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A statue of Our Lady of Fatima is carried in procession to St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican May 13, where thousands of pilgrims marked the 1917 anniversary of the Fatima, Portugal, apparitions and also the 25th anniversary of the May 13, 1981, assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II. See pg. 14.
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — In today’s globalized world where people from so many different cultures and religions are coming face to face, Christians are called to be open to dialogue with others without forgetting to propose the Gospel message, Pope Benedict XVI said. Interreligious dialogue has become “the daily bread” for the church in its service to others, especially migrants, refugees and other people on the move, the pope said May 15. The pope’s remarks were made during an audience with participants attending the Pontifical Council for Migrants and Travelers’ plenary session. The meetings, May 15-17, discussed migration and mobility from and to countries with a Muslim majority. The pope praised all efforts being made “to create, with immigrants, relationships of mutual understanding and respect, which are very useful in overcoming prejudice and closed mentalities.” But he reminded Christians that evangelization is still an integral part of the Christian mission. “Christians are called to cultivate a form of open dialogue on religious problems, without renouncing the presentation of the Christian message to their audience,” he said. He said in today’s globalized world the pastoral care of migrants and travelers is “an important frontier of the new evangelization.” Christians are called to welcome and dialogue with people from other countries and religions since they are “called to open their arms and hearts to everyone” like Jesus did. Meanwhile, it is up to governments and local authorities to establish rules or laws that promote the “healthy coexistence” of a country’s or community’s residents, he said. The pope added that he hoped Christians who immigrate to countries with Muslim majorities would “find there welcome and respect for their religious identity.”
Archbishop Niederauer makes first high school visit to Marin Catholic By Jack Smith Archbishop George H. Niederauer assured students at Marin Catholic High School May 12 that they have a companion and guide in Jesus Christ for a “lifetime of choices and struggles and decisions.” More than that, he said, “Jesus is the life, not just advice about life, not just a nice self help book.” He made his remarks in a homily at a student body Mass during his first visit to an Archdiocesan High School. “Jesus is our way to the Father,” he said. In fact, the early followers of Christ referred to themselves not as the Church, but as belonging to “The Way.” He said, “The followers of Christ walked a different way in life MARIN CATHOLIC, page 18
Archbishop Niederauer with St. Sebastian Pastor Father Ken Westray (left) and Marin Catholic President Father Thomas Daly listen as students present prayers of the faithful.
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Father Donald D’Angelo and the entire community of Holy Name of Jesus Parish, where he is pastor, joined in the celebration of the 90th birthday of Father D’Angelo’s mom Anita with Mass and a reception February 16th. Additional birthday treats for the new nonagenarian included seats at Beach Blanket Babylon, the famed North Beach musical now in its umteenth year. “Mom stayed awake for the whole thing,” Father D’Angelo said with a laugh. “She really enjoyed it.” Mrs. D’Angelo now resides at St. Anne’s Home – the happiest address on Lake Street.
Blessing the earth for 100 years and now home in heaven is Jem Klein of St. Dunstan Parish in Millbrae and for many years previous Our Lady of Angels Parish in Burlingame. Jem reached the milestone birthday April 11th and passed away just a few weeks later. Grandniece, Kathy Kelly-Breitler, who with additional family of Jem - six generations, in fact - honored her recently with a birthday luncheon, said in a notice to this column about Jem’s reaching the century mark that “my aunt continues to be an inspiration to all who knew her.” May her light continue to shine. All hats off to Jem Klein…Happy 50 years married April 21st to Claudette and Charles Syme, longtime parishioners of St. Bartholomew Parish in San Mateo. Gathering soon for a family tribute are the couples children, Yvette Singer with husband, Bob, and sons, Jack, Joe and Bobby; Kirk and Katie Syme and children, Kirk, Jennie, William, Julienne and Adrienne; Lianne Thompson and husband Reed and children Cameron, Iddy, Kyle, Cree, Craig, Danielle and Gabby; Scott and Tracey Syme and children
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Scott, Norrie, Callum and Cory; Betsy Bradford with husband, Kerry, and children Andie, Charlie, Hogan and Alec; and Julie Funkhouser with husband, Clarke, and children, Claudia, Billy and Chase….Marking 57 years as husband and wife are June and Ray Bianchi, longtime members of St. Dunstan Parish and Charter Members of the parish branch of the Italian Catholic Federation. “They are community minded and supportive of the ideals of the ICF and the needs of the community,” said Marie Amoroso, friend and fan of the couple…. Celebrating their Golden Anniversary April 7th are Sheila and Gordon Berg of St. Isabella Parish in San Rafael. Memories abound from the wedding day a half-century ago at Old St. Mary’s Cathedral. “A passing Cable Car played Here Comes the Bride on the bells when we left the church and Gordon and the priest got stuck in an elevator on the way up to the main church,” Sheila said. “The organist
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By Maurice Healy In a nationally televised speech May 15, U.S. President George Bush’s put forward his proposals for a comprehensive approach to the nation’s current immigration debate. The president outlined proposals for increased border security, a temporary worker program, and a process leading to naturalization and citizenship. Bush began his remarks with praise for the nation’s immigrant tradition, echoing the U.S. bishops in his use of the word “welcoming.” He said, “By tradition and conviction, our country is a welcoming society. America is a stronger and better nation because of the hard work and the faith and the entrepreneurial spirit of immigrants.” The president’s appeal for immigration reform drew upon both practical and altruistic motivations. He said, “Illegal entry across our borders makes more difficult the urgent task of securing the homeland. … Our nation needs an immigration system that serves the American economy and reflects the American dream.” Bush gave his most explicit support to date for a program that would provide a way for most of the estimated 11 million to 12 million illegal immigrants in the country to legalize their status. He proposed requiring them to pay a fine and back taxes, learn English and hold a job for an undefined set number of years to be allowed to stay in the country. The U.S. bishops have for some time called for a comprehensive reform of U.S. immigration laws, which would provide an opportunity to earn citizenship for the undocumented and the creation of legal avenues for migration for migrants to work and join families in a safe, orderly, and humane manner. The president said his first priority was to secure the nation’s borders. He said up to 6,000 members of the National Guard would be sent to the border states of California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas, where they would assist the Border Patrol in jobs such as intelligence analysis, installation of fences and barriers, building roads and providing training.
Bush said, “America is acting on a basic belief: Our borders should be open to legal travel and honest trade; our borders should be shut and barred tight to criminals, to drug traders, drug traffickers and to criminals and to terrorists.” Bishop Gerald R. Barnes of San Bernardino, Calif., chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Refugees and Migration, said he welcomed the president’s speech on the need to reform the immigration system, but expressed concern about “the introduction of military personnel because there has not been an adequate public discussion about its implications, especially for the treatment of migrants.” The bishop said immigration is an issue of “urgent national priority.” He noted that the U.S. bishops for several years have urged elected officials to address the nation’s immigration crisis in a just, humane and comprehensive manner. The president, in his televised speech Monday, seemed to have some agreement with the U.S. bishops. He said, “We must make our immigration laws more rational and more humane.” Bush said the search for a better life is one of the most basic desires of human beings. He noted, “Many undocumented workers have walked mile after mile, through the heat of the day and the cold of the night. Some have risked their lives in dangerous desert border crossings or entrusted their lives to the brutal rings of heartless human smugglers.” He sympathized with undocumented workers who are victimized by crimes, but often are afraid to call the police or seek recourse in the legal system. He said they are cut off from their families far away, fearing if they leave our country to visit relatives they might never be able to return to their jobs. The president said that while America is a welcoming country, citizenship must not be the automatic reward for violating the laws of America. He said, “Those willing to take the difficult path of citizenship, the path of work and patience and assimilation, should be welcome in America, like generations of immigrants before them.”
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Help Us Build a New Church to Honor Blessed Father Damien DeVeuster, Hero of Molokai — Hero of Humanity Aloha from the Hawaiian Island of Molokai! In the 19th century a Belgian Sacred Heart priest, Father Damien DeVeuster, selflessly served the Hansen’s disease (leprosy) patients who had been exiled to Kalaupapa, a remote peninsula of Molokai, Hawaii. For 16 years, Father Damien lived with the patients, bandaging their wounds, building houses and coffins, burying the dead, and bringing the faith to the unchurched. Ultimately, Father Damien became one with the patients, succumbing to Hansen’s disease at age 49 and passing away during Holy Week 1889. Blessed Mother Teresa considered Father Damien her role model in her work with the sick and abandoned patients of Calcutta. In 1995, Pope John Paul II declared Father Damien, Blessed Damien. We, the Molokai Catholic Community, are entrusted with telling the Blessed Damien story and legacy of love. On Sundays, at St. Sophia Church in Kaunakakai, the main town of Molokai, our parishioners and visitors stand outside the doors and sit on folding chairs in the church carport. Time, weather, and termite infestation have taken a toll on St. Sophia Church, a modest wooden structure built in 1946. Our dream is simple-to build a new church to replace St. Sophia in the name of Blessed Damien-Hero of Molokai, Hero of Humanity. Join the Molokai Catholic Community in celebrating Blessed Damien Day on May 10. Help us honor Blessed Damien by making a gift in his memory or in the memory of a loved one to the Blessed Damien Church of Molokai Building Fund. Any gift that you make to the Blessed Damien Building Fund will be humbly appreciated. We look forward to the day when Blessed Damien will be added to the canon of saints. We dedicate this building effort to him, and we commit to continuing the mission that he began here over 150 years ago. Please join us. Send your tax deductible donation to: Blessed Damien Building Fund Molokai Catholic Community, P O Box 1948, Kaunakakai, Hawaii 96748 Thank you for your generosity. For more information see our website:www.blesseddamienchurch.org
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Black Catholic life group pledges to raise abortion awareness in June NEW YORK — For the fourth year in a row, the National Black Catholic Apostolate for Life has designated June as “abortion and all acts of violence awareness month.” The theme for the 2006 observance is “Jesus the Giver of Life — Make Us a People for Life,” said Franciscan Father Jim Goode, president of the New York-based apostolate. “We will witness the sacredness of life in all our churches, institutions, national black Catholic conferences, summer family reunions, festivals, church trips and neighborhood gatherings,” Father Goode said in a statement. “Wherever our people will assemble during the month of June and throughout the summer months,” a representative of the National Black Catholic Apostolate for Life “will be there praying, proclaiming and mobilizing AfricanAmericans to choose life and help others choose life,” he added.
WASHINGTON — Pope Benedict XVI accepted the resignation of Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick May 16 and named Bishop Donald W. Wuerl of Pittsburgh to succeed him as archbishop of Washington. Archbishop Pietro Sambi, apostolic nuncio to the United States, announced the changes in Washington. Cardinal McCarrick has headed the Archdiocese of Washington since 2001 and previously served as archbishop of Newark and bishop of Metuchen, both in New Jersey, and as an auxiliary bishop in the New York Archdiocese. He submitted his resignation to Pope Benedict when he turned 75 last July, but the pope had asked him to stay on. Archbishop Wuerl, 65, has been bishop of Pittsburgh since 1988 and is well known for his nationally syndicated television program, “The Teaching of Christ,” and his best-selling adult catechism of the same name. His most recent book, “The Catholic Way,” was published by Doubleday in 2001. He was appointed an auxiliary bishop of Seattle in 1985.
Mentoring helps ex-convicts succeed after prison PHILADELPHIA — “It’s always a good feeling, when you’re getting ready to walk out of those front doors. But that feeling wears off as soon as you walk out. It’s like, ‘Wow, I’m free. But now what?’” So said Michael, 37, who was released from a Philadelphia prison last October. To his relief, his question has been answered by three men from St. Ignatius of Antioch Parish in Yardley, who volunteered to mentor him through a program sponsored by the Philadelphia Archdiocese’s Prison Ministry Program. Michael marvels at what his mentors have done for him: “If it wasn’t for them being in my corner the way that they were ... there is a chance I may have gone back to prison.” Michael applied to the mentoring program last year, while serving a six-month sentence. He had been incarcerated before, and realized he needed someone positive on the outside to help him turn his life around. One of his mentors from St. Ignatius of Antioch is 58-year-old Mike Cibenko, a retired police lieutenant. Mentoring those who have been imprisoned is “the opposite of what I used to do,” Cibenko said. But he said his faith calls him to do more than “just ... catch all the bad guys and put them away.”
Joseph Calder of Yucaipa, Calif., is overjoyed while hugging his mother, Triana Ashton, during a visit at the California Institute for Women in Chino, Calif., May 12. Joseph was visiting his mother during Get on the Bus, a program scheduled annually in anticipation of Mother's Day that enables children to visit their mothers in California state prisons.
Bishop thanks government for Darfur steps, says work not over WASHINGTON — The head of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on International Policy thanked the Bush administration in a May 11 letter for its recent leadership “in working to secure an end to the terrible tragedy that is Darfur” and asked that those efforts continue. Bishop Thomas G. Wenski of Orlando, Fla., told U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in the letter that “the experience of the past few days has revealed that progress can be made with high-level U.S. engagement.” Bishop Wenski sent the letter two days after Rice went before the Security Council at the United Nations to ask for an increase in the number of peacekeepers in the Darfur region of Sudan, where an estimated 400,000 people have died in the past three years. He also noted that President George W. Bush met with Darfur advocates at the White House April 28 and that Deputy Secretary of State Robert A. Zoellick went to Abuja, Nigeria, to encourage the negotiations that ultimately led to a cease-
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Just solutions can defeat terrorism, archbishop tells U.N. assembly UNITED NATIONS — Just solutions to political, social and economic problems frustrating young immigrants worldwide “can rob terrorists of the oxygen of hatred” and thwart efforts to “recruit the impressionable,” the Vatican’s representative to the United Nations said May 11. Archbishop Celestino Migliore, the permanent representative of the Holy See to the international body, spoke before the General Assembly during its informal consultations on a counterterrorism strategy. “The political, social and economic exclusion of immigrant communities stokes the frustration of young people and has led to breakdowns in order in some places; but the demand for a just solution to these questions remains a legitimate one,” the archbishop said. “By resolving such questions swiftly and justly, nations can rob terrorists of the oxygen of hatred and of grievances, real or imagined, by which they attempt to legitimize their evil deeds and recruit the impressionable,” he added.
Loving marriage between man, woman benefits society, pope says VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Only total, self-giving love based on marriage between a man and woman can form a solid enough foundation for building communities and can benefit all of society, said Pope Benedict XVI. There is a “special urgency” today to avoid confusing marriage with “other types of union based on a weak love,” he said in an address to participants attending an international congress on the family. “Only the rock of total and indissoluble love between a man and a woman is capable of being the base for the building of a society that can be a home for all people,” he said in his text. In a May 11 audience in the Vatican, the pope met with families and other participants attending an international congress celebrating the 25th anniversary of the founding of the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and the Family. The May 11-13 congress was titled “Loving Human Love: The Heritage of John Paul II on Marriage and the Family.”
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Catholic Labor leaders from around the San Francisco Bay Area met for informal conversation and breakfast with Archbishop George H. Niederauer May 3 following his celebration of the Annual Catholic Labor Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral. In his homily Archbishop Niederauer spoke of the dignity of work and Christ’s call “to build and to serve in the Kingdom of God.” He prayed that “all of us will be faithful to the call that God has given,” and that “lay men and women will have the rights and freedom . . . to do the work” they are called to do. At the breakfast, Archbishop Niederauer answered questions on the challenges of the Catholic Church in San Francisco, Catholic education, his advocacy on behalf of miners while Bishop of Utah, and immigration. “Compared to two-thirds of everybody
New Associate Superintendent appointed By Evelyn Zappia Bret Allen recently joined the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s Department of Catholic Schools as Associate Superintendent, Educational and Professional Development. He brings 22 years of Catholic Education to the position. Since 1984, Allen has been a teacher, assistant principal, and principal at St. Anthony/Immaculate Conception, St. Elizabeth, and St. Monica elementary schools in San Francisco. He said his long-running career in Catholic education is due to his being a product of public education from Kindergarten through Bachelor’s degree. “I can see missing in my education was the sense of belonging to an educational community where the values of faith are the foundation of the experience,” he said. He graduated from San Francisco
State in 1984, and earned his Masters in Education at the University of San Francisco, 1998. “He is qualified, capable and a good fit for this position and our department,” said Maureen Huntington, Superintendent of Catholic Schools. “He will work well with our schools and principals.” When Allen accepted his first teaching position at St. Anthony School in 1984 he said that he became part of a community that cared for him and encouraged him to be a teacher of faith within the educational community. The community has been the foundation of his personal and professional expression of his faith in his life. “I have found myself in Catholic education, and not to be part of that community of believers would be a diminution of who I am as a Catholic,” he said. The new associate superintendent was one of eight applicants. The Department
of Catholic Schools’ Interview Committee unanimously recommended him. The committee members included current school principals and an Archdiocesan human resource staff member. Huntington explained that Allen would focus on the most important job – providing the schools with the best faithfilled leadership possible. “When schools have quality leadership they function at their peak which translates into a high caliber Catholic education for our students,” she said. Allen agrees, depicting Catholic schools as “the finest way to educate and evangelize our students as we prepare them for lives of service for the people of God. After all, what could be more important, or more life giving for the future of the Church, our community and our nation,” he said.
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Archbishop presents Loaves & Fishes Awards to Richard Blum, Alliance for Mission District Schools, Carl Gellert and Celia Berta Gellert Foundation At the annual Loaves and Fishes dinner, which benefits Catholic Charities CYO of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, Archbishop George H. Niederauer presented 2006 Loaves & Fishes Awards to Richard C. Blum for outstanding philanthropic works; the Alliance of Mission District Schools for outstanding service to the community; and the Carl Gellert and Celia Berta Gellert Foundation for outstanding community organization. This year’s honorees focus on the importance of education – on the local, regional and global levels – from San Francisco’s Mission District children, to Bay Area schools and communities, to the education of the poor in Nepal, Mongolia, Tibet and Africa. The awards dinner was held May 11 at the RitzCarlton Hotel in San Francisco. In selecting his first Loaves & Fishes recipients, Archbishop Niederauer said, “These three honorees are very distinct, yet they are all absolutely dedicated to educating those in need, and show a strong commitment and concern for others, which is inspirational and serves as motivation for many.” Created by Cardinal William J. Levada, Archbishop Emeritus of San Francisco, the Loaves & Fishes Award honors extraordinary charitable works in local communities and raises funds for the programs of Catholic Charities CYO. More than $5 million has been raised in support of Catholic Charities CYO through the Loaves & Fishes Awards and Dinner. Widely respected for his dedication to the fight against global poverty, Richard Blum is founder and chairman of the American Himalayan Foundation, a Trustee of the Carter Center, a regent of the University of California, and founded the Center for Global Poverty to begin policy research at the Brookings Institution. Additionally, Blum is very active in the fight for religious tolerance and environmental issues. He is the co-chairman of the World Council on Religion and Peace, and serves on the boards of the World Wildlife Fund, the Wilderness Society and the Glide Foundation. Blum is Chairman of Blum Capital Partners and co-Chairman of Newbridge Capital, LLC. Blum’s passion for his work in developing countries and his $15 million contribution recently led to an adjacent initiative that established the Richard C. Blum Center for Developing Economics at UC Berkeley. The Center will tap the expertise and resources of the nation’s top public teaching and research university to achieve significant – and financially sustainable – solutions to problems affecting nearly 3 million people in developing countries that live on $2 a day or less. The Alliance of Mission District Catholic Schools was formed as a collaborative model in order to continue to offer the excellent quality education that the Grad Lei’s & plants Weddings & funerals Unique arrangements
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schools have provided for over 150 years for the children of the Mission District, and to ensure that quality for generations to come. The Alliance consists of six Mission District Catholic elementary schools: Mission Dolores, Saint James, Saint Elizabeth, Saint Finn Barr, School of the Epiphany, and Saint Anthony-Immaculate Conception. The Alliance has established a strong tuition assistance base, and the schools’ pooled resources will help to provide the funding to retain and hire excellent teachers. Archbishop Niederauer said, ”This strategically sound collaboration is not only necessary to keep the schools open, but ensures that the children of the Mission District will keep pace with other Bay Area schools, obtaining a solid foundation based on Catholic teachings and family values.” Clint Reilly, Catholic Charities CYO Board President noted, “The ground work and strategic partnering that the Alliance is creating is certain to serve as a model for other schools and organizations. The excitement in the schools and surrounding communities speaks strongly in support of this initiative which will truly change the lives of many generations of children.” The Carl Gellert & Celia Berta Gellert Foundation became active in 1959, following the Gellerts’ business success as a home builder that produced many homes in
the Sunset, Twin Peaks, Daly City, Serramonte and Hercules. Today, the Carl Gellert & Celia Berta Gellert Foundation awards grants each year to support youth education from kindergarten to college, hospitals, senior healthcare, parishes and various charities in all nine Bay Area counties. Archbishop Niederauer said, “The Carl Gellert & Celia Berta Gellert Foundation legacy of supporting education is an outstanding example of investing in the whole community to ensure productive and positive outcomes, from childhood to the aged. Equally commendable is the Foundation’s commitment to promote and inspire the need for each of us to give back to our communities, which will have profound effects here in the Bay Area for generations to come.” Carl Gellert & Celia Berta Gellert Foundation Executive Director Jack Fitzpatrick said, “The Gellerts realized that in order to build a strong community, you need a strong infrastructure. Their generous support includes contributing to hospitals such as Seton and Sequoia, grammar schools like Our Lady of Mercy and St. Thomas More, as well as aging facilities like Catholic Charities CYO’s San Carlos Adult Day. They fully understand the big picture of a healthy community.”
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St. Gabriel shines in statewide academic decathlon San Francisco’s St. Gabriel Elementary School took several high honors at the statewide Junior High Academic Decathlon held May 6 in Los Angeles. Sixth, seventh and eighth graders from Catholic schools around the state competed individually on eight academic subjects and as teams for a Logic competition and Super Quiz. The school, which had earned its seventh win in the diocesan level competition in March, scored fifth place overall in the statewide competition. The team as a whole won fourth place in the Super Quiz competition and fifth place in Logic. St. Gabriel seventh grader Jessica Moy took home first place in Science and fellow seventh grader Delaney Woo came in third for Fine Arts. Other St. Gabriel students who helped their team to its overall success were Stephanie Canlas, Emma Coghlan, Tina Kwan, Jacqueline Loo, Ellie Quinlan, Michael Remedios, Will Ryan, and Daniela Yuschenkoff.
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Principal of Holy Name Elementary caps 50 years in education By Tom Burke Noreen Murphy has looked gladly to every day of her more than 50-year career in education, the teacher and school administrator told Catholic San Francisco from Holy Name of Jesus Elementary School where she will retire after 22 years as principal in June. “I’ve subbed in probably every school in the city both Catholic and public,� Noreen said with a satisfied laugh. In addition to her long tenure at Holy Name, she taught for 17 years at Immaculate Conception Elementary School earlier in her career. Noreen is a Richmond District native and graduate of Star of the Sea Elementary School and its now-closed high school. Later studies took her to San Francisco City College and San Francisco State University. Noreen and her husband, Ben, are celebrating their fiftieth anniversary this year, and it was their children’s early Catholic school experience that convinced Noreen that Catholic schools were where she wanted to practice her profession. “The children were at St. Cecilia’s and I saw what they were getting and I liked what I saw,� Noreen said. “Just coming to school in the morning has been a great joy to me,� Noreen said with a smile. “I’ve grown tired of waking up early but I love coming to school. Children make it wonderful every day.� Noreen is grateful for the many people she says have been important to her long career in the classroom and
oversight. “The Sisters and lay teachers I’ve worked with have been very caring human beings and my husband has been very supportive, too,� Noreen said. “I’ve also been blessed in my experience with many good priests including our current pastor, Father Donald D’Angelo.� Children’s deaths and “helping students through the crosses they bear,� have been the sadder moments of Noreen’s half-century as teacher and guide. “Life can be very hard for children,� she whispered. “I’ll miss the children the most,� Noreen said. “I’ll miss the good friends I’ve made, too, but mostly the children.� Among Noreen’s hopes is that alumni will continue and even increase their support of Catholic schools noting that elementary schools have become the usually overlooked alma mater. Next up for the Murphys is an anniversary trek to Ireland. The entire Murphy family — now 22 members, including Noreen and Ben’s six children, their children’s spouses and nine grandchildren – will be on their way this summer. “We’ll visit Galway where my husband’s family is from and Caven where my mom and dad are from as well as Mayo,� Noreen said. After she treads the auld sod, Noreen looks forward mostly to just relaxing with her grandchildren. “Just do your best and enjoy every minute of it,� is Noreen’s advice to new teachers. “It flies by so fast. I can’t believe that I’ve been in it this long. I’ve enjoyed every minute of it.�
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A child receives help with reading and writing at La Restinga center in Iquitos, Peru, April 10. The center offers support and outreach to children, especially those who have been sexually exploited or involved in child prostitution.
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A young woman rests at the entrance of her house in Iquitos, Peru, April 11.
In Peruvian jungle city, church works to help child prostitutes The Archdiocese of San Francisco, Catholic Relief Services, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and other will be sponsoring a major international conference on Global poverty Oct. 27-28 at Saint Mary’s Cathedral. The purpose of the conference titled “Point Seven Now! By Barbara J. Fraser
Children eat lunch at La Restinga center in Iquitos, Peru.
Foreign men talk to young women near an observation area of the Amazon river in Iquitos, Peru.
IQUITOS, Peru (CNS) — In the evening, the riverfront promenade in this colorful city in the heart of the Peruvian jungle comes to life as local residents and tourists stroll or sip fruit juice at sidewalk cafes and street vendors sell everything from cigarettes to fortune-telling sessions. No one takes a second glance when a foreign-looking man who appears to be in his 50s strolls by, arm in arm, with a teenage girl. Human rights workers and children’s advocates say the sight is not uncommon and that apathy toward it is one of the reasons why child prostitution is on the rise in this tropical city of half a million people. Although a law passed two years ago makes it illegal to solicit sex with a minor, “authorities aren’t interested in following up,” said Rita Ruck, who provides legal assistance in the human rights office of the Apostolic Vicariate of Iquitos. The problem is complicated and is related to both local culture and poverty. Victoria Huerta, a psychologist at La Restinga, a local nonprofit organization that works with atrisk children, said that many girls are lured into prostitution by a family member — sometimes even a parent — or a neighbor with the promise of quick cash. “There’s always an adult who encourages them,” said Huerta, who estimates that more than 1,000 minors in Iquitos are involved in prostitution.
Keeping America’s Promise to Make Poverty History” is to help mobilize the Catholic community around the goal of increasing U.S. foreign aid to .7 percent of GDP, in support of the United Nations Millennium Project. The conference will bring together scholars, students,
Ruck estimates that about half of the 600 male inmates household expenses. A neighbor told her she could earn in the Iquitos prison, which was built to house 300, were money as a waitress at a nightclub, but she was actually arrested on charges of rape of a minor under age 14. drawn into prostitution. Part of the problem is a social attitude that views sex “I asked if she wanted to work in the nightclub, and she with adolescent girls as normal, said Luis Gonzalez-Polar said, no — she wanted to baby-sit,” Ruck said. Zuzunada, president of La Restinga. The criminal network that offers children for sex also “It’s not seen as a crime,” he said. “People think that’s includes hotel managers and taxi drivers, but they are rarely the way it is. Here, anyone is a potential client.” prosecuted, Huerta said. Another factor is eco“It might help if they nomic. While about half of made an example of somethe overall Peruvian populaone by throwing them in tion lives in poverty, that figjail and closing their hotel,” ure is 66 percent in Loreto, she said. Once children become the department of which involved in prostitution, it is Iquitos is the capital. More difficult for them to get out. than 40 percent of those peoMany were raped by relatives ple live on less than a dollar before becoming involved in a day. prostitution, and “it’s hard With its scenic location for them to recognize what — surrounded by rain forest has happened to them,” at the confluence of several Huerta said. “They want to rivers that flow into the (get out), but there is no mighty Amazon — Iquitos Children walk on stilts in Iquitos, Peru, process that supports them in is a popular tourist destinaApril 11. Child prostitution and sexual that.” tion. While there have been exploitation are on the rise in this La Restinga, in a reports of foreign tourists lurtropical city of half a million people building not far from the ing children for sex or in the Peruvian jungle. Poverty and main plaza and just a few pornography, Ruck and the apathy toward enforcing the laws have blocks from the riverside staff at La Restinga said most contributed to the growing problem walkway that is a magnet people who solicit sex with of child prostitution in Iquitos. for prostitution, provides a minors are local residents. “Tourism gives (people) the possibility of earning more refuge for the children. La Restinga takes its name from the money,” said Father Miguel Fuentes, a Spanish Augustinian local word for the high ground that remains when floodwamissionary priest working in Iquitos. Nevertheless, he said, ters rise, an image that resonates with youngsters who have “Tourism reinforces the problem.” grown up with the ebb and flow of the tropical rivers. Both the tourist industry and the city’s explosive growth, The work is not easy, however, because both the family as people have moved to the urban area from rural villages in situations that led the girls to get involved in prostitution and search of jobs, have created conditions conducive to prostituthe sexual exploitation leave serious psychological scars. tion like a thriving night life. Many of the girls are also addicted to drugs, and Huerta said Ruck recalls the case of a 13-year-old girl who lived with that La Restinga’s staff members need specialized training — her grandmother and wanted to earn money to help with the or some expert assistance — in dealing with that combina-
While the existence of child prostitution is well known chiefly in regard to “sex tourism” in Southeast Asia, it is a growing, worldwide scourge which has roots in poverty. Figures for the number of children working in prostitution or pornography worldwide range greatly due to the hidden and often illegal nature of the practice. Recent estimates range from 1.8 million to more than 3 million children. tion of problems. Because the city is fairly remote, accessible from the rest of the country only by air or river, such expertise is hard to find. Many of the children involved in prostitution have dropped out of school — and some have never been to school, especially if their families have moved to the city from remote villages. La Restinga offers summer school and tutoring to help them get up to their grade level. This year, the staff also plans to work with school principals and teachers to raise awareness of the problem. “If you have 500 students, any of them could become victims,” Gonzalez-Polar said. “The schools don’t understand that.” Father Fuentes said the church also is fighting the problem through “education, at every level we can reach — education in human rights and in values, education aimed at increasing self-esteem and a sense of identity.” La Restinga is currently working with nearly 50 girls who have been sexually exploited or are at risk of being drawn into prostitution. The girls take part in summer school sessions and art workshops, partly funded by Catholic Relief Services, the U.S. bishops’ international relief and development agency. Integrating them into the larger group helps keep the girls from feeling stigmatized, Huerta said. “When they come here,” she added, “they turn into what they are — children.”
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Children play during a gymnastics session at La Restinga center in Iquitos.
A woman accompanied by her young daughters walks to her house in a poor area of Iquitos, Peru, April 10.
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To Christ through Mary On the 160th anniversary of the publication of the “Treatise of true devotion to Our Lady” by St. Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort, Pope John Paul II wrote a letter to the religious men and women of the Montfort families on the Marian doctrine of their founder. In the letter dated December 8, 2003, the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, the Pope said that he wanted to share with the saint’s families a meditation “which consists of a few lines of the writings of St. Louis-Marie that will help us to nourish our faith in the maternal mediation of the Mother of the Lord in these difficult moments.” The Holy Father recalled that 160 years ago “the work which was destined to become a classic of Marian spirituality was published.” Despite the fact that St. Louis-Marie wrote the treatise at the beginning of 1700, the manuscript was “virtually unknown for more than a century,” until it was “discovered by chance in 1842 and published in 1843.” Pope John Paul II said, “I myself, in the years of my youth, received great help from the letter in this book in which I ‘found the response to my questions’ due to fear that devotion to Mary ‘would end up compromising the supremacy of worship due to Christ.’” “My motto, ‘Totus tuus,’ is inspired by the doctrine of St. Louis-Marie Grignion de Monfort. These two words express total abandonment to Jesus through Mary,” the pope said. St. Louis-Marie, the pope affirmed, “contemplates all the mysteries starting with the Incarnation which occurred at the moment of the Annunciation.” The Holy Father indicates that “in the Monfort spirituality the dynamism of charity is expressed in a special way through the symbol of the ‘slavery of love for Jesus,’ following the example and maternal aid of Mary.” “Like St. John of the Cross, St. Louis-Marie insists especially on the purity of faith and on its fundamental and often painful obscurity.” Referring then to Our Lady as a sign of hope, John Paul concluded: “The Church awaits the glorious coming of Jesus at the end of the world. Like Mary and with Mary, the saints are in the Church in order to make its holiness radiate and to extend the work of Christ, one and only Savior, to the ends of the earth and till the end of the world.” VIS/MEH “Cracked Code” by Lucas Turnbloom
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I strongly agree with the letter by Ernesto Macatuno (Do amnesties ever end? – May 5). I have friends and relations in India and Pakistan who have had to wait for almost 12 years after applying for immigration in order to come here legally. If it were not for so many illegal immigrants getting amnesties, the people who are trying to abide by the law of the U.S. would have been here much earlier. Illegal immigrants also consume our tax money when they use hospital emergency rooms without paying and send their children to public schools. Is it fair that people who are abiding by U.S. immigration laws have to wait so long? Is it fair that our taxes are used on these illegal immigrants? I certainly don’t think so. Walter Marston San Francisco
Chesterton on Brown G.K.Chesterton once wrote: “A good novel tells the truth about the hero; a bad novel tells the truth about the author.” Archbishop Niederauer’s masterful appraisal of “The Da Vinci Code,” (How Dark the Con of Dan – May 5) pretty well confirms GKC’s direct hit when he writes: “Is ‘The Da Vinci Code’ anti-Catholic? Well, sure it is.” That’s good enough for me. Fr. Michael Ribotta San Francisco
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The article by Archbishop George H. Niederauer in the May 5th issue of Catholic San Francisco should serve as a wake-up call to all Catholics that another anti-Catholic attack is underway - “The Da Vinci Code” fiction. Not only has Dan Brown, the author of the book upon which the movie is based, at times said the book is fiction, but John Calley, one of the movie’s coproducers, has admitted that the film is “conservatively anti-Catholic.” In an open letter to director Ron Howard, published in the March 6th New York Times, William Donohue, President of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, asked that a disclaimer be inserted at the beginning of the film noting that this is a fictional account. Howard has chosen not to respond. It would seem that the least Catholics should do is avoid seeing the film. James V. Grealish San Francisco
Misleading editorial Wesley J. Smith’s editorial (Death by Ethics Committee – May 5) is misleading as it gives the direct impression that hospital ethics committees can unilaterally overrule the wishes of a patient and his/her family. While this may have been true in the Clarke case, it is not the normal or normative way ethics committees function. I have served on ethical committees at four different medical centers and have never witnessed the type of whitewash the Clarke case suggests. Fr. Gerald Coleman, S.S. Professor of moral theology, St. Patrick’s Seminary & University Menlo Park Ed. Note – While not yet a wide national phenomenon, hospital ethics committees do have such unilateral powers in Texas due to a 1999 state law. By highlighting the Texas case, CSF intended to inform readers about a practice which could extend to other states given the interest in “futile care theory” among some ethicists.
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Immigration compromise
Two letters in the May 5 issue, Fr. Gerald Brown’s enthusiastic support for Archbishop Niederauer’s inspiring leadership and Ernesto Macatuno’s negative response to the same call for a just and humane immigration reform legislation concerning the 12,000,000 illegal aliens in the USA (the figures we hear from Mexico are 20,000,000 and even 30,000,000, nobody really knows) suggest a compromise solution. Since it is our own failure to control properly our national borders, and our negligence in permitting the illegal aliens to remain here undisturbed for years, that explain those staggering figures, why not admit our share of the fault and, for this time, grant them all a clearly defined legal status, permit our U.S. farmers and employers to use them without fear of the law, and start immediately to secure our national borders, but not by the use of band aids on a leaking container of acid. If we can continue to spend $100,000 a minute in Iraq, we should spend what is necessary for our own national needs. Fr. Larry N. Lorenzoni, S.D.B. San Francisco
Their Father’s house too This letter is in response to a letter writer’s criticism of the behavior of children at Mass (Church of the Masses – April 14). I am the mother of two young boys, who on occasion behave less than perfectly in church, sometimes one of them shows up wearing a Spiderman costume. Often they squirm, and whisper, and even run down the aisle after mass. My older son, who is an altar server has been known to spill wax on the carpet. He is also the one rushing me on Sunday morning lest I make him late for church. My boys, although occasionally criticized by adults, are loyal to their faith (and not just on Sundays). During a kindergarten interview my five-year old Spiderman was asked, “Who is the most important person in your life?” While 70 other Catholic children answered this same question, Spiderman was the only one that answered “GOD.” Little by little children learn the appropriate reverence and etiquette required for Mass. By welcoming and encouraging them they will feel like returning. They too are in their beloved Father’s house, and they are going to behave like children. We all know that when a young person is forced under duress to go to Mass, they often abandon their faith with hatred and contempt towards the Catholic Church and Mass. I know, though others may criticize, that the day will come when you can take the boy out of church, but not the church out of the boy. That will only come with gentle coaching, patience, love and tolerance of those childish behaviors we all had to outgrow. As for the cell phone ringing and general misconduct of adults, we should all pray for that, because it is rampant in every venue of society. Lynne Hood Half Moon Bay
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The Catholic Difference The New York Times had itself a glorious week last month. First there was the front page “news” that, given ancient Galilean climatological oddities, Jesus might have walked on...ice. But that was small beer compared with the all-stops-pulled media rollout of the Gospel of Judas, published by the National Geographic Society to the loud hosannas of those who find the four canonical Gospels too restrictive – people who, as Sister Sandra Schneiders of Berkeley’s Graduate Theological Union told the National Catholic Reporter, “want to believe there is more to the story, that it is more flexible, richer, less closed than they thought.” All of which reminds me of P.T. Barnum’s commentary on the birth-rate of suckers. What Gospel of Judas cheerleaders like Princeton’s Elaine Pagels assiduously avoided noting was that this “gospel” isn’t a Gospel at all – that is, a story of the public ministry, passion, death, and resurrection of Jesus. Moreover, its story, such as it is, is so bizarre as to invite the scratching of heads, not the enhanced sense of the mysterious Dr. Pagels promised her Times’ op-ed readers. The story begins shortly before the passion, with the disciples praying before dinner. Jesus laughs at them. The disciples are not amused: “Why are you laughing at us?” they demand. Jesus explains that he isn’t laughing at them but at their weird notion of how God is pleased. (As Adam Gopnik put it in the New Yorker, “One of the unnerving things about the new gospel is that Jesus, who never laughs
in the [canonical] gospels, is constantly laughing in this one, and it’s obviously one of those sardonic, significant, how-little-you-know laughs, like the laughter of the ruler of a dubious planet on ‘Star Trek’.”) The Gospel of Judas then heads into familiar territory – familiar, at least, to those who remember the ancient heresy of gnosticism, with its deprecation of the material world and its dualistic conceptions of the universe and of God. Adam Gopnik again: “The true mystery, as Jesus unveils it, is that, out beyond the stars, there exists a divine, blessed realm, free of the materiality of this earthly one. This is the realm of Barbelo, a name the gnostics gave the celestial Mother, who lives there with, among others, her progeny, a good God awkwardly called the Self-Generated One. Jesus, it turns out, is not the son of the Old Testament God, whose retinue includes a rebellious creator known as Yaldabaoth, but an avatar of Adam’s third son, Seth. His mission is to show those lucky members of mankind who still have a ‘Sethian’ spark in them the way back to the blessed realm.” To get himself back to Barbelo, Jesus has to shuffle off this mortal coil, or, as he puts it, he must “sacrifice the man that clothes me.” Enter Judas, whom Jesus asks to arrange his demise. Judas protests; this will ruin his reputation down the centuries. Jesus replies that, while “you will be cursed by the other generations...you will come to rule over them.” So, as Gopnik aptly puts it, “Judas accepts the bargain: temporal libel for eternal luminosity,” hands Jesus over, and thereby punches his own ticket for Barbelo.
As the Gregorian University’s Father Gerald O’Collins commented, what Judas demonstrates to any sensible person is what Irenaeus understood in the second century: “the George Weigel gnostics were against mainstream Christianity and Judaism; they were against our God....It was junk then and it is junk now.” Why do people believe junk? Because, as Father Richard Neuhaus wrote, there’s nothing surprising about “people who want a designer Christianity tailored to their own predilections.” That’s what Elaine Pagels wants; that’s what she sold to Dan (DaVinci Code) Brown; that’s why she’s hyping Judas. Closing thought: no Church, no Bible. The Church had to determine which of the many “gospels” on offer in the first centuries of Christianity were, in fact, canonical Gospels: that is, the word of God. Reflecting on that might well advance the Catholic-evangelical dialogue on the relationship of the Bible to the Church. If God can work through the Assyrians, genuine ecumenism can work through Elaine Pagels.
helpless to go through our outdoor storage to search for the baby gate. I’m pretty sure I threw it out there in a triumphant moment of joy and freedom sometime last year when big sister Gabrielle was finally old enough to be trusted on the stairs. I thought I might distract Raphael from the stairs, but he had a one track mind. The moment I set him down amongst a pile of trucks, pots, pans, and old magazines (for tearing, of course) he bolted for the stairs. When I removed him, he let loose with a screech that rivaled an ambulance siren. He was learning, darn it, and conquering those stairs was not only his right, it was his sacred duty. As a baby. As a boy. As a someday-to-be-recognized world explorer. Finally, I took pity on my little Magellan. I decided that instead of leaving him to perilous solo explorations, I should take him on a guided expedition. I removed all obstacles to the stairway and then followed him, up each slow and careful step, with one hand behind his back, ready to rescue. As the two of us made our way up the stairway, pausing every now and then to look backwards with satisfaction, I thought to myself that our little scene was a perfect example of the kind of guidance we mothers are called to give our children at all stages in their lives. We must strike a balance between smothering them with over-protection and throwing them to the wolves.
It’s the kind of balance with which God loves each of us. He loves and wants what is best for us, and yet still he allows to make our own decisions, even hurtful ones with disastrous results. It’s Danielle Bean because God loves us that he gives us the glorious gift of free will, despite the fact that he knows many of us will abuse the privilege. As I followed my little explorer up the stairway with my hand still placed upon his back, I thought how important it is for us parents to look to our heavenly Father as an example of balanced love and parental guidance. We need to allow our children freedom to make their own decisions, accomplish their own goals, and make their own mistakes. But still we need always to be there, with a firm but gentle hand that tells them, “I’m here for you, Baby, if you should happen to fall.”
believed, God is the absolute antithesis of everything that is stingy, miserly, frugal, narrowly calculating, or sparing in what it doles out. God is prodigal. Dictionaries define “prodigal” as “wastefully extravagant and lavishly abundant.” That certainly describes the God that Jesus incarnates and reveals. We see this in the parable of the Sower. God, the sower, goes out to sow and he scatters his seed generously, almost wastefully, everywhere - on the road, among the rocks, among the thorns, on bad soil, and on rich soil. No farmer would ever do this. Who would waste seed on soil that can never produce a harvest? God, it seems, doesn’t ask that question but simply keeps scattering his seed everywhere, over-generously, without calculating whether it is a good investment or not in terms of return. And, it seems, God has an infinite number of seeds to scatter, perpetually, everywhere. God is prodigious beyond imagination. Among other things, this speaks of God’s infinite riches, love, and patience. For us, there is both a huge challenge
and a huge consolation in that. The challenge, of course, is to respond to the infinite number of invitations that God scatters on our path from minute to minute. The consolation is that, no matter how many of Father God’s invitations we Ron Rolheiser ignore, there will always be an infinite number of others. No matter how many we’ve already ignored or turned down, there are new ones awaiting us each minute. When we’ve gone through 39 days of lent without praying or changing our lives, there’s still a 40th day to respond. When we’ve ignored a thousand invitations, there’s still another one waiting. God is prodigal, so are the chances God gives us. ROLHEISER, page 21
George Weigel is a senior fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.
Family Life
Parental guidance Raphael climbs the stairs now. And as always, the baby’s new-found freedom leads to the restriction of everyone else’s. After two head-bump incidents, I determined that we needed to block the stairway. I wasn’t quite ready for the permanence and inconvenience of the safety gate, however, so I opted for kitchen chairs. These were a delaying tactic and I knew it. It was only a matter of days before Raphael figured out how to scale the chairs, slither underneath them, and then finally just shove them out of his way altogether. The final day was yesterday. Yesterday afternoon, my darling son and I played a little game called Baby Proves He’s Every Bit as Stubborn as His Mother. The older kids were playing outside and I figured it was an ideal time to attend to some computer work I have been putting off. To this idea, Raphael said, “We’ll just see about that, Mom.” I thought I had the stair thing pretty well covered with two large dining room chairs and one kid-sized one underneath, just in case. Just in case what? Just in case Raphael threw the large chairs aside like a pintsized Superman and then needed the smaller chair to use as a launching pad for his hasty ascent to the top of the first half-flight of stairs? Because that’s what he did. I was glad I could accommodate him. With no one else in the house to watch him, I was
Danielle Bean is author of My Cup of Tea: Musings of a Catholic Mom.
Spirituality
A Prodigal God A couple of years ago, Barbara Kingsolver wrote a book entitled Prodigal Summer. It tells the story of young woman who got pregnant during a summer within which everything seemed to be dangerously fertile. From the plants, through the insects, through the animals, to the people, everything seemed to be teeming with fecundity, overactive, overabundant in seed. Life seemed to be bursting forth everywhere. The title of the book is good metaphor for what she describes, a summer overabundant in fertility. Nature is like that, teeming with everything, prodigal, fertile, overabundant, wasteful. Why else do we have 90% more brain cells than we need and why else is nature scattering billions of seeds, of virtually everything, all over the planet every second? And if life is so prodigal, what does this say about God, its author? God, as we see in both nature and in scripture (and know from experience), is over-generous, over-lavish, over-extravagant, over-prodigious, over-rich, and overpatient. If nature, scripture, and experience are to be
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Designer ‘gospels’
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Mary Magdalene seen as an important, enigmatic saint By Jerry Filteau WASHINGTON (CNS) — St. Mary Magdalene was a leading disciple of Jesus and used her resources to support him and the apostles. She was a woman from whom Jesus cast out seven demons. She was a firsthand witness to his crucifixion and burial and the first person to witness his resurrection and proclaim it to the apostles. That is what the Gospels say about her. Was she also the unnamed repentant sinner (often thought to be a prostitute) in Luke’s Gospel, who anointed Jesus’ feet and washed them with her tears? Or the Mary who was the sister of Martha and Lazarus of Bethany? In the West, Christian teaching and preaching made those identifications for centuries. But modern scholars say these were three distinct women, not one. Eastern Christianity has consistently regarded the three as distinct individuals. Was she the wife of Jesus? Did she bear his child? Were she and Jesus ancestors of the Merovingian dynasty of early French kings? Even ancient heretical sects and fantasyladen medieval Christian legends that exalted Mary Magdalene did not make those claims, though Dan Brown’s best-selling novel “The Da Vinci Code” does. Father Raymond F. Collins, a New Testament scholar at The Catholic University of America in Washington said in an interview that the Dan Brown version of Mary Magdalene is “two legendary steps away from” the real person found in Scripture. Father Collins and Sister Elizabeth A. Johnson, a theologian at Fordham University in New York, agreed that the wide popular curiosity about Mary Magdalene generated by Dan Brown’s tale has created a “teachable moment.” The priest, who wrote the “Mary Magdalene” entry in the six-volume Anchor Bible Dictionary, said the first legends about Mary Magdalene come in some of the apocryphal gnostic gospels of the second and third centuries. There in addition to her role as the first witness to Jesus’ resurrection, she is treated as receiving other special revelations from
the risen Jesus. But even in the gnostic gospels she is not called Jesus’ wife. One gnostic text, the Gospel of Philip, portrays her as Jesus’ closest companion but not his wife. Sister Elizabeth, a Sister of St. Joseph, has written extensively on the place of women’s experience and female imagery in Christian theology. She said the legends developed in the gnostic gospels are interesting not because they portray Christ’s life and times accurately, but because they offer insight into struggles in the early church. In the Gospel of Thomas, another gnostic text, there is a competition between Peter and Mary Magdalene. Peter asks the Lord to send her away because “women are not worthy of Life.” Jesus answers that he will lead her “in order to make her male ... a living spirit resembling you males.” Father Collins said novelist Brown goes well beyond such early legends by imagining the disciple from Magdala to be Jesus’ wife and the mother of his child. In the novel, Brown writes that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were ancestors of the Merovingian dynasty that ruled from about 500 to 751 in what is now France, and secret survivors of the royal line continue to the present day to guard (much like the gnostics of the second and third century) arcane secret knowledge about Jesus that the official church rejects and seeks to suppress. Another strand of legend behind Brown’s novel is the fact that according to medieval pious legends that circulated in France — which relied on identifying Mary Magdalene as being the same person as Mary of Bethany — Mary Magdalene and Lazarus were cast out of Palestine and set adrift in an oarless boat that landed in southern France. They then became among the first to preach the faith there. Father Collins said that legend, along with the one in Eastern Christianity that has Mary Magdalene accompanying John and Jesus’ mother to Ephesus, is simply not credible. Sister Elizabeth said there has been a great surge in scholarly study of Mary Magdalene in the past 20 to 30 years — in part because of feminist theology and the efforts to take a new
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look at the role of women in Scripture and in the early church. Sister Elizabeth noted that Mary Magdalene is the first witness to the Resurrection in all four canonical Gospels, and because of her role in announcing the good news to the rest, St. Augustine referred to her as “apostola apostolorum,” the apostle to the apostles. Summing up the real Mary Magdalene with what she called the “w’s,” Sister Elizabeth said, “Let’s get this straight: She was not Jesus’ wife ... neither a wife nor a whore, but a witness.” CHURCH ADDED TO CONFUSION The fanciful fictions about Mary Magdalene in Dan Brown’s “The Da Vinci Code” are not the only errors about the biblical saint that modern scholars are seeking to correct. They are also trying to set straight centuries of erroneous Christian tradition regarding her that developed, especially in the West. In A.D. 591 Pope St. Gregory the Great preached a sermon in which he identified as one person the New Testament figures of Mary Magdalene, the sinful woman who anointed Jesus’ feet and washed them with her tears, and the Mary who was the sister of Lazarus and Martha of Bethany. Although he was only reflecting a tradition that had gained some ground in the West (and was resisted by many of the church’s early theologians), the sermon became a reference point for later scholarship, teaching and preaching in the West, Father Raymond F. Collins, a New Testament scholar at The Catholic University of America, said in an interview. The Greek Fathers — the great theologians of the early church in the East, who wrote in Greek — consistently maintained that Mary Magdalene, the unnamed repentant sinner and Mary of Bethany were three distinct women. That remains the tradition in the Orthodox churches. The identification of Mary Magdalene as a repentant sinful woman was solidified in the Latin Church for centuries by the use of that story, reported in the seventh chapter of Luke, as the Gospel reading for Mary Magdalene’s feast, July 22. In fact, in the Roman Calendar
Noli Me Tangere – Fra Angelico, 1440. The title of the painting is Latin for the first words spoken by the Risen Christ to Mary Magdalene: Jesus said to her, “Stop holding on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am going to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’” Mary of Magdala went and announced to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord,” and what he told her.
before the Second Vatican Council, the day was called the feast of “Mary Magdalene, penitent.” This changed in 1969 with the reform of the Roman Missal and the Roman Calendar. Since then the Gospel reading for Mary Magdalene’s feast has been Chapter 20, verses 1-2 and 11-18, of the Gospel of John. The first two verses tell of her coming to Jesus’ tomb early Sunday morning, finding it empty and running to tell Peter and John that someone has removed Jesus’ body. The second part of the reading tells of Mary staying behind, weeping, after Peter and John leave, and the risen Jesus speaking to her and telling her to announce to the rest of his followers, “I have seen the Lord.”
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SIXTH SUNDAY OF EASTER Acts 10:25-26, 34-35, 44-48; Psalm 98:1, 2-3, 3-4; 1 John 4:7-10; John 15:9-17 A READING FROM THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES (ACTS 10:25-26, 34-35, 44-48) When Peter entered, Cornelius met him and, falling at his feet, paid him homage. Peter, however, raised him up, saying, “Get up. I myself am also a human being.” Then Peter proceeded to speak and said, “In truth, I see that God shows no partiality. Rather, in every nation whoever fears him and acts uprightly is acceptable to him.” While Peter was still speaking these things, the Holy Spirit fell upon all who were listening to the word. The circumcised believers who had accompanied Peter were astounded that the gift of the Holy Spirit should have been poured out on the Gentiles also, for they could hear them speaking in tongues and glorifying God. Then Peter responded, “Can anyone withhold the water for baptizing these people, who have received the Holy Spirit even as we have?” He ordered them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. RESPONSORIAL PSALM (PS 98:1, 2-3, 3-4) R. The Lord has revealed to the nations his saving power. or: R. Alleluia. Sing to the Lord a new song, for he has done wondrous deeds; His right hand has won victory for him, his holy arm. R. The Lord has revealed to the nations his saving power. or: R. Alleluia. The Lord has made his salvation known: in the sight of the nations he has revealed his justice. He has remembered his kindness and his faithfulness toward the house of Israel. R. The Lord has revealed to the nations his saving power. or:
R. Alleluia. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation by our God. Sing joyfully to the Lord, all you lands; break into song; sing praise. R. The Lord has revealed to the nations his saving power. or: R. Alleluia. A READING FROM THE FIRST LETTER OF SAINT JOHN (1 JN 4:7-10) Beloved, let us love one another, because love is of God; everyone who loves is begotten by God and knows God. Whoever is without love does not know God, for God is love. In this way the love of God was revealed to us: God sent his only Son into the world so that we might have life through him. In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as expiation for our sins. A READING FROM THE HOLY GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JOHN (JN 15:9-17) Jesus said to his disciples: “As the Father loves me, so I also love you. Remain in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love. “I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and your joy might be complete. This is my commandment: love one another as I love you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. I no longer call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his master is doing. I have called you friends, because I have told you everything I have heard from my Father. It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit that will remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you. This I command you: love one another.”
Scripture RAYMOND O’CONNOR
‘He summons all the dead to rise’ There’s a liturgical chant that sings the words, “Christ has risen from the dead trampling down death by death . . .” The Easter Season charges the mind and soul with excitement and promise. Jesus is alive! Jesus, who walked among us, whose daily routines resembled so many of our own, from those that are barely noticeable to that which is unavoidable – death. We read about death everyday on the front pages of newspapers and in the obituaries. We personally encounter it when someone close to us dies or when we face our mortality. Death is very much a part of living, and it should come as no surprise that Jesus, in sharing our experience died, albeit violently and unjustly. But the twist in this particular death is that Jesus lives. How can that be? This is, of course, the central tenant of Christianity – the Resurrection. Among the many ideas that our Catholic Tradition asserts about the Resurrection – expiation of sin, ransom from evil, reconciliation, holy sacrifice – one reality truly connects to our human experience, that is, death. “Christ has risen from the dead trampling down death by death.” The heaviest fear facing humanity is our mortality. We cannot go on forever. Things fail, fade, break down, and pass away. As we grow older this reality becomes all the more real and inescapable. We fear death because we do not know it. We can suffer all kinds of traumas, hurts, and pains in life because somewhere along the line someone experienced it. Most suffering is already known, and knowing diminishes fear, albeit not the pain or hurt. We do not, however, know death. Some people tell of near-death experiences, but no one has truly come back from death to walk among us, speak to us, and eat with us – all those actions that touch the senses and relax defenses. We simply do not go around bumping into people who have just risen from the dead – maybe in Hollywood but not where we live. The accounts of Jesus’ Resurrection, however, tell a different story. Jesus does do all those things that touch our senses: He walks, speaks, and eats with us, even after death. In other words, Jesus transforms the heaviest of fears facing humanity to something all together different. If we need not fear death, why is it most of us still do? Yes, some people have made a remarkable friend out of death and peacefully pass into it. Death holds no more
power over us than a blade of grass trampled under foot, like Jesus trampled “down death by death.” So, Jesus takes our fears of death and, through faith, transforms them into hope and joy. We have so much more to experience in the promise of the living Christ than did our religious forebears in the ancient concepts of Sheol or Nether World and the Underworld. These places were products of the human imagination struggling with life’s end. Sure, there were also mythological stories about resurrection – the Egyptian myth of Isis and Osiris to name one. They do not, however, include the very intimate human experience of knowing that Jesus is really alive. That is what the gospel stories keep pointing out. Those early disciples knew that Jesus lives forever free from the bonds of death. And this conviction is echoed down the halls of history in the words and melody of the Chorus Novae Jerusalem written by Fulbert of Chartres (d. 1029), a chant still sung in monastic choirs today: “As lion knowing no defeat, Christ overcame the ancient foe. With ringing voice of life itself he summons all the dead to rise.” Peter, in the reading from the Acts of the Apostles, came to believe that God shows no partiality in reference to Cornelius, a Roman centurion and Gentile. God’s impartiality regarding faith mirrors God’s impartiality regarding the Resurrection. Did Christ die and rise only for a few? Certainly Peter first thought that Gentiles were not Spirit-worthy. He was wrong. Are we not tempted to think that some may never rise again? John’s Gospel makes it clear that such thoughts are wrong: “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.” Exclusionary attitudes and feeling of partiality sneak their way through our minds – illegal immigration, death penalty, axes of evil, Darfur – and, whatever the thoughts, the Resurrected One thinks otherwise. It is our hope that when faced with our mortality, fear and partiality will not invade that sacred moment. Rather, the joy and wonder of the Risen Christ will comfort us as he did when he walked among us, spoke to us, and ate with us. Raymond O’Connor, D.Min., chairs the Religious Studies Department and directs the Community Service Program at Stuart Hall High School, San Francisco.
Prayer for Faith Lord, I believe: I wish to believe in You. Lord, let my faith be full and unreserved, and let it penetrate my thought, my way of judging Divine things and human things. Lord, let my faith be joyful and give peace and gladness to my spirit, and dispose it for prayer with God and conversation with men, so that the inner bliss of its fortunate possession may shine forth in sacred and secular conversation. Lord, let my faith be humble and not presume to be based on the experience of my thought and of my feeling; but let it surrender to the testimony of the Holy Spirit, and not have any better guarantee than in docility to Tradition and to the authority of the magisterium of the Holy Church. Amen. The Baptism of the Neophytes – Masaccio, c. 1426.
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Marin Catholic . . . ■ Continued from cover toward a different destination.” Jesus is fully present today in the Sacraments of the Church and the community of believers saying to all, Archbishop Niederauer explained, “Come, I’ll take you there.” Marin Catholic President Father Thomas Daly and several of the school’s scholar-athletes greeted Archbishop Niederauer on his arrival at the Kentfield campus. They gave the archbishop a tour of the multi-sport track and field, which will be renovated this summer at a cost of $1.2 million. There the archbishop took part in a ceremonial first dig for the renovation which will include a new turf field and synthetic track benefiting Lacrosse, Soccer, Field Hockey, Football, and Track and Field teams, as well as the school’s physical education classes. The project is fully funded with private donations including a $600,000 matching gift. At the student Mass, Archbishop Niederauer blessed incoming and outgoing student body officers and was presented with an MC Wildcats cap and jersey by incoming student body president Catherine Cresalia. Archbishop Niederauer greeted students, staff, parents and trustees during a reception following Mass held at the school’s Bell Tower courtyard dedicated just three years ago along with a new school chapel by now Cardinal William J. Levada. The school also presented Archbishop Niederauer with a rendering of the chapel’s recently installed full-wall stained glass. Outgoing student body president Daniel Collins said it was “a real honor for Marin Catholic” to host Archbishop Niederauer at his first visit to an archdiocesan high school.
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Marin Catholic scholar-athletes (from left) John Stanton, Lexi Louderback, Rob DiSanza, Peter Stonebreaker, Theresa Odisio, Teddi Hoffman, Jono Grayson, Gina Hoffmire and Ariel Meave with Archbishop Niederauer and Father Daly at the school’s soon to be renovated track and field. Also taking part though not pictured were Kayleigh Morgan, Elise Tarrant, Tim Nelson, and Jack Sasan.
Collins, who will be attending Gonzaga University in the fall, chose the Jesuit school in Spokane, Wash., because of its Catholic character. He said his faith had strengthened during his years at Marin Catholic and he wanted that to continue in his college years. Senior Nick Kuroczko was also honored to meet with Archbishop Niederauer. “I’ve never met an archbishop
before,” he said. The archbishop and Kuroczko easily found common ground for conversation. Kuroczko has been recruited to play baseball for the University of Utah. The former Salt Lake City bishop was quick to give Kuroczko a suggestion on where he could attend Mass while away at college. The appreciative Kuroczko said Archbishop Niederauer warned him jokingly “he’d be following up to check attendance.”
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‘Akeelah and the Bee’ NEW YORK (CNS) — Given the wide appeal of the 2003 documentary “Spellbound” and the ongoing popularity of a similarly themed Broadway musical, “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,” the public seemingly can’t get enough of bees. “Akeelah and the Bee” (Lionsgate) is the latest entry, and it proves to be an irresistible story about a South Los Angeles 11-year-old loner, Akeelah (Keke Palmer), whose lack of interest and poor performance in many of her subjects can’t disguise her proficiency with words. Her love of language comes from her Scrabble-playing father, who was killed when she was 6 years old, and to whose framed photographs she speaks for consolation. Her hard-working nurse mother, Tanya (Angela Bassett), has little time for her introspective daughter; her older brother is in the Air Force; and her other brother is chronically in trouble with local boys in the ‘hood. Crenshaw Middle School’s principal, Mr. Welch (Curtis Armstrong), persuades the reluctant Akeelah to participate in the school spelling competition — which could, in turn, lead to the citywide contest, and ultimately a national spelling bee. Welch is hoping that if she wins the inner-city school will benefit from the high profile it receives. Akeelah eventually comes to be tutored by an emotionally fragile English professor, Dr. Larabee (Laurence Fishburne), who makes it clear from the start that he will not accept insolence from the sometimes sassy girl. Street talk, like “ain’t,” is off-limits, and she mustn’t simply learn the words by rote, but learn their meaning. Knowing Akeelah is fearful, he makes her read Marianne Williamson’s words: “We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. ... And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.”
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Tanya is distressed that Akeelah is flunking her other subjects and, worrying the endeavor will interfere with the girl’s flagging grades, forbids her to compete. But her doubts are soon overcome by the intercession of Larabee and Welch. Early in the game, Akeelah, who is African-American, bonds with a friendly competitor, the Hispanic Javier (J.R. Villarreal), and tries to reach out to the current champ, the Chinese Dylan (Sean Michael Afable), whose hard-as-nails father tries to browbeat the boy into winning, deridingly telling him he should be able to “beat a little black girl.” Writer-director Doug Atchison handles
Akeelah’s journey of self-discovery and growing empowerment deftly and builds suspense on the way to a satisfying if unabashedly formulaic conclusion. Fishburne and Bassett, reunited after their turns as Ike & Tina Turner is 1993’s “What’s Love Got To Do With It,” are excellent. It’s particularly gratifying to see Fishburne in such a warmly sympathetic role, after the tough stoicism of his roles in the “Matrix” trilogy and similar films. The bespectacled Palmer radiates genuine decency, and her bright presence anchors the film. The inspiring messages about conquering fears, honesty, community, education
and, above all, the beauty and potency of words, run throughout a hugely entertaining film that should hold you spellbound. A few crass expressions and a single use of a four-letter word can’t detract from an overall warm endorsement for all audiences. The USCCB Office for Film & Broadcasting classification is A-I — general patronage. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG — parental guidance suggested. Some material may not be suitable for children. Forbes is director of the Office for Film & Broadcasting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
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Food & Fun May 20: Food Festival at St. Dunstan Parish 1133 Broadway, Millbrae from 5 – 9 p.m. featuring cuisine from around the world. Also enjoy entertainment, children’s activities, plus silent and live auctions. Proceeds benefit St. Dunstan school. Tickets are $35 adults, $20 seniors (65+), and $15 for children between the ages of 5 and 14. Age 4 and under are free. Proceeds will benefit St. Dunstan’s Parish School. Call (650) 697-8119. June 9, 10, 11: Church of the Nativity’s 26th Annual Carnival with thrilling rides, live entertainment, Kiddie Land, auctions, dinners and more. Fri.: 5 – 11 p.m.; Sat.: noon – 11 p.m.; Sun.: noon – 7 p.m. Free admission and parking. Call (650) 323-7914.
May 19, 2006 Apostle, 725 Diamond St. at Elizabeth/24th, SF. Call (415) 282-0141; St. Dominic, SF, Lee Gallery at (415) 221-1288; Holy Name of Jesus, SF, (415) 6648590. San Mateo County: St. Bartholomew, San Mateo, Dan Stensen at (650) 344-5665; St. Catherine of Siena, Burlingame, Silvia Chiesa at (650) 685-8336; Our Lady of Angels, Burlingame, Holy Names Sister Pat Hunter at (650) 375-8023; St. Dunstan, Millbrae, Dianne Johnston at (650) 697-0952; Our Lady of the Pillar, Half Moon Bay, Meghan at (650) 726-4337; St. Peter, Pacifica, Sylvia Miles at (650) 355-6650, Jerry Trecroci at (650) 355-1799, Frank Erbacher at (650) 355-4355; St. Matthew, San Mateo. Jim Shea at (650) 344-7622.
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Shows/Entertainment May 19, 20: Free Easter Play Friday at 6 p.m. and Saturday at 2 p.m. “The Road to Emmaus” will be presented at the St. Boniface Theater,175 Golden Gate Ave. San Francisco. Call (415) 6213279. Potluck will be served for those with reservations. 1st and 3rd Tues.: Noontime Concerts – 12:30 p.m. - at Old St. Mary’s Cathedral, 660 California St. at Grant, SF. $5 donation requested. Call (415) 288-3800. Sundays: Concerts at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough and Geary St., SF at 3:30 p.m. Call (415) 567-2020 ext. 213. Open to the public. Admission free.
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TV/Radio Sunday 6 a.m., WB Channel 20/Cable 13 and KTSF Channel 26/Cable 8: TV Mass with Msgr. Harry Schlitt presiding. 1st Sun, 5 a.m., CBS Channel 5: Mosaic, featuring conversations on current Catholic issues. 3rd Sun, 5:30 a.m., KRON Channel 4: For Heaven’s Sake, featuring conversations about Catholic spirituality.
Reunions June 10: Presentation High School, class of ’51 at Basque Cultiral Center in South San Francisco at 11:30 a.m. Contact Yvonne Irick at (650) 941-1294 or Audrey Trees at (650) 5920273. July 8: Class of ’56 from Notre Dame des Victoires High School. Call Marilyn Donnelly at (650) 365-5192. Aug. 26: The Class of ‘ 60 Turns, a reunion of said grads from St. Cecilia Elementary School at El Rancho Inn in Millbrae. Contact Joanne Hicks McGlothlin at (650) 952-3673. Oct. 15: Star of the Sea Academy, class of ’56 at El Rancho Inn in Millbrae. Contact Natalie Nalducci Sandell at (415) 453-3687 or Diane Donohoe Mulligan at (415) 664-7977. San Mateo’s St. Matthew Elementary School will soon mark its 75th year. Graduates and former students should contact Nancy Desler Carroll ’83 at (650) 372-9536 or nancy.carroll@rcn.com. More too at school Web site, www.stmatthewcath.org/alumni.
Prayer/Lectures/Trainings Come pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet, Scriptural Rosary, and special intentions before Mercy Center in Burlingame announces Spiritual Bay Area – 2, a new summer course from UC Berkeley Extension taught by John Tortorice giving an overview of Catholic, Buddhist and Hindu/Ashtanga Yoga spirituality. Mercy Center programs, including spiritual direction, Centering Prayer and Taize will be introduced during the visit to the Center. For more information and to register call (510) 642-4111. Space is limited.
Blankets galore will find their way to the poor of Mexico thanks to these young women and others from the Marin Girls Leadership Program plus moms, friends and other helpers. Backin’ the project were organizations including Knights of Columbus from Novato’s Our Lady of Loretto Parish, St. Raphael Parish in San Rafael and Knights in Napa. Takin’ a break from the happy work are Maureen McGuire, left, Carson Duffy, Sara Siadat, Megan Feeney, and Shannon Moore. the Blessed Sacrament at the beautiful Monastery of Perpetual Adoration. Saturdays 10:00 to 11:15 am, 771 Ashbury Street at Waller in San Francisco. Some parking available adjacent to the monastery. Contact Steve at (415) 290-5598. Saturdays: Prayer meeting at St. Hilary Church, 761 Hilary Dr. Tiburon, at 9:30 a.m. Father James Tarantino, presiding. Hospitality follows. All are welcome. Call Moriah at (415) 7565505 Saturdays: Bible Study at St. Hilary Church, 761 Hilary Dr. Tiburon, 12:30 - 2:00 p.m. All are welcome. Call Moriah (415) 756-5505.
Single, Divorced, Separated June 2 – 4: Retrouvaille, a program for healing marriages, starts its next series. The weekend sessions are presented by a priest and three married couples followed by 6 Saturday sessions over the next 90 days. Call Pat and Tont Fernandez at (415) 893-1005 or www.retrouvaille.org.
Robert, San Bruno. Call Sr. Patricia at 650-5892800. Marin County: St. Anselm, San Anselmo. Call Brenda MacLean at 415-454-7650; St. Isabella, San Rafael. Call Pat Sack at 415-472-5732; Our Lady of Loretto, Novato. Call Sr. Jeanette at 415897-2171. San Francisco: St. Dominic. Call Sr. Anne at 415-567-7824; St. Finn Barr(Bilingual). Call Carmen Solis at 415-584-0823; St. Gabriel. Call Elaine Khalaf at 415-564-7882. Young Widow/Widower Group: St. Gregory, San Mateo. Call Barbara Elordi at 415-6145506. Ministry to Parents: Our Lady of Angels, Burlingame. Call Ina Potter at (650) 347-6971 or Barbara Arena at (650) 344-3579. Children’s Grief Group: St. Catherine, Burlingame. Call Debbie Simmons at 650-5581015. Information regarding grief ministry in general call Barbara Elordi at 415-614-5506.
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Consolation Ministry Grief Groups meet at the following parishes. Please call numbers shown for more information. San Mateo County: St. Catherine of Sienna, Burlingame. Call Debbie Simmons at 650-5581015; St. Dunstan, Millbrae. Call Barbara Cappel at 650-692-7543;. Good Shepherd, Pacifica. Call Sr. Carol Fleitz at 650-355-2593; Our Lady of Mercy, Daly City. Call Barbara Cantwell at 650-755-0478; Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Redwood City. Call Parish at 650-366-3802; St.
Programs for Catholics interested in returning to the Church, have been established at the following parishes: Marin County: St. Hilary, Tiburon, Mary Musalo, (415) 435-2775; St. Anselm, Ross, call (415) 4532342; St. Sebastian, Greenbrae, Jean Mariani at (415) 461-7060; Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Mill Valley, Rick Dullea at (415) 388-4190; St. Mary Star of the Sea, Sausalito, Lloyd Dulbecco at (415) 331-7949. San Francisco: Old St. Mary’s Cathedral, SF, Michael Adams at (415) 695-2707; St. Philip the
Do you have a few hours each week to spare? St. Anthony Foundation can use your help. For more than 55 years, St. Anthony Foundation has worked to provide for the physical and emotional needs of the poor and homeless. A staple of its12 programs is the support of more than 500 volunteers. If you are interested in sharing the gift of time with St. Anthony Foundation in its free Dining Room or other programs, please call (415) 241- 2600 for more information. Weekday volunteers are especially needed - www.stanthonysf.org. St. Anthony Padua Dining Room in Menlo Park needs volunteers Wed., Thurs, and Sat. from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. to help prepare and serve noon meals. More than 500 people daily are helped by the program. Call (650) 365-9664. St. Vincent de Paul Society of San Francisco needs your help at its Help Desk. Service includes sorting donations and helping clients. If anyone would like to volunteer - also small groups of volunteers one Saturday a month - they should call (415) 202-9955.” St. Vincent de Paul of San Mateo County needs Spanish/English-speaking volunteers to answer phones in 2 – 3 hour shifts between 9:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. at their offices, 50 No. B St., San Mateo. Volunteers do intake of clients’ requests, log the call and enter into Access-based computer data system. Call (650) 373-0620. Pathways Home Health & Hospice urgently needs volunteers. Trainings begin on February 25 in Redwood City and April 1 in South San Francisco. For more information or to enroll in a training call Vivian Wan at (650) 808-4604 or vwan@pathwayshealth.org. Most Holy Redeemer AIDS Support Group needs volunteers to provide practical and emotional support to individuals with HIV-AIDS and/or assist with various program events and activities. Many opportunities available. Call (415) 863-1581 or www.mhr-asg.com. Caring for the Caregiver with Carolina Shaper meets Mondays 6 – 7:30 p.m. Call Ms. Shaper at (415) 984-0501.
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A parish-priest saint from Hartford? “PARISH PRIEST: FATHER MICHAEL MCGIVNEY AND AMERICAN CATHOLICISM,” BY DOUGLAS BRINKLEY AND JULIE M. FENSTER. WILLIAM MORROW (New York, 2006). 240 pp., $24.95.
Reviewed by Father John T. Myler Father Michael McGivney may become the first American parish priest to be canonized a saint. He was the founder of the Knights of Columbus, but in the biography “Parish Priest: Father Michael McGivney and American Catholicism,” authors Douglas Brinkley and Julie M. Fenster focus on much more than the priest’s ties to the Knights. Father McGivney (1852-1890), a priest of the thenDiocese of Hartford, Conn., came from a middle-class Irish background and attended seminaries in Quebec, Niagara Falls, N.Y., and Baltimore. His father died before Michael was ordained and the seminarian realized firsthand the dire straits into which families could fall. In his experience, “fathers, mothers and children (formed) an everyday trinity more fragile than anyone else seemed to realize.” Ministry to families marked the years of his priesthood. Brinkley and Fenster — who were moved during the priest molestation scandals of 2002 to write about a beloved
Catholic education is topic on TV program Maureen Huntington, Superintendent of Catholic Schools for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, talks about Catholic education with host Maury Healy on the TV program “For Heaven’s Sake,” which airs Sunday, May 21 at 5:30 a.m. on KRON-Channel 4. The San Francisco Archdiocese’s Office of Communications produces the program in cooperation with KRON-4.
Rolheiser. . . ■ Continued from page 15 Sr. Margaret Halaska once captured this wonderfully in a poem she entitled, Covenant: The Father knocks at my door, seeking a home for his son: Rent is cheap, I say I don’t want to rent. I want to buy, says God. I’m not sure I want to sell, but you might come in to look around. I think I will, says God. I might let you have a room or two. I like it, says God. I’ll take the two. You might decide to give me more some day. I can wait, says God. I’d like to give you more, but it’s a bit difficult. I need some space for me. I know, says God, but I’ll wait. I like what I see. Hm, maybe I can let you have another room. I really don’t need that much. Thanks, says God, I’ll take it. I like what I see. I’d like to give you the whole house but I’m not sure Think on it, says God. I wouldn’t put you out. Your house would be mine and my son would live in it. You’d have more space than you’d ever had before. I don’t understand at all. I know, says God, but I can’t tell you about that. You’ll have to discover it for yourself. That can only happen if you let him have the whole house. A bit risky, I say. Yes, says God, but try me. I’m not sure I’ll let you know. I can wait, says God. I like what I see. If we look back on our lives and are truly honest, we have to admit that of all the invitations that God has sent us, we’ve probably accepted and acted on only a fraction of them. There have been countless times we’ve turned away from an invitation. For every invitation to maturity we’ve accepted, we’ve probably turned down a hundred. But that’s the beauty and wonder of God’s richness. God is not a petty creator and creation, itself, is not a cheap machine with barely enough energy and resources to keep it going. God and nature are prodigal. That’s plain everywhere. Millions and millions of life-giving seeds blow everywhere in the world and we need only to pick up a few to become pregnant, fecund, capable of newness, maturity, and of producing life. Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser is a theologian, teacher and award-winning author.
parish priest — have researched Father McGivney’s life with academic care, citing civil and church records, newspaper accounts and histories of the Catholic Church in the United States during the latter half of the 19th century. St. Mary’s Parish in New Haven, Conn., typically taxed any priest’s energy as he dealt with devotions, the dying and the inevitable parish debt. For young Father McGivney, though, church and societal problems were best solved by ensuring the character of Catholic men as leaders of families. “Parish Priest” explores the post-Civil War status of men — no longer soldiers or frontiersmen, but those residing in America’s big cities and factory towns as the “Gilded Age” approached. “The adventures of their fathers were only a fading memory. In the new manner of manhood thrust upon them, the decisions of the day were no longer theirs. They were told what to do, and when, and even why.” Father McGivney came up with an idea to “fill the void” that so many Catholic men discovered within themselves. In 1881, the Knights of Columbus — who were nearly called the “Sons of Columbus” — became the Catholic response to secret societies, which were sometimes named after eagles, elks or moose. The purpose of the Knights, Father McGivney wrote, was “to prevent people from entering secret societies, by offering the same, if not better, advantages to our members” and “to unite the men of our faith to aid each other in time of sickness, to provide for decent burial and to render assistance to the families of deceased members.”
Father McGivney was uninterested in the “secret” and ritual aspects of the Knights — their degrees, regalia, ceremonies and passwords. He found them “a little highstrung” but cooperated with their presence to compel the members to feel the special privileges of membership. The Knights started small and grew slowly, as a result of long and tiresome rounds of infighting, yet within a few years numbered more than 4,000 Knights. Today there are more than 1.7 million Knights of Columbus in more than a dozen countries. But the final focus of “Parish Priest” is the energetic, tireless figure of Father McGivney and his too few years of pastoral work. In late 1889, Father McGivney contracted influenza; in early 1890, it turned into pneumonia. Death came on the morning of August 14, 1890 — two days after his 38th birthday. For more than a century, the Knights of Columbus have continued to honor him as their founder. In 1997, Archbishop Daniel A. Cronin of Hartford, who is now retired, initiated the process of canonization for Father McGivney. This solid biography from Brinkley and Fenster addresses not only Father McGivney’s role 120 years ago, but also the importance of his pastoral example today — “a parish priest for a modern world.” Father Myler earned a doctorate in sacred theology at the Marianum in Rome and is a priest of the Diocese of Belleville, Ill., where he is director of the continuing formation of priests.
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Ursuline High School is a private, Catholic, all girls, college preparatory high school, serving 330 students in grades 912. The school was founded by the Ursuline Sisters. Ursuline is located in Santa Rosa, in beautiful Sonoma County, in Northern California. The Director of Admissions position is key to the vitality of the institution. Reporting Relationships: The Director of Admissions reports to the Principal, heads the school Admissions Committee, works cooperatively with the Director of Admissions of adjacent Cardinal Newman High School, and serves as a member of the Ursuline High School Board of Trustees Marketing Committee. Position Description: The Director of Admissions manages a student admissions and retention program as part of the comprehensive advancement plan for the school. This program includes the planning, coordination, implementation, and program evaluation necessary to carry out initiatives for student recruitment, admissions, financial assistance, and retention for Ursuline High School. The director is guided by the enrollment management plan, and works with members of the Marketing Committee to formulate and implement recruitment strategies that effectively market the school for image and enrollment. The Director of Admissions works closely with the Principal, Director of Advancement, Counseling Office, and Director of Finance and Operations in coordinating plans, events, and promotional materials. The ideal candidate will have the following qualifications and skills: 1. A belief system which supports the Catholic mission and Ursuline traditions of the school 2. A degree in Marketing or related field 3. Excellent technology skills; Blackbaud, or equivalent, systems experience; a sophisticated level of internet user skills 4. Marketing, sales, and/or business experience; prior admissions experience a plus 5. Excellent oral and written communication skills 6. An ability to thrive in a collaborative leadership environment 7. A commitment to participation in school programs and functions 8. Excellent community outreach ability Compensation: Competitive salary with full benefits
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St. Robert’s Parish San Bruno
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0% Financing Available
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not a licensed contractor
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