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The sponsors of Proposition 8, the ballot measure that banned samesex marriage in California, have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a federal appeals court decision that struck it down as invalid.

The sponsors, a faith-based group called Protect Marriage.com, filed the appeal on July 31, saying that the Feb. 7 ruling by the San Francisco-based 9th Circuit Court of Appeals was a “judicial death sentence for traditional marriage laws.”

The appellate court, in the 2-1 ruling, was acting on an appeal from Protect Marriage.com of a ruling in August 2010 by then-U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker in San Francisco. Walker found that the ballot initiative is unconstitutional.

The appellate court ruled that Prop. 8, approved by voters in 2008, serves no conceivable legitimate state interest and that support is inexplicable on grounds other than “disapproval of gays and lesbians as a class” and of “same-sex couples as a people.”

On June 9 the 9th Circuit Court denied a request from Protect Marriage.com to rehear the matter, sending the sponsors to the U.S. Supreme Court, where justices will decide whether or not to consider it.

The circuit court made its ruling on grounds that were narrower than Walker’s – finding that rights were being stripped from people for no apparent reason other than moral disapproval.

In the appeal to the high court, Protect Marriage.com said marriage is intended to “steer potentially procreative conduct into stable and enduring family units,” meaning a man and a woman.

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Top of the world Jordyn Wieber, a member of St. Jude Parish in Dewitt, Mich., poses with her gold medal after the women’s gymnastics team final at the London Olympics July 31. Right, Morgan Spellman, center, and Natasha Armstrong, right, cheer Aug. 3 at Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart in Bethesda, Md., as they watch a broadcast of classmate Katie Ledecky, 15, who won the Olympic gold medal in the women’s 800 freestyle.

‘I’m not a single-issue person. I advocate the consistent ethic of life’ Here are excerpts from an interview with San Francisco Archbishop-designate Salvatore Cordileone by The Voice, the newspaper of the Diocese of Oakland.

The archbishop-designate, named July 27 by Pope Benedict XVI to be the ninth archbishop of San Francisco upon his installation Oct. 4, was interviewed July 30

by Mike Brown, Voice associate publisher; Albert C. Pacciorini, editor; and Michele Jurich, associate editor/staff writer.

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Archbishop-designate Salvatore Cordileone is pictured at St. Mary’s Cathedral July 27.

You’ve come full circle, to your family’s roots in San Francisco.

Beyond same-sex marriage and homosexuality, there are other issues there – immigration, social justice, homelessness, poverty. Have you given some thought about where you might spend some focus, or is it too early?

I think it’s too early to say. I need to get a better lay of the land. Certainly immigration is one. I know San Francisco is a sanctuary city so that’s an issue of major concern in the city and

is something the wider community can connect better on, Catholics and other.

How will you go about getting “the lay of the land”?

I will do something similar to what I did here in terms of getting out into the parishes, meeting with different departments of the chancery, getting to know who they are and their work and meeting with priests in small groups.

I’ll have to judge it after I get there because I think there will be some ongoing responsibilities here in Oakland to ease a transition here even after I take over in San Francisco. In terms of the practical demands on my schedule, I’ll have to adjust as I go along.

Recently San Francisco has made a major effort in Latino ministry, including naming a vicar for Latino ministry. Do you have any sense if that will continue?

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ARCHBISHOP-DESIGNATE ON “FORUM”: San Francisco Archbishopdesignate Salvatore Cordileone was scheduled to be interviewed on KQED’s live call-in program Aug. 8 at 10 a.m.

The broadcast on 88.5 FM will be available for listening at www.kqed.org/ radio/programs/forum/.

BEWARE “INTERNET ADDICTION’’: Overuse of the Internet weakens the life of faith and the formation of the Christian spirit: That was the alarm raised by the Youth Cultural Exchange Seminar of Catholic University Students in East Asia, which took place recently in Taipei, Taiwan, on the theme “Internet Addiction.”

According to the church news agency Fides, the students warned that too much Internet use wastes time and weakens interpersonal relationships.

FOOD FOR ETERNAL LIFE: We must not stop at a purely human horizon but open ourselves to the horizon of God. Pope Benedict XVI addressed this invitation to the large gathering of the faithful in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, who took part in the Marian prayer of the Angelus on Aug. 5, the Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, reported. Recalling the need to place Jesus at the center of life, the pope said we must go beyond the desire to satisfy material needs because the human horizon cannot and must not be bound by the “concerns of eating, of being clothed, of a career.” Rather, it must be open to the dimension of the “food which endures to eternal life.”

LAITY’S ROLE: Citing threats to religious freedom, Pope Benedict XVI greeted the 130th Supreme Convention of the Knights of Columbus in advance of the gathering Aug. 7-9 in Anaheim. “The challenges of the present moment are in fact yet another reminder of the decisive importance of the Catholic laity for the advancement of the church’s mission,” the pope said in a message.

UNDER FIRE: Marianist Brother John Samaha shared a recent message from Damascus, Syria, by Maronite Archbishop Samir Nassar. Describing Christian life amid the country’s civil war, the prelate recalled much panic and fleeing for the safety of neighboring countries: “The few faithful who dared coming to pick up courage from the Mass burned many candles at the tomb of Blessed Martyrs of Damascus. They exchanged farewells and tears before returning running to their homes under the sounds of gunfire and explosions.”

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SI’s new leader: ‘What is the Lord calling me to do?’ to learn their names. The first homework assignment I ever gave them was a ‘Who-Am-I?’ paper. You have to build a relationship of trust and a sense that we are on the same page here. And then to rally the troops to get them to follow you have to have their confidence and support. I can’t do that without them having a sense of me, me having a sense of them.”

He was reared in working-class Toledo, Ohio, and had to work to help pay his tuition at a Jesuit high school, and put himself through college working in the family kitchen cabinet business.

The take-away from that experience, said Knight, was, “I was proud of the fact I helped my dad and mom out.”

Now, he said he will be engaging the SI faculty and staff, “feeling a strong call to walk with each colleague here, to be as supportive, as encouraging and, where appropriate, as challenging as possible, to call forth from them their best.”

Very likely, one of the first changes in the Knight administration will be for SI to lose the title president. “I know it works at universities and corporations,” said Knight, who prefers “director of the work.” The Jesuits will mission him with that language.

Someone had installed a sign reading “president” over his door the day he arrived, he said, nose upturned. “We’ll get it going, don’t worry. Come back. There will be a new sign.”

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John Knight had a lot of time to think about his next challenge and opportunity, becoming the first lay president of St. Ignatius College Preparatory in its 157 years, during his eight-day road trip from Buffalo to San Francisco with his wife, Susan, and the girls, Alexandra, 12, and Elizabeth, 10.

He put 3,500 miles on the Chrysler Town & Country van, en route to what he believes is a calling – to head a Jesuit high school with an excellent reputation for academics and Ignatian spirituality, to a job that feels is a good fit for him.

The only question, he said, is, “How will my gifts and talents add to the school’s well-being? What is the Lord calling me to do at SI to help sustain and grow the mission?”

It’s far from a turn-around job, as Curtis Mallegni, the chair of the St. Ignatius Board of Trustees, put it. This is a school with the healthy endowment.

There were 1,175 applications last year; 500 were accepted for a class of 375.

Mallegni, a retired Wells Fargo banker and SI graduate, class of 1967, only had to say to Knight after he was offered the job, “Here you go. It’s a great gem of a school. Make the most of it.”

Knight, who turns 55 on Aug. 17, began work after the Fourth of July, beginning the process of getting to know the more than 200 faculty, staff and coaches.

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John Knight, the new president of St. Ignatius Preparatory, comes from Buffalo where he served as the first lay president of the Jesuits’ 140-year-old Canisius High School.

He comes from Buffalo where he served as the first lay president of the Jesuits’ Canisius High School for four years.

Much has been made of Knight’s status as first lay president at SI, but not by him. “I think it is the natural evolution of where the church is going,” Knight said in an interview. “I think it is very much in keeping with Vatican II. The church is the people of God. It is less hierarchical. It is more inclusive. I think to be a lay leader in today’s church is far more common than what we think.

Clearly we know there is a decrease in the number of available Jesuits for our schools. But the spirit moves in different ways and this is an opportunity for lay leadership.”

Mallegni and the search committee, seeking a successor to Father Robert T. Walsh, wanted someone who could rally people. Knight, asked how that is done, said he spent 14 years teaching theology in Detroit. Here’s how he rallied his students: “I would take the initial few days to really get to know my students,

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Bobby Vernazza, a recent graduate of Junipero Serra High School and very soon a freshman at Oregon State University, placed second in Junior National Rowing Championships in June. He was a one man crew against 18 other single sculls at the Tennessee contests. “The competition was fierce, and the time difference between second and fourth place was about a second,” Bobby said when back on dry land.

“A big congratulations to you, Bobby,” say his proud mom Liza and dad Bob, in a note to this column. Bobby will keep his oars in the water at Oregon State, his folks said.

ON THE JOB TRAINING: Immaculate Conception Academy has come into its Cristo Rey own, offering students opportunities to work on the front lines and study in the classroom.

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ON HER WAY: Michelle Susan Melendez, an honors graduate of Our Lady of Mount Carmel School and St. Ignatius College Preparatory, was recently awarded an undergraduate degree in nursing summa cum laude from the Jesuits’ Fairfield University in Connecticut. Her proud folks are Susie and Dan Melendez. Michelle has not fallen far from the tree, family friend John Moriarty told me. “They don’t make them any better than Dan and Susie,” Michelle John said.

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GREAT SPACE: It was a pleasure being part of the first contingent to meet and welcome Archbishop-designate Salvatore Cordileone at St. Mary’s Cathedral July 27. The gang from HQ piled over to the press conference and then we had some private time with Archbishop-designate Cordileone back at HQ. Beyond the great planning and execution of the press conference, special thanks and congratulations are to be given to cathedral rector, Msgr.

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It’s been very recently brought to my attention that there’s a very large Spanish-speaking population in the archdiocese, more, I was told, than most people think. I’m looking forward to getting to know the Spanish-speaking community. I’ll work together with others on plans to how to best address their pastoral needs.

The Walk for Life (West Coast) has always had your support, and now it’s going to run through your backyard – is there any sense of your increased participation in that effort and other life issues?

Certainly, obviously, I’ll continue to support that. I’ve been present every year for the past several years and obviously will continue to be so. Again, it’s another pastoral planning matter to educate our people on what respect for human life and dignity really involves.

What’s one thing you’d like the people in San Francisco to know about you?

I’m not a single-issue person. I advocate the consistent ethic of life.

You’ve only been here a couple of years. Do you have some favorite memories?

There would be a lot of things. The earlier memories would be of how the priests organized themselves in small groups for lunches and dinners so we could get to know each other, and how welcoming and hospitable the priests and people have been during my parish visits. The India trip certainly will be memorable. That was a great opportunity to be with priests of our diocese and some lay people, too, who were part of that.

How many parish visitations have you done?

Thirty-seven.

Can you reflect on your time with the people of the Diocese of Oakland?

There’s still a lot of potential left here that we can tap into. The timing of this

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Archbishop-designate Salvatore Cordileone responds to press questions July 27 at St. Mary’s Cathedral. is very unfortunate because I feel pretty integrated in the diocese, in the sense I know who is who. There are a lot of big things we have to do, addressing the capital needs is one of them. I think we can do it. I was looking forward to it – it’s going to take a lot of hard work – but I was looking forward to making a dent in that. It’s a very vibrant church.

The people are very involved in their parishes and in the wider community.

I think if we can just get us all working together and with the common vision we can accomplish even more.

Have you given some thought as to how to harness that potential, or light a spark under it?

My approach has been to let people get to know me as widely as possible.

That’s why those weekend-long parish visits. I would try to be as present as possible within the dioceses, with different groups, movements and organizations. It’s important for people to feel a personal connection to their bishop.

Ultimately, though, it’s the priests and the parishes that will make it happen.

I’m hoping that if they see my face and

know who I am, and the priests feel my support, and the people feel connected to their priests, it builds up more of a sense of solidarity to be able to tap that potential.

Any advice for your successor?

The advice I’d give to anyone: Get to know the diocese. Get to know the priests. What I just said, there’s a lot of potential in the diocese. Learn how to tap into that.

What are the challenges of leading the Diocese of Oakland?

I think the culture here in the East Bay – I’ll figure out what it’s like on the other side of the bay now – is very politicized. People tend to see things in

terms of liberal/conservative. In terms of educating our people on the faith, it’s to try to help them to see things through more of a spiritual or Catholic lens. Again: the consistent ethic of life. We affirm human life and dignity at every stage and in every condition.

We’re going to fall on both ends of the political spectrum. We can’t decide our position on issues by politics, but by what affirms human dignity. Then try to work with people, if they have political view of life, still, if they’re with us on the issue, we can connect with them to do something about it.

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When Sister Taryn Stark professed first vows as a Sister of Mercy on July 14, 2012, she came full circle on her Mercy journey. As a young girl in 1978, she was baptized in the same Mercy Chapel where, 34 years later, she pronounced her vows of poverty, chastity, obedience and service to the poor, sick, and ignorant.

“The celebration of Taryn’s first vows was a joyful event for the entire community,” said Sister Judith Frikker, community president of the Sisters of Mercy, West Midwest Community.

The profession ceremony, celebrated by Father Richard Menatsi, executive director of Inter-Regional Meeting of the Bishops of Southern Africa, included others important to Taryn’s entrance to religious life: novitiate minister Mercy Sister Rayleen Giannotti, and witnesses Mercy Sister Cindy Kaye and Mercy Sister Genemarie Beegan. Her mother, Ruth Stark, was present as were her nephews Michael and Stephen Stark.

After the ceremony Taryn glowed with happiness.

“The immense joy I feel inside and from the Mercy community can only be a grace from God,” she said.

“I couldn’t stop smiling. You could feel the joy and the energy in the room. I felt so loved. Nothing else can affirm your calling more than that.”

Taryn’s journey in religious life formally began when she became a candidate in 2008, but her Mercy roots are much deeper. “The sisters have always been a presence in my life,” says Sister Taryn. As a young mother in graduate school, Taryn’s mom, Ruth, visited the campus frequently, bringing her small daughter with her. When Ruth became a Catholic in 1978, Taryn was baptized at the same Mass.

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Feeling that she wanted to give her life more deeply to working with the poor but convinced she was too old for religious life at 35, she Googled the Sisters of Mercy. “I went to a Web link that invited me: ‘Come and See for ages 18 to 40!’ It was a huge thing,” she said, “not just a light bulb, but a huge stadium lighting up, knowing I can still do this. I went through a discernment process, but I knew at that moment.”

From then on, Taryn felt ready for religious life.

She was in residence at the Institute of the Sisters of Mercy Novitiate in Laredo, Texas, beginning in 2010.

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The foundation has challenged the alliance to match its gift by the end of 2012, said Gustavo Torres, development director for Mission Dolores Basilica Parish and grant writer for the consortium.

“Local Catholics’ help is greatly needed,” Torres said.

Contributions made to this campaign will fund much-needed tuition assistance at the five schools, where 55 percent of the 1,300 students qualify for free or reduced lunch and where a growing population of immigrant families struggles to pay.

“We’re coming into the era of where there are really good kids who can go to schools but we’re finding an increased need for tuition assistance,” Torres said. “I would say that’s across the board for all our Catholic schools.”

The alliance, formed in 2005 to share resources, including tuition assistance, instruction and professional development, consists of St. Antho-

Donations can open doors for children who qualify for a Catholic education but cannot afford to pay.

ny-Immaculate Conception, St. James, St. Finn Barr, St. Charles Borromeo and Epiphany parish schools.

The San Francisco schools are adapting to a significant demographic shift: There are fewer children in the city, and of those many attend independent schools if their families can afford it.

“Overall the (alliance) member schools again experienced a loss of students between last year and this year, many directly due to the financial cost of attending,” the alliance said in its grant application. “These losses have severe impacts to the financial well-being of the school, not only to the current year, but each year thereafter that the child would have been enrolled. These students rarely are able to enroll in our local excellent Catholic high schools, decreasing their pool of talented students.”

One strategy of the alliance schools is to recruit more Latino students, who now make up about a third of the five schools’ enrollment.

“We’re trying to make our schools a lot more Spanish-friendly,” Torres said, adding that the effort includes adding bilingual staff and a personal touch in reaching out to potential school families.

“The alliance schools are to here to stay,” Torres said. “We’re successful and we need your help.”

For more information, contact Torres at (415) 614-5660. Visit amdcs.org to make an online donation. Checks may be sent to The Alliance of Mission District Catholic Schools, Archdiocese of San Francisco, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco, CA 94109.

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Archbishop Chaput: ‘These attacks Cardinal urges are real. … And they’ll get worse’ Congress to act CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

NAPA – Government pressure on religious entities “goes well beyond” the current federal contraceptive mandate and has become “a pattern in recent years,” said Philadelphia Archbishop Charles J. Chaput.

“It involves interfering with the conscience rights of medical providers, private employers and individual citizens,” he said in a July 27 keynote address at the Napa Institute Conference. “It includes attacks on the policies, hiring practices and tax statuses of religious charities, hospitals and other ministries.

“These attacks are real. They’re happening now. And they’ll get worse as America’s religious character weakens,” the archbishop said in a speech titled “Building a Culture of Religious Freedom.”

“Contempt for religious faith has been growing in America’s leadership classes for many decades,” he added.

Americans have always been “a religious people,” with millions of them taking their faith seriously, he continued, but while “religious practice remains high,” America “is steadily growing more secular.”

“Mainline churches are losing ground. Many of our young people spurn Christianity. Many of our young adults lack any coherent moral formation,” he said, and respect for

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the role of religion in the public square has clearly eroded.

He said Catholics have to fight for what they believe about abortion, sexuality, marriage and the family, and religious liberty.

“We have a duty to treat all persons with charity and justice. We have a duty to seek common ground where possible. But that’s never an excuse for compromising with grave evil. ...

And it’s never an excuse for standing idly by while our liberty to preach and serve God in the public square is whittled away,” he said.

He urged Catholics to work “for good laws” and get “involved politically,” which he called urgent.

“Every one of our votes matters.

We need to elect the best public leaders, who then create the best policies and appoint the best judges,” he said.

“This has a huge impact on the kind of nation we become.”

He called for a re-examination of “the spirit that has ruled the Catholic approach to American life for the past 60 years.”

“In forming our priests, deacons, teachers and catechists – and especially the young people in our schools and religious education programs – we need to be much more penetrating and critical in our attitudes toward the culture around us.

We need to recover our distinctive Catholic identity and history. Then we need to act on them.”

Archbishop Chaput said America is now “mission territory.”

“Our own failures helped to make it that way. We need to admit that.

Then we need to re-engage the work of discipleship to change it,” he said.

He said the attitude of his own generation, the baby boomers, has contributed to America’s growing secularization – with “our spirit of entitlement and moral superiority, our appetite for material comfort unmoored from humility; our refusal to acknowledge personal sin and accept our obligations to the past.”

WASHINGTON – Since the courts will not act quickly enough to protect the religious liberty concerns prompted by the Obama administration’s contraceptive mandate, Congress must “address this urgent and fundamental issue before it completes its business this year,” Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo told members of the House and Senate.

“Timely and uniform protection of these rights cannot be expected from the current lengthy judicial process,” said the cardinal in an Aug. 3 letter to members of Congress. He is archbishop of Galveston-Houston and chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities.

Cardinal DiNardo described the contraceptive mandate as an “unprecedented and misguided federal policy.”

“The Catholic bishops of the United States continue to advocate for life-affirming health care for all, especially for poor and vulnerable people,” he wrote. “We do not see this policy as a step in that direction.”

The cardinal said the requirement to provide contraceptives to their employees free of charge will likely affect for-profit business owners first. He noted that four of the lawsuits against the mandate have been filed by Catholic business owners.

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A candlelit vigil was held in Cathedral Square in downtown Milwaukee to mourn the Aug. 5 mass shooting at the Sikh Temple in suburban Oak Creek, Wis.

Milwaukee bishops urge reflection after killings CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

MILWAUKEE – The killing of six Sikhs Aug. 5 at their temple in the Milwaukee suburb of Oak Creek brought an outpouring of spiritual support from leaders in the Catholic community, as well as a call for the entire community to examine violence in U.S. culture.

Assuring the Sikh community “that our prayers go out in solidarity with you,” Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome E. Listecki said Aug. 6, “There’s an aspect of we want to do something to help ease the pain of that community; one of the things that immediately comes to mind is prayer so we turn our hearts and attention to God. “We pray for God’s consoling and healing to be there for the Sikh community,” he said.

In an interview with the Catholic Herald, the publication serving the Catholic community in southeastern Wisconsin, Archbishop Listecki said he had just returned from St. Lawrence Parish in St. Lawrence, Wis., where he had celebrated Mass, led a eucharistic procession and enjoyed a picnic dinner with parishioners as part of their annual feast day commemoration when he heard the news.

“I was totally taken aback. I was totally shocked that anyone would come in and do such an act of violence, but also to do it within the context of church, temple, syna-

gogue, mosque,” he said. “Here are people coming together to worship God, and what happens? They’re confronted by evil. This tells us that we have to be mindful of evil in the world.”

According to police, the shooter entered the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin during a religious service and shot into the gathering using an automatic weapon.

He killed four people inside the temple and two more outside, then he wounded a police officer. A second officer shot and killed the gunman, who was later identified as 40-yearold Wade Michael Page.

Archbishop Listecki said people should expect to be safe in places where they worship.

“There’s no threat from people of faith, but there is the threat from those who suddenly would want to invade that sanctuary,” he said.

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Retired Auxiliary Bishop Richard J. Sklba said Catholics should consider several things as a result of what happened at the Sikh temple.

“We, as Catholics with our commitment to global solidarity, because we are Catholic, there is a universalism in our faith that we who are committed to global solidarity will be ever more conscious of the need to respect all religious traditions throughout the whole world,” he said.

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Search for life out there a worthy effort, says priest CINDY WOODEN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – Jesuit Father Jose Funes is pleased with the successful landing of the Curiosity rover on Mars, and he thinks “everybody should be happy with the success.”

The Argentine Jesuit, director of the Vatican Observatory, said the rover’s mission is important: “to see if we can learn a bit more about Mars and the possibility of organic elements on the surface of Mars,” which would indicate that some living organism had lived or could live on the planet.

The Curiosity landed on Mars Aug. 5 and is set to explore the planet for two years.

Father Funes told Vatican Radio Aug. 6 that he thinks the rover is perfectly named because curiosity is “a driving force to do science, to do research.

Human beings basically are curious and we want to know how many things in the universe work: what is the logic, what are the laws in the universe.”

“If there are also other intelligent beings, it’s not a given that they need redemption. They might have remained in full friendship with their Creator.”

JESUIT FATHER JOSE FUNES In addition, he said, human beings want to know if life forms exist anywhere else besides Earth.

So far, there is no evidence of a living organism elsewhere, “but still the search for life is worthwhile. We can learn many things, even if we cannot find signs of life,” he said.

Asked if the church had anything to fear from the possible discovery of life forms elsewhere, Father Funes said, “Of course not. We are not afraid of science.

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In a 2008 interview with L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, Father Funes spoke about the search for life on other planets and what it could mean from the point of view of Christian faith.

Just as God created multiple forms of life on earth, he had said, there may be diverse forms throughout the universe. “This is not in contrast with the faith, because we cannot place limits on the creative freedom of God,” he said.

Asked what the existence of alien life forms might imply for the Christian idea of redemption, Father Funes cited the Gospel parable of

the shepherd who left his 99 sheep to search for the one that was lost.

“We who belong to the human race could really be that lost sheep, the sinners who need a pastor,” he said in the 2008 interview.

“God became man in Jesus in order to save us. So if there are also other intelligent beings, it’s not a given that they need redemption.

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While Christ’s incarnation and sacrifice was a unique and unrepeatable event, he said he was sure that, if needed, God’s mercy would be offered to aliens, as it was to humans.

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Church challenges Indian acceptance of female feticide CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

NEW DELHI – An official in the Indian Catholic Church has endorsed the idea that participants in sexselective abortions should be charged with murder.

The backing by Holy Spirit Missionary Sister Helen Saldanha, secretary of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India Office for Women, comes as momentum builds to end female feticide, a practice that finds families terminating a pregnancy because the child they are expecting is a girl.

Filing criminal charges for killing a child in the womb because of its sex would “change the killer attitude” toward girls in Indian society, Sister Helen said.

Although the practice of sex-selective abortions is illegal under Indian law, there is no provision for criminal prosecution. Recent census statistics indicate that the practice appears to be widespread.

The census data show that the national ratio of girls to boys younger than 6 years old has dropped from 927 for every 1,000 boys in 2001 to 914 for every 1,000 boys in 2011. In some states, the ratio dropped to 800 girls for every 1,000 boys, according to the census.

“Son preference is a major syndrome that is leading to a decline in the ratio of girl children. Sadly, the

advances in medical technology are being used to prevent the birth of millions of unwanted girl children,” Sister Helen said.

Dr. Ruchika Dewan Singh, manager for strategic planning of the Catholic Health Association of India, acknowledged that sex selection is accepted across Indian society even though laws make it illegal.

The preference for boys is rooted in Hindu culture and the achievement of “moksha,” liberation, only when an individual has a son to perform last rites as mandated by Hindu scripture.

The practice is said to have led to the dowry system that has led to the consideration that female children are a financial liability for a family. The failure to meet dowry demands results in the deaths of thousands of young women annually.

The National Crime Records Bureau recorded 8,391 dowry deaths – women killed because of the failure to meet dowry demands – in 2010. The bureau also recorded more than 94,000 suicides among young women because of dowry harassment by their husband or in-laws in 2010, up from 28,579 in 1995.

Singh of the Catholic Health Association of India said technology has led to the rise in sex-selective abortion as well as pre-conception sex selection.

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‘They know they are loved’ Daughters of Charity residence ‘a home, not a hospital’ VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

MOSS BEACH – The smiles tell the story at Seton Medical Center Coastside, a nursing home operated by the Daughters of Charity health system.

Many of the residents have come to live their last years at the 116-bed skilled nursing facility, and the staff ’s goal is to provide the same sense of warmth and love that each person should receive in their own home, said nurse manager Cathy Bowman.

“We never let a birthday go unnoticed.

We never let an anniversary go unnoticed,” said Bowman, who is marking her 17th year at Seton Coastside, but says other staff has been there as long as 35 years. “They know they are loved.”

Most of the residents suffer from memory loss, dementia and from physical ailments that require 24-hour care. About 5 percent of patients are short-term, taking advantage of rehabilitation services for joint replacements and other conditions.

“Our big goal is to get a couple of the guys to a baseball game,” said Bowman, who said they’ve had outings for those who can manage to the senior center dance in Half Moon Bay, visited the beach, and participated in the Half Moon Bay Fourth of July parade.

“We try very hard to make it a home, not a hospital,” said Bowman. Among the amenities: a patio for smokers, a wheelchairheight vegetable garden so residents “can get their hands in the dirt,” a chapel where a red light signals the presence of the Blessed Sacrament, and a small rehabilitation-focused gym with drop-in hours and physical therapy assistants to help .

“Sometimes it’s as simple as playing ball catch, which can get very exciting,” said

Mass is every Friday at 10:15 a.m.

‘Not only Catholics come, everybody wants to come,’ said Sister Ann Leitao.

(PHOTO BY VALERIE SCHMALZ/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

Physical therapy aide Sheena Lim gives a resident a foot massage.

Kate O’Shea, supervisor of rehabilitative services.

“Open gym is packed,” said Bowman.

So is the smoking patio, which patient advocate Sister Ann Leitao said is necessary because some of the patients smoke, and “this is their home.”

Seton Coastside is a Catholic nursing home in San Mateo County, part of Seton Medical Center in Daly City. Most of its patients are legally indigent, with their bills paid by government assistance for the disabled and elderly, said Sister Ann Leitao, who says cutbacks in Medi-Cal payments strain finances.

“The Daughters will never let this place close,” said Bowman, because it embodies the order’s mission to help those in need.

The Daughters of Charity foundation contributes some operating funds and pays for some amenities, recently funding renovation of 27 rooms with new beds, window coverings, bathrooms, and flat screen televisions, said Judy Cook, administrative director.

While Seton Coastside’s primary service is as a skilled nursing facility, it also includes a 24-hour emergency room, and five acute care beds, as well as being one of the sponsors of the Half Moon Bay Rotacare Clinic, a drop-in clinic.

Many of the Seton Coastside patients have large families who visit and a solarium is available for celebrations, said Bowman.

“Some do not have family, we become their family,” said Sister Ann. In addition, Sister Ann has a special fund she taps to buy new clothing for those who need it, and to buy Christmas presents, also clothing, for everyone at Christmas.

Families are kept together, Bowman and Sister Ann said. While most rooms have three beds, in the case of the facility’s only married couple, the third bed is left empty so the couple can share the room, Sister Ann said. A mother and daughter share a room as well; the mother no longer able to care for herself and the daughter the victim of a severe stroke.

Mass is every Friday at 10:15 a.m. “Not only Catholics come, everybody wants to come,” said Sister Ann. At Christmas time, officers from the San Mateo County Sheriff ’s Office Half Moon Bay substation arrive as Santa and his elves.

There’s also a dancing Santa, regular bingo nights, Friday movie nights and once a year the staff sets up the multipurpose room as a restaurant and residents can invite family and friends to share a restaurant-style meal.

Residents are not left in their rooms, a policy aimed at counteracting the institutionalization common to any long-term care facility.

“All the residents are up every day in their wheelchairs and everybody is dressed,” said Sister Ann, a registered nurse with a master’s in psychology.

“Even though they might not be able to speak, they see people,” said the 81-yearold Daughter of Charity, who has spent the last 23 years as the facility’s patient advocate, driving down the coast from her convent across from Seton Medical Center in Daly City. “It stimulates their senses. They’re not isolated in their rooms, staring at the wall.”

“Our philosophy is we live the mission and values of the Daughters of Charity,” said Bowman. “We take everyone in and we treat them as our family members.”

(PHOTOS BY VALERIE SCHMALZ/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

Top, two residents enjoy the smoking patio at the Daughters of Charity’s Seton Coastside residence, a space created for smokers because, says patient advocate Sister Ann Leitao, “This is their home.” Lower right, physical therapy aide and master gardener Richard Gutierrez works with residents Javier Delgadillo and David Cicero.Lower left, Sister Ann spends a moment with a resident.

Seton Medical Center celebrates 100 years

(PHOTO COURTESY DON BOSCO STUDIOS/DAUGHTERS OF CHARITY ARCHIVE)

Left, in a scene from about 1950, a Daughter of Charity assists physicians and nurses in the operating room of Mary’s Help Hospital on Guerrero Street, San Francisco. Right, in a circa-1964 photo, Sister Hermine Regan, a member of the board of directors, and Roy Bronson display plans that will turn their dream of a new Mary’s Help Hospital into a reality.

In 1983, the hospital was renamed Seton Medical Center in honor of the founder of the American Daughters of Charity and the first American-born saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton.

For more than a century, the Daughters of Charity have served the needs of the San Francisco community. After arriving from Emmitsburg, Maryland, in 1852 at the request of Archbishop Joseph Sadoc Alemany, OP, first Archbishop of San Francisco, the pioneer sisters set up an orphanage and school.

By 1889, a generous San Franciscan shared her vision for health care that eventually led the Daughters through the doors of Mary’s Help Hospital.

Kate Johnson, a wealthy widow, gifted the Archdiocese of San Francisco with the funds to purchase land and build a hospital for women and children. Two stipulations were included with the gift: The hospital would be built in the “sunshine area” of the Mission District and designed in the shape of a St. Andrew’s Cross ensuring maximum sunlight in every room. Additionally, the facility would be managed by the Daughters of Charity.

Throughout her travels in Europe, Johnson witnessed the Daughters providing much-

needed care to the sick, but also to those disenfranchised by society – orphans, beggars, prisoners, refugees and the mentally ill. This blend of empathy and compassion embodied the charism of St. Vincent de Paul, a parish priest, who along with St. Louise de Marillac, founded the Daughters of Charity in Paris in 1633. The sisters were not restricted to convent life, but free to visit homes, hospitals, and prisons throughout 17th-century France.

In 1899, Archbishop Patrick William Riordan, second Archbishop of San Francisco, contacted Emmitsburg once again to request sisters to staff and manage the hospital and fulfill the stipulation set by benefactor Kate Johnson.

By April 1906, Mary’s Help Hospital located at Guerrero and Brosnan streets, was almost completed. In the early hours of Wednesday, April 18, the San Andreas Fault shifted, rupturing 296 miles of California terrain. With the epicenter located near San Francisco, the earthquake violently collapsed buildings

and ignited a devastating fire that burned for days. The hospital building was destroyed and never opened its door.

The catastrophic event took its toll on the rebuilding of a new hospital. Many of the properties Kate Johnson bequeathed in her will to finance hospital operations were destroyed. While this chaos created years of legal disputes, the second hospital building was opened on July 2, 1912.

Ten Daughters of Charity were assigned to the hospital, with Sister Mary Angela O’Brien serving as the first sister servant and hospital administrator. Also on staff in the pharmacy and clinic was Sister Agatha Flynn, the first woman registered as a pharmacist in California.

The hospital expanded its services to continue to adapt to the needs of the community.

The sisters not only provided quality care free of charge and partial payment to clinic patients, they also fed the hungry people that arrived on their steps daily. Medications were

free, and patients were visited in their homes.

As the demands on the hospital continued to grow, expansion plans were discussed.

When the 1957 earthquake hit and damaged the building, the decision was made. A new hospital would be built on a larger site.

Surveys were completed and, once again, generous donors came forth to supply funding for a new hospital. On Dec. 12, 1965, the new facility on Sullivan Avenue in Daly City opened its doors. In 1983, Mary’s Help Hospital was renamed Seton Medical Center honoring St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, the foundress of the American Daughters of Charity and the first American-born canonized saint.

Today, Seton Medical Center offers a comprehensive range of medical, surgical and specialty programs in its 357-bed facility. While many things have changed over the years, one thing remains steadfast: The Daughters of Charity continue to lead associates, physicians and volunteers in their fight against poverty.

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Health reform: Many mandates to keep straight

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here is no question that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 ranks among the most complex pieces of legislation ever enacted.

It includes over $400 billion in revenue raisers plus new taxes on employers and individuals. The law itself is 1,990 pages long, and government agencies must write regulations that will undoubtedly run another 150,000 pages or more.

There is more than one “mandate” in the law. Key to understanding what will be required of us is keeping the mandates straight.

VICKI EVANS The first of the mandates is an individual insurance mandate which imposes a penalty or a tax (take your pick) on individuals who fail to obtain “minimum essential health coverage” for themselves and dependents. The penalty will be paid as part of our income taxes when tax returns are filed each year. The amount due is the greater of $95 or 1 percent of income in 2014, increasing to $695 or 2.5 percent of income in 2016, when the law is completely phased in.

There is also an employer insurance mandate. This requires employers with over 50 employees to provide “minimum essential health coverage” to all employees or pay a nondeductible penalty of $2,000 per employee per year, effective in 2014. This could be pricey for companies with hundreds of employees that provide no coverage or inadequate coverage.

Last month’s Supreme Court ruling in National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius upheld these insurance mandates, saying it was constitutional to require the purchase of health insurance under Congress’s power to tax.

There is another mandate, known as the HHS contraception mandate, which has been the subject of “Stand Up for Religious Freedom” rallies nationwide.

This is not a financial issue but a religious liberty one.

New plans and plans not grandfathered (including self-insured plans) cannot impose cost-sharing for “preventative services,” as defined by HHS. Required under these regulations is mandatory coverage for female surgical sterilization, all FDA-approved contraceptives, including abortion-inducing drugs like emergency contraception, and education and counseling to promote these to all women of reproductive capacity, including adolescents.

No conscientious exemption is provided, except a narrow one for a religious employer who has the inculcation of religious values as its purpose, and primarily employs and serves those who share its religious tenets. This includes churches, but not religious universities, hospitals, or social service agencies.

This narrow definition adopted into federal law was the brainchild of the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project, which attempted to force the inclusion of contraception coverage in Catholic Charities of Sacramento’s health plan back in 2004.

The administration offered an accommodation to religiously affiliated entities. It did not reverse this mandate or broaden the ACLU definition, but only provided a one year grace period to comply. Otherwise the employer insurance mandate penalty of $2,000 per employee per year would kick in. That penalty is capable of driving any institution out of business in a very short time.

It doesn’t take a crystal ball to predict that this issue will be heard by the Supreme Court, probably before the HHS mandate goes into effect in 2013. Twentythree lawsuits on behalf of over 50 plaintiffs are pending in federal courts in 14 states, to challenge the constitutionality of this mandate as a violation of religious freedom. In last month’s case upholding the health care act, Justice Ginsburg opined, “A mandate to purchase a particular product would be unconstitutional if, for example, the edict impermissibly … interfered with the free exercise of religion ….” Stay tuned.

EVANS is Respect Life coordinator for the Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns, Archdiocese of San Francisco.

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LETTERS

‘Drinks are on me,’ said Bishop Sheen It was good to read about the advancement of Archbishop Fulton Sheen’s cause for canonization (July 13). The news brought to mind an incident of more than 40 years ago when my uncle was pastor of a small church in Wells, N.Y., and Archbishop (then-Bishop) Sheen, who had been recently appointed to the Diocese of Rochester, was at the church to administer confirmation.

Following the rites, the prelate greeted parents and friends of the newly confirmed on the church steps. In an aside to my uncle, the archbishop said, “Who are those people looking at us out the window across the street?” My uncle Henry told him they were “Protestants for the most

part” who had never seen a bishop in full dress and the window was in the local tavern.

With that Archbishop Sheen took my uncle across the street and into the bar telling the bartender that “the bishop is in town. Set ‘em up for the house.

Drinks are on me.”

Archbishop Fulton Sheen could have been elected mayor that day in Wells. He was a lovely man with an innate sense of style.

Deke Welch San Rafael

Our young adults are starving: Feed them

discussing “marriage equality” the conversation would encompass much more. Holy Mother Media has effectively limited “choice” to one subject. Yes, there is a lot to be learned – and not just by the archbishop.

James O. Clifford, Sr. Redwood City

Although re-establishing the Office of Marriage and Family Life (July 13) is to be applauded – loudly – does its approach sow the seeds of its own re-demise? The article decries the “feeling of entitlement amongst our young . . . it’s all about ‘me.’” But month after month Catholic San Francisco highlights the success of Catholic high-school students in creating ongoing projects directed to those in need. This same commitment to service is an integral element of the education in all of our local Catholic colleges. Plus national studies by the Pew Forum and by Newsweek have reported for several years an increase in the proportion of young people interested in the spiritual. These are indicators not of self-centeredness but of outreach.

One approach, for example, to reinvigorating interest among our spiritual young people could be to incorporate the sacrament of marriage back into the regular weekend Eucharist, which would have the added benefit of offering an acceptable alternative to ever-more-unaffordable weddings. This option, among others, could be integrated with the already-successful RCIA program. Renewed attraction to the sacrament also would increase participation in the marriage preparation program, which has been a major benefit for helping strengthen especially the early years of married life.

Our young adults are starving: Feed them.

Michael C. Busk San Francisco

‘Marriage equality’ not the issue The subject of debate is not “marriage equality.” It is same-sex marriage. If we were

China’s church interference I don’t understand how China’s government can constantly complain about countries interfering in China’s internal affairs. Yet, it inconsistently thinks nothing of interfering in the internal affairs of the Catholic Church there.

The Catholic Church in China does not dictate who the leaders of China should be. Neither should the Chinese government dictate who the leaders of the Catholic Church in China should be.

John Lum San Francisco

Worthy of the cover?

I know that you’re trying out a new style but does a former papal altar boy’s set of Vatican stamps really rate three quarters of the front page (July 27)? The July 16-23 issue of America states that “Catholic papers ... serve as an essential catechetical tool and help connect Catholics with their fellow believers in the diocese and across the world.” Most of your paper does this. How about including the front page?

Maureen Sheehan San Mateo

Yet another ‘Jeopardy!’ Catholic howler As an addendum to the ‘Jeopardy!’ mistake regarding indulgences and reconciliation ferreted out with the keen ears and eyes of Brother Bernard (July 13), there was another mistake that same month of biblical proportions.

The Final Jeopardy question was: “What event occurred ‘in an upper room’ as described in Acts 1:13?” The contestant who answered “The Last Supper” was given credit and the one who wrote “Pentecost” was denied. At the end of the program, Alex Trebek admitted the correct answer was Pentecost which, fortunately, did not affect the outcome except that the winner was credited with the money he lost. The New York Times, which publishes

the Final Jeopardy question every day and gives the answer the next issue, continued the mistake.

Even if one doesn’t know chapter and verse, it is easy to remember that Acts follows the Gospels because it continues the story after the Resurrection. None of the Gospels mention Pentecost. And Acts could not have described the Last Supper.

Dennis Halac San Francisco

Confusing the Last Supper and Pentecost for an error of biblical proportions

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Show me the money, or show me the values?

vision Personality, besting Edward R. Murrow, Lucille Ball and Arthur Godfrey.

It’s hard to imagine someone like Archbishop Sheen even appearing on television today, let alone winning an Emmy. Some might say he couldn’t measure up to modern shows in entertainment value. I doubt this. I think it has more to do with the changed expectations of television audiences or producers. The archbishop’s show demanded more of the viewer than today’s programs, which viewers watch to be entertained or titillated (notice the passive voice).

The Sunday night lineup, where Archbishop Sheen once appeared, now runs such lazy fare as “Big Brother” and “Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition.”

Until recently, it included “Desperate Housewives.”

Compare this to a program Archbishop Sheen did in 1956 about gloom as a neurosis. He discussed the theme of despair in modern literature. He reminded viewers how French existentialist writer Jean-Paul Sartre’s “No Exit” ends with the observation that “hell is other people,” and observed that the intense egotism of such works leads to a curious kind of self-pity.

“Life is Worth Living” also came with a distinctive point of view. Archbishop Sheen argued for objective moral standards in society and maintained a certainty about religion. He condemned Josef Stalin and communism, famously presaging the Soviet leader’s death one week before it happened. He denounced racism and the excesses of capitalism.

In today’s television scene, the only permissible philosophical premise is that each person has his own truth. What’s right or good for me may not be right or good for you, and that’s OK. In a world governed by this assumption, the only necessary virtue is tolerance; and the only vice is hypocrisy.

A prophet like Archbishop Sheen would be out of place in such a world. Preachers like him appeal to people who think their lives have a meaning, that life’s questions have true and false answers. Someone who is actively searching for those answers, not passively waiting to be entertained, will find real value in a half-hour of conversation with a thoughtful guide.

And Archbishop Sheen earned his popularity, I think, by paying his viewers the compliment of supposing that that’s what they were looking for.

The lack of any negative comments about overpaid athletes following the signing of the largest contract in the history of the National Football League says something about how accustomed we have become to large sums of money.

New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees signed a five-year, $100 million contract that will pay him the highest average annual salary in NFL history – $20 million. Not that there is anything wrong with that.

STEPHEN KENT Brees is extremely good at what he does and would be foolish not to negotiate the best deal he could. But money has become the way to keep score.

With the amounts raised for the campaigns of President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney running into the hundreds of millions of dollars each, observers predict the totals by November could well surpass the $1 billion mark.

But what is it spent on?

The vast amounts raised for political campaigns could be justified if used for something worthwhile instead of being spent on millions for TV commercials. It could produce seminars and real debates where candidates are forced to deal with substantial issues.

The House Agricultural Committee proposed cutting $16 billion from the program once known as food stamps. Several Catholic agencies, in a letter to the committee, said the cuts “will hurt hungry children, poor families, vulnerable seniors and struggling workers.” The Senate’s version of the bill, passed in late June, cut $4 billion from the program. The committee said this could be achieved by eliminating waste, fraud and abuse with the nonchalance of the late Sen. Everett Dirksen’s oft-quoted line: “A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon, you’re talking real money.”

Through financial deals too complex to understand, we’ve become accustomed to large figures. Losses from a trade cost J.P. Morgan Chase Bank $5.8 billion so far this year. That loss could grow to as much as $1.7 billion more by the end of the year.

A cavalier attitude toward vast sums masks social priorities. Money as the score keeper skews priorities and values.

Should an athlete, actor or musician be able to command a salary of millions at a time when millions are jobless?

One professional athlete who gets it is John Jaso, a catcher for the Seattle Mariners who understands why people think baseball players are out of touch.

“Last year I realized how special the big leagues are,” he said in an interview. “We all sign out of high school or college, we don’t know what a 9-to-5 job is, we don’t know what it’s like not to have health insurance,” said the 28-year-old.

“I like to look around online, and I saw that a dentist will go to school for 8 years and make $130,000 a year. I’m making the big league minimum and make four times that much,” Jaso said.

Good for him.

As the Catechism of the Catholic Church says, “The disordered desire for money cannot but produce perverse effects. It is one of the causes of the many conflicts which disturb the social order.”

Show me the money? No, show me the values.

GARVEY is president of The Catholic University of America in Washington.

KENT, now retired, was editor of archdiocesan newspapers in Omaha and Seattle. considersk@gmail.com

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1,000 pilgrim children receive first Communion A girl receives Communion from a Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest during the annual gathering and pilgrimage to the miraculous icon of “Halytska” (the Mother of God) in the village of Krylos, Ukraine, July 29. Nearly a thousand children from all regions of Ukraine arrived in Krylos to receive first Communion this year, ages ranging from 6 to 8.

Archbishop Sheen would be out of place in today’s TV world In June, the Congregation for the Causes of Saints recognized the life of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen as one of heroic virtue and granted him the title “venerable.” It is a step toward beatification. He now needs a miracle attributed to his intercession to proceed.

Archbishop Sheen graduated from The Catholic University of America in 1920. He received his doctorate in philosophy from the JOHN GARVEY Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, in 1923, and won the Cardinal Mercier Prize for International Philosophy, given once each decade. He then taught at The Catholic University of America from 1926 to 1950.

He was a force of nature. By 1940, in addition to his classes, he was meeting 150 speaking engagements per year.

He also did the “Catholic Hour” radio show to which he first owed his celebrity. It was heard by millions from 1930 to 1950. Evangelist Billy Graham called him “one of the greatest preachers of this century.” Catholic Church historian Msgr. John Tracy Ellis said Archbishop Sheen was the 20th-century’s most famous Catholic preacher.

In 1951, Archbishop Sheen began his television career. His half-hour ABC show, “Life Is Worth Living,” was a media sensation. The archbishop would talk straight through the show with no notes, no props – except his blackboard.

My earliest memory of television is sitting at my great-grandparents’ home on Sunday evening, watching that program in black and white with my great-uncles and -aunts. Archbishop Sheen won an Emmy for Most Outstanding Tele-

The TV prophet observed that nihilistic egotism leads to a curious kind of self-pity.

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SUNDAY READINGS

Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time ‘I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever.’

JOHN 6:41-51 1 KINGS 19:4-8 Elijah went a day’s journey into the desert, until he came to a broom tree and sat beneath it. He prayed for death saying: “This is enough, O Lord!

Take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”

He lay down and fell asleep under the broom tree, but then an angel touched him and ordered him to get up and eat. Elijah looked and there at his head was a hearth cake and a jug of water. After he ate and drank, he lay down again, but the angel of the Lord came back a second time, touched him, and ordered, “Get up and eat, else the journey will be too long for you!” He got up, ate, and drank; then strengthened by that food, he walked 40 days and 40 nights to the mountain of God, Horeb.

PSALM 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9 Taste and see the goodness of the Lord.

I will bless the Lord at all times; his praise shall be ever in my mouth. Let my soul glory in the Lord; the lowly will hear me and be glad.

Taste and see the goodness of the Lord.

Glorify the Lord with me, Let us together extol his name. I sought the Lord, and he answered me

And delivered me from all my fears.

Taste and see the goodness of the Lord.

Look to him that you may be radiant with joy.

And your faces may not blush with shame. When the afflicted man called out, the Lord heard, And from all his distress he saved him.

Taste and see the goodness of the Lord.

The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear him and delivers them. Taste and see how good the Lord is; blessed the man who takes refuge in him.

Taste and see the goodness of the Lord.

EPHESIANS 4:30-5:2 Brothers and sisters: Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with which you were sealed for the day of redemption. All bitterness, fury, anger, shouting, and reviling must be removed from you, along with all malice. And be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving one another as God has forgiven you in Christ. So be imitators of God, as beloved children, and live in love, as Christ loved us and handed himself over for us as a sacrificial offering to God for a fragrant aroma.

JOHN 6:41-51 The Jews murmured about Jesus because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven,” and they said, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph? Do we not know his father and mother?

Then how can he say, ‘I have come down from heaven?’” Jesus answered and said to them, “Stop murmuring among yourselves. No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draw him, and I will raise him on the last day. It is written in the prophets: They shall all be taught

by God. Everyone who listens to my Father and learns from him comes to me. Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God; he has seen the Father.

“Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life. I am the bread of life. Your ancestors ate the manna in the desert, but they died; this is the bread that comes down from heaven so that one may eat it and not die. I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world.”

Encountering the bread of life on the highways of life

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hen lovers get together for a meal, they care about the food they eat. They might be meticulous about the right food and restaurant. When families gather for dinner, we prepare food both tasty and nourishing. The school lunch programs are careful now about the food they serve.

At the Thanksgiving dinner, we like no surprises: It is food defined by culture and tradition.

The television food channels tell us about what food to choose and how to cook. Even I who grew up with no cooking skills whatsoever am able to pick up some simple culinary skills from my sisters and sisters-in-law. In the midst of all kinds of foods available, it is all the more important to FATHER CHARLES pay attention to what we eat.

PUTHOTA However, there is so much more to food.

Years ago, I was with friends on the elevator of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Riding on the same elevator were a young man and a woman,

SCRIPTURE REFLECTION

both splendidly dressed and stunningly handsome.

When the elevator arrived at the Jules Verne restaurant on the second floor, as a magnificent Parisian night view emerged over the Seine, this couple began to argue, throwing harsh words at each other. They seemed to have everything: good looks, money, fashionable clothes – and a romantic place for dinner. But they didn’t have the more that was necessary. To my sadness, they split up at that very moment, and each went their individual way. They were like the rich young man in the Gospel story who went away sad.

The spirit we bring into the eating is essential. A meal with others is always a sacred activity because while eating we forge relationships sealed in a spirit of friendship and family. Jesus ate with the marginalized in society, demonstrating that the kingdom banquet will belong to those who come to it in the spirit of the beatitudes.

Jesus invites us to food in the famous discourse from the sixth chapter of John’s Gospel. Our tendency immediately is to think of the eucharistic bread. It is true that Eucharist is the fundamental sacrament where we feed on Jesus and grow to be his disciples and apostles. That is why going to Mass is vital for Catholics. I wonder why more people, especially the young, don’t flock to Mass on weekends, where we are fed with the Eucharist in which Jesus is “truly, really,

and substantially” present.

However, going to the Eucharist always presupposes the conviction that Jesus is the bread of our life, an experience mediated by the word of God, in which Jesus who is the word himself will become again and again the word made flesh for us, addressing our current situations and struggles.

Hence the essential relationship established by Vatican II between the sacrament of the word and the sacrament of the Eucharist. Jesus is the bread of life in and through the Eucharist. Before we are comforted by the ritual of the Eucharist, our hearts and minds are to be attuned to the voice of Christ. In the Emmaus event in Luke 24 Jesus speaks the “words of eternal life” before he will give his life-giving bread to them.

At the dismissal of the Mass, thanks to the word and bread, enlightened and united, we shall learn to encounter the bread of life on the highways of life. Dispirited though we may be, like Elijah in the first reading, Jesus will feed and sustain us for the journeys to our Mount Horebs, the sacred spaces and times in the midst of life, for union with the body of Christ, the bread of life – and the body of Christ, the family of God. FATHER CHARLES PUTHOTA, Ph.D., is pastor of St. Veronica Parish, South San Francisco.

Liturgical calendar, daily Mass readings MONDAY, AUGUST 13: Monday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of Sts. Pontian, pope and martyr and Hippolytus, priest and martyr. Ez 1:2-5, 24-28c. Ps 148:1-2, 11-12, 13, 14.

Mt 17:22-27.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 14: Memorial of St. Maximilian Mary Kolbe, priest and martyr. Ez 2:8-3:4. Ps 119:14, 24, 72, 103, 111, 131. Mt 18:1-5, 10, 12-14.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15: Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. 1 Sm 15:3-4, 15-16; 16:1-2. Ps 132:6-7, 9-10, 13-14. 1 Cor 15:54b57. Lk 11:27-28.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 16: Thursday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Stephen of Hungary. Ez 12:1-12. Ps 78:56-57, 58-59, 61-62. Mt 18:21-19:1.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 17: Friday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Ez 16:1-15, 60, 63 or Ez 16:59-63.

Is 12:2-3, 4bcd, 5-6. Mt 19:3-12.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 18: Saturday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time. Ez 18:1-10, 13b, 30-32. Ps 51:12-13, 14-15, 18-19. Mt 19:13-15.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 19: Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Prv 9:1-6. Ps 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7. Eph 5:15-20.

Eph 5:15-20. Jn 6:51-58.

MONDAY, AUGUST 20: Memorial of St. Bernard, abbot and doctor of the church. Ez 24:15-23. Dt 32:1819, 20, 21. Mt 19:16-22.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 21: Memorial of St. Pius X, pope. Ez 28:1-10. Dt 32:26-27ab, 27cd-28, 30, 35cd36ab. Mt 19:23-30.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22: Memorial of the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary – considered a prolongation of the Assumption feast. Ez 34:1-11. Ps 23:1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6. Mt 20:1-16.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 23: Thursday of the Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of St. Rose of Lima, virgin. Ez 36:23-28. Ps 51:12-13, 14-15, 1819. Mt 22:1-14.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 24: Feast of St. Bartholomew, apostle. Rv 21:9b-14. Ps 145:10-11, 12-13, 17-18. Jn 1:45-51.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 25: Saturday of the Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorials of St. Louis of France, king and St. Joseph Calasanz, priest.

Ez 43:1-7ab. Ps 85:9ab and 10, 11-12, 13-14. Mt 23:1-12.

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Feast of the Assumption celebrated Aug. 15

Creating prayerful ‘hot spots’ amid life’s daily crush

The reception of Mary into heaven is depicted in the center section of a rose window at Sts. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Providence, R.I. The feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Aug. 15, a holy day of obligation, celebrates the belief that Mary was taken body and soul into heaven at the end of her life. The feast traces its origin to the earliest ages of the church, writes Marianist Brother John M. Samaha: “Tied to this feast are themes of Mary as mother of the church and model for the church. In her the church witnesses the fullness of the effects of the saving death and resurrection of Christ for humanity.”

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Heartbreak for Jesus: A teen’s tearful St. Augustine moment Michael’s heel was bouncing as if he was about to break into a sprint, but he didn’t know which way to run.

“My friend texted me during your talk saying he had a new bowl he wanted to smoke with me as soon as I got home.”

He went on.

“We like to party. We get drunk and use girls.

Our heroes are older rockers like Nikki Sixx (from heavy metal band Motley Crue). I know I should change but I can’t leave these guys. They’re like brothers to me.”

As I watched the epic CHRISTOPHER wrestling match happening between the mind STEFANICK and heart in front of me the story of the rich young man from Mark 10 came to mind. Jesus had invited a young man to leave everything and follow him, but the young man loved his wealth.

For him it came down to Jesus or money, and he picked money.

I asked if he’d heard the story before. He had.

In fact, he said, he’d been thinking about it all day. “That’s God, you know?”

“Yeah,” he said.

I shared with Michael how Jesus looked at the rich young man with love (Mark 10:21). “He’s looking at you with that same love right now, inviting you to follow him.”

I continued the uncomfortable challenge.

“That rich young man was attached to a lot of things. He chose those things over Jesus.

Scripture says, ‘he walked away, sad.’ You’re being asked to make the choice right now between your friends and Jesus. I know it’s not easy. But don’t walk away sad.”

He broke down and started to cry. He sat down and continued to cry for the next 10 minutes.

What an amazing thing to get a front row seat as Jesus stands before a teenager’s heart with love saying, “Follow me.” Right in front of me, a heart was grappling with the invitation of invitations, as countless others have since 33 A.D. Sixteen-hundred years earlier a young man faced a similar struggle. He saw the truth but he liked his sin … a lot. At one low but very honest point in his journey, he prayed, “Lord, help me be pure, but not yet.” Later he prayed, “Let it be now!” And eventually the famous prayer, “You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you.”

Though he was a renowned philosopher, his turning point wasn’t some new realization. It was a straightforward challenge. He heard the voice of a child singing, “Take and read.”

He opened the Bible to Romans 13:14, “Put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the desires of the flesh.” God was telling him to stop his endless philosophizing and make a choice for God over his sins.

He made the right choice and became St. Augustine, one of the most influential saints in church history.

Thanks to relativism, many young people don’t ever engage in the internal struggle of St. Augustine or Michael (saint in the making).

According to one study, 93 percent of teens do not even believe in absolute truth. Thus, their approach toward faith doesn’t require them to conform to some spiritual or ethical reality outside of themselves.

There’s a growing notion that we can have both: Jesus and my favorite sin. I saw it to an extreme degree when I did youth ministry in the East L.A.-area, where gangsters sat in my confirmation class and where plastic rosaries dangled from the rearview mirrors of almost every car a drive-by shooting happened from. A less extreme, but no less tangible example can be seen when we consider that there is almost no difference in premarital sexual activity rates among Christian young adults who know what their faith teaches on the subject, and non-Christians.

Like the idols of old (gods of fertility, agriculture, war and wealth) which served our wants and needs, the Jesus of a relativist generation is simply here to make us feel good.

Most of the religiously engaged teens who were polled in the National Study of Youth and Religion cited “it makes me feel good” as the reason for their devotion. Of course, faith can make us feel great. But at times, as is the case with marriage, which also requires that we conform our lives to fit another, the journey of faith can be a painful experience!

Love often is.

I’m so proud of Michael for engaging the battle that happens when one recognizes that God transcends our little world and invites us into his – for hearing the invitation of love. He was all smiles when I saw him with his group the next day. I think he made the right decision.

I’m praying that he keeps it.

STEFANICK is director of youth outreach for YDisciple.

He can be reached at RealLifeCatholic.com. ©DENVER CATHOLIC REGISTER

ow’s your Wi-Fi? You know, your wireless fidelity.

What I mean, of course, is how is your fidelity and prayer during the week, while you are outside of and not immediately wired to the Mass?

Recently I was in Safeway to pick up two gallons of milk and a half-gallon of half-and-half. It was late morning and people were impatient. So I remembered to pray – for them and for myself – for greater grace, patience and love.

In my head I wondered if CYRUS my prayers would “cover JOHNSON the whole store” and everyone in it and figured that sure they would – the Holy Spirit would see to it if I asked.

So I asked.

And do you know something? I may be completely wrong, but I could apprehend a visible thawing of temperaments, an instantaneous slowing down, a growing ambient consideration where before there had been a general aggregate agita.

Maybe I was wrong? Maybe it was just me? Hey, if it was just me then isn’t that good in and of itself ?

Then I passed a Starbucks and saw the sign, “Free Wi-Fi.” This of course is the popular technology which allows our computers to broadcast or access a completely invisible Internet signal so we and others can “log on.”

So how’s your own Wi-Fi connection?

No, not the technology, but your fidelity itself, your prayer, in the wireless-nonliturgical-world. Did you know that you are constantly broadcasting your signal, picking up on other broadcast signals, or you may be completely turned off ? It is time to power up.

What a divine gift it is that we can pray, right from where we are in the store, in the car, on the job, in the home, on the street, while reading blogs, preparing dinner, walking into the office, sitting on the beach, while enduring compliments, or anger, or pleasure, or pain, misunderstanding, and when failing to understand.

Through God’s infinite mercy and by his graces, and the mostly invisible operation of the Holy Spirit, and through the little pushes of the angels and the dear communion of saints, God grants that we can pray our way into a better state of life, not visibly and concretely, not for money and cars for instance, but spiritually. That is vastly more special. It is not the work of our own, but the grace of God which accomplishes it.

Not only this but Christ’s church teaches us a simple reality we are all tempted to forget because it is jettisoned in the world: Our prayers have efficacy not just in our own lives but actually and concretely in the lives of others, those we know and those we do not know. We can be players, through being prayers.

Time and again the world changes when we pray. This is true whether we see it or not.

Lives are changed, beginning with our own, due to permanent graces which we may not see now.

So why not consider it? I mean being your own Wi-Fi “hot spot,” as they say. Begin to pray more, in the street and store, the home and more. It is easy (easier) to remember while assisting in the Mass, harder still outside. But why not go “wireless” and send or pick up that signal by God’s grace?

How’s your Wi-Fi?

Time and again the world changes when we pray.

Johnson is a husband, father and lawyer who teaches preConfirmation religious education at St. Margaret Mary Parish, Oakland.

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Lesson of the lost briefcase: To err is human

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f only! How often we feel those bitter words of regret: If only! If only I had noticed earlier! If only I had been more attentive! If only I could see that person again, even for five minutes! If only I hadn’t been there just then! If only the storm hadn’t happened just as I was on the highway! If FATHER RON only I hadn’t ROLHEISER had that extra drink! If only I had left the party 10 minutes earlier! If only!

We all live with certain regrets and the bitter knowledge that if only we had been more attentive or patient or courageous or loving at a given moment our lives would now be very different. If only we could have certain moments of our lives back, to do over differently.

I had such one such moment recently. It wasn’t one that in the grand scheme of things was very huge, but it did in its own small way contain all the dynamics of the bitter regret that we feel when we say: If only!

What happened? I had my briefcase stolen from me as I was buying a subway ticket in the London underground. I’m an experienced traveler and tend to be paranoid in terms of keeping vigilance on my luggage but, as anyone who has ever lost a purse or

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I had just got off a train after speaking at a conference and, shepherding three pieces of luggage, made my way down an escalator to the underground.

I was trying to buy a ticket and the selfservice machine was not being particularly cooperative. That little distraction was all it took: I briefly forgot about my luggage. When I looked down to pick it up, my briefcase was gone.

What might we learn from moments like these?

First of all, we need to learn to keep things in perspective. Sometimes a moment of carelessness has huge, irrevocable consequences. But for me it meant only the loss of some personal

effects, some money, and the loss of the better part of two days recouping my passport and green card.

Second, incidents like this are meant to teach patience. I was in a hurry. I wanted to buy my ticket at the customer counter, but there was a line and I was too impatient to wait.

Finally, incidents like this are meant to teach us to recognize and forgive contingency. Philosophically, contingency means that, unlike God, we live with limit and imperfection. The philosopher, Leibniz, famously stated that we don’t live in the best of all possible universes.

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In “Abba, Give Me a Word,” Rev. Owens, a Methodist pastor, shares his own experience of meeting with a spiritual director, so as to encourage others who feel drawn to that path. The book provides background material on the practice, as well as making distinctions among types of direction, ranging from the original “word” given to novices

in the wisdom tradition of the Desert Fathers to the process of journeying together as spiritual friends. Common to all forms is the belief that the Holy Spirit is truly the “director” when both parties earnestly listen together for inspiration.

The author shows that the most difficult task is to learn to let go, to allow Jesuit Father An- another into one’s thony de Mello life and to receive the benefits of the other’s experience. He quotes Margaret Guenther, who writes that the spiritual director offers the other “a place to do one’s laundry” in safety.

It is an opportunity to see through illusion and to become one’s true self in relating to God and to others.

Although the underlying basis of Paprocki’s book, “Seven Keys to Spiritual Wellness,” is the traditional list of seven capital sins, the tone and approach are positive. The author states that, unfortunately, Christianity today focuses more on a code of ethics than on a spiritual path.

He therefore concentrates on the virtues that “cure” the sins of pride,

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“Rediscovering Life” is the text of a retreat that Father de Mello, who died in 1987, gave at Fordham University in 1984. He suggests that our Western culture has programmed us to strive for success and to become dependent on approval to the point that we unconsciously let others control us. It is as though approval is a drug that we were given early in life that makes us crave achievement, attainment, triumph, prestige and possessions. Others can control us by withdrawing the drug, in which case we become upset and unhappy.

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Bruce Lincoln starts the wideranging collection of essays in “Gods and Demons, Priests and Scholars” by throwing down a gauntlet: “Many who would not think of insulating their own or their parents’ religion against critical inquiry still afford such protection to other people’s faith, via a stance of cultural relativism. One can appreciate their good intentions while recognizing a certain displaced defensiveness, as well as the guilty conscience of Western imperialism.”

What follows is a consistently critical and thoughtful assessment of the history of religions. Lincoln, a University of Chicago professor of the history of religions, Middle Eastern studies and medieval studies, scrutinizes aspects of ancient

religions – the establishment of pantheons, the interpretation of demons, chaos and the dead – and relates them to broader, comparative themes that ultimately inform us about our humanity.

In a fascinating chapter on demonology, Lincoln asserts that this subject “challenges our most fundamental ideas about the nature of being itself, not to mention the smug condescension we commonly harbor toward those who believe in demons.” Demonology, he demonstrates through a case study of pre-Islamic Iran, “is an unflinching attempt to name, comprehend and defend against all that threatens, frightens and harms us.”

Thus, in ancient Iran, demons were conceptualized in four general categories: appetite, ignorance and falsehood, torpor and natural disasters. “These are, in effect, the black holes of a premodern cosmology; terrifying forces of a void that seeks – in myriad forms and by myriad means – to invade good creatures and substances, hollowing them out, infecting them with rot and turning them to its own infinitely corrupt

and corrupting purposes,” Lincoln writes.

One is struck by the originality of this ancient demonological typology.

In their own distinctive way, these people were responding to life’s harsh, inexplicable realities, just as more modern humans have: Witness the historian Perry Miller’s famous account of the American Puritans’ struggle to make sense of “the tiger, the raging storm, the lightning, the cancer.”

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Perform the full-range of secretarial/receptionist responsibilities required for the parish office, including, but not limited to the following: • Develop and maintain office record-keeping system • Scheduling of parish facilities • Oversee office supplies/inventory and equipment • Coordinate volunteers • Produce weekly bulletin, and misc. flyers • Produce worship aides • Maintain parish census • Organize bulk mailings • Qualified candidate answers directly to the pastor and Operations Manager

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Experience: • High school diploma (or equivalent) required.

Bachelors degree preferred. • Previous office experience required.

This position is schedule to begin in-mid August. Salary is dependent on experience.

Process: • Catholic applicants receive priority, but all applicants seriously considered. • Submit introductory letter with resume and references to: Rev. Tony P. LaTorre, Pastor Saint Philip the Apostle Church 725 Diamond Street, San Francisco CA 94114 Or fathertony@saintphilipparish.org

22 CALENDAR FRIDAY, AUG. 10 STATUE BLESSED: Dedication and blessing of statue of St. Francis of Assisi at 12:15 p.m. Mass. It will be the principal image of the shrine’s patron saint and is a gift from Joanne Fowler in memory of her husband, Joseph. Shrine and Porziuncola are at Vallejo and Columbus, San Francisco. Visit www.shrinesf.org and www.knightsofstfrancis.com.

SATURDAY, AUG. 11 ST. CLARE: Commemoration of the 800th anniversary of the consecration of St. Clare of Assisi. Mass celebrated in the shrine church at 12:15 p.m. The White Horse Chorale presents choral and dance recital in honor of St. Clare at 4 p.m. Shrine and Porziuncola are at Vallejo Street and Columbus Avenue, San Francisco. Visit www.shrinesf.org and www.knightsofstfrancis.com.

REUNION: Immaculate Heart of Mary School, Belmont, class of 1962, 11 a.m.–5 p.m. on campus with school tours available. Contact Lorraine Merrick Turner, lm.turner@sbcglobal.net.

SUNDAY, AUG. 12 WEEKLY CATHOLIC TV MASS: A TV Mass is broadcast Sundays at 6 a.m. on the Bay Area’s KTSF Channel 26 and KOFY Channel 20, and in the Sacramento area at 5:30 a.m. on KXTL Channel 40.

It is produced for viewing by the homebound and others unable to go to Mass

by God Squad Productions with Msgr.

Harry Schlitt, celebrant. Contact Catholic TV Mass, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco 94109 or Jan Schachern, (415) 614-5643 or janschachern@gmail.com.

WEDNESDAY, AUG. 15 PASTA: A tradition in historic Bernal Heights at Immaculate Conception Church, 3255 Folsom St., just up the hill from Cesar Chavez Street, noon.

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want, family style, $9. Beverages are available for purchase.

GRIEF SUPPORT: A free grief support session at St. Mary’s Cathedral on the third Wednesday of the month, 9:30-11 a.m., Msgr. Bowe Room, parking lot level. Call Sister Esther, (415) 5672020, ext. 218.

ROSARY: Pro-life rosary, 9 a.m. at Planned Parenthood, 35 Baywood Ave., San Mateo each first Saturday.

Event is sponsored by San Mateo ProLife. Call Jessica at (650) 572-1468.

THURSDAY, SEPT. 13 SATURDAY, AUG. 18 THE MISSIONARY STORY: Learn more about the Columban Fathers, their mission in China and the future of Columban missions around the world. General Superior Father Tommy Murphy, visiting from Columban headquarters in Hong Kong, will share his Father Tommy perspective Aug. 18 at Murphy 2 p.m. at St. Anne of the Sunset Church, 850 Judah St., San Francisco, with Mass at 3:30. He speaks at 2 p.m. and presides at Mass at 3:30 Aug. 19 at St. Bartholomew Parish auditorium, 600 Columbia Drive, San Mateo.

The Columban Fathers were founded in 1918. Visit www.columban.org.

PRO-LIFE MEETING: San Mateo Pro-Life meets at St. Gregory Parish Worner Center, 135 28th Ave., San Mateo, 7:30 p.m. Group is open to new membership. Meetings held second Thursday except December.

Email smprolife@yahoo.com, call Jessica, (650) 572-1468.

FRIDAY, SEPT. 14 WEEKEND ENGAGED ENCOUNTER: For information and registration visit www.sfcee.org. Scholarships are available. Engaged Encounter is non-profit, volunteer ministry dedicated to marriage preparation in the Catholic faith.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 15 WEDNESDAY, AUG. 22 GOLF: Day on the links benefiting San Francisco’s St. Anthony-Immaculate Conception School at TPC Harding Park.

Cost: $195 for golf and dinner/$150 golf only/$50 dinner only. Mitch Juricich of KNBR’s “Hooked on Golf” is emcee.

Registration10:30 a.m., tee-time 12:30 p.m. Raffle and silent auction included in the fun. Contact Marie Driscoll, (415) 642-6130 or marjdris@yahoo.com.

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

FOUR PILLARS GALA: Evening benefits St. Patrick’s Seminary & University, Menlo Park. This year’s honorees are Cardinal William J. Levada, Archbishop George Niederauer and Archbishop John R. Quinn. Gala begins with vespers at 5 p.m. in seminary chapel with cocktails and tours of the facility at 5:30 and dinner at 6:30. For ticket information and reservations, visit www. stpatricksseminary.org or call Katie Bailey, (650) 319-7162.

2-DAY ANTIQUE SALE: Antique and Collectibles Show at St. Peter Church, Sept. 15, 16, 700 Oddstad Blvd., Pacifica, Saturday 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Sunday 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Free admission.

Visit www.stpeterpacifica.org/antiqueshow. Jewelry, art, pottery, books, watches, hats, tools, toys, vintage clothing and such are for sale. Details regarding vendor participation are

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

SATURDAY, SEPT. 22 REUNION: San Francisco’s Sts. Peter and Paul School class of 1962, Italian Athletic Club. Contact Edie Garaventa Pignati, epignati@hotmail.com; Franca Ghiglieri Marchetti, bridiana@aol.com; Maria Zarich Antonini, jmantoni@sanbrunocable.com.

REUNION: Immaculate Heart of Mary School Belmont, class of 1972. Contact Terri Cook at terrimcook@comcast.net.

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

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

MONDAY, SEPT. 24 GOLF: Golf outing benefiting Hanna Boys Center, Sonoma, at Sonoma Golf Club. Cost of $275 per person includes 18 holes of golf, cart, participant gifts, continental breakfast, lunch, cocktail hour and dinner. Tournament begins at 10 a.m. Register, donate or volunteer at www.hannacenter.org.

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REUNION: St. Brigid High School reunion at Pier 2 at the Ferry Building, San Francisco. Contact Pat Sabatini at (650) 685-5666 or email Pat.Sabatini@ sbcglobal.net.

THURSDAY, OCT. 4 WELCOMING PRAYERS: Archbishopdesignate Salvatore Cordileone will be installed at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street and Geary Boulevard, San Francisco. All members of the archdiocesan of family are invited. Save the date.

FRIDAY, OCT. 12 REUNION: St. Cecilia School, class of 1952, Caesar’s Restaurant, San Francisco, 5 p.m. with dinner at 6. Contact Marilyn Donnelly at (650) 365-5192 or Brian Wilson at (408) 656-8303.

SATURDAY, OCT. 13 REUNION: Immaculate Conception

Academy, San Francisco, class of 1967, 11:30 a.m.-4 p.m. at Basque Cultural Center, South San Francisco. Email Trudy Moesch May may@ usfca.edu or call (415) 647-7286.

ROSARY RALLY: San Francisco’s Civic Center is again the site for a rosary rally.

Last year’s event drew more than 1,000 faithful. For information or to get in on the planning email David Marten cadco@ pacbell.net.

SUNDAY, OCT. 14 REUNION: Presentation High School, San Francisco, class of 1982, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., Elks Lodge, 920 Stonegate Drive, South San Francisco. Tickets at $40 per person include delicious brunch. Email Kathy Cooney Eagles kathycooney@ hotmail.com or call (650) 892-7310.

FRIDAY, OCT. 19 WEEKEND ENGAGED ENCOUNTER: For information and registration visit www.sfcee.org. Scholarships are available. Engaged Encounter is non-profit, volunteer ministry dedi-

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SATURDAY, OCT. 20 REUNION: St. Paul High School class of 1972 at the Irish Cultural Center in San Francisco. Email sphs1972reunion@gmail.com.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26 HONOR RETIRED PRIESTS: St. John Vianney Luncheon for retired priests at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco. Proceeds benefit Priests Retirement Fund. Opportunities to contribute toward the cost of the event Msgr. Fred as well as to purchase Bitanga tickets to attend the event are available. Contact Office of Development (415) 614-5580 or email development@sfarchdiocese.org. Msgr.

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

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30 Catholic couples profess vows Thirty couples professed their vows in a Catholic wedding ceremony July 14 at St. Thomas More Church, San Francisco – as part of the parish’s “Operation I Do” program to promote the sacrament of marriage. This is the second year for the program at St. Thomas More. Similar ceremonies have been held at St. Mary’s Cathedral and St. Bruno Church.

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PUTTING YOUR HOUSE IN ORDER An effective estate plan can offer the peace of mind of knowing you have provided for the smooth distribution of your assets after your death. It also will provide for advance medical and financial decisions if you should become incapacitated.

If you choose not to do any estate planning, your assets will be distributed according to the intestate laws of your state, generally to your closest blood relatives, some of whom you may not desire to receive your estate. Gifts to charities, or to close friends, or even to grandchildren, if their parent (your child) is still alive, will not be included. This may not comply with your wishes.

Further, if the assets titled in your name are valued in excess of the statutory limit (for example $150,000), then your heirs will be required to petition the court to probate your estate. This will involve costs and delays that can be avoided by effective estate planning.

The elements of a good estate plan include the following essential documents: REVOCABLE LIVING TRUST: For many people, the revocable living trust will be the main estate planning document. The revocable living trust is a written document wherein you name a trustee to hold title to most of your assets, including real property, bank accounts, and brokerage accounts.

Upon your death, your named successor trustee(s) can access your trust assets, without the need to open a probate estate with the court.

The successor trustee will inventory all trust assets, pay any outstanding bills and the expenses of trust administration, and then distribute the remaining assets to the beneficiaries you name in the trust.

Generally you will serve as your own trustee while you are able to do so. If you resign as trustee, or become incapacitated, your successor trustee can immediately step in to administer the trust estate. This can help avoid the need for a conservatorship, a costly proceeding wherein the court appoints a conservator to administer your estate while you are still alive.

Advantages of a living trust: In addition to avoiding the expense and delay of court-supervised probate, a living trust can be crafted to avoid or reduce federal estate tax liability for married couples. It allows you to control your assets during your lifetime while you have capacity. You have the flexibility to amend the trust at any time during your lifetime. You can select a successor trustee whom you trust to carry out your trust administration. You can provide for beneficiaries who are minors or have special needs.

Disadvantages of a living trust: The main disadvantages of a revocable living trust are that up-front costs are usually higher than creating a simple will, and the process of transferring title of your assets to the trust can be a bit tedious. However, the time and costs involved will be almost certainly be less than the time and cost of a probate administration after your death.

POUROVER WILL: A pourover will is recommended to cover any assets which you have not included in the trust, either intentionally or unintentionally. You may include special burial instructions in the will, and also provide for guardianship of minor children.

DURABLE POWER OF ATTORNEY FOR FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT: You may appoint another person as your agent (attorney-in-fact) to act on your behalf in the event that you become incapacitated. Your agent will have access to your accounts to pay your bills, complete transactions, and even transfer assets to your trust. As with the living trust, the durable power of attorney can help avoid the expense of a court-supervised conservatorship.

ADVANCE HEALTH CARE DIRECTIVE: This document provides you with the opportunity to put in writing your health care instructions, and also to name an agent who can make medical decisions for you if you should become incapacitated.

Depending upon your circumstances, other estate planning devices include the following: LONG-TERM CARE INSURANCE: Long-term care insurance can help with the cost of in-home or residential care.

LIFE INSURANCE TRUST: If you anticipate that federal estate tax may be due after your death, a life insurance trust can ensure that funds are available to pay the tax liability without including the life insurance proceeds in your taxable estate.

CHARITABLE GIFTS: In addition to carrying out your charitable intentions, charitable giving can have income tax and estate tax advantages.

Please consult your legal, tax and financial advisers to ensure that you prepare the estate plan that will best carry out your wishes.

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