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Catholics urged to join other faiths in Jan . 24 observance K ollowing the lead of Pope John Paul II who has invited world religious leaders to a day of prayer for peace in Assisi, the Archdiocese of San Francisco will, for the first time, mark the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity with an Interfaith and Ecumenical Day of Prayer for World Peace Jan. 24 that includes not only Christians hut leaders of other religions. The observance here includes a Mass at the National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi, a symposium at the University of San Francisco and a prayer service at St. Mary 's Cathedral. "It is my hope that as many of the faithful of the Archdiocese of San Francisco as possible will participate in our observance of this Interfaith and Ecumenical Day of Prayer for World Peace ,"

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Spanning the ages Diane Kavanag h of Chicago holds her daug hter Any a Francesca Kavanag h as Pope John Paul II bap tizes the infan t in the Sistine Chap el Jan. 13 , the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord. In an annual observance, the pope baptized 20 infants —J 7 f rom Italy, and one each from France, Spain and the United States. He told their p arents that the best way to instill faith in their children was by living the faith in their lives dail y.

Peace advocates: War is neither moral nor effective By Patrick Joyce At a time when a vast majority of Americans not onl y support the war on terrorism but also its expansion beyond Afghanistan , Catholic peace advocates reject the war as an act of violence that is neither moral nor effective. When Kathy Niece talks about the war, she doesn't discuss die just war theory, bombing payloads or terrorist cells. She talks about Jesus. "We 're opposed to all violence. Violence causes more violence. Violence isn 't the solution. Jesus came to teach us another way to live, " says Mrs. Niece, who with her husband Mike runs a Catholic Worker House in Half Moon Bay.

Franciscan Father Louie Vitale talks about the war in terms of the traditional Catholic "just war " teaching, which he believes needs to be updated. Even by those standards, "this so-called war on terrorism cannot be justified, " says Father Vitale, pastor of St. Boniface Parish in San Francisco. Fadier Vitale 's opposition goes beyond the just war theory. "I believe in nonviolence, " he says. "This is a descending spiral of violence. We are escalating the violence, using huge bombers and huge bombs, bigger payloads than in World War II. This becomes a form of terror itself to the people of Af ghanistan. We are looking around to see where to continue the violence, hopping from country to country." PEACE ADVOCATES, page 7

Archbishop William Levada said. "In doing so, they will be joining in a worldwide effort , led by Pope John Paul II, to pray for peace in a world ravaged by terrorism and warfare. "Just as religious leaders from throughout the world will join with our Holy Father in Assisi on Jan . 24 to pray for peace, many religious leaders from San Francisco and throughout the Bay Area will gather on the same day in St. Mary 's Cathedral in response to the pope 's call for us to 'pray so divisions can be overcome and for the promotion of an authentic peace. ' "The pope has called for Catholics throughout the world to join in this observance because 'in a situation rendered dramatic by the ever-impending threat of terrorism, we feel the need to raise our cry to God. " On Jan. 24, more than 50 religious leaders, including about two dozen Muslims, will join Pope John Paul II in a pilgrimage to Assisi, to pray for peace and condemn violence committed in the name of religion. The pilgrimage will include other Christian leadersjews, Hindus, Buddhists , Sikhsjains and followers of traditional African religions, as well as the Muslims. In San Francisco die day of prayer begins with a 12: 15 p.m. Mass at the National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi with Archbishop William J. Levada presiding. Msgr. Robert McElroy, pastor, St. Gregory Parish , San Mateo, will preach . Music is by the shrine 's Schola Cantorum. An Interfaith Dialogue and Understanding as a Means to World Peace, open to people of all faiths, will be held at 2 p.m. in USF's Pacific Rim Room. Leaders of the dialogue will include Archbishop Levada , Imam Abu Qadir Al-Amin of the San Francisco Muslim DAY OF PRAYER, page 17

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Where You Live by Tom Burke Helping keep the tire lit is St. Elizabeth parishioner , Charlotte Micallef who is scheduled to begin her approximatel y quarter-mile run with the Olympic Flame at 7:52 a.m. tomorrow on the City side of the Golden Gate Bridge. Charlotte , a regional manager for Enterprise Rent-a-Car, was nominated lor the Chevrolet-sponsored honor by her co-workers , and chosen to carry the hallowed li ght from a field of 450 similarly nominated peop le. Charlotte is a St. Elizabeth ,

The new Science, Technology and Library wing at St. Dunsta n Elementary School, Millbrae was dedicate d by Bishop John C. Wester in October. "The blessing culminates 18 months of fundraising, building and final completion of a most valuable teaching tool," a notice announcing the eventsaid. Special thanks went to "the building committee...the teachers for their patience amid the dust and noise and parishioners and alumni for all their contributions and belief in the project. " From left. Holy Ghost Father Dermot Kavanagh , pasto r, Holy Ghost Father Francis Malloy, Tom Dooher, school principal, Bishop Wester, Holy Ghost Father Josep h Glynn, Lisa Aquilina, an 8th grader at the school. More recently, Father Kavanag h, Tom and students from the school including Alex London, Ashton Leone , Eric Farrell, and Lielen DeGuzman , with Eric 's mom, Jody, driving, were present for last month's Mass commemorating Archbishop William J. Levada 's

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Mercy High School , SF, and SF State alum. Her proud folks are Emmanuel and Carmen. Charlotte , who received her official uniform in October, said she 's grate ful for the opportunity and to those who made it possible.... At St. Elizabeth school, 8th grader, Sherie Lo Giudice , will represent the U.S. as a goodwill ambassador to England , France, Greece and Ital y, this summer as part of the People to People Program. Very proud are her folks Joan and Anthony....Youth from St. John of God Parish designed a 100 foot Christmas Tree chain and decorated a "Christmas tree Martha Stewart would die for," said Parish Council secretary, Sue Schneider. Fitting the construction paper links together were Aliseo, Eli , Silvano , Flavia , Nina , Attiano , and Liam Pontoniere; Brenna Donnellan and Zari Koelbel....While the Wise Men looked to the sky for a star that would take them to the Prince of Peace, today we need to be stars to one another in modeling the precious child , said Capuchin Father Gerald Barron , pastor, Our Lady of Angels , Burlingame in an Epiphany homily.... Mortar board salutes to Stanley Flowers , on completion of his graduate degree in Theology at USF, and his brother , Jeff , on completing his master 's in Philosoph y and Reli gion at the school . Mi ghty proud are their folks , Kris and Ray Flowers, and grandfolks , Kay and Irv Amstrup, all of Our Lady of Angels....AH Hats off for Joseph Caffrey Mamou, circulation manager of The Monitor during the '70s and a member of St. Augustine Parish , South San Francisco, who died recently.... Have you noticed on TV how those experts tellin' us how to keep our jobs don't have jobs? And about those "How am I driving ?" phone numbers on the back of various vehicles , how can you be expected to write them down when

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CA THOLIC COMMITTEE FOR REFUGEES" Arrival date: 1952. _™2ldQd™~---- ~~i , - i. * '. -. .\V j This refugee priest was a close associate of Cardinal J -l . . , „ | pS • <• / Joszef Mindszenty who was persecuted, imprisoned and tortured by Communists in Hungary following World War II. In taf. twywsr 'Aiu oiWMKsj.-'rs HAKixir-'tvi « »<s vraura i»ws:wix<i sane* al 956 conversation , the cardinal asked Father Jaszovszk y to relay a message to President Dwight Eisenhower asking him Telegram announces Father Jaszovszky 's arrival in San Francisco. to use all dip lomatic means to keep Hungary 's border with Austria open . Correspondence between the priest and various Catholic Hungarian descent not to forget their native tongue and to study enjoy ing his faithful services alread y 45 years." leaders tells his story, one that includes a telegram announcing the history of their homeland . . . to make sure that when freeThe priest was a doctor of sacred theology, a pastor in his arrival in San Francisco, the beginning of a Hungarian mis- dom comes our people will not have forgotten who were their Budapest , director of the Catholic People 's Federation, and sion in the Archdiocese, difficulties in continuing the mission, ancestors ," founder of a Hungarian elementary and high school in twice yearly trips to Eastern Europe, a reunion with Cardinal Father Jaszovszky already had been ministering to his com- Innsbruck, Austria, the letter states. Mindszenty in San Francisco, and finally a denied request to patriots through the Hungarian Catholic Missionary based at St. At the time of his retirement in 1984, Archbishop John R. return home permanently after 45 years. Patrick Seminary. He regularly celebrated Mass in Hungarian at Quinn wrote to Father Jaszovszky: "You have served the Father Jaszovszk y had been forced to flee not only Austria Woodside Priory, at St. Stephen 's House in San Francisco, at St. Church under the circumstances of severe persecution with but Europe itself. Francis Xavier Church in San Francisco, and other locations. great valor and courage. Your presence in this Archdiocese has My original plan was to remain in Austria as long as He published a Hungarian newspaper along with theological been a great blessing to the Church here; and in the name of the Hungarians are here," he writes to a Msgr. Emil Komora, New articles and books, one of which was called, 'The Priest Alive Church, I express the deepest gratitude to you." York, in a letter dated March 14, 1951. "As long as the present in Exile." The Hungarian priest 's story ended with a quiet "thank you " Communist regime remains in power in Hungary, 1cannot hope Financial struggles came and passed, and invitations to visit to a St. Anne's Home volunteer and an ever-present hearty to return... " The priest left Hungary inl 948 because he "would the cardinal were missed for lack of funds . Still Father appetite. Marianne Duko, a volunteer at San Francisco 's St. have been forced to influence the attitude of the Catholic Jaszovszky 's mission continued. Anne 's since October, said the priest didn 't open his eyes much Association against His Em. Cardinal Mindszenty, to report "The faithful Hungari ans are very thankful to the but always finished his meals. about the Bench of Bishops to the government and to testify divine Providence that Reverend Joseph Jaszovszky is The priest 's brother, Laszlo Jaszovszky, attended the Jan. 14 against the Cardinal on trial." celebrating the 25th anniversary of his services," wrote funeral as did his niece, Anna Adamik, who described her uncle He came to the Archdiocese of San Francisco in 1952 and Frederick Freiherr von Schlosser on Jan. 25, 1977 to as "very sweet, very clever." She also mentioned casually, "he worked with Hungarian refugees in the Bay Area for the next Archbishop Joseph T. McGucken. "The Hungarian s are was close to the cardinal." 40 years. A 1973 San Francisco REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS Chronicle article describes a Over $1.9 Million in Grants Available to Bay Area reunion between the exiled Spirituality-Scripture-Theology priest and the internationally Region Community-Based Organizations known cardinal. The California Children and Families Commission ^f/i. J' r. "Do you remember?" (CCFC) is seeking proposals from non-profit Father Jaszovszky asked community-based organizations to deliver CCFC' s School of Applied Theology Cardinal Mindszenty about public education messages about the importance of their fateful conversations 25 early childhood health and development to new and ^ Winter/Sp ring Mini-Courses ? 2002 expectant parents and caregivers of children ages years prior. The story 0 - 5. Applicants must be adept at community recounts: "His now frail bod y Gregory Cornelia, CPPS Living Contemplatively outreach; subject expertise is not mandatory. straightened. 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DUBLIN , Ireland — Northern Ireland is becoming more segregated and polarized , according to a new survey that shows 68 percent of Protestants and Catholics ages 18 to 25 said they never had a meaningful conversation with a person of the other religion. Peter Shirlow, a geographer at the University of Ulster said the survey also revealed lhat before 2001, 63 percent of the population lived in areas that were either more than 90 percent Protestant or more than 90 percent Catholic. By 2001, this rose to 66 percent , suggesting that segregation was rising. His survey found that Catholics and Protestants avoid shopping outside their communities. It also showed that 5 percent of emp loyees in Protestant areas were Catholic , while 8 percent of employees in Catholic neighborhoods were Protestant.

Czech law restores communist style restrictions on church

WARSAW, Poland — The church in the Czech Republic is asking sympathetic politicians to soften the impact of a law that re-imposes communist-style curbs on religious activities. The law took effect Jan . 7 after parliamentarians rejected a veto by President Vaclav Havel. "The strongest politicians here don 't believ e in freedom of association and don 't trust the church. They think all power should be in government hands and that everyone else should keep quiet ," Lawrence Cada, spokesman for the Czech bishops ' conference said. The law gives the government power over internal church decisions , including the opening of churches and religious communiti es. It requires that profits from church activities be used solely for religious purposes. The measure will obli ge many church charities to re-register as taxable economic enterprises within a year. Cardinal Miloslav Vlk of Prague said the law was a "real threat to constitutionall y guaranteed democracy and church freedom ," and that he hoped the government still would agree to re-negotiation.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — The Argentine bishops offered to initiate talks among national leaders to find solutions to the country 's economic and political crisis that sparked deadl y street protests and produced five presidents i/i 2 in two weeks. y The country needs to create more jobs , initiate state and political reforms , eliminate corruption and end stealing The statue of the Black Nazarene , an icon of Christ from public funds , they said Jan. 8. brought to the Philipp ines by a Spanish priest in the 16th "No sector or institution can say it is not responsible for century, is carried in an annual procession in Manila the situation the country is suffering, " said a statement Jan. 9. The statue is associated with reported miracles. issued by the executive commission of the bishops ' conference at the end of an emergency Jan . 7-8 meeting. to choose freel y and belong to any party of their choice, The statement was issued after the government defaultjust as it campai gns for the protection of all their other ed on payments of its forei gn debt and devalued the curhuman rights and freedoms ," the Zimbabwe bishops ' con- rency by 40 percent, igniting consumer fears of huge price ference said in an early January statement. increases in an economy stagnated by four years of recesTensions between President Robert Mugabe 's Zanu-PF sion. Unemployment is more th an 18 percent , and many and the oppositio n Movement for Democratic Change have domestic companies have declared bankruptcy. In some resulted in killings and other violence , with Mugabe vow- municipalities and provinces, local government workers ing to crack down on the opposition , labeling them "terror- have not been paid for weeks or months. ists." Mugabe has ruled the southern African country of "In a country where a majority professes Catholicism, it is 12.5 million people since it won independence from Britain difficult to explain the present crisis except as a grave lack of in 1980. coherence between faith and life," they said. About 89 percent "We appeal to the political leadershi p to publicl y of Argentina 's 36 million inhabitants profess Catholicism. denounce violence and replace it with dialogue ," the bishops ' statement said. The bishops said they hope that the elections would be held in a "free and fair atmosp here." ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Joe Beaty said every fish he catches is a "gift from God." But the sports fisherman told the bishops of Alaska his faith would compel him to give up his favorite pastime if it were necessary to ensure there would be PARIS — The head of the Vatican's doctrinal congrega- enough fish for those who depend on them for survival. tion told a French newspaper it was time to "reform the Beaty, who lives in an Anchorage suburb , was one of reform" of the liturgy made during the Second Vatican eight Catholics invited to share faith-informed views on Council. hunting and fishing with the bishops of the state as they While the reforms had brought "many beautiful things ," prepare a pastoral document on the topic of subsistence. the liturgy should return to more traditional practices, said The question of who gets to hunt , fish or gather in times Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, head of the Congregation for of shortage has bitterl y divided the state for more than two the Doctrine of the Faith. decades. Native Alaskans , urban sportsmen, commercial "The desire for creativity in the liturgy has been fos- fishermen and rural residents all have a stake in the answer. tered by a wish for self-expression among communities. Alaskans use the term subsistence to describe the huntMany people are complaining that no two Masses are ing, fishing and gathering they do to get the food they need alike and asking whether a Catholic liturgy any longer to live. The small villages of the state are for the most part exists," the cardinal told France's La Croix , a Catholic only accessible by small airplane. Food flown in from the daily. urban centers has tri p led or quadrup led in price by the time In an interview, the cardinal said the liturgy should it touches down there. Without the animals and plants they "reflect the universality of God's acting among us." He harvest from the wilderness — caribou , whales, salmon, said, "The great danger for the liturgy today, as for catech- berries — the people could not survive. esis, is that its cosmic dimension has become foreign to our Archbishop Roger L. Schwietz of Anchorage announced individualistic culture." in early December that he and Alaska 's other Catholic bishops planned to address subsistence in a pastoral document. 2

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Catholics remain cautious over Sudan rebels ' p eace agreement

NAIROBI , Kenya — Catholic observers and clerics are cautiously optimistic about a peace agreement signed recently between two previousl y hostile rebel factions, the Sudan People's Liberation Army and the Sudan People's Defense Force. Some said the agreement was a step toward peace. "Personally, I clap for the unity — it is a big moment, which may start a new hope for the future ," said Comboni Father Antonio La Braca, a missionary in Sudan since 1986. Charles Omondi , editor of the Sudan Catholic Information Office, noted that in May the rebels signed a similar agreement , which was quickly nullified over a minor dispute . "There is a possibility that it might finally work. We are not ruling out that possibility," he said. "I'm very happy to hear about it," said Jesuit Father Ed Brady of the Sudan Catholic Bishops ' Regional Conference. The conference represents the bishops of southern Sudan,. Sudanese and international human rights groups have accused Sudan's government of extreme human rights violations against southerners, who are mainly black African Christians and followers of traditional African religions. Many hope the agreement between the two rebel groups will strengthen the case for southerners in the peace talks and will reduce brutal fighting within and among rebel groups.

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HARARE, Zimbabwe — Zimbabwe's bishops said they will stay out of party politics in the weeks leading to the March presidential elections. "Our church stands to defend the people 's political right

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Jan. 26: "Christ in the Voting Booth ," a lecture by Thomas Droleskey, Ph.D., 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., Xavier Hall, Accolti Room, on the campus of the University of San Francisco. For more information about any of the above, contact the Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns/Respect Life at (415) 614-5572. BIRTHRIGHT ANNIVERSARY FEB. 9 Feb. 9: "Birthright in Bloom," a luncheon and flower arranging demonstration celebrating the 30th anniversary of Birthright beginning at noon with lunch at 1 p.m. and flower arranging presentation at 2 p.m. Presidio Golf Club . Tickets $40. Proceeds benefit Birthri ght. Call Birthri ght at (415) 664-9909.

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Poland invites pope to visit again this year WARSAW, Poland (CNS) — Poland's prime minister has invited Pope John Paul H to make his ninth visit to Poland this year. Prime Minister Leszek Miller offered the invitation personally to the pope during a January papal audience, At the Vatican, officials would not rule out such a visit, possibly in June. "Meeting the pope is a great experience for every Pole," said Miller, a former Communist Party official who took office last year. "I described the situation at home, concentrating on economic problems, and said my government would be greatly honored if the Holy Father came again as soon as possible," he said. The prime minister also discussed a possible papal visit with Cardinal Jozef Glemp of Warsaw. "The prime minister has made a noble and engaging

gesture by inviting the Holy Father. If the occasion arises, we will send a joint invitation," the cardinal said. The cardinal said that church leaders would meet with the pope during a national pdgrimage to Rome in March. The pope, born in Wadowice in 1920, has made eight visits to Poland since his 1978 election. During the June 1999 visit, he traveled to 16 dioceses and 22 cities in 13 days and beatified 108 World War II martyrs in Warsaw. Cardinal Franciszek Macharski of Krakow said he mig ht invite the pope to dedicate a new $17 million Divine Mercy basilica, set for completion by mid-2002. "I won 't hesitate to issue an invitation, although the final liming depends on the pope's wisdom and the discernment of those aware of the possibilities of papal trips," the cardinal told Poland's Catholic Information Agency Jan. 8.

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missal from the clerical state. Vatican sources said one stipulation in the new norms, that the cases would be tried by an all-clerical court , was already being reviewed because of objections that accusers might not feel comfortable in such a setting. The pope 's Latin-language apostolic letter, issued "motu proprio " ("on his own initiative "), reviewed some aspects of church law history to explain why such cases would be explicitl y reserved to the doctrinal congregation. At the end of the document , the pope stated that , along with the apostolic letter, he was promul gating "norms concerning more serious offenses reserved to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith." He said the norms were divided into two parts , those dealing with the substance of the crime and those dealing with procedural matters . The pope said he expected the new norms to be "zealously and faithfull y " observed by interested parties. Other "more serious offenses" covered by the Vatican 's new norms include sacrilege or other grave acts against the sacraments of the Eucharist and penance. In an interview with Vatican Radio Jan. 10, Archbishop Tarcisio Bertone , secretary of Ihe doctrinal congregation , said the new norms reflected Vatican concern about the scandal caused by sex abuse cases against minors. "I would not say that (these cases) are greatl y multip lying. There have emerged some cases of gravely illicit behavior on the part of ordained ministers. We know these cases are given emphasis and highli ghted by the media and the press, and, therefore, in a sense provoke more scandal than in the past, when information about this kind of behavior was considered confidential ," he said. "Therefore , the problem of scandal is a problem that worries the church ," he said. Archbishop Berlone said it was especially unfortunate that the priestly ministry as a whole has been "offended" by the behavior of "a few persons, a few ministers, when almost the totality of ministers behaves in an exemplary manner." He said the church needs to reaffirm the mission of the priesthood and "confirm the trust of the faithful in their priests." He praised the long history of pastoral work by priests, especial ly among young people, and said this made it even sadder to recognize that a few priests had "betrayed their vocation and their mission."

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By Sharon Abercrombie JL# y day, Betsy Bliss Nichols moves in the world of money. She is a financial consultant for G1BC Oppenheimer in San Francisco. But come quitting time , Nichols, a Catholic , switches to another persona — her ministry. She is a spiritual director. So is Maiy Muq)hy, also Catholic, who works across the City from Ms. Nichols at the Global Exchange, a human rights organization . So is Rev. Joan Huff , an interim minister at Lincoln Park Presbyterian Church in San Francisco. And Rabbi Burt Jacobsen? The founder of Kehilla Community Synagogue in North Berkeley is a spiritual director, too. Since the 1980's, spiritual direction has emerged as a growing ministry within these religious traditions. A Catholic retreat center and a Presbyterian seminary in the Bay area offer training in this ministry. Spiritual Directors International , an organization based in San Francisco, has 4 ,000 members throughout the world. Founded in 1989 at Mercy Center in Burlingame, SDI provides ethical guidelines for directors. What exactly is spiritual direction? Sometimes it 's called "spiritual companioning, " It also goes by the name of "soul friend. " A spiritual director is " an ordinary person who has the gift for discerning where and how God is at work in ordinary life," explains Sister of Mercy Mary Ann Scofield, founding director of both SDI and the Spiritual Directo r 's Institute at Mercy Center in Burlingame. "A spiritual director helps people to hear how God is speaking to them in the here and now," she says. Having a soul friend "is a good discipline, " says Betsy Nichols She likens it to having "a personal trainer who embarrasses you into doing something. It's an accountability thing. So you 'd better not put off praying, because your spiritual director is going to ask, 'how 's your prayer life?'" adds Ms. Nichols , a member of St. Agnes Parish in San Francisco. Rabbi Burt Jacobsen subscribes to the "original archetypal model of spiritual direction - an individual or community receiving direction from God without an intermediary. That's the center piece of the Torah." But, as Judaism and other religious traditions evolved, "listening to that still, small voice within like Joan of Arc and Meister Eckhart did, became as shameful as sex," he says. "Being open to God in every moment of our lives has been trained out of us. " So today, people need intermediaries to help them return to that original drawing board , he suggests. Sister Scofield views the ministry as "an art. It 's not giving advice. It's not the same as learning about a religion. It's more of a 'tuning in , ' to the spiritual side of our existence, and learning to develop an inner ear for listening to the God who is always there , always loving, always inviting. "

Mercy 's program was a response to the increasing number of people who attended weekend retreats, and then wanted to "come back to talk to us , " she said. "More and more people were having experiences of God and no place to go with them," she said. In a January, 1999 interview with St. Anthony Messenger, Sister Scofield pointed out that before 1965, "everything was codified, dogmatized and legalized, so the very structures pointed the way. When those structures collapsed, peop le were looking for a place to pay attention to what was going on in their lives in relationship to God. " "At the same time, we have fewer and fewer priests. And those we do have are trained in pastoral counseling which deals primarily with people 's problems rather than their healthy, ongoing relationships with God " Of course , the Sacrament of Reconciliation has always served as a venue for spiritual direction, but per se, there hasn 't been in the Church a ministry of tending to the spiritual life," she said. Also, while some clergy throughout history have felt called to do spiritu al direction, others have not, she said. Jesuit Father William Bany, author of "The Practice of Spiritual Direction," said that ordination is neither a sufficient nor a necessary condition for a spiritu al director. He explains that throughout history many lay men and women have been effective spiritu al directors, including the Desert Fathers and Mothers, Catherine of Siena and Teresa of Avila. Spiritual direction as we know it emerged in the fourth century and fifth centuries, when small groups of men and women fled to the deserts of Palestine and Egypt seeking solitude so that they could better experience the movement of God in their lives. They wanted to hear God speaking in the here and now. Known as the Desert Fathers and Mothers, these early Christian hermits meditated and prayed in order to better heed the words of the Psalmist when he said "be still and know that I am God. " But these hermits often didn 't find as much solitude as they craved. They were besieged by other seekers who likewise hungered for spirituality. As the Persian Sufi mystic poet Hafiz advised in the 14th century, one good way to find the Beloved , is to become "a hole in a flute that the Christ 's breath moves through - Listen to this music."

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Spiritual directors are trained to help people notice God in life events — the birth of a child and the beauty of a sunset , the death of a loved one and during those dark terrible times of not knowing if there is even a God. "People go to a spiritual director not to become a more controlled , put-together person , but to become more loving, " said Sister Scofield. They go to individuals like Ms. Nichols, Ms. Murphy, Ms. Huff and Rabbi Jacobsen, who all completed the institute 's three-year certification program. In 1984 Sister Scofield launched the first program in spiritual direction on the West Coast after taking training herself at Weston School of Theology in Massachusetts.

Meditate. Breath. Let go of the ego in order to hear the voice of the Divine , Hafiz was saying. A Catholic contemporary of Hafiz , Ignatius of Loyola , revived the practice of spiritual direction. Ignatius himself was a renowned soul friend before he became a priest. According to Father Barry, Ignatius ' 30-day. "Spiritual Exercises" were based on the conviction that God wants to be met in dialogue. "They have expressed for us the conviction that talking about one 's experience of that dialogue with a spiritual director can be helpful for the development of that.. .relationship, " Father Barry says. But in Ignatius' day, spiritual direction was mostly limited to the spiritual formation process for Catholic priests and nuns. When the Reformation swept across Europein the l6th century, the newly formed Protestant church tended to frown on anything that smacked of mysticism. Only in recent times has spiritual direction enjoyed an interfaith dimension. Since the 1980's, more lay people, Catholic , Protestant and Jewish have sought out companions to walk with them in their daily journeys with God. If numbers are any indicator, the practice of spiritual direction is thriving. Over 629 individuals from all over the world have completed Mercy 's month-long summer intensive program "We have to turn people away," said Sister Scofield.

In addition, another 710 have completed the three year program. While most are Catholic, approximately 20 percent are non-Catholic. Included in that figure are 12 rabbis. Mercy's graduates have fanned out across the world to establish spiritual direction ministries. Sister of Mercy Mary Rose Bumpus, serves as acting director of a three -year program in spiritual direction at San Francisco Theological School in San Anselmo. Rabbi Burt Jacobsen, one of the founders of the Jewish Renewal Movement, and a graduate of Mercy's program, continues to work closely with the Burlingame center. He is collaborating with one of its faculty to help him set up a men 's spiritual direction group at his Berkeley synagogue. Betsy Nichols, a recent Mercy's gradu ate, sees her spiritual directees at St. Agnes Parish's Spiritual Life Center in San Francisco. As far as parochial vicar Jesuit Father John Chandler

knows, St. Agnes is the only parish in the United States with an urban spirituality center. Begun last year as an outreach to young, single adults in the neighborhood , it offers scripture study, yoga, a Catholic book club, public lectures and spiritu al direction. There are currently 25 people who come to St. Agnes for spiritual direction with Ms. Nichols, Father Chandler and six other spiritual directors. Instead of paying an outright fee to their director, they make small contributions to St. Agnes Center or to the charity of their choice. Father Chandler said he joined the Jesuits because he felt drawn to their strong attentiveness on the spiritual life, with its emphasis on "an intimacy with God. " Father Chandler said he has been amazed by the number of people being called to spiritual direction , either as directors, or as seekers. Maggie Taylor, a spokesperson for the Sp iritual Directors International, said the group 's roster lists 200 directors from the East Bay, San Francisco, Marin County, the Peninsula, Palo Alto, Santa Cruz and San Jose. There could even be more of them who aren 't affiliated with SDI, she said. As for the seekers, Marilyn Granucci , a staff member at Mercy Center, said an average of 25 people, most from the Bay Area, contact her office every month to inquire about spiritu al direction. Granucci's job is to talk to each person and then match them up with one if they are ready to move forward with the process. People on both sides of the coin, it would seem, are responding to composer/Jewish Rabbi Shlomo Carlbach 's musical invitation to "return to the land of your soul. "

Six who help others get closer to God "Every chair in this classroom is occupied by a mystic." The teacher's opening salvo astonished the 25 students in her class on spirituality. "Who , me? She's got to be kidding," they thought. The teacher wasn't kidding. Her class was devoted to the Rliineland mystics, a group of men and women who lived during the 10th through 14th centuries. They helped other people learn how to find the workings of God in their everyday lives — in something as humble as a blade of grass, a furry caterpillar, or themselves. "Every single creature is a book about God," Mechtild of Badeberg wrote. "Let yourself go, let God be God in you," urged Meister Eckhart. Hildegard of Bingen coaxed people to find the "juicy greenness " within their souls. Mechtild, Eckhart and Hildegard have their 21st century counterparts. They are called spiritual directors. Spiritual Directors International (SDI) of San Francisco, has 4,000 members dedicated to this emerging ministry. Catholic San Francisco interviewed six individuals who are helping others develop deeper relationships with God.

Betsy Nichols

"Most of our lives are pretty superficial," says Betsy Nichols. "Having a soul friend is really a comforting kind of relationship." Ms. Nichols herself is in spiritual direction, as are her peers in this ministry. It's one of the rules set up by SDI: people who are directing others are themselves being directed. "If you are asking other people to open up and bare their souls," Ms. Nichols says, "it's important to undergo the experience yourself, to find the qualities of surrender mat come up." Most people discover their calling to become spiritual directors, while in direction themselves. Ms. Nichols , who graduated from the spiritual direction program at Mercy Center in BurUngame last spring, combined her work there with her studies for a master's degree in theology from the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley.Just as there was overlap in these two study tracks, so there is in her job as a financial consultant and spiritual director. "I help people widi God and Mammon," she laughs. The Mammon thing isn't as scary as it sounds, from Ms. Nichols' perspective. Some of the questions she asks her clients aren't unlike those she asks her spiritual directees. What are their values? Where is family in their lives? Where is God? Where does money stack up?" The conversation frequend y comes to rest on the idea of socially responsible investing. This increasingly popular trend is within the realm of one definition of spiritual direction , which is "to make a person more loving."

Janice Ferrell

Former San Rafael Doniinican Janice Ferrell came to the niinistry of spiritual direction through her own counseling practice. (She has a masters degree in psychology) "People would tell me about aspects of their lives," which she said, brought her "to a broader sense of ministry." Today Ms. Ferrell has her own private practice training other spiritual directors. She serves as a consultant for Mercy's program, as well. At Burlingame, she facilitates sessions in group spiritual direction, a relatively new development that serves as a way for peop le to become co-directors of one another. "One person might share deeply, with the other members responding as to what is being stirred in them ," Ms. Ferrell says. "Each group is facilitated by a trained director, in a one-onone, The Holy Spirit is the true director." "People respond to God in different ways so there are different metaphors to work with, bringing about a broader experience of the divine," she says.

Rabbi Burt Jacobsen

Ms. Ferrellis workingwith another Mercygraduate, Rabbi Burt Jacobsen, to set up a group spiritual direction process at his Kehilla Community Synagogue in North Berkeley.Twenty years ago, Rabbi Jacobsen had never heard of the term spiritual direction. He began his own journey while in therapy, where he discovered "a lot of issues which were not appropriate to psychotherapy." He found out about spiritual direction through a fellow Berkeley resident, United Methodist minister Ted Pecot, and through Marist Brother Donald Bisson, a novice master in the Marist order in New York. Both had training in Jungian transpersonal psychology, a holistic discipline that takes into account a person 's spiritual journey.

This ministry dovetailed with ideas that Rabbi Jacobsen and Rabbi Zahnan Schechter Sholomi were grappling with. Their ideas became the roots of the Jewish Renewal Movement. Its chief concern: Judaism was overlooking a sense of spiritual community and was too focused upon the history of Scripture, with its masculine emphasis of "forbidding people from acting on the still small voice they heard inside themselves." Spiritual direction is now being taught at Jewish seminaries in Cincinnati and in Philadelphia.

Mary Murphy

Mary Murphy, a member of St. Ignatius parish in San Francisco, defines spiritual direction as a ministry of listening. For Ms. Murphy, it is an extension of what she does four days a week at the Global Exchange, an organization that sponsors "reality tours" to poor countries, where Americans can go to "to listen to people 's stories. To hear the voices of all our brothers and sisters in the world." "Listening is critical in order for people to be free," in third world countries, and in the quietness of a one-on-one session with a spiritual directee , said Ms. Murphy, a former teacher at Notre Dame High School in Belmont. Ms. Murphy views her role of spiritual director as helping a person to tune into the "deepest part of their spirit, which is God, and to learn to listen for the mystery, the awe." "There is so much in our world that clatters and distracts," said Ms. Murphy, who limits her work at the Global Exchange to four days a week so she can devote one day a week to her directees.

Sister Mary Rose Bumpus

Sister of Mercy Mary Rose Bumpus is immersed in the ecumenical dimension of spiritual direction, as acting director of a training program at San Francisco Theological Seminary, a Presbyterian school in San Anselmo, Her program draws on Quaker concepts of hstening, as well as the ideas of Jonathan Edwards and Ignatius Loyola. Students learn that God is present not only in Scripture, but "in every dimension of human life. When we attend to God's presence, it transforms, individuals, families, society and institutions," Sister Mary Rose says. "God leads each person in unique ways, and the relationship between director and directee provides a freeing model for the role of the pastoral or lay leader, as a spiritual guide in a congregation," she says. Sister Mary Rose began training while teaching high school in Nashville, Tennessee. She studied with a Jesuit who traveledregularly to Nashville from Cambridge, Massachusetts. "The south is two percent Catholic. There were no other resources in our area," she says. Sister Mary Rose came to Berkeley in 199 1 to study at the Jesuit School of Theology.Five years ago, she was invited to teach at San Francisco Theological Seminary. The program there developed out of "a sense that there was a need in the church community to offer more direct approaches to discerning the presence of God ," she says. "Pastors were asking for tools. They were finding tliat members of their congregations were longing to deepen their relationships to God within all dimensions, intellectual, affective, and in a life of service."

Rev.Joan Huff

The Rev. Joan Huff had never heard of spiritual direction until her uncle , a Catholic priest , died. Father John Galvin had been chaplain for the Sisters of Providence at St. Mary of the Woods College in Indiana. The sisters invited Rev. Huff, a Presbyterian minister, to read Scripture at her uncle's funeral, and to join the procession down the chapel aisle with Catholic clergy. "I felt so affirmed by the Catholic community, I started going to Mass at the Carmelite monastery when I got back to Indianapolis," she said, Then she discovered that several of the sisters there did spiritual direction. Rev. Huff became a directee. When Rev. Huff's husband wanted to retire in San Francisco, she inquired about spiritual direction, and found out about Mercy Center. Janice Ferrell suggested she might want to look into the possibility of becoming a spiritual director herself. And so she did. For Rev. Huff , spiritual direction has fit in perfectly with her role as a minister, especially working with issues of grief and conflict , she said, She considers herself as a "companion who helps another to "nurture his or her relationship to God. "

hCATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO War, peace, p rayer The Amencan mihtaiy success in Afghanistan has been remarkable. In less than four months after the terrorist slaughter at the World Trade Center, the Taliban have been vanquished, the al Quaeda terrorist network has been short circuited , Osama bin Laden is either on the run or dead. And only one American soldier has been killed by the enemy. This has been, in one sense, a "good war" — a term that many people now apply to World War II. Osama bin Laden and his disciples are this century's version of Adolph Hitler and the Nazis. They delight in killing the innocent and yearn to impose their twisted views on the world. Now, American military power has dealt with 21st century terrorists in much the same way as it did with the Nazis 60 years ago: liberating the people of Afghanistan as we liberated Europe. This "good war" theory is understandable, but it's also dangerous. Wars are never good. Some wars are just. But too often a just cause is used as an excuse for the slaughter of the innocent or, more commonly, "collateral damage," a euphemism for dead children pulled from the bombed-out rubble of their homes. Clearly, the United States and the other western democracies were the good guys in World II. Hundreds of thousands of these heroes are still alive — brave and decent soldiers who fought their way across Europe, then came home to rebuild American society. Still, it is dangerous to think of any war as good. Even in World War II, the good guys touched off the fire storm at Dresden and the nuclear holocausts at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And one of our allies was Josef Stalin, a murderer on the scale of Hitler, who enslaved Eastern Europe after the war. Americans clearly are the good guys in the war on terror. America did not start this war. Terrorists using airliners as weapons of mass destruction started it. The war is being fought for a just cause: it is an act of selfdefense against an enemy that has killed thousands of innocent civilians in a "holy war" against the United States. While the vast majority of Americans hold this view, others do not. This includes Catholic peace advocates whose views are described in a story in this week's Catholic San Francisco. Their views are in the minority but they should not be ignored. A just cause does not justify every military action. A sin is a sin, in peacetime or wartime. "The Church and human reason assert the permanent validity of the moral law during armed conflict ," the Catechism of the Catholic Church says. The catechism then goes on to quote from "Gaudium et spes" the Second Vatican Council document on the Church in the Modem World: "The mere fact that war has regrettably broken out does not mean that everything becomes licit between warring parties. . . . Every act of war directed to the indiscriminate destruction of whole cities or vast areas with their inhabitants is a crime against God and man, which merits firm and unequivocal condemnation." "Noncombatants, wounded soldiers and prisoners must be respected and treated humanely," the catechism says. Perhaps, the most telling characteristic of the catechism's teaching is the title of its section on war: "Safeguarding peace." The catechism speaks first of the roots of Catholic teaching: "Earthly peace is the image and fruit of the peace of Christ... He is our peace." "Because of the evils and injustices that accompany all war," the catechism says, "the Church insistentiy urges everyone to prayer and action so that the divine Goodness may free us from the ancient bondage of war." In keeping with that plea, Pope John Paul II will lead a worldwide day of prayer for peace on January 24. Leaders of the world's religions will gather with the pope at Assisi, the hometown of St. Francis, in response to the pope's appeal for prayers to overcome religious divisions and to achieve world peace. Confronted with "the ever-impending threat of terrorism, we feel the need to raise our cry to God." On the same day, Archbishop Levada will lead a similar interfaith day of prayer in San Francisco, America's city of St. Francis. By joining in this observance, Catholics of the Archdiocese of San Francisco will honor the ageless words of Our Lord: "Blessed are the peacemakers." PJ

Cosmic Christ and contracepti on

I would like to comment on the letter "in Praise of Cosmic Christ" b y Mary Adelaide lones in the January 11th edition of the Catholic San Francisco. I too, was insp ired by the Mystery of the Cosmic Christ and I am more appreciative of the beauty of Creation as we see Christ in all of His creative handiwork. What saddened me about Mary Jones ' letter was her ending statement that her adult children are turned off by the infallibility of the pope and the Church' s stand regarding contraceptives. It is too bad that her family and so many other people do not realize the beauty and goodness of the church' s teaching on contraceptives. Contraceptives have caused so much sadness not realized by most people. Because of contraceptives a large majority of young people do not wait for marriage to have sexual intercourse. The result is unplanned pregnancies, abortions, and a great increase in sexually transmitted diseases , some fatal or causing sterility. Contraceptives used within marriage make it easier for couples

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to be unfaithful and have extramarital affairs or just walk away from their marriage. Thus we have broken families , sing le parent families and more poverty. There is also more infertility and even more breast cancer. All of these facts are documented. Much advancement has been made in natural family planning which is the answer to contraceptives. Natural famil y planning is available and is approved by the Church. By waiting until marriage for sexual relations and using natural family planning within marriage so many heartaches can be avoided and so many marriages saved. Many people today are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversaries. These are the people who did not have the modern day contraceptives in their youth . Perhap s the Churc h is right. G. Gloria Gillogley San Mateo

Delightful article on St. Gregorys

I read with much interest and delight the article "St. Gregory ' s Church Celebrates Sixty Years" which appeared in your December 21, issue of Catholic San Francisco. It was rewarding to read about our activities and about the caring people here who give of their time and talents to make St. Gregory 's the great community it is. But there was something very important that was missing from your article, namely any mention of the music program , especially the two choirs, their director, and their accompanist. Last October 28, at the Mass celebrating the parish's anniversary, the choir sang songs selected for the occasion. Also, this year the combined choirs of the regular 10-.30 and 12:00 Sunday Masses recorded their second CD, entitled "Non Nobis Domine." The director, Dr. Christopher Fulkerson , conducted many rehearsals to make this new CD the success we feel it now is. Jean Muzio St. Gregory's San Mateo

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The Catholic Diff erence

After Sept. 11, the courage to be j udgmental Yale undergraduate Alison Hornstein became a national celebrity this past December when her guest Newsweek column challenged the inability of her classmates and professors to say that what happened on Sepl. 11 was ... well , wrong. As in absolutel y, unambi guousl y, no-doubt-about-il wrong. One Yale professor said he didn 't see all that much difference between the hijackers and American servicemen in World War II. Hornstein 's classmates cited , presumabl y as excuses , the "provocations " thai led men lo become terrorists. To her credit , Ms. Hornstein found this incapacity to pull the trigger of moral jud gment troubling. She also correctly identified one of its sources: a public education system that is great at teaching tolerance and hopelessl y inadequate at teaching that some things are just wrong. In the third grade , Hornstein recalled , her teacher had read a story about one boy kicking another at a school bus stop. The moral (so to speak) was that the miscreant "had feelings that sometimes led him to do mean things"; that kicking was wrong, period , got lost in the psycholog ical shuffle. Later, in hi gh school , Alison Hornstein and her classmates agreed that , while they found the practice of female circumcision repellant , they should not impose "their standards on other cultures. " It's just as well that the class seems not to have pondered suttee , the Hindu practice of burning the surviving widow on her dead husband' s funeral pyre . Any condemnation of this would likel y fall under the one moral absolute recognized in Alison Hornstei n's pre-Sepl. 11 world: the ban on being "judgmental. " Alison Hornstein 's intuition that Sept. 11 should com-

pel an entire generation lo rethink their moral relativism was ri ght on the mark. So was her personal conclusion: "We should recognize that some actions are objectivel y bad , despite differences in cultura l standards and values." But then Ms. Hornstein faltered: "To me, hijacking planes and killing thousands of civilians falls into this category. Others may disagree. It is less important to me where people choose to draw the line than that it is that they are willing to draw it at all." Alison Hornstein and other thoughtful young people now have to recognize thai that simp le phrase, "to me," is at the root of the problem. Ms. Hornstein 's instinctive rejection of her professors ' and classmates ' relativism — her intuition that something is seriously awry when otherwise normal people can 't bring themselves to make elementary moral jud gments — was the sound reaction of moral common sense. But common sense gets trumped (as Alison Hornstein discovered at Yale) when morality is reduced lo a matter of personal taste — when things are ri ght and wrong "to me," but not right and wrong in themselves. Given the radical relativism with which Alison Hornstein grew up — a relativism an entire generation has been taug ht to associate with "tolerance " and "respect for others " — there's something to be said for her claim that it 's less important where peop le choose to draw lines than that they be willing to draw them at all. But not much. For it will soon become clear to Alison Hornstei n — it may well have alread y — that any willingness to "draw lines ," to identif y the boundary between right and wrong, demands a very different notion of morality than the one

with which she grew up. It 's a question of kind, not just degree. The alternative to the wacky rel ativism that repelled ul 'Z. Alison Hornstei n is not o lough-minded relativism. The alternative is a concept of the morality in which "ri ght " and "wrong" are recognized as truths embedded in reality itself , not reduced to constructs in our heads. That notion of the moral life will come as a shock at Yale — and at many, many oilier campuses in posl-modern America. But Sept. 11 ought to have forced the good folks at Yale (an d elsewhere) to consider the possibility that a society without moral truths — a society without oughts — is going to find it difficult to defend itself against aggressors motivated by distorted oughts. Recognizing the dangerous , dehumanizing inanity of moral relativism is a good first step. The next, giant step is to have the courage to be "judgmental " — because you know, with clarity and humility, that your moral judgments are rooted in the truth of things.

George Weigel

George Weigel is a senior fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.

On Being Catholic

The Christ - and other christs The path of Christmas ends at the Jordan River. The Church' s liturgy has invited us to contemplate a threefold manifestation (epip hany) of the Lord: to the first Gentiles, those mysterious Magi; the beginning of Jesus ' public ministry at His baptism by John; and the first miracle, at the wedding at Cana. We in the West emphasize the Magi, while the great "epiphany" for Eastern Christians is the Lord 's baptism - the feast which concludes the Christmas season in our Roman liturgy. As we continue our study of the Catechism of the Catholic Church , we have reached the paragraphs dealing with the Christian doctrine of the Trinity (CCC #238-260). This mystery is encountered explicitly for the first time in the description of Jesus' baptism by John: the Father proclaims that this is His beloved Son, Jesus is anointed with the Holy Spirit and begins the mission which will bring Him to the cross and resurrection . The title "Messiah" or "Christ" means "anointed one". In the Old Testament, when someone was chosen to be a priest, prophet or ruler, oil was poured on him to symbolize that he was chosen by God to carry out this vocation. Jesus was anointed , not with holy oil, but by the very Spirit of God. As St. Basil teaches: "To name Christ is to confess the whole Trinity, because it indicates the God who anointed, and the Son who was anointed , and that wherewith He was anointed , namely the Spirit." It took centuries for the Church to come to some understanding of the great mystery of the Trinity, and I refer you

to the paragraphs mentioned above for a brief description of that process. In fact , the whole Catechism is a meditation on the mystery of the Trinity. While it took much effort to shape a language to describe the experience, the experience itself runs through the whole New Testament. The challenge for those first disciples was to affirm the truth th at there is only one God, and yet do justice to their experience that Jesus claimed a sovereign authority based on a unique relationship to God as His Father, and that the divine acts He performed continued to be done in the Church by the Holy Spirit. How can Father, Son and Holy Spirit be truly one, and yet truly distinct? How God relates to us as Father, Son and Spirit necessarily meant exp loring how they relate to each other. We can discern stages of this process in the four Gospels. The earliest (St. Mark) begins with the account of Jesus being anointed by the Holy Spirit at His baptism. But Jesus did not "become" the son of God at the Jordan; it was His identity from the very beginning of His human life, a truth affirmed by the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, which speak of His conception in the womb of Mary through the power of the Holy Spirit. By the time we come to the Gospel of John , the relationship between God the Father and God the Son is recognized to be a reality before anything was created. (John 1) The Trinity is a mystery which blows our mental circuits. St. Augustine spent decades writing a major treatise on the subject, and at the end confessed how inadequate his project was. In every age, great minds have sought to

express something of this mystery, and given our desire to know the truth, great minds will continue to explore it. But the Trinity is not an abstract problem to be solved; it is a mystery we are called to contemplate from within . The whole plan of salvation is an invitation for us to enter into the very communion of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. As St. John says, "to those who did accept him he gave the power to become children of God...from his fullness we have all received grace upon grace..." (John 1:12, 16) The mystery of the Trinity is the water in which we swim, the very air we breathe as Christians - as those who have been "christened" in baptism, anointed by the Spirit of the Son who makes us beloved sons and dau ghters in whom the Father is well-pleased.

Father Milton T. Walsh

Father Milton T. Walsh is academic dean and an assistant professor of systematic theology at St. Patrick Seminary, Menlo Park.

Sp irituality

Coping with the Imago Dei There 's been an interesting p henomenon in literature these past few years. Looking at nonfiction books, we see a number of very popular best sellers that draw their titles and substance from mythology and astrology: "Women Who Run with Wolves," "Fire in the Belly, "The Wildman's Journey," "Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus." All of these books make a common assertion — namely, inside us there is, at a place we can 't always access, a wild fire, an untamed center, a divine madness, a chamber filled with gods and goddesses. Moreover, that fire, that piece of the soul that can never be domesticated , is the best part of us. We want to be taken over and possessed by it because, therein, lies our real energy and creativity. If our lives are mundane, dour, duty-driven , compulsive and depressed, it is because we are out of touch with that part of us. Wonder and enchantment he in reestablishing our connection with that fire.

That insi ght may be derived from mythology and other such studies, but it jibes perfectl y with Christian theology. Our Scriptures begin with the affirmation that what 's deepest in us, what defines us, is the "Imago Dei," the image and likeness of God. To be in the "image and likeness " of God, however, does not mean that we have stamped, somewhere in our souls, a beautiful icon. God, Scripture tells us, is fire — wild, holy, undomesticated. To be in the image and likeness of God is to have this wildness in us. It 's this, God-fire, that these secular best sellers are, each in its own way, referring to, and they are so popular because essentially what they say is true. Moreover, they 're right , too — though not novel — in affirming that this is the best part of us. From a Christian perspectiv e we can affirm most of what is put forth in these books. Where, then, does Christian theology differ from them? On one very critical

point: What Christianity (and every other great religion in the world) affirms , and what is generall y lacking in these secular books, is the all-important insight that, while this fire is good and godly, we must never try to cope with it without connecting it to the other world. There can be no strictly secular, this-world-only, handling of this energy. Anyone who tries to handle this energy without referring it to a world beyond our own will find that, far from ROLHEISER, page 14

Father Ron Rolheiser

SCRIPTU RE & LITURGY Liturgy offers a seamless transition to Ordinary Time Monday, January 14, we started this liturg ical year 's Ordinary Time, which is divided into two parts: January 14 to February 12 and May 20 to November 30. Obviously this time gets its name from the ordinal numbers we use to count the Sundays (e.g., second, third, fourth , etc.). Less obviously, Ordinary Time obtains its name because we "order " the gifts we receive from each Sunday 's assembly for Word and Eucharist to the needs of the world. From the Scripture we hear and the Eucharistic memorial meal we participate in , we learn how to tailor the kingdom's presence to those we serve. Our transition from Christmas/Epiphany Season to Ordinary Time appears seamless as today's liturgy of the Word empowers us to manifest Christ as the only Lord for all people. The Servant Songs of Isaiah (last Sunday, the first poem so called; this Sunday, the second) offer perspective. Any group, to say nothing of God's Chosen People and God's revered Chosen People, can easily narrow its perspective, indeed delight in saying, "We are chosen; you are not." To the servant — Israel, Jesus, and us — the Lord God is made to say: "It is too little. . , for you to be my servant, to raise up the tribes of Jacob and restore the survivors of Israel; I will make you a light to the nations, that my salvation may reach lo the ends of the earth." Psalm 40 becomes our response that we will embrace God's vision for his servant-Church: "Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will." I Corinthians, our second reading, makes the same point , though the selection is only the opening greeting of this Pauline letter. While the Church in Corinth consists of people "who have been sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be holy, " they do not exhaust work of God in this world but form part of a much larger picture "with all these everywhere who call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours." We have communion with a

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Second Sunday in Ordinary Time Isaiah 49:3, 5-6; Psalm 40; 1 Corinthians 1:1-3; Jo/m 1:29-34.

Father David M. Pettingill much larger community than those with us at our parish Sunday celebration . Oddly enough, the gospel selection comes from John (In our present cycle A, the gospel readings come in a semicontinuous fashion from Matthew). The author has as his goal to insist on the primacy of Jesus as opposed to those who held John the Baptist as the messiah. Notice that there is no description of Jesus' baptism by John. Notice too that the word s placed in John 's mouth clearly assert the preeminence of Jesus. "Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world. He is the one of whom I said, 'A man is coming after me who ranks ahead of me because he existed before me (cf. John 1:1-3). ' I did not know him but the reason why

I came baptizing with water was that he might be made known to Israel." Then serving only as a witness to Jesus ' baptism, John is made to disappear: "John testified further, saying, 'I saw the Spirit come down like a dove from heaven and remain upon him.... Now I have seen and testified that he is the Son of God. '" From what we hear as Word this Sunday, we are directed to look at our world. We are given the vision that enables us to see the Lamb of God, the one who made his Passover from this world to the Father (John 13:1), at work gathering God's People as human beings connect with each other and offer to each other the riches Jesus lavishes on them. We are ushered to point out where light is shining in our darkness, where the victory of the Lamb "who was slain and who lives forever and ever" is taking flesh. We offer our world a vision we have received at Sunday assembly, a vision, valid , vindicated , and sorely needed. Questions for Small Communities Why is it so important to point out God's action in our world vs. thinking we have to do everything? How can our group point out the light in our parish?

Father David M. Petting ill is assistant to the moderator of the curia and parochial vicar at St. Emydius Parish, San Francisco.

The Consecration of the Communion Bread and Wine

presider about which wine or bread to consecrate. For example, at liturgies attended by hundreds or thousands of people, it is not appropriate that the altar be cluttered with dozens of ciboria containing the hosts. These containers may be placed on tables away from the altar. Regardless of where they are, on or off the altar, they are consecrated if the presiding priest intends to consecrate them. The same is true for the wine. Some should be in the chalice used by the priest. The rest may be anywhere on the Q. In my parish I never notice hosts being conse- altar or nearby, as long as the priest intends to consecrate crated at Mass. They are always brought from the taberna- them at that Mass. cle or they are in containers that remain at the edge of the When consecrated bread, the eucharistic body of altar until Communion time. Christ, is left over at Mass, what remains is placed in the Also, when we have Communion under both species, tabernacle for distribution to the sick or for people receivpart of the wine is poured into the chalice at the Offertory; ing Communion at a later Mass, That is what you have seen the rest is left in the glass container until Communion time. when hosts are brought from the tabernacle for Has the wine left in the glass bottle actually been con- Communion. secrated? (Massachusetts) It is liturgically appropriate, whenever possible, for A. Apart from the question about the tabernacle, lots people to receive Communion with hosts consecrated at of Catholics have the same concern as you about which that particular Mass. When that is not feasible, hosts conhosts and wine are consecrated at Mass. Some people, secrated at a previous Mass are brought from the tabernaincluding some deacons and priests, if one is to jud ge by cle and distributed. their actions, seem to be under the impression that all bread Q- In a recent column about preparations for a and wine to be consecrated must be on, or at least touch, the mixed marriage, the questioner claimed the Catholic pa rty corporal (the small square cloth on the altar during Mass). had to promise to raise the children Catholic. You respondThat is not precisely true. The determining factor is ed that this is not true. The non-Catholic promises nothing not where the elements are, but the intention of the priest in this regard, you said, while the Catholic promises "to do

all in my power to share my faith with our children by having them baptized and raised as Catholics. " I don 't see the difference. Those two promises look the same to me. {New York) A. In practice , there may not be much difference. In either case, the Catholic in fact promises to do the best he or she can to assure for their children the benefits of Catholic spiritual life and sacraments. Formerly, the Catholic promise was explicitly to raise the children Catholic. The wording the church uses today, which I quoted and you repeat, recognizes more honestly the fact that in some marriages the best efforts of Catholic spouses simply fail, through no fault of their own. Circumstances beyond their control make raising their children Catholic impossible. On the principle that it is not psychologically or spiritually wise to demand promises that may be impossible to keep, the church today says in effect: Do all you can to help your children share your Catholic faith. If that doesn ' t work, you and they will be missing something, but you have not failed your promise. (A free brochure answering questions Catholics ask about receiving the holy Eucharist is available by sending a stamped , self-addressed envelope to Father John Dietzen, Box 325, Peoria, IL 61651. (Questions may be sent to Father Dietzen at the same address, or e-mail: jjdiet zen @aol.com.)

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up the whole world. Our one other option is to link this godliness to a cause, as did Marxism, and as do many ideologies. Whenever we do this, without real reference to the other world, these ideologies, like all false religion, exact human sacrifice and eat us up. There's a divine fire within each of us. If we link ourselves to it properl y and connect it to the other world, it becomes godly energy, the source of all that 's wonderful in life. However, if we run with the wolves, sit under Venus or Mars, and enter into our wildness without reference to God and a world beyond , that fire will destroy us.

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¦ Continued from page 13 being a source of wonder and enchantment , thi s fire will be a source for destruction , restlessness, and depression . Why ? Precisely because this innate wildness overcharges us for life in this world. Divine fire trying to satiate itself solely within a finite situation , perhaps more clearly than anything else, explains why things don't happen smoothl y in our lives. Whenever the godly energies in us are not somehow related to God, one of the following invariably results: destructive grandiosity, numbing depression, frustrating restlessness, helpless addiction , or heartless ideology. What 's the connection ? This energy is so overpowering that it leaves us very few options. If we identify with it, thinking it is from

ourselves rather than from God, we become less than wonderful ourselves, puff up in grandiosity, believe that we are God, and begin to act as if we were God. People like Hitler and David Koresh took the "Imago Dei" within them very seriously, precisely without referring it to another world. Most of us don 't want to go that route, so we do the opposite. Either we don 't connect ourselves to that energy, and grow numb and dead, or we do connect to it but do not link it to the other world. Then, rather than puff up when we find ourselves all fired up with no place to go, lacking adequate self-expression, and having to settle for third and fourth best, we douse the fire and live in the resulting depression. Pathological restlessness and addictions work in the same way. Blue fire within, not connected to God and the other world, will either leave us constantly dissatisfied with everything we can attain, or it wDl tempt us to try to drink

Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser, a theolog ian, teacher and award-winning author, serves in Rome as general councilor for Canada f o r the Oblates of Mary Immaculate.

Family Lif e

Early Christians have much to teach us "You should write about how to raise pro-life kids," a friend once suggested. I demurred, saying my husband and I do nothing in particular lo bri ng about pro-life attitudes in our children. We simply do our best to follow Christ and the teachings of the Church. "Then write about that ," she said, "It's important." Situated between the Chrisunas Season and the upcoming anniversary Jan. 22 of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that overturned anti-abortion laws in all 50 states, it seemed an opportune time to fulfill my friend's request. We Catholics have recently finished celebrating God' s coming to us as an infant. His choosing to save us in this fashion, becoming a man like us in every way but sin, should have forever changed the way we look at a baby, or at any person for that matter. During the first centuries of Christianity, one of the tell-

tale marks of conversion to Christ was a change in attitude toward babies, women, slaves, and the poor. Conu aception and abortion were no longer practiced. Infants left to die by exposure, a common form of infanticide in the ancient world, were rescued. Women were released from being the property of their fathers or husbands. Slaves were set free, and the poor were fed. What do all of these actions have in common? A profound respect for the human person, who is an image of God and never to be used as an object for the sake of one's pleasure, but loved for his own sake, as one would love Christ himself. It seems to me that raising pro-life kids requires only that we Catholic parents and teachers be converted as those first Christians were. After all, the moral teaching of the Church, which is based upon the truth that we all are sisters and brothers in Christ, is the same today as it was then . "But this is the 21 st century," many will protest. "We have

science and technology now. It would be unreasonable to live as the early Christians did." At first glance, following Christ looks unreasonable in any age because it means being vulnerable and receptive to the mysterious manifestations of Vivian W. Dudro God. It means dying to self and yielding to the demands of love. It means sacrifice. Let's face it, it is no more challenging now to follow Christ than it was in the year 100. But just imagine what our kids would think about the meaning and purpose of life if we did.

No vouchers but Catholic school students get aid

By Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) - While the new education reform law does not include the vouchers originally backed by President Bush, private schools, including religiously affiliated ones, will be able to benefit from the $26.5 billion education package. Michael Guerra , president of the National Catholic Educational Association, was hesitant to offer accolades. He noted that the new education package holds public schools responsible for improving the academic achievement of all students and called it "an important step in the right direction for education policy." But he said he felt it fell short in providing support for low-income parents whose children are (rapped in failing schools. He also called its "lack of progress for educational choice a disappointment to Catholic educators." However, Mary Ellen Russell, director of the Office for Catholic School Parental Rights Advocacy at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said she was encouraged by the benefits it granted to Catholic school students. She said the language in the act clarifies some of the specific supplemental programs in which students in private schools may participate, such as bilingual and migrant education and technology, reading and remedial programs. The legislation also stipulates, for the first time, that religiously affiliated schools can run community learning centers that provide counseling, academic programs, recreation or other activities as part of after-school or summer programs in areas with high concentrations of low-income families. One of the most generously funded programs for which private school students could qualify is Reading First, a program that will provide $900 million in fiscal year 2002 to improve the reading skills of students from kindergarten through third grade. But Stephen Kucer, associate professor of language and literature education at Jesuit-run Fordham University in New York, said die idea of a "national reading program" makes him uncomfortable. Kucer told Catholic News Service he was surprised that a Republican president who was "so against federal intrusion into local and state issues" would support legislation backing up more federal programs like this one.

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children to another public school or using a portion of the school's federal Tide I funds for remedial programs to pay for private tutoring even through "private, faith-based educational providers." According to Bush, the "fundamental principle of this bill is that every child can learn." The proposed reading program, expected to emphasize phonics over other ways of teaching reading, also gives Kucer pause. "I'm not against phonics, but being a good reader requires a lot more" than an ability to sound out words, he said. Thomas Lasley, dean of the school of education and allied professions at Marianist-run University of Dayton in Ohio, said his major concern with the bill is its emphasis on testing. He fears it will make teachers focus more on preparing students for an annual test and leave little time for developing intellectual curiosity and problem-solving skills, which are at the "heart of real learning."

Top Vatican officials hit retirement age in 2002 By John Thavis

Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The winds of change were blowing at the Vatican early this year — a year in which several leading officials will reach the normal retirement age of 75. The potential vacancies give Pope John Paul II an opportunity to bring new personalities into his papacy as it proceeds through its 24th year — in March, it will become the sixth longest pontificate in history. At stake are the top positions in Vatican agencies that deal with doctrine, liturgy and sacraments, religious orders, Vatican investments and the Vatican City State. The current secretary of state, Italian Cardinal Angelo Sodano, also turns 75 in November, raising the possibility that his 10-year tenure may come to an end. His job is considered by many as the second-most powerful position in the church. The pope, who turns 82 in May, often has allowed his top

aides to continue in office past their 75th birthday, and there is nothing to prevent him from doing so again. But several of the officials quietly have made it clear that they are ready to leave their Vatican assignments. The retirement rumors have centered on: — German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith since 1981, who will be 75 in April. He has said he would like to leave his Vatican position to dedicate his remaining years to theological scholarship, though he has also emphasized that the decision is up to the pope. — Spanish Cardinal Eduardo Martinez Somalo, head of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life. In January he ends a second five-year term at his Vatican post and celebrates his 75th birthday in March. — Chilean Cardinal Jorge Medina Estevez, head of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments since 1998, who turned 75 in late December.

— Italian Cardinal Agostino Cacciavillan, who reaches age 75 in August. He heads the Administration of the Patrimony of the Holy See, which deals with investment and other financial affairs. — U.S. Cardinal Edmund C. Szoka, since 1997 president of the commission that governs the Vatican City State. He celebrates his 75th birthday in September. If Cardinal Szoka, a former archbishop of Detroit, retires, it would leave two U.S. prelates among the heads of the 25 most important Vatican agencies: Cardinal J. Francis Stafford at the Pontifical Council for the Laity and Archbishop John P. Foley at the Pontifical Council for Social Communications. One prediction making the rounds a few months ago had Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago coming to the Vatican to head one of two congregations, doctrine or sacraments and worship. Cardinal George dampened those rumors when he told the Chicago Tribune in November: "I' ve not been offered a job in Rome and I don't expect to be offered a job in Rome."

School of Pastoral Leadership For times additional information , call Joni Gallagher at (415) 614-5564 or spl@att.net. Pre-registration is necessary for many programs. Visit the SPL Web site at www.splsf.org. Tues. Jan. 22- Feb. 26 , 7:30 - 9:30 p.m.: The Sacraments: Doors to the Sacred with Jesuit Father Dennis Smolarski; The Spiritual Wisdom of Saints Catherine of Siena, Teresa of Avila , Therese of Lisieux with Dominican Father Luke Buckles; Liturgical Music Ministry with Father James McKearney; Continuing Introduction to the Old Teslament with Jesuit Father Donald Sharp; Continued Encountering the New Testament with Father David Pettingill; The Catholic Tradition on Violence and War: Nonviolence , Just War and Holy War with Carmelite Father Andrew Skotnicki. Location: Junipero Serra High School, 451 W. 20th Ave., San Mateo. Wed. Jan. 23 - Feb. 27, 7:30 - 9:30 p.m.: History & Theology of the Mass with Doug Benbow including practical lessons for lectors with Susan Sikora ; The Life and Spirituality of Blessed Padre Pio with Father Francis Tiso; Why Do We Believe That? An Introduction to Apologetics with Mark Brumley; Introduction to Islam with Iftekhar Hai; Liturgical Music Ministry with Christoph Tietze; Continuing Introduction to the Old Testament with Jesuit Father Donald Sharp; The Catholic Tradition on Violence and War: Non-Violence , Just War and Holy War with George Wesolek. Location: Archbishop Riordan High School , 175 Phelan Ave., SF. Thurs. Jan. 24 - Feb. 28, 7:30 - 9:30 p.m.: Expressions of Prayer in the East and Wesl Through the Centuries: Answering the Call of God Through the Purgation , Illuminative , and United Way with Eastern Rite Father David Anderson. Location: Marin Catholic High School, 675 Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Kentfield. Fri. Jan. 25 - March 1, 2 - 4 P.M.: Continued Prophets and Wisdom Lirerature of the Old Testament with Jesuit Father Donald Sharp. Location: Pastoral Center of the Archdiocese , One Peter Yorke Way, SF.

Special Invitations/Christian Unity Jan. 20: Open House at Our Lady of Fatima Byzantine Catholic Churc h, 101 20th Ave . at Lake Si, SF beginning with Divine Liturgy at 10 a.m. Parish Potluck and dialogue follow. A great opportunity to experience and learn more about the Eastern Catholic Church. Call (415) 7522052. Jan. 22: Join Holy Name of Jesus Parish and Lakeside Presbyterian Church for an ecumenical prayer service at 2 p.m. at Lakeside Presbyte rian, Eucalyptus Dr, near Stonestown, SF. Call (415) 664-8590. Jan. 24: Celebrate the "Week o( Prayer for Christian Unity " at St. John of God Parish , 5th Ave. at Irving, SF at 7:30 p.m. with prayer and reception, Call (415) 566-5610. Jan. 25: 16th Annual Interfaith Memorial Service for Victims of Abortion al 7:30 p.m. at Temple Baptist Churc h, 3355 19th Ave., SF near Stonestown Shopping Center. Held during the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, the liturgy marks the 29 years since the legalization of abortion. Call (415) 614-5572.

Take Prayer 3rd Tues at 8:30 p.m., St. Dominic Church, 2390 Bush St., SF. Call Delia Moiloy at (415) 563-4280 3rd Thurs. at 7:30 p.m. at Vallombrosa Center, 250 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park with Sister Toni Longo 1st Fri. at 8 p.m. at Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Dr. , Burlingame with Mercy Sister Suzanne Toolan. Call (650) 340-7452; Church of the Nativity, 210 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park at 7:30 p.m. Call Deacon Dominic Peloso at (650) 322-3013. 3rd Fri. at 8 p.m. at Woodside Priory Chapel, 302 Portola Rd„ Portola Valley. Call Dean Miller at (650) 328-2880 1st Sat. at 8:30 p.m. at SF Presidio Main Post Chapel, 130 Fisher Loop. Call Delia Moiloy at (415) 563-4280,

Datebook Blessed Sacrament Exposition Church of the Nativity, 210 Oak Grove Ave , Menlo Park , 24 hours everyday, (650) 322-3013. St. Sebastian Church, corner of Bon Air Rd. and Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Greenbrae , M - F 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. in Adoration Chapel, (415) 4610704. St. Agnes Church, 1025 Masonic (near Page) SF, Fri., 9 a.m. to 10 a.m., (415) 487-8560. Our Lady of Angels Church, 1721 Hillside Dr., Burlingame , M- F after 8 a.m. Mass until 7 p.m. St. Isabella Church , One Trinity Way, San Rafael , Fri., 9:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. Our Lady of Loretto Church, 1806 Novato Blvd., Novato , Fri. 9:30 a.m. - 6 p.m., 1st Fri. 9:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. Sat . St. Bruno Church , 555 W. San Bruno Ave., San Bruno, 24 hours everyday. Call (650) 5880572. Our Lady of Guadalupe Chapel. St. Francis of Assisi Shrine, 610 Vallejo St. al Columbus , SF, Fri. following 12:15 p.m. Mass until 4.15 p.m. 2nd Sat . at St. Matthew Church, One Notre Dame Way, San Mateo with Nocturnal Adoration Society of San Mateo County. Call Jim McGill at (650) 574-3918 for times. Corpus Christi Monastery, 215 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park , daily from 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Call (650) 322-1801. St. Bartholomew Church, 30C Alameda de las Pulgas , San Mateo, 1st Fri. frorr after 8 a.m. Mass until just before next day's £ a.m. Mass.; St. Dominic Church, Bush anc Steiner St., 8:30-9:30 a.m. and 6-7 p.m. each Mon. and Wed. (415) 567-7824. Our Lady of Mt, Carmel Church, 3 Oakdale Ave., Mill Valley Mon., 8:15 a.m. through Wed. at 7:30 a.m.; St, John of God Church , 1290 5th Ave. at Irving, SF. Mondays after 12:10 p.m. Mass, (415) 5665610; St. Kevin Church, 704 Cortland Ave., SF, 1st Fri. following 9 a.m. Mass until 5:15 p.m. Benediction. Call (415) 648-5751. St. Finn Ban Church, 415 Edna St., SF, M-F 8:45 a.m.-6 p.m.; Thurs. until 9 p.m.; 1st Fri. until 7:30 p.m. Mass, Call (415) 333-3627; St. Hilary Church, 761 Hilary Dr., Tiburon , M - F 7:45 a.m. - 9 p.m.; Sat. 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. and each 1st Fri. from 8 a.m. unti Sat. at 8:45 a.m. Call (415) 435-1122; St. Mary's Cathedral , Gough and Geary St., SF, 1st Fri. after 8 a.m. Mass until Sat. at 8 p.m.; Holy Name of Jesus Church, 39th Ave. and Lawton St., SF, Wed. 9:30 a.m. - 7:30 p.m.; St. Matthias Church, 1685 Cordilleras Rd., Redwood City, 1st Fri., 9 a.m. until Mass at 5:30 p.m.(650) 3669544

Single, Divorced, Separated New Wings at St. Thomas More Church , SF meets on 3rd Thursdays at 7:30 p.m. Call (415) 452-9634 or e-mail stmchurch @hotmail.com. Call Ron Landucci at (650) 992-4307 about upcoming social activities. Catholic Adult Singles Assoc, of Marin meets for support and activities. Call Bob at (415) 8970639 for information.

Consolation Ministry Groups meet at the following parishes. Please call numbers shown for more information. Our Lady of Angels, Burlingame. Call Louise Nelson at (650) 343-8457 or Barbara Arena at (650) 344-3579. Our Lady of Mt. Carmel , Redwood City. Call (650) 366-3802. St. Andrew, Daly City. Call Eleanor and Nick Fesunoff at (650) 878-9743; Good Shepherd, Pacifica. Call Sister Carol Fleitz at (650) 355-2593; St. Robert, San Bruno. Call (650) 589-2800. Immaculate Heart of Mary, Belmont. Call Ann Ponty at (650) 5980658 or Mary Wagner at (650) 591-3850. St. Isabella, San Rafael. Call Pat Sack at (415) 4725732. Our Lady of Loretto, Novato. Call Sister Jeanette at (415) 897-2171 .St. Gabriel, SF. Call Barbara Elordi at (415) 564-7882. St. Finn Barr, SF in English and Spanish. Call Carmen Solis at (415) 584-0823; St. Cecilia, SF. Call Peggy Abdo at (415) 564-7882. Epiphany, SF in Spanish. Call Kathryn Keenan at (415) 564-7882.

St. Bartholomew, San Mateo, Dan Stensen at (650) 344-5665; St. Catherine of Siena , Burlingame , Silvia Chiesa at (650) 685-8336 , Elaine Yastishock at (650) 344-6884; Our Lady of Angels , Burlingame , Dorothy Heinrichs or Maria Cianci at (650) 347-7768; St. Dunstan , Millbrae , Dianne Johnston at (650) 697-0952; Our Lady of the Pillar, Half Moon Bay, Meghan at (650) 7264337; St. Peter, Pacifica , Shirley Bryant at (650) 355-5168.

Ministry for parents who have lost a child is available fro m Our Lady ol Angels Parish , Burlingame. Call Ina Potter at (650) 347-6971 or Barbara Arena at (650) 344-3579. Young Widow/Widower group meets at St. Gregory, San Mateo. Call Barbara Elordi at (415) 5647882. Information about children 's and teen groups is available from Barbara Elordi at (415) 564-7882.

Lectures/ Classes/Radio-TV Jan. 24, 7 - 9:30 p.m.: International Service Opportunities Night at St. Agnes Spiritual Life Center, 1611 Oak St., SF featuring stories and slides about women and human rights in Brazil from Maryknoll lay missioner Kathy Bond. Information about overseas work with Maryknoll and other groups will be available. Free pizza and drinks. Call kathy at (510) 848-8539/bondrocha@sbcglobal.net. Mon - Fri. at 7 p.m.: Catholic Radio Hour featuring recitation of the Rosary and motivating talks and music with host Father Tom Daly. Tune your radio to KEST - 1450 AM "Mosaic ", a public attairs program featuring discussions about the Catholic Church today. 1st Sundays 6:00 a.m., KPiXChannel 5. "For Heaven's Sake " , a public affairs program featuring discussions and guests , 5 a.m. 3rd Sunday of the month , KRON-Channel 4. Both shows are sometimes preempted or run at other times , please check listings. Produced by the Communications Office of the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Food & Fun Jan. 18: Community Health Information Fair from 10a.m. -6p.m. at Serramonte Center, Daly City, sponsored by Seton Medical Center of the Daughters of Charity. Health info booths , raffles , face painting, and chance to meet the facility 's staff. All free. Jan. 26: Archbishop Riordan High School's annual Crab Feed and Dance in the San Francisco school's gym. 175 Phelan Ave. across from City College. Begins with no-host cocktails at 6 p.m. with dinner/dancing from 7:15 p.m. Tickets $37.50 per person include wine with dinner. Don't miss the fun! Call (415) 586-9190. Jan. 26: Super Bingo Night benefiting Most Holy Redeemer AIDS Support Group at 7 p.m. in Ellard Hall, 100 Diamond ST., SF. Admission $25 includes cards for each of the evening's 12 games. Food, beer, wine soft drinks , pull tabs , special games available. Call (415)863-1581 . Feb. 1, 2, 3: St. Anne Parish Festival 2002, 850 Judah St. between Funston and 14th Ave , SF. Food, games , music, dancing. Fri. 6 - 1 0 p.m.; Sat. noon - 9 p.m.; Sun. 11:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. Call (415) 665-1600. Feb. 2: Annual Cioppino Dinner sponsored by Dante Council, Knights of Columbus, Sts. Peter and Paul Church on Washington Square, SF, beginning at 6:30 p.m. Parking available. Menu includes Cioppino, pasta , wine, coffee and dessert. For ticket information , call Al Cremolini at (415) 921-1704; Al Pieroni at (415) 931-1230; Ron Ricossa at (415) 922-9618. Feb. 9: First Purple and Gold Gala, a dinner, dance , silent auction benefiting Archbisho p Riordan High School Scholarship Fund at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Burlingame. Music by the school's Jazz Ensemble. Tickets $125 per person. Call (415) 586-9190.

Perf ormance Admission free unless otherwise noted. Jan. 20: Organ concert by Father Paul Perry at St. Sebastian Church , Sir Francis Drake Blvd. at Bon Air Rd., Greenbrae at 4 p.m. All are invited.

Volunteer Opportunities Help a child succeed in school and in life by serving as a tutor for two hours a week at Sacred Heart Elementary School, 735 Fell St., SF. Sessions take place Mon. - Thurs. from 3:30 5:30 p.m. Help welcome in a variety of subjects.Call Doug Pierce at (415) 621-8035 or Mary Potter at (415) 876-4811. St. Joseph's Village , a homeless shelter for families at 10th and Howard St., SF, is looking for dedicated office volunteers to answer phones and greet residents. If you are interested in volunteering, call Dewitt Lacey at (415) 575-4920. San Francisco 's St. Anthony Foundation needs volunteers as well as canned goods and other staples. Non-perishable foods may be taken to 121 Golden Gate Ave. M - F from 8"30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Volunteer candidates should call (415) 241-2600 or visit the web site at www.stanthonys.org. Seeking enthusiastic men and women for the volunteer team at Mission Dolores Gift Shop. Welcome visitors from around the world , distribute brochures , accept donations and assist in gift shop sales. You'll also have a chance to practice additional languages you may speak. Call Theresa Mullen at (415) 621-8203 , ext. 30. SF's Laguna Honda Hospital is in need of extraordinary ministers including Eucharistic ministers and readers as well as volunteers to visit with residents and help in the office and with events. Call Sister Miriam Walsh at (415) 6641580, ext. 2422. Raphael House, a homeless shelter for families in San Francisco's Tenderloin District , is in need of volunteers to help with various tasks. Hours are 5:45 p.m. - 9 p.m. Call Carol at (415) 345-7265. California Handicapables, which provides a monthly Mass and luncheon to handicapped persons , needs volunteers including drivers , servers , donors , and recruiters of those who might benefit from the experience. Call Jane Cunningham at (415) 585-9085. St. Francis Fraternity, a secular Franciscan organization, needs volunteers to help with their 20 year old tradition of serving breakfast on Sunday mornings to their Tenderloin neighbors. Call (415) 621-3279. Maryknoll Affiliates: Bay Area chapter meets 3rd Sat. for two hours at Maryknoll House , 2555 Webster St., SF to share community, prayer, and action on social justice and global concerns. Members occasionally do short periods of mission service around the world at Maryknoll locations. Call Marie Wren at (415) 331-9139 or mwren48026 @ aol.com.

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Half oj p articipa nts in p op e's Assisi p eace p ilgrimag e to be Muslim

By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — More than 50 reli gious leaders, including about two dozen Muslims , will join Pope John Paul II in a pilgrimage to Assisi , Italy, Jan. 24 to pray for peace and condemn violence committed in the name of reli gion. At the same time , in dioceses throug hout the worl d, Catholics will be hosting ecumenical prayer services to ask God for the gift of peace and interreli gious meetings to make commitments to use faith to foster peace. The pope is expected to be joined by Ecumenical Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinop le , the worldwide sp iritual leader of the Orthodox , in leading the pilgrimage of reli gious representatives to Assisi. The pil grimage, a two-hour train journey from the Vatican, also will include other Christian leaders , Jews, Hindus , Buddhists , Sikhs , Jains and followers of traditional African religions , as well as the Muslims. The leaders will share reflections on peace during a morning gathering before going to separate places to pray for peace in the rites of their own traditions. In the Basilica ol St. Francis, the pope will pray with Orthodox , Anglican and Protestant representatives and with Catholic bishops from several countries , including Pakistan . Pope John Paul announced the meeting in mid-November as a religious response to terrorism and the threat of new conflicts in the world. He said one point of the Jan. 24 Assisi gathering would be to bring leaders of religions , "in particular , Christian s and Muslims ," together to proclaim that faith must never be used to justif y violence or hatred. The daylong Assisi meeting is expected to close with the reading in Arabic, English and Italian of the reli gious leaders' "common commitment to peace. " Cardinal Francis Arinze, president of the Pontifical Council for Interreli gious Dialogue and an organizer of the Assisi event, said the meeting "will say 'no' to religious wars and to all acts of violence and terrorism, especiall y when they are perpetrated in the name of religion." Writing in L Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, he said the pilgrimage by train could be an important part of the meeting's message by showing "the followers of various religions are convinced that it is necessary for them to travel together on the path that leads to peace."

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Another Vatican official confirmed the news that the Orthodox Church of Greece had declined to partici pate at any level , but the Russian Orthodox Church was sending a representative; relations between the Vatican and the Russian and Greek churches have been cool in recent years, Greek Orthodox Patriarc h Ignatius IV of Antioch , whom the pope visited in Syria in May, and Patriarch Mar Dinkha IV, head of the Assyrian Church of the East , have accepted the papal invitation , officials said. As in 1986, when Pope John Paul hosted a huge interreligious peace meeting in Assisi, the 2002 meeting was publicized with repeated Vatican statements that members of different reli gions would be pray ing for peace at the same time, but not together. Cardinal Walter Kasper, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, said members of the divided Christian communities can and should pray together because they have been baptized into the body of Christ.

But , he said in an article in the Vatican newspaper , U Osservatore Romano , Christians and followers of other reli gions "cannot pray together " because their prayers are expressions of a faith they do not share. Praying separately, but at the same time, gives witness to the values the different religions do share: "respect for God and the divine and the desire for God or the divine; respect for life; and the desire for peace with God or the divine , for peace among peoples and peace in the cosmos," the cardinal said. "They can and must collaborate to defend and promote social justice , moral values, peace and freedom for the good of all men and women," the cardinal said. Also writing in L'Osservatore Romano , Bishop Giampaolo Crepaldi , secretary of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, said the papal initiative underscores the fact that the response of believers to war and violence must be one of "concentrating on the essential s, looking ahead, beyond the dark ni ght, to have the courage for something new."

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