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CARING:
DIGNITY:
ADVENT:
Cassandra is
rebuilding her life,
with CCCYO’s help
Center matches
Mexican workers
with farm jobs in US
Wakefully, not
drowsily, awaiting
the coming of Christ
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DECEMBER 14, 2012
$1.00 | VOL. 14 NO. 39
Venerating Our
Lady of Guadalupe
Doves take to the air as they are released at St. Mary’s Cathedral in San
Francisco on Dec. 8 at the end of the
archdiocese’s annual Guadalupana
pilgrimage venerating Our Lady of
Guadalupe. The march of thousands
began at All Souls Church in South
Francisco, with pilgrims praying the
rosary along the 12-mile route and
gathering in the cathedral for prayer
and a Mass. Story and more photos
on Page 18.
(PHOTO BY DENNIS CALLAHAN/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)
CCCYO aid to Alzheimer’s sufferer shows growing need
GEORGE RAINE
On the Monday before Thanksgiving, a woman on
the East Coast called Catholic Charities CYO in San
Francisco to say she and her family were concerned
about the well-being of her elderly aunt in San Francisco. The caller was familiar with Catholic Charities services and thought the agency could help.
A case manager from Catholic Charities CYO San
Francisco Aging Services went to the home of the
84-year-old woman and found her “very confused
and disoriented,” said Patty Clement-Cihak, director of the San Francisco Aging Services program.
That day, Clement-Cihak and others began connecting the woman with services, arranged for a
doctor’s appointment, arranged for her to be accommodated at the agency’s San Francisco Adult Day
program and, the next day, helped the woman’s fam-
HELPING SENIORS IN NEED
Catholic Charities CYO San Francisco
Adult Day Services works with between
200 and 250 caregivers annually, and serves
from 60 to 75 seniors, 95 percent of whom
have Alzheimer’s disease or another form
of dementia, at the adult day program
facility at 50 Broad St. in the Ocean-Merced-Ingleside district. For information on
CCCYO’s adult day program, call (415) 4524300. For information on case management
services, call (415) 334-5555.
‘Significant moment’
for nation as highest
court takes up Prop. 8
GEORGE RAINE
ily contract with another agency, Home Instead, for
her home-care service outside of the day program.
The U.S. Supreme Court decision on Dec. 7 to
enter the debate over same-sex marriage was “a
significant moment for our nation,” San Francisco
Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone said as the news
broke that day, adding he is prayerful that the court
will affirm that marriage is the union of a man and
a woman.
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CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO | DECEMBER 14, 2012
NEED TO KNOW
VOX POP
What is your hope for Christmas?
NO ROOM AT THE INN: St.
Bruno Parish, 555 W. San Bruno
Ave. between El Camino Real and
Route 101, San Bruno, presents
“The Search for an Inn,” Dec. 21
at 7 p.m. The event reenacts the
story of Mary and Joseph on the
search for a place to give birth to
Jesus. The ensemble will process to locations surrounding the
parish, sing Christmas carols and
end with a community potluck
celebration.
Jordan Orque
SPECIAL SANDY COLLECTION:
The U.S. bishops will sponsor
a special collection during the
Advent and Christmas seasons
to aid victims of Hurricane Sandy.
“The church is a primary source of
healing and peace when tragedies
like this happen,” U.S. bishops’
vice president Archbishop Joseph
E. Kurtz said in a letter to all U.S.
bishops. Immediate needs include
food, water, clothing and shelter.
A long-term goal is rebuilding
damaged churches. Funds from
the Collection for the Church
in Latin America and Catholic
Relief Services already have been
designated to support relief efforts
for the victims of Hurricane Sandy
in the Caribbean. This special
collection will be designated for
the recovery of those in the U.S.
Funds collected will support the
efforts of the U.S. bishops’ conference and Catholic Charities USA.
Dustin Nelson
Jim Carter
“To have my family with me.”
JORDAN ORQUE
“Peace, love and hope.”
OSCAR VAZQUEZ
“Win the lottery.”
GREG (NO LAST NAME GIVEN)
“To do well in school.”
ISABELLA DOMINICI
Interviews and photos by Valerie
Schmalz/Catholic San Francisco
Sidewalk mural designed to help
Tenderloin kids get home safely
VALERIE SCHMALZ
The Tenderloin Safe Passages
sidewalk mural looks a lot like the
Yellow Brick Road but the 11-block
strip of painted yellow footprints is
designed to make life a little safer
for 3,500 children who live in a place
much less appealing than the Land
of Oz.
“It’s not unusual just walking
down one block, you get people
standing there making drug deals,”
said Franciscan Father Tommy
King, pastor of St. Boniface Parish in the drug- and crime-infested
neighborhood in San Francisco’s
downtown. The last block of the
Safe Passages mural in front of St.
Boniface was completed in early
December.
The yellow strip of footprints will
be staffed by about 65 volunteers
wearing bright yellow vests during after-school hours and will also
have designated spots to let the
children know safe spots to stop
(PHOTO BY VALERIE SCHMALZ/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)
John Elliott completed the last block of the
Safe Passages sidewalk mural in front of St.
Boniface Church in early December.
for help if they are alone and need
help, said Dina Hilliard, community
organizer. With a substantial grant
from MetLife insurance company,
Hilliard plans two hours a day of
volunteers, 2:45-3:45 p.m. and again
4:45-5:45 p.m., she said. Most of the
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community organizations also work
very closely with the Tenderloin
police station, Father King and Hilliard said.
The Tenderloin has the highest
concentration of children in the city,
most living with their families in
single room occupancy hotels and
in studio apartments, said Michael
Daniels, president of De Marillac
Academy, a tuition-free Catholic
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“Safe Passages is a great example
of our neighborhood working
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Daniels said, noting even though
the sidewalks are cleaned as often
as twice daily they are littered
with needles and defecation, and
the children are regularly exposed
to drug users and random acts of
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and exercise in the stairwells of
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“Only if I had my ID, that would be
my hope for Christmas.”
DUSTIN NELSON
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Serving the poor since 1845
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“I guess so we could find some
peace in the world, and in Syria,
(and wherever) our own government is fighting. Just listen to one
another.”
JIM CARTER
Asked outside St. Boniface Church, San
Francisco, before the noon Mass on
Dec. 6.
‘ENORMOUS RECOVERY’
NEEDED: The common Christian
identity in the Americas must be
recognized, “and for that we only
have to turn to Our Lady of Guadalupe,” Baltimore Archbishop
William E. Lori told Vatican Radio
in Vatican City Dec. 11 during a
congress marking the 15th anniversary of the Synod of Bishops
for America. He said the common
identity “is an enormous recovery
that has to be made by the church
in America and by the collaboration not only of bishops but also
of priests and the laity.” Addressing the congress, he said that in
the battle to defeat the culture
of death and preserve Christian
values throughout the Americas,
Christians need to adopt the
“unconventional weapons” of
Our Lady of Guadalupe: love and
prayer.
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ARCHDIOCESE 3
Carmelite sisters create moving crèche to behold
VALERIE SCHMALZ
Advent and Christmas season visitors will
discover something new each time they stop in
to visit the crèche at the Carmelite Monastery of
Cristo Rey in San Francisco.
The figures of Mary and Joseph, the shepherd
and the wise men, are
moved around, and
animals are added
throughout the season,
said the Carmelites’
extern Diane Dawes.
The manger stays
empty until the beginning of midnight Mass
on Dec. 25, when the
priest brings the figure
of the Christ Child and
lays him in the manger.
“There is a sister
who is in charge of
the general plan but
all the sisters sort of
contribute their own
artistic creativity” in setting up and designing
the crèche each year, said Dawes. Each member
of the community of 25 sisters helps out as she
is able.
The chapel is closed for the day in early December so the sisters can put up the Nativity
scene. A cloistered order dedicated to a life of
prayer, the sisters pray in the chapel hidden behind a screen and only go into the chapel when it
is closed to the public.
The figures of Mary and Joseph, a donkey,
ox, shepherd and some of the sheep are part of
a Nativity set that was brought from Guadalajara, Mexico, the place from which the founding
sisters fled the Mexican government’s religious
persecution in 1927.
Many of the birds and animals are gifts. These
little creatures range from ducks and bunnies to
a cat and even a seal. “They don’t put everything
out at the same time. As time passes, they add
things,” said Dawes.
Mary and Joseph begin by standing a little
back from the empty manger, then, as her time to
deliver baby Jesus draws near according to the
liturgical season, Mary is seated, with her hand
on the manger, said Dawes. The baby arrives
at the beginning of midnight Mass. The kings
arrive on Jan. 6, and the crèche remains up
through the week of Epiphany.
The biblical figures
are part of a
Nativity set from
Guadalajara,
Mexico, the city
the sisters fled
in 1927 to escape
Mexico’s religious
persecution.
(PHOTOS BY VALERIE SCHMALZ/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)
Scenes both biblical and whimsical adorn the crèche at the Carmelite Monastery of
Cristo Rey in San Francisco. The biblical figures are part of a Nativity set that was
brought from Guadalajara, Mexico, the place from which the founding sisters fled the
Mexican government’s religious persecution in 1927. Many of the birds and animals are
gifts. They range from ducks and bunnies to a cat and even a seal.
SAINT RITA CHURCH
Advent 2012 Lecture
Advancing the Second Vatican Council
The Carmelite Monastery of Cristo Rey, Parker
Avenue at Stanyan Street in San Francisco, is open
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Cardinal William Levada, S.T.D.
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Prefect Emeritus, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
“Vatican II at 50: Looking Back, Moving Forward”
Wednesday, 19 December 2012
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TOM BURKE
The California League of High Schools named
St. Ignatius College Preparatory
Latin teacher Grace Curcio Educator of the Year for District 4 Nov. 8.
She is a finalist for state Educator
of the Year, which will be awarded
in March. She has been teaching
Latin at SI since 1998 and holds
an undergraduate degree from
UC Davis and a graduate degree
in classical civilizations from UC
Grace Curcio
Santa Barbara. “Grace is simply
one of the brightest, most creative, and dedicated
teachers I have been blessed to work with,” SI
principal, Patrick Ruff said in his recommendation
of Grace for the honor. “I cannot offer a higher recommendation for a colleague and fellow educator.”
In a speech Nov. 8 at award ceremonies Curcio said:
“It is unbelievable to me that I am being honored
for doing something so enjoyable. In fact, I consider myself truly blessed to be a teacher. I do love
Latin, and I get a kick out of reviving this supposedly dead language using the latest in technology.”
Grace is married to Sal Curcio a religion teacher
across town at Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory.
HOPE AND WINE UNCORKED: Catholic Charities CYO inaugurated its newest
fundraiser Nov. 5 at
San Francisco’s jazz
hub, Yoshi’s. More
than 300 people
took part in “Hope
Uncorked,” an evening of wine, music
and celebration. All
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proceeds benefitted at-risk kids at St. Vincent’s School for Boys,
San Francisco Boys and Girls Homes, Treasure
Island Child Development Center, Canal Family
Support Program, Maureen and Craig Sullivan
Youth Services, and CYO camps. “Through the
six programs we are supporting here tonight,
Catholic Charities CYO is on the front lines 24/7,
giving voice to the voiceless, helping kids get the
care and resources they need to grow, and ending
the abuse and neglect that is the harshest face of
poverty,” said Jeff Bialik, executive director of
CCCYO.
STILL TIME TO HELP: As we get closer to
Christmas remember the many ways available to
help people in need. The parish “Giving Tree” is
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INTENTIONAL PASS: Softball pitcher and infielder Marka Ballard of Mercy High School, Burlingame has signed a letter of intent
to take the field for Kutztown University in Pennsylvania in 2013. Kutztown is ranked among the top softball programs in the country.
Pictured with Marka at the signing ceremony are her parents Greg and Lucy Ballard, and Mercy athletic director Daniella Gilmartin-Matteucci, who called Marka “a terrific all-around athlete and extremely hard worker and dedicated softball player.”
Mahoney, pastor of Our Lady of Angels Parish
for this idea – we can probably fulfill the giving
tree’s wish with a Scrip gift card we can often buy
right in the vestibule after Mass. Thanks to Traci
Mysliwiec, media officer for Catholic Charities
CYO, for this update on ways to help: CCCYO offers
simple, fun ways to serve others this Christmas
season. There are a number of ways you can help
spread holiday cheer, from parties for children and
families to decorating for seniors and more. See
what opportunities may be right for you at bit.ly/
CCCYOvolholiday or call (415) 972-1246.
THOUGHTS FOR ANY DAYS: Thanks to St. Rita
Parish, Fairfax, for passing these along: “It takes
as much energy to wish as it does to plan” from
Eleanor Roosevelt; “Even if you’re on the right
track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there” from
Will Rogers.
GOTTA’ HAVE A SENSE OF HUMOR: In the
wake of the November elections, thanks to Father
Arnold Zamora, pastor of Holy Name of Jesus
Parish, for this rib-tickler. “Do all fairy tales
begin with Ònce upon a time?’” a little girl asked
her dad. “No,” he said, “some begin with Ìf I am
elected.’”
HOLIDAY HELPERS: St. Matthew School first graders and
their families helped pack more than 50 bags of groceries in the
St. Matt’s St. Vincent de Paul Society food locker for 32 families
needing food over Thanksgiving. The food locker was abundant
with donated goods thanks to a school food drive according to
SVdP. “They really made a difference,” the society said.
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ARCHDIOCESE 5
CCCYO Season of Caring: Cassandra’s story
TRACI MYSLIWIEC
In another milestone on her
path of recovery, Cassandra
just finished her certification
in peer counseling and
mental health from
San Francisco State University.
CATHOLIC CHARITIES CYO
Living in poverty and relying
on drugs to cope with the pain she
felt from years of abuse, Cassandra knew that the time had come
to turn her life around when she
learned that her brother had been
murdered. Adding to the severity of
her situation, she suffers from HIV
and was struggling to care for her
three young children. Fortunately,
in her darkest hour, she found her
way to Catholic Charities CYO’s
Rita da Cascia community in 2002
and became one of the program’s
first residents.
Cassandra received intensive
case management that helped her
manage her health care, stabilize
her housing situation, support her
children, and work through the
emotional trauma she had experienced.
“The staff at Catholic Charities
CYO’s Rita da Cascia met my needs
all the way around. From providing
transportation to medical appointments to establishing our home,
even getting furniture and making
sure we had food, they were there
to help. Around the holidays, they
would make sure there were gifts
for the kids so we could all enjoy
it,” Cassandra said. “The support
was amazing. They offered activities for the all mothers and their
Cassandra credits the weekly support groups
at CCCYO’s Rita da Cascia community for
the continued encouragement and sense of
community she found as she tried to rebuild
her life.
children and even provided child
care at times so we could get some
rest. If you wanted to look for a job,
they helped with your resume and
cover letters too.”
She credits the weekly support
groups for the continued encouragement and sense of community
she found as she tried to rebuild her
life. “The groups helped me to open
up,” Cassandra said. “The support I
found there showed me that I wasn’t
alone in this disease, that a lot of us
share the same issues.”
Today, Cassandra celebrates
nearly 11 years of sobriety. Her
own three children are now adults,
and she enjoys spending time with
her seven grandchildren. Just
this week, she finished her certification in peer counseling and
mental health from San Francisco
State University. A passionate and
dedicated student, she previously
earned a certificate in child development from San Francisco City
College in 2010.
Continually volunteering her time
as a public speaker, Cassandra attended an HIV Summit in Washington, D.C., earlier this month. While
she was there, she and her theater
troupe, The Medea Project, offered
a performance about what it means
to be living with HIV for politicians,
including Rep. Barbara Lee (DOakland). She hopes that her story
will help other women find a path
toward a life that they can be truly
proud of and educate young people
to help prevent the spread of HIV.
“I want to keep working with
women suffering from drug addiction and HIV, so they know they
aren’t alone,” she said. “Catholic
Charities CYO and Rita da Cascia
gave me the foundation I needed.
They are how I ended up going back
to school and accepting my HIV status,” Cassandra said. “They helped
me find the strength to put a voice
to HIV/AIDS. They helped me break
the stigmas and to live my life as a
normal person.”
This is one in a series of Advent Catholic
Charities CYO Season of Caring stories.
CCCYO is making a difference in the
lives of 35,000 abused and neglected
children, homeless families, disabled
adults, at-risk youth and lonely seniors
every year. If you want to support Season of Caring, visit cccyo.org/seasonofcaring or call (415) 972-1291.
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ST. JOHN OF GOD
Perhaps the smallest, and prettiest.
Catholic church In San Francisco was
built by the Lutherans. As the original
Lutheran community expanded, they
needed a larger complex and sold the
chapel at the corner of Fifth Avenue
and Irving Street to the Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco. The
proximity to the UCSF Hospital created the St. John of God parish and
community, to serve those needs.
The parish is unique In that it has no geographic boundaries, attracting
parishioners from San Rafael, Antloch, Larkspur, Oakland, San Mateo,
Alameda, Pacifica, Daly City, Brisbane, and El Cerrito, as well as San
Francisco. Pastors have come not only from traditional American
backgrounds, but also from the Philippines, Vietnam, the Middle East, and the
current pastor, Rev. Methodius Kiwale, is from Tanzania.
The size of the church contributes to a safe, intimate worship experience,
with the opportunity to partake in a variety of social justice activities both
locally, and as a Sanctuary community, internationally. The parish motto “All Are Welcome” - aptly describes the parish’s efforts to be an inclusive,
enthusiastic and friendly community. Mass services on weekends are at
4:15 Saturday afternoon, and 9:30 and 11:30 Sunday mornings. For more
information go to our website at www.sjog.net.
Classes run on Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 4:00 pm.
Maestro Tomek is a parishioner at St. Peter in Pacifica.
6 NATIONAL
Bishops plan call to prayer for life, marriage, liberty
U.S. CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Catholic bishops have
launched a pastoral strategy addressing critical
life, marriage and religious liberty concerns. The
five-part strategy or call to prayer was approved by
the bishops in November and is set to begin after
Christmas. The overall focus is to invite Catholics
to pray for rebuilding a culture favorable to life and
marriage and for increased protections of religious
liberty.
The effort includes monthly eucharistic holy hours
in cathedrals and parishes, daily family rosary, special Prayers of the Faithful at all Masses, fasting and
abstinence on Fridays, and the second observance of
a Fortnight for Freedom.
The call to prayer is prompted by the rapid social
movements and policy changes now underway, such
as the mandate by the U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services that coerces employers, including
heads of religious agencies, to pay for sterilizations,
abortion-inducing drugs and contraceptives, as well
as increased efforts to redefine marriage.
“The pastoral strategy is essentially a call and
encouragement to prayer and sacrifice – it’s meant to
NY CHURCH HHS SUIT CAN MOVE FORWARD
BROOKLYN, N.Y. – A U.S. District Court judge
has ruled that a lawsuit challenging the federal
contraceptive mandate filed by the Archdiocese
of New York and two other Catholic entities can
move forward.
The defendants – the U.S. departments of
Health and Human Services, Labor and the
Treasury – asked that the case be dropped,
claiming the mandate is not causing “imminent
injury” and that the government plans changes for religious groups that object on moral
grounds.
In his Dec. 5 decision, Judge Brian M. Cogan
of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern district
of New York, rejected that claim, saying the
mandate “has caused and will continue to cause
plaintiffs harm so long as it remains in place.”
The mandate, which requires employers to
provide free coverage of contraceptives, sterilization and some abortion-inducing drugs free
in employee health insurance, provides only a
narrow exemption for religious institutions.
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Gospel for December 16, 2012
Luke 3:10-18
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preparations of John the Baptist for the Gospel. The
words can be found in all directions in the puzzle.
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be simple,” said San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore
J. Cordileone, chairman of the bishops’ Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage.
“It’s not meant to be another program but rather part of a movement
for life, marriage, and religious
liberty, which engages the new
evangelization and can be incorporated into the Year of Faith,” he
said. “Life, marriage and religious
liberty are not only foundational
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Holy Hour: Starting with the
Sunday after Christmas (Feast of
the Holy Family) and continuing on or near the last
Sunday of every month through Christ the King
Sunday, Nov. 24, 2013, cathedrals and parishes are
encouraged to hold a Eucharistic Holy Hour for Life,
Marriage, and Religious Liberty.
Daily rosary: Families and individuals are encouraged to pray a daily rosary, especially for the preservation of life, marriage and religious liberty in the
nation.
Prayers of the Faithful: At Sunday and daily Masses, it is encouraged that the Prayers of the Faithful
include specific intentions for respect for all human
life from conception to natural death, the strengthening of marriage and family life, and the preservation
of religious liberty at all levels of government, both
at home and abroad.
Abstinence and fasting: Abstinence from meat and
fasting on Fridays are encouraged for the intention
of the protection of life, marriage and religious
liberty, recognizing the importance of spiritual and
bodily sacrifice in the life of the church.
Fortnight for Freedom: The celebration of a second Fortnight for Freedom at the end of June and
the beginning of July 2013 is being planned. This
fortnight would emphasize faith and marriage in a
particular way in the face of the potential Supreme
Court rulings during this time. The fortnight would
also emphasize the need for conscience protection in
light of the Aug. 1, 2013, deadline for religious organizations to comply with the HHS mandate, as well
as religious freedom concerns in other areas, such as
immigration, adoption and humanitarian services.
A website with resources from the USCCB is available at www.usccb.org/life-marriage-liberty.
Surveys split on missal translation
CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
WASHINGTON – Half of respondents to a survey
conducted by the Center for Applied Research in the
Apostolate at Georgetown University agreed that
the new English translation of the Roman missal is
a “good thing.” Twenty percent strongly agreed, 30
percent disagreed and 7 percent strongly disagreed.
Sulpician Father Anthony Pogorelc, a staff member of the Institute for Policy Research and Catholic
Studies at The Catholic University of America, which
commissioned the survey, said the findings were not
surprising. “The (Mass) actions have not changed, the
words are not as big a change to people,” he said.
The survey revealed that the acceptance of the new
language was higher among Catholics who attended
Mass weekly or more often than those who worshipped less often. Worshippers who like the translations said the new wording inspired them to be more
faithful in daily life, helped them feel closer to God
and make it easier to participate in Mass.
Msgr. Richard B. Hilgartner, executive director of
U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Secretariat of Divine Worship, said the findings in the CARA study reflected the “positive feedback” his office had received
in the year since the translations have been used.
Msgr. Hilgartner acknowledged that he and bishops
across the country have heard complaints about the
translations, but that they have been in the minority.
Some priests, he said, have struggled with the new
language found in the Mass prayers. Some worshippers, he added, have told him the new language is too
formal and hinders their worship.
As the CARA survey showed, not all Catholics like
the translations.
U.S. Catholic, a monthly magazine published by the
Claretians, took a nonscientific survey of its readers,
and their responses show both Catholics in the pews
and clergy expressing dismay with the new wording.
Two-thirds of respondents said they dislike or “don’t
particularly like” the new translation. In contrast, 17
percent of respondents said they enjoyed the translation; 6 percent said they were unsure.
Among priests, 58 percent dislike the translation
and another 17 percent “don’t particularly like” the
new wording. Four percent of priests said they were
unsure of voicing the new prayers but that they have
since become accustomed to them.
Scott Alessi, U.S. Catholic’s managing editor, said
the responses from clergy surprised the magazine’s
staff. “It was a lot more overwhelmingly negative and
critical than we thought,” he said.
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Center fights for farmworker dignity
J.D. LONG-GARCIA
SAN LUIS, Ariz. – Farmworkers line
up on the Mexican side of the border
at 1 a.m. They wait a couple of hours
before getting into the field for a day’s
work.
The work itself can be backbreaking.
Farmworkers spend the first few hours
under high-powered lighting, harvesting lettuce and other vegetables, which
require constant bending and squatting.
“The fields, that’s the toughest work,”
said Demitrio Jimenez, a farmworker
who gathered with about a hundred
others for a Dec. 1 Farmworker Appreciation Mass celebrated by Tucson
Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas in San Luis.
Farmworkers get $9 an hour in the
United States. They get $9 a day in
Mexico.
“I can’t complain,” Jimenez said.
“That’s how my family eats. I just wish
they treated us with more respect.”
That’s where the Independent Agricultural Workers Center comes in.
The center – or CITA as it’s known by
the acronym of its name in Spanish,
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Agricolas – matches farmworkers from
Mexico with legal, temporary agricultural jobs in the United States.
The center helps farmworkers and
growers navigate the often-unwieldy
federal H-2A guest worker visa. Growers, in turn, agree to provide fair working conditions.
“It’s hard here, really hard,” said
Agustin Flores, explaining that he
wouldn’t think of subjecting his family
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Farmworkers weed a lettuce field Dec. 1 just outside Yuma, Ariz. The Independent Agricultural
Workers Center, funded by the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, is facilitating guest worker visas
from southern Arizona. Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas of Tucson celebrated Mass that day in honor
of farmworkers near the U.S.-Mexico border.
to these conditions. His wife and children live in Guanajuato, Mexico.
When their day is through, farmworkers return to Mexico to rest. They
get up in the middle of the night to
wait in line again.
“I couldn’t afford to live here,” Flores
said of the United States. “There isn’t
enough money to survive. Most of us
return every day.”
Aurelia Navarro’s father brought
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Dec. 1 Mass. “God gave us fruits and
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responsibilities.”
The program also benefits growers.
Georgia lost millions of dollars in
crops last year because the state didn’t
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dedication. The Howard G. Buffett
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Buffett, an Illinois farmer who is the
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immigration needs to be understood in
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“There is no American that I know
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thanks for your work, which brings
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The bishop also led a prayer at the
opening of the Independent Agricultural Workers Center’s new office
building, through which the program
will expand its reach. The plan is to
recruit at least 7,000 workers for jobs,
as needed.
He is chairman of the board of
Catholic Relief Services, U.S. bishops’
overseas relief and development agency, which is a supporter of the center.
The center began in 2007 as a program funded by the bishops’ Catholic
Campaign for Human Development,
according to Joanne Welter, director of
the Office of Human Life and Dignity
for the Diocese of Tucson.
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I just wish they treated us
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Archbishop Hurley reflects on aging’s trials, blessings
JOEL DAVIDSON
THE CATHOLIC ANCHOR
Since retiring in 2001, after 25 years
as head of the Archdiocese of Anchorage, Archbishop Emeritus Francis
Hurley has spent countless hours visiting the sick, burying the dead (including many old friends) and comforting
families who have lost their loved ones.
Archbishop Hurley, born in San
Francisco in 1927 and ordained as a
priest of the Archdiocese of San Francisco in 1951, knows how to be with
those who are suffering. Over the past
two years, however, the now-85-yearold prelate has experienced his own
physical struggles — heart surgery,
several bad falls, broken bones and
months of rehabilitation.
“I know what it’s like to minister
to those who are sick, but lately I’ve
gotten to experience it as someone who
is sick and needs help,” he said in an
interview at his Anchorage home.
Long known for a tireless work ethic
and razor sharp wit, Archbishop Hurley’s recent physical struggles reached
a head in 2010 when he required
surgery to replace a defective heart
valve. Then last March he suffered a
fall in the San Francisco International
Airport. After completing two weeks
of physical therapy, he fell again and
fractured a shoulder, which required
additional therapy before he could
return to Anchorage in July.
“In the course of all that, I resorted
to my prayers,” Archbishop Hurley
said in an interview in October. But
those prayers, he noticed, took on a
different tone.
Confined to a non-Catholic rehabilita-
Despite his challenges, Archbishop Hurley expressed
gratitude for being forced to experience a
bare-bones faith: ‘It gave me an appreciation of
what it means to have a conversation with God.’
tion center in San Francisco, he had no
prayer books, no journals and no rosary.
“I was just stuck there,” Archbishop
Hurley said. “At first I wondered what
is this going to mean? I’m great for
reading what the spiritual directors
have to say and the theologians and
looking for notes of inspiration but I
had none of that.”
With a broken shoulder, he could not
celebrate Mass either.
“So I thought, ‘Well I’ll see what
that’s like,’ because we have a lot of
people in Alaska out in the bush who
live like that all the time,” Archbishop
Hurley said. “Only occasionally do
they have a priest come for anything.”
For the Irish-American prelate,
his stay at the rehabilitation center
marked the first time he remembers
not being able to attend Sunday Mass.
Instead, like many remote Alaskans,
as well as those who are homebound
due to age or illness, Archbishop Hurley experienced a Communion service
in the absence of a priest with volunteers from a local parish bringing him
the sacrament.
These services brought to mind the
elderly and homebound Catholics
across Alaska who are physically cut
off from the celebration of the Mass
and the larger parish life, Archbishop
Hurley said.
“We have a lot of them around,” he
noted. “Many of the parishes have
regular visitations and they take Communion out to the people but there are
a lot of people in small nursing homes
— many more around than we think.”
Despite his challenges, Archbishop
Hurley expressed gratitude for being
forced to experience a bare-bones
faith.
“It gave me an appreciation of what
it means to have a conversation with
God,” he said. “That’s what I turned
my attention to. You don’t have to have
a book or a light to read by when you
turn to God.”
He said the experience reinforced to
him the blessing of fostering a personal relationship with God, especially as
one grows older.
“When you have nothing else to look
at and no one to talk to or anything
else, God is the only one who’s left,”
he said. “The prayer life then takes on
a whole new dimension. It shows that
we can have a conversation with God.
And don’t worry about what way it
goes. It doesn’t make any difference.”
On the inescapable reality of growing older, Archbishop Hurley said it is
not something to fear.
“I am the last of my family,” he said.
“As my grandnephew said, ‘I am the
caboose.’ Everyone else has died.”
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Archbishop Hurley said he is grateful for the many Alaskans who offered
prayers and cards throughout his
recovery.
During that time, though, he
found himself returning to an often
overlooked teaching in the Catholic
Church, about the nature of suffering.
“A saying came back to me, that my
mother always used to say to us kids
when we were upset about something,” he said. “She’d say, ‘Offer it up
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purpose and the faithful can offer
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“A woman I know back East found
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her husband called and asked me to
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UND pastoral plan for gay students affirms church teaching
SOUTH BEND, Ind. – The University of Notre
Dame released a pastoral plan “grounded in the
Catholic mission” of the university that will expand support and services for students “who identify” as gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender and
those “questioning” their own sexual orientation.
The plan, released Dec. 5, is titled “Beloved
Friends and Allies: A Pastoral Plan for the Support
and Holistic Development of GLBTQ and Heterosexual Students at the University of Notre Dame.”
Following a five-month review, Holy Cross Father
John I. Jenkins, Notre Dame president, accepted
the recommendations from the university’s Office
of Student Affairs.
The plan calls for Notre Dame to establish a
“new support and service student organization for
GLBTQ students and their allies,” as well as a new
advisory committee and to create a full-time student development staff position focused on issues
of concern to these students.
“I appreciate the careful and thoughtful work
of this review that considered both the needs of
our students and the teachings of the Catholic
Church,” Father Jenkins said in a statement.
The plan reiterates Catholic teaching on homosexuality.
Quoting the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’
2006 document, “Ministry to Persons with a Homosexual Orientation: Guidelines for Pastoral Care,”
it says the university “endorses the emphatic
pastoral teachings ... that all people are created in
the image and likeness of God and thus possess an
innate human dignity that must be acknowledged
and respected.”
“At the same time, the university also adheres
to the church’s teaching concerning homosexual
actions, that ‘homosexual persons are called to
chastity’ and to ‘friendship,’ and should cultivate
‘the virtues of self-mastery that teach them inner
freedom,’” it continues. “Indeed, each and every
student at Notre Dame is called to nothing less. All
Notre Dame students are urged to understand and
live the teachings of the church relative to their
lives and expressions of sexual intimacy.”
As the church teaches, sex outside of marriage
“is essentially contrary to its purpose,” the plan
says.
Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades of Fort
Wayne-South Bend said the plan
affirms that ‘sexuality is ordered to the
conjugal love of man and woman’ and
that the fulfillment and proper context of
human sexual love is to be found in
the marital covenant.’
(CNS PHOTO/MATT CASHORE, COURTESY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME)
Students walk on the campus of the University of Notre Dame
in this 2007 file photo. A new pastoral plan at the Catholic university in Indiana expands support services for gay, lesbian,
transgender and bisexual students, and creates a recognized
organization for these students.
Since the 1990s, Notre Dame has had a student
standing committee, most recently called the Core
Council, to advise the vice president for student affairs on issues with regard to gay, lesbian, bisexual,
transgender and “questioning” students.
In an interview with The Observer, the campus
newspaper, Father Jenkins said Notre Dame has
“made real progress” over the years serving these
students, but he asked Erin Hoffmann Harding, the
current student affairs vice president, and her office to conduct a comprehensive review of “everything we do, all the support structures, and find out
how we can do things better.”
Harding said the review had three main elements.
“The first one was consultation with church
teaching,” she told The Observer. “The parameter
for this solution needed to serve our students well
but be grounded fundamentally in our Catholic
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Secondly, there were “extensive conversations”
with undergraduate and graduate students, she
said, and the third element was a look at “the
breadth of structures” other Catholic institutions
have in place.
Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades of Fort Wayne-South
Bend said that Notre Dame in its pastoral plan
“clearly affirms its fidelity to Catholic Church
teaching on human sexuality by affirming that
‘sexuality is ordered to the conjugal love of man
and woman’ and that the fulfillment and proper
context of human sexual love is to be found in the
marital covenant.”
It also affirms that “men and women who have
homosexual tendencies ‘must be accepted with
respect, compassion and sensitivity,’” he said in a
Dec. 6 statement.
Bishop Rhoades called it “vitally important” the
plan’s foundations and Notre Dame’s fidelity to
Catholic teaching “inform and guide” the plan’s
implementation, including the new student organization’s “vision, programs and activities.”
“It is my hope and prayer that the rich Catholic
teaching on sexuality, teaching that serves the true
good and happiness of the human person,” he said,
“will be embraced by the students and all involved”
in carrying out the pastoral plan.
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Being ‘neutral’ toward religion hurts
religious freedom, says cardinal
VATICAN CITY – Most modern democracies have
ended up hurting religious freedom in their effort to
be “neutral” toward their citizens’
diverse beliefs, said Cardinal Angelo Scola.
Under the guise of “objectivity”
and respecting diversity, many
governments are really upholding
a culture devoid of God and hostile
to the church’s place in the public
square, he said.
The cardinal-archbishop of Milan, Cardinal Angelo
Scola
a prominent theologian, made his
comments Dec. 6 during a prayer
service on the eve of the feast of St. Ambrose, a
fourth-century doctor of the church and patron saint
of the city. The Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore
Romano, published a large part of the speech.
Religious freedom was born with the Edict of
Milan, Cardinal Scola said. The edict, whose 1,700th
anniversary will be marked next year, was a proclamation of tolerance of Christianity throughout the
Roman Empire. He said it introduced the ideas of
“religious liberty and secularity of the state,” which
are “two critical aspects of the good organization of
the political realm.”
St. Ambrose called on Christians to respect civil
authority, which, in turn, had to safeguard the personal and social freedoms of its people so that both
governments and citizens would be cooperating for
the common good, he said.
However, the separation of religion and state
progressively has lost a healthy balance, the cardinal
said, with many democracies questioning, if not outright eliminating, its core “anthropological framework” that recognized the religious dimension.
“The classic problem of the moral assessment
of laws has increasingly turned into a problem of
religious liberty,” he said.
In governments’ attempt to protect everyone’s
religious freedom by being “neutral” or “indifferent”
to religion, a well-intentioned secularity has become
ill-disposed toward religion.
The solution, Cardinal Scola said, is a nondenominational state that has a “renewed” sense of religious liberty. “A good life and good government go
hand in hand,” he said.
BERLIN CHURCH: ‘SPIRITUAL, ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM’
OXFORD, England – Germany’s Berlin archdiocese has announced plans to merge its parishes
into larger “pastoral areas” and pool its institutional resources in the face of falling church
membership. “This isn’t just an administrative
reform – it’s also a spiritual one,” said Stefan
Forner, archdiocesan spokesman.
“The era of a popular folk church is over,
so we’ve had to reshape our structures. It’s no
longer normal for children to be baptized and
for schools to provide religious classes. These
changes have been under way for decades, and
they’ve generally occurred a bit earlier in Berlin,” Forner said.
In a Catholic News Service interview Dec. 6,
Forner said the move had encountered “mixed
reactions” but been necessitated by demographic
changes in the Catholic population.
BISHOPS BLAST POLAND FOR SIGNING PACT
TO FIGHT VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
OXFORD, England – The Polish bishops criticized a government decision to sign an international convention combating violence against
women.
Auxiliary Bishop Wojciech Polak of Gniezno,
secretary-general of the Polish bishops’ conference, told the Polish Catholic information agency,
KAI, the document suggested violence against
women was rooted in “religion, tradition and
culture,” and said the bishops had been assured
by the government in November that their objections would be considered.
The Council of Europe’s 81-article convention,
signed Dec. 4 by government representatives,
criminalizes forced marriages, female genital
mutilation and stalking. It describes violence
against women as “a manifestation of historically
unequal power relations” and commits states to
“promote changes in social and cultural patterns
of behavior” with a view to eradicating it.
The Polish bishops, who in July said the government had consulted “only women with leftist
views,” quoted three sections of the convention
as evidence the document interfered with “values
accepted by millions of Poles.”
Article 3 defines gender as “socially constructed,” which overlooks biological differences and
implies sex can be chosen, the bishops said.
Article 12 commits states to help eradicate
attitudes and practices based on the perceived
inferiority of women or on stereotyped roles.
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Article 14, requiring teaching material “on
issues such as equality between women and men
and non-stereotyped gender roles,” implied “the
promotion of homosexuality and trans-sexuality,”
the bishops said.
UK MOVE TO CHANGE MARRIAGE CALLED ‘SHAMBOLIC’
MANCHESTER, England – Catholic bishops
in England and Wales said they strongly oppose
a bill to redefine marriage to include same-sex
couples.
“It is not too late to stop this bill,” Archbishop
Vincent Nichols of Westminster and Archbishop
Peter Smith of Southwark – the president and
vice president of the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, said in a statement issued Dec.
11, hours after Culture Secretary Maria Miller
revealed the contents of the proposed legislation
in the House of Commons.
“The government has chosen to ignore the
views of over 600,000 people who signed a petition
calling for the current definition of marriage to
stay, and we are told legislation to change the definition of marriage will now come to Parliament,”
the archbishops said.
“The process by which this has happened can
only be described as shambolic,” they said.
FRENCH BISHOPS SAY VOTE TO ALLOW
EMBRYO RESEARCH ‘SHOCKING’
PARIS – The French bishops described as
“shocking” the French Senate’s approval of a law
permitting the use of human embryos for stem
cell research.
“The human embryo has the right to be protected,” and current French law urges “respect
for the human person ‘from the beginning of
its life,’” said Archbishop Pierre D’Ornellas of
Rennes in a statement issued on behalf of the
bishops’ conference.
“The Senate has challenged this respect. This is
shocking,” the archbishop said Dec. 6.
Archbishop D’Ornellas, who represented the
church in the dialogue with government officials
that led to the adoption in 2011 of a national
bioethics law, said the Senate decision to disregard the lives of the embryos, who are destroyed
in the research, is even more shocking when one
considers the general move in science toward
using adult stem cells instead of those from
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Pope’s letter gives bishops strong role in social action
VATICAN CITY – Since its release
Dec. 1, Pope Benedict XVI’s apostolic
letter on the “service of charity” has
provoked widespread
speculation on how
it might affect Catholic charitable agencies in their fundraising, hiring and
selection of projects.
The letter directs
Cardinal Oscar
bishops to strengthMaradiaga
en agencies’ religious identity and ensure that their
activities conform to church teaching, in order to prevent a Catholic
charity from becoming “just another
form of social service.”
According to the cardinal who leads
the church’s largest confederation of
relief, development and social service
agencies, the apostolic letter is also
an important message to him and his
brother bishops.
By legally requiring bishops to
oversee charitable works in their dioceses, the document “implicates the
role of the bishop in social action,”
said Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga of Tegucigalpa, Honduras,
president of Caritas Internationalis.
“Many, many times we have heard
(bishops) saying, ‘Oh, no, my task is
evangelization,’” the cardinal said.
“In some places they thought (charity) was only the work of laypeople.”
In truth, the cardinal said, such
service is incumbent on “every single
baptized person. No one is permitted
to delegate to others what is a duty
of faith. And the duty of faith is to
put your faith in practice through
charity.”
PHILIPPINES: LESSONS FROM 2011 STORM SAVED LIVES
ILIGAN, Philippines – Although
hundreds of people died as Typhoon
Bopha hit the southern Philippines
in early December, church activists
and residents of one storm-affected
region said lessons learned from last
year’s Typhoon Washi saved lives this
time around.
“All of our workshops on disaster
risk reduction really worked. The
people were prepared,” Sister Maria
Famita Somogod, a member of the
Missionary Sisters of Mary, told
Catholic News Service.
Sister Somogod is the Northern
Mindanao coordinator of the Rural
Missionaries of the Philippines. The
national organization of men and
women religious, priests and laypeople supports peasant demands for justice and agrarian reform. In the wake
of Washi, which struck Mindanao
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Pope: Americas need mission spirit, well-formed laity
“The method that speaks strongest of Christ
is love,” he said, so “we should be prepared to let
charity be our measure of the new evangelization.”
CAROL GLATZ
VATICAN CITY – The universal church needs
Catholics in the Americas who are joyful missionaries, well-catechized and faithful to the teachings
of the church, Pope Benedict XVI said.
The only way to solve today’s problems is through
credible and effective Christian witness and charity,
he said, since only actions based on God’s truth and
love can be the “decisive force which will transform
the American continent,” he said.
The pope made his comments during the opening
Mass of a Dec. 9-12 international congress marking
the 15th anniversary of the Synod of Bishops for
America.
The congress, organized by the Pontifical Commission for Latin America and the Knights of
Columbus, was looking at ways Catholics can cooperate more closely to confront today’s challenges in
North, Central and South America.
Increased secularization
The pope said some of the problems the whole
continent must deal with include increased secularization, affronts to human dignity, threats to
the institution of marriage, migration, violence,
the illegal drugs and arms trades, corruption and
inequality and poverty “caused by questionable
economic, political and social” policies.
While the solutions will require careful technical or institutional responses, nothing will ever
be fully resolved without an “encounter with the
living Christ,” he said.
It’s that personal rapport with God that “gives
rise to attitudes and ways of acting based on love
and truth” – the true source and light for real
transformation, he said.
In order to bring that saving message to everyone
in a way that’s effective and credible, Catholics
need to “purify and strengthen” their spiritual
lives by growing closer to God, especially through
the sacraments, the pope said.
“This will be encouraged by a correct and ongoing doctrinal formation marked by complete fidelity to the word of God and the church’s magisterium,” he said.
“A renewed missionary spirit and zealous generosity” will be “an irreplaceable contribution to
Church’s ‘single vision’
(CNS PHOTO/PAUL HARING)
Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted of Phoenix and Archbishop William
E. Lori of Baltimore attend the opening Mass of the International Congress on the Church in America held in St. Peter’s
Basilica at the Vatican Dec. 9.
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the church in America,” he added.
‘Post-Christian’ land
Carl A. Anderson, supreme knight of the Knights
of Columbus, told the congress that the Americas
represent a new “post-Christian” land, in which
people are familiar with Christ and, at the same
time, woefully ignorant of his message.
American countries and cultures “built upon
Christian faith show great failures of charity,
dignity and truth – failures inconsistent with being
disciples of the God who is love,” he said Dec. 10.
Such ignorance not only has facilitated a culture of death throughout the Americas, it has also
“resulted in a mischaracterization of Christ and of
the mission of the church.”
The world is “mortally hungry for the presence
of the living God,” he said, and those who are poor
or hurting must be able to see the “caring face of
Christ in those he has called to follow him.”
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and helping its members to live holy lives that are
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The Catholic Church is especially well-positioned
to offer concrete solutions to communities’ varied
problems, he said, because “no other institution
lays out a single vision” that can transcend cultures and languages. The church’s vision is not a
political vision, he said, but “a vision of humanity
encountering Christ.”
“Diversity is sanctified and purified in its communion in the church by orienting us toward
Christ,” the truth and each other, he added.
Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley of Boston told Catholic
News Service that while language and culture can be
difficult obstacles, “what unites us is so much more.”
Catholics are united by a shared faith, traditions,
the Eucharist and the “new commandment to love
one another,” he said.
New alliances
Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted of Phoenix told CNS
that the church has also found unlikely partners
in the evangelical communities in its fight against
secularism and threats to life.
Post-Vatican II ecumenical partners, such as
the Anglicans, “have slipped away from the basic
teaching about Jesus Christ, the human person and
marriage, which has made dialogue and cooperation with them much more difficult,” he said.
Newer dialogue partners, such as the Orthodox
Church and Mormons, and even communities that
were once anti-Catholic, such as the Baptists, not
only share many of the same values concerning the
sanctity of life and marriage, but are eagerly seeking active partnerships with the Catholic Church to
protect such values and religious freedom.
Bishop Olmsted said the church can better evangelize by looking at legitimate strategies employed by
evangelical movements. While proselytism must be
avoided because it doesn’t fully respect the human
person nor present the truth in its fullness, “we can
still learn a lot” from sects and other movements.
“Sects also see people that have leadership abilities and train them to go back to their peers and
influence them, which is exactly what we need to
do as well,” he added.
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CHRISTMAS 13
North Pole Catholics worship in town filled with Christmas kitsch
EFFIE CALDAROLA
THE CATHOLIC ANCHOR
The much bemoaned commercialization of Christmas reaches a whole new level in North Pole, Alaska
— a town that celebrates Santa 365 days a year.
The giant candy cane street lights are a permanent
feature in this northern town, where Santa is available for pictures in July. In fact the town’s economy
revolves around the selling of Christmas year-round.
Amid this tourism spectacle, Father Robert Fath
and parishioners at St. Nicholas Catholic Church
in North Pole try to focus on the season of Advent
and the true meaning of the Incarnation.
Following the historic traditions of the church,
Christians are meant to spend Advent “in anxious
anticipation” of both Christ’s incarnation into the
world at Bethlehem, and his return at the end of
time, Father Fath told the Catholic Anchor.
This focus can prove challenging in a town where
emphasis on Santa and toys continues through the
penitential season of Advent.
Sometimes it gets to Father Fath.
“I do tend to rail against Santa Claus,” he said, “particularly the 50-foot monstrosity down the street.”
He refers to a 50-foot permanent statue of Santa
in town. Father Fath jokes that someday he’s going
to build a 51-foot statue of the real St. Nicholas
St. Mary Star of the Sea
180 Harrison Avenue, Sausalito
www.starofthesea.us
(PHOTO COURTESY THE CATHOLIC ANCHOR)
A 50-foot tall image of Santa Claus stands outside the Santa
Claus House in North Pole, Alaska.
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Christmas Service Schedule
Christmas Eve, Monday December 24, 2012:
5920 GEARY BLVD., SAN FRANCISCO
7:30 a.m. and 9:30 a.m. Masses
New Year’s Eve, Monday December 31, 2012:
4:00 p.m. Mass Only
New Year’s Day, Tuesday January 1, 2013:
Solemnity of Mary, The Mother of God
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Monday Dec. 24th - 2pm Vespers and
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Tuesday Dec. 25th - Christmas Day
Divine Liturgy - 10am
Christmas Day, Tuesday December 25, 2012:
Mater Dolorosa
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Tuesday, December 25th:
10:00 AM: English Mass
NO 11:45 ARABIC MASS
4:00 PM: Brazilian Mass
8:00 PM: English Mass
Tuesday, December 31:
New Year’s Eve Party: 8:00 PM to Midnight
Sunday, January 6: Feast of the Epiphany, usual
Sunday Mass; with Filipino Mass @ 5:30 PM
Christmas at
Mater Dolorosa Church
Simbang Gabi Masses
December 15th through December 23rd at 7 p.m.
(Except December 15th and December 22nd,
Mass at 5:00 p.m.)
December 15th - Children's Advent Celebration
December 23rd - Pot Luck Dinner
Christmas Masses
Mass Schedule For Christmas and New Year
Confessions
Monday, December 24, 2012
10:30 am to 12:00 pm and 3:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Christmas Masses
6:00 pm Bi-lingual Children’s Mass
Followed by Pastorela
Midnight Bi-lingual Mass
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
7:30 am English 9:30 am Spanish
11:30 am English 1:30 pm Spanish
New Year Masses
7:30 am English 9:30 am Spanish
11:30 am English 1:30 pm Spanish
Christmas Schedule 2012
Saturday, December 24th, Monday:
Vigil Masses
8:30 AM: Usual schedule Monday morning
Mass
6:00 PM: Parish Mass with Christmas Play
9:00 PM: Arabic Mass
12:00 AM Midnight: Mass with Christmas Carols
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December 19, Wednesday:
Confessions at 6:30 PM (& during the Novena)
December 15, Saturday: Annual Christmas
Party in Carroll Hall, 7:00 PM
December 15-24: International Christmas
Novena (Simbang Gabi), 7:00 PM
December 21, Friday: Third Friday: Adoration of
the Blessed Sacrament after the Novena
December 16, Sunday: Annual Cable Car Caroling,
2 PM (Distribution of Holy Communion to the homebound and singing Christmas carols)
SEE NORTH POLE, ALASKA, PAGE 14
St. Francis of Assisi Church
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8:30 p.m. Carols ★ 9:00 p.m. Mass
of Myra, a fourth-century bishop whose legend
inspired the modern-day Santa.
In North Pole, there is also the Santa Claus
House, a year-round Santa available for photos, live
reindeer on display, and streets with permanent
names like Snowman Lane, Kris Kringle, Mistletoe,
and Holiday Road.
How did all of this come about, since the town
of North Pole is actually 1,700 miles from the real
North Pole?
Like many Alaska towns North Pole is relatively
young. According to the city’s website, the first settlers arrived near mile 15 of the Richardson Highway
in 1944 and staked their claim. By 1952, others had
joined them with the promise of electrical power.
What to call this new town? Someone came up
with the idea of “North Pole” thinking it might
attract toy manufacturers with the lure of a “made
in North Pole” logo. Although that idea didn’t pan
out, the notion that a Disney-like Santa town might
spring up did.
Today, tourists flock to North Pole, and letters by
the thousands arrive for Santa from all over the
world. When a Catholic parish was established in
1975, it was natural that it be named St. Nicholas.
Lisa Sagers is the parish youth worker. Unlike
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CHRISTMAS LITURGY
SCHEDULE 2012
DEC.15-23, 2012
SIMBANG GABI ADVENT MASSES
All Masses at 6:30 p.m.
Except Dec.15th& 22nd at 5:00 p.m.
SATURDAY, DEC. 22, 2012
CONFESSIONS
3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
MONDAY, DEC. 24, 2012
CHRISTMAS EVE MASSES
Christmas Eve, December 24
5:00 p.m. Annual Children's Pageant
9:15 p.m. Christmas Caroling (Hallelujah Chorale)
10:00 p.m. (Midnight Mass)
Christmas Day, December 25th
8:00 a.m., 10:00 a.m., 12 noon
6:45, 8:00, 9:30, 11:00 a.m. & 12:30 p.m.
New Year's Eve, December 31st
MONDAY, DEC. 31, 2012
4:00 p.m. (Children’s Mass) & 9:00 p.m.
(8:15 p.m. – Christmas Caroling)
TUESDAY, DEC. 25, 2012
CHRISTMAS DAY
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8:30 a.m.
New Year's Day, Tuesday, January 1st
TUESDAY, JAN. 1, 2013
NEW YEAR’S DAY
Holy Day of Obligation
Mary, Mother of God
8:00 a.m., 10:00 a.m. & 12:00 p.m.
(A Holyday of Obligation)
8:30 a.m. & 6:30 p.m.
14 CHRISTMAS
NORTH POLE, ALASKA: Christmas kitsch, St. Nick Parish coexist
(PHOTOS COURTESY SANTA CLAUS HOUSE)
Christmas is celebrated every day of the year at the Santa Claus House in North Pole, Alaska, pictured today and as it looked in the 1960s. The town was created when someone came up with the idea
of “North Pole” thinking it might attract toy manufacturers with the lure of a “made in North Pole” logo. Although that idea didn’t pan out, the notion that a Disney-like Santa town might spring up did.
FROM PAGE 13
Father Fath, who is a lifelong Alaskan, Sagers came to the Christmas
capital of the world from Los Angeles
10 years ago.
When she phones colleagues in the
lower 48 and identifies herself as being from St. Nicholas in North Pole,
she laughs when people say, “You’re
kidding, right?”
She finds some aspects of her
adopted home “quaint” and marvels
at the fact that a local man legally
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Dec 31, 2012
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Dec 25, 2012
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January 1, 2013
New Year’s Day
Solemnity of Mary,
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7:30 & 9:30 a.m. Morning Masses
changed his name to Kris Kringle.
But she admires the way Father
Fath manages to make Christmas special in a town that sometimes grows
weary of the spectacle.
“Father Robert has been amazing.
His family had so many rich traditions and he’s able to share these with
our youth,” Sagers said. “At St. Nicholas, we understand when the tree and
the lights should go up.”
Father Fath has a very young parish
with 500 youth under age 18. He enjoys
telling them stories about the real St.
Nicholas, while emphasizing that we
“anticipate the gift of Christ, not toys.”
Father Fath makes sure the children know the history of the famous
saint — a man who never lived in the
North Pole.
“I like to emphasize that St. Nicholas was really from Turkey,” Father
Fath said.
On the Sunday nearest the Dec.
6 Feast of St. Nicholas, children in
faith formation classes put their
shoes outside their classroom doors
to be filled with candy. But even this
is part of an older European custom
celebrating St. Nicholas. Not Santa.
Father Fath then celebrates Mass
and speaks of the real man, instead of
the one smothered in cultural kitsch.
The Catholic Anchor is the newspaper of
the Anchorage, Alaska, archdiocese.
The National Shrine of
Saint Francis of Assisi
The Heart of San Francisco
Columbus and Vallejo
Christmas Eve: 9 p.m. Mass
Christmas Day: 10 a.m. Mass
New Year’s Eve: 11pm Mass
Midnight Blessing of the City of San Francisco
With the Relic of St. Francis of Assisi
ADVENT 2012
Family Christmas Pageant, Sunday, December 16, 3:30 p.m., Church Nave
Annual Christmas Concert, Monday, December 17, 7:30 p.m.,
Church Nave, St. Dominic’s Solemn Mass Choir with strings and harp
Advent Twilight Retreat, Tuesday, December 18, 7:30 p.m.,
Lady Chapel (Preparation for Confession)
Confessions, Wednesday, December 19,
12:00 Noon – 1:00 p.m. & 7:30 – 9:00 p.m., Church Nave
CHRISTMAS 2012
610 Vallejo Street, San Francisco
415.986.4557
info@shrinesf.org • www.shrinesf.org
Christmas at Saint Cecilia
Seventeenth Avenue and Vicente Street
The Parkside District in San Francisco
Christmas Eve, Monday, December 24
Advent Masses: 6:30 a.m. & 8:00 a.m.
LIVE BROADCAST: WWW.STCECILIA.COM
Christmas Eve Vigil Masses:
4:00 p.m. (Mass for Families with Toddlers)
6:00 p.m. (Mass for Families with Children)
11:15 p.m. Carol service followed by Solemn Mass at Midnight
No confessions today
Christmas Day, Tuesday, December 25
Masses at 7:30 a.m. (Quiet Mass with Carols)
9:30 a.m. (Parish Mass with Carols)
11:30 a.m. (Solemn Mass with Choral Music); 1:30 p.m. (en español)
No confessions today and no Masses at 5:30 p.m. or 9:00 p.m.
Solemnity of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary & Joseph, Sunday, December 30
Masses at 7:30 a.m., 9:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 1:30 p.m., 5:30 p.m. & 9:00 p.m.
Vigil Mass on Saturday, December 29, 5:30 p.m.
Solemnity of Mary the Holy Mother of God, Tuesday, January 1, 2013
(A Holy Day of Obligation) Masses at 9:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.
Vigil Mass on Monday, December 31, 5:30 p.m.
5:00 p.m. - Msgr. Michael Harriman
7:00 p.m. - Fr. Felix Lim with our Children’s Choir
11:15 p.m. - Singing of Carols
Midnight Mass - Msgr. Michael Harriman
with our Adult Choir and Orchestra
CHRISTMAS DAY MASSES
7:30 a.m. - Fr. Felix Lim
with instrumental by Christopher and Matthew Jereza
9:30 a.m. - Msgr. Michael Harriman
with Holy Spirit Music Ministry
11:30 a.m. - Fr. Felix Lim with Adult Choir and Orchestra
CHRISTMAS 15
Inspirational Advent books
WASHINGTON – Here is a selection
of recent releases that might be suitable for your spiritual reading during
Advent and the Christmas season:
– “Exploring Advent With Luke:
Four Questions for Spiritual Growth”
by Timothy Clayton. Ave Maria Press
(Notre Dame, Ind., 2012). 149 pp., $13.95.
– “A Catholic Family Advent: Prayers
and Activities” by Susan Hines-Brigger. Franciscan Media (Cincinnati,
2012). 50 pp., $7.99.
– “Advent and Christmas Wisdom
from St. Vincent de Paul” by John
E. Rybolt, CM. Liguori Publications
(Liguori, Mo., 2012). 128 pp., $10.99.
– “Preparing for Christmas: Daily
Meditations for Advent” by Richard
Rohr. Franciscan Media (Cincinnati,
2012). 93 pp., $8.99.
– “Catholic Spiritual Practices: A
Treasury of Old & New,” edited by
Colleen M. Griffith and Thomas H.
Groome. Paraclete Press (Orleans,
Mass., 2012). 166 pp., $18.95.
– “The Saint Who Would Be Santa
Claus: The True Life and Trials of
Nicholas of Myra” by Adam C. English. Baylor University Press (Waco,
Texas, 2012). 230 pp., $24.95.
– “Italian Christmas Eve: The Feast
of Seven Fishes: A Reminiscence with
Recipes” by Linda and Rocco Maniscalco. StataBuon.com (2010). 77 pp.,
$12.95.
– “The Christmas Plains” by Joseph
Bottum. Image Books (New York, 2012).
212 pp., $14.99.
– “Holy Days: Meditations on the
Feasts, Fasts and Other Solemnities
of the Church” by Pope Benedict XVI.
Wm. B. Eerdmans (Grand Rapids,
Mich., 2012). 94 pp., $12.
– “A Mary Christmas” by Kathleen
M. Carroll. Franciscan Media (Cincinnati, 2012). 94 pp., $12.99.
– “Holy Family Prayer Book: Prayers
for Every Family” by Missionaries of
the Holy Family. Liguori Publications
(Liguori, Mo., 2012). 111 pp., $8.99.
– “O Radiant Dawn: 5-Minute
Prayers Around the Advent Wreath”
by Lisa M. Hendey. Ave Maria Press
(Notre Dame, Ind., 2012). 32 pp., $1.25.
SEASONAL TV PROGRAM NOTES/FILM FARE
SUNDAY, DEC. 16, 1-3 P.M. EDT
(LIFETIME) “THE PERFECT HOLIDAY” (2007). Amiable romantic comedy, narrated by “Mrs. Christmas” (Queen
Latifah), in which a divorced mother of
three (Gabrielle Union) must cope with
the machinations of her egotistical rap
star ex-husband (Charles Q. Murphy)
and the resistance of her 10-year-old
son (Malik Hammond). She gradually
falls, with the help of her daughter (Khail
Bryant), for a songwriter and shoppingmall Santa (Morris Chestnut) who’s posing as an office supply salesman.
SUNDAY, DEC. 16, 8-9 P.M. EST
(PBS) “CHRISTMAS WITH THE
MORMON TABERNACLE CHOIR
FEATURING JANE SEYMOUR AND
NATHAN GUNN.” Actress Jane Seymour and baritone Nathan Gunn join the
Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra for a Christmas special featuring
some of the season’s best-loved songs.
SUNDAY, DEC. 16, 9:30-11 P.M. EST
(TCM) “A CHRISTMAS CAROL”
(1951). This British version of the
Dickens’ classic has worn well over the
years principally because of Alistair Sim’s
zestful performance as Scrooge, the old
humbug whose transformation into a loving human being is a pleasure to behold.
THURSDAY, DEC. 20, 8-9 P.M.
EST (ABC) “I WANT A DOG FOR
CHRISTMAS, CHARLIE BROWN!”
Animated special centering on Rerun,
the lovable but ever-skeptical younger
brother of Linus and Lucy, and Snoopy’s
canine brother, Spike.
SATURDAY, DEC. 22, 10-11 A.M.
EST (EWTN) “SAN JUAN CHILDREN’S CHOIR PRESENTS: SIEMPRE NAVIDAD.” The joyful spirit of
Christmas in Puerto Rico is captured
in this performance by the island’s San
Juan Children’s Choir.
SATURDAY, DEC. 22, 8-9:30 P.M.
EST (EWTN) “A TIME TO REMEMBER.” Holiday-themed presentation
that tells the story of a young boy who
develops his gift of song with the help of
a beloved priest – a journey that requires
faith, perseverance and a Christmas
miracle.
CATHEDRAL
OF
ST. MARY
OF THE
ASSUMPTION
1111 Gough St., San Francisco • Tel: (415) 567-2020
www.stmarycathedralsf.org
CHRISTMAS SCHEDULE 2012
LAS POSADAS ~ SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2012
Mexican/Latin American tradition reenacting
Mary and Joseph’s journey to Bethlehem and their search
for lodging before Jesus’ birth
6:00PM-9:00 PM, St. Francis Hall
CHRISTMAS EVE ~ MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2012
Regular Daily Mass Schedule
6:45 AM, 8:00 AM and 12:10 PM
5:00 PM Caroling - Cathedral Choirs of Boys and Girls and
St. Brigid’s School Honor Choir
5:30 PM – Christmas Vigil Mass
11:30 PM – Caroling with the Cathedral Choir
12:00 AM-Midnight Mass
Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, Principal Celebrant
CHRISTMAS DAY ~ TUESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 2012
9:00 AM — Gregorian Chant Mass with Schola Cantorum
Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, Principal Celebrant
11:00 AM – Solemn Mass with Cathedral Choir
1:00 PM – Misa en Español con el Coro Hispano
VIGIL OF THE SOLEMNITY OF
THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY, MOTHER OF GOD
MONDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2012
6:45 AM, 8:00 AM and 12:10 PM
5:30 PM Vigil Mass
THE SOLEMNITY OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY,
MOTHER OF GOD
TUESDAY, JANUARY 1, 2013
6:45 AM, 8:00 AM and 12:10 PM
THE SOLEMNITY OF THE EPIPHANY OF THE LORD
SUNDAY, JANUARY 6, 2013
Saturday, January 5 – Vigil – 5:30 PM
Sunday, 7:30 AM, 9 AM, 11 AM and 1 PM (Español)
3:30 PM – Celebration of Lessons and Carols with the
Cathedral Choir of Boys and Girls, St. Brigid School Honor Choir and
Golden Gate Boys Choir Bellringers
16 CHRISTMAS
Celebration, service
around the archdiocese
1
2
PARTNERS: The Society of St.
Vincent de Paul of San Mateo County
teamed up with the San Mateo Elks
Lodge who donated more than 1,400
items for the SVdP Homeless Help Center.
Pictured from left are Elks Mike McQueen,
Pete Cerri, Roger Cutler, John Swan.
1
SHOUTING FOR MARY: St. Bruno
Parish celebrates the solemnity of Our
Lady of the Immaculate Conception with
a Nicaraguan tradition called la Purisima
Griteria, which roughly translates to “the
shouting” of the Immaculate Conception. After Mass Dec. 8, the parish gathered in the church hall for singing, dancing and shouting – which is great fun
for the children, said Cristina Ugaitafa,
youth minister and parish secretary.
2
3
HELPING HANDS: Eighth graders
from San Francisco’s St. Mary’s School
served Thanksgiving dinner to more than
1,400 seniors and families at Self Help for
the Elderly’s Lady Shaw Center. Pictured
from left are St. Mary’s helpers Brandon
Khuu, Hunter Chinn, Lisa Huang, Kelly
Liu, Justin Guo, Jalyn Lee, Cynthia Leung.
3
4
CHECKING IT TWICE: Erin Coy’s
fifth grade class at Sts. Peter and
Paul School, San Francisco, helps get
out the parish’s Christmas mailing.
4
Saint Robert’s Church
St. Augustine Church
1380 Crystal Springs Road
San Bruno, CA 94066
(650) 589-2800
Christmas Eve
Monday, December 24th
4:30 pm Children’s Mass
8:00 pm and Midnight Mass
3700 Callan Blvd.
S. San Francisco, CA 94080
CHRISTMAS 2012
Novena of masses (Simbang Gabi) December 15-23 – 7:30 P.M.
Christmas Day
Christmas Vigil: Monday, December 24
Tuesday, December 25th
7:30 am, 9:30 am, &
11:30 am.
No 4:30 pm Mass
4:30 P.M. Vigil Mass 7:30 P.M. Children’s Caroling
8 P.M. Children’s Mass 11:00 P.M. Caroling
12 A.M. Midnight Mass (Church & Hall)
Christmas Day: December 25
7:45 A.M., 9:30 A.M., 11 A.M., 12:30 P.M.
There is no 5:30 P.M. Mass on Christmas Day.
New Year’s Day (Holy Day of Obligation)
Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God
9:30 am
Our Lady of Mercy Parish
5 Elmwood Drive, Daly City
Between South Mayfair ad South Avenues
with plenty of free parking!
Christmas Season Schedule
New Year’s Day 2013
Schedule of Masses: 8:40 A.M. – 5:30 P.M.
St. Philip the Apostle Church
725 Diamond Street @ 24th Street
415-282-0141
Christmas Eve - Monday, December 24, 2012
Vigil of Christmas
Simbang Gabi/Novena of Masses before Christmas
Dec. 15 - 23, at 7:30pm
- 7:00 pm confessions
Except Saturdays, Dec. 15 and 22
- at 5:30pm
Dec, 24 (Christmas Eve)
- 4pm
- 5:30pm
- Midnight Mass
Dec. 25 (Christmas Day)
- 7:30am
- 9:00am
- 10:30am
- 12:00pm
Dec. 31 (New Year’s Eve)
- 6pm
Jan. 1, 2013
New Year’s Day
- 9:00am
- 6:00pm
Saint Emydius Church
CHRISTMAS SERVICES
Children’s/Family Mass:
Christmas Carols:
Evening Mass:
5:00 p.m.
9:30 p.m.
10:00 p.m.
Christmas Day - Tuesday December 25 2012
Mass of the Lord’s Nativity
Mass: 9:30 a.m.
Traditional Christmas Music at
all Masses. Join us, for the
Nativity Celebration of
our Lord.
January 1, 2013
Tuesday
Solemnity of Mary
9:30 a.m.
Celebrate the
Christmas Season
in the heart of Noe
Valley!
286 Ashton Avenue
(415) 587-7066 Fax (415) 587-6690
Advent / Christmas / Epiphany Seasons
Parish Celebrations 2012 – 2013
Sunday, December 23
Fourth Sunday of Advent – 8:30 am, 10:30 am
Monday, December 24
Christmas Vigil Mass – 8:00 pm
Tuesday, December 25
Christmas Midnight Mass – 12:00 midnight
Christmas Morning Mass – 10:00 am
Sunday, December 30
Feast of the Holy Family – 8:30 am, 10:30 am
Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God
10:00 am
Sunday, January 6, 2013
Solemnity of the Epiphany – 8:30 am, 10:30 am
Saturday, January 12, 2013
Anointing of the Sick Mass (no 8:00 am Mass)
10:00 am
CHRISTMAS 17
Celebration, service
around the archdiocese
1
GOOD WORK AND WORKERS: Members
of St. Timothy Parish’s Youth Expressing Spirit
group collected Thanksgiving food and donations
for 50 families. For Christmas, they are making
baskets to be given out by the Society of St. Vincent de Paul.
1
2
SAINT OF LIGHT: Notre Dame des Victoires
School kindergarteners celebrated St. Lucy’s
feast as a festival of light Dec. 9. In the Catholic
Church, the feast of St. Lucy, a virgin martyr from
the early days of the Roman persecution, is Dec.
13. Lucy means light and she is the patron saint of
the blind. St. Lucy is one of only a handful of saints
honored by Lutherans, Orthodox and Catholics.
3
2
‘FAITH EVERY DAY’: A student at All Souls
Preschool, South San Francisco, concentrates
on getting the glue out as she creates her Christmas wreath, made from tissue paper and a paper
plate. The students prepare for Advent as part of
learning their Catholic faith, said preschool teacher
Marci Elmore, adding, “We need faith every day.”
All Souls School opened the preschool in November and is still accepting new students.
3
(PHOTO BY VALERIE SCHMALZ/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)
4
HO, HO, HO: St. Nicholas’ feast day was
celebrated at Immaculate Heart of Mary School,
Belmont, Dec. 6. First graders left their shoes out
for the jolly old elf and he left each a bag of goodies. The bearded visitor is pictured with IHM pastor
Father Stephen Howell and preschooler Katherine
O’Connor.
4
(PHOTO COURTESY NOTRE DAME DES VICTOIRES SCHOOL)
CHRISTMAS SCHEDULE
ST. MATTHEW
CATHOLIC CHURCH
1 NOTRE DAME AVENUE
SAN MATEO, CALIFORNIA
CHRISTMAS 2012
May the peace of the Lord
Be yours today
And His love abide
With you forever!
Devotedly in Christ
Rev. Anthony E. McGuire
Rev. William J. Ahlbach
Rev. Dominic S. Lee
Rev. Juan M. Lopez
Deacon James Shea
Deacon Rafe Brown
CONFESSIONS
Mon, Dec. 17 through Fri. Dec. 21
Chapel 5:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. 22:
Main Church 11 a.m. – 12 Noon
and 4:30 p.m. - 5 p.m.
MASSES
Monday. – Christmas Eve, Dec. 24:
5:00 p.m. Family Mass,
7 p.m. (Spanish) and 10:00 p.m.
Tuesday, Christmas Day, Dec. 25:
6:30 a.m., 7:30 a.m., 8:45 a.m.
(Spanish), 10:45 a.m. & 12:30 p.m.
3:00 p.m. (Chinese Chapel)
NEW YEARS’ DAY –
TUESDAY. JAN. 1, 2013
Tuesday, Jan. 1, Masses:
6:30 a.m., 8:15 a.m.,
10 a.m. (Spanish), 12:00 p.m.
Saint Stephen Catholic Church
4th Sunday of Advent Masses
Saturday 3:30pm Confessions
4:30pm (Sunday Vigil)
Sunday 8:00, 9:30, 11:30am, 6:45pm
Eucalyptus Drive
@ 23rd Avenue
(near Stonestown Mall)
Christmas Eve Masses
3:30pm Confessions
4:30pm Family Mass
10:00pm Mass (Prelude music 9:30pm)
Christmas 2012
415.681.2444
www.SaintStephenSF.org
Christmas Day Masses
8:00, 9:30, 11:30am
No evening Mass on Christmas Day
Feast of the Holy Family
of Jesus, Mary & Joseph Masses
Regular Weekend Schedule
Saturday 3:30pm Confessions
4:30pm (Sunday Vigil)
Sunday 8:00, 9:30, 11:30am, 6:45pm
Our Lady of Angels Catholic Church
CHRISTMAS AT SAINT RAPHAEL CHURCH - 2012
NAVIDAD EN SAN RAFAEL
CHRISTMAS MASSES / MISAS DE NAVIDAD
Monday, December 24, 2012 / Lunes, 24 de Diciembre, 2012
4:00 pm
Special Program for
4:30 pm
7:00 pm
7:00 pm
Mass in English
Vietnamese Mass – Mission
Mass in Spanish / Misa en
LET GRATEFUL HEARTS NOW SING, A
SONG OF JOY AND HOLY PRAISE TO
CHRIST, THE NEWBORN KING.
Children
Español
11:30 pm
Community Christmas Caroling
12 Midnight
Mass in English
Tuesday, December 25, 2012 / Martes, 25 de Diciembre,
2012
7:30 am
Mass in English
9:00 am
Mass in English
10:30 am Mass in English
10:30 am Mass - Chapel of Saint Sylvester
12:00 pm Mass in Spanish/Misa en
Español
*No habrá Misa de 7:00pm el día de Navidad en
Español.
Feast of the Holy Family/ La Sagrada Familia
Saturday / Sunday, December 29 / 30, 2012
Regular Sunday Mass Schedule
Las Misas serán como todos los Domingos
New Year’s Day 2013/ El Día de Año Nuevo 2013
Tuesday, January 1, 2013/ Martes, 1 de Enero, 2013
10:00 am
Mass in Church
Merry Christmas / Feliz Navidad / Mùng Chúa Giáng-Sinh / Feliz
Welcome to the celebration of our faith at
St. Thomas Apostle Catholic Church
3835 Balboa Street San Francisco, CA 94121
415-387-5545
Christmas Eve, December 24
4:00 p.m. Children's Mass
8:30 p.m. Carols 9:00 p.m. Midnight Mass
Christmas Day,
December 25
8:30 a.m. and
11:00 a.m. Masses
1721 Hillside Drive, Burlingame
Capuchin Franciscans 650-347-7768
2012 Christmas Schedule
Christmas Eve
4:00 p.m.
6:00 p.m. (Children’s Mass) and 10 p.m.
(No Midnight Mass)
Christmas Day
8:00, 10:00 and 12 noon
New Year’s Day Masses
Vigil Mass Monday, Dec. 31, 2012 -7:30 p.m.
8:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m. and 7:30 p.m.
and 11:30 a.m. at Marian Convent
The Capuchin Franciscans & Parish Staff
wish our Parishioners and Friends
Peace, Love and Hope for
Christmas and the New Year
18 CHRISTMAS
Thousands venerate
Our Lady of Guadalupe
on 12-mile march
VALERIE SCHMALZ
Thousands began walking at 6 a.m. from All Souls
Church in South San Francisco for the 12-mile trek
to St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco in the annual Guadalupana pilgrimage, held on Dec. 8. The
pilgrimage is to venerate the patroness of the Americas, Our Lady of Guadalupe, whose feast is Dec. 12.
Marchers prayed the rosary along the route, stopping at Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery, at Holy Angels
Church in Colma and at St. John the Evangelist in
San Francisco before concluding with Mass at the
cathedral celebrated by Bishop William J. Justice
with cathedral rector Msgr. John Talesfore and Msgr.
Jose Rodriguez, former vicar for Spanish speaking.
This was the pilgrimage’s 19th year, which began
when Bishop Justice was pastor of All Souls Parish, said organizer Pedro Garcia. At 72, Garcia said
he walks the whole way, adding “I finished very
tired but very happy.”
At the cathedral, marchers reenacted Our Lady’s
appearance to St. Juan Diego near Mexico City
on Dec. 9, 1531. St. Juan, an indigenous Mexican
convert to Catholicism, presented beautiful Castilian roses to the Spanish bishop in Mexico City, who
had asked St. Juan for a sign to justify his request
from Mary to build a cathedral on the hill of Tepeyac, outside Mexico City. When the roses fell out
of his tilma, the image was of the beautiful virgin,
with the face of a meztiza, a mix of Spanish and
native features, although she appeared less than a
generation after Columbus’ exploration.
Mexico’s 9 million people all converted to Catholicism, Garcia said.
The 2013 Guadalupana march is scheduled for
Dec. 7.
Guadalupana marchers gathered at Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery, Colma, where they recited a decade of the rosary and listened
to a young woman portraying Our Lady speak her words of the miraculous encounter of Dec. 9, 1531, to a young man in the role
of Juan Diego; they are pictured together below. Bottom left and right, the march began at dawn with men hoisting a statue of
Our Lady, and ended with the statue being borne into St. Mary’s Cathedral.
St. Anthony
of Padua
Christmas
2012
Monday, December 24, 2012 • Christmas Eve
Tuesday, December 25, 2012 • Christmas Day
Masses at 7:00 am, 9:00 am and 11:00 am
Monday, December 31, 2012 • New Year's Eve
Vigil of the Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God
Mass at 5:00 pm
The Solemnity of Mary, the Holy
Mother of God
A Holy Day of Obligation
Dec. 17 – 24
Dec. 17
5PM
7PM
Christmas Novena
Advent Penance Service
Christmas Eve
4:00 to 5:00 PM
5:00 PM
11:15 PM
12:00 AM
Christmas Masses:
Christmas Eve (Monday, December 24)
4:00 p.m.
6:00 p.m.
12 Midnight
Saints Peter and Paul Church
The Parish of
St. Catherine of Siena
1310 Bayswater Ave.
Burlingame CA 94010
1000 Cambridge St., Novato
415.883.2177
Confessions from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
Masses at 5:00 pm (Children's Mass), 7:00 pm and 10:00 pm
(PHOTO COURTESY HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY)
Confessions
Vigil Mass
Christmas Carols
Midnight Mass
Christmas Day Masses
Christmas Vigil Mass
Christmas Family Mass
Christmas Midnight Mass
11:30 p.m. - Christmas Concert
7:30 AM In English
8:45 AM In English
10:15 AM In Cantonese/English
11:45 AM In Italian
1:00 PM In English
No 5:00 PM Christmas Day Mass
Christmas Day (Tuesday, December 25)
Masses: 8 a.m., 10:30 a.m., and 12 Noon
666 Filbert Street San Francisco 415 421-0809
Masses at 7:00 am, 9:00 am and 11:00 pm
ST. TERESA OF AVILA
CATHOLIC CHURCH
SERVED BY THE CARMELITES
th
19
Street at Connecticut
Tuesdays & Fridays
Wednesdays in Advent
OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP CHURCH
60 Wellington Avenue
Daly City, CA 94014
NINE DAYS NOVENA AND MASSES ( “Simbang Gabi or
Misa de Gallo”) from DECEMBER 16-24, 2012 @ 5:30 AM
DECEMBER 24, 2012– Monday—5:30 PM-Children’s Mass
11:00 PM—11:45 PM: Christmas Carols
12:00 AM: Midnight Mass
DECEMBER 25, 2012-CHRISTMAS DAY-8:30; 10:00; 11:30 AM
1:00 PM (Spanish)
8:30am
6:15pm
Christmas Masses
SCHEDULE OF CHRISTMAS WEEK LITURGY
SCHEDULE OF CHRISTMAS MASSES:
PLEASE JOIN US FOR OUR
ADVENT & CHRISTMAS MASSES
Unto Us A
Child Is Born
Vigil, December 24th
4:15* & 9:00 pm
December 25th
8:30 & 10:00 am
* Children’s & Family Mass
For more information:
Call: 415-285-5272 · E-mail: info@stteresasf.org · www.stteresasf.org
CHRISTMAS 19
Vatican Nativity scene set in famed grottos of Matera
CAROL GLATZ
VATICAN CITY – Christmas in St. Peter’s
Square this year has a particularly southern Italian flavor with a towering tree from the Molise
region and a Nativity scene donated by the Basilicata region.
Jesus, Mary and Joseph will be nestled in an
artistic re-creation of the picturesque setting of
the famed “sassi” (ancient, rock-hewn houses) of
Matera in the Basilicata province of Southern
Italy – a U.N. World Heritage site and backdrop
for recent Hollywood films about the Holy Family
and Jesus.
The 78-foot silver fir was plucked out of the
forests of Isernia by helicopter Dec. 5 and trucked
120 miles north with an Italian police escort.
The tree arrived in the square in the pre-dawn
hours Dec. 6, the feast of St. Nicholas, patron
saint of children and source of the Santa Claus
character.
Vatican workers will spend several days decorating the tree with lights and gold and silver
balls before the official lighting of the tree Dec.
14.
The large Nativity scene in the square will re-
St.
Dunstan Church
1133 Broadway Millbrae, CA 94030
(650) 697-4730
(CNS PHOTO/PAUL HARING)
Nuns walk by the Vatican’s Christmas tree as it’s positioned in
St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican Dec. 6. The tree is a 78-foot
silver fir from the southern Italian region of Molise.
St. Patrick
Church
main shrouded in mystery until its official unveiling Christmas Eve.
The scene, which will be assembled by Vatican
personnel, will be decorated with more than 100
terracotta figures and detailed scenery crafted by
the Italian artist Francesco Artese; his enormous
“presepi” have been on display in New York City
and Washington, D.C.
The Nativity scene, which will cover 180 square
yards, will depict Matera’s famed “sassi” – cliffclinging churches, buildings, streets and grottos
carved out of the mountainside.
The ancient rock-hewn city is on the U.N. World
Heritage List and was the setting for Mel Gibson’s
film, “The Passion of the Christ,” and Catherine
Hardwicke’s “The Nativity Story,” because the
city’s historical center poses a striking similarity
to what Jerusalem might have looked like 2,000
years ago.
The Vatican’s Nativity scene will depict the
hardworking and simple life of farmers and
craftsmen, and the terracotta figures will be
wearing handmade traditional dress, according to
the Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano.
The scene will also be specially lit using movie
set lighting to give it a “cinematographic” feel, it
said.
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December 16 - 24, 2012
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Season is the opportunity to send our
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6:00 a.m. Misa de Gallo
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7:30 a.m. Mass
12:10 p.m. Mass
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Gospel is good news of freedom from sin, pope says
CINDY WOODEN
ROME – In the immaculate conception of Mary,
Christians recognize the truth that the Gospel is the
good news of freedom from sin, selfishness and death,
Pope Benedict XVI said.
Standing before a statue of Mary near the Spanish
Steps, in the midst of Rome’s ritzy shopping district,
Pope Benedict said Mary is a reminder that silence is
essential for hearing God’s word, that salvation comes
from God alone and that joy comes from being freed of
sin.
As he does every year, the pope prayed the Angelus
at noon in St. Peter’s Square, then – riding in a brand
new, Mercedes-Benz M-class popemobile – went to the
Spanish Steps late in the afternoon Dec. 8, the feast of
the Immaculate Conception.
That Mary was conceived without sin “speaks to
us of joy, that authentic joy that spreads in a heart
freed from sin,” the pope said, sitting before a column
topped with a statue of Mary erected in honor of the
Immaculate Conception.
John the Baptist teaches us
to focus more on what is
essential, ‘so that Christmas
is experienced not only as
an exterior celebration, but
as the feast of the Son of God.’
POPE BENEDICT XVI
“Sin brings with it sadness,” the pope said.
While some people think Christianity “is an obstacle
to joy because they see it as a collection of prohibitions and rules,” it really is good news, he said,
because it is “the proclamation of the victory of grace
over sin, of life over death.”
Of course, he said, faith leads people to renounce
certain habits and actions, and it requires “a disci-
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pline of mind, heart and behavior” because original
sin leaves within people “the poisonous root of selfishness, which harms them and others.”
The day’s Gospel reading recounted the Annunciation, the moment when the Angel Gabriel appeared
to Mary and told her she would be Jesus’ mother, and
Pope Benedict said he was struck that such a “decisive
moment for human destiny, the moment in which God
became man, is wrapped in great silence.”
“It was an event that, if it had happened in our
day, wouldn’t leave a trace in the newspapers or
magazines, because it is a mystery that takes place in
silence,” he said.
Mary’s immaculate conception also reminds Christians that “the salvation of the world isn’t the work of
man, science, technology or an ideology,” but of God,
he said.
Reciting the Angelus earlier in the day, the pope
prayed that through the intercession of Mary, God
would “grant us the grace to reject sin and persevere
in the grace of baptism.”
Pope Benedict also recited the Angelus Dec. 9 with
visitors who came to St. Peter’s Square for his normal
Sunday greeting.
The day’s Gospel reading focused on St. John the
Baptist’s call to prepare the way of the Lord. “We are
called to listen to that voice, to make room for and
welcome Jesus into our hearts,” he said.
“In our consumer societies, where people are
tempted to look for joy in things,” he said, John the
Baptist teaches us to focus more on what is essential,
“so that Christmas is experienced not only as an exterior celebration, but as the feast of the Son of God who
came to bring peace, life and true joy.”
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OPINION 21
Bishops turn their attention to preaching
A
t their November 2012 meeting in Baltimore, the
U.S. bishops gave overwhelming approval to a
document titled “Preaching the Mystery of Faith:
The Sunday Homily.” It was the first time in 30 years
that they addressed the issue of
the quality of preaching in our
nation’s parishes.
They didn’t say so explicitly,
but the bishops seem to think
that we are losing the game
in the pulpit, and the people –
those who are still showing up
– are looking for and deserving
of much better preaching. As
a friend put it to me not long
ago, here in the U.S., “we have
FATHER WILLIAM
Saturday Night Live and SunJ. BYRON, SJ
day morning dead.” We can do
better. And the bishops are now
saying we must.
The document says that “the homily is intended to
establish a ‘dialogue’ between the sacred biblical text
and the Christian life of the hearer.”
I would make that same point in different words. I
would say that the homily is intended to be an extension of the proclamation of the Scripture texts that
are part of every Mass. That proclamation should be
filtered through the faith experience of the homilist,
and then matched up with the faith experience of the
people in the pews.
It may sound self-serving, and I don’t at all intend
it to be, but it is fortuitous that my latest book, “The
Word Received: A Homily for Every Sunday of the Year
– Year C” arrived in bookstores the same week when
the bishops released their document on preaching. The
companion books – “The Word Proclaimed” and “The
Word Explained,” containing homilies for every Sunday in Years A and B, respectively – will be released by
Paulist Press in each of the next two Novembers.
These homilies have all been road tested in parish
churches or university chapels. It is my hope that they
will give priests and deacons a few ideas for their homilies and provide Scripture-based spiritual reading for
interested people in the pews.
On the floor of the bishops’ meeting while the preaching document was being discussed, Bishop Ricardo
Ramirez of Las Cruces, N.M., pleaded for an amendment that would urge Catholics to make an extra effort
to listen to heavily accented foreign-born priests in
order to grasp their message.
He pointed out that “they have wisdom” and are “inspired by the Holy Spirit.” Perhaps the heavy-accented
preachers should be encouraged to write their homilies
out, in English of course, and have them reproduced
and available in the pews so that willing worshippers
can read and understand their inspiring words.
Similarly, pastors might be encouraged to have acoustical checks run on their sound systems and require
auditions for all lectors to guarantee that the Scripture
readings are proclaimed audibly and clearly so all can
hear.
This is a critically important issue for the church
today. That’s why the bishops addressed it. It remains to
be seen what impact their document will have on parishes, seminaries and training programs for deacons
and lectors.
JESUIT FATHER BYRON is university professor of business and
society at St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia. Email
wbyron@sju.edu.
LETTERS
Day embodied a steely love to challenge ‘even the gates of hell’
In regard to the canonization of Dorothy Day
(“Some followers question Day sainthood cause,” Dec.
7), it amuses me that both the Catholic left and the right are trying to
claim her, when she is not claimable.
She was incapable of being drawn
into petty squabbles of either stripe.
She spoke truth to power, strove to
conform herself to the living, dying,
rising of true discipleship in Christ,
and lived the Gospel with no interest
in carving out some niche for herDorothy Day
self as “special or admirable.” Nor
did she like it when people called her “a living saint”
because then it was “too easy to dismiss her.”
There’s a story (you can’t be married to a quintessential Catholic Worker for 33 years, as I have been,
and not know stories) that Dorothy, in her 70s, was arrested after a peace protest and they put her in a holding cell. After a bit, they opened the door and shoved
in a young woman who was a prostitute and drunk.
She cried and swore and said vile things to Dorothy
and then fell on the floor at Dorothy’s feet and threw
Silent screams of the innocent
In the last two presidential elections more than
half of U.S. Catholics went against the Catechism of
the Catholic Church, embraced the culture of death
political party and voted for Obama. The destruction
of human beings before they take their first breath
is an intrinsic evil. Every day there are the silent
screams of the massacred innocents.
As said by Dante: “The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis,
maintain their neutrality.”
Roy Petri
Sonoma
Let ‘Merry Christmas’ sing out
In the story of our country’s development there was
up all over Dorothy’s feet and legs. Without a second’s
hesitation, Dorothy sank down on the floor and took
the young woman’s head gently into her lap and just
held her, as a mother would hold her child.
That’s why Dorothy is a saint – because she was
incapable of marginalizing or being without respect
for every human being, regardless of how badly they
may have “blotted their copybook.” When Dorothy
spoke of “a harsh and dreadful love,” it kind of blew
all that sky-blue-pink-bejeezely-stuff right out of the
water. It was love which Dorothy clung to and was
not afraid to offer to anyone, a love so God-partaking
in its authority, so steely determined in delivery that
“even the gates of hell could not prevail against it!”
That’s why Dorothy is a saint. It is not because
she championed the cause of the poor, nor because
she obeyed all the rules, but because she was true to
her vocation, as each of us should be, to become the
person God called her to be. How many people were
immeasurably blessed that Dorothy Day came their
way?
Sue Malone Hayes
San Francisco
an “inborn” feeling of community in local churches,
in local school meetings and events. Now some have no
need for any of the above. Instead there is TV for entertainment or computer activities to absorb their time.
The American Civil Liberties Union doesn’t want
the public to take part in public prayer before or
after game time. The right to do so, however, must be
preserved. The ACLU is afraid to allow this as it could
become a habit.
Little by little the ACLU is trying to get God out of
our lives. Religious scenes at Christmas and Easter as
well as visible traditions of other faiths need to be honored. We even need to remember “Merry Christmas”
and not let “Happy Holidays” drown it out.
Olivia Fisher
San Francisco
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Hope and optimism
rising in the
global church
T
here are subtle signs of change, hope and
optimism in the church, even in the midst
of widespread criticism. For instance,
when Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini died Aug.
31, this quote of his
was published: “The
church is 200 years
behind the times.”
To overcome its fatigue, “the church must
admit its mistakes and
make radical changes,”
he said and added that
“the sex abuse scandals
require a journey of
conversion and transFATHER JOHN
formation.”
CATOIR
In October, Filipino
Archbishop Socrates
Villegas said at the
World Synod of Bishops in Rome: “Evangelization has been hurt
... by the arrogance of
its messengers. The
hierarchy must shun
arrogance, hypocrisy
and bigotry. The Gospel
cannot thrive in pride.”
I was surprised to hear an archbishop give
a public rebuke to members of the hierarchy.
We never hear about the millions coming
into the church from Africa, Latin America
and Asia. However, we do hear a lot about the
leakage of U.S. Catholics from the church.
When urged to come home, many of them say,
“Come home to what? Nothing has changed.”
But that’s not true. Stay away if you like,
but don’t be close-minded.
There have been substantial changes in the
church over the past few decades. To name a
few, the expansion of lay ministries, the welcome of more and more deacons, the increase
of the perpetual adoration of the Eucharist
and many other changes taking place behind
the scenes in the Holy See.
Veteran Italian writer Andrea Tornelli
praised Pope Benedict XVI for his “zero
tolerance” policy of sexual abuse cases. She
referred to the pope’s sentencing of Father
Marcial Maciel Degollado, the powerful
founder of the Legionaries of Christ, to a life
of penance and isolation because of his past
sexual abuses.
On another front, Brazilian Cardinal Joao
Braz de Aviz, the new head of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, recently called for the
easing of tension in the case pending against
the U.S. Leadership Conference of Women
Religious. He said he wants the investigation
to be constructive rather than punitive.
Was Pope Benedict behind the timing of
this appointment? After all, he gave the post to
Cardinal de Aviz at the very time charges were
being made on the U.S. political front that the
church was waging a war on women. Not so.
Finally, Pope Benedict XVI, speaking in
St. Peter’s Square during the celebration of
the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican
Council in October, set things straight by
urging Catholics to confront the spiritual
desert of today’s secularized world. He urged
Catholics to rediscover the truth and beauty
of the faith.
When the Second Vatican Council opened,
he said, there was a desire to enter into
dialogue with the modern world, but recent
decades have seen the advance of an even
more secularized world, which many (former)
Catholics have embraced uncritically, doubting the very foundation of the Catholic faith.
Jesus Christ predicted that the church
would be hated, just as he was hated. But
Catholics can be hopeful and optimistic because Christ lives among us.
Signs of new
energy for
dialogue and for
evangelization.
22 OPINION
What is the population of hell?
R
alph Martin, professor of systematic theology at Sacred Heart
Seminary in Detroit, has written
an important book titled “Will Many
Be Saved?” It
received much
attention at
the recent
synod on the
new evangelization, and its
opening pages
are filled with
endorsements
from the leading figures in
FATHER ROBERT
the church.
BARRON
Martin’s
argument is
straightforward enough: The attitude, much
in evidence following Vatican II,
that virtually everyone will go to
heaven has drastically undercut the
church’s evangelical efforts. Why
then, if salvation is guaranteed,
would Catholics be filled with a passion to propagate the faith? Therefore, if the new evangelization is to
get off the ground, we must recover
a vivid sense of the reality of hell –
the possibility, even the likelihood,
of eternal damnation for the many
who do not come to a lively faith in
Christ.
Martin has some theological
heavyweights on his side. Both St.
Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas
believed that most people end up in
hell. And the magisterium of the
church has stressed that missionary
work is vital, lest millions wander
down the path to perdition. These
positions are grounded in Scripture,
and no one in the Bible speaks of
hell more often than Jesus. In a number of his parables, notably the story
E
A theologian believes hell is crowded, but is Pope Benedict’s
vision that few are truly damned more promising
for the new evangelization?
of the sheep and goats in Matthew
2, Jesus stresses the urgency of the
choice that his followers must make.
The conviction that hell is crowded has been contested from the earliest days of the church, as Martin
notes. Origen, St. Gregory of Nyssa
and St. Maximus the Confessor all
held to some form of universalism –
the belief that, at the end of the day,
all people would be gathered to the
Lord. This view was revived during
the era of exploration, when it became clear to European Christians
that millions of people in Africa,
Asia and the Americas would be
condemned if explicit faith in Christ
was required for salvation.
The universalist perspective
received a further boost in the 20th
century, especially through the work
of Karl Rahner and Hans Urs von
Balthasar. Rahner held that every
human being is endowed with what
he termed a “supernatural existential” – a fundamental orientation
toward God. Balthasar, basing his
argument on the sheer extravagance
of God’s saving act in Christ, taught
that we may reasonably hope that all
people will be brought to heaven.
The heart of Martin’s book is a
complex critique of the theories
of Rahner and Balthasar. I will
mention only one dimension of it,
namely his analysis of the Vatican
II document “Lumen Gentium,”
paragraph 16.
Both Balthasar and Rahner found
justification in the first part of
that paragraph, which states that
non-Christians, even non-believers,
can be saved as long as they “try
in their actions to do God’s will as
they know it through the dictates of
their conscience.” But Martin points
out that the defenders of universal
salvation have overlooked the next
part, in which the council fathers
say these less comforting words:
“But very often, deceived by the
Evil One, men have become vain in
their reasonings, have exchanged
the truth of God for a lie, and served
the world rather than the Creator …
Hence to procure … the salvation of
all these, the church … takes zealous care to foster the missions.” A
fair reading of the entire paragraph
would seem to yield the following:
The unevangelized can be saved, but
often they do not meet the requirements for salvation. They will, then,
be damned without hearing the
announcement of the Gospel and
coming to an active faith.
Who has it right? Even as I appreciate Martin’s scholarship and
acknowledge that he scores important points against both Balthasar
and Rahner, I found his central argument undermined by one of his own
footnotes. In a note buried on Page
284, Martin cites some “remarks” of
Pope Benedict XVI that have contributed, in his judgment, to confusion
on the point in question. He is referring to observations in sections 45-47
of the Pope’s 2007 encyclical “Spe
Salvi,” which can be summarized as
follows. There are a relative handful of truly wicked people in whom
the love of God and neighbor has
been totally extinguished through
sin, and there are a relative handful of people whose lives are utterly
pure, completely given over to the
demands of love. Those latter few
will proceed, upon death, directly
to heaven, and those former few
will, upon death, enter the state that
the church calls hell. But the pope
concludes that “the great majority
of people” who, though sinners,
still retain a fundamental ordering
to God, can and will be brought to
heaven after the purification of purgatory. Martin knows that the pope
stands athwart the position that he
has taken throughout his study, for
he says casually enough, “The argument of this book would suggest a
need for clarification.”
There is no easy answer to the
question of who or how many
will be saved. But one of the most
theologically accomplished popes in
history, writing at a very high level
of authority, has declared that we
ought not to hold that hell is densely
populated. To write this off as “remarks” that require “clarification”
is like a liberal theologian saying
the same thing about Pope Paul VI’s
teaching on artificial contraception
in the encyclical “Humanae Vitae.”
It seems to me that Pope Benedict’s
position – affirming the reality
of hell but seriously questioning
whether the vast majority of human
beings end up there – is the most
tenable and the most evangelically
promising.
FATHER BARRON is founder of the global
ministry Word on Fire and president of
Mundelein Seminary, Mundelein, Ill.
The late Cardinal Martini and the Catholic left
ighteenth-century British
Jacobites wistfully toasted “the
king over the water,” referring
to exiled King James II, his successors, and the
Jacobite hope
for a Stuart
restoration
to the throne
of the United
Kingdom.
Throughout
the pontificate
of John Paul
II, the cardinal
archbishop of
GEORGE WEIGEL
Milan, Carlo
Maria Martini, a Jesuit, was a kind of “king
over the water” for Catholics of the
portside persuasion – the pope who
should-have-been and might-yet-be.
That never happened (although the
progressives at the conclave of 2005
implausibly ran Cardinal Martini,
then ill with Parkinson’s disease, in
a failed attempt to block the election
of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger). But
longing for the lost cause continued.
Thus the day after his death this
past September, Italy’s leading
newspaper, Milan’s Corriere della
Sera, published an interview with
Cardinal Martini, conducted a few
weeks before his death; evidently, the
archbishop emeritus put an embargo
on the interview, such that it could
only be published after he died.
In the interview (immediately
In a valedictory interview with an Italian
newspaper, Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini
described the church in Europe and America
as ‘tired,’ and asked ‘Where among us are the
heroes from whom we can draw inspiration?’
dubbed his “spiritual testament”
by his admirers), Cardinal Martini
described the church in Europe
and America as “tired,” and asked
“Where among us are the heroes
from whom we can draw inspiration?” The burning “coals” of the
church, Martini continued, were
hidden under piles of ashes; indeed,
there is “so much ash on top of the
coals that I am often assailed by a
sense of powerlessness. How can the
coals be freed from the ashes so as
to reinvigorate the flame of love?”
The cardinal went on to propose,
quite rightly, that true reform in the
church is always reform inspired by
word and sacrament. But then, at
the end of the interview, came the
money quote: “The church is 200
years behind. Why in the world does
it not rouse itself ? Are we afraid?
Fear instead of courage?”
To which one wants to reply, with
all respect, “Two hundred years behind what?” A Western culture that
has lost its grasp on the deep truths
of the human condition? A culture
that celebrates the imperial autonomous self ? A culture that detaches
sex from love and responsibility?
A culture that breeds a politics of
immediate gratification and intergenerational irresponsibility, of the
sort that has paralyzed public policy
in Italy and elsewhere? “Why in the
world,” to repeat the late cardinal’s
question, would the church want to
catch up with that?
As for the question, “Where are
the heroes?” Cardinal Martini
seemed unaware of, or puzzled by,
or perhaps even unhappy with, the
heroic witness of the man who created him cardinal after naming him
successor to St. Ambrose in Italy’s
most prestigious see: John Paul II,
whose faith and courage continue
to inspire the liveliest parts of
the Catholic world in Europe and
America. (John Paul, for his part,
gave Martini’s commentary on the
First Letter of Peter to the cardinals gathered for the pope’s silver
jubilee in 2003, as an appendix to
a replica of the Bodmer Papyrus
copy of the “first encyclical.”) Nor
was John Paul alone as an exemplar
of Christian heroism during the
Martini years in Milan – years in
which, to take but two examples,
Blessed Jerzy Popieluszko became
the martyr-priest of Solidarity and
Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta
completed her singular witness to
the “flame of love” the cardinal
thought buried under ashes.
For all his brilliance, Cardinal
Martini, like many on the Catholic
left, never seemed to grasp that the
secular culture with which Vatican
II hoped to open a dialogue was not
the secular culture that emerged in
Europe in the aftermath of the upheavals of 1968. The new secularism
was not open to the possibility of
transcendent truth, as the secularism of, say, Albert Camus had been.
The new secularism was embittered,
aggressive and narrow-minded. It
was not so much interested in dialogue as in cultural hegemony. And
it is now firmly committed to driving
the Catholic Church out of public
life throughout the Western world.
There is no need to lament being
“behind” that. The Catholic challenge is to get ahead of that soulwithering ideology, and convert
those in thrall to it by example and
persuasive argument.
WEIGEL is Distinguished Senior Fellow
of the Ethics and Public Policy Center,
Washington, D.C.
FAITH 23
SUNDAY READINGS
Third Sunday of Advent
John answered them all, saying, ‘I am baptizing you with water, but one mightier than I is coming.’
LUKE 3:10-18
ZEPHANIAH 3:14-18A
Shout for joy, O daughter Zion! Sing joyfully, O
Israel! Be glad and exult with all your heart, O
daughter Jerusalem! The Lord has removed the
judgment against you he has turned away your
enemies; the King of Israel, the Lord, is in your
midst, you have no further misfortune to fear. On
that day, it shall be said to Jerusalem: Fear not, O
Zion, be not discouraged! The Lord, your God, is
in your midst, a mighty savior; he will rejoice over
you with gladness, and renew you in his love, he
will sing joyfully because of you, as one sings at
festivals.
PSALM ISAIAH 12:2-3, 4, 5-6
Cry out with joy and gladness: for among you
is the great and Holy One of Israel.
God indeed is my savior; I am confident and
unafraid. My strength and my courage is the Lord,
and he has been my savior. With joy you will draw
water at the fountain of salvation.
Give thanks to the Lord, acclaim his name;
among the nations make known his deeds, proclaim how exalted is his name.
Sing praise to the Lord for his glorious achievement; let this be known throughout all the earth.
Shout with exultation, O city of Zion, for great in
your midst is the Holy One of Israel!
PHILIPPIANS 4:4-7
Brothers and sisters: Rejoice in the Lord always.
I shall say it again: rejoice! Your kindness should
be known to all. The Lord is near. Have no anxiety
at all, but in everything, by prayer and petition,
with thanksgiving, make your requests known
to God. Then the peace of God that surpasses all
understanding will guard your hearts and minds in
Christ Jesus.
LUKE 3:10-18
The crowds asked John the Baptist, “What should
we do?” He said to them in reply, “Whoever has two
cloaks should share with the person who has none.
And whoever has food should do likewise.” Even tax
collectors came to be baptized and they said to him,
“Teacher, what should we do?” He answered them,
“Stop collecting more than what is prescribed.” Soldiers also asked him, “And what is it that we should
do?” He told them, “Do not practice extortion, do
not falsely accuse anyone, and be satisfied with
your wages.” Now the people were filled with expectation, and all were asking in their hearts whether
John might be the Christ. John answered them all,
saying, “I am baptizing you with water, but one
mightier than I is coming. I am not worthy to loosen
the thongs of his sandals. He will baptize you with
the Holy Spirit and fire. His winnowing fan is in his
hand to clear his threshing floor and to gather the
wheat into his barn, but the chaff he will burn with
unquenchable fire.” Exhorting them in many other
ways, he preached good news to the people.
Rejoice, because God rejoices over us
T
he Dhammapada, a verse collection of the Buddha’s sayings in Pali language, contains a precious ode to joy: “Live in joy, in love, even among
those who hate. Live in joy, in health, even among the
afflicted. Live in joy, in peace,
even among the troubled.
Look within. Be still. Free
from fear and attachment,
know the sweet joy of the
way.”
About 100 years before the
Buddha’s message, the Jewish
prophet Zephaniah about 640
B.C. proclaimed his ode to
joy: “Shout for joy, O daughter
Zion! Sing joyfully, O Israel!
Be glad and exult with all
your heart.” The most important reason for Israel’s joy is:
“The Lord, your God, is in
your midst, a mighty savior;
FATHER CHARLES
he will rejoice over you with
PUTHOTA
gladness, and renew you in
his love, he will sing joyfully
because of you, as one sings at festivals.”
What an astonishing invitation and challenge! We
SCRIPTURE
REFLECTION
POPE BENEDICT XVI
LIVING OUT GOD’S ‘BENEVOLENT PLAN’
Catholics must live the season of
Advent as an act of faith in God’s benevolent plan for humanity, Pope Benedict
XVI said in Vatican City in his general
audience catechesis on the first week of
Advent and the start of a new liturgical
year.
Paul’s letter to the Christians of Ephesus raises a prayer of blessing God that
introduces us to live the season of Advent
according to God’s “benevolent plan” of
mercy and love, the pope said.
Paul blesses God “because he looks at his
work in the history of salvation, culminating in the incarnation, death and resurrection of Jesus, and he contemplates how the
heavenly father has chosen us even before
the creation of the world, to be his sons in
his only begotten son, Jesus Christ,” the
pope continued.
need to rejoice because God rejoices over us. He even
sings songs in praise of us -- as at festivals! We often
call God “my joy, my love, my peace, my friend.” If
we take Zephaniah seriously, we have to imagine that
God himself calls us: “My joy, my love, my peace, my
friend.” Now, isn’t that an awesome reason for our
joy?
One of the graces for me when I hear confessions
is to be able to tell the penitents: “God loves you.
Do you know that God is delighted with you? He
thinks the world of you! Do you believe that? God is
so happy with you that he dances for joy.” That God
rejoices in us is a liberating message; it can change
our lives. An image that I suggest on occasion to the
penitent comes from Anthony de Mello: “Look at
Jesus looking at you, and smiling!”
We struggle with sin. It clings to us like the fog in
South San Francisco! We are imperfect. We can be
selfish and judgmental. It is hard for us to be othercentered. Our own issues and preoccupations can
imprison and enslave us. But despite all our flaws,
God delights in us and rejoices over us. This divine
rejoicing over us holds the power to transform us.
God’s delight in us and our delight in him can turn
us from tepid, mediocre Christians to passionate,
enthusiastic ones.
As a result, as John the Baptist instructs, the
crowds will share their cloaks with the needy. The
tax-collectors will stop collecting exorbitant taxes.
The soldiers will turn their lives around. Everyone in
their situation will be able to respond to the greater
calling: to rejoice in God because God rejoices in us.
John the Baptist knows a thing or two about rejoicing:
He leaped for joy even when he was in his mother’s
womb at the presence of Jesus. Jesus’ lavish appreciation of John is a sign of his delight in the prophet.
Paul too sings his ode to joy: “Rejoice in the Lord
always. I shall say it again, rejoice!” When God is
near, why should we have anxiety and fear? God’s
disarming, rejoicing love will lead us to peace, kindness, prayer and thanksgiving.
This Gaudete (Rejoice) Sunday, as Christmas is
fast approaching, one of the best things we can do
is just open our minds and hearts to our God who
takes delight in rejoicing over us. Out of this divine
joy, God gives his own son to us. It’s now our turn to
rejoice. How shall we share this joy this Christmas
season? How shall we become channels of God’s joy
to a world pining for the glad tidings?
FATHER PUTHOTA is pastor of St. Veronica Parish, South
San Francisco.
LITURGICAL CALENDAR, DAILY MASS READINGS
MONDAY, DECEMBER 17: Monday of the Third Week
of Advent. Gn 49:2, 8-10. Ps 72:1-2, 3-4ab, 7-8, 17. Mt
1:1-17.
LAZARUS
First century
December 17, July 29
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18: Tuesday of the Third
Week of Advent. Jer 23:5-8. Ps 72:1-2, 12-13, 18-19.
Mt 1:18-25.
The Gospels describe
Lazarus of Bethany,
and his sisters Mary
and Martha, as friends
and disciples of Jesus.
Lazarus was raised
from the dead by Jesus,
and he was at a banquet for Jesus just days before the Crucifixion.
But Lazarus also figured in legends. In one, he,
Martha, Mary Magdalen and others were set
adrift in a boat that took them to Gaul, where he
became a bishop and martyr. In another, he was
cast off in a leaky boat that miraculously made
it to Cyprus. In a third, he traveled to Syria. The
2005 Roman Martyrology gave him a shared July
29 memorial with Martha, but Cubans still celebrate their major festival of San Lazaro on Dec.
17.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19: Wednesday of the
Third Week of Advent. Jgs 13:2-7, 24-25a. Ps 71:3-4a,
5-6ab, 16-17. Lk 1:5-25.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20: Thursday of the Third
Week of Advent. Is 7:10-14. Ps 24:1-2, 3-4ab, 5-6. Lk
1:26-38.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21: Thursday of the Third Week
of Advent. Optional Memorial of St. Peter Canisius, priest
and doctor. Is 7:10-14. Ps 24:1-2, 3-4ab, 5-6. Lk 1:26-38.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22: Friday of the Third Week
of Advent. Sg 2:8-14 or Zep 3:14-18a. Ps 33:2-3, 1112, 20-21. Lk 1:39-45.
24 FAITH
Jesus honored life’s complexity. Can we follow?
I
n a lecture recently, I made the
point that Jesus shocked people
equally in both his capacity to thoroughly enjoy his life and in his capacity to renounce
it. It was the
same Jesus
who, at a lavish
supper with a
woman at his
feet bathing
him in perfume
and affection,
could tell his
uncomfortable
hosts that he
FATHER RON
was thoroughly
ROLHEISER
enjoying the
moment without a trace of
guilt and who could tell the same people that the deepest secret of life is to
give it all up in self-sacrifice without
a trace of thought for yourself.
After the lecture, a young man came
up to me and questioned me about the
first prong: How could Jesus give himself over to that kind of enjoyment
and pleasure? My answer: Precisely
because of the other part, his capacity
to renounce. One relies on the other,
like the wings on an airplane. Jesus
had a shocking capacity to enjoy life
because he had an equally shocking
capacity to give it up. That is also true
of many other aspects of Jesus’ life
and ministry: He could condemn sin,
but love the sinner; be fiercely loyal to
Jesus had a shocking capacity to enjoy life because
he had an equally shocking capacity to give it up.
his own, even as he shocked them in
his love of those outside their circle;
and he could walk in the greatest freedom anyone has ever known, even as
he acknowledged that he did nothing
on his own.
And that kind of complexity, that
kind of capacity to hold near opposites together in a healthy tension, is
one of the marks of greatness. Great
people do exactly that. Let me offer
some examples:
Dorothy Day, soon to be canonized
a saint, stood out for exactly that
reason: She carried both the nonnegotiable Gospel demand for social justice
as well as the nonnegotiable Gospel
demand for proper morals and proper
religious practice. She was radical and
pious. Usually we do not see the same
person leading both the peace march
and the rosary. Dorothy did both. Most
of us can’t. We can do one or the other.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s writings continue to inspire people across
every type of divide for the same
reason. He had the capacity to hold
together, at one and the same time,
two seemingly competing loves. He
was born, he says, with two incurable loves and sensitivities: a love of
God and a sense of the other world
that he could never betray and an
equal love for this physical world and
its facticity and beauty. Both were
undeniably real to him, both took
his breath away, and he tried to live
in a way so as to not betray either of
them, despite the tension this created
in his life. It gave his writings a rare
depth. Most other writing, secular or
religious, honors only one of those
poles to the denigration of the other.
We see the same kind of complexity
in the writings of Therese of Lisieux.
On the one hand, her focus is radically otherworldly, the vision of someone who sees this world as ephemeral, flimsy and of little value. Yet,
at the same time, she shows herself
as almost unhealthily attached to the
good things of this world, the love of
family, of nature, of beauty. Therese
could write eloquently about wanting
to die and leave behind this shadowy
film we call life and at the same time
feel resentful if she wasn’t receiving
daily affirmations of love from her
family. And she saw no contradiction
here because there isn’t any. Both are
healthy, when they are held together.
St. Augustine offers another example. He wrote more than 6,000 pages
and, within those pages, said things
that have helped trigger anything
from negative feelings about sex to
forced religious conversions. But he
also said things that laid the roots of
most orthodox Western theology for
the past 1,700 years. He was able to
hold a lot of things in tension. Sadly,
we are not his equal and instead pick
and choose pieces of his thought to
the detriment of his overall vision.
Carlo Carretto, the Italian spiritual
writer who died recently, also stood
out for his capacity to hold seemingly
contrasting truths in tension. It is
rare to see in the same person his
particular combination of piety and
iconoclasm, his fierce loyalty to the
church and his strong criticism of it.
For him, the two depended upon each
other. One is healthy only because the
other is also there.
Great minds and great persons
properly honor complexity. Nowhere
is this clearer than in Jesus. He carried all truth, in all its complexity.
Unfortunately, we, his followers, are
not up to the master. That’s why there
are hundreds of different Christian
denominations today. That’s also why
there are liberals and conservatives
both in our churches and our society.
We find it easier to carry smaller
pieces of the truth than to carry the
tension of being loyal to its bigger
picture.
But simplicity and clarity aren’t
always our friends.
FATHER ROLHEISER is president of the Oblate
School of Theology, San Antonio, Texas.
The wide-awake Christians of Advent
DAVID GIBSON
WALKING IN THE LIGHT
“Stay awake.”
That sounds like wonderful advice
for nighttime drivers. In fact, it is advice Matthew’s Gospel gives to Christians living in times like ours (25:13).
The Gospel of St. Luke similarly
urges Christians to make sure their
“hearts do not become drowsy”
(21:34). Catholics in 2012 heard those
words in the Gospel reading for
Masses the first Sunday of Advent.
What is so wrong with sleeping?
Don’t the experts suggest that while
we sleep our brains and bodies perform tasks essential to our well-being?
Of course, the potential accomplishments of our wakeful hours seem
different in kind from those of sleep.
Without sleep, things go badly for
us. But when rested and awake, we
can call our finest decision-making
powers into play. In clear-thinking
ways we can extend ourselves to others and accept the ways they contribute to our lives.
All of this may help explain why
Scripture writers esteemed wakefulness so highly.
True enough, however, their
reasons had something to do with
Christ’s coming, his second coming.
During Advent, Christians excitedly await the Christ Child’s coming. A
twinned theme of the season, Christ’s
coming in the fullness of time, tends
to stay in the background.
Yet this theme explains why we
heard St. Luke caution us this Advent
against growing drowsy and allowing
events to catch us “by surprise.”
Ancient Christian communities
confronted some real issues involving
the second coming. The thought had
been that Christ’s return was imminent. This prompted people to wonder
(CNS PHOTO/NANCY WIECHEC)
Advent, a season of joyful expectation before Christmas. The Advent wreath, with a candle
marking each week of the season, is a traditional symbol of the period.
what sense it made to work at building up their communities or world.
Did this world even have a future?
As the time after Christ’s resurrection stretched out, however, ancient
Christians began reconsidering the
message of the second coming as it
related to their lives.
Perhaps the instinct to await
Christ’s coming passively or drowsily was off target. In a world of great
need, especially a world with a future,
inaction surely could not be the
Christian’s vocation.
There would be much for Christians to do in this world.
Christ enters our own worlds daily.
Christians awaiting the second coming need to remain wakeful, alert
to his presence now. Asleep at the
switch, might they miss unexpected
signs of Christ around them?
Quickly after counseling Christians
to “stay awake,” the Gospel of St.
Matthew turns attention to a comment Christ will make upon arriving
in glory. The comment hardly proposes inaction or passivity as characteristics of Christian living.
Christ will point out to those about to
“inherit the kingdom” how they cared
for him when he was hungry, thirsty or
a stranger. Confused, they will ask:
“When did we see you hungry and
feed you, or thirsty and give you
drink? When did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and
clothe you? When did we see you ill or
in prison, and visit you?
“And the king will say to them in reply,
‘Amen, I say to you, whatever you did for
one of these least brothers of mine, you
did for me’”(Matthew 25:34-40).
GIBSON served on Catholic News Service’s editorial staff for 37 years.
In a 2008 talk, Pope Benedict XVI invited Christians to
contemplate the value of the
Christmas feast for which we
prepare during Advent.
“In the darkness of the night
of Bethlehem a great light really was lit: the Creator of the
universe became flesh, uniting himself indissolubly with
human nature so as truly to
be ‘God from God, light from
light’ yet at the same time a
man, true man.”
Pope Benedict invites us to
use this time of contemplation
to ponder what this “light”
has brought us and what it can
bring to others.
It is a time, the pope said, to
find this “privileged opportunity to meditate on the meaning and value of our existence.
The approach of this solemnity helps us on the one hand to
reflect on the drama of history
in which people, injured by
sin, are perennially in search
of happiness and of a fulfilling
sense of life and death.”
In this Year of Faith, his
words also lead us to contemplate the opportunity to serve
as an example to those who
wonder what walking in this
light can bring humanity.
“Therefore let us prepare
ourselves for Christmas with
humility and simplicity,
making ourselves ready to
receive as a gift the light, joy
and peace that shine from this
mystery,” the pope said.
FROM THE FRONT 25
PROP. 8: Archbishop calls pending court review ‘significant moment’ for US
FROM PAGE 1
Advocates for same-sex marriage likewise saw
historic significance in the decision to hear the
case turns on Proposition 8 in California, by which
voters in 2008 barred same-sex marriage, but
because they regard it as the most important civil
rights case of our time.
The two sides – proponents of same-sex marriage
and a faith-based group called ProtectMarriage.
com, endorsed by the Catholic Church, which
backs the proposition – will make their cases
before the Supreme Court in March. A ruling is
possible in June.
The court agreed to hear two same-sex marriage
cases: The ProtectMarriage.com appeal of a 9th U.S.
Circuit Court ruling that Proposition 8 violated the
U.S. Constitution by denying a right to a minority
– gays and lesbians – for no apparent reason other
than moral disapproval of homosexuality, and also
a case involving a federal law called the Defense of
Marriage Act, the question being whether gay and
lesbian married couples can legally be denied federal benefits that opposite-sex spouses receive.
Circuit court ruled on narrow grounds
The 9th Circuit upheld a federal district court
judge’s finding that Proposition 8, which trumped
a California Supreme Court ruling in 2008 supporting gay marriage and amended the California Constitution, is discriminatory. But its 2-1 ruling was a
narrow one and did not address a broader matter,
whether the guarantee of equal protection of the
laws in the Constitution grants gays and lesbians
the right to marry.
So, the high court could answer the broad question of whether the Constitution requires states to
permit same-sex marriage, it could reverse the 9th
Circuit ruling and making Proposition 8 the law in
the state, or affirm the appellate court in a ruling
that would only affect California.
The same-sex marriage advocates’ legal team
preparing to make its case will present both the
broad argument, that would apply to all states, and
the more narrow issue that the 9th Circuit focused
on, affecting California, said Dennis Herrera, the
San Francisco city attorney whose office has been
on the gay marriage advocates’ side of litigation
for nine years.
‘Civil rights issue of our time’
“It is only a matter of time before we go over that
‘I pray the court will affirm the fact that the
institution of marriage, which is as old as
humanity and written in our very nature, is
the union of one man and one woman.’
ARCHBISHOP SALVATORE J. CORDILEONE
(CNS FILE PHOTO/JON L. HENDRICKS)
A groom and bride hold hands on their wedding day. The U.S.
Supreme Court announced Dec. 7 that it will hear two cases
challenging federal and state laws that define marriage as a
union of a man and a woman.
final hurdle and I have every confidence that come
summer time we will once again be on the right
side of history,” Herrera said at a news conference
at San Francisco City Hall on Dec. 7. He called the
case “the civil rights issue of our time.”
Archbishop Cordileone, who is chairman of the
U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Subcommittee
for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage, said in
a statement, “I pray the court will affirm the fact
that the institution of marriage, which is as old as
humanity and written in our very nature, is the
union of one man and one woman. Marriage is the
foundation of a just society, as it protects the most
vulnerable among us, children. It is the only institution that unites children with their mothers and
fathers together. We pray for the court, that its deliberations may be guided by truth and justice so as
to uphold marriage’s true meaning and purpose.”
The archbishop also noted that the other case
the justices will consider, involving the Defense of
Marriage Act – passed by Congress and signed into
law by President Bill Clinton in 1996 – also defines
marriage as the union of one man and one woman
for purposes of a federal law.
Earlier this year, Archbishop Cordileone and the
other U.S. Catholic bishops issued a Call to Prayer
for Life, Marriage and Religious Liberty as part of
a pastoral response for the protection of life, marriage and liberty. Information is available at www.
usccb.org/life-marriage-liberty.
Opponents worked against review
Andrew Pugno, lead counsel for ProtectMarriage.com., said that the legal team for the same-
sex marriage advocates “went to extraordinary
length and expense to fight against the Supreme
Court taking this case. Any suggestion they
welcome this is just unbelievable. I don’t see how
anybody can’t see through that.”
Indeed, had the court not taken the appeal, the
ruling of the 9th Circuit would be in effect and
same-sex marriages would be taking place in the
state this month.
“They were preparing to celebrate the death of
Proposition 8 today,” Pugno said on Dec. 7, “and so
it is very significant that the Supreme Court is to
decide this case.”
Nine states and the District of Columbia have
marriage equality on the books, and advocates
believe momentum is on their side for changing
attitudes in favor of accommodating same-sex
marriage. In November, Washington, Maine and
Maryland became the first states to approve gay
marriage at the ballot box, joining six other states
and the District of Columbia that have approved
gay marriage legislatively. Also in November, Minnesota voters rejected an attempt to ban gay marriage, although it is not authorized. Previously,
voters in 32 states passed referendums in defining
marriage as the union of a man and a woman.
“Nobody was surprised that a handful of liberal states decided to experiment with redefining
marriage,” said Pugno. “But it is an illustration
that the issue should be allowed to play out in the
legislative arena and not involve the courts. It also
undermines the claim that the gay and lesbian
community is a politically powerless minority entitled to extra constitutional protections,” he said.
He added, “More than 7 million Californians of
all races, creeds and walks of life voted for Proposition 8 to preserve the traditional definition of
marriage because they believe that the unique relationship between one man and one woman continues to meaningfully serve as the cornerstone of
society, as it has since the beginning of time.”
AGING: Catholic Charities CYO outreach helps elderly woman in need
FROM PAGE 1
The story of the care provided the woman, who
is not being identified as her family wants to
protect her privacy, illustrates the efficiency of
services provided at Catholic Charities San Francisco Aging Services, said Clement-Cihak. It also
shows the growing needs of an aging population,
and is one example of a growing number of cases
of dementia that will continue to spike in the coming years.
“We made a few phone calls, and we know how
to implement services in a speedy time frame to
service the clients we need to serve, and within a
day we had home-care lined up, and had her certified for transportation to and from programs,” said
Clement-Cihak.
Because of the Thanksgiving holiday that week,
a decision was made not to have the woman begin
attending Catholic Charities CYO’s five-day-a-week
adult day program until the following Monday,
because Catholic Charities CYO did not want to
confuse the woman by beginning a service that
would have to be interrupted by the holiday.
The woman now has 24-hour care, while her
family makes plans for taking over responsibility
for her in a place closer to their homes on the East
Coast. A niece has visited the woman and other
family members are coming for a visit this month.
The woman never married and has no children.
She has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease
and Catholic Charities CYO is concerned about her
health and safety, said Clement-Cihak. The agency
has been working with her on her nutrition needs,
(PHOTO COURTESY CATHOLIC CHARITIES CYO)
Catholic Charities CYO San Francisco Adult Day Services
works with between 200 and 250 caregivers annually, and
serves from 60 to 75 seniors, 95 percent of whom have
Alzheimer’s disease or another form of dementia. Here, clients
are pictured working at computers.
having found that in a month and a half she had
lost 10 pounds – from 112 to 102 pounds, or 10 percent of her body weight. “That became our greatest
concern,” said Clement-Cihak.
The woman is a longtime California resident and
patron of the symphony and opera, but withdrew
from society, said Clement-Cihak. “She was a very
vibrant, active woman and then she pulled out of
everything. She removed herself from almost everything going on in the community,” she said.
“The hope and the plan is that she is reunited
with family,” said Clement-Cihak.
The family is receiving a combination of services from Catholic Charities CYO San Francisco
Aging Services – the adult day program and case
management services, which includes training and
education for caregivers in caring for seniors, and
helping them find other resources.
The agency’s adult day program works with between 200 and 250 caregivers annually, and serves
from 60 to 75 seniors, 95 percent of whom have Alzheimer’s disease or another form of dementia, at
the adult day program facility at 50 Broad St. in the
Ocean-Merced-Ingleside district in San Francisco.
The facility is small by design – there are currently 42 seniors in the program – because seniors
with dementia become more confused in larger
centers, said Clement-Cihak.
“The goal of the program is to help our seniors
stay at home and out of institutions and stay with
their family members, and by coming to the day
center they are able to get the physical and mental
stimulation that we have found and have been proven over the years to help slow down the process and
stabilize them, allowing them to function at the
highest level possible, and by giving them the extra
care they need as they progress with the disease,”
said Clement-Cihak.
Some signs of dementia, said Clement-Cihak,
include short-term memory loss, misplacing items,
not being able to pay bills, an unclean home and losing the ability for people to keep themselves clean
and neat. The disease affects what is known as
IADL – the independent activities of daily living.
26 COMMUNITY
Holy Name of Jesus School
remembers Natasha Holmes
Holy Name of Jesus School, San Francisco, is
mourning the loss of seventh grader Natasha
Maria Leigh Holmes, who died
at home Dec. 1 in the arms of
her parents, Suzanne and Ken,
and her sister Marissa.
Natasha was diagnosed with
a malignant brain tumor in
January 2008 and made a full
recovery after neurosurgery,
radiation and chemotherapy.
That’s when her parents
Natasha Maria
decided to take action by
Leigh Holmes
becoming advocates for the
Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation, a nonprofit
that partners with several hospitals, including
the University of California, San Francisco,
where Natasha was treated, to research better
treatments for the number one cancer killer in
children.
Natasha’s parents were delighted when
Holy Name joined TEAM NATASHA and
initiated two fundraising drives, a free-dress
day and T-shirts and bracelets sale, raising
$3,838 for the PBTF. Natasha’s health deteriorated in March 2012, and she lost her battle
nine months later. “Natasha’s family is grateful for the loving care of their daughter at
Holy Name and the generosity of the teachers, parents and students who donated their
time and money to the PBTF,” Natasha’s
mom said. “Natasha will be remembered for
her creativity, gentle nature, loyalty to family,
friends and favorite teachers, and her grace
and dignity in accepting a cruel disease.”
Holy Name principal Judy Cosmos said, “The
Holy Name school community was blessed
to have Natasha Holmes as a student.” The
school remembered Natasha at a memorial
Mass Dec. 13.
CEMETERY CORNER
GEORGE MOSCONE
(PHOTO COURTESY ST. ANTHONY FOUNDATION/TAYLOR SKILLIN)
Giants mascot at
St. Anthony’s
A St. Anthony Foundation pediatric clinic patient gets a warm
welcome from Lou Seal, the San Francisco Giants mascot, as she
arrives for her appointment at the clinic in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco. St. Anthony Foundation’s Free Medical
Clinic provides free primary and specialty care to 3,400 uninsured
patients through more than 12,000 visits a year. Approximately 90
percent of clinic patients earn less than $10,000 a year and 25
percent are homeless.
SHARE COMMUNITY NEWS: Email brief
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csf@sfarchdiocese.org, or call Tom Burke at
(415) 614-5634.
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He was a city boy, born and raised – a St.
Brigid and St. Ignatius alumnus. He grew
up to be the mayor of San Francisco and
lost his life serving the city he loved. Mayor
George Moscone spent his life working for
the working people and serving the underserved. As a member of the California state
Senate, he sponsored legislation instituting
the school lunch program and fought against
the death penalty. As mayor, he pushed for
district elections and helped keep the future
world champion San Francisco Giants from
moving to Toronto. He was a strong advocate
of the inclusion of women and minorities in
government service. Today, he is memorialized throughout San Francisco at places as
diverse as the Moscone Convention Center,
Moscone Elementary in the Mission and
Moscone Playground in the Marina. On Nov.
27, 1978, Mayor Moscone and San Francisco
Supervisor Harvey Milk were shot and
killed at City Hall by former Supervisor
Dan White. Following his funeral Mass at
St. Mary’s Cathedral, this man of the people
The grave site of George Moscone
was buried among his San Francisco neighbors in the St. Michael section at Holy Cross
Cemetery.
Cemetery Corner is an occasional feature marking the 125th anniversary of Holy Cross Catholic
Cemetery, Colma.
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OBITUARIES
MARIANIST FATHER DAVID H. SCHUYLER, 79
Marianist Father David H. Schuyler died Nov.
19 in Cupertino at the Marianist
retirement facility. A Marianist for
61 years and a priest for 57 years,
he would have been 80 on Dec. 14.
Father Schuyler held a doctorate
in canon law and held assignments
at his congregation’s Chaminade
University in Honolulu as well as
the canon law departments of the
Diocese of Honolulu and the DioFather David H.
cese of San Jose.
Schuyler, SM
A funeral Mass was celebrated
Nov. 30 at St. Joseph of Cupertino Church, Cupertino, with interment at Gate of Heaven Cemetery in
Los Altos.
Memorials may be made to the Marianist Province
of the U.S., 4425 W. Pine Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63108.
SISTER MARJORY MAXINE KRAEMER, RSCJ, 88
Religious of the Sacred Heart Marjory Maxine
Kraemer died Wednesday, November 28, at Oakwood, the Society
of the Sacred Heart’s elder care
center in Atherton. She was 88 and
a religious for 67 years. A funeral
Mass will be celebrated Dec. 29, 10
a.m. at Oakwood, 140 Valparaiso
Ave., Atherton followed by burial in
Oakwood’s cemetery.
Sister Marjory
Sister Marjory was impressed
Maxine Kraemer,
by the Society of the Sacred Heart
RSCJ
when on a visit to the sisters’ San
Francisco College for Women
where her sister was a student. “As long as I can
remember, I’d had a vocation, but this visit greatly
influenced my future,” the late religious said in
personal notes. “I knew that God wanted me to be
a part of this extraordinary group of women, who
were so loving and dedicated, and whose education
was superior to anything I had experienced in twelve
years of Catholic education.”
Sister Marjory’s first teaching assignment was at
the Convent of the Sacred Heart in San Francisco,
1948, and later Convent of the Sacred Heart in Menlo
Park, where she taught English, science and math,
managed athletics, taught music appreciation, was
charged with the nuns’ choir, and was organist as
well. She spent 24 years, retiring in 1992, as head of
St. Madeleine Sophie’s Center, in Southern California serving people with developmental disabilities.
She moved to Oakwood in 2010.
“She was always happy in whatever God sent
her to do,” said Sacred Heart Sister Anita Lapeyre.
“What was so prevalent about her was her constant
trust in God.”
Memorial contributions may be made to the Society of the Sacred Heart, 4120 Forest Park Ave., St.
Louis, MO 63108.
SISTER CATHERINE HENRY, RSCJ, 94
Religious of the Sacred Heart Sister Catherine
Henry died Nov. 12, at Oakwood,
the Society of the Sacred Heart’s elder care center in Atherton. A memorial Mass was celebrated Dec. 1
at Oakwood. Sister Catherine was
94 and a religious for 77 years.
Sister Catherine’s education
ministry began in 1938 in Chicago,
then Seattle and in 1958 Omaha,
Neb., where she served in many
Sister Catherine
capacities at Duchesne Academy
Henry, RSCJ
of the Sacred Heart and Duchesne
College for more than 30 years.
One of Sister Henry’s nieces, Mary Henry
Costello, said, through the Sacred Heart Sisters,
that Sister Catherine had a major influence on
“thousands of young girls” in her years at Seattle’s
Forest Ridge, where she prepared little ones for
the reception of the sacraments, as well as “thousands of young women” later at Duchesne College.
“But she made an even greater impression on us,”
Costello said, “her family, when in her later years
she became simply Aunt Catherine and taught us
what true love is.”
Survivors include a sister, Margaret O’Neill,
nephews Jesuit Fathers Tom O’Neill, and Bill
O’Neill, Joseph O’Neill, M.D., and nieces Rita
Henry, Jean Seibel and Mary Costello.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Society of the Sacred Heart, 4120 Forest Park Ave., St.
Louis, MO 63108.
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Travel with
Chaplain
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Plus...Fatima, Portugal & Lourdes, France
14 Days
Departing April 9, 2013
from
$2398*
Fly into Madrid (2 nights) to start your
Catholic Pilgrimage. You’ll tour Madrid, the
Royal Palace, and the Toledo Cathedral. Visit
Segovia and Avila (1 night) with private Mass
at St. Theresa Convent. Visit the Old and
New Cathedrals in Salamanca with Mass; and
Fatima, Portugal (2 nights) with sightseeing,
time for personal devotions and Mass at Our
Lady of Fatima Basilica. Experience Sunday
Mass and tour at Bom Jesus Church and Shrine
in Braga and tour Santiago de Compostela
(2 nights) and visit sanctuaries, Bernadette’s
House and Celebrate Mass at Chapel Lourdes at the Grotto. Sightsee in Barcelona (2 nights)
including the Cathedral, choir and Mass. Fly
home Sunday, April 22, 2013. Includes daily
breakfast and 11 dinners, English/Spanish
speaking tour director throughout! Single
room add $650. Your YMT chaplain, Fr. Frank
Wittouck, SCJ is a former Army chaplain;
was pastor of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton in
Houston, TX and currently ministers in
prisons and in the Cypress Assistance
Ministries. This will be his sixth trip as
chaplain with YMT. *Price per person/double
occupancy. Airfare is extra.
For reservations & details & letter from YMT’s chaplain with his
phone number call 7 days a week:
1-800-736-7300
Catholic San Francisco
TRAVEL DIRECTORY
to join in the following pilgrimages
Msgr Labib Kobti presents
Holy Land Pilgrimage April 15-25, 2013
invites you
THE HOLY LAND
Jan. 8 - 19, 2013
Visit holy sites of Jerusalem, Bethlehem,
Nazareth, and Cana
Departs San Francisco
12-Day Pilgrimage
with Fr. Chris Crotty G.P.M.
2,999 per person
only $
($3,099 after Oct. 19, 2012)
Visit: Tel Aviv, Netanya, Caesarea, Mt. Carmel, Tiberias,
Upper Galilee, Bethany, Jerusalem
For a FREE brochure
on these pilgrimages contact:
Catholic San Francisco (415)
614-5640
Please leave your name,
mailing address and your phone number
California Registered Seller of Travel
Registration Number CST-2037190-40
(Registration as a Seller of Travel does not
constitute approval by the State of California)
Float on the Dead Sea, sail on the Sea
of Galilee, break bread and dance with
local Christians
Cross the Jordan River to see Mt. Nebo,
the Madaba Mosaic Map, and Petra
Double occupancy * breakfast & dinner - RT San Francisco
$3,600 for registration prior to January 15
www.HolyLandInstitute.org
Leader Dr. Claudia Devaux (805) 544-9088
Linsil Travel (415) 239-4200
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FRIDAY, DEC. 14
CHRISTMAS CONCERT: St. Charles
Parish. 880 Tamarack Ave., San
Carlos, 7 p.m. Adult and children’s
choirs sing stories of Christmas and
present an encore performance of
“Bright Light,” an original children’s
musical with music by Patti Beale
Kelii and words by God. Bring your
sunglasses! Admission is free. An
offering will be taken for the support of the music ministries at St.
Charles.
ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY: Conversation group on ancient philosophical
texts, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough
Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, Msgr. Bowe Room, 7:30-10 p.m.
reynaldo.miranda@gmail.com. (415)
584 8794.
SATURDAY, DEC. 15
MISSION SAN RAFAEL: 195th anniversary of Mission San Rafael Arcangel, 1-4 p.m. Fascinating presentations
on the history of Mission San Rafael
and those who helped shape Marin,
followed by a performance of Mission era music by the Chanticleer LAB
Choir. Teri Brunner ,(415) 454-8141,
ext. 12 or visit www.saintraphael.
com. Free.
SIMBANG GABI: Novena of Advent Masses with Filipino-American
communities of Immaculate Heart of
Mary, Our Lady of Angels, St. Bartholomew, St. Catherine, St. Gregory,
St. Luke and St. Mark in observance
of Simbang Gabi, a spiritual preparation for Christmas. Masses are daily
at 7 p.m. Dec. 15-23 at St. Mark
Church, 325 Marine View Ave., Belmont. Daily confessions from 6-6:45
p.m. Call St. Mark Church, (650)
591-5937.
SUNDAY, DEC. 16
HOLIDAY BOUTIQUE: St. Ignatius
Church, Parker Avenue at Fulton,
San Francisco. Fromm Hall behind
the church 8:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m.
Christmas gifts, hostess gifts, gifts
for the home, puppets, clothing for
girls, holiday treats, ornaments,
cards, and more. Proceeds benefit
parish social ministries and stewardship
CHRISTMAS CONCERT: Mission
Dolores Basilica Choir, directed by
Jerome Lenk, 5 p.m., Mission Dolores Basilica, 16th Street at Dolores,
San Francisco. Selections include
Vivaldi’s “Gloria,” and various songs
of the season. Free parking. $25
reserved, $20 general admission.
(415) 621.8203. www.missiondolores.org.
SIMBANG GABI: Novena of Masses
at St. Stephen Church, 23rd Avenue
at Eucalyptus, San Francisco, Dec.
16-24, 6 a.m., in preparation for
Christmas with parishioners from
St. Cecilia, St. Finn Barr, St. Gabriel, Hispanic and Burmese communities, Knights of Columbus, the
Legion of Mary. Nellie Hizon,(415)
699-7927.
ENGLISH CHRISTMAS: Golden
Gate Boys Choir and Bellringers with
the drama, pageantry and elegance
of a 16th-century Christmas celebration at St. Mary’s Cathedral
Event Center, Gough Street at Geary
Boulevard, San Francisco, 4-8 p.m.
The dinner theater evening features
the GGBC, raffle and silent auction.
Adults $150/children $85. www.
ggbc.org. (510) 887-4311 or (415)
431-1137. Free parking.
TUESDAY, DEC. 18
CHRISTMAS LUNCH: Good Shepherd Guild at the Olympic Club,
Lakeside Clubhouse, 11:30 a.m.
Tickets at $70 include 3-course
luncheon and valet parking. Contact
Judy Terracina, (415) 753/2081).
Proceeds benefit Good Shepherd
Gracenter.
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 19
CARDINAL LEVADA ON
VATICAN II:
“Vatican II at
50: Looking
back, moving
forward,”
an evening
with Cardinal
William J.
Levada, archbishop emeri- Cardinal William
tus, ArchdiJ. Levada
ocese of San
Francisco and retired prefect
of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the
Faith, 7 p.m., St. Rita Church,
Sir Francis Drake Boulevard
and Miranda Drive, Fairfax.
Ordained to the priesthood
in Rome’s St. Peter’s Basilica
in 1961 and ordained bishop
in 1983, Cardinal Levada has
held leadership positions at
all levels of church life and
on major works including the
Catechism of the Catholic
Church. All are invited. (415)
456-4815.
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FRIDAY, DEC. 28
ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY: Conversation group on ancient philosophical
texts, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough
Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, Msgr. Bowe Room, 7:30-10 p.m.
reynaldo.miranda@gmail.com. (415)
584 8794.
MONDAY, DEC. 31
NEW YEAR RETREAT: Dominican
Sisters of Mission San Jose Motherhouse, 43326 Mission Blvd, entrance
on Mission Tierra Place, Fremont, 7
p.m.-midnight. RSVP by Dec. 26 at
blessings@msjdominicans.org.
SEPARATED DIVORCED: Meeting
takes place first and third Wednesdays,
7:30 p.m., St. Stephen Parish O’Reilly
Center, 23rd Avenue at Eucalyptus,
San Francisco. Groups are part of the
Separated and Divorced Catholics
Ministry in the archdiocese and include
prayer, introductions and sharing. It is
a drop-in support group. Jesuit Father
Al Grosskopf, (415) 422-6698, grosskopf@usfca.edu.
YOUTH RALLY: “Shine!” with Jesse
Manibusan for junior high school
and high school students at Mission
Dolores, 16th Street at Dolores, San
Francisco. “Come and learn more
about our faith celebrate Mass and
connect with friends,” the Office of
Religious Education and Youth Ministry
said. Cost is $20 per person. High
school students welcome to volunteer.
Contact Vivian Clausing at clausingv@
sfarchdiocese.org with questions or to
register.
GRIEF SUPPORT: Free grief support
session, St. Mary’s Cathedral, third
Wednesday of the month, 10:30 a.m.noon, Msgr. Bowe Room, parking lot
level. Call Sister Esther, (415) 5672020, ext. 218.
FATIMA MASS: Immaculate Conception Chapel, 9 a.m., 3255 Folsom St.,
off Cesar Chavez, San Francisco,
Franciscan Father Guglielmo Lauriola,
pastor emeritus, celebrant and homilist. (650) 269-2121.
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CONCERT: Our Lady of Loretto
School’s Christmas Concert, 7 p.m.,
Our Lady of Loretto Church, Novato. Students perform a variety of
traditional holiday music selections and
a “Live Nativity” that will include all the
students. Admission is free.
SATURDAY, JAN. 5
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SATURDAY, JAN. 26
WALK FOR LIFE: Walk for Life West
Coast, “the most exciting pro-life
event in America,” supporters say. The
day kicks off with Mass at St. Mary’s
Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary
Boulevard, San Francisco, 9:30 a.m.
The Walk for Life Rally begins at 12:30
p.m. at Civic Center Plaza, followed
by the Walk for Life on Market Street
at 1:30 p.m. Visit www.walkforlifewc.
com.
CRAB FEED: Archbishop Riordan High School hosts its annual Crab Feed benefitting Crusader athletics, 6 p.m. Enjoy delicious
fresh crab, good fun, and good company. Tickets $55. Visit www.riordanhs.
org or call Sharon Udovich, (415)5868200 ext. 217. Event will sell out–book
early!
WALK FOR LIFE: Archbishop
Salvatore J.
Cordileone,
actress Jennifer O’Neill,
and thousands
of pro-life
advocates
participate
in the Walk
Jennifer O’Neill
for Life West
Coast. The
day kicks off with Mass at St.
Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at
Geary Boulevard, San Francisco,
9:30 a.m. The Walk for Life Rally
begins at 12:30 p.m. at Civic Center Plaza followed by the Walk for
Life on Market Street at 1:30 p.m.
Visit www.walkforlifewc.com.
SATURDAY, FEB. 2
CONFIRMATION RETREAT: “Catch
the Spirit” at Immaculate Heart of
Mary Parish, Alameda de las Pulgas at
Ralston Ave., Belmont, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
with Brother Scott Slattern, for junior
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at St. Pius Parish, Homer Crouse Hall,
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City, 7 p.m. (650) 361-1411, ext. 121.
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“125 Years of History, Ministry & Service”
A book celebrating the story of Holy Cross Cemetery
Books now available
$20.00
Books may be purchased at the cemetery office or by mail.
If you wish to purchase by mail, please add $3.00 and
send request to:
Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery
P.O. Box 1577, Colma, CA 940l4
HELP WANTED
CATHOLIC CEMETERIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO
– CONTROLLER –
The Cemetery Department of the Archdiocese of San Francisco seeks a full-time
Controller. This is a professional “exempt” level position that reports to the Director
of Cemeteries and offices at Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma.
Job Description:
The Controller assists the Director of Cemeteries with the stewardship of the physical,
financial and personnel resources of the Cemetery Department, in accordance with
the Archdiocesan policies and guidelines. The Controller is a person of faith committed to Gospel values. He or she values the organization and responsible management
of resources and helps the Cemetery Department fulfill its mission and purposes.
Job Requirements:
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Public or Non-profit Administration or
equivalent, relevant work experience. Master’s degree a plus.
• Certified Public Accountant; experience in working with non-profits a plus
• Extensive knowledge of generally accepted accounting principles and best practices
• Strong knowledge of accounting software applications, including spreadsheets,
word processing and database programs (Access, Excel, Word), Unix, Quickbooks,
and the ability to learn new software.
• Ability and experience in hiring, supervising and coaching employees
• Ability to plan, organize, set schedules, prioritize tasks, and work with other members of the staff in a collegial and collaborative manner
• Must be highly detail oriented, well organized, resourceful, sensitive to confidentiality issues, self-motivated and professional
• Active practicing Roman Catholic who understands and supports the teachings of
the Roman Catholic Church, preferred
Please send cover letter and resume to
Monica Williams, Director:
email mjwilliams@holycrosscemeteries.com
or fax 650.757.0752
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Office of the President Archbishop Riordan High School
Archbishop Riordan High School in San Francisco is seeking highly qualified candidates
for the Office of the President.
Archbishop Riordan High School (ARHS) is a Catholic all male San Francisco Archdiocesan High School, founded in 1949. ARHS is sponsored by the Society of Mary (Marianist).
The Characteristics of Marianist Education are as follows:
Educate for formation in faith
• Educate in the family spirit
• Provide an integral, quality education
• Educate for service, justice and peace
• Educate for adaptation and change
ARHS prepares young men of San Francisco, the surrounding communities and various
countries from around the world for leadership through its inclusive college preparatory
curriculum. ARHS fosters development in faith, character, academics, the arts and
athletics, in a diverse and inclusive family environment. The school currently serves 625
students including 40 international students from six different countries. The international
students reside on the ARHS campus.
ARHS is a WASC accredited school. The school received the maximum six-year accreditation during the last review. The current accreditation is in place through 2014.
Qualifications and Requirements:
• The qualified candidate with be a practicing Catholic in good standing with the
Church, and will have obtained a minimum of a Masters’ Degree in Administration,
and experience in secondary education.
POSITION: Office of the President: Exempt, Full-time, Salaried position with an
extensive benefits package
Support CSF
Be a part a growing ministry
that connects the faithful in the
90 parishes of the archdiocese.
If you would like to add your
tax-deductible contribution, please
mail a check, payable to Catholic
San Francisco, to: Catholic San
Francisco, Dept. W, One Peter Yorke
Way, San Francisco CA 94109.
RESPONSIBILITIES: The responsibilities of the Office of the President include but are
not necessarily limited to the following:
Faith-Based Outreach Coordinator:
Mission Hospice and Home Care is
Looking for a bi-lingual individual to reach out to Catholic
and Protestant churches In San Mateo County with
Spanish-speaking congregations, communicating the
value of comfort care. This individual should be
comfortable discussing death and dying with church
pastors and congregations. This is a 20-hour a week
position, including some evenings and weekends.
Call Rev. Linda Siddall at 650.554.1000, Extension 253,
or email your resume to lsiddall@missionhospice.org.
Associate Director of Youth Ministry and Catechesis
Archdiocese of San Francisco-Office of Religious Education and Youth Ministry
This is a full-time, Exempt position that reports to the
Director of Religious Education
Start date: Immediately
Facilitation of comprehensive youth ministry formation of
Youth Leaders in parishes and provides leadership to
assist parish or deaneries in building a solid formation of
faith growth for students in grades 7-12 and their parents.
Includes programs for confirmation preparation, master
catechist formation and collaboration with various departments
in the Archdiocese and region.
Strong interpersonal and problem resolution skills.
Excellent verbal, written and communication skills (Spanish Language
helpful) Able to work in a multi-cultural setting. Organized, reliable,
timely; and good planning skills.
Proficient in WORD, Publishing and Excel. Practicing Catholic in good standing.
Masters Degree in youth ministry, faith formation or related fields.
4-6 years experience in parish and diocesan ministry.
Valid Calif. drivers license with clean driving record and car for work.
Able to work nights and weekends.
Send cover letter, resume and three references to:
arbucklec@sfarchdiocese.org
or Sister Celeste Arbuckle, SSS,
One Peter Yorke Way, SF 94109
• Maintain the Catholicity and Marianist Charism of ARHS.
• Primary responsibility to maintain respectful and cordial relationships
with all Archdiocesan Offices and Officials, The Board of Trustees, the
Society of Mary and the Parent Board.
• Report to, seek the advice of and act upon the agreed direction of the Board of
Trustees to insure the continued successful operation of ARHS now and in the
future. The Board of Trustees meets with the President and appropriate staff at
regularly scheduled Executive Board and Full Board meetings five times during
the school year. The President should be prepared to advise the Board of Trustees
on the status of the following: current status and strategic plans for various School
Departments, implementation of said plans and integration into the various programs at ARHS.
• Supports the Office of the Principal to insure the success of the Academic and
Activities Programs.
• Direct, Manage and Support the efforts of various Administrative Departments to
insure the success of their missions. Observe and evaluate the staff of the
Administrative Dept.
REPORTS: The Office of the President reports to the Archbishop of San Francisco, through the
Archdiocesan Superintendent of Catholic Schools, the ARHS Board of Trustees and the Society of Mary.
Qualified applicants should send Resume and Cover Letter to:
Huntingtonm@sfarchdiocese.org
Or mail Resume and Cover Letter to:
Maureen Huntington, Superintendent of Schools
4th Annual Holiday Boutique
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IGNATIUS CHURCH
ST. IGNATIUS CHURCH
650 Parker Avenue Parker at Fulton, Fromm Hall
ST. IGNATIU
Sunday, December 16th – 8:30 a.m. until 6:30 p.m.
Stella and Dot
Margy Lico Scout handbags
th Sense
Sunday, December 16 Bath
Sunday, Dec
A fine selection of bath + body
Lola of San Francisco
8:30 a.m.
until
8:30
products, PJs, robes,
candles, a.m. un
Silk, painted
scarves6:30 p.m.
Fashion forward jewelry and
accessories-for all ages
Mary Blum Jewels
and gifts
Original and elegant jewelry
Ses Petites Mains
Period George
Stunning chic clothing for girls
12mo - 16
Beautiful cards and ornaments
Parish Bookstore
Back Burner Bliss Chutney
Timeless Treasures
Antique Silver
One-of-a-kind vintage treasures
Sterling and silver plate serving
pieces and gorgeous accessories
Folkmanis Puppets
Innovative and Creative Puppets
Ann Marie Milo
of Crumb Cookies
Homemade Peppermint Bark
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In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred
In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of November
HOLY CROSS
COLMA
Gloria Accinelli
Herta Aha
Guido Alasia
Frances Alioto
Eufrosina Azedillo
Gloria Badiyo
David Baioni
Placida Ballesteros
Margaret Banchero
Ann Barreto
Richard Battaglia
Cesar Bermudez
G. Joseph Bertain, Jr.
John Bluth
Victor Bonilla, Sr.
Stanley Bray
Betty Burton
Barbara Callan
Jose Camiguing
Dorothy Canonica
Thomas Casey
Wilson Castaneda
Eddy Castillo
Leona Cavalier
Lorraine Cecchini
Clifford Chase, Jr.
Floraine Chiechi
Expectacion Chiuco
Owen Connolly
Salvatore Cozzolino
Evelyn Cunningham
Cecilia Deehan
Carlos delaSota
Irene Demartini
Clinton Dennis
Velma Deschner
Elsie Dizaboulet
Kenneth Driscoll
Rudolph Duran
Ann Essary
Dolores Flores
Isabel Flores
Alejandro Gaitan
Elise Galtier
Estelina Garcia
Esther Gargaritano
Charles Gavette
Louis Giannini
Romeo Guiang
George Haley, Jr.
Amy Hegarty
Dora Heinz
Milton Heinz
Marie Idiart
Eddy Izarra
Sarah Jordan
Lloyd Kearns
Thanh Lai
Joan Liuzzi
Laura Lopez
Margaret Lutge
Carmen Mabey
John Mabey
Ray Mainini
Terry Martinez
Martin Martinez
Odila Martinez
Angela McAulay
Mark McCloud
Marie McFadden-Mitchell
Joy McLemore
Francisca Mendoza
Adoracion Miculob
Ellen Murphy
Ida Norton
Maria O’Brien
Therese Oostermeyer
Teodora Ortiz
Peter Osuna
Romeo Palarca
Carmela Passanisi
Jeff Perez
Richard Pieretti
Michael Pineda
Barbara Pirotto
Mary Reina
Bernardo Remedios
Evangeline Reyes
Marian Rezos
Ruth Ricco
Maria Rodriguez
Pauline Ruth
Louis Sacha
Susana Salgado
Rigoberto Sanchez
Grace Scholz
Sofia Serrano
Alejandro Sobalvarro
Anita Spedicci
Rita Sweeney
Lawrence Sylvestri
Ciriaco Tumamak
Soledad Uy
Everardo Valadez
Pia Valera
Nora Villanueva
Susan Wong
Anthony Zappettini
MT. OLIVET,
SAN RAFAEL
Catherine Gould
Julius Herbst
Sister M. Regina Kelly, C.S.N.
Wilma Lockman
Evelyn Petray
Rita Marie Schroeder
Alfred Simionato
OUR LADY OF
THE PILLAR
Patricia Fellman
HOLY CROSS
MENLO PARK
Bernice Dittmann
Eugene Doyle
Deanna Gonzales
Nancy Jackman
Elizabeth Stivala
Eva Varga
HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY, COLMA
FIRST SATURDAY MASS – Saturday, January 5, 2013
All Saints Mausoleum Chapel – 11:00 am
Rev. Tony LaTorre, Celebrant
Pastor, St. Philip the Apostle Church
A Tradition of Faith Throughout Our Lives.

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