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Gulf residents facing
hardships, unknown
effects of oil disaster
Catholic
san Francisco
Newspaper of the Archdiocese of San Francisco
(PHOTO BY JOSE LUIS AGUIRRE/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)
By Janet Marcel
Catholic News Service
Parishioners from around the Archdiocese gather in the Plaza in front of St. Mary’s
Cathedral, June 19, to pray the Rosary for Priests, closing the Year for Priests.
SCHRIEVER, La. – Fishing, swimming and interacting at all with the water off the coast of Louisiana is
off-limits to residents, and their livelihoods and quality
of life are suffering, said the pastor of Our Lady of the
Isle Parish in Grand Isle.
“They can’t fish; they can’t swim; they can’t interact with the water; they can’t live off the food from
the water,” Father Mike Tran told the Bayou Catholic,
newspaper of the Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux. “This
oil spill has had a traumatic impact on the people of
the island.”
Grand Isle is a barrier island at the mouth of Barataria
Bay where it meets the Gulf. The island is connected to
the mainland of Louisiana by a causeway.
“There are no more tourists; basically everything is
shut down. We can’t even enjoy the fresh air when we
go outdoors because of the smell of the oil that is continually washing up on the beach,” the priest said. “And
now, with the beginning of hurricane season, the stress
levels of the residents have risen even more.”
Father Tran also reported that the number of people
attending Mass at the Grand Isle church has decreased
on weekends and collections are down by approximately
$1,000 a week so far. He said he is worried about the
future of the parish.
Grand Isle residents and their counterparts across
the Houma-Thibodaux Diocese and the rest of the Gulf
EFFECTS OF OIL SPILL, page 3
Faithful of Archdiocese invited to priesthood ordination June 26 at Cathedral
Archbishop George H. Niederauer will ordain
transitional Deacons Wade Bjerke and David Shunk
to the priesthood June 26 at St. Mary’s Cathedral,
Gough St. at Geary Blvd. in San Francisco at 10 a.m.
Archbishop Niederauer has invited all members of
the Archdiocese of San Francisco to attend the Mass
and to pray for the archdiocese’s newest priests.
Deacon Bjerke, 54, formerly worked in the entertainment television industry. “I finally came to see this is
what God was calling me to do,” he said about his call
to priesthood in a Catholic San Francisco interview
May 21.
Deacon Shunk, 31, a former classroom teacher, grew
up in Novato’s St. Anthony of Padua Parish. “I see
myself going in the direction of being a parish priest,” he
said in a Catholic San Francisco interview May 28.
Both men completed their studies for the priesthood
at St. Patrick Seminary and University in Menlo Park.
Msgr. Harry Schlitt: “I’m looking forward to not being in a hurry”
By Rick DelVecchio
On June 30, Msgr. Harry Schlitt
completes a 12-year term as Vicar
for Administration and Moderator
of the Curia for the Archdiocese of
San Francisco as he turns over the
assignment to his successor, Father James
Tarantino, long-time pastor at St. Hilary
in Tiburon.
Msgr. Schlitt, who was ordained in
1964 and incardinated in the archdiocese
in 1974, was pastor of St. Gabriel parish
in San Francisco before his appointment
to the archdiocese’s top administrative
job. He will continue in active ministry
but will not take on another full-time role.
He will fill in as a “weekend warrior”
for pastors who need help with liturgies
and other tasks. At the same time he
will continue as celebrant of his longrunning televised Mass program serving
Bay Area Catholics who are unable to
attend Mass. He is working to expand
the broadcast to San Diego and Salt
Lake City.
Msgr. Harry Schlitt
“I will keep the TV Mass, which I’ve
been doing for eight years now,” Msgr.
Schlitt said. “That’s been a very fulfilling
ministry for me, and it’s the been the most
fulfilling as a priest.”
Referring to the tough duty of
administrative work at a time of financial
stress for parishes and the archdiocese, he
said: “I never intended to be dealing with
this kind of stuff when I was ordained.”
Msgr. Schlitt also is working on a
memoir of his career as a radio priest. He
is reviewing the 5,000 to 6,000 scripts
for radio spots he aired since 1968 on
the syndicated Father Harry broadcast
he hosted through his own God Squad
Productions Inc.
Msgr. Schlitt was a young priest
working in high schools when he got
his start on a music station, KICK
AM in Springfield, Mo. A disk jockey
helped him blend the lyrics from popular
songs into one-minute stories for young
listeners. Msgr. Schlitt also had an awardwinning program on Armed Forces Radio
for 20 years, which he said was the most
popular religious program on the military
network.
Msgr. Schlitt also was a popular
broadcaster in San Francisco. He is a
member of the Bay Area Radio Hall of
Fame, which features a sample of one of his
1978 KFRC AM broadcasts on its website
at sfradiomuseum.com/audio/kfrc/.
“At one time in this city,” Msgr. Schlitt
said, “I got up at 5 o’clock and did 6 to 7
at KNBR, got in my car and went over to
KYU and did 9 to 12, came home at 12
and from 12 to 12:30 listened to myself
on KCBS-FM, got home at 1 o’clock for
a television show that was on KRON on
Sunday. So if you didn’t like me, it was
too bad.”
As a broadcaster, Msgr. Schlitt honed
his own style. He sought to reach a wide
audience with a positive, non-judgmental
religious message that countered the
fire-and-damnation approach of Bible
Belt evangelists. “I took a little heat from
priests,” he said. “I know I was looked
on as someone who was a soft salesman
for religion.”
He recalled one priest’s challenge:
‘“You never say Jesus, you know you
work for Jesus?’”
His answer: “Well, it’s just not my
style.”
MSGR. SCHLITT, page 10
INSIDE THIS WEEK’S EDITION
New Riordan President. . . . . 5
Men as spiritual leaders . . . . 8
Gaza blockade concerns . . . . 9
Commentary & letters . 14-15
‘Yes-but’ followers . . . . . . . . 16
Catholic teaching
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Catholic San Francisco
June 25, 2010
On The
Where You Live
By Tom Burke
(PHOTO CREDIT: ELENA RAMOS)
Thank you in a very large way to Msgr. John
Foudy, Ph.D. celebrating 70 years as a priest in 2010.
Msgr. Foudy’s service as pastor and administrator is well
remembered throughout the Archdiocese of San Francisco.
Deacon candidates for the Archdiocese of San Francisco were installed as lectors June 11 at Our Lady of Mercy
Church. The men are in a five-year study and formation program that will take them to ordination in 2012. The wives
of married candidates also attend the classes. Front from left: Bob Leathers, Juan Antillon, Ernie von Ernster,
Jose Penate, Bishop William Justice, Joseph Ramos, Dana Perrigan, Jack Murray. Back from left: Deacon Leon
Kortenkamp, Jerry Quinn, Mario Zuniga, Miguel Barreiro, Rich Younkin, Thomas Kelly, Venancio Garcia.
Soon after earning his doctorate at Catholic University of
America in Washington, DC in 1945, the young priest began 15
years in the Department of Catholic Schools that culminated
with his serving as Superintendent of Catholic Schools for
almost a decade. His time as pastor of San Francisco’s St. Agnes
Parish from 1964 to 1970 was an era when life in that neighborhood was followed in the news around the world. He served as
pastor at St. Anne of the Sunset Parish from 1970-1990, his 50th
year as a priest, and retired to continued service at St. Cecilia
Parish where he lived until moving to Alma Via Residence in
2004. Now 96, he is the oldest priest in the Archdiocese of San
Francisco, and at 70 years ordained the longest serving. Thank
you, again and again, Msgr. Foudy! For all of us, please let me
say, we are proud! Please also let me offer special thanks to Msgr.
Foudy from Catholic San Francisco. He has been at the ready
for us many times with his amazing institutional history of the
Archdiocese of San Francisco and the City and has spoken many
times about what he has called his “wonderful life as a priest.”
Msgr. Foudy’s current address is Christina’s Care Home, 1580
Crestwood Drive, San Bruno, 94066…. Clarence W. Bryant,
a parishioner of San Francisco’s St. Emydius Parish, leads an
LIVING TRUSTS WILLS
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Msgr. John Foudy celebrating his 96th birthday with his
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Effects of oil spill . . .
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(CNS PHOTO/LAWRENCE CHATAGNIER, BAYOU CATHOLIC)
Coast were waiting anxiously for word that BP has been
able to contain the oil flowing into the Gulf of Mexico
from the company’s blown-out drilling rig called Deepwater
Horizon.
Since the April 20 explosion and fire that killed 11 workers on the rig, millions of gallons of oil have been pouring
into the Gulf each day; and containment efforts by BP to
date have been only partially successful.
There is much uncertainty about the long-term impact of
the man-made environmental disaster, which is being called
this country’s worst, on the people of south Louisiana who
live and make their living on the water.
Father Thomas Kuriakose, pastor of St. Charles Borromeo
Parish in Point-aux-Chenes, said a lot of his parishioners
are fishermen and although their future livelihood is being
threatened, currently many of them were working for BP to
help in some way with the cleanup of the spill.
“At this time, most of the people here don’t need much
financial assistance, but I have spoken to a lot of people
who are depressed about the uncertainty of what the future
holds for them and for the seafood industry in this area,”
said Father Kuriakose.
He said he has noticed an increase in the number of
people coming to Mass at his church since the accident and
that for now parish collections remain steady.
“This is a terrible tragedy that is not only affecting the
people along the coast of Louisiana, and several other states,
but also the land and wildlife, as well,” said the priest.
He said he has had two meetings with Michel Claudet,
president of Terrebonne Parish, a civil entity, and other
church members to discuss the tragedy and how it is affecting local residents.
Counseling, prayer services and pastor visits are some
of the ways St. Charles Borromeo Parish is helping the
victims of the spill.
At Our Lady of the Isle, parish staff has been busy trying to identify those families truly in need and to offer any
assistance they can.
Prayer services were being held once a week for all
islanders to give them a chance to pray, socialize and express
any fears or concerns they may have. Father Tran also is
making himself available to anyone who needs to talk about
the situation.
Kathryn Anderson, associate director for parish social
ministry at Catholic Charities of the Diocese of HoumaThibodaux, said the agency has made case workers available
to residents.
She also noted that from the beginning, Matthew 25
disaster response teams have been present in their communities.
“Matthew 25 volunteers are used to getting their hands
dirty right after a disaster. When we have a hurricane they
respond quickly by serving meals or helping with the
cleanup,” she told the Bayou Catholic. “They haven’t had
that opportunity in this situation because the cleanup work is
being performed by contract labor or wildlife specialists.
“However, that may change as we continue with the
recovery efforts,” said Anderson.
“Most of the people who come to us are visibly upset,
but by the time they leave, they feel better,” said Maryal
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Center. “Sometimes I get a hug just for giving them one
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June 25, 2010
in
brief
WASHINGTON – Although Florida Gov. Charlie Crist
vetoed a bill this month that would have required women
to have an ultrasound before a first-trimester abortion,
similar legislation is having more success in other states. In
Louisiana, a bill requiring ultrasounds before all abortions
is awaiting the signature of Gov. Bobby Jindal, who has said
he supports the legislation. In Michigan, where an ultrasound
already is required before an abortion, a Senate committee is
considering a bill that would mandate high-quality images
from the best ultrasound equipment available at the facility
where the abortion is performed. Sheila Hopkins, associate
director for social concerns and Respect Life at the Florida
Catholic Conference, called Crist’s veto “a sad day for Florida
women. She said “Many women have lamented their decision (to have an abortion) and wish they could have viewed
an ultrasound before making a choice that they now deeply
regret.” Currently in Florida, ultrasounds are required before
all second- and third-trimester abortions in order to determine
the gestational age and location of the fetus, and an estimated
80 percent of abortion clinics in the state already perform
ultrasounds before first-trimester abortions.
Record charitable donations
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The Knights of Columbus set record
highs last year for charitable donations and volunteer service
hours, according to the results of an annual survey. The Knights’
Annual Survey of Fraternal Activity indicates the Catholic
fraternal organization contributed more than $151.1 million to
charitable causes in 2009.That amount exceeds the previous
year’s total by more than $1 million. Group members also collectively contributed nearly 68 million volunteer service hours
to charitable causes in 2009 – an increase of more than 468,000
hours over the previous year. The survey reported that group
members volunteered 227,900 hours to Habitat for Humanity, a
nonprofit Christian housing organization that builds affordable
housing in partnership with people in need. It was the most
common service program for Knights. The survey also recorded
more than 413,000 blood donations from members in 2009.
Knights have donated more than $1.37 billion, and nearly 640
million volunteer hours to charitable causes in the past decade,
according to cumulative totals from the group.
Abortion-promoting groups got
nearly $1 billion in federal funds
WASHINGTON – Six organizations that perform or pro-
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mote abortion received at least $967 million in federal funding
in fiscal years 2002 through 2009, according to a new report
from the Government Accountability Office. The report,
made public June 16, looked at government funding given to
Advocates for Youth, the Guttmacher Institute, International
Planned Parenthood Federation, Planned Parenthood Federation
of America, Population Council of the United States, and
Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United
States. GAO had been asked for the report by Rep. Pete Olson,
R-Texas, and 30 other members of Congress, including five
senators. “With the national debt over $13 trillion – costing
every American $118,000 – we must apply strict scrutiny to
every federal dollar allocated,” said Olson at a June 16 news
conference at the U.S. Capitol. “That this tax money is spent
by organizations that offend the majority of Americans (who
oppose taxpayer funding of groups that promote or perform
abortions) only further justifies the need for this alarming
report,” he added. The GAO report showed Planned Parenthood
Federation of America the largest recipient with funding totaling more than $657 million. In second place, at $284.3 million,
was the Population Council of the United States.
Apostolic visitation to see
80 religious communities
WASHINGTON – Visits to religious communities of
women will restart in mid-September after a three-month
summer hiatus, reported the Office of Apostolic Visitation
of Institutes of Women Religious in the United States. Sister
Kieran Foley, assistant for communications for the process,
told Catholic News Service that 35 congregations were
visited during the first round of visits that started April 11
and ended June 4. Beginning again Sept. 12 and running
through Dec. 17, the next round of visits will include another
40 to 50 congregations, said Sister Kieran, a member of the
Franciscan Sisters of the Eucharist. “We’re trying to do about
25 percent of all religious congregations,” she said from the
visitation’s office in Hamden, Conn. “Between 80 and 100
will be the final total.” A total of 341 religious congregations are the subjects of the visitation, ordered in 2009 by
Cardinal Franc Rode, prefect of the Vatican’s Congregations
for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic
Life. The study covers nearly all of the country’s 67,000
sisters. Only those nuns who live in cloisters are exempt.
Vatican foreign minister cites
Church-state relations in Cuba
VATICAN CITY – The whole question of a separation
between church and state originated with Jesus, who told believers they must give to God what belonged to God and to Caesar
what belonged to Caesar, the Vatican’s foreign minister told a
gathering in Cuba. Without the Gospel, the fundamental distinction between the religious and secular spheres “would not have
entered into the history of humanity,” Archbishop Dominique
Mamberti said June 16 in Havana, opening a weeklong series
of conferences on Catholic social teaching. Addressing Cuban
government officials, members of the diplomatic corps, bishops
and laity, Archbishop Mamberti said it was obvious that churchstate relations have been different throughout history and across
cultures. But, he said, it is clear that secularism and the secular
state are terms that often take on “a nuance of or the acceptance
of an opposition to the church or to Christianity. In this regard,
one cannot forget the fact that in the name of this concept (separation of church and state) decisions are sometimes made or norms
sometimes enacted that objectively damage the person and communal exercise of the fundamental right to religious freedom.”
Although Cuba has a strong Catholic heritage, under communism
the church has faced serious restrictions. Church-state relations
have shown improvement in recent years, but only slowly.
Pope appeals for end to
Kyrgyzstan ethnic violence
VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI appealed for an end
to ethnic violence in Kyrgyzstan and urged the international
community to provide humanitarian aid to the civilian population in the Central Asian country. The pope’s appeal came after
several days of clashes between ethnic Uzbeks and Kyrgyz left
hundreds dead and hundreds of thousands displaced. Addressing
pilgrims at the Vatican June 20, the pope pleaded for an end to the
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San Francisco’s Archbishop Riordan High School names new president
By Tom Burke
As the newly named first lay president
of Archbishop Riordan High School in San
Francisco, Patrick Daly, a home-grown
graduate of Sacred Heart High School, will
now cheer for a new team. His dedication to
Catholic education, however, remains solid
and unchanged.
“Catholic schools are the last bastion
of what is right in education today and we
must always maintain the traditions that are
the foundation for Catholic education,” Daly
told Catholic San Francisco.
“I will take the appropriate steps to
ensure Archbishop Riordan serves the young
men of the Bay Area in the Marianist and
Roman Catholic traditions. As president
I will address the needs of our students,
families, alumni and the Catholics of the
Archdiocese of San Francisco,” he said
In announcing Daly’s appointment, outgoing and first Riordan president, Marianist
Father Thomas French, said, “Mr. Daly is a
fourth generation San Franciscan, a graduate
of Sacred Heart High School, and is excited
to have the opportunity to lead Archbishop
Riordan as the school’s second president.
He is grateful to the Marianist Community
and the board of trustees for providing him
the opportunity to continue to foster the
Marianist traditions that have governed
Archbishop Riordan High School for over
60 years.”
President Daly’s roots are strong in the
City. “My mom, Marian A. Daly, is excited
to have one of her sons returning and especially her grandchildren,” Daly said. Daly’s
mom and her twin sister, Mildred Lee, are
graduates of San Francisco’s St. Vincent
High School and “led the way” for Daly,
his siblings, Irene, Kathleen, Donald, Father
Thomas Daly, Robert and Maureen, as well
as the Lee cousins to attend “Sacred Heart,
Cathedral, Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep, and
St. Rose schools” Daly said.
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■ Continued from page 4
conflict and the re-establishment of peace and
security in the country. “I invite all the ethnic
communities of the country to renounce any
provocation or violence, and I ask the international community to work so that humanitarian
aid can quickly reach the stricken populations,”
the pope said. “To the relatives of the victims
and to all those suffering in this tragedy, I
“As siblings we are all very close and that
is because of our parents. We are close as
well to the Lee’s. Both families are similar
in age and we had a lot of fun growing up.
In the Daly and Lee homes if you don’t have
a sense of humor and a quick wit it will be a
long day. All of us inherited our humor from
our mother and her sister.”
Daly’s late father, Donald, was a 1947
graduate of St. James High School from
which Archbishop Riordan High School was
formed in 1949.
“My father said there were only two
schools his sons could consider - Riordan
or Sacred Heart,” Daly remembered. “I
graduated from St. Brendan Elementary and
I was the only one to attend Sacred Heart. I
am proud to be a Sacred Heart alumnus and
grateful for the education I received from the
Christian Brothers, but now my loyalty is to
the Purple and Gold of Archbishop Riordan.
My cousin John Lee teaches at SHCP and
is the Varsity Head Football Coach. We told
each other we will cheer for both schools
with the exception of the day the Crusaders
and Irish play each other.”
President Daly’s brother, Father Tom
Daly, is president of Marin Catholic High
School, and also serves as vocations director
for the Archdiocese of San Francisco. “Tom
and I speak all the time and I always say he
is the modern day version of the priests from
the old movies like Pat O’Brien and Bing
Crosby,” Daly said. “His faith is evident in
how he relates with students and adults and
his strong belief in Catholic schools is why
he is successful as the president of Marin
Catholic.”
“People have joked with us that two Daly’s
will be leading two of the four Archdiocesan
high schools and both of us look forward
to working together to ensure the traditions
of both Archbishop Riordan and Marin
Catholic,” Patrick Daly said. “Tom is a great
uncle to his fourteen nieces and nephews and
our children adore Uncle Tom and his humor.
They also love to sit down and talk to him
about anything and everything.”
Patrick Daly, a former Director of
Athletics at Marin Catholic as well as
Associate Director of Athletics at Humboldt
State University, was set to accept a higher
college-level athletics job on the East coast
when he learned that St. Bernard Catholic
School in Eureka, where his oldest child was
then attending pre-school, was scheduled
to close.
After a series of talks with Father Tom
Daly, and other priests and educators, Daly
turned down the new job and became principal at St. Bernard’s in 2000. “I decided I
could not stand by and witness the closure of
the only Catholic school between Santa Rosa
and Medford, Oregon,” Daly recalled.
“It was the faith I inherited from my
parents and the teachings of the Daughters
of Charity, Adrian Dominicans and the
Christian Brothers that provided me the
perseverance, intellect, self discipline, and
relentless drive to prove to the community
that the school was necessary and would be
successful,” Daly said. In 2006, he became
St. Bernard’s president.
Daly and his wife, Dianne, were married
in 1994 at St. Vincent Parish in Petaluma.
Father Tom Daly witnessed the rite. “It was
a typical City wedding with graduates from
almost every Catholic high school in the
City in attendance,” Daly said. The couple’s children are high school sophomore,
Shanan, eighth grader Kaelan, first grader,
Brigid, and pre-schooler, Liam. Shanan will
attend Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory,
Kaelan and Brigid will attend St. Gabriel
Elementary School and Liam will attend a
yet-undecided pre-school.
“I love Eureka, the area and the families
of St. Bernard’s, but I am a San Francisco
native and I am very happy to return to the
City,” Daly said. “Being able to return to lead
Patrick Daly
a great school like Archbishop Riordan is a
tremendous gift to me and my family. My
mother is excited to have one of her son’s
returning and especially her grandchildren.
As a family we look forward to be close to
grandma.”
“The primary educator of a child is the
parent, but as the increase of non-traditional
families continues it is essential for Catholic
schools not to waiver from the Magisterium
or the traditions of Catholic education,”
Daly said. “Parents and students need the
support of the school and the ministries
Catholic schools offer. The young men of
Riordan need to be prepared to serve as
faith-filled leaders, fathers, sons and husbands. Our young men will embrace their
individual culture, ethnicity, faith and yet
they will all be Crusaders. It is not enough
to call yourself Catholic; one must live the
faith and most importantly Catholic schools
cannot be Catholic by name only as some
currently operate, they must embrace and
teach the faith.”
Theology After Hours
express my heartfelt closeness and assure you
of my prayers,” he said. A Polish priest ministering in Kyrgyzstan denied reports that local
Christians were targeted for religious reasons
during recent violence against Uzbek communities but warned that many people were left
“fearful and in need” after the fighting. “This
is a political struggle with ethnic ingredients,”
said Jesuit Father Krzysztof Korolczuk, who
works in Jalal-Abad. “It isn’t aimed in any sense
against Christians.”
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obituary
Capuchin Franciscan to be rector at
National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi Father Ronald Burke,
Archbishop George H. Niederauer has appointed oldest parish in California and served as the pro-cathedral
Capuchin Father Gregory Coiro rector of the National for the Archdiocese of San Francisco for three years. It
Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi and the La Nuova survived the 1906 earthquake although the fire that folPorziuncola Chapel in San Francisco, located at lowed gutted it. The church was rebuilt within its stillColumbus and Vallejo in North Beach.
standing walls and continued to serve
A former director of media relations
as a parish until it was closed as part of
and spokesman for the Archdiocese of
a realignment of parishes following the
Los Angeles, Father Gregory hosted a
1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.
“Clergy on Call” program on KPLS-AM.
Emeritus San Francisco Archbishop
He also served as a consultant to motion
(now Cardinal) William Levada repictures and television programs includopened St. Francis of Assisi as a shrine
ing “The Father Dowling Mysteries,”
in honor of the city’s patron saint in 1998.
“Sister Act” – which was filmed primarThe United States Conference of Catholic
ily on location at San Francisco’s St.
Bishops designated it as the National
Paul Church - and “Sister Act 2: Back
Shrine of St. Francis in September 1999.
in the Habit.”
Currently undergoing seismic retrofitting,
Father Gregory has taught at Daniel
the shrine church is scheduled to resume
Murphy High School, Los Angeles; San
operations at the work’s completion.
Joaquin Memorial High School, Fresno;
Father Gregory, now living at the
Father Gregory Coiro,
and the Capuchins’ St. Francis High
Capuchins’ San Buenaventura Friary in
OFM Cap.
School, La Cañada Flintridge, where
San Francisco, has been serving as spirihe also served as chaplain. Father Gregory is also a tual assistant to the Knights of St. Francis. The volunteer
former parochial vicar at Our Lady of Angels Parish in association was founded by Angela Alioto, who played
Burlingame where the Capuchin Friars have ministered a principal role in the construction at the shrine of La
since the parish founding in 1926.
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Founded in 1849, St. Francis of Assisi Church was the favorite church in Assisi. The Knights of St. Francis serve
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June 23.
Born in San Francisco
to Ruth and Harold Burke,
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survived past their early
years. He attended St.
Anne Elementary School
Father Ronald Burke
entering the now-closed St.
Joseph College Seminary in Mountain View after the eighth
grade. He was ordained to the priesthood from St. Patrick’s
Seminary and University in Menlo Park on June 11, 1954.
Ordained at a time when the Archdiocese of San
Francisco included the present Dioceses of Oakland, Santa
Rosa, Stockton and San Jose, Father Burke served at St.
Brendan Church in San Francisco; St. Mary Church in
Oakland; St. George Church in Stockton; St. Joseph Church
in San Francisco; and Saint Mary Church in Gilroy.
In 1966, Father Burke began 15 years of service in the
Latin American Mission Program (LAMP) in Guatemala. He
returned in 1981 to St. Bruno Parish where he served for
many years as pastor.
Father Burke retired July 1, 1999, and resided at Mission
Dolores Basilica before moving in 2003 to Serra Clergy
House. In recent months, he had been living at Maria’s Home
for the Aged in San Mateo, where he received the day-to-day
care necessary for his weakened heart.
Father Burke is survived by his sisters Patricia Lawson,
Mary Helen Salvemini, and Barbara Mallen; and by many
nieces and nephews including Dan Lawson and Lori
Frischerz. Remembrances may be sent to Dan Lawson, 374
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Catholic faith draws educators statewide
By Valerie Schmalz
Now more than ever, Catholic teachers need to be able to
answer philosophical questions and to explain Catholic intellectual thought as well as give personal witness of faith if they
are to evangelize the high school students of the 21st century.
That was the point made over and over again by the presenters at the first annual Substantially Catholic Conference for high
school educators. The conference, held June 8-10 at Marin Catholic
High School, drew educators from throughout California and was
designed to present Catholic content and practical tips for teaching
science and literature through the prism of faith. Next year’s threeday seminar will focus on social studies and the arts.
The seminar was guided by the words of Pope Benedict XVI
in his April 17, 2008 address to Catholic educators at Catholic
University of America in Washington, D.C.
“A university or school’s Catholic identity is not simply a
question of the number of Catholic students. It is a question of
conviction – do we really believe that only in the mystery of the
Word made flesh does the mystery of man truly become clear?”
Pope Benedict XVI said. “Is the faith tangible in our universities
and schools?”
The Catholic Education Institute ran the conference which
was organized by Marin Catholic theology teachers Ryan
Mayer and Joe Tassone. The institute was founded in 2001 to
provide practical support to colleges in improving their Catholic
character.
The Substantially Catholic seminar promised teachers tools
and information so that the teachers could address more religious
themes related to their academic disciplines, said Jesuit Father
John J. Piderit, retired Loyola University Chicago president and
president of the Catholic Education Institute.
University of San Francisco philosophy Professor Thomas
Cavanaugh noted Catholic heroes and intellectual giants populate
every discipline. That puts the lie to atheists’ claim that religion
is hostile to science as well as highlighting that the intellectual
history of the Church has been one that encouraged inquiry.
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allowing geometric shapes to be expressed in algebraic equations
in the 17th century, for instance, and Queen Christina of Sweden
abdicated her throne to become Catholic in 1654. “Modern evolutionary theory would not be possible without Father Gregor
Mendel,” Cavanaugh said. The Augustinian priest, who died in
1884, was posthumously credited as the father of genetics for his
study of the inheritance of certain traits in pea plants.
For Substantially Catholic attendees interested in the
New Atheism, Oliver Putz distilled the thought of the “Four
Horsemen” of the New Atheism and offered counter arguments
to the writings of Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins,
Daniel Dennett and Sam Harris. Putz, who has a doctorate in
evolutionary biology from Freie Universitat in Berlin and is a
doctoral student at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley,
also offered suggestions to teachers concerned that even those
arguments wouldn’t convince student atheists.
“You should not try to force them into faith,” said Putz. “You
should be available to them.”
Father Piderit and his colleague Melanie Morey, senior director for research, noted that adolescents and young adults are
seekers. “Don’t be afraid to give personal witness,” said Father
Piderit, advising educators to tell students about attending Mass,
helping in the parish.
Morey and Father Piderit co-wrote Catholic Higher
Education: A Culture in Crisis (Oxford University Press, 2006)
and found that a student could graduate from a Catholic college
with no knowledge of Catholicism, Morey said.
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“For many, many years women were put down.” But the
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and women have become more masculine, he contends.
Father Richards is the pastor of an inner city parish in
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“We make Jesus this gentle, very peaceful, passive
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Father Richards cites Pope John Paul II’s Theology
Among his words of advice: spending time in silent
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Gazans see lifting of blockade as only solution to dire conditions
By Judith Sudilovsky
JERUSALEM (CNS) – Only a total
lifting of the Israeli-imposed blockade on
the Gaza Strip will significantly improve
the situation for Gazans, said the Jerusalem
regional director of the Pontifical Mission
of Palestine after a two-day visit to the
beleaguered region.
“The mood in Gaza is that really whatever sort of things are in the process to
ease the blockade, they will not make a
significant difference on their life,” said
Sami El-Yousef, who met with civil and
religious representatives including those of
several Christian organizations during his
visit June 14-15.
“What they are looking for is the lifting
of the blockade. Otherwise, (Gazans) say,
(easing the blockade) is just a joke unless
it is completely lifted and there are no
limitations put on the humanitarian supply,”
El-Yousef told Catholic News Service.
Most Gazans believe U.S. President
Barack Obama’s recent pledge of $400 million in aid to Gaza will have little impact on
their situation, he added.
After the May 31 raid on a flotilla that
organizers claimed was carrying humanitarian aid but that Israeli officials believed to
include Islamist extremists from Turkey,
Obama urged Israel to limit the blockade
to items that can be used to produce arms
and to allow items through that could
improve daily life and economic activity
for Palestinians.
However, details of the plan must be
released and reviewed before a “learned
comment” can be made about it, the director
said, noting that, according to reports, only
$40 million of the aid will be earmarked for
the Gaza Strip.
Both Israel and Egypt have enforced a
blockade on Gaza since June 2007 after the
militant Hamas Islamic movement took over
governing the strip following Palestinian
elections in 2006 and a battle with the more
moderate Fatah party.
Egypt opened its borders with Gaza
indefinitely after the May 31 incident.
Israel has said it would open the blockade
if Hamas would allow the International
Red Cross to visit Israeli soldier Gilad
Shalit, who was kidnapped from the Gaza
border four years ago and is being held in
the Gaza Strip.
El-Yousef said the entry of products such
as “mayonnaise and soft drinks” will not
make a difference in the lives of most Gazans
because they cannot afford them. He urged
that the blockade be lifted so that building
supplies and other necessities can enter the
region and allow Gazans to provide jobs
by rebuilding infrastructure and buildings
destroyed during the January 2009 war.
One particular need El-Yousef cited was
the Shajai Medical Clinic, which mainly
treats mothers and children and which the
pontifical mission helped make operational
within three months after the war. The clinic
has been unable to bring in a dental unit
and two electric generators for use during
frequent power outages.
While in Gaza, El-Yousef also observed
people recycling used construction material, opening the way to potential tragedies
as people move into buildings that are not
structurally safe, he said.
“You have lots of homes which will collapse,” he predicted.
In the meantime, a smuggling economy
has developed with goods entering Gaza
through underground tunnels from Egypt.
Hamas controls the tunnels and imposes
taxes and license fees, making the produce
brought into Gaza far more expensive than
most residents can afford.
“You can practically find all kinds of
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He found, however, that cooking gas
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The pontifical mission is working with
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job creation programs aimed at new graduates in order to retain a generation of young
Christians in the region. People between
18 and 35 years old are the smallest group
represented in the Christian community,
he said.
In general, El-Yousef described a feeling
of despair among the Gazans he met. He
said Gazans feel pessimistic that the blockade will be eased soon or that Hamas and
Fatah will reconcile with each other.
“It is a stressful situation,” he said.
“People say they are in it for the long haul
and have to find ways to make it more livable.”
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“Refugees desire to find welcome and to be recognized in their dignity and
their fundamental rights. At the same time, they intend to offer their contribution
to the society that welcomes them,” he said.
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of the community that receives them,” he said.
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Msgr. Schlitt . . .
■ Continued from cover
Msgr. Schlitt began his path to the
priesthood when he was 14, and the
discipline of prayer and the Mass continues
to be central to his experience of being a
priest.
“Some of us went in after the eighth
grade, and our minds were bent by the
constant presence,” he said. “We had a lot
more talk about the figure of the Holy Spirit
as part of your calling, and that was taught to
us and instilled, and so you really believed
that you were called.”
Msgr. Schlitt spoke with Catholic
San Francisco about his media ministry,
his career as an administrator and about
evangelization, communication and the
vocation of priest during a trying time for
the Church. He talked about priests who
were also characters, and how hard it is to
combine the two roles today.
The conversation began with a discussion
of parish school economics, as Msgr. Schlitt
had just learned of a funding shortfall at an
elementary school and was preparing to deal
with the news.
CSF: What is the status of parochial
schools, those that are in the most fragile
state? What’s likely to unfold over the
next year?
Msgr. Schlitt: It’s not news in San
Francisco that the number of children
is dwindling. There are just not enough
children to fill the desks of all the parochial
schools that we have in the inner city. We’ve
had at least three studies done. We’ve had
enough studies. All the studies tell us that
we have too many seats, too many chairs,
for the few students that we have. We have a
lot of older buildings that need maintenance
and upkeep and we can’t afford to have
the buildings taken care of just for a small
number of students, so we have to find a
way, and I’m hoping next year at this time
June 25, 2010
there will be a sound plan that gets all of
these children into a Catholic school. We’re
not doing away with Catholic education; in
fact this would reemphasize how important
it is. But we also do not have the people or
the parents who have the wherewithal to
keep buildings going. Most of our Mission
schools, for example, there’s a lot of young
immigrant families there and there are a
lot of young people who have families
who don’t have a strong heritage from
grandfathers, great-grandfathers, who can
pay the tuition for the grandchildren. So, we
need a reorganization of a lot of inner-city
schools to make sure there’s a seat for every
Catholic kid who wants an education.
high schools have families and wherewithal to
support – the money we put in gets donated.
So it goes back to that thing, well, the Catholic
people don’t give as much in the offertory
collection. But a lot of our Catholic people
are supporting Catholic education and that’s
more expensive than supporting your parish in
the Sunday collection. And we have to realize
that. The Archdiocese of San Francisco has
four of the best Catholic high schools in the
country and they have great facilities and they
have the ability to teach Catholic education
and develop a whole person. It’s quite a
wonderful thing. In the elementary schools
we just don’t have the numbers of students
to support our elementary schools.
‘The Archdiocese of San Francisco has four of
the best Catholic high schools in the country
and they have great facilities and they have
the ability to teach Catholic education and
develop the whole person.’
CSF: You’re talking about closure of
these schools and consolidating the students
and faculty in nearby schools, so they
continue the parochial school experience,
just on a stronger economic footing?
Msgr. Schlitt: That’s right.
CSF: So, there would be a drop of
several sites?
Msgr. Schlitt: I would think there has
to be. If there isn’t, it doesn’t solve the
problem. I told the Council of Priests at the
May meeting, I said this is not business as
usual in the archdiocese, where we can count
on a bailout of elementary schools. We’ve
put over $55 million into our high schools
since I’ve been in this job as Moderator of the
Curia, that’s a lot of money, but most of the
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CSF: Do you see any parishes
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Msgr. Schlitt: We’ve talked about
that. There are a couple where that could
have been done this year. What will force
that issue more than anything will be the
number of pastors who will be available to
be a one-pastor parish. It’s going to happen
probably in five years that we’ll likely have a
half-dozen parishes that are administered by
a pastor who has more than one parish and a
team to operate the second parish or the third
parish. It’s happened in dioceses all around
the country. It hasn’t happened here mainly
due to the fact that we have a large number of
religious, we have a number of retired priests
who can fill in and help a pastor. One of the
emerging factors that came out in our Council
of Priests meeting was when you ask a new
pastor whether he wants a parochial vicar, he’s
apt to say, ‘I can’t really afford one.’ To house
and feed and pay a priest is about $41,000 a
year. For $41,000 a year a pastor can hire a
retired priest or a religious to come in and
help with the Masses on the weekend and
occasionally take a funeral or a wedding. I’m
not talking about the larger parishes, they have
the wherewithal, but a smaller parish who
might have had one parochial vicar or assistant
a few years ago can’t really afford it now.
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CSF: Is it that revenue is down, or
costs are up, or both?
Msgr. Schlitt: Both. In the old days,
25 years ago, almost every parish had a
housekeeper and cook, somebody who
took care of the house, did the laundry and
somebody who prepared the meals. I’ll bet
you there are not a quarter of our parishes
who now have a housekeeper and a cook. A
lot of times the cook had a room in the
back. If you go to these parishes you see on
the first floor there’s always a guest room in
the back where the cook would live next to
the kitchen. They are few and far between
now.
CSF: Is that because there are fewer
parish members, or because those who
are members and are active are less able
to give?
Msgr. Schlitt: Both. That strong group
who were working in the ‘50s and ‘60s and
sending their children to Catholic schools,
and it was affordable, and the parish helped
out in the school, and you had free teachers
because of religious men and women – all of
that, when the schools went to lay teachers,
lay principals, those people all had to have
an equal salary with other teachers. So now
we have that but it’s a terrific strain on some
families. We have the high-class schools
where the tuition is $10-$15,000 and they
have a waiting list, because there are people
with means who can afford it. You don’t hear
much about that because they pay and the
education is first-class. But the more and
more Catholic immigrant family students
that we have, the more and more difficult it
gets to pay for their education.
CSF: While we’re on the economic
basis of things, let’s talk about the
Pastoral Center. There have been cuts in
the last three years, ministries have been
closed, things have been outsourced. This
has been the case in dioceses across
the country. What’s the outlook for the
central organization?
Msgr. Schlitt: Part of my administrative
goal was to have people keep their jobs as
long as they could. We probably would have
been better off if three years ago if we had
bitten the bullet and done more cuts and
then become more level in our budgeting
process. Every year I have had to begin the
budget, in the last five years, with at least
a million-dollar deficit. And you just can’t
go on that way, and you can’t cut programs
because our programs in the chancery are
not that expensive. The expense comes in
the salaries and the benefits. So you have
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Msgr. Schlitt on the TV Mass set.
‘You don’t need to cram God down
people’s throats – they’ll see it,
they’ll hear you if you
talk about the quality of life
and the goodness that can
come from being kind and not
cheating and stealing and lying.’
Msgr. Schlitt: I don’t know if it was Thomas Aquinas,
whoever said In medio stat vertus – Virtue stands in the
middle. Virtue stands in the middle, which is one thing,
and the Scriptures say don’t be lukewarm, be hot or cold, so
there’s mixed messages in all of this. But I always thought
that if you had a strong opinion, you could be right or left
but that doesn’t mean you have to make that your crusade to
make others right or left. There are very good people who
are on the right side who it seems to me often complain
the loudest about the way the diocese is being run. It
really infuriates me when Rome or the apostolic delegate
in Washington gets a letter about Archbishop Niederauer
and the way he conducts this archdiocese. I know him
as well as anybody, and I’ve lived with him now for five
years. He is just a really good man. He’s very intelligent,
and he understands what he’s doing, and so when he makes
a decision he takes everything into consideration. And yet
it’s like a damned if you do, damned if you don’t kind of
situation. He makes very few mistakes.... On the other hand,
the other side thinks that if you’re not out in the trenches
every day and if you’re having an office like this or a big
cathedral you’re not doing enough for the poor people. So,
to stand in the middle, to have virtue in the middle, is the
most important thing.
CSF: What happened to the public priest, who
not only had his vocation but also was a persona in
society? Father Peter Yorke was the prototypical public
priest, whose ministry was on the picket line and
who tried to beat back the anti-Catholic forces at the
time. What happened to the persona of the priest in the
society at large?
Msgr. Schlitt: I think that, number one, there are fewer
of us. Let’s call them characters, because I believe I was
one. You could enjoy an extraneous character 30 years ago
more than you can today. I’ll give you an example. Twentyfive, 30 years ago there were pastors in this town where
the government of City Hall would not do anything unless
they checked with them. Now we don’t have any presence
there....It’s one of the reasons we have such a hard time
in city govenrment in getting any sympathy for Roman
Catholicism or for the Archdiocese. I think right now it’s
very difficult to be heard. I’m getting away from character
priests. Number one, I think we had more (priests) so there
were more characters and their time was outside the parish
so they weren’t strapped with administering a parish. A
pastor 25 years ago had two or three assistants in a big
parish, so the youngest guy would take care of CYO and
the baseball teams and the kids dances, the next guy would
take the Women’s Sodality and the men’s club, and the
third guy would watch the books. And the pastor would
hold forth at dinner and know that he was on his way out
but he was teaching, he was mentoring all three of these
men...We have a mentoring program where we try to get
younger priests in with a pastor, but it doesn’t mean they
live with them. So, the pastor doesn’t have time to be a
character anymore. And I don’t know that, right and left
since Vatican II some 45-50 years ago made a split. A lot
of pastors want to keep both sides happy. If they go one
way with one they cut off a number of people, and when
they do that their collection goes down. I help out at one
parish. I said. ‘Father, you have three Masses on Sunday,
CSF: Will your successor have to deal with this rolling
wave, confronting a million-dollar hole every spring?
Msgr. Schlitt: No. Because he came in here in January
and went through the budget process with me, he’s convinced
he’s not going to do this next year. He’s going to have a small
committee from the Finance Council help plan the budget,
and he’s going to try desperately to restore our corpus in the
archdiocese. (Msgr. Schlitt explained that the corpus is the
portfolio of investments and deposits that produce income for
the archdiocese. It is one of four sources of income for the
archbishop to fund the archdiocese’s $10 million administrative
budget. The other sources are the archbishop’s annual appeal,
property rentals and bequests to the archbishop.)
CSF: You say your Armed Forces Radio program was
very popular. What were the people responding to?
Msgr. Schlitt: I always talked to the brass and the chaplains
and said, ‘What do you really want me to talk about?’ The
overwhelming response was the quality of life and the basic
tenets of morality. There were many men and women in the
service who did not know that it was wrong to steal, or to
cheat or to lie. I talked a lot about how that would improve
your life. I didn’t have, ‘Jesus or God’s going to punish you
if you steal.’ I got away with a very soft-sell kind of religion
without mentioning Jesus...When I started on the radio, I came
from Springfield, Mo., where there were five Bible colleges
and the Assemblies of God were headquartered there. That
was Tammy Faye and (Jim) Bakker and Jim Robinson,
Red Foley’s daughter married Pat Boone – it was a whole
country-and-western and a very religious way of life centered
on the Scripture but the way they interpreted it. I came out
of that experience and I used to call them God killers. I had
Saturday and Sunday nights and worked for three hours from
9 to midnight. I had all these Bible kids calling me – they
were on fire with the Scriptures, but it was just one thing they
learned. They had no idea there were translations from the
Scriptures and they came from several languages. All those
things were new to them. So I took that and I said I’m not
going to be a God killer if I get chance to go further on the
radio. You don’t need to cram God down people’s throats –
they’ll see it, they’ll hear you if you talk about the quality of
life and the goodness that can come from being kind and not
cheating and stealing and lying. There’s godliness in that.
CSF: You’re talking about judgmentalism. How do
you see the state of dialogue within the Church? Where
would you like to see it go? How can we do better?
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Rome catacombs. . .
the tombs of the wealthy were decorated with Christian
symbols, biblical scenes and references to the martyr.
At the Catacombs of St. Thecla, the noblewoman’s
burial chamber – now referred to as the Cubicle of the
Apostles – dates from late in the fourth century. The
arch over the vestibule features a fresco of a group of
figures the Vatican experts described as “The College of
the Apostles.”
The ceiling of the burial chamber itself features the
most typical icon found in the catacombs – Christ the
Good Shepherd – but the four corners of the ceiling are
decorated with medallions featuring the four apostles,
said Mazzei.
Fabrizio Bisconti, the commission’s archaeological
superintendent, said that in the decorations of the catacombs one can see “the genesis, the seeds of Christian
iconography,” with designs from the very simple fish as
a symbol of Christ to the resurrection image of Christ
raising Lazarus from the dead.
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widespread devotion to the apostles began earlier than
what most church historians believed, he said.
“This is the time when the veneration of the apostles
was just being born and developed,” he said, and the art
in the catacombs no longer presented just the martyrs or
biblical scenes.
The burial chamber also features frescoes of Daniel
in the lion’s den, the Three Wise Men bringing gifts to
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Rome, he said.
Mazzei said that when restorers first went into the burial
chamber in 2008, all the walls were white – completely covered under the crust of calcium carbonate that ranged from
a millimeter thick to 4-5 centimeters deep. The Vatican,
however, had watercolors and diary descriptions from the
1800s testifying that there were paintings on the walls.
In the past, she said, restorers would use tiny scalpels
and brushes to remove the white crust, but some of the paint
always came away with it. Restorers were left trying to find
the right balance between removing enough to see a faint
image of a catacomb fresco and destroying it.
Then along came the laser, Mazzei said.
After attending an art restoration conference and listening to presentations on how lasers were being used on
frescoes in buildings above ground, she said she suggested
to the Vatican that they gather a team of experts to see how
lasers would work in the extremely humid catacombs where
almost no air circulates.
“We went slowly and basically set up an experimental
laboratory” in the catacombs, she said.
The restoration project was just as painstaking as the
scalpel-and-brush method because it involved firing the
laser pinpoint by pinpoint across the surface of the cubicle,
“but the result is totally different,” Mazzei said.
She said the two-year project to restore the tiny cubicle
cost only about $72,000 because many of the consultants
donated their time and the laser company gave the Vatican
a steep discount.
Bisconti said the Vatican has no plans to open the
Catacombs of St. Thecla to the public, although the pontifical commission occasionally gives permission for groups
to visit as long as they are willing to pay a licensed guide
and escort.
Vatican urges measures
to lessen maternal deaths
VATICAN CITY (CNS) – The Vatican has urged the
international community to implement social and health
care measures to reduce what it called the “shocking”
number of maternal deaths around the world.
Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, the Vatican’s representative
to U.N. agencies in Geneva, addressed a maternal mortality
panel of the Human Rights Council in Geneva last week.
Experts estimate that 350,000-500,000 women die each
year during or shortly after pregnancy.
Archbishop Tomasi noted that most maternal deaths
occur in the developing world, and he said there was a
strong correlation between maternal mortality and neonatal
death. Each year, about 3 million babies die during their
first week of life, 3 million are stillborn and another 2.3
million die during their first year of life, he said.
The Catholic Church has a long history of caring for
mothers and newborns, especially through its hospitals and
maternity and pediatric clinics, he said. The church takes a
holistic approach that gives priority to the rights of mother
and child, including the unborn, he said.
“Policies aimed at combating maternal mortality and child
mortality need to strike a delicate balance between the rights
of the mother and those of the child, both of whom are rights
bearers, the first of which is the right to life,” he said.
He pointed to specific improvements that can be made in
social and health sectors to prevent maternal deaths, including universal pre- and postnatal care, adequate transportation of medical facilities, skilled birth attendants, appropriate antibiotics, and clean blood and water supplies.
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Decision pending on
future of marriage
By William B. May
The message delivered to Federal District Judge Vaughn Walker by Prop 8 proponents
during the closing arguments at the trial to redefine marriage in San Francisco was clear.
The voters have overwhelming authority and rational reasons for defining marriage
between a man and a woman. The voters’ decision to pass Prop 8 cannot be overturned
unless the plaintiffs negate every single claim of state interest for promoting the uniquely
pervasive institution that channels procreative activity into a stable relationship.
Judge Walker noticeably stiffened in his chair as Charles Cooper, lead counsel
for the defense, further stated that even if he concludes that every claim made by the
plaintiffs is true, he could still not rule against Prop 8 unless he found that all of the
rational reasons for protecting marriage were false. “It is a judicial tsunami they are
asking you to sail into.”
Plaintiffs’ counsel claimed that people who voted for Prop 8 could only have done
so “through irrational or dark motive, some animus, some kind of bigotry.” After citing myriad U.S. Supreme Court cases going back to the late 1800’s that affirmed the
public interest in marriage, Cooper responded by telling the judge that the plaintiffs’
charge was “a slur on 7 million Californians It’s a slur on 70 of 108 judges who have
upheld as constitutional and rational the decision of voters and legislatures to preserve
the traditional definition of marriage.”
At the end of his argument, Cooper took the opportunity to urge the judge to let the
debate on marriage continue by upholding Prop 8. Cooper’s words were more significant than one might imagine, because if Prop 8 had failed, – or if the judge decides
to overturn it and his decision is upheld –, it would be legally discriminatory to even
argue that marriage between a man and a woman has a higher value to society than
same-sex relationships.
Former U.S. Solicitor General Ted Olsen, the attorney who presented the closing
arguments for the plaintiffs, argued that procreation has never been a condition for
marriage and therefore it cannot be about procreation. There is much procreation taking place outside of marriage as fewer people are getting married and more people are
cohabitating. Marriage has changed over the last 30 years, he claimed, and is breaking
down on its own attempting to demonstrate that it could not be adversely affected by
permitting gays and lesbians to marry.
Olsen tried to equate restrictions on same-sex “marriage” to attacks on the dignity
of blacks in past marriage laws, and a contention contended that withdrawing same-sex
“marriage” rights contributes to stigmatizing gays. He referred to the fact that 18,000
same sex couples married during the period from May 2008, when the California
Supreme Court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act passed by the voters in 2000,
to the date of passage of Prop 8 that November.
Olsen misrepresented court decisions striking down interracial marriage barriers as a
redefinition of marriage to bar racial discrimination against adults in loving relationships.
Cooper, on the other hand, pointed out that the right to marry in those cases assumed
marriage between men and women as the justices pointed out was “fundamental to the
existence and survival of the human race.” He noted that these restrictions “grew out of
. . . white supremacist theory,” meaning these laws were about eugenics – racial purity
and the procreative nature of relationships between men and women.
Olson also pointed to Romer v. Evans, a Colorado case on an initiative amending the
state constitution to ban all legislation at any level of government that would provide any
protections against discrimination based on sexual orientation. The U.S. Supreme Court
found that there was no rational reason to adopt something so broad and overturned
it on that basis. Cooper pointed out that is not the case in California. Prop 8 is very
narrow and there are clear reasons for retaining the traditional definition of marriage,
which the plaintiffs have not refuted.
Cooper further cited a New York Court of Appeals case upholding marriage and the
Lofton v Florida upholding a ban on gay adoptions by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals. Both courts cited common sense alone as being sufficient as rational reasons for
adopting the laws. No one knows how long it will take Judge Walker to arrive at a decision.
It could be a couple of weeks or it could be several months. There is no deadline.
As a closing note, conversations between attorneys and the judge highlighted the
great amount of confusion there is about what marriage is, and its relationship to children and parenting.
The debate is complicated by many factors, among which are the promotion of
alternative families in which being deprived of mothers or fathers is considered normal,
redefinition of motherhood and fatherhood as roles rather than biological realities, artificial means of procreation through IVF, and children unwittingly being reduced to objects
for adult fulfillment rather than gifts of equal dignity. The fight to protect and promote
marriage between a man and a woman cannot be divorced from these factors.
William B. May is Chairman of Catholics for the Common Good.
Visit www.ccgaction.org.
Natural family planning
I appreciated the May 21 article on the
50th anniversary of the pill. My husband
and I converted to the Catholic Church precisely because of her unchanging 2000 year
old teaching on the evils of contraception
and abortion. During the 60’s we couldn’t
know how bad contraception would be, but
the Church did. Every prophecy made in
Humanae Vitae has come true; from an exponential increase in promiscuity, adultery and
divorce to governments using contraceptive
technology to control families’ reproductive
choices. It has greatly diminished the dignity
of women and human life.
We need much more dialogue to promote understanding on this subject. In the
26 years that I have been a Catholic I can’t
remember hearing a single homily about
the evils of contraception. Natural Family
Planning is not widely understood nor
taught. Many marriage preparation
classes don’t require that engaged
couples learn NFP or at the very
least attend an introductory class
to understand what it is and how it
works. Couples need this information if they are going to even have
a chance of living the Church’s
teachings.
Many couples are too afraid to
even consider using NFP. They believe
it doesn’t work, or that the self-control
it requires is too hard. They believe
that it will negatively impact their sex
lives. Those of us who have practiced
NFP and experienced the great benefits
it has brought to our marriages need
to be more generous in sharing this
information with other couples in our
parishes. The archdiocese would do
well to have a NFP office and constant
classes available. And priests should
be lovingly sharing the fullness of the
Church’s teaching in this area which
goes to the very heart of what it means
to be human.
The prevalence of the contraceptive mentality in the Church must be
addressed if we wish to end abortion,
encourage good marriages, develop an
attitude of generosity in the welcoming of children, and stop the progress
of euthanasia and so called “gay”
marriage. These are all the fruit of the tree
of contraception which separates sex from
babies and marriage from self-giving love
and mutual respect. Perhaps Catholic San
Francisco might consider a regular feature
on this much needed subject to answer the
confusion, anger and fear that it engenders.
In this post-Christian era it has become
urgent that we re-discover what it means to
be Catholic so that we can save our culture
and our future. The church has the riches
that can help us find the happiness that we
all long for. Let’s take them out and dust
them off and share them.
Cheryl Amalu
Belmont
Editor’s note: For information
about Natural Family Planning, contact
Archdiocese of San Francisco Deacon John
Norris by phone (415) 614-5504, by fax
(415) 614-5658, or by email at norrisj@
sfarchdiocese.org.
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The story of the Holy Ghost Festival in
Pescadero (along with photographs)
by Francis da Silva (CSF June 11)
was well written. In Sausalito, the
122nd annual IDESST Holy Ghost
Festival was celebrated May 23
on Pentecost. This year almost
100 Holy Ghost Festivals will
take place throughout California,
in which more than a quarter million people will experience these
unique celebrations brought to the
United States by our pioneers from
the Azores.
Mrs. M. M. Filippi
Mill Valley
Women in Medicine
The story recently published in
Catholic San Francisco on Mercy
High School’s Women in Medicine
(CSF May 21) was wonderful. You
captured beautifully the essence of
the program and those terrific girls.
Liz Belonogoff,
Admissions Director
Mercy High School,
San Francisco
Where’s
Father Rolheiser?
Just wondering what happened
to Father Rolheiser’s column, which was
missing in the May 21 edition of the paper.
I hope that he has not been permanently
deleted from Catholic San Francisco. He is
definitely my favorite writer, providing solid
theological food for thought.
Maryjane Knoll
San Francisco
Editor’s note: Father Rolheiser’s
insightful column appears regularly in
Catholic San Francisco. Sometimes he gets
a week off, a practice which he would agree
is good for the spirit.
Language of the Heart
Reading Ron Rolheiser’s article,
“Deeper Language,” (CSF May 28) brought
back so many good memories. I had the
grace and privilege of sharing community
LETTERS, page 19
June 25, 2010
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Potpourri
It’s time for reasonable apologetics
Why are so many insisting the Catholic Church is to
blame for all manner of evils, and guilty of unspeakable
crimes? It’s a question in dire need of being answered in
this culture of anti-religion that focuses almost exclusively
on Catholicism.
By constantly being barraged via the media by declarations that the Church is “guilty” of this and that; that
she is to blame for clergy scandals, dissident nuns, poor
Mass attendance, trendy liturgies, etc., we have become
so inured to the general contempt heaped upon her, we
have forgotten our obligation to defend our faith against
those who would perjure it. Sadly, these attacks come not
just from the proponents of anti-Catholicism, but from
practicing Catholics as well.
This being the case, then Catholics blaming the
Church per se must necessarily conclude that the Church
founded by Christ is an imperfect Church. By use of reasonable apologetics, it is up to the rest of us to clarify for
our brethren this mistaken notion by pointing out that the
Church, being infallible, is not only exempt from actual
error, she is exempt from the possibility of error.
The Catholic Encyclopedia clarifies this further by
stating that the Church does not require holiness of life,
much less imply impeccability in its organs. Simply put,
this means that the Church cannot err; only her members
can err.
This current condemnation of the wrongs of some
priests, followed by the unsuitable reactions of their
bishops, has even brought into question the Church’s infallibility, and that of the Pope. The Catholic Encyclopedia
blows away this nonsense by stating that, “If He bestowed
the gift of prophecy on Caiphas who condemned Christ
(John 11:49-52; 18:14), surely He may bestow the lesser
gift of infallibility even on unworthy human agents. It is,
therefore, a mere waste of time for opponents of infallibility to try to create a prejudice against the Catholic
claim by pointing out the moral or intellectual shortcomings of popes or councils that have pronounced definitive
doctrinal decisions, or to try to show historically that
such decisions in certain cases were the seemingly natural and inevitable outcome of existing conditions, moral,
intellectual, and political. All that history may be fairly
claimed as witnessing to under either of these heads may
freely be granted without the substance of the Catholic
claim being affected.”
In other words, the office of Pope, except in cases
of faith and morals, and all clergy, does not come with
a guarantee of impeccability, and the anger of many
Catholics over the bad
decisions and shortcomings of some of our
leaders, while perhaps at
times justifiable, should
not tarnish the Church,
which of, in, and by herself is flawless and which
Jane L. Sears
is, according to Pope
Leo XIII’s Encyclical
Immortale Dei, a “perfect
society,” the external glory of God.
That the Church, because of her inherent holiness
has always been persecuted is a well-known fact, but the
current misconception that all blame for the mistakes of
her members be laid on the Church, is a wrongful assertion. Despite the enormous scandals and disgraces currently attributed to her, the unequivocal assurance given
to us that Mother Church is exemplary should not give
us pause, but should reassure us that the mistakes of her
members can never defile her sanctity.
and count the minutes until naptime – that glorious respite
which moves twice as fast as the boys’ waking hours. It
is a constant challenge for me to lift my eyes past the
demands of the potty breaks, the frustration of squabbles
over toy trains, the all-consuming, physically exhausting
tasks of parenting. So often, I find myself wishing I could
just press a button and fast-forward to a magical future
moment when the boys are older, bigger, easier to raise.
And then I catch myself. Grace comes. It often comes
when I look at those small shoes, sitting empty on the
shelf, bringing me back to reality. The little feet that fill
those sneakers and sandals are precious now, right now,
just as they are. When I look at those shoes, I realize more
than ever how those feet have walked their way around and
around my heart. They have left little prints there, indelible
ones. I am not the same person that I was before.
Since having the boys, I often find myself blindsided
by waves of fierce, visceral love. It’s a love that feels
almost like sadness, because you realize how much these
little people have added to your life. You unconsciously
sense the gaping hole, the bleak negative space, which
would be left if they
were not there. You
realize that you are
blessed, every day, by
their exhausting, whirlwind presence.
So when I look at
the empty shoes, it’s
a reminder. It reminds
Ginny
me that those boys have
Kubitz Moyer
walked squarely into
my heart and hunkered
down and made their
home there. There is a space carved out for each of them,
a space that they alone can fill, a space that it is my
privilege to give.
Really, though, I’m the one who’s been given the gift.
Jane L. Sears is a freelance writer and a member of
Our Lady of Angels Parish, Burlingame.
Of Grace and Sippy Cups
Shoes in a row
The boys’ shoes sit on the shelf, lined up in a neat
row. There are two pairs of sneakers; now that the weather
is warmer, two pairs of sandals as well. We keep them
always in the same place, having learned the hard way
that there are few things more frustrating than tearing
through toy boxes for a missing shoe when we’re already
running late.
I look at those shoes often in the evenings, when
the boys are fast asleep in their beds. I see Lukey’s little
brown Stride Rite shoes, with their thick Velcro tabs. I pat
Matthew’s sneakers, the ones he wore so often that they
literally started to come apart.
When they are off of the boys’ feet, I can really see
how small those shoes are. It’s easy to forget that when
those sneakers are in motion, running on the grass or grabbing for a foothold on the side of the couch. But in their
resting position, they look so tiny. They look vulnerable.
They pull at this mom’s heart with a force I would never
have imagined.
The days can be long when you have young kids; I’ve
learned that in the last three years. You look at the clock
Ginny Kubitz Moyer is the author of “Mary and
Me: Catholic Women Reflect on the Mother of
God.” Contact her at www.blog.maryandme.org.
The Catholic Difference
Catholic revival in Europe?
In mid-May, Pope Benedict XVI made an apostolic
pilgrimage to Portugal; half a million people attended the
outdoor papal Mass at Fatima.
When the pope returned to Rome, 200,000 pilgrims
jammed St. Peter’s Square for Benedict’s recitation of the
Sunday Regina Coeli, demonstrating their support for a
pontiff beset for months by criticism over abusive clergy
and irresponsible bishops.
A week later, a 44-day exposition of the Shroud of
Turin in the cathedral of that northern Italian city concluded. Over the course of six weeks, some 2 million people
braved long lines to spend a few brief moments before
what many believe to be the burial clothes of Christ.
To vary Mark Twain: Have reports of Christianity’s
death in Europe been greatly exaggerated?
It’s a fair question, and as one who has been ringing the alarm bells about a European crisis of civilizational morale since the publication of “The Cube and the
Cathedral” in 2005, I’m obliged to try to answer it.
The answer is: It’s too early to tell.
The vast flock of pilgrims at Fatima, the enthusiasm
for the pope manifest on a sunny Roman spring day, the
extraordinary numbers who came to see the Shroud—
these are all encouraging signs. So is the intense piety
that continues to be evident in Poland, most recently in
the wake of the tragic deaths of so many national leaders
in an April plane crash, while they were en route to the
killing grounds of the Katyn forest. So, in an odd way,
are the virulent attacks on the Church and the pope these
past several months. No one expends energy berating an
institution deemed moribund and an 83-year-old man considered an irrelevance; the attacks themselves are evidence
that Christian faith—and the Catholic Church—remain
factors in European culture and European public life.
Moreover, if World Youth Day 2011, to be held in
Madrid next Aug. 16-21, turns out a million or more
young pilgrims, which seems possible, a challenge will
have been laid down to the hyper-secularist Zapatero
government in Spain and to Europe’s aging children of
the Sixties, who may tolerate Christianity as a personal
lifestyle choice (if considering it an exceedingly odd
one) but who also insist that 21st century European public life must be stripped of religiously-informed moral
argument.
The game-changer in all this, however, will be when
these mass public displays of Christian conviction and piety
become culture-transforming, and thus capable of getting
traction in the public square. And it’s not easy to see that
happening in Europe anytime soon. European Catholicism
has little of the infrastructure for cultural combat that has
been built in the United States over the past few decades.
For example: there is simply nothing in Europe like the
periodical First Things and its stable of writers, whose
essays and articles demand attention from public officials,
academics, the general media, and other opinion merchants.
That’s not my idiosyncratic view as a longtime First Things
contributor and now the chairman of its board; that’s what
my European friends and colleagues tell me.
Getting that kind
of cultural traction
requires hard work and
resources. Above all,
however, it requires a
critical mass of radically converted Christian
disciples, who have been
George Weigel
through moments like
Father Robert Barron of
Chicago lived in Turin:
“I have to admit that it was one of the most extraordinary religious experiences of my life. The marks on
the Shroud—including the blood stains—are clearly visible, which means that the brutal reality of the Passion
is clearly visible. Staring at the Shroud, I was brought
vividly back to that squalid little hill outside the city
walls of Jerusalem in the year 30 where a young man was
tortured to death. But then the face of the figure comes
into focus: that strange, haunting, noble, peaceful face,
which discloses, at the same time, the depth of human
misery and the fullness of divine mercy. In the face of
the crucified God, the full drama and poetry of Christian
faith is on display, the Answer which is anything but an
easy answer, the Word which surpasses the word of any
philosopher…”
George Weigel is Distinguished Senior Fellow of the
Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.
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A READING FROM
THE FIRST BOOK OF KINGS
KGS 19:16B, 19-21
The Lord said to Elijah: “You shall anoint
Elisha, son of Shaphat of Abelmeholah, as
prophet to succeed you.” Elijah set out and
came upon Elisha, son of Shaphat, as he was
plowing with twelve yoke of oxen; he was
following the twelfth. Elijah went over to
him and threw his cloak over him. Elisha left
the oxen, ran after Elijah, and said, “Please,
let me kiss my father and mother goodbye,
and I will follow you.” Elijah answered, “Go
back! Have I done anything to you?” Elisha
left him, and taking the yoke of oxen, slaughtered them; he used the plowing equipment
for fuel to boil their flesh, and gave it to his
people to eat. Then Elisha left and followed
Elijah as his attendant.
RESPONSORIAL PSALM
PS 16:1-2, 5, 7-8, 9-10, 11;
R. You are my inheritance, O Lord.
Keep me, O God, for in you I take refuge;
I say to the Lord, “My Lord are you.
O Lord, my allotted portion and my cup,
you it is who hold fast my lot.”
I bless the Lord who counsels me;
even in the night my heart exhorts me.
I set the Lord ever before me;
with him at my right hand I shall not be
disturbed.
June 25, 2010
Thirteenth
Sunday in
Ordinary Time
I Kings 19:16b, 19-21;
Psalm 16:1-2, 5, 7-8, 9-10;
Galatians 5:1, 13-18; Luke 9:51-62
Therefore my heart is glad and my soul
rejoices,
my body, too, abides in confidence
because you will not abandon my soul to
the netherworld,
nor will you suffer your faithful one to
undergo corruption.
You will show me the path to life,
fullness of joys in your presence,
the delights at your right hand
forever.
A READING FROM THE LETTER OF
PAUL TO THE GALATIANS
GAL 5:1, 13-18
Brothers and sisters:
For freedom Christ set us free; so
stand firm and do not submit again to the
yoke of slavery. For you were called for
freedom, brothers and sisters. But do not
use this freedom as an opportunity for the
flesh; rather, serve one another through
love. For the whole law is fulfilled in
one statement, namely, You shall love
your neighbor as yourself. But if you
go on biting and devouring one another,
beware that you are not consumed by one
another. I say, then: live by the Spirit and
you will certainly not gratify the desire of
the flesh. For the flesh has desires against
the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh;
these are opposed to each other, so that
you may not do what you want. But if
you are guided by the Spirit, you are not
under the law.
W
ith regard to the Scriptures and the
teachings of Christ, I recall a person
explaining to a priest, with a tone of all
reason and logic, “Father, if I followed
everything that is in that book, I would have
to change my entire lifestyle!” In interviewing potential candidates for the RCIA, I have
been told, on occasion, by the person making
the inquiry, “I am looking for a church that
will accept me for who I am.”
There is an attitudinal phenomenon of
which almost everyone is guilty one way
or another. We eagerly embrace the idea
of the Gospel, of Christianity and of being
a part of the Church, but with stipulations
that make it more agreeable to our particular
individuality. The late Pope John Paul II
referred to this phenomenon as “cafeteria”
Catholicism. I like to refer to it as “yes...
but” Catholicism.
Jesus was no stranger to the reality of
his followers wanting to classify “their” following; adjusting it according to their own
circumstances. We hear it throughout the
Gospel with potential disciples. Many who
hear his message receive it with great enthusiasm and declare at least their intention to
become His followers. Then they follow up
by integrating a couple of provisos: Yes, “I
will follow you wherever you go,” but...”let
me first bury my father,” “let me say farewell
to my family at home.”
Not much has changed among Christ’s
Scripture reflection
FATHER WILLIAM NICHOLAS
“Yes...but” Followers
followers down through the centuries. All of
us have at least the intention to follow Jesus
unreservedly; at least the intention to be a
part of His Church. Yet how often do we add
stipulations, provisos or exceptions; our own
style of “yes...but” Catholicism? Yes, I am
Christian, but I do not believe in ‘organized
religion.’ Yes, I am a Catholic, but I do not
agree with everything the Church teaches.
Yes, I follow Christ, but I still believe in a
woman’s right to choose. Yes, I love God,
but I do not believe I have to go to Mass
on Sunday to be a good person. Yes, I am
Catholic, but I am more traditional/liberal.
Yes, I am Catholic, but I am not religious.
Jesus is aware of the shallowness of
His potential followers’ intentions and He
responds to their requisites accordingly. In
a few familiar passages it would seem that
Jesus is determined to lay on, as heavily
as he can, the obligations and expectations
that come with being His Disciple; His own
“yes...but” answer to their “yes...but” stipulations: Yes, you want to follow, but “the Son
of Man has nowhere to rest his head,” “let
the dead bury their dead,” “no one who sets
a hand to the plow and looks to what was
left behind is fit...” In another place, Jesus
says to a prospective follower: Yes, you have
followed the law, but you still must “go sell
A READING FROM THE GOSPEL
ACCORDING TO LUKE
LK 9:51-62
When the days for Jesus’ being taken
up were fulfilled, he resolutely determined to journey to Jerusalem, and he
sent messengers ahead of him. On the
way they entered a Samaritan village to
prepare for his reception there, but they
would not welcome him because the destination of his journey was Jerusalem.
When the disciples James and John
saw this they asked, “Lord, do you want
us to call down fire from heaven to consume them?” Jesus turned and rebuked
them, and they journeyed to another
village.
As they were proceeding on their journey someone said to him, “I will follow
you wherever you go.” Jesus answered
him, “Foxes have dens and birds of the
sky have nests, but the Son of Man has
nowhere to rest his head.” And to another
he said, “Follow me.” But he replied,
“Lord, let me go first and bury my father.”
But he answered him, “Let the dead bury
their dead. But you, go and proclaim the
kingdom of God.” And another said, “I
will follow you, Lord, but first let me say
farewell to my family at home.” To him
Jesus said, “No one who sets a hand to the
plow and looks to what was left behind is
fit for the kingdom of God.”
all you have and give to the poor, then come
follow me.” It is a wonder that any of His
followers stayed considering the unyielding
provisos Jesus Himself heaped upon those
who expressed an interest in following Him.
Unmoved by the conditions of those who
hear His word, Jesus continued to remind
them of just what it means, without exception, to be His followers.
It is, indeed, a hard reality to grasp
that the Church founded by Christ is not
oriented toward simply accepting us as
we are, with all the conditions, provisos
and stipulations we wish to attach to our
embracing the Gospel; that yes, Jesus
accepts us as we are, but loves us too
much to leave us that way. Rather, Christ,
in and through the Church, calls everyone
to an ongoing conversion of our lives; a
refocusing of our priorities, a changing of
our lifestyle, a re-orienting of our outlook
to the standards, challenges, and life-giving
priorities Jesus has given us in His preaching of the Kingdom of God. We are called
to embrace the reality that yes, Jesus loves
us, but He also calls us to a complete and
ongoing conversion if we are to be His
followers.
Father William Nicholas is Parochial
Vicar at Our Lady of Loretto
Parish in Novato. Visit his
website at www.frwcnicholas.com.
Archbishop’s Journal
Is there a compromise Jesus?
Jesus Christ is gentle, “meek and humble of heart”
(Matthew 11:29), but he can also seem so demanding and
uncompromising that we are intimidated. The Gerasenes felt
that way about this man who dealt so radically with their
possessed neighbor and with their herd of pigs (Luke 8:2639). Perhaps they would have felt better disposed toward
the healer if he had stopped at the cure and not permitted
their squealing investments to be driven over the cliff. The
Gerasenes were some of the first people to choose between
Jesus, on the one hand, and peace and prosperity, on the
other. They made the popular choice: they asked him to
leave town.
Compromises of all sorts tempt us: moral, spiritual,
personal, political, economic, and social. All the time,
however, Jesus is uncompromising, and we need him to
be uncompromising. If that is hard to understand, imagine
for a moment a “compromise Jesus.” Picture him with the
woman caught in adultery (John 8:3-7), as she cowers before
him and the crowd. Then imagine Jesus saying something
like this: “If some of you haven’t sinned too very much,
at least not lately, perhaps you could throw a few of the
smaller rocks.”
Imagine Jesus calling the rich young man (Matthew
19:21) to go, sell everything, put it into a trust fund, and
then follow him for a while to see whether it felt agreeable
enough to stay with him. Or imagine the Messiah responding
to the Pharisees’ rebuke for curing people on the Sabbath
(Matthew 12:10-12) by promising to cut down on it gradually, or to limit it to extreme cases only, or to try to schedule
healing for sunset, or even later. Those are the responses of
a forgettable prophet, one who will die in bed and not on
a cross. He’s not the Jesus we need, the radical Jesus who
challenges us to our roots.
The compromise Jesus is related to another false image
of God more prevalent in recent years: the divine pushover
in the sky, the “Good Old God,” a kind of cosmic sweetheart
who could never be angry with anyone, let alone condemn
what they do. Even the most wrong-headed, wrong-hearted,
and destructive attempts at human living and relating will be
fine with Someone Up There Who Likes Everything About
Us. “Good Old God” thinks everyone should get an E for
effort, or maybe even an A for attempt.
What’s wrong with that image of God? Jesus is wrong
with it. We have only to look at his treatment of the woman
accused of adultery. Jesus does not condemn her, but neither
does he say something fuzzily “modern” to her: “I understand, dear. Yours was probably an arranged marriage. No
doubt your husband is much older than you, and he travels
a great deal. You were
lonely, and Jerusalem is
a big city. Besides, we
know that social mores
are changing rapidly all
across the empire.”
Instead, noting that
no one else has condemned her after his
challenge to them, Jesus
Archbishop
says, “Neither do I conGeorge H.
demn you. Go, (and)
from now on do not sin
Niederauer
anymore” (John 8:11).
For Jesus, sin is sin, it
calls for repentance and conversion, and there is always
compassion, forgiveness, and grace from God. As Christians,
we reject the motto “Anything Goes,” and say instead,
“Everything is grace” (to summarize Ephesians 2:4-10).
The reflection above is from Archbishop
George H. Niederauer’s book, “Precious as Silver:
Imagining Your Life With God,” published in 2004
by Ave Maria Press, Notre Dame, IN.
June 25, 2010
17
Spirituality for Life
Discerning the truth
Many of us today tend to be intimidated by any kind
of knowledge that makes scientific claims. Who dares
argue with science? Who dares argue with the experts?
Very few, and those who do are easily dismissed as backward or ignorant.
And so inside of our lives, objectified expertise generally trumps moral insight or, worse still, is simplistically
identified with it. Truth is truth, science has the truth, and
science trumps our moral concerns (which can be made to
appear parochial and fear-based in the face of scientific
claims). Thus the idea is prevalent that we should listen
to the scientific experts when it comes to discerning the
truth.
But is it really that simple? And who really are the
experts? What makes someone an expert? A post-graduate
degree? Being a mother who’s raising her family well?
Being a respected researcher? Living a good life? Being
steady and faithful? There are various kinds of experts.
Moreover there is also the issue of personal integrity
and how this relates to “expertise”. What’s to be said for
the truth of someone who produces scientific insight but
who leads an unhealthy life? Does man or a woman’s
personal life affect his or her research and professional
expertise?
Many great thinkers - philosophers, theologians, and
even scientists - would say that it does. Truth can never be
divorced from moral insight since truth and morality are
really one at their base. Hence personal integrity or lack
of it in any researcher or scholar in some way does color
his or her expertise, however imperceptible this might be
on the surface. How?
Aristotle, for example, had a concept he called phronesis, which taught that it is impossible to separate the
teaching of truth from the practice of virtue. For Aristotle,
genuine knowledge, the type that ultimately makes you a
better human being, could not issue forth from someone
whose intellectual theory and personal moral life were
radically out of sync.
Albert Einstein, in effect, said that it is impossible
to do research that does not include a lot of me-search.
Who we are and what perspective we have on reality will
always help determine how we see the world and articulate
any theory about it. And who we are and our perspective
on reality is always partly shaped and deeply colored by
our own moral lives. Our moral lives deeply influence our
research because they help shape our eyesight.
The medieval mystic, Hugo of St. Victor, had an
axiom for this: Love is the eye! For him, our eyesight is
largely shaped by either the love or bitterness that is inside
of us at any moment. When I look at the world with love,
I see it one way; when I look at the world with bitterness,
I see it another way. That’s also true for every researcher.
Granted mathematics is beyond emotion, but the realities in love, in friendship, in
to which we apply it aren’t.
kindness, in fidelity, in
Finally, and not least, Jesus teaches that we see the hope, in peace-making,
world accurately only to the extent that we are pure of in courage, in prayer, in
heart. When he said this he wasn’t just talking about honesty, in chastity, in
having purity of heart in order to see straight religiously, aesthetics, in practical
he was affirming that purity of heart is a pre-condition in sanity, and in humor.
order to see straight in every way, religiously, morally,
When you are lookpractically, and scientifically.
ing for stars by which to
Father
What we see through a microscope is partly colored guide your life scan the
Ron Rolheiser
by how we are feeling about life in general and how we heavens widely. Don’t
are feeling about life in general is deeply colored by how lock-in on one narrow
we are living morally.
corner. There are many
And so what’s the lesson?
stars, each with its own particular expertise in giving off
The lesson here is not the one that you sometimes light.
hear in circles of fundamentalist religion, namely, that we
should stop listening to scientists, academics, and techOblate Father Ron Rolheiser, theologian,
nological experts and should try to dispute their insights
teacher, and award-winning author,
by using scripture. Our task is not to become defensive
is
President
of the Oblate School of Theology
about the findings of the various professional academies,
in
San
Antonio,
TX. He can be contacted
to stop studying.
Rather, these are the lessons:
through his website www.ronrolheiser.com.
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always enthralled about
their source. All truth has
Our culture is in crisis. The fear of marriage
one author, God. Thus God
and of children. The lack of courage and will.
is the source of the bible
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The reliance on government as provider of
of science and its findings.
solutions. The increasingly common question:
Accept truth in all its guisDoes human life have any real value or meanes, but be less intimidated
ing?
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you only need two.’ He said there are people who come to
that early Mass, a handful, who are older people, and they
are responsible for most of the collection on Sunday. He
has to make that judgment.
CSF: As a Church, why are we so defensive? Why
are we so risk-averse when we have the best story in the
world? Why are we letting others fill that space? Why
aren’t we competing? When did we stop competing? Are
we waiting for the storm to pass?
Msgr. Schlitt: I think there are several reasons. One is
the institution itself – we’re so top-down managed. Every
priest is careful not be called in by the bishop for taking
a risk....I think it’s part of the institution where we have a
risk aversion because we don’t want to be in trouble. And
it goes back also to 2002 when the abuse thing started and
guys were not wearing their collars as much because a few
remarks would be made on the street. I used to walk down
to play handball at the Olympic Club, and I’d get people
looking at me like I just fell off the abuse wagon. That
didn’t help to drive guys further back into their holes. And
I think the other thing would have been – I was pastor at
St. Gabriel in the early ‘90s and when the kids would come
up and hug your leg after Mass or want to be picked up,
you always had a second thought about that. But 10 years
before that, I used to tickle them and pick them up and hug
them. You just have second thoughts about that.
CSF: That’s a tragedy.
Msgr. Schlitt: Isn’t it?
CSF: The last year of your job coincided with the Year
for Priests. What was the most challenging experience
in your vocation in the past year?
‘A lot of people have a deep
spiritual sense that they keep
to themselves, and they don’t
explore any further. You need a
deep spiritual sense to deal with
the challenges of the day.’
Msgr. Schlitt: For me in this job it’s always been the
budget situation because it irritates me to know I have to
make some changes that will not please everyone and that
will cause some bad feelings around the building and some
lowering of morale and all of that. That’s always been
the challenge in this particular job. The challenge for my
priesthood is always trying to get to be in a hurry about
things. I’m going to make a concentrated effort. I hurry
my prayers in the morning. The archbishop and I say our
office together and we pray the Mass together when we
don’t have something outside, and when that happens you
slow down because you’re with somebody else. But when
you’re by yourself it’s hard to give that time to God and
not be in a hurry to get to the next meeting or the next
person you’re supposed to see. I’m looking forward to not
being in a hurry. I read somewhere that when you hurry
your prayer life, you actually do violence to God. And
I suppose if I were to be listing my faults that would be
major to me.
CSF: What advice would you give a young man
considering the priesthood?
Msgr. Schlitt: If there are any indications at all that you
are looking to a life where you’d be able to help other people
you should find out what’s it all about....If you have any inner
feelings or thoughts of being a spiritual person or having a
relationship with God or beyond yourself, if you have these
feelings you should go try them out. And a way to do it is
to go someplace where there’s a priest and you can make a
retreat and spend some quiet time and really talking in depth
and not just talking around. Try to see the thing through by
yourself. A lot of people have a deep spiritual sense that they
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day. It has been a hard two to three weeks for me since we
announced people are leaving here. If I didn’t have Mass
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Letters . . .
and ministry with Larry Rosebaugh (Padre Lorenzo) in
El Salvador. How often we teased Larry about the way
he slaughtered the Spanish language. Larry spoke the
language of the heart, a more difficult language to speak
than Spanish or Portuguese. I was shocked the morning I
received the news of Larry’s murder, yet after a good cry
and prayerful reflection, I came to understand that perhaps
it was altogether fitting that Larry would die the way he
did, sharing the same fate as so many street people who
are killed and whose assailants are never found. Thank
you, Ron, for linking Larry’s charism with the gifts of
Pentecost.
Sister Laetitia Bordes, sh
San Bruno
Powerful public prayer
We would like to thank all those who participated in the
2010 Public Rosary Crusade, let by Father John Jimenez,
on May 29 near San Francisco City Hall. Public prayer is
powerful prayer. Thank you and God bless you,
Helene H. Rosenthal
San Francisco
Rule of law should prevail
In the May 21 issue of Catholic San Francisco, there
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were two commentaries which appeared written by descendants of European immigrants. One stood out as a reliable
consideration of the immigrant issue that has reached
large political proportions. This was the examination by
our brilliant, perceptive, faith-based commentator, George
Weigel, who began by telling us that “Catholic political
theory places a high value on the rule of law, which it
regards as morally superior to the alternative … the rule
of willfulness imposed by brute force.”
He adds that “A proper Catholic understanding of
limited and constitutional government grasps that the
state...which means the national government – has the
right to enforce its citizenship laws and the duty to conduct
that enforcement in a just way.” And within those few
principles, he suggests, lie an acceptable, if not perfect,
solution to immigration reform.
The other contributor, Antoinette Bosco bemoans
the alarmed Arizonians, caught in the violence of gang
warfare, drug smuggling, and human trafficking, which
have brought uncontrolled lawlessness spilling over the
Mexico’s border. She says, “When I hear of the anger so
many feel about immigration today, I say a prayer to dad
in heaven.”
Ms. Bosco twists around the rational perspective
of the importance of the rule of law, and asks whether”
America is becoming less sensitive, less caring toward the
poor, the weak, the needy,” and leaves us castigated for
having dared to see things in a way that holds on to the
essence of our strength as a society, and the foundation of
our Catholic Church, which stands firmly by the canons of
justice. These canons, Weigel notes, “dictate that people
should not be rewarded for law-breaking”
Robert Jimenez
Burlingame
Disagrees with bishop
I was very troubled by the News in Brief section
regarding “Nun excommunicated loses post over abortion
decision” (CSF May 21). In the story, Bishop Olmsted
said that “The unborn child’s life is just as sacred as the
mother’s life, and neither life can be preferred over the
other.”
What would the bishop have preferred, that if both
could not be saved that both mother and child should have
been allowed to die? The medical team came to a heartbreaking conclusion, that unless the baby was aborted the
mother would die. I suspect they did not come to this conclusion lightly, but after a thorough review of the medical
facts and a meeting of the hospital’s medical ethics team,
of which Sister Margaret Mary McBride was a member.
There are limits to what medical science can do to save
people from death. In this case the medical and ethics team
seems to have reached a very painful, but nevertheless
responsible conclusion – that at least one could be saved,
and it would be the mother. Instead of excommunication,
the bishop should have offered the nun spiritual counseling
and humane support.
L. Tolmach
San Francisco
Thank you for the item about my husband Dick and me
in the June 11 issue of Catholic San Francisco. It generated
many calls asking how I rated such great exposure in print. It
just shows how popular Catholic San Francisco is. Everyone
wants to appear in it. Almost every issue mentions someone
I know, or knew, so it’s a little like old home week in print.
Keep up the interesting information.
Natalie Egan Herb
San Mateo
Catholic schools are good
Thanks for including items on St. Timothy Elementary
School in San Mateo in the June 11 issue of Catholic San
Francisco. It’s a celebration of the good things that we
do!
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St. Timothy School, San Mateo
Leading by example
Thank you for publishing comments by Bishop John
Wester (former auxiliary bishop of San Francisco, now
Bishop of Salt Lake City and chairman of the USCCB
Committee on Migration), including his commentary some
time ago on immigrants and health care. His continued call
for compassion and civilized discourse based on facts is an
excellent model of leading by example.
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San Francisco
Kagan and ‘settled law’
Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan “considers
abortion rights to be settled law” Yet America’s courts and
legislatures have a proud history of changing “settled law”
and flawed judicial decisions. Dred Scott v. Sandford (1856)
is the most commonly cited instance. The slaveholder’s right
to property eclipsed and subsumed the slave’s right to freedom. The Constitution was eventually amended to correct
the error. And the “Separate but equal” doctrine of Plessy v.
Ferguson (1896) sanctioning segregation was overturned by
Brown v. Board of Education some 58 years later.
Many reversals of Supreme Court cases came about
when new evidence was brought forward that made it clear
that someone’s rights, not previously recognized, were being
violated. Thus, Louis Brandeis brought forward the facts
about how workers were being harmed, and got the court
to protect their rights.
Federal courts have upheld South Dakota’s law requiring that abortion providers tell women that the procedure
destroys a “whole, separate, unique, living human being.”
This came about because of the evidence presented to the
court regarding the humanity of the unborn child. With hundreds of embryological sciences, and massive evidence of the
harm abortion does to women, such evidence, combined with
new legal concepts, can challenge Roe vs. Wade in the same
way its erroneous ancestral decisions were challenged.
Father Frank Pavone
National Director, Priests for Life
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Toy Story 3: satisfying and poignant, lessons on family, friendship
By Joseph McAleer
(CNS PHOTO/DISNEY/PIXAR)
NEW YORK (CNS) – The third time’s
a charm with “Toy Story 3” (Disney/Pixar),
the action-packed sequel to two of the biggest animated films of all time, “Toy Story”
and “Toy Story 2.” Arriving 15 years after
the start of the franchise, “Toy Story 3”
offers a satisfying and poignant conclusion
with valuable lessons on family, friendship,
and destiny.
Toy owner Andy (voice of John
Morris) is all grown up and heading to
college, which means putting away his
childish things. This is the moment all
toys dread, with only three possible outcomes: storage in the attic, donation to
charity, or the garbage pile. “At the first
sight of the trash bags, we leave,” says
the leader of the green toy soldiers, as
his battalion parachutes out of the open
bedroom window.
Woody (voice of Tom Hanks), Buzz
Lightyear (voice of Tim Allen), and the rest
of the “Roundup Gang” wax philosophical
as the “warm and safe” attic beckons. “Every
toy goes through this,” Woody says. “We’ve
survived yard sales and spring cleaning.”
Although the toys have never been played
with in years, Woody insists that is not their
raison d’etre: “It’s never been just about
being played with. It’s about being there
for Andy.”
Before “Toy Story 3” gets too bogged
down in discussing the meaning of plastic
life and the destiny of playthings, the action
adventure kicks into high gear. Woody is
chosen to go to college with Andy, while
Animated characters Lots-o’-Huggin’ Bear, Buzz Lightyear and Woody
are pictured in a scene from the movie “Toy Story 3.”
The film contains mild cartoonish violence and scenes of peril.
the other toys, prepped for the attic, are
accidentally placed in the trash.
They escape, and joined by a reluctant
Woody, spurn Andy and choose the next
best option: donation to “Sunnyside,” a
daycare center which promises the one
thing toys desire – to be played with by a
loving child.
At first glance, Sunnyside seems like
Nirvana, and a warm welcome is offered by
the resident toys and their benevolent leader,
Lots-O’Huggin Bear (Ned Beatty). “Here
there are no ‘overs,’ no heartache,” Lots-O
tells the refugees. “We are never abandoned
or forgotten. We control our destiny.”
Woody is not convinced, and his loyalty
to Andy leads him to part company with his
friends. But his journey home is cut short,
and Woody lands in the arms of a caring
child, Bonnie (Emily Hahn). Her home
offers even more new toys to play with,
including a hilarious porcupine dressed
in lederhosen, Mr. Pricklepants (Timothy
Dalton), who fancies himself a classically
trained actor slumming among amateurs.
Meanwhile, back at Sunnyside, the rest
of the gang savors their peaceable kingdom
– until the children arrive. The toddlers are
unruly and destructive, and this dream world
becomes a nightmare.
Lots-O, moreover, rules with an iron paw,
imposing prison-like conditions after hours
on the new arrivals. Sunnyside becomes a
very dark place, and scenes of toy “torture”
(and a rather menacing Big Baby doll) may
upset or confuse the smaller ones in the
audience.
Taking a page from “The Great Escape,”
“Toy Story 3” ramps up the action when
Woody learns the truth and returns to
help his friends. “We’re a family. We stay
together,” he insists.
The journey is perilous, but “Toy Story
3” never forgets its core audience. Good
triumphs over evil, and the denouement is
heartfelt, hope-filled – and handkerchiefworthy.
Directed by Lee Unkrich (“Toy Story 2,”
“Finding Nemo”) with music, once again,
by Randy Newman, “Toy Story 3” is a
film for all ages. Baby-boomer parents will
appreciate the gag-driven script with plenty
of innuendo (the blossoming relationship
between the Barbie and Ken dolls steals the
show), while kids will delight in all the new
characters – and drag their parents to the toy
store afterward.
The film contains mild cartoonish violence and scenes of peril. Catholic News
Service classification is A-I – general
patronage. The MPAA rating is G – All
ages admitted.
More reviews are available online at
www.usccb.org/movies.
Fascinating book on papal response to Nazism draws upon archival material
“POPE AND DEVIL: THE VATICAN’S
ARCHIVES AND THE THIRD REICH” by Hubert
Wolf. Translated by Kenneth Kronenberg. Belknap
Press of Harvard University Press (Cambridge,
Mass., 2010). 316 pp., $29.95.
Reviewed by Eugene J. Fisher
(CNS) – Between 2003 and 2006, the Vatican released
for scholarly study all materials in the Secret Archives relating to the pontificate of Pope Pius XI (Feb. 6, 1922-Feb.
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10, 1939). With “Pope and Devil,” Hubert Wolf, professor
of church history at the University of Munster in Germany,
has gone through these materials to provide a fascinating
“insider” view of how the Vatican sought to cope with the
great danger that was German National Socialism.
The title of the study is from a 1929 statement by Pope
Pius XI explaining the treaty he made with
Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and subbsequent treaties with Francisco Franco inn
Spain and Adolf Hitler in Germany: “If it
were possible to save even a single soul, too
shield souls from greater harm, we wouldd
find the courage to deal even with the devil
himself.”
Pope Pius XI’s secretary of state in
1933 was Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli, who
in 1939 would succeed him as Pope Pius
XII and who, Wolf shows, strongly shared
this view.
Cardinal Pacelli was the nuncio to
Bavaria and then to Germany from 1917
to 1930, so Wolf spends a great deal of
time on him and his attitudes toward
Germany and the Jews, which give
necessary background for the decisions
he ultimately makes as pope during World
War II. Wolf’s careful and balanced analysis will greatly
enhance the reader’s appreciation of the complexities facing
both Pope Pius XI and Pope Pius XII.
The author details two key experiences of Cardinal
Pacelli’s in Germany that he believes lie behind what
Wolf calls his “silence” about the Holocaust as pope.
The first is the failure of the Holy See’s peace initiative
during World War I, from which he learned the necessity
of remaining neutral in international conflicts, since there
would inevitably be Catholics on both sides of the battle
lines and no pope could hope to facilitate peace or justice
if the appearance of taking the side of one over the other
were given.
The other issue was historical, one ingrained in his
training, which was the attack on the Church in Prussia
(1871-91), in which the state closed down thousands of
Catholic parishes and schools, leaving countless Catholics
without adequate catechesis and forcing them to live and die
without the sacraments. The lesson, again, was the necessity
of working above all to preserve the Church’s right to meet
the spiritual and pastoral needs of her people.
Both Pope Pope Pius XI and Cardinal Pacelli clearly
abhorred the paganism and racial anti-Semitism of Nazi
ideology and considered them to be against the teaching
of the Church, the latter because it denied the fundamental
unity of humanity, that we are all descended from the same
ultimate parents and that each human is made in the image
and likeness of God.
But how to effectively attack racial anti-Semitism
and Nazism while at the same time
maintaining the diplomatic neutrality
necessary to ensure the survival of the
Church? This is the major question that
embroiled the Vatican internally during
two papacies.
One example on which Wolf goes
iinto great detail indicates the passions
involved in these internal disputes within
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the Curia. The first involved an associath
tion, Friends of Israel, whose membership
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consisted of about 3,000 priests, among
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them 19 cardinals and 278 bishops and
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the Jews, hoping thereby to attract converts.
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Israel,” denouncing anti-Semitism, and
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matters to change the wording of the Good
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Friday prayer for the “perfidious Jews,” using
more positive terminology.
The congregation accepted the group’s new wording, but
the Holy Office (now the Congregation for the Doctrine of
the Faith) rejected any reform of the liturgy as setting a dangerous precedent, and throwing into the bargain a demand
to dissolve Friends of Israel. Pope Pius XI compromised.
He refused to make the changes and in an announcement
disbanding the group specifically and clearly condemned
anti-Semitism.
Wolf expressed disappointment with this decision, since
such a change in the liturgy in 1928, he feels, likely would
have had greater impact in combating anti-Semitism than
did Pope Pius’ 1937 encyclical, “Mit Brennender Sorge,”
which denounced anti-Semitism and the ideology of Nazism
in clear terms. Cardinal Pacelli, who was secretary of state
by that time, played a vital and positive role in the drafting
of that encyclical.
Fisher is retired associate director of the Secretariat
for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs of
the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
June 25, 2010
National Shrine
of St. Francis of Assisi
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The Porziuncola and “Francesco Rocks” Gift
Shop are open every day but Monday from 10 a.m.
– 6 p.m. Visit www.knightsofsaintfrancis.com
To volunteer and become a Knight of Saint
Francis, contact Jim Brunsmann at jimbrunsmann@
comcast.net or go to www.knightsofsaintfrancis.
com and follow the Volunteer Application link at the
bottom of the home page.
Returning Catholics
Landings Program for inactive Catholics, a 10-week
program in a small group setting, where practicing
Catholics speak with honesty about their own spiritual journeys, and listen with compassion to inactive
Catholics exploring returning to the church. Held twice
a year, fall and winter sessions, evenings. No cost. For
more information, visit St. Dominic’s Church website,
www.stdominics.org, or call Ms. Lee Gallery, volunteer
coordinator, 415-221-1288, [email protected].
Single, Divorced, Separated
Information about Bay Area single, divorced
and separated programs is available from Jesuit
Father Al Grosskopf at [email protected]
(415) 422-6698.
Would you like support while you travel the road
through separation and divorce? The Archdiocese
of San Francisco offers support for the journey. The
Separated and Divorced Catholics of the Archdiocese
of San Francisco (SDCASF) has two ongoing support
groups in the 1st and 3rd weeks of each month. There
is one on the Peninsula, at St. Bartholomew Parish,
600 Columbia Dr, San Mateo, on the 1st and 3rd
Tuesdays, at 7 p.m. in the Spirituality center on the
main floor of the ‘school’ building. The other one is in
the parish hall of St. Stephen Parish near Stonestown,
San Francisco, on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays, at
7:30 p.m. Call Gail (650) 591-8452, or Joanne at St.
Bart’s, (650) 347-0701 for more information.
Catholic Adult Singles Association of Marin
County: “We are Catholics, single or single again,
who are interested in making new friends, taking part
in social activities, sharing opportunities for spiritual
growth, and becoming involved in volunteer activities
that will benefit our parishes, our community, and one
July 10, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.: Rummage Sale
benefiting work of San Mateo Pro-Life at
Ralston Ave. at Alameda de las Pulgas in
Belmont. Visit www.sanmateoprolife.com
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Saturdays: San Mateo Pro-Life prays the rosary
at Planned Parenthood, 2211 Palm Ave. in San
Mateo at 8 a.m. and invites others to join them at
the site. The prayer continues as a peaceful vigil until
1 p.m. The group is also open to new membership.
Meetings are held the second Thursday of the month
except August and December at St. Gregory Parish’s
Worner Center, 138 28th Ave. in San Mateo at 7:30
p.m. For more information, call Jessica at (650) 5721468 or visit www.sanmateoprolife.com
Saturdays, 9 a.m. – 10 a.m.: Rosary for Life 815
Eddy St. – Planned Parenthood – in San Francisco.
Reunions
TV/Radio
Fridays at 9 a.m.: The Archbishop’s Hour on
Immaculate Heart Radio, KSFB - 1260 AM, San
Francisco. Enjoy news, conversation and in-depth look
at local and larger Church. Program is rerun Fridays
and Mondays at 9 p.m. and Sundays at 11 a.m. e-mail [email protected] with comments and
questions about faith. 1260 AM also offers daily Mass,
rosary and talk on the faith. Visit www.ihradio.org
Sunday, 6 a.m., KOFY Channel 20/Cable 13 and
KTSF Channel 26/Cable 8: TV Mass with Msgr.
Harry Schlitt presiding.
Sunday, 7 a.m.: TV Mass on The Filipino Channel
(TFC) (Channel 241 on Comcast and Channel 2060
on Direct TV.
Saturday, 4 p.m.: Religious programming in
Cantonese over KVTO 1400 AM, co-sponsored by
the Chinese Ministry and Chinese Young Adults of
the Archdiocese.
1st Sunday, 5 a.m., CBS Channel 5: “Mosaic,”
featuring conversations on current Catholic issues.
3rd Sunday, 5:30 a.m., KRON Channel 4: “For
Heaven’s Sake,” featuring conversations about
Catholic spirituality.
EWTN Catholic Television: Comcast Channel
229, AT&T Channel 562, Astound Channel 80, San
Bruno Cable Channel 143, DISH Satellite Channel
261, Direct TV Channel 370. For programming
details, visit www.ewtn.com
Father Tom Seagrave, retired pastor of St. John of God Parish and now living
at Serra Clergy House in San Mateo, was special guest of the class of 1960 from
San Francisco’s now-closed and much-missed St. John Ursuline High School at
an annual all-school St. John’s reunion April 25. Father Seagrave was among
celebrants of a morning Mass at St. John the Evangelist Church where he and
13 members of the class of ’60 attended grade school together. “Because of
Tom we’ve had several eighth grade reunions in the last two years with another
in the works,” said Margaret Silva, whom we thank for the good news.
“Father Tom has touched all of our lives in so many ways over the last 50 years.
Please keep him in your prayers.” The class of ’60 presented a check for
$1,200 to their grade school alma mater for its scholarship fund, Margaret said.
another. We welcome those who would share in this
with us.” For information, call Bob at (415) 897-0639.
Good Health
July 1, 5 p.m.: Reclaim Your Life: Options for Total
Joint Replacement, a free seminar to discuss all of
the latest surgical techniques for joint replacement
at St. Mary’s Medical Center, 450 Stanyan Street, 3
East Conference Room – 3rd Floor. Dr. Jason Provus
will be on hand explaining the specific details of
surgery and your recovery. Call (888) 457-5202.
July 15, 5 p.m.: Managing Joint Pain and Arthritis,
nearly half of all Americans suffer from arthritis.
Come and learn activities you can do to ease your
hip and knee pain without surgery. Presented June
17 by Ashley Scott Bernstein, physical therapist, and
July 15 by Pam Holmes, Physical Therapist at St.
Mary’s Medical Center, 450 Stanyan Street, 3 East
Conference Room – 3rd Floor. Call (888) 457-5202.
June 30, 2:30 p.m.: Cancer 101, a free seminar to
learn about cancer prevention. Dr. Cecily Fitzgerald
will discuss ways to prevent cancer, give tips on
diet and exercise as well as answer your questions
on various cancer treatment options at St. Mary’s
Medical Center, 450 Stanyan Street, Doctor’s Dining
Room – Level B. Call (888) 457-5202.
Pauline Books and Media
Daughters of St. Paul, 2640 Broadway, Redwood
City (650) 369-4230 - Visit www.pauline.org
Fridays, 6:30 p.m.: Pauline Books & Media in
Redwood City hosts Faith & Film night. Explore
movie themes and engage media culture from a
faith perspective. Film begins promptly at 6:30 p.m.
June 25: Remember the Titans; July 2: The Count
of Monte Cristo; July 9: Freedom Writers; July 16:
Romero; July 23: Pride & Prejudice; July 30: Dead
Man Walking; Aug. 6: Paul VI; Aug. 13: Invictus; Aug.
20: Quiz Show; Aug. 27: The Blind Side. For more
information go to www.PaulineRedwood.blogspot.
com, or call Pauline Books & Media, 2640 Broadway,
Redwood City, (650) 369-4230.
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.
Taize/Sung Prayer
1st Friday at 8 p.m.: Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline
Dr., Burlingame with Mercy Sister Suzanne Toolan.
Call (650) 340-7452; young adults are invited each
first Friday of the month to attend a social at 6 p.m.
prior to Taize prayer at 8 p.m. The social provides light
refreshments and networking with other young adults.
Convenient parking is available. For more information,
e-mail [email protected].
Tuesdays at 6 p.m.: Notre Dame Des Victoires
Church, 566 Bush at Stockton, San Francisco with
Rob Grant. Call (415) 397-0113.
3rd Friday, 8 p.m.: Dominican Sisters of Mission
San Jose, Motherhouse Chapel, 43326 Mission Blvd.
(off Mission Tierra), Fremont. For further information,
please contact Dominican Sister Beth Quire at (510)
449-7554 or visit our website at www.msjdominicans.org for more information.
“Why Africa Matters?” – The Lane Center Summer Lecture Series at Xavier Hall
on Main Campus of the University of San Francisco. July 7: Religion and Politics;
July 14: Ministry in the African Church; July 21 Challenges from Christianity’s
New Center of Gravity. Jesuit Father Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator, Provincial
of the Eastern Africa Province of the Society of Jesus, will facilitate the talks.
Free and open to the public. No reservations required. All sessions are 5 p.m.
– 6:30 p.m. Visit www.usfca.edu/lanecenter or call (415) 422-5200.
Sept. 25, 11:30 a.m.: All school reunion for graduates, former students and friends of St. Brigid High
School at the Presidio Officers Golf Club. Contact
Pat Sabatini at (650) 685-5666.
October 22: Class of ’60, St. Cecilia Elementary
School Wine and Cheese Party in the parish
Collins Center. Event includes tour of the school
and the opportunity to participate in the annual
Parish Festival. Contact Bob O’Donnell at rjodfc@
yahoo.com or Nancy Sarlatte Murphy at [email protected]
October 23: Class of ’60, St. Cecilia Elementary
School Reunion Dinner at the Irish Cultural Center.
Contact Bob O’Donnell at [email protected] or Nancy
Sarlatte Murphy at [email protected]
Class of ’60 from Holy Angels Elementary
School in Colma. Contact Linda Brewer at brewer@
sbcglobal.net or visit www.holyangelscolma.com or
call (650) 755-0220.
Class of ’60 from Notre Dame High School
in Belmont is planning its 50th reunion. Contact
Bettina Igoa McCall at [email protected] or
(510) 851-2344.
Holy Cross Cemetery
1500 Old Mission Rd. in Colma, (650) 756-2060
July 3, 11 a.m.: First Saturday Mass in All Saints
Mausoleum. Capuchin Father Michael Mahoney, pastor
of Our Lady of Angels Parish in Burlingame, presides.
Special Liturgies
Third Tuesdays, 7:30 p.m.: Manifest Mysteries
Rosary Prayer – Examine how the mysteries of
the rosary are manifested in daily life using short
film and the Dominican Rosary prayer. 7:30 - 8:30
pm at Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose,
Motherhouse Chapel, 43326 Mission Blvd. (off
Mission Tierra), Fremont. Call Sister Beth Quire, at
(510) 449-7554 or visit our website at www.msjdominicans.org for more information.
First Tuesdays, 7:30 p.m.: Lectio Divina – Pray
with Sacred Scripture and share your Faith with others. 7:30 - 8:30 pm at Dominican Sisters of Mission
San Jose, Motherhouse Chapel, 43326 Mission
Blvd. (off Mission Tierra), Fremont. Call Sister Beth
Quire, at (510) 449-7554 or visit our website at www.
msjdominicans.org for more information.
Fourth Tuesdays, 7:30 p.m.: Adoration of the
Blessed Sacrament –Silent prayer before the
Blessed Sacrament. 7:30 - 8:30 pm at Dominican
Sisters of Mission San Jose, Motherhouse Chapel,
43326 Mission Blvd. (off Mission Tierra), Fremont.
Call Sister Beth Quire, at (510) 449-7554 or visit
our website at www.msjdominicans.org for more
information.
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Electrical
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Painting
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INTERIOR, EXTERIOR
All Jobs Large and Small
10% Discount: Seniors, Parishioners
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Bonded, Insured – LIC. #819191
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demolition, carpenter, gutter (clean/ repair),
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Plumbing
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◆
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◆ Senior, parishioner discounts
◆
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lic. 343633
painting and
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•Interiors •Exteriors
•Kitchens •Baths
Contractor inspection reports
and pre-purchase consulting
The Irish Rose
Home Healthcare Agency
Specializing in home health aides,
attendants and companions.
650.255.5821
Lic. #933007
San Francisco: 415.337.9474
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• Non-Medical Companion
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• Errands – Doctor’s App’t
• Meal Preparation
• Companionship,
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• Light Housekeeping
• Special Needs
• Affordable Rates
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License #39702
650-834-7227 Cell
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• Remodels
• Additions
• Free Estimates
• Permit Drawings
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Serving San Francisco, Marin & the Peninsula.
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LAST-MINUTE
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Senior Care
Homecare for Seniors
John Spillane
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Retaining Walls
Stairs • Gates
Dry Rot
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650.291.4303
KEANE CONSTRUCTION
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➮ Baths
Foundations, Stairs, Dry Rot
Replacement Windows
Architect Available
➮ Senior Discount
Call:
415.533.2265
Lic. 407271
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Care Management for the Older Adult
Family Consultation –Bereavement Support
Kathy Faenzi, MA, Clinical Gerontologist
Office: 650.401.6350
Web: www.faenziassociates.com
by Accredited Caregiver Specialists
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Lic. # 872560
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➤ Video Camera & Line locate
PROMPT AND UNPARALLELED SERVICE
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EMAIL: [email protected]
Member: Better Business Bureau
Electrical
ALL
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SERVICE
650.322.9288
ALL PLUMBING WORK
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415-661-3707
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Since 1972
Ca License # 663641
24 Hour Emergency Service
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650-307-3890
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Solar Installation
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anti
Plumbing and Heating
$17/hr
1655 Old Mission Road #3
Colma, SSF, CA 94080
415-573-5141
or 650-993-8036
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June 25, 2010
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Responsibilities include:
safeguarding client,
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planning and monitoring
activities, meal preparation,
light housework and companion.
References available.
Irish caregiver available.
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experienced, excellent
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Call Claire at
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Experienced
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Live-in or live-out.
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NOVENAS Help Wanted
St. Jude Novena
May the Sacred Heart
of Jesus be adored,
glorified, loved &
preserved throughout
the world now &
forever. Sacred Heart
of Jesus pray for us.
St. Jude helper of the
hopeless pray for us.
Say prayer 9 times a
day for 9 days.
Thank You St. Jude.
Never known to fail.
You may publish.
Prayer to the Blessed
Virgin never known to fail.
M.P.L.
Most beautiful flower of
Mt. Carmel Blessed Mother
of the Son of God, assistme
in my need. Help me and
show me you are my mother.
Oh Holy Mary, Mother of
God, Queen of Heaven and
earth. I humbly beseech you
from the bottom of my heart
to help me in this need.
Oh Mary, conceived without
sin. Pray for us (3X).
Holy Mary, I place this
cause in your hands (3X).
Say prayers 3 days. M.P.L.
St. Jude Novena
Prayer to the Holy Spirit
May the Sacred Heart
of Jesus be adored,
glorified, loved &
preserved throughout
the world now &
forever. Sacred Heart
of Jesus pray for us.
St. Jude helper of the
hopeless pray for us.
Say prayer 9 times a
day for 9 days.
Thank You St. Jude.
Never known to fail.
You may publish.
Holy Spirit, you who make me
see everything and who shows
me the way to reach my ideal.
You who give me the divine gift
of forgive and forget the wrong
that is done to me. I, in this short
dialogue, want to thank you for
everything and confirm once
more that I never want to be
separated from you no matter
how great the material desires
may be. I want to be with you
and my loved ones in your
perpetual glory. Amen. You
may publish this as soon as
your favor is granted.
S.H.
R.B.
St. Gabriel Church
•
2559 - 40th Avenue
We are looking for full or part time
RNs, LVNs, CNAs, Caregivers
In-home care in San Francisco, Marin County, peninsula
Nursing care for children in San Francisco schools
If you are generous, honest, compassionate, respectful, and
want to make a difference, send us your resume:
Jeannie McCullough Stiles, RN
Fax: 415-435-0421
Voice: 415-435-1262
heaven can’t wait
Serra for Priestly Vocations
Please call Archdiocese of San Francisco
Fr. Tom Daly (415) 614-5683
OFFICE SPACE
AVAILABLE
Approximately 2,000 to
10,000 square feet first floor
office space available
(additional space available
if needed) at
One Peter Yorke Way,
San Francisco (between
Gough & Franklin), is being
offered for lease to a non-profit
entity. Space available includes enclosed offices,
open work area with several cubicles, large work
room, and storage rooms on the lower level of the
Archdiocese of San Francisco Chancery / Pastoral
Center. We also have mail and copy services
available, as well as meeting rooms (based on
availability). Reception services available.
Space has access to kitchen area and restroom
facilities. Parking spaces negotiable. Ready for
immediate occupancy with competitive terms.
Come view the space.
For more information, contact
Katie Haley, (415) 614-5556
email [email protected].
San Francisco, CA. 94116
Youth Ministry Coordinator
St. Gabriel Parish is seeking a Confirmation Program and Youth Ministry Director, the candidate should be a person
willing to work as a part ministry team.
This 20 hour per week position involves
the recruitment, training, and supervision of volunteer adults and teens who
participate in the Confirmation Formation Program – as well as the Youth Ministry Program. Benefits are included with
salary commensurate with experience.
Please forward resume to SEARCH
COMMITTEE at St. Gabriel Church,
2559 40th Avenue, San Francisco, CA
94116 . . . . (415) 731-6161
Saint Philip Preschool is Seeking Teachers
Full-Time Pre-K Teacher:
Plan and implement a Pre-Kindergarten curriculum that promotes literacy, pre-math skills,
critical thinking and creativity. Co-ordinate with preschool team. Maintain frequent and
open communication with parents. Position requires a BA or AA in Early Childhood Education and at least four years of teaching experience. Prefer experience with a variety of curriculum approaches to the Pre-K year and the transition to kindergarten.
Part-Time Two-Year Old Teacher:
Plan and coordinate weekly parent-participation classes for two year old children. Design and
implement a developmentally appropriate curriculum. Offer children one on one support in
free play and projects. Facilitate parents’ interactions and community building. Position requires six units of Early Childhood Education and at least two years of experience working with
young children and their parents
Catholic applicants are given priority, but all applications will be seriously considered.
Send cover letter and resume to [email protected] or call Holly at (415) 282-0143.
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June 25, 2010
In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred
In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of May
HOLY CROSS
COLMA
Vicente B. Abecendario
Quirico A. Abordo
Frank L. Allen
Vera A. Allen
Mathilde Sison Bagao
Julie Rubi Balangue
Joseph Bao
Maria Bao
Gloria A. Barone
Lorraine M. Bartolini
Joseph G. Bates
Cecilia S. Bautista
Arnold M. Benson, Sr.
Laurette L. Bergez
Irene Marie Bertetta
Ramon N. Blanco
Beverly Frances Bonnici
Barbara Noemi Albano Bonoan
Carolina M. Borromeo
Madalene Bregante
Genevieve N. Brun
Frances Anolin Cabig
Hilda E. Camozzi
Oscar E. Carcamo
Marciano B. Carnero
Georgina Grace Catania
Palmina Cavalli
Manuel D. Chavez
Louis M. Chiappe
Isabelle J. Christensen
Billy H. Comstock
Anthony Robert Cruz
Bernardo DaSilva
Dennis Dean
Leon L. Del Grande
Therese A. Derby
Buenaventura “Ben” Cusi Dimapasoc
Ann G. Dougherty
Andrew Driscoll
James Edwards
Luisa Ezquerro
Jack Fabbri
Alan Fabyancic
Helen Marie Fanucchi
Alfonso Fonseca
Romulo B. Fontanilla
Sharon R. Friel
Leonie G. Gauthier
Ernest Genovesi
Audrey M. Gray
Sr. Mary Gregory, PBVM
Purificacion D. Gualberto
Clotilde Guerrazzi
Guadalupe Gurule
Maria Gutierrez
Guadalupe A. Herrera
Claire E. Hines
Mary Josephine Hudson
Shirley Jovick
Barbara M. Joyce
Hortensia Juarez
James H. Keeffe
Eleanor Kendall
Diane Gammon Kerr
Hildegard Kevis
Evelyn Beronio Koenig
Roseann F. Kwartz
Sofia Lacayo
Raphael Legorreta
Michael M. Lera
Eleanor Monfredini Lewis
Jose Manuel Lopez
Wai Ming Louie
Danilo Sergio Luna
Eleanor P. Maglio
Elba Olivares Mairena
Frances D. Mannion
Alejandra Mariano
Elizabeth Marshall
Leo Martinelli
Carmelina de Jesus Martinez
C. J. Mascaro
Evelyn Bajada McCarthy
Robert Arthur McInerney
Curley O. McPeters
Nina Angelene Meadors
Mary Ann Menconi
Rosa M. Menjivar
Gemma Micallef
Willis A. Montgomery
Norma J. Musante
Olga I. Nathan
John (Jack) Nelson
Maria L. Nevarez
Adriana Nunez
Patrick M. Nyhan
Catherine B. O’Donnell
Mary Grace O’Nyon
Concepcion F. Rosal O’Shea
Marion Ocegueda
Cynthia A. Ortega
Manuel Padilla
Edwina B. Perez
Mary Louise Phillips
Joell D. Pokorny
Yvonne Pratt
Martha Raygoza
Catherine Raymond
Candido Rebolledo
Rodolfo G. Recio
Cabiria Reinhardt
Arthur J. Riccomini
John A. Ring
Dora A. Rivas
Kelton Robertson
Avelina Castano Rosales
Kevin J. Ryan
Pasquale Staleri
Maxine N. Stanich
Anthony Tanti
Mary Ann Tostanoski
Claire A. Urrere
Frank Vetari
Stephan Paul Vlautin
David Peter Walsh
Zenaida Warit
Gertrude Marty Whitlow
Wah Wong
Norman J. Yates
Jin Hong Yi
J. Martin Yniguez
Gertrude Young
Theresa Sazio
HOLY CROSS
MENLO PARK
Garbiel Arreguin
Colleen Walker Brooks
Peter B. Dias
Nunia Fatai
Mary E. Gibson
William T. “Bill” Gray, Sr.
Susana Lopez
Cpt. Carl H. Rosene, USCGR
Ruth M. Rueter
Thomas J. Yetso
Mary Elizabeth Yost
MT. OLIVET
SAN RAFAEL
Rinaldo L. Guinasso
Lucien Ingrassia
Blanche Elaine Knoles
Enrica Lazzarini
Leopoldo L. Lopes
Richard V. Nuttman
OUR LADY OF
THE PILLAR,
HALF MOON BAY
Apolonio Huerta
Maria Pedroso
Siste M. Crudeli Silva
ST. ANTHONY,
PESCADERO
Jeffrey C. Meze, Sr.
HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY, COLMA
1st Saturday Mass – July 3, 2010
All Saints Mausoleum Chapel – 11:00 am
Celebrant: Father Michael Mahoney, OFM Cap.
Our Lady of Angels, Burlingame
The Catholic Cemeteries
Archdiocese of San Francisco
www.holycrosscemeteries.com
1500 Mission Road, Colma, CA
650-756-2060
Intersection of Santa Cruz Avenue, Menlo Park, CA
650-323-6375
MT. OLIVET CATHOLIC CEMETERY
270 Los Ranchitos Road, San Rafael, CA
415-479-9020
PILARCITOS CEMETERY
Hwy. 92 @ Main, Half Moon Bay, CA
650-712-1676
ST. ANTHONY CEMETERY
Stage Road, Pescadero, CA
650-712-1679
OUR LADY OF THE PILLAR CEMETERY
Miramontes St., Half Moon Bay, CA
650-712-1679
A Tradition of Faith Throughout Our Lives.

Msgr. Schlitt - Catholic San Francisco

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