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A prayer in Haiti
A woman prays during a church service to mark the second anniversary of the 2010 earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Jan. 12. Reconstruction is
slowly progressing, with two-thirds of the initial 1.5 million homeless housed and debris removal half complete. See story on Pages 12-13.
‘Great day for First Amendment’
High court upholds church-state separation in job case
By Patricia Zapor
WASHINGTON (CNS) – The Supreme Court on Jan.
11 issued what is widely regarded as its most significant
religious liberty decision in many years, maintaining
there is a “ministerial exception” to anti-discrimination
laws, barring suits against churches for firing an employee classified as a minister.
For the first time, the court held that such an exception to federal employment laws exists. The unanimous
opinion in the case, Hosanna-Tabor v. EEOC, reversed a
ruling by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
“The members of a religious group put their faith in
the hands of their ministers,” Chief Justice John Roberts
wrote. “Requiring a church to accept or retain an unwanted
COURT, page 9
8th Walk for
Life Jan. 21
The 8th Walk for Life
West Coast includes a Mass
at St. Mary’s Cathedral at
9:30 a.m. and a 12:30 p.m.
rally at San Francisco’s
Civic Center. For more on
the day’s activities, turn to
Page 11.
Letter objects to treating same-sex unions ‘as if they were marriage’
By Mark Pattison
WASHINGTON (CNS) – A letter signed by more
than three dozen U.S. religious leaders objects to the
specter of religious groups being forced to treat same-sex
unions “as if they were marriage.”
“Altering the civil definition of ‘marriage’ does
not change one law, but hundreds, even thousands, at
once,” said the letter, “Marriage and Religious Freedom:
Fundamental Goods That Stand or Fall Together,”
released Jan. 12.
“By a single stroke, every law where rights depend
on marital status – such as employment discrimination,
employment benefits, adoption, education, health care,
elder care, housing, property and taxation – will change
so that same-sex sexual relationships must be treated as
if they were marriage,” it said.
“That requirement, in turn, will apply to religious
people and groups in the ordinary course of their many
private or public occupations and ministries – including
running schools, hospitals, nursing homes and other
housing facilities, providing adoption and counseling
services, and many others.”
Four Catholic bishops were among the 39 religious
leaders signing the letter: Cardinal-designate Timothy
M. Dolan, archbishop of New York and president
of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops; Bishop
Salvatore J. Cordileone of Oakland, chairman of the
USCCB Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defense
of Marriage; Bishop William E. Lori of Bridgeport,
Conn., chairman of the USCCB Ad Hoc Committee
for Religious Liberty; and Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades of
Fort Wayne-South Bend, Ind., chairman of the USCCB
Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth.
Other signers included top representatives of the
Southern Baptist Convention, the Lutheran ChurchMissouri Synod, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints, Assemblies of God, the Church of the Nazarene
and the Salvation Army, along with a collection of
smaller Protestant denominations, seven pan-Christian
associations including the National Association of
Evangelicals, and two representatives of Orthodox and
Hasidic Judaism.
Religious employers would “face lawsuits for takMARRIAGE, page 10
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On the Street . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
News in brief. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Sisters’ study closed . . . . . . . 8
Father Barron . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Pastoral Year, Part 2:
Learning to preach
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Writer spots trend in
recent bishop picks
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Where have all
the heroes gone?
~ Page 18 ~
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Question Corner . . . . . . . . . 16
Datebook of events . . . . . . . 20
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John and Carol Camarra
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By Tom Burke
Carol and John
Camarra celebrated 50
years married Sept. 2.
Married at San Francisco’s
St. Brendan Church, family and friends joined them
on the “Delta King” for a
riverboat remembrance of
the day.
•
John Calandra, a senior at Junipero Serra High
School, has hit a mark he set for himself as a Serra freshman. The plan was to raise the equivalent of a year’s
tuition in raffle ticket sales
for school fundraisers. John
surpassed the goal with
his $5,075 in sales for the
school’s annual auction. It
brings his raffle-rally total
to almost $20,000. John’s
proud folks are Susan and
Phil Calandra and they’re
OK with their son’s rifling
the family address registries
for potential ticket buyers.
John’s record sales brought
him a signed jersey of the
SF Giants’ Brian Wilson.
Serra principal, Lars Lund The school’s annual trivia
and John Calandra
contest, started by teacher,
Randy Vogel, 27 years
ago, was won by Hillsborough’s Crocker Middle School
with St. Raymond and St. Dunstan schools right behind.
Nothing trivial about Randy’s long service at Serra though.
He is now two years past his “Jack Benny birthday” at the
school – for those not familiar with the Benny gag, that’s
41 years.
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The St. Thomas More Society of San Francisco
announced winners of its annual essay contest for eighth
grade Catholic school students Dec. 8. Winning essays
were chosen from more than 100 entries said Robert
Zaletel, St. Thomas More president. First place winner
was Angelina Rubino of Holy Angels School in Colma,
who was awarded $500 for herself and $500 for the school.
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their faith and the example of St. Thomas More might help
shape their decisions. “When it comes down to it, you need
to accept others for who they are, and not pass judgment on
them and have a good and kind heart so you can genuinely
help others,” Angelina wrote.
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Catholic Charities CYO thanks churches throughout
the Archdiocese of San Francisco for their generosity in
helping CCCYO make it a better Christmas for the people
it serves. The youth group at Our Lady of Lebanon Parish
in Millbrae collected food baskets and turkeys; St. Patrick’s
choir in Larkspur adopted three immigrant families; and the
religious education classes and their families at Our Lady
of Mount Carmel Parish in Mill Valley collected educational and fun gifts for children. Also in on the giving action
were students at Holy Angels School in Colma, who took
a Burmese refugee family under their wing.
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St. Isabella Parish CYO kicked off its basketball season
with a special Mass on feast of the Epiphany. Father Mark
Reburiano, pastor, presided and was given his own Cougars
sweatshirt as coach-in-chief. “The church was packed,” Rosie
Feeney told me. “Father Mark gave an inspiring homily and
all the players were thrilled to be there in their uniforms.”
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Seminarian perfecting preaching through plenty of practice
By Lidia Wasowicz
Editor’s note: This is the second in an ongoing series
periodically reporting on Archdiocese of San Francisco
seminarian Tony Vallecillo’s journey through his pastoral
year at St. Raphael Church in San Rafael toward his ordination as a priest in 2014.
Four months into his pastoral year at St. Raphael Parish
in San Rafael, seminarian Tony Vallecillo stands before
a congregation of more than 200, translating the ancient
message of the Epiphany into the contemporary language
of the cinema.
Gazing at the Sunday morning worshippers, Vallecillo
warns of the false sense of self-sufficiency that casts an
impregnable darkness over the brutally violated heroine
of the Swedish-novel-based movie “The Girl with the
Dragon Tattoo.”
“If we’re like the girl with the dragon tattoo, caught
with our own addictions, with our own compulsions, what
we can do is turn to the light of God, and God can heal us
from all these things that afflict us, whether it’s the Internet,
pornography, gambling, shopping,” Vallecillo says.
He hopes his audience will find this interpretation of
the day’s Scripture readings relevant to their daily lives.
“This is the Epiphany, the manifestation of God, the
appearance of God,” he concludes, smiling and gesturing
to emphasize the good news. “The light has finally come
to the earth, and the light shines in the darkness. God has
come to help us.”
The self-described perfectionist spent 10 hours reading, researching, ruminating and rehearsing to deliver the
seven-minute “reflection,” the equivalent of the homily
reserved for the ordained.
The experienced public speaker has followed the same
rules – keep it short and focused; maintain eye contact;
avoid using notes – and grueling format since his debut
at the ambo before 15 St. Brendan parishioners at a 6:30
a.m. weekday Mass in December 2010.
“The first thing I do is pray, then take a look at the readings for the day,” Vallecillo said, noting he studies the entire
Bible for a deeper understanding of individual passages.
Since he cannot read the Old and New Testaments in
the original Hebrew and Greek, he compares different
translations, using the New American Bible, the Revised
PASTORAL YEAR
A seminarian’s
immersion
in parish life
Standard Version Catholic Edition, the Douay-Rheims
Bible and the non-Catholic New Living Translation “for a
different perspective.”
He takes notes, writes summaries and studies key words,
using the concordance, or verbal index, that locates all the
passages where they occur.
“The word ‘trumpet’ is listed 500 times in the Bible,
The self-described perfectionist
spent 10 hours reading,
researching, ruminating
and rehearsing to deliver
the seven-minute ‘reflection.’
and the word ‘repent’ appears in three books of the Old
Testament,” Vallecillo said. “Reading the word in all its
contexts helps me understand what it meant at the time of
Jesus, which may be different from what it means today.”
After reviewing the material, he brainstorms, writing
down “even the silliest ideas,” then lets his thoughts gel
with a prayer and walk or workout. He conducts a second,
more focused session, seeks God’s guidance to the “pearl”
of ideas and formulates a structure for the presentation.
Heeding his seminary professors, he caps the process
with an analysis of commentary on the passage from
Scripture scholars, then composes and rehearses his talk,
repeating it 21 times, the number experts prescribe for
mastering the material.
At the start of his field trial at St. Raphael, intended
to determine his affinity and aptitude for diocesan priesthood, the seminarian adhered to this grueling protocol even
for the two or three-minute talks he gives at an average
three daily Masses a week. Pragmatics have forced him
to now limit the arduous preparation to the longer Sunday
reflections.
“One of my important goals as a priest is to be an excellent preacher,” Vallecillo said.
That aim gets enthusiastic support from Father John
Balleza, the pastor of St. Raphael, who has provided
Vallecillo with unusually ample practice opportunities.
“Though technically only bishops, priests and deacons
can preach at Mass, some dioceses, such as this one, allow
seminarians to do so to gain experience,” Vallecillo said.
“My biggest surprise has been how often I’ve been permitted to preach.”
Father Balleza, who considers preaching central to the
priestly calling, had only one semester of speech, in his
second year of college in 1979.
“I remember getting up even as an ordained transitional
deacon and feeling so nervous about it, I’d have to change
my T-shirt after each Mass because I was so nervous,” Father
Balleza said.
With a superior schooling in oratory and a personal
penchant for the pulpit, Vallecillo doesn’t sweat his delivery.
His presentations are “well prepared, well thought out,
well delivered and well received,” although he needs to “let
loose of his perfectionism,” Father Balleza said.
“I have not heard one complaint from any parishioners
about his preaching,” he said.
“He’s the first seminarian we’ve had, and he’s just terrific,” said Sister Patricia Boss, who has heard Vallecillo
speak nearly a dozen times at the Dominican convent in San
Rafael where parish priests have been taking turns saying
Mass three times a week since 1889.
“He relates Scripture to contemporary times in a thoughtful, insightful and refreshing way and has a real gift of
making an ancient message relevant and applicable to our
90-year-old sisters and to parish teens.”
Reanna McMillan, 16, of San Rafael, deemed Vallecillo’s
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authorities have sometimes felt resentment toward those who
opted to register and cooperate; initially they were forced to
keep their loyalty to the Vatican secret.
A 2007 letter from Pope Benedict to Chinese Catholics
“leaves the decision to the individual bishop,” having consulted his priests, “to weigh ... and to evaluate the possible
consequences” of registering with the government.
in
brief
Pope prays for migrants, refugees
China ‘damaged’ by priests’ jailing
VATICAN CITY – The Vatican’s highest-ranking
Chinese official called on Beijing to release nine arrested
Catholic bishops and priests, saying their continued detention “damages China’s international image.”
Archbishop Savio Hon Tai-fai, secretary of the
Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, made his
remarks in an interview published Jan. 17 by AsiaNews, a
Rome-based missionary news agency.
“We need to pray for these bishops and priests ... but we
must also appeal to those who are holding” them, Archbishop
Hon said, endorsing a public campaign recently launched
by AsiaNews.
Eight of the arrested clergy are members of the so-called
“underground” or clandestine Catholic community, whose
leaders refuse to register with the Chinese government.
The government’s refusal to acknowledge the church
leaders’ detention shows that the priests and bishops “disappeared for religious reasons,” Archbishop Hon said. “If
these people have done something wrong, please send them
to court, not to prison or isolation.”
China requires bishops to register with the government,
but many refuse, believing registration forces them to operate within certain limits. Those who, for decades, refused to
register and suffered persecution at the hands of communist
Cardinal blesses animals
(CNS PHOTO/PAUL HARING)
Cardinal Angelo
Comastri walks
past a police horse
during an animal
blessing outside
St. Peter’s Square
in Rome Jan. 17.
The Italian
cardinal blessed
police horses, farm
animals brought by
an association of
livestock owners,
and family pets.
(CNS PHOTO/GREGORY A. SHEMITZ, LONG ISLAND CATHOLIC)
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VATICAN CITY – The millions of refugees and migrants
in the world are not numbers but people in search of a better
life for themselves and their families, Pope Benedict XVI said.
“They are men and women, young and old, who are
looking for a place they can live in peace,” the pope said
Jan. 15, which the Vatican marked as the World Day for
Migrants and Refugees.
The pope welcomed migrants living in Rome to his
recitation of the Angelus in St. Peter’s Square and told the
thousands of people gathered for the midday prayer that
migrants and refugees are not only recipients of the church’s
outreach, but also can be agents of evangelization in their
new communities.
A prayer rally to stop the separation of immigrant families
takes place Jan. 28 from 2-4 p.m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral,
Gough Street at Geary Boulevard in San Francisco. Contact
Veronica Ramirez at (415) 614-5570 or email ramirezv@
sfarchdiocese.org.
Vatican urges ‘apologetics’ renewal
VATICAN CITY – While sects and fundamentalist groups
challenge Catholics in many parts of the world, almost all
Catholics face objections to the idea of belief in general, said
Legionary of Christ Father Thomas D. Williams, a professor at Rome’s Pontifical Regina Apostolorum University.
Father Williams is author of “Greater Than You Think: A
Theologian Answers the Atheists About God,” written in
response to the late Christopher Hitchens’ book, “God is
Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything,” and similar
works.
Over the past 50 years, apologetics – which means “to
answer, account for or defend” and once was a staple of
Catholic formation – lost its general appeal because “it
was considered proselytism,” an aggressive attempt to win
converts that was replaced by ecumenical dialogue, he said.
It didn’t help that many Catholics started seeing all religions
as equally valid paths to salvation, so they thought it was best
to encourage people to live their own faith as best they could
without trying to encourage them to consider Christianity.
Among the Regina Apostolorum students, he said, there
is a renewed interest in apologetics – usually covered today
under the heading of fundamental theology. “You can change
the name, make it gentler and nicer, but you always have to
give reasons for your hope and belief,” he said.
Bishops pledge abuse payments
OXFORD, England – Belgium’s Catholic bishops
pledged a “culture of vigilance” against future sexual abuse
by priests and said guilty clergy must compensate their vic-
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Celebrating MLK Day
Shirley Martin sings with the Antioch Baptist Church
choir Jan. 15 during an interfaith service held in observance of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday at
St. Brigid Church in Westbury, N.Y. The civil rights
leader was assassinated at age 39 in 1968, four
years after receiving the Nobel Peace Prize.
tims even if their crimes are no longer punishable by law.
“We cannot repair the past, but we can take moral
responsibility by recognizing sufferings and helping victims
recover,” Bishops Guy Harpigny of Torunai and Johan Bonny
of Antwerp, the church’s delegates for abuse, told a Brussels
news conference Jan. 12.
“Above all, we ask forgiveness for the suffering we
weren’t able to prevent, and we commit to treat this problem
differently in future.”
Days after the announcement, Belgian authorities
searched church offices in four dioceses as part of their
investigation into whether church officials protected alleged
abusers.
At their news conference, the bishops introduced a
52-page booklet, “A Hidden Suffering,” setting out lessons
from the abuse scandal and a “global action plan” to prevent
similar “contradictions of the Gospel ethic.”
They said church leaders had been “filled with confusion” at the “wave of moving accounts” of abuse and had
accepted proposals by a parliamentary commission for a
neutral arbitration procedure outside church structures to
enable victims to seek financial damages.
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Correction
A Jan. 13 story on the “Women & Spirit” exhibit at the
California Museum in Sacramento misspelled the website.
The website for the museum is californiamuseum.org.
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‘Spiritual, gifted’ Barbara Elordi, 62,
served archdiocese in grief ministry
City posts ‘blatant’
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Williams added: “Through
A memorial Mass for Barbara Elordi was celebrated
Jan. 19 at St. Stephen Church in San Francisco. Ms. Elordi, her ministry, leadership, writvictims’ assistance coordinator for the Archdiocese of San ing, and counseling, she comFrancisco since 2005, died Jan. 12 from pneumonia. She forted, taught, touched and
healed thousands of people.
was 62 years of age.
Born in San Francisco, Ms. Elordi attended St. Her passing is a tremendous
Robert School in San Bruno, and Mercy High School loss for the archdiocese;
Barbara Elordi
in Burlingame graduating in June 1967 and entered the her joyful reunion with her
beloved Lord is solace.”
Sisters of Mercy, Burlingame just months later.
She taught at St. Stephen School in San Francisco and
Deacon John Norris is director of pastoral ministry for
also served at St Gabriel School in San Francisco. She the Archdiocese of San Francisco. “Barbara was a gift,” he
was a regular retreat leader for school faculty members said. “She was a very spiritual and gifted woman who had
at Mercy Center in Burlingame.
a marvelous capacity for being able to look
In 1988, Ms. Elordi left religious life.
past someone’s faults to see the goodness
She earned a graduate degree in psychology
of the person God created. She then worked
She
from Holy Names University and was later
with that person using that image – not the
certified as a Licensed Marriage and Family
image typically seen by so many of us. This
comforted
Therapist. She maintained a private practice
capacity enabled her to work with people
that focused on counseling and grief miniswho have been abused or mistreated as well
and healed
try, and was part of a three-person team that
as those who were grieving the passing of
brought grief care training and programs to
a loved one.”
thousands.
parishes throughout the Archdiocese of San
“Barbara was never alone in her last days,
Francisco for more than 20 years.
as was her wish,” said a memo communicat“I was privileged to work with Barbara
ing Ms. Elordi’s death from the Archdiocese
Elordi over the course of my 23 years in funeral service,” of San Francisco. “She made all of her own decisions
said Monica Williams, director of cemeteries for the regarding her life and her end-of-life care. In her last hours
Archdiocese of San Francisco. “As a mentor, she trained a Mercy sister brought music into her room that centered
me to be a minister of consolation; as a collaborator, on trust in God and his great mercy. This was Barbara’s
she had hopeful plans for the role of the Department of enduring theme for most of her life. At the end, she grateCatholic Cemeteries in support of this ministry.”
fully received the affirmation of close friends and family,
Williams said Ms. Elordi saw “a need for a grief and the prayers of many whose lives she had touched. She
support program” as well as “the commitment to form was at peace when she took her last breath and joined the
it and fight for it and the tremendous gift of presence to God she has known so well.”
sustain it.”
Survivors include a brother, Edward, and his wife, Toni.
By Valerie Schmalz
California bishops support
life, family ballot measures
SACRAMENTO – Proposed California ballot initiatives on
parental notification for minors seeking abortion and replacing
the death penalty with life imprisonment present the state’s
Catholic bishops with “a unique teaching moment on life and
family,” the bishops’ statewide episcopal conference announced
Jan. 10.
“As Catholics, we believe and teach that we bear the image
of God,” the California Catholic Conference announcement
stated. “We come to life as the result of humanity’s collaboration in God’s creative work. Ordinarily, each child is the result
of the loving union of a man and woman who have formed a
family. The family then cradles the newborn, raises up the child
and guides the young person’s development to adulthood. As
citizens, we believe that government serves best when it supports families in their irreplaceable task of nurturing the next
generation.
“We therefore wish to express our support for the Parental
Notification Initiative, which would require a young girl aged
12-17 to include her parents in a decision to secure an abortion,” the announcement continued. “Because current law allows
secrecy for ‘confidential medical services’ a young girl could
have multiple abortions – at state expense – without her parents’
knowledge. Not only are her parents still responsible for her
medical and emotional needs if she suffers complications from
the abortion, but current policy denies them accurate information
as to how best to care for her. The relationship between that girl
and her parents will be forever altered because of her secret.”
The bishops also discussed the death-penalty initiative in
light of Catholic teaching.
“As Catholics we hold human life as sacred,” the bishops’
statement said.
“Therefore, we also offer our support for the second of the
initiatives— labeled SAFE California by its sponsors —which
would offer Savings, Accountability and Full Enforcement by
replacing the expensive death penalty for a capital offense with
a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.
We have long held that the use of the death penalty is no longer
necessary to protect the community,” the bishops continued.
The bishops thus support both initiatives “as responsible
efforts to bring common sense, compassion and prudent justice
into California’s public policy.”
Banners with pro-abortion slogans are posted along Market
Street, timed to coincide with the West Coast’s largest public
pro-life demonstration, the 8th annual Walk for Life West Coast.
Life Legal Defense Foundation sent a complaint letter to the
city, saying the banners are a “blatant” violation of San Francisco’s
own codes which require banners posted on city utility poles to
promote a specific city event of significant interest that draws more
than 500 people or promote city institutions or neighborhoods.
Banners issued by the Trust Women Silver Ribbon Campaign
include the slogan, “U.S. Out of My Uterus.”
“The Walk for Life West Coast is peaceful and getting bigger
every year. There are those in San Francisco who cannot stand
this success,” said George Wesolek, director of communications
for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.
“The city minions who ‘approved’ these illegal banners
might have thought that the public would ignore the challenge,
but they are in error,” said Dana Cody, executive director of Life
Legal Defense.
This is the first year the Walk for Life route is Market Street
rather than along the Embarcadero to Marina Green. Last year
more than 40,000 people walked.
The city issued two permits: a parade permit for Saturday, Jan.
21, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. including Justin Herman Plaza, and an event by
Walk for Trust/Women’s Silver Ribbon Campaign on Friday, Jan.
20, 6-8 p.m. for a portion of Market Street., the San Francisco
Chronicle reported Jan. 17, but a Silver Ribbon spokesman said
the demonstration would be Sunday.
Gloria Chan, Department of Public Works spokesman, said
Jan. 17 that the department just learned the date of the event had
changed. “DPW recently learned about this change in date of
event and is looking into how and if this change violates conditions of the banner permit,” Chan said.
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Three-year study of women religious completed; Rome reviews results
By Dennis Sadowski
At a glance
(CNS PHOTO/GREGORY A. SHEMITZ, LONG ISLAND CATHOLIC)
WASHINGTON (CNS) – A three-year study of U.S. women
religious called for by the Vatican has been completed with the
final comprehensive report recently sent to Rome.
No details of the findings in what the church calls an apostolic visitation were released by Mother Mary Clare Millea,
superior general of the Apostles of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
and the apostolic visitator appointed by the Vatican to undertake
the study.
Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman,
confirmed Jan. 10 that reports had been received by the
Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies
of Apostolic Life “and is now studying them.”
“At this time, it is premature to expect comments from the
congregation,” he said.
The Vatican spokesman said the congregation is expected
“to make known its evaluation of the results of the visit” at
some future date.
The apostolic visitation office in Hamden, Conn., did not
respond to several requests for an interview.
In a Jan. 9 press release, the visitation office said a comprehensive report was sent to Archbishop Joseph W. Tobin, the
congregation’s secretary. In addition, the release said, Mother
Clare had submitted most of the reports on each of the nearly
400 religious congregations in the U.S. and continues to work
on completing them by spring, the release said.
Mother Clare said in the release that the visitation “generated
widespread interest.”
“The attention to it has resulted in a renewed appreciation for
the role of religious in the church and society and has increased
dialogue and mutual awareness among the various communities
in the United States,” she said. “These tangible benefits of the
visitation will continue to be realized.”
The visitation was initiated in December 2008 by Cardinal
Franc Rode, then prefect of the congregation who has since
retired. He cited the desire to learn why the number of members in U.S. religious communities had declined since the late
1960s and to look at the quality of life for some 67,000 women
religious as prime reasons for the investigation.
As the process began, the Leadership Conference of Women
Religious, which represents about 95 percent of U.S. women
religious, questioned what its officials considered a lack of full
disclosure about what motivated the visitation. They also objected to the plan to keep the orders from seeing the final reports.
Mercy Sister Mary Winifred Ceravola receives
Communion as she marks her 50th anniversary as a
nun during a Mass for religious jubilarians at St. Agnes
Cathedral in Rockville Centre, N.Y., in September 2011.
A three-year study of U.S. women religious called for
by the Vatican has been completed with the final
comprehensive report recently sent to Rome.
– The visitation process began with meetings with 127
superior generals.
– Next, the orders were sent questionnaires on the life
and governance of their communities.
– Visitor teams then met with congregational leaders
as well as individual members of orders.
– The process was initiated in 2008 by Cardinal Franc
Rode, then prefect of the Congregation for Institutes
of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.
He cited the desire to learn why membership in U.S.
religious communities had declined since the late
1960s and to look at the quality of life for some 67,000
women religious.
– The Leadership Conference of Women Religious
questioned what its officials considered a lack of full
disclosure about what motivated the visitation. They
also objected to the plan to keep the orders from seeing
the final reports.
– Archbishop Joseph W. Tobin, an American, who
became congregation secretary in 2010, told Catholic
News Service last August that the congregation would
review all of the reports and that its responses to the
religious communities would be marked by dialogue
and would be a step toward healing.
The decision to conduct the visitation, combined with the
subsequent announcement that the LCWR would undergo a
doctrinal assessment by the Congregation for the Doctrine of
the Faith, cast a shadow over the work of women religious.
As the apostolic visitation and doctrinal assessment were
carried out, both were conducted with little formal comment
from the parties involved. Privately, however, some sisters and
leaders of religious orders questioned why the two inquiries
were being undertaken and they expressed concern that their
ministries, often among people on the margins of society, were
being misunderstood by church leaders.
Cardinal Rode subsequently said in a statement released by
the Vatican that he hoped the visitation process would encourage vocations and “assure a better future for women religious.”
In an interview on Vatican Radio after the statement’s release,
Cardinal Rode said some media presented the investigation “as if
it were an act of mistrust of American female religious congregations or as if it were a global criticism of their work. It is not.”
Cardinal Rode also asked the U.S. Conference of Catholic
Bishops to help cover the cost of the visitation, which was
estimated at $1 million.
The visitation process began with meetings between Mother
Clare and 127 superior generals. It was followed up with the
distribution of a questionnaire to the religious orders. Topics
covered were related to the life and operation of the orders:
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minister, or punishing a church for failing to do so, intrudes
upon more than a mere employment decision. Such action
interferes with the internal governance of the church, depriving the church of control over the selection of those who will
personify its beliefs.”
The court stopped short of saying whether the exception
would apply to nonministerial employees and left open the
possibility that the Michigan Lutheran school teacher who sued
might have a case under another legal argument. The court also
pointedly avoided setting boundaries for who can be considered
a religious employee, concluding only that the teacher who
claimed she had been wrongly fired, Cheryl Perich, a teacher
at Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School, a
part of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, fit the definition.
The decision was quickly hailed by advocates for the
Catholic Church, which had been among entities urging the
court to support Hosanna-Tabor Church; the school has been
closed for several years.
Bishop William E. Lori of Bridgeport, Conn., chairman of
the U.S. bishops’ Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty,
called it “a great day for the First Amendment.”
Texas bishops praise ruling
to uphold sonogram law
AUSTIN, Texas (CNS) – Texas Catholic bishops
applauded the Jan. 11 decision of the U.S. 5th Circuit Court
of Appeals allowing the state to enforce a sonogram law
requiring abortion providers to offer women the opportunity
to view the ultrasound images of their unborn children.
“Providing mothers access to sonograms informs them
about the risks and complications associated with abortion,”
said Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston.
“These consultations save lives by educating mothers who
may not realize that the child in their womb is exactly that
– a unique, irreplaceable human life.”
The ruling by a three-judge panel of the appeals court
ruling overturned a U.S. District Court judge’s temporary
injunction against enforcing the measure that requires doctors who perform abortions to show sonograms to patients,
and describe the images and fetal heartbeat.
The state’s bishops made the sonogram law a high priority
during the previous legislative session because they said it
would help mothers recognize the humanity of their unborn
children and choose life.
Archbishop Gustavo Garcia-Siller of San Antonio said he
was particularly impressed by Chief Judge Edith Jones’ recognition of the state’s legitimate interests in protecting life. “The
court today acted to protect the smallest voices of those whom
God already knows, alive in their mothers’ wombs,” he said.
In a statement issued by the U.S. Conference of Catholic
Bishops, Bishop Lori said the ruling makes clear “the historical and constitutional importance of keeping internal church
affairs off limits to the government – because whoever chooses
the minister chooses the message.”
Anthony Picarello, general counsel and an associate general secretary for the USCCB, said the decision “affirms the
common-sense proposition that
religious schools must be free to
choose religion teachers based on
religion, without interference from
the state.”
William Bassett, a retired professor of law at the University of
San Francisco, called the ruling “the
premiere opinion of the Supreme
Court in recent times on religious
freedom for the churches and for
Bishop William Lori church organizations.” He said he
considered it “remarkable” that the decision was unanimous,
with three concurrences. He also said he believes the high court
was prudent in simply addressing the case before it without
elaborating on nonministerial employees.
Perich, the teacher at the Lutheran school in Redford,
Mich., went on sick leave in 2004 and when she returned to
Catholic San Francisco
work the school administration urged her to quit, saying they
already had hired a replacement for her. She threatened to
sue under the Americans with Disabilities Act as she suffers
from narcolepsy. The school then fired her, saying she had
been insubordinate by threatening to go outside the church’s
ecclesiastical appeal procedures.
Perich taught largely secular subjects but did spend 45
minutes a day on religious matters. Justice Roberts noted that
and wrote, “The issue before us, however, is not one that can
be resolved with a stopwatch.” Bassett agreed.
“She was ordained,” said Bassett. “She did all kinds of
things that are outside the realm of just a purely secular activity.
She was a commissioned teacher. In Lutheran theology, she
had accepted a call to this as her vocation,” he said.
Indeed, the school argued that because she was a “called”
minister of the church, the decision to fire her was protected
by the First Amendment.
Roberts noted that the court was expressing an opinion only
about Perich, as a minister, and her church’s decision to fire her.
“We hold only that the ministerial exception bars such a
suit,” he wrote. “We express no view on whether the exception
bars other types of suits.... There will be time enough to address
the applicability of the exception to other circumstances if and
when they arise.”
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punishments and pressures reserved
for racists,” the letter predicted other
consequences if same-sex marriage
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were to gain more legitimacy.
ing any adverse employment action
“These punishments will only
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grow more frequent and more severe
an employee for the public act of
if civil ‘marriage’ is redefined in
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additional jurisdictions,” it said.
member of the same sex. This is not
“Because law and government not
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only coerce and incentivize but also
situations have already come to pass,”
teach, these sanctions would lend
the letter said. “Even where religious
greater moral legitimacy to private
people and groups succeed in avoidefforts to punish those who defend
ing civil liability in cases like these,
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they would face other government
The push to alter the definition of
sanctions – the targeted withdrawal
marriage “warrants special attention
of government cooperation, grants or
within our faith communities and
other benefits.”
throughout society as a whole,” the
The letter cited the case of
letter said, because such an action
Portland, Maine, which required
would have “grave consequences,”
Catholic Charities to extend spouincluding interfering with the “relisal employee benefits to same-sex
gious freedom of those who continue
domestic partners as a condition of
to affirm” traditional marriage.
Washington state Gov. Chris Gregoire
receiving city housing and commu- announces her support for legislation that
“The promotion and protection of
nity development funds.
marriage
– the union of one man and
would legalize same-sex marriage in the
“There is no doubt that the many
one woman as husband and wife – is
state in Olympia Jan. 4. A letter signed
people and groups whose moral and
a matter of the common good and
by
more than three dozen U.S. religious
religious convictions forbid same-sex
serves the well-being of the couple,
sexual conduct will resist the com- leaders objects to the specter of religious of children, of civil society and all
groups being forced to treat same-sex
pulsion of the law, and church-state
people,” the letter said.
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The value of traditional marriage
Because those who object to
transcends any society or governgiving equality to same-sex partners have been marked as ment, is “a universal good” and is the “foundational institu“bigots, subjecting them to the full arsenal of government tion of all societies,” it said.
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Washington, DC, March for Life marks anniversary of Roe v. Wade
WASHINGTON (CNS) – Tens of thousands of people from
across the United States are expected to gather in the nation’s
capital Jan. 23 for this year’s March for Life in Washington
with the theme: “Unite on the life principles to overturn Roe v.
Wade and with love protect mothers and preborn children – no
exception, no compromise.”
The event falls on a Monday, the day after the 39th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision, to allow participants to
visit their representatives on Capitol Hill after a noon rally on
the National Mall and a march along Constitution Avenue to
the Supreme Court.
The night before the rally, March for Life organizers are
planning a mini-rally in Lafayette Park across from the White
House. They are also sponsoring a youth rally that night at a
Washington hotel.
A capacity crowd of about 20,000 pilgrims is expected
to fill the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate
Conception for the annual National Prayer Vigil for Life,
which begins with a Jan. 22 opening Mass. Cardinal Daniel N.
DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, chairman of the Committee on
Pro-Life Activities for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops,
will be the principal celebrant and homilist.
Marchers are invited to participate in various services,
including a rosary, confessions, hourly holy hours, night
prayer and morning prayer, concluding with a morning Mass
celebrated by New York Cardinal-designate Timothy M. Dolan,
USCCB president.
For the 16th year, the Archdiocese of Washington will
sponsor its annual pro-life youth Mass and rally the morning of
Jan. 23. The popularity of the event prompted the archdiocese
to hold this event in two sports venues last year – the Verizon
Center and the D.C. Armory – to accommodate a crowd totaling about 28,000.
The event includes a concert, confessions, praying the
rosary, and Mass, before most of the crowd heads to the annual
March for Life.
After the March for Life the rallying spirit will continue with
several pro-life organizations sponsoring the National Pro-Life
Youth Rally near the Supreme Court.
SENIOR LIVING
(CNS PHOTO/PETER LOCKLEY)
By Carol Zimmermann
March for Life participants make their way up Constitution Avenue to the Supreme Court building in
Washington Jan. 24, 2011. Tens of thousands of people from across the United States are
expected to gather in the nation’s capital Jan. 23 for this year’s March for Life.
8th annual Walk for Life West Coast Jan. 21
The 8th annual Walk for Life West Coast is Saturday, Jan. 21, and begins with a 12:30 p.m. rally at Civic Center
Plaza in San Francisco. The walk down Market Street to Justin Herman Plaza begins at 1:30 p.m.
San Francisco Archbishop George Niederauer will celebrate Mass at 9:30 a.m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral. The cathedral,
located at Geary Boulevard and Gough Street, is within walking distance of Civic Center.
All the bishops of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, and the bishops from the dioceses of Santa Rosa, Oakland,
Stockton, Sacramento, San Jose and San Bernardino are expected to attend.
The 25th Annual Interfaith Service for Life will be held at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 20, at the cathedral.
For more information, visit walkforlifewc.com.
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January 20, 2012
Two years after the massive earthquake that devastated Haiti,
750,000 Haitian children are back at school, 80,000 in 193 seismic
centers built to date by UNICEF, the church news agency Fides
reported Jan. 10.
The United Nations organization has also started 314 therapeutic feeding programs for 15,000 children and has improved
health conditions in 95 rural communities.
The situation is slowly improving countrywide in access to
health care, education and food, although the unhealed scars of
devastated infrastructure highlight the challenges faced by Haiti’s
newly installed government as it struggles to rebuild.
What’s more, a half-million Haitians are still living in 800 refugee camps. Before the earthquake, about 77 percent of Haitians
lived in rented houses, so most of them have nowhere to go.
The recovery is particularly trying for women and girls.
“Women and girls in post-earthquake Haiti face additional
hardships: lack of access to family planning, prenatal and obstetric
care; a need to engage in survival sex to buy food for themselves
and their children; and sexual violence,” Human Rights Watch
said in a report last August. “The crisis is reflected in pregnancy
rates in displaced person camps that are three times higher than in
urban areas before the earthquake, and rates of maternal mortality
that rank among the world’s worst.”
On Jan. 12 U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon issued
a statement honoring the victims of the 7.0 earthquake. Some
300,000 people died, including 103 United Nations personnel.
Ban spoke to Haitian President Michele Martelly by phone,
pledging the U.N.’s support as the country rebuilds, Voice of
America reported.
The good news is that nearly a million people have left the
camps, and nearly half of the 10 million cubic meters of debris
generated by the earthquake has been cleared, the humanitarian news service AlertNet said in a report citing International
Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies data.
“The progress made in re-housing the displaced population
over the last 12 months is encouraging,” the AlertNet report said.
“But this progress must be maintained and there are currently not
enough housing solutions planned to meet the need.”
The U.S. church has contributed to the recovery effort through
Catholic Relief Services, the U.S. bishops’ overseas relief and
communities that would be flooded, and bishops in Peru and
Brazil spoke out in defense of indigenous people’s land rights.
In a region that has been strongly marked by civil wars and
IMA, Peru (CNS) – The rocky road to Milagros
dictatorships in the past half-century, governments in some
Echevarria’s flimsy wooden house is lined with plascountries are still too weak to defuse tensions over such issues
tic barrels. Several times a week, when a bright blue
before they erupt into conflict.
tank truck rumbles up the hill to fill the barrels, she and her
Weak governments also contribute to the problems of drug
neighbors must lug buckets of water up the steep slope to
trafficking, violence and organized crime that have spread
their homes.
through Mexico, Central America and Colombia and are gainEchevarria has worked since she was 13, mostly cleaning
ing a stronger foothold in South America.
other people’s homes. She finished high school and hoped to
Last year, Latin America registered the most murders of
study accounting, but the birth of her daughter, Lucero, put
church workers, both religious and lay, with seven killed in
her plans on hold.
Colombia, five in Mexico and one each in Nicaragua, Brazil
Now 25, she earns just more than $200 a month cleaning
and Paraguay.
local government offices at night, returning in the morning to
Problems of “security, drug trafficking and violence are
the dusty neighborhood on the edge of Lima, where no one
likely to continue, despite the best government efforts,” said
has a water hookup and many lack electricity. Although Peru’s
Richard Jones, Catholic Relief Services’ deputy regional direceconomy has grown by more than 5 percent annually for most
tor for global solidarity and justice.
of the past decade, Echevarria feels the boom has passed her by.
Countries such as El Salvador, Honduras
While immigration, organized crime
and Guatemala have become transit routes
and protests against huge development
for drug shipments to the United States. El
projects grab headlines around Latin
Church leaders
Salvador had 4,300 murders in 2011, the
America as 2012 begins, little progress
highest number since the civil war ended
will be made unless underlying povwarn that little will
in 1992, although the murder rate there was
erty and inequality are addressed, said
still lower than in neighboring Honduras.
Peruvian Archbishop Pedro Barreto
change in South
In Mexico, where drug-related
Jimeno, who heads the social justice comviolence may have claimed as many
mission of the Latin American bishops’
as 40,000 lives in the past five years,
council, or CELAM.
America until
the bishops wrote a pastoral letter and
While poverty rates in Latin America
pledged action by the church, turning to
have crept downward in recent years,
underlying poverty
their Colombian counterparts for advice.
countries that are rich in natural resources
Mexican bishops have been “very outmust ensure that the economic benefits
and inequality are
spoken that they need to address violence
of industries such as mining, oil and gas
in terms of the Gospel,” Jones said.
reach people like Echevarria, who still
addressed.
Observers worry that drug money is
lack basic services, Archbishop Barreto
increasingly influencing elections and
told Catholic News Service.
governments throughout the region.
“The church continues to criticize the
“People talk about narco communities, especially in the
dominant economic system,” Archbishop Barreto said, noting
Peten,” a vast rural region of farms and forests in Guatemala,
that at the Fifth General Conference of the Bishops of Latin
bordering Mexico, where drug lords install water and electricity
America and the Caribbean, held in Brazil in 2007, the region’s
service or pave roads, Jones said.
prelates called for a new economic model based on the social
The security threat to rural residents from organized crime
doctrine of the church.
and violence is exacerbated by severe storms, which have hit
Such a model would include more dialogue among governCentral America and Colombia especially hard in the past
ment leaders, industry executives and communities about large
several years, destroying crops and displacing families. The
development projects such as mines, oil drilling, dams and
disasters cut into food supplies, pushing prices up.
highways that would displace local residents or have a sig“There are serious food crisis issues on the horizon if govnificant impact on the environment, Archbishop Barreto said.
ernments don’t do something,” Jones said. “I don’t see major
In recent months, protests have flared over the Belo Monte
changes if they don’t create more jobs.”
dam, which is already under construction on the Xingu River
Latin America and the United States are increasingly linked
in northern Brazil; a gold mine in northern Peru; and the pavby shared problems – from food shortages, which spur migraing of a highway through a Bolivian national park that is also
tion, to money laundering and trafficking in drugs, guns and
home to indigenous communities.
people. Archbishop Barreto called for stronger bonds between
“There is a need for honest, transparent dialogue,”
churches in the two regions.
Archbishop Barreto said. “In these social conflicts, there is a
“We have to get over the idea that anything that doesn’t
lack of credibility on both sides. The company does not trust
affect me personally isn’t my problem,” he said. “We have to
the people and the people don’t trust the company.”
work hard on global solidarity.”
Those and similar battles are likely to continue during the
He added that church workers in both regions must encouryear ahead. Brazil, where demand for electricity is expected
age young people to become involved in social justice issues.
to rise by more than 50 percent over the next decade, has
“The future of the world depends on the young people of
expressed interest in financing and building hydroelectric
today,” he said. “If they do not learn to dialogue for justice and
dams in neighboring countries, including Peru and Ecuador.
peace, the future will be much more uncertain.”
The projects in Peru stalled after protests by from indigenous
By Barbara J. Fraser
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(CNS PHOTO/OSCAR MEDRANO)
500,000 homeless
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After work as a janitor she goes home
to a neighborhood with no running water:
Peru’s economic boom has passed her by
Milagros earns
$200 a month
Milagros Echevarria stands outside her home on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, Jan. 8. Benefits of Peru’s booming economy are slow to trickle down
to the shantytown where she lives and works, earning just over $200 a month cleaning local government offices at night.
Catholic San Francisco
Two years after the earthquake, Haiti’s rebuilding
progresses but a half-million people remain in camps
development agency. For example, CRS has helped move 460
families from a camp into long-term housing since November
under a pilot program initiated by Called Ann Ale Lakay, Creole
for Let’s Go Home.
The program is designed to address a variety of needs in addition to long-term housing by preparing camp dwellers frustrated
by months of living in squalid conditions for a return to some
sense of normalcy. The program incorporates two professional
psychologists and 12 social workers to guide earthquake survivors
in resolving conflict, managing money and overcoming the sense
of loss that lingers two years after disaster disrupted their lives.
Sonya Mallebranche, 51, finds her new three-room home far
better than living in a tattered tent in the fetid, dusty camp known
as Petite Place Cazeau alongside hundreds of other displaced
people.
“I’m so much more comfortable. Now I can sleep peacefully.
Now I have my family with me,” Mallebranche told Catholic News
Service Jan. 5 via cell phone from her new home.
“I am really happy to have that house,” she said through a
translator.
The resettlement program has put a small dent in the camp
population in and around Port-au-Prince.
“We realized there was a lot of fear about moving out of the
camps, about restarting their lives after the earthquake,” she said.
“People were concerned about how to go about returning to a
normal life.”
But Luke King, CRS country director in Haiti, said he is seeing
more urgent efforts by various agencies working with the government to provide permanent housing.
“The government has gotten very involved in this return process
as well,” he said. “There’s a lot of momentum at this time to help
people return home.”
Mallebranche said she now lives in more peaceful surroundings, giving her plenty of time to play with her grandsons, a
15-month-old and twin 3-year-olds. The daily headaches she
attributed to the excessive heat in the camp have disappeared. And
the putrid smell of the camp that she said forced her to leave her
tent during daylight hours is gone.
“I’m feeling really good,” she said.
– Catholic San Francisco, Catholic News Service
(CNS PHOTO/SWOAN PARKER, REUTERS)
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Young people stand in the schoolyard of the Academy for Peace and Justice while waiting to sing the national anthem
in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Jan. 9. Jan. 12 will mark the second anniversary of the devastating earthquake that killed
more than 300,000 people, destroyed numerous schools, crippled infrastructure and left 1.5 million homeless.
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January 20, 2012
Clerical freedom to hire dates to Magna Carta, says top US jurist
WASHINGTON (CNS) – The religious freedom history lesson that Chief Justice John Roberts gives in writing
the Supreme Court’s Jan. 11 unanimous ruling affirming a
“ministerial exception” to federal employment laws goes
back to the Magna Carta, the English law created in 1215.
The decision in Hosanna-Tabor v. EEOC held that fired
teacher Cheryl Perich could not sue under federal disability
discrimination laws, because the Michigan Lutheran school
where she worked considered her a “called” minister.
In getting to the ruling, Roberts described the judicial and
legislative path to the recognition of a ministerial exception,
beginning with one of the three provisions of the Magna
Carta that remains on the books today: a grant of freedom
to the Church of England:
“We have granted to God, and by this our present charter
have confirmed, for us and our heirs forever, that the Church
of England shall be free, and shall have all her whole rights
and liberties inviolable,” says the Magna Carta. “We have
(CNS PHOTO/JIM LO SCALZO, REUTERS)
By Patricia Zapor
The U.S. Supreme Court justices gather for an official picture at the court in Washington in 2010. Chief
Justice John G. Roberts is seated front row center.
granted also, and given to all the freemen of our realm,
for us and our heirs forever, these liberties underwritten,
to have and to hold to them and their heirs, of us and our
heirs forever.”
Roberts drew a line through the history of colonial
America’s efforts to establish – or to pointedly not establish – state religions. In colonial Virginia, for instance, the
governor had the power to induct ministers presented to him
by church vestries.
When the first Catholic bishop in the United States, John
Carroll of Maryland, asked the government who should
be appointed to manage the church’s affairs in the newly
acquired territory of the Louisiana Purchase, Secretary of
State James Madison was clear, Roberts explained.
“The selection of church ‘functionaries’ was an ‘entirely
ecclesiastical’ matter left to the church’s own judgment,”
Roberts wrote.
Madison, he said, explained that the “scrupulous policy
of the Constitution in guarding against a political interference with religious affairs” prevented the government from
rendering an opinion on the “selection of ecclesiastical
individuals.”
Guest Commentary
A persecuted church and its heroes
A recent survey has indicated something that should lift the
hearts of Christians everywhere, namely, that the fastest growing
religion on the planet is Christianity. This explosive growth is
on particularly clear display in Africa and Asia, where churches
and seminaries can’t be built fast enough to accommodate the
need. It is especially important that we in the West become
cognizant of this state of affairs, for with the rise of secularism
and the falloff in church attendance in Europe, Canada, Australia
and America, we can far too easily assume that Christianity is
in a state of permanent decline. Au contraire, in point of fact.
But other studies carry the dark truth that the fastest growing religion in the world is also the most persecuted. Again, this
might surprise many in the post-9/11 West, who presume that
Islam is the religion most in danger and hence most in need
of special protection. But all over the world, and particularly
in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, Christians are by far the
most threatened religious group. Indeed, Vatican research shows
that 75 percent of those killed around the world for religious
reasons are Christians.
Who can forget the horrendous attack on a Catholic church
in Baghdad last fall? Islamist militants burst into the church
while Mass was in progress and proceeded to open fire indiscriminately on men, women, and children. As they finished
up their grisly work, the killers found themselves trailed by a
toddler who asked plaintively, “Why are you doing this?” In
time, they turned on the child and killed him. In the wake of
that assault, huge numbers of Catholics and other Christians left
the country. Estimates are that in the last 10 years somewhere
between 600,000 and a million Christians have been forced to
flee Iraq. In Saudi Arabia, no Christian is allowed to worship
publicly, and no church of any kind can be built. Many were
cheered by the Arab Spring, which saw the expulsion of dictators from Libya, Yemen and Egypt and the shaking of the Assad
regime in Syria, but Christians in those countries are far from
encouraged. The secularist proclivities of the dictators at least
allowed for a rough toleration of non-Islamic religions; thus
the collapse of the tyrants has made possible the tyranny of the
Global Christianity
Islamic majority, resulting in an aggressive campaign against
Christianity. Just a few weeks ago, Egyptian Copts – members
of one of the oldest Christian communities in the world – were
publicly assaulted in the streets of Cairo by representatives
of the Muslim brotherhood. The Wall Street Journal recently
reported that an Egyptian Christian mother of two young girls
was blithely informed by her Muslim physician that, according
to the prescriptions of Shariah, religiously based Islamic law,
her daughters would have to be circumcised. Convinced that
the government would no longer protect them, mother and
children fled the country.
Just days ago, Nigeria’s president declared a state of emergency in sections of his country, due to a series of unprovoked
Christianity, the fastest growing
religion in the world, is also the
most persecuted.
attacks on Christian churches. Boko Haram, a militant Islamist
sect, has claimed credit for the assaults, including attacks on
Christmas Day that left 42 people dead. One of the most troubling stories of Christian persecution comes out of Pakistan,
where fierce anti-blasphemy laws are in effect. A Christian
woman named Asia Bibi was imprisoned on trumped-up
charges of speaking against the prophet Muhammad. Despite
protests from around the world, she was tried, convicted, and
sentenced to death. Currently she languishes in prison, awaiting
her execution and praying for her jailers.
Now God knows that Christians have far from a spotless
record when it comes to tolerating religious diversity, but the
fact remains that as the year 2012 commences, Christians are,
by far, the most victimized religious group in the world. From
Pakistan to Nigeria, from Egypt to Iraq, ordinary Christians
Countries with the lowest percentages of Christians
are in North Africa and Asia.
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routinely risk their lives
simply by declaring their
faith and worshipping
according to their rights.
They are walking in the
footsteps of great martyrs
of the tradition, from
Stephen, Peter, and Paul
Father
to Charles Lwanga and
Edith Stein. And this leads
Robert Barron
me to declare persecuted
Christians as people of
the year.
At this point, I will make a confession. This reflection was
prompted by a piece published by the editors of the National
Catholic Reporter. In their lead article, they declared Sister
Elizabeth Johnson, a theologian from Fordham University, as
the “person of the year” in the Catholic Church. What was the
reason for this designation? Sister Elizabeth, they explained,
had been unfairly “persecuted” by the bishops of the United
States who dared to question the theological integrity of one
of her many books. The bishops did not excommunicate Sister
Elizabeth, or strip her of her teaching position, or declare her
not to be a Catholic theologian. They simply were critical of
aspects of one of her books. And for this, a tenured professor
at Fordham, a woman lionized by the academic establishment,
is declared a persecuted victim. Give me a break. The 1970sera narrative of brave progressive theologian fighting against
the repressive church is tired and utterly unilluminating. Far
more compelling is the story of the truly brave souls who are
risking livelihood, life and limb in order to declare their faith
in Jesus Christ.
Father Robert Barron is founder of the global
ministry Word on Fire and Francis Cardinal George
Professor of Faith and Culture at University
of St. Mary of the Lake in Mundelein, Ill.
World Christianity’s
spread and strength
A new study by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on
Religion & Public Life found Christians to be so geographically widespread that no single continent or region can claim
to be the faith’s center. There are 2 billion Christians today,
up from 600 million in 1910, the study found. Christians
make up about the same portion of the world’s population in
2010 (32 percent) as they did a century ago (35 percent). The
share of world Christians living in Europe and the Americas
is 63 percent, down from 93 percent in 1910. The number of
Christians grew significantly in sub-Saharan Africa and the
Asia-Pacific region.
Brazil, with 134 million Catholics, has the world’s largest
Catholic population, which totals more than the number of
Catholics in Italy, France and Spain combined. Other countries
with the highest percentages of Catholic populations include:
Mexico, the Philippines and the United States. The 10 countries
with the largest number of Catholics contain more than half
of the world’s Catholics.
The rest of the global Christian population breaks down to:
Protestants 37 percent; Orthodox Christians 12 percent; other
Christians such as Mormons and Jehovah’s Witnesses 1 percent.
– Catholic News Service
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Bishop’s resignation
So (Los Angeles Auxiliary) Bishop Zavala
has been perpetrating a fraud for decades, lead-
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ing two lives, fathering children, not giving
the mother the benefit of marriage and yet his
praises are sung in the news article as if he is not
resigning in disgrace (“Bishops Zavala resigns
after disclosing he is father of two children,”
Jan. 13). It is a disgrace to deceive so many for
so long and to inflict such hurt on the mother of
his children and on the children too. So why is
the Archdiocese of Los Angeles helping with the
bishop’s children’s college expenses? Is Bishop
Zavala drawing money from the archdiocese or
from an archdiocese retirement fund or from
some other church fund as well? Let him get a
job in the world and support his children like a
responsible “honest” man ought to do.
Edmond McGill
Novato
A parent’s grief
As a parent I can only imagine the
grief that Brian Cahill has had to carry
since the suicide of his son. I do agree
that we should not “worry” about the
eternal salvation of our departed loved
ones although we should pray for them.
At Mass and at home praying for our
departed loved ones regardless of how
they lived their lives I believe helps
bring peace and grace to our lives. As
Our Lady of Fatima implored the little
seers in Portugal, “Pray, pray, pray!”
Brendan Frost
San Francisco
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(“Breath of life”) on Bishop Stephen Blaire
of Stockton calling us to environmental stewardship as part of our pro-life stance as
Catholics. The author of a letter in the
Jan. 13 issue (“Science and climate”)
got hung up on differences in interpretation of how much humans are responsible for global warming. It would be a
great loss to get stuck in the argument
about who/what is to blame. This is the
time to learn together how we can work
in harmony with creation’s life support
systems. Clean air, clean water, and
healthy soil are critical for all life on
earth – and human choices and actions
do make a difference.
The Catholic Coalition on
Climate Change, at http://catholicclimatecovenant.org, is an excellent
resource for Catholics. It provides
Catholic teachings, resources for
learning and understanding, and stories of creative responses of parishes and
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Looking Around
Father William J. Byron, SJ
Recently, a lawyer friend asked me whether
forgiveness can, in any way, be a form of justice.
I think it can, but I’m not sure how to explain it.
The healing power of forgiveness cannot be
overemphasized. Whether given or received,
and regardless of whether it comes from God or
another human being, forgiveness heals.
Jim Wallis, pastor of Sojourners Community
in Washington and longtime editor of Sojourners
magazine, says that “the idea of forgiveness often
seems abstract and ‘religious’ in an otherworldly
kind of way. But in fact forgiveness is very
practical and necessary for human life on the
planet to survive.
“When we refuse to forgive, the cycle of
vengeance, retaliation and violence just escalates.
... It is only genuine forgiveness that breaks the
cycle of destruction and opens up new possibilities.”
The Sermon on the Mount, which contains some firm instruction against retaliation,
addressed the issue of forgiveness in the context
of worship. Your refusal to forgive would make
you unworthy to stand before the altar.
“If you bring your gift to the altar and there
recall that your brother or sister has anything
against you, leave your gift at the altar, go first to
be reconciled with your brother or sister, and then
come and offer your gift” (Matthew 5:23-24).
We Christians should measure our performance in this regard against the standard
embodied in the Lord’s Prayer: “Forgive us our
trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass
against us.” Realize that, in making this prayer,
we are asking to be forgiven on a contingent
basis.
We are declaring ourselves willing to be forgiven only if we forgive others. This is a remarkable standard. No one is perfect, of course, but
no one can dodge that standard; it will be there
to challenge us every day of our lives.
It takes a large-hearted person to decide to
forgive; by the act of forgiving the heart of the
forgiver becomes even larger.
Forgiveness fastens friendships. Anyone
interested in contributing to the return of loyalty
to everyday life might simply look for opportunities to forgive.
And anyone who can count should take a
moment to calculate in practical terms the value
of the lesson that is available to all in these words
of writer Merle Shain: “There is no way to hate
another that does not cost the hater, no way to
remain unforgiving without maiming yourself.”
Most of us are familiar with Alexander
Pope’s dictum: “To err is human, to forgive,
divine,” and we’ve often heard that it is wise to
“forgive and forget,” although Shakespeare put
that proposition the other way around on the lips
of King Lear: “Pray you now, forget and forgive.”
(CNS PHOTO/LAURA SEGALL, REUTERS)
Is there a link between
forgiveness and justice?
Tucson tragedy remembered
A vigil at the University of Arizona campus in Tucson Jan. 8 memorialized the
first anniversary of a shooting spree in Tucson, Ariz., that left six people dead
and wounded 13 others, including U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.
None of us will ever be divine, but we can
imitate divinity in forgiving. We may never
be able to forget, but we can act as if we have
forgotten whenever we forgive from the heart.
In either case, true forgiveness is the restorative measure, the transforming decision that
puts you on a brand new page. And that, it seems
to me, has to have some relationship to justice.
However you understand justice, it has to
do with the promotion and protection of right
relationships. Biblical justice refers to right
relationships with God. Economic justice refers
to right relationships with others in the marketplace. Legal justice looks to right relationships
under the law.
Forgiveness, it seems to me, is an instrument
capable of forging all right relationships.
Jesuit Father William J. Byron
is university professor of business
and society at St. Joseph’s University,
Philadelphia. His column is carried
by Catholic News Service.
The Catholic Difference
Breaking bad liturgical habits II
As I remarked late last year, the introduction of the third
edition of the Roman Missal and the new translations of the liturgical texts offer the entire English-speaking church an opportunity
to correct some bad liturgical habits that have developed over
the past four decades. The point of these corrections is neither
liturgical prissiness nor aesthetic nostalgia; there is no “reform
of the reform” to be found in lace surplices, narrow fiddleback
chasubles, and massive candles. The point of correcting bad
habits is to celebrate the Novus Ordo of Paul VI with dignity and
beauty, so that Mass is experienced for what it is: our participation
in the liturgy of saints and angels in heaven – where, I am quite
confident, they don’t sing treacly confections like “Gather Us In.”
Note to celebrants (not “presiders”): If you’ve fallen into
the bad habit of concluding Mass by some variant of “May
almighty God bless us all, Father, Son and Holy Spirit,” please
cease and desist. You were not ordained to the ministry of word
and sacrament to invoke, generically, the divine blessing, which
anyone can (and should) do before and after meals; you were
given the power to confer the divine blessing by being configured to Christ in holy orders. Catholics who embrace the truth
of Catholic faith do not enjoy clericalism. But they do not find
comfort, much less evangelical leadership, from priests who
imagine they can avoid clericalism by unwittingly denying the
truth of their own sacramental vocation and its distinctiveness.
Extraordinary ministers of holy Communion: The
same admonition applies to you, but in a different way – you
must not offer a “blessing,” in any form, to pre-first Communion
children who join their parents in the Communion procession.
Extraordinary ministers are not junior grade clergy or petty
officers; no one outside of those in holy orders should “bless” in
a liturgical context. Again, this is not a matter of prissiness, and
still less one of clericalism; it is a matter of doctrinal and theological precision – which, if lost, can damage the celebration of
the Mass. Extraordinary ministers of the holy Communion are
vastly overused in U.S. parishes, a practice that risks of signaling that the Mass is a matter of the self-worshipping community
celebrating and feeding itself. But the problem of the ordinary
use of what is supposed, after all, to be “extraordinary” can be
addressed another time. For now, pastors must make it clear
that no one blesses children during the Communion procession
except bishops, priests, and deacons, i.e., those in holy orders.
Music directors and pastors: As a general rule, sing all
the verses of a processional or recessional hymn. Good hymns
have a textual integrity that is lost when we sing hymn excerpts
rather than hymns. It doesn’t take that much more time to
sing all six verses of “For All the Saints” or all four verses of
“Crown Him with Many Crowns”; cutting such great texts by
two-thirds or one-half inevitably sends the signal that music in
the liturgy is filler – and there is no room for filler in the Mass.
The congregation: Sacred space is different from other
space; the inside of the
church is different from
the narthex (not “gathering
space”). Thus we should
all break the bad habit of
commencing the post-Mass
conversation immediately
after the conclusion of the
George Weigel
recessional hymn or organ
postlude. Wait until you
leave the interior of the
church before beginning to chat with the neighbors. If there is a
choral postlude, chatting over it is an insult to the choir, which
has worked hard to prepare something beautiful for God; if there
is only an organ postlude (with or without a recessional hymn),
chatting over it is an insult to the organist. Thirty seconds of
silence after Mass are no bad thing.
And while we’re on the subject of the congregation, might
we all reconsider our vesture at Sunday Mass? Dressing in one’s
“Sunday best” was not an affectation; it was an acknowledgment of our baptismal dignity. Let’s reclaim that dignity and
its expression in our “Sunday best.”
George Weigel is Distinguished Senior Fellow of the
Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.
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Catholic San Francisco
A READING FROM
THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET JONAH
JON 3:1-5, 10
The word of the Lord came to Jonah, saying: “Set out for the great city of Nineveh,
and announce to it the message that I will
tell you.” So Jonah made ready and went to
Nineveh, according to the Lord’s bidding.
Now Nineveh was an enormously large city; it
took three days to go through it. Jonah began
his journey through the city, and had gone but
a single day’s walk announcing, “Forty days
more and Nineveh shall be destroyed, “ when
the people of Nineveh believed God; they
proclaimed a fast and all of them, great and
small, put on sackcloth. When God saw by
their actions how they turned from their evil
way, he repented of the evil that he had threatened to do to them; he did not carry it out.
RESPONSORIAL PSALM
PS 25:4-5, 6-7, 8-9.
R. Teach me your ways, O Lord.
Your ways, O Lord, make known to me;
In today’s Gospel, Jesus announced the
imminent appearing of the kingdom. Those
words are a brief summary of the first sermon that Jesus preached, and it came with
great expectation. When we look at it, it
seems to suggest that the ideal society would
occur very soon. We know, of course, that
that did not happen. The world in which
Jesus lived and died was every bit as evil
and violent as the world into which he was
born. Yet he confirmed that God’s kingdom
would come. He taught his disciples to pray:
“Your kingdom come, your will be done on
earth as it is in heaven.” But it did not happen
during their lifetime and it has not happened
during ours.
This hope and expectation that we call
the kingdom of God is much more than
just a beautiful dream. It is also a creative
power. The sermon that Jesus preached in
today’s Gospel was not altogether in vain,
and it hardly needs to be said that his full
vision was not realized then and has not been
realized yet. But a few people believed his
message and took it to heart. Four of these
were two sets of brothers, named Peter and
Andrew, and James and John. Jesus called
them to follow him and his way of life, and
they accepted the challenge. From that day
January 20, 2012
Third Sunday
in
Ordinary Time
Jonah 3:1-5;
Psalm 25:4-5, 6-7, 8-9;
I Corinthians 7:29-31; Mark 1:14-20
teach me your paths,
Guide me in your truth and teach me,
for you are God my savior.
R. Teach me your ways, O Lord.
Remember that your compassion,
O Lord, and your love are from of old.
In your kindness remember me,
because of your goodness, O Lord.
R. Teach me your ways, O Lord.
Good and upright is the Lord;
thus he shows sinners the way.
He guides the humble to justice and
teaches the humble his way.
R. Teach me your ways, O Lord.
A READING FROM THE FIRST LETTER
OF PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS
1 COR 7:29-31
I tell you, brothers and sisters, the time is
running out. From now on, let those having
Scripture reflection
DEACON FAIVA PO’OI
God’s kingdom is personal
forward, their lives would never be the same.
For them, the kingdom of God became a
reality, not as an ideal society, but as a personal experience. This can be the same for
us. We do not have to wait for a new order
of justice and peace to be established in the
world. Our daily “yes” to God’s call in our
lives becomes a reality that allows us to live
and experience God’s kingdom in our midst.
The sermon that Jesus preached in
today’s Gospel had two parts. The first
was the annunciation: “This is the time of
fulfillment. The reign of God is at hand.”
The second was an exhortation. “Reform
your lives and believe in the good news.”
This calls for a personal response on our
part. We are admonished to be responsible
for our actions and to get ourselves together
believing in the good news of the kingdom.
To truly believe this we must put our faith
into action. We must open our hearts and
minds to Jesus so that he can mold us and
wives act as not having them, those weeping
as not weeping, those rejoicing as not rejoicing, those buying as not owning, those using
the world as not using it fully. For the world
in its present form is passing away.
A READING FROM THE GOSPEL
ACCORDING TO MARK
MK 1:14-20
After John had been arrested, Jesus came
to Galilee proclaiming the gospel of God:
“This is the time of fulfillment. The kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in
the gospel.”As he passed by the Sea of Galilee,
he saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting
their nets into the sea; they were fishermen.
Jesus said to them, “Come after me, and I will
make you fishers of men.” Then they abandoned
their nets and followed him. He walked along a
little farther and saw James, the son of Zebedee,
and his brother John. They too were in a boat
mending their nets. Then he called them. So
they left their father Zebedee in the boat along
with the hired men and followed him.
make us fishers of men. Perhaps, as with
the apostles, we may then experience the
kingdom of God in our lives.
Leo Tolstoy told a story about a young
man who lived in Russia during the days of
the czars. He received a notice to report for
military service, but he refused to go. He was
arrested and carried before a magistrate. The
judge demanded an explanation for this treasonous behavior. The young man explained
that his refusal to fight was based upon the
teaching of Christ. He would not kill any
human being because he was under an order
to love all people, even his enemy. He was
ridiculed by the judge, who said: “That law
was intended for the kingdom of God, which
has never come and probably never will.”
The young man squared his shoulders and
said: “Sir, I am aware that God’s kingdom
may not be a reality for you, or for Russia,
or for the world. But for me, the kingdom
of God has come, and I cannot go on living
as if it has not.”
Jesus said: “The reign of God is at hand.”
Everyone is invited to start living in that
kingdom now.
Deacon Faiva Po’oi serves at
St. Timothy Parish in San Mateo.
Question Corner
Helping the poor; pets in heaven
Question: To our delight, our 13-year-old daughter
reads newspapers. Sometimes this prompts her to ask
religious questions, and today’s was a tough one: “The
paper says there is a lot of poverty and that the bishops
are asking Catholics to help the poor. But it also says,
on another page, that a diocese in California wants to
spend $57 million to buy a glass church. With so many
poor people in the country, how can that be right?” Can
you help us to give her an answer? (Turnersville, N.J.)
Question: The Diocese of Orange is buying the
Crystal Cathedral, and this raises a question: Why not
spend the money on the poor? We have some beautiful
cathedrals here in Nebraska, too. They keep them warm
in the winter and cool in the summer, and then they lock
them up at night. Why don’t they let homeless people
sleep in the pews? (Arnold, Neb.)
Answer: The recent purchase by the Catholic Church
of the former Crystal Cathedral has fanned the flames of
a simmering debate; whenever the church buys or builds
a new facility, the perennial biblical question is: “Why
could this money not have been spent on the poor?”
The answer is not a simple one. The church has
multiple goals, the overall one being to put people in
touch with God so that they can live out the Gospel and
progress on the path to heaven.
Certainly, part of the mission is to provide dignified
and inspiring places of worship that can help lift minds
and hearts to God. Just as surely, the church needs to
reach out with compassion to those who are vulnerable
– especially the poor, the sick and the homeless.
That is why Catholic hospitals serve nearly one-sixth
of all patients in America and why Catholic Charities
is America’s largest private provider of services to the
poor, with a network of hundreds of food pantries, soup
kitchens, homeless shelters, etc.
As to the matter of the Crystal Cathedral, those
closest to the situation seem to agree with the recent
USA Today headline that called the church’s purchase a
“sweet deal.” The Diocese of Orange has grown rapidly
and now includes more than 1.2 million Catholics.
To meet expanding needs, the diocese was already
planning to build a new cathedral, as well as administrative offices for its many projects and programs;
It’s safe to say that if in heaven
you need your pets to be happy,
they’ll be right there with you.
the availability of the Crystal Cathedral offered the
opportunity for a ready-made 2,800-seat worship space
as well as 31 acres of property for office space and a
relocated parish school – at a price less than one-third
of what construction costs would have been.
As to opening churches at night to house the homeless, worship spaces are not always ideally suited, and
alternate Catholic facilities might more readily provide
sleeping accommodations, kitchens, showers and bathrooms. But neither a cathedral nor any Catholic church
can ignore the needs of its neighborhood for human
services.
A good example is the Cathedral of the Immaculate
Conception in Wichita, Kan., which last year, during the
worst of the winter’s cold, housed 120 homeless men in
its gymnasium, with evening meals provided by several
parishes throughout the diocese.
Question: Will our
cat and dog be with
me and my family in
heaven? Every day I
say the rosary to ask
God to help me, but
then sometimes I can’t
go to sleep at night
worrying about what
Father
will happen to our pets
Kenneth Doyle
when they die. I have
no one to talk to but
you, so I’m hoping you
can answer me. (Flemington, N.J.)
Answer: I suppose the traditional philosophical position would be that only human beings have immortal
souls. On the other hand, the revered British author C.S.
Lewis once said that, since the loyalty of pets often
exceeds human fidelity, dogs and cats may well find
their way to heaven with their masters.
Left to a plebiscite, the vote is split. A few years
back, ABC News did a poll and found that 43 percent
of Americans think that dogs and cats go to heaven (that
figure goes up to 47 percent among pet owners), 40
percent said no, and the rest were reserving judgment.
The most honest answer is that we do not know.
What our faith does tell us, though, is that the joys of
heaven are beyond compare, beyond our poor power
even to imagine them. So, it’s safe to say that if in
heaven you need your pets to be happy, they’ll be right
there
‘ with you.
Father Doyle’s column is carried by Catholic News
Service. Send questions to askfatherdoyle@gmail.
com and 40 Hopewell St., Albany, N.Y. 12208.
January 20, 2012
Catholic San Francisco
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Guest Commentary
Theologians, defenders of faith, prominent
among recently named bishops worldwide
By Sandro Magister
ROME – Rounding the turn of his first year as prefect of the
congregation for bishops, Cardinal Marc Ouellet of Quebec has
surveyed the course in an interview for Avvenire, the newspaper
owned by the Italian episcopal conference.
In the Nov. 18 interview, he revealed among other things that it
often happens, “more than I could have expected,” that the candidate chosen to be made a bishop does not accept the appointment.
He indicated the reasons for such refusals in the growing difficulty of fulfilling the role, in a society in which the bishops are
under public attack, “in part as a result of the scandals and charges
concerning sexual abuse.”
As for career ambitions, the cardinal cautioned that if a priest
or a bishop aspires and maneuvers to be promoted to a prominent
diocese, “it is better for him to stay where he is.”
He concluded the interview by sketching the profile of the
bishop the church needs most today:
“Today, especially in the context of our secularized societies,
we need bishops who are the first evangelizers, and not mere
administrators of dioceses, who are capable of proclaiming the
Gospel, who are not only theologically faithful to the magisterium
and the pope but are also capable of expounding and, if need be,
of defending the faith publicly.”
This profile of the bishop as theologian and “defensor fidei”
fits Cardinal Ouellet himself perfectly.
A Canadian from Quebec, 67, a member of the Society of
St. Sulpice, Ouellet was part of the circle of the international
theology journal Communio, founded by, among others, Joseph
Ratzinger and Hans Urs von Balthasar, who were his intellectual mentors.
In Quebec, he witnessed one of the most dizzying collapses of
Catholicism in the past century. This region, which had a strong
Catholic character until the middle of the 20th century, is today one
of the most secularized in the world. As an archbishop, he fought
energetically to give a voice and a body back to Christianity in his
land. Pope Benedict XVI appreciated this so much that he called
him to Rome first as a speaker at the synod of bishops in 2008,
and then, since 2010, as prefect of the congregation for bishops.
Among the cardinals of the Roman Curia, Ouellet is the closest to Pope Benedict XVI, with whom he meets regularly, once
a week. And he may be the only one in whom the pope confides
without reservation.
Since Ouellet has presided over the Vatican congregation that
selects and proposes new bishops to the pope, the preference shown
for theologians and defenders of the faith has been more and more
evident. Over the past five months alone, at least 12 appointments
could be characterized this way.
1. Cardinal Angelo Scola, archbishop of Milan
As a theologian, his mentor was above all von Balthasar;
but Ratzinger also had no small impact on his formation. His
talent was and is that of making himself heard, more than
in the halls of academia, in the public square. After Carla
Maria Martini, Scola is the cardinal to whom the secular
media pay the most attention. He speaks and writes in full
harmony with the magisterium of Pope Benedict XVI.
2. Charles J. Chaput, archbishop of Philadelphia
Chaput has never been a theologian in the specific sense
of the word. But he is certainly a great apologist, capable of
preaching the Gospel from the rooftops, without timidity and
without compromise, in a society where the competition is
particularly fierce both within and against the religious sphere.
Cardinal Angelo Scola
of Milan
Philadelphia Archbishop
Charles J. Chaput
Manila Archbishop
Luis Antonio Tagle
Archbishop Charles J.
Brown, apostolic nuncio
to Ireland
3. Ivo Muser, bishop of Bolzano and Bressanone
He studied theology in Innsbruck, and in Rome at the
Pontifical Gregorian University. He taught at the Academic
Theological Institute of Bressanone. He was also for several
years the secretary of his predecessor as bishop, Wilhelm
Egger, a theologian and renowned biblicist in his own right.
4. Stanislaw Budzik, archbishop of Lublin
He has been secretary general of the Polish episcopal
conference and also studied theology in Innsbruck, where he
acquired the title of professor at the Pontifical Theological
Academy of Krakow.
5. Nuno Bras da Silva Martins, auxiliary bishop of Lisbon
He received his doctorate in theology at the Pontifical
Gregorian University and taught fundamental theology at the
Catholic University of Portugal as well as at the Gregorian in
Rome, where he was also rector of the Pontifical Portuguese
College.
6. Luis Antonio Tagle, archbishop of Manila
He received his doctorate in theology at The Catholic
University of America in Washington, D.C., with a thesis on
episcopal collegiality. In 2001, he became bishop of Imus,
where he distinguished himself by his nearness to the poor and
his simple and charitable way of life. At the episcopal conference of the Philippines, he is president of the commission for
the doctrine of the faith. Manila is a cardinal see, and there
are some who have even added Tagle to the list of the “papabili” – cardinals considered papal material by Vatican pundits.
7. Charles Morerod, bishop of Lausanne, Geneva
and Fribourg
A Dominican, 50, he is a theologian of world renown. On relations among the religions, he has harshly criticized the relativistic
ideas of the Catholic Paul Knitter and the Anglican John Hick.
He is one of three theologians on the Roman side in the discussions under way between the Church of Rome and the schismatic
Lefebvrist traditionalists of the Fraternity of Saint Pius X.
Is it hard to find a bishop
for the Catholic Church?
The church has an established practice of consultation for the appointment of bishops.
To make this choice you listen to the views of a list of people that can vary from situation
to situation but that usually includes a grid of figures. This survey provides enough data
to rule out some candidates and propose and accept others. In some cases you have to
wait and investigate further. Overall it is a serious process, usually well done.
– Cardinal Marc Ouellet of Quebec, prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for
Bishops, interviewed by Gianni Cardinale for a Nov. 18, 2011, article in Avvenire,
the newspaper of the Italian episcopal conference.
Cardinal Marc Ouellet
of Quebec
8. Francesco Cavina, as bishop of Carpi
A doctor in canon law, he had been an official of the
Vatican secretariat of state since 1996, in the section for
relations with states. At the same time, he taught sacramental
theology at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross.
9. Filippo Santoro, archbishop of Taranto
As a young priest, he began as director of the Higher
Institute of Theology in Bari. After which he went on mission
to Brazil, as the Communion and Liberation director for that
country and for the entire Latin American continent. In 1992,
he participated as a theologian in the fourth conference of the
Latin American episcopate in Santo Domingo. Ordained a
bishop in 1996, he served as a member of the commission for
the doctrine of the faith at the Brazilian episcopal conference.
10. Franco Giulio Brambilla, bishop of Novara
An auxiliary bishop of Milan since 2007and the vicar for
culture, he is one of the most accomplished Italian theologians.
11. Johannes Wilhelmus Maria Liesen, bishop of
Breda, in Holland
He was a professor of biblical theology and has been a
member of the international theological commission since
2004.
12. Charles J. Brown, titular archbishop of Aquileia
Aquileia, which as a diocese lives only in historical
memory, is not where the newly elect is going. His true
destination is the apostolic nunciature in Ireland. Brown
has never been part of the Vatican diplomatic corps, and
is an American from New York, but the pope wanted him
specifically as his ambassador in a nation rocked by scandals.
Ireland, with seven vacant dioceses, is awaiting a redesign
and a new beginning with new men.
Rome-based journalist and author Sandro Magister
is the creator of the website http://chiesa.espresso.
repubblica.it, where this article first appeared.
He studied theology, philosophy and history at
the Theological Faculty of Milan and at the
Catholic University of the Sacred Heart.
Two US cardinals, 20 other bishops could retire for age reasons in 2012
By Nancy Frazier O’Brien
WASHINGTON (CNS) – Two U.S. cardinals and 20 other
U.S. bishops could retire because of age this year.
There are eight active U.S. bishops, including a cardinal, who
have already turned 75. Another cardinal and 13 other bishops
will celebrate their 75th birthday in 2012.
At age 75, bishops are required by canon law to submit their
resignation to the pope.
With the retirements in 2011 of Cardinals Bernard F. Law,
Justin Rigali and Roger M. Mahony and the death of Cardinal
John P. Foley, Cardinal William J. Levada, prefect of the Vatican
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, was the only U.S.
cardinal still active over age 75 at the start of the year.
The former archbishop of San Francisco and Portland, Ore.,
and former auxiliary bishop of Los Angeles turned 75 on June
15, 2011, but is expected to remain in the Vatican post until
Pope Benedict XVI names his successor. He took the job at the
Vatican in 2005 and became a cardinal in 2006.
Turning 75 on Jan. 16, 2012, is Cardinal Francis E. George,
who has served as archbishop of Chicago since 1997 and was
named a cardinal in 1998. He previously served as archbishop
of Portland and bishop of Yakima, Wash.
Pope Benedict often has asked cardinals to stay on the job
after they reached the age of 75. Even when a cardinal retires in
his 70s, he remains an active member of the College of Cardinals,
eligible to enter a conclave and vote for a new pope, until age 80.
In addition to Cardinal Levada, the seven other active U.S.
bishops who are already 75 and the dates of their 75th birthday are:
– Bishop Fabian W. Bruskewitz of Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 6, 2010.
– Bishop Thomas G. Doran of Rockford, Ill., Feb. 20, 2011.
– Bishop Edward U. Kmiec of Buffalo, N.Y., June 4, 2011.
– Archbishop George Niederauer of San Francisco, June
14, 2011.
– Bishop Donald W. Trautman of Erie, Pa., June 24, 2011.
– Bishop Ricardo Ramirez of Las Cruces, N.M., Sept. 12, 2011.
– Bishop Tod D. Brown of Orange, Nov. 15, 2011.
In addition to Cardinal George, the 13 bishops turning 75 in
2012 and the dates of their 75th birthday are:
– Archbishop John G. Vlazny of Portland, Feb. 22.
– Auxiliary Bishop Roger W. Gries of Cleveland, March 26.
– Bishop Michael D. Pfeifer of San Angelo, Texas, May 18.
– Bishop Walter A. Hurley of Grand Rapids, Mich., May 30.
– Bishop Robert J. Shaheen of the Maronite Eparchy of Our
Lady of Lebanon, June 3.
– Bishop John F. Kinney of St. Cloud, Minn., June 11.
– Bishop Matthew H. Clark of Rochester, N.Y., July 15.
– Auxiliary Bishop Paul H. Walsh of Rockville Centre, N.Y.,
Aug. 17.
– Bishop Ibrahim N. Ibrahim of the Chaldean Eparchy of St.
Thomas the Apostle, Oct. 1.
– Archbishop Henry J. Mansell of Hartford, Conn., Oct. 10.
– Bishop Joseph N. Latino of Jackson, Miss., Oct. 21.
– Auxiliary Bishop John C. Dunne of Rockville Centre,
Oct. 30.
– Bishop Timothy A. McDonnell of Springfield, Mass.,
Dec. 23.
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Catholic San Francisco
January 20, 2012
Intellect and Virtue
(CNS PHOTO/MARC PISCOTTY, REUTERS)
Where have all
the heroes gone?
By John Garvey
Tim Tebow is living a life that most young boys
only dream about. He played football for four years at
the University of Florida, winning a Heisman Trophy
his sophomore year. He led the Gators to two national
championships. After college, he was drafted by the
Denver Broncos as a backup quarterback.
When Denver began the year 1-4, Tebow became
the starter. He came from behind in his first game (the
score was 15-0 with three minutes left) to beat the
Miami Dolphins.
The home-schooled son of American Baptist missionaries, Tebow was born after a medically difficult
pregnancy. He survived a doctor’s recommendation that
he be aborted.
Today, he is outspokenly pro-life and a devout
Christian. He has a habit of kneeling and praying after his
team wins games. (In pop culture it’s called “Tebowing.”)
When he was a college player, he would write Bible
verses (John 3:16) on his eye black, a practice the NCAA
has since forbidden (the “Tebow Rule”).
In a different era, Tebow would be admired, even
envied. Instead, he is a controversial figure. Some sportscasters criticize him. Some players disdain him. Sports
agents warn that his flamboyant Christianity will cause
him to lose endorsements.
I was tempted to see this as just another example
of how the culture looks down its nose at believing
Christians. But I think that there is a deeper lesson,
though, and a sadder one, in Tebow’s mixed reviews: We
just don’t want to believe in heroes anymore.
Letters . . .
schools as we work with the Spirit to realize
God’s dream for our world.
Ours is a faith of incarnation, meant to
be lived in love right here on earth. What
does that look like in the 21st century?
As Cardinal-designate Timothy Dolan,
president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic
Bishops, said in one of his Advent sermons,
“… An assertive protection of creation has
become a noble and urgent goal for people
everywhere …. We have a moral imperative
to protect the environment ‘out there’ – as
well as ‘in here,’ within our own person.”
Please keep articles on this topic coming. We need the vision and encouragement
to see and live into this dimension of our
faith.
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My father’s generation admired Jesse Owens. My
boyhood idol was Roberto Clemente. They were great
athletes. They were also admirable people, and that was
an important part of the package.
A hero is someone whom you want to be able to
identify with through and through.
This natural human desire for someone to look up
to finds a more sublime outlet in the veneration of the
saints.
When our children were young, I would read the
lives of the saints at breakfast. The accounts were not
always first-rate history. Some veered off into Christian
mythology and romance. They rarely mentioned the
saints’ character flaws, though they certainly had them.
But the stories are no less valuable for all that. The lives
Walk for Life,
march for justice
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Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow prays after
the Broncos defeated the Pittsburgh Steelers in
overtime in the National Football League AFC
wild-card playoff game in Denver Jan. 8.
Abortion is wrong because the golden
rule is right. Do not do unto others what
you would not have them do unto you. It is
a fact that a human fetus is a fetal human,
a human being.
In my opinion, the most forceful visible efforts to try and stop the destruction
of God’s precious infants in the womb are
the walks for life both East and West. The
abortion industry advocates and promotes
the inhuman practice of killing the unborn
child with successful results.
The Roe v. Wade massacre is at hand.
They are slaughtering human beings, made
in the image of God, in the womb. The only
thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for
good men to do nothing.
Roy Petri
Sonoma
Rep. Jackie Speier has always supported
abortion. Her statement: “Abortion should
always be legally available.” NARAL ProChoice America has given Jackie Speier a 100
percent rating because she has always supported
the choice of abortion for any reason in her voting record supporting abortion legislation. Also,
Planned Parenthood has given her a 100 percent
on all pro-abortion issues. Such compassion
for the innocent unborn condemned to death
by her stance on abortion – particularly by one
who claims to be Catholic. The problem with
J.S. is that she does not listen to the “unborn.”
Nello Joseph Prato
San Francisco
Questionable
Catholicity
Regarding the letters from Ms.
Wisecarver and Dr. Flynn (Jan. 13), how can
one in good conscience refer to Ms. Jackie
Speier as “a true member of the church” and
as a beacon of compassion and solidarity?
I emailed the then-frosh congresswoman
pleading with her to vote nay on HR 1964,
the “Freedom of Choice Act,” and her
response stressed her support of reproductive
rights – including late-term abortions, more
sex education and contraceptive measures.
She wrote trumpeting HR 1964 because it
“…would codify the rights guaranteed to
women under the Constitution by Roe v.
Wade for the first time.” Like Dr. Flynn, I
too “… am sure the Holy Spirit celebrates
when sinners promote the corporal works
of mercy.” However, Ms. Speier may want
to read and then live the Gospel of life by
Blessed John Paul II. I pray then, with the
grace of God, she may be a true light for
her colleagues in Congress, and promote the
general welfare of all – including the unborn.
Christian Clifford
San Mateo
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of the saints are, as Christopher Dawson observed, an
expression of our spiritual ideals.
There is a risk in equating sports stars with saints.
Most of them, like most of us, won’t bear close scrutiny.
Think about Tiger Woods, someone I used to admire
until the details of his extramarital escapades came out.
The press seems to revel in exposing the tawdry
side of celebrities. The very word “hagiography” (literally “writing about saints”) has a negative connotation.
It refers to unduly flattering, even sycophantic, media
coverage of public figures. The implication is, that’s
something we shouldn’t do.
I think that the explanation for all of this is that we
no longer share a common conviction about what counts
as a good life.
It’s hard to be a hero in this kind of culture.
In this world, the only moral quality that we can
insist on is a thin sort of integrity, a requirement that we
own up to who we really are.
And the only moral failing that we can accuse someone of is hypocrisy – hence the Tiger Woods scandal. His
unforgivable sin was not adultery; it was that he presented
himself (or at least his sponsors did) as a family man who
liked to kick back with his beautiful wife and kids after
winning the U.S. Open on a bad knee. But he wasn’t.
And, in this world, the media play the watchdog
role of holding people to the only moral standard that
still counts. They root out hypocrisy wherever it occurs.
Woe betide Tim Tebow if he harbors some secret
vice or took a false step while he was winning those
championships at Florida.
I find it all kind of sad. Boys and girls need heroes.
It would be great if they picked saints, but there is no
harm in admiring athletes, too, if those athletes live
virtuous lives.
And if it turns out that they have feet of clay, let’s
not give up on the idea that we really can, with God’s
grace, live lives that are worth celebrating.
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Catholic San Francisco
January 20, 2012
Spiritual practices get a fresh look, even for 19th-century saint
“FLUNKING SAINTHOOD: A YEAR OF
BREAKING THE SABBATH, FORGETTING TO PRAY,
AND STILL LOVING MY NEIGHBOR” by Jana Riess.
Paraclete Press (Orleans, Mass., 2011). 179 pp., $16.99.
“SHIRT OF FLAME: A YEAR WITH SAINT
THERESE OF LISIEUX” by Heather King. Paraclete
Press (Orleans, Mass., 2011). 160 pp., $16.99.
Reviewed by Mitch Finley
(CNS) Too often, “spiritual exercises” and formal prayer
practices end up going by the wayside for one reason: We
expect them to have effects they don’t have, so we give up on
them. Jana Riess found this out from firsthand personal experience, and that’s what she wrote about in “Flunking Sainthood,”
which is a literary breath of fresh spiritual oxygen.
One month at a time, for a full year, Riess took a running
jump at fasting, looking for the sacred in the kitchen, “lectio
divina,” giving up shopping as a form of entertainment, centering prayer/the Jesus prayer, observing the Sabbath, being
thankful, Benedictine spirituality, vegetarianism, practicing
generosity – and she was a flop at every one of them. But,
she concludes, there are important lessons to be learned from
trying each one, from not giving up or giving in, and that’s
what this book is all about.
“Flunking Sainthood” is easy to read; the pages almost turn
themselves. At the same time, nearly every chapter whistles
up the possibility that you, the reader, can be better than you
are; whispers to your heart that you’re not nearly as much of a
spiritual wimp as you think you are. “I may have spent a year
flunking sainthood,” Riess declares, “but along the way I’ve
had unexpected epiphanies and wild glimpses of the holy I
would never have experienced without these crazy practices.”
St. Therese of Lisieux, she of a late 19th-century Carmelite
monastery in France, was the “little flower” known for her
famous “little way.” In recent decades, fortunately, she has been
liberated from the sappy spiritual sentimentality to which she
was relegated for so long after she became, you know, famous.
Heather King wrote a great autobiographical book, largely
about her journey to Catholicism, titled “Redeemed.” In “Shirt
of Flame” – an image from T.S. Eliot’s “Four Quartets” – King
completely knocks the patina of false piety off Therese and
gives us back the rock-solid spiritual wisdom and theology this
unconventional nun lived and wrote about, which is the real
reason she was named a doctor of the church.
In “Shirt of Flame,” for each month of the year King gives
us a fine, insightful reflection on the young saint – she died at
age 24 – and her writings. Each one concludes with a prayer
written by King that is invariably honest, hopeful, and – if you
read between the lines – not without gentle humor. Along the
way, she quotes others including, from one of Therese’s fellow
nuns, words to be pondered and pondered: “I would never have
suspected her sanctity.”
“Shirt of Flame” will wake you up spiritually and put you
back on the right path, and you’ll be very glad it did. Read
it. No excuses.
Finley is the author of more than
30 books on Catholic themes.
Authors inspire, teach, motivate with stories of saints and heroes
“A DANGEROUS DOZEN: 12 CHRISTIANS WHO
THREATENED THE STATUS QUO BUT TAUGHT
US TO LIVE LIKE JESUS” by the Rev. C.K.
Robertson. SkyLight Paths Publishing (Woodstock,
Vt., 2011). 171 pp., $16.99.
“TEN AFRICAN HEROES: THE SWEEP OF
INDEPENDENCE IN BLACK AFRICA” by
Thomas Melady and Margaret Melady. Orbis Books
(Maryknoll, N.Y., 2011). 205 pp., $25.
Reviewed by Regina Lordan
(CNS) In the face of violence and political instability,
certain brave Christians have answered with a rebellion and
conviction, changing the world forever. Two books highlight
these people who impacted the world throughout history.
In “Ten African Heroes: The Sweep of Independence in
Black Africa,” Thomas Melady and Margaret Melady offer
an insider account about the influence of faith and theology
on African leaders who were the impetus for peaceful revolution from colonization in Africa in the 1960s. The Rev.
C.K. Robertson’s “A Dangerous Dozen: 12 Christians Who
Threatened the Status Quo but Taught Us to Live Like Jesus”
features men and women from early Christianity to modern
history who were a threat against political order and the status
quo, sexism, anti-Semitism and bigotry.
A noted Anglican theologian, Rev. Robertson wrote a
truly interesting book that even offers for the amateur reader
“Mother of all Immigrants”
some unknown information about important Christians and
their rebellious spirit.
For example, St. Francis of Assisi is often viewed as a
peaceful man with birds perched on his shoulder and rabbits
snuggled at his feet. Though he was a friend to the animals,
according to Rev. Robertson, St. Francis’ order of men
evoked anything but an ambivalent response from church
leaders. Living in poverty and preaching among the people,
St. Francis’ followers bordered on the extreme and weird, and
were viewed by some as a threat to the status quo.
Rev. Robertson also wrote about other game-changers:
St. Paul, Dorothy Day, Sojourner Truth and Archbishop
Oscar Romero, to name a few. Rooted in historical research
and reflection, these stories are inspiring, engaging and
educational.
In their book, the Meladys describe in great detail the many
meetings and correspondence they shared with key African
leaders involved in the peaceful independence movements
that swept the continent. Former U.S. ambassador to Burundi,
Uganda and the Vatican, Thomas Melady built relationships
with these leaders by coordinating visits with universities
and other agencies when they traveled to the United States.
A little dry, the book is appropriate for the reader who is
familiar with and interested in African politics and movements. However exclusionary to the common reader, it gives
an interesting insight into the so-called “Arab Spring” protests and reminds the reader that faith and religion cannot be
discounted as a powerful motivator for action, good and bad.
Lordan is former assistant international editor
of Catholic News Service.
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S-COMM (“Secure” Communities) is separating families by
deporting thousands of people each year in California. Join
Archbishop Niederauer, other bishops and parishes from all over
the Bay area to call on Gov. Brown and Attorney General Kamala
Harris to STOP the separation of our families and end S-COMM!
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 20
MILESTONE: The 25th Anniversary of the Interfaith
Memorial Service for Victims of Abortion, 7:30 p.m.
at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary
Boulevard, San Francisco. Featured speakers include
Father William Nicholas, parochial vicar at Mission
Dolores Church, and Mary Ann Schwab, Project
Rachel Coordinator for the San Francisco archdiocese.
Light refreshments will follow in Cathedral Event Halls
B and C. Contact the Interfaith Committee for Life at
(415) 614-5533 or email [email protected].
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SATURDAY, JANUARY 21
LIFE: Walk for Life West Coast is at a different
time this year and takes a different route. Opening
Mass Jan. 21 at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough
Street at Geary Boulevard is at 9:30 a.m. The rally
preceding the walk begins at 12:30 p.m. at San
Francisco’s Civic Center Plaza across from City
Hall. Guest speakers include former abortionist Dr.
Vansen Wong and “Silent No More” representative,
Jacquie Stainaker. An Info Faire at Civic Center Plaza
begins at 11 a.m. The Interfaith Committee for Life
Prayer Service is Jan. 20 at 7:30 p.m. at St. Mary’s
Cathedral. All the event activities are available at
www.walkforlifewc.com. You may also email info@
walkforlifewc.com.
SUNDAY, JANUARY 22
CONCERT: David Troiano, tenor, sings at 3:30
p.m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street and
Geary Boulevard, San Francisco. Free admission.
Visit www.stmarycathedralsf.org.
ARMENIAN MASS: Mass in Armenian at Our
Lady of Angels Friary, 1345 Cortez Ave., Burlingame
at noon.
TUESDAY, JANUARY24
AUDITIONS: Dominican Winifred Baker Chorale,
5:30-6:45 p.m. in Angelico Hall at Dominican
University in San Rafael. Call (415) 482-3579 for
appointment. Auditions required for new members.
Singers are expected to match pitch readily, have
some music reading skill and choral singing experience. Visit www.duwbc.org.
SATURDAY, JAN. 28
BATTER UP: Ben Legere Memorial Scholarship
fundraiser at St. Brendan Hall, 29 Rockaway Ave.
at Ulloa Street, San Francisco, 6:30-10 p.m. Tickets
begin at $60 per person. Event is sponsored by the
San Francisco Parish and School Baseball League.
Contact Jeff John at [email protected].
CIOPPINO: SHCP Annual Cioppino Dinner
Experience at Pier 1055. Proceeds benefit Sacred
Heart Cathedral Prep students. All family and friends
of SHCP are welcome! Visit shcp.edu/Cioppino.
CATHOLIC SCHOOLERS: San Francisco Catholic
Alumni Club meets at 5:30 p.m. at Tommy’s Joynt,
1101 Van Ness at Geary, San Francisco For discounted validated parking, use parking garage
for the AMC 14 Van Ness Theater, entrance is on
O’Farrell Street between Van Ness and Polk. Contact
Kevin Mullaney, (415) 664-9375 or Jennie Lee at
[email protected].
SUNDAY, JANUARY 29
REUNION: St. Cecilia School Alumni Mass and
reception, 18th Avenue and Vicente, San Francisco.
Contact the alumni office at (415) 753-3917 or email
[email protected].
TUESDAY, JANUARY 31
AUDITIONS: Dominican Winifred Baker Chorale,
5:30-6:45 p.m. in Angelico Hall at Dominican
University in San Rafael. Call (415) 482-3579 for
EXHIBIT: National touring exhibit of Women
and Spirit: Catholic Sisters in America Jan.
24-June 3 at The California Museum at 1020 O
St., Sacramento. Already seen in Washington
at the Smithsonian Institution, the exhibit
features a handwritten letter from President
Thomas Jefferson and a replica of a prototype
of the first incubator developed by a religious
sister. Visit www.womenandspirit.org.
Paulist Father Terry Ryan
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, ST. PAUL:
St. Paul the Apostle, a talk with Paulist Father
Terry Ryan at Old St. Mary’s Paulist Center,
614 Grant Ave. at California Street, San Francisco
from 9 a.m.-noon. Hear how the saint “prone
to violence toward Christians” had a “direct
encounter with truth” and “fell in love with Christ.”
Admission is free but freewill donations
are welcome. Call (415) 288-3844.
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St. Peter, Pacifica: Call (650) 359-6313
St. Pius, Redwood City: Call (650) 361-0655
St. Robert, San Bruno: Call (650) 589-0104.
St. Anselm, Ross: Call (415) 454-7650
St. Anthony, Novato: Call (415) 883-2177
St. Hilary, Tiburon: Call (415) 388-9651
Our Lady of Loretto, Novato: Call (415) 8972171
St. Gabriel: Call (415) 731-6161
St. Mary’s Cathedral: Call (415) 567-2020
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St. Dominic: Call (415) 567-7824
Young Widow/Widower Group: Call (415)
614-5506.
Parents: Call Ina Potter (650) 347-6971 or
Barbara Arena (650) 344-3579.
VOLUNTEER:
appointment. Auditions required for new members.
Singers are expected to match pitch readily, have
some music reading skill and choral singing experience. Visit www.duwbc.org.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2
Women’s business luncheon sponsored by
Immaculate Conception Academy takes place
11:30 a.m. at the City Club in San Francisco. Betsy
Rafael, vice president at Apple is guest speaker.
Carol Squires Brandi, an ICA board member, is
emcee. Tickets are $65 per person with tickets for
“young professionals under 30” at $45. Visit icaluncheon2012.eventbrite.com.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4
ST. PAUL: St. Paul the Apostle, a talk with Paulist
Father Terry Ryan at Old St. Mary’s Paulist Center,
614 Grant Ave. at California Street, San Francisco
from 9 a.m.-noon. Hear how the saint “prone to
violence toward Christians” had a “direct encounter
with truth” and “fell in love with Christ.” Admission
is free but freewill donations are welcome. Call (415)
288-3844.
COME AND SEE. The Dominican Sisters of San
Rafael invite women from 20-40 years of age and
interested in exploring a vocation in religious life to
join in a day of sharing and prayer. Lunch is provided.
Contact Nan Brenzel, vocations promoter at (415)
257-4939 or email [email protected].
LITURGY: Mass at 11 a.m. in Holy Cross
Cemetery’s All Saints Mausoleum chapel, 1500
Old Mission Road, Colma. Call (650) 756-2060
or visit www.holycrosscemeteries.com.
ROSARY: A pro-life rosary is prayed at 9 a.m.
on the sidewalk in front of Planned Parenthood, 35
Baywood Ave., San Mateo. Event is sponsored by
San Mateo Pro-life.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6
AUTOGRAPH PLEASE: Jesuit Father James
Martin introduces his new book “Between Heaven
and Mirth” at University of San Francisco’s McLaren
Conference Center 4-6 p.m. Call (415) 422-4463 or
visit http://tinyurl.com/7t9agch.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11
PROUD TRADITION: Valentine Fantasy, a
Turrisburnea Club lunch at City Forest Lodge, San
Francisco. Tickets are $55 per person. Proceeds
benefit San Francisco charities including Project
Rachel. Father Dan Carter, pastor, Our Lady of
Lourdes Parish is chaplain. Former chaplains include
Msgr. John Foudy and the late Father James Atkins.
Call Shirley Terry at (415) 682-9617.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18
PLAY BALL! A St. Agnes Parish, San Francisco
fundraiser, 6 p.m. at St. Ignatius College Preparatory,
San Francisco. Theme is baseball so wear your
favorite team’s attire. Tickets: $40 for adults, $20
for children 12 and under. Come and enjoy a fun
night with some of San Francisco’s finest gourmet
food trucks, live music and dancing. Tickets are now
being sold in the back of church after Mass. Call
(415) 487-8560 or email [email protected].
GIVE YOUR MARRIAGE
SOLID FOUNDATION
CATHOLIC
ENGAGED
ENCOUNTER
We are committed to providing weekend retreats
for couples preparing for the sacrament
of marriage. Give your marriage a solid
foundation by attending one of our weekends.
For more information and dates,
please visit our website
at www.sfcee.org
Scholarships Available
E-mail us at: [email protected]
VISIT ME: Attend two-day training in preparation
for visiting youth in jail. The ministry is Comunidad
San Dimas and their “One Youth at a Time:
Responsibility, Rehabilitation, Restoration” program.
Contact Julio Escobar at (415) 244-5594 or email
[email protected] or visit www.comunidadsandimas.org. Applicants should be 18 years
of age or older. Interview required before attending
the training. Visiting is with youth 11-18 years old.
Monthly meetings are mandatory. Spanish-speakers
especially welcome.
FRIDAY, MARCH 2
FACE TO FACE: Marriage Encounter Weekend to
be held in San Mateo. Call Paul or Yvonne at (650)
366-7093 or visit www.wwme12.org.
SATURDAY, MARCH 10
SOLD! Belmont to Broadway Auction and Show
benefiting Notre Dame High School, Belmont at the
Foster City Crowne Plaza Hotel. For ticket, sponsorship, or volunteer opportunities contact Denise Severi
at (650)595-1913 ext. 446 or [email protected].
SATURDAY, JUNE 9
ALUMNAE DAY: Notre Dame High School Legacy
Luncheon at Notre Dame High School, 1540 Ralston
Ave., Belmont, Invitations will be mailed in late April.
Contact Denise Severi at [email protected]. Reunions
for class of ’87, Aug. 5, contact Heather Oda at moda@
co.sanmateo.ca.us; class of ’67 Oct. 27, contact Susan
Angle at [email protected] or (925) 680-4917.
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23
REUNION: Class of 1972, Notre Dame High
School, Belmont. Save the date. Contact Notre Dame
alumnae office at (650) 595 1913 ext. 446 or email
[email protected] or [email protected].
ONGOING SERVICES
DIVORCED AND SEPARATED
INFORMATION: Contact Jesuit Father Al Grosskopf
at [email protected] or (415) 422-6698.
GROUP HELP: Separated and divorced Catholics,
St. Bartholomew Parish, 600 Columbia Drive, San
Mateo, on second and fourth Tuesdays, at 7 p.m.,
in the spirituality center; and in O’Reilly Hall of St.
Stephen Parish near Stonestown, San Francisco, on
the first and third Wednesdays, at 7:30 p.m. Call (415)
422-6698, or (650) 347-0701 for more information.
Catholic Adult Singles Association of Marin
County: Call Bob at (415) 897-0639.
COUPLES: Retrouvaille (pronounced retro-vi), a
Catholic program for couples at all stages of disillusionment in their marriage. Call (415) 893-1005 or
email [email protected] or visit www.Retrouvaille.
org or www.retroCA.com.
CONSOLATION MINISTRY:
Good Shepherd, Pacifica: Call (650) 355-2593
Our Lady of Mercy, Daly City: Call (650) 755-2727
Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Redwood City: Call
(650) 366-3802
NO COST
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REFINANCE NOW!!!
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A Marriage is a Lifetime.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25
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1528 S. El Camino Real
Suite 307
San Mateo, CA 94402
650-212-5050
Real Estate Broker,
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- Apartment Buildings (5 to 200 unit plus)
- Mixed Use
- Office Buildings
- Warehouses
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- SFR, 1-4 Units
KARA FIORE
Loan Consultant
DRE#00977921
MNLS#241552
415.999.1234
[email protected]
Catholic Charities CYO: Liz Rodriguez at
[email protected] or (415) 972-1297. St.
Vincent de Paul Society of San Francisco: Tim
Szarnicki at [email protected] or (415) 9771270 ext. 3010.
St. Anthony Foundation: Marie O’Connor at
(415) 592-2726 or visit www.stanthonysf.org
The Society of St. Vincent de Paul of San Mateo
County: Atrecia at (650) 373-0623 or email [email protected].
Handicapables: Jane at (415) 585-9085.
La Porziuncola Nuova at National Shrine of
St. Francis of Assisi: Contact Jim Brunsmann
at [email protected] or go to www.
knightsofsaintfrancis.com.
YOUNG ADULTS
RETREAT: The Dominican Sisters of Mission
San Jose have announced retreats for young adult
women and men. Visit www.msjdominicans.org or
call (510) 933-6335 or (510) 657-2468. You may also
email [email protected] or vocations@
msjdominicans.org.
VOCATIONS
DISCERNMENT: A monthly discernment group for
single, Catholic women ages 18-40 from 10 a.m.-2
p.m. with the Mission San Jose Dominican Sisters.
Day includes group discussion and reflection on
your vocation, and Eucharist and lunch with the
sisters at their motherhouse, 43326 Mission Blvd.
entrance on Mission Tierra Place in Fremont. Email
[email protected] with questions or for
more information.
MEDIA
TV/RADIO: Fridays, 9 a.m.: The Archbishop’s
Hour on Immaculate Heart Radio, KSFB - 1260
AM, San Francisco. Enjoy news, conversation and in-depth look at local and larger
church. Program is rerun Friday at 9 p.m. and
Sunday at 11 a.m. Email info@sfarchdiocese.
org with comments and questions about faith.
Sunday, 6 a.m.: KOFY Channel 20/Cable 13
and KTSF Channel 26/Cable 8: TV Mass with
Msgr. Harry Schlitt presiding.
First Sunday, 5 a.m.: CBS Channel 5: “Mosaic,”
featuring conversations on current Catholic
issues.
EWTN Catholic television: Comcast Channel
229, AT&T Channel 562, Astound Channel 80,
San Bruno Cable Channel 143, DISH Satellite
Channel 261, Direct TV Channel 370. For programming details, visit www.ewtn.com.
CONTACT US: Datebook is a free service for parishes, agencies and institutions to publicize events. Copy deadline
is noon Friday before requested issue
date. Our next issue is Jan. 20. Send
item including who, what, where, when,
cost and contact information to burket@
sfarchdiocese.org or Datebook, One
Peter Yorke Way, SF 94109.
Shrine of St. Jude Thaddeus
Our Lady of Lourdes
Novena
Feb. 3 – 11, 2012
Masses:
Mon–Sat: 8 am & 5:30 pm;
Sun: 11:30 am
(Masses preceded by the
Rosary; blessing with the relic
of St. Jude on weekdays.)
Walk & Retreat for Healing
Sat, Feb. 4; begins @ 10 am
Fr. John Marie Bingham, O.P.
Novena Preacher
Novena in St. Dominic’s Church
2390 Bush Street, SF, CA 94115
Ample
Parking
Send petitions to: Shrine of St. Jude Thaddeus
Fr. Allen Duston, O.P.
P.O. Box 15368, San Francisco, CA 94115-0368
www.stjude-shrine.org (415) 931-5919
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Catholic San Francisco
January 20, 2012
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➤ Demolition
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➤ Garbage Runs
➤ Saturday & Sunday
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LAST-MINUTE
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[email protected]
Remodels, Additions,
Paint,Windows,
Dryrot, Stucco
415.279.1266
Lic. #582766 415.566.8646
[email protected]
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Baths
Foundations, Stairs, Dry Rot
Replacement Windows ➮ Kitchen Remodeling
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SUPPLE SENIOR CARE
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Lic. # 376353
Lifetime Warranty on All Doors + Motors
Residential
Commercial
Roofing
Lic. 407271
Lic. #918864
Contractor
Ca. Lic 391053
General Contractor Since 1980
(650) 355-4926
FINE WOOD WORKING SINCE 1978
415.454.2719
Contact: 415.447.8463
(415) 786-0121 • (650) 871-9227
Painting &
Remodeling
Handy Man
•Interiors •Exteriors
•Kitchens •Baths
Expert interior and exterior painting,
carpentry, demolition, fence (repair,
build), decks, remodeling, roof repair,
gutter (clean/repair), landscaping,
gardening, hauling, moving, welding.
Contractor inspection reports
and pre-purchase consulting
Electrical
All Purpose
ALL
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SERVICE
650.322.9288
Cell (415) 517-5977
(650) 757-1946
NOT A LICENSED CONTRACTOR
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Notary
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YOUR # 1 CHOICE FOR Recessed Lights – Outdoor Lighting
Outlets – Dimmers – Service Upgrades • Trouble Shooting!
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Fences & Decks
Service Changes
Solar Installation
Lighting/Power
Fire Alarm/Data
Green Energy
Fully Licensed • State Certified • Locally
Trained • Experienced • On Call 24/7
Certified Signing Agent
PHONE: 415-846-1922
FAX: 415-702-9272
* Member National Notary Association *
Lic. #742961
Retaining Walls
Stairs • Gates
Dry Rot
Senior & Parishioner Discounts
6 5 0 . 291. 4303
Clinical Gerontologist
Painting
BILL HEFFERON
Eoin Lehane
www.Irishpainting-sf.com
10% Discount: Seniors, Parishioners
Interior-Exterior
wallpaper
hanging & removal
[email protected]
Member of Better Business Bureau
Bonded, Insured – LIC. #819191
Plumbing
HOLLAND
Plumbing Works San Francisco
ALL PLUMBING WORK
PAT HOLLAND
CA LIC #817607
BONDED & INSURED
415-205-1235
Striving to Achieve
Optimum Health & Wellbeing
415.368.8589
Lic.#942181
S.O.S. PAINTING CO.
Call BILL 415.731.8065 • Cell: 415.710.0584
Kathy Faenzi, MA, Clinical Gerontologist
Office: 650.401.6350
Web: www.faenziassociates.com
Irish Painting
PAINTING
INTERIOR, EXTERIOR
All Jobs Large and Small
Family Consultation –Bereavement Support
Painting
Discount
to CSF
Readers
Home Care
Irish Help
At Home
QUALITY HOME CARE
SERVING THE BAY AREA SINCE 1996
415-269-0446
650-738-9295
* Attendants * Companions
• Insured • Bonded
FREE ESTIMATES
Long hrs. - $10, Short hrs. - $18, Live-in - $170
(650) 580-6334 / (925) 330-4760
Counseling
When Life Hurts
It Helps To Talk
• Family
• Work
• Relationships
• Depression • Anxiety • Addictions
Dr. Daniel J. Kugler
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
Over 30 years experience • Reasonable Fees
Confidential • Compassionate • Practical
(415) 921-1619 • Insurance Accepted
1537 Franklin Street • San Francisco, CA 94109
Children reflect the strains of childhood within and outside of the family
Family Systems Therapy
A child may be suffering from:
The bully at school, adolescent adjustment,
A separation /divorce or a new“blended family”
They are withdrawn, angry, acting out,
Failing in school or just sad or too quiet.
The family gathers together to understand, support and heal.
Single parents and couples have their issues. Depression, infidelity,
gambling, substance abuse , often unspoken in the family, take their toll.
Family Systems Therapy has guided families for nearly 50 years.
If you would like to talk over your family issues call for a free phone
consultation.
Lila Caffery, MA, CCHT
Lic # 526818
Senior Discount
www.sospainting.net
We Provide reliable & experienced caregivers
to help seniors in their own home.
*Companionship, Bathing, Alzheimer, Dementia & more.
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Serving San Francisco, Marin & the Peninsula.
John Holtz
GENERAL BUILDING CONTRACTOR
State License #346397
The Irish Rose
Specializing in home health aides,
attendants and companions.
Painting &
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McGUIRE & SONS
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• Loss and grief
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real estate
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Director of Luxury Homes Division
Seniors Real Estate Specialist
Whether you’re buying a new home or selling your current
one, you have to trust your agent. Sue is committed to culSue Schultes,
tivating that trust by serving all of her clients’ real estate
needs: personal, professional, and financial. Sue loves what
Realtor
she does, and part of her passion comes from the belief in
working for the greater good. Active in her parish at St. Agnes, on the Board of
Little Brothers Friends of the Elderly she creates the possibility of a positive
future for all of us. Contact her today.
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God, Queen of Heaven and
earth. I humbly beseech you
from the bottom of my heart
to help me in this need.
Oh Mary, conceived
without sin. Pray for us (3X).
Holy Mary, I place this
cause in your hands (3X).
Say prayers 3 days.
M.P.L.
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. L.M.R.
The Department of Catholic Schools in the
Archdiocese of San Francisco is seeking
elementary principals for the 20122013 school year. Candidates must be
practicing Roman Catholic, possess a
valid teaching credential, a Master’s
degree in educational leadership, an
administrative credential (preferred),
and five years of successful teaching
experience at the elementary level.
Please send resume and a letter
of interest by March 16th, 2012 to:
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Associate Superintendent for
Educational & Professional Leadership
One Peter Yorke Way
San Francisco, California 94109
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Help Wanted
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415.307.0153
Catholic San Francisco
For Sale
San Juan
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A master suite with a jetted tub,
its own deck, a sitting room and
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Juan de Fuca and Cattle Pass are
features of this 3-bedroom, 2 bath
unique home on 2.1 acres on Lopez Island. Very private, yet close
to island airport and golf course.
Two-car garage. Stone fireplace.
Walk to beach. $449,000 – $65,000
under county assessed value.
E-mail Dan at
[email protected]
for more info and/or photos.
(360) 299-0506
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for Rent
Large, attractively furnished
room for rent, $800/mo.,
Westlake district, Daly City.
Includes utilities, access to
kitchen/laundry facilities.
Prefer mature business
woman. Non-smoker. One
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two indoor/outdoor cats.
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cookbooks
Holy Cross
Catholic Cemetery
125th Anniversary
Cookbook of Memories
As food has always been a comfort
to families who have experienced
a loss, it seems only fitting that
Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery
would create a cookbook in honor of its 125th Anniversary. We
would like to create a cookbook
of memories – special recipes of
your loved ones who are interred
in Holy Cross. If your Grandmother, Mom, Dad or Great Uncle
Sam made a special dish and is interred in Holy Cross, we hope that
you will share that favorite recipe.
You may forward your recipe to
the attention of Christine Stinson
by email [email protected], by mail to Holy
Cross Cemetery, P.O. Box 1577,
Colma, CA 94014 or drop it off at
our office or All Saints Mausoleum on weekends. Please include
your loved one’s name, date of
burial and grave location with the
recipe. Also, please include your
name and contact information.
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Catholic San Francisco
Celebrating
January 20, 2012
125 years of service to the people of the Archdiocese of San Francisco.
Since 1887, Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery in Colma has been performing the corporal and spiritual works
of mercy: to bury the dead and to pray for both the living & the dead. Join us this year as we tell our story and
the stories of the hundreds of thousands of lives commemorated here. This is your Catholic Cemetery.
Special Events - 2012
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St. Anthony Cemetery
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Mt. Olivet Catholic Cemetery
Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery, Menlo Park
Tomales Catholic Cemetery
1500 Mission Road | Colma, California 94014 | 650-756-2060 | www.holycrosscemeteries.com