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Pro-life rally fills Civic Center Plaza Tens of thousands of people rallied at Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco Jan. 21 for the 8th annual Walk for Life West Coast. The event was preceded by a Mass for Life at a full St. Mary’s Cathedral, with Archbishop George Niederauer as principal celebrant, and followed by a march down Market Street to the Embarcadero. Turn to Pages 10, 11 for the story and photos; Page 12 for the archbishop’s homily.

‘Line in the sand’ White House denial of religious exemption outrages Catholic groups By Nancy Frazier O’Brien WASHINGTON (CNS) – The U.S. bishops and other Catholic groups responded with outrage and concern to the Obama administration’s refusal of repeated requests from Catholic bishops, hospitals, schools and charitable organizations to revise its religious exemption to the requirement that all health plans cover contraceptives and sterilization free of charge.

Cardinal-designate Timothy M. Dolan of New York, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, called the administration’s position “literally unconscionable” and vowed the bishops will fight it. The reaction came Jan. 20 after Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, announced that nonprofit groups that do not provide contraceptive coverage because of their religious beliefs will get an additional year “to adapt to this new rule.”

“This decision was made after very careful consideration, including the important concerns some have raised about religious liberty,” Sebelius said. “I believe this proposal strikes the appropriate balance between respecting religious freedom and increasing access to important preventive services.” But Cardinal-designate said the Obama administration has “drawn an unprecedented line in the sand” with the decision. LINE IN SAND, page 7

Catholic Healthcare West restructures By George Raine

Why we need a Catholic press. Guest Commentary, Page 13.

San Francisco-based Catholic Healthcare West, the nation’s fifth-largest health care system, said Jan. 23 it is changing its name to Dignity Health as part of a restructuring that, it says, “will position the organization to succeed in a changing health care environment.” Dignity said that one of the key rationales for the change is to preserve and sustain the identity and integrity of the Catholic hospitals in its system and their sponsoring congregations.

Founded as a Catholic institution in 1986, when two congregations of the Sisters of Mercy joined their 10 hospitals together, the new Dignity Health is a not-forprofit organization, rooted in Catholic tradition, but, as a result of the restructuring, no longer is an official ministry of the Catholic Church. It will continue to own and operate both Catholic and non-Catholic hospitals which will keep their names. The mission of the hospitals – 25 Catholic and 15 nonCatholic hospitals in Arizona, California and Nevada RESTRUCTURES, page 3

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On The Where You Live By Tom Burke Cameron Newman, a seventh grader at St. Anselm School, was thrilled to participate in the Charles Schwab G o l f To u r n a m e n t a t H a r d i n g Pa r k , November 6. Cameron won the spot by writCameron ing an essay about the Newman importance of excelling in school, along with her desire to continue playing golf competitively in high school, college and beyond. Cameron helped with First Tee, a benefiting charity of the tournament, at Harding Park last summer. Cameron’s proud folks are Barbara and Dennis Newman of San Rafael. “Cameron looks up to top young female golfers like Michelle Wie and Paula Creamer, both also from Northern California,” Barbara told me. Cameron plays in local tournaments in Marin, and has joined JGANC, the Junior Golf Association of Northern California. When not swinging for the green, Cameron is swimming and has been a year round competitive swimmer with the Marin Pirates since age 6, her mom said. •

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as Blaine Anderson on TV’s “Glee” just finished in the starring role of Broadway’s “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.” Darrin took over for the vacationing “Harry Potter” alum Daniel Radcliffe, who has played the J. Pierrepont Finch character since the show opened almost a year ago. It’s Darren’s first role on Broadway. Also treading the boards on The Great White Way is 1997 SI alum Adam Jacobs, now playing Simba in the Broadway production of “The Lion King.” • San Francisco’s St. Finn Barr School has a new Science Room! “Since August, we have received about $21,000 in private donations to build our science program so we decided to renovate the space to host the new materials,” said principal, Maria Sablan. The room gets an official grand opening Jan. 29. Students and families of St. Finn Barr will hold a Peace Parade Feb. 2. “In honor of our 50th anniversary, we are organizing a Peace Parade throughout the Sunnyside neighborhood to celebrate peace and to promote Catholic Schools,” Maria said. “We will meet in the yard for a blessing at 1:15

Alex Kassil, a seventh grader at St. Anselm School, Ross, with his trophy from U.S. Junior National Chess Conference competitions in November.

p.m. then proceed with about a 45-minute march.” St. Finn Barr also remains thankful to its three beloved teacher’s aides, Maria said: Karen Gregory, 26 years; Karen Johnsen, 26 years; and Vicky Bruce, 27 years. • Congrats to Archbishop Riordan High School senior, Joe Williams named to receive the Students Rising Above Award. “The honor is given to first generation college students who have overcome incredible adversity in their lives,” said Riordan’s Vicki Terheyden. Seattle University is Joe’s first choice for college. • Two Woodside Priory School juniors recently achieved Eagle Scout honors with Portola Valley Boy Scout Troop 64. Kellan Draeger, the son of Ann Marie and Peter Draeger, worked with fellow scouts to build two western cedar benches made from reclaimed donated lumber for parishioners of Our Lady of the Wayside Church which is just down the road from the school. Benjamin Krausz, son of Steven and Alison Krausz, aimed his project at helping Mercado Global, a nonprofit trade association whose goal is to teach rural indigenous women business skills to bring their crafts to market. Benjamin collected over 600 calculators, personally distributed them, and conducted training in Guatemalan Mayan communities. • It’s “welcome aboard” and “welcome home” for Mary Chapman, new secretary at St. Rita School in Fairfax. Mary and her husband, Mark, are both St. Rita alums as are their four children. Special thanks here to Dina Fowler and Suzanne Willin for fillin’ in at the desk. “I don’t know what I would have done without both of them,” said Carol Arritola, principal. • As we celebrate this Catholic Schools Week, please let me say that I am a Catholic school graduate and continue to be glad and grateful for that experience. • Email items and electronic pictures – jpegs at no less than 300 dpi – to burket@sfarchdiocese.org or mail to Street, One Peter Yorke Way, SF 94109. Include a follow-up phone number. Street is toll-free. My phone number is (415) 614-5634.

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CHESTER, England (CNS) – A British cardinal encouraged Christians to overcome the “three enemies of ecumenism” and to pray for the progress of closer unity. Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, retired archbishop of Westminster, said “suspicion, inertia and impatience” had damaged the ecumenical project. The former co-chairman of the AnglicanRoman Catholic International Commission also told about 500 worshippers gathered in the Anglican cathedral in Chester that prayer and grass-roots initiatives were the best

means of keeping the ecumenical dream alive. “To mend the ruptures of the past is a task that devolves on each one of us here this evening,” the cardinal said at the Jan. 22 service for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. Cardinal Murphy-O’Connor also spoke of the urgent need for Christians to offer joint witness to the Gospel in the face of increasing secularism. “Time and time again, together, we must proclaim, in season and out of season, the dignity of the human person made in the image of God from conception to the end of life,” the cardinal said.

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tals will follow what is called Dignity Health’s statement of common values. (The statement includes a list of procedures that are not performed: Abortion, assisted suicide or euthanasia and artificial reproductive procedures, including donor insemination and in vitro fertilization.) The archdiocese’s involvement in the restructuring came about after the six communities of Catholic religious women who sponsor Dignity Health in 2011 asked Archbishop George Niederauer to consult with them about the matter. Because he is the bishop of the diocese where Dignity Health is headquartered, it was his responsibility to evaluate the proposed changes in light of the norms of Catholic moral teaching and church law. Archbishop Niederauer, after also conferring with other bishops, the American bishops’ task force on health care and with leading Catholic moralists and authorities in church law who are expert in matters related to health care, concluded the restructuring does not conflict with the teachings of the Catholic Church. “It is (my) hope and belief that these ministries of health care launched more than 150 years ago by heroic Catholic religious women of faith and vision and sacrifice will continue to flourish for many decades to come,” said Archbishop Niederauer.

■ Continued from cover – will be unchanged despite the corporate name change. Locally, Dignity Health facilities include Saint Francis Memorial Hospital and St. Mary’s Medical Center, both in San Francisco, and Sequoia Hospital in Redwood City. Dignity Health said the name change follows several years of discussion between the organization’s sponsoring religious congregations, board of directors and management about the future of health care. As Catholic Healthcare West grew, merging with nonCatholic community hospitals, questions arose about now to manage a non-Catholic entity with a Catholic entity, said George Wesolek, the director of the Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns at the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Dignity Health said that the name change is directly related to the governance restructure, adding that both the restructure and the new name give potential partners confidence that Catholic hospitals will follow the ethical and religious directives for Catholic healthcare promulgated by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops while non-Catholic hospi-

Former Anglicans confirmed Catholic Servers Gary Grimmette and Brooks Andersson are pictured during a special Mass of confirmation and reception at Mount Calvary Church in Baltimore Jan. 22. Some 2,000 other lay members, and 100 priests, of the U.S. Anglican church are seeking to become in full communion with the Catholic Church.

William J. Cox, president of the Alliance of Catholic Health Care, a membership organization for California Catholic hospitals, told Catholic News Service that the “primary rationale” for the change was to bring the Catholic hospitals in the Dignity Health system “into compliance with the moral and doctrinal tenets of the church.” Some non-Catholic hospitals in the system permitted the direct sterilization of patients, Cox said, causing problems for Catholic hospitals under the former structure. The restructuring comes after St. Joseph’s Hospital in Phoenix was stripped of its Catholic identity by Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted of the Diocese of Phoenix because an ethics committee allowed an abortion to be performed there. The case involved a woman

with pulmonary hypertension who doctors said would likely die unless her pregnancy was terminated. The hospital and the former Catholic Healthcare West have maintained that the intention was to save “the only life that could be saved.” Cox said the St. Joseph’s situation was “not particularly related” to the restructuring of the new Dignity Health. The board of the former Catholic Healthcare West and the sponsoring religious congregations had begun to discuss restructuring prior to the incident at the Phoenix hospital. Lloyd H. Dean, Dignity Health’s president and CEO, said, “The new structure supports our long-term plan to grow and coordinate care, while reinforcing our mission of service to the communities we are so privileged to serve.”

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Silence key to sharing, pope says

missionary news agency Fides reported. “They are destroying the hope of a united Nigeria,” said Archbishop Ignatius Ayau Kaigama of Jos, referring to simultaneous attacks on government buildings by the extremist sect known as Boko Haram, Jan. 20 in the city of Kano, according to Fides. News reports said that more than 150 people, most of them Muslims, are believed dead following the attacks, the latest in a series by the radical organization, which seeks to impose Islamic law in the country’s Muslim-majority North. “Kano is still in shock,” Bishop John Namaza Niyiring of Kano, Nigeria’s secondlargest city, told Fides.

VATICAN CITY – Amid the deluge of information and nonstop chatter in today’s media, the church needs to help people find safe havens of silence, Pope Benedict XVI said. Far from being the enemy of calm and quiet, social media and the Internet can lead people to virtual sanctuaries that offer silent reflection, thoughtful dialogue and true meaning in life, he said. “Attention should be paid to the various types of websites, applications and social networks which can help people today to find time for reflection and authentic questioning, as well as making space for silence and occasions for prayer, meditation or sharing of the word of God,” he said in his message for the 2012 celebration of World Communications Day. Even brief posts and viral tweets can carry potent messages when people use those tools – not for spamming or for scanning the latest gossip – but for sharing a real part of themselves, he said.

Americans back abortion limits

Nigerian bishops deplore attacks

ALTOONA, Pa. – Although Joe Paterno will be remembered as “a legend throughout our region and throughout our country,” Bishop Mark L. Bartchak said the iconic football coach will be best remembered in the Diocese of AltoonaJohnstown as “a good Catholic, a family man and a friend

VATICAN CITY – Two Nigerian bishops deplored bloody attacks in a northern city by a radical Islamist group, warning of deep social divisions and displaced populations, the Vatican

WASHINGTON – A poll taken for the Knights of Columbus and Marist College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., indicates a strong majority of Americans continue to want restrictions on abortion. According to the poll, 79 percent of those surveyed said they would not allow abortion after the first three months of pregnancy. And 51 percent said they would allow abortion only in cases of rape, incest or to save the mother’s life – or not at all. The poll’s numbers are almost unchanged from a similar poll taken two years ago. According to the poll results, released Jan. 23, 84 percent said they believe that laws can protect both the life of the unborn and the health and well-being of women. This is up from 81 percent from the 2010 survey.

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to many.” Bishop Bartchak made his comments Jan. 22 at a news conference at the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament in Altoona, prior to a prayer service celebrating Respect for Life. Paterno, 85, died that morning at Mount Nittany Medical Center in State College, just 10 weeks after the Nov. 18 announcement that he was Joe Paterno is pictured suffering from lung cancer. in 1998 celebrating his That announcement came 300th career win nine days after Paterno’s at Beaver Stadium 61-year career at Penn State in State College, Pa. University was terminated in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal. “Faith and family were so important to Joe Paterno,” said Bishop Bartchak. “Joe’s commitment to prayer, family and faith was a great example to the students at Penn State,” and will leave a lasting impact, he said.

Archbishop Sanchez mourned ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Former Archbishop Robert F. Sanchez, a pioneer in Hispanic ministry who later resigned in disgrace when several women accused him of having abused them as adults, died Jan. 20 at age 77. His death was announced by Archbishop Michael J. Sheehan of Santa Fe, who said he died at noon in Albuquerque “surrounded by his family. Archbishop Sanchez was much loved as a native son by the people of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe,” Archbishop Sheehan said. Archbishop Sanchez headed the Santa Fe archdiocese from July 25, 1974, until Pope John Paul II accepted his resignation on April 6, 1993.

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Cutting-edge science: The church and the study of human anatomy

Pope Benedict XIV commissioned eight life-size wax figures to teach about the human body.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Many readers of the Vatican’s official newspaper might have been taken by surprise in mid-January by an article effusively praising a well-known exhibition of “plastinated” human bodies, which was making an extended stop in Rome. “Body Worlds,” which L’Osservatore Romano called a “wonderful ode to respect for the body,” is an exhibition of preserved human corpses, displayed in often sporty stances. The Catholic Church has consistently taught that the human body must be treated with respect, in accordance with the preservation of human dignity. Many critics, meanwhile, have said such concerns only put the brakes on science. In fact, the church and the Vatican

have a long history of promoting knowledge of the human body. One 18thcentury pope even sponsored a show that might be considered the “Body Worlds” of its day. Pope Benedict XIV established the first Anatomical Museum in Italy in his hometown of Bologna after he commissioned in 1742, eight life-size wax figures, designed on the basis on human autopsies. He wanted the museum to educate the public, inspire future anatomists and aid artists with more accurate representations of the human form, said Rebecca Messbarger, an expert in Enlightenment Italy who teaches at Washington University in St. Louis. Medical education was undergoing a huge revolution in the 18th century, as

anatomists shed abstract theories about how the body worked, in favor of handson study with actual cadavers. According to Andrea Carlino, professor of the history of medicine at the University of Geneva, Pope Benedict threw his full support behind this new methodology. Carlino noted that the church had never formally prohibited the dissection of the deceased for anatomical study. Pope Benedict’s interest in and experience with anatomy was the foundation of his four-volume book on canonization and miracles, Messbarger said, in which he referred “as much to the masters of anatomy as to the fathers of the church.” As Messbarger puts it, the pope knew that “in order to understand the supernatural, you have to understand the natural.”

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‘People want to give to something positive’ Pastor excels at fundraising: Clear goals, personalized message are key By George Raine Father Brian Costello is serving at his fourth parish in the Archdiocese of San Francisco, at Star of the Sea Church, and at all four he has reversed subpar giving for the Archbishop’s Annual Appeal and raised money in excess of the parish goals. It’s no small feat, particularly in a recession and snail-paced recovery. But Father Costello has found that drilling home the notion that everyone is expected to participate and that the parish can keep the money collected in excess of the goal for worthy projects – plus the fact that giving gives people a sense of ownership – pay dividends. Here’s another key: He ties the appeal, called the Triple A, to the beginning of Lent, of which there are three parts, prayer, fasting and almsgiving. He tells his parishioners that almsgiving has been a part of Lent for the past 2,000 years and “there is no bigger charity than the archdiocese.” The Triple A goal for 95 parishes combined is roughly 17 percent of the total ordinary income of the archdiocese, said Msgr. James Tarantino, the moderator of the curia and vicar for administration. For 2012, the goal is $5.7 million. Its theme is “Give them some food yourselves,” Jesus’ instructions to the apostles to distribute the loaves and fishes. The appeal funds parish and archdiocesan ministry and centralized services, clergy support and support for the universal church, which includes the Vatican, California and U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Catholic San Francisco and other communications endeavors.

It’s a critical fundraising effort, but not every priest or pastor warms to the task of asking for money and people are fatigued by hearing one more fundraising pitch. There’s also competition. Msgr. Tarantino offers a hint or two to pastors:

‘I don’t expect people to give all that they have but I do expect them to give. This is part of being Catholic.’ – Father Brian Costello “People want to give to something that is positive, give to something that quite frankly has legs and has a future to it. People want to give after success, not after failure, and so if you come with a message that is hope filled, that says that what they give and who they are and what they do make a difference and you show it to them, that is a sure formula for success.” Father Costello learned the art of fundraising at his first parish, St. Anthony of Padua Church in Novato. Several parishioners

Little Children’s Aid Juniors honors past leader Joan Higgins Long known for its work on behalf of children since the time of the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco, Little Children’s Aid/Little Children’s Aid Juniors will honor past president Joan Higgins, Feb.10 with the Alice Phelan Sullivan Award. Higgins emulates the qualities of award namesake Alice Phelan Sullivan, LCA’s first president in 1909, said LCA’s Lois Agresti, including “strong Christian generosity, leadership, spiritual strength, perseverance and devotion to her faith.” Mary Ann Schwab and Joan Higgins have been friends and colleagues in charitable work for 30 years. ”Joan Higgins Joan Higgins has a heart of gold and never says ‘no’ to causes and organizations that need her talents,” Schwab told Catholic San Francisco. “Joan also has a deep sense of devotion and responsibility to family. She helped raise her siblings from the time of her teen years and has extended that devotion and responsibility to her entire family.” The honoree has served as LCA president, and is a past president of the San Francisco Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women. Higgins was honored by Archbishop George Niederauer in August when, at his recommendation, she was presented with a Benemerenti Medal by the Vatican in ceremonies at St. Mary’s Cathedral. The LCA award will be presented at the group’s annual gala, “Hearts for Charity,” Feb. 10. Information about the event is available from Maria Espiritu at Mespiri2@hotmail.com. – Tom Burke

who were experienced businessmen arranged for parishioners to give brief presentations over five or six weeks about how the appeal affected them, rather than talk about it in the third person, and Father Costello learned the importance of a personalized message. In his years at St. Anthony, 2000-2005, the goal was exceeded. Then Father Costello was off to St. Charles Church in San Carlos where the goal was twice that of St. Anthony – $100,000 – and, once again, it was exceeded. This time, he condensed the campaign into two weeks, and made it personal. “I told the people that I was a beneficiary of your annual appeal, that I could have never gone to the seminary unless appeal funds supported me.” A year later, Father Costello was pastor of Mater Dolorosa Church in South San Francisco. It was a struggling parish but the condensed, two-week-long appeal formula worked again. He made the case that with extra funds over the $30,000 goal the fence out front could be replaced, “and we will be able to make the parish a little bit more beautiful.” Father Costello said, “I have learned that if you are going to fix the place up, first fix up the places that the people see. Do not fix up the rectory, which very few if any people see. It might be good for me but not so good for the rest of the parish. If they see that you are doing stuff like this, people have told me, the more they will give.” Last year, the target at Star of the Sea in San Francisco was $33,000, and it was exceeded by $12,000. Father Costello introduced “the one percent club,” asking parishioners to give one percent of $33,000, or $330, which is reasonably close to $33 a month or a dollar a day, paid over 10 months if preferred. In other words, it’s affordable. Club members were feted at a parish dinner in May. FUNDRAISING, page 8

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‘We’re talking about forgiveness’ Former gangsta rapper, rap group, debut in Catholic hip-hop concert By Valerie Schmalz C2six, aka Carlos Zamora, was opening for some of the country’s top gangsta rap groups in 2007 when he walked away. Today he is recording a Catholic hip-hop CD and will be filming a music video in San Francisco in mid-February. C2six and the group FoundNation, with female vocalist Daniela Somocurcio, will play at St. Paul of the Shipwreck Parish on Feb. 17, part of a whirlwind weekend Catholic rap tour that includes two concerts in the Central Valley. The concerts will also feature the “rapping padre,” Richmond, Calif.-born Conventual Franciscan friar Father Masseo Gonzales of El Padrecito Ministries. El Padrecito Ministries, based in Pismo Beach, is backing FoundNation’s CD and producing the video. The San Francisco concert will feature the live debut of their Catholic rap single “Let it Go,” part of the soon-to-bereleased CD “Universal.” “We’re talking about forgiveness and having a forgiving heart and holding on to that, forgiving other people for what they have done to you,” said Zamora, who asked his wife and child for forgiveness after leaving the seedy world of gangsta rap, including drugs and crime – saving his marriage and keeping his family together. “We wanted to do a song that would appeal to the masses that we didn’t have to compromise our faith to do.” After leaving his career as a gangsta rapper, Zamora briefly tried Christian rap. But he did not believe the evangelical axiom that faith alone justifies, and turned to Catholic hiphop. He found colleagues mostly through Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. “Let It Go” is already available on iTunes and can be heard on YouTube. “We’re divined. We’re created to have a longing for God,” said Zamora, who said the group’s goal is to do full time hiphop ministry for youth. “They want to hear,” Zamora said. “We can speak their language but there is no need to water

Catholic rappers will perform at St. Paul of the Shipwreck Parish Feb. 17 in a free concert by former gangsta rap artist C2six, above left, and the new Catholic group FoundNation. Conventual Franciscan Father Masseo Gonzales of El Padrecito Ministries, known as “rapping padre,” also will perform. Songs will include the single “Let It Go” from the new CD “Universal.”

down or compromise the word to get the youth back in here. The truth will win them over.” “I really believe that a lot of the structures and models we are using are ineffective” in reaching young people, said Father Gonzales, saying the Catholic rappers “are so hungry to evangelize through their music.” Zamora is 34, and spends an hour a day reading the church fathers, according to the priest. Zamora and the rest of FoundNation have “street cred,” Father Gonzales said. FoundNation consists of Zamora, Alfonso “Th0t” Pedroza, 22, from Santa Ana, and Nick “Dy-Verse” Torres, 21, from West Palm Beach, Fla. Daniela Somocurcio,21, is from Dallas. Zamora’s teen years were spent around gangs and the gang life in Fort Worth, Texas, which had the highest crime rate in the country during the ‘90s when he was growing up. Zamora said he got into gangsta rap to escape from the gangs, but found the life was just as bad in terms of drugs and crime. “One of his homeys was killed when he was 12 years old,” said Father Gonzales. “He sang in the secular rap game. He’s seen a lot. He’s been there and yet he has remained Catholic. A lot of young kids who have gone through major conversion,

they immediately leave and become a Christian. They leave the faith and become evangelical. “That is why this ministry is so important. You can be real and Catholic at the same time. You can still know Christ and still love our Blessed Mother and live your life and be joyful.” Zamora says he believes the prayers of his mother, who died of ovarian cancer in 2002, brought him back to the faith in 2009. “I took off about a year and a half to try to find the right church for me. More and more the truth led me back to my Catholic faith. I realized that I was just one quick confession from being back with mother church.”

At a glance – Concert and faith sharing: St. Paul of the Shipwreck Parish, 7 p.m., Friday, Feb. 17; 1122 Jamestown Ave., San Francisco. Free admission. – Performers’ websites: Facebook.com/foundnation, elpadrecito.org

Author says sex-selective abortions moving to West with immigration ROME (CNS) – Aborting unborn girls on account of their gender has been a documented trend in certain Asian countries for at least two decades. Now, according to an Italian biologist and author, the practice is also growing in the West. Women and couples who emigrate from cultures where male children are deemed more prestigious and economically valuable “will often bring those same values to their new country,” said Anna Meldolesi, author of “Never born: Why the world has lost 100 million women” (“Mai nate: Perche il mondo ha perso 100 milioni di donne”), in a telephone interview with Catholic News Service Jan. 22. In 1990, Nobel prize-winning economist Amartya Sen calculated at 100 million the number of women who, by the laws of nature, should be part of the world population but are not. The “missing women” in question, Meldolesi wrote, have been the victims of infanticide, intentional neglect of health and nutrition, and more recently, abortion on the basis of sex.

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Inspired by studies of sex-selective abortion among Asian immigrants in North America, Meldolesi said she tried to find out if there was a similar trend in her own country of Italy. Using four years of demographic data from ISTAT, the Italian statistics bureau, she found that the “sex ratio” of firstborn children appeared to occur at the natural rate of about 105 males to 100 females, similar to the Italian population and other nationalities. But when it came to second and third children, figures showed that the number of boys increased markedly – with the disproportion as high as 119 to 100 – indicating that parents had probably aborted female fetuses, Meldolesi said. She concluded that sex-selective abortion, or “feminine feticide,” has been common among Italy’s Chinese and Indian immigrant populations, and also, to a lesser extent, among Albanians.

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Pope warns of threat to freedom of religion, conscience in US proclamation of these “unchanging moral truths.” Such a movement inevitably leads to the prevalence of “reductionist and totalitarian readings of the human person and the nature of society.” The pope drew an opposition between current “notions of freedom detached from moral truth” and Catholicism’s “rational perspective” on morality, founded on the conviction that the “cosmos is possessed of an inner logic accessible to human reasoning.” Using the “language” of natural law, he said, the church should promote social justice by “proposing rational arguments in the public square.” Coming at the start of an election year, Pope Benedict’s words were clearly relevant to American politics, a connection he made explicit by mentioning threats to “that most cherished of American freedoms, the freedom of religion.” The pope said that many of the visiting bishops had told him of “concerted

efforts” against the “right of conscientious objection ... to cooperation in intrinsically evil practices” – an apparent reference to proposals by the U.S. Department of Health

and Human Services, opposed by the U.S. bishops, that all private health insurance plans cover surgical sterilization procedures and artificial birth control. In response to such threats, Pope Benedict said, the church requires an “engaged, articulate and well-formed Catholic laity” with the courage and critical skills to articulate the “Christian vision of man and society.” He said that the education of Catholic laypeople is essential to the “new evangelization,” an initiative that he has made a priority of his pontificate. Touching on one of most controversial areas of church-state relations in recent years, the pope spoke of Catholic politicians’ “personal responsibility to offer public witness to their faith, especially with regard to the great moral issues of our time,” which he identified as “respect for God’s gift of life, the protection of human dignity and the promotion of authentic human rights.”

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the government in decisions about whether an organization is “religious enough” to be exempted. Sebelius’ announcement brought an outcry from Catholic leaders and a sigh of relief from groups such as Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro-Choice America, which had opposed any moves to weaken the contraceptive mandate or strengthen the religious exemption. In a video posted on the USCCB website, Cardinal-designate Dolan said the decision put the Obama administration “on the wrong side of the Constitution” and should be rescinded. “In effect, the president is saying we have a year to figure out how to violate our consciences,” the cardinal-designate said in a separate statement. “To force American

citizens to choose between violating their consciences and forgoing their health care is literally unconscionable. It is as much an attack on access to health care as on religious freedom. Historically this represents a challenge and a compromise of our religious liberty.” Franciscan Sister Jane Marie Klein, who chairs the board at Franciscan Alliance, a system of 13 Catholic hospitals, characterized the decision as “nothing else than a direct attack on religion and First Amendment rights.” Sister Carol Keehan, a Daughter of Charity who is president and CEO of the Catholic Health Association, said the announcement was a “missed opportunity to be clear on appropriate conscience protection.”

■ Continued from cover “The Catholic bishops are committed to working with our fellow Americans to reform the law and change this unjust regulation,” he added. “We will continue to study all the implications of this troubling decision.” Sebelius announced the mandate and a narrow religious exemption to it Aug. 1, 2011. Under the plan, after Aug. 1 of this year, new or significantly altered health plans will be required to provide all FDA-approved contraceptives, including some that can cause abortions, without co-pays or deductibles as part of preventive health care for women. The only religious organizations exempt from the requirement would be those meeting

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Pope Benedict XVI warned visiting U.S. bishops that “radical secularism” threatens the core values of American culture, and he called on the church in America, including politicians and other laypeople, to render “public moral witness” on crucial social issues. The pope spoke Jan. 19 to a group of U.S. bishops who were in Rome for their periodic “ad limina” visits, which included meetings with the pope and Vatican officials, covering a wide range of pastoral matters. Opening with a dire assessment of the state of American society, the pope told the bishops that “powerful new cultural currents” have worn away the country’s traditional moral consensus, which was originally based on religious faith as well as ethical principles derived from natural law. Whether they claim the authority of science or democracy, the pope said, militant secularists seek to stifle the church’s

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Fundraising . . . ■ Continued from page 5 There’s no better Gospel source on giving, said Father Costello, than the story of the widow’s mite. The Pharisees were making a big show of dropping money into the cauldron in a temple, the heavier the coin the louder the clang. A poor widow followed them, donating a small coin that made hardly a sound. Jesus told his disciples that she gave more than all the Pharisees combined, as small sacrifices of the poor mean more to God. “I don’t expect people to give all that they have but I do expect them to give,” said Father Costello. “This is part of being Catholic.” Part of being a pastor is often dealing with debt. Star of the Sea’s finances have improved in the past year, although its investments lost $400,000 in the past quarter and the parish can run $2,500 short in paying bills for the week. A few times a year the parish dips into savings. School bathrooms date to 1920 and all parish facilities need

paint. Father Costello has been asking parishioners to remember the church in wills. “We are certainly not going to survive on Sunday collections,” he said. In his 13 years as pastor of St. Hilary Parish in Tiburon, Msgr. Tarantino had Triple A goals that ranged from $40,000 in the first year to $115,000 in his last, in 2010. He exceeded all of them. Like Father Costello, Msgr. Tarantino had a fundraising device: He asked parishioners to give money equal to one hour’s pay of 40 hours per week. “I believe people are very generous and I also believe that, quite frankly, for people to give, you are doing them a favor. It is a privilege to be able to give, and to donate and be a part of something greater than yourself,” said Msgr. Tarantino. “What a privilege. What a grace.” “A nonprofit has to be run like a business,” said Michael O’Leary, director of the Development Office of the archdiocese. “As the CEOs of these parishes, Msgr. Tarantino and Father Costello really saw the importance of making sure there is a shared responsibility to get this done, and they have their ways of doing it.”

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Speaker: Life, liberty at ‘core of national character’ WASHINGTON (CNS) – Americans “as a people are pro-life” because life and liberty “are intertwined and form the core of our national character,” House Speaker John Boehner told the crowd gathered on the National Mall Jan. 23 for the 39th annual March for Life. “God who gave us life gave us liberty,” said the Ohio Republican, who is a Catholic. He added that his pro-life stand isn’t political, “it’s just who I am.” He and the other members of Congress who spoke at the rally said they were proud they had passed the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act and the Protect Life Act and voted

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‘We are pro-life’ Annual San Francisco walk draws tens of thousands of pro-life activists By Valerie Schmalz and Dana Perrigan

Marchers move down Market Street in San Francisco toward the Embarcadero. The demonstration blocked traffic on the city’s main artery for more than a mile.

SAN FRANCISCO – Tens of thousands of pro-life activists massed in front of San Francisco’s City Hall and then filled the city’s main thoroughfare Jan. 21, walking about two miles down Market Street to the Embarcadero. Banging drums, praying and chanting “We are pro-life,” the enthusiastic throngs stopped traffic for more than a mile in a peaceful walk that took about an hour. Abortion rights protesters briefly stopped the walk by pulling orange netting hung with coat hangers in front of the walk. Police who rode bicycles and motorcycles in advance of the walk pulled the abortion protesters out of the street before the walk resumed, led by a group of young women carrying the walk’s signature banner, “Abortion hurts women.” In Washington, D.C., the March for Life drew hundreds of thousands to walk along the Capitol Mall, ending with marchers visiting their representatives’ offices on Capitol Hill. New York Cardinal-designate Timothy Dolan said that after nearly 40 years of legalized abortion, “we might be tempted to give up.” But “not us,” said Cardinal-designate Dolan, president of the U.S. bishops, at the closing Mass of an all-night National Prayer Vigil for Life at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception Jan.23. “Not for thousands who have stayed up all night here in prayer. Not for hundreds of thousands who will march today with the word we have received ringing in their ears.” An hour before the opening prayer at Civic Center in San Francisco, signs jutted above a sea of people: “Defend Life,” “Men Regret Lost Fatherhood,” “California Nurses for Ethical Standards” and “Thank God You Were Not Aborted.” “We are here to say life is the choice, and women are hurt by abortion,” said Dolores Meehan, who co-chairs the Walk for Life West Coast, which is held on the Saturday closest to the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade ruling legalizing abortion. Eva Muntean, who also co-chairs the walk, urged participants to sign petitions to put a parental notification of a minor’s intent to procure an abortion on the ballot, an initiative campaign supported by the California bishops, and also urged support for a personhood amendment. “For evil to win all it takes is for good people to do nothing. So let’s get together and sign those petitions,” Muntean said. At the rally, Dr. Vansen Wong, an obstetrician and gynecologist, told of performing abortions to pay off his medical school bills, saying he ended hundreds of lives over the course of seven years working at an abortion clinic.

“Abortion is barbaric, abortion is intolerable,” Wong said, “Abortion has no place in any civilized society.” A former Miss West Virginia, Jacquie Stalnaker, told of being forced at gunpoint to go to an abortion clinic by her boyfriend and of the toll it took from her life for 24 years. Stalnaker, who is now a regional representative for the “Silent No More” campaign, an organization of women who have had abortions and regret them, urged the crowd to ask pro-choice acquaintances to go to the group’s website to hear the stories of women who have had abortions. “We are real people with real stories to offer you,” she said. The day began with a Walk for Life Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral where San Francisco Archbishop George H. Niederauer told a packed cathedral, “You are the present and the future of this cause.” In his homily, Archbishop Niederauer said, “Eternal life overcomes the culture of death.” Marchers included a nun from New York City, seminarians from Portland, Ore., and Catholics from towns throughout California. “We come to bear witness to the great gift of life,” said Sister Maria Joseph, a nun who traveled from New York with the Sisters of Life – a contemplative/apostolic community founded by Cardinal John O’Connor in 1991 – to take part in the rally and march. “Our fourth vow is to protect and enhance the sacredness of life.” The Sisters of Life, she said, run a midtown Manhattan convent where pregnant women are invited to live during and after their pregnancy. “It’s getting larger,” said Sister Maria Joseph of the annual Walk for Life. “It’s growing.” A large banner made by Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Gridley was signed by members of the parish’s youth group and proclaimed “Youth Walking for Life.” “We’re here because of the love of God,” said Marion Hughes, who arrived in one of three buses from Holy Trinity. “It’s the least we can do to spend a Saturday witnessing to the sacredness of life.” For Hughes’ 14-year-old daughter, Claire, it was a chance for “everyone to come together for the same cause.” Seminarians Ace Tupasi, 27, and Zani Pacanza, 30, rode in a bus Friday with 60 fellow seminarians from Mount Angel Seminary in Portland, Ore., to St. Patrick’s Seminary in Menlo Park, where they spent the night and joined their fellow seminarians from St. Patrick’s for the rally and march. “We love life,” said Tupasi. “We’re advocates for life. One of our missions is to value the sanctity of life.” A small protest numbering 40 to 50 participants, called the West Coast Rally for Reproductive Justice, took place at Justin Herman Plaza at the end of the pro-life march route.

Members of the group “Silent No More Awareness” face the crowd gathering at Civic Center Plaza. The Christian organization was formed 10 years ago “to make the public aware of the devastation that abortion brings to men and women.”

Archbishop George Niederauer was principal celebrant at the day’s Mass for Life at St. Mary’s Cathedral. The full pews included many youths from the archdiocese.

Many Walk for Life West Coast marchers held signs expressing their support for the rights of the unborn.

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Many reasons for pro-life optimism By Our Sunday Visitor Why shouldn’t pro-lifers be discouraged? After all, since its legalization in 1973, there have been roughly 50 million abortions in the United States. After a steady decrease since the 1980s, the annual number of abortions has stuck at about 1.2 million. According to the abortion-industry-allied Guttmacher Institute, a shocking 22 percent of all American pregnancies (excluding miscarriages) end in abortion. The numbers are even higher among racial minorities and the poor. Pro-choice advocates were among those expressing shock and dismay when New York’s health department released detailed abortion statistics last year showing that 41 percent of all New York pregnancies (excluding miscarriages) end in abortion, but the number is closer to 60 percent for non-Hispanic blacks. And for the church in the United States, it is a sobering and distressing reality that even today, after decades of intensified pro-life advocacy and catechesis, 28 percent of American women obtaining abortions identify as Catholic. But as we mark the Roe v. Wade anniversary, and the annual March for Life in Washington that draws hundreds of thousands of motivated young demonstrators for the dignity and value of all human life, it is also worth noting that the pro-life movement is bearing much good fruit. First is the much-discussed evidence that an increasing number of Americans identify as “pro-life” rather than

People pack the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception for the opening Mass of the National Prayer Vigil for Life in Washington Jan. 22.

“pro-choice” – even, in some polls, a slender majority. Some of that, as two staunch pro-choice advocates noted somewhat grimly in a Washington Post op-ed a year ago, is that science has made “the fetus more visible. Today, the first picture in most baby books is the 12-week 3-D ultrasound, and grandma and grandpa have that photo posted on the fridge.” This picture, like the ultrasound image of the baby’s beating heart, has done more to change people’s perceptions than all the angry debates and sloganeering. That increased awareness of the humanity of the fetus has been reflected in a raft of new legislation restricting abortion. Half a dozen states have enacted “fetal pain” legislation, banning abortion after 20 weeks. And at least one state is toying with limiting abortion to before fetal heartbeat is detected, usually at six to 10 weeks. In fact, reports the Guttmacher Institute, 2011 saw a record number of new state laws – 80, which is more than triple the previous year – restricting abortion in some way, whether through “fetal pain” laws, or through measures designed to ensure that women are not being coerced into the procedure or making the decision on limited information, like mandated counseling or ultra-

sounds, increased waiting periods, and parental notification and/or consent. Such incremental improvements should give pro-lifers hope and renewed firmness of intention to end abortion in this country. Philadelphia Archbishop Charles J. Chaput said it well not long ago when he noted the ultimate goal is renewing a culture of life. “If we change one heart at a time,” he said, “while we save one unborn life at a time, the day will come when we won’t need to worry about saving babies, because they’ll be surrounded by a loving and welcoming culture. “Will I see that day with my own eyes? I don’t think I can hold my breath that long. But then, I never expected to see a Polish pope or the fall of the Iron Curtain, either. ... “The future depends on our choices and actions right here, right now, today – together.” This commentary by the Our Sunday Visitor editorial board appeared in the independent Catholic weekly’s Jan. 15 issue and was redistributed by Catholic News Service.

Archbishop’s Journal

Archbishop Niederauer gave this homily at the Mass for Life Jan. 21 at St. Mary’s Cathedral.

By Archbishop George Niederauer In our first reading, from St. Paul’s Letter to the Philippians, we hear him tell his recent converts to faith in Jesus Christ – and we hear him tell us –“Have no anxiety at all, but in everything by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, make your requests known to God. Then the peace of God will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.” “Have no anxiety at all.” That’s easy to say but hard to do. We are anxious about our

We know that time is on our side, and so are the sonograms. And recently so are the polls. health, our jobs, our families, and today in particular, we are anxious about protecting innocent human life at its very vulnerable beginnings. But our faith in God challenges us to cast our cares upon the Lord because he cares for us. Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta was famous for saying that God does not call us to be successful but to be faithful. Too often we are anxious because we are used to assuming that everything depends on us, that we are responsible for seeing to it that what we work on for God must turn out perfectly, completely, and soon. But God

often calls us to begin or continue a work that will be fulfilled long after we are gone. As one poet has said, we will plant trees in the shade of which others will sit, but we will not. We begin what others continue in the service of the kingdom of God. Already the work of dismantling the culture of death, and in particular the culture of abortion, in this country is nearly 40 years old (counting from Roe v. Wade). Many who fought hardest in this struggle have gone before us in the Lord, but many others have picked up their banners and caught their spirit. Some of our opponents dismiss us as engaged in “a losing battle.” And sometimes, when weary and discouraged, we can be tempted to agree. But we know that time is on our side, and so are the sonograms. And recently so are the polls. Consider our Gospel reading from St. John this morning. It tells the story of the first Easter night, the day Jesus rose from the dead. Those 10 apostles (Judas was dead and Thomas was absent) had plenty of anxiety. They were hiding behind locked doors, desperately afraid. The enemies of Jesus had killed him, and his followers were afraid that those same enemies would come looking for them. But that was the night that changed the meaning of life and death forever. Suddenly Jesus was in the room with the apostles and he wished them “Peace,” that is “Shalom.” One translation of that word can be the phrase of St. Francis of Assisi, our patron: “Peace and all good.” Then Jesus showed them the wounds he received on the cross. The risen Jesus is the savior born in Bethlehem, raised in Nazareth, who has walked with these disciples for years. God the Father has raised up his son from death to the fullness of eternal life. This is the victory of life over death, for Jesus and for all of us his disciples, for us and for all the victims of the culture of death. Enemies can put Jesus to death, but the love of his Father can raise him up forever. People can “terminate a pregnancy,” but God’s powerful love can raise a person, a soul, to life eternal.

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Eternal life overcomes the culture of death

Youths pray during the Mass for Life at St. Mary’s Cathedral Jan. 21, preceding the 8th annual Walk for Life West Coast. Archbishop George Niederauer was principal celebrant.

The resurrection of Jesus Christ is the heart of the good news, the Gospel. If the tomb had not been empty on Easter morning, there would have been no good news, and the Gospels would not have been written. Eternal life overcomes the culture of death. Some enemies of Christianity say that we cheapen the value of the life we live here on earth when we proclaim our faith in eternal life, a life beyond the grave. The opposite is actually true: our faith in eternal life makes us value this life all the more highly, because the choices we make and the actions we perform here determine the life we will live forever in eternity. For us the hungry or thirsty or homeless man or woman is not just a temporary inconvenience: he or she is Christ the Lord, who will judge us one day. In the same way, the depersonalized phrase “terminated pregnancy” fails completely to describe the violent ending of a human life, a gift of the living God. In today’s Gospel Jesus says to the Apostles, and to us, “As the Father has sent me, so I send you.” Jesus sends us to proclaim and live the good news, to be filled with his life, to live his life, to share his life, and to defend his life. Jesus needs us, the church, his body, so that we can take his good news to all people of all times and places; so that we can share and defend life, life here and life eternal, everywhere we go,

everywhere he sends us. Today he brought us here, to nourish us with his word and his body and blood, and to send us on this walk for life today. We live in a time and a place in which people like to play God. They are unwilling to let God be God, to let God give life and end it. “No,” some now say, “we will decide who lives and who dies.” We walk today in witness against that deadly spirit and habit and force. We take a stand and say, “Let God be God. Don’t play at being God.” However, that lesson is meant for us as well. We must not dare to make ourselves into modern Pharisees, drawing up our own God-like lists of who is approved and who is condemned, of who is worthwhile and who is not. All of us here must also let God be God, and not play at being God. Jesus came for sinners, for us and also for those who oppose us. Let us fervently pray for everyone, including and especially those who oppose. We will walk today in witness not because we deserve to but because Jesus Christ calls us to walk with him and for him and in him, and because the unborn and the dying need us to walk with and for them, on their behalf and in their place. We walk, but Jesus Christ leads the way. We hear Jesus Christ say to us, what the Apostles first heard him say to them, “Follow me.”

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January 27, 2012

Catholic san Francisco Northern California’s Weekly Catholic Newspaper

Wisdom of the Spirit Cardinal McCarrick’s declaration that all authority is being attacked in our day (“Cardinal McCarrick: ‘If we stop loving people we are in terrible trouble,’” Jan. 13) is based on a misjudgment that God speaks only to the hierarchy. People have shown themselves not to be anti-authoritarian but to be anti-totalitarian. The hierarchical assumption is that those in authority know almost everything and that everyone else knows almost nothing. Thus, for example, the hierarchy tells some females that they must become pregnant (because they cannot make use of artificial contraception) and tells other females that they must not become pregnant (because they cannot make use of artificial insemination). But over 65 percent of liturgy-attending Roman Catholic females disagree, because they conclude with an informed conscience that they know their own particular circumstances and God’s will for them at this point in their lives more accurately than a person who has access to neither. Underinformed decision making for others has become epidemic in the Roman Catholic hierarchy. The hierarchy decides, for example, that female religious– by anyone’s measure the most self-sacrificing and respected group in the United States church – need to be investigated in the most invasive and disrespectful manner imaginable. The hierarchy decides that a country’s native language is inappropriate for liturgical prayer, and so they Latinize it. And so on, and so on. By continuing to disconnect themselves

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from the wisdom of the Spirit informing the people of God, the hierarchy keeps distancing itself from the presence of God at work in the world, continues to undercut what diminishing moral authority they retain. Cardinal McCarrick himself is a conscientious down-to-earth person. Perhaps he should change his admonition to “If we stop listening to people, we are in terrible trouble.” Michael C. Busk San Francisco

Brave, thoughtful In our military, we rightfully bestow Purple Hearts on those wounded in combat. If there were a similar medal for civilians, there’s no question Brian Cahill would receive one. Brian’s brave and thoughtful guest commentary in the Jan. 13 edition (“Suicide, grief and grace”) is mandatory reading for everyone. As the famous song “He” has in its verse, “He alone knows what lies beyond the bend.” None of us knows what tomorrow brings. However, no matter what it brings, Brian’s essay brings up the other side of that situation: How do we cope or deal with what “lies beyond the bend.” It took much intestinal fortitude for Brian to share with us his traumatic situation and how he did his best to deal with it. His article is a great learning tool for all of us. Brian and Donna Cahill are true measures and treasures of what it means to be Catholic. Thank you, Brian, for teaching us all. Peter J. Fatooh San Francisco

Church should look beyond age Re “Vocations director seeks broad range of qualities in future priests,” (Jan. 13): As a lifelong Catholic in my 50s, I was disappointed. Father (David) Ghiorso seemed to imply that three men were not considered for entry because they were 55 years old.

Personally, I know many men and women in their 50s, 60s and beyond who are healthy, engaged and leading full productive lives. Some have even made a successful late career change. Yes, the church needs young men who can meet the daily demands of leading a parish and guiding a community. But, in my opinion it also needs men of faith who can lead by example and who can relate to those who are trying to make God and faith a part of their everyday life. The church needs men who can sit with the sick, pray with the frightened and confused, celebrate with parish children, engage fully with parishioners when celebrating the sacraments. Those qualities do not stop when someone turns 60 years old. These senior men have probably experienced loss, love, balanced a checkbook, held a job, developed a relationship with God and maybe even experienced a crisis of faith. These are experiences that cannot be taught in seven years in the seminary, but are qualities, I think, the church needs in its parish leaders. The church has always been a champion of the sanctity and fullness of life from conception to death – even in its most compromised and frail states. Again, in my opinion the church should look beyond age in evaluating applicants for the seminary. God calls his servants from all walks of life and in his own time. Nancy Powell Redwood City

Much to question in liturgy column

community celebrating and feeding itself.” My first reaction was “How dare you assume that I and other eucharistic ministers are serving their community motivated by self-aggrandizement?” My second thought involves wondering in what alternate universe Mr. Weigel dwells, when the rest of us are acutely aware of the shortage of priests and that many parishes have one priest, maybe two, maybe none at all. On another note, one has to wonder if Mr. Weigel has ever bothered to actually read and understand the teachings of Vatican II. Of course, he may be one of those Catholics who wishes desperately that Vatican II was all just a bad dream. That may be the case for him, as he erroneously states that the priest is the celebrant and not the presider, when Vatican II clearly teaches that the whole assembly celebrates the liturgy. This last one you have to love ... especially if you have been, as I have, in church music ministry since 1966. “... Mass is experienced for what it is: our participation in the liturgy of saints and angels ... where, I am quite confident, they don’t sing treacly confections like Gather Us In.” Well, Mr. Weigel, maybe you know something the rest of us don’t, but liturgy is what we do here, as a praying community, arm in arm with our brothers and sisters. That being the case, singing about “Gather us in, the lost and forsaken, gather us in, the blind and the lame” is about God loving us ordinary, flawed humans so much that he became one of us, lost as we might be. So George, you live on in your nice insulated, hermetically sealed container, and the rest of us will go on rejoicing that we are being gathered in, in preparation for the kingdom’s feast which lasts forever. Sue Malone Hayes San Francisco

L E T T E R S

George “let’s reclaim our lost dignity” Weigel touches on a number of topics (The Catholic Difference, “Breaking bad liturgical habits II,” Jan. 20), not as a “matter of prissiness, still less of clericalism” but rather because “he wants to correct some bad liturgical habits that have developed over the past four decades.” I grow nervous whenever anyone takes it upon themselves to “correct others” based solely on their personal opinions and biases. There are a number of points to which I take exception, but I will address this one first, because it cuts at the heart of my experience of church. He states, “Extraordinary ministers of ‘the holy Communion’ (sic) are vastly overused in U.S. parishes, a practice that risks “of signaling” (sic) that the Mass is a matter of the self-worshipping

Father Barron too easy on atheist Hitchens I just read Father Barron’s article “Listening to Christopher Hitchens” (Jan. 13). It is a very interesting article and I think Father Barron made some very valid points, especially concerning Hitchens’ passion for justice and that we should pray for him. I was sorry to hear that Hitchens had died from cancer. Yet, I think someone like Hitchens needs more criticism LETTERS, page 15

Guest Commentary By George Wesolek A number of recent events have made it abundantly clear that we need a healthy and robust Catholic press. There are many examples that point out this need. Here are a few: The three-year legal battle with the City of San Francisco, which tried to impose a $21 million tax on the Archdiocese of San Francisco After three years, the court ruled emphatically that no transfer tax could be imposed on a restructuring of archdiocesan corporations that was a purely paper transfer. Almost every legal analyst expected this. Had this action been successful, it would have hurt real people and would have had a crippling effect on parishes and schools which educate thousands of children. It would have chilled the missions of all churches, religions and nonprofit organizations in the city, and would have sent ripples of negative consequences through the for-profit community as well. This action of the assessor of the city defies legal reasoning and leaves numerous questions as to its real motivation. And yet, while the San Francisco Chronicle covered the original imposition of the tax, it chose not to cover the resolution of the issue which cost taxpayers of San Francisco hundreds of thousands of dollars in misspent legal fees. Only though Catholic San Francisco could Catholics get the complete story.

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Why we need a Catholic press The 8th annual Walk for Life West Coast Tens of thousands of people rallied and walked in defense of life on Jan. 21. The secular press virtually ignored this story. Why? One could safely say that most journalists and editors of TV, radio and print media are biased against a life agenda. You can read about this amazing event in this edition of Catholic San Francisco. Sex abuse in the Catholic Church Even though sex abuse by clergy in the church is less than in most institutions and organizations anda that, now, with education, training and safeguards at a level that is unprecedented across the U.S. there are very few reports of abuse, one gets an entirely different and distorted view of Catholic clergy and the church from stories in the secular media that choose to sensationalize the issue. Recently, a very mean-spirited and false story appeared in a San Francisco paper that could be called a character assassination of Mother Teresa. The Catholic press and especially CSF, tell the stories of good men and women, especially priests, and the good work that they do. The ongoing fight for religious liberty and conscience protection Just last week the Obama administration let it be known that Catholic institutions – Catholic hospitals, schools and social service agencies – would be required to offer free contraception services including pills that are abortifacients. Cardinal-

The U.S. flag and a crucifix are pictured in an illustrative photograph. Pope Benedict XVI in a talk to a group of visiting U.S. bishops Jan. 19 echoed the bishops in their concerns over extreme secularism and threats to religious freedom in America.

designate Timothy Dolan, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said in response: “To force American citizens to choose between violating their consciences and forgoing their health care is literally unconscionable. It is as much an attack on access to health care as on religious freedom. Historically this represents a challenge and a compromise of our religious liberty.” This is big news for Catholics in the United States and portends a massive political and ethical challenge that is going to be with us for some time. It is fairly certain that you did not read about this in the secular press. If you did, it was only the administration’s “spin,” and not the Catholic response.

You can read about it on the front page of this issue of Catholic San Francisco. The bottom line: Support Catholic press, print and online versions. Become informed. Increasingly, you will not find the coverage, and the truth anywhere else. George Wesolek is director of communications and the Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns for the Archdiocese of San Francisco. He is also associate publisher of Catholic San Francisco, the official newspaper of the archdiocese.

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A READING FROM THE BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY DT 18:15-20 Moses spoke to all the people, saying: “A prophet like me will the Lord, your God, raise up for you from among your own kin; to him you shall listen. This is exactly what you requested of the Lord, your God, at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, ‘Let us not again hear the voice of the Lord, our God, nor see this great fire any more, lest we die.’ And the Lord said to me, ‘This was well said. I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their kin, and will put my words into his mouth; he shall tell them all that I command him. Whoever will not listen to my words which he speaks in my name, I myself will make him answer for it. But if a prophet presumes to speak in my name an oracle that I have not commanded him to speak, or speaks in the name of other gods, he shall die.’” RESPONSORIAL PSALM PS 95:1-2, 6-7, 7-9 R. If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts. Come, let us sing joyfully to the Lord; let us acclaim the rock of our salvation. Humorously fanciful arguments have been advanced by ethnic and national groups to appropriate Jesus Christ for themselves. Jesus was Italian, for instance, because he talked with his hands, drank wine at meals, and used olive oil. He was Native American because he was at peace with nature, ate a lot of fish, and talked about a great spirit. Jesus was black because he called everyone brother, liked gospel, and didn’t get a fair trial. He was a Californian because he never cut his hair, walked barefoot, and started a new religion. What is most hilarious is that Jesus was a woman because he had to feed a crowd when there was virtually no food, tried to get his message across to a bunch of men who just didn’t get it, and even when he was dead he had to wake up as there was more work to do. Though amusingly far-fetched, these arguments serve to make a valid point: People around the world have been claiming Jesus Christ for themselves by associating their culture with him and imposing their worldviews on him. The question of who Jesus is has been a vital preoccupation for over 2,000 years. The 21st-century issues and concerns continue to bring intricacy to our understanding of Jesus. More accurately, his identity brings complexity and context to human existence, the role of the universe, and our ultimate destiny. The Sunday

January 27, 2012

Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time Deuteronomy 18:15-20; Psalm 95:1-2, 6-7, 8-9; I Corinthians 7:32-35; Mark 1:21-28 Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving; let us joyfully sing psalms to him. R. If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts. Come, let us bow down in worship; let us kneel before the LORD who made us. For he is our God, and we are the people he shepherds, the flock he guides. R. If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts. Oh, that today you would hear his voice: “Harden not your hearts as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the desert, Where your fathers tempted me;

they tested me though they had seen my works.” R. If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts. A READING FROM THE FIRST LETTER OF PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS 1 COR 7:32-35 Brothers and sisters: I should like you to be free of anxieties. An unmarried man is anxious about the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord. But a married man is anxious about the things of the world, how he may please his wife, and he is divided. An unmarried woman or a virgin is anxious about the things of the Lord, so that she may

Scripture reflection FATHER CHARLES PUTHOTA, PH.D.

Even the unclean spirits obey readings highlight Jesus’ identity with the specific purpose of leading us closer to him. In the Gospel, the man with an unclean spirit identifies Jesus as man (“Jesus of Nazareth”) and as God (“the holy one of God”). Jesus wages war against the powers of darkness to liberate us. Hence, in Mark’s Gospel, Jesus announces the kingdom of God, calls the apostles as helpers in the kingdom, battles the evil one, and goes about healing the sick. Jesus thus preaches the kingdom in his words and enacts the kingdom through his deeds. People are astonished: “What is this? A new

teaching with authority. He commands even the unclean spirits and they obey him.” Awaiting the Messiah, they are excited and energized by Jesus’ power of word and deed. In Deuteronomy, Moses predicts Jesus: “A prophet like me will the Lord, your God, raise up for you from among your own kin; to him shall you listen.” Jesus’ identity emerges as the prophet par excellence who will lead people, not unlike Moses, into a new life, freeing them from slavery to evil, sin, and death, and sealing the covenant with blood. Coming to the 21st-century reality, we seek Jesus at the center of our lives and as related to

be holy in both body and spirit. A married woman, on the other hand, is anxious about the things of the world, how she may please her husband. I am telling you this for your own benefit, not to impose a restraint upon you, but for the sake of propriety and adherence to the Lord without distraction. A READING FROM THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MARK MK 1:21-28 Then they came to Capernaum, and on the sabbath Jesus entered the synagogue and taught. The people were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as one having authority and not as the scribes. In their synagogue was a man with an unclean spirit; he cried out, “What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are, the Holy One of God!” Jesus rebuked him and said, “Quiet! Come out of him!” The unclean spirit convulsed him and with a loud cry came out of him. All were amazed and asked one another, “What is this? A new teaching with authority. He commands even the unclean spirits and they obey him.” His fame spread everywhere throughout the whole region of Galilee. our culture and society, our fears and anxieties, our hopes and dreams, our ideals and goals. In Jesus’ time, people variously experienced him as son of God, son of man, son of David, good shepherd, light of the world, way, truth, life, Emmanuel, savior, redeemer, bread of life, prophet, Lord, lamb of God, rabbi, and the word. How do we identify Jesus? He engages our hearts and minds in an ongoing dialogue. When the practice of Christian faith seems uncertain and shaky, Jesus still speaks irresistibly. His saving work continues. He is on our side as we seek solutions to poverty and hunger in the world; he empowers us to work for peace and justice; he wants us to improve the quality of life through science and technology; he inspires us to protect and preserve the planet earth, he addresses our existential angst; he knows our suffering and pain; he cares for human dignity and decency. He calls us to work with him in furthering the kingdom of God. Our identity is tied up with Jesus’ identity. If we truly care for ourselves, we would be actively engaged in who Jesus is for us today. He speaks intimately to our lives, our times, and our world. “If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.” Father Charles Puthota, Ph.D., is pastor of St. Veronica Parish in South San Francisco.

Question Corner

Belonging to two different religions Question: The small parish to which I have belonged since my baptism 70-plus years ago used to have three fulltime priests. Now it is down to one, and even he is shared. For the past quarter of a century, our pastors have often been elderly men with health problems. Pastoral attention is practically nonexistent, and this is true of most of the Catholic churches within driving distance. I have found, however, a wonderful congregation nearby that is active and caring. They have given much to me, so I would like to join this congregation officially. But it is not Catholic. Is there any problem with belonging to two different denominations at the same time? (The rituals and theology seem very similar.) (Richmond, Va.) Answer: For a believer in Jesus, it seems to me, it’s important to decide which Christian denomination can trace its descent most clearly from the time of Christ. In my own mind, that is the Catholic Church. The regular celebration of the Eucharist, its recognition as the body and blood of the savior and the sacrament of the forgiveness of sins find their origin, I believe, in the words of Christ and the actions of the earliest believers. That pedigree is also true of the hierarchical church, with the pope as the final arbiter of religious doctrine. (Remember how, in the Acts of the Apostles, the first Christians appealed to Peter to decide whether gentile converts to the new faith needed to follow Jewish rituals and rules?) So to answer your question, I don’t think it’s logical to “belong” to two different religious denominations – particu-

larly when one of them does not include some, or even all, of the elements mentioned above. However, I do understand that you are finding satisfaction in, and drawing benefit from, certain programs offered by your neighboring church, even though it is not Catholic. It may be a program of Bible study, a course on prayer or a food pantry or soup kitchen that has sparked your interest. I would encourage you to maintain your involvement with those particular programs – while not actually enrolling as a “member” of that denomination – but at the same time to continue to worship and receive the sacraments at your local Catholic parish. Question: When I was a student in Catholic school many years ago, we were taught that we needed to fast from food and drink from midnight in order to receive holy Communion in the morning. That has since been shortened to one hour. My wife came in to the Catholic Church about five years ago, and she has asked me why we don’t wait at least an hour after communion before we eat anything. Frankly, I couldn’t think of a good answer. It seems that we get together after Mass with our friends and go somewhere for breakfast as soon as we can. Is there a rule about this – or should there be?(Mount Vernon, Ohio) Answer: As happens with many recent converts, your wife’s question is perceptive and profound since it recognizes the special reverence due to a special gift. There is no rule about fasting after the reception of Communion, although the common advice of spiritual directors would be to wait at least

10 or 15 minutes before eating or drinking. This seems to stem from the church’s belief that Jesus remains present in the Eucharist for as long as the “species” of the host continue to exist (size, color, taste, etc.) Father while the digestive proKenneth Doyle cess begins to take place. Many spiritual writers, though, encourage an even longer period of fasting and prayer following Communion, since that is an ideal time for an intimate exchange with the Lord and a “preview” of the divine presence in heaven. The Jesuit saints Ignatius of Loyola and Aloysius Gonzaga are said to have spent two hours on their knees in prayer after receiving the Eucharist – although that may seem beyond the reach of average Catholics and could wreak havoc with Sunday Mass schedules! As a practical matter, it would seem a worthy and productive habit to stay after Mass at least a few minutes in order to pray in gratitude for this divine nourishment. Father Doyle’s column is carried by Catholic News Service. Send questions to askfatherdoyle@gmail. com and 40 Hopewell St., Albany, N.Y. 12208.

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January 27, 2012

The Catholic Difference By George Weigel Vaclav Havel, who died Dec. 18, was one of the great contemporary exponents of freedom lived nobly. His moral mettle proved true in both the world of ideas and the world of affairs; indeed, few men of the past half-century have moved more surely between those two worlds. In that respect, and for his personal courage, Havel reminded me of one of the American Founders – if, that is, one could imagine James Madison hanging out with Frank Zappa. After his death, Havel’s brilliant literary deconstruction of the moral tawdriness of late bureaucratic communism, the underground essay called “The Power of the Powerless,” was widely and appropriately quoted. Another Havel essay from his days in opposition also bears re-reading: “The Anatomy of a Reticence,” the Czech playwright’s 1985 critique of the willful blindness of western peace activists about the nature of Soviet totalitarianism. Both Havel masterpieces continue to speak to us today, about the dangers of political conformity and the dangers of political utopianism. As the United States enters a presidential election cycle of momentous consequence, however, it is President Havel’s Jan. 1, 1990, speech that comes to mind. The “Velvet Revolution” that deposed Czechoslovak communism had swept Havel into Hradcany Castle three days before. Here is some of what the man who had spent much of 1989 in a communist prison said to his countrymen in his first New Year’s Day address as their president:

“My dear fellow citizens: “For 40 years you heard from my predecessors on this day different variations on the same theme: how our country was flourishing, how many million tons of steel we produced, how happy we all were, how we trusted our government, and what bright perspectives were unfolding in front of us. “I assume you did not propose me to this office so that I, too, would lie to you. “Our country is not flourishing. The enormous creative and spiritual potential of our nations is not being used sensibly. Entire branches of industry are producing goods that are of no interest to anyone, while we are lacking the things we need. A state, which calls itself a workers’ state, humiliates and exploits workers. … “But (the economic mess) is still not the main problem. The worst thing is that we live in a contaminated moral environment. We fell morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought. We learned not to believe in anything, to ignore one another, to care only about ourselves. Concepts such as love, friendship, compassion, humility, or forgiveness lost their depth and dimension, and for many of us they represented only psychological peculiarities, or they resembled gone-astray feelings from ancient times, a little ridiculous in the era of computers and spaceships. … “When I talk about the contaminated moral atmosphere … I am talking about all of us. We had all become used to the totalitarian system

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President Vaclav Havel welcomes Pope John Paul II at the airport in Prague in May 1995, two years after being elected president of the newly formed and independent Czech Republic. Havel, whose “Velvet Revolution” toppled communist rule, died Dec. 18, 2011. He was 75.

and accepted it as an unchangeable fact and thus helped perpetuate it. In other words, are all – although naturally to different extents – responsible for the operation of the totalitarian machinery. None of us is just its victim. We are all also its co-creators. “Why do I say this? It would be very unreasonable to understand the sad legacy of the last 40 years as something alien, which some distant relative bequeathed to us. On the contrary, we have to accept this legacy as a sin we committed against ourselves. If we accept it as such, we will understand that it is up to us all, and up to us alone to do something about it. We cannot blame the previous rulers for every-

thing, not only because it would be untrue, but also because it would blunt the duty that each of us faces today: namely, the obligation to act independently, freely, reasonably and quickly. … Freedom and democracy include participation and therefore responsibility from us all.” The candidate who can speak with that kind of moral clarity to the American people about the decisions we face is the candidate who should take the presidential oath of office on Jan. 20, 2013. George Weigel is Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.

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Chastity as purity of heart and intention To live a chaste life is not easy, not just for celibates, but for everyone. Even when our actions are all in line, it is still hard to live with a chaste heart, a chaste attitude, and chaste fantasies. Purity of heart and intention is very difficult. Why? Chastity is difficult because we are so incurably sexual in every pore of our being. And that is not a bad thing. It’s God’s gift. Far from being something dirty and antithetical to our spiritual lives, sexuality is God’s great gift, God’s holy fire, inside us. And so the longing for consummation is a conscious or inchoate coloring underlying most every action in our lives. And so it is hard to pray for chastity because to pray for it, seemingly, is to pray that sexual yearning and sexual energy should lessen within us or disappear altogether. And who wants to live an asexual and neutered life? No healthy person wants this. Thus, if you are healthy, it is hard to put your heart into praying for chastity because, deep down, nobody wants to be asexual. But the problem is not with chastity but with our understanding of it. To be chaste does not mean that we become asexual (though spirituality has forever struggled to not make that equation). Chastity is not about denying our sexuality but about properly channeling it. To be chaste is to be pure of heart. That’s the biblical notion of chastity. Jesus does not ask us to pray for chastity, he asks us to pray for “purity of heart”: Blessed are the pure of heart, they shall see God. They also channel their sexuality properly. What is purity of heart? To be pure of heart is to relate to others and the world in a way that respects and honors the full dignity, value, and destiny of every person and everything. To be pure of heart is to see others as God sees them. Purity of heart

Letters . . . ■ Continued from page 13 than Father Barron gives him. Journalists Chris Hedges and Peter Hitchens, Christopher’s brother, and the Marxist literary critic Terry Eagleton are much more critical of Christopher Hitchens and other socalled new atheists, including Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and Daniel Dennett. Eagleton thinks they attack religion on the cheap by just taking on the fundamentalists and not theologians like Karl Rahner or Karl Barth seriously. In fact, Eagleton figures they have not read much, if any, theology. Hedges and Peter Hitchens are even more critical. Hedges and Peter Hitchens argue that the new atheists have a moral superiority complex

would have us loving others with their good (and not our own) in mind. Karl Rahner suggests that we are pure of heart when we see others against an infinite horizon, namely, inside of a vision that sees the other’s dignity, individuality, life, dreams, and sexuality within the biggest ambiance of all, God’s eternal plan. Purity of heart is purity of intention and full respect in love. When we understand chastity in this way we can more easily pray for it. In this understanding we are not praying to have our sexual energies deadened, we are praying instead to remain fully red-blooded but with our sexual energies, intentions, and daydreams properly channeled. We are praying too for the kind of maturity, human and sexual, that fully respects others. In essence, we are praying for a deeper respect, a deeper maturity, and a more life-giving love. And this is a much-needed prayer in our lives because sexuality is so powerful that even inside of a marriage relationship sexuality can still have an intentionality that is not wide enough. Charles Taylor, in his book, “A Secular Age,” argues the point that sex too-easily loses the big picture and becomes narrow in its focus, a point that is often missed in our understanding of it: “I am not trying to be condescending about our ancestors, because I think that there is a real tension involved in trying to combine in one life sexual fulfillment and piety. This is only in fact one of the points at which a more general tension, between human flourishing in general and dedication to God, makes itself felt. That this tension should be particularly evident in the sexual domain is readily understandable. Intense and profound sexual fulfillment focuses us powerfully on the exchange within the couple; it strongly attaches us possessively to what is privately

about themselves and their beliefs. The rhetoric the new atheists use is simply appalling according to Hedges. They claim that religion is responsible for most evils in the world, raising a child in a religious household is a form of child abuse, and they believe that if religion were eradicated from the world humans would live in some sort of Utopia. The new atheists call for an intellectual intolerance of religion and that religion and the idea of God are evil. This, according to Hedges and Peter Hitchens, is dangerous thinking that is not much different from some forms of religious fundamentalism including extreme Islamic fundamentalism, Nazism and communism. The late Christopher Hitchens, as well as the other new atheists, need to be criticized. This is not a knock on all atheists. There are good people who are atheists, including some friends

shared. ... It is not for nothing that the early monks and hermits saw sexual renunciation as opening the way to the wider love of God ... (And) that there is a tension between fulfillment and piety should not surprise us in a world distorted by Father Ron sin, that is separated from Rolheiser God. But we have to avoid turning this into a constitutive incompatibility.” Unfortunately that is forever what both the secular world and Christian spirituality (without a proper understanding of chastity) struggle not to do. Given the power of sexuality inside us, and given the power of our human drives and yearnings in general, it is not easy to live a chaste life. It is even more difficult, and rare, to have a chaste spirit, a chaste heart, chaste daydreams, and chaste intentions. Our hearts want what they want and pressure us to ignore the consequences. We can easily feel a certain repugnance to praying for chastity. But that is largely because we do not understand chastity properly: It is not a deadening of the heart, a stripping away of our sexuality, but a deeper maturity that lets our sexual energies flow out in a more life-giving way. Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser, is president of the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, Texas.

of mine, who are nowhere near as radical as Christopher Hitchens. When I told my brother – not the most religious person by any means – that Hitchens died, he asked, “Christopher who?” I said, “The guy who wrote ‘God is not Great.’” He said, “Oh, one of the new atheists. I don’t pay any attention to them. They’re crazy. They’re so dogmatic they’ve turned atheism into a religion.” I find my brother’s comments refreshing. James Watrous San Mateo

Unwanted hyperbole Three letters in the Jan. 13 issue of Catholic San Francisco carried praise for Congresswoman Jackie Speier, pushing unwanted hyperbole onto our paper’s Catholic

readers with exaggerations more akin to a propaganda mill than to a religious paper, and they were totally out of whack. One letter gushed over Speier’s ability to answer phone calls, which is no great feat since all of us do the same every day. Another made much of her shopping with food stamps as if it is awesome that a highly paid politician, already living off our money, rates a thank you for stooping so low. Play acting like this only deserves the disdain expressed by injured war veterans when a campaigning politico plops into a wheelchair for a photo op showing his/ her “sympathy” for the disabled. Three letters? All at once? Too phony to be coincidental. Robert Jimenez Burlingame

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Archbishop’s entertaining musings make one happy to be Catholic “A PEOPLE OF HOPE: ARCHBISHOP TIMOTHY DOLAN IN CONVERSATION WITH JOHN L. ALLEN JR.” Image Books (New York, 2011) $25.

Reviewed by Peggy Weber (CNS) In the introduction of “A People of Hope,” journalist John Allen quotes a woman from Westchester County in New York who was moved to tears after a visit by Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan to her parish. She said, “I’m a lifelong Catholic, but the last few years, it’s been so hard ... with the sex-abuse scandals, with bishops who don’t seem to listen, with all of it. I came tonight, not knowing what to expect, but this guy ... I don’t know, somehow he just makes me feel good about being Catholic.” Her reaction in a parish hall is what readers will probably feel after finishing this interesting and entertaining book. One feels good about being Catholic and knowing the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is being led by Archbishop Dolan as president. The archbishop will become a cardinal Feb. 19. Even if one disagrees with Archbishop Dolan, one still has to like him. He is

described by Allen at “affirmative orthodoxy on steroids.” Archbishop Dolan will not disagree with the Vatican. (Although he does say that if anyone had asked him about the current Vatican-sponsored visitation of American nuns he would have advised against it.)

Archbishop Dolan says, “I worry that we’ve become a glorified Rotary Club. We’re so stumbling over the how of Catholic life that I think we’ve lost the who, meaning Jesus.” Both authors show a keen sense of humor in their writing and responses. Although one of the best lines is when Archbishop Dolan quotes Hilaire Belloc saying, “I’ve come to reluctantly accept that the Roman Catholic Church must be divine, because no merely human institution governed by such imbecility could have survived a fortnight.” Although the book does not tell us too much about the life of Archbishop Dolan, it does provide some great insights into what has formed and shaped him – his home parish, his education and years in Rome, his friendships. However, Archbishop Dolan provides the most telling statement about his life. “To this day, I think of myself as a priest, not a bishop or archbishop, and there’s nothing else I ever wanted to be.” His contentment and joy are apparent in this book. It is infectious and truly does make one feel good about being a Catholic.

However, he also will not ostracize or deal meanly with those with whom he and the church disagree. Archbishop Dolan says, “My hunch is that I’ll have more luck trying to nudge them closer to what the church considers to be the truth if I’m in contact, in dialogue than if I’m standing off to the side tossing rhetorical bricks.” Allen does a splendid job of introducing Archbishop Dolan and probing his mind. Allen acknowledges that this book is not a biography. Rather it lets the reader into the thoughts and personality of the archbishop who was profiled on “60 Minutes” and is what one might call a “rising star” in the American Catholic Church. Allen also gives the readers some “inside baseball” understanding of the topics of each chapter. Yet, he is very careful not to insert himself into the book. It is very clear that this is Archbishop Dolan’s book. Both Allen and the archbishop have a clear and likeable communication style. It might have been a nightmare to edit hours of interviews and appearances but the finished product seems polished and easy. And the book truly contains many gems by Archbishop Dolan when asked about a variety of topics. For example, in the chapter about “Affirmative Orthodoxy,”

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Authors offer encouragement to recognize, pursue lay vocations “LIVING THE CALL: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE LAY VOCATION” by Michael Novak and William E. Simon Jr. Encounter Books (New York, 2011). 191 pp.; $21.95.

Reviewed by Brian T. Olszewski (CNS) “Lay vocation” is often mistaken as a term whose roots stem from the writings of the bishops of the Second Vatican Council. While the council fathers certainly addressed it in various documents, they did so in the context of where the lay vocation begins: baptism. Recognizing the baptismal root of the lay vocation, Michael Novak and William E. Simon make “Living the Call” a source of encouragement for laypeople to recognize and pursue their vocations in the Catholic

Church. In the first part of the book, they feature nine people who are engaged in a variety of ministries from youth ministry to hospital ministry. The stories are engaging and might evoke an “I could do that” response from readers – a welcome response for Novak and Simon. The stories are of the “feel-good” variety, with the subjects talking about where they were in their lives and how they got to the vocation they are now living. Readers should be aware that the stories lack the grit, heartache, pain, turmoil and frustration those in lay ministry can encounter in trying to live their vocations. Those stories might frighten some who are discerning their vocations, but they should be noted in the discernment process. This section includes a chapter on “parish” ministry, which includes opportunities

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as widespread as worship director to parish council member. While the authors emphasize that training for these and other ministries might be required, they do not note that some of these (e.g., worship director, operations director, youth minister) can be – and should be – paid positions. A chapter on “lay” ministry includes a list of organizations, e.g., Jesuit Volunteer Corps, National Catholic Educational Association, to which people can commit their time and talent. The second half of “Living the Call” offers guidance for those discerning their vocation. It is comprised of chapters that offer retreat-type reflections. One chapter provides quotations from Father Thomas Merton, Thomas a Kempis and St. Therese of Lisieux. Readers are told, “The idea is to read each of them. Pause. Read again. Let them soak in. That is how spiritual reading is best done.” Recognizing the number of married people who might be discerning how to answer a vocational call, in addition to sacramental marriage, the authors devote

one of their longer chapters to marriage and the single life, using those pages as an opportunity to expound on the theology of marriage: “Marriage is a great teacher of self-purification, of other-centeredness, of delicacy of perception, and especially of attentiveness to those easily missed little signals that light our path toward the real. Marriage is a great purifier of the soul.” Novak and Simon have provided a good overview for the layperson “just wondering” about doing more with his or her baptismal commitment, about living it on a deeper level. While not everyone who seeks that deeper level will be starting at the same place, this book provides enough basics for those just starting this process. Once they have begun, the prayer, sacraments and reading the authors recommend, along with the guidance of a qualified spiritual director, will take them the rest of the way. Olszewski is general manager of the Catholic Herald, publication of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee

SCRIPTURE SEARCH Gospel for January 29, 2012 Mark 1:21-28 Following is a word search based on the Gospel reading for the Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle B, the healing of a possessed man. The words can be found in all directions in the puzzle.

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SUNDAY, JANUARY 29 REUNION: St. Cecilia School Alumni Mass and reception, 18th Avenue and Vicente, San Francisco. Contact the alumni office at (415) 753-3917 or email alumni@stceciliaschool.org.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 31 YOUNG ADULTS: Praise Night, an evening of adoration, music, reconciliation at St. Patrick’s Seminary, 320 Middlefiedl Road, Menlo Park, 8 p.m. Contact tdonovan06@gmail.com or mjaldon@gmail.com. AUDITIONS: Dominican Winifred Baker Chorale, 5:306:45 p.m. in Angelico Hall at Dominican University in San Rafael. Call (415) 482-3579 for appointment. Auditions required for new members. Singers are expected to match pitch readily, have some music reading skill and choral singing experience. Visit www.duwbc.org.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2 LUNCH: Women’s business luncheon sponsored by Immaculate Conception Academy takes place 11:30 a.m. at the City Club in San Francisco. Betsy Rafael, vice president at Apple is guest speaker. Carol Squires Brandi, an ICA board member, is emcee. Tickets are $65 per person with tickets for “young professionals under 30” at $45. Visit icaluncheon2012.eventbrite.com.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3 BREAKING BREAD: Catholic Marin Breakfast Club, Mass at 7 a.m. at St. Sebastian Church, Bon Air Road and Sir Francis Drake Boulevard, Greenbrae followed by breakfast in St. Sebastian Hall. Guest speaker is St. Joseph Sister Suzanne Jabro, founder of the Center For Restorative Justice Works, a community-based nonprofit helping with solutions to issues impacting women in prison and their families. Visit www.getonthebus.us. Member’s breakfast is $8; nonmembers $10. Email Sugaremy@aol.com.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4 ST. PAUL: “St. Paul the Apostle” with Paulist Father Terry Ryan at Old St. Mary’s Paulist Center, 614 Grant Ave. at California Street, San Francisco from 9 a.m.noon. Hear how the saint “prone to violence toward Christians” had a “direct encounter with truth” and “fell in love with Christ.” Admission is free but freewill donations are welcome. Call (415) 288-3844. COME AND SEE. The Dominican Sisters of San

CATHEDRAL: Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco. When available, docents are on duty in the cathedral Monday through Friday from 10 a.m.-noon, Saturday from 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m. and Sunday after Masses. The Docent program also offers special tours and a school program. Schedule a tour by calling (415) 567-2020 ext. 207. Visit www. stmarycathedralsf.org.

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10 WORTHY TRADITION: Black History Month Celebration, 7:30 p.m., St Dominic Church, 2390 Bush Street, San Francisco, (415) 567-7824. Parking is available on premises. Reception follows in parish hall. CHARITY: Little Children’s Aid “Hearts for Charity” gala at McCormick and Kuleto’s Seafood Restaurant, Ghirardelli Square, San Francisco. Joan Higgins will be honored with the Alice Phelan Sullivan Award. Cocktails served at 6:30 p.m., dinner at 7:30 p.m. with dancing until 11 p.m. Evening includes live auction. Tickets are $130 per person. Contact Maria Espiritu at Mespiri2@hotmail.com. CONVENTION: The Divine Mercy Eucharistic Society’s regional congress at the San Ramon Marriott, in San Ramon. Program includes adult conference and youth conference. Guest speakers include Father Stan Fortuna and Teresa Bonapartis. Registration price for the three days is $50 adults and $20 youth. Email DivineMercyJesus@comcast.net.

PROUD TRADITION: Valentine Fantasy, a Turrisburnea Club lunch at City Forest Lodge, San Francisco. Tickets are $55 per person. Proceeds benefit San Francisco charities including Project Rachel. Father Dan Carter, pastor, Our Lady of Lourdes Parish is chaplain. Former chaplains include Msgr. John Foudy and the late Father James Atkins. Call Shirley Terry at (415) 682-9617.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15 PASTA: Spaghetti and meatballs at Immaculate Conception Church, 3255 Folsom St. just up the hill from Cesar Chavez at noon. Delicious meal is served family style. Tickets are $8 per person with beverages available for purchase. The Bernal Heights tradition is now in its plus-50th year.

SATURDAY, MARCH 10 SOLD! Belmont to Broadway Auction and Show benefiting Notre Dame High School, Belmont at the Foster City Crowne Plaza Hotel. For ticket, sponsorship, or volunteer opportunities contact Denise Severi at (650)595-1913 ext. 446 or dseveri@ndhsb.org.

SATURDAY, JUNE 9 ALUMNAE DAY: “Notre Dame High School Legacy Luncheon” at Notre Dame High School, 1540 Ralston Ave., Belmont, Invitations will be mailed in late April. Contact Denise Severi at Dseveri@ndhsb.org. Reunions for class of ’87, Aug. 5, contact Heather Oda at moda@co.sanmateo.ca.us; class of ’67 Oct. 27, contact Susan Angle at susanangle@comcast.net or (925) 680-4917.

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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 REUNION: Class of 1972, Notre Dame High School, Belmont. Save the date. Contact Notre Dame alumnae office at (650) 595 1913 ext. 446 or email dseveri@ ndhsb.org or eileen_browning@yahoo.com.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16 PEACE AND JUSTICE: Jesuit Father John Dear, writer and peace activist speaks and answer questions about his new book “Lazarus, Come Forth,” – how God is calling humanity out of the tomb of violence and war and into a new life of resurrection peace, 7 p.m. at Dominican Sisters Gathering Place, Dominican University 1520 Grand Ave., San Rafael. Admission is free. Call Nancy at (707) 773 0904 or lesleecoady@ yahoo.com. Event sponsored by Maryknoll Affiliates and Pax Christi in Marin.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18 PLAY BALL! A St. Agnes Parish, San Francisco fundraiser, 6 p.m. at St. Ignatius College Preparatory, San Francisco. Theme is baseball so wear your favorite team’s attire. Tickets: $40 for adults, $20 for children 12 and under. Come and enjoy a fun night with some of San Francisco’s finest gourmet food trucks, live music and dancing. Tickets are now being sold in the back of church after Mass. Call (415) 487-8560 or email zack@saintagnessf.com.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25 VISIT ME: Attend two-day training in preparation for visiting youth in jail. The ministry is Comunidad San Dimas and their “One Youth at a Time: Responsibility, Rehabilitation, Restoration” program. Contact Julio Escobar at (415) 244-5594 or email info@comunidadsandimas.org or visit www.comunidadsandimas.org. Applicants should be 18 years of age or older. Interview required before attending the training. Visiting is with youth 11-18 years old. Monthly meetings are mandatory. Spanish-speakers especially welcome.

PASTA BINGO: Le Donne d’Italia, San Francisco’s new Italian women’s club, announces a fun filled day of bubbly and bingo at the San Francisco Italian Athletic Club: 1630 Stockton St., San Francisco. Lunch 11:30 a.m. and bingo games start at 1:30 p.m. with special paper games and regular games, too. Tickets at $30 per person include two free bingo cards. Contact Antonette at (415) 931-4810) or www.ledonneditalia.com. Le Donne d’Italia is a nonprofit charitable organization.

FRIDAY, MARCH 2 FACE TO FACE: Marriage Encounter Weekend to be held in San Mateo. Call Paul or Yvonne at (650) 366-7093 or visit www.wwme12.org.

ONGOING SERVICES VOLUNTEER: Catholic Charities CYO: Liz Rodriguez at erodriguez@cccyo.org or (415) 972-1297. St. Vincent de Paul Society of San Francisco: Tim Szarnicki at tszarnicki@svdp-sf.org or (415) 977-1270 ext. 3010. St. Anthony Foundation: Marie O’Connor at (415) 592-2726 or visit www.stanthonysf.org. The Society of St. Vincent de Paul of San Mateo County: Atrecia at (650) 373-0623 or email svdpinfo@ yahoo.com. Handicapables: Jane at (415) 585-9085. La Porziuncola Nuova at National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi: Contact Jim Brunsmann at jimbrunsmann@comcast.net or go to www.knightsofsaintfrancis.com.

CONSOLATION MINISTRY: Good Shepherd, Pacifica: Call (650) 355-2593 Our Lady of Mercy, Daly City: Call (650) 755-2727 Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Redwood City: Call (650) 366-3802 St. Bartholomew, San Mateo: Call (650) 343-6156 St. Peter, Pacifica: Call (650) 359-6313 St. Pius, Redwood City: Call (650) 361-0655 St. Robert, San Bruno: Call (650) 589-0104. St. Anselm, Ross: Call (415) 454-7650 St. Anthony, Novato: Call (415) 883-2177 St. Hilary, Tiburon: Call (415) 388-9651 Our Lady of Loretto, Novato: Call (415) 897-2171 St. Gabriel: Call (415) 731-6161 St. Mary’s Cathedral: Call (415) 567-2020 ext. 218 St. Dominic: Call (415) 567-7824

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ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PRINCIPALS SOUGHT The Department of Catholic Schools in the Archdiocese of San Francisco is seeking elementary principals for the 20122013 school year. Candidates must be practicing Roman Catholic, possess a valid teaching credential, a Master’s degree in educational leadership, an administrative credential (preferred), and five years of successful teaching experience at the elementary level.

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cookbooks Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery 125th Anniversary Cookbook of Memories As food has always been a comfort to families who have experienced a loss, it seems only fitting that Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery would create a cookbook in honor of its 125th Anniversary. We would like to create a cookbook of memories – special recipes of your loved ones who are interred in Holy Cross. If your Grandmother, Mom, Dad or Great Uncle Sam made a special dish and is interred in Holy Cross, we hope that you will share that favorite recipe. You may forward your recipe to the attention of Christine Stinson by email costinson@holycrosscemeteries.com, by mail to Holy Cross Cemetery, P.O. Box 1577, Colma, CA 94014 or drop it off at our office or All Saints Mausoleum on weekends. Please include your loved one’s name, date of burial and grave location with the recipe. Also, please include your name and contact information.

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In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of December HOLY CROSS COLMA Peter J. Aiello Demetria Bautista Alfonso Soledad A. Alipio Noli M. Amante William E. Ambrose Carmen L. Anda Jesus Cadacio Andaya Dolores A. Arnke Erlinda A. Artificio Feleciano “Ciano” Aureus, Sr. Vincent “Vinnie” Battaglia Mildred Irene Beecher Brian J. Bennett Nancy A. Bogdan Valentina Bomben Vincent Borg Mary Therese Brady Dolores M. Brady John K. Buschiazzo Heather T. Byrne John (Jack) G. Campbell James Carlin Edith R. Casanova Jane Towey Caughman Eileen Ursula Chase Gloria Chavez-Lozada Marie Cicchitti Donald E. Colclough Mary A. Coloismo Carmen R. Concepcion Hortencia Z. Contreras Florida Cruz Alice “Allie” Daly Mary F. Davis Servillano I. De Guzman Harold Joseph De Luca Juan Gilberto Delgado Lena Delucchi Louise A. DeTomasi Josephine R. Dito Marion Donati John K. Elia

Frances M. Falgiano Helyn Frances Farron Anastasia R. Fernandez Audre M. Flaherty Bernice A. Fragulia Ernest S. Garibaldi Robert L. Garrett, Jr. Rita C. Giuliani Felix G. Gonzaga Barbara N. Gormley Muriel J. Granucci Elizabeth Greenwell Millie Griffin Charles Guerrero, Jr. Sophie Guichard Venecia Ann Guillory-White Leonel Guzman, Jr. Mary E. Hagan Patricia A. Halstead Patricia Ann Hansen Richard C. Hennessy Edward Ashley Hobson Mercedes S. Horcabas Josefina I. Inserto Pasquale Charles Iorio Joan Wrenn Jaski Margaret Anne Keohane Lani Susan Labadie Helen R. Lacau Maria Lidla Lopez Evelyn Mader Josefina Madrigal John F. Mafrice Albert E. Maggio Maureen P. Mahoney Francis J. Mahoney Dina Manfredi Barbara Manss Attilio Marcenaro Edmond Marchais Joyce A. Willard Marcum Anne Marie-Louise Marquis John Mascio Grace Maughan Mary C. Mayer

Martha Leticia Alvergue McCann Lena Melodia Margaret “Margo” Metzger Ambrosio G. Mondejar Raymond Montanya Bennie I. Moore Charles F. Moran Alfred J. Musumeci Bennett E. Nason Lucia Navarro Irma M. Nice Michael S. O’Connor Manuel Opilas Ernesto Silva Pacheco Yan Zhi Pan Asuncion Panlibuton Renee M. L. Pelissier Nellie Irene Perri Mario Philapil Dylan “Dilly Pop” Piefer Annette Pinocci Bill Pollina Rev. James L. Pratt, S.M. Enrico N. Pretari Millie Prossima Thomas Prossima, Jr. Victor P. Pulido Maurice B. Quillen Steven Raj Eliseo A. Ramos Rosemary M. Rapp Francisco G. Remedios James A. Rettke Ana Maria Rivera Ernest Rodriguez Loretta Brady Rogers Patricia R. Romero Manuel Ruiz, Jr. Teresa Salto de Lopez Albert Sherwood Sandoval Georgiana Marie Sandoval Margaret “Margie” Sarti John Scardamaglia Cathleen Schweikert Ferdinand R. Severino

Steven John Shubunka Rev. Mamerto Sigaran Mary Solar Rita M. Stalls Sarah Stonum Jane E. Stroth Ping Mei Tam Lui Ming Tang Sylvana Tiffer Milton E. Trester Luen Sin Tsui Xiomara C. Vasquez Andree L. Waldichuk Laurence Ingram Waring Joe G. Watrous Nita Durieux Welsh Donald M. White Catherine Lynch Willis Robert E. Wilson II William A. Zarilla

HOLY CROSS MENLO PARK Pauline Diaz Isaac “Ike” Gutierrez Ofelia Infante Pauline L. Kirsch Frances Marie (Greco) Lentos Beto Miranda Medina Mary Mora Maria Jesus Munguia

MT. OLIVET SAN RAFAEL Nicolo (Nick) Dapiran, Jr. Bruna Giusti Evelyn Zunino Goddard Edmond L. Hakin Francis Ferenc Johannes LaVerne Hope Pareto Dorothy H. Ross

HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY, COLMA FIRST SATURDAY MASS – Saturday, February 4, 2012 All Saints Mausoleum Chapel – 11:00 am

125TH ANNIVERSARY “Cookbook of Memories” As food has always been a comfort to families who have experienced a loss, it seems only fitting that we could create a cookbook in honor of the 125th Anniversary. Please forward your recipe to Christine Stinson by mail or email costinson@holycrosscemeteries.com Please check our website www.holycrosscemeteries.com for more information.

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