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lain, a home health aide and specially trained volunteers help dying children and their families make the most of their last days, whether at home or in a hospital or nursing home setting. Anything from household chores to looking after siblings can be part of the hospice program, and the team also offers family counseling and grief and bereavement services when needed. These kinds of programs are duplicated throughout the country, but too few people know about them when the time comes for them to use them. “Most palliative care patients come in late,” said Dr. Scott Miller, team physician at the Center for Compassionate Care in Pittsburgh. On average, his patients come in three weeks before their deaths, when they could

San Mateo County voters on Nov. 6 will consider a half-cent sales tax increase that, if it is approved, may be a potential lifeline for Seton Medical Center, an iconic Catholic institution in the region with a mission to provide care for poor and underserved people. The alternative, a no vote, could ultimately lead to closure. Seton, in Daly City, as well as 425 other acute-care hospitals in California, struggles with the most expensive unfunded mandate in California history – legislation that requires hospitals to meet high seismic standards by certain deadlines or close. Seton will need to construct a new facility by 2020 and is dependent upon San Mateo County voters and consumers to help provide assistance on election day. Nothing about the proposal, Measure A, is cast in stone and the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors will make choices if the tax is approved, but supervisors placed the matter on the ballot with the expectation that $60 million would be raised annually over 10 years. The money would very likely support a broad range of county services, including child abuse prevention, 911 dispatch, fire prevention, after-school library reading/homework programs and a portion would be earmarked for Seton, the provider of care, the supervisors noted, for low-income children, seniors and the disabled, to meet state seismic safety requirements. “The only reason that we are in the scope of services that we are in is because of our mission, and that is set out by our sponsors, the Daughters of Charity, to attend to the needs of the sick, the poor and the elderly,” said James P. Schuessler, Seton’s interim CEO. He added, “How long we can sustain that in the current economy without the support of the community we

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Family members watch over Leo King at his bedside at the Center for Compassionate Care in Pittsburgh Sept. 7. King, an 84-year-old urologist and veteran of World War II, died the following day with family at his side. At left is his sister Patricia King.

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WASHINGTON – The National Palliative Care Research Center estimates that 90 million Americans are living with serious or life-threatening illnesses and the number is expected to double over the next 25 years. People nearing the end of life and their families often are confused about the options available to them in terms of pain control and about whether they have an obligation to use all of the life-prolonging technology available to them. These discussions are particularly lively among Catholics and in the West Coast states where physicianassisted suicide is a legal option. In Washington, the latest state to legalize assisted suicide, Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spo-

kane offers an alternative way of dying. It provides “comfort care suites” that allow family members to stay with their dying relative in a homelike environment. Music thanatologists specially trained to soothe the seriously ill with their voices or the playing of harps are on staff. Health care professionals participate in education programs on palliative medicine and the ethical, moral and legal issues involved in end-of-life care. A meditation garden outside the hospital is open 24 hours a day and gives family members and patients who are well enough an opportunity to experience a peaceful area of waterfalls, streams and walking paths. At TrinityKids Care, a pediatric hospice program in Torrance, teams made up of a pediatrician, a registered nurse, a clinical social worker, a chap-

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OAKLAND TRANSITION: Pope Benedict XVI has named Archbishop Alexander Brunett, archbishop emeritus of Seattle, as the apostolic administrator of Oakland effective Oct. 4, when Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, the outgoing bishop of Oakland, is ordained as archbishop of San Francisco. Archbishop Cordileone announced the change in a memo to the Oakland diocese chancery staff Sept. 21, saying the appointment was made “in order to relieve me of the burden of the pastoral governance of two dioceses at the same time as I assume leadership in San Francisco.” Archbishop Brunett will serve until the pope appoints a new bishop of Oakland. VIEW INSTALLATION ONLINE: The Oct. 4 installation Mass for Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone will be available for viewing online at www.ustream.tv/channel/archdiocese-of-sf. The Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral begins at 2 p.m. PRO-LIFE FILM AT ST. LUKE: St. Luke Parish’s Faith Cinema series presents “October Baby,” Oct. 6, 6 p.m., 1111 Beach Park Blvd., Foster City. The film tells the true story of a college girl who discovers she is an abortion survivor and learns the power of forgiveness. $2 free will donation benefits parish Respect for Life ministry. Contact Katharine at kathpau@yahoo.com or call the parish at (650) 345-6660. PRIESTLY CONVOCATION: Most if not all the priests of the archdiocese met at Asilomar conference center in Monterey Sept. 25-27. The meeting gave the priests an opportunity to pray and discourse together as a body. The last large-scale meeting, known as a convocation, was held nearly 20 years ago.

CLARIFICATION “FOCUS IS ON ‘HEALING’ IN POLICY THAT JOINS ARCHDIOCESE, VICTIMS,” SEPT. 21, PAGE 1. Because of a mechanical error, a paragraph was duplicated and as a result several lines were cut off at the end of this article. The story should have concluded with the following: “The take-away and example for other dioceses of the experience of the San Francisco joint committee, said (committee member John) McCord, is a snapshot of “taking steps to rebuild trust and nudge a reluctant authority of the church to look forward and be inclusive.” He added, “It is about what the church can do to restore their integrity. It is about what the church can do to restore the integrity of the good priests who haven’t abused anyone, who have been punished by all this.” To the extent that other dioceses “take note, this is great and I am all for that,” said McCord. Other committee members and survivors are George Corns, Melinda Costello, Paul Haugen and Scott Parkhurst.

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Pope’s faith year is chance to deepen our commitment VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

The Year of Faith is a chance to learn more about what we believe. Taking time to do something extra for our faith will change the church, said Social Service Sister Celeste Arbuckle, director of the archdiocesan Office of Religious Education and Youth Ministry. “Go on a retreat, read a book, read a Web page – it’s going to make a difference in our church,” said Sister Celeste. Pope Benedict XVI’s decision to declare a Year of Faith during the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council is the work of the Holy Spirit, says Sister Celeste. She recommends studying the documents of Vatican II to learn more about the transforming idea of the Second Vatican Council – which particularly called for a greater role of the laity in the church but also in their own devotional life, especially recommending more reading of the Bible. For teens, the Oct. 7 youth Mass will have the theme of the Year of Faith, which opens Oct. 11. The Mass, celebrated by Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice will be at 3 p.m. at St. Ignatius Church in San Francisco. In addition, the archdiocese is offering confirmation retreats for youth, with the first one Oct. 27. Within the archdiocese, the “Forward in Faith” adult catechesis series continues this fall, and Sister Celeste noted that the Boston College lectures have been supplemented by several from Father Robert Barron’s “Catholicism” TV series. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ website offers many suggestions for renewing faith for parishes and individuals, as does Pope Benedict’s Facebook page, Sister Celeste noted. Many parishes are offering special faith opportunities. St. Pius Parish has a special series on Vatican II which begins with a lecture by Archbishop-emeritus John R. Quinn. Retired St. Stephen pastor Father Joseph Walsh offers three lectures on Vatican II beginning Sept. 29 at 9 a.m. at the St. Gabriel parish center. The Year of Faith begins Oct. 11, the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council by Pope John XXIII and the 20th anniversary of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. It ends Nov. 13, 2013. For more information, visit the U.S. bishops’ website at usccb.org.

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Summer often teachers’ turn to learn TOM BURKE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Julie Dearborn, Mercy High School, San Francisco and Amelia Sitter, Stuart Hall High School, were part of this year’s Memorial Library Summer Seminar at City University of New York. The two-week course helps teachers learn more about the Holocaust and other horrors of humanity including contemporary genocides and integrate the history into their classes. The talks are held in Julie Dearborn The Memorial Library, former home of Holocaust survivor Olga Lengyel, founder of the organization that funds the yearly sessions. Seminar participants learn how writing, dialogue and inquiry can motivate students to work for social justice and speak out against injustice. They hear testimony from Holocaust survivors, attend workshops by Amelia Sitter scholars and artists, and visit historic sites. “The seminar was one of the most powerful professional development experiences of my career,” Julie said. “I feel so lucky to have been part of this experience,” Amelia said. “When your students can connect with characters in literature that is a great way to teach and promote empathy.” Julie has been a member of the Mercy faculty for 11 years. Amelia joined the team at Stuart Hall in 2011. ANNIVERSARY: Happy 50 years married to Barbara and Walt Bankovitch, longtime parishioners of Our Lady of Angels Parish, Burlingame. The couple marked the milestone with family and friends at a Mass at the Capuchin friars St. Francis of Assisi Friary in August. Msgr. John Sandersfeld was principal celebrant, joined at the altar by Capuchin Fathers Matt Elshoff, Flavian Welstead and Donal Burke. All later enjoyed dinner at the Olympic Club Lakeside. Early congrats to Walt who celebrates a 50 year securities brokerage career in February. SIP, SIP, SIP: It was “Time for Tea” at St. Robert Parish for more than 130 women of all ages in late spring. Many took home decorated tea pots as door prizes. “The tea was a great afternoon of fun and friendship, enjoyed by all,” said Virginia Yanke, who helped plan the good time.

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PITCHIN’ IN AND FIXIN’ UP: Shining up the compound are parishioners of St. Veronica’s in South San Francisco. Paving the path for the future capital campaign begins festival weekend, September 28, 29, and 30. The $600,000 goal will pay for new paving of the parish property and additional beautifying and necessary efforts. Pictured, from left, with pastor Father Charles Puthota are campaign coordinators Sharon Oosterman, Terri Ciardella and Tammi Grigg. AT HOME: Certainly one of the streets where I live is Peter Yorke Way, home of HQ for the archdiocese and named for famed labor priest Father Peter C. Yorke. Father Yorke’s memory continues today in many places including the branch of the Ladies Ancient Order of Hibernians founded in 1902 and named for him. Longtime Hibernian Kathleen Manning has let me know that the group’s 110th anniversary Mass and brunch will take place Oct. 7 at 11 a.m. at the United Irish Cultural Center, San Francisco. “You know we honor Father Yorke every Palm Sunday at Holy Cross Cemetery, too,” Kathleen noted. Call (415) 664-0828 for information. Sacramental, Baptisms, First Communion, Confirmations and RCIA Gifts

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Women’s Scripture study convenes for 10th year at St. Mark Parish VALERIE SCHMALZ CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Protestants do it all the time but for many Catholics, Scripture study still doesn’t come naturally. However, at St. Mark Parish in Belmont, more than 60 women gather every Thursday morning for almost two hours from September to May to study and pray with the Bible. The teacher director is Tami Palladino, a former Protestant who embraced the Catholic Church shortly after marrying a Catholic and “never looked back.” She started the Scripture class with a few women in 2003 and it has thrived since, covering a different part of the Bible each year including Exodus, Genesis, Matthew’s Gospel and the Letters of St. Paul to the Romans. Palladino is also youth ministry coordinator at St. Charles in San Carlos, and runs the middle school and confirmation religious education programs. This year, the Scripture study, which always takes a distinctly Catholic approach, is tackling the uniquely Catholic topic of the scriptural basis of the rosary using a book written by Palladino and her friend Jennifer McGaw Phelps, “Scripture and the Rosary: New Testament Mysteries, Old Testament Parallels” (The Printery House, Conception Abbey, 2012.) The book was inspired by the stained glass windows in St. Augustin Church in Des Moines, Iowa, where Phelps lives. The windows, which illustrate the 15 joyful, sorrowful and glorious

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Barbara Anderson and her friend Peggy Howarth, both parishioners of St. Charles, San Carlos, are pictured on the first day of women’s Scripture study at St. Mark Parish, Belmont. mysteries, also include the Old Testament stories in small windows below them, Palladino said. The book and the class include the five luminous mysteries added by Pope John Paul II in 2002, covering the three years of Jesus’ public ministry. The first three classes focus on the Apostolic Letter of Pope John Paul “On the Most Holy Rosary” which he wrote in 2002 to encourage a revival in praying the rosary. Pope John Paul called the rosary his favorite prayer and wrote “the simple

prayer of the rosary marks the rhythm of human life.” “The Bible study takes you through salvation history,” said Palladino. “You are studying all the mysteries of the rosary, 20 events in the lives of Jesus and Mary, and at the same time the Old Testament events that foreshadowed those events.” Those gathered for the first day of the class Sept. 13 included stay at home mothers, those with full-time out of the home jobs, and retired women. For Carol Marshall who has visited most of

the Holy Land sites where the mysteries of the rosary occurred, the study group classes are an opportunity “just to become more aware of the rosary.” “I really want to study the Bible from a Catholic perspective,” said Mary Botham, a parishioner at Our Lady of the Pillar who spent many years in nondenominational Bible study. Participants prepare before coming by reading the lesson, referring to the Bible and to the Catechism of the Catholic Church to answer about 10 questions, Palladino said. Each class includes small group discussion on the questions and a wrap up lecture of about a half hour by Palladino. The group says the prayer to the Holy Spirit before beginning discussions and concludes with the prayer to St. Michael the Archangel in conclusion. “Scripture and Rosary” has received the Catholic Church’s imprimatur and a nihil obstat, official recognition that it contains no errors of faith, Palladino said. “One of my life blessings is the ongoing companionship of Mary through her signature prayer, the rosary,” wrote Des Moines Bishop Richard E. Pates, who granted the imprimatur. “For those who have grown to love the rosary as I have and also for novices searching for a fruitful and readily accessible form of prayer, powerful insight into the mysteries of faith has been provided by Jennifer McGaw Phelps and Tami Palladino in ‘Scripture and Rosary,’” wrote the Des Moines bishop.

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Poll: Voters turning against death penalty GEORGE RAINE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Fifty percent of likely voters favor a sentence of life in prison without parole to the death penalty, compared with 42 percent who prefer execution in capital cases, according to a statewide survey by the Public Policy Institute of California released Sept. 19. The question will be before voters Nov. 6 in Proposition 34, which would replace the death penalty with life in prison without the possibility of parole for a conviction of first degree murder, a ballot measure supported by the state’s Catholic bishops because of the church teaching that all life has value. The Public Policy Institute of California survey of 2,003 California adults, Sept. 9-16, did not include specific questions about Prop. 34, but asked about the concept behind it. The results were similar to a survey the group did in September, 2011, when 50 percent of likely voters said life imprisonment with no parole should be the penalty, while 45 percent then preferred the death penalty. Proponents of Prop. 34 are largely building their case on costs associated with maintaining inmates on death row, particularly legal expenses. “This poll shows, once again, that more and more California voters are ready to replace our broken and

outrageously expensive death penalty system,” said Jeanne Woodford, a proponent who is a former warden of San Quentin State Prison who oversaw four executions. She added, “Proposition 34 stops the waste of taxpayer dollars on special housing and lifetime legal counsel for death row inmates. It will save California $130 million each year and directs a portion of the savings to law enforcement to solve more crimes.” There is a significant political party distinction in the survey: Sixty-seven percent of Democratic respondents favored life in prison compared with 33 percent of Republican respondents. In their argument against Proposition 34 to appear in the ballot, former Gov. Pete Wilson, Marc Klass, the father of murder victim Polly Klass, and Keith Royal, president of the California State Sheriff ’s Association, say the measure is a product of the American Civil Liberties Union. They say its ACLU’s efforts “are indefensible, cruel to loved ones of victims, misleading and insulting to voters and dangerous for California.” The bishops, through the California Catholic Conference, said, “As Catholics we hold human life as sacred. In the exercise of justice, this principle must prevail in the manner we treat one another, even for those who have done grave harm.” ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO

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Take action to protect religious liberty, speakers urge Catholics BETH GRIFFIN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

JAMAICA, N.Y. – Religious liberty is facing such grave threats in the United States that Catholics must take immediate and courageous action to defend fundamental values both in the public forum and in the privacy of the voting booth, according to speakers at a Sept. 20 forum. More than 400 people assembled at St. John’s University heard impassioned calls to educate themselves about the erosion of long-guaranteed rights, form their consciences to reflect basic moral issues and agitate with compassion and civility to protect religious freedom. “Our religious liberty is under assault like never before in America, in ways that are chilling, that are alien and unimagined on these shores,” said Alan Sears, president of the Alliance Defending Freedom in Scottsdale, Ariz. “If we fail to stand, if we fail to fight, if we fail to refuse to comply, our God-given liberty ... will be but a distant memory.” The forum was based on the Manhattan Declaration, a 4,700-word joint statement signed in November 2009 by more than 140 Christian leaders, many evangelical and Catholic, pledging renewed zeal in defending the unborn, defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman, and protecting religious freedom. To date, more than 530,000 people have signed the declaration, including 52 Catholic cardinals and bishops. Eric Teetsel, executive director of the Manhattan Declaration, said religious freedom was enshrined in the foundational documents of the country and guaranteed by leaders until recently. In urging listeners to sign the Manhattan Declaration he said, “We will render to Caesar what is Caesar’s, but we will not render to Caesar what is God’s.” Sears said legislative threats to religious liberty and the sanctity of life and marriage are an attempt to place “legal limits on the love of God.” He called the Obama administration’s health plan “a dictatorial mandate, unprecedented in our nation’s history.” He said policies enforced by myriad czars at all levels of government make people choose “between God and their livelihood, between their education and their faith and between their family’s financial security and their beliefs.” Sears said the debate about the definition of marriage is “a key to a legal Pandora’s Box,” whose opening will unleash demands for public support,

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Princeton University professor silencing of the opposition and punishment for those who do not comply. William Mumma, president of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, said the nation’s founders believed in the primacy of conscience, but also were pragmatic men who recognized that any government set up in opposition to the religious convictions of its people “fatally loses its moral legitimacy.” “If the law is not rooted in the moral law, the American people will not reject God, they will reject the law. When the law sets out to destroy religion, it enters into a murder-suicide pact. The government may murder religious liberty, but it can’t kill religion,” he said. Mumma said the action of the current administration, as exemplified by its defense of the HHS mandate, shows “Religion is not the accidental victim of the government pursuing some other interest you might quarrel about. Religion is the target.” Princeton University professor Robert P. George, a drafter of the Manhattan Declaration, said that if “religious freedom is a right, it’s a right for every human being. If religious freedom is in jeopardy for one, it’s in jeopardy for all.” Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List, said, “We are at a tipping point in this greatest civil rights movement of our day, the pro-life movement.” Dannenfelser said the tradition of pro-life Democrats, such as the late Pennsylvania Gov. Robert Casey, has been eroded, adding that President Barack Obama disappointed Catholic supporters who believed in 2008 he would respect and seek common ground among people of different beliefs. “He proceeded to march abortion through every department of the administration and made it clear he would do nothing to undermine reproductive rights. He’s gone from seeking common ground to rejecting anything that a civilized human being would endorse,” she said.

Economy top concern of working-class whites CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON – A majority of white working-class Catholics – 56 percent – think abortion should be legal in all or most cases, according to a survey by the Public Religion Research Institute. A smaller majority of the same category of Catholics – 52 percent – favors same-sex marriage, said the study released Sept. 20. In contrast, 53 percent of white working-class Protestants believe that abortion should illegal in all or most cases, while 52 percent of the same group opposes same-sex marriage. The Catholic Church opposes abortion and samesex marriage. “One of the things we’re hoping the survey will do is move the debates around the white working-class and the needs of this class or working Americans ... to the realm of facts,” said Robert P. Jones, the institute’s CEO. The results are based on telephone interviews with 2,501 adults in the continental U.S. from Aug. 2 to Aug. 15. Of the total, 857 respondents were workingclass whites. The margin of error was plus or minus 2.2 percentage points for the entire survey and 3.7 percent for working-class respondents. The study defines white working-class people as non-Hispanic Americans without a four-year college degree who hold non-salaried jobs. The study also found that 34 percent of the workingclass attend worship services at least weekly, 33 percent attend occasionally (once or twice month or a few times a year) and 32 percent seldom or never attend church. “That is interesting,” Jones said of the religious findings. “The stereotype from the left has been that these are kind of hyper-religious folks who vote along culture war lines and are maybe even blind to their economic interests. “The stereotype from the right ... is that this group has lost its grounding in their religiosity and traditional work ethic. The survey found they’re pretty solidly church affiliated and church attenders,” he said. Two-thirds (66 percent) of the working class said they were in poor or fair financial shape, while 63 percent of college-educated respondents said they were in good or excellent shape. Only 40 percent of working-class Americans reported being employed full time compared with 59 percent of the college educated. “The thing that’s telling, and it’s not really surprising if you step back, the top of their agenda is the economy,” Jones added.

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Exile and mercy: Mass marks 10 years since bishops’ charter MICHELLE MARTIN CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

CHICAGO – The Scripture readings at a Chicago Mass celebrated to mark the 10th anniversary of the U.S. bishops’ “Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People” offered the despair and isolation felt by an exile in the Book of Lamentations and the comfort of God’s mercy in the beatitudes. Their juxtaposition shows the balance we all need, Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago said in his homily at a “Mass of Atonement and Hope” celebrated Sept. 15 at Holy Family Church, site of the archdiocese’s Healing Garden. The garden, dedicated in June 2011, offers healing and reconciliation to all hurt by clergy sex abuse. The concelebrants of the Mass were the cardinal and five priests who are involved with the Chicago archdiocese’s response to clerical sexual abuse. It included prayers for victims and their families, for those

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program, which trains church workers about the signs of sex abuse, how to recognize adults who are trying to take advantage of children and how to thwart opportunities for abuse. More than 200,000 children also have received safe environment training to help them recognize when something is wrong before abuse happens. Cardinal George focused his homily on the need for both balance and integrity in every human life. Lamentations, he said, expresses the isolation of an individual who is completely at odds with himself and his own self-understanding. The beatitudes offered in the Gospel of St. Matthew express the mercy and love God shares with the community of believers. “This stark contrast in the words of holy Scripture reflects the experience of people in their journey of life which takes them and us through good times and bad,” Cardinal George said. “The expression of who they are is a combination of lamentations and beatitudes, of isolation and of life with God. “In our own experience, life with God and with one another is always a balance. In good times, we recall the bad times in order to make realistic plans and avoid a sense of hubris,

and in the bad times, we need the help of others to recall the good times to prevent despair, to prevent being caught in a trap, in a box. We need one another to remind us that God is with us and therefore there is hope.” Victims of clerical sexual abuse, often years or decades after the abuse occurred, often talk as though they have put that experience in a box and closed it off from the rest of their lives, the cardinal said. But they must open that box to live fully integrated lives, and to stop the abuse from causing further damage, he said. Priests who have abused children or young people also put that part of their lives in a box, Cardinal George continued, and it seems to have little to do with the rest of their life, which often includes many good and generous acts. But without opening that box and acknowledging what they’ve done, they cannot overcome it, he added. The cardinal said he has often asked perpetrators to offer a real apology to their victims, going beyond “I regret what happened” to a clear statement of “I’m truly sorry for what I did to you.” “Again and again,” Cardinal George said, “they can’t quite bring themselves to do that.” The cardinal went on to say that the way the U.S. Catholic Church has dealt with the sexual abuse of children by clergy since the implementation of the charter in 2002 was like opening that box. “The box is open now, and it must remain open,” he said. Only in that way can the church protect children and help promote healing for those who were hurt. The cardinal spoke of the work done by the Chicago archdiocesan Victim Assistance Ministry, and the creation of the Healing Garden, a project undertaken by victims of clerical sexual abuse. “It is here as a permanent apology,” the cardinal said, and “a place where balance can be achieved.” MARTIN is a staff writer at the Catholic New World, newspaper of the Chicago archdiocese.

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

NEW STUDY SHOWS RESTRICTIONS ON RELIGIOUS PRACTICE UP IN US, WORLDWIDE

WASHINGTON – The increase of restrictions on religion are up worldwide – and, for the first time, those restrictions increased markedly in the U.S., according to a new Pew report. For the U.S., it was the first time in the study’s four-year history that both government restrictions and social hostility were up by at least one point on a scale of 0 to 10, according to the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, which issued the study Sept. 20. The increases pushed the U.S. from a ranking of “low” to “moderate” on religious restrictions, according to the report, “Rising Tide of Restrictions on Religion,” which studied the period from mid-2009 to mid-2010. The study found 51 cases of governments applying zoning laws or regulations to prevent religious groups from building houses of worship, schools or other facilities. Thirty-one cases involved Christian denominations. Oklahoma voters approved a change to the state constitution restricting the use of Islamic law, but a federal appeals court struck down the measure. The federal Justice Department had to intervene on behalf of a Sikh prisoner in California who was under threat of having his facial hair cut off. A U.N. special rapporteur recounted the case of a New York prisoner who was forbidden to convert to Islam. The social hostilities category included the November 2009 shooting spree by Army Maj. Nidal Hasan that killed 13 people and wounded 32 others at Fort Hood, Texas; the “underwear bomber,” Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who tried to set off a bomb while aboard a Detroitbound flight in December 2009; and the May 2010 bombing attempt in New York’s Times Square by Faisal Shahzad, a Pakistani-born resident of Bridgeport, Conn. Residents near Murfreesboro, Tenn., tried to block construction of a mosque. The mosque opened in August but a federal court challenge remains.

ARCHDIOCESE: LAWSUITS ‘NOT BEST MECHANISM TO PROMOTE HEALING’ FROM ABUSE

PHILADELPHIA – Philadelphia archdiocesan officials said a new round of civil lawsuits filed Sept. 18 “are not the best mechanism to promote healing in the context of the very private and difficult circumstances of sexual abuse.”

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WASHINGTON – The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has launched a Spanish-language version of its Facebook page as part of the U.S. church’s ongoing effort to reach Hispanic and Spanishspeaking Catholics. “Hispanics make up 16 percent of the total U.S. population, almost 40 percent of U.S. Catholics, and 50 percent of Catholics under the age of 25,” said Bishop John C. Wester of Salt Lake City, chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Communications. The page can be found at www.facebook.com/ USCCBEspanol. It features a video message from Bishop Jaime Soto of Sacramento, chairman of the USCCB’s Committee on Cultural Diversity. New statistics released by the USCCB’s Secretariat for Cultural Diversity show growth of the Hispanic population in dioceses nationwide. The states of North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Tennessee have seen their Hispanic population increase by more than 100 percent in the last decade, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. ©CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

“We will work to assure all victims of sexual abuse receive appropriate assistance,” the statement said. A total of nine plaintiffs filed eight lawsuits against the archdiocese and its priests, according to an Associated Press story. The plaintiffs claim the Philadelphia archdiocese covered up abuse allegations made against seven priests decades ago. The suits name Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, who has headed the archdiocese for a year; his predecessor, Cardinal Justin Rigali, Philadelphia’s archbishop from 2003 until 2011; and Msgr. William Lynn, former secretary for clergy, who was found guilty of one felony charge of endangering the welfare of a child in June and sentenced to three to six years in state prison. He became the first official of the U.S. Catholic Church to be convicted of a felony not for abusing a child, or even witnessing it, but for his responsibilities in managing priests, some of whom abused children. He is appealing his conviction.

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Pope: Bishops must evangelize, ‘rediscover the joy of believing’

Christian politicians must protect marriage, common good, pope says CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy – Christian politicians have a duty to protect human life, traditional marriage and the common good, Pope Benedict XVI said. All Christians are called upon to defend and promote human dignity, and “this responsibility particularly concerns those called to political office,” he told representatives of Christian Democratic parties from around the world. The Old Testament warning that “judgment is stern” for those in high places is “highly beneficial,” the pope said, because it is “a warning given not to frighten but to spur and encourage those in government, at all levels, to achieve all the good of which they are capable, in keeping with the mission the Lord entrusts to each one.” The pope’s remarks came during an audience with political leaders taking part in the Christian/Centrist Democrat International’s executive committee meeting Sept. 21 in Rome. The group’s president, Pier Ferdinando Casini, told the pope that the separation of church and state “cannot suppress the human person’s innate need for religiosity; there is no healthy secularity without God and religion.” The pope said that to promote the common good and protect human dignity, Christian politicians must discern the truth of the primacy of the person through a “constant attention to the word of God and the magisterium of the church.”

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Pope Benedict XVI waves as he leads the Angelus from the balcony of the courtyard of the papal villa at Castel Gandolfo, Italy, Sept. 23. This is especially urgent in a world where “the cursory, superficial and short-term responses to the most fundamental and profound human needs are numerous and strident,” and people tend to “wander away to myths” that “suit their own desires” rather than put up with sound doctrine, he said. Bringing about authentic human justice demands a respect for life at all of its stages and the “rejection of procured abortion, euthanasia and any form of eugenics.” Respect for the indissolubility of marriage between a man and a woman is also part of contributing to the authentic progress of human society, he said.

CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy – Bishops today must be courageous in proclaiming the Gospel, encouraging others to grow in faith and working to ensure the unity of the church based on adherence to its teaching, Pope Benedict XVI said. The pope met Sept. 20 with 95 new bishops attending a seminar in Rome on their new roles and responsibilities. The group included 17 bishops from the United States and eight from Canada; most of them had been ordained in the past year. Pope Benedict told them that as members of the college of bishops, “you always must have a special concern for the universal church, in the first place by promoting and defending the unity of the faith.” Beginning their ministry as bishops close to the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council and the opening of the Year of Faith Oct. 11, the new bishops must focus on being “teachers and heralds” of the Catholic faith, the pope said. “Your priority concern is that of promoting and sustaining a stronger ecclesial commitment to new evangelization in order to rediscover the joy of believing and the enthusiasm for communicating the faith,” the pope said. He said “evangelization is not a work for a few specialists, but for the whole people of God under the guidance of pastors.”

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Papyrus fragment with reference to Jesus’ ‘wife’ stirs debate CAROL GLATZ CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

ROME – Scholars are unlikely to agree anytime soon on the authenticity of a newly published text containing a reference to Jesus’ “wife.” But the tiny papyrus fragment, purportedly dating to the fourth century A.D., has already stirred interest in the early church’s attitudes toward marriage, sex and the role of women. The fragment of papyrus with eight lines of Egyptian Coptic writing is the “only extant ancient text which explicitly portrays Jesus as referring to a wife,” wrote Karen L. King, historian of Christianity at Harvard Divinity School, in an academic paper she delivered Sept. 18 at an international Coptic studies conference in Rome. “It does not, however, provide evidence that the historical Jesus was married,” she wrote, “given the late date of the fragment and the probable date of original composition,” at the end of the second century. The best source of evidence giving an account of Jesus’ life and ministry is still the Gospels in the New Testament, King told reporters the next day, “and they are silent about his marital status.” But she said the fragment is “direct evidence” that early Christians started debating in the second century whether

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The fourth-century Coptic text on this previously unknown scrap of papyrus is said to provide the first known evidence that some early followers of Jesus proposed that he was married. Jesus could have been married or not. Father Juan Chapa, a New Testament scholar at the University of Navarra in Spain, told Catholic News Service that the “Gospels don’t mention marriage, not because they wanted to hide something, but because it was clear that Jesus did not get married, and it’s consistent in the church’s tradition.” He also noted that the gnostic gospel genre to which the fragment evidently belongs is one of stories about Jesus that mainly take place after the resur-

rection, using language that is heavily allegorical. Thus, he said, the fragment’s relevant words –”Jesus said to them, ‘My wife’” – were likely not meant as a literal assertion about the life of the historical Jesus. King said that the significance of the fragment lies in the light it might shed on debates in the early church over the necessity of celibacy to living a holy life. According to Michael Peppard, a professor of theology and Coptic language at Fordham University, a belief in as-

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Pope’s bees brave heat to produce organic honey CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY – The pope’s bees had a bittersweet year producing a lower-than-expected yield due to intense summer heat. The bees live on a 50-acre farm at the papal summer villa in Castel Gandolfo, a small town in the hills southeast of Rome. Despite their hard work, the one-half million bees only managed to pull in 176 pounds of wildflower honey – produced from nectar from surrounding gardens, fruit trees and other blossoming trees like chestnut. Temperatures and rainfall can affect both nectar production and restrict honeybees from foraging. The honey crop was produced by eight beehives, which were donated to Pope Benedict XVI last year by members of Coldiretti, an Italian trade group that promotes agricultural education and lobbies

LIVERPOOL ARCHBISHOP COMMISSIONS LAYPEOPLE TO PRESIDE AT FUNERALS

MANCHESTER, England – The Archdiocese of Liverpool has become the first diocese in England and Wales to commission laypeople to preside at funerals. Archbishop Patrick Kelly formally commissioned 22 lay ministers to celebrate funeral ceremonies in an effort to relieve pressure on priests who sometimes must celebrate seven or more funeral Masses a week. Vocations in Liverpool declined sharply in recent years, and the archdiocese projected that the number of priests will decline from 170 to 100 by 2015. Lay ministers already preside at funerals in some parts of the world where no priest or deacon is available. The decision by Archbishop Kelly represents the first time such a step was authorized by the Catholic Church in England and Wales. The archdiocese’s Council of Priests supported the move after the archbishop consulted with its members and examined the 1990 Order of Christian Funerals. The change calls for the lay ministers to preside at funerals when clergy are unavailable, Archbishop Kelly explained in an article in The Tablet, a London-based Catholic magazine, early in September.

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POPE NAMES RECORD NUMBER OF WOMEN TO SYNOD ON EVANGELIZATION

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI nominated 45 experts and 49 observers for the upcoming world Synod of Bishops, the Vatican announced Sept. 22. The Oct. 7-28 gathering will include the largest bloc of women – 10 experts and 19 observers – ever to participate in a Vatican synod. The 45 experts, who are not voting members of the synod, will serve as resources for the more than 200 synod members as they discuss the theme, “New Evangelization for the Transmission of the Christian Faith.” The experts from the U.S. and Canada include Sister Sara Butler, a professor of theology at the University of St. Mary of the Lake in Mundelein, Ill.; Benedictine Father Jeremy Driscoll, a professor at Rome’s Pontifical Athenaeum of San Anselmo and at Mount Angel Seminary in St. Benedict, Ore.; Ralph Martin, president of Renewal Ministries in Ann Arbor, Mich., and director of graduate programs in the new evangelization at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit; Sister Paula Jean Miller, a Franciscan Sister of the Eucha-

Italian farmers belonging to the organization also gave the pope his own vineyard of native red and white grape varieties, Coldiretti said in a press release Sept. 20. The donation was part of the group’s “locavore” initiative to help produce a papal wine while producing zero carbon emissions next year. The group planted 1,200 square yards of grapevines this year “in a striking corner” of the papal gardens “under a statue of Christ giving his blessing,” it said. They also donated the necessary equipment for processing the grapes and new oak and chestnut casks for the wine to age properly in the small papal wine cellar. The vineyard was given to Pope Benedict as a way of commemorating his first words to pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square on the day of his election April 19, 2005, when he called himself “a simple, humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord.” rist and professor of theology at the University of St. Thomas in Houston; Edward N. Peters, who holds the Edmund Cardinal Szoka chair in faculty development at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit; and Sister Gill Goulding, a sister of the Congregation of Jesus and professor of systematic theology and spirituality at Regis College of the University of Toronto.

3RD VOLUME OF POPE’S ‘JESUS OF NAZARETH’ EXPECTED BY CHRISTMAS

VATICAN CITY – The third volume of Pope Benedict XVI’s book on Jesus of Nazareth should be published before Christmas, the Vatican said. The volume, focusing on the Gospel accounts of Jesus’ infancy and childhood, will be the third and final volume in the series of books the pope has written “to make known the figure and message of Jesus,” the Vatican said in a statement Sept. 21. The Vatican’s plan is to release the book simultaneously in the world’s major languages, including English, in time for Christmas. The first volume of “Jesus of Nazareth,” covering the period from Jesus’ baptism to his Transfiguration, was published in 2007. The second volume, looking at his passion and death, came out in 2011. ©CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

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MEASURE A: Sales tax vote crucial for Seton PALLIATIVE: “It is most definitely Dying with dignity conceivable” that a “no” FROM PAGE 1

serve is the real issue. I think that Measure A’s adoption by the electorate of San Mateo County is the pivotal question around the future of Seton Medical Center as an inpatient facility.” Is it conceivable Seton could go out of business in 2020 without Measure A’s approval? “I think it is most definitely conceivable,” said Schuessler. San Mateo County Supervisor Don Horsley backs Measure A, noting that Seton and the county provide a safety net – for seniors, disabled, children and those of low-income. “Seton Medical Center is critically important to us. Seton actually believes in its mission,” he said. Seton partners with the Health Plan of San Mateo, a local nonprofit health care plan that offers health coverage and is a provider network to the county’s underserved population. It is currently serving 100,000 county residents. Indeed, Seton has 19 percent of the Health Plan of San Mateo’s Medi-Cal inpatient admissions and 40 percent of the plan’s Medicare admissions, said Maya Altman, CEO of the Health Plan of San Mateo. For hospital outpatient services, visits to Seton comprise 12 percent of HPSM’s Medi-Cal business and 27 percent of the Medicare outpatient business, she said. The physicians in northern San Mateo County who work with Seton are responsible for 34 percent of the health plan’s Medi-Cal physician visits and 42 percent of the plan’s Medicare physician visits.

20 percent increase in Medi-Cal rolls forecast

She added that HPSM estimates there will be a 20 percent increase in Medi-Cal membership as the Affordable Care Act becomes effective in 2014, and that “capacity or willingness of other providers in San Mateo County and San Francisco to fill Seton’s role if the medical center were to close is a concern.” The burden on San Mateo County, should Seton close and the county agreed to continue the same level of service, would be what Schuessler called “a pretty big number” – at a time when “there is no fat in the budget,” said Horsley, who helped cut $70 million in costs and trimmed 700 positions over the past three years. “If Seton were to disappear, that would be devastating for the county,”

vote could lead to closure.

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interim CEO, Seton Medical Center he said. “There’s nothing left to cut at San Mateo County other than direct services.” Even the lone supervisor who voted against placing Measure A on the ballot, Dave Pine, lauds Seton as a critical county asset, although he backed a proposal that did not gain traction – a quarter-cent sales tax, rather than half-cent. He said a “more modest” increase could still benefit Seton, and he called sales tax itself regressive in that lower income people bear the brunt of the tax disproportionately.

Seismic project scaled down

For its part, Seton has dramatically scaled down earlier plans for a facility that passes the seismic test. In March of 2011, Seton thought that perhaps $350 million would be needed for a replacement structure, with perhaps 220 beds, compared with its 357 today. Schuessler said health care economics now envision “a much smaller, more efficient (acute care) hospital that will meet the needs of this community,” perhaps with 100 beds. There is not yet a fundraising goal at Seton, only a “placeholder in our forward looking capital budget of $200 million,” said the CEO. While the beneficiaries of Measure A money, assuming it passes, and their share of the pie are to be determined, Schuessler said that given its significant role in the county, he believes Seton’s portion of $60 million would be “on the order of $15 million.” Founded as Mary’s Help Hospital in 1893 by the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul, Seton Medical Center has been providing medical care to the people of San Francisco and Northern San Mateo County for more than a century. Earlier this year, parent Daughters of Charity Health System signed an agreement saying it intended to become a part of Ascension Health, the nation’s largest Catholic and nonprofit health system. The agreement is pending.

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have been receiving pain management, symptom control and comfort care for many months. Tina Picchi, executive director of the Supportive Care Coalition in Hillsboro, Ore., believes that a big part of the problem comes from the misperception that “palliative care equals hospice and is only for the end stages of life.” Palliative care “is appropriate for anyone living with a serious illness, regardless of the prognosis,” she said. “It does not require people to limit their treatment options or to give up.” The coalition was founded by three Catholic health systems in 1994 because, Picchi says, palliative care is a natural extension of the work of Catholic health care. “At our very roots we have a very strong belief that life is sacred, every person is truly a treasure,” she said. “From the very beginning of Catholic health care, this is the kind of health care that the religious sponsors modeled.” Ron Hamel, senior director of ethics at the Catholic Health Association in St. Louis, says palliative care might provide a welcome relief to a health care approach that has become too focused on what technology can do than on what a patient needs. He places some blame on the way physicians are educated, but also believes that many patients have “an inability to deal with their own finitude” and would benefit from a “more positive statement about dying within a Christian context” from church leaders, followed by a parish-based educational effort. Hamel also blames “both the extreme right and the extreme left” for “fostering misunderstanding about church teaching and tradition” about the end of life. In contrast to the position that a patient must be kept alive “at all costs,” he said, “at the heart of the Catholic approach is to neither hasten death nor prolong life endlessly.” Hamel said palliative care is “a return to the kind of care that was provided to the critically ill prior to all this technology,” he said. “It’s a return to our roots in the life and teaching of Jesus and in the early Christian community, which was marked by its care for the sick.”

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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Setting anger aside and heeding Jesus

s I walked by the flags at half-staff, suddenly I was overcome with anger. They symbolized the deaths of our ambassador and his co-workers in Libya. At the same moment, riots were breaking out in Egypt and Yemen against the United States. On the news, warmongers and politicians were calling for immediate justice. But, I wonder, are they calling for justice or for revenge? It is ever so easy to call for “an eye for an eye” and for retaliation. In a growing atmosphere of meeting violence with violence, how do we keep our hearts from FATHER EUGENE hardening and continue to work HEMRICK toward peace? The first place to start is with the self and especially our disposition. This may sound ironic, but we need to embrace disinterestedness. What does this mean? In the book “Learning the Virtues That Lead You to God,” Father Romano Guardini has a chapter on disinterestedness in which he writes, “One of the most profound paradoxes of life is the fact that a man becomes more fully himself the less he thinks of himself. To be more precise, within us there lives a false self and a true self. The false self is the constantly emphasized ‘I’ and ‘me’ and ‘mine,’ which refers everything to its own honor and prosperity, wishing to enjoy and achieve and dominate. “This self hides the true self, the truth of the person. To the extent that the false self disappears the true self is freed ... then the person is simply there without stressing himself. He is powerful without exertion. He no longer has desires and fears. He radiates. About him, things assume their truth and order.” When we get into the eye-for-an-eye mood, we become resentful and bellicose. We are no longer our true self. Jesus’ teaching, to love our enemy, no longer fills our heart because it has been hardened. All we are concerned about is “I” and “me” and maintaining “my” dominance. When this happens, thinking straight and prudence are jeopardized. If we are to overcome our present-day crisis, we need levelheaded statesmen, people who can put aside personal resentments, anger and desires for retaliation in order to allow their true self to operate. The true self controls emotions that tend to cloud decision-making in order to make prudent decisions. Disinterestedness means getting our self out of the way so we can better see the truth and respond to it wisely. ©CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

Archbishop Niederauer, publisher One of the roles of the archbishop of San Francisco is publisher of this newspaper. With this, the last of some 225 issues (more than 5,000 pages) under his watch as publisher of Catholic San Francisco, we’d like to share four characteristics that distinguish the leadership of Archbishop George Niederauer. First, Archbishop Niederauer, a former literature professor who led the U.S. bishops’ communications committee for a time, knows the authority and impact of the printed word among all the means of spreading the Word. Second, he knows how a print business has to be organized to deliver information and inspiration on an ambitious schedule to all the active members of the archdiocese. Third, he is a close and knowing reader: We were always aware that, quiet though he may have been in his office three floors above ours, he never missed a thing anybody wrote either on or between the lines. Fourth, he is a merciful shepherd: He let us staffers make our mistakes and learn from them – and we did, more cheerfully than we thought possible. Altogether, Archbishop Niederauer, who retires Oct. 4 as the eighth archbishop of San Francisco, was a demanding yet loving boss who modeled mature stewardship with a humble, prayerful, deeply lived combination of duty and compassion. He made us stand tall as Catholics and as Catholic communicators. We learned much from Archbishop Niederauer, were privileged to serve him and will miss him greatly. Rick DelVecchio, editor

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he Archdiocese of San Francisco and the Oakland and San Jose dioceses rank first, second and third in the percentage of the California state population that attends Catholic schools. This is a testament to the long and successful tradition of Catholic schools in the Bay Area. Archbishop George Niederauer is fond of saying “We are ninth in Catholic population as a diocese in California, but second in the number of schools, only Los Angeles ANNETTE BROWN with having a greater number of schools.” But, the good news is, not only do we have a higher number of schools for our population, but our population attends our schools at the highest rate in the state. In California, there are 12 dioceses with 666 schools serving 214,139 students. The San Francisco archdiocese is second in the number of schools, with 73 schools, and also second in the school population, with 24,416 students. The archdiocese educates 5.65 percent of the Catholic population and 1.39 percent of the total population. School-age children make up only 13.48 percent of the total population in San Francisco; we educate 10 percent of these children. Archdiocesan schools are educating more students from both the Catholic and the general populations than any other diocese in California. And, while this is great news for our schools, our school leaders and our Catholic churches, and a testament to the good job that our schools are doing of attracting and keeping our students enrolled, as the person who manages the financial aid process I see that we would have even more students attending our schools if we were able to offer additional financial aid. Each year, the archdiocese is able to spend about 4 percent from the educational endowment, and about $200,000 from other educational funds directly for financial aid for tuition. That

is about $500,000 in tuition assistance to over 600 elementary students and $500,000 for more than 300 high school students. However, each year there are about 90 students who, even though they were awarded financial aid, don’t attend our schools because their families cannot afford tuition. Each year, there are about 3,500 students who apply for financial aid that the archdiocese is unable to assist, because we don’t have additional resources. And, each year there are countless families who seek information from our schools, and once they see the cost of tuition and hear that there is not much financial aid available, make the choice not to send their children to our Catholic schools. There are more students whose families want a Catholic education for them than can afford it. We know three things about our schools: Many of our schools have space for additional students; many of our schools operate on tight budgets, barely covering expenses each year; the amount of financial assistance is limited, with most schools offering less financial aid than families need to be able to afford tuition. How can you help make a Catholic education possible for our archdiocesan families? They clearly support our Catholic schools, and we can support them. Think about your life now – is it better because of your Catholic school experience? Did you go on to a great college and/or career? Do you have connections that directly result from your attending a Catholic school? Did your parents make a sacrifice to send you to Catholic school? Did you make a sacrifice to send your children to Catholic school? Are you in a better financial situation now and can you help out a family who is sacrificing to give their child the gift of education? BROWN is assistant superintendent of the archdiocesan Department of Catholic Schools. Contact Brown if you wish to make a contribution to our schools or if you would like to discuss your individual situation. Or you may contact a specific school’s pastor or principal directly.

LETTERS Life issues are nonnegotiable It was disgraceful to hear some party speakers at this year’s Democratic convention who claim to be Catholic or come from a Catholic cultural background carefully sidestep or avoid certain “sensitive” issues of conscience that are not in alignment with prevailing party doctrine. It is a serious matter of conscience for all Catholics and our Christian brothers and sisters to firmly reject any non-Christian policies and say “no” in their vote for any representative, senator or president who is not firmly pro-life, pro-religious freedom, pro-traditional marriage. These are nonnegotiable positions for any Christian. Following the lead from the bishops of our country and in this Year of Faith, every Catholic must boldly proclaim this fact by word and action in season and out of season. Ray McIntyre Los Altos Hills

Proponent of tax cuts At the risk of sounding like a history “whisperer” this election season, I believe a few blatant facts need pointing out. This, in spite of being flooded by Mr. Clinton’s “‘snake-oil” at the DNC. First, it should be evident to anyone who has lived here from 1992 on that President Clinton nearly gutted our military, closing the Presidio Army base in 1995 and a spate of others across the country. In addition, he cut military personnel by 15 percent. Look it up.

Is it any surprise that he had some surplus (driven by the Gingrich nudge on welfare and cutting taxes)? He forgot to tell us all this in Charlotte, and that he left President Bush a crashed tech bubble. Mr. Bush had to go on a war-footing after 9/11 – from the deep hole left by President Clinton. The idea that we learn most from our history couldn’t be truer than now. From President Coolidge through JFK, Reagan and Clinton (pushed by a Republican Congress), it is obvious that their economies boomed. How? By cutting taxes. Carolyn Carr San Francisco

Language is important With all due respect to Deacon Po’oi and his otherwise excellent reflection (Sept. 21), the Gospel says that Jesus selected a child, not a boy, to bring forward and make his point. It’s subtle but there is no need for someone else to interject gender into this story. “Child” is universal. “Boy” requires girls to make a leap of imagination to include themselves, which we women and girls are used to doing when necessary but get tired of having to do, since we know that Jesus himself called all of us to fullness in the Gospel and the church. Language is important. Susan Black San Francisco

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LETTERS Abortion is an injustice of the highest degree The several letters in the Sept. 21 issue responding to the Sept. 14 cover article (“DNC forum: Can you be a Democrat and be pro-life?”) display the real confusion among Catholics regarding the issue. The lack of guidance on the matter by parish priests in our archdiocese is a primary reason for such confusion. Suzy Brown’s letter (“For a broader definition of pro-life)” seems to try to balance supporting abortion with supporting federal aid for poor teenage single mothers and opposing capital punishment and starting wars, implying it’s OK to vote for Democrats in spite of their party’s plank supporting abortion on demand. In 1995, Pope John Paul’s encyclical “Evangelium Vitae” boldly identified abortion as a clear social injustice of the highest degree. The dean of theology at the Regina Apostolorum University in Rome, Father Thomas Williams, characterized the basis for this principle with six clearly distinctive points: 1. Abortion consists specifically of the destruction of Innocent Life. In 2004, then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger noted “there may be legitimate diversity even among Catholics about waging war or applying the death penalty, but not in regard to abortion.” To be sure, all life is precious, but moral theology has always differentiated between the killing of innocent life as particularly heinous and always and everywhere condemnable. 2. Another factor is the sheer magnitude of the atrocity. Over 50 million unborn children have been killed in the U.S. since Roe v. Wade was enacted almost 40 years ago. This is an American holocaust. 3. The third characteristic separating abortion from other social injustices is its legal status. Unlike other taking of human life in “civilized” nations, it has legal sanction. 4. Another distinguishing aspect of abortion is the arbitrary division of humans into those worthy of life and those unworthy. It’s the circumscription of an entire class of humans to be

denied the basic rights, protections and dignity accorded to others. 5. Abortion is also very different than euthanasia and assisted suicide, importantly, because of the absence of any possibility of informed consent. 6. Finally, abortion is unique because of its relative invisibility. It is done mostly in secret. San Francisco is still a heavily Catholic city. But I think many of the relatively new immigrants aren’t aware of the positions and influence held by the politicians for whom they vote. The church could fix that. G.P. Heckert San Mateo

are bored or experimenting or don’t know any better. But it is not a place where they drown.” Why aren’t they destroyed by this sexual licentiousness? Rosin explains, “The most patient and thorough research about the hookup culture shows that over the long run, women benefit greatly from living in a world where they can have sexual adventure without commitment or all that much shame, and where they can enter into temporary relationships that don’t get in the way of future success.” One might think that prevalence of casual sex would produce women who are sexual victims, but Rosin contends that precisely the opposite is the case. Young women who choose a variety of sexual partners and who assiduously steer clear of pesky relationships are “managing their romantic lives like savvy headhunters.” Instead of being manipulated by powerful men, young ladies are happily becoming adept at manipulation. And here is Rosin’s grand conclusion: “The hookup culture is too bound up with everything that’s fabulous about being a young woman in 2012 – the freedom, the confidence, the knowledge that you can always depend on yourself.” What struck me throughout Rosin’s article was the absence of a reference to the objectively valuable in sexual behavior. The purpose of sex? The meaning of the sexual act? The proper ethical, or dare I say religious, setting for sexuality? Never mentioned – and apparently irrelevant. All that seems to matter is that young people, especially young women, have the opportunity to define themselves sexually however they want, to “manage” their sexual activity “like savvy headhunters.” In the arena of sexuality, the one-sided stress on freedom and self-reliance will lead to manipulation, domination and indifference to relationship. But when the sexual impulse is ordered according to the objective values of love, commitment, marriage and the call of God, it is transfigured into something radiant and rare.

esuit Cardinal Carlo Martini died on Aug. 31. He was the retired archbishop of Milan and once considered a possible successor to Pope John Paul II. In 2008, Cardinal Martini remarked that the proclamation of the standard of Christ is “the service that the Society of Jesus is called to perform for the church today.” He was referring to a special “Meditation on Two Standards” from the Spiritual Exercises FATHER WILLIAM of St. Ignatius. The two J. BYRON, SJ standards are “the one of Christ, our Supreme Commander and Lord, the other of Lucifer, the mortal enemy of our human nature.” (A “standard,” by the way, is a military banner or “guide on” employed to lead forces in battle; Ignatius used military imagery in his meditations.) The standard of Christ offers a clearly countercultural Ignatian principle of leadership. The three steps to genuine success, according to Ignatius, are poverty as opposed to riches; insults or contempt as opposed to the honor of this world; humility as opposed to pride. “From these three steps let them lead men to all other virtues” are the words Ignatius puts on the lips of Christ speaking to all who would follow him in working for the salvation of the world. To the completely secular eye, that will be seen as no service at all. To the eye of faith, acceptance of the genuine Ignatian vision will be seen as a form of liberation that frees a person to become an effective leader. The Ignatian leadership idea is that humility, as demonstrated in the life of Christ, is a highly desirable leadership characteristic. Think of it as “humbition,” an amalgam of humility and ambition, and you have a clue to what Cardinal Martini thought that Jesuits should be bringing to the contemporary world. The standard of Satan, according to Ignatius, represents a three-step strategy intended to trap the unwary and lead them away from Christ and into perdition. Cardinal Martini saw a danger of this happening in our world today. Obviously, there is a point of view that is shaped by the Spiritual Exercises and it is clearly countercultural. When John Kenneth Galbraith’s landmark book “The Affluent Society” was making the rounds in the late 1950s, the author’s comments about the “basic benefits” of having wealth reflected the values of the dominant culture, but they also struck an unintended echo of the standard of Satan. Here is what Galbraith wrote: “Broadly speaking, there are three basic benefits from wealth. First is the satisfaction in the power with which it endows the individual. Second is the physical possession of the things which money can buy. Third is the distinction or esteem that accrues to the rich man as a result of his wealth.” The power-possession-esteem triad echoes the strategy Ignatius saw as the trap set by the enemy of our human nature. The Jesuit brothers Cardinal Martini leaves behind can honor his memory by warning those they serve of the danger of being possessed by their possessions. The cardinal will undoubtedly be praying for their success in persuading those they serve of the validity and practical worth of the countercultural values that underlie Ignatian spirituality.

FATHER BARRON is the founder of the global ministry Word on Fire and the rector/president of Mundelein Seminary, Mundelein, Ill.

JESUIT FATHER BYRON is university professor of business and society at St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia. Email wbyron@sju.edu.

Social benefits of investment by the wealthy Letter writer Sue Malone Hayes (Sept. 21) uses Scripture to admonish other letter writers for stating opinions she doesn’t like without “corroborating evidence.” Romans 2:1 says it best: “You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge the other, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things.” Her assertion that “The only investment most of the uber rich make is in themselves” is patently false and not borne out by the facts. The truth is, in 2011 $30.6 billion was invested in 3,051 companies, even though three-quarters of venture-backed firms in the U.S. don’t return investors’ capital (according to recent research by Shikhar Ghosh, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School). And non-venture-backed companies fail more often than venture-backed companies in the first four years of existence, typically because they don’t have the capital to keep going if the business model doesn’t work. Thank God for those willing to risk their hardearned capital to bring us today’s miracle drugs, increased productivity, and the millions of jobs that make us the envy of the world. Alan J. Smith San Francisco

‘Savvy headhunters’ and the ‘hookup culture’

first came across the term “hookup culture” in Leonard Sax’s thought-provoking and disturbing 2005 book, “Why Gender Matters.” But the phenomenon itself I found beautifully depicted in a novel published a year earlier: Tom Wolfe’s “I Am Charlotte Simmons.” As Sax specifies, the hookup mentality – prevalent among even some very young people but especially among university students – dictates that casual sexual encounters involving absolutely no expectation of relationship, or even psychological engagement, FATHER ROBERT are perfectly acceptable. Sax, BARRON a psychiatrist specializing in family therapy, learned of the hookup world from the veritable army of young women suffering from depression and anxiety who were streaming to his office. And through the figure of Charlotte Simmons – an innocent girl from North Carolina who lost her way morally and psychologically at a prestigious university where casual sex and drugs were far more important than learning – Wolfe showed the debilitating effects of this self-absorbed and hedonistic culture. It would seem self-evident that such permissiveness, though prevalent, is morally problematic and something to be decried rather than celebrated. But read an article titled “Boys on the Side” in the most recent edition of The Atlantic in order to find a dissenting opinion. According to Hanna Rosin, the hookup mentality is a boon to women. She allows that lots of books and studies have pointed out the dark side of the hookup culture, the frustration and humiliation that can follow from transient sexual encounters, but she insists that steady questioning of typical young women today would reveal that none of them really wants a return to traditional morality. She argues, “For most women, the hookup culture is like an island they visit, mostly during their college years and even then only when they

Cardinal Martini’s legacy to his Jesuit brothers

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SUNDAY READINGS

Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time “Anyone who gives you a cup of water to drink because you belong to Christ, … will surely not lose his reward.” MARK 9:38-43, 45, 47-48 NUMBERS 11:25-29 The Lord came down in the cloud and spoke to Moses. Taking some of the spirit that was on Moses, the Lord bestowed it on the seventy elders; and as the spirit came to rest on them, they prophesied. Now two men, one named Eldad and the other Medad, were not in the gathering but had been left in the camp. They too had been on the list, but had not gone out to the tent; yet the spirit came to rest on them also, and they prophesied in the camp. So, when a young man quickly told Moses, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp,” Joshua, son of Nun, who from his youth had been Moses’ aide, said, “Moses, my lord, stop them.” But Moses answered him, “Are you jealous for my sake? Would that all the people of the Lord were prophets! Would that the Lord might bestow his spirit on them all!” PSALM 19:8, 10, 12-13, 14 The precepts of the Lord give joy to the heart. The law of the Lord is perfect, refreshing the soul; the decree of the Lord is trustworthy, giving wisdom to the simple. The precepts of the Lord give joy to the heart. The fear of the Lord is pure, enduring forever;

the ordinances of the Lord are true, all of them just. The precepts of the Lord give joy to the heart. Though your servant is careful of them, very diligent in keeping them, Yet who can detect failings? Cleanse me from my unknown faults! The precepts of the Lord give joy to the heart. From wanton sin especially, restrain your servant; let it not rule over me. Then shall I be blameless and innocent of serious sin. The precepts of the Lord give joy to the heart. JAMES 5:1-6 Come now, you rich, weep and wail over your impending miseries. Your wealth has rotted away, your clothes have become moth-eaten, your gold and silver have corroded, and that corrosion will be a testimony against you; it will devour your flesh like a fire. You have stored up treasure for the last days. Behold, the wages you withheld from the workers who harvested your fields are crying aloud; and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts. You have lived on earth in luxury and pleasure; you have fattened your hearts for the day of slaughter. You have con-

demned; you have murdered the righteous one; he offers you no resistance. MARK 9:38-43, 45, 47-48 At that time, John said to Jesus, “Teacher, we saw someone driving out demons in your name, and we tried to prevent him because he does not follow us.” Jesus replied, “Do not prevent him. There is no one who performs a mighty deed in my name who can at the same time speak ill of me. For whoever is not against us is for us. Anyone who gives you a cup of water to drink because you belong to Christ, amen, I say to you, will surely not lose his reward. Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were put around his neck and he were thrown into the sea. If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed than with two hands to go into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire. And if your foot causes you to sin, cut if off. It is better for you to enter into life crippled than with two feet to be thrown into Gehenna. And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out. Better for you to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into Gehenna, where ‘their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.’”

No one is a stranger, no one will be excluded

merican poet Edwin Markham in his pithy poem “Outwitted” says: “He drew a circle that shut me out – Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout, But Love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle that took him in!” History is strewn with tragic events of shutting people in circles of exclusion. It takes imagination, courage, and faith to outwit the agents of exclusion and draw large circles of inclusion based on love and fellowship. The largest circle that God himself has drawn is the kingdom of God. God’s rule will include all people, races, cultures, and religions. No one a stranger! No one will be excluded! The invitation – and challenge – for us as believers is to FATHER CHARLES enact the kingdom drama in PUTHOTA the choices we make as individuals, families, and nations. Religions and nations have artfully practiced exclusion for centuries in the name of God. However, with such sad history behind us, we hope to have learned not to alienate and threaten the other. The other,

SCRIPTURE REFLECTION

POPE BENEDICT XVI CHRISTIANS, MUSLIMS MUST GIVE JOINT WITNESS FOR PEACE

Pope Benedict XVI said his three-day trip to Lebanon convinced him that now is the time for Christians and Muslims to bear witness together to dialogue and peace. In Lebanon, the pope said Sept. 19 in Vatican City at his weekly general audience, Muslims “welcomed me with great respect,” and their presence at each of his public events “gave me an opportunity to launch a message of dialogue and cooperation between Christianity and Islam.” He said “the time has come to give a sincere and decisive witness together against divisions, against violence and against war.” The pope said he was strongly committed to making the trip “because I was convinced that a father must be alongside his children when they face serious problems.

living next door or at the other end of the earth, is still a neighbor who seeks God’s blessings channeled through the sacramentality of one another. The recent spate of violence in the name of God in some parts of the world reminds us that in some ways we have not made much headway. Hasn’t the world learned from its past blunders? Hasn’t religion been purified of hatred, bigotry, and violence? Haven’t we learned the basic truth that religion’s sole purpose is to build up the human family in the image and likeness of God? To widen the circle of love to include everyone is the heart of all human striving and endeavor. Jesus enacts the kingdom drama by including everyone. Even those who are not his followers are on his side if they do good deeds to others. Jesus is not going to prevent anyone from his circle on the basis of narrow allegiances and loyalties. He will embrace the whole human family in a circle drawn by his heavenly Father, who lets the sun shine and rains fall on the good and the bad. Setting aside oppressive ideological deceptions, Jesus opts for a refreshingly simple, even practical, approach: “Whoever is not against us is for us.” Jesus’ vision governs his positive, inclusive approach toward the Samaritans, Romans, Syro-Phoenicians, sinners, tax collectors, etc. The common theme running through Jesus’ parables is that everyone is welcome to join the circle of grace.

In the first reading, Joshua tries to prevent Eldad and Medad from prophesying because they were absent at the meeting, but God’s spirit will be given to them as well. Moses speaks for the inclusive God: “Would that all the people of the Lord were prophets! Would that the Lord might bestow his spirit on them all!” In communities like a parish or workplace, there may be tendencies for marginalizing people. The church courageously proclaims the moral imperatives in political, economic, and social life. During this election cycle, we need to be discerning of leaders capable of Jesus’ vision of the kingdom of God. Approaching issues like employment, immigration, education, healthcare, poverty, are those seeking our votes in favor of including everyone, to ensure God’s blessings for all? Here is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream for such inclusiveness: “We will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!” FATHER PUTHOTA is pastor of St. Veronica Parish, South San Francisco.

LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS MONDAY, OCTOBER 1: Memorial of St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus, virgin and doctor of the Church. Jb 1:6-22. Ps 17:1bcd, 2-3, 6-7. Lk 9:4650. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2: Memorial of the Guardian Angels. Jb 3:1-3, 11-17, 20-23. Ps 88:2-3, 4-5, 6, 7-8. Mt 18:1-5, 10. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3: Wednesday of the Twenty-sixth Week in Ordinary Time. Jb 9:1-12, 1416. Ps 88:10bc-11, 12-13, 14-15. Lk 9:57-62. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4: Memorial of St. Francis of Assisi, religious. Jb 19:21-27. Ps 27:7-8a, 8b-9abc, 13-14. Lk 10:1-12. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5: Friday of the Twenty-sixth Week in Ordinary Time. St. Faustina Kowalska, virgin. Jb 38:1, 12-21; 40:3-5. Ps 139:1-3, 7-8, 9-10, 1314ab. Lk 10:13-16.

FAUSTINA KOWALSKA 1905-1938 October 5 The visionary called the apostle of divine mercy deferred a religious calling to help her poor Polish family with her earnings as a housekeeper. She entered the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy in 1925, serving in Krakow, Plock and Vilnius as a cook, gardener and porter until her early death from tuberculosis. After reporting her visions of Jesus as the divine mercy, she was ordered to have a psychiatric evaluation and the church posthumously condemned her 700-page diary. Her fellow Pole, Cardinal Karol Wojtyla, championed her cause and had the ban removed after a retranslation; later, as Pope John Paul II, he canonized her and designated the Second Sunday of Easter as Divine Mercy Sunday churchwide.

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A 13th-century saint with much to teach about caring for creation FATHER LAWRENCE E. MICK

On or near Oct. 4, on the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, many parishes celebrate with a blessing of pets. People bring all kinds of pets to church for the blessing: dogs and cats, gerbils and hamsters, birds and horses, sheep and potbellied pigs. Parishes do this because St. Francis is remembered for having a special way with birds and animals. He is said to have preached to the birds and to have removed a thorn from the paw of a wolf terrorizing the Italian town of Gubbio. While this custom is a good one, we would do well to remember that Francis’ concern for creation extended far beyond pets. He had a deep sense of connection to all of creation. In his famous Canticle of the Sun, he praises God for brother sun and sister moon, for brother wind and sister water, for brother fire and mother earth, for the gift of life, for dusk and dawn, for touch and scent and song. Francis did not see himself as over creation but as part of the ecosystem. It was not surprising that Pope

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John Paul II in 1979 proclaimed Francis as the “heavenly patron of those who promote ecology.” The pope went on to say, “He offers Christians an example of genuine and deep respect for the integrity of creation. As a friend of the poor who was loved by God’s creatures, St. Francis invited all of creation –

animals, plants, natural forces, even brother sun and sister moon – to give honor and praise to the Lord.” Francis did not see any separation between the natural world and the sacred. He saw every creature as sacred because it was created by God and could reveal God to anyone. This led to his sense of oneness with creation, for humans also were created by God and can reveal God’s presence. This oneness with all of creation is the basic principle of ecological awareness. As early as 1971, Pope Paul VI noted that “by an ill-considered exploitation of nature (man) risks destroying it and becoming in his turn the victim of this degradation.” We face unprecedented challenges because of abuse of the environment. There is much work to do if we are to change our sinful ways. St. Francis has much to teach us about respecting all the works of God’s hand. FATHER MICK is a priest of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati and a freelance writer. ©CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

The right answer is not enough

ruth alone is not enough. It must be balanced off with the other transcendental properties of God: oneness, goodness and beauty. That might sound abstract, but what it means concretely is that sometimes we can have all the right answers and still be wrong. How? If we are actFATHER RON ing in truth ROLHEISER how can we be wrong? The first pitfall is this: We may be acting out of truth and, in fact, doing all the right things, but our energy can be wrong. T.S. Eliot once famously said: “The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason.” We can see what is at stake here by looking at the older brother of the prodigal son. On the surface his devotion to his father lacks nothing. He rightly attests that his life is blameless and a paradigm of filial devotion. He has kept all the commandments, has never left his father’s house, and has done all the required work. The irony is that he fails to notice that he is not in fact inside his father’s house, but is standing outside of it and is being gently invited in by his father. What is keeping him outside since after all he is doing everything correctly? Bitterness and anger. His actions are correct, but his heart is wrong. Bitterness and anger are not the right energy to fuel truth. We can be scrupulously faithful and still find ourselves standing outside of God’s house and outside the circle of community and celebration because of a bitter heart. Gratitude

Truth is not a sledgehammer; it is an invitation that we must respectfully offer others. is the energy that ultimately needs to fuel the truth. Like the older brother of the prodigal son, we can be doing everything right and still, somehow, be wrong. And where this is particularly important in terms of a challenge is in our efforts, both as individuals and as churches, to offer the truth, the right answers, to those around us, be that our own children who no longer go to church or society as a whole. If, inside of our speaking the truth, there are elements of elitism, arrogance, anger, lack of respect, lack of understanding, or worse still, embittered moralizing, our truth will not be heard, not because our truth is wrong but because our energy is. That is why Jesus warns us to “speak our truth in parables.” Truth is not a sledgehammer; it is an invitation that we must respectfully offer others. And there is still a second potential pitfall: We can have the right answers and the right energy, but have the wrong understanding of those answers. We see this, for example, in Mark’s Gospel when Jesus asks the disciples the question: “Who do you say that I am?” Peter answers, and answers correctly, by saying: “You are the Christ, the Messiah.” But he is immediately shut down by Jesus (“Don’t tell that to anyone!”) and is subsequently rebuked with the words: “Get behind me, Satan!” Why? Wasn’t he correct? Peter’s answer was correct, Jesus was the Christ, but his understanding of what that meant was mostly wrong. For Peter, the concept of a Messiah connoted earthly power and especially earthly privilege, whereas for Jesus it meant suffering and

dying. Peter had the right answer, but the wrong understanding of that answer. Some scholars speculate that this is the real reason behind the so-called “messianic secret” in the Gospels, where Jesus repeatedly asks his disciples to not reveal his identity. His reluctance to have his disciples broadcast publicly who he is was based upon his fear that they could not, before the Resurrection and Pentecost, properly understand his identity and would invariably preach a false message. We can have the right answers and still be wrong because we have the wrong energy to go along with the answers or because we have a wrong understanding of the answers. It is good to take that to heart, especially when we step out prophetically either religiously or morally or socially. We may well have the water of life, the truth that sets people free, and the right cause, but nobody except our own kind will accept to receive it from us if our energy is wrong or our understanding of that truth is wrong. It is easy to rationalize that it is because we are prophetic, the faithful remnant, the last warriors of truth still standing, that we are not being heard and why we are hated. But, more often than not, we are not being listened to because we are misguided, elitist, non-empathic, or flat-out unloving, not because we are warriors for truth or justice. And so we need to be humble and heed Jesus’ warning to guard the “messianic secret” and “speak our truth in parables.” In brief, we need to be solicitous always lest a false energy behind our truth or a misunderstanding of that truth have us so fall out of discipleship that Jesus has to reprimand us with the words: “Get behind me, Satan!” OBLATE FATHER ROLHEISER is president of the Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, Texas.

On ‘bodily demeanor’ and dress code at Mass

I attend a small parish in a small town. I moved here recently and am surprised at the low-cut tops, short shorts and short skirts worn by women at Mass. Isn’t there some kind of dress code? (Iowa) On the topic of proper dress for Mass, there are probably as many different opinions as there are readers of this column. I am not aware FATHER of any uniKENNETH DOYLE versal church rule as to what constitutes appropriate dress. The closest reference I can find is in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, No. 1387, which says, in reference to the reception of the Eucharist, “Bodily demeanor (gestures, clothing) ought to convey the respect, solemnity and joy of this moment when Christ becomes our guest.” Later on, in discussing the virtue of purity, the catechism notes in No. 2522 that “modesty is decency. It inspires one’s choice of clothing.” Opinions on the issue can be divided, basically, into two camps. First, there are those who note that going to Mass is different from going to the mall. If we were invited to meet the president at a dinner at the White House, says this opinion, we would certainly wear our nicest clothes and so we should “dress up” in the same way when we go to meet Jesus in the Eucharist. In the other camp are those who are reluctant to do anything that might discourage people from coming to church and who feel that clothing for Mass can be casual and comfortable, as long as it is decent. I lean toward the second view and feel, for example, that in the summer, men who come to Mass in collared golf shirts and Bermuda shorts are presentable (although I would certainly ask more formality from those serving as lectors or extraordinary minister of holy Communion). Judgments on acceptable attire are probably best left to parishes, because standards vary from culture to culture and from place to place. One website I’ve seen, in what is perhaps an overabundance of detail, lists among the types of dress that are “never acceptable” for women in church: “any clothing that bares midriffs or cleavage,” “tight clothing meant to accentuate – to draw attention to – various body parts that God considers, and that we ought to consider, sacred” and “short shorts – above the knee – or miniskirts.”

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Book highlights postconciliar lay ministries REVIEWED BY BROTHER JEFFREY GROS, FSC CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

“IN THE NAME OF THE CHURCH: VOCATION AND AUTHORIZATION OF LAY ECCLESIAL MINISTRY,” edited by William Cahoy. Liturgical Press (Collegeville, Minn., 2012). 221 pp., $19.95. For Catholics who have grown up after the Second Vatican Council, lay educators, liturgical ministers, social servants and a host of other ministers in the parish are a familiar sight. Some may presume these are helpers for the religious and priests, others that these are employees or volunteers. However, there is a deeper understanding and practice of the church behind the presence of these ecclesial lay ministers, which is both new and evolving in the Catholic theology of the church. “In the Name of the Church” makes an important contribution to this discussion, featuring the vocational and authorization dimensions of these new ministers and ministries. The council moved from an understanding of church, often focused on its institutional and clerical elements, to a theology rooted in the vocation of all the baptized in the differentiated body of Christ, where ordained and lay are common disciples of Christ in serving the one mission of the church. Within the variety of the lay vocation, many are called to marriage, most are called to labor in the world, but some carry a vocation to service within the church. The understanding of these roles and the structures of the church that support and form them are early in

their evolution. The U.S. bishops have given helpful direction to the development at this stage of its history: “Co-Workers in the Vineyard of the Lord” (2005). This volume is the result of a consultation among the bishops, theologians and experienced ministers, providing an interdisciplinary exploration that will inevitably contribute to the development of these ministries. Characteristic of these ministries is leadership, authorization, collaboration with priests and bishops, and appropriate formation. The volume ends with eight conclusions: Lay ecclesial ministries are the work of the Holy Spirit, are rooted in baptism and are a genuine vocation. They create a distinctive set of relationships within the church, serve in the name of the church, are authorized by the bishop or his delegate, are invested by rituals which affirm and celebrate the particular ministry, and require systems of support and consistent policy across the church in the United States. The book, divided into 10 chapters, includes a keynote address by Chicago Cardinal Francis E. George and an appendix listing the 43 networks, universities and institutions that sponsored the 2011 Collegeville National Symposium on Lay Ecclesial Ministry, on which the book is based. The first part of the book includes

an overview of the church’s teaching on this category of ministry and the collaborative theological approach serving the process outlined in the volume. The second part focuses on vocation from a theological and biblical perspective, with an exemplary essay on one of these ministries, directors of religious education. Three essays on authorization follow, from theological, canonical and episcopal points of view. The last part includes two essays on the ritualization appropriate to these ministries, using the formation, certification and commissioning ritual of the Archdiocese of Chicago as the example. Ecclesial lay ministries were developed out of the mission needs of Africa and Latin America before the council. The renewed understanding of baptism, ministry and communion developed in the council gave a doctrinal basis and universal impetus to a renewed lay vocation, including ecclesial vocations within them. The variety of cultures and ecclesial needs and leadership around the world have begun to fill out this vision of the council with an emerging theology and practice of ministry. This volume harvests some of the best U.S. thinking on the understanding and implementation of ministry. It will be important reading not only for ecclesial ministers, lay and clergy, but for all informed Catholics in leadership, so that this vision may imbue the full life of the church in the 21st century. BROTHER GROS, a member of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, is resident scholar in Catholic studies at Lewis University in Romeoville, Ill.

Comics are about more than just good vs. evil ADAM SHAW CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

NEW YORK – Analysts have connected the comic book baby Superman to the baby Moses and the superhero Superman to Christ himself. But the fables behind any number of familiar comic book figures – from SpiderMan and the Flash to Batman and the X-Men – bear strong similarities, not only to Judeo-Christian narratives but to those of other faiths as well. And they are often deep, complex fictions calculated to convey a multitude of messages to their readers. Whatever else can be said about them, these messages cannot be considered inconsequential. The comic book industry is a juggernaut, going from strength to strength, continually surprising those who claim that the 21st century has no need of so old-fashioned a medium. In spite of the naysayers, the books fly off the shelves by the thousands, and many of them – perhaps most – end up in the hands of impressionable youngsters. So what can parents anxious to guide their children to wholesome reading matter do? And how is an adult reader of faith supposed to avoid shelling out hard-earned money on theologically warped or morally corrupt stories? There is at least some assistance available to the discerning consumer or guardian. Although the Comics Code that was established in the early 1950s no longer exists, the main comic book companies now use self-imposed guideline systems similar to that overseen by the videogame industry’s En-

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A publicity image featuring the popular fictional heros of DC comics tertainment Software Rating Board. As with the ESRB’s classifications, the comic book guidelines are intended to specify the appropriate age group for any given volume. An identifying phrase, word or symbol – such as “M – Mature” or simply “T+” – is displayed on the cover of most widely circulated comics. (The precise wording of the classifications varies from company to company.) While they may take into account such matters of parental concern as violence and sexual content, these warnings are necessarily faith-neutral. This is not to say that the two ratings are in any way inaccurate. But, for believers, they are incomplete.

One vital way of making up for this deficiency is through parental interaction with young readers. Parents who take care to peruse comics before allowing kids to purchase them – and then make an effort to discuss the text once youngsters have finished reading – will likely find their investment of time well rewarded. For instance, the “Green Lantern” comics may be perfectly suitable for young Catholics, so long as they have a clear understanding that the Guardians of the Universe are not real, and that these grumpy and often evil pseudo-deities do not correspond to our understanding of the true God. More positively, the way in which the multiple Guardians are portrayed as speaking and acting as one could provide an opening for a catechetical conversation about the nature of the Trinity. To turn to another example, the Batman saga may not present any obvious theological problems, and may indeed be used to foster proper concepts of good and evil, villainy and justice. Without a proper grounding in faith, however, readers could as easily see the Caped Crusader’s story as a celebration of vigilantism and revengedriven violence. They might even take away the twisted notion that the inability to forgive is somehow a virtue. SHAW is a guest reviewer for Catholic News Service. This is one in a series of Catholic News Service articles examining both the theological themes underlying well-established graphic series and the spiritual and moral values to be found in some of today’s new offerings.

TV PROGRAM NOTES, FILM FARE SUNDAY, SEPT. 30, 1:30-2:30 P.M. EDT (EWTN) “THE LITTLE FLOWER IN AFRICA.” This program offers a look at the first tour of the relics of St. Therese of Lisieux in South Africa, a review of the life of St. Therese and her “Little Way” to holiness; an overview of Carmelite spirituality; and a brief history of the Catholic Church in South Africa. WEDNESDAY, OCT. 3, 5:45-8 P.M. EDT (TCM) “GOING MY WAY” (1944). Bing Crosby ambles amiably through the role of Father O’Malley, the crooning curate sent to assist the aging, crotchety pastor (Barry Fitzgerald) of a poor parish in need of change. The definitive Hollywood version of Catholic life in an age of innocence, the picture retains appeal today mainly as a well-crafted vehicle of popular entertainment. WEDNESDAY, OCT. 3, 9-11 P.M. EDT (PBS) “PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE.” This “PBS NewsHour” special report presents live coverage and analysis of the first presidential candidates’ debate, which will focus on domestic policy. THURSDAY, OCT. 4, 10-11:30 P.M. EDT (PBS) “GIVE UP TOMORROW.” Documentary examines murder trial that ended use of capital punishment in the Philippines. SATURDAY, OCT. 6, 8-10 P.M. EDT (EWTN) “TERESA DE JESUS.” First two episodes of an eight-part miniseries on the life of the Spanish saint and mystic Teresa of Avila (1515-1582). The first part begins in Ortigosa, Spain, in the summer of 1538, and introduces Teresa of Ahumada, as she was then known; the second part opens in August 1539, as Teresa struggles with serious illness. In Spanish with English subtitles. The series continues with back-to-back episodes Saturdays through Oct. 27, 8-10 p.m. EDT each night. ©CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE

FATHER BILL O’DONNELL SUBJECT OF BOOK COMPILED BY HIS SISTER

The memory and work of Father Bill O’Donnell, a pastor and peace activist of the Diocese of Oakland who died in 2003, will live on if his sister, Mary O’Donnell, has anything to say about it. The proud sibling has published online “Father Bill, Reflections of a Beloved Rebel.” The collection of sermons, humor and speeches speaks well and correctly about the late priest say those who knew him including actor Martin Sheen who sometimes found himself by Father Bill’s side as an advocate. “A wonderful book on Father Bill,” Sheen said. Sister Helen Prejean of “Dead Man Walking” fame said, “This book recalls not only his action on behalf of justice, but also his wisdom and vision.” Born in Livermore, Father Bill was a regular demonstrator at his hometown’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory as well as at School of the Americas in Fort Benning, Ga. and served time in jail for his persistence. He was called “the saint of Berkeley.” For information on previewing and buying the book, visit www.smashwords. com/books/view/215256.

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USF opens downtown campus GEORGE RAINE CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

The first wave of students taking classes in the new University of San Francisco Downtown Campus in the historic Folger Coffee Building at 101 Howard St. are in place, making USF, as Dean Mike Webber of the USF School of Management put it, “the 157-year-old new kid on the block.” San Francisco’s oldest university was founded in 1855 a few blocks away, at Fourth and Market streets, and so, yes, USF is returning to its historic roots with the purchase, for $36.5 million, of the 100,000-square foot building. But more important, said Jesuit Father Stephen A. Privett, USF president, “With 101 Howard, USF is taking teaching, learning and research into the business and financial sector at the heart of San Francisco,” and the proximity will allow students to become part of entrepreneurial and innovative strides in business, technology and the nonprofit sector, and not be “standing by and watching it happen.” Father Privett spoke to guests Sept. 14 at the opening celebration of the downtown campus. The first USF department to move in – they are 350 students of the School of Management – are pursuing master of business administration, the executive MBA, master of science and financial analysis and master of science in organization development – and will be joined by others over time, as leases of some current occupants expire. Proximity to business, financial and other sector leaders downtown is key, said Jennifer Turpin, provost and vice president for academic affairs. “It’s a different thing to teach a course in marketing or finance and to be here and to go outside and have this everyday exposure – and the students are excited and I think the business community is excited,” she said.

OBITUARY FATHER STEVE DAVIES – SERVED AT AREA PARISHES

Father Steve Davies died Sept. 14 after struggling for more than a decade with debilitating illnesses related to diabetes. He was 64. Father Davies grew up in Texas and entered the novitiate of the Vincentian Fathers in Santa Barbara in August 1966 and professed temporary vows in 1968. Later, he was accepted for Father Steve studies at St. Patrick’s Davies Seminary & University and ordained for the Archdiocese of San Francisco on May 21, 1977, by Archbishop John R. Quinn. Father Davies served at parishes including San Francisco’s St. Patrick, St. Anne, St. Gabriel , St. Stephen, Mission Dolores, Sacred Heart, and the now National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi, as well as Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, Redwood City, and St. Anthony Church and Church of the Nativity, Menlo Park. In 2010 he moved to live near family in Monroe, La., in the Diocese of Shreveport. Funeral rites and interment were held there Sept. 18. Remembrances may be made to the Priests Retirement Fund, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco 94109.

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Star of the Sea students clean up Ocean Beach More than 80 Star of the Sea School students and their families walked Ocean Beach Sept. 15 picking up cigarette butts, plastic bags, fast food wrappers and bottles for the 28th Annual California Coastal Cleanup Day. The litter is discarded by beachgoers and also washes up from as far away as Asia and Australia. The San Francisco Catholic elementary school has participated for many years, said parent Kathy Cheun. The school encourages participation to reinforce the community and each person’s responsibility to be “responsible and globally aware stewards.”

50 YOUNG ADULTS VISIT LOURDES WITH ORDER OF MALTA

The Order of Malta Western Association Lourdes Summer Pilgrimage took place July 12-22. Leaders on the trip included Knight of Malta Kevin White and his wife, Mary, and Msgr. James Kidder of the Diocese of Sacramento, chaplain. More than 50 young adults representing schools including Junipero Serra High School, Woodside Priory, St. Ignatius College Preparatory, Marin Catholic High School and Sacred Heart Prep took part. While in Lourdes, pilgrims helped at the famed healing grotto. “Days were quite long,” said White, noting young adults were at the site sometimes from dawn until about 10 p.m. Daily work assignments included loading and unloading the sick on and off ambulance rail cars, a service requiring considerable care due to the large numbers of gravely ill who travel by train to Lourdes. “The kids performed their service with great sensitivity and often found themselves maneuvering hospital stretchers down narrow passages,” White said. “Despite the difficult conditions, they performed their service with broad smiles on their faces always remembering to convey the spirit of hospitality.”

At a weekend Mass the group was responsible for organizing the placement of 900 wheelchairs and more than 1,500 three-wheeled vehicles used in Lourdes to transport the seriously ill. More than 25,000 people attended the liturgy. Pilgrims also assisted with the torchlight procession where more than 30,000 people gather holding candles and praying the rosary in multiple languages. More than 7 million pilgrims travel to Lourdes annually. The pilgrimage is in its fourth year. “The fact that many of our young pilgrims are returning each year is a tribute to them, their families, their schools and their dedication to Our Lady,” White said.

FALLEN SF FIREFIGHTERS TO BE HONORED AT NATIONAL CEREMONY

Two San Francisco firefighters who died in the line of duty will be remembered at the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Service Oct. 7 in Emmitsburg, Md. Lt. Vincent Perez and paramedic and firefighter Anthony “Tony” Valerio died after fighting a fire in a home in the city’s Diamond Heights neighborhood June 2011. Funerals for both men were held at St. Mary’s Cathedral. Perez, a

Students thank police, firefighters

On the anniversary of 9/11, Church of the Visitacion School thanked San Francisco police and firefighters who came to the rescue following a water main break Aug. 28 that caused $500,000 damage to the school and its convent. “We had school Mass and invited police and firefighters to thank them,” said pastor Father Thuan Hoang. All activities such as meetings, sports programs, and fundraising events have come to a stop until further notice, the priest said. The school reopened Sept. 4. The City and County of San Francisco’s insurance policies will pay for repairs, according to the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

1981 graduate of Archbishop Riordan High School and St. Charles Elementary School, died June 2, 2011. Valerio died June 4. The 31st Annual National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Service at the National Fire Academy will honor 80 firefighters who died in 2011 and five firefighters who died in previous years. The names of those firefighters who died in the line of duty will be added to the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial on the academy grounds. The national tribute is sponsored by the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation and the Department of Homeland Security. More than 6,000 people, including members of Congress and the Obama administration, members of the fire service, and families and friends of the fallen firefighters will attend the event. Families will receive flags flown over the U.S. Capitol and the national memorial.

ST. MARY’S COLLEGE CELEBRATES 150TH

Saint Mary’s College of California, 1928 St. Mary’s Road, Moraga, is celebrating its 150th year with a free public festival and open house Oct. 6 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. The event will include a campus carnival featuring children’s rides and attractions; campus tours and interactive programs from various academic departments; performances by California acoustic soul band Alma Desnuda and the college’s music, theater and dance departments; and athletic demonstrations, live bands and food. Throughout the academic year, the college will present a host of free public events, forums and performances to honor the sesquicentennial. Public transportation is encouraged. Campus parking is limited but satellite parking will be available, with free continuous shuttle services at Lafayette BART, the Rheem Center in Moraga and the Moraga Commons Park. For more information visit yearofthegael.com, email yearofthegael@ stmarys-ca.edu or call (925) 631-4200. San Francisco Archbishop Joseph Sadoc Alemany founded St. Mary’s College San Francisco in 1863 as a diocesan college for boys. The college was given to the De La Salle Christian Brothers in 1868, later moving to Oakland and then to Moraga.

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3-DAY FLOWER FESTIVAL: St. Mary’s Cathedral Festival of Flowers, Oct. 5-7, Gough Street and Geary Boulevard, San Francisco. Friday includes a gala preview event with tickets at $50 per person. Acclaimed harpist Laura Dave Scott Simpson is featured artist during the gala’s cathedral segment. The featured band for the evening in the Cathedral Event Center is “Second Opinion,” under the direction of David Kell. Free exhibits are open Oct. 6, 9 a.m.-7:30 p.m. and Oct. 7, 8:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Exhibits include arrangements designed to honor the 25th anniversary of Pope John Paul II’s visit to St. Mary Cathedral in September 1987 as well as artifacts from the visit. A jazz/ gospel Mass Oct. 6, 5:30 p.m. features the Bay Area Gospel Mass Choir with Gabriel Angelo, child prodigy trumpeter; Dave Scott, renowned jazz trumpeter; and Howard Wiley, jazz composer and saxophonist. Archdiocesan Choir Concert closes the festival Oct. 7 at 4 p.m. www.cathedralflowers.org.

ZYDECO DANCE: Our Lady of Lourdes Parish hosts New Orleans style event featuring live music by Andre Thierry and Zydeco Magic, 7 p.m. 1601 Lane St., San Francisco/Bayview YMCA. Advance tickets $20/$25 at the door. Father Dan Carter (415) 285-3377, Terry Oertel (415) 405-6309. SVDP WALK: Friends of the Poor Walk, 8 a.m. Lake Merced, San Francisco, proceeds benefit people in need throughout San Francisco. (415) 786-6868. Father Tom Hamilton will lead prayer.www. svdp-sf.org.

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TUESDAY, OCT. 2 COLLEGE FAIR: Catholic College Fair at Marin Catholic High School, 6:308:30 p.m. Open to all high school students and their families. Visit www. catholicCollegefairs.org. A CONTEMPLATIVE ROSARY: St. Catherine of Siena Church, 1310 Bayswater Ave. at El Camino Real, Burlingame, 7 p.m., composer Bob Hurd’s setting of the luminous mysteries with song, Scripture and icons to begin the month of the rosary, led by parish music ministry. (650) 766-0364. music@stcsiena.org.

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 3 LIFE IN SPIRIT: St. Anne of the Sunset Church, 850 Judah at Funston, San Francisco, 7-9 p.m., Catholic Charismatic Renewal, Norma Calip, (415) 468-8369, Letty Ramos, (650) 515-4980, Mina Sunga, (415) 2908629. www.SFSpirit.com.

3-DAY FESTIVAL: “Pirates of the Caribbean – Fall Festival” at St. Dunstan Parish, 1133 Broadway, Millbrae, Friday 5 p.m.-closing; Saturday noon10; Sunday noon–8. (650) 697-4730. secretary@saintdunstanchurch.org. 100 YEARS: St. Bruno Parish celebrates 100 years with dinner and awards at South San Francisco Convention Center, 255 South Airport Blvd., South San Francisco, secretary3@saintbrunos.org. 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. 2-DAY RUMMAGE SALE: Italian Catholic Federation Branch 173, Oct. 5 and 6, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., 1620 Howard Ave. Burlingame. Support ICF chari-

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SATURDAY, OCT. 6 CENTENNIAL MASS: St. Bruno Church, 555 San Bruno Ave., San Bruno, 5 p.m., Archbishop John R. Quinn presides. Coronation Ball follows. secretary3@saintbrunos.org. RELIGIOUS ASSOCIATES: Bay Area Conference of Associates and Religious, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Sacred Heart Schools, 150 Valparaiso Ave., Atherton, will explore association as a call to live a religious congregation’s charism while continuing to live one’s own life. Kate Kuenstler, a canon lawyer and member of the international congregation Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ, is speaker. Kathy Noether knoether@aol.com. MASS: First Saturday at Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma, All Saints Mausoleum Chapel, 11 a.m. Father Arnold Zamora, pastor, Holy Name of Jesus Parish, celebrant. (650) 756-2060.

THURSDAY, OCT. 4 ANIMALS BLESSED: Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Mill Valley, Feast of St. Francis, 5:30-6 p.m. in parking lot, 17 Buena Vista Ave. Lot closed to vehicles.

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Committee, “Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship” addressing Catholic responsibility in the electoral process and how to meet it. Event is at the parish center, 1133 Broadway, Millbrae, 9 a.m.1. Seating is limited. Light refreshments served. Free-will donations accepted. Send reservations by Oct. 8, including name and parish and number attending, Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship, PO Box 1188, Millbrae 94030.

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SATURDAY, OCT. 13 REUNION: Immaculate Conception Academy, San Francisco, class of ‘67, 11:30 a.m.-4, Basque Cultural Center, South San Francisco. Trudy Moesch May, may@usfca.edu. (415) 647-7286. PARISH FORUM: San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop Robert W. McElroy is keynote speaker at parish forum organized by St. Dunstan Social Awareness

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

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YOUNG ADULT RETREAT: Men and women, 21-40, “Autumn: How am I engaging this season of grace for my life?” Sacrament of reconciliation is available. Bring Bible, journal, rosary. Begins Friday: 4:30 p.m. and ends with dinner Saturday. blessings@msjdominicans. org. (510) 933-6335. Dominican Sisters of MSJ, 43326 Mission Blvd., Fremont, entrance on Mission Tierra Place.

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FRIDAY, OCT. 19

RED MASS: Liturgy for members of the

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legal profession, Sts. Peter and Paul Church, 666 Filbert St. on Washington Square, San Francisco, 5:30 p.m., banquet, 7 p.m., San Francisco Italian Athletic Club, 1630 Stockton St. Honorees are attorney J. Dennis McQuaid and late attorney Don Casper. Banquet tickets $90, $45 clergy/students. Email Timothy.crudo@lw.com.

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