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Marin Catholic High School student Danny Fitzpatrick, who will be a junior in the fall, poses with three of his teachers, Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist, Thomas Aquinas Betlewski, Miriam Holzman and Maria Jose Acosta. All three nuns, who have established strong camaraderie with the students since arriving on campus to teach 10 months ago, wanted a photo with the student because it was his birthday.

Traditional sisters big hit with trendy teens LIDIA WASOWICZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Traditional sisters and trendy students may not seem like a compatible combination, but at Marin Catholic High School in Kentfield, they’re proving to be a propitious pairing.

Since arriving on campus in August 2011, Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist, Thomas Aquinas Betlewski, Miriam Holzman and Maria

Jose Acosta have shattered stereotypes, debunked misconceptions and formed a unique union with the sophomores and juniors in the theology, science and math classes they teach.

The last woman religious, Sister Mary Ferguson, a Franciscan art instructor, had departed in 2004, so students at first weren’t quite sure what to make of the newcomers.

When Tim Navone, Marin Catholic’s first lay president, announced the sisters

would be joining the faculty to reinforce the school’s Catholic identity, Allison Galuszka envisioned strict disciplinarians “whacking knuckles with a ruler.”

Henry Harmon, a non-Catholic, pictured them as “old, ugly and mean, like portrayed in the movies, which is the only place I had ever seen a nun.”

Even Torey Tarantino, an alumnus of St. Anselm School in San Anselmo, got it wrong: “I had a teacher who was a sister, but she did not wear a habit,

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DIACONATE ORDINATION: A new class of 12 permanent deacons for the archdiocese will be ordained June 24 at St. Mary’s Cathedral. Read about the new deacons on Pages 14-15.

LITURGICAL CALENDAR: The solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi), is observed Sunday, June 10. See Scripture readings on Page 22.

BISHOPS’ ASSEMBLY LIVE BROADCAST: The public sessions of the annual spring general assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Atlanta will be available through streaming video online. The live coverage will be Wednesday, June 13, 10 a.m-5 p.m. EDT, and Thursday, June 14, 9-10 a.m. EDT. The streaming video will be available at www.usccb. org/about/leadership/usccb-generalassembly/.

RELIGIOUS FREEDOM: A Mass will be offered on June 21 at 7 p.m. at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Baltimore, celebrated by Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori, to open the U.S. bishops’ Fortnight for Freedom campaign. A Mass will be offered on July 4 at 12:10 p.m. at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, celebrated by Washington, D.C., Cardinal Donald Wuerl and televised on EWTN. Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez has invited the faithful of his archdiocese and across the nation to participate in prayer, study, catechesis and public action “to emphasize both our Christian and American heritage of liberty.”

Visit www.la-archdiocese.org and click on the Fortnight for Freedom icon for resources.

FAITHFUL CITIZENSHIP: In this presidential election year, download the U.S. bishops’ guide “Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship,” http://usccb.org/issues-and-action/ faithful-citizenship.

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To spend our lives for others is to keep them Archbishop George Niederauer gave this homily at St. Mary’s Cathedral May 19 at the Mass of ordination for new archdiocesan priests Father Jerome M. Murphy, Father Armando J. Gutierrez and Father Felix B. Lim.

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hrough the church the Good Shepherd calls priests to preach and explain the Gospel, the word of life in Christ. Jesus calls Armando, Jerome and Felix to pray and reflect on the meaning of that word in their own lives and in the lives of the people whom they serve as priests. The Good Shepherd wants to love and strengthen his people through them in many GEORGE ways: in each NIEDERAUER sacrifice of the Mass that they offer; each time they baptize a child or adult in the new life of Christ; every time they speak the words of forgiveness to sinners; every time they anoint a sick person; each time they teach people and counsel them; each time they lead and serve Catholics in a faith community; every time they lead people in prayer or pray for them alone and in silence.

FROM THE ARCHBISHOP

Our three ordinands have chosen as the Gospel reading for this Mass the words of Jesus to the apostles during the Last Supper, the night before he died. Jesus begins strangely by describing a grain of wheat that falls to the ground: If the grain of wheat remains intact, it produces no new life, but if it “dies” to its old way of being merely a grain, it produces much fruit in many new grains of wheat. Indeed, through his death on the cross and his rising from the dead Jesus won a share in divine life for all of us. Then Jesus presses home the lesson he is driving at: The one who gives his life away in loving service gains his life with God for all eternity, while the one who hordes his life selfishly loses the loving, eternal life he could have had. Selfishness is sterile; only by spending our lives for others do we really retain them. In our families, parents live out that lesson all the time. We have to admit that, even when we are selfish, we don’t like being around other selfish people – they’re not even good company! Jesus concludes this lesson by saying, “Whoever serves me must follow me, and where I am, there also will my servant be. The father will honor whoever serves me.”

“Pastor” is the Latin word for shepherd, and like a shepherd, the priest cares for, leads, protects, nourishes and goes looking for the flock when they get lost. So, Felix, Jerome and Armando, when you are a priest, you let Jesus in the bread and wine teach you humility, you let

The one who gives his life away in loving service gains his life with God for all eternity, while the one who hordes his life loses eternal life he could have had. frightened sinners teach you gentleness, you let baptisms and weddings teach you joy and hope, you let funerals teach you faith, you let parish meetings teach you patience, and you let Mary at Nazareth teach you trust.

Only three people in this cathedral this morning are being ordained priests, but everyone here is involved, committed and obliged. All of us clergy, laity and religious, are charged by Jesus Christ to support these new priests with our prayers, our companionship and our caring. We are not bystanders or onlookers. We are the church for whom they will become priests of the risen Jesus Christ.

Armando, Felix and Jerome, you are becoming priests at a time when strong cultural forces urge us to forget God, and these forces affect young people and families especially hard. But do not be afraid: God will always be with you! With his help

you will be able to walk in the ways that lead to the hearts of men, women and children, and to proclaim to them that the Good Shepherd has given his life for them and wants them to share in his mystery of love and salvation.

You are being ordained priests in the midst of Eucharist, and Eucharist will always be the heart and center of your life and ministry. “Do this in memory of me.” Does Jesus use those six words to refer only to the bread and wine of Eucharist? I don’t believe so. Certainly they refer most centrally to that action at the Last Supper and on this altar. But the entire life and ministry of Jesus led to that moment in the upper room, and all the events of Good Friday and Easter Sunday are intimately connected with that supper. Do all that you do in memory of him.

One last word: The Pharisees had a favorite complaint about Jesus – his awful taste in people. Their very words were: “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.” Actually, that is a very good description of a priest, a man who welcomes sinners and eats with them, feeds them and nourishes them, in Eucharist, in prayer, in teaching and example.

May God’s people always be able to say of each of you, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.”

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SI math teacher retiring after almost 50 years TOM BURKE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Chuck Murphy is retiring after 51 years at St. Ignatius College Prep – four years as a student graduating in 1961, and 47 years as a teacher. Chuck has served as a math teacher and department chair including 20 years teaching AP calculus, as well as a football coach, golf coach, admissions director, and faculty representative on the school’s Board of Regents.

“His legacy will be tied to the Chuck Murphy hearts and minds of the students he has transformed for nearly five decades,” said principal Patrick Ruff. “Chuck has shown us all that a caring attitude and a positive demeanor are integral to teaching and that respect is something to be earned through a genuine approach to each student with individual needs, desires, and dreams.” Chuck and his wife, Nancy, are members of Our Lady of Angels Parish in Burlingame. Their daughter Marielle Murphy, a 1993 SI grad, is now the school’s development director.

LETTERS IN ALL THE RIGHT PLACES: Archbishop Riordan High School welcomes Matthew Pilli from Alma Heights Christian School to the class of 2016.

Matthew recently returned from Washington, D.C. where he placed fourth in the ACSI (Christian Schools) National Spelling Bee. This was his second appearance at a national competition. As a top finisher Matthew received Matthew Pilli a Kindle Fire and was invited to place a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery. Tough words Matthew took on included the banner of the Abbey of San Denis: answer: oriflamme.

UNION REMEMBERS STUDENTS: The San Francisco Archdiocesan Federation of Teachers awarded prizes of $500 to high school students “who have distinguished themselves over four years in academics, character, and their commitment and devotion to their school,” said Susan Cordes of Junipero Serra High School and secretary of the union.

Congratulations to Deion Deng, Emily Hance Archbishop Riordan High School; Bradley Northnagel and Branden Quezada, Junipero Serra High School; JoJo Ziedan and Robert Kent, Marin Catholic High School; Emily Hance, Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory. Approximately 180 full-time teach-

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St. Elizabeth Church marked the 25th anniversary of its prized Schoenstein organ with a concert May 6. More than 400 people enjoyed the informative and inspiring afternoon. Pictured from left are Karen Haslag, St. Elizabeth music director; Mario Balestrieri, Church of the Epiphany Parish music director and the day’s guest speaker; Jerry Lenk, Mission Dolores Basilica music director and the day’s guest organist, and Jack Bethards, owner, Schoenstein and Co. ers, counselors, and librarians at Marin Catholic, Riordan, Sacred Heart Cathedral, and Serra belong to the SFAFT.

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Interfaith spirit built church in the redwoods DANA PERRIGAN CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

While much has changed since Our Lady of the Wayside in Portola Valley was dedicated 100 years ago, one thing has remained unaltered by the passage of time: the remarkable relationship between the little country church and a prestigious San Francisco gentlemen’s club dedicated to the arts. It continues to be as strong as it was when builders laid the cornerstone in a redwood grove at the side of Portola Road a century ago.

So when Mass was recently held at Our Lady of the Wayside to cap off a yearlong centennial celebration, it only seemed fitting that music for the service would be provided by the Songbirds choral group and the Everfaithful String Quartet, musical ensembles composed of members of the historic church support group known as The Family.

And when Archbishop George Niederauer celebrated Mass there a week earlier in honor of the church’s centennial, he was also there to bless a gift from The Family to the church: a 1,200-pound marble statue of the Virgin Mary.

“It’s been a continuous relationship for all this time,” said Jim Shannon, past president and a member of The Family for 33 years. “It’s always been a top priority because of what happened in 1912.”

What happened in 1912, said both Shannon and Our Lady of the Wayside pastor Father Jose Shaji, was something truly extraordinary – an interfaith enterprise whose results can be seen and appreciated today in the pristine beauty of the Spanishrevival style church in the redwoods.

According to longtime parishioners Bill Alfano Sr. and his son, Bill Alfano Jr., local Catholics

The new Marian statue at Our Lady of the Wayside Church

People of many faiths joined in to build the rural church. It’s said one woman, Bridget Doyle, spent her life savings to purchase the three church bells. began worshipping in a chapel that had been converted from a rough redwood dance hall around the turn of the century. It was modest and bitterly cold in winter.

At that time, Father George Lacombe traveled from Menlo Park to the converted chapel to say Mass. Through a chance meeting with members of The Family vacationing at the 68-acre Family Farm, which was adjacent to the chapel, a friendship was formed. Father Lacombe soon became a member of The Family.

At a Family dinner one evening, a San Francisco judge, who was Jewish, suggested that they build Father Lacombe a regular church.

“Suppose you Catholics and Protestants pass the hat around and see what you can raise,” the judge is recalled having said. “We Jews will double that.”

Two architects at the dinner threw dice to see

who would have the honor of designing the new church. James Miller, who won the toss, assigned Timothy Pflueger, a young staff member who used Mission Dolores as inspiration for his plans.

Everyone – Family members of all faiths, members of the parish and residents of the tiny community itself – pulled together by providing material and labor during the construction process.

Gravel was excavated from a nearby creek by hand and hauled to the site by a horse-drawn wagon. One woman, Bridget Doyle, spent her life savings to purchase the three church bells.

On Sept. 29, 1912, Archbishop Patrick William Riordan dedicated the new church, which was recognized as an historical monument in 1977.

In the aftermath of the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989, the church was closed for two years, until enough money could be raised to complete a remodeling that would bring the church up to seismic code.

Today, Our Lady of the Wayside is characterized as a “strong, loving and faithful community” composed of about 200 families, said Father Shaji, and a mission church attached to St. Denis Parish in Menlo Park.

Formerly assigned to St. Hilary Church in Tiburon, Father Shaji was assigned as pastor to St. Denis and Our Lady of the Wayside four years ago. He said the parish is currently composed of a mix of longtime parishioners and families relatively new to what has become one of the wealthiest enclaves in the country. This past year, 13 children received first Communion at Our Lady of the Wayside.

“This is a really nice community,” said Father Shaji. “When I arrive to celebrate Mass, there are always many people standing around talking to one another. Everybody knows everybody.”

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St. Pat seminarians on the road for vocations VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Becoming a priest was never on his to-do list, 24-year-old seminarian Cameron Faller told a roomful of seventh and eighth graders at St. Veronica School on one of the last days of the school year.

“I had no desire to be a priest,” Faller said, until he asked God “a dangerous question” during a trip to the shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in France: What should he do with his life?

The idea of becoming a priest popped into his head, Faller said, after entering the pool of healing waters where the Blessed Mother appeared to St. Bernadette Soubirous in 1858. Faller’s response was: “OK, I don’t want to be a priest, but I’ll keep on asking that question.”

Faller’s assignment for the past school year was to visit schools and parishes around the Archdiocese of San Francisco to talk about vocations, said archdiocesan vocations director Father David Ghiorso. The previous year now-Father Armando Gutierrez, ordained last month, had the assignment and in the upcoming school year seminarian

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Andrew Ginter will be on the speaking circuit, Father Ghiorso said.

After decades of relative quiet from the pulpit and in Catholic schools about religious vocations, the San Francisco archdiocese’s seminarians are changing the conversation. “The seminarians – all of them – have been very active and very supportive of assisting candidates and encouraging others about this call. It is the very bright spot in the vocations effort,” said Father Ghiorso, who is also pastor of St. Charles Parish in San Carlos.

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“Priests need to get their voice back on this,” Father Ghiorso said, noting he intends to raise the issue at the fall convocation of priests, an archdiocesan-wide meeting of priests. But for now, “the seminarians are providing a voice I’m very happy about.”

Six months after his trip to Lourdes, Faller decided to transfer from California Polytechnic State Univsersity in San Luis Obispo, where he was an engineering student – and he noted to the St. Veronica students, on track to earn $70,000 at graduation – to Gonzaga University where he began preliminary studies for the priesthood and later to St. Patrick’s Seminary & University in Menlo Park.

Faller is embarking on his pastoral year July 1, before returning for a final two years of study before ordination. He will be in residence at St. Cecilia Parish and teaching theology to freshmen at Archbishop Riordan High School.

“The first thing to realize about a vocation is that it is what God chooses for us,” Faller told the St. Veronica students.

“God created you in a certain way. Every human being is called to who God called us to be,” the seminarian said at the South San Francisco Catholic school May 29.

“It’s not common sense because most people in the world don’t live as though they were made in the image and likeness of God,” said the seminarian, who graduated from Marin Catholic High School.

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ARCHDIOCESE NAMES VICTIM ASSISTANCE COORDINATOR

Renee Duffey will join the Archdiocese of San Francisco June 11 as victim assistance coordinator, a position last held by the late Barbara Elordi, the archdiocese announced May 31.

Duffey is a licensed marriage and family therapist in private practice since 1995 and specializing in work with couples and individuals who wish to incorporate faith and spirituality into the therapeutic process.

She has a strong background in pastoral ministry and spirituality through her work as a spiritual director and high school campus minister, and her involvement with the archdiocesan permanent diaconate program as the wife of Deacon Rusty Duffey.

Duffey, who holds a Ph.D. in psychology from the Graduate Theological Foundation, was director of campus ministry at Junipero Serra High School in San Mateo from 1981-99 and the school’s guidance director from 1999-2008. She has also served as an adjunct professor at Notre Dame de Namur University.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | JUNE 8, 2012

SISTERS: Traditional nuns big hit with Marin Catholic High School teens FROM PAGE 1

The sisters were as classic in their attitude about behavior and belief as in their attire. Yet, they were as youthful in approach – incorporating the latest technology into lesson plans – as they were in age, the average for the 116 members of their order, established in 1997, being 28 years.

They had neither boyfriends nor bank accounts – a “shock” to some of their adolescent charges – professing vows of chastity, poverty and obedience.

They personified goodness but portrayed a wicked sense of humor.

“At first, I didn’t know what to expect, but as I got to know them, I found they were kind, trustworthy, tough but fair and a lot of fun,” said junior Tarantino of San Rafael. “And when they say, ‘I’ll pray for you,’ it really means something!”

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“They turned out to be unbelievably connected to us and to really understand where we’re coming from,” he said.

Harmon, a 17-year-old junior from Kentfield who felt “very nervous” the first week of class, has made the sisters his closest confidantes.

“They are so approachable, I can talk to them about March madness, my personal troubles, anything,” he said. “I feel closer to them than to other teachers.”

The sisters believe their traditional habits have a profound impact on the high schoolers.

“Because we wear a visible sign of our consecration to Christ, students are less likely to misbehave around us and more likely to take what we say seriously,” said Sister Maria Jose, a former computer analyst who teaches sophomore and junior geometry.

“The students know we’re not doing this for personal gain or to advance our careers or even for altruism but for the salvation of their souls,” said Sister Thomas Aquinas, who holds a master’s degree in theology.

The special relationship is evident as students stop to greet each sister welcoming them at the door. Settling at their desks, they listen earnestly, speak eagerly and volunteer enthusiastically.

They show genuine interest as Sister Thomas Aquinas explains the relevance of the beatitudes to the typical teen’s daily life.

When she announces “out of love and possibly a bit of craziness” a retake for students who failed a test, several faces grin with relief. No one protests the stringent conditions she places on the privilege.

“I can talk to them about March madness, my personal troubles, anything. I feel closer to them than to other teachers.”

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Dominican sisters teaching at Marin Catholic High School are pictured with some of their students. From left, Allison Galuszka, Sister Maria Jose, Christopher Ward, Sister Miriam Holzman, Henry Harmon, Sister Thomas Aquinas Betlewski, Torey Tarantino.

The multimedia assignments for the next day clarified, 21 heads bow as sister leads the class in prayer.

In the chemistry lab taught by Sister Miriam, a pharmacist, 21 sophomores split work loads and share findings to calculate the effects of temperature change on a balloon’s volume. Several acknowledge the presence of a religious spurs the spirit of cooperation and collaboration.

In geometry, 22 students graph concentric circles with Sister Maria Jose’s patient assistance. They smile a polite, “Thank you, sister,” as she dismisses the class with, “God bless you; have a safe day.”

“I was very pleasantly surprised that while the sisters share their devotion to God, each is unique – one loves music, one is a science expert, one is great with the calculator and technology – just like regular people,” said Galuszka, a 15-year-old sophomore from Ross who attended a public primary school.

The sisters, coming from more conservative and less affluent areas than Marin County, have had to make their own adjustments.

“I’m used to schools where nearly all the students

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Walking out of St. Francis Chapel following the 7:30 a.m. Mass, she expressed surprise at the attendance of only six of the school’s 719 students, 68 percent of whom are Catholic.

“Of my teaching experiences, Marin Catholic has given me some of the most unique challenges,” she said. “This is the first time I’ve encountered students who don’t have a very religious background so we have to start at ground zero.”

They are making headway.

“The sisters have really deepened my understanding of God and brought me closer to him,” said Tarantino, 16. “I see their goodness in everything they do.”

Sister Maria Jose hopes the sisters’ example will inspire some of the students to follow in their footsteps.

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Msgr. James O’Malley, who as a priest in the Archdiocese of San Francisco for nearly 66 years endeared himself to and inspired generations of Catholics, died May 28 at Nazareth House in San Rafael.

He was 92.

Msgr. O’Malley was synonymous with St. Kevin Parish in San Francisco’s Bernal Heights District, where he was pastor for 26 years, from 1967 until his retirement in

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AUXILIARY BISHOP WILLIAM J. JUSTICE to everybody, and he was there for everybody.”

Msgr. O’Malley “had great rapport with people,” said Father Jack Kavanaugh, a retired priest of the archdiocese and a friend for 60 years. “He was a people person, with a capital P.” James Edward O’Malley was born in San Francisco to Irish immigrants – a son of Frank O’Malley, from County Galway, and Genevieve O’Connell O’Malley, of County Mayo. His mother died when he was 4 and his father, a San Francisco firefighter for 45 years, raised him and his brothers, Joe and Frank, and sisters, Patricia and Cecile, in the Mission District – all of them children of St. Paul Parish – along with his second wife, “Auntie Win,” Genevieve O’Malley’s sister, Winifred.

He enrolled in St. Joseph’s Minor Seminary and then St. Patrick’s Seminary and was ordained June 15, 1946, at St. Mary’s Cathedral by Archbishop John J. Mitty.

Msgr. O’Malley was appointed to St. Gregory Parish in San Mateo, where he served for 10 years, until 1956.

He served at St. Patrick in San Jose from 1956-61 and at St. Michael in San Francisco from 1961-67, before becoming pastor at St. Kevin.

It was at St. Gregory that Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice and his family became close to Msgr. O’Malley, beginning when the Justice family moved to the parish in 1949. Bishop Justice said Msgr. O’Malley was among the people who influenced his vocation.

“He was a very happy, warm priest, someone you could trust and you kind of wanted to be like,” he said.

In 2010, Msgr. O’Malley was named a Prelate of Honor to His Holiness with the title of monsignor.

After his retirement, Msgr. O’Malley lived at St. Anthony of Padua Church in Novato for 15 years and in early 2008 he moved to Nazareth House.

A funeral Mass was celebrated June 4 at 11 a.m. at St. Anthony of Padua Church, Novato, with Archbishop George Niederauer as principal celebrant. Concelebrants included retired Archbishop John R. Quinn, Auxiliary Bishop Justice, Auxiliary Bishop Robert W. McElroy, retired Oakland Bishop John Cummins and Father Kavanaugh.

Father Anthony McGuire, pastor of St. Matthew Parish in San Mateo, was homilist.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | JUNE 8, 2012

FRANCE HONORS MARIN VET

At a Memorial Day ceremony, the French government awarded St. Isabella parishioner Albert Ranzini, 87, of Terra Linda that nation’s Legion of Honor for his service building airfields in France during World War II. Ranzini, born in Albert Ranzini Crockett, was just 18 when he joined the IX Engineer

Command, 832d Engineer Aviation Battalion. His unit’s first mission was to build and maintain airfields in England, in order to reinforce English air defenses and support Allied operations over Nazi Germany.

On June 30, the engineers landed on Omaha Beach, Normandy, and days later built the first operational airfield in Normandy – a key to air support for land operations.

The battalion then crossed France into Germany, and by the end of the war had built 10 airfields and 16 air-

strips and maintained nine airfields built by other Allied units.

Allied Supreme Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower later noted that aviation and combat engineers were among the most important people to serve in the European war. “You did all of this far, far away from your home, from your beloved family, from your friends. You are a hero,� the French government said in remarks given during the award ceremony for Ranzini at the Marin County Civic Center in San Rafael on May 28.

“It is really difficult for us, if not impossible, to imagine how much courage and bravery it required to land on the coast of France and to save, as you did, France and Europe from hell,� the remarks continued, concluding: “We will never forget.�

Ranzini for many years served as a weekday morning Mass sacristan – setting up the altar – an extraordinary minister of holy Communion, lector and usher, among other parish volunteer efforts at St. Isabella.

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POPE: WORLD ANOTHER BABEL

VATICAN CITY – The modern world is a latterday Babel, where arrogance inspired by technological progress leads people to play God and sets them against each other, a predicament from which people can escape only through divinely inspired humility and love, Pope Benedict XVI said May 27 in his Pentecost Sunday homily during Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica.

Acknowledging that communications media and modern transportation have brought the world’s people “closer to one another than ever before,” Pope Benedict lamented that true “understanding and communion” is “often superficial and difficult.”

Mutual understanding “seems too arduous an undertaking, and we prefer to remain within ourselves and focus on our own interests,” the pope said. “… Men are nursing a sense of diffidence, suspicion and reciprocal fear, to the extent that they have even become a danger to one another.”

The pope likened these developments to the Old Testament story of the Tower of Babel, where men came to think themselves “strong enough to be able to construct on their own a path to heaven in order to open its doors and put themselves in God’s place,” he said.

VATICAN BANK HEAD FIRED

VATICAN CITY – Carl A. Anderson, head of the U.S.-based Knights of Columbus and secretary of the Vatican bank’s board of supervisors, said a commitment to promoting transparency led the board to fire Ettore Gotti Tedeschi as bank president.

The board unanimously passed a vote of “no confidence” in Gotti Tedeschi’s leadership May 24 during a meeting in which the Italian banker was allowed to speak “for more than 70 minutes,” according to a memorandum released by Anderson.

The board of the bank, formally known as the Institute for the Works of Religion, issued an unusually blunt statement through the Vatican Press Office May 24, noting that members had repeatedly expressed concern to Gotti Tedeschi about the bank’s “governance,” but that the “situation has deteriorated further.”

The board’s action was explained further in the memorandum to Gotti Tedeschi, which informed him

Vatican paper as a way to “widen the coverage of the newspaper of the Holy See” by including more articles on women and the church, the newspaper said. The front page will be dedicated to religious or laywomen who play a critical role in the church, yet whose contribution “is still hidden,” the paper said.

HOUSE ARREST SOUGHT FOR PAPAL BUTLER

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Bishops for migrant rights A Dominican boy of Haitian origin stands in the doorway of his home near the border in Sabana Escondida, Dominican Republic, May 12. North American Catholic leaders meeting May 30-31 in the Dominican Republic said they would push for protection of migrants traveling through Mexico and for better treatment of Haitian migrants and their children living in the Dominican Republic. of the vote after he “abandoned the premises without notice,” the memo said.

Signed by Anderson, the memo said the board acted based on the president’s “failure to carry out basic duties” of the office; his failure to “remain informed” of the bank’s activities and to keep the board informed; abandoning or failing to attend meetings; “exhibiting lack of prudence and accuracy” when talking publicly about the institute; and because of “progressively erratic personal behavior.”

VATICAN PAPER FOCUSES ON WOMEN

VATICAN CITY – The Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, has launched a monthly insert dedicated to women, aiming to bring greater attention to their important but sometimes neglected role in the church. The glossy four-page color supplement, which debuted May 31 to mark the end of the month dedicated to Mary, is called “Women, church, world,” and will run the last Thursday of every month.

The idea was proposed by female journalists at the

VATICAN CITY – The lawyers for Paolo Gabriele have petitioned Vatican magistrates for house arrest for their client, who is accused of illegally possessing stolen documents as part of the so-called “VatiLeaks” scandal.

Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman, said May 30 that the magistrates who have been holding Gabriele in the offices of the Vatican police were considering the formal request to allow him to return to his Vatican apartment with his family.

The papal assistant, a combination butler and valet, was arrested May 23 by Vatican police, who said they found stolen documents in his apartment.

In addition to the magistrates’ questioning of Gabriele, Father Lombardi said the Vatican police and a commission of cardinals appointed by Pope Benedict XVI continue to investigate the leak of private letters to the pope, encrypted cables from Vatican embassies around the world and other sensitive documents. The first documents were released by an Italian journalist in January and he published dozens of them in a book in mid-May.

POPE OPENS POSSIBILITY OF US VISIT

MILAN – As Pope Benedict XVI closed the World Meeting of Families in Italy’s capital of finance and fashion, he opened the possibility of his heading to the United States when he named the Archdiocese of Philadelphia the next venue of the world gathering.

“God willing,” he said, he would attend in 2015 as he greeted Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia and “the Catholics of that great city,” saying he looked forward to meeting U.S. Catholics.

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Struggling Irish church shows signs of renewal MICHAEL KELLY CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

DUBLIN – Ireland’s Catholic Church, host of the International Eucharistic Congress, has suffered a dramatic loss of credibility in recent years, but also shows signs of renewal after a decade of turbulence.

While a recent survey by the Association of Catholic Priests found that weekly Mass attendance throughout the country is one of the highest in Europe at 35 percent, the capital – where Mass attendance in some parishes is 2 percent – has been hit by a combination of religious apathy, secularism and disenchantment as a result of clergy sex abuse scandals.

David Quinn of The Iona Institute, a think tank that aims to highlight the benefits of religion for society, believes it is wrong to present all of the church’s challenges as being linked to clerical abuse scandals. The shift in public opinion, he said, is “driven primarily by the secularizing trends that would have overtaken the rest of Europe over the last century, and only secondly actually by the scandals, because the downward trends were in place before the scandals ever came to light.”

“Church bashing has replaced ‘Brit bashing’ in the national psyche,” he said.

“If you go back to the days when nationalism of a certain type, a one-eyed type of nationalism, was very strong in Ireland, if you did not go along with most vitriolic criticisms of Britain you were a ‘West Brit.’

“We have psychologically replaced this with a very unthinking one-eyed critique of Catholicism,” he said.

(CNS PHOTO/JOHN MC ELROY)

Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin greets churchgoers following the annual Festival of Peoples Mass at St. Mary’s Pro-Cathedral in Dublin May 26.

But Divine Word Father Vincent Twomey, a moral theologian, thinks the church has to look inward to find the root of its current difficulties.

“Our real problem today is not caused by society or the current government’s policies, which are quite clearly anti-church, anti-Catholic,” he said.

“The church itself has contributed to the secularization of society by failing to grasp the imagination of people, by failing to feed their intellectual thirst for the truth,” he said.

Bishop Joseph Duffy, speaking just before he retired as bishop of Clogher in 2010, said the church in Ireland is “crying out” for reform. He said the

Irish bishops have been “dragging our feet” on the issue of reform and church leaders have not fully embraced the Second Vatican Council.

“What we are really talking about now is radical reform all across the country,” Bishop Duffy told The Irish Catholic newspaper in 2010. “We’re working out a church based on a society that no longer exists. We need to dramatically address whether we’re fit for purpose.”

Taking up the challenge, Belfast, Northern Ireland, Bishop Noel Treanor has embarked on an ambitious Living Church program that includes listening sessions in all parishes as well as special sessions for young people and one to which Catholics who no longer practice their faith were invited.

“There are times when the people of God are called to reform and renew the church, and I believe this is one such time,” Bishop Treanor told Catholic News Service.

A 20-page report from the listening sessions has been produced and will form the basis of a diocesan assembly in 2013. Facilitators reflected their experience that “throughout the diocese there are people who want to help and to play a part in the church’s renewal.”

The document also notes that “many people want to serve the church but feel that they have never been invited or indeed feel discouraged as if surplus to requirements.”

Bishop Treanor said he believes that the culture in the church in Ireland must be influenced by what is positive in the wider culture. He notes that modern culture is characterized by a greater sense of participation.

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The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the provision of the 1996 federal law, known as DOMA, that defines marriage as “a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife.”

The three-judge panel cited previous Supreme Court rulings that struck down laws determined to be discriminatory against a class of people as being among the keys to their ruling.

The case was brought against the federal government by a group of same-sex married couples and several widowed spouses, all from Massachusetts. They seek access to federal benefits such as Social Security that would be available to heterosexual married couples but are blocked under DOMA. The law was passed soon after Hawaii’s Supreme Court held that it might violate the state constitution to deny marriage to same-sex couples. Since then, 30 states have passed constitutional prohibitions on same-sex marriage while six states and the District of Columbia have passed laws permitting it. Another dozen states, including Hawaii, have laws recognizing civil unions between people of the same sex.

The 1st Circuit judges said the case was difficult, “because it couples issues of equal protection and federalism with the need to assess the rationale for a congressional statute.” That rationale is “open to interpretation,” the judges said, adding: “We have done our best to discern the direction of these precedents, but only the Supreme Court can finally decide this unique case.”

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POPE NAMES DENVER, BUFFALO PRELATES

WASHINGTON – Pope Benedict XVI named Bishop Samuel J. Aquila of Fargo, N.D., as the new archbishop of Denver and also named Bishop Richard J. Malone of Portland, Maine, to head the Diocese of Buffalo, N.Y. The changes were announced May 29 by Archbishop Carlo Maria Vagano, apostolic nuncio to the United States.

Archbishop Aquila, 61, succeeds Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, who was named to head the PhilaDenver delphia archdiocese last July. The Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila new archbishop has headed the Fargo Diocese since 2002. Bishop Malone, 66, has been Portland’s bishop since 2004.

Archbishop Aquila will be installed July 18 during a Mass at Denver’s Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception. Bishop Malone will be installed Aug. 10 during a Mass at St. Joseph’s Cathedral in Buffalo.

“It is a tremendous blessing to be able to return to the particular church where I was ordained and to a place that I consider home because I lived there the majority of my life and served in the priesthood there,” Archbishop Aquila said at a news conference in Denver.

A Denver archdiocesan priest, he left in 2001 to serve the Fargo diocese, he said, adding, “I never imagined that I would return one day as archbishop ... yet it is all part of God’s plan.”

ABORTION BILL FAILS IN HOUSE

WASHINGTON – A bill that would have prohibited abortions motivated by the gender of the unborn child failed to gain a needed two-thirds majority in the House of Representatives May 31.

The vote to suspend the rules and pass the Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act, sponsored by Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., and known as PRENDA, was 246 in favor and 168 against.

In addition to banning sex-selection abortions, the legislation would have prohibited the coercion of abortions based on gender, the solicitation or acceptance of funds for such abortions and the

transportation of a woman into the U.S. to obtain such an abortion.

In a statement after the vote, Franks expressed confidence that “this is not the end, but merely the opening salvo in ensuring the words, ‘It’s a girl,’ are no longer a death sentence for so many unborn girls.”

Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., said sex-selection abortion “is cruel, it’s discriminatory and it’s legal. It is violence against women.”

“Most people in government are unaware that it is part of a deliberate plan of population control,” added Smith, who co-chairs the Congressional ProLife Caucus. “This is a real war on women.”

The bill was proposed after undercover video by the group Live Action showed Planned Parenthood staff members advising a woman on how to get an abortion if her unborn child is female.

VATICAN WARNS AGAINST ERRORS IN NUN’S BOOK

WASHINGTON – The Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith warned June 4 that Mercy Sister Margaret Farley’s 2006 book, “Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics,” contains “erroneous propositions” on homosexual acts, same-sex marriage, masturbation and remarriage after divorce that could cause confusion and “grave harm to the faithful.”

In a notification signed by U.S. Cardinal William J. Levada and approved March 16 by Pope Benedict XVI, the congregation said the book “is not in conformity with the teaching of the church” and “cannot be used as a valid expression of Catholic teaching, either in counseling and formation, or in ecumenical and interreligious dialogue.”

Sister Farley said in a June 4 statement that she feared that the notification “– while clear in its conclusions – misrepresents (perhaps unwittingly) the aims of my work and the nature of it as a proposal that might be in service of, not against, the church and its faithful people.”

She said the book “offers contemporary interpretations of traditional meanings for the human body, gender and sexuality” and “was designed to help people, especially Christians, to think through their questions about human sexuality.” ©CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

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Sisters’ board questions Vatican reform order CAROL ZIMMERMANN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – The national board of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious June 1 said it feels the assessment that led to a Vatican order to reform the organization “was based on unsubstantiated accusations and the result of a flawed process that lacked transparency.”

The LCWR board called the sanctions “disproportionate to the concerns raised” and said they “could compromise” the organization’s ability “to fulfill their mission.”

“The report has furthermore caused scandal and pain throughout the church community and created greater polarization,” the LCWR said in a statement released the morning after the board concluded a special meeting in Washington May 29-31, held to respond to an eight-page doctrinal assessment issued to LCWR by the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

Citing “serious doctrinal problems which affect many in consecrated life,” the doctrinal congregation April 18 announced a major reform of LCWR to ensure its fidelity to Catholic teaching in areas including abortion, euthanasia, women’s ordination and homosexuality.

In response to the LCWR statement, Archbishop J. Peter Sartain of Seattle, appointed by the Vatican to oversee the reform, said both he and the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith “are wholeheartedly committed to dealing with the important issues raised by the doctrinal assessment and the LCWR board in an atmosphere of openness, honesty, integrity and fidelity to the church’s faith.”

“I look forward to our next meeting in Rome in June as we continue to collaborate in promoting the important work of the LCWR for consecrated life in the United States,” he said.

The LCWR board said the organization’s president, Franciscan Sister Pat Farrell, and its executive director, Sister Janet Mock, a Sister of St. Joseph, will return to Rome June 12 to meet U.S. Cardinal William J. Levada, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and Archbishop Sartain “to raise and discuss the board’s concerns.”

The Vatican April 18 appointed Archbishop Sartain to provide “review, guidance and approval, where necessary, of the work” of LCWR, a Maryland-based umbrella group that claims about 1,500 leaders of U.S. women’s communities as members, representing about 80 percent of the country’s 57,000 women religious.

Sister Pat said the LCWR leadership was not surprised by the doctrinal congregation’s report. “The great surprise was the severity of it,” she said.

In the weeks since the Vatican order was issued, the Franciscan sister from Dubuque, Iowa, said she has found “a lot of strength and comfort in prayer and in other members of the LCWR.” Before the LCWR board opened its meeting, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, the papal nuncio, met with Sister Pat and Sister Janet. Later that FRANCISCAN SISTER PAT FARRELL day at the nunciature, LCWR executive director when a group was demonstrating to show support for LCWR, the archbishop invited some of its members inside and he accepted a petition they presented calling on the Vatican to stop the reform of LCWR. In his statement, Archbishop Sartain added that the Vatican and the U.S. bishops “are deeply proud of the historic and continuing contribution of women religious – a pride that has been echoed by many in recent weeks.

“Dramatic examples of this can be witnessed in the school system and in the network of Catholic hospitals established by sisters across America which are lasting contributions to the well-being of our country,” he added.

In an article he wrote for the June 18 issue of America magazine, Archbishop Sartain discussed the Vatican reform of LCWR. “Challenges larger than this have been met before, with renewal and even deeper faith the outcome,” he wrote. “Through the years, there have been inevitable conflicts and misunderstandings between religious congregations and their bishops, between one congregation and another and among the members of individual congregations.

They exist today as well.

“Disagreements regarding mission, apostolate, discipline, doctrine, style of life and personality have often been at the core of such conflicts,” he continued. Each situation was an opportunity to seek reconciliation and collaboration at the heart of the church, in the ‘communion’ that is God’s gift. Such a pivotal opportunity is now before us.”

The sisters were not surprised by the Vatican’s doctrinal assessment but “the great surprise was the severity of it.”

(CNS PHOTO/STEPHEN BRASHEAR)

A vigil outside St. James Cathedral in Seattle May 8 expressed support for sisters against the Vatican’s call for a reform of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious. The LCWR, in a June 1 statement, acknowledged messages of support received from Catholics and non-Catholics around the world.

His appointment came the same day the congregation announced a major reform. The congregation issued an eight-page “doctrinal assessment,” that cited “serious doctrinal problems which affect many in consecrated life.” The problems, it said, were revealed in an assessment originally ordered in April 2008.

In an interview with Catholic News Service, Sister Pat did not discuss specifics of the board’s reaction to the Vatican’s assessment, saying it was “a conversation we want to have first with the Vatican.”

She said that when she and Sister Janet go to Rome they will continue the conversation they had when the eight-page document was first released to them, presenting their views after “prayerful reflection.”

Sister Pat said the mood at the three-day board meeting was “pretty serious” and reflected a range of emotions. “There was a lot of sadness,” she said, “but it was a comfort for all of us to be together and process some of our candid responses and feelings with one another.”

Regarding future discussion of the Vatican report she said: “I think, first of all we have to move slowly, prayerfully and reflectively on this.” She said that as the process unfolds the LCWR leadership will have conversations with its members at the regional level and then at the national level.

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The ordination Mass will be held at 3:30 p.m. June 24 at St. Mary’s Cathedral, with Archbishop George Niederauer as principal celebrant. This is the first permanent diaconate class to be ordained in the archdiocese since 2008. Deacon formation is under the direction of Deacon Richard Foley.

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WHO MOST INFLUENCED YOUR VOCATIONAL PATH: The Jesuit community through the spiritual compass they provided me; the patients at Stanford Hospital through their faith that they shared with me.

MARITAL STATUS: Single PARISH: St. Charles Borromeo, San Francisco

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CURRENT JOB: I am the sacristan in my parish and sometimes work in the office.

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WHO MOST INFLUENCED YOUR VOCATIONAL PATH: My pastor, Father Moises Agudo, who is now vicar for the Spanish-speaking people in the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

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PARISH: St. Gregory, San Mateo

FAMILY/PERSONAL BACKGROUND: Born in Quezon City, Philippines; married April 9, 1994; grew up in Napa and San Francisco; father of a 15-year-old son, Nestor III, BS San Francisco State; MBA University of San Francisco.

CURRENT JOB: Executive director Telegraph Hill Neighborhood Center DIACONATE PLANS AFTER ORDINATION: To continue to preach and teach RCIA, confirmation and parish ministry as needed; to become more involved in liturgy.

WHO MOST INFLUENCED YOUR VOCATIONAL PATH: My mother was the person most responsible for my faith formation. She is my idol.

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WHO MOST INFLUENCED YOUR VOCATIONAL PATH: Archbishop Oscar Romero, martyr of El Salvador, was my pastor and visited my youth group.

Deacon Nate Bacon was my first American friend.

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JOSEPH RAMOS WIFE’S NAME: Elena Ramos PARISH: St. John the Evangelist, San Francisco FAMILY/PERSONAL BACKGROUND: Born in Philippines; came to Bay Area at three months’ old; a military (Navy – father) brat, grew up in the East Bay; married in San Francisco June 2002 and immediately following learned about the permanent diaconate; two sons, age 7 and newborn.

CURRENT JOB: Sales training consultant

CURRENT JOB: Director of financial reporting at Stanford Hospital.

DIACONATE PLANS AFTER ORDINATION: Parish ministry as needed, with continuing involvement in hospital ministry at Stanford Hospital & Clinics.

WIFE’S NAME: Mona Lista Kealohapuni Fernandez PARISH: St. Augustine, South San Francisco

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WHO MOST INFLUENCED YOUR VOCATIONAL PATH: Father Thomas. E. Barry, of blessed memory, my pastor at Sts. Peter & Paul Parish in Miami when I was a teenager. His joy, humor, spirituality, preaching and involvement in Cursillo were examples that influenced my vocation and love for the church.

DIACONATE PLANS AFTER ORDINATION: Allow God to use me according to his holy will.

WHO MOST INFLUENCED YOUR VOCATIONAL PATH:My spiritual director, Father Francis Tiso. He has provided endless encouragement, support and helped me tremendously in navigating the waters of discernment and formation.

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DIACONATE PLANS AFTER ORDINATION: To help my wife, Célida, to solidify a new missionary team in Oakland, and any assignment given to me by the archdiocese.

PARISH: St. Monica, San Francisco FAMILY/PERSONAL BACKGROUND: Born 1950 in Oakdale, California; oldest of two; grew up in Pacifica; adopted by maternal grandparents at age 14 and lived in Oakdale; served in the U.S. Army.

CURRENT JOB: Freelance journalist; formerly on staff at San Francisco Chronicle and San Francisco Examiner.

DIACONATE PLANS AFTER ORDINATION: Parish ministry and work in restorative justice.

WHO MOST INFLUENCED YOUR VOCATIONAL PATH: I became interested in the diaconate program after ministering to inmates at the San Francisco County Jail with the Catholic Detention Ministry Program. Holy Scripture was my biggest influence, along with authors including C.S. Lewis and Thomas Merton.

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ORDINATIONS: Archbishop to ordain 12 permanent deacons

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Gerard Francis Quinn and Jennifer Juan Quinn

Joseph Ramos and Elena Ramos

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PARISH: St. Mark, Belmont

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FAMILY/PERSONAL BACKGROUND: Born in 1960 in Torrance, the fourth of five children; lived in Manassas, Va., for 10 years; I have three children—Matthew, Miles and Madeleine.

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CURRENT JOB: I have worked all my life in the financial world and for 15 years as CFO of Peninsula Building Materials Co. DIACONATE PLANS AFTER ORDINATION: I look forward to continuing my service in St Charles Borromeo and in charismatic renewal.

WHO MOST INFLUENCED YOUR VOCATIONAL PATH: Bernie has shown me what it means to serve with generosity, thoughtfulness and love. Together we have been profoundly touched in our Marriage Encounter and charismatic involvement.

FAMILY/PERSONAL BACKGROUND: Married Dec. 3, 1983; Italian sous chef for 10 years; property manager for seven years; blessed with five children, two grandchildren; accounting graduate, Nicaragua CURRENT JOB: Property manager DIACONATE PLANS AFTER ORDINATION: Provide full support to my pastor as needed, be available to the different church groups to serve them; keep working with the Hispanic pastoral to form and develop the different pastoral ministries.

WHO MOST INFLUENCED YOUR VOCATIONAL PATH: My good friends Deacon Vicente Cervantes; Father Santos Rodriguez, my current pastor, Father Arturo Albano; Father Ulysses D’Aquila; the newly ordained Father Armando Gutierrez. All of them inspired me in a way to serve God for the rest of my life.

VENANCIO GARCIA JR. MARITAL STATUS: Single PARISH: Church of the Epiphany, San Francisco

WHAT IS A PERMANENT DEACON? A permanent deacon is one who is ordained and has received the sacrament of holy orders and has as his charge three ministries: The ministry of the word, to preach and share the Gospel; the ministry of liturgy, to assist at various liturgies including Eucharist, baptism, marriage, funeral vigils; and the ministry of charity, to serve the most needy and those who are marginalized in society.

The restoration of the permanent diaconate occurred in 1967 as a result of the Second Vatican Council.

Part of it was a need to look at all ministry. At the beginning of the church there were deacons who addressed those service areas. In thinking about ministry they saw it as an opportunity to resuscitate this order that goes back to the apostles and the beginnings of the church.

DESCRIBE THE FORMATION PROCESS: It’s a five-year program that moves from an inquiry phase, which we call aspirancy, where applicants get an opportunity to go into deeper discernment about their calling. Then there’s a series of foundational courses in Scripture (and) various ministries, including social and restorative justice, consolation and grief ministry, as an example, as well as a course (in) moral theology and Christology. Concurrently through the five years candidates participate in various ministries both within the parish and within the archdiocese, particularly in the areas of addressing needy populations. They get an opportunity not only to discern their calling but also to discern their gifts to serve.

WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE FORMATION OF A PRIEST AND OF A PERMANENT DEACON? A priest goes through a rigorous formation that goes in depth in theology and spiritually into their own calling to the priesthood and pastoral needs of the parish. A deacon is oftentimes married, often fully employed or in early retirement, often has children or grandchildren, lives in the real world and brings a wealth of day-to-day experiences in serving people in the parishes and the community.

FAMILY/PERSONAL BACKGROUND: Born in Manila, Philippines, the third of seven siblings; doctor of veterinary medicine, 1977; emigrated to U.S. in 1977.

CURRENT JOB: Retired in 2006 after 29 years of state service.

DIACONATE PLANS AFTER ORDINATION: Continue with my parish ministries as well as my outreach ministries, especially Comunidad San Dimas and working with restorative justice.

WHO MOST INFLUENCED YOUR VOCATIONAL PATH: Some of the people I met in my outreach ministries for their selfless, dedicated and joyful service to the underprivileged and the marginalized.

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LIVING BETTER, OR LIVING WELL?

20 years after Earth Summit, delegates again meet in Rio in bid to map sustainable future for world’s 7 billion people BARBARA J. FRASER CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

(CNS PHOTO/SEBASTIAN CASTANEDA, EL COMERCIO VIA REUTERS)

Above, the remains of virgin Amazon rainforest are seen after it was cleared for its wood along a highway near a town in Moju, Brazil, May 26.

Church seeks peace as mine protests turn bloody CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

SICUANI, Peru – Church leaders in Peru called for dialogue and expressed concern about the detention of two human rights workers in the southern Andes Mountains during violent protests over a copper mine.

Two people have been killed and dozens, including police officers, have been injured in demonstrations against the Tintaya Mine, owned by Xstrata, a Swiss company. On May 28, the government imposed a 30day state of emergency after the protest, which began the week before, turned violent May 27.

The mine, which local residents say pollutes water and soil in the area, is located in the Territorial Prelature of Sicuani, a church jurisdiction where most of the inhabitants are Quechua farmers. Environmental monitoring coordinated by the prelature has found high levels of metals in water and soil samples.

The church workers were detained May 28 after two lawyers from the prelature’s human rights office persuaded demonstrators to free a government prosecutor who was investigating the protests. According to local reports, the lawyers accompanied the prosecutor to the mining camp, where some protesters were being held in a police station.

While the two lawyers went inside with the prosecutor, their driver and another prelature employee were detained. Police later claimed that they had found ammunition in the vehicle. The detained workers were released May 30, according to government reports.

In a statement May 29, U.S.-born Bishop Miguel La

Peruvian church leaders concerned after 2 workers detained during mine protests Fay Bardi of Sicuani and other prelature officials “categorically rejected” the accusation that ammunition had been found in the vehicle.

“In light of legitimate concerns about quality of life and environmental pollution, we are convinced that (the protests) are consequences of demands that have not been channeled or listened to directly,” the statement said. The prelature officials called for representatives of the mining company, local residents and the national government to “sit down together and evaluate the impact of mining on the national and local economy, without ignoring the people’s legitimate aspirations for sustainable development based on respect for human rights, to reach a solution that satisfies everyone.”

They also called for the government to consider lifting the state of emergency and to guarantee the rights of everyone involved, including those arrested during the protests.

Bishop Salvador Pineiro Garcia-Calderon, president of the Peruvian bishops’ conference, called for renewed dialogue “to peacefully and effectively resolve the conflicts that have arisen.”

In a statement dated May 30, Bishop Pineiro wrote: “Building a culture of peace is an urgent task. Peace assumes constructive, transparent, tolerant dialogue that respects life, the environment, the dignity of the person and the common good.”

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Right, people using homemade weapons clash with police officers during a protest in Cuzco, Peru, May 28. Peru’s government declared a 30-day state of emergency in a highland province after it said two people were killed and dozens of police officers injured in violent anti-mining protests. Church workers were among those detained.

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LIMA, Peru – Twenty years ago, a 12-year-old girl stood before government officials from most of the world’s countries and pleaded for her future. Worried about pollution and overuse of natural resources on her finite planet, she begged, “If you don’t know how to fix it, please don’t break it.”

The occasion was the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, which ended with the world’s countries committing – at least on paper – to make environmental concerns a priority and eliminate unsustainable forms of production and consumption. Above all, delegates agreed that development must not jeopardize the welfare of future generations.

Reminding the grownups in the room that their children and grandchildren deserved a decent life, too, the girl asked, “Are we even on your list of priorities?”

Canadian Severn Cullis-Suzuki – who pleaded on behalf of her generation then and who now has a toddler and an infant of her own – will return to Rio in late June, when delegates gather again to try to map a sustainable course for the world’s 7 billion people.

The theme is one often raised by Pope Benedict XVI. During a Sunday blessing last November, he urged delegates to an international climate conference to consider “the needs of the poorest and future generations.”

A few days later, he told young Italian members of a Franciscan environmental group, “There is no good future for humanity or for the earth unless we educate everyone toward a style of life that is more responsible toward the created world.”

Many observers, however, are dubious that delegates in Rio will map a route toward that lifestyle.

So far, negotiators have failed to agree on the summit document, which was supposed to be 90 percent complete before the summit began June 20; an additional writing session was scheduled May 29-June 2.

Industrialized and developing countries have taken different stands on one of the summit’s key themes, the “green economy,” as well as a proposal to set “sustainable development goals” modeled on the Millennium Development Goals, which defined targets in areas such as health, education, maternal and child welfare and poverty reduction, with 2015 as the deadline.

“All people tend to find it easier to borrow than to pay back, but environmental debt, like all debt, tends to catch up with us,” Robert Engelman, director of the nonprofit Worldwatch Institute in Washington, said in April at the presentation of the organization’s annual State of the World report.

Titled “Moving Toward Sustainable Prosperity,” the report offers input for the Rio conference. Cullis-Suzuki spoke at the presentation via video link.

Engelman said the world needs “creative thinking about how to restructure economies, governance and our own lives.”

“Sustainable prosperity” is one name for a goal that would be reached when everyone’s basic needs are met, the dignity of all people is respected, and everyone is free to pursue happiness and allow others to do the same, according to speakers at the Worldwatch presentation.

“We need a new global solidarity for sustainability ... that can produce win-win outcomes for everyone,” Worldwatch researcher Michael Renner said. “The winners will ultimately lose if the losers can’t win.”

In the market-driven world, development has become synonymous with economic growth, but Renner and others said that unlimited economic growth will strain the planet’s resources beyond their capacity. A key to sustainable development is “transforming a consumer culture,” said State of the World researcher Erik Assadourian. “We are trapped in a system that stimulates consumption.”

If everyone on the planet consumed at the rate of Americans, he said, the planet could support about 6.2 billion people, not the 7 billion who now inhabit it and a far cry from the 9 billion projected by the end of this century.

Suggestions for curbing consumption range from redistribution of tax burdens to retraining workers for

WHAT’S A “GREEN JOB”?

The International Labor Organization says emerging jobs in a low-carbon economy fall into 10 categories: Design, waste, energy, water, buildings, transport, materials, financial, management and policy and planning skills. Here is a sampling from the ILO report “Skills for Green Jobs: A Global View.”

AGRICULTURAL TECHNICIANS are needed to take on crop diversification and new low-energy, low-polluting machinery.

PRECISION AGRICULTURE specialists calibrate applications of herbicides, pesticides, irrigation and fertilizers to avoid over- or under-use.

IRRIGATION SPECIALISTS will be in demand to advance water conservation and train end users.

RECYCLER OF ELECTRONIC WASTE is a new occupation in developing countries – often under hazardous working conditions.

MASONS, artisans and mechanical fitters are needed in the construction of wells, tube-wells, filters, low-cost latrines, hand pumps and other waste management technologies.

BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEER is an emerging green occupation in the U.S. TOURIST GUIDES, hotel managers, resort operators, souvenir shop assistants, clerks in tourist offices are essential to the growth of eco-tourism.

LAWYERS specializing in renewable energy legislation craft policy for a low-carbon economy.

JATROPHA TECHNICIAN? That’s someone trained in converting machinery to run on jatropha oil, a biofuel.

WIND ENERGY operations manager, wind energy engineer and wind turbine service technician are new jobs in India.

CLIMATE DESIGNER is a new title suggested by a cleantechnology study in Denmark.

ENGINEERS, developers and craftspeople such as welders are needed to to incorporate principles of eco-design into their work.

CAR MECHATRONIC? That’s the new name for car mechanic in several European countries. a “green” economy. Such ideas, however, are likely to meet with opposition from both industrialized countries, which fear erosion of their standard of living, and developing countries, which exploit their natural resources to generate revenue to reduce poverty, provide services and build infrastructure.

The conflict plays out not only between nations, but also within countries. Throughout Latin America, rural communities are protesting plans for dams, mines, biofuel plantations and other large infrastructure projects. Proponents say the projects are crucial to maintain economic growth and support growing populations that want the comforts and conveniences – from private automobiles to televisions to smart phones – that are staples of life in industrialized countries.

Opponents say the projects’ social and environmental costs outweigh their benefits. Many opponents are indigenous people who espouse a principle called “buen vivir,” a Spanish term that means, roughly, “living well.”

They argue that while most people in Western society are intent on “living better” and obtaining more things, indigenous people only want to “live well,” meeting their own needs in a way that leaves enough for future generations.

Despite the skepticism over the Rio summit, CullisSuzuki finds hope at the grass roots.

“Real change lies in the communities,” she told the audience at the Worldwatch presentation. “Because we love our children, we must and we will find a way to become sustainable.”

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On religious liberty and a confused media

s it that the media doesn’t understand the issue of religious liberty and the Catholic Church, or do they refuse to report it for reasons of their own?

When the U.S. Health and Human Services mandate was promulgated by HHS Secretary Kathleen Sibelius early this year, it forced Catholic institutions – in social services, health care and education – to offer all employees, free of charge, contraception, sterilization GEORGE and abortion-inducing WESOLEK drugs. These services are considered immoral by the church and so, naturally, the U.S. bishops objected and asked for a conscience exemption.

Conscience objections have been given over the years in the interplay between state and church over a variety of issues and were considered commonplace.

But this case was different. Hidden away in the multitude of regulations accompanying the mandate was a new definition of what was to be considered “religious activity.” This new definition limited “religious activity” to houses of worship and its congregants. An exemption, therefore, would be given only to a religious entity that serves and teaches its own faithful.

Serving others not of our faith, as do our social services, health care and education, does not qualify as a “religious activity.”

In essence, this new definition redefines what it is to be Catholic.

All Catholics and many non-Catholics realize and know full well that central to the Catholic faith (and many other faiths as well) is loving and serving all people who are poor, vulnerable, in prison, alone, sick, homeless and hungry. Our faith mandate does not allow us to determine if they are Catholic or not. We serve them because Christ commanded us to love them. Staying inside the walls of our churches praying for these people does not cut it. We must go out to them; otherwise our faith is a travesty of Jesus’ words and intent and 2,000 years of church history.

But now we are told by our government, by regulation in a health care mandate, that Catholics cannot practice their faith in this way.

You wonder why the bishops and other Catholics are upset? News release after news release, statement after statement has pointed out this egregious and unprecedented attack on our ability to practice our faith, and yet we see in the media, “Bishops denounce birth control mandate.” This quickly spins into the bishops’ “war on women.” Very little or nothing is said about the attack on our freedom of religion.

It is obvious that the media wants this to be about contraception and not religious liberty.

Groups like NARAL, NOW and Planned Parenthood continue to pressure the administration to continue this course. With this new definition, other “reproductive rights” can be mandated to Catholic institutions. They are most eager to have abortion provided in Catholic hospitals and our social service and educational institutions referring for abortions. The new definition in the regulations opens a very wide door for them.

It is also clear that the media will not report the facts and the truth of this story: another reason to look to your Catholic media.

Catholics of all political parties need to take this very seriously. If Catholics do not object strenuously, especially Catholic members of President Obama’s party, then we will be looking at a very different Catholic Church in the future – one that may well lose most of its institutions to a secular model and one that is eviscerated of its moral voice in the public square.

WESOLEK is communications director for the Archdiocese of San Francisico.

2011-2012 STOP SLAVERY sisters’ coalition members, first row from left: Sister Lyn Kirkconnell, Co-Promoter of Justice, San Raphael Dominicans; Sister Marie Jeanne Gaillac, CSJO; Sister Catarina Chu, DC; Sister John Paul Chao, SMSM; Sister Caritas Foster, SHF. Second row: Sister Judy Lu McDinnell, OP; Ruth Robinson, representative of Notre Dame de Namur; Sister Dolores Barling, SNJM, Sister Therese Randolph, RSM; Sister Fran Tobin, RSCJ. Not pictured is Sister Ann Foy, RSCJ.

Sisters mobilize against human trafficking SISTER DOLORES BARLING, SNJM

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s we continue to celebrate the wonderful mystery of Easter and move into the season of Pentecost, we remember the Hebrew people’s journey from slavery into freedom; we rejoice in Christ’s movement from death to life; we relive this same paschal mystery as we respond to the inspiration of the Holy Spirit in our lives. All around us signs of new life appear: in the beauties of nature, in the smiling faces of our newly baptized RCIA members and in the myriad inspirations that come to all God’s people as they make decisions to live a Christian life.

From slavery to freedom, from death to new life, is a fitting context for a future San Francisco Bay Area event: the America’s Cup Race in September 2013. This event, like similar sports events, while exciting and economically profitable for the Bay Area, is likely to attract human traffickers – sexual predators who capture and enslave young girls and women, forcing them into a life of prostitution.

These women may be from the United States or from other countries and are vulnerable because of their age, inability to speak English, deprivation of their passports by their captors, and other factors.

Various justice groups work to aid these victims.

In the Bay Area there are more than 50 anti-trafficking groups whose members work to aid victims, to raise awareness of this issue and to bring about an end to human trafficking. One of these is STOP SLAVERY: Northern California Coalition of Catholic Sisters.

This coalition has currently made progress on an issue in the San Francisco Bay Area and is committed to efforts to prevent human trafficking at the America’s Cup Race. Fortunately we were able to obtain the detailed plans and timeline for police training/hotel contacts, etc., used by the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Cross when they organized a campaign to prevent human trafficking prior to the Super Bowl. Through the efforts of Nadia Babella of the Human Rights Commission in San Francisco we were able to funnel these plans to representatives of city departments, including the mayor’s office; an organizer from the America’s Cup; representatives from police sex-crimes and anti-trafficking units; a representative from the Commission on Status of Women; and the director of the Human Rights Commission.

We hope these officials will take the lead on prevention with collaboration by our coalition and other groups in the Bay Area; all of us are still in the beginning stages of making this effort.

During the season of Pentecost may the Spirit inspire many Catholics to learn more about this issue, to pray for the victims of modern-day slavery, and to support the actions of police and hotel personnel so that the America’s Cup Race will be a beautiful event unmarred by the evil of human trafficking.

HOLY NAMES SISTER BARLING lives in Daly City, is a member of the archdiocesan Council of Women Religious and does ministry in spirituality, justice and liturgical music.

LETTERS If sisters advised bishops The bishops are saying to the 46,000 members of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, “You are not thinking what we instruct you to think.”

That is, “We approve of almost all of what you are doing, but we do not approve of what you are thinking.” The reality, however, is that the activities of women religious flow from 50 years of their constant prayerful communal reflection on what the bishops themselves said.

In religious houses and in chapter and province meetings

for five decades, women religious have analyzed and discussed formally the tradition of the church, the Scriptures, their own daily experience in the world of our nation’s hospitals, schools, social service organizations, and other outreach ministries –and the thoughtful and challenging documents issued by the thousands of bishops worldwide who gathered at the last Vatican council. The thoughts and insights painstakingly developed through this spiritual process are what guide them to do what they are doing today. As with any other conscientious human being, eliminate the thinking and praying and motiva-

tion – eliminate the community – and you eliminate the doing.

Based upon the criterion of reaching out in loving assistance across all social, economic and educational boundaries, the bishops seem to have gotten their decision backward: The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops should be asking the Leadership Conference of Women Religious to send one of their servant leaders to be in charge of the USCCB for five years.

If the centuries-long ministry by women religious in the U.S. is the result of “radical feminism,” the USCCB clearly is in need of some.

Michael C. Busk San Francisco

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HHS mandate latest in line of religious crises CHRISTINE M. WILLIAMS

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he U.S. Department of Health and Human Services regulation that would force employers, including Catholic institutions, to pay, directly or indirectly, for insurance for sterilization and contraceptives, including abortion-inducing drugs, stands as a religious liberty crisis. Scholars see it as the continuation of struggles faced by people of faith throughout the nation’s history.

John Garvey, president of The Catholic University of America in Washington, said that the first battle over religious liberty in the United States dealt with the established church of Virginia, the Church of England, after the Revolutionary War. “It had been a thorn in the side of dissenting Protestants – Baptists and Presbyterians in particular – who for theological reasons objected to paying for the support of any established church,” he said. In response, Thomas Jefferson, in 1777, drafted Virginia’s religious freedom law that disestablished the church. The entire situation had a “powerful influence” on the adoption of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1791, Garvey said.

The First Amendment’s preclusion of an established church and support of the free exercise of religion was intended to put all faiths on equal footing. That may be why religious people of various stripes become political allies. Today, for example, even religious groups that support contraception of-

ten have opposed the HHS mandate because it forces other believers to pay for contraceptives, in violation of their consciences.

It is not just Catholics who have known prejudice.

Garvey called a series of laws against the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Mormons, “the most extended form of religious persecution that we have undertaken here in America.”

Catholics faced distrust when immigrating into the country when it was essentially Protestant.

Many non-Catholics were concerned about how Catholics viewed the role of religion in politics and justified anti-Catholic policies by arguing that Catholics had an allegiance to Rome that precluded them from being faithful American citizens, he said.

Much of the prejudice against Catholics played out in opposition to parochial schools. State governments opposed providing funds to aid Catholic schools that often were founded in response to public schools that required prayer from Protestant Bibles.

Some members of Congress attempted to block all government aid that could flow to religiously affiliated schools with the Blaine Amendment in 1875.

It never became law, but similar legislation was adopted by many state legislatures during the 1800s.

Those laws are still in place in 37 states.

Joseph Viteritti, professor of public policy at Hunter College in New York, said that conflict over religious schools was not limited to Catholic schools.

A law designed to discriminate against Lutheran

schools when anti-German sentiment was at its height following World War I was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in Meyer v. Nebraska.

Another important U.S. Supreme Court decision is Pierce v. Society of Sisters in 1925, which struck down an Oregon law that required all young people, 8- to 16-years-of-age, to attend public schools. It was aimed particularly at Catholics, though it hurt all religious minorities.

“That case is very important in the school choice movement because it basically said that while the state has an interest in educating children, the primary guardian of the child is the parent,” Viteritti said. “Schools, in addition to teaching basic skills, also teach values, and good parenting involves the inculcation of values in children.”

Viteritti also said that crises in religious liberty continue today with the newest immigrant group, Muslims, who face distrust and are unfairly associated with radicalism and violence.

“Disagreement over religion is part and parcel of life. It has always been with us and will always be with us,” he said. “It’s something that’s been with us since the pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock.”

WILLIAMS is a Massachusetts-based writer.

EDITOR’S NOTE: THIS IS THE FIRST IN A SERIES OF FOUR ARTICLES ON RELIGIOUS LIBERTY PRODUCED BY THE MEDIA RELATIONS OFFICE OF THE U.S. CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS. FUTURE INSTALLMENTS WILL APPEAR ON THIS PAGE ON JUNE 22, JULY 13 AND JULY 27.

Disharmony, self-centeredness make for bad religion

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atholic writer Andrew Sullivan made a comment in a Newsweek article recently that caught my attention.

“There is so much bad religion right now in this country that I felt it was important as a Christian to say, ‘This is not what I believe,’” he wrote.

It raised the question: What is bad religion as opposed to good religion?

Over the past few years, the news has reported a number of outlandish statements made by prominent religious leaders. For example, some FATHER EUGENE have called the president HEMRICK of the United States a devil, bashed gays and labeled Americans infidels.

Bad religion is employing inflammatory words without concern for their repercussions. It is the opposite of Cicero’s admonition to his son Marcus that

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we should always try to speak harmoniously. Provocative language divides; it does not create harmony.

Bad religion is employing incendiary rhetoric, creating a bellicose atmosphere in which meaningful dialogue is impossible.

Bad religion is crusading for a cause that is selfcentered and self-aggrandizing, not altruistic and selfless.

In his book “Learning the Virtues That Lead You to God,” theologian Father Romano Guardini writes about disinterestedness as a virtue.

He describes a proverb from ancient China that says the fewer interests a man has, the more powerful he is. A man not ruled by his interests has no ulterior motives, he explains.

Disinterestedness stems from the genuineness of life, the truth of thought, the pure will to work and the sincerity of one’s disposition. A person possessing the virtue of disinterestedness is not an actor playing to an audience but is his or her authentic self.

Possessing a pure will to work, he or she will burn the midnight oil to better understand the complexities of a problem.

Bad religion more often than not darkens the dispositions of people by emphasizing the negative to the neglect of the positive and redemptive.

Bad religion is moralizing to the point of destroying joy. Defending ethics and morals is needed more than ever. But when they become overly judgmental, domineering and arrogant, they lose their powers of creating the joy of progress they are intended to create.

Good religion is the opposite of the above and is found best in persons who are passionate about a cause but do not let passions cloud the truth. It is detected in persons who are patient and take additional time to study as many sides of a problem as possible.

Good religion reverences the nobility of language and is cautious not to use it carelessly.

Most of all, good religion is found in those who reflect the loving heart of Christ. It believes in fraternal correction, one of the principal qualities of love, but also in its other qualities: mercy, beneficence, alms giving, joy and a desire for peace. ©CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

From Mary to Mia: The sacred act of naming

his week the Social Security Administration released 2011’s most popular baby names, as gathered from applications for Social Security numbers, and there’s been a shake-up in the female ranks: Sophia knocked off Isabella for the No. 1 spot. Jacob, meanwhile, held strong, maintaining his top standing among boys for the 13th consecutive year.

This news goes largely unnoticed, but I find it a fascinating cultural statement.

And I love how precise the results are, that something CHRISTINA so personal and sprawling CAPECCHI can be roundly quantified.

Mary, the most common name chosen in the past 100 years, given to more than 3.6 million babies during that period, has fallen to No. 112, outranked by Morgan (No. 75), Mackenzie (No. 68), Mia (No. 9) and Madison (No. 8).

The 2011 list contains a spate of ethereal names: Nevaeh (No. 35), heaven spelled backwards; Seren-

ity (No. 66); Trinity (No. 77); Destiny (No. 91); and Genesis (No. 82), which sprang out of Old Testament obscurity. Spiritual themes are less popular for boys, where parents get more traditional.

Saint names have not disappeared, with classics like Christopher (No. 21), Joseph (No. 22) and Thomas (No. 63) winning hearts alongside the spicier alternatives of Sebastian (No. 68), Dominic (No. 76) and Xavier (No. 77).

One of the most persistent trends of 2011 is babies whose names were dusted off from their great-grandmothers’ era. Witness Grace (No. 16), Vivian (No. 154) and Alice (No. 142), alongside William (No. 3) and Henry (No. 57). I expect a lot more Lucys, which cracked the double digits in 2010, a status it last enjoyed in 1924.

Some of their Roaring Twenties counterparts have slunk into oblivion, like Mildred and Myrtle, Gladys and Gertrude. But these names are not exempt from a comeback, no matter how they may sound to the modern ear. My money’s on the toothy ones like Thelma, Ethel and Edith, which appears to have turned a corner. She’s been on a steady decline since 1919, when she was No. 29, but Edith is robust, making a two-year climb from No. 842 to No. 771. My thoughts have evolved as I

read the bestseller “One Thousand Gifts” written

by Ann Voskamp, the 38-year-old wife of a Canadian hog farmer and home-schooling mother of six. The book’s premise – to cultivate gratitude by counting the blessings in daily life – has awakened housewives and executives, bridging bloggers and believers.

I uncapped my yellow highlighter when I arrived at this passage: “Naming is Edenic. … When I name moments – string out laundry and namepray, ‘Thank you, Lord, for bed sheets in billowing winds …’— I am Adam and I discover my meaning and God’s, and to name is to learn the language of paradise.”

An 84-year-old Trappist monk I met this month brought the concept to life, asking me, “Now, do you know your trees?” Scotch pine, he explained, have short needles in clusters of two. Red pine have long needles in clusters of two. White pine have long clusters of five.

Those simple numbers and names – red, white; two, five – are a toddler’s building blocks and, yes, just as surely, the language of paradise.

CAPECCHI is a freelance writer from Inver Grove Heights, Minn. www.ReadChristina.com.

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A father reassures the young that love lasts

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e are now in the parental interregnum – the period between Mother’s Day and Father’s Day. The modern project to make women and men more or less interchangeable has failed. The difference between the sexes, and the importance of their respective roles in the family, remains alive and well. Yet it is inescapable that the roles of mothers and fathers have changed, even in the most traditional of households.

And this is not all bad.

Susan Gregory Thomas JOHN GARVEY wrote recently in The Wall Street Journal on dads as “the new moms.” She reported that according to the U.S. Census Bureau, “32 percent of fathers with working wives routinely care for their children under age 15, up from 26 percent in 2002.”

Children will benefit from fathers who are more involved in parenting. Yet this good trend is colliding with two others that are both very bad for children. Charles Murray comments on these in his new book “Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010.”

The first negative trend he identifies is the decline of marriage. It is widely known that about four in 10 marriages end in divorce. It is less widely known, he notes, that more and more men have never been married – as of 2010, this was true of nearly one in three working-class white males aged 30-49. Marriages aren’t just failing – they also are failing to materialize.

The other trend, he identifies, is the rise in the number of children living with just one parent.

Some of these (22 percent of children among working-class whites in 2010) are the children of divorced or separated parents. Others are children born to unmarried women – a group that grew dramatically over this half-century.

In other words, although dads are doing better at parenting, they are doing much worse at marriage.

The net result is worse for children.

I used to have on my bathroom mirror a saying attributed to Notre Dame’s Father Ted Hesburgh: “The best thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.” I’m not sure he was the first person to say it, but the fact that it gets attributed to so many people (John Wooden, Abraham Lincoln) is probably a testament to its truth.

A happy marriage sends children important messages that will help them in life. It shows them that they are born out of love – that they are wanted and part of God’s plan. It makes their world a safe place,

in which their parents protect them from the arrows and even the pinpricks of adulthood until they come of age. Children in stable families are not like the other young of the animal kingdom, who must live from birth in constant fear of predators.

Finally, stable marriages reassure children that love is lasting – that both parents, and especially the father, will keep the promise to care for them always. Good parents provide a living lesson to their children in how to love others, including most especially the person they eventually marry.

The Second Vatican Council document “Lumen Gentium” called the family the “domestic church,” a phrase that Pope John Paul II continued to use during his papacy. Children learn the faith by word and example, something primarily provided by their parents.

Any good parent can impart this catechesis with heroic effort, but there is no easier or better place to do it than within a loving and stable family. If your mom and dad loved each other, be grateful to them during these days that celebrate motherhood and fatherhood. And commit yourself to showing such love in your domestic church.

GARVEY is president of The Catholic University of America in Washington. ©CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

Catholic marriages are exclusive unions between a man and a woman

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hen I attempted to explain to my gay nephew, whom I love as a son, that the right to marry was not an absolute right for anyone, not even heterosexual Catholics in good standing, he was not impressed.

I told him that heterosexual men and women are not permitted to marry in the Catholic Church unless they intend a permanent, exclusive union. Couples who come to us do not get to set the terms of the marriage contract.

If they decide that they want to “marry,” but not for life, FATHER JOHN only for as long as the good CATOIR feelings last, we send them away. If they want a union that is open to other partners, we do the same thing. Catholic marriages are meant to be exclusive unions between one man and one woman.

If Catholics of the same gender come to us to marry, we respect them, but we cannot marry them.

Under the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, gay and lesbian men and women can claim

equal rights under the law, but they cannot rewrite the law or the legal presumptions behind it.

Two things are in play: the rights of others, and the separation of church and state.

It must be understood that as soon as a person’s legal rights come into conflict with the legal rights of another or others, the matter must be adjudicated in a court of law and it could be up to the Supreme Court to decide, if necessary.

One example of something similar is the Occupy Wall Street protesters. They have the constitutional right of free speech and assembly, but it is not an absolute right. If they disturb the peace or misuse public property, which exists exclusively for the common good, they lose their license to assemble.

The marriage laws are equally complex. What is a gay marriage? Gays and lesbians differ in their beliefs. Some believe in the right to be polygamous; some demand the right to be promiscuous; some are committed to a lifelong relationship; some are not.

Marriage laws must be applied equally. All parties must accept the same definition of the marriage contract.

The U.S. is a democracy, and we the people have the right to oppose any law deemed to be unjust. In the United States majority rules, and the homo-

sexual community will not advance its chances of gaining a majority vote to change the law by strident political tactics, which often alienate sympathetic observers.

Even if they won a majority vote, creating an amendment to allow gay marriage, even if it is passed under the banner of equal rights under the 14th Amendment, there is still the issue of the separation between church and state.

A U.S. law can never be used to command religious institutions to change their laws, which they deem to be a divine precept: Namely, the concept that marriage is a contract between one man and one woman.

As a practical matter, all I can do for my nephew and his long-standing partner, both of whom are good and decent human beings, is bless them and wish them good health, long life and much happiness.

But, I cannot attempt to “marry” them in the church or anywhere else without violating church law.

I tell them they have a right and a duty to follow their conscience and then trust in God’s love. ©CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

As Mass-going drops, taking another look at the Sunday obligation

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ver the past year or so, I’ve been studying the decline in Sunday Mass attendance in the Catholic community. An old friend who knew what I was up to recently sent me a letter indicating that he had read an article I wrote based on “exit interviews” with nonchurchgoing Catholics in the Diocese of Trenton, N.J. My friend mentioned that one of his philosophy professors years ago at the University of Notre Dame used to say that “Catholics have lost the sense of what is at stake in life,” and FATHER WILLIAM my friend interpreted his J. BYRON, SJ professor to be saying that “maybe a large number of Catholics may not be spending eternity in God’s presence.”

My correspondent then added, “Father, as you surely know, fire and brimstone might not only not be effective, but can become counterproductive; yet what is at stake for souls must be conveyed with urgency.”

He was obviously thinking of the Sunday Mass obligation and the heavy penalty that he, as a catechized Catholic, had been taught was attached to willful omission of that obligation. It was a capital crime, a mortal sin. Hence the need today to consider “with urgency” what is at stake.

In responding to my friend, I reminded him that when we were boys we often heard the cowboys in the Saturday afternoon movies say “much obliged” when they wanted to express their gratitude. It was a way of saying “thank you” in the old American vernacular. We mimicked the cowhands later at supper by saying, “Much obliged, ma’am” when our mothers put the mashed potatoes on the table.

In searching now for a persuasive nonthreatening way to explain how the church (which, by the way, opposes capital punishment) wants us to understand the Sunday obligation, it might be good to recall the old American vernacular.

“Much obliged” is an expression of gratitude.

And what the church expects of its members on Sunday – resurrection day, the first day of the week – is a formal liturgical expression of thanks.

Eucharist means thanks-doing, thanks-saying, thanksgiving.

We give thanks for the gift of our salvation through the death, resurrection and ascension of Jesus. Not to meet this obligation – not to offer praise and thanks – is to be an ingrate.

Moreover, we do this in community, not as isolated individuals, because that’s how we’ve been ransomed, that’s how we’ve been saved – in community. And finally, we do it in the eucharistic community because the Eucharist, a thanksgiving ritual, forms us into the one body of Christ.

Who wants to be seen as an ingrate in the eyes of the Lord? Some who are no longer going to Mass on Sundays may be willing to admit that they are sinners; nobody’s perfect. But ingrates? There’s a question that deserves a bit of thought.

As the weekend approaches, ask yourself: Am I an ingrate? Or do I really consider myself to be much obliged? If so, get to Mass on Sunday and express your gratitude.

JESUIT FATHER BYRON is university professor of church and society at St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia. wbyron@sju.edu. ©CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

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Fatherhood and the sacredness of life KIMBERLY BAKER U.S. CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS

The June 17 celebration of Father’s Day is a fitting time to examine the irony that in our current culture, fatherhood is rarely mentioned. When mentioned at all, fathers are mocked or portrayed negatively. Some movies and stories downplay the role of the father in a child’s life, yet simultaneously portray the child as suffering from the father’s inability to live up to that role.

In reality, the nobility and significance of fatherhood remain a powerful witness in the lives of those who have had the opportunity to grow up with a present and caring father. And there are, of course, profound stories and testimonies to counter the culture’s defeatist attitude toward fatherhood.

Alongside a mother’s unique and nurturing role, the father also has a vital part to play in safeguarding the sacredness of new human life and in forming the younger generation.

The father’s special role in protecting and defending both mother and child

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A child watches his father pray inside the Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul in Providence, R.I., May 12. Fathers are honored in special ways on Father’s Day, which is celebrated June 17 this year. helps ensure the stability and healthy development of the whole family.

Pope John Paul II wrote of the importance of fatherhood in his apostolic exhortation, “Familiaris Consortio.” “(A) man is called upon to ensure the harmonious and united development of all the members of the family…,” he wrote, “by exercising generous responsibility for the life conceived under the heart of the mother, by a more solicitous commitment to education, a task he shares with his wife, by work which is never a cause of division in the family but

promotes its unity and stability, and by means of the witness he gives of an adult Christian life which effectively introduces the children into the living experience of Christ and the church.”

The dedication and commitment of husbands and fathers to their families needs to be affirmed and supported if we are to build a culture of life.

June is also the month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. How fitting is Christ’s example of sacrificial love when we recall how he gave his life for his bride, the church. The extent to which he pours out his heart for humanity

shows the ultimate model of a man of compassion and quiet strength.

We can see concrete examples of this in the Gospel, in the way he treated the Samaritan woman with dignity and in the way he welcomed the little children who wanted to meet him.

When a baby is growing in the womb, the first vital organ that develops is the heart, which starts beating by about 21 days. What does this say about the human person? It is almost as if God honors the capacity to love by giving the heart supremacy even in the physical development of the human being.

While not physically connected to newly developing life in the same way as the mother, the father need not be excluded from this beautiful mystery.

During this month of June, may all hearts look to the Sacred Heart as a source of inspiration, and may all husbands and fathers be renewed in their calling to build up the culture of life, starting in their own families.

BAKER is a staff assistant for the U.S. bishops’ Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities.

St. Joseph: Husband of Mary, guardian of Jesus

ow much do we know about and appreciate the man who was the husband of the mother of Jesus and the guardian of our redeemer?

How do we honor him? St. Joseph is often overlooked.

Scripture says little of him.

We seem to give him scant attention.

Yet devotion to St. Joseph has deep roots BROTHER JOHN in Christian M. SAMAHA, SM tradition.

Joseph is often the overlooked member of the Holy Family.

Do you remember as children when we wrote “J.M.J.” at the top of our papers in Catholic school? We did that to remind ourselves to have the intention that Jesus, Mary and Joseph had in life as we did our own work. We pictured the members of the Holy Family side by side.

Remember that Mary and Joseph are a couple. And Jesus is their child. They belong together. When separated, their significance in God’s plan of salvation is clouded, because their importance lies in their relationship to each other.

While honoring the perpetual virginity of Mary, we cannot disregard Joseph’s

privilege and happiness of being Mary’s husband. In past centuries many works of art depicted Joseph as an old man. Most likely this was done to disallow any threat to Mary’s virginity. This tended to undervalue the loving relationship of Mary and Joseph as husband and wife. Despite the tendencies of her times, St. Teresa of Avila always insisted that Joseph was a young man when he married Mary. The divine liturgy reinforces this positive approach regarding Joseph: “With a husband’s love he cherished Mary, the Virgin Mother of God.” Since Joseph is the husband of Mary, he is also father to Jesus. We know that he was not the physical father of Jesus.

But in the Gospel account about Jesus being lost in the temple, Luke has Mary saying to Jesus: “Son, your father and I have been searching for you in sorrow.” And the divine liturgy testifies: “With fatherly care he watched over Jesus Christ your son, conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit.”

If one might think that Joseph’s fatherhood was not quite real or effective because he did not physically procreate Jesus, let that person speak with adoptive parents, especially those who have conceived a child of their own and adopted others. They will let you know how real Joseph’s fatherhood is.

Joseph played a very important role as Jesus “grew in wisdom, age, and

grace before God and men.” In the Jewish tradition children were, until the age of 5 or so, in the special care and tutelage of their mothers. But beyond that age children came under the special guidance of their fathers.

Joseph by duty and privilege was the rabbi of the Holy Family to teach Jesus the Jewish faith and practices.

Joseph led his family in the worship of God in their home at Nazareth.

At meal times both Mary and Jesus looked to Joseph at the head of the table to offer the prayer of blessing.

Each year when the great evening of the Passover was celebrated, the youngster Jesus played his role and addressed the ritual question to Joseph: Father, why is this night different from every other night? Then he listened with his mother to Joseph’s narration of the glorious events of the Exodus and the explanation of the meaning of the paschal lamb. Later Jesus would hear John the baptizer proclaim him, the son of Joseph and Mary, the lamb of God who would take away the sins of the world.

When Jesus was of age, Joseph introduced him to synagogue worship.

Jesus was faithful to the synagogue rituals throughout his life. Joseph also taught Jesus the skills of a carpenter. Through the practice of this trade Jesus supported himself and his mother after Joseph’s death.

Jesus’ human experience of father-

hood was drawn from his relationship with Joseph, his own earthly father.

When Jesus said, “What father would hand his son a stone when he asks for a loaf or a poisonous snake when he asks for a fish,” surely he had in mind how kind and gentle Joseph was to him as he was growing.

When Jesus told the parable of the prodigal son, Joseph must have been the model of that loving father. As Jesus described how the father hugged and kissed the son who had been lost, perhaps he was recalling how Joseph hugged and kissed him after he had been lost in the temple for three days.

When Jesus taught us how to pray, he began with the same loving title with which he had addressed Joseph all his life: Abba.

His deep affection for Joseph is evident in the circumstances of the Gospel. Joseph made a profound impression on Jesus.

Has Joseph made an impression on us? How do we think of St. Joseph, honor him, and pray to him? Do we appreciate the special place he has in Christian spirituality and in our own heritage? Let us revere wholeheartedly the husband of Mary, the foster father of Jesus, the patron of the universal church. After all, he is the man who is closest to Christ, our redeemer.

MARIANIST BROTHER SAMAHA lives in Cupertino.

Paper’s new look strives for impact and integrity RICK DELVECCHIO CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

This issue of Catholic San Francisco starts a new look for the archdiocese’s official paper, featuring: – Larger text; larger headlines for page-leading material – New headline type styles, with fonts both contemporary looking and well tried in publishing chosen to meet this paper’s needs – A new organizational scheme with content clusters for Archdiocese, World, National, Opinion,

Faith, Arts & Life and Community – New local features, including My Faith and Looking Back, on Page 2 – Document height cut by an inchand-a-half, saving production costs – A front-page ad for selected Catholic clients – Four added pages, as ad sales permit We began last September with an on-site meeting with Ed Henninger, a design consultant who has served many clients in the Catholic press. He gave us our new template, which we adjusted for our content needs.

The CSF advisory board critiqued

the new look in two meetings. We followed their guidance on several important matters, especially on the front-page banner, which required a balance of high impact and allegiance to the main information in the paper’s original nameplate.

The paper was due for a new look but our impulse was conservative: To use design to give the message of the church, the Gospel proclamation, more push. For example the Sunday readings and reflection are visually brightened, and weekday readings are added as a regular feature. Com-

ment and news – consider George Wesolek’s column on Page 18 of this issue about religious freedom and the media, and Lidia Wasowicz’s article on the cover about teaching nuns at Marin Catholic High School – carry new visual force. These are just a few examples of Catholic content that deserve to be more widely shared and have that chance as long as the church publishes a compelling paper.

For questions or comments, email redesign.csf@sfarchdiocese.org.

DELVECCHIO is editor/general manager.

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SUNDAY READINGS

Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ He said to them, “This is my blood of the covenant, which will be shed for many. “ MARK 14:12-16,22-26 EX 24:3-8 When Moses came to the people and related all the words and ordinances of the Lord, they all answered with one voice, “We will do everything that the Lord has told us.” Moses then wrote down all the words of the Lord and, rising early the next day, he erected at the foot of the mountain an altar and twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel. Then, having sent certain young men of the Israelites to offer holocausts and sacrifice young bulls as peace offerings to the Lord, Moses took half of the blood and put it in large bowls; the other half he splashed on the altar.

Taking the book of the covenant, he read it aloud to the people, who answered, “All that the Lord has said, we will heed and do.” Then he took the blood and sprinkled it on the people, saying, “This is the blood of the covenant that the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words of his.”

PS 116:12-13, 15-16, 17-18 I will take the cup of salvation, and call on the name of the Lord.

How shall I make a return to the Lord for all the good he has done for me? The cup of salvation I will take up, and I will call upon the name of the Lord.

I will take the cup of salvation, and call on the name of the Lord.

Precious in the eyes of the Lord is the death of his faithful ones. I am your servant, the son of your handmaid; you have loosed my bonds.

I will take the cup of salvation, and call on the name of the Lord.

To you will I offer sacrifice of thanksgiving and I will call upon the name of the Lord.

My vows to the Lord I will pay in the presence of all his people.

I will take the cup of salvation, and call on the name of the Lord.

HEB 9:11-15 Brothers and sisters: When Christ came as high priest of the good things that have come to be, passing through the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made by hands, that is, not belonging to this creation, he entered once for all into the sanctuary, not with the blood of goats and calves but with his own blood, thus obtaining eternal redemption. For if the blood of goats and bulls and the sprinkling of a heifer’s ashes can sanctify those who are defiled so that their flesh is cleansed, how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from dead works to worship the living God. For this reason he is mediator of a new covenant: since a death has

taken place for deliverance from transgressions under the first covenant, those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance.

MK 14:12-16, 22-26 On the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, when they sacrificed the Passover lamb, Jesus’ disciples said to him, “Where do you want us to go and prepare for you to eat the Passover?” He sent two of his disciples and said to them, “Go into the city and a man will meet you, carrying a jar of water. Follow him. Wherever he enters, say to the master of the house, ‘The Teacher says, “Where is my guest room where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?”’ Then he will show you a large upper room furnished and ready. Make the preparations for us there.” The disciples then went off, entered the city, and found it just as he had told them; and they prepared the Passover. While they were eating, he took bread, said the blessing, broke it, gave it to them, and said, “Take it; this is my body.” Then he took a cup, gave thanks, and gave it to them, and they all drank from it. He said to them, “This is my blood of the covenant, which will be shed for many.

Amen, I say to you, I shall not drink again the fruit of the vine until the day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God.” Then, after singing a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.

All the unworthy perfected by a perfect sacrifice

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n the 12th century of Christianity, pious practices began to grow around the Eucharist. Out of an exaggerated sense of unworthiness due to personal sin, fewer and fewer Christians received Communion. Instead, people would settle for simply looking at the elevated Eucharist, either at the consecration during Mass, or in the monstrance during eucharistic adoration and processions through the local town.

In speaking to “Catholics” today, who do not practice their faith, particularly those who do not celebrate Sunday Mass and, therefore, do not receive Communion regularly, I hear many excuses.

One that is commonly given, grown from an exaggerated FATHER WILLIAM sense of self-righteousness, NICHOLAS is they do not like the “hypocrisy.” In their view, the people come together, praise God, offer prayers, sing, receive Communion, then

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go forth to live lives with the same corruption with which they came into the Mass. (You should then hear what they say about priests!) To them, it is too “hypocritical” of the people to profess a faith, engage in worship, and then not live it. Therefore, these self-righteous people choose not to go to Mass.

Sometimes, however, I wonder if, in their own peculiar way, they might not have something, which – whether they know it or not – touches upon the depth of the great sacrament of the altar and the central celebration in the life of every Catholic.

To begin with, one would be hard-pressed to find anyone who is not hypocritical and even more so to find one who is not a sinner. All of us are sinners.

All of us are hypocritical in one way or another, and, therefore, to varying degrees, unworthy. After all, we profess as a united community, “O Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof ….” Yet it is as hypocritical sinners that we gather – priests and laity – around the one sacrament of the most holy body and blood of Jesus Christ. We gather with all of our sinfulness, hypocrisies, flaws and inadequacies. Yet it is in that gathering, as a community that is the church, that we are brought closer to perfection, by the grace

of God, in and through the perfect sacrifice of the Eucharist.

As we celebrate the feast of the body and blood of Christ, we celebrate that great sacrament that is the center of our lives as Catholic people. It is the celebration of the Eucharist, in which we are united to Christ in a spiritual way, but also in a very physical way. Like any food that is broken down and absorbed into our bodies, this Eucharist, received in holy Communion, becomes a part of who we are physically. Consequently, those who share this eucharistic meal, become united spiritually and physically to one another as church, in and through our union with Christ.

Despite all of our imperfections, we are formed and molded to a greater perfection in Christ, by the grace received in a sacrifice that is perfect – perfect in our union with Christ, perfect in our union as church, and brought to greater perfection as followers of Christ, who, in the sacrifice of the Mass, acknowledge our sins, our hypocrisy and our unworthiness, as Christ draws us to communion in and through that perfect sacrifice of his body and blood.

FATHER NICHOLAS is parochial vicar at Mission Dolores Basilica, San Francisco. www.frwcnicholas.com.

Liturgical calendar, daily Mass readings MONDAY, JUNE 11: Memorial of St. Barnabas, Apostle. Acts 11:21b-26; 13:1-3. Ps 98:1, 2-3ab, 3cd4, 5-6. Mt 5:1-12.

TUESDAY, JUNE 12: Tuesday of the Tenth Week in Ordinary Time. 1 Kgs 17:7-16. Ps 4:2-3, 4-5, 7b-8. Mt 5:13-16.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13: Memorial of St. Anthony of Padua, priest and doctor of the church. 1 Kgs 18:2039. Ps 16:1b-2ab, 4, 5ab and 8, 11. Mt 5:17-19.

THURSDAY, JUNE 14: Thursday of the Tenth Week in Ordinary Time. 1 Kgs 18:41-46. Ps 65:10, 11, 1213. Mt 5:20-26.

FRIDAY, JUNE 15: Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. Hos 11:1, 3-4, 8c-9. Eph 3:8-12, 1419. Jn 19:31-37

SATURDAY, JUNE 16: Memorial of the The Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Saturday of the Tenth Week in Ordinary Time. 1 Kgs 19:19-21.

Ps 96:10, 11-12, 13. Lk 2:41-51.

SUNDAY, JUNE 17: Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time. Ez 17:22-24. Ps 92:2-3, 13-14, 15-16. 2 Cor 5:6-10. Mk 4:26-34 MONDAY, JUNE 18: Monday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time. 1 Kgs 21:1-16. Ps 5:2-3ab, 4b-6a, 6b-7. Mt 5:38-42.

TUESDAY, JUNE 19: Memorial St. Romuald, abbot, Tuesday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time.

1 Kgs 21:17-29. Ps 51:3-4, 5-6ab, 11 and 16. Mt 5:43-48.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20: Wednesday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time. 2 Kgs 2:1, 6-14. Ps 31:20, 21, 24. Mt 6:1-6, 16-18.

THURSDAY, JUNE 21: Memorial of St. Aloysius Gonzaga, religious. Sir 48:1-14. Ps 97:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7. Mt 6:7-15.

FRIDAY, JUNE 22: Memorial St. Paulinus of Nola, bishop; Sts. John Fisher, bishop and Thomas More, martyrs. Friday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time. 2 Kgs 11:1-4, 9-18, 20. Ps 132:11, 12, 13-14, 17-18. Mt 6:19-23.

SATURDAY, JUNE 23: Saturday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time. 2 Chr 24:17-25. Ps 89:4-5, 29-30, 31-32, 33-34. Mt 6:24-34.

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Held down all the same by chain or thread

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here’s a much-quoted line from Leonard Cohen that suggests that the place where we are broken is also the place where our redemption starts: There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.

That’s true: A major wound is often the place where wisdom flows into our lives and a weakness that habitually overpowers us can keep us aware of our need for grace. But that’s half of the equation.

A fault, while keeping us humble, can also keep us in mediocrity and joylessness.

FATHER RON John of the Cross offers ROLHEISER us this image by way of an explanation: If one small crack in a pitcher goes unrepaired, the damage will be enough to cause all the liquid to leak out. ... Accordingly, one imperfection leads to another, and these to still more. You will scarcely ever find a person negligent in the conquering of one appetite who will not have many others flowing from the identical weakness and imperfection caused by this one appetite. Such persons, consequently, are ever faltering along the road. We have witnessed many persons, whom God was favoring with much progress in detachment and freedom, fall from happiness and stability in their spiritual exercises and end up losing everything merely because they began to indulge in some slight attachment to conversation and friendship under

the appearance of good. For by this attachment they gradually emptied themselves of holy solitude and the spirit and joy of God. All this happened because they did not put a stop to their initial satisfaction and sensitive pleasure, and preserve themselves for God in solitude (“Ascent to Mount Carmel,” Book I, Chapter 11).

Although this passage was written more specifically for contemplative monks and nuns and a warning against “attachment to conversation and friendship” will sound strange and unhealthy to us, there’s part of us that understands exactly what he is saying: Our addictions, our infidelities, and our various falls from grace invariably start at that exact spot to which he points his finger, namely, in a certain initial satisfaction and pleasure, a certain flirting and playing with fire, which, while not sinful in itself, eventually leads us into an emotional and moral quagmire that robs us of peace and happiness and, most damaging of all, forces us to hide things, to lie, and to be less than healthily transparent.

And even when the fault is not big, it still serves to block us from deeper growth and deeper happiness. John has an axiom that says it doesn’t matter in the end whether a bird is attached to the ground by a heavy chain or a light string – it can’t fly in either case. Hence, he cautions us strongly against being comfortable with any of our faults or addictions by rationalizing that this or that fault is not so serious and that we are fundamentally good persons, despite our weakness. Whether we are held by a heavy chain or a thin thread, we still can’t fly.

If we grow comfortable with an addiction or fault inside us, we will find ourselves impoverished too in another way: It will rob us of real happiness. French philosopher Leon Bloy suggests that ultimately there is only one, true, human sadness, that of not being a saint! That may sound like over-pious moralizing, but, just as with the quote from John of the Cross cited earlier, there’s a part of us that understands exactly what Bloy is saying. Our addictions, our infidelities, and our less-than-healthy indulgences might well bring us some pleasure (though, soon enough, that pleasure turns into a compulsion) but these never bring us joy. They bring sadness.

Joy is not the same as pleasure and, indeed, we speak of sad pleasures. There can be a lot of pleasure in our lives even as our hearts are sad and our consciences are heavy.

True joy is something beyond pleasure and can coexist with renunciation and pain. It is dependent rather on honesty, transparency, and gratitude, the real hallmarks of sanctity. When we are honest in examining our experience we know this truth. If any of us ask ourselves: When have I been most truly happy in my life?

The honest answer invariably will be: I have been happiest and most at peace at those times when I have been faithful, honest, fully transparent, when all the goods were on the table, and I had nothing to hide, even if I was less than perfect.

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

Intercommunion; reconciliation for those who can’t hear well

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I have always wondered about the Catholic practice of prohibiting non-Catholics from receiving holy Communion. If we believe that the Eucharist is Jesus, why wouldn’t we want to bring the Lord to everyone? With Christ present in non-Catholics through the Eucharist, wouldn’t that help their faith and, perhaps, lead eventually to their conversion? (Simpsonville, S.C.) Your sincere and faithfilled question is an appealing argument for intercommunion. It would carry the day if the Eucharist were intended only to foster Christian unity. The theology of the Catholic Church, though, has always seen the Eucharist as being FATHER not only a source of unity KENNETH DOYLE but also a sign of unity that already exists. So, ordinarily, non-Catholic Christians are not invited to receive holy Communion when attending a Catholic Mass.

The question of intercommunion is a delicate one because the policy of the church is sometimes seen as a claim of religious or moral superior-

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ity for Catholics over other Christians. It is by no means meant as such, and each of us knows many non-Catholics who are far more Christ-like than some nominal Catholics.

But today’s intercommunion simply says that all those receiving the Eucharist are already of one mind and one heart in their allegiance to the doctrines and practices of the Catholic faith – while the reality is that there is still a lot of hard work to do before Christ’s Last Supper plea for unity is realized.

There are, though, some exceptional circumstances under which other Christians may be permitted to receive holy Communion at a Catholic Mass.

For example, the Canon 844.4 of the Code of Canon Law says it can happen with the permission of the diocesan bishop, when a non-Catholic Christian in a case of grave necessity and no opportunity to approach a minister of his or her own community, asks to receive, is properly disposed and manifests the same belief about the Eucharist as Catholics do.

Non-Catholics can also receive holy Communion with the approval of church authority, such as when members of Orthodox churches present themselves for Communion and are properly disposed.

What should the elderly do, when they are beginning to lose their hearing, about the sacrament of (reconciliation)? I can’t

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always hear the priest from behind the screen, and sometimes I’m not sure what my penance is.

Should I simply go face to face? (Sabin, Minn.)

There are some parishes – a minority, to be sure – that have an assistive device for the hearing-impaired in the confessional. Another option, as you mention, is to walk around the screen and sit face to face with the confessor.

If you can read lips or if you and the priest are trained in sign language, you will understand each other well. But that, of course, removes the option of anonymity, a choice that must be respected.

There are other possibilities. A hearingchallenged penitent is allowed, for example, to write sins or questions on paper, pass the paper around the screen to the priest, and the priest can hand back a note with his advice and a penance. (All of the written material, of course, should be returned to the penitent or properly disposed of.)

Canon 990 of the church’s Code of Canon Law would even allow for a sign-language interpreter.

The interpreter could stay behind the screen and sign to the penitent the words of the priest.

The code specifies that the interpreter is strictly bound to secrecy by the inviolable seal of confession.

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Faith and justice: Bishops note UFW’s 50th anniversary The Catholic bishops of California commemorated the 50th anniversary of the United Farm Workers and recalled union founder Cesar Chavez’s faith and vision of justice.

“We offer our congratulations on the 50th anniversary of the 1962 founding of the United Farm Workers by Cesar Chavez, who attributed his passion for improving conditions for migrant workers to Cesar Chavez the social justice teachings of the Catholic Church,” the California Catholic Conference said in a statement May 22.

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ers are the embodiment of Catholic teachings on the dignity of work and the rights of workers.”

In the early part of the 20th century, farmworkers – including young children – were subjected to long hours, terrible working conditions and low wages.

“In the 1960s and ‘70s, Chavez and his associate, Dolores Huerta – as well as many other courageous leaders—who together founded the United Farm Workers, brought the nation’s attention to the situation of California’s migrant workers,” the statement said. “As a result, in 1975, the union won passage of the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act, which gave collective bargaining rights to farmworkers and a guarantee of freedom from interference or coercion by employers.”

The legislation also established the California Agricultural Labor Relations Board to oversee elections and adjudicate disputes.

“Religious faith has long compelled Americans to seek the path of freedom,” the statement continued. “Time and again, faith has helped this nation move closer to the founding vision of liberty and justice for all. Cesar Chavez’s faith, his efforts in working for farmworkers, the teachings of the Catholic Church and the goodwill of all Californians have contributed to this remarkable occasion.

“Today, we celebrate with the United Farm Workers their 50 years of promoting liberty and justice in our state.”

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Priest confronts border horror: ‘Femicide’

BY ELISABETH DEFFNER CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

ORANGE – Father Rafael Luevano’s life was never been the same, he says, since he spotted that small story in the newspaper almost 20 years ago.

“At the breakfast table one morning back in 1993, I read the briefest of newspaper accounts reporting on the discovery of what would be merely the first of the hundreds of women’s bodies that would be found in the desert on the outskirts of Ciudad Juarez in northern Mexico.

“In that instant my life changed.”

Thus begins the priest’s new book, “WomanKilling in Juarez: Theodicy at the Border,” published by Orbis Books in March.

A slim volume of research into the unknown numbers of women who have disappeared and been murdered on the border near El Paso, Texas, the book is no true-crime thriller, notes the priest, who is in residence at Holy Family Cathedral in Orange.

“It’s about the problem of suffering, and God’s relationship to that suffering – and, particularly, innocent suffering,” he said. “The problem of innocent suffering in Mexico remains a pressing problem – as it does for all of us.”

In theology, “theodicy” is the discipline that seeks to explain how the existence of evil in the world can be reconciled with God’s justice and goodness.

Ordained in 1981, Father Luevano was sent to Rome for further studies after completing his first assignment, a three-year stint at St. Joachim Parish in Costa Mesa. He earned his licentiate degree at Pontifical Gregorian University and a doctorate at Nijmegen Catholic University in the Netherlands.

Upon his return to Southern California, he began to teach at St. John’s Seminary College.

Following a term at St. Hedwig in Los Alamitos, Bishop Tod D. Brown named Father Luevano the ecumenical and religious affairs officer for the

Diocese of Orange. It was at that time that he began teaching at Chapman University, where he is also the chaplain for the Newman Catholic Fellowship.

He held a few different titles at the Orange university – “adjunct professor” and “lecturer” – and in March of this year he received tenure.

Going for tenure involves more than just classroom teaching; educators on that track also must conduct research, write new works and publish.

“Woman-Killing in Juarez” is Father Luevano’s second book. The first was “Endless Transforming Love: An Interpretation of the Mystical Doctrine of Saint John of the Cross.”

When he prepared for priesthood, he “never imagined” a ministry shaped the way his is now – but he noted that teaching is an integral part of the priesthood, whether a priest is tenured or not.

“Jesus is a teacher; that’s his primary title,” he said simply in an interview with the Orange County Catholic, newspaper of the Orange diocese.

Though he recalls that his “life immediately changed” upon reading about the discovery of the bodies of several victims back in 1993, it wasn’t until 2004 that he began his formal research – which was something other than peaceful reading in library stacks.

“My family, friends, academic colleagues and brother priests all advised against such danger-

‘The Miracle Worker’ still powerful

BY KURT JENSEN

NEW YORK – This year a number of significant Hollywood movies reach their 50th anniversary milestone, not the least of which is “The Miracle Worker.” It recounts the true story of disabilities pioneer Helen Keller.

Though left deaf and blind by an illness she suffered in infancy, at age 7 Keller learned to communicate through the devoted work of her teacher, Annie Sullivan.

With a screenplay by William Gibson, who wrote the hit Broadway play of 1959, and directed

by Arthur Penn, who also helmed the stage version, “The Miracle Worker” was filmed in what’s sometimes called “glorious black and white.”

It has been available on DVD since 2001, but without the kind of added features that would enhance perspective and enlighten viewers unfamiliar with Keller’s life.

The drama’s original impact, nonetheless, is still fresh.

Born in 1880 and an inspirational speaker from her 20s, Keller was an advocate for unions and spoke against the use of child labor. But she also was a member of the Socialist Party who supported birth control.

Nor did she adhere to any mainstream Christian denomination. Instead, she was a follower of the 18th-century Swedish mystic Emanuel Swedenborg, who taught, among other things, that the second coming of Christ took place in 1757. In 1927, Keller even published a book about her faith, “My Religion.” Her beliefs might best be described as eclectic.

Keller’s left-of-center views were far less prominent in the years following World War II, when the influx of blinded veterans made her a beloved spokeswoman for the physically challenged.

Gibson’s long-running play, which began as a live TV presentation in 1957, dramatized a single epoch in Keller’s long chronology, focusing on

the changes that came about once Sullivan, a graduate of the Perkins Institute for the Blind in Boston, arrived at Keller’s home in Alabama.

Keller had been left sightless and deprived of her hearing by an ailment that may have been either meningitis or scarlet fever – both treatable by antibiotics decades later. The film doesn’t flinch from the horror of this.

By 1962, polio, with its chilling imagery of iron lungs, was on its way to being eradicated in the United States. But the new terror was thalidomide, a drug prescribed briefly for morning sickness, which created deformed limbs in the unborn.

Keller never has been played by a 7-year-old actress. In “The Miracle Worker,” she’s portrayed

by Patty Duke, who was 15 at the time of filming, and had played Keller to great acclaim on Broadway, along with Anne Bancroft as Sullivan. (Like Duke, Bancroft reprised her role for the movie.)

The physical struggles between the two are spellbinding. Keller, imprisoned by her afflictions and with her family unable to handle her outbursts, was essentially feral, and faced the possibility of being sent to an asylum for “mental defectives.”

Teaching always has conveyed particularly well on film. Sullivan, in the manner of all great instructors, pushes ahead with both Helen and her compassionate, if confused, family. Her famous line (often misquoted) is, “It’s my idea of original sin – giving up!”

The climactic moment in which Keller finally makes the connection to language through the impact of water flowing from a pump is today commemorated by a statue in Keller’s hometown of Tuscumbia, Ala. Keller received the National Medal of Freedom in 1964 and her funeral in 1968 was held at the National Cathedral in Washington.

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ous research,” he writes in the preface to the book. “My bishop cautioned me three times to stop this work – though later he would come to fully support my effort.”

But Father Luevano was not deterred by potential threats to his safety. In the very first chapter, he describes a run-in with armed Mexican soldiers who wonder why he is photographing a makeshift memorial to murder victims.

The situation in Juarez had captured him.

“No one really knows how long these killings have been going on,” he explained.

The women who are the victims of this ongoing “femicide” have been subjected to horrific violence; many of the bodies that have been discovered were mutilated. Countless other women have simply vanished, and it is unknown whether they ran away, or were kidnapped, trafficked or murdered. The estimate of the number of women murdered since 1993 is in the hundreds. In Ciudad Juarez and its environs, the state prosecutor said 147 women were murdered last year, down by 45 percent from 2010.

Throughout the book, Father Luevano writes about – and includes photographs of – posters featuring missing women, asking for help locating them, as well as simple memorials to those who are known to have been killed. Sometimes a memorial cross will bear the word “Desconocida” (“Unknown”) instead of a name. Remembering the missing and murdered is a ministry the survivors carry out.

Father Luevano is already working on another book, which will focus on the 50,000 people who have been killed in drug-related violence in Mexico since Felipe Calderon became president in 2006.

“It’s a pressing issue ... for everyone who lives in the United States,” he said, “but especially for us who live close to the border.”

“Woman-Killing in Juarez: Theodicy at the Border” is available at amazon.com.

DEFFNER is editor of the Orange County Catholic.

TV PROGRAM NOTES, FILM FARE SUNDAY, JUNE 10, NOON-3 P.M. EDT (EWTN) “50th International Eucharistic Congress Opening Mass.” Opening liturgy for the 50th International Eucharistic Congress from Dublin. The event will be rerun 9 p.m.-midnight EDT. SUNDAY, JUNE 10, 8-11 P.M. EDT (CBS) “The 66th Annual Tony Awards.” Live broadcast from New York’s Beacon Theater of the awards ceremony honoring theater professionals for distinguished achievement on Broadway.

SUNDAY, JUNE 10, 10-11 P.M. EDT (EWTN)“The Doctrinal Assessment of LCWR.” This special features Colin Donovan and author Ann Carey, along with other guests, discussing the Vatican’s assessment of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious.

TUESDAY, JUNE 12, 10-11 P.M. EDT (HISTORY) “Money Talks.” This episode of the series “United Stats of America” explores the statistics of money and looks at who earns what, how that’s changed over time, and what today’s greenback can buy.

FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 5-8 P.M. EDT (TCM) “Goodbye, Mr. Chips” (1969). Musical version of the James Hilton novel with Peter O’Toole as the distracted, unbending schoolmaster who is set upon, conquered and finally humanized by a hoydenish music hall performer (Petula Clark).

SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 8-11 P.M. EDT (ABC) “Cars” (2006). Delightful computer-animated movie set in a world of anthropomorphic autos about a cocky race car (voiced by Owen Wilson) which, while en route cross-country to compete in a prestigious championship, is unexpectedly detained in a neglected desert town, where his growing friendship with the town’s four-wheeled residents (voiced by Paul Newman, Bonnie Hunt and Larry the Cable Guy, among others) effects a change of heart regarding fame in the fast lane. ©CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

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Inspirational Mother Teresa books for all readers REVIEWED BY BRIAN T. OLSZEWSKI CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

“MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA: A PERSONAL PORTRAIT” by Father Leo Maasburg. Ignatius Press (San Francisco, 2011). 206 pp., $22.95.

“BRINGING LENT HOME WITH MOTHER TERESA: PRAYERS, REFLECTIONS AND ACTIVITIES FOR FAMILIES” by Donna-Marie Cooper O’Boyle.

Ave Maria Press (Notre Dame, Ind., 2012). 96 pp., $2.50.

As much as has been written about Blessed Teresa of Kolkata, there is always another book that can provide the reader with more insight into and more inspiration from her life. “Mother Teresa of Calcutta: A Personal Portrait” does both.

Father Leo Maasburg served as the nun’s spiritual adviser, confessor and translator, traveling with her throughout the world. Thus, he can accurately term his work “a personal portrait.” It contains the material one would expect to glean from being someone’s regular travel partner, material that would not surface in interviews with the subject but which has to be witnessed.

Through Father Maasburg’s stories, the reader gets a dose of the blessed nun’s wit, stubbornness – he relates a story about a heated argument she had with the archbishop of Paris, Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, about health insurance (Missionaries of Charity do not have health insurance) – commit-

ment to the poor, humility in service and her faith.

He writes about her devotion to the Miraculous Medal and the “miracles” the priest attributes to it.

One senses that Father Maasburg wasn’t always sure what surprises travels with Mother Teresa would bring, but he accepted what appear to be journeys of faith, e.g., sneaking Miraculous Medals into the then-Soviet Union and dropping one behind a czar’s sarcophagus in the Church of the Annunciation in the Kremlin, as part of his role.

“A Personal Portrait” is an enjoyable volume that will provide readers with smiles and laughs, and that will renew them in the living of their faith.

While Lent doesn’t begin until Feb. 13, 2013, “Bringing Lent Home with Mother Teresa” should be highlighted in the family “What we’ll do for Lent this year” folder. What Donna-Marie Cooper O’Boyle brings to the shelf of family Lenten literature is a practical, user-friendly collection of daily reading and activities based upon the life and words of Mother Teresa.

The practicality of the volume comes from its consistent presentation of material. Each day begins with a quote from Mother Teresa, a reflection for parents, family prayer, a story from Mother Teresa’s life, a lesson on fasting, e.g., “Ask the children to think about ‘fasting’ today from selfishness,” a lesson on almsgiving, e.g., “Ask the children to think of a person who may be yearning for love,” prayer, and a concluding segment titled “All through the Day.” The order, rhythm and pacing of each day’s material makes it friendly for the parents who will use it. No one has to ask, “What do I say to my kids about faith?” or “How do I pray with them?” After a few days of following “Bringing Lent Home with Mother Teresa,” parents will know what to say to their kids and how to pray with them. As for the children themselves, it will provide them with a meaningful observance of the season that could serve as seeds for an active faith life.

OLSZEWSKI is general manager of the Catholic Herald, a publication serving the Catholic community in southeastern Wisconsin.

‘A Good Man’: Son rediscovers life, faith of Sargent Shriver

BY MARK ZIMMERMANN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – Mark Shriver heard it often from people from all walks of life following his dad Sargent Shriver’s death: “He was a good man.”

Inspired to look into the life and work of his famous father, he went on to write “A Good Man,” published by Henry Holt and Company. It is subtitled, “Rediscovering My Father, Sargent Shriver.”

“I was taken aback when I heard it from the first couple of people, I thought that was something nice to say to someone who just lost his father,” said Mark Shriver in an interview at his Washington office, where he works as the senior vice president of U.S. programs at Save the Children.

“I realized to be good in the public eye and outside the public eye is harder than being great,” he told the Catholic Standard, newspaper of the Washington archdiocese.

Sargent Shriver, a lifelong Catholic, was revered in the public square as the founding director of the Peace Corps and the architect of anti-poverty programs such as Vista, Head Start and Legal Ser-

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vices. He was U.S. ambassador to France and ran for president of the United States.

In his private life, he was a loving husband to Eunice Kennedy Shriver, who died in 2009, and a loving father to their five children.

Mark Shriver found that the source of his dad’s joy, vision and strength was his Catholic faith, “his daily relationship with God.” He started each day kneeling in prayer at early morning Mass.

“He realized God was in charge,” Shriver said.

His son found that faith taught Sargent Shriver to trust in God, and not in material things, after his family lost nearly everything in the Depression.

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“They (my mom and dad) went to church (together) every day, had dinner together,” Mark Shriver said. “They took it (their marriage) seriously and were committed to it. ... They had different personalities, but they worked incredibly well together. It was grounded in their faith. They saw injustice, and their faith demanded they do something about it.”

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Girl Scout Josette Padilla, 13, taught second grade religious education students how to pray the rosary at All Souls Parish.

Cub Scouts Frank Wercinski, 8, and his brother Hale Wercinski, 7, worked on the Christ the Light award with their parents to understand the sacraments of holy Communion and reconciliation.

They are among more than two dozen scouts who will receive religious medals and badges June 9 at a Catholic scouting ceremony at St. Philip the Apostle Church in San Francisco.

“The Girl Scout Law absolutely complements the Catholic faith,” said All Souls parishioner Annette Padilla, whose daughter Josette will receive the Women in Scripture award. Padilla will also be honored June 9 with the St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Award, for Catholic scouting leadership. Padilla said the Girl Scout law emphasizes helpfulness, respect and caring, while the Girl Scout promise is “On my honor, I will try to serve God and my country and help people at all times and live by the Girl Scout Law. “ Scouting builds leaders, is committed

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SHCP BASEBALL ACADEMY MARKS 25TH

Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory’s Hall of Fame Baseball Academy celebrates its 25th year this summer, continuing its mission of teaching elementary school players “how to be winners on and off the field” as founder and coach Steve Franceschi said. Founded in 1987, the camp takes its name from two alumni elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. Harry Heilmann played for the Detroit Tigers (1914, 1916-29), and the Cincinnati Reds (1930-31) and broadcast Tigers games for another 17 years.

Joe Cronin played for the Pittsburgh Pirates (192627), Washington Senators (1928-34), and Boston Red Sox (1935-45) and served two terms as American League president.

ST. IGNATIUS TO ISSUE STUDENTS IPADS

St. Ignatius College Preparatory will issue iPads to every student for the fall semester, the school announced.

“Tablet computers are great tools for students and teachers, though not during every minute of every class,” said principal Patrick Ruff, who made the announcement May 17. “But when our students

with their instant-on capabilities and long battery lives.

Students will be required to bring the iPads to every class, said school spokesman Paul Totah.

Mercy Burlingame began using iPads last fall and Archbishop Riordan High School announced in May it will move to iPads in the 2012-13 school year.

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Teens honored for leadership Left to right, Our Lady of Mount Carmel youth group members Christian Gonzalez, Angelo Novello, Crystal Valencia, Maria Mendoza and Angel Gonzalez are pictured at the annual archdiocesan Pius X Prayer Service and Awards May 24, honoring catechists and youth ministry leaders. Bishop Robert W. McElroy presided at the annual ceremony at Our Lady of Mercy Church.

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Our Lady of Guadalupe inspires pro-life essay contest

First and second grade writers in this year’s Respect Life Essay Contest were given this prompt: “Write to your mother thanking her for her love and special care. You may want to draw a picture of you and your mother or baby Jesus and his mother Mary.”

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The 23rd annual Archdiocese of San Francisco Respect Life Essay Contest focused on Our Lady of Guadalupe – patroness of the Americas and of the unborn – and her role in the struggle against abortion.

Mary’s miraculous appearance to Juan Diego outside Mexico City in 1531 signified life and freedom from fear amid a culture of death and oppression stemming from pre-Christian Aztec rites of human sacrifice.

The essay prompt for ninth through 12th grade contestants, for example, put the moral question in very direct terms. It asked the writers to “compare the despair felt by women contemplating abortion – and their reasons for despair – to the despair likely experienced by the Aztecs when they succumbed to the practice of human sacrifice.”

Third and fourth graders received this prompt: “The Blessed Virgin Mary is the Mother of Jesus, but she is also our mother. Sometimes Mary visits us on earth bringing messages of her love and care. She did this when she appeared to Juan Diego in Mexico almost 500 years ago as Our Lady of Guadalupe. Write a prayer or message to Our Lady thanking her for her great love for all life created by her son. Ask her protection for babies -- born and unborn.”

Fifth and sixth graders were asked, “How can Our Lady change hearts and turn the despair of mothers and fathers who may be considering abortion, into hope that accepts new life gratefully?”

Seventh and eighth graders were told that in all of Mary’s apparitions on earth, the only time she ever appeared as a pregnant mother was when she appeared to Juan Diego. The students were asked, “Why is the pregnant Virgin a perfect image to help us face our struggle against abortion? Based on her own life, what advice do you think Mary would give someone contemplating abortion?”

The model of Our Lady of Guadalupe “seems to have brought out the best in these young writers,” said Vicki Evans, Respect Life coordinator for the archdiocesan Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns. “Their essays make amazing reading.

It’s always difficult to choose winners and honorable mention recipients from the hundreds of essays we receive. Each student looks at the subject through a different lens and expresses a unique point of view.”

Grand prize, first prize and honorable mention winners were honored on Mothers’ Day, May 13, at St. Mary’s Cathedral, at a special liturgy and awards ceremony presided over by Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice.

“The Respect Life program is honored to work with our Catholic schools, home-schoolers and parish schools of religion to instill in our students a respect for life — at all stages and in all conditions,” Evans said.

FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT WWW.SFLIFEANDJUSTICE.ORG/ESSAY_CONTEST.

ESSAY CONTEST TOP WINNERS

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FIRST AND SECOND GRADES: Grand prize, Katherine Callagy, St. Gregory Parish; first prize San Francisco, Andy Li, St. Thomas the Apostle; first prize San Mateo, Ella Galli, St. Catherine of Siena; first prize Marin County, Carter Kwait, St. Anselm.

THIRD AND FOURTH GRADES: Grand prize, Matthew Candler, St. Veronica; first prize San Francisco, Maceo Carney, Our Lady of the Visitation; first prize San Mateo, Anne Desiree Mercado, Holy Angels; first prize Marin, Grace Hood, Our Lady of Loretto.

FIFTH AND SIXTH GRADES: Grand prize, Sara Varela, St. Philip; first prize San Francisco, Victor Chan, St. Monica; first prize San Mateo, Giovan Ludovico, St. Matthew.

SEVENTH AND EIGHTH GRADES: Grand prize, Andre Menchavez, Holy Angels; first prize San Francisco, Dana Wu, St. Thomas the Apostle; first prize San Mateo, Rosally Nunez, St. Veronica; first prize Marin, Bella Cistaro, St. Patrick.

NINTH THROUGH 12TH GRADES: Grand prize, Ellie Hurley, Notre Dame Belmont; first prize San Francisco, Liam Campbell, Stuart Hall High School; first prize San Mateo, Kaylee Kohlmaier, Notre Dame Belmont.

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OBITUARY

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Carolyn ‘Candy’ McDonald – Riordan icon and mom Longtime Archbishop Riordan High School employee Carolyn “Candy” McDonald died May 16. During her 20plus years at Riordan, she served as administrative assistant to former principal Father Tim Kenney, former president Father Thomas French and current president Patrick Daly.

Carolyn “Candy” “Candy was not McDonald only my assistant–she was a loyal confidante and instrumental to my transition as president of Riordan,” Daly said. “Her devotion to the young men of our school was remarkable. She would never hesitate to remind me, that in addition to boys needing structure and discipline, they also needed love.”

Beyond care and concern for Riordan students, McDonald focused on service to others. She was the first to organize the “Real Men Wear Pink” campaign

for cancer awareness, in part to honor her husband and son. She volunteered each year at the San Francisco Firefighters’ Toy Drive, and meticulously selected special toys for individual families. Her zest for life was evident in her close friendships with co-workers, passion for Crusader football, and love for Purple and Gold Days and student rallies.

Family was nearest to her heart. She cherished the relationships that she had with her children Kim Pritchard and the late Michael McDonald, grandchildren Michael, Stephanie and Nicole, and sister Donna Burns. She was preceded in death by her husband Bob. A funeral Mass was celebrated May 25 at St. Anne of the Sunset Church.

San Francisco, followed by burial at Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma. Remembrances may be sent to Archbishop Riordan High School, c/o The Development Office, 175 Phelan Ave., San Francisco 94112.

ICA STUDENTS BUILD BRIDGES

Students from San Francisco’s Immaculate Conception Academy are winners at building bridges. Students prepared for 10 weeks to develop bridge concepts as part of the Engineers Alliance for the Arts bridge building competition. Prizes were awarded April 28. First prize winners seniors Melissa Vallecillo, Paola Lopez and Martha Cuevas modeled their span for use in an area of Japan ruined by the March 2011 tsunami. The second place team, seniors Shane Agao, Estefania Lopez and Rachel Tegenkamp, built a pedestrian bridge for use in San Francisco during the upcoming America’s Cup.

Immaculate Conception Academy seniors Melissa Vallecillo, Paola Lopez and Martha Cuevas are pictured with the prize-winning model bridge they built for an engineering competition.

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citizenship when you vote by attending an informational meeting sponsored by Our Lady of Mount Carmel’s Social Concerns Committee at 7 p.m. in the small hall, Fulton and Katherine Street, Redwood City.

Contact Susan Swope, 650 474 2628, susan-swope@att.net.

ALEMANY AWARD: The Dominican School of Philosophy & Theology honors three San Francisco parish pastors with the Alemany Award June 9 in ceremonies at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street and Geary Boulevard, San Francisco. Honorees are cathedral pastor, Msgr. John Talesfore, Dominican Father Xavier Lavagetto, pastor, St. Dominic Church, San Francisco, and Jesuit Father Charles Gagan, pastor, St. Ignatius Church, San Francisco. “Please join us in recognizing three Catholic priests who have served the church and city of San Francisco,” organizers said.

Visit www.dspt.edu/alemany2012 or call Michael Chinnavaso at (510) 883-7159.

ICF RAVIOLI DINNER: Italian Catholic Federation Branch 173 annual ravioli dinner at Our Lady of Angels Gym, 1721 Hillside Drive, Burlingame. No host bar at 6 p.m. with dinner at 7 p.m.

Wine available for purchase with dinner. Raffle tickets for sale. Adult tickets $18 and children $5 (12 and under).

Call Sandra at (650) 697-4279.

BOCCE BALL: Riordan Bocce Ball Tournament at Orange Park in South San Francisco. Contact Sharon Ghilardi-Udovich, director of special events at (415) 586-8200 ext.*217 or email sudovich@riordanhs.org.

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

FRIDAY, JUNE 15 OUR TOWN: The Thornton Wilder classic performed by 16th Street Players at Notre Dame Senior Plaza, community room, 347 Dolores St., San Francisco.

Curtain is at 8 p.m. on June 15, 16, 22, 23, and 3 p.m. on June 17 and 24. Directed by Linda Ellinwood. Admission is free. Call (415) 952-3021.

SATURDAY, JUNE 16

Penny Pitch June 11: 35th annual “Penny Pitch and Raffle” benefiting the St. Anthony Foundation at MoMo’s Restaurant, across from AT&T Park, beginning at 1 p.m. “Last year, we were thrilled to raise over $60,000 for the city’s neediest,” said Janet Osborne, owner of MoMo’s with her husband, Pete. “We were honored to be asked by St. Anthony’s to host the event again.” The event so far has raised more than $1 million for St. Anthony’s. Visit www.stanthonysf.org. Among those “pitchin” in last year were San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr, Franciscan Father John Hardin and San Francisco Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White. Picking up where they left off, the chiefs kick off the event June 11.

FESTIVAL RAFFLE: St. Anthony of Padua Parish, Cesar Chavez St. at Folsom, San Francisco, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

Raffle has prizes of $1,000, $500 and $100. Call (415) 647-2704 for more information. Enjoy international foods, music, dancing and games. Proceeds benefit parish.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13 SUNDAY, JUNE 10 REUNION: Class of ’62 from St. Raphael School, San Rafael begins at 3 p.m. with Mass at Mission San Rafael with Father Paul Rossi as principal celebrant. Search for classmates continues. Call (415) 454-4455) or email shach@saintraphael.com. No-host dinner will follow at San Rafael Joe’s or Deer Park Villa.

FEAST DAY MASS: The feast of St. Anthony of Padua is commemorated at La Porziuncola Nuova at National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi, Vallejo Street at Columbus Avenue, San Francisco at 6:30 p.m. Sulpician Father James McKearney, president/rector, St. Patrick’s Seminary & University, is principal celebrant. Mass is coordinated

by Archconfraternity of Knights of St. Francis of Assisi. Call (415) 614-5579.

THURSDAY, JUNE 14 FOR LIFE: San Mateo Pro-Life monthly meeting at St. Gregory Parish Worner Center, 135 28th Ave., San Mateo at 7:30 p.m. The group is open to new membership, so please come and join us! Meetings are held the second Thursday of every month (except December). To learn more about the group, visit smprolife@yahoo.com or call Jessica at (650) 572-1468.

BALLOT PERSPECTIVES: California Voters will be called on to vote on the SAFE California Initiative on Nov. 6. SAFE California seeks to replace the death penalty with life without parole. What is the church’s position on the death penalty?

What will this mean for California? Can it save money? How would it meet the needs of those who have lost loved ones to violence? Prepare to exercise faithful

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TRIBUTE: Archbishop Riordan High School with San Francisco Fire Fighters Local 798 honors Lt. Vincent Perez, a 1981 Riordan graduate, who was killed in the line of duty. Luncheon and raffle support the Lt. Vincent Perez Scholarship Fund at Riordan. Event and raffle tickets – a chance to win a 2012 Harley Davidson Street Glide can be purchased by calling the union at (415) 621-7103 or email info@riordanhs.org for more information.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20 PASTA: A tradition of the old Mission, in historic Bernal Heights – the “spaghetti lunch” at Immaculate Conception Church, at 3255 Folsom St., just up the hill from Cesar Chavez Blvd. at noon. All the pasta, meatballs and salad you want, family style, for $9. Bring your friends!

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SATURDAY, JUNE 23 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.

WOMEN’S HEALTH FORUM: A “Women’s Health Forum” in the cafeteria – Level B at St. Mary’s Medical Center, 450 Stanyan St., San Francisco, 9 a.m.–noon. Talks and free health screenings 9:30-11:30 for Achilles bone density, balance, blood pressure, diabetes. All seminars and screenings are free but please reserve a seat in advance. Call (415) 750-5790 or email StMarysFoundation@DignityHealth.org.

SUNDAY, JUNE 24 NEW DEACONS: Archbishop George Niederauer will ordain candidates to the permanent diaconate at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco at 3:30 p.m.

Happy reunion The St. Paul High School class of 1962 met late last year for a 50th reunion that included Mass and brunch. More than 200 friends and family joined to honor them. “Our alumnae remains active and continue to raise money to support the BVM Sisters in Dubuque, the Women’s and Children’s Abuse Center in San Francisco, and scholarships for alumnae families,” said classmate Linda Van Hagen Nuti. The brunch and Mass are a St. Paul tradition for “Golden Belles.”

FRIDAY, JULY 13 MISSION TOUR: Overnight California

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Meals and lodging included. Contact Todd at (650) 302-0801 for prices and information. Proceeds benefit Good Shepherd Parish.

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Day-long registration is $160 for the week and goes until 4:30pm. Participants should be in PreK3 through 5th grade, and older children, teens, and adults may register to volunteer.

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HELP WANTED Youth Minister / Confirmation Director Needed Our Lady of Angels Church in Burlingame is looking for an energetic and creative person to serve as full-time director of Youth Ministry. Responsibilities include outreach and programming for our parish teens, coordination of Confirmation program for 75+, as well as retreat and liturgy planning.

Candidates must have previous YM experience.

Certification in youth ministry/catechesis Experience with Kairos and liturgy planning, training in counseling, experience in teaching, or related bachelors/master’s degree are preferable.

Applicants should email resume and cover letter to FR. Michael Mahoney at michaelofmcap@gmail.com Application deadline is June 15th, 2012

HELP WANTED Director of Religious Education- St. Anselm Catholic Church in beautiful Marin County, Ross, Ca. Qualified candidate must be a practicing Catholic in good standing, min. BA/BS, degree in Theology preferred. This part time, 20 -25 hours per week position, includes partial benefits and requires some evening and weekend job responsibilities. Applicant’s will possess strong English communication skills (both verbal and written), excellent organizational skills and experience with scheduling, teaching: RCIA, baptismal and marriage prep. classes, alter server training, confirmation classes and more.

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GOSPEL CHOIR DIRECTOR POSITION AVAILABLE!

Although the seminars and screenings are free we ask that you register in advance.

Two easy ways to reserve a seat: PHONE: (415) 750-5790 EMAIL: StMarysFoundation@DignityHealth.org www.stmarysmedicalcenter.org

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St. Paul of the Shipwreck Catholic Church has a fabulous Gospel Choir, and we are looking for a Director to direct our choir and musicians at the 10:30 a.m. Sunday Gospel Mass. Salary is negotiable within range of the Archdiocese of San Francisco established guidelines. Email your Resume/Application to spswoffice@aol.com, or FAX to (415) 468-1400.

For more details, call Rev. Mr. Larry Chatmon, Deacon, daytime at (415) 557-5330, or evening (510) 430-0353.