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Nation honors naval hero ignored because of race By George Raine Sixty-six years after his act of heroism in World War II was buried and lost in a slog of racism and bigotry, retired Chief Petty Officer Carl Clark, 95, of Menlo Park, has been given his due. In a ceremony at Moffett Field in Mountain View Jan. 17, Clark was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal with Combat V for valor for extraordinary bravery in saving his ship struck by six Kamikazes – unrecognized for decades because of his race. After 22 years in the Navy and 21 more as a mailman in Menlo Park, Clark, also a parishioner and

member of the Knights of Peter Claver at St. Francis of Assisi Church in East Palo Alto, eased into retirement. A documentary filmmaker, Sheila Dunec, learned of Clark’s story while researching World War II veterans’ stories and took it to Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Palo Alto, who championed his case with Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus. The ship’s last surviving officer, Captain “Lefty” Lavrakas, corroborated Clark’s account Carl Clark and before he died last July he urged Eshoo, “Go get justice for Carl.”

At Moffett Field, Secretary Mabus pinned the medal on Clark, calling him a hero. “America considers you a hero,” he said, “and I am proud to offer this symbol of our thanks from a grateful Navy and a grateful nation.” In 1945, Clark, an African-American, served as Steward First Class aboard the USS Aaron Ward, a battleship-minesweeper, near Okinawa, Japan. His job was to tend to the needs of white Navy officers. He had another job, as well. He was one of eight members of the ship’s damage control group. Their job, in the event of an attack, was to take care of damage as much as they could, put out fires as well as they could and more. HERO, page 18

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Call to end unjust deportations More than 2,000 people gathered at St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco Jan. 28 to oppose the federal Secure Communities immigration program. Sponsored by the Archdiocese of San Francisco and the San Francisco Organizing Project, the event brought together Archbishop George Niederauer and other Bay Area faith leaders in calling for more humane policies on deportations. Story on page 9.

Outrage – Pittsburgh Bishop David A. Zubik: President Obama and his administration “have said ‘To hell with you’ to the Catholic faithful of the United States.” – Peoria, Ill., Bishop Daniel R. Jenky: Catholics must fight “this Bishop Zubik unprecedented governmental assault upon the moral convictions of our faith.” – Phoenix Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted: “We cannot – we will not – comply with this unjust law.” – New Orleans Archbishop Gregory M. Aymond: “We cannot stand by and allow this to move forward without speaking out.” – Philadelphia Archbishop Charles J. Chaput: “The bishops as a body are very committed to taking a firm stance on this,” as evidenced by the establishment of the new Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty.

Administration move amounts to ‘to hell with you,’ bishop says as contraception rule protests grow By Nancy Frazier O’Brien WASHINGTON (CNS) – A week after the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services told individuals and institutions who oppose contraception “to hell with you,” as one bishop put it, members of the U.S. Catholic hierarchy were mobilizing their followers to fight. One of the most strongly worded reactions to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’ Jan. 20 announcement that religious organizations could delay but not opt out of a requirement that all health plans cover contraception and sterilization at no cost came from Pennsylvania Bishop David A. Zubik of Pittsburgh, in a column titled “To hell with you.” Sebelius and the Obama administration “have said ‘To hell with you’ to the Catholic faithful of the United States,” Bishop Zubik wrote. “To hell with your religious beliefs. To

hell with your religious liberty. To hell with your freedom of conscience. We’ll give you a year, they are saying, and then you have to knuckle under.” He called on Catholics in the Pittsburgh diocese to “do all possible to rescind” the contraceptive mandate by writing to President Barack Obama, Sebelius and their members of Congress about this “unprecedented federal interference in the right of Catholics to serve their community without violating their fundamental moral beliefs.” Bishop Daniel R. Jenky of Peoria, Ill., enlisted the aid of St. Michael the Archangel in fighting “this unprecedented governmental assault upon the moral convictions of our faith.” In a Jan. 24 letter to Peoria Catholics, he directed that the prayer of St. Michael be recited “for the freedom of the Catholic Church in America” during Sunday Masses HHS, page 3

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On The Where You Live By Tom Burke Church of the Epiphany Parish will again honor late pastor, Msgr. Bruce Dreier, in a remembrance weekend Feb. 24. A basketball tournament named for Msgr. Bruce as well as a parish athletic hall of fame induction are part of the celebration. Hall of Fame inductees include “longtime parishioners Ron Isola, Bill Kovacich, Elaine Volpe, Rick and Shirley Simpliciano,” said Epiphany parish council member and event organizer, Ken Tonna. San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop Auxiliary Bishop Robert W. Robert W. McElroy McElroy presides at a memorial Mass Feb. 25 at 5:30 p.m. Email Ken at maltaman1@comcast.net or Julinda Pastor at labx10@aol.com. Msgr. Bruce Dreier was pastor of Epiphany from 1992-2004 and pastor of St. Robert’s in San Bruno from 2004-2009 when he died from cancer. He was ordained in 1978. • Fourth graders at Good Shepherd School in Pacifica marked the feast of the Epiphany with a baby shower in honor of the Wise Men visiting the infant Jesus. Gifts ranged from diapers to baby outfits and all of the gifts were donated to the Pacifica Resource Center to help new or struggling moms. The idea for the party came from classroom moms, Denise Giannini and Anne Assereto, and teacher, Stephanie Quinlan. “Good Shepherd School educates on the elements of the whole child, especially the value of being an active member of the community,” said the school’s, Leanne Chapman, whom we thank for the good news. • Holy Name of Jesus Parish has joined the many parishes now offering the opportunity of early education with Holy Name Preschool. The facility, under the direction of Alice Seher, opened Jan. 4. “We look forward to welcoming new students to our new Holy Name Preschool!” Alice told me. Alice Seher

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Confession: Celebration of mercy VATICAN CITY – Priests hearing confessions need to replace any negative or aggressive attitudes with meekness and mercy toward the penitent, said a Vatican expert on confession. The sacrament of reconciliation “has led to a unilateral overemphasis on the accusation and listing of sins,” said Bishop Gianfranco Girotti, regent of the Apostolic Penitentiary, a Vatican court that handles issues related to the sacrament of penance. The end result is that “the thing that is absolutely central when listening to sin, that is, the blessed embrace of the merciful Father, is put on the backburner,” he said. The Italian bishop’s comments, published Jan. 28 in the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano, were made in his address to a symposium for confessors held in Loreto, Italy. “Isn’t it true perhaps that at times confession takes on the semblance of a prosecuting tribunal rather than a celebration of forgiveness,” and that the conversation takes on “inquisitorial or, in any case, indelicate tones,” he asked. A confessor is first and foremost a father who welcomes, listens and engages in dialogue, he said.

‘Mamma mia’: Dove buzzes pope VATICAN CITY – “Mamma mia,” Pope Benedict XVI said as a dove flew over his head and back into his apartment Jan. 29 after he and two Italian school children released the bird as a symbol of peace. The pope and representatives of the Italian Catholic Action children’s section release doves during the Sunday Angelus address in late January each year. And, almost every year, at least one of the birds flies back into the papal apartment. Some 2,000 children between the ages of 4 and 14 walked in procession down the boulevard leading to St. Peter’s Square carrying homemade banners calling for peace in the world and peace within their families and schools. During his Angelus address, Pope Benedict also marked World Leprosy Day and the international day of prayer for peace in the Holy Land. In his brief remarks about World Leprosy Day, the pope not only prayed for those with Hansen’s disease and their caregivers, but he also called for a greater commitment “to eliminate poverty and marginalization, the true causes” of the disease’s continued spread.

Guatemala’s Maya seek justice Indigenous people walk Jan. 26 outside the Supreme Court of Justice in Guatemala City, where prosecutors accused Efrain Rios Montt, former president and commander in chief of the army, of directing military operations against the Maya people during Guatemala’s 36-year civil war, in which more than 200,000 people were killed.

Conference on abuse prevention ROME – Representatives of most of the world’s bishops’ conferences and 30 religious orders will meet in Rome in early February to launch a global initiative aimed at improving efforts to stop clerical sexual abuse and better protect children and vulnerable adults. The conference, “Toward Healing and Renewal,” will be held Feb. 6-9 at Rome’s Pontifical Gregorian University and is being supported by the Vatican Secretariat of State and several other Vatican offices. U.S. Cardinal William J. Levada, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which deals with priests accused of abuse, will give the opening address. Other speakers include: a victim of abuse; mental health professionals who have worked in the areas of prevention and treatment; and bishops from different parts of the world, who will talk about responses to the abuse crisis in their countries. The conference is designed in part to help bishops’ conferences and superiors of religious orders respond to a 2011 circular letter from the doctrinal congregation requiring all dioceses in the world to develop guidelines on handling allegations of abuse. After the conference, the Gregorian University and other institutions will launch an e-learning center – the Center for the Protection of Children – which

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Super Bowl Sunday evangelizing INDIANAPOLIS – A historic Indianapolis church is in the center of festivities surrounding the Feb. 5 Super Bowl XLVI at Lucas Oil Stadium. St. John the Evangelist Parish, founded 175 years ago when Indianapolis was a small town on the edge of the American frontier, is the middle of the Super Bowl Village hosting many events at the Indiana Convention Center across the street from the church and on streets surrounding it. More than 100,000 visitors are expected to be in town, with tens of thousands of them walking by the church on streets largely closed to traffic for 10 days leading up to the Super Bowl. There is even a zip line on which riders can zoom for 800 feet from a starting height of 95 feet and ending in front of St. John Church. When the riders put their feet back down on solid ground, they see a sign in front of the parish’s 140-year-old church that reads, “If you thought the zip line was a thrill, ... come in and spend some time with Jesus!” Such a sign shows that Father Rick Nagel, St. John’s administrator, and his parishioners considered the Super Bowl a tremendous opportunity to evangelize. “You can run and hide or you can just jump in,” said Father Nagel, who planned to ride the zip line.

Women accused of $1 million thefts from two archdioceses WASHINGTON – Employees of the New York and Philadelphia archdioceses are accused of stealing $1 million each in church funds over the past decade. In New York, archdiocesan spokesman Joseph Zwilling said Jan. 30 that Anita Collins, who had worked for the archdiocese since 2003, allegedly stole about $1 million before she was fired Dec. 6. Collins used “a sophisticated fraud to manipulate the accounts payable system in the Department of Education Finance Office,” Zwilling said. Collins was arraigned Jan. 30 on criminal charges of grand larceny and falsifying business records and ordered held on $750,000 bail. She faces a possible jail sentence of up to 25 years. In Philadelphia, Anita Guzzardi, who was named chief financial officer of the archdiocese July 1, was terminated from employment later in July when alleged “financial accounting irregularities” were discovered. Although an investigation by the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office was continuing, sources said the amount involved is nearly $1 million. No criminal charges have been filed against Guzzardi.

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Dolan: Natural law, not religious preference, dictates all life sacred NEW YORK (CNS) – Natural law is a concept of objective truth, not religious preference, and reliance on natural law and human rights will move the culture and its laws in the direction of authentic respect for human life, Cardinal-designate Timothy M. Dolan of New York said in an address Jan. 24. Cardinal-designate Dolan, speaking on “Law & the Gospel of Life,” gave the inaugural talk in a lecture series sponsored by the Institute on Religion, Law and Lawyers’ Work at Jesuit-run Fordham University School of Law. “Our society has caricatured natural law as some medieval tool the church is using to justify its own unique and antiquated system of teaching. Of course, the opposite is true,” he said. “Natural law theory is not uniquely Catholic, it’s human. “Some of the greatest exponents of the natural law, like Aristotle and Cicero, never heard of the Catholic Church. These things we teach are not true because they happen to be taught by the church. We teach them because they happen to be true. Their truth antedates the church.” According to Cardinal-designate Dolan, the most effective way to engage in conversations about human life with people who disagree with the church’s position is to “untether” discussions of natural law “from what might be thought of as unique Catholic confessionalism” and reference the writings of non-Catholic authors. “It’s not a Catholic thing. It’s a natural thing. It’s a human thing.” Cardinal-designate Dolan said Blessed John Paul II’s encyclical “Evangelium Vitae,” described the culture of death as one that denies the basic solidarity inherent in the human person, is obsessed with efficiency and convenience, and wages a war of the powerful against the weak. “Can sustained human rights, girded by law, survive in such a culture?” Cardinal-designate Dolan asked. “The pragmatic, utilitarian world view depends upon sand to construct a system of laws protecting human rights, particularly that of life itself, since everything is constantly being renegotiated,

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Natural law is a concept of objective truth, not religious preference, and reliance on natural law and human rights will move the culture and its laws in the direction of authentic respect for human life, Cardinaldesignate Timothy M. Dolan of New York said in an address Jan. 24. He is pictured addressing the news media at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York Jan. 6.

based on drifting dunes of utility, convenience, privacy, and self-interest.” Cardinal-designate Dolan said, “It is a bedrock feature of modern political and legal theory that only neutral, utilitarian principles can provide a basis for public policy discussions and law, and that appeals to transcendent values, such as religion, cannot legitimately be presented.” “The Gospel of life proposes an alternative vision of law and culture, one that provides an antidote to the pragmatic

nihilism that produces a culture of death. It seeks to recapture the essential relationship between the civil law and the moral law, and to foster a culture in which all human life is valued and authentic human development is possible.” Cardinal-designate Dolan said, “The Gospel of life calls us specifically to offer a clear, faith-based view of humanity as a basis for human law. As Christians, we propose that truth can only be known and freedom truly exercised by recognizing that they are a gift from God.” He said an important proposition of the Gospel of life is “that the dignity of the human person and respect for inviolable human rights are not just based on divine revelation, but on ‘an objective moral law which, as the ‘natural law’ written in the human heart, is the obligatory point of reference for civil law itself.’” Cardinal-designate Dolan said, “A reliance on the natural law, and human rights, will enable us to move the culture, and thus our laws, in the direction of authentic respect for human life. It will be a gradual, incremental process ... and require compromise and acceptance of intermediary steps.” He described pragmatism, utilitarianism and consumerism as a trinity of related culprits that chisel away at the culture of life and “seem to be ascendant in culture and normative in making laws.” Cardinal-designate Dolan said, “A baby is useless and impractical from a raw, pragmatic, utilitarian or consumerist view” and is seen by some in the culture of death “as a commodity, an accessory. We have babies, if at all, to satisfy our desires, not to sacrifice for theirs; to fulfill our needs, not to invite us to spend the rest of our lives fulfilling their needs; to reward us, not because we want to give to them.” “To this culture of death, the church boldly and joyfully promotes the culture of life,” he said. Cardinal-designate Dolan said people can promote the culture of life by living, speaking and teaching the truth in love. “Usually, we will attract more people by the compelling nature of our love and, in the end, that will be what most hypnotizes and magnetizes people.”

Christianity, religion risk oblivion in many parts of world, pope says By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Christianity and even religious belief are in grave danger across the globe, risking oblivion, Pope Benedict XVI said. “Across vast areas of the earth, faith runs the danger of extinguishing like a flame that runs out of fuel,” he said. The world faces “a profound crisis of faith, and a loss of a sense of religion constitutes the biggest challenge for the church today,” he said. The pope said the renewal of faith has to be a priority for

all members of the church and said he hoped the upcoming Year of Faith, starting in October, would further such effort. Pope Benedict met Jan. 27 with about 70 officials, members and consultants of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the office he led for more than 20 years before being elected pope. He said integral to helping the Gospel message seem more credible in today’s world was Christian unity – a theme that members of the congregation discussed during their four-day plenary meeting. Pope Benedict said the search for Christian unity requires a solid foundation in truth and Scripture, not the establishment of rules and agreements that are mutually beneficial. “Rather, the heart of true ecumenism is faith, where people encounter the truth that is revealed in the word of God,” he said. “Without faith, the whole ecumenical movement would be reduced to a form of ‘social contract’ that’s adhered to out of common interest,” the pope said.

Even though dialogue has borne much fruit, in ecumenical talks the church must guard against the risk of believing all religions are equal, and it must be sure not to distort or obscure Catholic doctrine. The Second Vatican Council call for the sincere search for full unity with all Christians is a process animated by the word of God. The truth and faith must be central to ecumenical dialogue, and those involved in dialogue must face controversial questions with courage, he said. Ecumenical dialogue cannot ignore “the great moral questions of human life, the family, sexuality, bioethics, freedom, justice and peace,” he said. “It would be important to talk about these issues with only one voice, drawing on the foundation in Scripture and in the church’s living tradition” so as to discover God’s logic and plan for creation, he said. By defending the foundational values of the faith and church tradition, “we defend man, we defend creation,” the pope said.

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February 3, 2012

Catholic San Francisco

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February 3, 2012

Same-sex marriage issue facing lawmakers, voters in several states By Carol Zimmermann WASHINGTON (CNS) – The same-sex marriage issue will be facing lawmakers and voters in several states this year. Democratic-controlled legislatures in Washington state, Maryland and New Jersey are considering legislation that would legalize same-sex marriage, while Maine voters will vote on a same-sex marriage referendum in November. Voters in North Carolina and Minnesota will consider constitutional amendments defining marriage as between a man and a woman. In New Hampshire, the Republican-controlled legislature is gearing up to vote on a bill that could reverse that state’s same-sex marriage law. Maryland Gov. Martin J. O’Malley, a Catholic, is sponsoring legislation to legalize same-sex marriage. If it passes Maryland will be the seventh state, plus the District of Columbia, to allow same-sex marriages. Mary Ellen Russell, executive director of the Maryland Catholic Conference, the public policy arm of the state’s bishops, said same-sex marriage is being pushed by a small group of advocates. “If we dismantle the connection between marriage and mothers and fathers of children, we risk losing sight of the tremendous importance of keeping the nuclear family intact,” she told The Catholic Review, newspaper of the Baltimore archdiocese. Last July, after a bill to legalize same-sex marriage in Maryland was effectively dead by the close of the legislative session, O’Malley vowed to introduce the bill in the 2012 legislative session. Two days before the governor’s announcement, Cardinal-designate Edwin F. O’Brien of Baltimore privately wrote to him asking that he not promote the redefinition of marriage. O’Malley told the prelate he was “sworn to uphold the law without partiality or prejudice.” The letter and O’Malley’s response were later released to the media.

Cardinal-designate O’Brien told The Catholic Review he thought it was “arrogant” to dismiss traditional marriage, and that some Maryland delegates view traditional marriage as “old-fashioned.” “Because they have friends who might be gay,” he said, “they think it’s all right to question this whole thing and to vote for an overturn (of the definition of marriage).” In New Jersey, leaders in the Democraticcontrolled legislature have made a bill to legalize same-sex marriage in that state a top priority. However, Gov. Chris Christie has vowed to veto such a bill if it passes, saying he wants the issue to be placed on the ballot. The state’s Catholic bishops said in a Jan. 20 statement that traditional marriage “has its roots in natural law.” The bishops said the state’s Civil Union Act, signed into law in December 2006, “already provides practical rights, benefits and protections for persons who choose to establish nonmarital unions.” On a 4-3 vote, a Washington state Senate committee Jan. 26 passed a bill to legalize same-sex marriage and sent it to the full Senate. Gov. Christine Gregoire, who also is Catholic, has pledged to sign this bill into law. In testimony Jan. 23 before a Senate committee, Seattle Archbishop J. Peter Sartain urged lawmakers to oppose the measure. He said the bill has “elicited strong emotions on both sides” and hoped the voice of Catholic bishops in the state “contributes significantly to the discussion of a matter that has serious long-range implications for our state and society at large.” In Colorado, proposals to legalize samesex civil unions are expected to be put forth in the new legislative session. The Colorado Catholic Conference, in a statement posted on its website, said that the “major flaw with civil union legislation is that in its language and practical effect it creates an alternative, parallel structure to marriage using explicitly spousal language.”

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People in support of traditional marriage gather in front of the Maryland State Capitol Jan. 30 in Annapolis, Md., to protest Gov. Martin J. O’Malley’s move to legalize same-sex marriage.

Community Engagement and Individual Strengths

How can we increase the overall sense of belonging of fellow Catholics in order that they can deepen their spiritual relationship to each other and to Christ? Stephanie Moore is a founding member of the Catholic Strengths and Engagement community, a corporate master trainer and executive coach, and has spent the last 20+ years in the field of leadership and career development. Previously, she was Vice President, Marketing for Drake Beam Morin, an international career transition firm.

WHEN: Wednesday, February 8, 2012, 5:30pm to 7:30pm WHERE: Caesar’s Restaurant, 2299 Powell Street at Bay Street, SF, 94133 COST: $20 per members, $25 for non-members (become a member for $20) Includes delicious Italian appetizers and no-host bar

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LENTEN DAYS OF RENEWAL FEB. 22 & FEB. 29 Fr. Rusty Shaughnessy, OFM MAR. 7 Rena Grant, MA MAR. 13 Fr. Evan Howard, OFM MAR. 20 Fr. Pat Foley MAR. 16-18

SILENT CONTEMPLATIVE Rena Grant, MA Fr. Evan Howard, OFM

MAR. 23-25

FRANCISCAN RETREAT Fr. Joseph Chinnici, OFM

APR. 5-8

HOLY WEEK RETREAT Retreat Team

A Ministry of the Archdiocese of San Francisco

Valentine Mass for Married Couples &EBRUARY s 10:30AM

SAN DAMIANO RETREAT

PO Box 767 • Danville, CA 94526 925-837-9141 • www.sandamiano.org

Celebrate your marriage at Vallombrosa. Fr. Kevin Gaffey will celebrate mass along with members of the Vallombrosa Choir. All are welcome for a morning of prayer, music and fellowship. Light refreshments will be served following the Mass.

ST. CLARE’S RETREAT

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‘Forward in Faith’ classes draw higher than expected enrollment By Valerie Schmalz The first week of Catholic adult faith formation classes in the Archdiocese of San Francisco drew nearly 50 percent more participants than organizers expected. Walk-ins at parish sites in San Mateo, Marin and San Francisco counties boosted enrollment from the 1,000 expected to close to 1,400, including about 250 for the Spanish language version, said Cindy Gammer, assistant to San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop Robert W. McElroy. “I think when people get to know the quality of what is being offered here I think word of mouth will create even more interest,” said St. Emydius pastor Father Bill Brady, who is attending the weekly class at Our Lady of Mercy parish on Thursdays.

Back to the classroom

“Forward in Faith: Educational Enrichment for the Thinking Catholic” debuted the week of Jan. 17 at 12 parish locations throughout Marin, San Mateo and San Francisco counties. The cost is $50 a year for 20 sessions. The first 10 classes run in the spring and a second set of 10 are scheduled for fall. The Boston College School of Theology and Ministry supplies the lectures as DVDs via its online “Church in the 21st Century Center” in the context of an Archdiocese of San Francisco curriculum developed by Father Dave Pettingill, former director of the School of Pastoral Leadership, an adult education initiative in 1994-95, and Sister Celeste Arbuckle, director of the archdiocesan Office for Religious Education and Youth Ministry.

In addition to the Boston College lectures, Bishop McElroy is presenting two lectures that integrate the lectures in the light of the catechism of the Catholic Church. The first semester focuses on Christ in Scripture and the identity of the church. The second semester will address the sacramental life of the church and the Christian moral life. Each class includes a Boston College lecture followed by facilitated discussions led by local faith educators. The program is scheduled 7-8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings the weeks of Jan. 17 through March 20 with the second semester from September through December. Enrollment for this year is closed but the archdiocese plans to offer the program next year.

Catholic San Francisco photographer Jose Luise Aguirre and assistant editor Valerie Schmalz visited Our Lady of Mercy Church in Daly City Jan. 26 to ask enrollees in the “Forward in Faith” program what inspired them as adult Catholics to return to the classroom to study the faith.

Conchita Rocillo Our Lady of Mercy Parish It’s wonderful to know more about our faith.

Lynne Horan Our Lady of Mercy This is one of the best experiences of my life.

Emmie Keith Our Lady of Mercy To continue my learning about God and to share it with my students in confirmation class.

Emil Lucero St Andrew Parish We want to grow in faith spiritually.

Chilla Lucero St. Andrew As Catholics we thought we knew all about our faith but in reality there are things being discussed here that assure us that God is an ever-loving God.

Mae O’Connell Our Lady of Mercy I came because I wanted to get to know Jesus our Lord better.

Lolita Arqueza Our Lady of Mercy I want to increase my faith and to be transformed.

Father Bill Brady Pastor, St. Emydius Parish Every Christian needs to grow in their faith every day and this is an opportunity for adult Catholics to grow in their understanding.

Josephine Longhitano Our Lady of Mercy I’m here to learn about the new church and to connect back with all the new changes and to get closer to God and to the church.

Isabel Perry St. Raphael Parish We’re getting married. I’m Catholic and he’s not. We want to understand my faith.

Archdiocese backs bill to ensure more humane policy on deportations By George Raine The Archdiocese of San Francisco is supporting legislation that would lessen the state’s participation in a federal program that checks the immigration status of persons booked into county and other local jails, arguing it is tearing immigrating families apart, setting up minor criminal offenders or those with no convictions for deportation. Some 2,000 people, many of them Latinos who feel disproportionately targeted by what is known as the “Secure Communities” program of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, attended an interfaith rally at St. Mary’s Cathedral Jan. 28 to ask Gov. Jerry Brown and Attorney General Kamala Harris to support reform being drafted by Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, D-San Francisco. Ammiano, still refining the language of the bill he plans to introduce in the California Assembly in the spring, would amend the state’s role in detaining individuals in an immigration hold. Currently, in the booking process, fingerprints are forwarded to the Federal Bureau of Investigation which in turn forwards them to ICE, which can ask that people be held for processing. The result, many Latinos in particular in the archdiocese say, can be broken families. “It is important that we keep working to change the policies that hurt our people,” said Archbishop George Niederauer. “We cannot rest until the laws of our country reflect the laws

A woman prays Jan. 28 at St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco during a gathering to support more humane federal policies on deportations. Proponents say current policies tear immigrant families apart, setting up minor criminal offenders or those with no convictions for deportation.

of God. We cannot allow the pain of family separation and the fear amongst our communities to continue. We need to respect the dignity of our brothers and sisters, undocumented or not.”

He said he is committed to engaging “my fellow bishops and other faith leaders in California in this campaign to end” the federal program also known as “S-comm.” “I know that today all here are fighting for a humane immigration system,” said Archbishop Niederauer. “Let us commit ourselves to this task because it is a work of our faith of great urgency, because our undocumented brothers and sisters are depending on us.” Technically, the legislation will have to be introduced and reviewed by the California Catholic Conference, the official voice of the Catholic community in California’s public policy arena – the voice of the state’s bishops – before official church endorsement is given. However, the archdiocese is making public its backing now because Catholics are suffering, said George Wesolek, director of the Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns at the archdiocese. “The trigger for us is so many Latinos in our parishes who have personal stories of deportation and separation of family and so a lot of priests hear that every day,” said Wesolek. “I think the archbishop on down thought we had a moral obligation to weigh in on the issue, because of the pain it is causing our people.” ICE disputes the premise of advocates for reform, saying Secure Communities has demonstrated its effectiveness DEPORTATIONS, page 16

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February 3, 2012

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18 THREADS TO THE INCH Retired priest believes wasting time is the greatest sin. He spends his creating intricate tapestries of some of art history’s most powerful religious scenes. By Dana Perrigan

Father Guillermo Rodriguez’ tapestry “The Resurrection” hangs in the rectory at St. Brendan the Navigator Church in San Francisco.

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The old saying, “a stitch in time saves nine” is lost on Father Guillermo Rodriguez. The 81-year-old Cuban-American priest – who may easily spend two or three years creating one of his tapestries – is not interested in saving stitches. He needs more of them: at least 18 to the linear inch, to capture the nuanced folds in Mary’s robe in “Madonna and Child,” a tapestry that adorns the interior of St. Brendan the Navigator Church in San Francisco. “I’m working on one now that I probably won’t be able to finish,” said Father Rodriguez, gesturing toward an unrolled canvas in his studio which contains the outline of Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper.” “That’ll probably take at least four or five years.” There is no hurry. The retired priest – who narrowly escaped the clutches of a Communist dictator early in his career – patiently stitches away seven or eight hours a day in his San Francisco home. The canvas unfurls, inch by inch – just as the last eight decades have unfolded, year by year, to reveal the tapestry of his remarkable life. While he was interested in medicine and art as a youth, Father Rodriguez always knew that he would be a priest. “When you’re a priest,” he said, “everything else is secondary.” Ordained during the Cuban revolution in 1956, Father Rodriguez was assigned to Our Lady of the Rosary Church in Abreus. Located on the western half of the island about 200 miles from Havana, his parish boundaries contained the now infamous Bay of Pigs. It also contained the Escambray Mountains, where Ernesto “Che” Guevara and other guerrilla fighters sought refuge between battles with troops belonging to Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista’s army. As a young priest with medical skills, Father Rodriguez became part of the underground forces that aided those directly fighting to overthrow Batista. When that finally occurred in 1959, he was surprised – along with many other Cubans – to discover that rebel leader Fidel Castro was a Communist. “Nobody believed Castro was Communist,” said Father. Rodriguez. “He denied it throughout the revolution. And everybody considered Batista a murderous tyrant, under the thumb of the American Mafia.” With Castro now in power, the young priest – an outspoken opponent of communism – knew he was living on borrowed time. Fortunately, the aid he had given during the revolution to those who were now assuming the reins of power, saved him: He was

“Madonna and Child,” a tapestry hanging at St. Brendan Church

Father Rodriguez works seven to eight hours a day on his needlework, working at a constant pace to create 18 stitches per linear inch.

The artist’s “The Last Supper” is in progress. The priest has been working on the tapestry for more than a year and he estimates it will take him four more years to finish it.

Father Rodriguez’ living room is his favorite spot in his house.

Father Rodriguez at work on “The Last Supper”

personally escorted to the airport by an important military official, whose brother he had helped, and flown to Miami. “I was lucky,” said Father Rodriguez. “The next day, my name appeared on a list of those who would not be allowed to leave Cuba.” Following an assignment in Miami and, later in San Jose, Father Rodriguez began his 11-year ministry as parochial vicar at St. Philip Parish in San Francisco in 1972. One day, while attending an exhibition at the Oakland Museum, he was approached by a stranger. “We were standing in front of a Jackson Pollock,” said Father Rodriguez. “The man asked me if I painted. I said, yes. He asked me if I sold my work, and I said no. I thought it would be improper for a priest to sell his work.” The stranger turned out to be an agent representing artists. The meeting turned out to be the beginning of a long and productive relationship. “I was fortunate,” said Father Rodriguez, “because everything I painted, I sold.” He was able to buy a house, not far from St. Brendan Church, with his earnings. About 20 years ago, Father Rodriguez saw a TV commercial in which former NFL star Roosevelt Grier was doing needlepoint. The idea of “painting” with thread intrigued him. One of his first pieces was a large version of the Medici Tapestry series. Beginning with matte cottons, he later gravitated toward DMC floss, Medici wool and metallic threads to bring more color and shading to his subjects – almost all of which have been religious in nature. A 6-by-4-foot tapestry called “The Crucifixion” – as well as several other of his tapestries – hangs in Nazareth House in Marin. “Madonna and Child” and “The Resurrection” are at St. Brendan. Other works, many of which are modeled after masterpieces by Michelangelo, Raphael, El Greco and da Vinci, are scattered throughout Bay Area monasteries and the homes of friends. “One of them was here when I got here in 2009,” said Father Daniel Nascimento, pastor of St. Brendan. “When I first saw it, I was very impressed. The attention to detail, the hours of labor that must have gone into it is what first struck me.” While he still said daily Mass at St. Brendan and continues his ministry at Laguna Honda Hospital, Father Rodriguez devotes the majority of his time to his art. Nearly blind in one eye, he works with the aid of a large magnifying glass attached to a device that allows his hands to be free. “I’ve always thought,” he said, “that the greatest sin was to waste time.”

“The Crucifixion” is Father Rodriguez’ favorite tapestry. It is based on a painting by El Greco.

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February 3, 2012

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Alliance has soured For many years in the 20th century, churches and the Democratic Party formed a symbiotic relationship to promote the betterment of society. San Francisco’s own Father Peter Yorke and Archbishop Edward Joseph Hanna joined with the unions to bring about better conditions for working men and women and their families. Cardinal John O’Connor of New York also united with unions to bring about social justice. Now that alliance has soured. The Democratic Party since 1972 has steadily tilted to a radical bent, being against the sanctity of life and the sanctity of marriage between men and women. As the 21st century enters into its second decade, it is time for serious consideration of a realignment of this alliance. The Democratic Party on the local, state and national levels has lost touch with the values and policies which

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had been in common with religious institutions and their congregations. It is now time to view what values are espoused via voting records, political platforms, and, yes, appointments to the federal and state courts as the true indicators of which political party has similar notions and values about the human condition as the aforementioned churches and their flocks. Mike McAdoo San Francisco

Preach the Gospel George Weigel should preach the Gospel of Jesus and not his own personal prejudices and theological opinions as the word of God. Virginia McGowan San Francisco

Gift of spiritual maturity Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop Gabino Zavala admitted to fathering two teenage children (“Bishop Zavala resigns after disclosing he is father of two children,” Jan. 13), and it is his archdiocese that reached out to them, offering spiritual care and college funding assistance? This is shocking. Bishop Zavala is like a teenage boy springing news on his parents that he

fathered a child, expecting grandparents to be responsible for obligations of raising the child. It boils down to a lack of emotional maturity. For a church leader, it shows a lack of spiritual maturity too. Church leaders, our “patriarchs” (deacons, priests and bishops), are to be emotionally mature men, exhibiting the ever-increasing fruit of a changed life and getting spiritually better with age. Catholics are taught that our bishops are direct descendants of the Apostles, and that the Holy Spirit guides the appointments of men to church positions. So, overall, how emotionally and spiritually mature are our church leaders? What is the standard? How is it monitored? Two things in life are eternal: people’s souls, and the word of God. Church leaders can lead us to God, or away from him. Ronna Devincenzi Palo Alto

Politicians ignore us

lieutenant governor, who, as I understand, are both Catholics. Why have they ignored us? Our family is very disappointed with their absence. August C. Pijma Redwood City

Articles exemplify grace Examples in the Jan. 27 issue of Catholic San Francisco, including George Wesolek’s commentary “Why we need a Catholic press,” the picture of tens of thousands of pro-life demonstrators at the Walk for Life West Coast on the front page and the two-page spread with posters from the walk stating “Thank God you were not aborted,” attest to the tireless work of pro-life Christians coordinating these public actions. So too, letters to the editor signed by individuals and graciously published attest to whatever grace the heart is open to in our faith in Jesus Christ. Therefore, I wish to state: Any letter with my name attached to it is not hyperbole (Letters, “Unwanted hyperbole,” Jan. 27) or coordinated with any group but rather reflects my strongly held belief and identity as a Roman Catholic. And I am quite sure that statement is true for other published information and opinion that is available in “my” ( really our, of course) archdiocesan paper, Catholic San Francisco, which I look forward to reading most Friday evenings after a week of work. Thank you for publishing on occasion the letters I send to you as a person blessed in faith. Mary Margaret Flynn, MD San Carlos

L E T T E R S

May I congratulate the Catholic San Francisco for its excellent coverage and reporting of our Walk for Life West Coast on Jan. 21. Our family has participated with the walk for life for the past three years and will continue to do so. Although the regional and local news media have ignored us, we expected our Catholic elected officials, including local members of Congress, to support us. Why weren’t they on the podium with our bishops and others? After all, we are their constituents also. Also absent were our governor and

Guest Commentary

Evangelize with joy makes us happy. After determining that wealth, pleasure, power and honor, though good, are not the source of true One of the great icons in the Catholic Church today is joy, Aquinas argues that only the infinite good of God Cardinal-designate Timothy Dolan of New York making satisfies the deepest longing of the human heart. Next, his way up the aisle to commence Sunday Mass at St. he analyzes the habits and virtues that inculcate in us the Patrick’s Cathedral. While the congregation belts out the moves that properly order us to our ultimate good. And opening hymn, the good archbishop thumps his crozier finally, in question No. 99, Thomas broaches for the first on the ground, beams at all and sundry, kisses babies, time the issue of the law – and thereupon hangs a tale. embraces young and old, calls out the names of friends he Laws, he argues, are those prescriptions and prohibitions recognizes, and generally speaking, spreads good cheer in that place in us the habits that produce the virtues that in every direction. One would turn give rise to joy. The have to be either catatonic relegation to question No. or positively Scrooge-like 90 shows clearly that moral A church battling with itself in temperament not to find laws are not the heart of the scene utterly delightful. the matter, nor are they over ethical law presented And this is far more than the starting point for ethieffective public relations. cal deliberation. They are a deeply destabilizing and In point of fact, it’s one of utterly subordinate to and the reasons why Cardinalordered around happiness. unattractive face to the wider designate Timothy Dolan When I was coming of is, arguably, the most perage in the Catholic Church suasive Catholic evangelist world – precisely why the church – in the 70s and 80s of the in the country today. The last century – Catholics archbishop of New York were utterly preoccupied of the 70s and 80s proved so is a remarkably intelligent with law. What I mean is man – his principal acathat they focused relentevangelically ineffective. demic interest is American lessly on ethical matters, Catholic church history especially in the area of – and he brings his signifisexuality. This was true cant gifts of mind to whatever he says and does; but he whether one was on the right or on the left. I think of also knows that radiating a sense of the joy that comes the endless disputes around the morality of birth control, from friendship with Christ is the key to bringing others divorce and remarriage, premarital sex and other issues to the Lord. In the opening chapter of the Gospel of John, that ripped the church apart in those days. Mind you, we hear about two young men who, at the prompting of I’m not suggesting for a moment that those issues were the Lord, come and stay with Jesus. So thrilled are they by unimportant or that the people who staked out positions this encounter that they immediately begin to announce to on both sides were unserious. But I am indeed suggesting anyone who would listen that they had “found the Messiah.” that a church battling with itself over ethical law presented In that little episode, we see the fundamental rhythm of a deeply destabilizing and unattractive face to the wider effective evangelization: They meet Jesus, they find the world. That is precisely why the church of that period experience life-enhancing, they want to tell everyone about proved so evangelically ineffective, it was so preoccupied it. The very best bearers of the Gospel are those whose joy with defending (or changing) the church’s teaching on in Christ is contagious. sexual matters that it forgot how to invite people into joyful The second part of Thomas Aquinas’ masterpiece the friendship with Christ Jesus. The huge number of people “Summa Theologica” deals with ethics, the question of how from my generation who have either left the church for precisely we ought to live. It is most instructive to note that other Christian denominations or, more likely, drifted into this massive treatment of Christian morality begins with a bland secularism testifies to this failure. joy, what Aquinas called beatitudo. Ethics is all about what Am I subtly implying here that sexual ethics doesn’t

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By Father Robert Barron

Cardinal-designate Timothy M. Dolan, pictured in New York in a 2011 file photo, is called an exemplar of effective evangelization.

matter? By no means! I am arguing that moral law follows and attends upon something far more basic, namely, the happiness that comes from intimate union with God. Once one has caught the zest of Christian life, one wants to know how to maintain that life. We might compare it to someone who has experienced the exuberance of a baseball game well played and who then endeavors, on his own and with enthusiasm, to search out the rules and disciplines of the game. Ethics is important; but joy is more important. And when the joy is in place, the ethics won’t be shunned; it will be embraced. If I might return to my original image, I would say that a good Catholic evangelist could commence with the contagious joy of Cardinal-designate Dolan walking up the aisle at St. Patrick’s. Once he has drawn someone in, he might say, “did you ever wonder how he got that way? Let me show you.” First the joy, then the ethics. Getting this right makes all the difference. Father Robert Barron is the founder of the global ministry “Word on Fire” and the Francis Cardinal George Professor of Faith and Culture at University of St. Mary of the Lake in Mundelein, Ill.

February 3, 2012

Catholic San Francisco

Twenty Something

Be still, hear God speak NBC’s Brian Williams took time from his nightly newscast earlier this month to announce that comedian Russell Brand had filed for divorce from singer Katy Perry, ending a marriage that had barely cleared the one-year mark. The news was part of a ping-pong pop culture recap that ended with Williams describing the latest YouTube sensation: a golden retriever bobbing its head to the strumming of a guitar. Broadcasters tout iPads to remind us that they’re hip, sliding graphics with their index fingers. Reality TV’s beforeand-after formats serve up immediate gratification, creating a which-house-will-they-choose, which-dress-will-she-say-yes-to suspense that is quickly satisfied. And then there’s the Spike TV formula: a skateboarder crash every five seconds. The other week CNN featured three panelists, each face in its own box. Whoever was speaking jumped to the top center, yielding a rotating triangle that made me dizzy. That’s how I felt when I stumbled upon CNBC’s “Mad Money,” where host Jim Cramer appeared sandwiched in rows of stats and stocks, all regularly changing while he walked around his studio packed with flashing screens. Do TV producers really think we need that much stimulation? No one expects us to be naturally interested; no one believes content can carry its own weight. There must be juggling and tap dancing, a constant flicking of the magician’s wand and fluttering of fake eyelashes: news as a three-ring circus. It is an assault on our attention spans, and I consider it a spiritual offense. How are we to know it is well with my soul when we cannot achieve the silence needed to assess its state? How can we heed the psalm’s command: “Be still and know that I am God”?

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By Christina Capecchi

Practice stillness and notice more of God’s goodness: The impact is profound.

One of the great surprises of my 20s has been the discovery of my inner introvert – this, following a college professor’s pronouncement that I am a “raging extrovert.” I take pride in this new dimension and actively cultivate it: outdoor photography, ambling New Yorker essays. I delight in simple pleasures like a card I can write, stamp and seal and the magic of the secret knowledge it’ll be in another mailbox tomorrow, waiting quietly – so unlike a text that announces itself loudly. “How good it is to write!” a Catholic dad emailed me tonight, having chronicled his conversion for the first time, prodded by an assignment in his MBA class. I know how he feels. Though I’m still working on strengthening my prayer life, I’m practicing stillness and noticing more of God’s goodness. The impact is profound: My heart has never been more grateful. I was pleased to see Pico Iyer’s essay “The Joy of Quiet” published in the Jan. 1 New York Times become one of the web-

site’s most emailed articles. He wrote about a growing demand for hotel rooms without TVs or Internet and then recounted his regular visits to a Benedictine hermitage, where he retreats to “take walks and read and lose myself in the stillness.” In the February issue of O: The Oprah Magazine, Ms. Winfrey dedicates her back-page column to her experience practicing transcendental meditation in Fairfield, Iowa. “Housewives, shop clerks, engineers, waitresses, lawyers, moms, single ladies and me – we all gathered in our dome for the sole purpose of being still,” she wrote. “It was a powerfully energizing yet calming experience. I didn’t want it to end.” I challenge you to seize this leap year by attempting the opposite: total stillness. Spend at least a few minutes of that 29th day in silence. You may be surprised where it takes you. Christina Capecchi is a freelance writer from Inver Grove Heights, Minn. She can be reached at www.ReadChristina.com.

Spirituality for Life

Take each day as a gift By Father Ron Rolheiser When grace enters, there is no choice – humans must dance. W.H. Auden wrote those words and, beautiful as they sound, I wish they were true. When grace enters a room we should begin to dance but, sadly, more often than not we let some little thing, some minor mosquito bite, blind us to grace’s presence. I say this with sympathy, not cynicism. We all know how mosquitoes can ruin a picnic. Here’s an example: You are celebrating your birthday in your backyard, having a picnic with family and friends. The weather is perfect, the sun is warm, the mood is mellow, and everything around and within you is an invitation to be joyful and grateful. This is “Sabbath” in the biblical sense: You are celebrating life, your birthday. You are healthy, surrounded by family and friends who love you, enjoying leisure, time off the wheel of work, all with good food and good drink. Grace has entered and everything is wonderful, except for one thing, mosquitoes. As dusk begins to take hold they discreetly begin to infiltrate, inflicting a bite here and a bite there until eventually most everyone loses his or her focus and is preoccupied with keeping exposed parts of their flesh under vigilance. Eventually most of the good cheer and the gratitude evaporate and irritation at the mosquitoes effectively ends any inclination to dance.

We could all recount a hundred kinds of incidences of this sort. Given the complexity and contingency within our everyday lives, mosquitoes of some type are invariably present. There is some rain on every parade, some irritation in virtually every situation in life, and some element challenging pure grace within almost every moment of life. Life rarely comes to us pure, free from all shadow. That’s why former spiritualities said that we are “living in this valley of tears.” In our lives we never experience a moment of clear-cut, pure, joy. Everything comes with a shadow, a mosquito at the picnic. And so it is not always easy to dance, even in the clear presence of grace. Mosquito bites can easily cause us to lose perspective, to lose the big picture, the one that would have us see and celebrate grace, even in the face of some minor irritation. Today there is a rich spiritual and psychological literature that challenges us to try to live more fully inside the present moment and not let our heartaches about the past or our anxieties about tomorrow cheat us out of the riches of today. But, as we as know, that is easier said than done. Elements from our past – an almost forgotten face, a past love, a humiliation on the playground deep in our past, a misstep that still haunts us, and a thousand other things from our past – impale themselves into our present. And the future, as well, colors our present as we anxiously worry about an impending decision, the meeting

we must have tomorrow, what the doctor is going to tell us at our next visit, and how we will meet our next mortgage bill. The present moment never comes to us pure. And yet the challenge remains, an important and healthy challenge: Don’t let the mosquito bites within life blind you to the larger presence of grace! One of my favorite spiritual writers, David Steidl-Rast articulates this challenge very strongly, though he does it by emphasizing the positive. Here’s an example from his writings: “You think this is just another day in your life. It’s not just another day; it’s the one day that is given to you today. It’s given to you; it’s a gift. It’s the only gift that you have right now, and the only appropriate response is gratefulness. If you do nothing else but to cultivate that response to the great gift that this unique day is, if you learn to respond as if it were the first day of your life and very last day, then you will have spent this day very well.” But that is a grace that does not come easily, it must be fervently prayed for. Mosquitoes will inevitably make their presence known at every picnic in our lives. That’s a given. The challenge is to not lose sight of the larger presence of grace because of minor irritations. Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser, is president of the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, Texas.

The Human Side

The new age of restructuring By Father Eugene Hemrick In an age of endless restructuring, will we ever be able to settle down and just enjoy the status quo? To answer this, we need to interpret what is meant by “turmoil.” Does it connote chaos and pandemonium, or is it simply the commotion that comes with restructuring? I believe it is both: restructuring generating commotion that is often interpreted as pandemonium. Recently, the Archdiocese of Philadelphia announced that it would close and/or merge a large number of schools. It isn’t giving up on Catholic education; rather, it is restructuring its resources to create new life in its educational mission. No doubt some people are confused and are asking, “Why can’t we leave things as they are?” Restructuring includes change, commotion and new ideas, and as Shakespeare once noted, “Knowledge maketh a bloody entrance.”

When we reflect on today’s society, it leaves little doubt we have entered an age of endless restructuring. Aging water conduits feeding our cities are breaking down. Plumbing systems no longer have the capacity to meet demands. Bridges and roads are crumbling. Our means of transportation need an overhauling to counter the incivility that has invaded them. Old architectural wonders no longer can be maintained. And then there is the need for restructuring the economy and the business world and developing inventive theories that contain updated ethical standards. As our problems become increasingly complex, new laws need to be written to iron them out. As the government founders, political and social scientists and a new, sage voice of the people are needed to create more efficient and effective structures of government service.

Having entered the new age of radical restructuring, what should be our attitude toward it? Late San Francisco business leader Cyril Magnin said, “Never look at the doors closing behind you or you’ll miss the ones opening ahead.” As sentimental human beings, we tend to cling to and romanticize the past. Magnin encourages us to dream of the new opportunities and creations awaiting us. Spanish poet Juan Ramon Jimenez invites us to embrace the nobility of restructuring when he states, “A permanent state of transition is man’s most noble condition.” Wherever we go these days, we will experience restructuring. It can either cause exhilaration or sadness, depending on how we see it. Father Eugene Hemrick’s column is carried by Catholic News Service.

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A READING FROM THE BOOK OF JOB JB 7:1-4, 6-7 Job spoke, saying: Is not man’s life on earth a drudgery? Are not his days those of hirelings? He is a slave who longs for the shade, a hireling who waits for his wages. So I have been assigned months of misery, and troubled nights have been allotted to me. If in bed I say, “When shall I arise?” then the night drags on; I am filled with restlessness until the dawn. My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope. Remember that my life is like the wind; I shall not see happiness again. RESPONSORIAL PSALM PS 147:1-2, 3-4, 5-6 Praise the Lord, who heals the brokenhearted. Praise the Lord, for he is good; sing praise to our God, for he is gracious; it is fitting to praise him. The Lord rebuilds Jerusalem; the dispersed of Israel he gathers. Praise the Lord, who heals the brokenhearted. He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. He tells the number of the stars; he calls each by name. Why do bad things happen to good people? Why does a loving God allow innocent people to suffer? For many, the very issue of faith depends on the answer to this perplexing, but timeless dilemma. The Book of Job seeks to answer that very question. Job is a wealthy, prosperous man, blessed with riches, flocks and family. The Book of Job opens, however, when God allows Job to be deprived of everything, sparing only his life, in order to test the true nature and stamina of his faith. Throughout the majority of the book, Job’s three friends, Eliphaz, Bildad and Zophar, try to persuade Job that he must have committed some sin, for which he is being punished with such sudden and tragic anguish. While lamenting the ultimate drudgery of life, Job remains resolute that he is innocent. Finally, in a dramatic defiance, Job demands an explanation for his suffering from God, himself. Rather than answer Job’s question, however, God asserts His omniscience and almighty power – “Where were you when I founded the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding” (Job 38:2); “Will we have arguing with the Almighty by the critic? Let him who would correct God give answer!” (Job 40:2). God brings Job

Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time Job 7:1-4, 6-7; Psalm 147:1-2, 3-4, 5-6; I Corinthians 9:16, 19, 22-23; Mark 1:29-39 Praise the Lord, who heals the brokenhearted. Great is our Lord and mighty in power; to his wisdom there is no limit. The Lord sustains the lowly; the wicked he casts to the ground. Praise the Lord, who heals the brokenhearted. A READING FROM THE FIRST LETTER OF PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS 1 COR 9:16-19, 22-23 Brothers and sisters: If I preach the gospel, this is no reason for me to boast,

for an obligation has been imposed on me, and woe to me if I do not preach it! If I do so willingly, I have a recompense, but if unwillingly, then I have been entrusted with a stewardship. What then is my recompense? That, when I preach, I offer the gospel free of charge so as not to make full use of my right in the gospel. Although I am free in regard to all, I have made myself a slave to all so as to win over as many as possible. To the weak I became weak, to win over the weak. I have become all things to all, to save at least some. All this I do for the sake of the gospel, so that I too may have a share in it.

Scripture reflection FATHER BILL NICHOLAS

The disquieting wisdom of Job to a new level of humility in the assertion: God does not require Job to understand why this happened; only to have faith that God understands why. In the end, Job acquiesces to the ultimate wisdom of God, putting his faith in the simple truth that God has all the answers. He further yields to the reality that God will not always share those answers with us, nor does he need to. Such is the wisdom of Job. It is, however, a very troubling wisdom for a culture that values having the answers, having a reason for why things happen; that values

thorough understanding and of being “in the know.” However, it is a wisdom that is fundamental to our relationship with God. This was the wisdom exercised by Abraham. He came from a pagan culture that sought to understand the cosmos and the divine in order to predict and manipulate them through rites and sacrifices. The first thing Abraham came to know about this new divinity, however, was that he can never truly know it, nor could he predict or manipulate it. Rather, Abraham was called to do something very new – he had to have faith and complete trust in the guidance,

A READING FROM THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MARK MK 1:29-39 On leaving the synagogue Jesus entered the house of Simon and Andrew with James and John. Simon’s mother-in-law lay sick with a fever. They immediately told him about her. He approached, grasped her hand, and helped her up. Then the fever left her and she waited on them. When it was evening, after sunset, they brought to him all who were ill or possessed by demons. The whole town was gathered at the door. He cured many who were sick with various diseases, and he drove out many demons, not permitting them to speak because they knew him. Rising very early before dawn, he left and went off to a deserted place, where he prayed. Simon and those who were with him pursued him and on finding him said, “Everyone is looking for you.” He told them, “Let us go on to the nearby villages that I may preach there also. For this purpose have I come.” So he went into their synagogues, preaching and driving out demons throughout the whole of Galilee. direction and promises of God who did not always tell him everything. This was the wisdom exercised by the early martyrs of the church, who suffered persecution and death, not knowing why, nor what the future held for the church; only having faith that God had a purpose. In hindsight we can declare, “The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church,” but this was not so evident while the martyrs were suffering. In our culture of being “in the know,” in which knowledge is power and awareness gives a sense of purpose, let us take up the challenge of the wisdom of Job. Good people will often be called to suffer, and we may be moved to ask “why.” Knowing that God will not always give us answers, nor does he need to, let us have the grace to put our faith in the omniscience of almighty God, who has a purpose for everything, including the suffering we are called to endure – whose only answer to the question “why” may, and very often is, “I do not require you to understand. Rather, you must have faith that I understand.” Father William Nicholas is parochial vicar at Mission Dolores Basilica in San Francisco. Visit his website at www.frwcnicholas.com.

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Weekday Communion services Question: In the area where I live, it used to be that, when a priest was not available for a weekday Mass, a deacon or eucharistic minister would distribute holy Communion within the context of a prayer service. But that practice has been discontinued; now instead, when a priest cannot be there for Mass, only a prayer service is offered and Communion is not given out. We’ve asked several deacons to explain this change, and their answers have varied: One said that Communion should not be regularly separated from the eucharistic sacrifice of the Mass; another felt that this helped to convey the notion that Sunday, the day of Christ’s resurrection, is the special day when Communion is the norm; and a third remarked that the lack of daily Communion might prompt us to pray harder for more priests. None of these answers satisfies me, as I was raised to believe that receiving this spiritual food every day was the ideal. What is the church’s view on this? (Williamsburg, Va.) Answer: Your question shows a sincere desire to be united as often as possible to Christ through Communion, and that is praiseworthy. The current thinking of the church, however, is to discourage weekday Communion services, based on the essential link between reception of the Eucharist and the sacrifice of the Mass. “Redemptionis Sacramentum,” issued in 2004 by the Vatican Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, says of Communion services that “the diocesan bishop ... must not easily grant permission for such celebrations to be held on weekdays, especially in

places where it is possible or would be possible to have the celebration of Mass on the preceding or the following Sunday” (No. 166). In the Mass, which memorializes and makes real the death and resurrection of Jesus, worshippers unite their own sacrifices with that of Christ, and then are drawn into deeper intimacy by receiving in Communion the very gift they had offered, Jesus himself. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Committee on the Liturgy (now called the Committee on Divine Worship) has noted that “every effort must be undertaken to avoid any confusion” between a Communion service and the celebration of the Mass. Ten or 15 years ago, when daily Communion services were offered widely (on a priest’s day off or when he was sick), one would sometimes hear references to “Sister’s Mass” or “the Deacon’s Mass” when a substitute service would be provided – which is the precise confusion the church wants to avoid. The Mass is the source and summit of Christian worship, and nothing can take its place. (It’s even more troubling to a priest when the same parishioner comes into church each day 20 minutes after Mass has begun – just in time to receive Communion and walk directly out of church, as though he had managed to grab a “lucky charm” while he hurried by!) In the matter at hand, it is easy to sympathize with the questioner’s plea, conditioned as he has been by a long and devout practice of daily Communion and the benefit derived from it. In view of that, some dioceses have sought a pastoral “compromise” in this regard, such as Milwaukee, which says

in its guidelines that, “if there is no priest available for an extended period of weekdays (three or more), a Communion service may be held.” But the more general practice seems to be that Communion is Father not offered on weekdays Kenneth Doyle when a priest is not present; instead the Liturgy of the Hours is recited (led by a deacon, religious or lay parish leader), the rosary may be prayed or other worthy prayers are offered. Since the time of Pope Pius X in the early 20th century, several popes have highlighted the value of daily participation in the Mass, and the USCCB’s guideline is that, “whenever possible, daily Mass should be celebrated in each parish.” When, due to the shortage of priests, such frequency is not possible, parishes are asked to publish the weekday Mass schedules of the Catholic churches nearby, so parishioners will have every opportunity to go to Mass and to receive holy Communion in its full and proper context. Father Doyle’s column is carried by Catholic News Service. Send questions to Father Kenneth Doyle at askfatherdoyle@gmail.com and 40 Hopewell St., Albany, N.Y. 12208.

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Capuchin Father MacRory; ‘great example of fraternity’ Capuchin Father Camillus MacRory died Dec. 25, 2011, at Mercy Care and Retirement Center in Oakland. He was 86. A funeral Mass was celebrated Jan. 4 at Our Lady of Angels Church in Burlingame with interment at the friars San Lorenzo Friary in Santa Ynez. Born in Ireland, Father Camillus entered religious life in 1943 and was ordained to the priesthood May 24, 1951. Father Camillus served as a parochial vicar at Our Lady of Angels early in his priesthood and in more recent times was spiritual assistant to the Secular Franciscans community there. He also helped as a celebrant at Mater Dolorosa Parish in South Father Camillus San Francisco. MacRory, OFM Cap. “Before his daily Mass, Father Camillus would always go before the Blessed Sacrament to thank God for his vocation,” the Capuchin friars said. “He was a great example of prayer and fraternity. He would always welcome the opportunity of being with the brothers and to talk with them about a number of different topics such as politics and current moral, religious and social issues. He was a courteous man with a sense of humor and wit.” Remembrances may be made to the Capuchin Franciscan Foundation for Retired Friars, 1345 Cortez Ave., Burlingame 94010.

Sister Mary Assumpta, OP; converted ‘like St. Paul’ Dominican Sister Mary Assumpta of the Precious Blood, OP died Dec. 16, 2011, in the infirmary of Corpus Christi Monastery in Menlo Park. She was 66. Sister Mary Assumpta took an early retirement from teaching in public schools to follow God’s call. She wrote, “Like St. Paul I had a spiritual conversion. I gave my heart

completely to the Lord seeking only his will.” She entered religious life in 1989, making final vows in 1996 and has been at Corpus Christi Monastery since 2007 teaching in the novitiate. “These were joyfilled days hidden in Christ, at the heart of the church, instructing new candidates in ways of Sister Mary Dominican monastic life,” the Dominican sisters said. Assumpta of the Sister Mary Assumpta was Precious Blood, OP elected prioress in March 2009 and soon began her fight against leukemia. “Walking and praying hand in hand with other patients at Stanford University Cancer Center, her total surrender to God’s holy will, she peacefully accepted the call to again leave all and embrace eternity,” the sisters said. A funeral Mass was celebrated Dec. 21 with interment in the monastery crypt at Corpus Christi Monastery. Remembrances may be made to the Dominican Nuns of the Order of Preachers Cloistered, 215 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park 94025.

Father Mamerto Sigaran; retired archdiocesan priest Father Mamerto Sigaran died Dec. 15, 2011, at St. Mary’s Medical Center. He was 77 and a priest for 51 years. A funeral Mass was celebrated Dec. 20 at St. Paul Church in San Francisco. Father Sigaran was born in La Paz, El Salvador and studied for the priesthood at seminaries there and in Mexico. He joined family members in San Francisco following the March 24, 1980, killing of Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero and began serving the growing Spanish-speaking community here, according to an announcement of Father Mamerto his death from the Office of the Vicar Sigaran for Clergy of the archdiocese.

He helped at St. Joseph Church and St. Peter Church in San Francisco while taking English language studies at University of San Francisco and was assigned as a parochial vicar at St. Peter Parish in 1983. In 1988, Father Sigaran began service at St. John the Evangelist Church in San Francisco and on April 10 was incardinated into the Archdiocese of San Francisco. In 1996 Father Sigaran was assigned to St. Paul Parish in San Francisco, where he ministered until his retirement on July 1, 2007. Remembrances may be made to the Priests’ Retirement Fund, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco 94109.

Sister Louise Barrett, RSCJ; devoted career to education Religious of the Sacred Heart Sister Louise Barrett died Dec. 20, 2011, at Oakwood, the Society of the Sacred Heart’s elder care center in Atherton. “A lifelong educator, particularly of elementary age children, Sister Louise devoted her life to the service of education,” the Sacred Heart Sisters said. A funeral Mass was celebrated Dec. 29 at Oakwood with interment in the Oakwood cemetery. Sister Louise, who entered religious life in 1955, was 75 years old. Sister Louise’s 36-year education ministry included service at San Francisco’s Convent of the Sacred Heart and Stuart Hall schools. She held a degree in chemistry from San Francisco College for Women, Lone Mountain and life certifications in elementary and secondary education from the Sister Louise state of California. “Besides her love for young Barrett, RSCJ children, Sister Barrett had a special concern for immigrants and people struggling to get by,” her community said. In 1996, in addition to volunteer hours at homeless shelters, she began a ministry with Catholic Charities of San Jose, where she provided administrative support to the office and program staff. Memorial contributions may be made to the Society of the Sacred Heart, 4120 Forest Park Ave., St. Louis, MO 63108. OBITUARIES, page 16

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AUTHOR: Jesuit Father James Martin, will talk about his new book, “Between Heaven and Mirth: Why Joy, Humor, and Laughter Are at the Heart of the Spiritual Life,” at St. Ignatius Church, Fulton Street at Parker Avenue, San Francisco immediately following the 5 p.m. Mass. Father Martin is a frequent commentator in the national and international media and conducts seminars and retreats. Copies of the new book will be available for purchase at the talk. Contact Dan Faloon at faloon@usfca.edu or (415) 422-2195.

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The live Nativity at La Nuova Porziuncola at the National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi was seen by hundreds of passers-by and pilgrims Dec. 23. The live actors were friends and family of the Knights of St. Francis of Assisi. The Porziuncola and “Francesco Rocks” Gift Shop are open every day but Monday 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Moon Bay. Menu includes Cornish game hen dinner, salad and dessert. Tickets are $25 per person with tables for eight for $175. Dance to music of a DJ. Call Jim at (650) 867-5018, Sheri (650) 799-6227 or parish office (650) 726-4674. Event is sponsored by Knights of Columbus. Proceeds benefit scholarships and wishes funds. PROUD TRADITION: Valentine Fantasy, a Turrisburnea Club lunch at City Forest Lodge, San Francisco. Tickets are $55 per person. Proceeds benefit San Francisco charities including Project Rachel. Father Dan Carter, pastor, Our Lady of Lourdes Parish is chaplain. Former chaplains include Msgr. John Foudy and the late Father James Atkins. Call Shirley Terry at (415) 682-9617. CATHOLIC SCHOOLERS: Catholic Alumni Club Valentine Luncheon at Elephant Bar, 75 Serramonte Center, Daly City at noon. Contact Geraldine da Luz at geraldine_daluz@yahoo.com or (415) 932-6390 by Feb. 9. HEALING: Archbishop George Niederauer presides at World Day of Sick Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral at noon. The Order of Malta coordinates the liturgy and makes great efforts to make it available to all who want to attend especially the ill and their caregivers. Special seating assistance is available to those in wheelchairs and who use a walker. Contact Kenneth Ryan at (415) 865-6718 or kenmryan@aol.com. CRAB FEST: Mercy High School Booster Club Crab Feed in McAuley Pavilion, 3250 19th Ave., San Francisco beginning at 5 p.m. Tickets are $40 per person or $75 per couple. Evening includes raffle, silent auction, dancing. Contact Teresa Lucchese at (415) 334-7941 or events@mercyhs.org.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16 PEACE AND JUSTICE: Jesuit Father John Dear, writer and peace activist speaks and answer questions about his new book “Lazarus, Come Forth”

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18 PLAY BALL: A St. Agnes Parish, San Francisco fundraiser, 6 p.m. at St. Ignatius College Preparatory, San Francisco. Theme is baseball so wear your favorite team’s attire. Tickets: $40 for adults, $20 for children 12 and under. Come and enjoy a fun night with some of San Francisco’s finest gourmet food trucks, live music and dancing. Tickets are now being sold in the back of church after Mass.Call (415) 487-8560 or email zack@saintagnessf.com. SINGLE CATHOLIC SCHOOLERS: Catholic Alumni Club of the Bay Area celebrates the Chinese New Year at Yat Sing, 38 Woodside Plaza, Redwood City. Beverages are at 6 p.m. with dinner at 6:30 p.m. Contact Bill Lewellyn at (650) 364-8007 or Bigfoote1@juno.com. CAC is for single Catholic professional men and women to meet and share their faith at a variety of enjoyable, interesting and fulfilling activities. Membership is open to single Catholic men and women.

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

FRIDAY, MARCH 16 ST. PATTY’S DAY: Hibernian-Newman Club holiday lunch at the Westin San Francisco, 50 Third St. at Mission Street. No-host reception is at 11 a.m. with traditional Irish music with Irish lunch at noon. Tickets are $85 per person. Proceeds benefit Catholic campus ministries.Keynote speaker is San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr. Walter Farrell will be honored as Hibernian of the Year. Call (415) 386-3434.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21 THAT’S ENTERTAINMENT: Epiphany Center’s Benefit Party and Show, 6:30 p.m. cocktail buffet with show at 8 p.m. at Great American Music Hall, 859 O’Farrell St., San Francisco. Tickets are $175 per person. Sponsorships are also available. Call (415) 351-4055. Proceeds from this traditional night of live musical comedy benefit the most vulnerable women, children, and families in San Francisco at Epiphany Center Mount St. Joseph-St. Elizabeth: Serving San Francisco’s at-risk families since 1852.

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– how God is calling humanity out of the tomb of violence and war and into a new life of resurrection peace, 7 p.m. at Dominican Sisters Gathering Place, Dominican University 1520 Grand Ave., San Rafael. Admission is free. Call Nancy at (707) 773 0904 or lesleecoady@yahoo.com. Event sponsored by Maryknoll Affiliates and Pax Christi in Marin.

SOLD! Belmont to Broadway Auction and Show benefiting Notre Dame High School, Belmont at the Foster City Crowne Plaza Hotel. For ticket, sponsorship, or volunteer opportunities contact Denise Severi at (650)595-1913 ext. 446 or dseveri@ndhsb.org. CRAB FEST: Bleu Bayou: St. Monica School Annual Auction Fundraiser Dinner, an evening of fun, food, and friends at the Parish Hall, Geary Boulevard and 23rd Avenue, San Francisco. This adults-only event starts at 6 p.m. with live jazz by The Jerry Grosz Jazz Kitchen! Menu includes: appetizers, marinated cold crab, roast chicken, plus wine and beverages. Tickets are $50 per person. All attendees will be entered for a chance to win an Apple iPad! Visit http://stmonicasf.org/parents/ auction.php or call (415) 751-9564.

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Hero . . . ■ Continued from cover The attack that day in May came near sunset. The six attack airplanes struck within 55 minutes – in a group of 25, some of which were shot down – and the first Kamikaze strike killed the seven other members of the damage control group. Clark was the lone survivor. He kept water from a fire hose that typically is handled by two men on fires all

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FORT WORTH, Texas (CNS) – A new Catholic organization is aiming to live and spread the message of Fatima through recitation of the rosary and the wearing of clothing and patches as an indirect way to evangelize. The Knights and Dames of the Holy Rosary seeks to promote Catholic faith and morals not only by the prayers requested by Our Lady of Fatima in 1917 but also by bearing public witness to their faith through the wearing of knights and dames clothing and patches. “We see the public witness to the faith as not only an effective evangelical tool, but also as an important antidote and counterweight to the ever-increasing marginalization of religion from public life in our society,” said Darrell Wright, co-founder of the new organization. Membership is at three levels – associate, for nonCatholics; militia; and cavalry, for members who ride motorcycles. Membership requires a desire to stop sinning, a willingness to observe chastity according to one’s state in life and a willingness to pray and promote the holy rosary. Militia and cavalry memA statue of Our Lady of bers pledge to pray at least Fatima is carried durfive decades of the rosary ing a candlelight vigil each day and are encourat the shrine in Fatima, aged to distribute rosaries, Portugal, in 2007. rosary leaflets and Catholic literature. Wright said he was inspired to found the organization by the words of Philadelphia Archbishop Charles J. Chaput: “God doesn’t want anonymous Christians, Christians who blend in, Christians who don’t make waves. We’re here to rock the boat.” “Knights and dames of the holy rosary are here to rock the secular boat, and make a public statement,” Wright said. “The message of Fatima and the rosary are crucial elements in bringing about the salvation of souls as well as world peace. We seek to bring that message to everyone we can, even those who just see us wearing our clothing while walking down the street or shopping at the store.” For more information on the Knights and Dames of the Holy Rosary, visit www.knightsoftheholyrosary.com.

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