November 2, 2012

PRIESTS & THEIR PETS:

PREACHING: Encouraging ‘dialogue’ in the Sunday homily is topic of new US bishops’ document PAGE 7

Animals played a role in the lives of many saints, and pets are blessed members of many priests’ households today

‘THE LAITY COUNCIL’:

The Second Vatican Council championed laity in the life of the church PAGE 20

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When Marin Catholic High School President Tim Navone and principal Chris Valdez were mulling how to exercise the school’s mission – “faith, knowledge, service” – abroad, internationally, their best and brightest idea and connection to another culture was just down the hall at the Kentfield school.

It was Mario Pacheco, the owner of the custodial company that has cleaned Marin Catholic for 16 years. He’s a beloved member of the school’s community who lifted himself out of poverty in the village of El Carmen, El Salvador, and today is its unofficial mayor, if 3,000 miles away in Marin County. If there’s a dispute in El Carmen, his cellphone rings.

Navone knew the story of El Carmen well. For years he has been giving Pacheco used clothing and other goods that he delivers during his visits home several times a year. It’s a place mired in poverty, but the people are rich in spirit and spirituality, and it would be in El Carmen that the Marin Catholic students would carry out the mission.

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Adam Groshong, who teaches Spanish at Marin Catholic High School, is pictured with “grandma” – the grandmother of Jenny, a girl from El Carmen, El Salvador, whose tuition is being paid by Marin Catholic fundraising. school at El Carmen School and since January, thanks to the fundraising, have been enrolled at a Catholic high school, Colegio Santa Isabel, in the nearby city of Cojutepeque. It is an

In the project’s first year, a group of Marin Catholic students, all of them fairly advanced in Spanish, raised money to pay for the high school tuition and other school expenses of two young girls, Jenny and Julissa. They attended grade

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VATICAN CITY – The Filipino cardinal announced Oct. 24 is widely lauded for his theological gifts and his humility.

Cardinal-designate Luis Tagle, 55, of Manila, Philippines, “really takes care of people ... he’s so simple and generous and there’s no class structure when he deals with people; everyone is equal in his eyes,” said Nemie Anciado, a longtime custodian at the cathedral in Imus, Philippines, where the cardinal-designate was bishop from 2001 to 2011.

Anciado spoke to Catholic News

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Cardinal-designate Luis Tagle of Manila smiles during an interview after being named a cardinal at the Vatican Oct. 24.

Service in October 2011, after his bishop was named archbishop of Manila. One year later, Pope Benedict XVI announced he would make

Catholic San Francisco interviewed Father Benildo M. Pilande about Cardinal-designate Luis Tagle, archbishop of Manila. Father Pilande served in the Archdiocese of San Francisco from 2006-2010. The interview is on Page 14. him a cardinal in a consistory at the Vatican Nov. 24.

VATICAN CITY – Winning converts to the church, ministering better to practicing Catholics and bringing lapsed members back into the fold are all parts of the multifaceted effort known as the “new evangelization,” Pope Benedict XVI told a group of bishops and other church leaders from around the world.

The pope made his remarks Oct. 28 during his homily at a Mass marking the end of the world Synod of Bishops on the new evangelization.

The three-week gathering, which brought more than 260 bishops and religious superiors to the Vatican, along with dozens of official observers and experts, discussed how the church can revive and spread the faith in increasingly secular societies.

Pope Benedict underscored “three pastoral themes” that he said had emerged from the talks.

“Ordinary pastoral ministry ... must be more animated by the fire of the Spirit, so as to inflame the hearts of the faithful,” he said, stressing the importance of the sacrament of confession, and the necessity of “appropriate catechesis” in preparation for the sacraments of baptism, confirmation and the Eucharist.

The pope also called for a “new missionary dynamism” to “proclaim the message of salvation to those who do not yet know Jesus Christ.”

“There are still many regions in Africa, Asia and Oceania whose inhabitants await with lively expectation, sometimes without being fully aware of it, the first proclamation of the Gospel,” the pope said. And as a result of migration driven by global-

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | NOVEMBER 2, 2012

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ELECTION DAY PRAYER VIGIL: St. Hilary Church, 761 Hilary Drive, Tiburon, will have its eucharistic adoration chapel (on the left side of the church) open all day Nov. 5, throughout the entire night, and all day Nov. 6, for anyone who might wish to come and enjoy some silent time in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament. The only times the Blessed Sacrament will not be exposed for adoration will be during the 8:30 a.m. Mass on Monday and Tuesday. “All are welcome! God bless America!” said pastor Father William Brown.

Reynaldo Miranda is a Catholic with a deep interest in ancient philosophy. He leads a philosophy discussion group that meets in the Msgr. Bowe Conference Room at St. Mary’s Cathedral.

The next session is Nov. 9. Topic: Lucretius’ poem “De Rerum Natura,” Books 3 and 4. Anyone who is serious may attend, and no prior knowledge is required, Miranda says. Contact Miranda at reynaldo.miranda@gmail.com for more information. Miranda, who studied at St. James School under the care of the Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose, and later at St. Ignatius College Preparatory, UCLA and St. John’s College in Annapolis, Md., was brought up in St. Kevin Parish, San Francisco.

He lives in San Francisco, works for a private equity firm and attends Mass at St. Anthony of Padua Parish and Immaculate Conception Chapel. Editor Rick DelVecchio interviewed him by email.

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What texts do you take up in your discussion group?

Texts in English translation of the great philosophers of pagan antiquity, supplemented by works that are not primarily philosophy, for example ancient plays and history, and now and then a great commentary, for example things by Josef Pieper and Pierre Hadot.

YEAR OF FAITH RESOURCES: The U.S. bishops are providing resources for families, including tips for keeping Sundays holy and centered on family; prayers and devotionals; and ideas for building the presence of the church in the home. Visit www.usccb.org/ beliefs-and-teachings/how-we-teach/ new-evangelization/year-of-faith/yearof-faith-family-resources.cfm. Pope Benedict XVI declared a Year of Faith from Oct. 11, 2012, to Nov. 24, 2013.

The Catholic bishops of California have launched a concerted effort in support of Proposition 34, the ballot initiative that would replace the death penalty with life in prison without the possibility of parole, as the day of the election nears.

The California Catholic Conference, the official voice of the Catholic community in the public policy arena in the state, has on its website, www.cacatholic.org, mul-

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What wisdom do you find in ancient philosophy for Catholics today?

very much poorer and more limited in wisdom.

How do your discussions inform Catholics about their faith?

This kind of reading-thinkingtalking together is important for the laity. The Second Vatican Council has called the laity to its proper task of redeeming the world by engaging it, and clarified that the vineyard of the Lord includes not only the church proper but the whole world. In our world today, the most fundamental way to do this is by reflection on essential, perennial matters. This group is an extremely modest way to do this, but perhaps one of the few good ways.

What inspired your interest in ancient philosophy?

Some of us are called and gifted to inquire, to question, as others are called and gifted in other ways.

Ancient philosophy at length drew this out of me. The first ancient philosopher I read was Plato. At first I thought his character Socrates was exceptionally rude and shifty, I was suspicious. After a while I found myself loving Socrates, to glimpse how important his activity is for us.

Do you have a favorite philosopher?

To start with the Gospel is given us rational creatures in writing, of course, and ancient philosophy helps us to better understand that writing, and our Christian tradition as well. Faith seeks reason (for its flourishing), and an exemplar of mature, natural reason is philosophy such as we find in Parmenides,

The best of ancient philosophy provides Catholics today an occasion to stop and think hard. Once we take the texts seriously, they challenge and force us to try and dig to the bottom of things in a way that complements our Lord’s revelation, for we are always part and parcel of his creation, of nature that can never be left behind in our earthly pilgrimage. So without these sorts of texts as teachers we would be

I would have to say two favorites, Plato and Socrates. I would add St. Thomas except he was a theologian first and philosopher second.

tiple messages and links to Catholic social teaching and bishops’ comments about the respect for live and the dignity of life and the unqualified support of the bishops for the initiative on the Nov. 6 ballot.

Moreover, as the election nears, several bishops are making appearance and recording comments in English and Spanish for Catholic radio stations, while members of individual dioceses are walking precincts and manning telephone banks in an effort generally coor-

dinated by the California Catholic Conference, said Ned Dolejsi, the executive director of the conference.

“I have been on Catholic radio innumerable times, encouraging Catholics across the state to donate to and support the effort,” said Dolejsi.

In addition, Los Angeles Archbishop Jose Gomez has made English and Spanish video and audio presentations on behalf of Proposition 34. Bishop Jaime Soto of Sacramento, Bishop Richard Garcia

of Monterey and Bishop Armando X. Ochoa of Fresno, have all made ads in English and Spanish, said Dolejsi. Bishop Stephen E. Blaire of Stockton has also appeared on Catholic radio to promote the initiative.

What’s the connection between ancient philosophy and the Gospel of Jesus Christ?

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Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus and others.

For example, how we may understand the opening of the Holy Gospel according to St. John is informed by the investigation into the logoi of the pre-Socratics, Plato, and Aristotle.

Similarly when St. Paul refers to “vain Reynaldo philosophy,” or Miranda when St. Paul draws closely upon Plato’s Symposium to preach to the Athenians. This in one nutshell is why Blessed Pope John Paul II insisted on the constitutive thread of authentic philosophy within the Christian faith in such encyclicals as “Veritatis Splendor” and “Fides et Ratio.” Similarly Pope Benedict XVI has preached “the best of Greek thought is an integral part of Christian Faith” (The Regensburg University Address). If we look to our own history since the Gospel accounts we see the essential part (ancient) philosophy plays again and again in Christian thought, culture and the formulation of church doctrine.

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I’m afraid they are all so far above me that I have no precise idea. I do know that any of my favorite philosophers would be full of eager questions regarding the Christian faith for the saint.

Editor’s note: An Oct. 29 letter by San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone on Prop. 34 appears on Page 16 of this issue.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Prayer service held for San Francisco homicide victim, 19 GEORGE RAINE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Planning for an expansion of the restorative justice program at the Archdiocese of San Francisco has been under way for some time, but the need for it grew with five homicides within a few days in San Francisco.

One of the victims was Jose Escobar, 19, of San Francisco, who was shot and killed about 2:47 a.m. on Oct. 20 near 16th and Valencia streets in the Mission District – a young man who had turned away from his criminal past, said Julio Escobar, who is unrelated, the director of the restorative justice program at the archdiocese.

A prayer service was held for the victim Oct. 25 on Valencia Street, led

by Father Dan Nascimento, pastor of St. Brendan Church in San Francisco, and attracted a group of passersby in the area, said Escobar.

The archdiocese’s Julio Escobar and Jose Escobar met more than a year ago when Julio Escobar visited him at juvenile hall. Julio Escobar is also director of Comunidad San Dimas, an ecumenical volunteer service in which members visit inmates.

It is named for the “good thief ” who was crucified along with Jesus after being assured he would be with him in paradise.

“He changed his life,” Julio Escobar

A shrine created by a Catholic prayer group is pictured Oct. 25 near the spot where Jose Escobar, 19, was shot and killed Oct. 20. said of Jose Escobar, who had been locked up for eight months. “He was getting good grades. He was doing well.”

Julio Escobar said he had seen promise in Jose Escobar when he met him in jail. “You can sense sincerity, and as we followed up there were conversations to create greater conscience, which is the foundation for people to change,” he said. “We did that with him.”

Even with a murder spree, Julio Escobar sees hope. “We are people of faith. There is faith and love and it is

with love that we can stop violence.

But the community, the people of faith, need to reflect our faith in action,” he said.

He added, “People need to take time to give to those who are in need, not necessarily the incarcerated but also the impoverished, the people who need help. If you don’t have food on your table you are going to steal, and that could lead to violence.”

November is Restorative Justice Month, and Escobar, through the Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns at the archdiocese, is sending background material on restorative justice to pastors, priests and deacons in the archdiocese. Restorative justice is an approach in the criminal justice system that gives perpetrators the opportunity to make amends, while the victims, if so inclined, may confront the people who wronged them and may want to forgive them.

In March there will be a restorative justice conference, in Spanish, just as there was last year that drew 400 people. Details are to be announced.

There will be four retreats in July and August, two each in English and Spanish, for the families of victims and the families of the incarcerated.

Those details also will be announced.

Participating clergy at various gatherings in the programs at the Archdiocese of San Francisco will be Auxiliary Bishops Robert W. McElroy and William J. Justice; Msgr. James

Tarantino, vicar for administration and moderator of the curia; Father Vito Perrone, administrator of Our Lady of Fatima Byzantine Church in San Francisco; Jesuit Father George Williams, the chaplain at San Quentin State Prison, and Father Nascimento and Father Michael Quinn, parochial vicar at St. Brendan Parish.

The Escobar killing was the first in a recent series, said Officer Albie Esparza, a spokesman for the San Francisco Police Department. Also on Oct. 20, a man was found stabbed to death in his car at Fifth and Mission streets. Another stabbing victim died in the 400 block of Eddy Street on Oct. 21. Two men were shot on Oct. 24 in the 2800 block of Harrison Street and one died. Another man died over the weekend at a hospital after being beaten Oct. 15, and the medical examiner will determine if the beating caused the death, said Esparza.

Esparza said officers have not determined if the killings are related or occurred in retaliation. “When this happens, when we see a rise in crime, we redeploy resources to the area, both uniformed officers and undercover, to mitigate the violence,” said Esparza. “Chief (Greg) Suhr says any death is unacceptable and we want the community to come forward to provide any evidence to help find these people responsible and get them off the streets,” he said. There is an anonymous tip line: (415) 575-4444.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | NOVEMBER 2, 2012

St. Cecilia’s ‘finest, greatest and best’ follows in marriage TOM BURKE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Happy 50 years married Nov. 3 to Helen and Phil Murphy, lifelong parishioners of St. Cecilia Parish, San Francisco. “They are a very unique couple who have known each other since first through eighth grade at St. Cecilia School, class of 1951,” said their daughter Dawn Phil and Helen Murphy Murphy Reidy in a note to this column. Helen is a 1955 graduate of St. Rose Academy and Phil is an alumnus of Archbishop Riordan High School, class of ’55. Lining up to offer love and congrats are son Jimmy, St. Ignatius College Preparatory ’84, with his wife Sheena and their kids Jason and Shealynn, and Dawn with her husband, Marty Reidy, SI ’81, and their kids Martin, SI 2010, and Katie, SI 2012. “We are all so proud and thankful to have them in our lives,” Dawn, Mercy High School, San Francisco ’81, said. A grateful sign we’ve been doing this a long time is that we had the pleasure of announcing Helen and Phil’s 40th anniversary in Street 10 years ago. Dawn says CSF is her folks’ “favorite Catholic paper” and we say “Thank you.” Let me know if I’m wrong but I’ve heard that St. Cecilia’s “finest, greatest and best” goes back to Msgr. Harold Collins, pastor from 1946-76.

CONGRATS ALL AROUND: Hats off at Junipero Serra High School to senior Ray Whelan, a National Merit Scholarship semifinalist; senior class president Clint Thodos, developer of iPhone app Pixcisely; and sophomore Jeff Dalli, now number one in the nation for fencing for his age group. “It’s pretty cool,” Ray said. “I had a lot of preparation in the classroom to be ready for the exam. There was nothing I hadn’t seen before on the test, which means Serra gave me the opportunity to succeed.” Clint’s app “enables people to take a photo of something, save it and Ray Whelan title it for future use,” the school said. Clint hopes his invention will be used to help what is called “continuity” on film sets, an industry he interned with a while back. Jeff won his gold medal at the National Fencing Championship in Anaheim. “I would like to go to the Olympics,”

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VERY SUPER CUTS: Mercy High School, Burlingame students voluntarily had their long hair cut for donation to Locks of Love and Pantene Beautiful Lengths. The 18 women’s shorn manes will be used to make wigs for women who lost their hair due to the after effects of chemotherapy cancer treatments. The event was started by student Elizabeth Ferraro as a freshman who had her hair cut this year as a senior.

he said. “I love the psychological aspect of fencing – it’s like physical chess.” Extremely dedicated to his sport, Jeff trains six days per week at Stanford and at Serra with strength and conditioning coach Brian Carson.

MUCH TO DO: Still going strong and still staying in touch is San Francisco’s St. Peter School, founded 134 years ago. The school has its annual memorial Mass for everyone ever graduated or connected with the school Nov. 4 at 2 p.m. On hand, of course, will be beloved Mercy Sister Marian Rose Power, vice principal. Sister Marian Rose was born in San Francisco attended Holy Name of Jesus School and entered religious life in 1953.

Call (415) 647-8662 for more information. You can catch a live version – not to mention the real life version many of us lived of the era – of the PBS doo-wop shows at Junipero Serra High School’s “This Magic Moment” on Nov. 10. Celebrity emcee is former 49er Dwight Clark, well known for that “magic moment” of his own. Providing the timely – and again, for many of us timeless - entertainment will be Mike Germano, and The Tarabytes.

Yes, it was Jay and the Americans who had the namesake hit of the evening. www.serrahs.com/ auction. “Emerald Isle Enchantment” describes an evening of dining and dancing benefiting St. Paul Parish Restoration Fund. Silent auction and cocktails “to celebrate the Irish in all of us” begin at 6 p.m. with dinner and live auction following.

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NATIONAL HONORS: Congrats at Marin Catholic High School to seniors Kayla Beckman and Victoria Pereira who are both commended students in this year’s National Merit Scholarship competitions. Kayla and Victoria are among 122 MC students honored at the school’s Fall Honors Assembly for academic achievement.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Luncheon to honor retired priests – but most are still working VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Msgr. Jose Rodriguez came to San Francisco to attend graduate school 40 years ago and stayed because he saw a need for someone to reach out to the Spanishspeaking people here.

Today, people of Hispanic descent make up 41 percent of Catholics MSGR. JOSE RODRIGUEZ in the archretired parish priest, diocese, with retired vicar for SpanishMasses in speaking in the archdiocese Spanish at 33 parishes, Msgr. Rodriguez said.

Like 70 percent of the more than 100 retired archdiocesan priests, Msgr.

Rodriquez continues to minister as a priest while in residence at Our Lady of the Wayside in Portola Valley.

Msgr. Rodriquez was among the 700 guests, including many pastors, at St. Mary’s Cathedral Oct. 26 for the St. John Vianney Luncheon honoring retired priests of the archdiocese.

The luncheon is a project of the Priests’ Retirement Fund, with twin goals of honoring priests and raising money to pay the pensions of retired priests.

“Out of 100 priests who retire, 70 percent still work,” said Deacon Nicholas Andrade, a member of the organizing committee. “They continue to work hard for us.”

The St. John Vianney Luncheon, begun in 2011, is named for Curé of Ars, the 19th-century French priest

“It’s been a wonderful life.

I’ve enjoyed it.”

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A Filipino priests’ choir entertained the retired priests and guests at the Oct. 26 luncheon at St. Mary’s Cathedral. who is the patron saint of parish priests. Barely able to master enough Latin to be ordained, his priestly life was spent in the remote French hamlet of Ars, where he spent as many as 18 hours a day hearing confessions.

Blessed John XXIII in his 1959 encyclical “Sacerdotii Nostri Primordia” at the 100th anniversary of the saint’s death said the Catholic Church offers the holy parish priest “with maternal joy to all the clergy as an outstanding model of priestly asceticism, of piety, especially in the form of devotion to the Eucharist, and, finally, of pastoral zeal.”

Each of the speakers at the luncheon praised the selfless life to which a parish priest is called. “We give thanks for the grace of their lifelong witness to Jesus Christ,” said Auxiliary Bishop Robert W. McElroy, who offered grace before the meal.

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone

thanked “our beloved retired priests,” telling them in taped remarks, “You have been men of God leading men into the heart of God as our beloved John Vianney says, ‘the priesthood is the heart of Christ.’” The archbishop was unable to change a commitment made before he was appointed archbishop, but he said he planned to attend future luncheons.

“It’s been a wonderful life, I’ve enjoyed it,” said Msgr. Rodriguez, who was praised – much to his surprise – by keynote speaker Ancel Romero, a parishioner at Star of the Sea in San Francisco.

Msgr. Rodriquez entered the Dominicans in Spain and served as a missionary in the Philippines. He joined the Archdiocese of San Francisco, incardinated as a diocesan priest, after studying at the University of San Francisco. He retired as pastor of St. John the Evangelist in 2010 and

as vicar to the Spanish-speaking the same year.

Romero, senior vice president for affordable housing for American Baptist Homes of the West, works with low income seniors who need support and housing, which he said gives him firsthand knowledge of the need for Catholics to support their retired priests.

Serendipitously, long before either Romero or Msgr. Rodriguez came to the United States, Msgr. Rodriguez was principal at the noted Philippines high school, Letran College, where Romero was a student. In addition, Msgr.

Rodriguez founded Aquinas School for Boys in the Philippines before coming to San Francisco 40 years ago.

“Msgr. Rodriguez embodies the care, the compassion and the love that retired priests among us have bestowed to thousands without condition,” Romero said, calling for donations, “for the precious gift of giving back.”

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US LEADERS URGED TO PUT RESPECT FOR HUMAN DIGNITY AT CENTER OF ISSUES

DENVER – The Secular Franciscan Order urged U.S. business leaders and government officials, including the next U.S. president, to approach economic and political issues with the “foundational premise” that “all of creation, especially human life, has dignity and value.”

Such an approach “sets the stage for recognizing that: people with disabilities have value, disabilities are a normal part of life, we should assume people with disabilities want to be meaningfully engaged in society, and their participation contributes significantly to the fabric of society,” the order, said Oct. 19.

“This vision,” the statement said, “seeks to preserve the dignity of a wide range of people – persons such as those with Down syndrome or other disabilities, victims of human trafficking, elderly persons in declining health, the poor among us, refugees who come across the border, homeless children everywhere.”

Recognizing people’s value is an issue of justice that goes beyond charity and runs counter to “today’s cultural notion that some people are disposable,” the order said. ©CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

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“If we don’t stand united on this issue, we’re bound to failure,” Archbishop Chaput said, “not only in the area of protecting unborn human life but in maintaining our religious freedom.”

He said that a lack of such unity among Catholic voters had permitted support for legalized abortion to become part of the Democratic Party platform.

“Catholics have been historically part of the Democrat Party in great numbers, and I think really could’ve stopped that great development, movement, if they tried, but they didn’t in order to accommodate people from the other side of the issue,” he said.

Yet opponents of abortion must continue to put pressure on both parties, the archbishop said.

“You can’t trust the Republicans to be pro-life 20 years from now,” he said. “You can’t let any party take your vote for granted. And that’s unfortunately what’s happened. I think many of the Democrats have (taken) Democrat Catholic votes for granted because they’ll go with them no matter what the party position might be on abortion.”

“That’s why the position of the Democrat Party has gotten worse, and worse, and worse as time goes on, because Catholics haven’t abandoned them as they’ve moved in that direction,” the archbishop said. “So we just have to be insistent on that, Catholic identity takes precedence over everything.”

Editor’s note: A video interview with Archbishop Chaput on the politics of abortion is available at http:// youtu.be/DaL176Wd70k.

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Bishops to consider new document on preaching MARK PATTISON CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – “My dad used to say, ‘I know what happened 2,000 years ago. I need to know how to live my life today.’”

These words, from Archbishop Robert J. Carlson of St. Louis, get to the heart of a new proposed document on preaching to be considered by the U.S. bishops at the fall general meeting in November.

The document, “Preaching the Mystery of Faith: The Sunday Homily,” encourages preachers to connect the Sunday homily with people’s daily lives.

Archbishop Carlson, as head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Clergy, Consecrated Life and Vocations, shepherded the writing of the document, which he said had reviews by eight other USCCB committees. “Everyone gets a chance to put their oar in the water. That’s what makes it a better document,” he told Catholic News Service in an Oct. 18 telephone interview from St. Louis.

Although the full text of the proposed document has not yet been made public, an Oct. 10 USCCB press release highlighted excerpts from it.

“The homily is intended to establish a ‘dialogue’ between the sacred biblical text and the Christian life of the hearer,” the proposed document says.

“Preachers should be aware, in an appropriate way, of what their people are watching on television, what kind of music they are listening to, which websites they find appealing, and which films they find compelling,” it

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The U.S. bishops will consider a proposed document on preaching at their fall general assembly in Baltimore in November. adds. “References to the most popular cultural expressions – which at times can be surprisingly replete with religious motifs – can be an effective way to engage the interest of those on the edge of faith.”

It has been 30 years since the bishops last addressed preaching, in a document called “Fulfilled in Your Hearing.” Archbishop Carlson said the intent to write a new document first surfaced six years ago, although the work of drafting “Preaching the Mys-

tery of Faith” took place over the past year and a half. New traction on the document came after Pope Benedict XVI issued the apostolic exhortation “Verbum Domini” (“The Word of the Lord”) two years ago, and “Preaching the Mystery of Faith,” the archbishop said, is rooted in “Verbum Domini.”

With so much time between documents, “I think we really had to take a look at preaching in this country and to the students in the seminary who are preparing to become priests,” Archbishop Carlson said, adding bishops were concerned over “the whole question of catechetical preaching.”

“Following the Second Vatican Council and ‘Fulfilled in Your Hearing,’ there is a whole focus on being faithful to the Scripture. At the same time we have to pass on the deposit of the faith,” he said.

Catholics in the pews, according to Archbishop Carlson, deliver a mixed verdict on the effectiveness of their own preachers. “There are places where the preaching is considered excellent,” he said, and there are others who “wish their homilies were not presented better necessarily, but (that) they were more in touch with their lives.”

With fewer priests, is there more pressure on them? “Yes, priests are stretched, but this is a significant opportunity for priests to meet the people of their parish on a regular basis. So this is very important,” Archbishop Carlson told CNS. “If you just look at it as I have to get this task done and that task done, it can be challenging for the priest and the people,” he added. “It’s not something you can do just on Saturday afternoon and expect it to last a week.”

Homily aids get a mixed review from Archbishop Carlson. “The most important word is homily ‘aid,’ because it is not meant “to supplant the preparation of the homily,” he said. “I think homily aids can be as good as the person who uses them.”

He recalled a pastor he had years ago who “took the homily aid into the pulpit” and would tell the joke it included, “even if the joke was set in New York.”

Jokes and ideas may have their place, he added, but the most effective homilies allow the hearer to “experience the word in the context of my own faith experience, relate it to the faith experience of the people.”

The draft of “Preaching the Mystery of Faith” says: “The ultimate goal of proclaiming the Gospel is to lead people into a loving and intimate relationship with the Lord, a relationship that forms the character of their persons and guides them in living out their faith. ... By highlighting his humanity, his poverty, his compassion, his forthrightness, and his suffering and death, an effective homily would show the faithful just how much the Son of God loved them in taking our human flesh upon himself.”

In his own ministry, “I always used to say, ‘I can drink coffee and talk,’ so that was a beginning,” the archbishop said. He added he used to save the homilies he had written for repeated use when those Lectionary readings cycled through again, but “the homilies I used my first years a priest, I threw them away. I was embarrassed.

We have to constantly be growing in our relationship with the Lord.”

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | NOVEMBER 2, 2012

ACTION URGED TO EXPOSE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN MINING, VIOLENCE IN CONGO

WASHINGTON – New federal rules regarding the use of so-called conflict minerals in cellphones and laptop computers protect innocent people in Congo from displacement and serious harm and must remain in place, said

advocates from two prominent Catholic organizations. The rules provide U.S. consumers with information about the components of the products they buy and can shed light on the actions of rebel groups fighting over control of strategic mining regions in central Africa, staff members of the

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Catholics urge more focus on social justice, survey shows CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – A large national study on faith and political views released Oct. 23 highlighted Catholics’ interest in having social justice take a bigger role in the church’s policy priorities.

The American Values Survey by Public Religion Research Institute queried a cross section of all Americans but zeroed in on the opinions of Catholics, in particular, on topics including contraceptive coverage in insurance and the death penalty as well as on the pending presidential election.

In interviews during September, a majority of Catholics told pollsters that they would prefer it if the church would focus its public policy statements “more on social justice and the obligation to help the poor, even if it means focusing less on issues like abortion and the right to life.”

Sixty percent of Catholics concurred with that statement or with a version phrased differently.

Among those Catholics who attend church at least weekly, 51 percent chose the social justice emphasis, while 65 percent of those who attend monthly or less often made that choice. Among the various demographic breakouts provided by the study, just two segments – self-identified conservatives and Republicans – agreed with the statement by less than 50 percent, 46 percent and 47 percent, respectively, though that was still the plurality response.

Michele Dillon, a professor of sociology at the University of New Hampshire who specializes in research on religion and culture, said the response reflects a long-term pattern in Catholic thinking, despite what she considered a drawback in the question forcing a choice between just two concepts.

“Care for the poor and needy has been a strong theme in Catholic teaching since the end of the 19th century,” Dillon told Catholic News Service in an Oct. 25 phone interview. “That’s been totally in continuity with the church leadership over the decades and

it’s still primary for a lot of people in defining what it means to be Catholic.”

Meghan Clark, an assistant professor of theology and religious studies in moral theology at St. John’s University in Queens, N.Y., and a consultant to the USCCB Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development said that “spiritually, people are thirsting for the message of the Gospel and to find hope in the midst of economic suffering,” Clark told CNS that people may feel they hear enough about abortion and related topics because “many priests are comfortable delivering a countercultural message on life issues because they are perceived as black/white issues.”

The survey suggests that Catholics “want them to issue the same challenge on social justice issues, which are at the heart of the Gospel,” Clark added. “It isn’t primarily about politics, but about the challenge of the Gospel – that discipleship requires concern for the ‘least’ and dismantling structures of sin.”

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | NOVEMBER 2, 2012

English bishop: Push for same-sex rights led by political minority CAROL GLATZ CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – The push for gay marriage rights is being driven by politicians who are following their personal agendas rather than the actual demands or expectations of the gay community, said Bishop Kieran Conry of Arundel and Brighton, England.

“Very often” some social policies, such as requiring church-run adoption agencies to consider same-sex couples as potential adoptive parents or proposals to legalize same-sex marriage, “are politically motivated in terms of vote-catching and representation of politicians as standing up for human rights,” he said.

Such proposals are not necessarily coming from the gay community, he said during a briefing with journalists at the Vatican press office Oct. 23. Bishop Conry is one of hundreds of bishops attending the world Synod of Bishops on the new evangelization.

People advocating such policies seem to be “some other small group” that is not personally invested in the issue, but rather is motivated by defending human rights in a very general, broadly sweeping way, he said.

Brighton “is regarded as the gay capital of the United Kingdom,” and the bishop said members of the gay community he has spoken to “respect the right of the churches to have their own rules” on issues.

The Equality Act 2006 prohibited discrimination against homosexuals in the provision of goods and services. It required all adoption agencies, including

Proposals to legalize same-sex marriage are not necessarily coming from the gay community, People advocating such policies seem to be “some other small group” that is not personally invested in the issue, but rather is motivated by defending human rights in a very general, broadly sweeping way.

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church-run groups, to not discriminate against and to assess same-sex couples as potential adopters and foster caregivers.

Almost all of the 13 Catholic adoption agencies in Britain were forced to either sever ties with their dioceses or close down because of the laws.

One Catholic adoption agency, which covers three dioceses in northern England, fought the regulations through the courts. However, in 2010, the Charity Commission for England and Wales refused the agency permission to amend its constitution so it could turn away gay and unmarried couples.

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Bishop Conry said, however, that the agency his diocese helps run went along with the law because it did not want to deny children needed services and “we knew very well that (gay couples requesting to adopt from a Catholic charity) would not be an issue.”

They had seen that when other U.K. dioceses were “virtually forced” to close down their adoption agencies by local authorities rather than be forced to comply with the law, it was the children who paid the price, he said.

“We wanted to make sure that the interests of the children in that case were served first” by keeping the agency open, operated and funded by the church.

“We simply withdrew the name ‘Catholic’” from the agency’s title, he said.

As a result, each year “there are 30 children who are taken out of institutions and put into families,” he said.

Also, since the legislation has been enacted, the diocesan adoption agency “has not had a single request from a gay couple to adopt or foster a child.”

When asked what the agency would do if a same-sex couple did request to adopt or provide foster care, he said, that decision “is not in the hands of a few people” and is always based on what’s best for the child.

“We’re not going to have a public fight that we’re going to lose possibly and come out of it with everyone suffering,” he said. “We work on the principle: You only fight battles you can win.”

Currently, the bishops are fighting British government proposals to redefine marriage to include samesex couples.

The Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales has said government assurances that churches would not be compelled to conduct same-sex marriage ceremonies were meaningless because the law could be amended at any time.

Civil partnerships introduced by the government in 2004 already conferred many of the rights of marriage on homosexual couples.

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Theologian: Misreading of council dampened missionary zeal FRANCIS X. ROCCA

A theologian fears that “with the collapse of Christendom” many people are drifting toward the breakdown of human relationships “and then the possibility of eternal separation from God.”

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VATICAN CITY – On the subject of the Second Vatican Council, Ralph Martin is nothing if not an enthusiast.

The theologian, who teaches at Sacred Heart Seminary in Detroit and served as an official expert at the October 2012 world Synod of Bishops on the new evangelization, said the “wonderful things” that came out of Vatican II include an “emphasis on the active role of laypeople, the universal call to holiness, the rediscovery of Christian unity and ecumenism, (and) the desire to affirm whatever we can positively about modern culture.”

But in at least one crucial area, Martin said, the council’s expectations have been gravely disappointed.

Vatican II had as one of its central purposes to “make the church more effective in proclaiming the Gospel to the modern world,” he said, yet it ushered in a “remarkable decline in the missionary orders that traditionally have carried out evangelization,” along with a “tremendous decline” in observance by Catholics in historically Christian countries.

Martin attributed the loss of Catholic missionary zeal to a widespread misunderstanding of some of Vatican II’s most distinctive teachings. As he argues in a new book (“Will Many Be Saved? What Vatican II Actually Teaches and Its Implications for the New Evangelization”), many Catholics were confused by the council’s laudable emphasis on ecumenism and interreligious dialogue into thinking that “maybe it doesn’t matter anymore whether people are Christians or not.”

The theologian said that many Catholics today have adopted an at-

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Ralph Martin, center, follows a prayer booklet as he attends a meeting as an expert at the Synod of Bishops on the new evangelization at the Vatican Oct. 26. titude of “practical universalism,” which Martin described as a belief that “broad and wide is the way that leads to heaven, and almost everybody is going that way; but narrow is the gate the leads to hell, and hardly anybody’s going that way.”

“The problem with this,” Martin said, “is it’s just the opposite of what Jesus himself tells us” in Matthew 7:14: “How narrow the gate and constricted the road that leads to life.

And those who find it are few.”

At first glance, Vatican II may seem to have taught something inconsistent with Jesus’ words, since the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church (“Lumen Gentium”) states that it is possible for people to be saved without hearing the Gospel. Many Catholics have taken this as a license for complacency about evangelization, Martin said: “They make this huge

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But Martin noted that the council document carefully qualifies its own reassuring message, specifying three conditions for the salvation of nonChristians: “inculpable ignorance, that it’s not their own fault that they haven’t heard the Gospel”; that “they are seriously seeking God, they want to know who he is and what his will is”; and that “they are living according to the light of their conscience assisted by grace.”

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Rectifying misunderstandings in this area is crucial, Martin suggested, not only for reviving efforts to convert non-Catholics, but for the specific goal of the new evangelization: persuading those already baptized and fallen away to take their faith seriously again.

“In our own culture, especially now with the collapse of Christendom, the collapse of Christian culture, many people are just being swept away with secular culture,” Martin said, “and are drifting toward the disintegration of human relationships and marriage and family life ... and then the possibility of eternal separation from God.” Evangelization is “not just about enriching people’s lives, it’s not just about making people happier on this earth,” he said. “It’s really about the difference between heaven and hell.”

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Cardinal Raymond L. Burke, prefect of the Supreme Court of the Apostolic Signature, made his remarks Oct. 23 in a submission to the of the world Synod of Bishops on the new evangelization.

The cardinal said that a secular version of “antinomianism� – the belief that grace exempts Christians from obedience to moral law – is “among the most serious wounds of society today,� responsible for the legaliza-

tion of “intrinsically evil� actions such as abortion, embryonic stem-cell research, euthanasia and same-sex marriage, and for infringements of religious liberty. “Excitement following the council, linked to the establishment of a new church which teaches freedom and love, has strongly encouraged an attitude of indifference toward church discipline, if not even hostility,� he said. “The reforms of ecclesial life which were hoped for by the council fathers were, therefore, in a certain sense, hindered if not betrayed.� ŠCATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

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the ‘hopelessness’ of an unpromising future,” Pope Benedict wrote. Migration by its nature involves suffering the pain of uprooting and separation from family, country and possessions, the pope said, but faith and hope allow those who emigrate to face a difficult present if they can believe it will lead to a better future. They are not just seeking to improve their financial, social or political condition, the pope said. People who leave their native countries are hoping to “encounter acceptance, solidarity and help” from those in their new country who can recognize the values and resources they have to offer, he said.

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Nigerian church attacked Victims of a bomb attack wait for treatment at a hospital in the northern city of Kaduna, Nigeria, Oct. 28. A suicide bomber drove a vehicle packed with explosives into St. Rita’s Catholic Church during a Sunday Mass. Several people were killed and dozens injured in the attack.

POPE: FAITH, HOPE GUIDE MIGRANTS’ JOURNEYS

VATICAN CITY – Migrants usually are forced to leave their countries because of poverty, hunger or violence, but faith and hope help them face their hardships and seek a better life elsewhere, Pope Benedict XVI said. The pope chose “Migrations: pilgrimage of faith and hope” as the theme for the 2013 celebration of the World Day of Migrants and Refugees, and issued a message that touched on many facets of what he called a “striking phenomenon” that raises “dramatic challenges.”

The Vatican released the message Oct. 29, after the three-week-long Synod of Bishops on the new evangelization, which brought together church leaders from around the world to discuss efforts to strengthen the faith of Catholics and bring lapsed Catholics back. “Faith and hope are inseparable in the hearts of many migrants, who deeply desire a better life and not infrequently try to leave behind

JESUIT: SYNOD NEEDED MORE LAYPEOPLE

VATICAN CITY – When faced with a particular challenge, such as finding new ways to evangelize in modern times, the recently concluded gathering of the Synod of Bishops could have benefited from looking at history and business management, said the head of the world’s largest men’s religious order. Identifying what has worked in the more than 2,000 years Christians have been evangelizing is essential, as is acknowledging what fell short since mistakes are actually a kind of “new wisdom,” said Jesuit Father Adolfo Nicolas, superior general of the Society of Jesus. Father Nicolas said the synod also should have included more laypeople, who are not only the focus, but also are the critical agents of the new evangelization. “It made me think of what Steve Jobs used to say quite often: ‘I’m more interested in the questions of the customers than the questions of the producers,’ and, well, at the synod we were all producers except for a few laypeople,” he told journalists during a Vatican briefing Oct. 25. Father Nicolas said the voice of the laity is needed in assessing “what is really happening in evangelization in real terms in the real world.” He said he understands the thrust of the synod was to “look ahead” because the world is changing, “therefore humanity changes, too, and so evangelization has to change.” ©CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

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Priest: Manila archbishop seeks ‘quieter and listening church’ Catholic San Francisco editor Rick DelVecchio interviewed Father Benildo M. Pilande by email about Manila Archbishop Luis Tagle’s elevation to cardinal

by Pope Benedict XVI. A priest of the Manila archdiocese, Father Pilande served the Archdiocese of San Francisco from 2006 to 2010. A news article on the elevation of Archbishop Tagle, 55, is on the cover of this issue.

Do you know Archbishop Tagle?

a lot of good things about my archbishop, Cardinal- designate “Chito” Tagle. There was a time that our professor in theology asked us to attend a talk to be given by him and I was really amazed on how he has explained in simple analogies, easily understood and with much humor the theology of the fatherhood of God. Even today I still have notes of his talk.

Cardinal-designate Luis A. Tagle

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What are your impressions of him and his work both as a pastor and as a theologian?

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cese then. But what I know of is his passion for teaching. He told us, myself and other seminary formators that teaching and spending time with seminarians is his way of taking time out from his very busy schedule. That is why he decided to continue teaching this coming semester which is November. But I don’t know if he can still accommodate his teaching load.

In the most recent annual retreat of the entire clergy of Manila, Archbishop Tagle facilitated a one-week retreat per age bracket which the presbyterate appreciated very much. Because the clergy, from the very young to the very old retired priests, was able to know him better and likewise him knowing his clergy. During each entire week any priest who wants to talk to him is given an opportunity to sit down and converse with him.

How significant is it for the Filipino church that the pope would name this young, humble archbishop to be a cardinal?

I believe his appointment will bring more vigor and vitality to the Filipino church as well as to millions of overseas Filipino workers and migrant Filipinos all over the world who more often become missionaries in foreign land. The faith that every Filipinos celebrate and share manifest the missionary character of their identity which is very much in tune with one of the vision of Cardinal-designate Tagle. In one of our clergy meeting in Manila he urged us priests (as well as lay catechists) to do mission in foreign countries, like New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Brunei to name a few.

It is often mentioned that the “global South” is underrepresented in the top hierarchy of the church. Do you feel this appointment will help to give more of a voice to Catholics in the global South, where there may not be a lot of economic wealth but where the church is growing?

Archbishop Tagle in his intervention during the recent synod spoke of a need for a quieter and listening church that listens to the people and more so with God. Though his elevation will have an effect in giving more voice to the south, still I don’t look at his appointment as such but rather giving more voice to those who cannot speak for themselves and an active listening to the voice of God.

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BISHOP: CARDINAL-DESIGNATE WILL BRING FILIPINO CATHOLICS’ VOICE TO ROME

Manila Auxiliary Bishop Broderick Pabillo said the elevation of Manila Archbishop Luis Tagle to the rank of cardinal “is good news for us because it is an honor for the church in Manila and the Philippines in general to have a cardinal who is in active service.”

In an email to Father Benildo M. Pilande, a Manila archdiocese priest who served the San Francisco archdiocese from 2006 to 2010, he noted that both Filipino cardinals are now retired. “Cardinal-designate Tagle will be able to bring the voice of the Filipinos in the deliberations in Rome.

And he is very qualified to do so,” Bishop Pabillo said. “He is very much in touch with our present realities in the country. He is trusted among the bishops and the leaders of the country. He is also well known in the church at large, especially to the Holy Father since he had worked with him for a long time in the congregation which (former Cardinal Joseph) Ratzinger headed. We are very happy at his appointment.”

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VATICAN CITY – The sacrament of matrimony makes Catholic spouses and their families public signs of God’s love and thus missionaries, Carl A. Anderson, supreme knight of the Knights of Columbus, told the Synod of Bishops on the new evangelization, which ended Oct. 28. “Love, which the family has the task of living and communicating, is the driving force of evangelization,” he said. “This love alone, when it is authentically lived in families, can be at the basis of a renewal of that genuinely human culture which Blessed John Paul II called a ‘civilization of love.’” ©CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

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POPE: ‘New dynamism’ FROM PAGE 1

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Students from Marin Catholic High School, a few of their faculty members and kids from the village of El Carmen in a group photo in August on the beach in El Salvador.

MARIN CATHOLIC: Helping Salvadoran teens FROM PAGE 1

opportunity they very likely would not have otherwise had and, with a degree, it will put them on a course for a better life.

“These kids will be getting jobs in Cojutepeque and/or San Salvador, and some will go on to college and they will have, absolutely, a better life path for sure, as did Mario,” said Navone.

“When they saw that people were coming into the village to help them they were obviously excited,” Jack Burnham, a 15-year-old sophomore who was among the group from Marin Catholic that visited El Carmen for a week beginning in late July, said of the people in the village in central El Salvador. “But they were especially excited for Jenny and Julissa going to the Catholic school. They can make something out of their lives and they have a really good opportunity to better their lives and their families’ lives and help them get out of poverty,” he said.

There is no industry in El Carmen. There are two stretches of paved road, one to the house that Pacheco built and from there to the church. There are two flush toilets

in El Carmen – both at Pacheco’s house. The other dwellings are of cinder blocks or mud and sticks.

Most of the people, after the eighth grade at El Carmen School, go to work at a Chinese-owned textile factory 20 minutes away. They earn $6 a day. A few people raise goats and make cheese and a few others raise corn to barter.

Still, on the week-long visit that was designed to be relationshipbuilding with Jenny and Julissa – with the service piece of the project being the fundraising that followed – Jack, Mary Elizabeth Ward and six other students found the two girls, in addition to being enormously appreciative now that they’re in high school, to have values in common with them.

“We listened to music with them a lot on the bus rides and they had a lot of the music we listen to,” said Mary Elizabeth, also a 15-year-old sophomore, who next summer will be teaching English at the grade school and high school during her visit. “They are so happy to be who they are. And to be there,” she said.

They’re staying in touch via Facebook, in Spanish.

Next year, eight new Marin Catholic students will be partnered with four new El Carmen School

students, who will go on to Colegio Santa Isabel.

In addition to covering the tuition of $450 per year per student at Colegio Santa Isabel, transportation and other expenses, the fundraising is also going to cover four flush toilets and a kitchen at El Carmen School.

Here’s the Catholic element to the project: Jack said that this year’s Marin Catholic theme – there’s a new one each year – is “Love one another as I love you,” John 15:12. The El Carmen project, he said, “illustrates that you treat the people in El Carmen the same as everybody here even when they are so different from us.” He added, “It is to treat everybody equally and not be prejudiced. They might not have as much material stuff as we do but they have a lot. They are very spiritual and they seem to be happy no matter what happens to them.”

Mary Elizabeth said, “We showed our love for them and they showed their love for us.”

Also on the trip were students Billy Alten, Cristina Banuelos, Gianmarco Rossi, Lauren Sharps, Christopher Yates and Sheela Ziari, along with Navone, Valdez, Pacheco and Spanish teachers Adam Groshong and Patricia Wagner.

TAGLE: Manila’s ‘Chito’ known for humility FROM PAGE 1

Cardinal-designate Tagle told CNS Oct. 24 that the month of October, which is the month of the rosary, “is big for me.” He was informed in October 2001 that he would become a bishop and was told he’d be transferred to Manila in October 2011.

“And now it’s October again,” he said, laughing.

Describing to CNS what it was like to hear the announcement that he was being elevated Oct. 24, Cardinaldesignate Tagle fought back tears.

“Listening to the text of the pope’s letter being read out to me, I also felt like – here it comes,” he said. “It felt like someone far greater than I am is here. Very near.”

Admirers have widely lauded the theological gifts of the archbishop known as “Chito.”

“The depth of his understanding of theology was already at a far more superior level during our college years,” said Ricardo Jalbuena, who attended Jesuit-run Ateneo De Manila University’s San Jose Major

Seminary with him. “It was always enlightening to have Chito around.”

Jalbuena described the cardinaldesignate as a gifted speaker who does not shy away from modern media.

“He’s familiar with (it) such that God’s word could be readily communicated and understood by all,” he said.

In an interview earlier this year on the Salt and Light TV program “Witness,” Cardinal-designate Tagle told Basilian Father Thomas Rosica that he grew up wanting to be a medical doctor. But, he said with a laugh, all the church programs for young people confused him, and he entered the seminary.

During his seminary years, the Philippines was under martial law, and the seminary classes emphasized “the call for the church to be on the side of the poor, to be the voice of the voiceless.”

He later was sent to study theology at The Catholic University of America, Washington, where he was mentored by two prominent theologians:

Jesuit Father Avery Dulles, who later became a cardinal, and Father Joseph Komonchak, who remains a professor emeritus at the university.

The cardinal-designate said he learned many things from Father Dulles, but especially humility and to be a learner. From Father Komonchak, he said, he learned to listen to all the different approaches to the truth.

“Theology is at the service of the faith of the people,” he said in the Salt andLight interview, adding “good theology should be understandable to people, and it even should help them deepen their encounter with the Lord.”

Last December, during his installation Mass in Manila, Archbishop Tagle called on the faithful to look at reality through Jesus’ eyes.

“Then we see differently,” he said.

“A child, especially the unborn, is no longer seen as a burden, but a gift.

The youth are not a problem but a promise. Women are not objects but persons. Laborers are not machines but partners. The poor are not a nui-

ization, he added, the “first proclamation is needed even in countries that were evangelized long ago.”

Finally, the pope spoke of the need to persuade lapsed Catholics, “especially in the most secular countries,” to “encounter Jesus Christ anew, rediscover the joy of faith and return to religious practice in the community of the faithful.”

This effort, in particular, calls for “pastoral creativity” and use of a “new language attuned to the different world cultures,” he said.

As an example of such innovation, the pope mentioned the Vatican’s “Courtyard of the Gentiles” project, which promotes dialogue between religious believers and agnostics.

Referring to the day’s reading from the Gospel of St. Mark, the pope invoked Bartimaeus – the blind man who miraculously received his sight back from Jesus and then joined him as one of the disciples – as a model for Christians in countries “where the light of faith has grown dim.”

“New evangelizers are like that,” Pope Benedict said, “people who have had the experience of being healed by God, through Jesus Christ.”

Members of the Synod of Bishops recommended the Vatican establish a commission to monitor religious freedom, develop guidelines for training evangelizers and ensure there is a church in every diocese where confession is always available.

The synod approved 58 propositions, which were designed as recommendations for the pope to use in a post-synodal apostolic exhortation.

Many of the propositions described current challenges and opportunities that the church faces in sharing the Gospel, strengthening the faith and reaching out to lapsed Catholics.

POPE NAMES 6 NEW CARDINALS VATICAN CITY – Here is the list of the six cardinals-designate, in the order in which Pope Benedict XVI announced them Oct. 24: – U.S. Archbishop James M. Harvey, head of the Prefecture of the Papal Household, who will become archpriest of the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls, 63.

– Lebanese Maronite Patriarch Bechara Rai of Antioch and All the East, 72.

– Syro-Malankara Archbishop Baselios Cleemis Thottunkal of Trivandrum, India, 53.

– Nigerian Archbishop John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan of Abuja, 68.

– Colombian Archbishop Ruben Salazar Gomez of Bogota, 70.

– Philippine Archbishop Luis Tagle of Manila, 55. sance but our jewels, and creation is not an object of manipulation but a sign of God’s sustaining love.”

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Bishops urge parishes to act globally lthough you probably have never heard of it, this document has the potential of making a tremendous difference in the lives of the poorest people on earth. But first, 15 years of accumulated dust needs to be wiped away from “Called to Global Solidarity: International Challenges for U.S. Parishes.”

As we approach the 15th anniversary (Nov. 12) of this little known, but very important document of the U.S. bishops, it would be an excellent use of time for American Catholics, as TONY MAGLIANO well as Catholics in all other economically developed nations, to read and ponder the moral challenges of “Called to Global Solidarity.”

The bishops write that although international institutions, programs and collections exist, they have not yet “awakened a true sense of solidarity among many U.S. Catholics. The international commitment of the church in the U.S. is not all it can and should be. …

“While many parishes do build global bridges, the church’s teaching on global solidarity is too often unknown, unheard, or unheeded.”

The fact that the U.S., and nearly every other industrialized nation, gives less than 1 percent of its annual budget for poverty-focused international assistance, and that relatively few Catholics lobby legislators for more life-saving foreign aid, is sad evidence that building solidarity with the poor of the world is not a priority for most Catholics in the economically developed world.

This is not good. It does not reflect Gospel thinking or Catholic social teaching.

The bishops write, “The United States ranks first in the world in the weapons we sell to poor nations,” – $56 billion worth in 2011 – “and near the bottom in the proportion of our resources we devote to development for the poor.”

“For Catholics in the U.S. the call to international solidarity takes on special urgency. We live in the largest of the world’s wealthy nations … Yet all around us are signs of suffering and need: Foreign debt crushes hopes and paralyzes progress in too many poor nations … 35,000 persons die of hunger and its consequences every day around the world.”

And “26,000 people, mostly civilians, are maimed or killed every year by anti-personal land mines.” And yet the U.S. refuses to sign the Ottawa Treaty banning such weapons.

The bishops lament, “The sense of responsibility toward the world’s poor and oppressed has grown weaker.”

In the face of grave injustice and tremendous poverty-based world problems, rich nations are often tempted to choose paths of indifference, and even hostility to global engagement, write the bishops.

But as Americas prepare to elect a president and other national leaders, it is imperative to remember that “Our faith calls us to a different road – a path of global responsibility and solidarity.”

In “Called to Global Solidarity” the bishops teach that “A parish reaching beyond its own members and beyond national boundaries is a truly ‘catholic’ parish. An important role for the parish is to challenge and encourage every believer to greater global solidarity.” And the Mass – especially the homily – is ideally suited for this task.

The bishops write, “There is no greater opportunity to help Catholics understand the social dimensions of our faith than in the homily. …

“Christ is calling us to do more. In a sense, our parishes need to be more Catholic and less parochial. A suffering world must find a place in the pastoral priorities of every Catholic parish.”

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MAGLIANO is an internationally syndicated social justice and peace columnist.

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Catholics have historic chance to vote yes on Proposition 34 San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone wrote this letter to the faithful Oct. 29 in support of Proposition 34 on the Nov. 6 California ballot.

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Together with my fellow Bishops of California, Pope Benedict XVI, Blessed Pope John Paul II and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, I write to you today in strong support of Proposition 34 to replace the death penalty in California with a sentence of life in prison with no possibility of parole.

Archbishop As Catholics, this November we Salvatore J. have a historic chance to vote “YES Cordileone on 34” and so better promote the Church’s cherished tradition of restorative justice.

In 2005, the U.S. Bishops laid out a number of reasons for opposing the use of the death penalty, among them the irreversible mistake of executing an innocent person. The Bishops went on to find that the system was easily flawed, prone to error and biased.

We know that hundreds of innocent people have been wrongfully convicted of serious crimes in California. Nationwide, 140 death row inmates have been exonerated of their capital crimes. It is hard enough to restore justice to such people while they are still alive, it is quite impossible after they have been put to death.

While serious crimes do need to be addressed with serious sentences, life without the possibility of parole is a severe sentence that meets our goal of public safety while better respecting the sanctity of human life.

To date, over 400 Murder Victims’ Family Members are supporting Proposition 34. Vicki Schieber, one of the signers, who lost her daughter Shannon to violence, advocates for an end to the death penalty within our pro-life network.

Fellow Catholic, Bud Welch, whose daughter, Julie, was killed in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, puts it this way, “My conviction is simple: more violence…will not bring Julie back. More violence

only makes our society more violent.” As Catholics, we believe “as a gift from God, every human life is sacred from conception to natural death.”

In “Evangelium Vitae” (“The Gospel of Life”), Blessed Pope John Paul II explains the tendency both in the Church and in civil society to “view the death penalty in the context of a system of penal justice ever more in line with human dignity and thus, in the end, with God’s plan for man and society.”

The principle set forth in the Catechism of the Catholic Church remains valid: “If bloodless means are sufficient to defend human lives against an aggressor and to protect public order and the safety of persons, public authority must limit itself to such means, because they better correspond to the concrete conditions of the common good and are more in conformity to the dignity of the human person.”

Today, given the steady improvements in maximum security prisons, we can defend the public order, ensure people’s safety, and demand accountability for victims by requiring work and restitution to victims, without going to the extreme of executing an offender.

Perhaps most simply and importantly, in the words of the United States Bishops: “Ending the death penalty would be one important step away from a culture of death and toward building a culture of life” (USCCB 2005).

For additional information on the death penalty and Proposition 34, please visit our Archdiocesan Public Policy website www.sflifeandjustice.org on the death penalty.

For Bishops’ statements and the Catholic perspective on the death penalty in California please visit the California Catholic Conference website.

For nationwide resources on the death penalty visit the Catholic Mobilizing Network website.

Sincerely yours in Christ,

The Most Reverend Salvatore J. Cordileone Archbishop of San Francisco

LETTERS Testament to Catholic education

Letter unworthy of being in print

My parents called me the other day to tell me that I was mentioned in Catholic San Francisco, in a supplement entitled “Catholic High Schools Information Booklet” (Sept. 14). I was in the category “How Catholic High School Made Me Who I Am.” I was pictured among 14 former students, most of whom gave answers to this interesting question.

Unfortunately with my picture was a resume of my accomplishments rather than a direct quote. I would like to answer that question now and would ask that it be published in your forthcoming issue.

I grew up in an era of Catholic activism. I was educated by the Daughters of Charity, who on weekends drove to Fresno and picked grapes and were arrested with civil rights activist Cesar Chavez. I was educated by Christian Brothers who protested the war in Vietnam. I was witness to how the death of liberal, Democratic, Catholic presidential candidate Robert Kennedy devastated these committed men and women. My Catholic teachers taught me to stand up for what I believed in, to always question right and wrong, and to support the poor and those less privileged. I remember one Daughter of Charity in particular, Sister Paule Freeburg, who once said to me, “To whom much is given, much is expected.” I have taken that to heart.

Gary Lucchesi Los Angeles

I don’t understand where the idea comes from that Republicans are “promoting repugnant policies brutal to the poor.” Repugnant? Brutal? I ask your letter writer Carol Mantelli Valls (Oct. 19) to provide a single example illustrating where a policy of this nature was promoted.

Why does my Catholic San Francisco print unsubstantiated claims of this nature? What happened to balance and fairness? I challenge anyone to provide an example of Barack Obama reaching out to help inner-city youth escape the poverty and conditions that exist within their communities.

I beg you to please stop printing propaganda of this nature. It’s simply false witness and unworthy of being put to print.

Eugene Benson Novato

The communitarian revolt omits the element of sin Re Steven Kent, “A word that captures the meaning of community” (Opinion, Oct. 12): After spending the last century fighting three forms of collectivism, I am surprised that you continue to subscribe to the communitarian thesis that the community should be the center of our value system, rather than the individual SEE LETTERS, PAGE 17

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person as asserted in our Bill of Rights. You collapse the individual’s interest in the personal freedom to order his life in society into an overriding general interest in “Christian perfectionalism” by applying the symbolism of Acts 2:44-46 to the modern secular state. This, of course, is nonsense. Your construction, however, is consistent with that of Marx, Hobbes, Hegel and Engels in that you deform the Christian symbolism of the transcendent kingdom of God into an immanent parousia of Christian perfection.

Given your Christian conscience, the taking of the natural right of an individual to order his life in society and transferring that ordering right to the state requires an ethical “cover” to conceal the theft. The cover is achieved by an intellectual trick: You begin at the top, with the collectivity, and idealize the state in terms of the Judeo-Christian apocalypse, and then work back to the individual who must conform his life without complaint to the communal and public determined goods. The communitarian revolt against the world as it has been created by God arbitrarily omits an element of reality, and that is sin, which accounts for the division and rancor which you ascribe to the critical attitude of the individual to the state.

Thomas H. Werdel, Jr. San Francisco

Bishop’s remarks on role of women condescend to laity Re “Archbishop: Church needs witness of women proud to be Catholic” (Oct. 19): Archbishop (Andre-Joseph) Leonard (of Mechelen-Brussels), addressing the Synod of Bishops, noted that “Two-thirds of the active members of the church are women.” Ever wonder where the men are? Although it was not his intent, the archbishop’s remarks shed light on the question.

Reaching out to women, he explained “why only men may be ordained.” The priesthood is open only to men, he said “because the male figure of the priest is a representative of Christ, the groom, who came to wed humanity” through his spouse, the church.

A male priesthood, he went on to say, “is only out of respect for this profound symbol of marriage,” and he added, “Let us remember and remind the church of her profound feminine nature.”

These remarks, I think, are chauvinistic – condescending to the laity. They betray a mindset that places priests above the church, a representative of Christ wed to his spouse, the church.

A priest is indeed a representative of Christ. But another model is apropos. Extending a helping hand to the prostrated Cornelius, Peter said, “Stand up; I am only a man.” This encourages us to see a priest as one of us, as part of the church. The marriage of Christ to his church becomes clearer. A focus on male domination gives way to a deep awareness that either partner in a loving relationship willingly submits to the one best suited for a particular circumstance. Similarly, each of us grows in loving surrender to

Christ Jesus, who always knows what is best. That submission is considered to be a feminine trait is beside the point.

Where are the men? Perhaps many shy away because of uneasiness – consciously or not – with the role of bride, submitting to a male priest thought only to represent Christ, the groom.

Arthur Mangold San Mateo

A single-issue voter speaks out There are some people who object to being a single-issue voter. They point out that there are many issues to be considered in this election: economy, taxes, environment, war, etc. And while that is so, first you have to be alive in order to have a concern about these issues. Life takes priority in issues.

There are 53 million Americans who are not alive. They are dead because of abortion, since 1973 when abortion was legalized. They do not have the luxury of being concerned and voting over these other issues.

It’s a women’s issue, you may say. But the suicide rate of women who have had an abortion is six times more than of mothers who gave birth; and for teenagers who have aborted, the suicide rate is 10 times more. Those are devastating statistics for women. And, oh yes, half of the aborted dead were female.

And the people under age 40?

Many of them know that onefourth of their generation has been wiped out by abortion. All those missing people who would have been their friends, spouses, relatives, mentors, helpers; they are gone.

Do you want this to continue? I don’t. Life takes priority.

From a single-issue voter, J. Munn Foster City

Abortion issue must not be minimized Re “Parishioners discuss freedoms, responsibilities of Catholic citizenship” (Oct. 26): Well, folks, here we go again, just like four years ago when the Catholic Church could have greatly influenced the election.

“Contrary to what some Catholics believe,” said the bishop, “the church does not teach that Catholics must cast their votes based solely on a candidate’s stand on abortion.” True, the church cannot order you how to vote, but let’s be fair. Let us not emphasize minor points of contention and minimize abortion.

Gerald Studier San Rafael

We must vote as well-catechized Catholics What’s going on? I’m referring to the misleading articles in Catholic San Francisco on Oct. 26 on conscience. I’m referring to Page 15 where Bishop McElroy explains how every Christian “with an informed conscience is called upon to obey it—even if it conflicts with church teaching.” Since when did this become part of the Catechism of the Catholic Church? A faithful Catholic obeys and aligns himself with the magisterium of the Catholic Church. Then, parroting this same inaccuracy

on Page 16 is how “conscience guides young Catholic voters.” All I can say is God help us! A wellformed conscience accepts and welcomes the Ten Commandments and the teachings of the Catholic Church as an important moral compass and “inspired” guide to those of us who are lacking in the wisdom and knowledge of God’s will – which would be most of us.

It’s encouraging to note that in a “follow-up” interview (in the same article), Bishop (Robert W.) McElroy “stressed that a properly informed Catholic conscience must not only avoid rationalizing a predetermined choice but also must give presumption to the teaching of the church”—in laymen’s terms, means, our Catholic Church is not a democracy and the Ten Commandments are not opinions which a soul can pick and choose from. A soul has free will, yes – but that doesn’t mean that an unformed soul would choose well – just look at the lack of reasoning by the “young voters”! One said that they “were not aware of the church’s official stance on many issues” – this is not surprising, since teaching and preaching the catechism has been almost nonexistent from the pulpit for years.

Another young voter said that we should “leave religion out of politics.” As Catholics we must vote, and we must vote as wellcatechized Catholics – against abortion, same-sex marriage, and to protect religious freedom. It is our duty to always convey our faith in the public square, but not to allow the public to dictate to the church – ever.

Sandra Dillon San Mateo Editor’s note: In response to the writer’s question, “Since when did this become part of the Catechism of the Catholic Church?” Bishop McElroy cited section 1790 of the catechism: “A human being must always obey the certain judgment of his conscience. If he were to act deliberately against it, he would condemn himself.” He also stressed once again the importance of forming your conscience and giving presumption to the teachings of the church.

The abiding wit of Gracie Allen I liked your September issues and especially the article on Gracie Allen by (Terry Hanley), the principal of Star of the Sea School. I have to say that Gracie’s one-liners which I grew up with on radio, too, impressed me more than (New York) Cardinal (Timothy) Dolan’s monologue but maybe he needs to work on humor, as the Irish classmates I was fond of more often than not subscribed to “brevity is the soul of wit” as their maxim and were the better for it. Anyway, both Gracie and George were honored with postage stamps, something Cardinal Dolan can still aspire to. The sister-slugger of St. Joseph was another winner. I seem to recall that Ingrid Bergman took up a bat in “The Bells of St. Mary’s” and that film along with “Going My Way” no doubt inspired more than a few vocations. Well, turning the focus away from “if it bleeds, it leads” may be a big challenge but I think you’ve got “the right stuff ” to do it.

Rosemary K. Ring Kentfield

What’s wrong with our election process? ithout exception, everyone I’ve spoken to about the presidential race has said, “I can’t wait until it’s over.”

They weren’t looking forward to the next elected president taking office; rather, they were fed up.

One woman told me, “We’ve been over saturated with commercials and have FATHER EUGENE indigestion!”

HEMRICK Another man said, “The negative atmosphere has poisoned us.” Another bemoaned, “We’ve lost our sense of values, especially civility.” And then there was the observation: “All we heard was ‘you said that and I say this.’”

Add to this the media analysis of every speck of the candidates’ behavior: He was sweating; he seemed tired and unconcerned; he stumbled; he smiled too much; notice his frown.

For those of us who endure this, what are we to make of it?

Welcome to the new age of heightened incivility. One of the meanings of civility is to feel at home. Respect, good manners, politeness, graciousness and consideration make us feel comfortable and speak to our nobility. When they are missing, we sense something has gone wrong.

So we must ask, how considerate was it to be bombarded by the same repeated commercial as we tried to enjoy a favorite program?

We all love a good debate and a fighting spirit. But were the debates real debates? Did they exhaust an issue as much as is possible given the time, or were they focused on character assassination? What was the ratio of graciousness to rudeness?

When I addressed the question of millions of dollars spent on campaigning, a friend replied, “It’s worth it when you realize we are electing a person to the most powerful position in the world.”

Money will always play a major role in politics, but here we must ask, how principled are its donors? Is it the intention of the donor to ensure the common good, or is it given for personal gain?

Life is filled with personal interests, but when do they cross the line at the expense of the common good?

Much of what we heard in the debates was about the middle class; little was addressed to those living in poverty. This raises the question, how true is it that the gap has greatly widened between those who have and those who don’t have and why didn’t we hear more about this?

These questions aren’t intended to add more negativity to all the negativism we have experienced already. But we need to reflect on why we feel uncomfortable with a democratic process that we encourage all other nations to embrace.

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SUNDAY READINGS

Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time “You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength.”

MARK 12:28-34 DEUTERONOMY 6:2-6 Moses spoke to the people, saying: “Fear the Lord, your God, and keep, throughout the days of your lives, all his statutes and commandments which I enjoin on you, and thus have long life. Hear then, Israel, and be careful to observe them, that you may grow and prosper the more, in keeping with the promise of the Lord, the God of your fathers, to give you a land flowing with milk and honey. “Hear, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord alone! Therefore, you shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength.

Take to heart these words which I enjoin on you today.”

PSALM 18:2-3, 3-4, 47, 51 I love you, Lord, my strength.

I love you, O Lord, my strength, O Lord, my rock, my fortress, my deliverer.

I love you, Lord, my strength.

My God, my rock of refuge, my shield, the horn of my salvation, my stronghold! Praised

be the Lord, I exclaim, and I am safe from my enemies.

I love you, Lord, my strength.

The Lord lives! And blessed be my rock! Extolled be God my savior. You who gave great victories to your king and showed kindness to your anointed.

I love you, Lord, my strength.

HEBREWS 7:23-28 Brothers and sisters: The levitical priests were many because they were prevented by death from remaining in office, but Jesus, because he remains forever, has a priesthood that does not pass away.

Therefore, he is always able to save those who approach God through him, since he lives forever to make intercession for them. It was fitting that we should have such a high priest: holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, higher than the heavens. He has no need, as did the high priests, to offer sacrifice day after day, first for his own sins and then for those of the people; he did that once for all when he offered himself. For the law appoints men subject to weakness to be high priests,

but the word of the oath, which was taken after the law, appoints a son, who has been made perfect forever.

MARK 12:28B-34 One of the scribes came to Jesus and asked him, “Which is the first of all the commandments?”

Jesus replied, “The first is this: Hear, O Israel!

The Lord our God is Lord alone! You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. The second is this: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these.” The scribe said to him, “Well said, teacher. You are right in saying, ‘He is One and there is no other than he.’ And ‘to love him with all your heart, with all your understanding, with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself ’ is worth more than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.” And when Jesus saw that he answered with understanding, he said to him, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” And no one dared to ask him any more questions.

Ascending higher than heaven n the eve of the Sabbath each week, an old rabbi used to disappear. Suspecting that he might be having a secret tryst with the almighty, the intrigued congregation assigned one of them to investigate. It was discovered that the rabbi, disguising himself in a peasant’s clothes, served a Gentile woman in her cottage, cleaning out the room and preparing a meal for her.

When the spy returned to the congregation, they asked him: “Where did the rabbi go? Did he ascend to heaven?” “No,” the man replied, “he went even higher.”

Ascending higher than heaven is made possible by love. Transcending ourselves FATHER CHARLES in our humdrum lives is a PUTHOTA constant struggle, but with love we can hope to become what God wants us to be – his children–-reflecting his image and likeness. To be God-like is our intimate and ultimate calling. Love helps us attain this state of purity, dignity, and glory. If God were to be asked what was most frus-

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SCRIPTURE REFLECTION

POPE BENEDICT XVI PROGRESS DOES NOT ALWAYS BRING FREEDOM, HAPPINESS

The world’s huge scientific and technological progress hasn’t always made people feel freer or happier, Pope Benedict XVI said Oct. 24 at his weekly general audience in Vatican City. Scientific knowledge and advancements “are important to human life, but it’s not enough on its own,” he said before 20,000 gathered in St. Peter’s Square. “We need not just material sustenance, we need love, meaning, hope and a solid foundation” that helps people live with courage even in the face of doubt, difficulties and everyday problems.

Along with signs of increased well-being, there are also “many forms of exploitation, manipulation, violence, tyranny and injustice,” the pope said.

trating to him about human beings, he would most probably say: “I can’t understand why people don’t love because I made them for love, nothing else.”

The word of God this Sunday sheds light on love, the here-and-now reality, which is also our ultimate destiny. Love is bandied about much, but how many of us understand that love consists not in words but in deeds? Again, few of us understand that love consists in suffering and sacrifice, a truth demonstrated by Jesus on the cross. Yet again, few of us understand that love of God and love of others cannot be separated. If religions understood this truth, all violence and hatred would cease immediately.

The genius of Jesus in today’s Gospel is that he interprets the Hebrew Scriptures creatively and courageously to reveal his Father’s ultimate will for us: to love God and love neighbor. Jesus’ way of reading the scriptures is an inspiration for us in the world of today to interpret them in a way that we can all transcend ourselves. The ideological and petty interpretations of the scriptures have led to too much sadness and violence in the world.

With supreme freedom and stunning imagination, Jesus brings together the much-celebrated “Shema Israel” (“Hear, O Israel”) passage from Deuteronomy 6:4-6, which is about love of God, and the much-neglected verse on love of neighbor in

Leviticus 19:18. Jesus knows that the first one from Deuteronomy about loving God with all our heart, soul, and strength is vital, but so is the commandment, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself ” from Leviticus. The insight of Jesus is this: that we cannot love God without loving others. We cannot love others without loving God. It’s the same love that fills us all our lives: the ocean of love that springs from God which guides our pilgrim way through all forms of human love draws us back to the final destiny, God himself who is love.

In our daily lives, love takes on many avatars: forgiveness, patience, gentleness, kindness, appreciation, gratitude, feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, embracing the strangers, uplifting the neglected, openness to truth, fighting injustice, ending discrimination, caring for the environment, to name a few. Love is a many-splendored reality: “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways!” We cannot love in a vacuum, in an abstract way. Love’s various manifestations press upon our hearts constantly and lead us into each other’s hearts and into the heart of God. As Eric Fromm says insightfully, “Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.”

FATHER PUTHOTA is pastor of St. Veronica Parish, South San Francisco.

LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5: Monday of the Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time. Phil 2:1-4. Ps 131:1bcde, 2, 3. Lk 14:12-14.

BLESSED JOHN DUNS SCOTUS 1265-1308 November 8

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6: Tuesday of the Thirtyfirst Week in Ordinary Time. Phil 2:5-11. Ps 22:26b27, 28-30ab, 30e, 31-32. Lk 14:15-24.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8: Thursday of the Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time. Bl. John Duns Scotus, priest. Phil 3:3-8a. Ps 105:2-3, 4-5, 6-7. Lk 15:1-10.

This doctor of the church was one of the greatest English-speaking philosophers and theologians of his time. Born in Scotland and possibly educated by a Franciscan uncle, he became a Franciscan at 15 and studied at Oxford University. He was ordained in 1291, studied and taught at the University of Paris, and taught at the University of Cologne, Germany, where he died. His writings and teachings influenced many scholars who came after him. He publicly defended the then-controversial doctrine of the Immaculate Conception.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9: Feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica in Rome. Ez 47:1-2, 8-9, 12. Ps 46:2-3, 5-6, 8-9. 1 Cor 3:9c-11, 16-17. Jn 2:13-22.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10: Memorial of St. Leo the Great, pope and doctor of the church. Phil 4:10-19. Ps 112:1b-2, 5-6, 8a and 9. Lk 16:9-15.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7: Wednesday of the Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time. Phil 2:12-18. Ps 27:1, 4, 13-14. Lk 14:25-33.

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Carry the tension, and never weary here is a Norwegian proverb that reads: Heroism consists of hanging on one minute longer.

When I was a child in elementary school one of the stories assigned to us in our textbook for literature had that title and it told the story of a young boy who had fallen through the ice while skating and was left clinging, cold and alone, to the edge of the ice with no help in sight. As he hung on in this seemingly hopeless situation he was tempted many times to simply let go since no one was going to come along to rescue him. But he held on, despite FATHER RON all odds. Finally, when everyROLHEISER thing seemed beyond hope, he clung on one minute longer and after that extra minute help arrived. The story was simple and its moral was simple: This young boy lived because he had the courage and strength to hang on one minute longer.

Rescue comes just after you have given up on it, so extend your courage and waiting one minute longer.

This is a tale of physical heroism and it makes its point clearly, heroism often consists in staying the course long enough, of hanging on when it seems hopeless, of suffering cold and aloneness while waiting for a new day.

Scripture teaches much the same thing about moral heroism: In the Second Letter to the Thessalonians, Paul ends a long, challenging admonition by stating: You must never grow weary of doing what is right. And in his letter to the Galatians, Paul virtually repeats the Norwegian proverb: Let us not become weary of doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

This sounds so simple and yet it cuts to the heart of many of our moral struggles. We give up too soon, give in too soon, and don’t carry our solitude to its highest level. We simply don’t carry tension long enough.

All of us experience tension in our lives: tension in our families, tension in our friendships, tension in our places of work, tension in our churches, tension in our communities, and tension within our conversations around other people, politics and current events. And, being good-hearted people, we carry that tension with patience, respect, graciousness, and forbearance – for awhile! Then, at a certain point we feel ourselves stretched to the limit, grow weary of doing what is right, feel something snap inside of us, and hear some inner voice say: Enough! I’ve put up with this too long! I won’t tolerate this anymore!

And we let go, unlike the little boy clinging to the ice and waiting for rescue. We let go of patience, respect, graciousness and forbearance, either by venting and giving back in kind or simply by fleeing the situation with an attitude of good riddance. Either way, we refuse to carry the tension any longer.

But that exact point, when we have to choose between giving up or holding on, carrying tension or letting it go, is a crucial moral site, one that determines character: Bigheartedness, nobility of character, deep maturity, and spiritual sanctity often manifest themselves around these questions: How much tension can we carry? How great is our patience and forbearance? How much can we put up with? Mature parents put up with a lot of tension in raising their children. Mature teachers put up with a lot of tension in trying to open the minds and hearts of their students. Mature friends absorb a lot of tension in remaining faithful to each other. Mature young women and men put up with a lot of sexual tension while waiting for marriage. Mature Christians put up with a lot of tension in helping to absorb the immaturities and sins of their churches. Men and women are noble of character precisely when they can walk with patience, respect, graciousness and forbearance amid crushing and unfair tensions, when they never grow weary of doing what is right.

It’s the way of long loneliness, with many temptations to let go and slip away. But, if you persevere and never grow weary of doing what is right, at your funeral, those who knew you will be blessed and grateful that you continued to believe in them even when for a time they had stopped believing in themselves.

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Praising St. Kateri Tekakwitha St. Kateri Tekakwitha is depicted in a modern painting by Stephen B Whatley, an expressionist artist based in London. Whatley painted the piece on her canonization day Oct. 21. St. Kateri, often referred to as the “Lily of the Mohawks,” is known for her deep faith, joy and generosity. She is listed as patron of American Indians, ecology and the environment and is held up as a model for Catholic youths.

A window on the history of our catechisms This is the third of three articles on the Year of Faith, which began Oct. 11 and ends Nov. 24, 2013. he Year of Faith proclaimed by Pope Benedict invites us to appreciate more deeply and use more effectively the Catechism of the Catholic Church and the United States Catholic Catechism for Adults.

On Oct.11, 1992, Pope John Paul II published his apostolic exhortation “The Deposit of Faith” (Fidei Depositum) to promulgate the new Catechism of the Catholic Church. He chose that date to mark the 30th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council, source of the CCC’s BROTHER JOHN inspiration.

M. SAMAHA, SM John Paul II explained in “The Deposit of Faith” (IV, n. 4) that the CCC “is meant to encourage and assist in the writing of new local catechisms, which take into account various situations and cultures, while carefully preserving the unity of faith and fidelity to Catholic doctrine.” He envisioned the CCC as a solid and authentic reference text for teaching Catholic doctrine and particularly for preparing local catechisms. The bishops of the U.S. followed his direction and in June 2000 commissioned a national adult catechism.

The Roman Catechism, 1566: The bishops assembled for the Council of Trent in 1563 called for a compilation and publication of a printed catechism to include a comprehensive and systematic presentation of Catholic teachings. Pope St. Pius V saw to its completion, and the work was published in 1566 as the Roman Catechism. This valuable instructional tool became the sourcebook for local catechisms for centuries until its last edition in 1978.

The Baltimore Catechism, 1884: For Catholics in the U.S., the word catechism meant the Baltimore Catechism until the time of the Second Vatican Council. This catechism resulted from the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore in 1884 when the bishops of the U.S. decided to publish a national catechism. It contained 421 questions and answers in 37 chapters, and became the basic religious education text for many decades for countless millions of youth and adults.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1992: With the dawn of the Second Vatican Council, Pope John XXIII articulated a vision for the council fa-

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thers that charged them to present more effectively the deposit of faith and to make it more accessible to the Christian faithful and all people of good will in the contemporary world. The benefits of a new universal catechism eventually captured the attention of the council fathers, who recognized the significant growth, new insights and challenges faced by the church and by society since the Council of Trent. In 1985 a synod of bishops convened in Rome to mark the 20th anniversary of Vatican II’s conclusion. The proposal for a new catechism was affirmed, and preparations began for a new reference book for the catechisms that would be produced for various parts of the world. The result was the Catechism of the Catholic Church released in 1992, and a revised edition appeared in 1997.

The CCC is organized in four parts that treat the creed, the sacraments, morality, and prayer. The United States Catholic Catechism for Adults follows the same order. The content reflects the apostolic tradition, Scripture, and the magisterium as well as the heritage of the doctors, fathers, and saints of the church, while illuminating contemporary situations and questions.

The objective of the CCC is to guide the lifelong call to holiness and everlasting life by witnessing to Christ, the church and God’s kingdom of salvation, love, justice, mercy and peace in the world.

The CCC is addressed not only to bishops, priests, teachers and writers, but is meant for all the faithful and is offered to everyone who wants to know what the Catholic Church teaches.

United States Catholic Catechism for Adults, 2006: This is an adaptation of the CCC intended for Latin and Eastern Catholics of the U.S. However, the Eastern churches may develop their own catechisms to highlight their own traditions. This edition follows the same order of the CCC. It is helpful in reflecting the sacramental language, practice, and discipline of the Eastern churches to the level necessary to provide basic information to Latin Catholics about the Eastern churches. The unique and appealing structure of each chapter of the U.S. catechism joins a story about living the faith with a particular teaching, then includes sidebars and doctrinal statements, relates the teaching to the culture, offers questions for discussion and hints for prayer.

In this Year of Faith make the effort to become better acquainted with the CCC and the U.S catechism.You will find these books interesting, instructive and inspiring.

MARIANIST BROTHER SAMAHA lives in Cupertino.

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

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Council championed laity in life of the church DOLORES R. LECKEY CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

This year, this century, is surely a time of remembrance. In the 1960s the Catholic Church undertook serious reform through the life-changing event of the Second Vatican Council. At the center of it all were the vast majority of members of the Catholic Church: the laity. In some popular writing of the time it was dubbed “the laity’s council.”

Men and women who had been studying and living the lay vocation, and theologians who had promoted the role of the laity, celebrated the promulgation of the Decree on the Apostolate of the Laity on Nov. 18, 1965.

Other council documents highlighted the essential role of the laity in the life and mission of the church, among them “Lumen Gentium,” which said that all, no matter what their rank or status, are called to holiness and that this holiness is lived in “the very web of their existence.” Women and men need not flee the world to experience living the fullness of Christian life.

With ground cultivated by lay organizations and theologians, the council debates often focused on the laity. Numerous bishops from all over the world made it known they wanted a document solely devoted to the laity. These bishops described by the theological journalist Xavier Rynne as “men of every breed, sons of peasants and princes and bankers, and sons of laborers, tribal chiefs and trolley car conductors” all spoke of a larger, more enriched understanding of the crucial role of the laity in the church and in the world.

A draft was presented to the council fathers in 1964. Observers saw in this debate on the laity a turning point as the exchanges moved from formality to direct speech, honesty and candor.

‘TO LABOR IN HIS VINEYARD’

Anyone looking at the role of the laity in the Catholic Church today can’t imagine the life of a modern parish without it. The roles lay men and women take on are crucial to a life of faith formation and a path toward sanctity for churchgoers. Few know, however, that before the Second Vatican Council, the role of the laity was different and limited.

As the council allowed for more participation and the laity responded, the clergy also recognized this new path and how it would play in the life of the church.

“The risen Lord calls everyone to labor in his vineyard,” said a document issued in 2005 by the U.S. bishops: “Co-Workers in the Vineyard of the Lord: A Resource for Guiding the Development of Lay Ecclesial Ministry.” Laypeople, as the Catechism of the Catholic Church says, are called to “cooperate with their pastors in the service of the ecclesial community, for the sake of its growth and life.”

Besides serving in parishes, the laity are called to work in church institutions and communities. The bishops pointed out that this sharing of gifts “is a sign of the Holy Spirit’s movement in the lives of our sisters and brothers.”

THE COUNCIL AND THE LAITY

For many centuries, the usual way of defining the laity was to say that they were not clergy or vowed religious. This way of identifying nearly the entire membership of the church ended at the Second Vatican Council. Vatican II emphasized the full, conscious and active participation of all the faithful, not only in the liturgy but in the life of the church. Documents spoke of lay participation in liturgical ministries, missionary activities, teaching and charitable works.

(CNS PHOTO/GREGORY A. SHEMITZ)

A lay minister distributes Communion at Transfiguration Church in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, N.Y. The laity’s role in the church was an important topic during the Second Vatican Council.

Frankly put, the bishops did not like the draft. They didn’t like the process.

There was no consultation with laity. It had a “clerical” tone, some said.

Many bishops said they wanted to build the Decree on the Lay Apostolate on the foundation of baptism. Cardinal Leo Jozef Suenens of Belgium was a key figure in the rewriting of the decree on the laity. “By showing a proper spirit of freedom toward the laity”, he said, “the church would be showing greater respect for the freedom of the Holy Spirit who inspires and sustains the whole apostolate.”

How did this leap come about? Much of the conversation about the church had to do with leaders and leadership.

It helps to remember that during the council (and immediately after) there were church leaders who trusted the laity and who said so in public, conscious of the course they were setting. The

laity believed in and trusted leaders.

All held hope high that the Spirit was moving in new and dynamic ways.

During the fourth and final session of the council in 1965, the decree was passed. Some of the major themes that have had postconciliar influence include the following: – The decree affirms that the laity have a true vocation and are called by God to serve in diverse ways in the world and in the church.

– The term “spirituality” is mentioned, perhaps for the first time, and family life and secular concerns are recognized as relevant to the spiritual life of the laity. Friendship is said to be essential in the life of the laity.

– The goals of the apostolate are noted as many and inclusive. Works of justice in the temporal order have a prominent place: issues of war and peace, how the poor fare in society,

concerns about housing, work, medical care and education.

– Women receive special attention as agents of solidarity. The parish is cited as a place for collaboration between men and women, and the “domestic church” – the home – is also viewed as a site for collaboration. Husband and wife are referred to as “married partners” with the implication of equality.

– The seeds for lay ministry are sown in the decree, which lists variety of pastoral duties that can be undertaken by the laity.

This is simply a sampling of the richness in the decree.

In these many decades since the decree on the laity was issued, there has been the recurring theme of a call to holiness. It is helpful to remember what the council said about holiness, namely that authentic holiness is communitarian, relational, a more human way of life. Its character is Trinitarian.

LECKEY is a senior fellow at Woodstock Theological Center, Georgetown University.

Laity’s role changed dramatically after council MARCELLINO D’AMBROSIO CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

Councils of the universal church, called “ecumenical councils,” had been convened 20 times in almost as many centuries to discuss all sorts of issues.

But the Second Vatican Council, the 21st ecumenical council, was the first to specifically address the laity and its place in the life of the church.

So how was the role of laity seen prior to the council? A certain English monsignor of the 19th century quipped, with regard to the laity, “to hunt, to shoot, to entertain. These matters they understand, but to meddle with ecclesiastical matters they have no right at all.”

Before the council, laity were passive spectators in the liturgy, often praying devotional prayers while they were “hearing” Mass since the readings were in Latin. Of course, lay ushers collected and counted the money, and often the choir and its director were lay.

As for the apostolic life of the church, laity were involved in charitable works of mercy through groups such as the Knights of Columbus and the St. Vincent de Paul Society. However, the teaching of the faith was predominantly the role of priests and the sisters. There were few lay teachers in Catholic schools and a few lay theology professors in Catholic universities.

A certain English monsignor of the 19th century quipped, with regard to the laity, “to hunt, to shoot, to entertain.

These matters they understand, but to meddle with ecclesiastical matters they have no right at all.”

The goal of the council was to promote the conscious, active participation of the laity in the liturgy, but also to restore a much broader and richer participation of the laity in the apostolic life of the church as reflected in the Acts of the Apostles and the epistles.

In the liturgy, laity began serving as lectors. As the numbers of priests decreased, laity also were called to serve as extraordinary ministers of holy Communion, both at Mass and, in some cases, bringing Communion to the sick.

While the traditional works of mercy and their respective lay societies continued, laity came to exercise leadership in an important new work of mercy: advocacy on behalf of the

oppressed and the unborn. Lay leadership drove social justice work and the pro-life movement in the decades following the council.

Probably the biggest change in the aftermath of Vatican II was an explosion of lay participation in evangelization and catechesis. Prior to the council, those wishing to “convert” to Catholicism would receive private instruction from a priest.

With the restoration of the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults, we see an extensive process of instruction where not only lay catechists predominate, but the laity serve in a very personal and critical role of sponsor.

After the council, Catholic school teachers and administrators became increasingly lay, as did catechists and directors of religious education.

But the council taught something that elevates the catechetical role of the laity even further: it identified parents as the primary religious educators of their children.

It also taught that the secular employment of laypeople, far from being a distraction from their Christian vocation, was their primary way to sanctify, not only themselves, but society.

D’AMBROSIO is co-founder of Crossroads Productions – www.crossroadsinitiative. com – an apostolate of Catholic renewal and evangelization.

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Priests and their pets in the archdiocese of St. Francis of Assisi VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Visitors to St. Mark Church in Belmont could find a black cat sitting next to them in the pew.

Jambo in Swahili means “How are you?” says Holy Ghost Father Al Furtado, who adds, “He comes when you whistle.”

“The kids come after Mass, ‘Where’s Jambo?

Where’s Jambo?’ And you know he never runs away from the kids, he loves to be petted. He’s not shy,” the pastor said.

Jambo is very particular though, said parishioner Delia Panilo, “He doesn’t like to drink water unless he sees the person putting the water in the trough. He has to watch you put the faucet on.”

It is certainly appropriate that so many of the priests and people of the Archdiocese of San Francisco love animals, since the best known patron saint of animals, St. Francis of Assisi, is also patron of the archdiocese. The city and the archdiocese take their names from Mission San Francisco de Asís, the formal name of Mission Dolores, one of the string of California missions built by the Franciscan Fathers led by Blessed Junipero Serra.

Coincidentally, Mission Dolores has its own very popular pet. Father Arturo L. Albano’s Labradoodle, Timo, is so beloved by both priests and parishioners that parish secretary Denise Kahn says, “I’ll tell you honestly, the dog is more popular than the father.” The pastor agrees: “He goes out at recess to play with the school children and everyone asks about Timo. It’s no longer, ‘How are you, Father?’, but ‘How’s Timo?’”

Many saints are known for their ties to animals, said St. Mary Star of the Sea pastor Father Thomas M. Parenti, whose 12-year-old collie His Eminence Dante Cardinal Parenti is the latest in a lifetime of pets.

Two of the most notable saints with ties to animals, like St. Francis, founded religious orders.

The mother of St. Dominic, the founder of the Dominican order, dreamed of a dog with a torch lighting the world aflame, and to this day true Dominican churches will have at least one statue of a dog hidden somewhere in the structure, Father Parenti said. St. John Bosco, founder of the Salesians of Don Bosco, was defended from an assassin by a mysterious dog.

Many of the priests’ pets were originally gifts.

Father Albano’s dog was a gift from a school family at St. Timothy Parish in San Mateo. Father Piers Lahey, the new pastor at St. Andrew Parish in Daly City, received his golden retriever, Owen, as a gift from the school during his 14year tenure at Church of the Good Shepherd in Pacifica.

In Menlo Park, Father Fabio Medina’s poodles, Stella and Chica, play in the parish house garden of the Spanish-speaking parish of St. Anthony of Padua. Friends gave Stella, age 2½, to Father Medina. Then, when the owner of Stella’s niece, Chica, 1, couldn’t keep her “I said I would keep her for a few days.”

St. Thomas More pastor Msgr. Labib Kobti’s dogs, Lucky, a 7-year-old dachshund, and Colton, a 4-year-old Chihuahua mix, “play with each other all day,” said the priest. Colton joined the rectory family in 2010. Colton needed a new home and Lucky was lonely while Msgr. Kobti was undergoing kidney dialysis before his transplant in 2010. Lucky has a special trick – he can bark in time to Msgr. Kobti singing “Happy Birthday.”

Father William Young, 74, in residence at Most Holy Redeemer Parish, celebrates the pre-Vatican II or extraordinary rite of the Latin Mass daily and Sundays. At 74, he said he has had dogs ever since his family moved out of an apartment into a house in 1949. The exception was during his time in the seminary when he kept a parakeet.

Father Young’s two dogs, Eppie, a Papillion mix who lost one eye because of abuse during a previous life, and Sophie, an 8-year-old spanielLabrador mix, are inseparable from the priest.“I love these dogs. They’re my family,” Father Young said.

At St. Philip the Apostle Parish, Tennessee is a rescue from a Petaluma shelter who greets everyone who rings the bell. “He’s always in the schoolyard with the kids,” Father Tony LaTorre said. “The whole neighborhood knows him,” said the Noe Valley pastor. “They don’t know who I am, they know who he is.”

(PHOTOS BY VALERIE SCHMALZ/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

Father William Young, Most Holy Redeemer

Two of the most notable saints with ties to animals, like St. Francis, founded religious orders.

St. Dominic’s mother dreamed of a dog with a torch lighting the world aflame. St. John Bosco was defended from an assassin by a mysterious dog.

Cathy Coolin, office manager, with Father Alwyn Furtado, St. Mark, Belmont

Father Fabio Medina, St. Anthony, Menlo Park

Father Tony LaTorre, St. Philip the Apostle

Father Thomas M. Parenti, St. Mary Star of the Sea, Sausalito

Father Piers Lahey, St. Andrew

Father Arturo L. Albano, Mission Dolores

Msgr. Labib Kobti, St. Thomas More

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Marin Catholic High school presents “Twelve Angry Jurors.”

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“THE SERVANT OF TWO MASTERS”: Tri-School Productions (Serra, Mercy Burlingame and Notre Dame high schools), Gellert Auditorium, Serra High School, 451 West 20th Ave., San Mateo; Nov. 2, 3, 7:30 p.m.; $15 adult, $10 student/senior. Tickets at Trischoolproductions.com or at the door.

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“THE SERVANT OF TWO MASTERS”: Convent of the Sacred Heart/Stuart Hall High School, Syufy Theatre, 2222 Broadway, San Francisco; Nov. 15, 16, 7 p.m.; Nov. 17, 2 p.m.; Tickets $5 at the door.

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In the spirit of their predecessors, members of the San Francisco chapter of the Ladies of Charity travel the distance seeking service to those living in poverty and carrying the charism of their founder St. Vincent de Paul into the streets of the city and beyond.

According to Daughter of Charity Sister Estela Morales, moderator for the group since 1997, the charism of St. Vincent de Paul has motivated the San Francisco Ladies of Charity to provide assistance to those in need since its inception more than 20 years ago.

“Charism is the gift of grace bestowed by the Holy Spirit on a particular religious group,” she said. “The charism of the Daughters of Charity is rooted in the teachings of St. Vincent de Paul embracing service and ministry to those living in poverty.”

St. Vincent de Paul, a country priest, formed the first Ladies of Charity in 1617, and also founded the Company of the Daughters of Charity with St. Louise de Marillac, a widow, in 1633 in Paris, France.

A deep respect for the legacy of providing compassionate care and understanding to the less fortunate provided the impetus for Burlingame resident Charlotte Kiesel to form the first San Francisco chapter of the Ladies of Charity in 1990.

“The more I learned about the vision of St. Vincent and St. Louise and the way the first Daughters of Charity traveled the streets of Paris, the more I admired their ministry of service,” she said. “Everything evolved from there.”

Kiesel found herself heading the group as the first president with support from Ellie Journey, vice

Daughter of Charity Sister Arthur Gordon, Charlotte Kiesel and Daughter of Charity Sister Paule Freeburg are pictured at a retreat in about 1990. president; Jean Lawson, secretary; and Joan Freitas, treasurer. The core group of 12 members was installed as the first Ladies of Charity in the Archdiocese of San Francisco with Archbishop John R. Quinn presiding at the eucharistic celebration on March 15, 1990, the feast day of St. Louise de Marillac. The service was held at Seton Medical Center in Daly City followed by a celebratory dinner. Daughter of Charity Sister Arthur Gordon served as first moderator of the group.

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Today, the Ladies of Charity serve those living in poverty worldwide. The association of the Ladies of Charity in the U.S., established in 1960, now boasts more than 300,000 volunteers. As part of the Vincentian family, members work together to share in the prayer life and blessings born of serving Christ in the spirit of charity.

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HELP WANTED High School President Sought Mercy High School Burlingame, CA The Board of Trustees of Mercy High School, Burlingame, is seeking an individual to serve as President and accept the challenge of continuing the educational legacy set forth by the Sisters of Mercy.

Committed to educating the whole person, Mercy High School offers its students not only outstanding college preparatory and assisted learning programs but also rich opportunities for spiritual growth, a wide range of athletic sports, and service learning possibilities.

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FRIDAY, NOV. 2 FIRST FRIDAY ADORATION: 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Blessed Sacrament Shrine, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco. (415) 567-2020.

RETROUVAILLE WEEKEND: A Program for marriages in difficult times.

(415) 893-1005. SF@RetroCA.com. www.HelpOurMarriage.com.

ALL SOULS MASS: Holy Cross Cemetery, 1500 Old Mission Road, Colma, 11 a.m., All Saints Mausoleum Chapel, Father Dan Carter, pastor, Our Lady of Lourdes/All Hallows Parish, San Francisco, celebrant. (650) 756-2060.

FIRST FRIDAY: The Contemplatives of St. Joseph offer Mass at Mater Dolorosa Church, 307 Willow Ave., South San Francisco, 7 p.m. followed by healing service and personal blessing with St. Joseph oil from Oratory of St. Joseph, Montreal.

FILM NIGHT: “The Mighty Macs” and Year of Faith, 6:30 p.m., Pauline Books & Media Center, 935 Brewster Ave., Redwood City, (650) 369-4230. redwood@paulinemedia.com.

SATURDAY, NOV. 3 MASS: Holy Cross Cemetery, 1500 Old Mission Road, Colma, 11 a.m., All Saints Mausoleum Chapel. Celebrant, homilist is Father Marvin Felipe, parochial vicar, St. Mary’s Cathedral.

DOCTORS MASS: St. Luke’s Mass and Banquet, St. Thomas More Church, 1300 Junipero Serra Blvd., San Francisco, 5 p.m. Dinner at nearby Alma Via residence, 6 p.m. gemaloof2003@ yahoo.com. (415) 305-2408.

REUNION: St. Paul High School homecoming Mass and luncheon, 11:30 a.m. St. Paul Church, San Francisco.

Lunch follows in parish hall. Golden Belle Class of 1963 will be honored.

(415) 648-7538.

ROSARY: Pro-life tosary is prayed 9 a.m. in front of Planned Parenthood,

35 Baywood Ave., San Mateo each first Saturday sponsored by San Mateo Pro-Life. Jessica (650) 572-1468.

SUNDAY, NOV. 4 ST. PETER’S MASS: Memorial Mass and reception for all connected through the years with St. Peter School, San Francisco at St. Peter Church, 1200 Florida St. at 24th Street, San Francisco, 2 p.m. The classes of 1962 and 1987 and all graduates 2000-2011 will be honored. (415) 647-8662.

VETERANS HONORED: St. Cecilia Parish, 17th Avenue and Vicente, San Francisco rededicates its veteran’s plaque at 9:30 a.m. Mass. Names of living and deceased parishioners who have served in the Armed Forces during wartime will be permanently inscribed. All current and former St. Cecilia veterans and persons who know of a St. Cecilia veteran who would like to be considered for this special honor should contact Terry Howard at (415) 336-4746 or email tall76@aol.com.

MONDAY, NOV. 5 ‘HOPE UNCORKED’: Evening of wine, music and celebration, 6:30 p.m. Catholic Charities CYO event benefiting Bay Area kids in need at Yoshi’s. California’s premier wines, Japanese cuisine, live jazz from the Lorca Hart Trio and Grupo Falso Baiano, as well as auctions featuring affordable cases of wine and rare wines. Visit www.cccyo.org/ hopeuncorked.

TUESDAY, NOV. 6 3-DAY BOUTIQUE: St. Mary’s Hospital, main lobby, 750 Stanyan St., San Francisco, Nov. 6, 7, 8. Nov. 6 is preview 4-7 p.m. with $10 fee including refreshments and free parking. Free admission Wednesday 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; Thursday 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Days include silent auction and raffle. Proceeds benefit Women’s Health Center. (415) 750-5646.

WOMEN’S BOOK CLUB: Discussion and sharing based on Richard Rohr’s book “Falling Upward.,” 4:30-6 p.m., Pauline Books & Media Center, 935 Brewster Ave., Redwood City, (650) 369-4230. redwood@paulinemedia. com.

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SUNDAY, NOV. 11

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

REUNION: St. Charles School, San Carlos, Class of ’62, 5:30 dinner, Poplar Creek Grill, San Mateo. Connie Trewin, (650) 343-6889. LMadison25@ aol.com.

THURSDAY, NOV. 8 ADHD CONFERENCE: Nov. 8-10 at Hyatt Regency SFO for parents, caregivers, educators, physicians and others helping people with ADHD. Topics include stigma, mental illness and families; ADHD and autism; controversies and current trends. www.chadd. org/conference2012. (800) 233-4050.

PRO-LIFE MEET: San Mateo Pro-Life, St. Gregory Parish Worner Center, 135 28th Ave., San Mateo, 7:30 p.m. Group is open to new membership. smprolife@yahoo.com. (650) 572-1468.

FRIDAY, NOV. 9 ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY: Conversation group on ancient philosophical texts, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, Msgr. Bowe Room, 7:30-10 p.m. reynaldo.miranda@gmail.com. (415) 584 8794.

WEEKEND RETREAT: Religious life discernment retreat, Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose. Begins Friday 6 p.m., ends Sunday 2 p.m. Free will offering, 43326 Mission Blvd. entrance on Mission Tierra Place, Fremont.

Register deadline is Nov. 5. vocations@ msjdominicans.org. (510) 933-6335.

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Advertisments appearing in this newspaper without a license number indicate that the contractor is not licensed.

For more information, contact: Contractors State License Board 800-321-2752

Inner Child Healing Offers a deep spiritual and psychological approach to counseling: ❖ 30 years experience with individuals, . couples and groups

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MONDAY, NOV. 12 VETERANS DAY PRAYER SERVICE: Outdoor service in Star of the Sea Section, Holy Cross Cemetery, 1500 Old Mission Road, Colma, 11 a.m. Msgr.

Msgr. C. Michael C. Michael Padazinski Padazinski, presides.

Msgr. Padazinski, chancellor of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, also serves as a chaplain in the U.S. Air Force Reserve with the rank of Colonel. (650) 756-2060. www.holycrosscemeteries. com.

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WEEKLY CATHOLIC TV MASS: A TV Mass is broadcast Sundays at 6 a.m. on the Bay Area’s KTSF Channel 26 and KOFY Channel 20, and in the Sacramento area at 5:30 a.m. on KXTL Channel 40. It is produced for viewing by the homebound and others unable to go to Mass by God Squad Productions with Msgr. Harry Schlitt, celebrant. Catholic TV Mass, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco 94109, (415) 614-5643, janschachern@aol.com.

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COUNSELING

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SERRA AUCTION: “This Magic Moment,” 5:30-11 p.m. at Junipero Serra High School, 451 W. 20th Ave., San Mateo. $100. No-host bar. www.serrahs.com/auction.

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PUBLICIZE YOUR EVENT: Submit event listings by noon Friday. Email calendar.csf@ sfarchdiocese.org, write Calendar, One Peter Yorke Way, SF 94109, or call Tom Burke at (415) 614-5634.

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

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

TUESDAY, NOV. 13 FICTION BOOK CLUB: Discussion based on C.S Lewis’ “The Screwtape Letters,” 7-8:30 p.m., Pauline Books & Media Center, 935 Brewster Ave., Red-

wood City, (650) 369-4230. redwood@ paulinemedia.com.

THURSDAY, NOV. 15 VATICAN II TALKS: “The Vision of the Church” with Sulpician Father Gladstone Stevens at St. Pius Parish, Homer Crouse Hall, Woodside Road at Valota, Redwood City, 7 p.m. (650) 361-1411, ext. 121. laura@pius.org.

HOLIDAY BOUTIQUE: Mercy High School, San Francisco’s McAuley Pavilion, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Admission is free. events@mercyhs.org, 415-334-7941. www.mercyhs.org.

SATURDAY, NOV. 17 THANKSGIVING LUNCH: “Handicapables Thanksgiving Lunch” at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Hall C, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco with Mass at noon and meal following. San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice is principal celebrant and homilist. Information about Handicapables, volunteering for the event or attending is available at (415) 751-8531.

FASHION SHOW: 2012 St. Stephen Women’s Guild Fashion Show, Olympic Club Lakeside., table of 10, $850, tickets $85, Margaret O’Driscoll, (415) 661-5704.

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WEDNESDAY, NOV. 21 PASTA: A tradition in historic Bernal Heights at Immaculate Conception Church, 3255 Folsom St., just up the hill from Cesar Chavez Street, noon.

All the pasta, meatballs and salad you want, family style, $9. Beverages are available for purchase.

GRIEF SUPPORT: Free grief support session, St. Mary’s Cathedral, third Wednesday of the month, 10:30 a.m.noon, Msgr. Bowe Room, parking lot level. Call Sister Esther, (415) 5672020, ex. 218.

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REMEMBRANCE SERVICE: Holiday Prayer Service, Holy Cross Cemetery, 1500 Old Mission Road, Colma, 11 a.m., All Saints Mausoleum Chapel.

Msgr. John Talesfore, Msgr. John pastor, St. Talesfore Mary’s Cathedral, presides.

This near-Christmas time of prayer when families who have lost loved ones join together has become a much appreciated rite at the cemetery. (650) 756-2060. www.holycrosscemeteries.com.

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INTERFAITH STORY: Marty Brounstein, author of “Two Among the Righteous Few: A Story of Courage in the Holocaust,” presents story of a Dutch Catholic couple who saved two dozen Jews during World War II, St. Matthias Church, 1685 Cordilleras Road, Redwood City, 2:30 p.m. Free and open to the public. (650) 366-9544.

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HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY, COLMA

VETERANS’ DAY MEMORIAL SERVICES ~ STAR OF THE SEA SECTION - OUTDOOR SERVICE ~ PLEASE JOIN WITH US ON MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2012 AT 11:00 A.M. TO HONOR OUR MEN AND WOMEN IN UNIFORM....

PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE Chaplains from the Archdiocese of San Francisco in uniform will conduct the memorial ceremony along with the Travis Air Force Base Military Honor Guard with Taps.

Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery Santa Cruz Ave. @ Avy Ave., Menlo Park, CA 650-323-6375

Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery 1500 Mission Road, Colma, CA 650-756-2060

Mt. Olivet Catholic Cemetery 270 Los Ranchitos Road, San Rafael, CA 415-479-9020

Tomales Catholic Cemetery 1400 Dillon Road, Tomales, CA 415-479-9021

St. Anthony Cemetery Stage Road, Pescadero, CA 650-712-1679

Our Lady of the Pillar Cemetery Miramontes St., Half Moon Bay, CA 650-712-1679