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Wildfires bring
devastation,
death, worry
Catholic
san Francisco
Northern California’s Weekly Catholic Newspaper
(CNS PHOTO/ROD SEWARD, REUTERS)
By R. W. Dellinger and Paula Doyle
Special Report from The Tidings
Flames from a wild fire are seen above La Canada, a dozen miles northeast of downtown
Los Angeles. Wildfires in the foothills of Los Angeles roared out of control this week, destroying
homes, forcing tens of thousands to evacuate, and claiming the lives of two firefighters.
Vatican denies rollback of Vatican II
VATICAN CITY (CNS) – The Vatican secretary of
state, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, has dismissed fears that
Pope Benedict XVI plans to roll back major ecclesial
changes introduced by the Second Vatican Council.
On the contrary, the German pontiff has demonstrated
his commitment to the council during his more than
four years as pope, Cardinal Bertone told the Vatican
newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano.
In the wake of recent reports about a planned move
to reverse liturgical changes made since Vatican II,
Cardinal Bertone said reporters and observers should
stick to the actual actions undertaken by the pope since
his election.
Cardinal Bertone pointed to several areas in which he
said Pope Benedict had promoted the teaching of Vatican
II “with intelligence and depth of thought,” including
relations with Eastern and Orthodox churches and dialogue with Judaism and Islam. He said the pope has also
favored an increasingly direct and fraternal relationship
with the world’s bishops, as evidenced during their “ad
limina” visits to the Vatican and in the freer discussions
during synods of bishops.
For Father Richard Krekelberg, pastor of St. Rita Church
in Sierra Madre, 20 miles northeast of Los Angeles, the
Station Fire that destroyed more than 50 homes, threatened
12,000 more and led to two firefighters’ death was a painful reminder.
A wild conflagration in April 2008 raced across ridges
and down canyons to the very last foothill before the cozy
town and St. Rita’s on Baldwin Avenue.
“Well, this fire has been a real close parallel for
me,” he told The Tidings. “Back then we had to cancel
Confirmation, although this time we didn’t have to close
anything. You want to be responsible, and yet you want to
be a place where your parishioners and others in the community might be able to come for safe haven.”
Father Krekelberg said the “regulars” have still been
showing up for the 8 a.m. daily Mass he celebrates, but a
number of elderly parishioners complained about how it
was hard to breathe.
As of midday Sept. 1, the Station Fire — the largest of the
half-dozen major fires in Southern California — had burned
more than 122,000 acres in the Angeles National Forest and
was only 5 percent contained along a fire line stretching 30
miles manned by nearly 7,000 firefighters from La Crescenta
to Acton. It has destroyed 53 homes and structures.
Most tragically, the fuel-driven unpredictable fire
claimed the lives of two Los Angeles County fire-fighters:
Capt. Tedmund “Ted” Hall, 47, and Firefighter Specialist
Arnaldo “Arnie” Quinones, 34. They were killed last
Sunday while trying to find an escape route for 55 inmates at
a corrections camp high in the Angeles National Forest.
The devastating fire also caused parishioner evacuations
at several local Catholic churches, including the Benedictine
monastery at Valyermo, north of Angeles National Forest,
and resulted in the closure of some Catholic schools just
beginning the new school year.
Home evacuations of parishioners were reported by
WILDFIRES, page 13
Immaculate Conception Academy becomes a ‘Cristo Rey’ school
San Francisco’s Immaculate Conception
Academy entered its first semester as part of
the innovative Cristo Rey school network
with an opening day Mass Aug. 25 celebrated by Jesuit Father John Foley, founder
of the Cristo Rey model.
Cristo Rey schools include 24 institutions
and 6,000 students across the United States
where students help pay their tuition and gain
job and life experience with school-day jobs
in the private and public sector. At full enrollment, the schools recover up to 90 percent of
the cost of educating each student
“Ladies, this is not about anything mediocre or half-hearted,” Father Foley told the
assembly of 300 in his homily. “This journey
is our response to Christ’s invitation to walk
on water. You are here to develop all the
talent God has given you. That’s what will
change our world. That’s what will hasten
the coming of the Kingdom.”
Immaculate Conception Academy held
what it called “Camp Rey” for all students
in the week before school started. “The
program focused on teaching the young
women the hard and soft skills vital to their
success in the corporate world,” the school
said. “Classes focused on all aspects of the
corporate world including shaking hands,
looking people in the eye, public speaking,
financial literacy, and the importance of
confidentiality.”
Currently, Immaculate Conception
Academy has 50 positions for its students
with businesses and non-profits across the
Bay Area, the school said. Four students
share one full-time position working five
days a month.
Among the sponsors are Academy of
Art University, American Red Cross, the
Department of Catholic Schools in the
Archdiocese of San Francisco, Borel Private
Bank and Trust Co., City of San Francisco –
office of Supervisor David Campos, Kaiser
Permanente, St. Mary’s Medical Center, and
KPIX- CBS 5 where duties include assisting
in organizing the news library, dubbing tapes
and logging news stories.
More than 1,500 entities sponsor jobs
across the Cristo Rey network. In school year
2008-09, students contributed more than $27
million to their education cost.
Dominican Sister Mary Virginia Leach, ICA president,
Jesuit Father John P. Foley, founder of the Cristo Rey model, Lisa
Graham, ICA principal; Rob Birdsell, Cristo Rey Network president.
Immaculate Conception Academy, an
all-girls school, has a student enrollment
of 248. Mission San Jose Dominican Sister
Mary Virginia Leach is president. Lisa
Graham is principal. “The Dominican Sisters
of Mission San Jose are excited to be a new
sponsor with the Cristo Rey network,” the
congregation said. The Dominican Sisters
of Mission San Jose founded Immaculate
Conception in 1883.
For more information or to learn about
becoming a Cristo Rey job sponsor, contact
Jonathan Wang at [email protected] or
(415) 824-2052, ext. 27.
INSIDE THIS WEEK’S EDITION
Notre Dame controversy. . . . 3
Help in pregnancy. . . . . . . . . 6
Remembrance
USF’s Burl Toler
~ Page 8 ~
September 4, 2009
Journey
of faith
‘Never the
obvious’
~ Page 15 ~
Labor Day Guide. . . . . . 10-14
Editorial and letters . . . . . . 16
Scripture and reflection . . . 18
Opus Dei film
begins production
~ Page 20 ~
ONE DOLLAR
Datebook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Classified ads . . . . . . . . . . . 23
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Catholic San Francisco
September 4, 2009
St. Vincent de Paul; Andrew
Ferrero, Stephen Everest, and
Nick Stinn, students at Stuart
Hall schools; and Jackson Smith,
who attends Cathedral School
for Boys. Proud parents include
Catherine and Jeffry Schmitz,
Alice and Charles HolbornWelsh, Patsy and Joe Ferrero;
Janan New and Lawrence Smith,
By Tom Burke
Sally and Chris Radich, Jessie
and Mark Mahoney, Teri and
Mike O’Donnell, Michelle and
Happy 100th Birthday to Mary Holian June 9. Mary, Scott Heidohrn, Elaine and Dan
a longtime parishioner of San Francisco’s St. Gabriel’s, Everest, Jill and Brad Stinn, and
enjoyed visits from pastor, Father Tom Hamilton and parish Andreas Oropeza. “This season
Deacon Tom Reardon as she celebrated the milestone among concluded seven or eight years of
the good wishes of more than 50 family members. Mary was the boys’ playing San Francisco
baptized and educated at the now-closed St. Joseph Parish, Little League and we wish them
and lived in St. Charles Parish on South Van Ness for many much success in their future acayears until moving to St. Gabe’s over 60 years ago, her niece demic and baseball endeavors,”
Maryann Smyth, told me. “I am one of Mary’s nieces,” Mary said Catherine Schmitz, whom,
affirmed. “She is the beloved aunt to four generations of nieces with Chris Radich, we can thank
Participants in a recent Knights of Columbus installation Mass included
and nephews.”… Happy birthday, too, to Mani Glanz, for the good news…. Clarence
Robert
Villalobos, front left, Carol Villalobos, Vincent Pacis, Angie Pacis,
longtime Holy Name of Jesus parishioner and volunteer, and Mary Cravalho of Our
Father
Nestor Rebong, Sharon Reek, Ivan Reek, Charles Clark,
who was 90 years old Aug. 5…. The Archdiocese of San Lady of Angels Parish were
and
Sandra
Clark, with Purita Warriner, back left, Raymond
among
guests
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Francisco was well represented at recent All Star games for
Warriner, Timothy Carvalho, and Stephanie Carvalho.
San Francisco Little League District 3. Rounding the bases anniversary of Al and Sydne
were Cole Schmitz, Nick Radich, Slade Mahoney, and Sean Chanteloup now of Arnold, Calif.
O’Donnell of St. Cecilia Parish; Dylan Holborn-Welsh of Al was raised in San Mateo and
St. Gabriel’s; Marc Heidohrn and Brandon Oropeza, St. attended school at St. Matt’s and Junipero Serra High parishioners of San Francisco’s Church of the Epiphany,
Philip’s; Declan Ebling, St. Peter and Paul; Steele Meyer, School. San Mateo’s Chanteloup Field bears the family took part in the parish Over 50 Club’s celebration of Blessed
name. Al and Clarence met at Santa Mother’s Month in May. Rites included a crowning of the
Clara University later serving in the Mary with flowers following a Mass with pastor, Father
Army together. Mary and Clarence, Eugene Tungol, presiding. Thanks to Barbara Bottarini for
both lifelong Burlingame residents, the good news.….This is an empty space without you. Send
were married at OLA on July 9, items via e-mail to [email protected] and by ground
1960…. Congrats to Vincent Pacis of to “Street,” One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco 94109.
Holy Angels Parish in Colma, newly Electronic photos should be jpegs at 300 dpi. No zip files,
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corps of more than 65,000 members
and 650 councils in the Golden State.
Mighty proud are Vincent’s wife,
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Lareina and Roderick, all three
graduates of Holy Angels Elementary
School. Vincent and other state officers
were installed July 11 at Holy Angels
Church with Father Nestor Rebong,
State Chaplain, as principal celebrant.
Holy Angels pastor, Father Manuel
Curso, concelebrated. With more than
Students from Novato’s Our Lady of Loretto Parish “Summer School” took
1.75 million members in more than
“Christmas in July,” including arts and crafts gifts as well as treats,
14,000 councils around the world, the
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centenarians, Ann Faul and Mario Bandietti, both102, and
over $144 million and 68 million hours
youngsters, Thea Falvey, Toula Falvey and Ikaria Falvey all seem
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Three U.S. bishops revisit controversy over Obama honor at Notre Dame
by that strategy are that the bishops
“function as partisan political actors
in American life”; that they are
WASHINGTON (CNS) – In
“ratifying the ‘culture war mentaltwo national Catholic publications,
ity,’ which corrodes debate both in
two U.S. archbishops and a bishop
American politics and in the internal
are revisiting the controversy over
life of the church”; that they are
the honorary degree conferred on
“effectively indifferent to all grave
President Barack Obama by the
evils other than abortion”; and that, in
University of Notre Dame.
the case of Obama, they are “insensiRetired Archbishop John R. Quinn
tive to the heritage and the continuing
of San Francisco and Bishop John
existence of racism in America,” the
M. D’Arcy of Fort Wayne-South
retired archbishop said.
Bend, Ind., the diocese in which
Archbishop Quinn urged the U.S.
Notre Dame is located, wrote sepahierarchy to follow the “policy of
rate articles about the matter for the
cordiality” practiced by the Vatican,
Aug. 31-Sept. 7 issue of America
Archbishop John R. Quinn
Bishop John M. D’Arcy
Archbishop
which “proceeds from the conviction
magazine.
Michael J. Sheehan
that the integrity of Catholic teaching
Archbishop Michael J. Sheehan
of Santa Fe, N.M., talked about the controversy degree, with some saying it violated the letter
“This is what universities do,” he said. “No can never be sacrificed” but “consistently favors
engagement over confrontation.”
and how it was handled at a June meeting of and spirit of their 2004 statement “Catholics in bishop should try to prevent that.”
the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Political Life.”
“The Vatican shows great reluctance to pubThe central question, Bishop D’Arcy said,
an interview with National Catholic Reporter,
That document states: “The Catholic com- is: “Does a Catholic university have the respon- licly personalize disagreements with public offipublished in the newspaper’s Aug. 26 edition. munity and Catholic institutions should not sibility to give witness to the Catholic faith and cials on elements of church teaching,” he said.
Archbishop Quinn said he felt the U.S. honor those who act in defiance of our funda- to the consequences of that faith by its actions
Archbishop Sheehan said in the interview
bishops’ response to the controversy “commu- mental moral principles. They should not be and decisions – especially by a decision to that he spoke out strongly in executive session
nicated several false and unintended messages” given awards, honors or platforms which would confer its highest honor?”
at the bishops’ June meeting against those who
to the U.S. public, while Bishop D’Arcy said his suggest support for their actions.”
Bishop D’Arcy said that, in his 24 years as opposed the university’s granting of an honorary
refusal to attend the commencement ceremonies
Critics of Obama said his support of legal head of the diocese in which Notre Dame is degree to Obama.
at which Obama was honored arose from his abortion and embryonic stem-cell research also located, “I have never interfered in the internal
“I said we’ve gotten more done on the proresponsibility to see that Catholic universities made him an inappropriate choice to be com- governance of Notre Dame or any other institu- life issue in New Mexico by talking to people
“give public witness to the fullness of Catholic mencement speaker at a Catholic university.
who don’t agree with us on everything,” he
tion of higher learning within the diocese.”
faith.”
The bishops discussed the controversy in
But he said a bishop “must be concerned said. “We got Gov. (Bill) Richardson to sign off
Archbishop Sheehan, as part of a wide- executive session at their June meeting in San that Catholic institutions do not succumb to the on the abolition of the death penalty for New
ranging interview with the independent Catholic Antonio, and passed a resolution expressing secular culture, making decisions that appear to Mexico. ... But you know, he’s pro-abortion. So?
weekly, said he believed the majority of U.S. “appreciation and support” for Bishop D’Arcy many, including ordinary Catholics, as a sur- It doesn’t mean we sit and wait, that we sit on
bishops agreed with him that “we don’t want to and affirming his “solicitude for (Notre Dame’s) render to a culture opposed to the truth about the sides and not talk to him.”
isolate ourselves from the rest of America by our Catholic identity and his loving care for all those life and love.”
Archbishop Sheehan said the U.S. Catholic
strong views on abortion and the other things. We the Lord has given him to sanctify, to teach and
Archbishop Quinn, however, said there is Church would “be like the Amish, you know,
need to be building bridges, not burning them.” to shepherd.”
“deep and troubled disagreement” among the kind of isolated from society, if we kept pulling
“To make a big scene about Obama – I think
In his America article, Bishop D’Arcy said U.S. bishops about how they should speak about back because of a single issue.”
a lot of the enemies of the church are delighted the controversy was not about Obama, a replay abortion, which he called the “most searing and
Asked if there were others who agreed with
to see all that,” he said.
him, he said, “Of course, the majority.”
of the 2008 elections or “whether it is appro- volatile issue in American public life.”
More than 70 U.S. bishops voiced their priate for the president of the United States
“The bishops don’t want to have a battle in
“A strategy of condemnation” that sanctions
disapproval of Notre Dame’s invitation to to speak at Notre Dame or any great Catholic public officials because of their stand on abor- public with each other, but I think the majority
Obama and its decision to give him an honorary university on the pressing issues of the day.”
tion “undermines the church’s transcendent role of bishops in the country didn’t join in with that,
would not be in agreement with that approach,”
in the American political order,” he added.
Among the false impressions conveyed he added.
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Kennedy praised, faulted
WASHINGTON – Catholic leaders from coast to coast
praised the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy for his nearly 50 years
of public service, and others expressed sorrow that his commitment to the less fortunate did not extend to the unborn. The
Massachusetts Democrat and son of one of the nation’s most
famous Catholic families died late Aug. 25 at his home on Cape
Cod after a yearlong battle with a malignant brain tumor. “For
nearly half a century, Sen. Kennedy was often a champion for
the poor, the less fortunate and those seeking a better life,” said
Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley of Boston. “Across Massachusetts
and the nation, his legacy will be carried on through the lives
of those he served.” Los Angeles Cardinal Roger M. Mahony,
who worked with Kennedy in an unsuccessful effort to achieve
comprehensive immigration reform in 2007, said “the voiceless, the powerless and the most needy of our citizens have
lost a great champion” with the senator’s death. “His deep and
personal commitment to causes affecting the poor and needy
among us flowed from his deep Catholic faith, and the life and
outreach of Jesus Christ,” he added. “Over the years, however,
I was never able to bring him to promote fundamental rights
for one important group in our society – the unborn,” Cardinal
Mahony said. “But he did struggle with this aspect of his
Catholic faith, and I was hopeful that at some point he would
see that all of his work for the most needy had to begin with a
commitment to every person – born and unborn.”
Episcopal nuns, priest convert
BALTIMORE – After seven years of prayer and discernment, a community of Episcopal sisters and their chaplain were
received into the Catholic Church during a Sept. 3 Mass celebrated by Baltimore Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien. The archbishop
welcomed 10 sisters from the Society of All Saints’ Sisters of
the Poor. He administered the sacrament of confirmation and
the sisters renewed their vows of poverty, chastity and obedience
in the chapel of their convent in suburban Catonsville, Md. The
Rev. Warren Tanghe, an Episcopal priest, also was to be received
into the church and is discerning the possibility of becoming
a Catholic priest. Mother Christina Christie, superior of the
religious community, said the sisters are excited about joining
the Catholic Church. The women religious have been studying
the church’s teachings for years, she said. The sisters expressed
deep affection for Pope Benedict XVI. The pope exercises an
authority that Episcopal leaders do not, they said, adding that
the unity Christ called for can be found in the Catholic Church
under the leadership of the pope. Orthodoxy and unity were key
reasons the sisters were attracted to the Catholic faith. Many
of them were troubled by the Episcopal Church’s approval of
women’s ordination, the ordination of a gay bishop and what
they regarded as lax stances on moral issues.
Rift in Lutheran denomination
WASHINGTON – A vote to permit the ordination of homosexuals in committed monogamous relationships for the United
States’ largest Lutheran denomination may provoke a rift among
its members and leaders. The 559-451 vote Aug. 21 during the
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s biennial churchwide
assembly in Minneapolis approved a resolution to allow gays in
“publicly accountable, lifelong, monogamous same-gender relationships” to serve as clergy. The denomination had previously
permitted celibate gay men and women to be ordained. The 4.6million-member denomination joined the Episcopal Church and
the United Church of Christ in accepting sexually active homosexuals as clergy. The ELCA – formed in 1989 from the merger
of the Lutheran Church in America, the American Lutheran
Church and the Evangelical Lutheran Church – had voted in 2005
against allowing sexually active gays to serve as ordained clergy.
The churchwide assembly is the chief governing authority of the
denomination, and the Aug. 21 vote reverses the 2005 action.
However, some clergy serving as assembly delegates indicated
they would leave the denomination, or at least reconsider their
Cardinal Roger M.
Mahony and U.S.
Sen. Ted Kennedy
address a Capitol Hill
press conference
on immigration in
Washington March 6,
2007. Kennedy, who
died Aug. 25, was a
major figure in the
Democratic Party.
He was 77.
membership. Leaders from about 400 Lutheran congregations
have planned a meeting for September in Indianapolis on how to
deal with the situation, but without breaking with the church.
Immigration reform hopes
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama and his administration want to see comprehensive reform of the nation’s immigration
system “happen sooner than later,” according to a Catholic immigration advocate. “I would be surprised if this wasn’t taken care
of by the end of 2010,” said Mark Franken, executive director of
the Catholic Legal Immigration Network Inc., known as CLINIC.
Franken, who made the comments in an interview with Catholic
News Service, was part of a group of immigrant advocates, faith
leaders, and labor, business and law enforcement officials who
met in a closed-door meeting on immigration in Washington Aug.
20. The meeting was the first in a series of conversations aimed
at getting input from those who have a stake in the issue, according to Franken. Representatives from the White House and the
Department of Homeland Security participated in the discussion
hosted by Secretary Janet Napolitano. Obama arrived at the end of
the meeting to reiterate many of Napolitano’s points, including the
need for increased efforts to push immigration reform. Franken told
CNS the meeting demonstrated the president’s commitment to the
issue as well the administration’s need to hear from constituents
and people who are educated about reform.
USCCB launches Web site
explaining missal translation
WASHINGTON – A new Web site launched Aug. 21 by
the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops was produced to
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educate Catholics about the forthcoming English translation
of the new Roman Missal, the book of prayers used for Mass.
The site, www.usccb.org/romanmissal, has background material on the process of development of liturgical texts, sample
texts from the missal, a glossary of terms and answers to
frequently asked questions. Content will be added regularly
over the next several months, according to an Aug. 21 news
release from the USCCB. The bishops’ Committee on Divine
Worship hopes the site will be a central resource for those
preparing to implement the new text, the release said. In the
years since the Second Vatican Council, “we have learned a
lot about the use of the vernacular in the liturgy and the new
texts reflect this new understanding,” said the committee’s
chairman, Bishop Arthur J. Serratelli of Paterson, N.J., in a
video that welcomes visitors to the site. “The new texts are
understandable, dignified and accurate,” he said. “They not
only strive to make the meaning of the text accessible for
the listener, but they also strive to unearth the biblical and
theological richness of the Latin text.”
New US ambassador to
Vatican arrives in Rome
ROME – The new U.S.
ambassador to the Vatican,
Miguel Diaz, arrived in
Rome and said he was eager
to help expand the “special
relationship” between the
United States and the Holy
See. Diaz, a 45-year-old
Catholic theologian, arrived
with his wife and four children at Rome’s Fiumicino
airport Aug. 27, six days
after he was sworn in as
ambassador in Washington.
Miguel Diaz
He will present his credentials to Pope Benedict XVI at a ceremony later this summer.
“I look forward to the coming weeks as my family and I
put down new roots in Rome. I will be honored to serve
President Obama and the American people in my new role,
and it will be a unique honor to meet his holiness, Pope
Benedict XVI,” Diaz said in a statement released by the
U.S. Embassy to the Holy See. “I welcome the opportunity
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to deepen and expand upon the special relationship that has
evolved between the United States and the Vatican over
the past 25 years of formal diplomatic ties,” he said. Diaz,
a professor at St. John’s University and the College of St.
Benedict, both in Minnesota, is the first Hispanic and the
first theologian to represent the U.S. at the Vatican.
(CNS PHOTO/AMM AR AWAD, REUTERS)
News in brief . . .
Vocations: ‘spiritual terrain’
CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy – Pope Benedict XVI said
Catholic parents should make sure to create a “fertile spiritual
terrain” for priestly vocations as they educate their children
in the faith. The pope, speaking at a Sunday blessing at his
summer residence outside Rome Aug. 30, said he hoped for a
vocations revival in the Year for Priests, which began in June.
The year marks the 150th anniversary of St. John Vianney,
the patron saint of parish priests. “When couples dedicate
themselves generously to the education of their children,
guiding and orienting them toward the discovery of God’s
design of love, they prepare that fertile spiritual terrain where
vocations to the priesthood and consecrated life arise and
mature,” the pope said. He offered a prayer that in the Year
for Priests, “Christian families may become small churches in
which all the vocations and charisms given by the Holy Spirit
will be welcomed and valued.” The pope said the history of
Christianity features innumerable examples of saintly parents
and families, including Blessed Luigi and Maria Beltrame
Quattrocchi, who were beatified in 2001. The couple had four
children, including two sons who became priests.
U.S. bishops visit South Africa
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – A U.S. bishops’
delegation touring some of Johannesburg’s poorest areas
saw an active Catholic parish as well as some of the
migration problems facing South Africa’s largest city.
In Johannesburg’s Alexandra Township, the delegation
visited St. Hubert’s Catholic Church, where about 10
members of a youth choir were rehearsing. Oblate Father
Ronald Cairns told the two U.S. bishops and other delegation members that his parish is thriving, with between 500
and 700 of its members involved in church activities. “We
have a strong parish council,” about 400 young people
in catechism classes, active sodalities and parishioners
training for the priesthood, Father Cairns said Aug. 29.
Johannesburg’s oldest township is four square miles and is
home to about 540,000 South Africans as well as people
from other African countries, the priest said. It has a 70
percent unemployment rate. Johannesburg was the first
stop on an Aug. 28-Sept. 6 visit to South Africa by a
church delegation that included Bishop John H. Ricard of
A Palestinian woman prays on the first Friday of the
Muslim holy month of Ramadan in front of the Dome
of the Rock in the Old City of Jerusalem Aug. 28.
The Dome of the Rock, an Islamic shrine, also
has significance to Jews and Christians.
Pensacola-Tallahassee, Fla., and Bishop John C. Wester of
Salt Lake City. Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, retired
archbishop of Washington, was to join them Aug. 31.
Vatican highlights infant mortality
VATICAN CITY – Efforts to reduce infant mortality
around the world are showing positive results, but maternal
death rates remain very high in many developing nations,
according to a report by the Vatican news agency Fides.
In addition, the number of neonatal deaths – babies who
die within 28 days of birth – is improving but at a very
slow rate, the report said. The document demonstrated the
huge gulf that continues between industrialized and poorer
countries in maternal, neonatal and pediatric care. Fides, the
news agency of the Congregation for the Evangelization of
Peoples, issued a dossier Aug. 27 that summarized statistics from international organizations, including UNICEF,
the World Health Organization and the U.N. Food and
Agriculture Organization. Infant mortality, defined as child
deaths before they reach the age of 5, claimed an estimated
9.2 million lives in 2007, the dossier said. That number is
a significant improvement from 1990 when death claimed
some 13 million children under 5. The hardest-hit areas
remain sub-Saharan Africa and southern Asia, while the
greatest improvement came in Southeast Asia and North
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Parish help for women in difficult pregnancies goal of training Sept 12
A “Gabriel Project” conference to train volunteers in ways
to support women in difficult pregnancies takes place at the
Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption in San Francisco, 1111
Gough St., on Sept. 12. An 8:30 a.m. continental breakfast will be
followed by the program running from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
The Gabriel Project uses signs, pamphlets, bumper stickers
and a toll free hotline to alert pregnant mothers about available
help. Callers to the hotline are referred to the local Gabriel
Project Coordinator, who connects them to a trained mentor.
The mentor, one of the parish’s “Gabriel Angels,” is
responsible for ongoing contact with the mother throughout
her pregnancy and somewhat beyond. Through these mentors
and the assistance of the parish community, mothers receive
needed spiritual, material and emotional support during their
pregnancy.
Conference organizers said, “Gabriel Project parishes
embrace each pregnant woman who comes to them as their
daughter, sister and friend.”
In an August 24 letter to pastors and parochial vicars, San
Francisco Archbishop George Niederauer said clergy and
parishes must reach out to women in difficult pregnancies
with “real, concrete help.”
He endorsed the Gabriel Project as a practical and
effective means to fulfill that task, explaining that it was
first introduced into the Bay Area in 1997 under Cardinal
William Levada.
The archbishop also encouraged clergy to consider the
ministry for their parish and to send a small team of interested
parishioners to the conference.
He noted that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’
Young adult group takes on new life Sept. 16
The Young Adult On-the-Go program at St. Gabriel Parish in
San Francisco has been reformed with a kick-off wine and cheese
social scheduled for Sept. 16 at 6:30 p.m. in the parish hall. The
group welcomes men and women ages 21 to 35 years.
“The Young Adult-On-The-Go program is designed for
young adults to meet new friends, and reflect on faith in a comfortable environment,” said director Yasmine Kury.
Young Adult-On-The-Go will offer many activities based on
common interests, the opportunity to share experiences, and host
guest speakers, Kury said. Proposed events include volunteering
time on behalf of Mercy Beyond Borders, a non-profit organization founded by Mercy Sister Marilyn Lacey. The group works
to alleviate poverty in Sudan by supporting the education of
displaced women and young girls.
Kury has been Youth Minister at St. Gabriel Parish
for the past three years assuming Young Adult leadership in the parish just recently. “As Youth and Young
Adult Minister I prepare the high school parish youth for
Confirmation, plan and minister to the Youth Group, and
now plan and minister the Young Adult group,” she said.
Mary Jansen, director of Young Adults Ministry for the
Archdiocese of San Francisco said young adult groups are
currently active at parishes including St. Vincent de Paul, St.
Dominic, Mission Dolores, Notre Dame de Victoires, St. Thomas
More, Most Holy Redeemer, St. Agnes, Sts. Peter and Paul,
and St. Bruno Singles for Christ. In addition, Mercy Center in
Burlingame has a young adult gathering prior to its Taize Prayer
service each first Friday of the month.
“All of these young adult communities are open to
young adults 20s and 30s – not just parishioners in hopes
that they become parishioners,” Jansen told Catholic San
Francisco. Contact information can be found at the Young Adult
Office website, www.sfyam.org
The Archdiocese of San Francisco along with the Diocese
of San Jose and Oakland is hosting a Young Adult Leaders’
Forum on Saturday, October 17 at Vallombrosa Retreat
Center. Information is available from Mary Jansen at (415) 6145596 or e-mail her at [email protected].
Concert in San Francisco heralds novena of ‘Simbang Gabi’
A concert by the internationally known Philippine Madrigal
Singers heralds Advent and the centuries-old Filipino tradition
of Simbang Gabi Oct. 23 at Holy Name of Jesus Church in San
Francisco.
“From my perspective, the concert will bring memories of
the Philippine celebration of Simbang Gabi,” said Nellie Hizon,
a member of St. Stephen Parish. “Here are world-renowned
Filipino artists contributing their efforts to the San Francisco
celebration of Simbang Gabi.
Though a tradition of the Philippines, Hizon said there is room
for all. “Simbang Gabi is a celebration that speaks to all people of
every ethnicity,” she pointed out. “We are celebrating a novena of
Masses in the early morning hours leading up to Christmas. Add
to that the natural hospitality of the Filipinos and an experience
coming from the rural Philippines in ancient days.”
Hizon said she became aware of the celebration taking
hold here some 15 years ago and that the nine-day prelude
to Christmas has been a part of St. Stephen Parish since
1996. The organization of the novena is a grass-roots project,
Hizon said. “This model, where the leadership comes from
the people, speaks of the Vatican II encouragement for lay
people to take leadership roles in the life of the Church.”
Today, according to Hizon, more than 30 parishes throughout the Archdiocese of San Francisco, including St. Stephen,
participate in the Simbang Gabi novena.
“Most churches are filled whether their liturgies are in the
morning or evening,” Hizon said, noting that the traditional
early-morning schedule has been amended due to “demands on
our time.” Hizon said the increasing awareness of Simbang Gabi
should lead to larger crowds this year.
San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice is principal
celebrant of a Mass of Thanksgiving celebrating the Simbang
Gabi ministry Dec. 13 at 5:30 p.m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral,
Gough and Geary Blvd. in San Francisco. Hizon said that more
than 20 priests concelebrated the Mass in 2008.
Simbang Gabi celebrations begin Dec. 15 in parishes with an
evening schedule and Dec. 16 in those with a morning schedule.
Parishioners should watch parish bulletins for further information,
Hizon said. Hizon can be reached at [email protected].
Tickets for the Madrigal Singers concert are $25 each.
Call (415) 699-7927, (415) 564-0323, or e-mail paribolmusic@
yahoo.com.
“Pastoral Plan for Pro-Life Activities” states that a parish prolife committee should aim to develop a ministry to pregnant
women and their children.
“The Gabriel Project answers this call. It embodies the
practical support that the bishops promise pregnant women,”
Archbishop Niederauer said.
He added, “The parish community assists with unconditional love. Through them, mothers receive the spiritual,
material and emotional support needed during pregnancy.”
Information about the conference is available from the
San Francisco Archdiocesan Respect Life Program of the
Office of Public Policy & Social Concerns, which is organizing the gathering.
To register call Vicki Evans at 415- 614-5533 or email
her at [email protected].
Catholic author
on ‘Mosaic’ TV
program Sept. 6
Dr. Jeffrey Burns,
historian and author,
talks about notable
people and events
in the history of
the Archdiocese of
San Francisco on
the “Mosaic” television program airing
Sept. 6 at 5 a.m. on
KPIX-Channel 5.
Dr. Burns is director
of the Academy of
American Franciscan
Dr. Jeffrey Burns
History and teaches
at the Franciscan School of Theology and St. Patrick
Seminary and University. He is the editor of “Catholic
San Francisco Sesquicentennial Essays.” Mosaic – A
Catholic Perspective is a co-production of KPIX and
the Communications Office of the Archdiocese of
San Francisco, partially funded by contributions to
the Catholic Communications Campaign.
Mosaic is hosted by Tom Burke. Taking his place
on this program is Director of Communications and
Outreach Maurice Healy.
SEPT. 22-24 LATER ADULT LIFE WORKSHOP
Fr. Rusty Shaughnessy, OFM
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Sr. Mary Jo Chaves, osf
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OCT. 3
BLESSING OF THE ANIMALS
San Damiano Friars (2:00 pm)
OCT. 3
WRITING WORKSHOP
Dennis Hock, Ph.D. & Jan Haag
OCT. 10
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September 4, 2009
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September 4, 2009
Remembrance
Burl Toler, 1928-2009, teacher and friend
In the crowd were those whose lives had touched Burl’s
during his decades as teacher and educator in San Francisco’s
public schools and community college district. Colleagues
and former students were there. And, just a small group
now, men of 80 or so – Burl was 81 – who had known the
physical and emotional camaraderie of playing football with
and against him, at City College of S.F. and USF. Some
were survivors of those undefeated, untied Dons of 1951, “a
true band of brothers,” as the funeral Mass celebrant, Jesuit
Father John Lo Schiavo, called them. Not just for their all
for one, one for all style of play, but because they stood tall
in rejecting a New Year’s bowl bid from a southern state. It
required leaving two African American teammates, running
back Ollie Matson and center/linebacker Toler, at home – a
condition the entire team flatly refused to accept.
In the crowd, you couldn’t miss a generous sprinkling of
20 and 30 somethings. Next to me, a young woman, listening to the tributes, industriously took notes in a composition
book, as when Father Lo, as he’s known, recalled an occasion when teammate Bill Henneberry had to fill in for an
injured Toler. The Dons’ opponent that day later voted Toler
the toughest linebacker they’d met. Bill,
unmistakably a Mick, collared Burl: “How
By James Kelly
come you get the credit when I played the
game? I don’t even look like you.” Burl:
He taught me the joy of obligation. I
“You’re right, I’m taller.”
don’t think he thought of me as a student.
In Denver right after the war, to begin
I could be wrong, for Burl Toler had that
newspapering, I missed seeing that great
instinct good teachers share – they know
team play. But I did get a chance to see
when their message is getting through and
the 1950 club, much the same lineup. On
when to try harder.
a bright fall day the Dons beat a talented
More than a master teacher, Burl was a
Denver U. on the Pioneers’ home field. Two
friend. Since our paths rarely crossed, how
adult and two little Kellys cheered for the
could I tell? Because he always remembered
green and gold. Matson scored with that
who and what I was, always looked me
effortless gliding gait – it ate up yards faster
straight in the eyes, and made me feel at
than the eyes could grasp. Not till I read
that moment I was someone important to
next day’s Denver Post did I realize how
him. Mainly it was at alumni events. We
often Burl Toler cleared the way.
each had degrees from the University of
Burl Toler
One day in the mid-eighties, while with
San Francisco, about ten years apart, and
were of the old school. We had learned from Jesuit scholars the old San Francisco Progress, I had a call from Burl.
“Come on over, let’s talk,” he said from his South o’Market
skilled in molding mind and spirit together.
Thoughts like those came back the other day. On the college district office. We covered a lot of ground. I learned
USF campus, in cavernous old St. Ignatius Church with its how strongly he felt about setting an example for whatever
jeweled windows, once called the Jesuit cathedral (I can hear he deemed important to teach, especially values like selfa black-robed philosophy professor observing drily, “That’s discipline. It was key to his personal bottom line: Learning
a contradiction in terms”), close to a couple of thousand should be lifelong: Since God endowed me with certain
mourners gathered to bid Burl Toler a final farewell. At least abilities, it’s my obligation to hone and use them, not just
half were, like Burl, African Americans. It’s one measure of for my sake but for the benefit of others, starting with fama man when he can command so much love and affection ily. (Two sons and a grandson, speaking at SI, said that
from within his own ethnic group. There was no mistaking message from “B.T.” came through loud and clear while
Burl’s African-ness or his pride in it. He had the features they were growing up.)
It struck me then, this man really feels obliged, first to
and the hue, sort of like a polished coffee bean, dark roast,
be the best he can be at every stage of life, then to go about
only far deeper and richer.
Burl Toler, a star lineman and linebacker on the
University of San Francisco’s famous 1951 football team
and the first African-American game official in NFL history,
died Aug. 16 at the age of 81 in Castro Valley. A story in the
Sept. 28, 2001 issue of Catholic San Francisco, “Undefeated,
untied, and uninvited,” told of the Dons’ 1951 football team
that was denied a bowl bid despite a 9-0 record because
it refused to leave its two black players – Toler and Ollie
Matson – behind.
Born in Memphis, Toler was an All-American football
player at City College of San Francisco before attending
USF. He graduated from the Jesuit school with a bachelor’s
degree in 1952 and a master’s in 1966. Toler was a longtime
educator in the San Francisco school district, a director of
personnel for the San Francisco community college district
and a USF trustee.
He is survived by a brother, Arnold; six children, Valerie,
Burl Jr., Susan, Gregory, Martel and Jennifer; and eight grandchildren. His wife, Melvia, died in 1991. A funeral Mass was
celebrated Aug. 26 at St. Ignatius Church in San Francisco. A
scholarship in Toler’s memory has been established at USF.
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In playing days, Toler was known for the hits he put on
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starring in the National Football League, along with five
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smile, and maybe a pat, for miscreants he whistled down.
It was good knowing him – even better, when he’d beam
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stood ready to help those willing to make the leap.
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Justice will be principal celebrant. The bi-lingual liturgy takes
place outdoors at the cemetery’s Rachel Shrine. The Mass is
sponsored by Project Rachel Ministry of the Archdiocese of
San Francisco and the cemetery department. Project Rachel
is a post-abortion healing ministry for men and women.
The Masses are celebrated every two years and this is the
seventh of the series, said Mary Ann Schwab, Project Rachel
director. Schwab is a pioneer in Respect Life work with an
association to the ministry that goes back to 1973 and the
historic Roe v Wade decision legalizing abortion.
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Labor Day Guide
Labor Day 2009
A pro-labor priest reflects on the often competing
claims of unions and the Church
n these highlights from an interview with Catholic San Francisco Assistant Editor Rick DelVecchio, Jesuit Father George
IUniversity,
Schultze, an adjunct faculty member in moral theology and director of field education at St. Patrick’s Seminary and
reflects on Labor Day in light of Catholic social teaching. Father Schultze considers the late Cardinal Joseph
Father Schultze, who grew up in a declining share of U.S. economic proa middle-class union household in ductivity, Father Schultze also is critical
Mountain View, describes himself as “a of capital’s role in the nation’s growing
income inequality. The
baby boomer who has
with age become aware Related story, Page 14 questions and answers
presented here have been
of the demands of life and
the responsibility it requires on the part edited for clarity. Contact Father Schultze
of all of us – workers, employers, and at [email protected].
consumers.” He supports worker rights
but is vocal about his disagreements with
What are your thoughts on Labor Day in
unions on political choices and sometimes light of Cardinal Bernardin’s teaching?
tactics. But at a time when workers enjoy
Catholic social teaching is really a seam-
Theatrical Stage Employees Local 16
San Francisco
less garment, as Cardinal Bernardin was
often quoted as saying. Where we do find
some confusion today in the area of the dignity of the human person and respect for life,
is that there is a wholeness in how we see life
from its conception to a natural death. And
that means that in the promotion of work life
and a good economy we are concerned about
the housing of people and the education of
God’s sons and daughters, and the health
care they receive, but we’re also concerned
about life from its conception; God has given
children to us, they are foreigners in a foreign
land, and we treat them with respect, so abortion is always wrong. People wrongly infer
from the “seamless garment” metaphor that
abortion is just one issue among other social
issues. Cardinal Bernardin was staunchly
pro-life. From the womb we pass into the
period of education and adult life and work
life, retired life, to the point of death. A good
(PHOTO BY FATHER ROBERT DOLAN, S.J.)
Bernardin’s teaching on the relationship between moral principles and political choices. He gives a close reading of Pope
Benedict XVI’s new encyclical on the economy, “Caritas in Veritate” (“Charity in Truth”), which underlines the Church’s
traditional support of unions but urges unions to look beyond their narrow interests to advance integral human development
globally. Spiritual, not just material, growth is essential to human development, the Holy Father states.
Jesuit Father George Schultze:
“How do we transcend ourselves,
that living is not only about us, but
that good living is universal?”
unionist understands this and the union itself
promotes the wages, the benefits, retirement
and all of the other needs that a human being
has in his or her life. This means that unions
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Father Schultze . . .
and their members have to take an active role
in promoting life.
How does the Holy Father treat these
issues in his economic encyclical?
Openness to life is the center of true
development according to Pope Benedict.
When a society moves toward the denial
or suppression of life it ends up no longer
finding the necessary motivation and energy
to strive for man’s true good. So whatever
we do as workers, as members of a larger
economy, it’s essential that we see our relationship to Christ. I think the tension that we
feel is that we are Christian humanists, we
are acknowledging the reason we possess but
we are also acknowledging our dependence
on Christ, on God, and this distinguishes us
from secular unionists who don’t see that
relationship to the transcendent. And the
tension we face as Christians is we do have
desires to have good homes and adequate
incomes but at the same time the tension
on the other side is how do we transcend
ourselves, that living is not only about us,
but that good living is universal, so we are
not only self-centered and egotistical.
Nowhere is this tension more deeply felt
than on marriage and family issues. What
are your thoughts?
One of my concerns about the labor
movement is that many of the more progressive unions have begun to promote
same-sex marriage, to invest resources into
changing our society’s understanding of
marriage. The California State Federation
of Labor and at least three Bay Area labor
councils came out against Proposition 8 and
the parental notification initiative – initiatives that the bishops supported. I would
have to go back to my basic understanding
of who we are as human beings and perhaps
play on Pope John Paul II’s Theology of the
Body. When the Pharisees confronted Jesus
about divorce, he said that in the beginning,
meaning in Genesis, man and woman were
made for each other. The two are bound
together. It’s the primordial sacrament of our
faith, and we can defend it by our natural
law understanding of procreation and the
complementarity that happens in the family
of a man and a woman, the creation of new
life, the birth of children and their formation.
My basic disagreement with the labor movement is that the activists feel that it’s simply
a civil right, that somehow having children
and being in a same-sex household makes
it all the same. In fact it doesn’t. You need
a man and a woman to create life. Children
have a right to a mother and father. If we further diminish or dilute what we understand
marriage to be, we are going to see a further
pulling apart of the social fabric.
List, same-sex marriage causes and other areas
where a great many Californians are simply
not on the same page. In some cases they want
their cake and eat it, too. They’re whipsawing
the public, and this is unfair.
What can individual unionists do if
they disagree with their unions’ political
choices?
There is a Supreme Court precedentsetting case called Communication Workers
of America vs. Beck. It happened in the mid1980s, and the Supreme Court ruled that a
union member can ask that his or her portion
of dues not be used for political purposes. Some
researchers have estimated that up to 80 percent
of dues – although this is probably an extreme
Some people say we can be friends but maybe we
have to be enemies at other times. That’s baloney.
– Father George Schultze
Another disagreement you have with
unions is on school vouchers.
By and large public employees have been
doing better for awhile. Private employers
providing retirement plans to their employees
have declined at least 20 percent in the last 10
years. And that’s not the case in the public sector. Public sector employees are often lifetime
employees. In the case of teachers, they’re
tenured in some cases. They’re very hard to
move because of the monopolistic position
they hold. And this is where I would also make
a political point with the National Education
Association and the California Federation
of Teachers. They adamantly oppose school
vouchers in California. We live in a pluralistic society. You’d think they would permit
pluralistic education. But again and again
the teachers unions will fight any attempt to
provide vouchers that would be supportive of
parochial schools. So they allow no choice
when it comes to education, and yet these
same unions are putting money into Emily’s
number – are being used for political purposes,
not for direct collective bargaining agreement
purposes. So that’s something Catholics should
realize. It would be useful for them to know if
they ever want to challenge the use of their dues
for causes that aren’t supporting their Catholic
values. The unions have a form they can ask
you to fill out saying you’d like to have your
dues money not be used for political purposes,
for ideological purposes. It’s the law.
In addition to your disagreements with
unions on moral issues you have had your
differences with them on tactics.
The problem with some labor organizers
is that they want you to come out and support
them but it’s simply a short-term relationship
to get something done. There is no reflective
thinking about what does this mean, like the
Holy Father is doing in his encyclical. It’s like,
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I need these people because my union says we
need them as members and the employer is
unjust and you’re a priest, get out here. I’ve
told them, no, I couldn’t do it, because I think
labor sometimes strong-arms. At the same
time I support the Employee Free Choice Act
because the National Labor Relations Act is
not protecting workers. Labor organizers and
employers can be equally nefarious in trying
to get a win. At times some organizers will tell
you Catholic social teaching says to support
worker associations and then when it comes
to culture-war issues their unions go off in a
direction diametrically opposed to Church
values. The question is: are you my friend
or my enemy? Some people say we can be
friends but maybe we have to be enemies at
other times. That’s baloney.
You are tough on unions but also a
harsh critic of unequal income distribution
in the U.S. economy.
We’re all workers, whether we’re employers
or employees. But sometimes there are structural injustices that occur, and one that recently
crossed my computer screen is the great inequity in terms of salaries. There was a recent
Wall Street Journal article that said highly paid
employees received nearly $2.1 trillion of the
$6.4 trillion in total U.S. pay. This means that a
third of the total pay in the United States went
to highly paid employees. And at the same time
banks, having engaged in unsound and unwise
decisions around mortgages and lending, are
asking the public to bail them out. Again and
again whether it’s the outsourcing of work
without dialogue with workers as happened
in the 1980s with plant closures or the failure
of businesses to accept the workers’ right to
representation, people on the employer side,
too, at times engage in unethical or unwise
decisions in terms of the common good. We
have to be evenhanded in all of this. There are
many good employers and we’re dependent on
them and they are experiencing great tension
and turmoil during this downturn, but at the
same time we have to work for justice as the
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Tough times: Congregations play key role in helping jobless members cope
By Connie D’Aura and Rick DelVecchio
Faith communities can organize to help unemployed
members cope with issues ranging from grief and anger to
finding job leads. Prayer and special donations for struggling
families can go a long way toward hope and recovery.
Those were among the themes of a San Francisco
Interfaith Council meeting Aug. 25 on “Navigating the
Unemployment Crisis: Helping Congregations Help Their
Members.” Held at St. Dominic Church in San Francisco,
the event drew 50 people and featured presentations by
representatives of Catholic, Protestant, Jewish and Muslim
congregations.
I don’t think we’ve seen the
worst of it yet
– Bill Tauskey
During the meeting eight congregations pledged to
start job help programs, adding to such ongoing efforts
as the inter-parish Catholic Networking, which meets at
St. Dominic three times a year, Edgewood Works at St.
Matthias Parish in Redwood City and a support network of
five parishes in San Mateo County.
The interfaith effort comes at a time when the job market
in the Bay Area remains in deep recession even as economic
productivity shows signs of life. In San Francisco, San Mateo
and Marin counties, 90,800 people were unemployed as of
July, out of a civilian labor force of 976,000. The contrast
from the low point of joblessness during the last economic
boom is stark: in October 2006, just 32,900 people were
looking for work, and the labor force was smaller.
The Bay Area as a whole lost 8,700 jobs in July, the
EDD said. The downturn is affecting all industries and
income levels.
Abby Snay, executive director of Jewish Vocational
Services, gave an overview of unemployment in the Bay
Area and explained her organization’s role in helping
people cope with job change. JVS offers job placement
and skills training and expects to assist 7,500 people this
year. Its services are available to anyone who needs help
finding a job.
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Labor Day novena and prayer at parishes
Parishioners in the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s central San Mateo County deanery will pray a novena to St. Joseph
from Sept. 5-13, to mark Labor Day and focus spiritual support on community members who are out of work.
The novena begins Sept. 5 at St. Mark Parish and continues on consecutive days at St. Matthew, Our Lady of the
Pillar, Our Lady of Angels, St. Catherine of Siena, St. Luke, St. Timothy and Immaculate Heart of Mary. It concludes
Sept. 13 at St. Gregory.
Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament will be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at each church. In addition, parishioners
will receive a holy card with a special Labor Day novena prayer printed on it and will be encouraged to say the prayer
at home for each day of the novena.
“We’re now coming up on a year since the collapse of the market, and people are still suffering greatly,” said Msgr.
Robert McElroy, pastor at St. Gregory. “We want to have a way of showing the solidarity of the parish community
with those who are suffering, and especially with those who have lost homes, lost their life savings.”
Here is the text of the Labor Day prayer:
Lord, we come to you in a time of great sadness in our land; a time of dreams shattered and homes lost; a time
of seniors plunged into worry and young people despairing of finding jobs; a time families are in upheaval and
children in want.
Lord, stand with us in these days of economic distress. Help the jobless to find work to earn their daily bread.
Bring food to the hungry and shelter to the homeless. Bring hope to the desperate and love to the dispossessed.
Teach us that when one suffers in our midst, You are suffering with us. Challenge us to move to action to assist
those most in need in these hard times. Remind us that there is no true security in the world except the security of
Your love and the Life of the Gospel.
Bring our world from this time of economic turmoil to the just society that You seek for all Your children.
Amen.
Snay moderated a panel that focused on ways that any
congregation can help jobless members. Common themes:
• Offer help and recognize that a job loss involves grief,
anger and despair, followed by hope. Hope comes sooner if
a congregation’s pastoral staff offers first-person help.
• Make certain the job seeker is aware of all city resources
and enrolls for benefits.
• Involve the whole congregation. Leaders are a natural
resource for help with job leads and business trends. All
members can pray for job seekers and make special donations for affected families.
• Be aware of individual needs. A workshop on how families or couples cope with unemployment may be warranted.
Participants said it is important that a congregation’s
spiritual leader take the lead. Congregations need to hear
from the pulpit that help is available and that job loss now
is the norm and should not be seen as shameful.
Ways congregations can help, participants said, include
providing how-to workshops, using e-mail to connect
with job seekers, organizing small “Success Teams” who
meet weekly and keep job seekers on track and providing
child care and elder care to help members schedule job
interviews.
Next steps for the interfaith effort on job help include
offering a citywide workshop and a best-practices seminar
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parishes near the 210 freeway, including St. Bede in La
Cañada, St. James the Less in La Crescenta, Holy Redeemer
in Montrose, and Our Lady of Lourdes in Tujunga.
On Tuesday morning, staff at St. James could see flames and
smoke from control fires set by firemen in the hills above the
parish, where three recreational vehicles owned by evacuated
parishioners were parked in the parking lot. St. James School,
which opened for fall semester on Monday, planned to close
Wednesday until further notice due to ongoing hazardous air
quality from smoke and falling ash.
The Benedictine monks at St. Andrew’s Abbey in Valyermo
were evacuated Monday night, and parochial missions associated with St. Mary Church in Palmdale –- the Acton Mission
which holds Sunday services at High Desert Junior High School
on the southeast side of the 14 freeway and Our Lady of the
Desert Mission in Little Rock –- had parishioners who had
been evacuated during the weekend.
Last weekend’s Mass attendance at Holy Redeemer located
below the 210 freeway was down by 25 percent, said Doug
Sinning, parish business manager.
Tough times . . .
Catholic schools in Glendale were closed Monday due
to hazardous air quality, including Incarnation School, Holy
Family School and Holy Family High School.
Our Lady of Lourdes School in Tujunga, which had started
the new academic year Aug. 26, also closed Monday and wasn’t
expected to open until at least Thursday of this week due to
poor air quality exacerbated by ash falling since Saturday. Mass
attendance over the weekend was light, according to Father
Freddie Chua, pastor.
“We’re just watching and waiting,” said Father Chua, who
added he received a courtesy call from a Catholic Charities
representative as well as many calls from concerned parishioners inquiring about the parish. “There’s been a good response
from the people,” said the priest.
At St. Lucy’s Priory High School for girls in Glendora,
which has remained open, Benedictine Sister Monica Collins,
principal, said the main problem was air quality.
“We had to stop any outdoor activity in terms of P.E.,” she
reported. “Sports have been canceled. The air got bad last
Tuesday because of the Morris Fire started directly behind us in
Azusa. Then the fire died down and the smoke started clearing
out when this new fire started. So the smoky air has been with us
for us for a week. You can not only smell it, but if affects your
eyes and ears, too. And the valley is still full of it today.”
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Smoke from the Station Fire has also been a problem for the
parishioners of Sacred Heart Church in Altadena. “They’re worried, and they’re staying indoors,” said Emma Mendez, office
manager. “A lot of our parishioners are elderly, so the weekend
Masses weren’t as full, which is understandable.”
Looking out the window last Friday, she could see flames
licking the brown foothills. But even now, when she has to go
outside, she wears a mouth and nose protective mask.
Many parishioners of St. Bede the Venerable Parish in the
hillside community of La Cañada Flintridge had to be evacuated, according to Msgr. James Gehl. The pastor said this was
one of the “struggles” for his families who had been away from
their homes now for a number of days. Also, the elementary
school was closed Tuesday.
Msgr. Gehl said the good news was no homes had been
destroyed and credits that to the lack of any Santa Anas. “If
there was wind, we would have been in major peril,” he stressed.
“It could have been tragic. Absolutely tragic.”
The veteran pastor said he was proud of his parishioners
for offering their homes to people who had been displaced,
although most evacuees wound up staying with relatives.
“The firefighters have also been doing an incredible job,”
Msgr. Gehl reported. “We’re going to post a banner on the front
of the church: ‘Thank you, firefighters. God bless you.’”
Bay Area faith community resources
■ Continued from page 12
on finding a job, and helping smaller and larger congregations combine forces.
In an independent effort, five parishes in the Archdiocese
of San Francisco’s central San Mateo County deanery have
formed an employment support group.
“The individual parishes have to step up and provide the
first line for their community members,” said Bill Tauskey,
a parishioner at St. Gregory in San Mateo. “There are things
that make sense to do in a combined fashion.”
The network is planning a county-wide jobs board
and other resources for what Tauskey sees as a growing
crisis.
“I don’t think we’ve seen the worst of it yet,” he said.
“I know people who are losing their jobs and struggling to
keep their homes. The biggest issue is emotional but right
behind that is the issue of, ‘How do I manage?’”
Editor’s note: Connie D’Aura participated on a panel at
the interfaith meeting.
Here is a partial list of job help resources in the Bay Area faith community:
Catholic Networking, a diocesan program, meets at St. Dominic Church three times per year. The next meeting is
Sept. 8, from 7 to 9 p.m. at Saint Dominic Church. Contact Connie D’Aura at [email protected].
Five parishes in San Mateo County – St. Gregory, St. Matthias, St. Luke, St. Bartholomew and Immaculate Heart
of Mary – have formed an employment support network. The network will sponsor a one-day “Impact Lab” on Sept.
12 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at St. Gregory, 2715 Hacienda St., San Mateo. Email to [email protected] or
call Bill Tauskey at (650) 340-9254.
Other resources include: San Francisco Interfaith Council, www.sf-interfaith.org; Jewish Vocational Services,
www.jvs.org; Grace Cathedral’s Grace Works, www.ministriesofgrace.org/graceworks/; Menlo Park Presbyterian
Careers Action Team, www.mppc.org/calendar/career-actions-ministry; Community Presbyterian Church, Danville,
www.jobconnections.org/index.shtml; St. Matthias Edgewood Works at [email protected]; St. Isidore Networking
Group (SING), Danville at [email protected]
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September 4, 2009
Holy Father “to the left of Obama” on economy: Jesuit
erning body with “real teeth” to guide the
global economy and sets a goal of decent
Pope Benedict XVI’s recent teaching employment for every person.
on the world economy extols the virtues of
“In some sections Benedict sounds
government intervention in the marketplace like a union organizer,” Father Reese said
and calls for an economic
of the encyclical, which
system based on the comechoes themes of Pope
mon good, Jesuit Father
Paul VI’s 1967 Populorum
Thomas Reese told an
Progressio. “Benedict, like
audience at the University
Paul VI, decries the scanof San Francisco Aug.
dal of glaring inequalities
16.
in the world and sees a
“Benedict is to the left
role for government in the
of almost every politician
redistribution of wealth.”
in America,” said Father
On that point, the Jesuit
Reese, former editor of
referred to a section of the
America magazine and
teaching in which the pope
a fellow at Georgetown
calls for distributive justice
Jesuit Father
University’s Woodstock
and social justice in the
Thomas Reese
Theological Center in
marketplace.
Washington, D.C. “I will use a lot of quotes
Father Reese, quoting the pope, said,
from the encyclical, because frankly, I “Grave imbalances are produced when
don’t think you would believe me if I economic action, conceived merely as an
simply told you how liberal Benedict is in engine for wealth creation, is detached
this encyclical.”
from political action conceived as a means
Father Reese quoted heavily from the of pursuing justice through redistribuencyclical letter “Caritas in Veritate” tion.”
(“Charity in Truth”), which the pope gave
Father Reese said the pope went further
in Rome June 29. It was the Holy Father’s in his social teaching than most politicians
third encyclical and first social teaching.
are able.
The priest’s talk was the second in a
“What politician would casually refer
series of lectures for the University of to redistribution of wealth or talk about an
San Francisco’s Lane Center for Catholic international governing body to regulate
Studies and Social Thought.
the economy?” Father Reese asked. “Who
As evidence, the Jesuit cited passages would call for increasing the percentwhere the pope warns against economic age of GDP devoted to foreign aid? On
development based on massive consumer economic issues, the pope is to the left
spending, calls for an international gov- of Obama.”
By Michael Vick
Highlights from “Caritas in Veritate”
(“Truth in Charity”), the Holy Father’s
recent encyclical on the global economy
• Life in Christ is the first and principal factor in development
• When the Church acts and celebrates, it promotes integral human development
• Economic growth has lifted billions of people out of misery but is weighed down by
malfunctions and dramatic problems
• The current economic crisis is an opportunity for discernment in which to shape a
new vision
• Authentic human relationships can be conducted within economic activity
• The economy needs people-centered ethics to function effectively
• Decent work permits workers to organize freely
• Unions should look outside their narrow interests to defend the rights of workers in
developing countries
• Development must include not just material growth but also spiritual growth
The encyclical also deals with environmental protection, and Father Reese
focused specifically on the pope’s call for
advanced nations to help the developing
world in this area.
“The pope argues for conservation and
the development of alternative sources of
energy, but is also concerned about those
countries that cannot acquire these means
for themselves,” Father Reese said. “The
pope asks more of developed countries than
any politician would dare.”
Father Reese said the economy the pope
seeks is one driven not by profit, but by
ethical considerations.
“Economics must be guided not simply
by profits but by an ethics which is peoplecentered,” Father Reese said. “Profit is not
an end in itself but a means toward the
common good.”
The full text of Pope Benedict’s encyclical
“Caritas in Veritate,” along with that of his
previous encyclicals “Spe Salve” and “Deus
caritas est,” can be found at the Vatican
website, www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/encyclicals/index_en.htm.
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Journey of faith
‘It’s never about the obvious in the Catholic faith’
Earlier this year on the vigil of Easter, the
author of this article completed the Rite of
Christian Initiation for Adults (RCIA) process
and was welcomed into the Catholic Church
in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. This is
her testimony.
I bowed my head over the crystal glass
bowl as my pastor poured a new life for me:
“In the name of the Father” – I felt the
water of God’s forgiveness.
“And of the Son” – I felt the water of
Jesus’ love.
“And of the Holy Spirit” – I no longer felt
the water; everything disappeared.
[Our Father, who art in heaven…]
Receiving the Sacraments of Initiation
will always be one of the greatest moments
in my life. At the same ceremony, witnessing my daughter’s Baptism and my husband
receiving his Confirmation and the Eucharist
is my greatest joy. They are my inspiration to
be the wife and mother God wants me to be.
[hallowed be Thy name…]
My daughter gently put her two small
hands over the side of the bowl as she received
the blessed water over her head. Her fingers
around the bowl seemed in the forefront. She
was just tall enough to have her chin above the
bowl. When she was looking in the bowl, she
smiled with a gentle grace, as if she could see
her reflection. I was in awe at her glow and
the apparent blossoming growth of our baby
that is now a little lady.
I remember so keenly the days of her tiny
fingers curled into mine, and her firm grip,
squeezing and holding them tight. The best feeling was I
now have great comfort knowing God will be the one to hold
her hands during the times she will not be holding mine or
her dad’s. I pray she remembers this day and will hold that
reflection in the bowl in her heart.
While my husband’s journey has been more silent in words,
it has been exceptionally more apparent in his actions. I feel
blessed that he has taken the leap of faith with us and has shown
his support by always being there. He goes the extra mile every
day without hesitating, just as Joseph did for his family.
A deeper appreciation of my Baptism came the next
morning when I cupped my hands under the stream of water
at the bathroom sink. As I splashed my face, I was refreshed
and recalled the blessing of the Sacrament; a gift, for a long
time, I felt unworthy of. To be graced by God as his daughter
has great meaning for someone who grew up without a dad.
I wasn’t really aware (during the formative years) that my
I am not sure one can fully comprehend the eternal love
of Jesus until one has received the body and blood of Christ.
[Give us this day our daily bread…] Taking only a few steps
up out of the pew and tripping – God’s signal I am not perfect – I bowed my head and cupped my hands to receive my
first Eucharist. I just couldn’t put it in my mouth right away.
I wanted to feel it and stare at it. It was a thin wafer, quite
pasty and doesn’t seem like much if you’re there just for the
taking. The last eight months of scripture study, prayers, and
sharing of stories through the RCIA process were wrapped
up in this amazing little circle of life.
It seems to me that it’s never about the obvious in the
Catholic faith. It challenges you to dig beneath the ego’s
surface to find the deeper relationship in your heart. You
have to let go of yourself and spill open to experience how
the Sacraments (the invisible), become visible. I used to
think my personal relationship with God didn’t need to be
shared. When Jesus broke the bread with his people, he was
giving them a part of him to carry on in their own lives. He
wasn’t teaching them about his relationship with God. He
was teaching them about their relationship with each other.
[and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who
trespass against us…]
For the first time my family and I have experienced an
“honest to God” sacred ritual, one that was witnessed and
blessed by a warm community of people who have come
before us in their own faith journey. The dark and cool
chill of the church [And lead us not into temptation…] was
transformed by the assembly of people. My RCIA comrades and I, gathered with our Godparents, stood together
on the steps of the sanctuary, ready for acceptance into the
Catholic family.
true Father had been walking by my side all along. I must
give great thanks to my loving mother, as her deep faith and
encouragement was indeed the best substitute.
The simple, yet profound act of pouring water is relational.
I am compelled to pour myself back into the loving God who
has given so much to me. As my pastor used chrism oil to
mark the Trinity across my forehead with purpose and care,
I felt the lightness at the bowl shift to the root of a great
responsibility, as Priest, Prophet and King. Wow, what duties!
I have to admit I am a little nervous about how I am going to
fill such shoes. [Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done…]
I cannot, not mention the moment of Jesus at the well
with the Samaritan woman with this deeper understanding
of water. He wasn’t looking for a drink of water, he had
hope she would believe in him and be open to his love. The
moment Jesus realized she was open to receiving him, his
thirst was quenched. [on earth as it is in heaven…]
The Rite of
Christian Initiation
for Adults is a
program for nonChristian adults
who feel called to
the Catholic faith;
and for adults
who are baptized
Christians and wish
to attain the fullness
of the Catholic faith
through reception
of the sacraments
of Holy Eucharist
and Confirmation.
Contact a parish
for more information.
Parish Diary
A question to myself
I am a mystery to myself.
present we see indistinctly, as in a mirror, but then (in us to feed his sheep, not
to count them.
That does not make me unusual. It is part of the heaven) face to face” (1 Cor 13:12).
People come
human condition.
But faith gives us some peace. It gives us enough
If you stop to think about it, you are a mystery to of an answer to life’s mystery that we have the courage from all different
kinds of backgrounds.
yourself too.
to go on even in doubt.
We wake up in the middle of the night with a
Faith, says the Letter to the Hebrews (11:1), “is the Sometimes life has
vague sense of unease. We lie there thinking: What am realization of what is hoped for and evidence of things beaten them up pretty
badly with the death
I doing? What is my life for? Am I wasting my time? not seen.”
Father Peter
of a loved one or the
Am I a failure?
We trust that there will be an answer someday.
Even in the middle of the day, we stop and stare out
Helping people find an answer to this mysterious failure of a career.
J. Daly
Sometime they want a
the window. Our thoughts drift. While we are driving, quality of our lives is the basic work of the Church.
greater unity
watching TV or eating dinner, we wonder,
with their spouse. Sometimes they want to
“What difference does all this make? How
say something to their children by their lives.
often have I done these routine tasks? Is life We point to Christ, the answer to the unease
Sometimes they don’t even know why they
more than just a series of routine chores and
of the human heart and human questioning. come.
minor pleasures? What really matters?”
When I feel discouraged with my own
Sometimes people come to church just to
life, I take comfort in this process. By helping
sit. That is why we leave church open during
the day. People need a place to focus their thoughts.
As our new year of classes for the Rite of Christian people to answer this basic mystery of their lives we are
They want to concentrate on this mystery of their lives Initiation of Adults begins, my parish is setting out doing something significant. It gives my life meaning.
The answer we offer is not complex. It can be
and bring it before the mystery of God.
again on the “journey in faith.” We are getting ready to
Being human means wondering – wondering about welcome seekers. We will walk with them from ques- summed up in one living word: Christ. We point to
what we are for and how we will end. We want to “tran- tions of “ordinary time” to the answers of Easter and Christ, the answer to the unease of the human heart and
scend” ourselves and find final and fulfilling answers the pascal mystery. (It is interesting that our answer is human questioning.
It is the most important work the church does. It is
about ourselves. But “man is a question to himself, and itself a mystery.)
only God can give him the full and ultimate answer,”
This eternal questioning is why we always have the most important work anyone can do.
states the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the another class. Every year I wonder if any adults will
Father Peter J. Daly, pastor of St. John Vianney
Modern World (“Gaudium et Spes”).
come to RCIA. But every year the Holy Spirit brings
Church in Prince Frederick, Maryland, writes
The problem is that we don’t get all of the answers them. Sometimes we get half a dozen, sometimes a
we seek. We only get glimpses. As St. Paul says, “At couple dozen. The numbers are not important. God sent
a column for Catholic News Service.
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September 4, 2009
Catholic
san Francisco
Northern California’s Weekly Catholic Newspaper
Guest Commentary
The love of husband and wife
By Bishop William J. Justice
If I would ask you where do you meet God? Where do you deeply
sense his presence? I am sure I’d hear many unique answers. Some may
say, “I meet God when I walk the beach along the Great Highway or
at Stinson Beach. The power of the waves and the salt air give me a
sense of God’s majesty.” Others may say, “I meet him when I’m hiking
along a trail in Marin, or when I walk through a grove of Redwoods,
or in the majesty of the High Sierra.” A further response could be in
the love of family and friends. And some may respond, “In the quiet
of prayer and the scripture.” God meets us in many ways.
In the letter of St. Paul to the Ephesians, we hear of a very special
place where God meets us, touches us: it is in the love of husband and
wife. The author of Ephesians is reflecting on the love of husband and
wife and he sees in this relationship Christ’s love for his Church, his
body: “Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ loved the Church
and handed himself over for her to sanctify her…that he might present
to himself the Church in splendor.”
As Christian married couples care for one another, struggle to grow in
the oneness of love, share the healing power of forgiveness and service
they are living the love of Christ who does the same thing for them and
all the members of his body the Church. This mutual love in marriage
brings about the fulfillment of the challenge of the book of Genesis,
“…the two shall become one flesh” and is the image, or as we might
say today, is the sacrament, of Christ’s union – presence – with us as
members of his body the Church.”
This is an incredible reality, especially because the daily routine and
challenges of marriage can begin to dull the realization of how intimate
is the marriage relationship not only between husband and wife but also
between Christ and them, and the power of their Christ – like love to
help us to see and touch the selfless love of Christ for us.
God can be found in the sea, in the mountains, in the events of our
lives, in prayer and quiet and in the presence of those who love us. This
profound daily presence is also revealed to us in the day in and day out
faithful presence of husband and wife to one another and family.
The Letter to the Ephesians states that this is a great mystery. Remember
that Greek was the language in which the Christian Scriptures were written.
In Greek, “mystery” has a much deeper meaning than in other languages.
It does not necessarily mean a mystery novel revealing who committed the
crime. Instead, it means that the reality of which it speaks is a mystery that
is so profound, so awesome, that you can never come to fully understand
the reality. But, and this is very important, you can understand something
of it. Love itself is a mystery. We can never fully understand why we fell
in love with a particular person, but we know we have and rejoice in it.
Husband and wife will never touch the limit of their love for one another if
they are open to one another, but they do know they can sense the mystery
by continuing daily to say “yes” to one another.
Ephesians is telling us that we will never touch the limit of Christ’s
love for us because there is no limit. Yet in viewing the journey of the
love of husband and wife we touch, have a taste of, this limitless divine
love. What a profound and wonderful mystery!
As the people of God in today’s first reading and the disciples of
Jesus in the Gospel, we say “Yes” to the mystery of God’s love and the
presence of that love in our lives, especially in husbands and wives.
We join Saint Peter and declare, “Master, to whom shall we go? You
have the words of eternal life.” You, Master, are love.
Jesus offers us himself in the Eucharist. Let us prepare to take, bless,
break and receive the mystery of Christ’s sacrifice so we might be faithful to our commitment to follow him: to hear the words of eternal life,
which we see, here on the altar and in the love of husband and wife.
Most Reverend William J. Justice, Auxiliary Bishop of
San Francisco, delivered this homily for the 21st Sunday
in Ordinary Time at St. Anne of the Sunset Church
and St. Monica Church in San Francisco.
Eucharist and vessels
It was very disturbing to read Mary-Alice
Eldon’s well intentioned letter (CSF Aug.
7). She suggests using disposable cups as an
answer to hygiene concerns regarding receiving
the chalice. When we receive the Communion
Cup, however, we are truly receiving the Blood
of Christ. It is a not just a symbol. Perhaps the
writer has not noticed how carefully a priest
cleanses the chalice so that not one drop of the
Precious Blood remains. The use of individual
cups later sent to recycling is not appropriate
for Catholic Communion.
Since we receive Our Lord fully, even
when we receive only the Host, we can simply refrain from receiving under both species
when we feel sick or are concerned about
our health. Perhaps our bishop and pastors
should remind us all of the proper respect
due to the Body and Blood of Our Lord and
to the vessels used at Mass.
Carolyn Rae Lemon
San Francisco
Charismatic renewal
Catholic San Francisco captured the heart
of the upcoming Holy Spirit Conference (Sept.
18, 1920 at Archbishop Riordan High School)
very succinctly in the Aug. 7 issue. Well
done! Thanks for the excellent publicity,
Ernie von Emster
Catholic Charismatic Renewal
San Carlos
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I appreciate the “absolute indifference” approach proposed by Ms. Ring
in her “complaining” letter to the editor, “Misanthropic columns” (Aug. 7).
Hopefully, all those of the same sentiment
who feel Mr. Weigel’s “misanthropic
columns” give them “a bad case of indigestion,” will refrain from reading his
column. This will allow the rest of us
who truly enjoy Mr. Weigel’s insight/
opinion about the Church, to not have to
endure seeing type-space taken up in the
“Letters” column by close-minded individuals, who are afraid of the truth, which
is still permitted to be disseminated in a
democratic society – at least for the time
being. Maybe the writer would like CSF
to publish a column by Michael Moore
or Al Gore, to ensure the “TRUTH” is
presented in this paper. Better yet, the
letter writer should refrain from reading
any of the Articles offered in the CSF and just
concentrate on the Chronicle, which I’m sure,
complies with her type of preferred journalism.
I have refrained from commenting on the many
readers who object to Mr. Weigel’s column.
However, I feel that my response here will
address all those readers, who, in the past, have
unjustly heaped criticism upon Mr. Weigel.
Michael C. Diliberto
Tiburon
Development or reversal?
In the Aug. 21 issue of Catholic San
Francisco, you will find a review, written by
Fr. Basil De Pinto, of John Noonan’s book,
“A Church That Can and Cannot Change: The
Development of Catholic Moral Teaching.”
Mr. Noonan gave a lecture earlier this year at
USF on this same book.
Despite what Father De Pinto says about
Noonan’s book, that “Nothing here is opposed
to established teaching,” others beg to disagree.
I suggest that before you run out and buy this
book, you should read the scholarly review of it
by theologian Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J. (God
rest his soul), published in First Things Magazine
(October 2005 – “Development or Reversal?”).
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In his article, Cardinal Dulles states that
the thesis of Noonan’s book seems to be that
“doctrinal change is in many cases an aboutface, repudiating the erroneous past teaching
of the Magisterium itself.”
The Cardinal does admit that Noonan is
quite knowledgeable about the subject matter
of his book (slavery, usury, religious freedom
and divorce), and is a skilled historian, lawyer
“and to some degree a theologian.” But he
also warns us that, “Noonan manipulates the
evidence to make it seem to favor his own
preconceived conclusions. For some reason
he is intent on finding discontinuity…”
Despite Father De Pinto’s disingenuous reassurances that everything in the
book is “within a framework of complete
adherence to the authority of the Church,”
it is clear that Noonan’s unspoken reason
for looking for discontinuity, or change in
doctrine, is to make the case for changing
any Church doctrine. Is this adherence to the
Magisterium, the teaching authority of the
Catholic Church?
If you don’t believe me, just talk to one
of the many dissenting Jesuits you will find
today, and ask them about the infallibility of
the Magisterium. They will invariably cite one
of the “manipulated” subjects of Noonan’s
book to show that the Magisterium is
not infallible, a direct contradiction
of the teachings of Vatican II and the
Catechism of the Catholic Church.
Manipulating the Truth makes it
a half Truth, and therefore a lie. The
“father of lies” would love to see the
teachings of the Church become corrupted, to disprove Our Lord’s promise
that He would be with the Church until
the end of the world, and that the gates
of Hell would not prevail against her.
Mr. Noonan, in his book, seems to be
intent on helping him out.
Robert Johnson
Fairfax
Call to Catholics
Where’s the outrage? Some weeks
ago during his visit to the Vatican,
President Obama assured Pope Benedict,
the Vicar of Christ, that he would work
to reduce the number of abortions in the
United States. Just a short time later,
however, the White House is leading
the charge for health care legislation that
would do exactly the opposite.
Are Catholics so misinformed
and disorganized that Obama need not fear
a backlash? Let’s hope not. The earthly lives
of countless thousands of innocent unborn
children are at stake!
Obama and members of Congress should
be deluged with phone calls, letters and e-mails
insisting that abortion be specifically excluded
from health care legislation. Only such a provision will prevent the huge increase in abortions
that is predicted if killing the unborn becomes
a federally insured procedure.
James Quinn
Burlingame
‘Real’ help suggested
It was irresponsible and shameful for
Catholic San Francisco to run the article on
Enrique Lora (“His Pockets often empty, a day
laborer copes with the recession,” Aug. 7). The
article encourages illegality, irresponsibility and
ignorance.
It is a story of Mr. Lora, a day laborer,
who leaves his wife and children in Mexico
and illegally moved to the Bay Area about five
years ago. He seldom works, primarily living off
charity, although he endlessly stands on street
corners waiting for work. What Mr. Lora probably doesn’t understand is that the little work he
does pick up comes from dishonest employers
who pay low wages, do not pay taxes or workers compensation insurance nor abide by health
or safety standards. His work harms honest
businessmen and he undercuts legal workers.
His remark that U.S. workers would not take a
plumbing job because there was an odor would
have been insulting but for Mr. Lora’s ignorance
of American workers and culture.
From every moral, legal and common
sense standpoint it would be best if Mr. Lora
returned home. Of most importance, he would
be reunited with his wife and two children and
he could start being a husband and father again.
LETTERS, page 19
September 4, 2009
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Consider This
Labor Day: Time for reflection
There is no little irony in celebrating Labor Day this
year, when our unemployment rate tops 9 percent. Reflecting
rather than celebrating might be more apt for this year’s
observance.
In better times Labor Day observances emphasized
sharing in the boom economy. But this year people who
never expected to be out of work find themselves part of a
growing demographic of the unemployed.
What went wrong? What kind of labor will we do?
What type of jobs disappeared, never to return?
Although Labor Day is a secular holiday with origins
in the labor movement, there are parallels to Catholic social
teaching. Work is not just a job to make money, the Church
teaches; it is essential to human dignity for persons to be
able to provide for themselves and their families.
Work is also a sharing in the creative actions of God.
Part of what went wrong was greed, chasing profits. The
economy depended heavily on consumers consuming in the
true sense of the word: using up, exhausting, depleting, so
that more could be made and sold.
Catholic social teaching has consistently spoken against
consumerism because of its premise that possessing material
things is the basis of happiness.
If consumers now have less money to spend, what will
replace consumerism as the keystone of an economy?
Money will seek markets.
What is the new growth field? Poverty.
Simply by moving the millions of tons of surplus food
from one continent to another to feed millions of starving
people would be a major enterprise. Projects to supply clean
and abundant water to the world would employ additional
hundreds of thousands.
A society that can put the power of a computer in the
palm of a hand, record hundreds of hours of music on matchbook-size devices, can certainly handle this challenge.
“In the search for solutions to the current economic
crisis, development aid for poor countries must be considered
a valid means of creating wealth for all,” Pope Benedict XVI
said in his latest encyclical, “Charity in Truth.”
This requires a sustained commitment, he said.
Globalization must be judged by what it does for the unity of
the human family and its development toward what is good.
Globalization must also “promote a person-based and
community-oriented cultural process of worldwide integration that is open to transcendence,” he said.
Outsourcing has brought jobs to Third World countries
because of the opportunity to use cheap labor, simply shifting
unemployment from one country to another.
A no more eloquent definition of the meaning of decent
work can be found than in Pope Benedict’s encyclical:
“It means work that expresses the essential dignity
of every man and woman in the context of their particu-
lar society: work that is
freely chosen, effectively
associating workers, both
men and women, with the
development of their community; work that enables
the worker to be respected
and free from any form
Stephen Kent
of discrimination; work
that makes it possible
for families to meet their
needs and provide schooling for their children without
the children themselves being forced into labor; work that
permits the workers to organize themselves freely and to
make their voices heard; work that leaves enough room for
rediscovering one’s roots at a personal, familial and spiritual
level; work that guarantees those who have retired a decent
standard of living.”
Contemporary crises provoke the statement “the world
will never be the same.” Reflecting upon, and then acting
upon, the true nature of work may one day make that statement accurate.
Stephen Kent, a former editor of
archdiocesan newspapers in Omaha and Seattle,
writes a column for Catholic News Service.
Twenty Something
Grace pouring down, how a family grows
This is it. This is the month that set the orbit for our entire
year. We are gearing up for two events that will happen in the
span of a week, the blink of an eye: My younger brother, Tony, is
getting married and my older sister, Angie, is having a baby.
The countdown we launched last winter, the number
that felt so big and distant, is rapidly dwindling. Now we
are scurrying around, setting things in place, whitening our
teeth and watching our waistlines – especially Angie’s.
There is a headcount to finalize and a nursery to complete,
plus final check-ins with the deejay and the doctor. We will try
to keep it all together, but it is all so tightly wound: steamed
dresses and high hopes, shined shoes and tangled nerves.
My final wedding task – scanning old photographs and
arranging them into a slideshow – has made me aware of the
swift passage of time. There is Tony, with all those freckles
and the dimples in his upper cheeks. He is a ring bearer, a
prom date, now a groom. There is Jodie, with those round
brown eyes and that button nose, riding in a Huggies box, visiting Santa, traveling to South Africa, walking down the aisle.
The snapshots play out just as the years did, in fast forward.
But my nostalgia isn’t wistful; it is tinged with cheer,
a sense that these two people belong together and that this
growing baby belongs in our family. What looks like change,
in many ways, is a continuation of what has been: the same
traditions, the same sacraments, the same stories and songs.
I was reminded of that last weekend, when my dad took
Angie’s firstborn, two-year-old Isaac, to the zoo we visited
every summer as kids. Dad is still a superb guide, whistling at
the orangutans and pointing out the tigers. Sparky the Seal performed the same tricks, and Isaac clapped from Dad’s lap.
We revisited the carousel we used to adore. Isaac looked
timid on the big painted horse, but after making several
rounds and finding us waving from the same spot each time,
he finally broke into a smile. The band organ hummed Cat
Stevens’ “Another Saturday Night,” and Dad sang along.
The next day the aunties threw Jodie a bridal shower,
where we supplied her with towels and blankets and Tony
trivia. I watched everyone greet her with genuine affection,
and I knew, as Teresa wrote in her card, that Jodie already
has become a part of our family, just like that little baby,
whose face and name we long to know.
Isn’t that how life goes, that God showers down double
blessings, and our thirsty souls are not only quenched, they
are doused. We blink and quiver, stunned by how much the
human heart can hold.
Pope Benedict XVI says our families provide “living
images of God’s love,”
flesh-and-blood examples
of divine mercy and
undeserved kindness.
When we learn to share
bedrooms and bathrooms,
attention and dreams,
we serve as a “sign and
instrument of unity for the
Christina
entire human race.”
This month my famCapecchi
ily will be thrilled by new
additions and comforted
by their familiar forms. We are building on what has come
before, blessed and ordained by the same everlasting God.
Soon we’ll enter into a flurry of camera flashes and
Hallmark cards, hugs and toasts, and somewhere between
the chicken dance and the contractions, there will be grace
pouring down.
Christina Capecchi is a freelance writer
from Inver Grove Heights, Minn.
Email her at [email protected].
The Catholic Difference
Faith and reason, irrationality and terror
The media’s obsession with salvation-through-latex in the
matter of AIDS prevention in Africa so dominated the coverage of
Pope Benedict XVI’s March pilgrimage to Cameroon and Angola
that one of the most impressive addresses of the pontificate was
virtually ignored. Delivered to the Muslim leaders of Cameroon
at the apostolic nunciature in Yaounde on March 19, Benedict’s
concise remarks represented perhaps the most refined statement
of the point the Pope has been making since his September 2006
Regensburg Lecture sent the world press into another tailspin.
Here are the key passages:
“My friends, I believe a particularly urgent task of religion
today is to unveil the vast potential of human reason, which is
itself God’s gift and which is elevated by revelation and faith.
Belief in the one God, far from stunting our capacity to understand ourselves and the world, broadens it. Far from setting us
against the world, it commits us to it. We are called to help
others see the subtle traces and mysterious presence of God in
the world which he has marvelously created and continually
sustains with his ineffable and all-embracing love. Although his
infinite glory can never be directly grasped by our finite minds
in this life, we nonetheless catch glimpses of it in the beauty
that surrounds us. When men and women allow the magnificent
order of the world and the splendor of human dignity to illumine
their hearts, they discover that what is ‘reasonable’ extends
far beyond what mathematics can calculate, logic can deduce,
and scientific experimentation can demonstrate; it includes the
goodness and innate attractiveness of upright and ethical living
made known to us in the very language of creation.
“This insight prompts us to seek all that is right and just,
to step outside the restricted sphere of our own self-interest
and act for the good of others. Genuine religion thus widens
the horizon of human understanding and stands at the base of
any authentically human culture. It rejects all forms of violence
and totalitarianism: not only on principles of faith, but also of
right reason. Indeed, religion and reason mutually reinforce one
another since religion is purified and structured by reason, and
reason’s full potential is unleashed by revelation and faith.”
For three years now, the Holy Father has been quietly
insisting that the problem of jihadist terrorism and the lethal
threat it poses, both to the West and to Muslims of moderate
temperament, is rooted in the detachment of faith from reason.
Cut that cord theologically, and you end up with a God of
sheer willfulness who can command anything, including the
murder of innocents. Tighten the cord that binds faith and
reason in a mutually supportive synthesis and the religious
case for jihadist terrorism collapses of its own irrationality.
No one knows why Islam, which in the early Middle Ages
created cultures open to philosophical inquiry and respectful
of the canons of reason, underwent what seems to have been
a kind of intellectual shut-down, so that by the 14th century
the wellsprings of intellectual imagination had largely dried
up throughout the Islamic world, leaving only the endless
exegesis of Islamic law by
Muslim lawyers. Whatever
its causes, however, this
desiccation was a crucial
factor in creating the irrationalism of contemporary
jihadism, embodied in the
Taliban slogan, “Throw
George Weigel
reason to the dogs – it
stinks of corruption.”
It would be helpful if
western governments took this history seriously – and took the
Pope’s analysis of the problem of faith and reason seriously.
It is not government’s task to foster the kind of interreligious
dialogue implied by Benedict’s speech in Yaounde: an interreligious dialogue that aims to understand revelation through
reason, thus opening up the prospects of a joint exploration of
the “splendor of human dignity” and the implications of that
dignity for religious freedom and the governance of just societies. On the other hand, governments that don’t recognize that the
detachment of faith from reason defines the fault-line between
the jihadists and the rest of us are likely to misread what remains
a mortal threat, eight years after 9/11.
George Weigel is Distinguished Senior Fellow of the
Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.
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September 4, 2009
A READING FROM THE BOOK OF ISAIAH
IS 35:4-7A
Thus says the Lord: Say to those whose
hearts are frightened: Be strong, fear not!
Here is your God, he comes with vindication; with divine recompense he comes to
save you. Then will the eyes of the blind be
opened, the ears of the deaf be cleared; then
will the lame leap like a stag, then the tongue
of the mute will sing. Streams will burst
forth in the desert, and rivers in the steppe.
The burning sands will become pools, and
the thirsty ground, springs of water.
RESPONSORIAL PSALM
PS 146:7, 8-9, 9-10
R. Praise the Lord, my soul!
The God of Jacob keeps faith forever,
secures justice for the oppressed,
gives food to the hungry.
The Lord sets captives free.
The Lord gives sight to the blind;
the Lord raises up those who were
bowed down.
The Lord loves the just;
the Lord protects strangers.
Twenty-Third
Sunday in
Ordinary Time
Isaiah 35:4-7a;
Psalm 146:7, 8-9, 9-10;
James 2:1-5; Mark 7:31-37
The fatherless and the widow the
Lord sustains,
but the way of the wicked he thwarts.
The Lord shall reign forever;
your God, O Zion, through all
generations. Alleluia.
A READING FROM
THE LETTER OF JAMES
JAS 2:1-5
My brothers and sisters, show no par-
tiality as you adhere to the faith in our
glorious Lord Jesus Christ. For if a man
with gold rings and fine clothes comes
into your assembly, and a poor person in
shabby clothes also comes in, and you
pay attention to the one wearing the fine
clothes and say, “Sit here, please,” while
you say to the poor one, “Stand there,” or
“Sit at my feet,” have you not made distinctions among yourselves and become
judges with evil designs?
Listen, my beloved brothers and sisters. Did not God choose those who are
T
here’s a logical meaning as to why
Jesus told the people not to tell anyone
or announce to anyone what happened
when he healed the deaf and dump man.
But, it is against human nature not to
announce good news, even with not so
good news we can’t wait to call friends
and relatives to tell them about it.
The people in the Mark’s Gospel are
able to witness only what they see: the
healing. Their hearts are hardened to see
the actual deeper meaning – that, as the
prophet Isaiah proclaimed, his prophecy of
peace and restoration was being fulfilled in
Jesus before their very eyes. Jesus ordered
them not to tell anyone in order that the
healing can be kept in perspective. The perspective is that God’s salvation has come in
Christ Jesus. The focus is not the miracle,
but that God’s salvation is at hand.
Psalm 146 is one of many psalms that
shout of praise to the God who throughout
all human history continually, saves
the people, transforming the poor
and weak to wholeness; the Lord
raises up those who were bowed
down, from injustice to righteous,
and turns distress and sorrow to
joy. The Gospel story of the healing of the deaf-mute confirmed the
promise that came through in the
first reading, which becomes fully
incarnate, touching and touchable,
in Jesus.
Most of us think that blindness
is worse than deafness. But Helen
Keller, who was blind and deaf
said, that deafness is a far greater
handicap. When you cannot hear, a
lot of doors in the normal world slam shut.
Turning radio or television on is useless
and pointless. Conversation with someone
is next to impossible.
Scripture reflection
DEACON FAIVA PO’OI
The healing touch of Jesus
Thank goodness we have sign language, but only a few know sign language. After a while you feel alone and
marginalized, abandoned and neglected.
The story of the deaf man who had a
speech impediment in the Gospel gives
us an insight of how the deaf and mute
man felt after Jesus healed him. He prob-
ably felt for the first time that he was
part of life.
This Gospel teaches us something
personal about Jesus: that he is filled
with compassion. We see this
especially in the way he heals the
man. He took him away from the
crowd, knowing that he might be
embarrassed, and feel different and
out of place. Jesus shows a real
compassion for him. The healing
of the deaf and mute man gives us
hope in our spiritual journey. The
deaf and dumb man’s plight is not
unlike our own plight.
Many of us today are deaf and
dumb – not physically, but spiritually. I have talked to many married
couples and others who find that
they don’t pray as often as they
used to. They come to Mass just
to fulfill the Church’s obligation. My
advice to them is that they need to pray
often, especially at home with family,
and privately – in driving, moments at
poor in the world to be rich in faith and
heirs of the kingdom that he promised to
those who love him?
A READING FROM THE GOSPEL
ACCORDING TO MARK
MK 7:31-37
Again Jesus left the district of Tyre
and went by way of Sidon to the Sea of
Galilee, into the district of the Decapolis.
And people brought to him a deaf man
who had a speech impediment and begged
him to lay his hand on him. He took him
off by himself away from the crowd. He
put his finger into the man’s ears and,
spitting, touched his tongue; then he
looked up to heaven and groaned, and
said to him, “Ephphatha!”— that is, “Be
opened!” — And immediately the man’s
ears were opened, his speech impediment
was removed, and he spoke plainly. He
ordered them not to tell anyone. But the
more he ordered them not to, the more
they proclaimed it. They were exceedingly
astonished and they said, “He has done all
things well. He makes the deaf hear and
the mute speak.”
work and at other times. Also, we may
need to refocus and readjust our way of
praying.
We all feel the same as those people
who cannot pray often. We, too, sometimes find it hard to pray as we used to.
We, too, find it hard to speak to God or
hear the voice of God, especially in a
life situation. What can we do? We can
do what the Syrophoenician woman did
when she stopped Jesus (on the same
route before they brought the deaf-mute
man) and prayed aggressively for the
afflicted child. Or, we can do what the
deaf-mute man did. We can seek out
Jesus, go off with him, away from the
crowd, and spend some quality time in
his healing presence.
This Sunday’s Gospel invites us to
give Jesus an opportunity to touch our
tongue to loosen it, spiritually, and to
put his fingers in our ears, and open
our minds and heart to the Lord, and let
Jesus do for us what he did for the deaf
and dumb man. We need to let our Lord
Jesus touch us and heal us of our deafness and dumbness. This is the message
of this Sunday’s scriptures set before
us. This is the mystery that this Sunday
liturgy celebrates. This is the invitation
that Lord Jesus makes to each one of us.
Jesus offers the simple word that unlocks
our hearts and minds, brings family and
friends together, and opens our eyes and
hearts and re-introduces us all to the
beauty of God’s creation—“Ephphatha!
Open up!”
Deacon Faiva Po’oi serves at
St. Timothy Parish in San Mateo
and also is the Archdiocesan
liaison to the Tongan community.
Spirituality for Life
Love - Illusion and reality
In her novel, “Brief Lives,” Anita Brookner makes this
observation: When we are young, she says, and hear sad love
songs we think that the sadness and disappointment are a prelude
to the experience of love rather than the result of experience in
love. This happens, she suggests, because we are young and
still aspire to sublimity, but when we get older we realize that
sublimity is in devastatingly short supply, that the act of love is
finite, that we are disappointed about this, and that what we long
for is permanent transformation.
I’m not sure that I agree completely. Most certainly, sadly,
sublimity is in devastatingly short supply and this brings more
sadness to our lives than we ever consciously realize, but I’m less
certain whether the sadness expressed in sad love songs speaks
of love’s finitude or of something else.
Most sad love songs do in fact express a frustration or disappointment that is a prelude to love. Of what do sad songs speak?
Frustration, betrayal, impossibility, jealousy, regret, separation,
death: The frustration of loving someone who doesn’t love you;
the heartache of longing for someone when the situation is impossible; regret over some mistake; the bitterness of being betrayed in
love; the anguish of separation; the death of someone before the
love could be complete; the pain of jealousy. All of these in some
way are a prelude to love, at least to full love. All speak of the
sadness that comes from not being able to fully actualize love.
But Brookner speaks of something else. The sadness and
disappointment she names come from the experience of a love
that is not frustrated, betrayed, impossible, jealous, separated,
or cut off by death. The sadness and disappointment she articulates come from the experience of love’s finitude, from love’s
congenital inadequacy on this side of eternity, and from the
realization that anyone that we love on earth, no matter how
good or wonderful he or she might be, isn’t God and can never,
all alone, be enough for us.
What Brookner describes is what we feel at the death
of a honeymoon. All honeymoons end, some for bad reasons
- disinterest, boredom, over-familiarity, lack of emotional
discipline, or flat-out infidelity by one or both of the partners.
But honeymoons end too for good reasons. A honeymoon can
have done its work, served its time, and the disillusionment
and disappointment that set in are then a positive invitation to
move the relationship to a
deeper level. How?
Disillusion can be
good or bad. To be disillusioned is have “an illusion dispelled”. The love
that we feel when we are
on a honeymoon is not
an illusion. It’s real, masFather
sively real, sometimes to
Ron Rolheiser
the point of suffocation.
But something isn’t real
on a honeymoon and that
illusion must eventually be dispelled. What isn’t real?
When we are in the honeymoon stage of love with someone,
we aren’t so much in love with that person (though we think we
are) as we are in love with love itself, with the experience of
being in love, with what being in love is doing to us. We’re in
love with a wonderful, powerful, fiery energy inside of us. We’re
SPIRITUALITY FOR LIFE, page 19
September 4, 2009
Letters . . .
Although Mexico is also having tough economic
times, no one is starving, and that economy has
a much greater need for Mr. Lora’s skills. His
home is Mexico City, a thriving metropolis of
18 million. And even if he would need to live
off charity, we could help, and it would be less
expensive than in the U.S.
But he stays, it seems, because the open
borders lobby and CSF are using Mr. Lora and
tempting him with an uncertain “Immigration
Reform.” The article comes to its conclusion with
Mr. Lora being quoted, “We ask the government
to sign an immigration reform.” And certainly
with legalization, Mr. Lora could sign up for
additional government programs, welfare and
handouts, and could bring in his wife, children
and parents who could do the same.
Unfortunately for Mr. Lora, he’s too late.
The State and Nation are broke. Too few people
contributing, too many taking, and a recession
Spirituality for Life . . .
in love with an archetype: When John falls in
love with Mary, initially he is not so much in
love with Mary as he is in love what she is
carrying, all of femininity, the feminine side of
God. That’s why when we are first in love with
someone that other person alone is sufficient to
take away our restlessness and loneliness. It is
enough just to be with him or her. Functionally,
he or she is God for us. That’s why obsessions
in love can be so paralyzing.
But always, even if we are wonderfully
faithful to each other, this feeling eventually
disappears. No matter how good someone is,
eventually he or she will not be enough for us.
A certain necessary disillusionment sets in and,
with it, a certain disappointment and sadness.
We discover that we have married a human
person, not God. Only God is enough.
Our disillusionment is an invitation to
move from being in love with an archetypal
has put the country into a giant financial hole.
The lead article in that same edition of CSF
quotes the Bishops’ lobbyist of the dire cuts in
the State’s welfare programs with the lobbyist
trying to convince us that there is only a little bit
of fraud and abuse going on in these programs.
Regarding illegal immigration, many
Americans are feeling like fools and chumps.
While Americans are paying their taxes and
making charitable contributions to the very
programs that allow Mr. Lora to stay here, his
wealthy and middleclass countrymen (almost all
of whom are Catholic) have all but washed their
hands of him. They pay little taxes to educate or
provide for their poor, even as they urge more
of their citizens, like Mr. Lora, to emigrate with
seemingly little more care than throwing out the
daily trash. In addition, this type of immigration
is unsustainable. Surveys show that almost half
of Mexico’s 110 million people want to move
to the U.S. There are also 160 other countries
in the world.
Father Luis Cobacame, a priest in Hermosillo
Archdiocese of Mexico, says much the same thing
energy (with God as manifest in a human
person) to actually loving and caring about a
concrete, singular, human being. This is akin
to what the apostles felt at the transfiguration
when, after the beauty that Jesus had displayed
in his transfigured body disappeared, they
realized that what remained “was only Jesus”.
Many is the man or woman who, at the end
of a honeymoon within which they had been
looking at a transfigured partner, realizes: “It’s
only Mary! It’s only John!”
Initially this is felt as sadness, disappointment. But it’s not an invitation to lowered, stoic
expectations. On the contrary, it’s an invitation
to a deeper journey into that relationship, one
within which eventually, without illusion, we
will again see the other person as transfigured,
as we first saw him or her on the honeymoon as eternal, as Godlike, as enough.
Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser,
theologian, teacher, and award-winning
author, is president of the Oblate
School of Theology in San Antonio, TX.
from a Mexican perspective and questions the
wisdom of lobbying for U.S. immigration reform.
According to The Pilot, official newspaper of the
Archdiocese of Boston, Father Cobacame says
that the Mexican government should tend to the
social and economic needs of Mexico instead
of lobbying for immigration reform in the U.S.
which won’t resolve the poverty issues of Mexico.
He goes on to say that lobbying for immigration
reform has been a pretext for delaying development, mainly in education in the countryside.
Instead, an economy has developed that is based
on migration and remittances.
But we, as Catholic Americans can help, not
only Mr. Lora, but the poor of the predominantly
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Catholic region of Mexico and Central America
as well, which is the primary source of illegal
immigrants. Let’s start a sister-to-sister parish program where each U.S. parish adopts a Mexican
or Central American parish. Money is only a
small part of what American Catholics have to
offer. More importantly, we can offer hope, selfrespect, education, democracy, respect for the law
and help with the fight against corruption. This is
truly how we can provide justice for our poorer
brothers and sisters. Let’s help Mexicans make
Mexico such a great country that Mr. Lora would
never think of running away again.
John J. Wallace
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Author explores how U.S. churches reach out around the world
“BOUNDLESS FAITH: THE GLOBAL OUTREACH
OF AMERICAN CHURCHES” by Robert Wuthnow.
University of California Press (Berkeley, Calif., 2009).
345 pp., $26.95.
Reviewed by Brother Jeffrey Gros, FSC
From its earliest centuries the church has confessed
its global, catholic nature, connecting all of its people
and reaching out to all peoples of the world. The modern
interconnected communication, transportation, cultural and
economic systems have made it possible for Christians to
relate to the world’s peoples in wholly new and immediate
ways, intensifying the possibilities of catholicity.
The ecumenical and missionary movements have
enabled Orthodox and Protestant Christians, often defined
by national boundaries, to participate in this global catholicity in new and dynamic ways. In “Boundless Faith: The
Global Outreach of American Churches,” Robert Wuthnow,
one of the leading Protestant sociologists of religion, documents how the U.S. churches participate in this missionary
catholicity.
The author begins by questioning a number of myths
about American religion: 1) that faith is declining because
of secularization, a phenomenon that is occurring in Europe;
2) that congregations are turning in on themselves and
abandoning their commitments to global mission, relief and
advocacy, and 3) that the primary actors in sociopolitical
advocacy are conservative evangelicals, eclipsing the influence of Catholic social teaching and that of the ecumenically
oriented Orthodox and Protestant churches. He carefully
documents by his sociological research the fallacies in these
three misunderstandings of the American churches.
The book includes chapters on changes in American
religion, developments in global Christianity, four ways
of assessing globalization, transformation in international
church relations, the direct engagement of local parishes in
global outreach, the roles of the churches in U.S. foreign
policy, and finally some challenges before the churches in
this contemporary culture. The volume is
well documented and gives a fair balance
among Catholic, evangelical Protestant
and historic Protestant churches, their
styles, influence and different approaches
to global outreach.
The partnership between the U.S. government and faith-based communities such
as Catholic Relief Services has more than
a century of experience. While evangelical voices seem to be the loudest in recent
years, Catholic social teaching and that of
ecumenical communities, like the National
Council of Churches, may have more influ-ence on peace and justice witness becausee
they are better connected with governmental
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agencies at all levels, over decades of mutual
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collaboration, lobbying and listening.
In American work on hunger relief,
Catholic
agencies distribute more resources than those of any other
U.S. church agency.
The author proposes four social factors that have contributed to the increased global outreach of the churches
– shrinkage of distance because of communication and
transport; enhanced cultural interchange, with the dominance of English and pervasiveness of the media; the
effectiveness of the myriad of faith-based humanitarian
agencies like those of the Catholic and other churches;
and the global consciousness and energy of parishes and
congregations.
While the Catholic Church claims a global catholicity, this
trait – the interdependence and responsibility of Christians
worldwide – is shared by other communities, and demonstrated by their extensive engagement across the globe.
The author concludes with five tensions
that challenge U.S. churches’ effectiveness
in their
th outreach: 1) connecting the global
and local; 2) balancing service and spirituality;
tual 3) “doing for” versus “partnering
with”;
wit 4) dealing with a legacy of international
tio intervention and economic dominance
na by our country, which is often seen
as a counter-witness to Christian values
as they affect peoples in other parts of
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being
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This volume provides a rich synthesis
of sociological teachings that
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affirm a great tradition of the American
churches, provide good news about
how the Gospel is being lived out,
and yet outline admonitions that can
well enhance
enha the global mission of the churches
as they move forward together. It is a well-written and
researched volume, bringing together for the general reader
a heartening story often overlooked when the only resource
used to understand the U.S. churches is the secular press or
even denominational periodicals.
Brother Gros, a member of the Christian Brothers,
teaches ecumenical and historical theology
at Memphis Theological Seminary in Memphis,
Tenn. For the 2009-10 academic year, he is
the Kenan Osborne visiting professor at
the Franciscan School of Theology in Berkeley
Filming starts on biography of Opus Dei founder
WASHINGTON (CNS) – Filming has begun in Argentina
on a biography of St. Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer, the
founder of Opus Dei. The movie, “There Be Dragons,” is
expected to be released in the summer or fall of 2010.
Directing the film is Roland Joffe, whose past films
include “The Mission” and “The Killing Fields.”
Joffe, who also wrote the screenplay, said he was not told
what to write or how to present either the saint or the group,
a personal prelature within the church, after earlier rejecting
an offer to film a script provided by Opus Dei.
The film is set at the time of the Spanish Civil War,
which tore apart the European nation during the second
half of the 1930s.
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creative freedom, Joffe said St.
Josemaria “made no attempt to influence the people he worked with in
terms of their politics.” The director
spoke at an Aug. 23 press conference
in Argentina that was conducted in
English, Spanish and Portuguese.
“At that time, that’s pretty heroic.
That’s a time when almost all human
beings were faced with making
extraordinary choices,” he said.
Charlie Cox, whose past film
credits include “Stardust” and
“Casanova,” plays the priest. Wes
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Manolo, a friend of Josemaria’s who
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Oct. 1-4: Cathedral Festival of Flowers- The
International Year. The Cathedral Festival of Flowers was
founded in 2007. In 2009, Cathedral Festival of Flowers
– The International Year will welcome some of the most
renowned floral artists from the Bay Area alongside
special guest designers from the Northern Ireland Group
of Flower Arranging Societies, the National Association
of Floral Arrangement Societies of England, and the
Association of Irish Flower Arrangers. The Festival will
conclude on Oct. 4 at 4 p.m. with a Festival of Choirs.
A complete schedule of events for the festival can be
found at: www.cathedralflowers.org.
Oct. 15: St. Damien’s Day at the Cathedral with
events at 1:30 and 7:30 p.m. The Belgian born Father
Damien (priest to the lepers of Molokai and later
becoming a leper himself and dying from the disease) will be canonized on October 11, in Rome. On
October his relic will be brought to the Cathedral, en
route to the Cathedral in Honolulu where the relic will
remain. 1:30 p.m.: “Damien”: A one man Performance
by New York actor Casey Groves for young people.
7:30 p.m.: Reception and Veneration of the Relic
of St. Damien of Molokai. Archbishop George H.
Niederauer will receive the relic of St. Damien with
prayer, word and song led by Bay Area members of
the Pacific Islands, all are invited to attend.
Oct. 24, 5:30 p.m.: Cathedral Gospel/Jazz Mass:
This very spirited, annual Celebration of the Liturgy,
led by the Bay Area Gospel Mass Choir, will include
the St. Ignatius College Preparatory Jazz Ensemble
and a special appearance by Edwin Hawkins.
Oct. 24, 8:30 p.m.: “Hope for the World Concert”
featuring: Edwin Hawkins and The New Edwin Hawkins
Singers celebrating 40 years of their well-known hit
song, “Oh Happy Day.” Hawkins will be joined by fellow Grammy award winning Gospel singer, Yolanda
Adams, as he launches a World Tour, which will include
prayer for world harmony and peace by leaders of all
faiths. Tickets for this event are $25 and will be on sale
at the Cathedral Office. Call (415) 567-2020.
Oct. 25, 3:30 p.m.: Organ Symphony Concert
featuring Anthony Hammond with the works of
Pierre Cochereau (1924-1984), one of the most significant organists of the last century famous for his
improvisations and compositions. In 1974, the artist
came to St. Mary’s Cathedral to improvise an organ
symphony. Anthony Hammond, a doctoral candidate
at Bristol University in England, has reconstructed
the symphony and will perform it here, on the original
instrument. Admission is free.
Year for Priests Events
Sept. 18, 6 p.m.: St. Patrick’s Seminary and
University Gala 2009 honoring Most Reverend William
J. Justice, Auxiliary Bishop of San Francisco at
Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption, Gough and
Geary Blvd. in San Francisco. Tickets at $150 each
include hosted cocktail reception and dinner. Evening
also features a silent wine and art auction as well as
a live auction. Black tie is optional. Proceeds benefit
seminary programs. Call (650) 289-3321 for information or to purchase tickets.
St. Patrick’s Seminary and University announces
its Year for Priest Speaker Series. Takes place at 7
p.m. beginning Oct. 7 in Olier Hall at the seminary,
320 Middlefield Rd. in Menlo Park. Oct 7: “Priest in
the New Testament” with Ruth Ohm. Dr. Ohm teaches
New Testament at St. Patrick’s with special interest
in Pauline material and ancient Byzantine Rite liturgy.
Tickets are $10 per session or $35 for all four. Seating
is limited. Register on-line at www.stpatricksseminary.
org under Speaker Series. Register by mail with payment to: Speaker Series, St. Patrick’s Seminary and
University, 320 Middlefield Road Menlo Park 94025.
Support Resources Relevant
to the Economy
Edgewood Works: An employment support group,
meets Mondays 9 a.m. – 11 a.m. and 4th Thursdays
from 7 – 9 p.m. in Merry Room at St. Matthias Church,
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September 13: Retreat for Serious Discerners! The
Sisters of Nazareth invite young women seriously considering religious life to Discerners’ Retreat at Nazareth
House, Los Angeles. Please contact Sister Fintan,
CSN for reservations, more information. E-mail: [email protected] or call (310) 216-8170.
Special Liturgies
Sept. 5, 11 a.m.: First Saturday Mass at Holy Cross
Cemetery, Colma, All Saints Mausoleum Chapel. Call
(650) 756-2060 or visit www.holycrosscemeteries.com.
Food and Fun
Knights of Columbus from St. Augustine Council #9714 visited the St. Vincent de
Paul Society of San Francisco’s Multi-Service Center - South. The facility is the
largest shelter in Northern California. “It is a prelude to our doing some volunteer
work there in the coming months,” said Anthony Peligrino. The facility helps almost
340 people each night and 150 during the day. Assistance can include a place to
stay as well as meals, help in finding a job and housing, and use of a computer lab.
SVDP staffer, Lynea White, led the tour. Back from left: Anthony Peligrino, Eddie
Bean, Loy Ibanez, Lynea White, Nestor Cu, and Mel Zagala. Middle from left:
Fale McMullin, Nestor Dimailig, Larry Formalejo, Ed Oraa, Joe Santos,
Joe Torres, Martin Maralit. Sandy Alipio is kneeling.
1685 Cordilleras Rd. in Redwood City There is no cost to
attend. Drop-ins welcome. Call (650) 906-8836 or e-mail
[email protected] for more information.
Tuesdays, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.: Stress Management
Group - Benefit from relaxation techniques, mind
and body awareness practices, group support.
Takes place at Catholic Charities CYO, 36 West 37th
Avenue, San Mateo. Cost is $15 per sessionEnroll
by calling Catholic Charities CYO at (650) 295-2160,
ex.199. Pamela Eaken, MFTI, and Natasha Wiegand,
MFTI, facilitate the sessions. The program is supervised by David Ross, Ph.D.
Pauline Books and Media
Daughters of St. Paul, 2640 Broadway, Redwood
City (650) 369-4230 - Visit www.pauline.org
Second Wednesday of the Month, 7 p.m.: Catholic
Fiction Book Club. Delve into some of the greatest
Catholic novels of our times and times past. Discover
the beauty of the written word and the power of literature to nourish faith. Discuss various works of Catholic
literature and how their timeless themes relate to our
own lives. Oct. 14, “A Thread of Grace” by Mary Doria
Russell; Nov. 11, “Helena” by Evelyn Waugh
Reunions
Class of ’60 from Holy Angels Elementary
School in Colma is planning a reunion.
Classmates should be in touch with Linda Brewer
at [email protected].
Sept. 6, 12:15 p.m.: Centennial Mass commemorating first century of Star of the Sea Elementary
School and its now closed sister-school, Star of the
Sea Academy, at Star of the Sea Church, 8th Ave.
at Geary Blvd. in San Francisco. Archbishop George
H. Niederauer will preside with Msgr. Floro Arcamo,
pastor, among the concelebrants. Reception and
rededication rites follow the liturgy. Call (415) 221—
3399 or e-mail [email protected].
Sept. 19, 11:15 a.m.: St. Brigid High School
all-school reunion at Presidio Golf Club. Contact
Eleanor Matheu at (415) 566-5331.
Sept. 19, 20: Mercy High School, Burlingame,
class of ’59. Celebration begins Sept. 19 in Millbrae
at home of Kathy O’Marie. Call (650) 697-1093 by
Sept. 10. Events Sept. 20 begin with Mass at 10:30
a.m. in Motherhouse Chapel and buffet lunch later
in Kohl Mansion. Contact school alumnae office at
(650) 762-1190 or visit www.mercyhsb.com.
Sept. 20 with Mass at noon: Our Lady of Mercy
Elementary School, class of ’68. Contact Jean
Anderson at (650) 756-3395 or [email protected].
Oct. 3, 11 a.m.: Members of the eighth grade graduating class of 1954 from San Francisco’s Holy Name
of Jesus Elementary School will gather at Caesar’s
Restaurant, Powell and Bay Street at 11 a.m. with lunch
is at 12:30. If interested, please call Claire Cook Norton
(916) 791-2215 or email [email protected].
St. Thomas More Society
Club is oldest fellowship of Catholic lawyers,
law students, paralegals and judges in the
West. Visit www.stthomasmore-sf.org, or e-mail
[email protected].
Sept. 24, noon: Monthly luncheon of St. Thomas
More Society at the Family Club, 545 Powell Street, San
Francisco, honoring all past St. Thomas More Award
recipients and past presidents of the group. Jesuit Father
Stephen Privett, president, University of San Francisco,
will speak on Catholic education and the USF mission.
For more information about the Society, luncheons and
other events, and how to become a member, visit www.
stthomasmore-sf.org, or contact Society President Greg
Schopf, [email protected].
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Sept. 10, noon: Luncheon of Serra Club of
S.F. honoring our three newly ordained priests for the
Archdiocese of San Francisco. Italian American Social
Club, 25 Russia St., San Francisco. Non members
welcome. Cost $16. Contact: Paul Crudo at (415)
566-8224 or [email protected]
Sept. 12: Serra Clubs of San Francisco, San Mateo
and Marin honor seminarians and their families at our
annual Mass and bar-b-que at St. Patrick’s Seminary ,
320 Middlefield Road, Menlo Park. Mass at noon followed by bar-b-que. Cost $20. Contact Art Green by
Sept.7 at (650) 576-1255 or [email protected]
Sept. 16, noon: Spaghetti and meatball lunch at
Immaculate Conception Chapel, Folsom off Cesar
Chavez/Army St. in San Francisco. Tickets are $8 per
person. The family-style meal includes salad, bread,
pasta and homemade meatballs. Beverages are available for purchase. The meal is served in the church hall,
beneath the chapel. Call (415) 824-1762.
Sept. 18, 19, 20: “San Francisco - City by the Bay,”
annual St. Robert Parish festival, Fri. 6 – 11 p.m.; Sat. 1
– 11 p.m.; Sun. 12:30 – 6 p.m. Come enjoy festive entertainment all weekend long. A variety of delicious foods,
games, rides for kids, raffle prizes and bingo. Valet parking available. Located at 1380 Crystal Springs Road, San
Bruno For more information please call (650) 589-2800.
Sept. 25, 26, 27: 71th Annual St. Philip School Festival
and Centennial Parish Celebration- Festivities start
with parish dinner Sept. 25 at 6 p.m. Then two days of
games, activities and free entertainment Sept. 26, 27
from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Teen dance Sept. 26 at 7 p.m.
Fun takes place on parish campus at 24th and Diamond
Street in San Francisco’s Noe Valley. Visit www.stphilipfestival.org or call (415) 824-8467.
Sept. 26, 6 – 10 p.m.: Aloha, an evening at St. Thomas
More Church, Brotherhood Way at Thomas More Way
in San Francisco, featuring the best of Hawaii - Roast
Pig and a Polynesian dinner show. Tickets are $25 for
adults and $10 for children 6-12 years old. No-host bar.
Proceeds benefit the parish. Call (415) 452-9634.
Sept. 26, 8 a.m.: Friends of the Poor Walk: The St.
Vincent de Paul Society of San Francisco invites you to
participate in the Friends of the Poor Walk. The 5K walk
around Lake Merced will raise awareness and funds
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betrayal and mistakes,” Joffe said. Further, “I don’t know if
there’s anybody who wants to live his life without meaning.
So it’s also a story about people trying to find meaning about
their lives, and that’s a powerful kind of story.”
Responding to a question about source material for the
script, Joffe said, “I researched as much as any writer can.
History is not available to us; attempts at history are available to us. As an artist, one takes a difficult step that fiction
is a way of understanding the truth.
“There were certain liberties I could take if those liberties
could take us to the personal issues that people felt,” Joffe
continued, saying he was taken with St. Josemaria’s idea
that “a way to God is found through everyday life. And that
life is also found through the Spanish Civil War. That is still
felt by Spaniards very much today.”
“I’ve been to many Opus Dei centers, and met many Opus
Dei members (in doing research for the movie). And I’ve yet
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been to church infrequently, but I’ve never stopped going.”
Cox added there is “an inner journey I’ve been going
on during this film. I don’t know where it will lead. My
relationship with the Catholic Church and with God has
certainly been profoundly affected for the better throughout
this process,” he added.
Asked whether he thought St. Josemaria was really a
saint, Cox answered, “It’s an impossible question to answer.
... I have to leave that up to the Catholic Church and not
to myself.”
Joffe recalled that when he made “The Mission,” which
dealt with Jesuit missionary activity in South America at
the time of the slave trade, he used two Jesuits as advisers:
a “very, very right-wing Jesuit – those things do exist – and
a left-wing Jesuit, Father Daniel Berrigan.”
He said he asked Father John Wauck, an Opus Dei priest
who is a professor of literature and communication of the
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Seek Comfort in Prayer Together
at the Rachel Mourning Shrine.
Remembering our babies who died
before, at, or after birth.
We hold these children
gently in our hearts
and pray for all those who
mourn for them.
“For I will turn their mourning into joy.” Jeremiah 31:13
Mass and Healing Liturgy
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Bishop William Justice, principal celebrant
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Colma, CA
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