Catholic sanFrancisco Northern California’s Weekly Catholic Newspaper (PHOTO BY JOSÉ LUIS AGUIRRE/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO) BY JOSÉ LUIS AGUIRRE/CATHOLIC (PHOTO On San Francisco’s Embarcadero, young women lead the 6th annual Walk for Life West Coast Jan. 23. The event, which drew an estimated 35,000 participants despite rain showers, marks the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 decision making abortion legal. Walk for Life West Coast affirms dignity of life and support for women Thousands of people gathered in San from the San Francisco Bay Area, north- promote assisted suicide, Pro-Choice Francisco Embarcadero, walk partici- Francisco Jan. 23 for the 6th annual Walk ern California and beyond, as well mem- organizations, Planned Parenthood. It is pants gathered and heard from pro-life for Life West Coast, a pro-life rally and bers of evangelical and other Christian also true, however, that we have disagree- activists. walk that took place this year beneath grey denominations. ment, misunderstanding and opposition Frank Lee, coordinator of Asian clouds and intermittent rain. At an early morning, pre-walk Mass from among our own spiritual relatives, Americans Pro-Life, led the rally in a The cold and damp weather didn’t Jan. 23, at an overflowing St. Mary’s the family of believers within the Catholic prayer, saying: “Every life is precious seem to hamper attendance or enthusiasm. Cathedral in San Francisco, Archbishop Church, what we may call ‘the household and should be cherished. We have a tough Organizers of the pro-life event estimated George H. Niederauer said in his hom- of the faith.’ Of particular concern are battle in front of us, but we shall overcome there were more than 35,000 people pres- ily, “we seek to witness in our time and Catholics in public life who take pro- when we combine our efforts to make it a ent. The long line of people in the walk place to the unique and priceless value choice positions and vote for pro-choice perfect whole!” included teenagers and young people, of each human life, at every stage of life. legislation.” Students from San Francisco high parents with strollers, college students, In the pro-life cause we have recogniz- At the Walk for Life rally held later schools and from Stanford, UC-Berkeley, seminarians, and Catholic parishioners able opponents: Abortionists, those who the same morning at a plaza on the San WALK FOR LIFE WEST, page 11 Christians must unite in bringing Gospel values to world, pope says

By Cindy Wooden Walls, offering prayers and proclaiming the readings. ROME (CNS) – Divided Christians can The Week of Prayer 2010 focused on and must be united in meeting the modern the common Christian vocation to witness challenges of secularization, threats to to Christ in the world. human life, environmental destruction, war When the modern ecumenical move- and injustice, Pope Benedict XVI said. ment was launched, the pope said, it started “It is precisely the desire to proclaim with a conference of missionaries from Christ to others and bring the world his different denominations who gathered in message of reconciliation that makes one Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1910 to reflect on experience the contradiction of Christian ways to promote Christian unity in order to divisions,” the pope said Jan. 25 as he preach the Gospel more effectively. closed the Week of Prayer for Christian The obvious question, he said, was: Unity. “How, in fact, can unbelievers accept the

Leaders of Orthodox, Anglican and proclamation of the Gospel if Christians, HARING) (CNS PHOTO/PAUL Protestant communities in Rome joined while all referring to the same Christ, are Pope Benedict XVI arrives to celebrate vespers closing the Week of Prayer for the pope for the annual prayer service in disagreement among themselves?” Christian Unity at the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls in Rome Jan. 25. at the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the POPE SAYS UNITE, page 5 INSIDE THIS WEEK’S EDITION Interfaith memorial service . 3 Archbishop’s Journal ...... 8 The Memory Project . . . .CSW6 Epic prep sports rivalry .CSW8 A call for heroes ...... CSW11 Haiti earthquake Special Supplement ‘Magic of Ordinary Days’ Datebook ...... 13 relief update ‘Catholic Schools Week’ TV movie airs Jan. 30 Services, classified ads . 14-15 ~ Page 5 ~ ~ Pages CSW1-16 ~ ~ Page 12 ~ www.catholic-sf.org January 29, 2010 ONE DOLLAR VOLUME 12 • No. 4 2 Catholic San Francisco January 29, 2010

Our Lady of Loretto fourth grade On The basketball team and leadership. Back from left: Greg `Gus’ Martin, Rich Brown; and head coach, Tom Lauchenauer. Middle from left: Griffin Wright, Peter Brown, Matthew Lauchenauer, Justin Simonetti. Where You Live Front from left: Vinny Martin, Mitchell Timberman, Caden Franceschini, By Tom Burke Christian Seaman-Pedersen, Nick Hartshorn, Cole McCue. Congrats to fourth graders from Novato’s Our Lady of Loretto Elementary School who took first place in their group in the annual Flame Tournament, a winter tourney open to all Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of San Francisco and sponsored by the San Francisco Fire Department for more than 40 years. More than 100 teams took part SF firefighter, Rich Brown, told me – 32 at the Dolorosa in 1961 and I’m a graduate of the class of 1971,” Bechelli, Cathy Spinetta Derenz, Joan Fields James, fourth grade level alone. Rich and his wife, Bernadette, Brian Dunleavy said….. Kudos, too, for new Eagle Scout Darlene Daquioag Klunk, Barbara Sheppard, Mary are the proud folks of Peter, a member of the fourth grade Duncan Sinfield, who was inducted in November. Bustin’ Rodigou, Jo Acgaoili Gleason, Anna Pasquini Freslaben, OLL championship team, Katie, an OLL third grader, and at the seams are his parents, Kathy Cindy Franks Forbes, Colleen O’Brien Michael, who is in kindergarten there. Thanks to Anne and Fred, and brother, Ryan - all of Quilici, Robin Villa, Randy Crispen, Martin for getting us the good news. Anne and her husband, Redwood City’s Our Lady of Mt. Michael Delohery, Matt Spano, Greg, also known as Gus, are proud parents of Vinny, a Carmel Parish - and grandfolks, Eileen Tom Sweeney, Vince Maniaci, Bob fourth grade championship team member, and Marco, an and Angelo Giannini…. Old friends Bustamante, George Simmons, Jay eighth grader at OLL…. Now serving in the Boys Scouts gathered in December at the San Mercado, Donna Holmes Enjaian, top rank of Eagle Scout is Patrick Francis Dunleavy, a Francisco home of George Horsfall, a Kathie Davis Magnussen, Barbara graduate of Junipero Serra High School and now a fresh- 1974 graduate of St. Ignatius College Gleason Browne, Marianne Ambrose man at UC Davis. Mighty proud are his parents, Fran and Preparatory. The group had rees- Emerson, Teresa Pudlow Noce, Sharon Brian, brother, Chris, and granddads, Pat Dunleavy and tablished contact via Facebook. “San McElearney, Janet Capurro, Lisa Frank Cianciolo, who became an Eagle Scout in 1945. The Francisco was a large city with a small Dell’Osso Depew, Patti Devine Geib, family parish is South San Francisco’s Mater Dolorosa. town feel back in the 1960s and 70s,” Vince DeLucca, Ellen Johnson Zedge, “Both Frank and my dad were founding members of Mater said Claire Mibach-Fugate, Mercy, SF Theresa Guthrie Bowen, Hilda Dudum ’74, in a note to this column. “Catholic Herrera, Bob Guiliani, Kathy Conefrey high school kids all knew one another McEvoy, Kathy McCarthy, Charles back then. We all plan to get together Hanley, Jim Petrini, Sam Ghanyam, again and invite more of the old gang.”… Joe Bui, and Dan Costello…This is an Art came to life recently at Holy Name Eagle Scout Duncan Sinfield empty space without you. E-mail items of Jesus Parish when cast and crew and electronic pictures – jpegs at no less members from NBC’s “Trauma” filmed in Golden gate Park than 300 dpi – to [email protected] or mail and took their lunch break in the Sunset District church’s them to Street, One Peter Yorke Way, SF 94109. Thank Parish Hall. “The priests, Sisters and staff were asked to you. My phone number is (415) 614-5634. join them and we all enjoyed the great variety of dishes,” said Colleen Durkin, par- Eagle Scout Patrick ish secretary. “The episode Dunleavy, with they were filming will not his grandfather, air until spring but the City Frank Cianciolo, makes a perfect backdrop and Father Brian for stories of our own first Costello, pastor, responders.” Congrats to Mater Dolorosa Old Catholic high school friends gathered at Christmas Coleen and her fellow Holy Church. included Kevin Carroll, SI ’72; George Horsfall, SI ‘74; Name Elementary School Claire Mibach-Fugate, Mercy, SF ‘74; Kevin Dinapoli, class of ’72 grads who held SI ’72; Neil Kelly, SI ’72; Bernadette Kelly, Convent of a two-day reunion over the the Sacred Heart ’74. Taking the pix was Steve Fugate, summer. Joining Colleen in Marin Catholic ’73. the fun were Cecilia Boden

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The 23rd annual Interfaith Memorial Service for Abortion Victims was held Jan. 22 at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church in San Francisco. The service included reflections by Metropolitan Nikitas of the Dardanelles, above, representing Metropolitan Gerasimos of San Francisco, and Archbishop George H. Niederauer. Martin and Carole Kilgariff, left, of the Serra Club in San Francisco participated in the Offering of Roses. In the offering, representatives of more than 40 pro-life groups brought roses in remembrance of the more than 1.5 million babies aborted each year since the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe vs. Wade decision. ‘We are called to witness to truth’ Marking the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity as well as the anniversary of Archbishop Niederauer says Roe vs. Wade, the service was organized by the Interfaith Committee for Life. The following is an excerpt from Archbishop George Niederauer’s reflection at an Interfaith Memorial Service for the victims of abortion Jan 22 at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church. (See www.catholic-sf.org and www.sfarchdiocese.org for full text.) Join Our As in the story [Luke 20:9-26] of the tenant farmers and the vineyard, the sins of pride and selfishness have led us to behave as if we are the absolute masters of human Celebration life, as if we have no accountability to anyone beyond ourselves, as if we have the right of to do violence to human life when it suits our purposes. Nevertheless, God still sends his servants, the prophets among us, to call us back to respect for, to accountability for, the precious gift of human life. We are called to witness to the truth about the gift of human WORLD DAY life, and to stand together with the modern prophets as they speak truth to the powers of OF THE SICK this world. We give this witness when we oppose abortion and assisted suicide, as well as the laws, organizations and individuals who promote them. However, as we witness to the precious value of human life, we may not resort to the tactics of those who oppose us. In this parable of Jesus, the servants who represent the owner of the vineyard suffer the violence of the farmers, but we are not told that they ARCHBISHOP responded in kind. In our time, many do violate human life violently, but we are not GEORGE therefore entitled to speak or act with violence. Nor may we become self-righteous, judg- ing ourselves to be better, holier, more virtuous, or more pleasing to God than others are. NIEDERAUER Indeed, we are not to judge ourselves or them—period. As St. Paul teaches, we leave the Principal Celebrant judging of persons to God. Serving the truth does not exempt us from serving humbly. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2010, 9:30 AM ^ FREE BOOK ^ about CATHEDRAL of SAINT MARY of the ASSUMPTION “The Passion” You have seen the movie, now read what Jesus says about the meaning of 1111 Gough Street at His Passion as dictated to Catalina Rivas. Geary, San Francisco This 48 page book has the “Imprimatur” and is recommended for meditation. Mrs. Rivas was featured in the recent FOX-TV special “Signs from God” that was broadcast worldwide. ^ To receive this book, send your name and address with $2 for shipping & handling to: Love and Mercy Publications P O Box 1160 ~ Hampstead, NC 28443

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Emily Mosher and Katy Nolan, both students at Clarion University in in Pennsylvania, listen to a woman talk about her abortion experiences NEWS brief during the annual March for Life rally on the National Mall in Washington Jan. 22. Catholics, Jews share biblical view on environment, commission says VATICAN CITY – Jews and Catholics believe that in order to be ethically legitimate any action that has an effect on the earth, on animals and especially on human life must recognize that God is the creator of all, said members of an important dialogue. Members of the dialogue commission sponsored by the Vatican and the Chief Rabbinate of Israel met at the Vatican Jan. 17-20 to discuss Catholic and Jewish teaching on creation and on the environment. In a statement

issued at the end of the meeting, the commission said there E. KOSSOFF-NORDBY) (CNS PHOTO/LESLIE is a tension between “secular environmentalist movements and religious perspectives” on ecology, because Christians quality, life-giving care is available to all,” said a letter signed More than 60 percent of seniors ages 65 and up called and Jews follow biblical teaching that gives human beings by Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston and abortion morally wrong, as did 60 percent of those from a special place and a special responsibility for the rest Bishops William F. Murphy of Rockville Centre, N.Y., and Generation X (ages 30-44) and 51 percent of baby boom- of creation. They said the Bible “views nature as being John C. Wester of Salt Lake City. The three chair the U.S. ers (ages 45-64). By comparison, 19 percent of all those endowed with sanctity that flows from the Creator,” but it Conference of Catholic Bishops’ committees on Pro-Life polled – and 20 percent of the millennials – said abortion also asserts that God made human beings “the summit of Activities, on Domestic Justice and Human Development was “morally acceptable.” his inherently good creation” and gave them stewardship and on Migration, respectively. In the two-and-a-half-page over the earth. In order to intervene ethically in the natural letter, the USCCB leaders outlined their “fundamental March for Life participants order, they said, people must recognize the limits of “the principles” for health care reform, saying it must: “Protect power of science and its claim to absoluteness,” and act human life and dignity, not threaten them;” “Respect the urged to keep up their efforts in a way that expresses solidarity with present and future consciences of providers, taxpayers and others, not violate WASHINGTON – Despite overcast skies, the mood at generations. “Not everything that is technically feasible is them;” “Be truly universal and ... not be denied to those in the Jan. 22 annual March for Life in the nation’s capital was morally acceptable. It is this consciousness that ensures that need because of their condition, age, where they come from decidedly upbeat as speakers urged persistent efforts in the every aspect of human advancement promotes the well- or when they arrive here;” and Restrain costs and apply them pro-life arena. Several speakers told the tens of thousands being of future generations and sanctifies the Divine Name, “equitably across the spectrum of payers.” The bishops said, on the National Mall that they were now in the majority and just as its absence leads to destructive consequences for “Although political contexts have changed, the moral and would continue to make inroads in society and in govern- humanity and (the) environment and profanes the Divine policy failure that leaves tens of millions of our sisters and ment policies. Although the rally’s opening prayer asked Name,” the statement said. The dialogue members said brothers without access to health care still remains.” God to grant participants “the courage to be a voice for the scientists and governments should seek ethical guidance voiceless,” this group hardly seemed to be lacking bravery. from religious leaders before taking any action that would Poll: More Americans, especially They showed stamina by simply showing up in vast numbers change nature. – many as repeat marchers – despite calls for sleet and freez- young people, say abortion wrong ing rain, which never materialized. The relatively subdued Bishops urge Congress NEW HAVEN, Conn. – A poll commissioned by the crowd cheered enthusiastically when speakers stressed that Knights of Columbus and released Jan. 21 said that a abortion should never have been part of health care reform to set aside partisanship majority of Americans called abortion “morally wrong.” legislation before Congress or when speakers criticized Americans in all age groups made that judgment in the President Barack Obama’s support for legal abortion. Nellie for genuine health reform poll, conducted by Marist College. The Knights paid the Gray, president of the March for Life Education & Defense WASHINGTON – Three leading U.S. bishops called on greatest attention in an announcement of the poll results to Fund – the group that organizes the march – told participants members of Congress Jan. 26 to “set aside partisan divisions the “millennial” age group, those ages 18-29, because they that their presence at the 37th annual march represented a and special-interest pressures” to achieve genuine health were intentionally oversampled in the survey. Of the 2,243 “whole new surge” for the pro-life movement to not only reform. “The health care debate, with all its political and Americans polled, 1,006 of them were millennial. And 58 continue to educate government officials about the immoral- ideological conflict, seems to have lost its central moral percent of the millennials called abortion morally wrong. ity of abortion but to also show a united front. focus and policy priority, which is to ensure that affordable, – Catholic News Service

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By David Agren tion at parishes. He said the agency sends two cargo A woman bathes trucks a day across the border from the Dominican SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (CNS) – her children in Republic. A Dominican who coordinates overland relief missions a makeshift For efficiency, larger shipments of food and shelter into Haiti says that an ability to tap established church and shelter in to tent communities are funneled through Port-au- community networks there has allowed Catholic aid agen- Port-au-Prince, Prince, Price said. cies from the Dominican Republic to effectively deliver Rescue efforts in Port-au-Prince – which was Haiti, Jan. 25. relief to those left homeless and hungry by the Jan. 12 rocked by the magnitude 7 earthquake – have been earthquake that flattened large parts of Port-au-Prince. The government called off and efforts are now focused on tending to Rafael Jimenez, social program coordinator for said more than a survivors. The Haitian government unveiled plans for Jesuit Refugee and Migrant Services, said convoys of at million people tent cities to house the homeless. least three large trucks carry relief materials, collected were left home- Many of the homeless have started leaving the from parishes and social groups around the Dominican less by the Jan. capital in search of other opportunities, however. Republic, every other day to Port-au-Prince, where the 12 earthquake. “There’s a strong outflow of people toward other food, water and medicine – among other things – are parts of Haiti,” said Jesuit Father Regino Martinez, quickly distributed. In comparison, Jimenez says that director of the Jesuit immigrant aid group, Border many of the relief materials sent from far-away countries Solidarity, in the border town of Dajabon, Dominican to Haiti have been stuck at the airport and docks due to APONTE, REUTERS) (CNS PHOTO/ELIANA Republic. “Port-au-Prince has nothing to offer poor infrastructure and a lack of established networks people.” in Port-au-Prince. The effective overland deliveries highlighted some of the Father Martinez said Haitians were still crossing the “The people in the communities (needing help) are the small successes in the efforts of Dominicans to help their border, although in slightly smaller numbers, in search of ones doing the work. They themselves are doing the organiz- western neighbors – with whom relations have, at times, medical attention and to also purchase basic necessities at ing,” Jimenez told Catholic News Service after returning from not been cordial. It also highlighted the difficulties for the a twice-weekly market. Port-au-Prince Jan. 24. international community in responding to a tragedy that the The Haitians crossing into the Dominican Republic were, Even with aid being delivered more freely, “there’s still a Haitian government says has claimed more than 150,000 for the most part, not planning to stay permanently, said lot of hunger,” he said. lives and left 3 million injured or homeless. Catholic groups operating in the area. Reports of violence in Port-au-Prince have been common, Tom Price, senior communications manager for the “There’s not a massive displacement of Haitians toward but Jimenez said the situation has improved for those importing U.S. bishops’ Catholic Relief Services, told Catholic News the Dominican Republic,” said Wilma Duval Orozco, relief materials from the Dominican Republic due to security Service Jan. 25 the agency uses the overland route from the Caritas director in the Dominican Diocese of San Juan de being beefed up on the main highway and trucks being sent Dominican Republic for lighter materials, such as plastic la Maguana. “There are some cases (of people coming to in convoys. sheeting for temporary shelter and boxed meals for distribu- stay) ... but these have been isolated cases so far.” Rebuilding Haiti church infrastructure to take years, says U.S. bishop WASHINGTON (CNS) – Replacing and repairing the In a Jan. 22 letter to his fellow U.S. bishops, Archbishop America was taken up the weekend of Jan. 23-24 in many infrastructure of the church in Haiti will take years, according Gomez listed some of the damage done to the church in the diocese but other dioceses will hold the collection over the next to Archbishop Jose H. Gomez of San Antonio, head of the U.S. impoverished Caribbean nation, including total destruction few weekends in most U.S. dioceses. “It goes without saying bishops’ Subcommittee for the Church in Latin America. of the cathedrals in Port-au-Prince and Jacmel as well as that after the immediate humanitarian response begins to take Citing significant losses in both personnel and buildings, the destruction of “at least five” other major churches, many hold, equipping the local church in Haiti will be a significant Archbishop Gomez said, “The beleaguered church in Haiti smaller church buildings, two major seminaries, many convents and long-term project,” said Archbishop Gomez. will remain a primary focus of our work in the months and and schools, and a Catholic radio station. In a Jan. 21 letter to Archbishop Louis Kebreau of Cap- years to come” within the committee. Moreover, the archbishop said, “the reported tragic loss Haitien, president of the Haitian bishops, his U.S. counterpart, Special collections for Haitian earthquake relief were taken of so many priests, sisters, seminarians and laity is irreplace- Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago, expressed “profound up in most U.S. dioceses the two weekends after the Jan. 12 able.” sorrow and deepest condolences for the terrible tragedy that quake that claimed an estimated 200,000 lives. The bishops’ annual Collection for the Church in Latin has struck your beloved country.”

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Catholic Charities CYO San Francisco, San Mateo & Marin 8 Catholic San Francisco January 29, 2010 Archbishop’s Journal Imperfect workers in an urgent and just cause This morning you get to listen in on an Archbishop’s In Matthew’s Gospel, in the tenth chapter, Jesus tells Robert Bolt’s play temptation – well, really a preacher’s temptation. The his disciples that they will face persecution when they about Saint Thomas voice of the tempter sounds like this in my ear: “These two proclaim his kingdom and his way. He adds these words: More, “A Man for All readings are not really good for today. This is the special “One’s enemies will be those of his own household.” It Seasons.” There’s a Mass in the Cathedral before our annual Walk for Life. seems very likely that at least one example he had in mind fascinating difference Yes, it’s true, the Church did choose these two readings involved him and his own relatives. between the play itself for Saturday of the Second Week of the Year, but you Why bother with all this? Because this story of Jesus, and the film that was can substitute some others – that’s allowed. Just look at his ministry and his family is in some ways our story too, made later. At the end the second reading: two verses from Mark’s Gospel (Mk as we seek to witness in our time and place to the unique of the film, Thomas 3:20-21) telling us that a crowd surrounded Jesus and that and priceless value of each human life, at every stage of More is executed, we Archbishop some of his relatives came to drag him home because they life. In the Pro-life cause we have recognizable opponents: are told what later thought he was clearly out of his mind. You can do better Abortionists, those who promote assisted suicide, Pro- happened to several George H. than that! Pick something else.” Choice organizations, Planned Parenthood. It is also true, other characters, and Niederauer That’s the voice of the tempter. And, it is tempting, however, that we have disagreement, misunderstanding then the credits roll. but “no.” Remember what St. Paul wrote to Timothy: “All and opposition from among our own spiritual relatives, It was fairly easy to Scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for the family of believers within the Catholic Church, what leave the movie identifying with the hero-saint. refutation, for correction, and for training in righteousness, we may call “the household of the faith.” Of particular In the original play, but not in the film, there was a so that one who belongs to God may be competent for concern are Catholics in public life who take Pro-Choice character known as “the common man.” The same actor every good work.” positions and vote for Pro-Choice legislation. played Thomas More’s servant, then a boatman, later Our problem with this reading may not be that it is so Like those relatives of the Lord, some of our brothers a prison guard in the Tower of London, and finally the brief, but that it is so uncomfortable, painful and embar- and sisters in the faith urge us not to witness to the value executioner. At the end of the play, after the saint was rassing. The relatives of Jesus were wrong about him; he of human life, not to call for its protection. For example, beheaded, that actor stepped to the front of the stage was not insane or possessed by a demon. Indeed, they they will advise us not to plan a Walk for Life. It’s accept- and addressed us in the audience directly. He said: “I’m used the same language about him that the Scribes and able if we will read a book about the issues, or perhaps breathing. Are you breathing too? It’s nice, isn’t it? It isn’t Pharisees, his enemies, were using. As a matter of fact, gather in small groups for prayer, but above all we must difficult to keep alive, friends. Just don’t make trouble – or in the very next verses after these in the third chapter of not make a fuss. if you must make trouble, make the sort of trouble that’s St. Mark’s Gospel, the Pharisees accuse Jesus of being We are told that we are engaged in “a losing battle.” expected. Well, I don’t need to tell you that. If we should possessed by a demon. We don’t believe that, but it can look that way at times. bump into one another, recognize me.” Curtain. No chance On the contrary, it is our faith that Jesus Christ was sent Actually, time is on our side, and so are the sonograms. of identifying with the saint in that moment. by the Father, led by the Holy Spirit, and was carrying out his And lately, so are the polls. In our Walk for Life one could say that we do make mission to preach, proclaim and establish the kingdom. We are imperfect workers in an urgent and just cause. trouble, or make waves, or whatever you want to call it. So the relatives were wrong, but it is still important to Not everything that all of us say and do is always wise, And in a way it’s not the kind of trouble that is expected understand them. Why did they say and do what they did? just because the cause is so right. Remember the story – or tolerated – or easily shrugged off or ignored. Witness First of all, the relatives of Jesus were looking at a hectic of the disciples James and John, the Sons of Thunder as and prophecy trouble people. Indeed, they are meant to. scene: people were jammed into the little house, shouting Jesus called them. In the ninth chapter of Luke’s Gospel We pray at this Eucharist that we shall witness to the truth and making demands of the Teacher. It was not possible the people in a Samaritan village would not welcome in charity, as Pope Benedict’s encyclical challenges us to even to eat, Mark tells us. Nothing was normal or usual. Jesus, so the brothers James and John asked Jesus, “Lord, do. It is not enough merely to keep breathing – with our Besides, Jesus had given up a good trade, carpentry, do you want us to call down fire from heaven to consume breath and our life we must witness to the Word made to become an itinerant preacher. Also, his family could tell them?” Luke says, “Jesus turned and rebuked them, and flesh, the Lord of all Life, Our Savior Jesus Christ. We that he was headed on a collision course with the Scribes they journeyed to another village.” Self-righteousness and walk today to celebrate life, to save lives, to do more than and Pharisees, the people with power and influence, and condemnation of others are dangerous temptations for us just keep on breathing, so that generations of children will that he would lose his struggle with them. He did eventu- disciples. It is not for us to decide that we are holier or draw the breath of life. ally lose it, as the world sees things. His relations watched better or more pleasing to God than others are. Embracing Archbishop George H. Niederauer delivered Jesus leave his home, his village and his neighbors, and the truth does not exempt us from embracing humility. We start out with what one commentator has called his “odd zealously struggle against falsehood and violence, but the the homily above at the Walk for Life little society” of very diverse followers. That’s what they judgment of persons belongs to God. West Coast Mass, Jan. 23, at saw and that’s what they thought. I taught English in college, and in one course we read St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco.

Journal, “Free Will, Conscience, and Moral remarks highlight the overall exigency that Choice.” I was sorry to see that there was Catholic San Francisco broaden its scope of Catholic no example given on the Church’s position editorial articles and have a plan for focusing regarding capital punishment. While I do on Catholic social justice teaching by well- know that the Catholic position on this matter qualified authors on a variety of topics. Some sanFrancisco is perfectly clear, it is used very infrequently examples where education is needed: the death especially in conjunction with the abortion penalty, world-wide water crisis, human traf- issue. This has the appearance of not want- ficking, nuclear disarmament... the list goes Northern California’s Weekly Catholic Newspaper ing to “offend” political conservatives, most on and on. Catholic positions on these topics of whom oppose abortion yet support capital are magnificent and Catholic San Francisco punishment, the use of torture as a could be a leader in education! our current high speed world, we are all means towards an end, and supporting Praise for valuable polluted with lazy and careless thought. Sister Dolores Barling, SNJM unjust and unnecessary wars such as in His injunction that “the education of con- Daly City ‘teaching moment’ Iraq. This ideological dichotomy must science is a life-long task” is directed to L The Archbishop’s Journal (CSF, Jan be addressed simultaneously at the all and each of us. As Catholics we have a Deep values, 15), entitled “Free Will, Conscience and highest levels of the Church, includ- responsibility not only to know the teach- Moral Character,” used Speaker Nancy ing the U.S. Catholic Conference of eloquent words ings of our Church but to think and pray on E Pelosi’s statements regarding free will and Bishops and the Vatican. The respect Thank you so much for the guest them; to understand and assimilate them; abortion as a valuable “teaching moment.” and dignity of human life must be all editorial by Bishop John Wester (CSF and to act in accordance with them. This is Speaker Pelosi’s “difference of opin- encompassing and not be given to a Jan. 8) entitled “The Truth about an ongoing part of our life-long journey. T ion” with well established Catholic teach- piecemeal approach where politicians Immigrants and Health Care.” It is so ing reflects perfectly the relativistic and Nick Scales can pick and choose what might be good to see our deep values put into such materialistic, political thought that pervades San Francisco expedient for their own constituencies. eloquent words. Healing and welcoming Washington, D.C. Pelosi and others say that T Robert Spadoni the stranger were key parts of Jesus’ the vast majority of people support the pro- Clarity, beauty of Pacific Grove ministry, and must be ours as well. posed health care reform legislation, when thought cited Barbara Erbacher current polls show exactly the opposite. She E Pacifica says that the exercise of free will obviates Regarding “Free will, Conscience Column clarifies the need to listen to Church doctrine. and Moral Choice, What Catholics Believe” – published in the Jan 15 issue Church teaching Father Rolheiser The Archbishop’s message however, Thank you Archbishop R of Catholic San Francisco, please convey is not directed solely at Speaker Pelosi. In Niederauer for your excellent column fans reach out my heartfelt thanks to San Francisco (Archbishop’s Journal, Jan 15) on My wife and I read Catholic San Archbishop George Niederauer for such free will and formation of conscience. S Francisco and we have been getting a clarity and beauty of thought. Letters welcome I applaud your participation in clari- lot out of reading the column by Father I will see to it that our Catechists and Catholic San Francisco fying Catholic teaching on key issues that Ron Rolheiser, “Spirituality for Life.” We Faith Formation coordinators have this face citizens who are also Catholic. thought he might like to hear from readers welcomes letters from its readers. article in their hands as well as our parishio- Rosemary Anton who have appreciated and benefitted from his Please send your letters to: ners and the visitors that come to St. Joseph writings. Is there a way to reach him? If so, Church in downtown San Antonio. Phoenix, AZ Catholic San Francisco would you kindly provide an e-mail address One Peter Yorke Way Father Mario Marzocchi, S.S.S. for Father Rolheiser? San Antonio, TX Education is needed San Francisco, CA 94109 I couldn’t agree more with Father Glenn and Ann Cohen Fax: (415) 614-5641 All encompassing William Brown, pastor of Our Lady of Mercy San Carlos E-mail: [email protected] Parish, Daly City (CSF Letters, Jan. 22) Editor’s note: Father Ron Rolheiser or visit our website at concern: human life about the need to educate Catholics on our O.M.I. can be contacted at his website www.catholic-sf.org, Contact Us I am responding to the Archbishop’s responsibility to protect the environment. His www.ronrolheiser.com. January 29, 2010 Catholic San Francisco CSW1

Amid economic stress, philanthropy plays a K-8 students growing role in financing Catholic education living By Rick DelVecchio the faith, Philanthropy is playing a growing role in financing Catholic Praise for “unsung heroes”, K-12 schools as donors step up in a harsh economic environment Page CSW4 to preserve the Catholic education model for a new generation and a call to action of children. The average school “gap” – that is the difference “This kind of large-scale philanthropy to kids in grade school between the average tuition and the cost to educate and high school is part of a new movement,” said Karen Ristau, the children is $800 per year per child, says Annette president of the National Catholic Educational Association, in an Brown, the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s assistant Catholic San Francisco interview with . “It’s gone on for awhile, schools superintendent. In these times, where families Mercy but it’s taken off around the country.” are struggling with job loss, home loss and increases High’s She said a variety of projects are emerging around the country in the cost of living, donors who contribute their to support grade schools and high schools, including donor pools resources are the lifelines that keep our schools open, Memory such as the Big Shoulder Fund in Chicago and the Crossroads she says. Read Brown’s column on Page CS11. Foundation in Pittsburgh. Project Ristau said these are examples of “great programs where philanthropists have come together, and they really raise Holy Cross Sister Catherine Kamphaus, the Seattle Page CSW6 substantial money. The money does two things: It pays for tuition, diocese’s schools superintendent, said the contributions will and once the kids are in these programs, they’re never dropped. allow the diocese to boost tuition aid at a time when more Some have mentorships, some help the bricks and mortar part help is greatly needed. of the school.” “We’re not losing students as much as we’re losing money, The main goal of the Crossroads Foundation is to prepare because more people are applying for assistance,” Sister students for college. Students who qualify are assigned mentors. Kamphaus said. A similar project is the Archdiocese of Seattle’s Fulcrum Ristau said the growing interest in both foundation and Foundation, formed in 2002. It provides financial support for all individual support is “just a sign of such goodness from people SHCP vs. SI: Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Seattle through annual who truly believe in Catholic education. Truly, because of the epic fund-raising and a significantly increased endowment. kind of money they are giving, they really want to help the In Utah’s statewide Diocese of Salt Lake City, the newly next generation of kids.” rivalry, created Sponsor a Scholarship project invites donors to contribute She attributed much of the generosity to older donors who directly to the diocesan schools. Envelopes for the collection were realize that Catholic schools can’t be taken for granted. Page CSW8 distributed to all parishes in December. Donors had the option In the Archdiocese of San Francisco, funds from arch- of designating the school of their choice. Any contributions not diocesan, school-based and private endowments and annual directed to individual schools were be pooled to support the most donations support thousands of students from financially economically needy schools in the diocese. PHILANTHROPY, page CSW10 CSW2 Catholic San Francisco January 29, 2010 Catholic schools: At a glance: Catholic Schools “Dividends for Life” Week 2010, Jan. 31-Feb. 6 By Maureen Huntington a Catholic school? What impact has this made • What is Catholic Schools Week? in Catholic elementary and secondary Superintendent, in your life and in the growth of your faith? Catholic Schools Week is an annual schools across the United States. The dividends of a Catholic school edu- national celebration of the important role Archdiocese of San Francisco that Catholic elementary and second- • What is the purpose of the Catholic Department of Catholic Schools cation are varied and vast. For each of us the opportunity to see in action our Catholic ary schools across the country play in Schools Week celebration? The theme for Catholic Schools Week, faith as it was lived out in the lives of our providing a values-added education for The purpose of Catholic Schools Week 2010, was selected prior to the recent eco- teachers, pastors and principals, was inspir- America’s young people. Catholic schools is to build community awareness of, and nomic crisis in our country. Individuals, ing and formative. As adults we remember are proud of their educational network involvement in, Catholic schools through- families, businesses, and and live the elements of that emphasizes intellectual, spiritual, out the country. During this week, many corporations are hoping to our Catholic faith and in moral, physical, and social values in their dioceses and schools encourage parents recapture some of their lost turn pass them along to our students. to take full advantage of the benefits of dividends and regain some children, students, family local Catholic schools by enrolling their measure of financial and and friends. The dividends • What is the theme of Catholic children in those schools. CSW also is an economic security. However, continue to multiply with Schools Week? occasion for schools to interest citizens in when considering a Catholic each generation and within The theme is: “Catholic Schools – volunteering their time and talents to the school education for yourself our own lives. The benefits Dividends for Life: Faith, Knowledge, local Catholic schools. or your child, what dividends of a Catholic school educa- Discipline, Morals.” come to mind? tion continue to enrich us • Who sponsors Catholic Schools Do you think about the each day. • What does Catholic Schools Week Week? academic rigor in the cur- During this week, I ask celebrate? Catholic Schools Week is a joint proj- riculum and in the teach- that you take some time Catholic Schools Week celebrates ect of the National Catholic Educational ing? Do you remember the to reflect on the many education that goes beyond preparation Association and the U.S. Conference of ─ devotion to Christ and the dividends and blessings you for a secular life it is education that Catholic Bishops. Individual dioceses Church you witnessed in the have received because of prepares students for a Christian life. and local Catholic elementary and sec- Sisters, priests, brothers, and your Catholic school educa- CSW also celebrates the high stan- ondary schools develop and promote lay teachers? What about all of the financial tion. Remember the many teachers, principals, dards of excellence and the quality of their own Catholic Schools Week activi- and material sacrifices you and your parents pastors and classmates who formed and nur- the education available to all students ties each year. made so that you or your children could attend tured your faith in our Lord, Jesus Christ. 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Students at Immaculate Heart of Mary Elementary School in Belmont planned and led a peer retreat in December. The leadership team for the event included, from St. James left, Mallory Hansen, Student Council and eighth graders spearheaded Christmas outreach Amy Smerdel, Alex projects at San Francisco’s St. James Elementary School. Socks for Adamis, Josef Seemayer, St. Anthony Foundation and toiletries for St. Anne’s Home were col- Marisa Pereira, Hannah lected through the month of December. In addition, students worked Nourie, Zoe DiMauro, in “Faith Families” and wrote letters to military personnel in Iraq and Liam Young, Frank Afghanistan. Ministers of the good work included, from left, Vanessa Lemos, Megan Satyadi Dominguez, Darren Garza, Aliyah Durden and Santino Salaices. and Khiana Ghazouli.

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First grade students at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Elementary School in Redwood City gathered with St. Vincent de Paul Society members and volunteers. In addition, Mt. Carmel students have been active on the social justice front. “Since school began we have completed four outreach projects,” school spokeswoman Michelle Conci said. – Notice of Non Discriminatory Policy as to Students – The goodwill efforts have included gift and food drives to benefit Catholic Worker House All Souls School, So. San Francisco; Archbishop Riordan High School, San Francisco; Convent of the Sacred Heart and the St. Vincent de Paul Society. A “penny war” initiated by seventh grade students Elementary School, San Francisco; Convent of the Sacred Heart High School, San Francisco; Corpus Christi School, raised almost $900 for landmine clearing in the Middle East. OLMC begins its 125th year San Francisco; De Marillac Academy, San Francisco; Ecole Notre Dame des Victoires, San Francisco; Good Shepherd with a Mass of Thanksgiving Jan. 31. Archbishop George H. Niederauer will preside. School, Pacifica; Holy Angels School, Colma; Holy Name School, San Francisco; Immaculate Conception Academy, San Francisco; Immaculate Heart of Mary School, Belmont; Junipero Serra High School, San Mateo; Marin Catholic High School, Kentfield; Megan Furth Catholic Academy, San Francisco; Mercy High School, San Francisco; Mercy High School, Burlingame; Mission Dolores School, San Francisco; Nativity School, Menlo Park; Notre Dame Elementary, Catholic Schools Dividends for Life Belmont; Notre Dame High School, Belmont; Our Lady of Angels School, Burlingame; Our Lady of Loretto School, Novato; Our Lady of Mercy School, Daly City; Our Lady of Mount Carmel School, Redwood City; Our Lady of Perpetual Help School, Daly City; Our Lady of the Visitacion School, San Francisco; Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory, San Francisco; Sacred Heart Preparatory, Atherton; Saint Anne School, San Francisco; Saint Anselm School, San Anselmo; Saint Anthony-IC School, San Francisco; Saint Brendan School, San Francisco; Saint Brigid School, San Francisco; Saint Catherine of Siena School, Burlingame; Saint Cecilia School, San Francisco; Saint Charles Borromeo School, San Francisco; Saint Charles School, San Carlos; Saint Dunstan School, Millbrae; Saint Elizabeth School, San Francisco; Saint Finn Barr School, San Francisco; Saint Gabriel School, San Francisco; Saint Gregory School, San Mateo; Saint Hilary School, Tiburon; Saint Ignatius College Preparatory, San Francisco; Saint Isabella School, San Rafael; Saint James School, San Francisco; Saint John School, San Francisco; Saint Joseph School, Atherton; Saint Mary Chinese Day School, San Francisco; Saint Matthew School, San Mateo; Saint Monica School, San Francisco; Saint Patrick School, Larkspur; Saint Paul School, San Francisco; Saint Peter School, San Francisco; Saint Phillip School, San Francisco; Saint Pius School, Redwood City; Saint Raphael School, San Rafael; Saint Raymond School, Menlo Park; Saint Rita School, Fairfax; Saint Robert School, San Bruno; Saint Stephen School, San Francisco; Saint Thomas More School, San Francisco; Saint Thomas the Apostle School, San Francisco; Saint Timothy School, San Mateo; Saint Veronica School, So. San Francisco; Saint Vincent de Paul School, San Francisco; Saints Peter & Paul School, San Francisco; San Domenico Middle, San Anselmo; San Domenico Primary, San Anselmo; San Domenico High School, San Anselmo; School of the Epiphany, San Francisco; Star of the Sea School, San Francisco; Stuart Hall for Boys, San Francisco; Stuart Hall High School, San Francisco; Woodside Priory High School, Portola Valley; Woodside Priory Middle School, Portola Valley; admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color or national origin in administration of its educational policies, admis- sions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administrated programs. January 29, 2010 Catholic San Francisco CSW5

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Pre-K to Grade Eight www.StThomasMoreSchool.org CSW6 Catholic San Francisco January 29, 2010 The Memory Project Mercy girls make lifelong gifts for children in orphanage Art students at Mercy High School, Burlingame, have joined acrylic portraits are finished, the Memory Project organization the Memory Project, a nationwide initiative in which advanced delivers them to the children. high school art students create original portraits for children In total, the students have made portraits for six children liv- living in orphanages around the world. ing at an orphanage in Phuket, Thailand. In February, a Memory Given that children who have been abandoned, orphaned, Project representative will deliver the portraits to each child. abused, or neglected often have few personal keepsakes, the “In the beginning the issue was, ‘How do I paint them?”, said purpose of the portrait is to provide them with a special memory Honors Art 3 teacher Nazira Kury-Arnold. “It became a techni- of their youth, to honor their heritage and identity and to help cal exploration of the painting process. As they came to look at them build a positive self-image. each photograph, and seeing the image of the child staring back The project also provides an opportunity for young at them every day, they became more invested. That encouraged Americans to open their hearts to children who have endured them to do their very best.” many hardships, and to promote the value of sharing kindness Kury Arnold said a lot of students wanted to deliver the with others. portraits in person. The Memory Project has been featured on national television “It’s one of those projects that’s going to stay with them the several times, most notably when Katie Couric concluded her rest of their lives,” she said. “There’ll forever be connected to very first broadcast of the CBS Evening News with a story about just this one person.” Mercy High, Burlingame, art students display portraits the project’s success at an orphanage in Nicaragua. The Memory Project is a program of the nonprofit organiza- they made for orphaned children. Top row, from left: Students at Mercy High are participating as part of a course tion My Class Cares based in Madison, Wis. Since the project Jessica Egan, Serena Azzghayer, art teacher Nazira titled Honors Art 3. To do this, the students receive pictures of began in 2004, more than 20,000 portraits have been produced Kury-Arnold, Lillian Tang. Seated: Alexandra Santos children who are waiting for portraits, and then work in their by high school art students around the country. The project’s and Stephanie Rjaile. Not pictured is Jennifer Re. art classrooms to create the portraits. Once the photo-realistic, website is www.thememoryproject.org.

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By Fabvienen Taylor It’s a new twist on the fairy tale “The Frog Prince.” It fea- “I wanted to sit by her and cheer her on,” said Morgan. “I tures an African-American princess and is set in New Orleans loved the movie and I told her she did a great job.” JACKSON, Miss. (CNS) – At the end of the first nine weeks in the 1920s. That afternoon Elizabeth’s classmates peppered her with of classes when report cards went out from St. Richard Catholic Elizabeth, 10, told the Mississippi Catholic, newspaper of questions about everything from how the Disney studio looked School, Elizabeth Dampier’s mother, Jeanna, went in for the the Jackson Diocese, that her parents told her not to “go around in New Orleans to whether she was ever at times nervous to usual parent-teacher conference. bragging about being in this movie.” how it felt walking the red carpet and meeting people like Oprah “She wanted to meet us and say hello,” said Krista Garrard, “I said, ‘Yes ma’am.’ Later my mother told me I could start Winfrey at the premiere in Los Angeles. Elizabeth’s fifth-grade teacher. opening up about it,” said Elizabeth, who voices Tiana, the Elizabeth also did “a show and tell” for her class with posters, “During the conference I told her I loved to hear Elizabeth film’s heroine, as a young child. The older Tiana is voiced by T-shirts and other memorabilia from the movie. talk in class and read out loud. I told her Elizabeth had a very Anika Noni Rose. Arthur and Jeanna Dampier, 1988 graduates of St. Joseph soothing, very good voice,” said Garrard, who hears more than Elizabeth started auditioning for the part about three years School in Jackson, first noticed their daughter’s talent perform- 100 voices a day at school. ago. ing in school and church events at New Hope Church, where That was when Garrard discovered she was not the only one Garrard described Elizabeth’s family as “very private. the family are members. impressed with Elizabeth’s voice. As a matter of fact, the girl’s Elizabeth is a very humble child, a very good student, eager to From there they contacted a local agent, who scheduled some mother told her Elizabeth “was in this movie, “’The Princess please. She does not brag about herself at all.” acting classes and set up auditions. Elizabeth also took lessons in and the Frog.’” On Dec. 11, Elizabeth, her classmates, teacher and some voice, piano and dance and appeared in commercials. That was in October and most of Elizabeth’s fellow students of her friends from another Catholic school attended a special But learning and earning good grades is high on Elizabeth’s didn’t know she was going to be in Disney’s new animated preview of the film at a local theater. parents’ list of priorities. movie, the teacher said. Morgan Sellers, 11, sat next to Elizabeth at the movie. “We always make sure she stays focused first on her rela- In the first weekend of its Dec. 11 release, it earned $25 mil- Morgan was one of the first people Elizabeth told about being tionship with God, her relationship with her family and then her lion, making it the No. 1 movie in the country. in the film. schoolwork,” said Jeanna Dampier.

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By John Wildermuth When 4,500 screaming basketball fans instantly cut the cheers and the chatter as someone starts the traditional prayer of the Christian Brothers: “Let us remember … we are in the holy presence of God,” it’s clear that this is a different type of a rivalry. Since 1893, San Francisco’s two oldest Catholic high schools, St. Ignatius College Prep and Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep, have squared off in what’s billed as the oldest high school athletic competition west of the Rocky Mountains. Sure, it was rugby that was played on that long ago St. Patrick’s Day and the games were hit and miss affairs until the 1920s, but for generations of San Franciscans, those games and the rivalry behind them have been an important and well-remembered part of the city’s athletic tradition.

“It’s something you grew up with in San Francisco,” said SHCP FRESHMAN) QUIGLEY, BY ZACKERY (PHOTO SAINT IGNATIUS) TOTAH, BY PAUL (PHOTO John Scudder, president of Sacred Heart Cathedral and a 1973 graduate of the school. Archrivals Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep, left, and Saint Ignatius on the football field last fall. Since the end of Since the end of World War II, that rivalry has been World War II, the sports rivalry between the two schools has been recognized with the Bruce-Mahoney Trophy. recognized with the Bruce-Mahoney Trophy, named for Bill Each year, the perpetual trophy moves to the school whose boys won two of the three games in football, Bruce of St. Ignatius and Jerry Mahoney of Sacred Heart, basketball and baseball. The April 16 baseball game at AT&T Park will decide both killed in the war. Each year, the perpetual trophy moves whether the trophy stays at Sacred Heart or returns to St. Ignatius. to the school whose boys won two of the three games in football, basketball and baseball. communications at St. Ignatius, said in his 2005 history Things have changed over the years. Today’s San of the school. At a Bruce-Mahoney game, “you will find Francisco has far fewer teenagers than it did 40 years ago “The deep respect the two schools emotions tuned to a fever-pitch, voices hoarse from shouting and not nearly as many Catholics, so both schools have had and athletes primed to play at their peak.” to reach outside San Francisco’s city limits for students. have for each other is a great gift” Jesuit Father Robert Walsh, president of St. Ignatius and The biggest change, though, has come since the 1980s a 1968 graduate, is no stranger to the tradition. But when he when Sacred Heart merged with all-girls Cathedral High – Jesuit Father Robert Walsh, walked into the noisy, jam-packed Memorial Gymnasium School to become Sacred Heart Cathedral, and St. Ignatius at the University of San Francisco earlier this month for started to admit young women. president of St. Ignatius the Bruce-Mahoney basketball game, all he could say was Having girls at the schools hasn’t been a bad thing for “Wow.” the rivalry, Walsh said, since some of the crowds during the “As a student, I was very aware of the rivalry,” said all-male days had more the feeling of Christians versus lions There’s nothing sleek or modern about the trophy, a hefty Walsh, whose father and uncles also went to St. Ignatius. than a meeting of Catholic gentlemen. wood and medal product of an earlier time that stands better “I don’t know of any other Jesuit school that has anything “There’s still a fever pitch of excitement and the rivalry is than three-feet-tall. It takes four people to lift and move it, like this rivalry.” probably more animated,” he said. “But there’s also a better but there was no shortage of eager volunteers at Sacred Heart When Walsh and Scudder were high school students, sense of respect for the other team.” last year after the school took the trophy home for the first San Francisco was still a heavily Catholic city where many That respect, and the shared Catholic educational mission, time in a decade. people identified themselves by the parish where they lived. can be seen in the student-led public prayers that begin each “Few traditions capture the joy of high school as much The boys at the then all-male schools were almost all from game. It’s important to remember that the schools have many as this rivalry between SI and SH,” Paul Totah, director of the city, growing up in the same neighborhoods and going more similarities than differences, Scudder said. to the same Catholic grammar schools. “We’re both rooted in the same Catholic faith, but with “A game like the one at USF was like the ones when I numerous differences in tradition and background,” he ST. J/HN C!4(/L)#SC(//, was a student about 35 years ago, Scudder said. “There were added. “But there has always been lots of cross-pollination,” where community matters a lot of bragging rights associated with those games.” with graduates from one school ending up on the faculty At USF, the stands were filled not only with teenagers of the other. sporting the green of Sacred Heart or the red and blue of St. “The deep respect the two schools have for each other is a Ignatius, but also with parents, friends, alumni and plenty great gift,” Walsh said. “We have a great rivalry and a healthy of future students. rivalry and we need to care for it in the best of reasons.” “The parents of the students who attend our schools Not to mention that the rivalry is a lot of fun for students grew up with the rivalry,” Scudder said. “The kids have and supporters of the two schools. been going to these (Bruce-Mahoney) games since they Sacred Heart’s basketball team eked out a tight 47-44 win were in the third or fourth grade, with their parents or older in that second round of the Bruce-Mahoney competition at brothers and sisters.” USF. 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Philanthropy . . . A patron helped a highly ■ Continued from page CSW1 motivated D’Genaro Pulido complete his education at eligible families. But there is not enough to reach all qualify- St. Charles Borromeo parochial ing families. school in San Francisco’s In addition, the recession created a new group of financially Mission District and St. Ignatius struggling families among the middle class, who in the past had Preparatory School. “I explained the means to pay for private school tuition. to him that I’m going to be the “The need-based population is underserved,” Assistant first generation to go to college, Superintendent Annette Brown said. “In addition, there’s a and I’ll be the first generation middle class that cannot qualify for need-based aid because that actually becomes a they make too much money, but they can’t afford the schools, especially if they have more than one child.” professional,” said Pulido, an Brown added: “Families find it increasingly difficult to afford architecture student at the a Catholic education.” University of San Francisco. K-12 enrollment in Catholic schools throughout the arch- Here, Pulido, right, studies for his diocese was 25,186 in September, down 1,836 from five years construction materials class with earlier. K-8 enrollment fell by 361 from September 2008, a drop fellow student Bezaleel Balan.

of more than 2 percent. SAN FRANCISCO) BY RICK DELVECCHIO/CATHOLIC (PHOTO Brown said higher philanthropic giving could turn the trend around. He said his parents wanted a better education for him patron of St. Peter School in the Mission District after reading “Half of our high schools are at capacity, and half would and switched him to the parochial school in their Mission school newsletters that his housekeeper, whose son attended benefit greatly by increasing enrollment to levels in past years,” District neighborhood, St. Charles Borromeo. He thrived at St. St. Peter, had brought to his house. she said. “Of our 62 elementary schools, 40 schools have Charles and in sixth grade participated in a summer program He visited the school and inspected it with a skeptical eye. enrollment less than five years ago. Increased enrollment would at St. Ignatius Preparatory School, where he met the donor “He stayed until 6:15,” St. Peter Principal Vicki Butler said. benefit the school not only financially but in ability to offer who would help him on his way to college and a career as an “He saw the children, the curriculum. He saw the finances. more programs.” architect. When he finished he said, ‘I will do everything in my power One aspect of supporting Catholic education that appeals The donor liked D’Genaro’s motivation and awarded him to help your school. My concern is that your kids get this to donors is that well-targeted aid can have a measurable, life- scholarships that paid for most of his high-school education. wonderful, supportive Catholic education and they’re too poor changing impact. D’Genaro Pulido, now a junior at the University The same donor helped his older sister and is helping his to pay for their high school.”’ of San Francisco, is a case in point. younger brother. The donor eventually created a scholarship fund for St. Peter D’Genaro and his family came to San Francisco from Peru “I guess what he saw in me was the effort and motivation graduates to attend Catholic high schools. The fund supports when he was 4. He attended a public school from kindergarten I had,” D’Genaro said. “I explained to him that I’m going to more than 50 students a year. through second grade, but the experience was underwhelming. be the first generation to go to college, and I’ll be the first “Out of that group, we’ve had students who have gone on “I came back with one sheet of homework,” he recalled. “I generation that actually becomes a professional.” to become, doctors, lawyers, teachers,” said St. Peter Assistant did it in 10 minutes. My mom would keep me up to 12 a night D’Genaro’s sponsor chooses to remain anonymous, as is Principal Sister Marian Rose Power, RSM. “It’s enabled them doing math problems.” the case with a wealthy man from the East Bay who became a to move out of the inner city and into professions.” Catholic university starts program to supply needed religion teachers

By Chaz Muth “The Next Generation: A Study of Catholic High School “Candidates are selected based upon evidence that they Religion Teachers,” which involved 1,089 teachers at 195 live their Catholic faith and will likely be good faith men- WASHINGTON (CNS) – Creighton University has ini- Catholic high schools selected at random from across the tors,” he said. “However, without formal training in the tiated a new program to help meet the need U.S. Catholic nation, found that Catholic high school religion teachers are content of Catholic religion and the methods of teaching schools say they have for qualified religion teachers. less qualified than other public and private school teachers religion, these teachers fall short of the ideal, and must try This year the Jesuit university in Omaha, Neb., initiated in terms of academic preparation, pedagogical training and to pick up content and methods on the fly.” what is believed to be the first program whose sole purpose teaching experience. Students who have entered into either of the two new is to train students to teach religion in Catholic elementary The study also found that today 40 percent of full-time programs offered at Creighton University – which began in and secondary schools. The university now offers a two- religion teachers had a master’s degree in theology/religious the 2009 fall semester – will gain advanced knowledge in year master’s degree in theology with a teaching certificate studies/religious education, compared to 57 percent in 1985. theology as well as practical knowledge in teaching Catholic and a combined five-year bachelor’s and master’s degree in The difference probably corresponds with the decline in religion, said Jesuit Father Richard Hauser, a theology pro- theology with a teaching certificate. vowed religious teaching theology, said Creighton’s Timothy fessor at the university. A recent national survey about religion teacher prepa- Cook, the education professor who conducted the study. They also will be able to practice their teaching during ration conducted by Creighton found that a majority of “This shortage of religion teachers often results in the program through guided field placements in Omaha-area Catholic high school administrators said there are not enough school principals asking teachers of other subjects to teach Catholic schools, Father Hauser said. qualified religion teacher candidates to meet the need their religion,” Cook said in a telephone interview with Catholic The education component of the program provides a full schools currently have for such teachers. News Service. Nebraska state certification for graduates who remain in the state and covers methods of teaching religion for those plan- ning to teach in other parts of the country, he said. The fundamental purpose of Catholic elementary and secondary schools is to teach the Catholic faith to young people, Cook said. “Committed and well-prepared religion teachers are key play- ers in carrying out this Gospel mandate to apprentice disciples of Jesus,” he said. “It is time to address the growing need for new highly qualified religion teachers in our Catholic schools.” IfjjN`cjfe +(,$),+$-'., DfY`c\ An analysis indicates that university-based preparation in JXc\jI\gi\j\ekXk`m\ ifjjVn`cjfe7dZ^iXn$_`cc%Zfd religion and in teaching methods has a significant positive _kkg1&&ZXc`]ki\Xjli\j%Zfd impact on religion teacher retention, the study concluded. :Xccd\]fipfli nnn%jiX`dX^`e\`kZX%Zfd DXZd`ccXeXe[JI8e\\[j “That is to say, teachers with formal preparation in their subject and in teaching methods are less likely to leave the profession,” the study said. Kangaroos DYSLEXIA STUDY Preschool Program convent & stuart hall The UCSF Hyperactivity, Attention, and Learning Academics for life, values for living After-School Tutoring Problems (HALP) program is testing a medication to Music & Art treat Dyslexia or reading delay in children 10-16 years Schools of the Sacred Heart San Francisco Ballroom Dance Classes old. The study is not appropriate for children who are ~ Catholic, independent, K-12, two campuses Birthday Parties doing well on their current treatment. Qualified ~ single-sex classes in a coed environment Infant/toddler Playgroups volunteers may receive at no cost: 5 Physical exam and study-related medical care ~ state-of-the-art facilities 415.564.2500 5 Written report of diagnostic/psychological results ~ low student/teacher ratio 2004 Lawton St., San Fransisco 5 Payment for time and travel ~ college preparatory www.kangaroossf.com To learn more, please call Nancy at 415-476-7854. ~ small community, big opportunities ~ serving San Francisco since 1887 ~ part of the Network of Sacred Heart Schools

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By Annette Brown generate scholarships that assist the neediest of the families attending afford the tuition and What Our Children Throughout the life of our Catholic fees. These heroes gather volunteers to help in schools, people have given of themselves the physical renovations of the buildings and to provide education for our children. Our grounds. These heroes solicit donations from Catholic school children come from all walks building materials companies and contractors of of life; from the very affluent, to the abject expertise, labor, materials, equipment, furniture, Believe is Just as Important as What They Know poor. There are families that can afford to fixtures and technology. “buy the school,” and some that cannot even These heroes understand that it is difficult afford to purchase their lunch. The students to extract ones-self from poverty, but nearly attending schools in the Archdiocese of San impossible without an education. These heroes Francisco represents the socio-economic Annette Brown understand that without focused attention, “this spectrum of the society we live in. child” might be lost in the public schools sys- tems and become another dropout. These heroes understand that in Related story, Page CS1 the Catholic school system, it is not possible for children to skate through unnoticed; that in spite of the similarity of our children’s Helping these students achieve the dreams of achieving attire, it is the individual child that is cherished and nourished, their education, there are the quiet, unsung heroes. You won’t spiritually, educationally and sometimes even nutritionally. find these people on the payrolls of any of our schools or par- These heroes provide from thousands to millions of dollars ishes. Their children may be long grown. Their connection to to our school system each year. Without this outside support, the school is not one of responsibility to any particular student, our schools would not be able to exist. but is a connection to the improvement of society in general. Our schools expenses are not fully funded with tuition These are the heroes who donate their time and treasure and payments. The average school “gap” – that is the difference talent with the intent to break the cycle of poverty that many between the average tuition and the cost to educate the children of our families are still circling. These are the people who is $800 per year per child. This difference is made up with fund- Catholic Schools. Dividends For Life. come to the school, pay the tuition of children that they cannot raising activities as well as cash from these unsung heroes. ©2009 NCEA/USCCB • www.catholicschoolsweek.org claim as their tax-deductible dependents. They buy the student In these current times, where families are struggling with uniforms and school supplies, refreshing these purchases every job loss, home loss and increases in the cost of living, these heroes that help the poor in the best way that’s been shown to date year through their academic lives. They faithfully give of their unsung heroes are the lifelines that keep our schools open. to break the cycle of poverty – educate a child. own resources, and when those are exhausted, ask their friends You, too, can be an unsung hero. If you have a student in our Persons or organizations wishing to contribute to the and foundations to contribute of their resources for this great schools, and are financially well-off, considering paying “the gap” Catholic School Scholarship Fund or the Schools’ Endowment, cause of educating the next generation. in addition to your tuition. It will be a tax deduction for you, and a can contact the Catholic Schools Department’s Planning and These heroes request funds from foundations and charitable boon to your local school. If you are a parishioner, consider spon- Finance Office, or a specific school’s pastor or principal. organizations, telling the story, trying to persuade other people to soring a student by paying all or part of the tuition to a particular Annette Brown is Assistant Superintendent of Planning share enthusiasm for the specific beliefs and ideals of the school; student or anonymous student. If you have the wherewithal to start evangelizing the mission of the schools that they represent. These a campaign, consider meeting with your principal and pastor and and Finance for the archdiocesan Department heroes gather funds that are used to offset the gap of the cost of start a scholarship fund to be used for the education of current of Catholic Schools. She can be contacted at running the school that exceeds the tuition collected. These heroes students or for general school expenses. Become one of the unsung (415) 614-5662 or [email protected]. Serra students support African entrepreneur as they learn about microfinancing When Dorcas Ackon struggled to start a clothing business Dorcas’ loan was for $275 to buy new dresses. Of that, Serra in Ghana, little did she know that a portion of her business loan Serra students raised $50. The decision to loan was optional. The rest would be funded byJunipero Serra High School students. students of the loan was funded by other field partners. Working with the social justice website Kiva, students in helped Dorcas has paid back about 50 percent of the loan, which is Joel Ferrando’s honors sophomore English class helped the Dorcas due in full in April. The money will be returned to the students West African entrepreneur in the process of learning about Ackon when the loan is repaid. microfinancing. finance Ferrando hopes to start a Kiva Club at Serra, where students “It’s amazing that you can help people from third-world her could keep their money in the Kiva pool. countries from your own home through the Internet,” said student clothing Students were asked to write a persuasive essay about people Akash Desai. “It was real for us because we learned about the business featured on the Kiva website. Brandon Council wrote about a pil- individual rather than giving to a charity.” low and mattress salesman from Uganda. Greg Suhr wrote about The World Bank estimates that there are now more than 7,000 a taxi driver in Africa battling the negative effects of drug lords. microfinance institutions serving 16 million people in developing Dorcas was chosen for the project because she lives in Ghana, countries. Kiva, the world’s first person-to-person microlending the country where students wanted to make a difference. website, has the mission of alleviating poverty in the developing “The situation is real to the students and they see that they “The process of researching the way Kiva works, navigating world by linking lenders and borrowers. can make a difference,” Ferrando said. “The draw is the personal the site and choosing a person to support engaged my students People in developing countries often manage money in connection – the chance to help a person you see in photos and in critical thought,” Ferrando said. “I hope that they might come unconventional ways – investing in gold and domestic animals, get to know through his or her bio. I do not think microfinancing to internalize such giving in the way so many of our alums have paying cash collectors to keep it safe and even burying cash in will end poverty, but it is one weapon of an arsenal that needs internalized service to others as a result of their community their backyards, according to Kiva’s website. to grow.” service experiences here at Serra.”

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(CNS) – A new campaign to Catholic education the opportunity to renew itself and enroll 1 million Hispanic students in Catholic schools face the vexing challenges of the 21st century. We are by 2020 and the study that prompted it is “a challenge being presented with a fundamental choice that we to the church to get the word out and spread the good ignore at our peril,” said Father Deck. news in the Hispanic community,” said the chairman Two programs at Notre Dame will support the cam- of the U.S. bishops’ education committee. paign: the university’s Latino Institute for Studies and “As in the past, Catholic schools are a gift to the the Alliance for Catholic Education, known as ACE, Catholic immigrants to America. We rejoice in and which places college graduates as volunteer teachers celebrate that fact,” Auxiliary Bishop Thomas J. Curry in Catholic schools. of Los Angeles, head of the Committee on Catholic University officials said Notre Dame hopes to forge Education, said in a Dec. 15 statement. partnerships with dioceses to implement recommenda- The Catholic School Advantage campaign comes tions to boost enrollment in Catholic schools. out of a 65-page report by a task force commissioned by According to the announcement on the campaign, the University of Notre Dame. The report is titled “To the Archdiocese of Chicago has agreed to join the Nurture the Soul of a Nation: Latino Families, Catholic campaign and discussions are under way with five Schools and Educational Opportunity.” other dioceses that serve large Hispanic populations. The day of its release also was the feast of Our Lady The campaign will be led by Father Corpora, a former of Guadalupe, the patroness of the Americas, to whom REGISTER) DENVER CATHOLIC BACA, (CNS PHOTO/JAMES pastor with nearly 20 years experience in parishes and Hispanics have a special devotion. Evangelina Romero and Samantha Cabral, fourth-graders at St. Rose of schools serving Latino communities. “The message of Our Lady of Guadalupe, that Lima School in Denver, work on a project at school Dec. 12. A new study The task force spent the past year conducting research culture is enlivened by faith, challenges us to open for shows Hispanic students in Catholic elementary schools are 42 percent and developing recommendations for schools, dioceses, Latino children the rich opportunity of a Catholic school church leaders, the philanthropic community, civic orga- more likely to graduate from high school and more than two-and-a-half education,” said Bishop Jaime Soto of Sacramento, nizations, policymakers and institutions of higher educa- Calif., chairman of U.S. bishops’ Committee on times more likely to graduate from college than their peers in public school. tion. The research ultimately provides as a road map for Cultural Diversity in the Church. getting more Latino students in Catholic schools. Like Bishop Curry, Bishop Soto and Jesuit Father Allan of the University of Texas at Brownsville. “Catholic schools must Financial obstacles are just one barrier, the report said. Other Figueroa Deck, executive director of the bishops’ Secretariat remain a steady and strong conduit for the many new generations barriers include a lack of information about Catholic schools and of Cultural Diversity in the Church, issued statements Dec. 15. of Latinos at their doorstep,” she said in a statement. a lack of a cultural or leadership connection between the Latino Father Deck, also is a member of the task force, said the Catholic To improve education outcomes for more Latino children, the community and schools that lack Latino teachers, principals and school initiative posed an important challenge to Catholic educa- task force seeks to double that 3 percent in Catholic schools to 6 board members. tion in the United States. percent – from 290,000 to 1 million – in the next decade. The task force recommended several steps to reduce barriers A key finding of the report showed that while more than 75 The task force was established one year ago by Holy Cross starting with stepped-up recruitment efforts through, for example, percent of Latinos in the United States are Catholic, only 3 per- Father John I. Jenkins, president of Notre Dame. It is co-chaired school functions that reach out to Latino families. It also recom- cent of Latino children currently attend Catholic schools while by Holy Cross Father Joseph Corpora, director of university-school mends renewed efforts to make schools more affordable through public schools across the country have seen a rapid growth in partnerships for Notre Dame’s Alliance for Catholic Education. scholarships or voucher initiatives. the number of Hispanics. The task force includes more than 50 national leaders repre- It also urged universities, schools and dioceses to prepare The report also said public schools have not served Latino senting the Latino community, the Catholic Church, academia, principals to transform their schools to better serve Latino chil- students well, saying they are behind their peers on most mea- government, business, philanthropy, and elementary and second- dren and create culturally responsive school environments. sures of educational achievement. According to the report, Latino ary education. The report concluded by noting that addressing what keeps students fare much better at Catholic schools where they are 42 For some members of the task force, the connection to Latino students from attending Catholic schools will “eliminate percent more likely to graduate from high school and two and a Catholic education is deeply personal. Former Undersecretary the achievement gap for millions of children and families, while half times more likely to graduate from college than peers who of Education Sara Martinez Tucker said her years at Catholic addressing the enrollment gap that plagues urban Catholic attend public schools. school “changed the trajectory” of her life and she wants “all schools. Latino families will benefit from improved educational “Much is at stake. No less than the future generation of leaders Hispanic children to have that chance.” opportunities and the Catholic school system will be revital- for our country,” said task force co-chair Juliet Garcia, president “The Latino presence, more than any other factor, offers ized,” it said.

Ecological reforms, new practices save energy, cash at Oregon school

By Ed Langlois continuing a drive for ecological advances that began with con- meant to save the school some money. Though the scheme now struction of a new classroom building in 2005. Pope John Paul has an altruistic character, it’s still good for the bank account. PORTLAND, Ore. (CNS) – An Oregon Catholic school is II Hall, which includes a library and science lab, was the first Among other measures, blue recycling bins are now set next turning its century-old campus into a lean, green sustainability K-8 Catholic school building in the nation to win certification to copy machines and alongside every waste can. That keeps machine. from the U.S. Green Building Council. trash volume down. The number of plastic bags used at Holy At Holy Redeemer on Portland’s north side, students joined Across campus in the lunchroom, an effort to reduce waste Redeemer has plummeted since classroom garbage is emptied volunteers and teachers in a project to dig up 2,500 square feet caught students’ attention starting last year. After training and a once per week (or when needed) instead of daily. of old playground pavement. That exhausting effort will allow set of incentives – free dress passes and some sweet treats – the Students and teachers are urged to turn off lights whenever pos- rainwater to soak into the ground and nourish newly planted native youngsters took only a week to cut noontime trash from seven sible and every other light fixture in hallways has been shut off. vegetation, as opposed to washing blacktop-borne pollutants into cans per day to one. Now it’s a habit. Baggenstos and volunteers disconnected half the downspouts streams and the nearby Columbia River. Another newly uncovered The difference is avid recycling, composting and the use of from the church and school last year, keeping the flow out of the area will be a 7,500-square-foot community garden. washable plates and silverware. aquifer and cutting storm water bills by 38 percent. Pavement-busting is just one of dozens of efforts at ecologi- The new lunch policies have slashed Holy Redeemer’s total New controls on the heating system monitor hours of opera- cal reform at the 100-year-old school, which serves a racially solid waste output – and the bill for hauling – by about a third. tion and temperature more closely, resulting in an expected 10 diverse neighborhood. “It’s harder, but it’s good,” said eighth-grader Palmer Smith. percent savings on heating oil. “We’re doing what we can to bring the school into the 21st Anna Raineri, Holy Redeemer’s principal, began sending Big environmental jobs at Holy Redeemer are getting done century,” said John Baggenstos, facilities manager at Holy out the multi-page parent newsletter on e-mail two years ago. with the help of grants. The pavement tear-up was paid for by Redeemer for the past two years. “Of course, there isn’t much Hard copies dropped from 275 to 40. That saved great stacks a Portland watershed program, which also will fund a system money. You’re either rich or creative, I guess.” of paper. to divert rainwater from the gym roof to the garden, which will Baggenstos and a committee of teachers and parents are Baggenstos said that at first, the efficiency measures were provide produce to needy neighbors. SUPPORT CATHOLIC SCHOOLS Pettingell Book Bindery Our Lady of Loretto School Novato’s neighborhood Catholic School for over 50 years Klaus-Ullrich S. Rötzscher Our Lady of Loretto School Bibles, Theses, is dedicated to excelllence in Gold Stamping. education that is Christ Quality Binding with centered and rich in Cloth, Leather or Paper. Single & Editions. Catholic tradition. Custom Box Making 1811 Virginia Avenue 2181 Bancroft Way Novato, CA 94945 Berkeley, CA 94704 415.892.8621 (510) 845-3653 WWW. OLLNOVATO. ORG January 29, 2010 Catholic San Francisco CSW13 A CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL CAN MAKE ALL THE DIFFERENCE! ● Challenging college preparatory curriculum with over 98% continuing on to college ● Education which provides ethical and moral foundation of Christian values ● Education which addresses personal growth of the whole person ● Education in a supportive family atmosphere ● Education for service, justice and peace ● Athletic programs affording a wide range of team and individual participation ● Programs which foster leadership in community service ● Dedicated faculty, staff and administrators committed to Catholic education ● Variety of extra curricular activities provide opportunity for individual interests

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SAN DOMENICO SCHOOL JUNÍPERO SERRA HIGH SCHOOL 1500 Butterfield Road 451 West 20th Avenue San Anselmo, CA 94960 San Mateo, CA 94403 (415) 258-1905 (650) 345-8207 Web Site: www.serrahs.com Web Site: www.sandomenico.org

MARIN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL ST. IGNATIUS COLLEGE PREPARATORY 675 Sir Francis Drake Boule vard 2001 - 37th Avenue Kentfield, CA 94904 San Francisco, CA 94116 (415) 464-3800 (415) 731-7500 Web Site: www.siprep.org Web Site: www.marincatholic.org

MERCY HIGH SCHOOL – BURLINGAME STUART HALL HIGH SCHOOL 2750 Adeline Drive 1715 Octavia St. (at Pine) Burlingame, CA 94010 San Francisco, CA 94109 (650) 343-3631 Web Site: www.mercyhsb.com (415) 345-5812 Web Site: www.sacredsf.org

WOODSIDE PRIORY SCHOOL MERCY HIGH SCHOOL – SAN FRAN CISCO 302 Portola Road 3250 – 19th Avenue Portola Valley, CA 94028 San Francisco, CA 94132 (650) 851-8221 (415) 334-0525 Web Site: www.mercyhs.org Web Site: www.WoodsidePriory.com

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL SCHOOLS CELEBRATING CATHOLIC SCHOOLS WEEK! CSW14 Catholic San Francisco January 29, 2010 ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO CATHOLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS DIRECTORY

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7 Our Lady of the Visitacion Elementary School 17 Saint Elizabeth Elementary School 26 Saints Peter and Paul Elementary School 785 Sunnydale Ave. 94134 450 Somerset St. 94134 660 Filbert St. 94133 (415) 239-7840 Fax: (415) 239-2559 (415) 468-3247 / 48 Fax: (415) 468-1804 (415) 421-5219 Fax: (415) 421-1831 Web Site: www.olvisitacion.com Web Site: www.stelizabethsf.org Web Site: www.stspeterpaul.san-francisco.ca.us Grades: K-8, Extended Care Grades: K-8, Extended Care Grades: K-8, Extended Care

8 Megan Furth Academy 18 Saint Finn Barr Elementary School 27 Saint Philip Elementary School 2445 Pine St. 94115 419 Hearst Ave. 94112 665 Elizabeth St. 94114 (415) 346-9500 Fax: (415) 346-8001 (415) 333-1800 Fax: (415) 452-0177 (415) 824-8467 Fax: (415) 282-5746 Web Site: www.meganfurthacademy.org Web Site: www.stfinnbarr.org Web Site: www.saintphilipschool.com Grades: K-8, Extended Care Grades: K-8, Extended Care Grades: K-8, Extended Care 9 Convent of the Sacred Heart Elementary School 19 Saint Gabriel Elementary School 28 Saint Vincent de Paul Elementary School 2222 Broadway St. 94115 2550 41st. Ave. 94116 2350 Green St. 94123 (415) 563-2900 Fax: (415) 563-0438 (415) 566-0314 Fax: (415) 566-3223 (415) 346-5505 Fax: (415) 346-0970 Web Site: www.sacredsf.org Web Site: www.stgabrielsf.com Web Site: www.svdpsf.org Grades: K-8, Girls, Extended Care Grades: K-8, Extended Care Grades: K-8, Extended Care 10 DeMarillac Academy 20 Saint James Elementary School 29 Saint Thomas the Apostle Elementary School 175 Golden Gate Ave. 94102 321 Fair Oaks St. 94110 3801 Balboa St. 94121 (415) 552-5220 Fax: (415) 621-5632 (415) 647-8972 Fax: (415) 647-0166 (415) 221-2711 Fax: (415) 221-8611 Web Site: www.demarillac.org Web Site: www.saintjamessf.org Web Site: www.stthomasapostle.pvt.k12.ca.us Grades: K-8, Extended Care Grades: K-8, Extended Care 11 Stuart Hall For Boys Elementary School 2222 Broadway St. 94115 21 Saint John Elementary School 30 Saint Thomas More Elementary School (415) 563-2900 Fax: (415) 292-3165 925 Chenery St. 94131 50 Thomas More Way 94132 Web Site: www.sacredsf.org (415) 584-8383 Fax: (415) 584-8359 (415) 337-0100 Fax: (415) 333-2564 Grades: K-8, boys, Extended Care Web Site: www.stjohnseagles.com Web Site: www.StThomasMoreSchool.org Grades: K-8, Extended Care Grades: K-8, Extended Care 12 Saint Anne Elementary School 1320 – 14th Ave. 94122 22 Saint Mary Chinese Day School 31 Saint Stephen Elementary School (415) 664-7977 Fax: (415) 661-6904 910 Broadway St. 94133 401 Eucalyptus Dr. 94132 Web Site: www.stanne.com (415) 929-4690 Fax: (415) 929-4699 (415) 664-8331 Fax: (415) 242-5608 Grades: PreK-8, Extended Care Web Site: www.stmaryschinese.org Web Site: www.st-stephenschoolsf.org Grades: K-8, Extended Care Grades: K-8, Extended Care 13 Saint Brendan Elementary School 940 Laguna Honda Blvd. 94127 23 Saint Monica Elementary School 32 Star of the Sea Elementary School (415) 731-2665 Fax: (415) 731-7207 5950 Geary Blvd. 94121 360 9th Ave. 94118 Web Site: www.stbrendansf.com (415) 751-9564 Fax: (415) 751-0781 (415) 221-8558 Fax: (415) 221-7118 Grades: K-8, Extended Care Web Site: www.stmonicasf.org Web Site: www.starofthesea.com Grades: K-8, Extended Care Grades: Pre-school, K-8, Extended Care 14 Saint Brigid Elementary School 2250 Franklin St. 94109 24 Saint Paul Elementary School (415) 673-4523 Fax: (415) 674-4187 1690 Church St. 94131 Grades: K-8 Web Site: www.saintbrigidsf.org (415) 648-2055 Fax: (415) 648-1920 Grades: PreK-8, Extended Care Web Site: www.stpaulsf.net Grades: PreK-8, Extended Care 15 Saint Cecilia Elementary School 660 Vincente St. 94116 (415) 731-8400 Fax: (415) 731-5686 Web Site: www.stceciliaschool.org Grades: K-8, Extended Care January 29, 2010 Catholic San Francisco CSW15 ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO CATHOLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS DIRECTORY

MARIN COUNTY 1 Saint Rita Elementary School 4 Saint Anselm Elementary School 102 Marinda Dr., Fairfax 94930 40 Belle Ave., San Anselmo 94960 (415) 456-1003 Fax: (415) 456-7946 (415) 454-8667 Fax: (415) 454-4730 Web Site: www.strita.edu Web Site: www.stanselmschool.com 5 Grades: K-8, Extended Care Grades: K-8, Extended Care 7 5 3 2 Saint Patrick Elementary School Our Lady of Loretto Elementary School 1 120 King St., Larkspur 94939 1181 Virginia Ave., Novato 94945 (415) 924-0501 Fax: (415) 924-3544 (415) 892-8621 Fax: (415) 892-9631 4 Web Site: www.stpatricksmarin.com Web Site: www.ollnovato.org 2 Grades: K-8, Extended Care Grades: K-8, Extended Care 6 3 San Domenico School 6 Saint Raphael Elementary School 1500 Butterfield Rd., San Anselmo 94960 1100 Fifth Ave., San Rafael 94901 8 (415) 258-1910 [Primary] (415) 258-1908 [Middle] (415) 454-4455 Fax: (415) 454-5927 Fax: (415) 258-1901 Web Site: www.straphaelschool.com Web Site: www.sandomenico.org Grades: PreK-8, Extended Care Grades: PreK-8 7 Saint Isabella Elementary School 8 Saint Hilary Elementary School 1 Trinity Way, PO Box 6188, San Rafael 94903 765 Hilary Dr., Tiburon 94920 (415) 479-3727 Fax: (415) 479-9961 (415) 435-2224 Fax: (415) 435-5895 Web Site: www.stisabellaschool.org Web Site: www.sainthilary-school.org Grades: K-8, Extended Care Grades: K-8, Extended Care SAN MATEO COUNTY 3 Notre Dame Elementary School 13 Nativity Elementary School 1200 Notre Dame Ave., Belmont 94002 1250 Laurel St., Menlo Park 94025 (650) 591-2209 Fax: (650) 591-4798 (650) 325-7304 Fax: (650) 325-3841 Web Site: www.nde.org Web Site: www.nativityschool.com Grades: 1-8, Extended Care Grades: K-8, Extended Care

4 Our Lady of Angels Elementary School 14 Good Shepherd Elementary School 1328 Cabrillo Ave., Burlingame 94010 909 Oceana Blvd., Pacifica 94044 (650) 343-9200 Fax: (650) 343-5620 (650) 359-4544 Fax: (650) 359-4558 9 5 Web Site: www.olaparish.org Web Site: www.goodshepherd-school.org Grades: PreK-8, Extended Care Grades: K-8, Extended Care 8 5 Our Lady of Perpetual Help Elementary School 15 Woodside Priory School 80 Wellington Ave., Daly City 94014 302 Portola Rd., Portola Valley 94028 2 1 (650) 755-4438 Fax: (650) 755-7366 (650) 851-8221 Fax: (650) 851-2839 14 Web Site: www.olphdc.org Web Site: www.woodsidepriory.com 22 Grades: K-8 Grades: 6-8 12 6 Immaculate Heart of Mary Elementary School 16 Our Lady of Mount Carmel Elementary School 4 1000 Alameda de las Pulgas, Belmont 94002 301 Grant St., Redwood City 94062 (650) 593-4265 Fax: (650) 593-4342 (650) 366-6127 Fax: (650) 366-0902 7 Web Site: www.ihmschoolbelmont.com Web Site: www.mountcarmel.org Grades: K-8, Extended Care Grades: K-8, Extended Care 20 21 19 7 Saint Catherine of Siena Elementary School 17 Saint Pius Elementary School 1300 Bayswater Ave., Burlingame 94010 1100 Woodside Rd., Redwood City 94061 3 6 (650) 344-7176 Fax: (650) 344-7426 (650) 368-8327 Fax: (650) 368-7031 Web Site: www.stcos.com Web Site: www.saintpiusschool.org 18 Grades: K-8, Extended Care Grades: K-8, Extended Care 16 8 Holy Angels Elementary School 18 Saint Charles Elementary School 17 10 13 20 Reiner St., Colma 94014 850 Tamarack Ave., San Carlos 94070 11 (650) 755-0220 Fax: (650) 755-0258 (650) 593-1629 Fax: (650) 593-9723 Web Site: www.holyangelscolma.com Web Site: www.scharlesschoolsc.org Grades: K-8, Extended Care Grades: K-8, Extended Care

9 19 15 Our Lady of Mercy Elementary School Saint Gregory Elementary School 7 Elmwood Dr., Daly City 94015 2701 Hacienda St., San Mateo 94403 (650) 756-3395 Fax: (650) 756-5872 (650) 573-0111 Fax: (650) 573-6548 Web Site: www.olmcath.org Web Site: www.stgregs-sanmateo.org Grades: K-8, Extended Care Grades: K-8, Extended Care

1 All Souls Elementary School 10 Saint Joseph Elementary School 20 Saint Matthew Elementary School 479 Miller Ave., So. San Francisco 94080 50 Emilie Ave., Atherton 94027 910 South El Camino Real, San Mateo 94402 (650) 583-3562 Fax: (650) 952-1167 (650) 322-9931 (MAIN #) Fax: (650) 322-7656 (650) 343-1373 Fax: (650) 343-2046 Web Site: www.ssfallsoulsschool.org Web Site: www.shschools.org Web Site: www.stmatthewcath.org Grades: K-8, Extended Care Grades: PreK-8, Extended Care Grades: K-8, Extended Care

2 Saint Veronica Elementary School 11 Saint Raymond Elementary School 21 Saint Timothy Elementary School 434 Alida Way, So. San Francisco 94080 1211 Arbor Rd., Menlo Park 94025 1515 Dolan Ave., San Mateo 94401 (650) 589-3909 Fax: (650) 589-2826 (650) 322-2312 Fax: (650) 322-2910 (650) 342-6567 Fax: (650) 342-5913 Web Site: www.stveronicacatholicschool.org Web Site: www.straymond.org Web Site: www.sttimothyschool.org Grades: K-8 Grades: K-8, Extended Care Grades: K-8, Extended Care

12 Saint Dunstan Elementary School 22 Saint Robert Elementary School 1150 Magnolia Ave., Millbrae 94030 345 Oak Ave., San Bruno 94066 (650) 697-8119 Fax: (650) 697-9295 (650) 583-5065 Fax: (650) 583-1418 Web Site: www.st-dunstan.org Web Site: www.saintroberts.org Grades: K-8, Extended Care Grades: K-8, Extended Care CSW16 Catholic San Francisco January 29, 2010

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Experience Catholic Education. Dividends for Life January 29, 2010 Catholic San Francisco 9 The Catholic Difference Papal environmentalism: pro-life and pro-marriage

In his Jan. 11 address to the diplomatic corps accredited inalienable right-to-life: “…this concern…for the environment of the name would take to the Holy See, Pope Benedict XVI continued to carve should be situated within the larger framework of the great up the cause of life and out an interesting Catholic position on ecology. The Pope challenges now facing mankind… . [Thus] how can we sepa- the cause of marriage, insists that care for creation is a moral obligation that falls rate, or even set at odds, the protection of the environment and for the truths that under- on both individuals and governments. His very invocation of the protection of human life, including the life of the unborn? gird the Catholic pro-life “creation,” however, challenges the secular shibboleths that It is in man’s respect for himself that his sense of responsibil- position and the Catholic underwrite a lot of contemporary environmental activism. ity is shown. As Saint Thomas Aquinas has taught us, man defense of marriage-right- Here is the money paragraph in the papal address to represents all that is most noble in the universe…” ly-understood are moral the diplomats assembled in the Sala Regia of the Apostolic Two paragraphs after that, Benedict tied care for the truths that can be known Palace: environment to the defense of marriage rightly understood— by reason—they’re not George Weigel “Twenty years ago, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the another issue that does not, I suspect, loom large on the some “sectarian” Catholic collapse of the materialistic and atheistic regimes which had agenda of Greenpeace: theological chicanery, the for several decades dominated a part of this continent, it was “…we must remember that the problem of the environ- Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and the Vice easy to assess the great harm which an economic system lack- ment is complex; one might compare it to a multifaceted President of the United States notwithstanding. ing any reference to the truth about man had done not only prism. Creatures differ from one another and can be pro- It will be interesting to see if the new papal environ- to the dignity and freedom of individuals and peoples, but tected, or endangered, in different ways, as we know from mentalism coaxes a few brave souls from the ecology camp to nature itself, by polluting soil, water, and air. The denial daily experience. One such attack comes from laws or pro- into common cause with those less politically correct move- of God distorts the freedom of the human person, yet it also posals which, in the name of fighting discrimination, strike ments in defense of life and marriage. I’m skeptical, not devastates creation. It follows that the protection of creation at the biological basis of the difference between the sexes. least because of decades of moral confusion during which is not principally a response to an aesthetic need, but much I am thinking, for example, of certain countries in Europe, radical environmentalists have shown far more concern for more to a moral need, in as much as nature expresses a plan of or North and South America…”— that is, countries (or, in endangered species of insects than for endangered pre-born love and truth which is prior to us and comes from God.” our case, states) that have given legal sanction to so-called children. As for the gay insurgency, it takes no prisoners and Now, the overlap between orthodox Christians and radi- “same-sex marriage.” is unlikely to see its cause as counter-environmental. Still, cal environmentalists may not be what the mathematicians call So: according to Benedict XVI, a consistent Catholic the papal challenge has been laid down, and as they say in a “null set;” but I rather doubt that those who qualify on both environmentalism must include the defense of life from Rome, “We think in centuries here.” counts would fill, say, the new Cowboys Stadium. Dubieties conception until natural death and the defense of marriage on this front harden when, two paragraphs later, the Pope as the stable union of a man and a woman. Indeed, I expect George Weigel is Distinguished Senior Fellow of the explicitly linked an aroused environmental conscience to the the Pope would argue that any environmentalism worthy Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.

Potpourri Earthly gods with feet of clay

They are lauded with a fervor that allows not the slight- suddenly fall off the throne. The humiliation suffered is the sermons banal, the est breath of criticism about their character or performance; stinging; yet those who pay the price when the idol’s façade singing lousy. In some no suggestion of doubt about their lofty promises to give all crumbles are the persons who followed a shooting star only instances, perhaps that’s that is good and justifiable. to see it extinguish itself. When the earthly tries to replace true, but the miracle of They are the public figures whose devotees have the Divine, the very essence of mankind’s soul is shredded His Real Presence in stripped them of all human failings as one would strip off into fragile threads linking one tenuously to someone as the Eucharist is in every old paint in order to gloss on new. These demigods have uncertain and unreliable as a fluff of soufflé. The easy col- Mass all over the world. been enthroned on the garland altars of charm, rhetoric and lapse is inevitable and comes with the enormous price of Unlike the demigods dazzling smiles; some of the requirements needed to raise disillusionment. who look good and mere mortals to “divine” rank. Often as not they end up as One thinks of the Adolphs and Saddams of the world sound great, the real God Jane L. Sears TIME’s Person of the Year and/or in lurid headlines in the whose reigns as demigods ended in death and disaster. By is at once unfathomable, National Enquirer. contrast, the One who was thrust into the world as a humble but real. As Eastern theologian Vladimir Lossky wrote: “God Earthly gods are different than false gods and more servant; who chose to have the heck beaten out of him and is comprehensible only in His incomprehensibility.” recognizable. False gods are man-made deities that replace who died a horrible death after begging His Father to forgive To discern and receive the Divine Mystery, St. Paul the Divine. Yet, more insidious are the earthly gods that do the brutes who tore at him like packs of vicious dogs, is the cautions us to “receive not the spirit of the world, but the not insert themselves above the one true God, but distract One who is and ever will be, everlasting. Spirit which is of God; that we may know the things that from him by capturing the human heart with a temporary Most worshippers of Jesus Christ are blessed with are freely given to us of God” – the real God, whose nail neon flash that tries to, and cannot, replace the inextinguish- a spiritual discernment too often lacking in our society pocked feet are not of clay, but of flesh and blood. able Divine. today. Unfortunately, there are also those who, without With the adulation, also comes the risk that the earthly giving a thought to the miracle that happens on the altar Jane L. Sears is a freelance writer and a member of god will be undone by his or her own capriciousness to during each liturgy, complain that the Mass is too long, Our Lady of Angels Parish in Burlingame. Twenty Something Heeding Heidi: the empty gains of plastic surgery

Heidi Montag has given new meaning to the concept of I’m told Sports Illustrated’s spreads are considered to become weaker and one-stop shopping. The 23-year-old reality TV star – one the classier end of swimsuit modeling, if such a thing as weaker, which appears of those who are famous for being famous – underwent class is possible when you’re in a string bikini. Especially to be the true impact 10 plastic-surgery procedures in one day, as pin pointed in troublesome is the magazine’s use of body paint in lieu of Heidi Montag’s sur- People magazine and now scrutinized online. of swimsuits, the paint being code for nudity. geries. Although she A few of the 10 procedures are predictable, while oth- Indeed, a heap of distractions arrive in this short praised the results in her ers involve regions you would never imagine a young adult month, wedged between Miss America and the Academy People interview, she would need refined: neck liposuction, chin reduction and Awards and complicated by Valentine’s Day. At every repeatedly described pinning her ears back. (“For the first time,” Montag gushes turn we measure ourselves – on scales, in mirrors, across herself as “fragile” – a to People, “I can wear updos, instead of hiding [my ears] cubicles, between Facebook profiles. We swing from telling statement of her Christina behind my hair.”) famine to feast, from relief to remorse. We balance physical and emotional The twisted psychology of her extreme makeover is as tangled expectations with reality checks, roses with well being. Capecchi easy to trace as the marks drawn on her pre-op body. “I’m thorns. “I see an upgraded competing against the Britney Spears of the world,” she It is the perfect time to enter into Lent, to look inward version of me,” she says. “It’s a new person, and I feel explains, lauding “the Heidi 2010 reinvention” and promis- and upward. This month’s readings guide our journey, like almost all of the things I didn’t want to be and who ing new versions in coming years. reminding us that others “are occupied with earthly things, I turned into kind of got chiseled away.” She’s found inspiration on the pages of Us Weekly and but our citizenship is in heaven.” The problem is Heidi is working in the wrong direc- In Touch, stashing away her favorite images, including shots St. Paul writes that Jesus “will change our lowly body tion. She’s seeking inner peace from outer transformation. of Angelina Jolie. (“She has those really high eyebrows, and to conform with his glorified body.” That union is how we That canvas, of course, makes for quicker change. But the I love them.”) She’ll find new ammunition in her quest “to embody true beauty – not in the removal of pimples or heavy lifting of Christianity, of Lent, and of life, begins feel perfect” this month, when the Sports Illustrated annual the loss of weight. The pursuit of perfection is not only inside. That’s where we do the real work and where we swimsuit edition hits newsstands. an impossible mission, it’s an undesirable one because find the real joy. Their sandy sirens taunt average women, whose swim- our humanity is our lifeline to the savior. “Therefore,” St. suits and sundresses are tucked in top shelves, whose love Paul concludes, “stand firm in the Lord.” Christina Capecchi is a freelance writer handles are safely distanced from New Year’s resolutions His charge is not easy when so many cultural forces from Inver Grove Heights, Minn. and warm weather. attempt to sway and bend us. But to continually bend is Email her at [email protected]. 10 Catholic San Francisco January 29, 2010 A READING FROM THE BOOK A READING FROM THE GOSPEL OF THE PROPHET JEREMIAH Fourth Sunday ACCORDING TO LUKE JER 1:4-5, 17-19 LK 4:21-30 The word of the Lord came to me, in Jesus began speaking in the synagogue, saying: Before I formed you in the womb saying: “Today this Scripture passage is I knew you, before you were born I Ordinary Time fulfilled in your hearing.” And all spoke dedicated you, a prophet to the nations I highly of him and were amazed at the appointed you. But do you gird your loins; Jeremiah 1:4-5, 17-19; gracious words that came from his mouth. stand up and tell them all that I command They also asked, “Isn’t this the son of you. Be not crushed on their account, as Psalm 71:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 15-17; Joseph?” though I would leave you crushed before I Corinthians 13:4-13; Luke 4:21-30 He said to them, “Surely you will them; for it is I this day who have made quote me this proverb, ‘Physician, cure you a fortified city, a pillar of iron, a wall yourself,’ and say, ‘Do here in your native of brass, against the whole land: against place the things that we heard were done Judah’s kings and princes, against its my trust, O God, from my youth. its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, in Capernaum.’” And he said, “Amen, I priests and people. They will fight against On you I depend from birth; it does not brood over injury, it does not say to you, no prophet is accepted in his you but not prevail over you, for I am with from my mother’s womb you are my rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with own native place. Indeed, I tell you, there you to deliver you, says the Lord. strength. the truth. It bears all things, believes all were many widows in Israel in the days R. I will sing of your salvation. things, hopes all things, endures all things. of Elijah when the sky was closed for RESPONSORIAL PSALM My mouth shall declare your justice, Love never fails. three and a half years and a severe famine PS 71:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 15-17 day by day your salvation. If there are prophecies, they will be spread over the entire land. It was to none R. I will sing of your salvation. O God, you have taught me from my brought to nothing; if tongues, they will of these that Elijah was sent, but only to a In you, O Lord, I take refuge; youth, cease; if knowledge, it will be brought to widow in Zarephath in the land of Sidon. let me never be put to shame. and till the present I proclaim your nothing. For we know partially and we Again, there were many lepers in Israel In your justice rescue me, and deliver wondrous deeds. prophesy partially, but when the perfect during the time of Elisha the prophet; yet me; R. I will sing of your salvation. comes, the partial will pass away. When not one of them was cleansed, but only incline your ear to me, and save me. I was a child, I used to talk as a child, Naaman the Syrian.” R. I will sing of your salvation. A READING FROM think as a child, reason as a child; when I When the people in the synagogue Be my rock of refuge, THE FIRST LETTER OF PAUL became a man, I put aside childish things. heard this, they were all filled with fury. a stronghold to give me safety, TO THE CORINTHIANS At present we see indistinctly, as in a They rose up, drove him out of the town, for you are my rock and my fortress. 1 COR 13:4-13 mirror, but then face to face. At present and led him to the brow of the hill on O my God, rescue me from the hand of Brothers and sisters: I know partially; then I shall know fully, which their town had been built, to hurl the wicked. Love is patient, love is kind. It is as I am fully known. So faith, hope, love him down headlong. But Jesus passed R. I will sing of your salvation. not jealous, it is not pompous, it is not remain, these three; but the greatest of through the midst of them and went For you are my hope, O Lord; inflated, it is not rude, it does not seek these is love. away.

s a life-long fan of the San Francisco ways. Jesus comes into our community AGiants, I’m always looking for that next gathering and feeds us, heals us, forgives us, great player, the hard-throwing or heavy- makes us whole. He cures our blindness and hitting sure thing who’ll lead the team to opens our eyes to the beauty all around us in World Series victory. I follow the yearly the world He has so generously given us. draft and keep close track of their farm Scripture refl ection Yet it’s outside of Church that our lives system, hoping that the future Willie Mays are often made sacred by God’s presence or Juan Marichal is waiting right around the DEACON MICHAEL MURPHY in the most wonderful and unexpected of corner. Having watched baseball for many ways. God is love, and in Paul’s beautifully years, I like to think I can recognize talent poetic description of a life lived in love that when I see it. he gives us in our second reading, we come So when the Giants acquired a young to discover and recognize God in the most pitcher a few years ago and said he was the unlikely of places. Parents patiently sooth- guy destined to take them to the next level, ing their crying children in the middle of I was fired up. After seeing him, however, I the night bring God into our world. Friends was convinced the Giants had made a huge kindly reaching out to offer comfort and mistake. He was scrawny, had a convoluted Have you seen God today? support during times of pain and sadness wind-up, and looked to me to be about 13 bring God into our lives. People celebrating years old. I was not impressed. Of course, ceived notions. It happens in sports, it hap- entered and is working in our world, often in triumphs together, hoping and believing in now that Tim Lincecum has won the past pens in politics, and it happens to our Lord the most unexpected fashion. Waiting for the their futures together, enduring and bearing two Cy Young Awards, it’s obvious why I’m in this week’s Gospel. God of lightning bolts and flaming chariots, whatever life sends them together, bring God a deacon and not a Major League baseball After first being amazed at Jesus’ teach- flashy miracles and heavenly signs, we over- into our hearts and souls. scout. Greatness had been right in front ings, his neighbors in Nazareth begin to grow look the quiet God of peace and mercy who We might not understand it, we might of me, a special player who comes along skeptical, wondering how this carpenter’s is all around us, touching and changing our not realize it, we might not even believe it, once in a generation, and I’d utterly failed son can speak with such authority. Upon lives in subtle ways that we often never even but God is with us, God is among us, God is to see it. hearing things they don’t want to hear, the notice. Our challenge this week is to open right in the middle of us. I may have missed Obviously, this sort of thing occurs all crowd becomes angry, even violent, driving our eyes and embrace the God we discover it with Tim Lincecum, but I’m not going to the time. Einstein’s teachers believed he was Jesus from the village. God is in their midst, right in front of us. miss it when it comes to Our Lord. Incredibly, slow, Lincoln lost his first election, and thirty their every hope and dream about to be real- In liturgy, of course, we encounter and often in the most delightfully unexpected years ago I thought the 49ers were really ized, yet their emotions and prejudices blind our Lord in as true a fashion as anyone ways, the Scripture passage that was fulfilled off base when they drafted that skinny Joe them to this incredible, life-changing truth. who might have met Him walking on the in the hearing of the people of Nazareth is Montana fellow (I know, I know…) Rather Two thousand years later, however, we dusty roads of Galilee. In the Word, in the fulfilled in our hearing as well. God is here. than opening our eyes to the reality right should sympathize, because the same thing Assembly, in the Celebrant, and most espe- in front of us, our vision and judgment can happens today, all of the time. It can be just cially in the Eucharist, Christ makes Himself Deacon Michael Murphy serves at often be clouded by our biases and precon- as challenging for us to realize that God has known in incredibly profound and personal St. Charles Parish in San Carlos.

Spirituality for Life Of elders, character, Christ’s Passion and blessing At a workshop several years ago, a woman shared this inconvenience this was causing them. Eventually her father And the gift does not story: She was the mother of four children and, while died. Several years after the funeral her eldest son, now in always look or feel like they were all still young, at home, in school, her father, college, said to her: “You know, mum, all those years that a beautifully wrapped already a widower, suffered a stroke that left him severely we had to arrange our lives so much around Grandpa and Christmas present. debilitated. He has unable to take care of himself and needed his illness – that was really a precious time. That was a great The gift can, initially, assistance. gift to our family!” seem like a burden, an Being the dutiful daughter, she had him move in with How can the life of someone like that, someone whose unwanted imposition, her own family, at great inconvenience to her husband and life and existence can weigh on us like a burden, be a an awkward inconve- children. So many of their family routines had to be adjusted blessing? How are we gifted by having people like that in nience, an unfortunate and re-arranged to accommodate her dad’s presence. Their our lives? duty. But those feelings Father life changed radically. The answer is part of a deep human and spiritual mystery, themselves eventually At a point, her father’s condition deteriorated to the point a part of the secret of love itself. We give life to each other contribute to the depth Ron Rolheiser where she had to take him to a hospice where he could not just in what we actively do for each other, but also, and of the gift. receive full-time care. But, even then, she still needed to visit sometimes especially, in what we passively absorb and are We see this mysteri- him daily, often having to take one or more of her children unable to do. Helplessness brings a special presence into a ous aspect of love illustrated in the Gospels when they with her. This went on for seven years. Daily, she and one room. We give life through our activity and we also give life describe how Jesus gave his life and his death for us. Each or other of her children would have to go and spend some through our passivity. We bring a blessing to the sick when of the Gospels has two very distinct parts: The early parts time with her father. we visit them, but we also leave their presence blessed by of the Gospels describe Jesus’ activity and how he gave During those years, many times, in large and small having visited them. There is love in giving, just as there is his life for us by what he did for us. The latter part of the ways, she apologized to her husband and children for the love in receiving. SPIRITUALITY FOR LIFE, page 11 January 29, 2010 Catholic San Francisco 11

From Left: Santa Rosa Bishop Daniel Walsh, Oakland Walk for Life West . . . Bishop Salvatore Cordileone, Sacramento Bishop Jaime Continued from cover Soto, San Bernardino Auxiliary Bishop Rutilio del Riego, retired San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop Ignatius Wang, St. Mary’s of Moraga, St. Thomas Aquinas College, and Auxiliary Bishop Dominic Luong, Diocese of Orange; Wyoming Catholic College marched alongside eight San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice. Catholic bishops. One hundred and twenty Catholic seminarians carried banners and Tom Martin, who worked for former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown before entering the seminary, said: “It’s a great opportunity for the people of God to see (PHOTO BY JIM & MAUREEN MCKENZIE/DAWIN SAYO) that the seminarians are joining with them not only in pray- ing for life, but also taking a stand.” Speakers included Abby Johnson, who worked for Planned Parenthood for eight years before walking away from her job as a clinic director in October after assisting in an abortion. Johnson said: “If you are here, you are an activist. We can no longer just say the words but must put our words into action.” Johnson joined 40 Days for Life, a national prayer and fasting campaign outside abortion clinics. The Walk presented the St. Gianna Molla Award to David Bereit, national campaign director of 40 Days for Life. Lila Rose of Live Action said “The fact that we have allowed abortion in this great nation, the killing of the most defenseless and weak among us has resulted in the greatest human rights abuse I believe our nation has ever seen. It is up to us to stand, raise our voices, and protect the smallest.” “If ever there was a time to ‘seize the moment’ in the interest of unborn babies, it is now,” Evangelical preacher, author and theologian, Pastor Jim Garlow of San Diego, told the rally. The Reverend Clenard Childress, founder of BlackGenocide.org, said “There is an obvious shifting in our culture and it stems from advances in the pro-life movement.”

(PHOTO BY BOB MULLEN) (PHOTO Walk for Life co-founder Dolores Meehan said “The tenacity of pro-lifers, showing up in their tens of thousands, Early morning downpours did not deter more than 2,200 despite a downpour, is a testimony to their commitment!” Walk for Life West Coast participants from a pre-walk Mass Following the rally, participants walked two miles from at St. Mary’s Cathedral. Archbishop George H. Niederauer the Embarcadero to the Marina Green behind a large banner, was principal celebrant joined by more than 40 priest which said “Abortion hurts women.” and bishop concelebrants from the Archdiocese of San Walk for Life West Coast was started by a group of San Francisco, Diocese of Oakland and other Bay Area sees. Franciscans in 2005 to affirm the right to life from conception to natural death and particularly to change hearts hurt by the

(PHOTO BY JIM & MAUREEN MCKENZIE/DAWIN SAYO) MCKENZIE/DAWIN BY JIM & MAUREEN (PHOTO violence of abortion. (PHOTO BY JIM & MAUREEN MCKENZIE/DAWIN SAYO) MCKENZIE/DAWIN BY JIM & MAUREEN (PHOTO

Georgette Forney, of Silent No More, speaks at rally. (PHOTO BY JOSÉ LUIS AGUIRRE/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO) BY JOSÉ LUIS AGUIRRE/CATHOLIC (PHOTO

Umbrellas were standard gear for participants and Archbishop Niederauer at the Walk for Life West Coast rally and walk in San Francisco Jan. 23, which drew many young people and families. (PHOTO BY JOSÉ LUIS AGUIRRE/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO) BY JOSÉ LUIS AGUIRRE/CATHOLIC (PHOTO

Young boy holds up pro-life message during walk. (PHOTO BY JIM & MAUREEN MCKENZIE/DAWIN SAYO) MCKENZIE/DAWIN BY JIM & MAUREEN (PHOTO SAN FRANCISCO) BY JOSÉ LUIS AGUIRRE/CATHOLIC (PHOTO SAN FRANCISCO) BY JOSÉ LUIS AGUIRRE/CATHOLIC (PHOTO

meaning is there in the continued existence of a person liv- at the bottom of a riverbed, she may do nothing but stay Spirituality for Life . . . ing with full-blown dementia? What does someone who is still and hold her ground, but the river has to take her into ■ Continued from page 10 mentally handicapped bring to the community? Why prolong account and alter its flow because of her. An older man by the life of someone who is in the final stages of a terminal sheer presence plays his part as a character in the drama of Gospels describe Jesus’ passivity and how he gave his death illness? And: Why keep a debilitated Grandpa in the house the family and neighborhood. He has to be considered, and for us by what he passively absorbed for us. Appropriately when he disrupts our normal family life? patterns adjusted simply because he is there. His character this latter part is called The Passion (from the Latin, passio, The answer: Because a person in this condition, at some brings particular qualities to every scene, adds to their intri- meaning, passiveness.) deep level, is giving us a precious gift, namely, depth and cacy and depth by representing the past and the dead. When Today, we struggle to understand this, both intellectually character. all the elderly are removed to retirement communities, the and existentially. Sadly, today, we tend to define life and Whenever a culture debates about the merits of euthanasia river flows more smoothly back home. No disruptive rocks. meaning almost solely on the basis of health, productivity, it is an infallible sign that we no longer understand this. Less character too. usefulness, and what we can actively contribute to others. I like James Hillman’s take on this: Productivity is too What can we bring to the table? narrow a measure of usefulness, disability too cramping Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser, theologian, teacher, And so we ask ourselves: What do the elderly who can a notion of helplessness. An old woman may be helpful and award-winning author, is president of the no longer live on their own contribute to our lives? What simply as a figure valued for her character. Like a stone Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, TX. 12 Catholic San Francisco January 29, 2010 TV Music Books RADIO Film stage Hallmark’s “The Magic of Ordinary Days” airs Jan. 30, KPIX-Channel 5

Reviewed by Harry Forbes insist on another mail-order bride, one who can? has the anachronistic foresight to recognize Nope. He tells her he can cook, and will be the iniquity of the World War II Japanese NEW YORK (CNS) – A young woman, patient till she learns, even thoughtfully checking internment, and indeed befriends two giggling pregnant out of wedlock, comes to a remote out a basic cookbook from the local library. workers on her husband’s farm who, like her- Colorado farm to enter into an arranged mar- As for human companionship, Ray’s sister self, had their college educations interrupted riage with a simple farmer in “The Magic of Martha (Mare Winningham) is just as sweet by circumstance. Ordinary Days,” a Hallmark Hall of Fame and warm as can be. Likewise, her daughter Before the film ends, Livy will have saved encore presentation airing Saturday, Jan. 30, and husband. one of her Nipponese friends from disgrace, 8-10 p.m., on KPIX-Channel 5 and other CBS Ray graciously pretends to like her bad driven through a dangerous snowstorm, and cap- stations. cooking, digs a pool for her in the back yard tured a German POW, that last feat accomplished Handsomely shot and nicely acted, the story when he learns she enjoys swimming, installs simultaneously with her water breaking! – based on a novel by Ann Howard Creel – is a phone when her sense of isolation becomes Russell makes a lovely heroine, even as her the kind of uplifting tale of which there should too profound, and, in short, does everything character is blind to all we viewers can plainly be more on television. humanly possible to please her. see, and Winningham is convincing as the The time is 1944, and Olivia “Livy” Dunne But does she appreciate all the fairytale warmhearted sister-in-law. But it’s Ulrich in (Keri Russell), made pregnant by a soldier elements of her newfound existence? No, she the impossible role as the incredibly patient and who’s off fighting in the war, has been forced pines for the louse who made her pregnant, sensitive husband who grounds this story with into marriage by her autocratic father and stern secretly sending him letters, and disparages her his unwavering conviction. local priest, seen briefly in flashback. Livy husband’s love of the land for her more sophis- The crystalline photography and unspoiled disembarks from the train with apprehension, ticated worldview. rural landscapes are quite gorgeous, and Brent but we can see almost immediately that she Creel made her heroine an ideal modern Shields’ direction quietly unobtrusive. needn’t worry. Her betrothed, Ray Singleton woman. She was an archeology graduate stu- Predictable and improbable as the tale is, (Skeet Ulrich), is a sweet, unassuming guy When they’re alone together, does he force dent, no less, when she suffered her fall from “The Magic of Ordinary Days” holds your who welcomes Livy and her unborn baby with himself on her, asserting his marital rights? grace. It is she who has the enlightened view interest throughout. gentle, if taciturn, acceptance. His farmhouse is Not a bit. He simply shows her to her lovely to remind the politically incorrect Ray that less so charmingly picturesque, even Martha Stewart private room. than 100 years before, his farm would have More reviews are available might approve. When Livy reveals she can’t cook, does Ray belonged to the Indians. And it is she who online at www.usccb.org/movies. Meditations bring to life often-forgotten Catholic traditions “SIGNS OF LIFE: 40 CATHOLIC The meditations, as Hahn explains in the to name a few, he writes about the biblical tradi- pleas for guardian angels to help find a parking CUSTOMS AND THEIR BIBLICAL introduction of the book, are not the complex, tion of guardian angels. Sometimes in vogue – spot or to survive a traffic jam in one piece. ROOTS” by Scott Hahn. Doubleday overly theological definitions one might expect and sometimes passé – dependinggpp on pop “The angels follow after (New York, 2009). 276 pp., $23. from a professor of theology. Instead, they are culture’s take at the moment God’sGod’s pattern of governance: his reflections “borrowed from this saint and about these mysterious enti- TheyThey ssometimes give us what we that pope.” These meditations make alive and ties, guardian angels guide, wantwant so that we’ll learn to ask Reviewed by Regina Lordan make relevant the oftentimes forgotten tradi- protect and assist Catholics for whatw we need,” he writes. Scott Hahn’s book is both an enjoyable tions of Catholicism. throughout church history. HahnH also discusses how and educational read for Catholics interested For example, Hahn discusses why Catholics Hahn writes that guardian fastingfasti and mortification in a brush up on Catholic traditions and their dip their hands in holy water when entering and angels are always among are not outmoded forms of relevance in today’s world. Hahn, author and when leaving church. Many know the act is a Catholics – as each is assigned CatCatholich expression because professor of theology and Scripture at the blessing, but Hahn reminds readers that the a guardian angel – and they ““asas long as we follow Christ Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio, act is a baptismal renewal and a refreshment fill the pews at church to peak we will have to deny our handpicked 40 Catholic traditions to explore from evil. attendance. bbodieso the things they want.” and provided a simple, well-written meditation Amid his many meditations about the church “The angels are there (att ThThat covers fasting to pre- for each tradition. calendar, Lent and Easter, Advent and Christmas Mass), as is evident even inn mmarital sex to drinking too the words of the Mass: ‘Andnd mmuch and smoking. so with the choirs of angels wewe Simply put, Hahn sing: ‘Holy, holy, holy ...’ Thehe mmakes sense out the Mass itself cries out for us to be mymystical, symbolically rich Do Opposites aware of our angels,” he writesites traditions of the CathCatholic faith. His book is an in the book. easy but informative read, and perfect for the Interestingly, Hahn doesn’t discount simple curious Catholic willing to learn.

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Father Stevens, vice-rector and lower hall, 17th Ave. at Vicente in San Francisco. academic dean at St. Patrick’s, holds a post-graduate Father Dan Carter, pastor, Our Lady of Lourdes degree in Systematic Theology from Marquette University Church n San Francisco, will facilitate. Tickets are and is a priest of the Archdiocese of Louisville. $10 per person. Bring your own lunch. Beverages March 24: “Spirituality of the Priesthood” with and dessert provided. Call Kathleen Manning at Sulpician Father Jim McKearney, president and rec- Students from Mercy High schools from around the nation, including Mercy High School, (415) 664-0828. tor of St. Patrick’s, and a priest of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, overall champions of the event, and Mercy High School, Burlingame, Feb. 6, 6 p.m.: Sacred Heart Cathedral Hall of Hartford, Connecticut. Tickets are $10 per session. Fame Dinner in school’s Student Life Center. Tickets Seating is limited. 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The prayer continues as a peaceful vigil until Visitacion Parish Hall, 701 Sunnydale Ave. at Rutland music ministers of St. Catherine of Siena Church, 1310 1 p.m. The group is also open to new membership. First Tuesdays, 7:30 p.m.: Lectio Divina– Pray in San Francisco. Choose among clothes, furniture, Bayswater at El Camino Real in Burlingame. Contact Meetings are held the second Thursday of the month with Sacred Scripture and share your Faith with oth- books, jewelry and w New Items Booth. Call (415) Sister Anne Marie McKenna, BVM, at (650) 766-0364. except August and December at St. Gregory Parish’s ers. 7:30 - 8:30 pm at Dominican Sisters of Mission 494-5517 for more information. Muni buses 8, 9, 56, Worner Center, 138 28th Ave. in San Mateo at 7:30 San Jose, Motherhouse Chapel, 43326 Mission as well as the T line will get you there. Feb. 6, 10 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.: Healing – Mind, Body p.m. For more information, call Jessica at (650) 572- Blvd. (off Mission Tierra), Fremont. Call Sister Beth and Soul, a walk and retreat with Dominican Fathers 1468 or visit www.sanmateoprolife.com Quire, at (510) 449-7554 or visit our website at www. Martin Walsh, Dominic Briese, and Xavier Lavagetto at msjdominicans.org for more information. Consolation Ministry St. Dominic Church, 2390 Bush St. at Steiner in San Saturdays, 9 a.m. – 10 a.m.: Rosary for Life 815 Eddy St. – Planned Parenthood – in San Francisco. Fourth Tuesdays, 7:30 p.m.: Adoration of the Grief support groups meet at the following Francisco. A day for Grace and wholeness for yourself, parishes: an ill friend or dear one unable to attend. Please register Blessed Sacrament –Silent prayer before the Blessed at www.stjude-shrine.org or call (415) 931-5919. Reunions Sacrament. 7:30 - 8:30 pm at Dominican Sisters San Mateo County: Good Shepherd, Pacifica; of Mission San Jose, Motherhouse Chapel, 43326 call Sister Carol Fleitz at (650) 355-2593. Our Lady 1st Friday at 8 p.m.: Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Feb. 20, 2010, 6 p.m.: Annual dinner of combined Mission Blvd. (off Mission Tierra), Fremont. Call Sister of Mercy, Daly City; call parish at (650) 755-2727. Dr., Burlingame with Mercy Sister Suzanne Toolan. alumni of Mission Dolores and Notre Dame elementary Beth Quire, at (510) 449-7554 or visit our website at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Redwood City; call parish Call (650) 340-7452; young adults are invited each schools. This year’s theme is A Night at the Races, a www.msjdominicans.org for more information. at (650) 366-3802. St. Bartholomew, San Mateo; first Friday of the month to attend a social at 6 p.m. fun evening of horse racing, good food, and old friends. Barbara Syme (650) 343-6156. St. Peter, Pacifica; prior to Taize prayer at 8 p.m. The social provides The Tridentine Mass is celebrated Sundays at 12:15 Cheer on your favorite horse as you watch the race p.m. at Holy Rosary Chapel at St. Vincent School for call parish at (650) 359-6313. St. Pius, Redwood City; light refreshments and networking with other young from “Dolores Downs” (Mission Dolores Auditorium). call parish at (650) 361-0655. St. Robert, San Bruno; adults. Convenient parking is available. For informa- Boys. For more information, call St. Isabella Parish at $40 event ticket includes a delicious dinner prepared (415) 479-1560. First Fridays: Latin High Mass of the call Sr. Patricia O’Sullivan at (650) 589-0104. tion contact [email protected]. by “A Black Tie Affair” caterers. Reservations must Sacred Heart of Jesus at 6 p.m. at St. Francis of Assisi Marin County: St. Anselm, San Anselmo; call Tuesdays at 6 p.m.: Notre Dame Des Victoires be received no later than Feb. 10. Call Katie at (415) Church, 1425 Bay Road at Glen Way, East Palo Alto. 282-6588 or e-mail [email protected]. Brenda MacLean at (415) 454-7650. St. Anthony, Church, 566 Bush at Stockton, San Francisco with Mass is followed by the Litany of the Sacred Heart and Novato; call parish (415) 883-2177. St. Hilary, Rob Grant. Call (415) 397-0113. Class of ’60 from Notre Dame High School Exposition of the Most Blessed Sacrament until mid- Tiburon; call Helen Kelly at (415) 388-9651. Our 3rd Friday, 8 p.m.: Dominican Sisters of Mission in Belmont is planning its 50th reunion. Contact night. Confessions are heard before Mass. Low Mass Lady of Loretto, Novato; call Sr. Jeanette at (415) San Jose, Motherhouse Chapel, 43326 Mission Blvd Bettina Igoa McCall at [email protected] or in Latin is offered every Friday evening at 6 p.m. For 897-2171. (510) 851-2344. further information, call (650) 322-2152. First Sundays in Fremont. 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Feb. 7: Lolek, a play depicting the early years of “Venerable Pope John Paul II” in war torn Poland at Our Jan. 30, 9 a.m.: Mass at St. Cecilia church, Vicente Young Widow/Widower Group: St. Gregory, San Lady of Peace Family Learning Center, 2800 Mission Holy Cross Cemetery St. and 17th Ave. in San Francisco followed by coffee Mateo; call Barbara Elordi at (415) 614-5506. College Blvd., Santa Clara. Authentic Polish dinner at 1500 Old Mission Rd. in Colma, (650) 756-2060 after Mass. All are welcome. Contact Paul Crudo at Ministry to Grieving Parents: Our Lady of Angels, 6:30 p.m. and play at 7:30 p.m. Featured on EWTN, (415) 566-8224 or e-mail [email protected]. Feb. 6, 11 a.m.: First Saturday Mass in All Souls Burlingame; call Ina Potter at (650) 347-6971 or the play offers profound insights into the pontiff’s heart Mausoleum. Feb. 20: Annual “All you can eat” crab feed. 6:30 p.m. Barbara Arena at (650) 344-3579. and soul ending with his ordination to the priesthood. social hour; 7:30 dinner at Moriarty Hall of St. Anne Tickets at $20 for adults, $15 for students or $50 of the Sunset church at Judah and 14th Ave. in San Datebook is a free listing for parishes, per family are available at Paypal at www.ccwf.org. Special Liturgies Francisco (enter on Funston).Tickets are $45 per per- For information, e-mail [email protected] or call Michele Jan. 31, 10:30 a.m.: Church of the Nativity, 240 son. Reserve by Feb.15. Make checks payable to Serra schools and non-profit groups. Please at (650) 814-1995 or Suzanne at (408) 530-9848. Fell St. in San Francisco will celebrate Sueti Vlaho Club of S.F. and mail to Diana Heafey, 489 Dellbrook, include event name, time, date, place, San Francisco, 94131, or contact Joan Higgins (415) Festa honoring St. Blaise, patron of Dubrovnik, address and an information phone number. 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