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MISSION:
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Hawaii pilgrimage
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Marin youths
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the dignity of work
Faith formation for
Chinese-speaking
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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
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www.catholic-sf.org
AUGUST 23, 2013
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Turnout for marriage
celebration ‘great sign of
hope,’ archbishop says
VALERIE SCHMALZ
Nearly 1,000 married couples and
their families attended the first-ever
archdiocesan Marriage & Family
Celebration at St. Mary’s Cathedral
Aug. 17.
“Your presence is a great sign of hope
and vitality in our archdiocese,” Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone told the
families who nearly filled the cathedral
for a 9:30 a.m. Mass and attended brief
talks in Spanish, Vietnamese and English for about an hour afterward.
The event was part of the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s celebration
of the Year of Faith and a renewed
emphasis on building up marriage
and family life in the archdiocese.
“It is true that no family is perfect.
All families experience tensions and
conflicts to some degree,” Archbishop
Cordileone said in his homily. “But if
a family seeks to the serve the Lord,
then the Lord will care for them as his
children.”
God’s endorsement of marriage and
family can be seen in the fact that Jesus, the son of God, placed himself under the authority of human parents,
his creations, the archbishop said.
“This is the wonder of God’s lovewhen God’s love is shared in a family,
even where there are hurts, where
there are bumps in the road, nonetheless, the family remains the greatest
gift that God has given us after the
very gift of his son Jesus Christ,”
the archbishop said. He preached the
homily in both English and Spanish.
Immaculate Heart of Mary, Belmont,
parishioner Cheryl Amalu attended
along with much of her family: her
husband, younger children, married
daughter and son-in-law and grandchild. “Our pastor asked us to come and
check out what might be useful to our
parish family ministry,” Amalu said.
Parishes were asked to send parishioners who could return and share
ways to nourish family life in the
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security forces and Morsi supporters. Egypt’s Catholic Church published a list of 58 destroyed or
damaged Christian churches, as well as a commentary by the country’s leading Jesuit criticizing the
West’s characterization of “poor persecuted Muslims.” More coverage on Page 12.
SEE MARRIAGE, PAGE 25
Civil rights: 50 years post-march, where is nation’s and church’s voice?
PATRICIA ZAPOR
CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
WASHINGTON – The news clipping
files from early August 1963 are full
of articles about Catholic and interfaith organizations encouraging their
members to take part in the Aug. 28
civil rights March on Washington.
The National Catholic Liturgical
Conference, the Archdiocese of New
York and the Minnesota Committee
on Religion and Race, for instance,
urged their members to participate
in the massive gathering at which
the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave
his famous “I Have a Dream” speech
about racial harmony. One of the 10
chairmen for the event was the direc-
tor of the National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice. Some of
the prominent photos from that day
featured Rev. King sharing the stage
with clergy of various faiths.
The 50th anniversary of the march
this summer comes at a time when unease about race is again in the news,
and more for the work that needs to be
done than for the progress made over
five decades.
Since a Florida jury July 13 acquitted white/Hispanic George Zimmerman of murder and manslaughter
charges in the death of African-American Trayvon Martin, organized protests around the country have sought
to shine a light on the pervasive sense
of distrust that African-American
men, in particular, face on a regular
basis.
In highly personal remarks after
the verdict, President Barack Obama,
Catholic theologian Father Bryan
Massingale, a professor of theology at
Marquette University, and Attorney
General Eric Holder spoke or wrote
about their own experiences of racebased bias.
In a July 30 column for HNP Today,
newsletter of the Holy Name Province of the Franciscans, Father Paul
Williams wrote of recently being
carjacked at gunpoint outside a Delaware church by an African-American
young man. Though Father Williams
is himself African-American, he
wrote that he struggled with fear
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when approached soon after the crime
by another black young man.
“Racial profiling of minorities
dehumanizes people who are basically
good and law abiding, and instead
are seen as criminals or potential
criminals,” wrote Father Williams.
“It makes a mockery of our belief in
blind justice. As an African-American
male, I don’t have the luxury of seeing
all young black males in such a negative light. I know better.”
‘I don’t hear anything’
What’s been harder to find amid the
Trayvon-related reaction is strong public responses from the Catholic Church,
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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | AUGUST 23, 2013
NEED TO KNOW
ALTAR BOYS NEEDED: Respectful,
responsible, and reverent Catholic
boys, who have already made their first
confession and received their first holy
Communion, are invited to become
altar servers at the traditional Latin
Masses celebrated at Star of the Sea
Parish, 4420 Geary Blvd., San Francisco, at Eighth Avenue. These boys
must have completed fourth grade and
not yet have begun high school. Permission in writing from their parents or
guardians is required. Practices will be
arranged to suit the schedules of the
boys and Father Mazza, pastor. Printed
materials will be provided. Instruction
on the holy sacrifice of the Mass will
be given. Latin pronunciation lessons
will be part of the process. The boys
will need to memorize several Latin
prayers. Only those willing to serve at
daily 7:30 a.m. Masses, Sunday 11a.m.
Masses, funerals and weddings,
and other special days should apply.
Parents should apply for their sons to
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[email protected] or call the
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SHRINE MUSIC DIRECTOR: Vincent
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program for worship and will oversee
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events at shrine facilities. If you are
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the shrine choir or have an outside
individual or group perform, contact
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[email protected]. Stadlin will begin
his ministry during the celebration of
the 11 a.m. Mass on Sept. 1, with a
reception to follow.
LIVING TRUSTS WILLS
Mission trip: Young teen girls
coach soccer in rural Nicaragua
TOM BURKE
Tackling life’s tough stuff
has begun early for soon-to-be
eighth graders Allison Phillips
and Michaella Kumli. The longtime friends have just returned
from service as volunteer soccer
coaches of indigenous children
in Nicaragua. Allison attends St.
Stephen School. Michaella is a
student at Convent of the Sacred
Heart School. Their parents are
Kathleen and James Phillips and
Sue and Kurt Kumli.
Michaella and Allison have been
playing soccer since kindergarten and became friends in fourth
grade. The sport has been an important part of both their lives.
“It just became what we did,”
the girls told Catholic San Francisco via an email they composed
together. “It gave us something
to focus on that was positive. Our
team is like a second family because we all get along. So much of
soccer is relying on each other.”
On the field they play the same
positions – midfield, forward, and
half back –“but Alli plays on the
right and Michaella plays on the
left,” they said.
“Soccer has taught us teamwork, and sportsmanship,” the
girls said. “It also teaches you to
ask for help.” Both made it clear
with exclamation points that their
favorite soccer player is Olympic
gold medalist Alex Morgan.
Michaella and Allison already
participate together in school
charity programs and food drives
as well as coach younger children
in their soccer club.
The idea for the volunteer coaching trip came from one of their
coaches who works with a nonprofit called ViviendasLeon, based
in San Francisco and, according to
its website, working “to alleviate
rural poverty in Nicaragua.”
While the Spanish they have
learned in school was an assist
in communicating, onsite classes
in the language and living with
people who only spoke Spanish
helped more, they said.
PROBATE
Longtime friends Allison Phillips and Michaella Kumli have just returned from service as
volunteer soccer coaches of indigenous children in Nicaragua. They are pictured in the
town of Goyena, Nicaragua, where they helped coach from 60 to100 neighborhood children
each day over five days.
The children they coached
numbered from 60 to100 each day
and ranged in age from 5 to 15.
“We used a mix of Spanish and
hand signals,” the girls said. “We
learned Spanish soccer vocabulary in class to help us out on the
field.”
The routine for the eight-day
trip was rigorous from rising at
6:45 a.m. to lunch at about 1 p.m.
They also participated in agroforestry, an effort to create more
sustainable land-use systems.
“We had to battle pigs who were
trying to eat the plants that we
were planting,” they said.
Allison and Michaella brought
back strong images of living
conditions in the town where they
volunteered. “In Goyena people
live in houses made from sheets
of stacked metal and tarps,” they
described. “They had dirt floors.
Animals were so thin that you
could see all their bones.”
They saw children playing next
to a school by huge fields being
sprayed with pesticides. “They
didn’t even know that it was bad,”
the girls said.
Allison and Michaella did not
go to Goyena empty-handed. They
brought shin guards, cleats, jerseys and soccer balls with them.
Allison sent out an email to her
class and people responded with
bags of donations. Michaella talk-
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and they, too, donated gear.
“We gave cleats to at least 60
kids. Everyone left with something. One boy put on his shin
guards upside down, and we had
to teach him how to use them. The
last day the little kids asked if
we were coming back tomorrow.
It was really sad to say goodbye.”
The girls exchanged email addresses with their host families’
children and expect to stay in
touch.
Will the girls do something like
this again? “Definitely yes,” they
said. “It felt really good to help the
people there. We also learned that
you can’t trust the way the media
portrays the country. The city
gets talked about and as a tourist
you only see the richer cities. You
never hear about how poor the
people are in the villages.”
“I realized we are not told about
how other people live in the world.
They have so much less than we
do,” Allison said. “Kids there have
ripped clothes. It makes you think
about how we throw away the
clothes we outgrow.”
“You don’t realize how much you
have,” Michaella said. “Nicaragua
has some of the poorest people in
the world and it makes your own
stuff not important.”
“It isn’t about material worth
anymore,” they said together.
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Mission possible: Hawaii trip transforms Marin youths
LIDIA WASOWICZ PRINGLE
Who says teens can’t find faith to be
fundamental, fulfilling and fun?
Just ask the newly formed youth
group at Our Lady of Mount Carmel
Parish in Mill Valley, which recently
discovered the rich rewards of religion at an impoverished Hawaiian
church.
The 20 high school students and six
chaperones came home transformed
July 1 from a week-long mission at
the 115-year-old St. Rita Parish in
Nanakuli, Oahu, where the “aloha”
spirit spreads freely among the largely
destitute native congregation and affluent mainland visitors favoring the
off-the-tourist-beaten track.
“At first, I believe because of the
shyness, the youth from Hawaii and
the youth from Mill Valley didn’t mix
as well as we hoped, but after a few
days they all became very close,” said
Father Alapaki Kim, St. Rita pastor.
The captivating cross-cultural liturgies, contagious community-building
attitudes and compassionate outreach
programs sampled by the travelers
have left an enduring, spiritually
enhancing impression.
“The trip affected my relationship
with Jesus and my fellow parishioners
much more than I thought possible,”
said Zach Thomas, 15, of Mill Valley, a
junior at Tamalpais High School and
member of the Mount Carmel youth
ministry since its inception last year.
“I was happier to go to church the
week after we got back than I had ever
been in my life, and I look forward to
Sundays.”
His newfound appreciation of
Mass stirred as he received the ritual
welcome hug, kiss, lei and community greeting at St. Rita, strengthened
during rites incorporating Hawaiian
language, music, culture and Catholic
traditions and settled in for good at a
candlelit ceremony of washing feet in
a show of humility and equality.
“As we sang, there was crazy energy
in the air,” Thomas said. “I’ve never
seen teens so lively about church
events.”
Whether surfing, canoeing, hiking,
feeding the homeless, cooking in the
Youths and chaperones from Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish, Mill Valley, and St. Rita Church
in Nanakuli, Oahu, Hawaii, gather at St. Rita during a June mission trip by the Our Lady of
Mount Carmel youth group.
underground imu or praying, the
Mount Carmel adolescents drew inspiration from their hosts’ focus on faith,
family and friends.
“On the mainland, it’s more about
rugged individualism, but over
there, it’s all about community,” said
Thomas, who maintains contact with
his extended “‘ohana,” or family,
through social media and already
looks forward to the next get-together
planned for summer 2014.
As does Danielle Tirpack, 17, of Mill
Valley, a lifelong Mount Carmel parishioner, recent youth group member
and senior at Tamiscal, an independent study school.
Having overcome initial fears of
being “brainwashed” and immersed
in too much religion, which “turns off
us teenagers,” she pronounced the Hawaii experience “a perfect balance.”
“We had reflection time which
brought us all closer (and) a place to
analyze our world with God,” said Tirpack, one of seven girls on the immersion tour. “We had a chance to learn
and apply new life lessons.”
The most moving, meaningful and
memorable ones, she said, centered
around serving the homeless in the
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parish situated on Hawaiian Homelands – the equivalent of the mainland’s Indian reservations – on the
Waianae coast, where U.S. Census
figures place the per capita income at
just over $13,000.
“It was eye opening to see … those
who are less fortunate be so happy
with so little,” said Tirpack, who
helped hand out the contents of seven
suitcases stuffed with used attire. “It
was an experience I will never forget.”
The vision of an 11-year-old girl
proudly parading in a dress discarded
by the donor stayed with Tirpack
weeks later as she looked at $200 outfits with her mom. They left the store
without making a purchase.
“We are delighted that the teens
returned with what they said was a
life-changing experience,” said Scott
Chapman, a longtime supporter of St.
Rita who helped chaperone the youth.
He and wife Celeste had proposed
the destination for the mission with
the fourfold purpose of shared spirituality, cultural appreciation, service
to the needy and leadership development.
“Hopefully, those experiences lead
to a greater recognition of Christ’s
presence in our own homes and school
hallways,” said Jonathan Lewis,
former director of religious education
at Mount Carmel who had championed greater teen parish involvement
before moving to Washington, D.C.,
earlier this year.
The end result was such a success,
40 families already have expressed
an interest in next year’s cultural
exchange, said youth ministry mentor
and chaperone Venessa Dixon, who
spearheaded the trip financed by
student-led fundraising ranging from
car washes and bake sales to bingo
and ladies’ nights and a luau in the
church parking lot.
“I can honestly say this trip forever
affected and touched every one of us
who went,” she said.
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later was seen in Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Pirates of Penzance.” Today,
Frances leads song at St. Cecilia
Parish and sings for the extraordinary form Latin Mass at Star of the
Sea Parish. She is also available for
private engagements and concerts.
“In truth, thanks to being launched
into a life of music by Riordan high
school’s drama department – I really
can’t help singing,” Frances said.
“Riordan was part of what launched
my music and performing vocation. I
am grateful and want this marvelous
program to continue into the future.”
Proceeds from the evening of course
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TOM BURKE
Born in Santa Rosa, Cammy Blackstone says she brought her heart to
San Francisco. Many
of us know Cammy
from her 20-year
radio and television
career at KNBR,
KFRC, KTVU Channel 2 and Fox Sports.
On Sept. 2, however,
she is mainly an
Archbishop RiorCammy
dan High School
Blackstone
mom helping out
with emcee chores
at the “Archbishop
Riordan High School
Alumni Theater
Show.” Cammy’s son
is a sophomore at the
school. “I have been
blessed to have both
my boys go to CathoFrances
lic schools in San
Peterson
Francisco,” Cammy,
current deputy director of the San
Francisco Entertainment Commission, told me. “We love Riordan.”
Also on the bill is Hill Street Blues
star and 1963 Riordan alum Joe Spano
and a parade of entertainers who
got their starts on the Riordan stage
including soprano Frances Peterson.
“Imagine what a thrill it will be for
me to be upon the Archbishop Riordan High School stage once again,”
Frances told me. Frances grew up in
St. Gabriel Parish, attended Presentation High School and later Santa
Clara University, San Francisco State,
and the San Francisco Conservatory
of Music ending up with “a degree
in opera,” she joked. Her first role
at Riordan in 1984 was playing the
title role in “Hello, Dolly!” at age 15.
“People in the general public thought
I was a woman in my 50s,” Frances
remembered. She also played the Mrs.
Lovett lead in “Sweeney Todd” and
HOUSE SPEAKER: Marin Congressman Jared Huffman made a special visit to St. Anselm School May 2
to speak to students in the fifth and
eighth grades. Tom McInerney, parent of eighth grader Joey and with
some pull in the political ranks as former mayor of San Anselmo, arranged
the event. Congressman Huffman’s
district extends from Marin to the
Oregon border. Students found out
what a congressman’s typical day is
like; bipartisan politics; homeland security and terrorism; and how Jared
balances the needs of his family with
those of his constituents.
FATHER GRAMPS: Father Andrew Johnson celebrated Mass June 22 on a side altar of St.
Peter’s Basilica in Rome with his grandsons as altar boys. Father Johnson was in Rome for Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone’s reception of the pallium from Pope Francis. Jacob Johnson, left and
Luke Johnson were in the Eternal City on an altar server pilgrimage from St. Margaret Mary Parish in
Oakland. The lads are the sons of Father Johnson’s son Cyrus and his wife, Rebecca. “Being a priest
is the greatest gift God can give you,” Father Johnson, ordained in 2004, said. “Being a grandparent is
next best thing.”
ANNIVERSARY: Jack, Joe
and Katie Ravetti surprised their
parents, Patty and Joe Ravetti, with
a 25th wedding anniversary dinner
party July 20. Patty and Joe’s family, their wedding party, and friends
from near and far were aboard for
the good time. Patty is an alumna
of Our Lady of Mercy School and
Mercy High School, San Francisco,
and Joe is an alumnus of St. Cecilia
School and Archbishop Riordan
High School. They were married on
July 24, 1988 at Our Lady of Angels
Church, Burlingame. Pictured from
left are Patty, Joey, Jack, Joe and
Katie Ravetti.
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REGINA: Though I rarely have the
perseverance to get to it at the end of
a rosary, I love the Hail Holy Queen. It
is poetry. In fact, I’ve always yearned
to be a bit of a “bad boy” and being
among the “poor banished children
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Portland-bound Riordan grad looks ‘to help and serve’
TOM BURKE
Trevor Peralta is burning what you might
call an Oregon Trail to the future. Contrary to
the route’s history though, the
2013 Archbishop Riordan High
School graduate’s exploration
begins in the Pacific Northwest
at the University of Portland,
where he earned a President’s
Scholarship. Trevor grew up in
San Francisco’s Sunset District
and attended St. Gabriel School.
Trevor Peralta
His parents are Brenda Labutan/Peralta and Alex Peralta.
Trevor’s major at University of Portland is political science with a minor in German. He likes
to read – especially about history, philosophy
and politics – and to take on “any kind of sport
that is out there.”
“I hope to go on a study abroad program in
Austria for my major,” Trevor told Catholic San
Francisco via email. He was also accepted to the
University of Portland’s Army ROTC program.
“Many of my family members have served in
the military, and I am open to having a career
INSTITUTE FOCUSES ON PARISH SOCIAL MINISTRY
Parish members are invited to the Parish Social Ministry Institute on Sept. 14 as part of the
Catholic Charities USA national conference at
the the Hilton San Francisco Union Square.
The institute is intended for those in parishes
who are called to lead congregation-wide parish social ministry initiatives, collaborations,
programs or committees. Participants will learn
and practice strategies for providing vision and
direction to their parish social ministry, engaging parishioners, advancing the ministry and
grounding the ministry in faith.
Jesuit Father Thomas J. Massaro, dean and
professor of moral theology at the Jesuit School
of Theology in Berkeley and Santa Clara University, will give the keynote address on the importance of spiritual development, networking
there,” he said. “I might also use my major to go
into public/government service.”
Trevor expects to be at home at his new school.
“I could see myself being there for the next four
years,” he said. “I really appreciated their efforts
and interest in me. I am excited to go to the University of Portland and have new experiences.”
At Archbishop Riordan, Trevor wrestled and
ran cross country. He was president of the Academic Quiz Bowl team and the Amnesty International Social Justice Club, and the communications chairman of student government during his
senior year. A Riordan Close Up trip to Washington, D.C., in junior year helped him learn more
about the history and government of the United
States, and on a New Orleans immersion trip he
helped with the ongoing reconstruction of the
city and experienced its rich culture and history.
His experience at Riordan instilled a deep
respect for the school. “I am not sure if a single
word can describe my time at Riordan,” Trevor
said. “I made a lot of good friends and learned a
lot about myself. It is now a completed chapter
in my life story. I learned something from every
teacher, lessons both inside and outside of the
classroom. A student must be willing to learn.
I want to thank all my teachers for what they
and skill development in parish social ministry
and will ground participants in Catholic teaching.
Susan Stevenot Sullivan, associate director
for education and outreach in the U.S. bishops’
Department of Justice, Peace and Human Development, will lead a session on two distinct but
complementary ways of putting the Gospel into
action: social justice, addressing root causes of
problems; and charitable works, addressing immediate needs.
The institute is open to the public, and tickets
are still available. The rest of the conference
is also open. Visit http://2013annualgathering.
catholiccharitiesusa.org.
For the institute, there is an optional 7:30 a.m.
Mass followed by breakfast before the program
begins at 9. Registration is $95, lunch included.
taught me; all of them were inspirational and
good role models in their own way.”
“My Catholic faith has taught me a lot and has
no doubt shaped who I am as a person,” he said,
noting its lesson to be “thankful for everything in
my life, even the smallest aspects.”
“I learned that there are things greater than
me in this world, and because of that I shouldn’t
be focused so much on myself,” Trevor said. He
looks to push himself “to help and serve others” and “not to judge others based on what they
think or do, what they look like, or their spiritual
beliefs.”
Trevor is fueled for the days ahead. “I feel
prepared to start making my way in this world,”
Trevor said. “I believe we should all strive to be
the person this world needs, not one that it creates.”
Trevor is aware that day to day the world is in
crisis. The struggle between “mindfulness and
mindlessness, meaningfulness and meaninglessness,” has his attention. “This struggle is the one
that affects us the most, but can also be decided
by the smallest actions, such as when eating dinner, you can either ask your family how their day
was or play ‘Angry Birds’ on your iPhone. In the
end, the choice is in your hands.”
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CSF creates Content & Community role
RICK DELVECCHIO
Christina M. Gray has joined the staff of Catholic
San Francisco in the newly created position of Content & Community Development,
with a split role between the print
and digital operations of the CSF
media group.
As part of the paper’s newly
formed Local Content Team, Gray is
assigned, among other responsibilities, to cover parishes, including K-8
schools, in Marin and San Francisco
Christina M. Gray
counties; the diaconate; and faith in
action in the diverse social justice,
charitable and mission activities of the apostolic
church, including archdiocesan ministries, parishes, religious communities and apostolates in our
500,000-strong, three-county ecclesial communion.
Gray, a Los Angeles native, is a longtime resident of
Nicasio and a parishioner at Old St. Mary in that rural
Marin County community. She has spent more than 20
years as a marketing communications professional in
the Bay Area helping to extend the reach and influence of companies, organizations and individuals
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scheduled to launch in the fall.
“I feel blessed to be able to bring the skills I have
used in the corporate world into service for the
Catholic Church,” said Gray. “Between the inspiring
leadership of our new pope and the digital tools now
available to us to share our faith, it’s an especially
exciting time to join a communications ministry.”
Gray’s print responsibilities include developing
two new editorial-advertising products for annual or
biannual publication: Faith in Action, focusing on
social justice, charitable and mission activities of the
local church; and Care for Creation, focusing on local
angles on Pope Francis’ vision of the environment and
human development.
Gray, who has extensive experience developing the
design, content and marketing strategy for organizational publications, websites, and social media
programs, will help coordinate the editorial, design,
marketing and business activities in the CSF media
group’s digital initiative.
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Gospel for August 25, 2013
Luke 13:22-30
Following is a word search based on the Gospel
reading for the 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle
C: about striving to be recognizable as Christians.
The words can be found in all directions in the puzzle.
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To expand the paper’s evangelizing mission into
the digital arena, the group is partnering with Olive
Software of Aurora, Colo., to produce a digital replica
of the Catholic San Francisco print edition; a digital
version of the archdiocesan directory, updated three
times a year; and a high-quality archive of CSF
content since the paper’s launch in 1999. The replica,
with versions for desktop, mobile and iPad, is scheduled to launch Sept. 10 and will include a regularly
updated selection of local, national and world Web
content at the same location. It will be offered to all
users at no cost.
New local content that reflects, inspires and nourishes the Catholic community is the crucial ingredient in the digital initiative. Gray is assigned to play
a key role in developing content both for readers
who have a relationship with the print paper and for
those who get their news and information mainly
on screen – an ever-widening majority of younger
Catholics. The effort will require a commitment to
audience involvement at every stage, from surveying
readers to determine the content they find valuable,
to policies for publishing user-generated content to
managing comments on stories.
The Olive Software products are efforts to bridge
the CSF media group’s print and digital operations.
Gray is also assigned to a long-term effort to develop
a digital-only publication entirely separate from any
print model. This publication will position our Catholic content entirely in the digital stream, with a focus
on video, conversation and community and continually updated, shareable news and information.
The official newspaper of the Archdiocese of San
Francisco and the flagship of the CSF media group,
Catholic San Francisco is charged with sharing in
the mission of spreading the Good News of Jesus
Christ through credible reporting, a regular publication schedule and home delivery to all registered parish members. The paper’s professional staff covers
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giving voice to Catholic thinking on all ethical and
social questions.
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development; the archdiocesan directory; and San
Francisco Católico, a newspaper distributed biweekly
to churches with Spanish Masses.
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STATE HIGH COURT DENIES PROP. 8 CLAIM
The California Supreme Court refused to take
up a claim by Proposition 8 proponents that
the amendment remains valid under the state
Constitution. The move effectively ended the
legal fight over same-sex marriage in the state,
but one Prop. 8 proponent said it “does not end
the debate about marriage in California.”
The ruling Aug. 14 rejected a petition by Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing the official proponents of Prop. 8 asking the
California Supreme Court to order the state’s
county clerks to enforce the state’s marriage
amendment. The argument maintained that
the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 26 decision in
Hollingsworth v. Perry did not rule on Prop.
8’s constitutionality, and that the 2010 ruling
by U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker in
that case does not apply statewide.
“Elected officials should enforce the law,”
Alliance for Freedom senior counsel Austin
Nimmocks said in a statement on the organization’s website. “Though the current California
officials are unwilling to enforce the state Constitution, we remain hopeful that one day Californians will elect officials who will. It is unfortunate that the California Supreme Court chose
not to decide the important, still-unresolved
questions about the enforcement of Proposition
8, the law of the land in California. Regrettably,
an executive branch that has turned a blind eye
to the enforcement of its state’s Constitution
has silenced more than 7 million Californians
who clearly expressed their views about marriage. The court’s decision today, however, does
not end the debate about marriage in California.”
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VALERIE SCHMALZ
California Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed legislation to
allow women to sell their eggs for medical research,
saying in his veto message that “not everything in
life is for sale nor should it be.”
The bill, AB 926, was sponsored by the fertility industry’s American Society for Reproductive
Medicine and opposed by a broad coalition of pro-life
and pro-choice organizations, including The Center
for Genetics and Society and the California Catholic
Conference.
It easily passed both houses of the California legislature and Brown had been expected by many to sign
the legislation.
California allows women to sell their eggs for
reproduction but not for medical research. Women
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AB926. Payments can go as high as $100,000, according to The Center for Bioethics and Culture which
has campaigned against egg donation for more than
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In his Aug. 13 veto letter, Brown cited the unknown
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oocytes from a woman’s ovaries. Women are allowed
to sell their eggs for reproductive uses in California
but six years ago the California legislature barred
compensation for the sale of eggs for research.
Researchers funded by Prop. 71’s California stemcell research institute also may not pay for eggs for
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“The questions raised here are not simple; they
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“In medical procedures of this kind, genuinely
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Brown wrote.
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Culture President Jennifer Lahl. The CBC produced
a 2011 film, “Eggsploitation,” documenting severe
‘In medical procedures of
this kind, genuinely informed consent is difficult
because the long-term risks
are not adequately known. Gov. Jerry
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Putting thousands of dollars
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health consequences of paid egg donation. In the bill
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embryos in the lab.
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Effect of ‘nones’ on US, social, religious fabric debated
MARK PATTISON
WASHINGTON – While there is a growing
sense that more Americans profess no religious
preference than in past generations, researchers are still trying to judge for themselves the
meaning behind the numbers their research has
generated.
Even the title of a study unveiled Aug. 8 during
a luncheon forum at the Pew Research Center’s
Religion & Public Life Project – “American’s
Weakening Ties to Organized Religion, 1973-2012:
Generations & Politics” – could itself be open to
debate.
The study’s authors, sociology professors, Michael Hout of New York University and Claude S.
Fischer of the University of California-Berkeley,
said their research suggests that older Americans are dying off, they are being replaced in the
population by younger Americans who are not as
religious.
This demographic trend, they said, accounts
for about 60 percent of the increase of “nones”
– those who described themselves as atheists,
agnostics, or have no particular religious preference – in the U.S. population, which they set at 20
percent of all Americans.
Much of the other 40 percent, they added, can
be traced to the rise of the “religious right” and
its political stands on social issues, leading many
Americans to say, according to Fischer, “If that’s
what religion means, count me out.”
But Gallup Organization editor-in-chief Frank
Newport, another panelist at the Pew luncheon,
said the numbers may mean that nones are “freer” than in past years to disclose their attitude
toward religion.
The Hout-Fischer study revealed that more
than half – 51 percent – of the nones say they
pray at least once a month. On the other hand,
only10 percent say that are looking for a religion
that is right for them.
But it is not as if nones have traded organized
religion for some other faith system. The highest
percentage for any kind of replacement cited was
30 percent, and that took in such varied concepts
as yoga-as-religion, “spiritual energy,” reincarnation, and belief in some kind of “evil eye.”
Panelist Greg Smith, the director of Pew’s
religion surveys, noted the rate of religious affiliation has historically had peaks and valleys
depending on one’s age group, with affiliation
bottoming out once grown children are on their
own for the first time, with spikes for the marriage and child-baptismal years. The affiliation
numbers slide downward again until age 50 or so,
then slowly climb as people age.
But with 76 million baby boomers – the genera-
tion that first found it comfortable to express no
religious identification – joining the ranks of
senior citizens, “we might see a reversal of these
trends” if they follow the patterns set by their
forebears, Smith said.
The impact on Catholics and Catholicism is
equally unclear, given the number supplied in the
Hout-Fischer study.
Those who identified themselves as Protestants
since 1973 have dropped from 62 percent to 50 per-
cent. The dip among Catholics is much less, from
27 percent to 24 percent.
But, Hout said, the current numbers should be
much bigger.
“The Catholics are in much more trouble,” he
said. Based on birth rates, “by all rights, onethird of all Americans should be Catholics right
now,” Hout added, saying the Catholic Church is
losing members both to evangelical Protestant
faiths and to the nones.
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Nuns’ group leaders say they hope for
continued dialogue with Vatican
ORLANDO, Fla.– Members of the
Leadership Conference of Women
Religious announced Aug. 19 at the
close of their assembly and national
board meeting in Orlando that they
were pleased with dialogue they had
with the church official appointed
to oversee their organization as part
of a Vatican assessment and hoped
for “continued conversations of this
depth.”
During the Aug. 13-16 annual gathering at the Caribe Royal Hotel and
Convention Center in Orlando and
a three-day national board meeting
afterward, women religious met with
Archbishop J. Peter Sartain of Seattle,
appointed by the Vatican doctrinal
congregation last year to oversee a
reform of LCWR.
Last April, the Vatican Congregation
for the Doctrine of the Faith said a
reform of LCWR was needed to ensure
its fidelity to Catholic teaching in areas
including abortion, euthanasia, women’s ordination and homosexuality.
In a statement released Aug. 19, the
sisters said the discussion with the
archbishop gave them “hope that continued conversations of this depth will
lead to a resolution of this situation
that maintains the integrity of LCWR
and is healthy for the whole church.”
Archbishop Sartain addressed the
assembly of 825 participants Aug. 13.
He spent time during the gathering “to
meet members, experience firsthand
the conference’s annual gathering, and
hear the members’ concerns about the
doctrinal assessment finds and plan
for reform,” the LCWR statement said.
LCWR officers held three executive
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Franciscan Sister Ilia Delio, a former professor of spirituality who is a research fellow at
Woodstock Theological Center at Georgetown University, delivers the keynote address Aug. 14
during the Leadership Conference of Women Religious assembly in Kissimmee, Fla.
sessions during which they shared
with one another their impressions of
the meetings that have already taken
place between them and Archbishop
Sartain, as well as the two bishops
appointed as his assistants, Bishops
Leonard P. Blair of Toledo, Ohio, and
Thomas J. Paprocki of Springfield, Ill.
At the other executive sessions, they
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and also heard the direction members
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of views.” It noted that because of
time limitations during the assembly,
the archbishop did not have the time
to answer many of the members’
questions.
“Clearly, however, he had been
listening intently and heard the
concerns voiced by the members,
and their desire for more information. The extraordinarily rich and
deeply reverent conversation during
the board meeting gave us a greater
understanding of Archbishop Sartain
and we believe he now also better
understands us.”
The statement also noted that the
LCWR leaders are uncertain about
how their “work with the bishop
delegates will proceed.”
LCWR, which representing the
majority of 57,000 religious sisters in
the U.S, is granted canonical status
by the Vatican.
In interviews with Catholic News
Service after the assembly, LCWR
members said they valued the chance
to discern what was being asked of
them as they considered their way
forward.
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Sister of Notre Dame from St. Paul,
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process” that begins at the regional
gatherings.
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of Our Lady of Victory Missionary
Sisters from Fort Wayne, Ind., said
a key part of the gathering was “the
deep listening in the sharing process
at the tables trying to distill wisdom
and insight in a group.”
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about discernment ... and something
bigger than ourselves,” said Sister
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Pope to athletes: ‘Before being
champions, you are men’
CINDY WOODEN
VATICAN CITY – With admiration
and big smiles all around, the lifelong
soccer fan Pope Francis met the star
players and coaches of the Argentine
and Italian national soccer teams
hoping to compete for the World Cup
in 2014.
The teams were led to the Clementine Hall in the Apostolic Palace
Aug. 13 by Argentine captain Lionel
Messi, a forward currently playing
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playing for Juventus FC.
The two teams were in Rome to
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honor Aug. 14; the game has no bearing on the process of qualifying for
the World Cup tournament.
Pope Francis said he was relieved it
was friendly, but it would still be difficult to know for whom to cheer.
Claudio Cesare Prandelli, the
Italian coach, said he was about to
ask the pope if he would attend the
match, but Pope Francis anticipated
the question and told him that the
Vatican security already considers
him “undisciplined,” leaving the
impression that it would be asking
too much to have them arrange a trip
to Rome’s Olympic Stadium.
In a brief speech to the players,
coaches and referees, Pope Francis
encouraged everyone involved with
professional soccer to maintain the
spirit and passion of it being a game,
a team sport.
“Even if the team wins” the game,
he said, without beauty, graciousness
and team work, both the team and the
fans lose.
“Before being champions, you are
men, human beings with your talents
and your defects, heart and ideas,
aspirations and problems,” Pope
Francis said. “Even if you are stars,
remain men both in your sport and in
your life.”
He asked the players to take responsibility for the fact that for millions
of people, young and old, they are
heroes and role models.
“Be aware of this and set an example of loyalty, respect and altruism,”
he said. “I have confidence in all the
good you can do among the young.”
The pope, who follows soccer,
knows that in Europe the game has
been plagued by incidents of players
and fans making racist comments
about players from Africa. He told
the players they must be models of
inclusion, working to “permanently
eliminate the danger of discrimination.”
When teams are committed to good
sportsmanship, he said, everyone in
the stadium grows, “violence disappears” and “you’ll start seeing families in the stands again.”
Pope Francis also asked the players
to pray for him, “so that I too, on the
‘field’ where God has put me, can play
an honest and courageous game for
the good of all.”
Buffon, who gave the pope a ball
signed by all the Italian players, was
asked if he thought meeting the pope
might spur the miracle needed to
ensure that Italy and Argentina make
it to the World Cup finals.
“Our job is to work hard to make
sure we’re in the finals,” he said. “If
Pope Francis does miracles, I think
they’d be for more important things.”
Buffon said the pope asking for the
players’ prayers was another sign of
his “humility and humanity.”
“With a pope like this, it’s easier
to be better,” he said. “He shows us
the way, he warms hearts, he moves
people’s souls” in a way that all the
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Bishop: Food scarce as strife drives Egyptians indoors
VATICAN CITY – A Catholic bishop
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said Muslims and Christians are afraid
to leave their homes; because the shops
are closed and no one is venturing outside, many are running out of food.
Coptic Catholic Bishop Youhannes
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agency of the Congregation for the
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and Christians – who live in the villages
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“Even those who are well off can’t
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After Egyptian police and the military
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The Muslim Brotherhood is going after Christians because
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med Morsi, more demonstrations took
place Aug. 16, including in Luxor.
“After being chased from the center
of Luxor, the pro-Morsi demonstrators
arrived under my residence shouting,
‘Death to the Christians.’ Fortunately,
the police arrived in time to save us.
Now the police and the army have two
armored vehicles parked here,” Bishop
Zakaria said.
While the death and destruction in
Luxor hasn’t been as bad as in other
parts of Egypt, the bishop said the
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“they think Christians are the cause of
Morsi’s fall. It’s true that Christians participated in the demonstrations against
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“By attacking Christians, they want
to throw Egypt into chaos,” Bishop
Zakaria said.
Father Fady Saady, a Coptic Catholic
priest in the province of Luxor, said
his church had suspended nighttime
activities, including games for children
and youth meetings, due to the newly
imposed 7 p.m. curfew. He said Mass for
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“There is still a state of nervousness
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Brotherhood members and other opposition forces say they were killed in
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Crusader-era hospital in Jerusalem restored
JUDITH SUDILOVSKY
JERUSALEM – Israeli archaeologists have restored part of a 2,000-bed
Crusader-era hospital run by the St.
John of the Hospital order in the Old
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Dating to the 11th century, the ancient
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prior to the work.
Located near the Church of the Holy
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of the Redeemer, the structure had
been known to archaeologists mainly
because of the mapping of Crusader
remains in the area in the 19th century,
said Amit Re’em, excavation co-director
for the antiquities authority.
“This was where the members of the
St. John of the Hospital order lived.
(CNS PHOTO/YOLI SHWARTZ,
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Israeli archaeologists have restored a 2,000bed Crusader-era hospital in the Old City of
Jerusalem.
This is where it started. This was the
first place where they used an ambulatory service to bring in sick and wounded
people to the hospital. They had riders
on camels and horses,” Re’em said.
Archaeologists found bones of camels
and horses and a large amount of metal
used in shoeing the animals during
the excavation, but Re’em said he was
unable to date the artifacts to either the
Crusader era or to the later Byzantine
era when part of the structure was used
as a stable.
The building collapsed in an earthquake in 1457 and remained buried
throughout the Ottoman period.
The excavation gave archaeologists
the opportunity to clean the exposed
section of the building, ridding it
of garbage that had accumulated.
Workers scraped away layers of paint
and plaster on the walls, exposing
the original walls for the first time in
perhaps centuries, he said.
Overall, the entire building covers about 3.7 acres, Re’em said. Its
great hall consists of massive pillars,
smaller halls, rooms and ribbed vaults
and stands more than 20 feet tall.
Crusader-era accounts describe the
hospital as being comprised of various wings and departments where patients were sent for treatment according to the nature of their illness and
condition, much like a modern-day
hospital. Re’em said. In an emergency
the hospital could accommodate 2,000
patients. The hospital also functioned
as an orphanage for abandoned newborns.
Despite the Hospitallers’ seeming efficiency, their knowledge of medicine
and sanitation was poor and the Arab
Muslim population was instrumental
in teaching them medical practices,
he said.
POPES’ SAINTHOOD DATE TO BE
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VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis
will host a meeting of cardinals
Sept. 30 to formally approve the
canonization of Blesseds John
Paul II and John XXIII; the date
for the canonization will be announced at that time, Cardinal
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Vatican Radio Aug. 20.
Speaking to reporters traveling
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28, Pope Francis said he had been
considering Dec. 8, but the possibility of icy roads could make
it difficult for Polish pilgrims.
Another option, he said, would be
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Pope Francis said Blessed John
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Bishop: Millions denied work’s fundamental dignity
MARK PATTISON
‘THE POISONED SPRING’
WASHINGTON – Millions of workers are being denied the honor and respect they deserve
because of a lack of jobs, underemployment, low
wages and exploitation, according to the bishop
who heads the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development.
“Earlier this year, Pope Francis pointed out,
‘Work is fundamental to the dignity of a person. ...
It gives one the ability to maintain oneself, one’s
family, to contribute to the growth of one’s own nation,’” said Bishop Stephen E. Blaire of Stockton,
in the U.S. bishops’ annual Labor Day statement.
“Unfortunately, millions of workers today are
denied this honor and respect as a result of unemployment, underemployment, unjust wages, wage
theft, abuse and exploitation,” Bishop Blaire said.
The 1,200-word statement, dated Labor Day, Sept.
2, was available Aug. 6 on the U.S. Conference of
Catholic Bishops website, www.usccb.org.
“The economy is not creating an adequate number of jobs that allow workers to provide for themselves and their families,” Bishop Blaire said.
“More than 4 million people have been jobless
for over six months, and that does not include
the millions more who have simply lost hope. For
every available job, there are often five unemployed and underemployed people actively vying
for it. This jobs gap pushes wages down. Half of
the jobs in this country pay less than $27,000 per
year. More than 46 million people live in poverty,
including 16 million children.”
In his message, Bishop Blaire quoted from
“Gaudium et Spes” (Pastoral Constitution on the
Church in the Modern World), one of the more
influential documents of the Second Vatican
Council: “While an immense number of people
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still lack the absolute necessities of life, some,
even in less advanced areas, live in luxury or
squander wealth.”
“How can it be said that persons honor one
another when such ‘extravagance and wretchedness exist side by side’?” he asked. Those words,
Bishop Blaire noted, “seem to be just as true
today.”
Bishop Blaire also quoted from Pope Benedict
XVI’s 2009 encyclical “Caritas in Veritate,” (“Charity in Truth”), which also dealt in part with the
specter of inequality.
“The dignity of the individual and the demands
of justice require, particularly today, that economic choices do not cause disparities in wealth
to increase in an excessive and morally unacceptable manner,” Pope Benedict said, “and that we
continue to prioritize the goal of access to steady
employment for everyone.”
Bishop Blaire spoke of the importance of
unions in his statement.
“Since the end of the Civil War, unions have
been an important part of our economy because
they provide protections for workers and more
importantly a way for workers to participate in
company decisions that affect them. Catholic
teaching has consistently affirmed the right of
workers to choose to form a union. The rise in income inequality has mirrored a decline in union
membership,” he said.
“Unions, like all human institutions, are imperfect, and they must continue to reform themselves
so they stay focused on the important issues of
living wages and appropriate benefits, raising the
minimum wage, stopping wage theft, standing up
for safe and healthy working conditions, and other
issues that promote the common good.”
The bishop also spoke about how workers’ issues are tied to other issues. “High unemployment
and underemployment are connected to the rise in
income inequality,” he said. Such inequality leads
to an erosion of social cohesion, he said, and puts
democracy at risk.
“The pain of the poor and those becoming poor
in the rising economic inequality of our society is
mounting,” Bishop Blaire added.
At its best, private enterprise creates “decent
jobs,” contributes to the common good and puts
people ahead of profits, he said.
“Whenever possible we should support businesses and enterprises that protect human life
and dignity, pay just wages and protect workers’
rights,” Bishop Blaire added. “We should support
immigration policies that bring immigrant workers out of the shadows to a legal status and offer
them a just and fair path to citizenship, so that
their human rights are protected and the wages
for all workers rise.”
At the end of the Mass, the congregation is
sent forth to “go and announce the Gospel of the
Lord,” he noted, and everyone departs with “a
sense of mission to show one another honor by
what we do and say.”
“On this Labor Day, our mission takes us to the
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Millennials suffer high rate of unemployment
LYNN LECLUYSE
WASHINGTON – Emily Rolla, a 22-year-old graduate of the Franciscan University of Steubenville
in Ohio, recently accepted a retail job at Target
after trying unsuccessfully since December to get a
job in her field of study.
A double major in communication arts and German, Rolla has applied for jobs ranging from public
relations, social media management and writing to
teaching German.
“I have had multiple second interviews but have
always been passed over due to ‘lack of experience,’” she told Catholic News Service.
Rolla is among the group of Americans ages 18 to
31 who are struggling to obtain jobs more than any
other age group.
Chuck Underwood, founder and principal of
management at a consulting firm called the Generational Imperative Inc., said that for this “millennial generation,” the unemployment rate reached
18 percent during the height of the “Great Recession,” as compared to 9 percent for the nation as a
whole. The recession lasted from December 2007 to
about June 2009.
“Many older, and more experienced, Gen-Xers
and baby boomers lost their jobs and took lowerposition, lower-paying jobs that normally would
have gone to entry-level millennials,” Underwood
told CNS in a statement. “Employers, understandably, welcomed the Xers and boomers because their
businesses were also fighting for their lives during
the recession.”
‘Many older, and more experienced,
Gen-Xers and baby boomers lost their
jobs and took lower-position, lowerpaying jobs that normally would have
gone to entry-level millennials.’
CHUCK UNDERWOOD
Founder and principal, Generational Imperative Inc.
of the millennial generation were living in their
parents’ home. This is the highest number in at
least four decades, the study shows. In 2012, 63
percent of 18- to 31-year-olds had jobs, down from
the 70 percent of their counterparts who had jobs
in 2007.
Demos, a New York-based public policy and
advocacy group found that the U.S. economy will
have to create more than 4 million jobs before
young adults will be employed at levels similar to
those before the recession.
According to Underwood, millennials have
gotten off to a very shaky start with employers
and are the worst job-hopping generation in U.S.
history. He said that the average 26-year-old millennial has already had seven employers.
“Not only that, but employers consistently
say that millennials enter their workforces with
flawed senses of entitlement, unrealistic expecta-
tions about pay, position, and promotions, and
demand flextime and instant vacation time, show
up late for work, refuse to take ownership of their
assignment and career, and don’t demonstrate the
necessary independence and self-reliance that
prior generations did demonstrate at that same
age,” he said.
Millennials are not just in competition with
older generations – they also are in competition
with one another.
“After multiple years of a tough job market,
the most recent graduating college classes may
find that they are in competition for the same
position with graduates from previous years,”
said Anthony Chiappetta, director of the Office
of Career Services at The Catholic University of
America.
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said that planning ahead and
acquiring business skills such as
strong writing and public speaking
capabilities is key for the millennial
generation in today’s competitive job
market.
“I don’t think students understand
that they have to start preparing to
go to work when they reach the college campus as a freshman,” McHie
told CNS.
He also mentioned the importance
of students being prepared for job
interviews, something he said is
often neglected.
“Dress, eye contact, being on time,
knowledge of the company and
interviewer, passion about the job,
turning off cellphone,” McHie said.
“A good interview takes significant
thought and preparation.”
Laura Caporaletti, 21, will be in
the Catholic University’s master’s
program in business analysis next
year. She believes the best way to
land a job is through obtaining connections and networking. Caporaletti, who works at a law firm as a
legal assistant, said her employment
was based solely on the fact that her
aunt is one of the attorneys at the
firm.
“I think it’s really difficult to find
IF
a job these days without some type
of personal connection,” Caporaletti
said.
She also said part of the employment struggle for millennials could
be based on the fact that so many
qualified people are applying for so
few available positions.
“Neither one of my parents went
to college, but now it’s the norm,”
Caporaletti said. “We’re all intelligent, driven and ambitious, and it’s
hard because a lot of (millennials)
look the same on paper.”
Some economists argue that minimum wage hikes play a major role
in the shortage of job positions because they cause businesses to hire
fewer workers or reduce the number
of current employees.
Black, Latino young adults hit hard
Worse off than millennials in
general are black or Latino young
adults, a phenomenon connected by
some economists, such as Milton
Friedman, to minimum wage.
Friedman, recipient of the 1976
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic
Sciences, argued that “the minimum
wage law is most properly described
as a law saying that employers must
discriminate against workers who
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“I knew initially the job search
would be difficult with so many recent
graduates, the unemployment rate
pretty high,” she told CNS in a telephone interview. “I started applying for
jobs in late March because I knew how
difficult it would be. ... It wasn’t until
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Like Caporaletti, Shields stressed
the need to make connections and
network. She attended numerous
networking opportunities while
she was looking for work – and she
entered the job market with several
internships under her belt, including
at CNN and CBS Radio. She also connected with those who had graduated
a year before her, asking them for
“tips and pointers” for finding a job.
Shields said she feels Congress and
companies might have some role in
creating jobs, but while it “may sound
cliche,” she added, as “a citizen of the
United States, you have to have initiative, determination. ... You can’t just
expect something.”
FROM PAGE 16
have low skills.” Numbers released
by the Bureau of Labor Statistics
showed that black young adults ages
16 to 24 had an unemployment rate
of 28.2 percent in May, up from 24.9
percent in April.
Robert Murphy, an associate professor for economics at Jesuit-run
Boston College said minimum wage
is relatively unimportant when looking at the bigger picture. Murphy
said that level of education plays a
more significant role in unemployment rates.
He explained that recent statistics
show unemployment rates for those
with a high school education twice
as high than those with a college
education. He also attributed unemployment to a lack in demand and
spending in today’s economy.
Legislative measures
With high rates of the nation’s
minority youth unemployed, U.S.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., and
Congressman Chaka Fattah, D-Pa.,
announced legislation in April
aimed at increasing employment
among at-risk youth. Called the
Urban Jobs Act of 2013, the measure would provide federal funding to nonprofit organizations to
carry out programming to prepare
youth for employment. The bill was
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in her field of study, which was communication arts and German.
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just landed a job in her field – communications – at SunTrust Banks
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75 years after minimum wage set, workers still struggle
ZOEY DI MAURO
WASHINGTON – Seventy-five years
after President Franklin D. Roosevelt
signed into law a national minimum
wage, many workers still struggle to
support themselves and their families
living at or slightly above that pay.
“Jobs that are paid minimum wage
take a lot of physical effort. You’re on
your feet; you’re moving and working
quickly. Imagine working that hard
and not feeling like you can provide for
yourself and your family – it is incredibly demoralizing,” said Judy Conti,
an activist with National Employment
Law Project.
The current minimum wage is $7.25
an hour; had the minimum wage kept
pace with inflation it would be at $10.74
per hour. Additionally, minimum wage
for tipped workers hasn’t been raised
in more than 20 years and remains at
$2.13 an hour.
Chanting “we can’t survive on 7-25,”
many fast-food workers have organized walkouts in cities like Chicago,
Milwaukee and New York City. The
movement in Chicago called “Fight
for 15” held protests Aug. 1 and has encouraged others in the city and around
America to fight for living wages.
“God bless these people,” said Conti.
“They’ve got nothing to lose.” While
(CNS PHOTO/GREGORY A. SHEMITZ)
Fast-food workers and their supporters rally in front of a McDonald’s restaurant in New York’s
Union Square as they demand higher wages July 29. “We can’t survive on 7-25!” was one of the
slogans chanted by the protesters, a reference to New York state’s minimum wage of $7.25 an hour.
she believes the federal minimum
wage should be increased, she also
champions the workers for dealing
with the problem directly.
To her, raising low wages makes
sense economically: “The more people
you squeeze out of the middle class,
the more no one has the money to buy
your products. Good wages is a virtuous cycle; it fuels an economy that
works.”
According to a poll by Rasmussen
Reports, 61 percent of Americans favor
raising the minimum wage to $10.10,
the amount the Fair Wage Bill of 2013
proposes. Rep. George Miller, D-Calif.,
has introduced the bill, which would
change the tipped wage to $3 an hour,
gradually raise the minimum wage to
$10.10 and thereafter leave the future
of minimum wage rate up to Department of Labor. The bill has not yet left
committee.
Kali Radke, 31, works part time at
$8.25 an hour, a dollar above the federal
minimum wage, while going to school
for nursing. While she had been living
in a shelter, she and her 9-year-old
daughter now live in transitional
housing in Fort Meade, Md. Because
of the scarcity of full-time minimum
wage jobs, many people she knows
work multiple part-time jobs to support themselves. Even then, it’s easy
to be let go if something like a child’s
sickness prevents them from coming
into work.
“It’s an employers’ market,” Radke
told Catholic News Service in a telephone interview. Though she hopes to
get a managerial position, and eventually a job in nursing, she realizes that
not everyone has opportunities for a
career change. “Some people can’t go
to school, but if you’re willing to put in
40 hours a week, you should be able to
afford a crappy apartment and it’s just
not possible.”
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FROM PAGE 18
workers, 47 percent, are full-time employees over the
age of 20. Twenty-four percent are parents, and more
than a third are minorities, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a think tank based in Washington.
With an increase in the minimum wage “things
would still be tight, but at least I’d be able to put a
roof over our heads,” said Radke.
Church teaching has long supported just wages
and fair treatment of employees. For example, Pope
Leo XIII issued his encyclical “Rerum Novarum”
(1891) to address the difficulties faced by the working class in the wake of the Industrial Revolution.
“Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a
frugal and well-behaved wage-earner,” he wrote.
Catholics also have been involved in furthering a
just wage in America. “Msgr. John A. Ryan wrote
one of the first pieces on (state minimum wage
law),” said Michael Naughton from the John A. Ryan
Institute for Catholic Social Thought, part of the
University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn. “There
was a grave concern for people to be able to achieve
their needs with the wages that they make.”
Brian Engelland, an economics professor at The
Catholic University of America, fears that increasing the federal minimum wage may not be beneficial
to the overall economy: “It’s rough and inexact when
it’s done on a national basis because there’s such a
great difference between costs of living between,
say, Mississippi and D.C. Fair wages should be done
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However, he believes that local government as well
as employees, employers, consumers and investors
should actively promote and bargain for just wages
that are realistic for their individual companies.
“Because of the way we were created, we like to
work and we’ll work whether we’re paid or not,” he
said. “Consequently, humans do not do a good job in
negotiations. We’ve gotta tip the scales toward human dignity so that the individual worker doesn’t get
the short end of the stick.”
“It wouldn’t be a bad idea” to have minimum
wage laws legislated at a local level, “but the federal
minimum should keep pace,” said Charlie Clark
from St. John’s University in the New York borough
of Queens.
The majority of minimum wage employers,
corporations like Wal-Mart, Target and McDonald’s,
can afford a wage hike, according to the National
Employment Law Project. Two-thirds of those
employing minimum wage workers are not momand-pop stores, but large corporations with more
than 100 employees. Seventy-eight percent have been
profitable every year for the past three years, and
63 percent of these companies are earning higher
profits now than before the recession. Much of that
money is benefiting the higher-ups.
“If you look at the data of labor productivity until
the mid-1970s, wages went up with productivity,” said
Clark. “Productivity increases now go to owners.”
Still, debate on a higher minimum wage based on
differing economic theories has prevented passage
of any measure to raise it. Clark told CNS that for
many years economists believed that raising the
minimum wage would raise unemployment, “but
then they started to empirically test it and there’s no
evidence that unemployment goes up. Now economists are split about 50/50.”
Naughton believes that a just wage is part of right
relationship between employees and employers.
“The role of virtue should inform these wage relationships from a scriptural, Catholic perspective,”
he said. “Are there ways I can dignify the work? How
can you promote the growth of your co-worker versus seeing an employee as an eight-hour unit?”
Conti believes she was called to help people to support themselves. “I was raised in all of the traditions
of Catholic social justice, not just charity, not just
handouts but real opportunities for people to better
themselves.”
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Portland archbishop confirms migrant workers
ROCIO RIOS
GRESHAM, Ore. – They come to Oregon’s fields
with hope and faith.
Each night, St. Anne Parish’s pastoral associate Corina Carsner visits a community of itinerant workers who come from California and other
agricultural areas to pick crops during harvest
season. She invites the workers and their families
to participate in formation classes, which she leads
at the camps.
Many of the migrant workers gathered Aug. 5 for
a confirmation Mass celebrated by Portland Archbishop Alexander K. Sample. The service was held
at the Townsend Farm labor camp, where hundreds
of people live during Oregon’s growing season.
“This has been a great opportunity to bring
this community closer together and closer to the
church,” said Father Jose Luis Gonzalez, St. Anne’s
pastor. “I wish they could come to the parish, but
they work very hard and stay here, so we come to
them.”
Approximately 40 people were confirmed at the
Mass, which provided a special break from grueling work schedules. Many of the residents work 12
hours a day, seven days a week, while bunking with
eight or nine others in mobile homes.
Volunteers from St. Anne helped set up the
special Mass, celebrated under the canopy of an
enormous horse chestnut tree.
At the start of the Mass, migrant workers entered the ceremony space in a silent procession,
with candidates in white. Their hands, which
spend so many hours toiling in the fields, carried
white Bibles, rosaries and candles.
Archbishop Sample, who was installed in the
archdiocese in April, has been a fast study of the
second-most predominant language in his new
home. He celebrated the entire Mass in Spanish.
He started his homily by saying, “I’m sorry, I don’t
speak Spanish. Patience please,” but the faithful who gathered under the tents understood his
message that the Holy Spirit and their faith would
give them the strength they need, especially during
hard times.
St. Anne’s parochial vicar, Father David Shaw,
concelebrated the Mass with the archbishop and
(CNS PHOTO/CLARICE KEATING, CATHOLIC SENTINEL)
Migrant workers arrive for a confirmation service and Mass celebrated by Archbishop Alexander K. Sample of Portland, Ore., at
the Townsend Farm camp near Gresham, Ore., Aug. 5. Itinerant workers from California and other agricultural areas pick crops
during harvest season in the area east of Portland.
Father Gonzalez, and Deacon Jose Gonzalez assisted. Father Shaw said he has loved being a part
of this important tradition while he has served at
St. Anne.
Rocio Garcia said she felt honored to have Archbishop Sample come to the camp.
“It made me feel like I was in my little village (in
Mexico) where we received the sacraments in the
field,” she said. “We received the catechesis in an
outdoor camp like here.” Garcia’s daughter Alexandra was an altar server during the ceremony.
In addition to teaching the formation classes, Carsner sponsored two confirmandi, Benito Carreno and
Orlanda Santiago.
Carreno, 18, said the once-in-a-lifetime celebration
of his faith made him happy.
About his sponsor, he said: “She always gave me
good advice, and she was there for me, making sure
my life is good and my Catholic faith is strong.”
Carreno arrived at the migrant camp Feb. 17 by
himself. His family remains in Oaxaca, Mexico, and
despite workdays that start at 5 a.m. and end at 4
p.m., he often feels lonely.
“I came here to have a better life, but this is hard,”
he said. “I know this work because I did it in Mexico.
But it’s hard. I have a constant back pain because we
have to be on our knees while we pick the berries.”
Santiago is a contract worker who is paid to pick
by weight, 30 cents per pound of berries. In one day
she can pick 200-300 pounds.
Santiago will leave at the end of the harvest
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OPINION 21
Zingers, previously unused
W
hen I began columnizing, in the Paleolithic
Period when a correcting IBM Selectric
II typewriter seemed the ne plus ultra of
technology for scribes, I collected quotable quotes
in a plastic box, for possible
insertion into columns in
the manner of my friend,
Dr. George F. Will. Rooting
around the yellowing scraps
in that box recently, I came
across a gaggle of zingers
that went unused, but which
it seems a shame not to share
with readers and posterity.
So, for a little summer levity,
here we go:
GEORGE WEIGEL
On the perils of succumbing to political correctness: “There is no evidence that the fate of the
last of the Gadarene swine was noticeably preferable to that of the first” (Charles Stuart, Christ
Church don, deploring his Oxford colleagues’ argument that the college couldn’t be “left behind” in
changing traditional practices).
Getting the conversation started properly:
“How doth truth prosper in thy parts?” (an old
Quaker greeting).
The evils of French revolutionary weights
and measures: “If God had wanted us to use the
metric system, he’d have given us 10 apostles” (an
angry worker, struggling with metric tools).
Rarely an argument lost: “He can persuade
most people of most things, and above all he can
persuade himself of almost anything” (W.E. Forster on William Gladstone).
The limits of openness: “An open mind, like
an open mouth, should close on something” (G.K.
Chesterton, of course).
Beyond having a career: “But yield who will to
their separation/My object in living is to unite/My
avocation and my vocation/As my two eyes make
one in sight./Only where love and need are one,/
And work is play for mortal stakes,/Is the deed
ever really done/For Heaven and the future’s sake”
(Robert Frost, “Two Tramps in Mud Time”).
Telling look-a-likes apart: “(Anthony) Eden
is the sheep striving to look like a man, (Harold)
Macmillan the man affecting to look like a sheep”
(SHAEF officer explaining to General Eisenhower’s
staffers how to distinguish between two future
British prime ministers).
Staying sharp: “The important thing is not to
stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for
existence. One cannot help but be in awe when one
contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of
the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if
one tries to comprehend a little of this mystery each
day. Never lose a holy curiosity” (Albert Einstein).
Social ineptness: “Bore. A person who talks
when you wish him to listen” (Ambrose Bierce,
“The Devil’s Dictionary”).
Good government: “When Dr. Johnson declared
that patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, he
underestimated the potential of reform” (Roscoe
Conkling, resigning from the U.S. Senate after
President Garfield rejected Conkling’s machine
nominee for Collector of Customs of the Port of
New York).
On the right: “The function of conservatives
is to extract the truth in each succeeding heresy”
(Lord Hailsham).
The education of the judiciary: “What are you going to do about crime?” New York mayoral candidate
Ed Koch was asked at a senior citizens’ center in the
Bronx during his first campaign to run the Big Apple.
“Ladies and gentlemen,” Koch responded, “did you
know that a judge was mugged last week? He called a
press conference and said, ‘This mugging will in no
way affect my judgment in matters of this kind.’” At
which point an elderly lady stood up in the back of the
room and shouted, “Then mug him again!”
A culture without reality contact: “We have
now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of
the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men”
(George Orwell).
The earthen vessel of the church: “No merely
human institution conducted with such knavish
imbecility would have lasted a fortnight” (Hillaire
Belloc on Catholicism).
The right stuff: “How would you like to sit on
top of 5 million parts, each of which was made by
the lowest bidder?” (John Young, on flying the first
space shuttle).
Our task: “The Gospel must be preached by
men. The angels have other duties” (plaque found
in an old church).
state it, largely ignored. His feast day, March 19,
usually fell in Lent and the statue was shrouded.
Compare that fate to Mary’s, whose altars resembled florist shops. Over the years I tried to make up
for the insulting oversight by personal devotion.
Now that I am a woman of a certain age, my compassion has certain benefits: Joseph is the patron
of a happy death.
I can only hope the belated efforts of three popes
to finally insert St. Joseph’s name into the eucharistic prayer will have a trickle-down effect in
catechesis and on homilists. The Office of Worship
suggests we need not purchase new missals, just
pencil in his name. His name was permanently
written on my heart decades ago.
Blanche F. Smith
Atherton
role of family,” Aug. 9) and was struck by the excerpt from Archbishop Cordileone’s homily. In it,
he made the following comment: “It is that family
built on that lifelong mutual fidelity of father and
mother –that is the way that children are entered
into the holy life. …”
I imagine that the archbishop was using this as
an opportunity to support traditional marriage
and traditional families. I don’t know if he realizes how hurtful and damaging his comments can
be. What about families with single parents? The
widowed mother raising three kids? The single
woman who keeps her child, rejecting abortion? The divorced father who is doing his best
to raise his children as good Catholics? Are their
families somehow “less”? Are these struggling
parents denying their children the chance to “enter
into the holy life” and putting their kids at risk?
I’m sure the archbishop has the best of intentions,
but life can take families down many different, unexpected paths. In promoting those families with a
mother and a father as somehow “better,” or as being
“necessary” to raise good, loving and holy children,
Archbishop Cordileone is creating a tiered system in
which some families will find themselves as second
or third class. He needs to be very conscious of the
power of his words, and that he’s speaking to many
people that might not fit his definition of “family.”
Jim Bridge
Burlingame
Editor’s note: The archbishop made this comment in
the context of a homily, which, at this point, was meant
simply to inspire people toward the good of family, and
not cover all of the details of every possible ramification of the idea, as would be appropriate in discourse
of a more academic nature. In other venues he has
many times spoken of the heroic sacrifices many single
parents make to give their children the best possible
upbringing, and that they need and deserve our esteem
and support. As two examples, the reader is referred to
his interviews in the USA Today (www.usatoday.com/
story/news/nation/2013/03/21/archbishop-cordileonegay-marriage-catholic-church/2001085) and the San
Francisco Chronicle (http://blog.sfgate.com/nov05election/2013/06/16/sfs-archbishop-cordileone-why-heopposes-gay-marriage).
WEIGEL is Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and
Public Policy Center, Washington, D.C.
LETTERS
Church must be accountable
Re “UN should have no authority over Vatican,”
letter, Aug. 9:
While the reader is certainly entitled to his opinion, his commentary is an example of what is wrong
with Catholicism in the minds of Catholics and nonCatholics alike. Whether or not the U.N. should have
any say in what the Vatican does and that “the U.N.
should be put on notice by the church that it has no
authority in this matter whatsoever” is a moot point.
The reader was responding to the article “UN asks
Vatican to account for all sex abuse allegations” in
the July 19 edition.
The church is experiencing a crisis from which it
has yet to recover (if it ever will) and needs to, and
should want to, account for and accept all responsibility for this nightmare simply from a moral
perspective. The victims were children and the perpetrators were Catholic clergy to whom the Catholic
faithful entrusted with their children’s care.
The Vatican may not be answerable to the U.N., but
it is answerable to the Catholic faithful. The Vatican
must be accountable to whomever of all abusers,
victims, enablers, whether related to this problem or
any other. In order for the church to have any credibility in the minds and hearts of the public, names
should be published, abusers and enablers excoriated, defrocked, charged and jailed.
Andrea Iida
San Francisco
History of St. Francis Parish
Thank you for the article “Capuchin Father
Snider installed as shrine rector” in the Aug. 9
Catholic San Francisco. Unfortunately facts of recent history are misstated. For instance, the “thriving parish” of St. Francis of Assisi was closed by
then-Archbishop (John R.) Quinn in the fall of 1993
and the parish was suppressed. The church was
reopened in 1998 by then-Archbishop William J.
Levada becoming the national shrine in 2005.
Chris Stockton
San Francisco
Eucharistic prayers and Joseph
Yes, I did notice something different during Mass
(“St. Joseph added to every eucharistic prayer,”
Aug. 9):
I thought it might be auditory hallucination
when I heard St. Joseph’s name mentioned in the
eucharistic prayer. That it had never been there
seemed to me a major sin of omission.
As a child I sang endless hymns to Mary, I
crowned her statue, much fuss was made on her
feast days. As for poor Joseph? He was, to under-
Worst column ever?
Tony Magliano’s column “Global Warming: We
better take it seriously” (Aug. 9) is the worst column ever written in Catholic San Francisco, and I
go back to the Monitor days. Mr. Magliano actually
uses in his promotion of global warming, one of
the most anti-Catholic, anti-family and anti-life
organizations, the United Nations, in its defense.
Global warming is not and has never been about
the climate. It is about people and population control. People are the enemy according to the global
warming crowd. One major reason why the United
States is so advanced is because of fossil fuel – fossil fuel that is today infinitely cleaner than ever
before. It is not the fossil fuel of 40 years ago.
Our colleges and universities and the elite media
have silenced any opinion that opposes the global
warming crowd, but they are out there if Mr.
Magliano is interested in the other side.
Catholic San Francisco has done a disservce to
its readers in publishing this column. It would be
better if it were in the old Pravda.
Stephen Firenze
San Mateo
Families’ different, unexpected paths
I was reading the article about the St. Anne novena (“At St. Anne novena, archbishop highlights
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22 OPINION
Why faith is indeed a light
I
n “new” atheist and secularist circles
today, faith is regularly ridiculed. It
is presented as pre-scientific mumbojumbo, Bronze Age credulity, the surrender of the
intellect, unwarranted submission to authority, etc. Time
and again, the
late Christopher
Hitchens, echoing Immanuel
Kant, called on
people to be
intellectually
FATHER ROBERT
responsible, to
BARRON
think for themselves, to dare
to know. This
coming of age would be impossible,
he insisted, without the abandonment
of religious faith. And in standard
accounts of cultural history, the “age
of faith” is presented as a retrograde
and regressive dark age, out of which
emerged, only after a long twilight
struggle, the modern physical sciences
and their attendant technologies. In
accord with this cynical reading, the
contemporary media almost invariably
present people of “faith” as hopelessly
unenlightened yahoos or dangerous
fanatics. If you want the very best
example of this, watch Bill Maher’s film
“Religulous.”
It was to counter this deeply distorted understanding of faith that Pope
Emeritus Benedict XVI composed an
encyclical letter, which has just appeared under the name of his papal
I
t is by now well known that Pope
Francis gave an hour-and-a-half impromptu press conference on July 28
on his flight back to Rome from World
Youth Day in
Rio de Janeiro.
While the headlines focused on
the pope’s comments on gays
– “Who am I to
judge?” – it is a
serious error to
reduce his message to this one
point.
FATHER GERALD
The pope’s
D. COLEMAN, SS
single most
revealing comment came in
response about divorced and remarried Catholics. His answer provides
the best and guiding window into his
pastoral outlook. “Mercy,” he said, “is
a larger theme than the question you
raise … This is a time of mercy... If the
Lord never tires of forgiving, we don’t
have any other path than this one.”
Certain catchphrases often represent
a core emphasis. For John Paul II, it
was “Be not afraid.” For Benedict XVI,
it was “reason and faith.” For Francis,
it is “mercy and compassion.” This
moral and pastoral ethos explains the
pope’s unwillingness to pass judgment
on gays. Francis believes that it is time
for the church to lift up its merciful
face to the world. The Italian edition of
Vanity Fair recently declared the pope
“a miracle of humility in the era of
vanity.” He is the pope who established
a custom without denying a tradition
when last Holy Thursday he washed
the feet of inmates in a youth detention center in Rome, including two
women, one of them a Muslim. A few
Countering modernism, the pope insists that faith is
the proper, indeed the reasonable, response to
the experience of the living God.
successor and bears the title “Lumen
Fidei” (“The Light of Faith”). The text
– smart, allusive, ruminative, informed
by a profound grasp of cultural trends
– is, though signed by Pope Francis,
unmistakably Ratzingerian. Though it
is impossible in the context of this brief
article to do justice to its rich content, I
should like to gesture, however briefly,
to a few of its principal motifs.
The Holy Father’s move is to confront
directly the sort of rationalistic dismissal of faith that I just outlined. Moderns,
in love with the illuminating power of
technological reason, have tended to
view faith, not as light, but as obscurity.
But the pope insists that faith is the
proper, indeed the reasonable, response
to the experience of the living God, who
is not an object in the world, but rather
the creator of the world. Precisely
because he is the source of all finite
existence, God is not one being among
many and hence cannot be pinned down
on an examining table and lit up with
the harsh light of technological reason.
The prophet Isaiah expressed this point
with admirable economy: “Truly you
are God who hides himself, O God of
Israel, Savior.” Isaiah does not mean
that God is a worldly reality that is, for
the moment, hidden away, like the dark
side of the moon; rather, he means that
God is a reality which cannot, even
in principle, be seen in the ordinary
way. Further, the hidden God is not an
abstract force or a distant first cause.
He is, instead, a living person, and this
means that he cannot be manipulated,
controlled, or analyzed in an intrusive
manner. Therefore, faith or trusting acceptance is the only legitimate response
to an experience of such a reality.
The encyclical’s second move is to
show how the darkness of faith, once
embraced, actually turns into light. By
accepting God’s overture, the faith-filled
person finds the supreme value, which
unifies and gives direction to the whole
of his life; he basks in the light, which
illumines every aspect of his existence.
In the absence of faith in the one God,
a person necessarily drifts from idol
to idol, that is to say, from one fleeting
value to another. One of the pope’s most
brilliant observations is that idolatry,
therefore, is always a type of polytheism, a chase after a multiplicity of gods,
none of which can satisfy: “Idolatry
does not offer a journey but rather a
plethora of paths leading nowhere and
forming a vast labyrinth.” What an apt
description of the spiritual state of so
many in our postmodern condition.
And how deeply congruent with the
biblical notion that the rejection of God
conduces automatically to a disintegration of the self. Notice that biblical
demons speak typically in the plural.
The pope’s third major move is to
show that authentic faith is liberating, and he does this by returning to
St. Paul’s classic texts on justification.
Famously, the apostle argued, in his
letter to the Romans and elsewhere that
salvation comes, not through works of
the law, but through faith in what Jesus
has accomplished. The Holy Father
reads this, not in the Lutheran manner,
as a demonization of “good works,” but
rather as a reminder that real salvation
comes by way of surrendering to God’s
purposes. When we are convinced that
our fundamental well-being depends
on our efforts and the accomplishment
of our plans, we lock ourselves into
the cramped quarters of the sovereign
self. But when we acknowledge through
faith the primacy of grace, we move in
the infinite and exciting space of God’s
intentions for us. As all of the great
spiritual masters have acknowledged,
our lives are not, finally, about us, and in
that realization, we find peace and joy.
Dante expressed the idea splendidly: “In
your will, O Lord, is our peace.”
I think that this encyclical could
best be interpreted as Pope Emeritus
Benedict’s and Pope Francis’s challenge to the secularist ideology that has
already enveloped Western Europe and
that is now threatening our country. It is
a reminder that faith alone can deliver
us from the tyranny and sadness of the
closed-in self.
FATHER BARRON is the founder of the global
ministry Word on Fire and the rector/president of Mundelein Seminary, Mundelein, Ill.
‘Who am I to judge?’
(CNS PHOTO/PILAR OLIVARES, REUTERS)
Pope Francis, who has said he would like to see “a poor church for the poor,” reaches out to
a child as he visits the Varginha community of Rio de Janeiro July 25. Father Gerald Coleman
says the media has rightly dubbed Francis “the world’s parish priest.”
months ago he gave an extraordinary
homily in which he stated that even
atheists could be saved. Francis speaks
largely through gesture and example.
Reactions to the pope’s “Who am
I to judge?” call his response “a sea
change,” “a big and dramatic change,”
and “a much needed breath of fresh
air.” Jesuit journalist James Martin
went so far as to say that “anyone
who says nothing has changed in the
church today is nuts.” But what has
changed is not found in the pope’s
actual words, but rather in his tone.
Missing this context for the pope’s
remark on gays, some have seen the
need to offer correctives and reminders. LifeSiteNews opined that the
pope was not implying that “there is
nothing wrong with being gay.. .(The)
quote does not mean that the homo-
sexual inclination is not a problem at
all.” These writers went on to say that
the sex abuse crisis in the church was
related to “an active gay subculture”
(against every credible study on this
subject, including one by a Vaticanappointed commission). They remind
us that “just” discrimination against
gays is appropriate. LifeSiteNews
might want to re-read Benedict XVI’s
2005 interview with German journalist Peter Seewald. Benedict said that
homosexuals are “human beings (who)
deserve respect, even though they have
this inclination, and must not be discriminated against because of it.”
Francis’ concerns are of a larger
nature than petty and demeaning commentaries. He has said that he would
like to see a “poor church for the poor,”
as he has demonstrated himself since
his election, e.g., in his obvious love of
people, his walk through the slums of
Rio, his commitment to the downtrodden and marginalized. The media has
rightly dubbed Francis “the world’s
parish priest.” It is not insignificant
that the pope has made a clear choice
to de-emphasize issues of sexual
morality. Francis is not a naive person.
In Rio he said that he wants “to see the
church get closer to the people.” I want
to get rid of clericalism, the mundane, the closing ourselves off within
ourselves, in our parishes, schools and
structures.” He is creating a substance
change in tone and attitude.
We know the church’s moral teachings on sexual activity outside heterosexual marriage. To bring this up
again now is unnecessary because it
misses the point of the pope’s vision
of the human person. “If a person is
gay, seeks God and has good will, who
am I to judge?” That is what he said,
and then added, “They should not be
marginalized.” Francis is calling us to
look at people’s hearts and the totality
of their lives.
This is the part of Catholic teaching
the pope emphasized by citing the catechism: Respect assumes non-rejection
of persons and integration into society.
Gays are our sisters and brothers. Who
cannot notice here an echo of Jesus’
remark to the crowd ready to stone the
adulteress? “The one who is without
sin (should) cast the first stone?” Francis’ approach strikes a compassionate
tone. If anyone is gay or lesbian, the
important thing is to live in the light
of God. This is Francis’ message. This
should be our message, too.
SULPICIAN FATHER COLEMAN is vice president,
corporate ethics for the Daughters of
Charity Health System.
FAITH 23
SUNDAY READINGS
Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time
‘Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I tell you, will attempt to enter but will not be strong enough.’
LUKE 13:22-30
ISAIAH 66:18-21
Thus says the Lord: I know their works and their
thoughts, and I come to gather nations of every language; they shall come and see my glory. I will set
a sign among them; from them I will send fugitives
to the nations: to Tarshish, Put and Lud, Mosoch,
Tubal and Javan, to the distant coastlands that
have never heard of my fame, or seen my glory; and
they shall proclaim my glory among the nations.
They shall bring all your brothers and sisters
from all the nations as an offering to the Lord, on
horses and in chariots, in carts, upon mules and
dromedaries, to Jerusalem, my holy mountain,
says the Lord, just as the Israelites bring their
offering to the house of the Lord in clean vessels.
Some of these I will take as priests and Levites,
says the Lord.
PSALM 117:1, 2
Go out to all the world and tell the Good
News.
Praise the Lord all you nations; glorify him, all
you peoples!
News.
For steadfast is his kindness toward us, and the
fidelity of the Lord endures forever.
News.
HEBREWS 12:5-7, 11-13
Brothers and sisters, You have forgotten the
exhortation addressed to you as children:“My
son, do not disdain the discipline of the Lord or
lose heart when reproved by him; for whom the
Lord loves, he disciplines; he scourges every son
he acknowledges.”Endure your trials as “discipline”; God treats you as sons. For what “son”
is there whom his father does not discipline?
At the time, all discipline seems a cause not for
joy but for pain, yet later it brings the peaceful
fruit of righteousness to those who are trained
by it. So strengthen your drooping hands and
your weak knees. Make straight paths for your
feet, that what is lame may not be disjointed but
healed.
LUKE 13:22-30
Jesus passed through towns and villages, teaching as he went and making his way to Jerusalem.
Someone asked him, “Lord, will only a few people
be saved?”
He answered them, “Strive to enter through the
narrow gate, for many, I tell you, will attempt to enter but will not be strong enough. After the master
of the house has arisen and locked the door, then
will you stand outside knocking and saying,
‘Lord, open the door for us.’ He will say to you in
reply, ‘I do not know where you are from.’ And you
will say, ‘We ate and drank in your company and
you taught in our streets.’ Then he will say to you,
‘I do not know where you are from. Depart from
me, all you evildoers!’And there will be wailing and
grinding of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac,
and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of
God and you yourselves cast out. And people will
come from the east and the west and from the north
and the south and will recline at table in the kingdom of God. For behold, some are last who will be
first, and some are first who will be last.”
‘For I shall not pass this way again’
T
here is a familiar quotation that says: “I
shall pass through this world but once. Any
good deeds, therefore, that I can do, or any
kindness that I can show to anyone, let me do it
now. Let me not deter nor
neglect, for I shall not pass
this way again.” Those
lines serve to remind us of
the transient nature of life.
Time does not stand still. It
is constantly on the move.
And once any part of life
has passed us by, it is gone
forever. We can never get it
back again.
A young woman told a
story about a misunderstanding between herself
and a friend. It wasn’t a
big thing, but it drove a
wedge between them, and
DEACON
they stop communicating.
FAIVA PO’OI
She said, “After a while, it
was not the things said and
done that kept us apart.
It was the silence.” She was sure that someday
SCRIPTURE
REFLECTION
one of them would break the silence, and they
would be friends again. But each kept waiting
for other. And in her words: “Somehow time ran
out. I did not even know he was sick. It was a
friend of a friend who told me he had died. Now
there is nothing left but the silence. It is here
forever.”
This story provides us with the image of a
person knocking on a door that, as Jesus said,
can never be opened again. We all have days
like that – mistakes we would like to recall, opportunities we would like to recover. We cannot
relive the past. That door is closed and locked.
We cannot spend more time with our children.
They are grown now and live in other cities. We
cannot visit our terminally ill friend. He is dead
now. The door is closed.
But there are many things that we can do. We
can ask the forgiveness of someone we have
hurt. We can visit and tell our living friends
that we love them. We can spend less time complaining and more time being grateful. We can
break the habit of criticism and judging people
and instead cultivate the habit of love and
praise. We can give roses to people while they
are alive, and not wait until they are dead.
We can live only in the present, for the passing of time requires us to seize the opportunities of the moment. But if we fail to do that, the
opportunities of the moment will slowly slip
away, and someday be gone forever.
Some of us boast about getting rid of problems when we come to Christ; however, the
contrary is true. When we go to Christ, we take
on problems. Being a follower of Christ offers
us no escape from the stern demands of life.
The pathway that leads to God is a narrow
gate of good deeds, love, and mercy rather
than of doctrine. Jesus taught that everlasting
life belongs to those who are willing to endure
hardship for the sake of faith, hope, and love
of God and neighbor. The only things that last
are those things bought at the price of suffering
love.
The life and example of Jesus encourages us
to always strive to enter through the narrow
gate! As our responsorial Psalm commands us
to “Go out to all the world and tell the Good
News,” may the Holy Eucharist empower us to
enter the narrow gate.
Time. Sir 3:17-18, 20, 28-29. PS 68:4-5, 6-7, 10-11.
Heb 12:18-19, 22-24a. Lk 14:1, 7-14.
SEPTEMBER 7: Saturday of the Twenty-second
Week in Ordinary Time. Col 1:21-23. PS 54:3-4, 6 and
8. Lk 6:1-5.
DEACON PO’OI serves at St. Timothy Parish, San Mateo.
LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS
AUGUST 26: Monday of the Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time. 1 Thes 1:1-5, 8b-10. PS 149:1b-2, 3-4,
5-6a and 9b. Mt 23:13-22.
AUGUST 27: Memorial of St. Monica. 1 Thes 2:1-8.
PS 139:1-3, 4-6. Mt 23:23-26.
SEPTEMBER 2: Monday of the Twenty-second Week
in Ordinary Time. 1 Thes 4:13-18. PS 96:1 and 3, 4-5,
11-12, 13. Lk 4:16-30.
AUGUST 28: Memorial of St. Augustine, bishop, confessor and doctor. 1 Thes 2:9-13. PS 139:7-8, 9-10,
11-12ab. Mt 23:27-32.
SEPTEMBER 3: Memorial of St. Gregory the Great,
pope and doctor. 1 Thes 5:1-6, 9-11. PS 27:1, 4, 1314. Lk 4:31-37.
SEPTEMBER 9: Memorial of St. Peter Claver, priest.
Col 1:24–2:3. PS 62:6-7, 9. Lk 6:6-11.
AUGUST 29: Memorial of the Passion of St. John the
Baptist. 1 Thes 3:7-13. PS 90:3-5a, 12-13, 14 and 17.
Mk 6:17-29.
SEPTEMBER 4: Wednesday of the Twenty-second
Week in Ordinary Time. Col 1:1-8. PS 52:10, 11. Lk
4:38-44.
SEPTEMBER 10: Tuesday of the Twenty-third Week
in Ordinary Time. Col 2:6-15. PS 145:1b-2, 8-9, 1011. Lk 6:12-19.
AUGUST 30: Friday of the Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time. St. Jeanne Jugan. 1 Thes 4:1-8. PS 97:1
and 2b, 5-6, 10, 11-12. Mt 25:1-13.
SEPTEMBER 5: Thursday of the Twenty-second
Week in Ordinary Time. Blessed Teresa of Calcutta. Col 1:9-14. PS 98:2-3ab, 3cd-4, 5-6. Lk
5:1-11.
SEPTEMBER 11: Wednesday of the Twenty-third
Week in Ordinary Time. Col 3:1-11. PS 145:2-3, 1011, 12-13ab. Lk 6:20-26.
AUGUST 31: Saturday of the Twenty-first Week in Ordinary Time. 1 Thes 4:9-11. PS 98:1, 7-8, 9. Mt 25:14-30.
SEPTEMBER 1: Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary
SEPTEMBER 6: Friday of the Twenty-second Week in
Ordinary Time. Col 1:15-20. PS 100:1b-2, 3, 4, 5. Lk
5:33-39.
SEPTEMBER 8: Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary
Time. Wis 9:13-18b. PS 90:3-4, 5-6, 12-13, 14-17.
Phmn 9-10, 12-17. Lk 14:25-33.
SEPTEMBER 12: Thursday of the Twenty-third Week
in Ordinary Time. Optional Memorial of the Most Holy
Name of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Col 3:12-17. PS
150:1b-2, 3-4, 5-6. Lk 6:27-38.
24 FAITH
What would
Jesus say?
T
he saying, “you can’t make everyone happy,” is especially true of the
remarks made about Pope Francis’
recent visit to Brazil to celebrate World
Youth Day.
Many praised
him for being
down to earth,
humble and a
breath of fresh air.
And then there
were others who
criticized him for
not saying more
on women’s issues
and questioned
FATHER EUGENE
whether he was
HEMRICK
all talk and no action. One went so
far as to say that
his remark about
not judging gays
is nothing new
and that multiple
Christians have
said as much
through the ages.
The pros and
cons that followed
Francis’ visit confirm that we, like
generations before
us, live in contentious times. How
might we react to
these moments of
contention?
Being matter of
fact might be one
course of action
to take, not letting
our emotions come
to a boil and allowing ourselves to
concede that conflicting opinions
are part of our
times. We live in a
new age of instant
communication
that encourages
people to air their
opinions instantly,
be they ever so varied. We’re in an age
of heightened awareness about human
rights in which more people are speaking
out against violations.
It is true that Catholicism has detractors who are forever seeking something
negative to say. It is equally true that
they have existed from the beginning
of the church and will always be part
of its history. One positive way to react
to this is to examine their comments, to
learn whether some of them can teach
the church better ways of practicing the
new evangelization and help to convert
naysayers.
I must admit, when I read some of the
negative comments about Pope Francis,
I was angry. But then the thought hit me,
“What would Christ say about this?” I
believe he would have several different
reactions.
To those championing human rights,
he would say: “Be true to your convictions, listen to your heart rather than
the crowds, and purify your convictions
continuously!” To detractors of the
church, he would say: “How do you see
the church? Is it as cathedrals, a bureaucracy and self-serving, selfish people, or
do you see it as the people of God serving
others because of their love of God? Have
you dared to let this goodness and love
touch you?”
To those of us who are the church, he
would say: “As I taught my apostles, there
are difficulties in proclaiming me. This is
the reality of being an apostle.”
One positive
way to react to
Catholicism’s
naysayers is to
examine their
comments, to
learn whether
some of them
can teach the
church better
ways of practicing the new
evangelization
and help
to convert
naysayers.
Our need to give to the poor
W
e need to give to the poor, not
because they need it, though
they do, but because we need
to do that in order to be healthy.
That’s an
axiom that
is grounded
in Scripture
where, time
and again,
we are taught
that giving
to the poor
is something
that we
need to do
FATHER RON
for our own
ROLHEISER
health. We
see this truth
expressed in
many religions and cultures. For
example, a number of indigenous
North American people practiced
something they called potlatch.
This was a festival, sometimes attached to the celebration of a birth
or wedding, at which a rich person
gave away gifts to the community.
Its primary purpose was to
ensure a certain distribution of
wealth but also to ensure that
wealthy individuals stayed healthy
by being solicitous in terms of not
accumulating too much wealth.
Too much excess, it was believed,
left a person unhealthy. This has
been a perennial belief in most
cultures. In Christianity we have
enshrined this in the challenge to
be charitable to the poor and we
have classically seen our giving
to the poor as a virtue, rightly so.
Charitable giving is a virtue; but,
for a Christian, perhaps it’s more
obligation than virtue.
When we look at the Law of
Moses in scripture we see that a
certain amount of giving to the
poor was prescribed by law. The
idea was that giving to the poor
was an obligation, not a negotiable
moral option.
Simply put, the Law of Moses
obligated people, legally, to give to
That too much excess leaves
a person unhealthy has
been a perennial belief
in most cultures.
the poor. Scripture abounds with
examples of this. Consider, for example, these precepts and laws:
– First of all, the Law of Moses
assumed that everything we have
belongs to God and is not really
ours. We are only its stewards and
guardians. We may enjoy it at God’s
pleasure, but ultimately it’s not
ours. (Leviticus 25,23)
– Every seventh year, all slaves
were to be set free and each was to
take with him or her enough of the
master’s goods to be able to live an
independent life. (Deuteronomy 15,
14).
– Every seventh year all economic
debts were to be cancelled (the
original meaning of the “statute of
limitations”).
– Every seventh year one’s land
was to lie fallow and enjoy its own
Sabbath. During that year, the
land’s owner not only didn’t sow
anything, he or she didn’t reap anything either. The poor were to reap
whatever the fields and vineyards
produced that year.
– And, at all times, landowners
were forbidden to reap and harvest
the corners of their fields, with the
intent that these edges were to be
reaped by the poor.
– Finally, even more radically,
every fiftieth year all lands were
to be restored to the original tribe
or household who had first owned
them. One’s “ownership” of property had a certain time limit. Things
weren’t yours forever.
Moreover doing all of this was
not considered as virtue; these were
laws, legal obligations. And there
was a double intent behind these
laws. On the one hand, they were
intended for the health of the one
who was giving something away to
the poor and, at the same time, they
were an attempt to ensure that the
poor did not become so destitute so
that they would have to steal what
they needed in order to live.
We have much to learn from this
as a society. For the most part we
are generous and charitable people.
We give away some of our surplus
and, despite warnings from professionals who work with street people
that this isn’t helpful, our hearts are
still moved by those begging on our
streets and we continue to slip them
money (even as we don’t believe
their claim that they need money for
food or bus fare). For the most part,
our hearts are still at the right place.
But, we tend to see this as something we are doing purely for
someone else without realizing
that our own health is a vital part
of the equation. Further, we tend
to see this as virtue more than as
obligation, as charity more than
as justice. And perhaps it’s for this
reason that, despite our good hearts
and our generosity, the gap between
the rich and the poor, both with our
own culture and within the world
as a whole, continues to widen.
Millions and millions of people
continue to fall through the cracks
without the getting the benefit,
in law, to reap the corners of our
wealth and have their debts forgiven every seven years. We need to
give to the poor because they need
it, admittedly; but we need to do it
too because we cannot be healthy
unless we do this. And we need to
see our giving not so much as charity but as obligation, as justice, as
something we owe.
On this deathbed, Vincent de Paul
is reputed to have challenged his
followers with words to this effect:
It is more blessed to give than to
receive – and it is also easier!
OBLATE FATHER ROLHEISER is president of
the Oblate School of Theology, San
Antonio, Texas
Church teaching on gays and celibacy
Q.
It troubles me that samesex couples who are in a
committed relationship are
expected by the Catholic Church
to abstain
from sexual
relations.
It seems
clear that in
many cases
homosexuality is genetically driven;
people did
not choose
this type
of attraction, and to
ask them to
abstain from
sex seems
FATHER
unrealistic,
KENNETH DOYLE
cruel and
discriminatory. (This is
quite different from the voluntary
celibacy that our clergy embrace.)
As I have gotten to know more
gay men and women, it seems
obvious that they are not evil
people, and I feel sorry for them
because of the “cards that they’ve
been dealt.” To decree that they
QUESTION
CORNER
must have a sexless life because
of their inherited genes doesn’t
flow smoothly with our belief in
a compassionate God. Thanks for
any guidance you can provide.
(Gambrills, Md.)
You raise two important
points with which I agree
strongly, and the church
does as well: Homosexuality is
most often not deliberately chosen, and homosexuals are certainly not “evil people.” The Catechism of the Catholic Church,
in No. 2358, observes that, “The
number of men and women who
have deep-seated homosexual
tendencies is not negligible. They
do not choose their homosexual
condition; for most of them it is a
trial. They must be accepted with
respect, compassion and sensitivity.”
At the same time, however, the
Catholic Church is guided by biblical teaching about right conduct.
Among the scriptural passages
on homosexuality referenced by
the catechism (No. 2357) is Paul’s
Letter to the Romans 1:27, which
speaks of those who have rejected
God’s truth in the following way:
“Males likewise gave up natural
A.
relations with females and burned
with lust for one another. Males
did shameful things with males
and thus received in their own
persons the due penalty for their
perversity.”
Based on this and related biblical passages, as well as on the
natural law regarding sexual complementarity and openness to the
transmission of life, the church
concludes in No. 2359 of the catechism that “homosexual persons
are called to chastity,” which is to
say, to a life of celibacy.
Acknowledging that this is a
challenging path, the church has
established organizations such as
Courage, a support group for gay
Catholic men and women endeavoring to lead a Christian life. It
strives to promote chaste friendships among its members in their
common struggle. Perhaps it is
helpful for someone with a homosexual orientation to see the life
of celibacy as a free and obedient
response to a divine call.
Send questions to Father Kenneth
Doyle at [email protected]
and 40 Hopewell St., Albany, NY,
12208.
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MARRIAGE: ‘Great sign of hope’
FROM PAGE 1
parishes and in their homes, said St.
Cecilia pastor Msgr. Michael Harriman, one of the main organizers.
Church of the Nativity, Menlo Park,
parishioners Monica Hendricks and
husband Matt brought their baby and
toddler “to celebrate marriage and
family and to see the archbishop,”
Monica Hendricks said.
“We came as a family,” said St.
Andrew’s parishioner Yeademin Fernandes, who attended with husband
Stephen, and two teenagers, Cecilia
and Daniel. “We wanted to attend the
Mass.”
Archdiocesan marriage ministries
were well represented, including Marriage Encounter. Probably the largest
group was the about 200 members of
Couples for Christ, some of whom led
singing before the talks. The Spanishlanguage marriage ministry Movimento Familias Cristiano encouraged families to come, said St. Charles Borromeo,
San Francisco, parishioners Norman
and Janet Arroyo, who attended with
Sofia, 5, and Ivan, 7. The group organizes retreats, does marriage preparation
and faith formation, said Cecilia AriaRivas of the archdiocese’s Spanish
language pastoral ministry.
“Every married couple is called to
be a sacrament,” Auxiliary Bishop
Robert W. McElroy said in a talk after
the Mass.
At the archdiocesan Marriage & Family
Celebration at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Deacon
Mario Zuniga of Mission Dolores Basilica
Parish holds his grandson Antonio.
(PHOTOS BY VALERIE SCHMALZ/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)
St. Gabriel parishioners Steve and Gabe Lucey and children Clara, 9, John 7, Hannah, 5, and Mary, 2½.
St. Andrew parishioners Stephen and Yeademin Fernandes and children Cecilia and Daniel.
Archbishop Cordileone encouraged
families to pray the rosary and read
the Bible together.
“To persevere we need to use signs
of God in our lives,” he said, giving examples of a picture of Divine
Mercy or the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
St. Paul of the Shipwreck parishioners
Daniel and Miriam and daughter
Carmela, 16 months.
“When people walk into your house
will they immediately know they are
in a Catholic household? Are there
reminders like a crucifix on the
wall or a family Bible on the coffee
table?”
“Despite imperfections and hurts,
Holy Name of Jesus parishioners Mary
Bong and Joe Tran.
despite difficulties along the way,”
Archbishop Cordileone said, “there
surely is no greater blessing than to
grow up sharing love and life in the
context of a family so that one can
know truly what it means to have
loved ones.”
CIVIL RIGHTS: Anniversary ties to dialogue on race post-Trayvon
FROM PAGE 1
observed Sister Barbara Moore, a
Missouri-based member of the Sisters
of St. Joseph of Carondelet, who
participated in another famous civil
rights event, the March 10, 1965, voting
rights march in Selma, Ala.
“I don’t hear anything, I don’t see
anything from the hierarchy, and I’ve
looked,” said Sister Barbara, noting
that other religious leaders, particularly African-Americans, have raised
the issue as a challenge Christians
must face. Even in her St. Louis parish, where she said the pastor doesn’t
typically shy away from speaking
up on controversial issues, the topic
hasn’t come up from the pulpit. “It’s
very disappointing.”
Sister Barbara told Catholic News
Service that the subject was a prime
topic of conversation among participants in a recent joint meeting
of organizations representing black
sisters, priests, deacons and seminarians. While she didn’t want to get into
the specifics of a formal dialogue on
the topic, she said, “the point was
made that we haven’t heard from
anyone in authority.”
Deacon Royce Winters, director of
African-American Ministries for the
Archdiocese of Cincinnati, told CNS
he thinks that the country has made
great progress in combatting racism since the late 1960s, but that the
subject has faded from a position of
importance in the country and in the
church.
“We in America seem to be pursuing our individual goals in life, but
we have lost our sense of community, our sense of being connected to
something greater than ourselves,”
he said. “We have failed to consider
our obligation to bring others along
with us.”
Bishop Curtis J. Guillory of Beau-
(CNS PHOTO/LIBRARY OF CONGRESS)
Demonstrators holding signs march during the 1963 March on Washington. On the 50th anniversaries of key civil rights events, some observe that there’s still a long way to go toward
eliminating racism in U.S. society.
mont, Texas, one of about a dozen
active African-American Catholic
bishops in the U.S., told CNS that the
U.S. hierarchy has been clear that
racism is a sin – in a 1979 pastoral
“Brothers and Sisters to Us,” a
statement marking the pastoral’s
25th anniversary and recently in the
context of supporting comprehensive
immigration reform. But the topic is
too easily avoided.
“I don’t think race and ethnicity
have been the subject of serious dialogue,” he said.
“It’s like you have a two-story house
where the floor upstairs is weak in
some spots and unstable, so you walk
around those spots, or you go very
lightly across them,” said Bishop
Guillory. “This is where the church
can make a tremendous contribution.
But you have to work at it. It’s not just
going to happen.”
Racial hostility
He said he wrote about the topic for
the upcoming edition of his diocesan
newspaper, the East Texas Catholic.
And he regularly has to deal with
racial hostility in parishes around
the diocese, he said, typically when
a parish predominantly made up of
one race begins to get an influx of
new parishioners from another race
or culture.
Bishop Guillory in his article and in
the interview with CNS drew parallels to the current unease over race
and St. Paul’s admonition to the Corinthians to think of the diverse parts
of the church as the intrinsically connected pieces of the body of Christ.
“Paul uses the image of the body
with its many parts to show that the
body of Christ – the church – is one,”
he wrote in his column. “Christ is the
head of the body – the church. Cer-
tainly that image of Paul can assist
us in healing our own divisions.”
In Cincinnati, Deacon Winters’ office
has organized an observance of the
March on Washington anniversary. It’s
also hosting an October workshop on
“intercultural competence” for archdiocesan ministers. A second such workshop next March is planned for leaders
of the Cincinnati and Louisville,
Ky., archdioceses and the dioceses of
Cleveland and Columbus, Ohio.
He said one approach he’s trying
to encourage in the archdiocese is to
stop thinking of programs of ministry to various ethnic groups as only
being for the people of those groups.
Instead, he said, “we have recognized
we need to minister to everyone.”
Retired Bishop John E. McCarthy
of Austin, Texas, was also at the
Selma voting rights march in 1965
and was active throughout the era in
working for equal rights for laborers
and other segments of society. He told
CNS “it pains me to say there’s been a
very obvious and slow retreat by the
Catholic Church in the United States
from direct involvement in the social
justice issues of this time.”
He lamented that the 25th anniversary of the bishops’ 1986 pastoral
letter “Economic Justice for All,”
passed “unnoticed,” and that the 50th
anniversary of the Second Vatican
Council went by “without any type of
national celebration or major programs to discuss it.”
Bishop McCarthy said he believes
part of the reason for the institutional church’s lower profile on issues
such as racism is that “the church
has been so badly wounded by its own
internal problems.”
“My hope is that as we come to
grips with scandals, whether about
sex or banks or butlers, we will
regroup and remember our commitments to each other,” he said.
26 COMMUNITY
Nurturing spiritual growth for Chinese-speaking women
no means of nurturing or renewing
their faith or spiritual lives for the
lack of English.
Since the retreats
were more and
more appreciated,
and the number of
participants kept
increasing, I introduced them to
Mercy Center. Once
Sister Janet
they saw the beautiChau, RSM
ful, peace-filled and
spacious campus,
some of those women asked their
husbands, or grown children (who
originally were not interested in
our retreats) to drive them from San
Francisco to Mercy Center. Others
managed to carpool, thus introducing new adults to our programs.
I questioned a doctor and an
Mercy Sister Janet Chau wrote the
following reflection on the Cantonese
retreat and Cantonese spiritual formation
outreach programs under her leadership
at Mercy Center, Burlingame. The next
retreat is Aug. 24, 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.,
2300 Adeline Drive, Burlingame.
I started to facilitate retreats in
Cantonese in 2004 for Chinese housewives in San Francisco with little
English. Why did I do that? Don’t
we encourage friends and relatives
everywhere to come to the U.S. to
renew or deepen their professional
or spiritual practices because we
have the richest resources? Unfortunately, many Chinese-speaking
women, at least in the Bay Area,
though living here for 20, 30 and
more than 40 years, cannot benefit
from these retreat programs, having
architect, both female, asking why
they came to the Chinese programs
since they have no problem at all
with English. Their responses were:
“What a difference in telling my
deep story in my own language!”
“To share something from deep
within in my native language is so
healing!”
This ministry has been growing
beyond my imagination, and I experience something similar to what
our founder Catherine McAuley
said: ‘ This is God’s work of Mercy.
It is good to have it endure when I
am gone!’
Four years ago I received a ministry grant from the Sisters of Mercy
West Midwest Community to help
train younger leaders who speak
English and Chinese fluently. Fluency in both languages is important
in order to attend and profit from
these training programs. However,
this is not working out as I planned.
Instead, because of the great
enthusiasm of some very generous volunteer leaders who have
been participating in our Chinese
programs, we are starting to offer
monthly spiritual gatherings in
Cantonese. They include Scripture
sharing, a book club, enrichment
workshops, spiritual direction and
retreats for women and men coming
from all over the Bay Area.
This ministry of spiritual formation in Chinese, particularly for
women, is clearly God’s work of
mercy. What a blessing and privilege
to accompany people’s sacred journey in their native language.
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Mercy Center at (650) 340-7454.
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NOVENAS
Prayer to the Holy Spirit
Holy Spirit, you who make me
see everything and who shows
me the way to reach my ideal.
You who give me the divine gift
of forgive and forget the wrong
that is done to me. I, in this short
dialogue, want to thank you for
everything and confirm once
more that I never want to be
separated from you no matter
how great the material desires
may be. I want to be with you
and my loved ones in your
perpetual glory. Amen. You
may publish this as soon as
your favor is granted.
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PRIMARY DUTIES
The Director of Music Ministries for St. Denis
Parish and Our Lady of the Wayside church
will be responsible for all music associated with
worship, religious education, social ministry,
and evangelization in both locations. In
addition, the Director of Music Ministries will
be responsible for:
1. Coordinating and staffing all other liturgies
with competent musicians.
2. Participating in planning the liturgies with the
Parish Liturgy Committee and will be primarily
responsible for the music selection of all regular
and special celebrations.
3. Attending all of the masses to see the “culture”
of each and seek input from those attending as to
what type and style of music should be delivered
4. Coordinate all of the parish music ministries;
5. Plan, develop and administer the music budget
for each church
6. Organize programs and rehearsals
7. Develop and execute a short and long range
plan to be approved by the Pastor and the Finance
Committee.
8. Provide scheduling for all music ministers
(cantors, choirs organists)
9. Work with existing Choir to enhance the depth
of the music and recruit more participants from the
parish.
10. Maintain and enhance the existing music library
11. Create a performance evaluation methodology
with input from the parishioners and pastor
12. Organization of choral ensembles, e.g., adult,
youth, children’s, other.
Other Duties:
1. Training of instrumental groups ( brass,
strings, guitar, etc.);
2. Presentation of choral programs or organ recitals;
3. Development of music education programs;
4. Use of liturgical dance, plays, and other art forms;
5. Production of recordings of music in the church.
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CEMETERY CORNER
LOOKING BACK
Louise M. Davies, ‘angel of symphony’
Will you begin the symphony season
this September with Tchaikovsky?
Mahler? Beethoven? If you spend any
time listening to the San Francisco
Symphony, you have Louise M. Davies
to thank. Her gift of $5 million enabled
the building of the symphony hall
which bears her name and her additional gift of $3 million endowed the
symphony’s guest conductor program.
Born in 1900, she spent her early
years on the family ranch in Plumas
County, and later lived in Oakland
working as a stenographer and earning $25 a week. In 1924, she met Ralph
K. Davies while visiting the Russian
River and they married the following
year. Her marriage to the former vice
president of Standard Oil endured
until his passing in 1971.
In addition to the symphony, many
other cultural, educational, medical
and religious organizations were the
beneficiaries of her lifetime of generosity. A devoted Catholic, Davies supported many institutions within our
archdiocese, including the University
8TH GRADERS AWARDED SCHOLARSHIPS
Driscoll’s Valencia St. Serra Mortuary awarded its Kindness Award
to five eighth grade Catholic school
students in San Francisco at the end
of last school year. Winners included
Moises Moraga and Jacob Thumas
The Louise M. Davies monument.
of San Francisco, CYO athletics, the
College of Notre Dame – now Notre
Dame de Namur University – and
Woodside Priory. Today, the Louise
M. Davies Foundation continues her
legacy of generous giving.
In 1998, a month past her 98th birthday, hundreds gathered at St. Pius
Church in Redwood City for her funeral Mass. The “angel of symphony,”
as a San Francisco Chronicle article
named her, is buried with her husband
at Holy Cross Cemetery.
Contributed by Monica Williams, archdiocesan cemeteries director.
attending Archbishop Riordan High
School; Nataly Coreas and Michelle
Perez attending Immaculate Conception Academy; Monique Molina,
attending Mercy High School, San
Francisco. Winners received Giants
tickets and a cash award.
(PHOTOS COURTESY RIORDAN DRAMA)
On the boards at Riordan
“Lucky 13: A Labor of Love Alumni Revival Fundraiser” at 7 p.m. on Sept. 2 reunites Archbishop Riordan High School thespians from over the decades. Above left is an image from the archdiocesan boys
Catholic high school’s 1955 production of “The International Story,” and at right is a scene backstage
in the 1960s. “I wanted to create an event that would bring together generations of Riordan alumni
and fans of Riordan drama,” said Riordan drama director Valerie O’Riordan.
Hosting will be Emmy-nominated actor Joe Spano ‘63, who plays FBI Special Agent Tobias Fornell on
the CBS police procedural “NCIS: Los Angeles” but rose to fame as a detective on “Hill Street Blues.”
Cammy Blackstone, a Riordan mom, will co-host.
The event will include the dedication of the Morris Script Library, honoring Marianist Brother Gary Morris ’64, now a Chaminade University professor, who amassed a huge collection of scripts and research
material from 1978 to 1995. Brother Morris will resurrect his high school Tevye portrayal with “If I
Were A Rich Man” from “Fiddler On The Roof.” Tickets for the event at the school’s Lindland Theater in
San Francisco are available at www.riordanhs.org or at the door.
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OBITUARY
e:
Sites Includ
Franciscan Father James Kyrie, 86
Franciscan Father James Kyrie died Aug. 3 at
Mercy Retirement and Care Center in Oakland
where he had lived for the last
several years. Father Kyrie was
pastor of San Francisco’s St.
Boniface Parish from 1988-91.
Born in Pakistan, he was invested in the Franciscan habit for
the Province of the Netherlands
on Aug. 1, 1948, in Bangalore, India. . Solemn vows were professed
Father James
Aug. 2, 1952, and he was ordained
Kyrie, OFM
in Karachi, Pakistan, on Jan. 6,
1957. He was 86 years old.
Coming to the Franciscan Province of St. Barbara, he began his California parochial minis-
HONORING LOST CHILDREN AT PROJECT RACHEL
MEMORIAL MASS SEPT. 14 AT HOLY CROSS
Losing a child is perhaps the greatest pain a
parent can endure.
To acknowledge that and to offer spiritual consolation, parents, family and friends are invited
to a memorial Mass and healing liturgy Sept. 14
at Holy Cross Cemetery.
The 11 a.m. Mass at Rachel Knoll in the Colma
cemetery is a “celebration of all babies and
young children who have lost life for any reason—through miscarriage, abortion or death in
early childhood,” said Mary Ann Schwab, coordinator of the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s
Project Rachel, a post-abortion ministry.
“This loss may have been recent or many
years ago,” Schwab said.
Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice will
celebrate the Mass in Spanish and English. All
who attend are also invited to be guests of the
program at a reception and light lunch near the
Old Mausoleum adjoining Rachel Knoll, following the Mass.
All priests of the archdiocese are invited to
concelebrate and anyone who wants to join in
tries in 1977 serving in Stockton, Delano, Fresno,
San Jose, Danville, San Juan Bautista, San
Francisco, San Miguel. He was especially known
for his work in Delano, where he was beloved by
many, the Franciscans said.
“Friar James was a gentle, quiet and unassuming friend wherever he went,” the Franciscans
said, noting some of what he called “the best
things I have loved in my life” including the
people I loved in the ministry, fraternity, family;
the places I have seen and the people I have met
on my journey; the memories I have made along
the way.”
A funeral Mass was celebrated Aug. 10 at St.
Elizabeth Church in Oakland with interment at
Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma.
prayer with these families is also welcome to
join the liturgy.
For more information, call (415) 614-5570.
40 DAYS FOR LIFE IN SAN RAFAEL,
SAN FRANCISCO BEGINS SEPT. 25
40 Days for Life, a global prayer campaign outside abortion clinics, resumes here Sept. 25-Nov.
3 in San Francisco and San Rafael.
Participants will pray outside the Planned
Parenthood clinic at 1650 Valencia St. in San
Francisco from 8 a.m. – 8 p.m. and outside the
Planned Parenthood clinic at 2 H St., San Rafael,
from 7 a.m.-7 p.m., organizers said.
“40 Days for Life is a focused pro-life campaign
with a vision to access God’s power through
prayer, fasting, and peaceful vigil to end abortion,” according to the organization’s website.
Hundreds of cities feature the prayer campaigns which run each fall and during Lent in
the spring.
For more information on the San Rafael effort,
call (415) 328-6292 or email [email protected]; on
the San Francisco effort, sf40daysforlife@gmail.
com or (510) 589-4421.
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30 CALENDAR
SUNDAY, AUG. 25
EXTRAORDINARY RITE: Traditional
Latin Mass, 11 a.m., Star of the Sea Parish, 4420 Geary Blvd., San Francisco at
Eighth Avenue., ample parking is available behind the church and in the Laurel
School parking lot, entering through the
gates on Eighth Avenue. The Roman
Missal of 1962, published by Blessed
John XXIII, is being used. Daily LatinEnglish missals are available for sale at
the rectory. Father Mark G. Mazza, pastor, (415) 751-0450, ext. 16. Visit http://
sanctatrinitasunusdeus.blogspot.com/.
SATURDAY, AUG 31
WORSHIP AND ADORATION: “Lumen
Fidei, the Light of Faith” with Carmelite
Father Elisa followed by a healing prayer
at St. Cecilia Church (lower church), 2555
17th Ave., San Francisco, 7 p.m., door
opens at 6:30. (415) 242-4625, www.
daughtersofcarmel.org. All are welcome.
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 4
SEPARATED, DIVORCED: Meeting
takes place first and third Wednesdays,
7:30 p.m., St. Stephen Parish O’Reilly
Center, 23rd Avenue at Eucalyptus, San
Francisco. Groups are part of the Separated and Divorced Catholic Ministry
in the archdiocese and include prayer,
introductions, sharing. It is a drop-in support group. Jesuit Father Al Grosskopf
(415) 422-6698, [email protected].
FRIDAY, SEPT. 6
TAIZE: Taize sung prayer, Mercy Center,
2300 Adeline Drive, Burlingame. 8 p.m.
every first Friday. Visit www.mercycenter.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.
PRO-LIFE: Volunteers to witness to the
MONDAY, SEPT. 2
SATURDAY, SEPT. 7
ALUMNI SHOW: “Archbishop
Riordan High
School Alumni
Theatre Show”
with 1963 alumnus and “Hill
Street Blues” star
Joe Spano as
emcee. Celebrate
the legend of
Riordan drama
Joe Spano
with an all-star
lineup of alumni performers who
got their start on the Lindland
stage. Evening includes reception, show and silent auction.
Tickets start at $25: www.
riordanhs.org/lucky13. Valerie
O’Riordan, voriordan@riordanhs.
org or (415) 587-5866.
MISSION DOLORES 100TH:
Mission Dolores
Basilica, 16th
Street at Dolores,
San Francisco
begins its 100th
anniversary with
prayer at 11 a.m.
Cardinal William J.
Levada, retired prefect of the Vatican’s
Archbishop
Congregation for
Salvatore J.
the Doctrine of the
Cordileone
Faith and archbishop emeritus of the Archdiocese
of San Francisco presides over the
liturgy. San Francisco Archbishop
Salvatore J. Cordileone is principal celebrant of Mass at 5 p.m. in
the basilica. The Mission Dolores
Basilica Choir directed by Jerome
Lenk leads song. Gustavo Torres,
(415) 621-8203, ext. 11, or gtorres@
missiondolores.org.
FRIDAY, SEPT. 6
MORNING MASS: Catholic Marin
Breakfast Club,
St. Sebastian
Hall, Greenbrae,
7 a.m. Mass with
talk following.
Michael Pritchard
is guest speaker,
a big guy with
a warm heart
who truly walks
Michael
the talk. Today a
Pritchard
youth counselor
and advocate, he had a long
career as a stand-up comedian,
members $8, others $10, (415)
461-0704 between 9 a.m. and 3
p.m., [email protected]. San
Jose Auxiliary Bishop Tom Daly,
former president of Marin Catholic High School, returns to Marin
as principal celebrant of Mass
and guest speaker Nov. 1.
message of life outside of Planned Parenthood, 35 Baywood Ave., San Mateo,
Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. An opportunity to pray, offer help and provide
information verbally or with pamphlets
according to the situation. Jessica, (650)
572-1468. www.sanmateoprolife.com.
SATURDAY, SEPT. 14
RACHEL MOURNING: Mass and
healing liturgy, 11
a.m., on site of
Rachel Mourning Shrine, Holy
Cross Cemetery,
1500 Mission
Road, Colma,
remembering
babies who have
died before, at or
Bishop William
after birth. San
J. Justice
Francisco Auxiliary
Bishop William J. Justice, principal
celebrant and homilist. Light lunch
follows the Mass. Call Project
Rachel Ministry, (415) 717-6428; or
Respect Life Program, Archdiocese
of San Francisco, (415) 614-5570.
SUNDAY, SEPT. 8
ORGAN RECITAL: Mission Dolores
Basilica, 16th Street at Dolores, San
Francisco, 4 p.m., second Sunday of
every month except December and January. Today’s artist is Jerome Lenk, music
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ANTIQUE SALE: St. Peter Church, 700
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PARKING LOT SALE: St. Isabella
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a space to sell new or used items or
come look for treasures, bake sale and
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MONDAY, SEPT. 16
‘HOPE UNCORKED’: Catholic Charities
CYO evening of wine, music by David
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6:30 p.m., California Academy of Sciences, 55 Music Concourse Drive, San
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SATURDAY, SEPT. 21
HANDICAPABLES MASS: Father Kirk
Ullery, chaplain, is principal celebrant
of Mass at noon, Room C, St. Mary
Cathedral Event Center, Gough Street
at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco.
Lunch follows. Volunteers are always
welcome to assist in this ongoing
tradition of more than 40 years. Joanne
Borodin, (415) 239-4865.
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SATURDAY, SEPT. 28
GALA: St. Dunstan School’s 60th anniversary evening and dinner dance,
6-11 p.m., Green Hills Country Club,
Millbrae, with auction and dancing.
$100 per person.Mail to St. Dunstan
School, Gabrielle O’Neil, 1150 Magnolia Ave., Millbrae 94030, or contact
Gabrielle O’Neil, (650) 201-9631; for
program sponsorships, contact Lisa
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MONDAY, SEPT. 30
GOLF: Capuchin Golf Tournament at
Green Hills Country Club, 500 Ludeman Lane, Millbrae. Registration 10
a.m., noon tee-off for 18-hole scramble.
Tickets at $300 include greens fee, cart,
lunch, beverages all day, tee prizes,
cocktails and dinner at the club. Dinneronly tickets $50. Proceeds benefit the
Capuchin Franciscans Charities and
Programs of the Province. Bill Mason,
(650) 906-1040; Roy Nickolai; (415) 7606584, Chris Ronan, (650) 745-6330.
SUNDAY, OCT. 6
PRO-LIFE RALLY: Assemble at Geary
Boulevard and Park Presidio Boulevard, San Francisco, 2 p.m.. Posters
for rally will be provided. Ron Konopaski, (360) 460-9194.
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FRIDAY, OCT. 25
ASSUMPTA AWARD GALA: An
evening honoring
retired San Francisco Archbishop
George Niederauer
at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street
at Geary Boulevard,
San Francisco featuring fine wines,
gourmet cuisine,
Archbishop
live classical and
George
jazz music. Tickets
Niederauer
$150. Contact
[email protected]; (415)
567-2020. The event also serves as
the opening of the Cathedral Festival
of Flowers, Oct. 4-6. A beautifully
designed and easy to use website
will take you through the three days:
www.cathedralflowers.org.
RETIRED PRIESTS: St. John
Vianney Luncheon honoring
retired priests,
11:30 a.m., St.
Mary’s Cathedral,
Gough Street at
Geary Boulevard,
San Francisco:
Proceeds benefit
Bishop Ignatius
Priests RetireWang
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the Archdiocese
of San Francisco. Retired San
Francisco Auxiliary Bishop Ignatius Wang is among those being
honored. Call (415) 614-5580,
email [email protected] for information regarding tickets and sponsorship
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(415) 786-0121 • (650) 871-9227
415.368.8589
Lic.#942181
SUNDAY, OCT. 20
YOUTH MASS: Calling all youth! The
Archdiocese of San Francisco is having
a Youth Mass at 2:30 p.m. at St. Anne of
the Sunset Church, 850 Judah St. at Funston, San Francisco. San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice is principal
celebrant and homilist. For more information, contact Ynez Lizarraga, associate
director for youth ministry and catechesis,
at [email protected].
CONSTRUCTION
All General
Carpentry
Fences, Decks
and Stairs
Remodels, Additions, Paint,
Windows, Dryrot, Stucco
415.279.1266
Lic. #582766 415.566.8646
DINING
HANDYMAN
John Spillane
• Dry Rot • Senior & Parishioner Discounts
AUGUSTINIAN PERSPECTIVE:
Augustinian monk Walter Hilton is the
focus of Paulist Father Terry Ryan’s
talk 9 a.m.-noon, Old St. Mary’s Paulist
Center, 614 Grant Ave. at California, San
Francisco. Coffee and treats begin at 9
a.m. The workshop is free but free-will
donations welcome. (415) 288-3844.
[email protected]
Bill
Hefferon
[email protected]
SATURDAY, OCT. 19
Cahalan Construction
Fully licensed • State Certified • Locally
Trained • Experienced • On Call 24/7
• Retaining Walls • Stairs • Gates
3-DAY FESTIVAL: “County Fair and
Fall Festival,” Oct. 18, 19, 20, St. Dunstan Parish, 1133 Broadway, Millbrae.
Carnival rides, games, food, drink, chili
cook-off, pie-eating contest, raffle,
silent auction. Champagne brunch
on Sunday: Friday 5 p.m.-10 p.m.;
Saturday noon-10 p.m.; Sunday noon8 p.m. Call (650) 697-4730 or email
[email protected].
Call Jim at
415-665-5922 Lic#747569
SF Archdiocese Born & Raised
FENCES & DECKS
IRISH Eoin
PAINTING
Lehane
Discount
to CSF
Readers
ROSARY RALLY: Rosary Rally, 2 p.m.,
United Nation Plaza, Market Street
between Seventh and Eighth streets,
San Francisco. Event is sponsored by
Knights of Columbus, Legion of Mary,
Immaculate Heart Radio, Ignatius
Press and Spanish ministry of the
PLUMBING
Lic. #742961
Bonded & Insured
Ph. 415.515.2043
Ph. 650.508.1348
Sandoval, from Rachel’s Vineyard
and seen on EWTN, on “Healing from
The Culture of Death.” Day begins
with Mass at 9 a.m. at Church of the
Nativity next door to Sobrato Pavilion,
Nativity School, Oak Grove Avenue
and Laurel Street, Menlo Park and
continues until 4:30 p.m. (650) 2696279 or email [email protected] for
more information.
FRIDAY, OCT. 18
HOME SERVICES
Interior-Exterior • wallpaper • hanging & removal
Archdiocese of San Francisco. info@
rosaryrallysf.com, (415) 480-9725.
FRIDAY, OCT. 4
650.291.4303
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Expert interior and exterior painting, carpentry,
demolition, fence (repair, build), decks,
remodeling, roof repair, gutter (clean/repair),
landscaping, gardening, hauling, moving, welding.
Italian American Social
Club of San Francisco
Lunch & Dinner, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday
Weddings, Banquets, Special Occasions
25 RUSSIA AVENUE, SAN FRANCISCO
www.iasf.com
415-585-8059
All Purpose
Cell (415) 517-5977
(650) 757-1946
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In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred
In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of July
HOLY CROSS
COLMA
Maria Aida Aliaga
Duane William Anderson
George I. Arellano
Jesus Arriola
Cesar Talosig Bacal
Eleanor H. Baiocchi
Victor J. Baiocchi
Maria A. Balance
Marilyn A. Balancio
Asuncion Baniqued
Pablo Berroteran
Charles Howard Byrne
Anselmo V. Caballero
Anaclita Lopez Cabatuan
Moises O. Caldito
Julius J. Camenzind
Ann B. Camenzind
Rosa Cassano
Mario E. Cassulo
Crisanto A. Castillo
Philip A. Caulfield
Diane Marie Chappell
Leon Patrick Chevalier
Gerald Christensen
Lorraine Christensen
Katherine C. Colzani
Enes Brovelli Common
Katherine Conde
Viola Contino
Baby Lucia Quinn Conway
Baby Shae Nadia Conway
Kevin Charles Conway
Jesus Reyes Cruz
Leonor Cuadra
Gloria A. Debrunner
Iluminada Gabriel Devera
Magdalena Dittmann
Jackson Dulay
Arthur B. Ellsworth
Rosa Amelia Estrada-Abrego
Amelia Faraldo
Gayle D. Fernandez
Jay William Fitzgerald
John Flahavan
Max Foster
Beverly Anne Frazier
Maria deJesus Frias
Armida Frugoli
Catherine Sue Gallagher
Benny Joseph Garcia
Prisca B. Garcia
Alfonso E. Garcia
Magdaleno Garcia
Frank J. Giannini
Albert F. Grant
Carina Leon Guerrero
Robert Brown Guevara
Raymond Hollasch
Rev. Stanley William Hosie, S.M.
Chester Carl Ireton
Sherida Carle Ireton
James E. Jenkins
Fr. John P. Kavanaugh
Peter M. LaRocca, Jr.
Ana E. Lenko
Florence A. Lizardo
Rocco (Rocky) Lombardi
Olga Marina Lopez
Jose Armando Luna
Sr. Mary Thomas Magee, PBVM
Raymond C. Manion
Constance Luna Martinez
Joyce J. Masangcay
Anjeel Masih
George McAsey
Daniel J. McBrady
Edmond J. McCarthy
Marilyn McCarthy
Margaret M. McMahon
Joseph B. Meehan
Joseph F. Mizzi
Francisco Antonio Monroy
Kathleen Mooney
Doris Nilsen
Eleanor C. “Ina” O’Sullivan
Edda (Dziewit) Palmieri
Alfonso Paz
Adoracion Y. Pelina
Alfred J. Pereira
Raymond Anthony Protti
Lorraine Rappa
Basilisa A. Redona
Primo R. Repetto
Rosa B. Reyes
Charles A. Reynolds
Kraig A. Rody
Rosa Aurora Rojas
Florence R. Rovai
Peter Ryan
Juliette J. Sabatou
Olga L. Samuelsen
David P. Santinelli
James J. Schembri
Gemma Scocci
Mary Carmel Scott
Joan Flanders Sexton
Renato “Rey” Singson
Ida Sodo
Raymond B. Spellacy
Harold F. Sullivan
Patrick Spencer Tekeli
Luz J. Villanueva
Susan Walker
Margaret Wilturner
Amayah Diana Wood
Gertraud Wurnitsch
Helen J. Young
Pierina Zucconi
HOLY CROSS
MENLO PARK
Adam S. Eterovich
Similai Huhane
Barbara Lynn Jonas
Robert L Sans
Tevita Fatani Tavake Uhila
OUR LADY OF
THE PILLAR
Pat Kopcrak
MT. OLIVET,
SAN RAFAEL
Robert Charles Ciocco
Angelina Felizzari
Helen Hennessy
Lynn Marie Murrin
HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY, COLMA
FIRST SATURDAY MASS – Saturday, September 7, 2013
All Saints Mausoleum Chapel – 11:00 am
Rev. Eduardo Dura, Celebrant
MASS AND HEALING LITURGY
“In Memory of our Little Ones”
Saturday, September 14, 2013
11:00 am – Outdoor Mass at the Rachel Mourning Statue
Most Rev. William J. Justice, Celebrant
A gathering and light luncheon will follow the Mass
A Tradition of Faith Throughout Our Lives.

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