, Colombia, who said they had struck their children with hard objects was nearly twice the national aver-

PAKISTANI COURT GRANTS BAIL TO GIRL ACCUSED OF BLASPHEMY

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Costa Rica quake damages homes, churches Two siblings look Sept. 6 at the tombstone of their father’s grave that collapsed along with others during an earthquake at a cemetery in Alajuela, Costa Rica. The magnitude-7.6 quake struck northwest Costa Rica the previous day, killing at least two people, damaging homes and some Catholic churches.

VATICAN CITY – A Pakistani Christian girl accused of blasphemy was granted bail Sept. 7 after three weeks in police custody.

The judge, who ordered the girl’s release on a bail of about $5,282, said there was insufficient evidence to justify continuing to hold Rimsha Masih in jail. However, the case against her was not dismissed.

Investigations continue both into accusations that Rimsha burned pages of the Quran – a violation of Pakistan’s anti-blasphemy laws – as well as into the actions of Khalid Jadoon Chishti, a Muslim cleric, who was taken into police custody Sept. 2 after being accused of planting the pages of the Quran and burned pieces of paper in the girl’s bag.

Rimsha had been in police custody since Aug. 18. Her parents said she is 11 years old and has

age. Armed with that and other statistics, Cali Mayor Rodrigo Guerrero put his experience as a physician and epidemiologist to work to understand the problem of violence in his city.

He lengthened the school day, adding recreational and sports activities, spruced up parks, and implemented programs to improve housing and create jobs. The city also has focused on health care and support for pregnant women to help reduce child abuse – which, in turn, helps reduce youth violence, he said.

Although it has little direct impact on his city, the armed conflict in Colombia “has legitimized the use of violence to achieve political ends,” Guerrero told Catholic News Service, adding that, as a result, the violence of drug traffickers “fell on fertile ground.”

Father Garatea said the same was true in Peru, where nearly two decades of political violence left many children in remote parts of the country traumatized.

Increasingly, countries in the region are addressing violence against children through health programs and changes to legislation, but those efforts can be slow.

In Peru in August, the office of the government’s human rights ombudsman criticized changes made to a proposed updating of the Code for Children and Adolescents, after a congressional commission removed specific protection against sexual violence and physical punishment.

The young people at the U.N. consultation called for parents to open lines of communication with their kids instead of resorting to force and urged countries to spend more on children’s programs. Quispe said he hoped to organize workshops for his peers and would like to see “parents’ schools” for adults.

Father Garatea said adults’ attitudes about children must change.

“To work for children is to work for the present, not for the future,” he said, “because children deserve it now.”

Down syndrome; a court appointed physician reported she was about 14 and is developmentally delayed.

Peter Jacob, executive secretary of the Pakistani bishops’ National Commission for Justice and Peace, told Vatican Radio the bail was high for Pakistan and certainly beyond the means of Rimsha’s family, but donations were expected to cover it. The girl was released Sept. 9.

Granting bail was “not a charitable gesture” on the part of the court, he said, and the simple fact that “for three weeks a child was kept in custody” raised questions about the Pakistani justice system.

However, he said, the case has led to more calls, including from mainstream Muslim clerics and scholars, to at least add “safeguards against the abuse of the blasphemy laws.” ©CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

14 OPINION

CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Our faith should transform our politics

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he start of the Year of Faith and our country’s elections will take place less than a month apart. And we have an excellent opportunity as Catholics to apply the principles of our faith to our political system – not only in how we vote, but in how we choose to influence our country’s political discourse, too often marred by angry and hateful rhetoric.

In this effort, two themes from Pope Benedict’s message announcing the Year of Faith are of great importance to Catholic Americans.

First, he called for public CARL ANDERSON witness by Catholics, writing: “Faith implies public testimony and commitment. A Christian may never think of belief as a private act. ... Faith, precisely because it is a free act, also demands social responsibility for what one believes.”

Second, he called on Catholics to redouble their commitment to charity: “Faith without charity bears no fruit,” he wrote.

Seldom does America suffer a more profound lack of charity today than in its political process.

Often, we see that commentators and politicians don’t see the ideas of their political adversaries as deficient. They see their political adversaries themselves as personally deficient.

The result is an almost endless cycle of personal attacks in our country’s political conversation.

For the vast majority of Americans – who know how to have civil disagreements over everything including politics with family and friends – this doesn’t sit well. Our K of C-Marist poll has found that almost eight in 10 Americans say they are “frustrated” with the tone of our political debates. Almost three-quarters say the problem is getting worse, and just under two-thirds say this is harming our political process.

But we need not accept this status quo as “good enough.”

Now numbering one in four Americans, our country’s Catholics can offer a better alternative.

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Democratic and Republican partisans are pictured at the parties’ recent national conventions.

Charity demands respectful discourse – on every issue. For this reason, the Knights of Columbus launched the Civility in America petition, asking politicians and the media to focus on debates on issues and policies rather than on personal attacks.

Cardinal Timothy Dolan has asked both presidential candidates and their running mates to sign it, joining the more than 1 million members of the Knights of Columbus and more than 25,000 other Americans supporting it.

Such a project is consistent with the best of Catholic thought.

In “The City of God,” St. Augustine observed, “Let this city bear in mind, that among her enemies lie hidden those who are destined to be fellow citizens, that she may not think it a fruitless labor to bear what they inflict as enemies until they become confessors of the truth.”

And St. Thomas More wrote this prayer while awaiting execution in the Tower of London for refusing to take an oath supporting King Henry VIII’s takeover of the Catholic Church in England: “Almighty God, have mercy ... on all that bear me evil will, and would me harm, and their faults and mine together... vouchsafe to amend and redress, make us saved souls in heaven together, where we may ever live and love together with thee and thy blessed saints.”

We are called to public witness in all circumstances.

In the early days of evangelization, when St. Paul preached to the Athenians, he chose to do so at the Areopagus: a powerful council, and the oldest in Athens. Those men who made up the Areopagus were not Christians: that was precisely why they needed to be evangelized.

With Cardinal Dolan calling for civility from our political candidates and delivering prayers at both the conventions of Republicans and the Democrats, a descendant of the apostles is once again bringing Christ’s message into the halls of power.

Today, most in both political parties are Christian – and many are Catholic – but the call to conversion is endless. In what is becoming an increasingly secularized country – where many believe religion ought to be kept out of our modern Areopagus – this form of new evangelization is timely and needed.

By calling on our candidates and the media to show charity and civility, Catholics can help Cardinal Dolan and our bishops to bring the new evangelization to our own public square as St. Paul did in Athens.

By witnessing to charity and civility in our own discussions and our own lives, we can lead the way and show that such a goal is attainable.

ANDERSON is supreme knight of the Knights of Columbus.

This column first appeared Sept. 5 on the website of Columbia magazine, a publication of the Knights of Columbus, and was redistributed by Catholic News Service.

LETTERS

Ryan economics: A house divided cannot stand Re Mr. Magarro’s letter “Theory not necessary to predict impact of Ryan policies,” Sept. 7, about Rep. Paul Ryan (a practicing Roman Catholic): The Republicans are trying to curtail dangerously high levels of spending which threatens all of our futures. As for tax cuts, everyone should be treated the same (I don’t pay the same amount of taxes that Bill Gates does so why should I get the same amount of tax cuts he does). “Cutting taxes for the rich” has become partisan jargon to pit the classes against each other.

Remember that a house divided cannot stand. Don’t think the Democrats are all for the poor or the downtrodden. None of those $25,000 per plate fundraisers were attended by the likes of those on food stamps. My point? I don’t believe that those who practice their religion faithfully and take it seriously would allow the truly poor to go hungry, naked or thirsty. At least these Republicans have experience in bringing a failing business (and hopefully our government) back to life and making it thrive. As for the Democrats? We might all be on food stamps when they’re done with us.

Jeanne Asdourian Corte Madera

Stop dividing America Luis Magarro forgets to include that: 1. President Clinton left a surplus thanks to a Republican Congress that kept him from spending too much and forced him to reform welfare as we knew it.

2. The tragedy of 9/11 not only changed our lives forever but froze our economy for some time, not to mention that we had to invest in the Department of Homeland Security and two wars. Tax breaks don’t create deficits – they stimulate investment.

I wish the president and his followers would stop dividing America, particularly between the “haves” and the “have nots.”

Pablo Wong San Francisco

A debate on Ryan’s policies is timely Re the impact of Romney’s/Ryan’s policies: I agree that we should have a debate on Rep. Paul Ryan’s policies as Father Barron stated (“The great both/and of Catholic social teaching), and apparently Mr. Magarro has no need. He insinuates that the poor will carry the load, and the rich will skate.

Case closed.

Areas ripe for cutting are as the sands of the seashore. Let me give two examples: The Department of Education was started in Jimmy Carter’s presidency in the ‘70s, with a modest goal and budget. Who could argue that we need to make the education of our kids a priority? Today the Department of Education has a budget of $77.4 billion, and 17,000 employees who teach not one student. Is it not true that this bloated bureaucracy has done little in the classroom to help with the goal of better educating our kids? We are further behind, not better off !

Again in the ‘70s, the Carter administration was going to solve the energy crisis. A lofty goal indeed.

We were going to be energy-independent. That worked out well, don’t ya think?

Could we just give some thought to the massive size of our federal government? Cut taxes to fund private sector investment, thus hiring and consumer spending. Allow the people the ability to expand their horizons, and to see again a country that thrives on freedom and liberty, not some social

justice experiment that Mr. Obama has taken on that takes away the incentive to achieve and the God-given right to be a free people. And yes, Mr. Magarro, we can take care of the poor too. We always have.

Philip Feiner San Carlos

Celebration, humor much needed Is our church, in the push for evangelization, ignoring or discounting the people we already have, still loyally attending Mass and supporting our ministries and our educational institutions with their donations of funds and countless hours of volunteer service?

I think it behooves us at this point to celebrate the many parishes which are still thriving, despite the scandals and the anemic economy, and do more to publicize the successes rather than focusing too exclusively on the problems. If we do not appreciate the “good news” in our churches, who will do it for us?

Personal example has always been a major factor in attracting converts to the church and stimulating vocations to the priesthood and religious life. Maybe sponsor a CSF essay contest for our archdiocesan schools and have as a topic “What I Like About My Faith,” and publish the best one. Also, how about a humor column once in a while in CSF? Are there any Catholic humorists out there waiting to be called into service?

Rosemary K. Ring Kentfield

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Do Catholic values dominate the lives of young Catholics?

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Welcoming the pope Children perform Sept. 4 in Jounieh during the filming of a video greeting for Pope Benedict XVI in preparation for his Sept. 14-16 visit to Lebanon. The pope will deliver a document of reflections on Christians’ status in the Mideast.

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The rules of engagement

ince 1945, the New York archdiocese has hosted the Al Smith dinner, a black-tie event named in honor of Alfred E. Smith, the first Catholic presidential candidate. Millions have been raised through the dinner to support charities in New York City.

Speakers have included Winston Churchill, John F. Kennedy, Bob Hope, and, during election years, presidential candidates are invited as the guests of honor.

It’s a break from debate.

It’s not an endorsement CHRISTOPHER and no awards are given.

STEFANICK Candidates’ speeches take on a humorous tone. As described by the Al Smith foundation website: “In the days before ‘Saturday Night Live,’ the Al Smith dinner served as a kind of ‘proving ground for the candidate as entertainer,’ as one reporter described it.”

In keeping with tradition during election years, New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan invited both presidential candidates to the dinner, which has brought him harsh criticism from some vocal corners for causing scandal by dining with an ardently pro-choice president. Others have questioned whether the cardinal is forgetting the pro-life people laboring daily for an end to abortion. And some issues are certainly too big to “forget” for a night.

Cardinal Dolan, offered a simple response: “In the end, I’m encouraged by the example of Jesus, who was blistered by his critics for dining with those some considered sinners.” I’m not sure whether Jesus would’ve handed the “sinners” the microphone at one of those dinners, but there is a good lesson for us in the Al Smith dinner this year nonetheless, and I think we should take note.

It would be hard to believe that Cardinal Dolan is forgetting the gravity of the issues at hand. He’s engaged the Obama administration very publicly over the Health and Human Services mandate. I think what he’s attempting to do at the dinner is to publically state the “position” of the church that we need to stay personally engaged with people we’re at odds with. That’s not only good political strategy, it’s good evangelization. It worked for the early church.

Christians had it far worse than us 1,800 years ago. On any given Sunday one could go to the Roman Coliseum and see fellow believers being eaten by lions to the loud cheers of their neighbors. Failure to publicly worship the emperor resulted in execution. Pushed utterly out of the public sphere, worship and catechesis took place in secret.

They had good reasons to be angry! Very angry.

They had every right to flee the world. But they didn’t. By no means were they pacifists who never worked for their rightful place in society. They

spoke out. St. Paul was as crafty as a lawyer when he was on trial. Christians engaged all levels of society from standing up for the dignity of the poor to St. Sebastian’s legendary face-to-face confrontation with the emperor, for which he was pierced with arrows. They didn’t budge an inch when it came to the evils of their day. Countless Christians faced death rather than offering a single pinch of incense as worship to the emperor.

But more than resisting the powers that be, they resisted the enemy within. They resisted their natural tendency to divide the world into “us” and “them.” They stayed engaged in the issues at hand, but resisted the temptation to disengage their hearts from their persecutors.

We’re becoming very effective at communicating the truth about the issues at hand. But sometimes I wonder if we’re becoming ineffective at communicating the Gospel that all our teachings and public policies as a church stem from. We’re good at speaking against gay marriage, for instance, but how effective is our outreach and ministry to the gay community? How many of us have friends across that great divide? How many of us who march against abortion also volunteer at crisis pregnancy centers to help women who are tempted by abortion? How many of us have been able to even keep friends who are pro-choice?

We tend to become insulated so quickly from those we disagree with, and then galvanized against them, that we stop proclaiming the Gospel to them. And that makes us irrelevant. And when we’re irrelevant, we set ourselves up to be pushed to the margins of society.

I’m certain that Obama has heard and understands our stance against the HHS mandate and about life issues in general. There’s no risk that he’ll translate the Al Smith dinner to mean Cardinal Dolan doesn’t really care about the issues at hand. But if Obama is to hear the Catholic Gospel, which underlies every stance we take, it won’t happen because he read a public statement from the U.S. bishops. It might happen over a meal.

I’m not sure if a public dinner with Obama is the right move for the president of the USCCB to make at this time. I’ve heard good arguments for and against his decision. But there is a good personal lesson to glean from this year’s Al Smith dinner, either way. Namely, that in our personal lives, people are won over at meals. And if we stop having them with those we disagree with, we won’t win anyone.

If early Christians failed to follow the example of Jesus, who could dine with “the opposition,” and if they failed to engage the world with their love and friendship as much as they did with the truth, Christianity would’ve ended in the Coliseum as soon as the last Catholic was eaten for lunch.

STEFANICK is director of youth outreach for YDisciple.

Visit him at RealLifeCatholic.com. ©DENVER CATHOLIC REGISTER

e tend to forget that all of our thoughts, actions and feelings are culturally conditioned. The values that predominate our secular culture influence all thinking, acting and feeling within that culture.

So a very practical question all Catholics, especially young ones, should be considering these days is: Whose values or which values dominate my thoughts, actions and feelings? Do Catholic values dominate my life?

Culture and its dominant values are transmitted FATHER WILLIAM socially, not genetically.

J. BYRON, SJ Learning is therefore important if a shared way of life (a culture) is to be preserved. Formal education is part, but only part, of the process of enculturation; entertainment, recreation, imitation and observation play a big role.

John Lennon had his head handed to him when he remarked that The Beatles were more popular than Jesus. But he did have a point.

Catholics can find themselves caught in a crossfire between the influence of Catholic values and broader cultural forces that are hostile to those Catholic values. Although she did not have Catholics in mind when she wrote the following words, the famed anthropologist Margaret Mead recognized that there are hostile forces at work against the preservation of culture and she posed the problem this way: “In small societies, children learn by imitating their parents, relatives and neighbors. In our huge society, we use our mass entertainments to instruct our children on how they should express their emotions and what values they should have. ... We are showing our youngsters exactly the opposite of what we want them to imitate.

We are showing them men who brutally attack others when angry. We show people who murder because of hatred and expediency. We show that love is expressed only by hunger for another’s body and we show them little else.”

The word “show” or “showing” is used by Mead five times in that brief scan of the forces that shape the minds and actions of the young. Obviously, “showtime” – on stage, television, movie screen and, by extension, “radio shows” – is an element to be examined when exploring the question of the formation of values.

In a very real sense, school time is in competition with showtime. Catholic school time should create a mindset or climate of opinion that is clear on central principles and critical of false values. As fewer Catholics experience Catholic education, the issue of conveying and preserving Catholic culture looms all the larger.

Catholic college students, for example, should be encouraged to ask themselves in the face of magazine and television advertising not, “What does this ad invite me to buy?” but rather, “What does this ad presume me to be?”

Behind the ad stands a value waiting to be confronted by the values that define one’s Catholic culture. The young are indeed caught in a crossfire; without realizing it, they are on a battleground.

All Catholics should be open to change, of course, but only for the better. They should be perceptive enough to avoid being seduced away from their Catholic values and from the thoughts, actions and feelings that their Catholic values might reasonably be expected to foster.

And all of us should want to be sure that those Catholic values are getting through in the first place.

JESUIT FATHER BYRON is university professor of business and society at St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia.

Email wbyron@sju.edu. ©CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

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SUNDAY READINGS

Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time ‘Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.’

MARK 8:27-35 ISAIAH 50:5-9A The Lord God opens my ear that I may hear; and I have not rebelled, have not turned back. I gave my back to those who beat me, my cheeks to those who plucked my beard; my face I did not shield from buffets and spitting. The Lord God is my help, therefore I am not disgraced; I have set my face like flint, knowing that I shall not be put to shame. He is near who upholds my right; if anyone wishes to oppose me, let us appear together.

Who disputes my right? Let that man confront me. See, the Lord God is my help; who will prove me wrong?

Lord, “O Lord, save my life!”

I will walk before the Lord, in the land of the living.

Gracious is the Lord and just; yes, our God is merciful. The Lord keeps the little ones; I was brought low, and he saved me.

I will walk before the Lord, in the land of the living.

For he has freed my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling. I shall walk before the Lord in the land of the living.

I will walk before the Lord, in the land of the living.

PSALM 114:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 8-9 I will walk before the Lord, in the land of the living.

I love the Lord because he has heard my voice in supplication, because he has inclined his ear to me the day I called.

I will walk before the Lord, in the land of the living.

The cords of death encompassed me; the snares of the netherworld seized upon me; I fell into distress and sorrow, And I called upon the name of the

JAMES 2:14-18 What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister has nothing to wear and has no food for the day, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, keep warm, and eat well,” but you do not give them the necessities of the body, what good is it?

So also faith of itself, if it does not have works, is dead. Indeed someone might say, “You have faith and I have works.” Demonstrate your faith to me

without works, and I will demonstrate my faith to you from my works.

MARK 8:27-35 Jesus and his disciples set out for the villages of Caesarea Philippi. Along the way he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that I am?” They said in reply, “John the Baptist, others Elijah, still others one of the prophets.” And he asked them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter said to him in reply, “You are the Christ.” Then he warned them not to tell anyone about him. He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer greatly and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and rise after three days. He spoke this openly. Then Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. At this he turned around and, looking at his disciples, rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind me, Satan. You are thinking not as God does, but as human beings do.” He summoned the crowd with his disciples and said to them, “Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and that of the gospel will save it.”

Christianity isn’t karma

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hristianity rejects the ancient law of karma – that “what goes around comes around.” There is no guarantee in Christianity that if you are good, only good things will happen to you, but only if you do evil, will you suffer evil consequences.

Even in the scriptural tradition Jesus read in the prophet Isaiah, we confront the paradox of the innocent, God-centered person who endures rejection and physical brutality when he has done nothing wrong: “I gave my back to those who beat me, my cheeks to those who plucked my beard; my face I did not shield from buffets and spitting.” Isaiah was a morally upright leader whose very goodness made SISTER ELOISE vulnerable and helpless, ROSENBLATT, RSM him unable to defend himself against savagery and violence. Like Isaiah, good people can also be targeted and resented for the very fact that they resist evil

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and don’t join in as contributors to the toxic, dark forces that surround them.

What is the recourse of good people who suffer?

Isaiah affirms, “See, the Lord God is my help.” The psalmist echoes this conviction. She rehearses a narrative of human misery and distress, but looks back and celebrates deliverance that can only come from a divine source, “Gracious is the Lord and just; yes, our God is merciful.” The psalm could only be recited after a lifetime of ups and downs, of despair, then recovery of hope; of humiliation and finally vindication; of breath knocked out from life’s blows and finally revival enough to “walk before the Lord in the land of the living.”

We can read this troubling, rocky Gospel passage in light of the hard message about human life that is the spiritual wisdom of both Judaism and Christianity: Good people, by the fact of their God-fearing lives, cannot expect to escape misunderstanding, rejection, conflict, pain and violence. But they accept this dimension of life. They read the psalms as their spiritual legacy of hope and consolation.

Peter seems to have fallen for a short time into a certain “karmic fallacy” about Jesus that needs to be corrected. He stalwartly answers Jesus, “You are the “anointed one.” By this Peter seems to under-

stand that if Jesus enjoys such favor and honor as God’s “christos,” that should mean Jesus should not suffer public opposition, rejection by religious authorities or violent death. Jesus should emphasize that he is a good person honored by God. He should expect recognition and respect from his disciples for his good deeds. He should project an optimistic charisma to the public. He shouldn’t talk about the “dark side.” Peter tries to give Jesus good political advice anyone running for office should heed.

Instead, Jesus sternly rebukes Peter as a tempter, not a true follower. The image Peter wants Jesus to project is a lie, not the truth of Christian life. Jesus emphasizes a message that is counterintuitive: The true disciples of Jesus are not those who expect to be honored by their association with God’s anointed pone and kept in a good mood. Rather, genuine followers are those willing to follow Jesus despite his violent and humiliating death as a criminal who suffered a shameful execution. The only true followers of Jesus are those who will accept the risk of losing their life in order to gain their life.

MERCY SISTER ROSENBLATT is a theologian and practices law in San Jose.

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POPE BENEDICT XVI THOSE WHO LOVE JESUS WANT TO PRAY

The more people love Jesus, the more they will want to spend time with him in prayer; and the more they pray, the more they will resemble him, Pope Benedict XVI said Sept.

5 at his weekly general audience in Vatican City.

The audience marked the beginning of a series of papal audience talks on prayer in the Book of Revelation, which he said presents readers with the prayer life of the earliest Christian communities. He said Revelation teaches that priority in prayer must be given to listening to God’s word and responding with “praise to God for his love (and) for the gift of Jesus Christ, who brings us strength, hope and salvation.” ©CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17: Monday of the Twentyfourth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Robert Bellarmine, bishop and doctor. 1 Cor 11:17-26, 33. Ps 40:7-8a, 8b-9, 10, 17. Lk 7:1-10.

ROBERT BELLARMINE 1542-1621 Feast: September 17 One of five sons in a prominent Tuscan family and the nephew of a pope, Robert was well-educated even before he became a Jesuit. After his ordination at Louvain, he taught there for seven years, specializing in “controversial theology.” He returned to Rome in 1576, and wrote a three-volume work defending Catholicism against heresies of the day. He also advised several popes.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18: Tuesday of the Twentyfourth Week in Ordinary Time. 1 Cor 12:12-14, 2731a. Ps 100:1b-2, 3, 4, 5. Lk 7:11-17.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19: Wednesday of the Twenty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Januarius, bishop and martyr. 1 Cor 12:31-13:13. Ps 33:2-3, 4-5, 12 and 22. Lk 7:31-35.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20: Memorial of St. Andrew Kim Taegon, priest and martyr and St. Paul Chong Hasang, martyr, and their companions, martyrs. 1 Cor 15:1-11. Ps 118:1b-2, 16ab-17, 28. Lk 7:36-50.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21: Feast of St. Matthew, apostle and evangelist. Eph 4:1-7, 11-13. Ps 19:2-3, 4-5. Mt 9:9-13.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22: Saturday of the Twenty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time. 1 Cor 15:35-37, 42-49. Ps 56:10c-12, 13-14. Lk 8:4-15.

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Ritual matters, but only in light of the law of love

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everal years ago, I was at a church meeting where we were discussing liturgical rubrics.

There was heated discussion over a number of issues: Should the congregation be standing or kneeling during the eucharistic prayer? What is the most reverent way to receive FATHER RON Communion?

ROLHEISER Should lay persons be allowed to cleanse the chalice and cups after Communion?

At one point, a woman made a rather pious interjection, inviting us to ask ourselves: “What would Jesus do?” The man chairing the meeting, already drained of patience by the disagreements in the room, responded in irritation: “Jesus has nothing to do with this! We’re talking about liturgical norms!” The words were barely out his mouth when, to his credit, he realized that somehow that didn’t sound right. We all realized it too, and have reminded this good man many times of his faux pas; but, in honesty, his remark voiced the feeling of 95 percent of the room.

Allow me a second story, to illustrate the same point: I am part of a theological faculty that is helping over 100 young men

prepare for ordination and is helping several hundred laypeople deepen their spiritual lives and prepare to serve in various forms of ministry. Who could ask for a higher task? But the sacredness of the task is not always front and center. A couple of years ago, we came to an executive meeting and the two salient items on the agenda were “cups and cats.” Our school, not with complete unanimity, was phasing out all disposable cups. As well, we were debating as to whether to open up our campus as a certain sanctuary for feral cats. As he introduced the agenda, our dean of theology asked the question: “How did we get to this?

We’re a theological institute preparing people for ministry – and the big-ticket items on our agenda are “cups and cats?”

What these two stories have to teach us is that we struggle, still, with the same issues that beset the scribes and Pharisees in Jesus’ time. And I say this sympathetically. We’re human and invariably we lose perspective, just as the scribes and Pharisees did. Jesus regularly chided them for, as he put it, “abandoning the commandment of God and holding to human traditions” and consequently getting overly focused on rituals to do with “the washing of cups, pots, and bronze kettles.” We generally stand under this same indictment.

We too tend to lose the center for the periphery.

What is the center? The great commandment of God, that Jesus chides the scribes and Pharisees

for losing sight of, is the invitation to love God above all else and to love your neighbor as yourself.

That is the one, great, central law.

But in order to live that out practically, we need many ancillary laws, about everything from liturgical rubrics to cups and cats. And these laws are good, providing that they never stand alone, autonomous, not bending to the one great commandment to love God and neighbor.

In both society and in our churches, we have made many laws: civil laws, criminal laws, church laws, canon laws, liturgical laws and all kinds of laws and guidelines inside our families and within the venues where we work.

It is naive to believe, idealistically, that we can live with laws.

St. Augustine once proposed that we could live without laws: “Love and do as you wish!” But, love, as he defined it in this context, meant the highest level of altruistic love.

In other words, if you are already a saint you don’t need laws. Sadly, our world, our churches, and we ourselves, don’t measure up to that criterion. We still need laws.

But our laws, all of them, and at every level, are not meant to stand alone, to have their own autonomy.

They must bend toward a center, and that center is the one great law that relativizes all others: Love God above all else and love your neighbor as yourself.

OBLATE FATHER ROLHEISER is president of the Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, Texas.

Does attending SSPX Mass fulfill Sunday obligation?

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I have seen conflicting reports relative to the Masses celebrated by the clergy of the Society of St. Pius X. Their members, it seems, adhere to all the core beliefs of the church but do not agree with some of the teachings of the Second Vatican Council.

I understand that the Holy Father has lifted the excommuFATHER nication of KENNETH DOYLE the society’s bishops.

What is the current status of the society, and does attending one of the society’s Masses fulfill a Catholic’s Sunday obligation? (Sidney, Neb.) Of the several questions that you ask or suggest, the “current status” is the hardest one to pin down because it is all so fluid. New information seems to come almost weekly from Rome and Switzerland (where the society is headquartered).

I am well aware that my response may be out of date before you even read it. As I write this, the Vatican and the SSPX are involved in a continuing series of

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high-level discussions in hopes of achieving reconciliation.

A bit of background might help.

The SSPX was established in 1970 by the French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre to counter what he believed were errors in church teaching and practice stemming from the Second Vatican Council (1962-65).

Relations with the Vatican were further strained in 1988 when Archbishop Lefebvre ordained four bishops despite being warned not to by Pope John Paul II, resulting in the excommunication of those bishops by the Vatican. In 2009, as you indicate, Pope Benedict XVI lifted that excommunication in a clear invitation to the society to be reunited with Rome.

The Vatican has proposed to the society a “doctrinal preamble” as a basis for reunion, but so far no formal response has come from the society. The SSPX did, however, offer three conditions for reunion in a July 17 letter from its general secretary to the society’s superiors throughout the world.

Two of those conditions seem already to have been met: The Vatican in 2007 offered to all stable Catholic communities the opportunity of celebrating Mass using the 1962 Roman Missal, commonly known as the Tridentine rite; and the Holy See has offered to the SSPX that it be designated a “personal prelature,” similar to Opus Dei (a type of “diocese without geographical boundaries,” with its own bishop.)

The third condition, though, would seem to be the sticking point: SSPX wants “the freedom to accuse and even to correct the promoters of the errors or the innovations of modernism, liberalism and Vatican II and its aftermath.”

The SSPX has consistently felt that the council’s themes of ecumenism, religious liberty, collegiality and liturgical reform were faulty approaches theologically.

(As you suggest in your letter, SSPX does accept the hierarchical structure of the church in which, in the SSPX’s words, “the supreme power of government over the universal church belongs only to the pope, vicar of Christ on earth.”)

Your final question, about the Sunday Mass obligation, is a tricky one, too. Since the SSPX priests are validly ordained, their Masses are valid. So, I suppose that, technically, you would fulfill your Sunday obligation.

The right thing to do is to attend, instead, a Mass celebrated by a priest in union with the church of Rome, since, at this moment, reconciliation has not yet been achieved, participation at an SSPX Mass would stand as an act of disobedience and defiance to the Vatican and to the papacy.

Send questions to Father Kenneth Doyle at askfatherdoyle@gmail.com and 40 Hopewell St., Albany, N.Y. 12208. ©CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

Creating burning hearts of love

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ou can’t recruit vocations to the religious life unless you have burning love in your heart.”

These words by keynote speaker Bishop Sam G. Jacobs of the Diocese of HoumaThibodaux, La., recently kicked off the 25th J.S. Paluch Annual Vocation Seminar in Rosemont, Ill. As the lecture FATHER EUGENE developed, I HEMRICK remembered a similar admonition by Jesuit Father Walter Burghardt: “Preach with fire in your belly.”

“We have 17 million inactive Catholics,” Bishop Jacobs pointed out.

As I pondered his opening remark and the inactive Catholics that exist, I wondered what would happen if they came in contact with priests, nuns and Catholic laymen and laywomen who possessed burning love in their heart. To speak of this is one thing, to practice it is yet another. How does one cultivate and maintain it, this fire in the belly?

In his schema on love, St. Thomas Aquinas spells out its essential qualities: mercy, beneficence, almsgiving, peace, joy and fraternal correction.

There are several ways to practice these types of love and perhaps be an example of a person who has this fire in the belly.

The word for “mercy” in Hebrew is “womb,” meaning to forgive from the very depths of our being.

When a man broke into a classroom and shot 10 children, killing five of them, to the surprise of the world, the Amish community forgave the killer.

Hate was absent. This very type of surprise creates burning love in the heart.

Kindness, or beneficence, and a loving heart are the direct antithesis to a world that is often filled with resentments and jealousies. Kindness steers us to be well-disposed toward life, our neighbor and God. One of the essential qualities of joy is self-sacrifice. It echoes the principle of the preposition “for” upon which Christianity is built: Christ came down to earth for us, lived for us, died for us and rose from the dead for us.

Today, war is everywhere. Although there is talk of peace, it seems to be only talk. Even though we can’t stop these wars, within our own communities we are given the opportunity to practice peace every time we are faced with disruptions that erupt into a type of war.

In his lecture, Bishop Jacobs pointed out that when Andrew came in contact with Christ, there was excitement: a loving heart touching a loving heart.

Bishop Jacobs’ message is simple: Create a burning heart of love. The power of his message is its simplicity.

All types of programs have been created to bring inactive Catholics back into the church and to recruit vocations to the religious life. For these programs to succeed, burning hearts of love must run them. It is as simple as that. ©CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

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turning their backs on him or by making catcalls, but the convention stayed silent and the prayer proceeded without incident.

In his closing benediction at the Republican National Convention the week before, Cardinal Dolan made reference to all three issues as well.

On the second day of the Democrats’ Sept. 4-6 convention in Charlotte, one of the “nuns on the bus” became a nun on the podium, as Sister Simone Campbell, a Sister of Social Service who is executive director of Network, a Catholic social justice lobby, issued a denunciation of the budget plan formulated by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis. “Paul Ryan claims his budget reflects the principles of our shared Catholic faith. But the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops stated that the Ryan budget failed a basic moral test, because it would harm families living in poverty,” Sister Simone said.

The bishops who chair two USCCB committees criticized Ryan’s budget in April, after the Republican-majority House voted to adopt it.

“We agree with our bishops and that’s why we went on the road: to stand with struggling families and to lift up our Catholic sisters who serve them. Their work to alleviate suffering would be seriously harmed by the Romney-Ryan budget, and that is wrong,” she said.

Sister Simone called the budget plan, titled “the Path to Prosperity,” an “immoral budget that hurts already struggling families (that) does not reflect our nation’s values. We are better than that.”

She said she agrees with Romney and Ryan who say that “each individual” should be responsible.

“But their budget goes astray in not acknowl-

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Delegates hold hands and pray together at the start of the second session of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., Sept. 5. edging that we are responsible not only for ourselves and our immediate families,” she said.

“Rather, our faith strongly affirms that we are all responsible for one another.”

She cited examples of Catholic sisters helping the poor – including Toledo, Ohio, and Milwaukee, two stops on the “Nuns on the Bus” tour.

At another stop in Hershey, Pa., “a woman in her late 30s approached us. She asked for the names of some people she could talk to, because she felt alone and isolated. Her neighbors have been polarized by politics masquerading as values,” Sister Simone said.

“She wishes they, and the rest of the nation, would listen to one another with kindness and compassion. Listen to one another rather than yell at each other. I told her then, and I tell her now, that she is not alone.”

Contributing to this story was Stephen Guilfoyle.

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licans and some of the more active pro-life groups are afraid of pro-life Democrats.

Dahlkemper said she lost her seat to a pro-life Republican. But she also said the Democratic Party and its major fundraisers on the abortion issue do not fully support pro-life Democrats.

Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro-Choice America also make sure that pro-life Democrats face opposition in primary races, she said.

Leaders of both Planned Parenthood and NARAL have been strong supporters of the Democratic Party for years, and at the Democratic National Convention they were scheduled for prime speaking slots.

During the forum Democrats for Life members said the lack of support for pro-life Democrats by the national party has caused their numbers in Congress to dwindle, as they have been edged out by pro-life Republicans or pro-abortion rights Democrats. There were 125 pro-life Democrats in Congress in 1978 but only 17 today, they said.

But, Democrats for Life speakers also noted, the Republicans controlled the House, the Senate and the White House in the early 2000s and yet did not propose any legislation to end abortion.

“Nothing,” Dahlkemper said. If the Republicans truly wanted a “sanctity of life” amendment, as they have proposed previously, they did nothing about it when they had their chance in Congress, she said.

“I fear we haven’t done enough to get our message out,” Dahlkemper said.

Kristen Day, executive director of Democrats for Life of America, which sponsored the forum, agreed. She said when her group set up at the last March for Life in Washington, they were swamped by many pro-life supporters – many of whom were young people who said they didn’t know such a group existed.

Day said there were a couple of signs of progress in the party for pro-life Democrats this year.

For the first time in years, pro-life Democrats were allowed to make a presentation to the party’s platform committee on including “neutral” language about abortion in the party’s platform.

The proposed language acknowledged that

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Democrats have “deeply held and sometimes differing positions on issues of personal conscience, like abortion and the death penalty” but said all are welcome in the party.

“We believe that we can reduce the number of abortions because we are united in our support for policies that assist families who find themselves in crisis or unplanned pregnancies,” the proposal said. “We believe that women deserve to have a breadth of options available as they face pregnancy: including, among others, support and resources needed to handle the challenges of pregnancy, adoption and parenthood; access to education, health care, child care; and appropriate child support.”

But not even this language was acceptable to the platform committee, which included advice from NARAL’s Nancy Keenan, Day said.

The language that stayed in the document was that of the 2008 platform “with one more sentence added to make it more pro-choice,” Day noted.

Being pro-life in a pro-choice party, said Dahlkemper, can be a lonely place.

“Some Democrats wish we would just go away,” she said.

Both she and former Rep. Bart Stupak of Michigan, who retired in 2011, said the Democrats will not achieve a majority in Congress without enlisting pro-life Democrats – a point Day has echoed repeatedly in her lobbying work with Democrats for Life.

But not all members of that group are as hopeful.

Eva Richey, head of the North Carolina chapter of Democrats for Life of America, said she is voting for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. There are 21 million Democrats who identify themselves as pro-life, she said, and the party’s refusal to budge on its pro-abortion stance leaves pro-lifers like her out in the cold.

The Democratic Party is supposed to be a big tent with room for all, she said, but a better analogy would be that it’s a bus. “And we’re in the back of it,” Richey said.

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cult questions, including sin and crime,” he said.

The monsignor said Pope Benedict XVI is setting an example for the whole church when he discusses the abuse crisis, repentance and reform of church norms with bishops, priests and laity.

Marie Keenan, a social worker and psychotherapist who has worked with perpetrators and survivors of clerical sexual abuse, told Vatican Radio that the church has been slow in responding to the abuse crisis, “but I think that we’re moving in the right direction and I think this conference is part of that.”

Keenan, who lectures at University College Dublin, said she is concerned that clerical sexual abuse is sometimes seen as “a problem of individuals, either individual perpetrators who were devious and managed to get through the doors” of the seminary undetected, “or bad or erring bishops who didn’t have the right heart or spirit or intellect or knowledge or something.”

The conference is part of an effort to look at relationships and structures of power within the church and determine how they may have contributed to the crisis.

Keenan said that without addressing those broader issues, the church risks placing too much trust in the important psychological tests designed to “screen out deviants.”

Relying exclusively on the tests is dangerous, she said, because “some of these men chose an abusive road not because they were deviants to begin with, but because something happened to them in the course of their life, either in formation or priesthood or living their life that wasn’t picked up on and with which they weren’t helped adequately.”

At the same time, she said, “even with the same formation and the same lifestyle, many, many men don’t turn to abuse,” so there must be a recognition that church culture hasn’t caused everyone “to use their power position in an abusive way.”

In addition, Keenan said that in her research “I found no evidence that celibacy is a cause of sexual abuse.” While “there may be good reasons for the church to rethink the celibacy issue, it’s not because of the child sexual abuse issue,” she said.

Sister of Charity Nuala Patricia Kenny, a pediatrician and retired professor of bioethics in Canada, said recent cases of abuse and sexual scandal convinced her that “we had not finished the job” of addressing clerical sexual abuse.

“The church, in the area of policies and protocols, surely now has become a world leader,” she said. But as she told the conference, “we have been a slow learner on this one.”

Catholics, she said, need to reflect on the question: “How does power and our sense of church, how has the inactivity of the laity, our inability to have good, positive, loving experiences between priest and people in our church that would make us a healthy church – how has all of that made us continue to deny, to fail to accept the difficult challenges” posed by the abuse crisis?

Sister Kenny, who has been a religious for 50 years, said there were days “when I had to kneel, kneel, kneel at my desk and literally hold on to the New Testament because I’ve been so overwhelmed by how much harm has been done, not just to the individual victims, but to the whole body of Christ.”

“I’m not a woman who breaks down easily and cries, but I have wept about this issue,” she said.

“On the other hand, I can tell you that I know in my heart that the Holy Spirit is leading us somewhere graced and I am perfectly prepared to do whatever I can with the grace and energy the Lord gives me to contribute to that.”

“Walking away is not an option because it belongs to my baptismal commitment,” Sister Kenny said. “This is my church.”

The conference was part of an effort to look at relationships and structures of power within the church and determine how they may have contributed to the crisis.

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Book traces Catholic Church’s historical influence in Latin America REVIEWED BY AGOSTINO BONO CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

“NEW WORLDS: A RELIGIOUS HISTORY OF LATIN AMERICA” by John Lynch. Yale University Press (New Haven, Conn., 2012).404 pp., $35.

Understanding the history of Latin America requires substantive knowledge about the Catholic Church and its complex influence beyond the sphere of religion. Its imprint also runs deep in the political, cultural, intellectual, social and cultural life of this vast region.

“New Worlds” by John Lynch provides this knowledge. The British historian paints with a broad brush, describing general trends, while also offering meticulous details showing the countertrends, divisions and regional differences in the church. The reader gets to see the forest and the trees.

The author cites the values of justice and peace as threads tying together much of the church’s Latin American history “revealing the mind of the church and sometimes its limits.” But the book also shows another common historical theme: the institutional church’s important political role starting with the Spanish and Portuguese colonial period and continuing through to the 20th-century challenges presented by military dictatorships, leftist revolutions and guerrilla movements.

While most of the book deals with the Catholic Church, Lynch also devotes a chapter to how Protestantism and Pentecostalism have made major inroads in past decades, garnering significant numbers of converts and gaining political leverage with governments in this once almost exclusively Catholic region.

The book, however, does not develop this highly important theme and one hopes that Lynch devotes his scholarship to a follow-up book on this phenomenon.

Lynch is a retired professor of Latin American history at the University of London and has written biographies of South America’s two main liberators from Spanish colonialism: Simon Bolivar and Jose de San Martin.

The book shows that the implanting of a political role on the church stems from its pre-colonial relationship to Spain. Before the colonial period the Spanish crown had worked out arrangements with popes to giving Spanish monarchs certain powers over the church in Spain. These included naming bishops and establishing dioceses. In exchange Catholicism was the state religion and state funds

subsidized the institutional church. Lynch describes this as a union of “throne” and “altar.” Basically, the Spanish crown was responsible for administering the church in its territories with Rome responsible for providing doctrine and theology.

This system was readily carried across the Atlantic, often making bishops and priests the only representatives of the Spanish throne in the outer reaches of the colonies. At the same time, it gave the crown control over missionary activities to the point that the monarchy expelled the Jesuits from Latin America in the 18th century, fearing that their power, wealth and promotion of autonomy among Indians threatened crown sovereignty.

The church and state union continued, often uneasily, after independence as governments saw the value of having an ally in the church because of its hold on the people. The church, meanwhile, benefited through state funding and laws supporting church moral values.

The downside was that church people fighting for social justice for Indians, the working classes and the marginalized in the colonial and post-colonial eras often had to feel the wrath of their bosses as well as that of the state.

Lynch shows a clear sympathy across the centuries for church people fighting injustices and promoting peaceful resolutions of conflicts, seeing the struggle for justice and peace as key to the Christian message.

Yet he takes a historian’s critical look at some of the theologies and ideologies behind these endeavors.

Liberation theology is praised as breathing new life into church thought and giving the church a new relevance in the latter part of the 20th century. But Lynch criticizes some branches of liberation theology for a too rigid reliance on Marxist analysis and for seeming to single out poverty as the sole focus of religion.

His judgments, while open to criticism, evolve from a careful accumulation of facts historically organized to provide understanding of the crucial and nuanced role the church has played in Latin America.

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NEW YORK – “What does Barack Obama believe?” asks right-leaning scholar Dinesh D’Souza, narrator of the engaging political documentary “2016: Obama’s America” (Rocky Mountain). The film – which D’Souza also co-directed and co-wrote with John Sullivan – is based on his 2010 best-seller “The Roots of Obama’s Rage.”

Thankfully, the answer that emerges onscreen is not a hysterical rant about birth certificates and college transcripts. Instead we’re provided with a studied – if obviously partisan – analysis of the president’s early life and influences. The conclusions drawn from this examination, however, are both radical and questionable.

D’Souza uses the 44th chief executive’s 1995 memoir “Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance” as his starting point for a globetrotting journey in search of Obama’s intellectual roots.

What he claims to discover is a heritage of extreme anti-colonialism passed down from the president’s Kenyan father, Barack Obama Sr. While the Indian-born scholar does show convincingly that the current incumbent in the White House was heavily influenced by his father in many ways, to assert that the president must therefore necessarily share his deceased dad’s militant views is a stretch, to say the least. To arrive at this finding, moreover, D’Souza resorts to some rather unconvincing pseudo-psychology.

D’Souza also makes provocative allegations regard-

FRIDAY, SEPT. 21, 9:15-11 P.M. EDT (TCM) “PATHS OF GLORY” (1957). The terrible slaughter of World War I is re-created in this factbased story of a French colonel (Kirk Douglas) who tries to save his men from being court-martialed for cowardice in a failed attack that should never have been ordered. Director Stanley Kubrick’s antiwar classic contrasts the horrors of trench warfare at the front with the indifference and incompetence of the generals (Adolphe Menjou and George Macready) safely quartered in the rear.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 22, 1-3 P.M. EDT (EWTN) “SPECIAL ROUNDTABLE.” This program presents a roundtable discussion of religious liberty featuring Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted of Phoenix and Michael Warsaw, EWTN president and CEO. SATURDAY, SEPT 22, 8-9:30 P.M. EDT (EWTN) “MIRACLE OF ST. THERESE” (1959). Engrossing French production dramatizing the life of the saint known as the Little Flower, who entered the Carmelite cloister at Lisieux at the age of 14, died of tuberculosis in 1897 at age 24 and was canonized in 1925. Director Andre Haguet makes a serious, largely successful attempt to picture the saint’s life within her religious community and the meaning of her “little way” to spiritual perfection, with a winning performance by France Descaut in the title role and fine use of the visuals to convey the period and the interior life of a young woman who became a saint. Dubbed. ©CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

CONFIDENCE IN TV NEWS HITS NEW LOW

WASHINGTON – An annual Gallup poll showed only 21 percent of adults had either “a great deal” or “quite of lot” of confidence in TV news. That’s a drop of six percentage points from 27 percent last year. The first time Gallup polled on this issue in 1993, the number was 46 percent – not a majority, but a healthy enough number upon which to build.

Instead, the numbers keep sliding backward.

In fact, when ranking confidence on a list of U.S. institutions, TV news finishes 11th – behind newspapers.

This Gallup poll was conducted June 7-10 – a few weeks before both CNN and Fox News Channel goofed in their initial reports of the Supreme Court’s decision on the Affordable Care Act, saying the law had been thrown out.

BONO, a retired CNS staff writer, covered Latin American church issues and lived in South America for 10 years.

Film: ‘2016: Obama’s America’ REVIEWED BY ADAM SHAW

TV PROGRAM NOTES, FILM FARE

ing the people he calls Obama’s “Founding Fathers” – the various scholars and thinkers the president himself identifies as having helped to mold his outlook.

They include writer, journalist and labor activist Frank Marshall Davis (1905-1987). D’Souza alleges that Davis, whom the future president apparently mentions more than 20 times in his memoir, was (to coin a phrase) a card-carrying member of the Communist Party.

Perhaps inevitably, D’Souza once more raises the specter of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, pointing out that this sometimes-fiery advocate of black liberation theology married Barack and Michelle Obama and baptized their two children.

Most viewers are likely to come away from D’Souza’s fairly slickly produced movie holding precisely the same view of the president they did going into it. Conservatives will be delighted, liberals will be offended and the majority of independents will probably remain unswayed.

Yet the shy and likable D’Souza’s tone is never uncharitable. And his alarm about the future of the nation under a second Obama administration, however subject to factual and logical critique, seems at least to be sincere.

The film contains adult themes and a single expression that could be construed as profane. The Catholic News Service classification is A-II – adults and adolescents. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG – parental guidance suggested.

Some material may not be suitable for children.

SHAW is a guest reviewer for Catholic News Service.

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The day begins with warm-up exercises and a mile walk to Third Baptist from the Golden Gate Park Panhandle (Ashbury and Fell) ending at Third Baptist Church on McAllister Street. The Health Fair will be held in the Nelson Fellowship Hall where twenty-five organizations will provide medical information on chronic disease management, disease prevention and awareness, as well as providing tips and opportunities for training on leading a healthful lifestyle.

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Don Bosco Study Group Sts. Peter and Paul Church in North Beach is hosting a three year in depth study of St. John Bosco. The purpose of the gatherings is to prepare for the bicentenary anniversary of his birth in 2015. On Thursday, September 20 at 7 PM, the Don Bosco Study Group will gather for its final 2012 meeting in the church auditorium. Fr. Arthur Lenti, SDB, author of the seven volume critical biography,“Don Bosco: History and Spirit,” will lead a discussion on the early days of St. John Bosco’s oratory. Fr. Art teaches courses about Don Bosco and the Salesian spiritual movement at the Dominican School of Theology and Philosophy.

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SATURDAY, SEPT. 15 NIGHT AT MOVIES: “For Greater Glory,” St Luke Church, 1111 Beach Park Blvd., Foster City. Foster City, 6 p.m. after 5 o’clock Mass. Admission free. Film tells story of Cristero War, a fight for faith and family. Rated R for war violence and disturbing images. Kids welcome at parent’s discretion. Bring your dinner. Popcorn, snacks, drinks will be sold. Cash only. Feel free to bring lawn chairs and blankets. kathpau@yahoo.com.

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REUNION: Presentation High School, San Francisco, class of 1957, at Presidio Golf Club. Diane Meiswinkel, (415) 752-9968.

REUNION: Class of ’77 Presentation High School, San Francisco, 1 p.m., Il Fornaio Restaurant, San Francisco.

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INDIA WALK: Walk for India’s Missing Girls 11 a.m. San Francisco City Hall. www.petalsinthedust.com. IndianAmerican filmmaker, Nyna Pais-Caputi, a parishioner of Sts. Peter and Paul Parish, leads the effort.

SUNDAY, SEPT. 16 INTERNATIONAL FOODS: Enjoy foods from Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, as well as live music, dancing,

8-4, St. Raphael Church, 1104 Fifth Ave., San Rafael, benefits parish capital campaign. www.saintraphael.com.

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SATURDAY, SEPT. 22 ‘ONFIRE’: Youth and young adult gathering at Six Flags Vallejo. Mass with the diocesan bishops, all you can eat lunch, and inspirational speakers and rides included. For tickets and more info go to http://onfirenorcal.com.

REUNION: Immaculate Heart of Mary School Belmont, class of ‘72. Terri Cook, terrimcook@comcast.net.

ANNIVERSARY: Immaculate Heart of Mary School is celebrating 60 years of Catholic education in Belmont, 1-7 p.m. Day includes alumni gatherings, school tours, Mass and reception. www.ihmschoolbelmont.org. Karen Andreano, development@ihmschoolbelmont.org, (650) 593-4265.

REUNION: Presentation High School, San Francisco, ‘72, brown-bag lunch 11:30 a.m. to 4, Central Park, Area #3, 50 East Fifth Ave., San Mateo, Joan Collins, jfreudman@comcast.net; Davina Cosenza davinacsf@earthlink.net.

SUNDAY, SEPT. 23 WALK: San Francisco Out of the Darkness Community Walk Lake Merced benefiting American Foundation for Suicide Prevention programs. Register in parking lot intersection of Lake Merced and Sunset Boulevard, 8 a.m. Walk 9 a.m. www.outofthedarkness.org.

REUNION: Class of ‘72, Notre Dame High School, Belmont. Notre Dame alumnae office, (650) 595 1913 ext.

446, dseveri@ndhsb.org or eileen_ browning@yahoo.com.

Bill Mason, (650) 906-1040, Roy Nickolai (415) 760-6584.

GOLF: Benefits Hanna Boys Center, Sonoma at Sonoma Golf Club. Cost of $275 per person includes golf, cart, participant gifts, continental breakfast, lunch, cocktail hour and dinner. Tournament begins at 10 a.m. www.hannacenter.org.

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

ZYDECO DANCE: Our Lady of Lourdes Parish hosts New Orleans style event featuring live music by Andre Thierry and Zydeco Magic, 7 p.m. 1601 Lane St., San Francisco/Bayview YMCA. Louisiana cuisine, great prizes, dancing, fun. Advance tickets $20/$25 at the door. Father Dan Carter (415) 2853377, Terry Oertel (415) 405-6309.

SVDP WALK: Friends of the Poor Walk, 8 a.m., Lake Merced, San Francisco.

Proceeds benefit people in need throughout San Francisco. (415) 7866868. www.svdp-sf.org.

GOLF: Day benefiting Capuchin Franciscan charities and programs takes place at Green Hills Country Club, Millbrae. California. Contest is 18-hole scramble, 10 a.m. check-in/ lunch, noon shotgun start, cocktails 6 p.m. dinner 7:30 p.m. Tickets at $300 include driving range, golf, cart, lunch, dinner, cocktails, tee prizes. Contact

3-DAY FESTIVAL: St. Dunstan Parish, 1133 Broadway, Millbrae, Friday 5 p.m.-closing; Saturday noon-10; Sunday noon-8. (650) 697-4730. secretary@saintdunstanchurch.org.

100 YEARS: St. Bruno Parish celebrates 100 years with dinner and awards at South San Francisco Convention Center, 255 South Airport Blvd., South San Francisco, secretary3@saintbrunos.org.

FIRST FRIDAY: The 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.

TUESDAY, OCT. 2 COLLEGE FAIR: Catholic College Fair at Marin Catholic High School, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Open to all high school students and their families. Visit www. catholicCollegefairs.org.

FRIDAY, OCT. 5 MONDAY, SEPT. 24

open Oct. 6, 9 a.m.-7:30 p.m. and Oct. 7, 8:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Exhibits include arrangements designed to honor the 25th anniversary of Pope John Paul II’s visit to St. Mary Cathedral in September 1987 as well as artifacts from the visit.

A jazz/gospel Mass Oct. 6, 5:30 p.m. features the Bay Area Gospel Mass Choir with Gabriel Angelo, child prodigy trumpeter, Dave Scott, renowned jazz trumpeter, and Howard Wiley, jazz composer and saxophonist. Archdiocesan Choir Festival closes the festival Oct. 7 at 4 p.m. www.cathedralflowers.org.

3-DAY FLOWER FESTIVAL: St. Mary’s Cathedral Festival of Flowers, Oct. 5-7, Gough Street and Geary Boulevard, San Francisco. Friday includes a gala preview event with tickets at $50 per person. Acclaimed harpist Laura Simpson is featured artist during the gala’s cathedral segment. The featured band for the evening in the Cathedral Event Center is “Second Opinion,” under the direction of David Kell. Free exhibits are

SATURDAY, OCT. 6 CENTENNIAL MASS: St. Bruno Church, 555 San Bruno Ave., San Bruno, 5 p.m., Archbishop John R. Quinn, presides. Coronation Ball follows. secretary3@saintbrunos.org.

MASS: First Saturday at Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma, All Saints Mausoleum Chapel, 11 a.m. Father Arnold Zamora, pastor, Holy Name of Jesus Parish, celebrant. (650) 756-2060.

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YOUTH MASS: Archdiocesan Youth Mass with Bishop Bill Justice at St. Ignatius Church, Parket at Fulton, San Francisco, 3 p.m.

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SATURDAY, OCT. 13 PARISH FORUM: San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop Robert W. McElroy is keynote speaker at parish forum organized by St. Dunstan Social Awareness Commit- Bishop Robert tee, “Forming W. McElroy Consciences for Faithful Citizenship” addressing Catholic responsibility in the electoral process and how to meet it. Event is at the parish center, 1133 Broadway, Millbrae, 9 a.m.-1. Seating is limited. Light refreshments served. Free-will donations accepted. Send reservations by Oct. 8, including name and parish and number attending, Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship, P.O. Box 1188, Millbrae 94030.

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

HOLY CROSS COLMA Chaker Abboud Erwin V. Acosta Noreen S. Ahern Richard M. Alhona Mercedes M. Alvers Carmine Amoroso Ricardo A. Aningalan Carlos “Carling” Aragon Consuelo M. Artal-Nicholas Jose F. Baltodano Colette J. Bowie Josephine A. Brill Catherine Broucaret Louie Broucaret Cesar D. Cabrera Hilda Cabrera Augustin T. Calija Augusto T. Carrillo Mary R. Casserly Rosa Emelina Castrillo Sr. M. Cabrini Catania, SHF John Francis Chiappuzzo Joseph J. Coffey Emily “Disny” Colindres John D. Coll Thomas Connolly Thomas Connolly, Jr. Nuala T. Cullinane Sr. Bernice (Mary Agnes) Curran, PBVM Eleanor J. DeMartini John DeMicheli Theresa Derfield David L. Derus Theresa J. DeVivo Geraldine Donnelly

Teresa Arana Dunleavy Brian Richard Dunlevy Jay Dallas Edmisten Jeannette M. Eggers Margaret A. Elsbernd Marigen Engber de Guerrero Mary A. Fay Vincent A. Ferrigno Sr. Michael Flaherty, CSJ Pat “Iniang” Formoso William “Uncle Will” Freytes Elena R. Garaventa Charles J. Giacoboni Louie Giannini Mary A. Grassi Margaret D. Greco Consuelo Maria Guttmann Anne E. (Peggy F.) Hart Lucille Mae Heggli David Peter Howard Esperanza A. Hurtado Abigana-Catone Joan V Phineas Johnson Anne “Nan” Jordan Mary H. Jordan Rev. Emil Kyranon, OFM Elvira Liboon Ramon T. Magno Anita Maldonado William Maldonado Joseph J. Marchi Carmel J. Mattera LaVerne Matushenko Dean P. McCann S. William Meehan Justa Melendez Mary Dolores Meyer Natalie Modesti Gloria Montcrieffe Rosemary Mulready

Mrs. Rita Murphy Virginia R. Nicholas June C. O’Connor Florence O’Mahoney Gertrude A. O’Neill Michael Orloff Virginia Orloff Liborio Ibale Orque Eloisa O. Ortiz Mary T. Osborn Rosetta Pagano Benjamin S. Paglinawan Frank Park, Sr. Maria J. Pasquini Estrella V. Perez Pedro Ramirez, Sr. Harold “Bud” Reed Edward Remedios Anita Ritz Genevieve M. Roach Ester G. Rodriguez Mauricio A. Sandoval Louis Sevieri Marie Evelyn Sevieri Rhodora Goto Silverman Lola F. Soria Joyce Krystle Soriano de Guzman Richard P. Stark Marcia Brosnan Stenger Eugene (Gene) F. Stluka Barbara A. Sturtevant Florenda C. Suerte Dudley Sullivan Alexander V. Thorson Yuetwah Ho Tong Gustavo A. Uriarte Enid M. Varney Nancy Varni Gabriel Jeffrey Vicario, III

Victor Wagner Ng Pak Wai Jean E. Ward Jane K. Widman Mary M. Yao Bertha M. Zamora Lupe Carrillo Zarate Robert J. Zerrilla

MT. OLIVET, SAN RAFAEL John William Costello Vivienne Crampton Ruth Gorton Joseph Richard Hannigan de los Reyes Natalie Reviczky Johannes Bruce Kevin Knoles Earl VanNote

HOLY CROSS MENLO PARK Edelmira Villano Castaneda Alfred R. Habeeb Matilde Mata John Montoro Helene Edith Stapleton

OUR LADY OF THE PILLAR Josephine Miller

HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY, COLMA FIRST SATURDAY MASS – Saturday, October 6, 2012 All Saints Mausoleum Chapel – 11:00 am Rev. Arnold Zamora, Pastor, Holy Name of Jesus Christ – Celebrant

TODOS LOS SANTOS CELEBRATION – ALL SAINTS DAY MASS Saturday, October 27, 2012 Holy Cross Mausoleum Chapel – 11am Bishop William Justice, Celebrant Refreshments following Mass

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