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Catholic schools know no boundaries From the Mission District of San Francisco to a remote Mayan village in Guatemala, Catholic schools are giving us something to celebrate: "deep faith life , a spirit of community that is intentional and formative , and a commitment to academic excellence, " in the words of a guest editorial by Sister Glenn Anne McPhee, Superintendent of Catholic Schools for the Archdiocese , on Page 12. Pictured above are children from the village of Patzun who have a new school , staffed by Carmelite sisters and built with the help of a member of St. Rita Parish, Fairfax. Page 11 At the left are leaders of the restoration of St. Charles Borromeo School in the Mission District: Pictured are (from left) John Moriarty benefactor, Sally Cowan, assistant principal, Dominicans of the Holy Rosary of the Philippines Sister Nelia Pernecia, principal, and Rhet Devlin, volunteer contractor.
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Catholic Charities cuts costs, moves to pay off $2.6 million debt By Patrick Joyce
A he new leadershi p of Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of San Francisco is cutting expenses, reviewing all its programs and declaring a moratorium on new programs as it battles to overcome $2.6 million of indebtedness built up under a management team that resigned under fire last year. "We promised candor and accountability in our last letter. " Brian Cahill , interim executive director of Catholic Charities , said . "So we are obligated to tell everything. The bad news is $2.6 million of indebtedness. The good
news is that we have a plan to pay it off. This is manageable. It can be fixed. " Cahill spoke about the status of Catholic Charities in an interview with Catholic San Francisco and in a letter sent this week to supporters of the agency. In a letter last September, Cahill had apologized for the fiscal abuses of the past and promised to keep supporters informed of the progress of reforms at Catholic Charities. The indebtedness was one of the preliminary findings of the annual independent audit of Catholic Charities ' previous fiscal year. "This is painful," Cahill said. "But we're blessed in a number of ways: we have a payment plan, high quality programs and the generosity of our donors. Our Christmas
appeal was very successful, beyond our expectations. That shows our donors are sticking with us. They know the value of our programs." Not only does Catholic Charities plan to pay off the $2.6 million but it is also working to avoid indebtedness in the future, Cahill said. He pointed out that lines of credit were secured so the agency could pay its own bills while waiting to be reimbursed by funding agencies. In part, he said, that was understandable, he said. "With $14 million in contracts outstanding, there is a lag time from point of service to payment — $2 million at any time, " Cahill said. "Unfortunately," he said, "these outside lines of credit were used not just to meet working capital needs, but to fund some expansion." CATHOLIC CHARITIES, page 6
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From left: Father Ed Bohnert, parochial vicar, Msgr. Edwin Kennedy, founding St. Raymond pastor, and Father Patrick Michaels, pastor since 1995, at party beginning parish's 50th anniversary on Jan. 9 of last year. St. Raymond Parish, Menlo Park closed its 50th anniversary year on Sept. 10 with a commemorative Mass and ball y hoo of all kinds including a barbecue picnic , softball game, relay races, bocce ball and bingo. Hats off to all who took part including Chuck Cancilla , Bobbie Carcione, Pam Strong, Steve Bruni and the Men 's Club , Catherine Lamb and the Mothers ' Club, Bonnie Morey and the altar servers, Julie Ferrari , Sue Wagstaffe , and Laura Pitchford. Happy anniversary to St. Raymond secretary Georgia Ossman and her husband Norman who were married 40 years ago on Feb. 4 at St. Paul Church , the day this year that the Sister Act church will be rededicated following its year-long upgrading and retrofitting ,. ..San Francisco 's Old St. Mary Parish leads a hats off to staffer Leighton Louie who started training at the San Francisco Police Academy on Jan . 8 , and volunteers Art Wilbrand , who recentl y marked 52 years service as acolyte, hospitality minister and eucharistic minister, and Virginia Fenton, well known for her environment contributions at the Chinatown parish.... The St. Thomas More Society elected new officers and recognized winners of its annual essay contest at a Christmas lunch last month. Congrats to new prez , Lawrence R. Jannuzzi , vice prez, Carroll J. Collins III, secretary, Linda A. Clard y and treasurer , Stephen Walker. A double scoop of kudos to $500 first place Essay winner Allison wimer Anison Doyle f st Doyle with outgoing Anselm Elementary St. Thomas More Schoo|j Ross; $300 secon(J Society president , p lace wkmer EUzabeth Hon. Timothy Reard on. Mil]e[. St Thomas ^ Apostle Elementary School in the Richmond District and third p lace $200 winners Jerry Lieu and Cassandra Yee, both of Star of the Sea Elementary, SF....Marin 's St. Anselm Parish supports a monthl y dinner for the homeless. A spatula salute to December's crew Barbara Larkins, Patty and Dennis Burke, Margie Sheehy, Kay and Don Martin , Janet and Leno Rizzo , Doroth y Weaver, Sue and Dan Ohlson, Gabrielle Carmarada , Tim Nevin....San Mateo 's St. Timothy Elementary cel-
ebrates its 40th anniversary on Sunday with Mass at 11 a.m. followed by a reception. Bishop John Wester will preside. All are invited.... Jennifer Willers and Tracey Quan are among the dancers performing in Mercy High School , San Francisco 's "Winter Dance Concert" this weekend and next at the 19th Ave. school. Winners of recent speech competitions were Karen Chan , Lara Fernandex , Iris Kwong, Rafaela Ramirez , Alexandra Stathopoulos , Tiffany Ng, and Lourdes Libre....Congrats to John Hurabiell , a senior at St. Ignatius College Preparatory on achieving the rank of Eagle Scout. Mighty proud are his folks , Judi and John, siblings , Marie, Michele and Heather, and uncles , Father Bill Worner, retired pastor, St. Gregory Parish , San Mateo and Dominican Father Francis Cassidy of St. Dominic, San Francisco....Marin Catholic Hi gh School congratulates students who will spend the summer hel ping others with Amigos de las Americas. Thanks for the examp le to senior Anton Parker, juniors Sam Barber, Caitlin Buckley, Michelle Cassin, Jessica Locke, Kelly McKinnon , Michelle Secor and sophomore Maritza Wilson. The Marin Catholic student body raised more than $52,000 in a recent magazine sales campaign. Top producers were Ben Crawford , Andrew Descalso, and Melissa Howard. Lucky raffle winner Miles Frankel is off to Hawaii. Thanks to parents who assisted with the fundraiser including Ali Cattaneo , Terry Descalso, Mary Basso and Susie Buskirk. Proceeds benefit scholarshi ps and student activities. Jonathan Matthews, a '92 alum and Georgetown and Stanford Law grad returned to address a recent honors assembl y. He 's currently practicing in the Bay Area....A mound of cheers for Notre Dame High School , Belmont sop homores Marissa Ram and Jackie Miller and freshmen Maddie Jordan and Mirella Maggi on their recent success in a WordMasters tournament . The school' s freshmen/sop homore team tied for 11th place in the contest among 221 partici pating schools from across the nation. Notre Dame 's yearbook editors for 200 1 are Laura Schmierer, Kimberl y Farrell and Theresa Nederostek. ..Mercy High School, Burlingame senior Kelley Rauenbuehler is a winner in the Princi pal 's Leadershi p Award Program. Fall sports awards went to Gina Mcintosh , Ashley Brenner, Moni que Neilsen , Megan Fitzsimmons, Justin Ramos, Audrey Freeman, Alexis Mangubat , Winnie Shu, Michelle Gallagher, Ellen Thompson, Amy Gamble, Samira Derakhshandeh , Julie Zanardi , Jenna Lechieitner, Andrea Mendieta , Brenna Sterling, Michelle Koch, Diana Rosales....
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Earthquake relief comes from around world WASHINGTON (CNS) — As people in El Salvador desperatel y dug for buried survivors of a major earth quake , Salvadorans and church officials in the United States and other countries sent financial help. Catholics in El Salvador and other countries raised funds through media broadcasts, special programs and passing the collection plate at churches. Some U.S. bishops , including Archbishop William J. Levada of San Francisco and Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston , directed parishes to take up special collections for earth quake victims. The U.S. bishops organized aid efforts throug h Catholic Relief Services and said that much of the money in this year 's collection for the church in Latin America would go to reconstruct churches and chapels in El Salvador. Pope John Paul II prayed for the victims and dispatched a Vatican official with a papal donation of $100 ,000. Caritas Internationalis , a Rome-base umbrella group for Catholic aid organizations, started a $1 million fund-raising drive. The Canadian bishops immediately sent $35,000 and promised more, channeling the funds through partner organizations in Central America. In El Salvador, the bishops ' relief agency, Caritas, spent $342,000 on aid in the first three days. "We have not been alone, we have had immense help and signs of solidarity from other parishes not affected, as well as from abroad," said Father Walter Gutierrez , Caritas vice president. Auxiliary Bishop Gregorio Rosa Chavez of San Salvador said the government asked the Church to help distribute aid. The Jan. 13 earth quake was magnitude 7.6, and its epicenter was in the Pacific Ocean west of El Salvador. The death toll quickly topped 700, almost entirely in El Salvador, with more than 4,000 injured and hundreds missing as mudslides buried people in their homes. About 750,000 Salvadorans were left homeless and 141,000 homes were destroyed. Mass burials began in a race to prevent the spread of diseases from rotting corpses. The Washington Archdiocese co-sponsored a six-hour radiothon with the Spanishlanguage Radio America and raised $215,000. About 80,000 of the 510 ,000 Catholics in the Washington archdiocese are Salvadoran. In the Boston Archdiocese, Cardinal Law immediately pledged $25,000, announced a special collection and sent archdiocesan officials to El Salvador to assess specific needs. The quake "hits close to home" because many archdiocesan Catholics are Salvadoran s, Cardinal Law wrote in his Jan. 19 column in the archdiocesan newspaper , The Pilot.
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Poor in El Salvador join in efforts to help victims By Tom Burke Response to the communities affected by the earthquake in El Salvador has been quick , said Sarah Lawton , of SHARE , a non-profit. San Francisco-based organization dedicated to the empowerment of the peop le of El Salvador. Aid is coming not only from affluent nations overseas but also from the poor of El Salvador , Lawton said. The solidari ty among the people of El Salvador is great, she pointed out. She spoke of the town of Chalatenango , a "very poor" region that did not suffer devastation or loss of life in the earthquake. When the people there heard about the damage elsewhere "they baked bread , gathered beans and other crops" and drove the staples to the damaged areas "We have provided some immediate funding for housing ," Lawton said from the agency 's San Francisco offices , pointing out that that at this time "well over 100,000 homeless people " in the affected areas of El Salvador are now relegated to living in "the streets and town squares." The situation in the Central America country is "dire" Lawton said. The lack of housing is so acute that a SHARE staff member reported seeing an elderl y woman displaced by the earthquake sleeping under her portable stove .
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WASHINGTON — Efforts lo derail President-elect George W. Bush' s Cabinet nominees because of their pro-life views amounts to a form of "pro-abortion McCarlhy ism," the U.S. bishops' pro-life spokeswoman charged. "When did a belief in the inalienable right to life become grounds for denying people the opportunity to serve their country '?" Cath y Cleaver, director of planning and information for the bishops ' Secretarial for Pro-Life Activities , said. Although Cleaver did not mention any names, her statement was released Jan. 16, the day that the Senate Judiciary Committee began hearings on the nomination of former Sen. John Ashcroft as U.S. attorney general. Ashcroft and Wisconsin Gov. Tommy G. Thompson , Bush' s nominee as secretary of Health and Human Services , are among those who have been criticized for their pro-life positions. "In effect , pro-life nominees for public service are being put on trial for their beliefs — trials whose tactics resemble those usuall y described as 'McCarthyism,'" Cleaver said. The term refers to actions by Lhe late Sen. Joseph McCarthy, who in the 1950s used his Senate committee to expose alleged members of the Communist Part y throughout the country. "To turn disagreement with Roe vs. Wade into disqualification for public office is to demean all pro-life individuals , at whatever level , who have served their country well in the past and who will continue to do so in the future ," she added.
Indonesia wants to end violence, fo reig n minister tells pope
VATICAN CITY — Following a wave of anti-Christian altacks in Indonesia , the country 's foreign minister met with Pope John Paul II to underscore his government 's commitment to ending the violence. At the Jan. 19 meeting, Foreign Minister Alwi Shihab gave the pope a personal letter from Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid , a Muslim cleric, telling the pontiff that the attacks were politicall y, not religiously, motivated. A series of bomb attacks on Christmas Eve outside Christian churches left 16 peop le dead and 120 wounded. At least one of the victims was a Muslim , who was killed as he sought to shield Christian crowds from a bomb explosion. The Vatican said Shihab "renewed the concrete commitment of the Indonesian government to do all possible to restore the (country 's) traditional religious harmony." Indonesia 's majority Muslims make up about 88 percent of the population. Catholics number about 5.8 million , or about 3 percent of the population.
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OTTAWA— Supreme Court of Canada ruled that Robert Latimer, a Saskatchewan farmer, must spend at least 10 years in prison for killing his severely disabled daughter, Tracy Latimer. "It's a victory for disabled people such as Tracy," lawyer William Sammon of the Catholic Group for Health , Justice and Life, said. The group, a coalition that includes the bishops of Canada, intervened when the court heard the case last fall. Sammon said the decision "vindicates Tracy's right to life, and it puts her on an equal footing with all other Canadians, where the right to life should have been protected full y by the state — and it was in this case." The court 's decision caps a lengthy legal battle by the elder Latimer, convicted twice for the carbon-monoxide poisoning of his 12-year-old daughter in 1993. He has maintained that he did it out of love for the quadriplegic girl , who was in constant pain.
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VS. Catholics join in interfaith events honoring Rev. King
WASHINGTON — Catholics from coast to coast joined with people of all faiths in marking what would have been the 71 st birthday of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Cardinal Anthony J. Bevilacqua of Philadel phia reminded an interfaith congregation of 800 people at St. Cyprian Churc h Jan. 14 that the King holiday observed Jan. 15 this year was a day on, not a day off. "God has blessed each one of us with many gifts and talents which need to be shared with others ," he said. "The poor, those who are incarcerated, students , the elderl y and the new immigrants and refugees to our country are all waiting for you to share your gifts and talents with them." Speaking of the challenges that face us , the cardinal said , "We, like Dr. King, need to rely on the power of God when we face those challenges, for we must remember we are doing God's work." Across the country, observances included the annual Martin Luther King prayer breakfast hosted by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, with the theme of "Remember — Celebrate — Act." The breakfast at Verbum Dei High School in Watts began with the beating of drums. "In Africa, with no telephones or anything, they could send messages through the drums," said Marian Fussey, administrative assistant for the archdiocesan Office of African-American Ministries. "So this talking drum gives the message, 'Be still. God is here. And this is the prayer service for Martin Luther King,'" she added . Among other events held around the country for Rev. King were a Jan . 14 interfaith service at Washington Hebrew Congregation in Washington , D.C., featuring Imam Warith Deen Mohammed as the main speaker, and a Jan. 15 ceremony at Sacred Heart Seminary in Detroit at which 20 lay Catholics received the Martin Luther King Jr. "Keep the Dream Alive" Award from the Archdiocese of Detroit.
Vatican satellite station beams pope 's activities to Americas
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican has installed a new satellite station to beam the pope 's weekly activities to North and South America. The Vatican Television Center launched the service Jan. 17 with a broadcast of Pope John Paul IPs general audi-
ence. The pope 's weekl y Angelus prayer also will be regularl y transmitted. The service is aimed primarily at Catholic television stations and networks , which until now could receive Vatican television footage and programming onl y by mail , said Msgr. Ugo Moretto , director of the Vatican Television Center. The Vatican 's new transmitting equipment — basicall y a l arge dish aimed at a satellite over the Atlantic Ocean — allows American television operators to capture the transmitted content with a minimum of hardware.
World Youth Day in Toronoto is to include social service programs
TORONTO — Planners of World Youth Day 2002 will expand upon an idea begun in Denver in 1993 and include service projects for young people, said Basilian Father Tom Rosica , Canadian national director of World Youth Day 2002. "This model of social service was attempted at the Denver World Youth Day, but il did not show up at other world youth days," he said. "I decided to build on what was started in 1993, in light of our strong responsibility to the community, the volunteer spiri t necessary for World Youth Day, as well as to encourage collaboration and cooperation with our Christian churches and other reli g ious communities." He said social service "provides a wonderfu l ecumenical and interfaith link. ... It will instill in others a sense of the responsibility and cooperation to make the world a better place. That 's the whole reason why we 're doing this. Scheduled for July 18-28, 2002, the event will see nearly half a million young people ages 18-35 gather in Toronto for a celebration of youth's gifts to the Catholic Church. More information about WYD 2002 can be obtained on the national office's Web site at www.wy d2002.org.
Adult faith formation changes lives and the world, bishop says
NEW ORLEAN S — A "vibrant , new , energetic focus " on the ongoing faith formation of Catholic adults is the key to sowing seeds of faith that will blossom into changed lives and a changed world , Boston Auxiliary Bishop Richard J. Malone told nearl y 2,000 catechists Jan. 5. Bishop Malone , the former secretary for education and director of reli giou s education for the Archdiocese of Boston, said in a keynote address at the Johannes Hofinger Conference that the Church must extend a hand to those adults who have had a wide range of experiences and difficulties with the Church. Today," Bishop Malon e said the Church's "first priority has to be a focus on adult faith 'The ongoing conversion and formation of adult Catholics has to be the central task around which we figure everything else out ," Bishop Malone said. Pope Paul VI stressed the importance of mission when he said the "church exists in order to evangelize ," Bishop Malone said. "If we take that seriously, it is very unsettling. Mission is the work of every disciple."
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Pope names 37 cardinals from 22 countries, including three from U.S. By John Thavis Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope John Paul II named a record-hi gh 37 new cardinals from 22 countries Jan. 21 , including three from the United States: Cardinalsdesignate Edward M. Egan of New York , Theodore E. McCarrick of Washington and Avery Dulles , an 82-year-old Jesuit theologian. The new cardinals , who will formall y accept their position at a consistory at the Vatican Feb. 21 , include 12 Vatican administrators and nine residential archbishops from Latin America — by far the largest such group from any continent. The biggest surprise was the size of the pope 's list. Once again , the pope waived the Church' s technical limit of 120 cardinals who are under age 80 and therefore eligible to vote in a papal conclave. He named 33 new voting-age cardinals , which means that , barring any deaths , the total will be 128 by the time of the Feb. 21 consistory. With the new appointments , Pope John Paul will have left an even stronger personal mark on the College of Cardinals , having named 118 of the 128 elector-cardinals and 154 of the 178 cardinals overall. The 178 total was a record-hi gh for the college , which has grown rap idl y in recent decades. Announcing the list at his Sunday blessing above St. Peter 's Square , the pope said many of the new cardinals were pastors who spend their lime and energy "in direct contact with the faithful. " "These new prelates come from various parts of the world. Their ranks well reflect the Church' s universality and multi p licity of ministries ," he said.
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The pope said many others mi ght have merited the appointment and that he hoped he could name them in the future — an obli que response to those who have suggested that , having set a full roster for a potential conclave , the 80-year-old pontiff might choose to retire . The new appointm ents included three voting-age cardinals from Asia , two from North America and one from Africa. Largely because of the Vatican nominations , Europe picked up 15 under-80 cardinals, which will leave the continent with 60 potential members of a conclave — about half the total. Ital y alone would account for 24 voting-age cardinals; seven of the new nominations are Italian. Latin America added 10 voting members with the new appointments , strengthening its position with 26 electors. By comparison , North America and Asia would have 13 each , Africa 12 , and Oceania 4. The Latin American residential archbishops who will become cardinals come fro m ei ght different countries , representing archdioceses with an average Catholic population of 3.5 million. They include
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Catholic schools in Maryland helped by state textbook aid BALTIMORE (CNS) — Maryland legislators will soon be tackling Gov. Parris N. Glendening 's proposal to give as much as $8 million in textbook aid to nonpublic schools in the coming fiscal year. In the meantime , Catholic schools across the Baltimore Archdiocese are reaping the benefits of last year 's $6 million allotment. According to Ronald J. Valenti, superintendent of Catholic schools in the Baltimore Archdiocese, 100 percent of those schools eligible to participate in the program have completed their textbook application forms and will soon receive their shipments of non-
religious texts selected by principals from a list preapproved by the state. Schools charging tuition of $7,100 or less received $60 per student for the books. Those schools where at least 20 percent of the students qualify for federally subsidized lunches were allotted $90 per pupil. Of the 98 Catholic schools in Baltimore City and eight surrounding counties , onl y a handful did not qualify. There are 75 elementary and middle schools in the archdiocese, 22 high schools and one special education school. The total enrollment for the 1999-2000 school year was 36,509. "I'm very pleased that all of our schools
that qualified participated in the program," Valenti told The Catholic Review. "It demonstrates the cooperation of our principals. And it demonstrates our position that children are the ultimate benefactors of this kind of aid." Sister Kathleen Jancuk, a School Sister of Notre Dame who is principal of St. John Neumann School in Cumberl and, said the funding has been very welcome in western Maryland, an economically depressed part of the archdiocese. Without increasing its $75 book bill , the 300-student school is using the money to replace an outdated 10-year-old science series with a brand new one.
"Our teachers are ecstatic," said Sister Kathleen. "Our old books had a lot of outdated information. The new program is going to be completely up-to-date, and it comes with technology pieces that will be very helpful. "
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Existing programs will be reviewed but none will be dropped until Catholic Charities finds another agency to take over the program, he said. "We want to be sure all our programs are mission-driven and cost effective ," he said. "We will have a budget that comes in balanced , and we will never spend more than we take in." Catholic Charities has alread y begun pay ing off its debt with money it raised throug h a lease buyout payment when the agency left its offices at 814 Mission Street before its lease expired , Cahill said. The money has been used "to help meet the debt , cover our relocation costs, and establish a small operating reserve ," Cahill said. The decision to move its offices to less expensive space is one step in Catholic Charities ' cost-cutting process, Cahill said , and more measures wil l be implemented. Catholic Charities ' new address is 2255 Hayes Street, 4th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94117. Its telephone number is 415-592-9200; fax 415-592-9201.
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The San Francisco County Council of Catholic Women holds its annual luncheon and fundraiser tomorrow at San Francisco 's Golden Gateway Inn, Van Ness and Pine St. Proceeds from the meal and fashion show will benef it the Works of Peace Program , a work of the National Council of Catholic Women assisting Catholic Relief Services in its service to the poor of undeveloped countries. Pictured are San Francisco council president, Kathy Parish-Reese (right) and former Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women president, Cathy Mibach. Tickets at $30 are available from Diana Heafey at (415) 731-6379. ~
Now, the new Catholic Charities management is working to avoid use of outside lines of credit entirel y by setting up its own internal pool of working capital. San Francisco businessman Clint Reilly, a Charities board member, is organizing a fund raising campaign to retire the debt and to esta blish the pool. The campaign will be separate from other Catholic Charities fund raising efforts and Reill y will approach contributors who have not previously given to the agency, Cahill said. "We want to switch from spending first and collecting later, to collecting firs t and spending later," he said. In addition , the agency has "adopted a no-growth policy until we gain more experience with the bud get ," Cahill said. "Catholic Charities grew way too fast— the bud get doubled from $ 13 million in 1996 to $26 million last year." While programs begun over the past few years provide "critical services to our neighbors in need," he said, the $2.6 million debt shows that "we must do a better job of managing and funding our existfc ing programs before we can meet any additional needs."
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De Marilla c School will bring quality education to Tenderloin By Jack Smith The Daug hters of Charity and the Christian Brothers have joined forces to create a new, free , Catholic Middle School in the Tenderloin to serve learning disadvantaged students. The new school , to be named after the founder of the Daughters of Charity, St. Louise De Marillac , will be housed at the former St. Boniface school , adjacent to St. Anthony ' s dining room and St. Boniface Church. Sister Joan Gibson of the Daug hter 's of Charity says the purpose of the school is grounded in the charism of the founders of the two religious orders. "St. Louise De Marillac and St. John Baptist de la Salle have bequeathed to us an untiring and passionate devotion for service to the poor." Gary Short , director of education for the Christian Brothers , spoke at a standing room onl y press conference announcing the school's formation , "Just a few minutes walk from here is one of the richest shopping areas in the world , but here in the Tenderloin we 're in the same City, but this is certainl y a different world. " The idea for the school emerged in 1998 from two successful Catholic businessmen , Lou Giraudo and Norm Berryessa, who wanted to ensure that kids from low income families would have a chance for a better future. Their idea has garnered support from civic and religious leaders around the Bay Area, including St. Mary 's College, the University of San Francisco and Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory. All have pledged the time of their faculty and staff. San Francisco businessman B.J. Cassin was so impressed with a one-hour tour and discussion with school administrators that he pledged $100,000 to the project. The De Marillac School will open next fall with 25 6th graders. Eventual ly, 75 to 80 children will be enrolled in grades 6 through 8. Students will be drawn from the largely Southeast Asian , Latino and African American population of the Tenderloin. The school , with the help of other local schools and community organizations , will identify potential students who
fall below grade level in basic academic skills. Executive Director , Catherine Ronan hopes "in the three years time they spend at De Marillac to brid ge their educational deficit so that they can comfortabl y compete in the most demanding hi gh school programs in San Francisco. " While Ronan admits that this is an ambitious goal , she points to the success of 40 other schools in the United State s that follow a model similar to the De Marillac school. The first such school was established by the Jesuits in lower Manhattan 30 years ago. All these schools emphasize a low student-teacher ratio , a longer school year and school day, and an overall size kept at under 80 students. The De Marillac school will provide a comp lete curriculum , with a strong emphasis on basic skills in reading, writing and mathematics, and instruction in religion, science, history, physical education and the arts. The school will also provide a summer camp program which will emphasize academic and social development. St. Boniface Elementary school closed in 1961 after serving the Tenderloin for 85 years. The school facility which will house the De Marillac school is an unre building. The inforced • masonry Daug hters of Charity and the Christian Brothers have together pledged $2 million to retrofit the building and provide seed money for the school's operation. The ministry of the Franciscans at St. Boniface and throug h , the St. Anthony Foundation is at the heart of the Church' s mission to the poor in San Francisco. The pastor of St. Boniface , Father Louis Vitale is grateful for the opportunity to offer the closed school for De Marillac 's use. "This is a total miracle that this is happening, " he said. "Every body told us, 'tear that school building down ' . There was something that kept saying no — this building has a purpose." Donations toward the estimate d $500,000 annual cost of adm inistering De Marillac can be sent to De Marillac Middle School , c/o Catherine Ronan , Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory, 1055 Ellis St., San Francisco, CA 94109 .
By Sharon Abercrombie "No students fail. We fail to reach them. Even the kid who is just lazy. For him or her, we just need to reach deeper down into our bag of tricks ," says Marty Procaccio , founder and director of an innovative and successfu l program at Archbishop Riordan High School in San Francisco. In 1994, Procaccio started the Resource Specialist Program (RSP) with nine students who had been diagnosed with special learning needs. Today, the program enrolls 74, an average of 18 from each of the four classes. Some are sight or hearing impaired. Two are autistic. There are kids with Downs Syndrome , Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), or Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD), and Dyslexia (a learning disability that alters the way the human brain processes written materials.) One youngster is awaiting a liver transplant. Parents of sixth and seventh graders come to see Procaccio, in hopes their children can get into his class when they become freshmen at the all-boys archdiocesan secondary school. There is no program quite like Riordan 's in the Archdiocese as far as size and magnitude go. Marin Catholic High School has a small program based on the Riord an model. St. Ignatius College Preparatory School in the City has a program , also, but it operates in a different style, Procaccio said. Before a student can be enrolled in the Riord an program , he has to take a bat tery of tests and be identified by a trained , certified professional, such as a psychologist. Once enrolled , each student receives an individualized plan. Procaccio is aided by a few teaching assistants and two semi-retired Marianist brothers whose community has served at Riordan since its founding in 1949. Everything is funded by grants, and the classroom is outfitted with 16 computers, plus state of the art audio and video equipment. The setting is open classroom style, so students can interact and collaborate with one another. Kids take the RSP class in addition to their regular schedules. Peter Imperial , director of academics at Riordan, says "Our idea has been to take in these kids and help them to survive and thrive in the mainstream. They
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are taught ways they can compensate and cope , in order to succeed." Since these students live in the school mainstream , Marty Procaccio is generous Marty p roccac j 0 about sharing his own seemingly endless bag of tricks with fellow teachers. So there 's a kid in the class who is hearing impaired? Don 't talk when you 're writing on the blackboard , he advises. Write what you want , then speak facing the class. Oh, yes, and the kid who is si ght impaired. Make it easier for him to pass your test by writing the questions in 12-point type instead of nine. Simple actions such as these can up the ante from failure to success; from low self-esteem to confidence, he points out. "Teachers are facilitators. If it means giving copies of your lecture note, do it. If it means letting a kid tape record your class because he can 't take notes, do it," he advises. Kids with learning disabilities are more common than one mi ght think , he said; "If you have 10 kids in a class, anywhere from four to six of them will have an exceptionality, " he said. A web site on learning disabilities says that Werner Von Braun the scientist was an ADD kid. He used to fail his math tests ir school because he was daydreaming aboul flying to other planets. Albert Einstein, Whoop i Goldberg, Leonardo da Vinci, Walt Disney and Winston Churchill have dyslexia in common. Riordan 's program was born at Santa Clara University. For his master 's project , Procaccio designed a complete plan for a special education program at a Catholic high school. "I even had it down to chair sizes and the kind of carpeting." After getting his degree, Procaccio went to work as an assistant princi pal and a counselor for at-risk youth at a public high school near San Jose. Since it was a small school, "I ' RIORDAN , page 19
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many hands ," said- Lovette. "They gave everyone confidence and lots to be proud of." "Rain or shine someone would be workThe parishioners of St. Rita Parish in Fairfax had no idea what they were capable ing," said Father Cipriano. "It was wonderof accomp lishing until longtime parish- ful to see the parents and parishioners work ioners, Bill Cuneo, a retired Dean Witte r together. So many donated their time and executive and Steve Vanni, a general con- skills. " .. Construction stayed at the steady pace tractor, teamed up and put them to work of five days a week , althoug h most of the literall y. St. Rita 's school was lagging far behind people swing ing hammers had jobs and volthe world of technology and science , unteered as much time as possible. For those who didn 't feel comfortable according to Vanni 's mom, Beverl y, who recentl y retired as the parish secretary of swinging a hamme r, they prepared food for the workers every day. Father Cipriano more than 30 years. "We were losing a lot of kids to public made his homemade chicken soup on some school," said Beverly, "Our kids were work- very cold winter days. "We now have a lop-notch computer and ing on old computer equi pment in the convent garage. We didn 't even have enough science lab that represents what we wanted to do for the future of our children ," said computers to provide for the students. " "It was Bill Cuneo 's vision that all owed Lovette . "It 's something the people can be the community to step up to the plate and do very, very proud of." "The parish and school have always something about it," said princi pal Jan Lovette, referring to his proposal that St. been family oriented," said Father Cipriano Rita 's request volunteers to hel p build a new who is proud of the remarkable community computer and science lab for the school. example of the parents and parishioners. "Father AJ Vucmovich , former pastor, The loan acquired from the Archdiocese fought long and hard to get approval from of San Francisco was paid off with "several the Archdiocese for the needed addition ,'1 private donations ," according to Cuned. said Father Bob Cipriano, current pastor. If you have an open heart and compasThe difficulty was an insurance matter sion, things fall into place," said Cuneo. regarding using volunteers on such a proj- "Most people are willing to volunteer their ect . Steve Vanni's building contractor 's help - it 's up to all of us to inspire the license was the key to accomplishing the forces within our parishes." approval. On Sept. 12, 1999, Bishop John Wester By the time the Archdiocese approved dedicated St. Rita School's new computer the project in 1998, Father Vucinovich had and science lab building with Cuneo, Vanni been appointed to St. Catherine of Siena in and the many volunteer parishioners by his Burlingame as pastor, leaving Father side, along with Father Vucinovich , and Cipriano to sign the new loan of $ 160,000 Father Cipriano.. on his second day as pastor of St. Rita 's. Inside the newly named Father Albert The 13-month project cost $165,000 Vucinovich Building is the "Steve Vanni" and would have cost two-and-one-half- science room and the "Bill Cuneo" comtimes more, if done commerciall y, accord- puter room , including a ing to Cuneo. Development/Bookkeep ing office and "Bill Cuneo and Steve Vanni utilized so Helping Hands/Scrip office. By Evelyn Zapp ia
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Catholic Schools Week begins Jan uary 28, and is a national celebration of the contributions made by the faculty, staff , benefactors and students of Catholic schools to our national life. Nearly 30,000 students are enrolled in the Catholic schools of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Following is a summary of statistics regarding the 79 Catholic elementary and secondary schools in Marin , San Francisco and San Mateo counties. Enrollment Total Students: Elementary: Secondary: Marin: San Francisco: San Mateo:
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he lette r to Bill Cuneo from Guatemal a requested $700 so the Carmelite Sisters in Patzun could "buy some bricks." The Sisters hoped to build a school for the Mayan children - a few bricks at a time. Generosity comes easy to Cuneo. Father Bob Cipriano , pastor of St. Rita Parish in Fairfax describes him as " a generous man that has dedicated himself to the Church. " After Cuneo wrote the check, he began dreaming the same dream the Carmelite Sisters had for the Mayan people. Cuneo was first touched by the plight of the Mayan people when he was part of the Archdiocese 's 15-person delegation that went to El Salvador in commemoration of the death of Archbishop Oscar Romero and then to Guatemala. Now, he had a chance to do something for them, he thought. One day, while on the golf course, Cuneo 's golf buddies asked him , "What are you building now?" He began fundraising for the Central America school. "If you ' re going to help a civilization , " he said , "the firs t thing to do is educate the kids. " May an children in a classroom at their old school. Construction on the new school to Guatemala is expected to start soon. It is hoped the 600 children living in the surrounding villages will attend the eight classroom concrete school. "There 's still a lot to think about , " said Cuneo . "These lads need school supp lies - a lot of them don ' t even have shoes. " "I'd also like the kids to have a playground, " he continued. "I'd love to see them playing on swings and slides."
The outside of the old school in Pat.zun , Guatemala "Did you know that the government 's policy in Guatemala is only a fifthgrade education for their peopl e ? . . . That's so they can become good laborers for the 200 or more who own everything." "How do we help these peop le?" Cuneo asked. "There has to be a way to provide more for the children - somehow we have to get them to attend universities in Guatemal a City."
Bill Cuneo admitted, the playground was his next project. For donations, checks should be made to: Archdioceseof San Francisco, c/o SocialJustice Dept. with notation: Central America School at 445 Church St., San Francisco CA 94114
Three-qu arters of the population of Guatemala is Mayan Indian , according to Cuneo. "It 's not going to be easy educating the children - there are 27 Mayan dialects. Teaching Spanish will be tough." The hurdles Cuneo spoke of did not deter him from raising the $62 ,000 needed to replace the old "mud house " in Guatemala that the children call school. "It's a meager amount, " said Cuneo, who compared it to the two-room computer and science lab building he recently fundraised for at St. Rita 's Parish in Fairfax for $165,000, with an all-volunteer labor force.
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Celebrate Catholic Schools In this first month of the new millennium we pause to celebrate Catholic Schools throughout the United States. The Archdiocese of San Francisco is fortunate to have sixty parish elementary schools, five religious community owned and operated elementary schools, four Archdiocesan high schools and ten religious community owned and operated high schools. This year these seventy-nine schools are educating 29,248 students in the three counties (Marin , San Francisco and San Mateo) of the Archdiocese. The student population reflects the rich ethnic and cultural diversity of the San Francisco Bay Area. Ethnic minorities constitute 53 percent of the total enrollment. In San Francisco the ethnic minority is 72 percent at the elementary level and 60 percent at the secondary level. Percentages vary in the other two counties. Why do we believe in our Catholic elementary and secondary schools? The reasons are formidable! Ninety-nine percent of all Catholic school students in the Archdiocese graduate. Over 98 percent of our high school graduates go on to colleges and universities. Eveiy school, K-8 and 9-12, is accredited by the Western Catholic Educational Association (WCEA) and the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC). To achieve this distinguished status each school successfully completes a self evaluation process demonstrating that criteria are met for Catholicity, philosophy, organization , curricula and instruction , student services, extracurricular activities, administration and staff, physical facilities, finance and public relations. This school self study process is validated by a visiting committee whose members write a series of commendations and recommendations that become the road map for growth in this ongoing six year process. Sensitive to the complexity of families ' needs, all of our elementary schools have extended care programs. Schools continue to strengthen the integration of technology into all curricula areas. Financial assistance is available to families in need , locally as well as from the Archdiocese. More important, our seventy-nine schools are communities of faith. Indeed, faith , hope, and love are underpinning virtues that support these communities. Out of these virtues grow respect and self discipline which are hallmarks of our Catholic schools. Our students are being formed in values that call them to embrace God-centered lives. Learning takes place in env ironments permeated by Gospe l values. Students learn in a milieu that nurtures spiritual and social development as well as intellectual growth. Liturgies and prayer celebrations are of the highest priorities. Service within and beyond school communities is common in our Catholic schools and these promote social responsibility. Awareness of social justice issues and appropriate responses are the norm. In the "General Directory for Catechesis" the essential elements of evangelization are identified as proclaiming the Word, witnessing, teaching, the sacraments and love of neighbor. All of these transmit the Gospel of Jesus Christ. One of the challenges of our Catholic schools is evangelization of the entire school community: students, educators, parents and parishioners. Pastors and principals accept this challenge and provide dynamic leadership in insuring that the Good News is central and that all involved in Catholic education are in a process of ongoing conversion. This continuing conversion is particularly noteworthy in the religious certification program for Catholic school educators. The basic program for new teachers covers these content areas over a two-year period: Faith and Creed, Christology, Church, Mary, Morality, Sacraments, Spirituality, Liturgy, Scripture, and Social Justice. Certification is renewed every three years by attending eighteen hours of refresher courses in the above content areas. This ongoing faith formation is crucial to the Catholic identity of all school communities. Beginning January 28, 2001 our Catholic schools join Catholic schools across the nation in celebrating Catholic Schools Week. This annual celebration highlights all that is good in our classrooms, playgrounds, school offices and beyond. Student achievement is hi gh. Parents and grandparents are involved participants in Catholic education. Teachers are committed to fostering communities of learners. Assessment of learning has many faces. Open-ended writing samples challenge every fifth and sixth grader. Portfolios are becoming more common on all grade levels. Standardized test scores continue to confirm that the longer a student remains in Catholic school the higher the outcomes. Indeed, there is much to celebrate not only during Catholic Schools Week but every week. I invite you to visit our Catholic elementary and secondary schools. From Novato to Menlo Park, from Pacifica to the bay, schools dot the map. Each has its own distinct character but all are marked with deep faith life, a spirit of community that is intentional and formative, and a commitment to academic excellence. Dominican Sister Glenn Anne McPhee is Superintendent of Catholic Schools f or the Archdiocese of San Francisco.
Another view of life in Tenderloin
Tenderloin , most notably the persistent idea that what is done in the streets will have any beneficial effect. Without elaborating on a painful issue, I wish to remind you that San Francisco is a center of commerce of every kind and is not likely to be improved by the concern s of a few impotent advocates of protest, demon stration and political upheaval such as those who attempt to make their presence known to the world in that hideous place called "Tenderloin" in what I believe to be an error called "spreading the Gospel." The efforts of a few to be aware of the Gospel is edifying and much needed . My experience, however, is that such efforts are directed not by moral values but by political ambition. I also remind you that the word "tenderloin" is more accurately associated with a delicious cut of beef or pork. Those of us who have lived in the Bay Area for as long as I have know that San Francisco was a hub of agricultural commerce, and until recent years was host to a number of slaughterhouses and creameries in the Mission District. I believ e your publication is very nice, but not much more than dreamy, as I find life to be in San Francisco. David K. Eberly San Francisco
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For some time , as a Catholic interested in the Churc h as Catholic , I have been reading the Catholic San Francisco with some interest , some doubts , and a lot of skepticism about its content. I have worked for many years in very tense and hazardous conditions in the Tenderloin as a maintenance hand yman doing building, repairs and a lot of cleanup. I read in the January 19, 2001, issue of the San Francisco Catholic a cover page art icle about taking the Gospel to the streets. I could write and speak many scathing words about the Tenderloin District of San Francisco and about the general attitude of particular persons closel y associated with the activities in that neig hborhood. I also question and doubt the value of many activities associated with the
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I thoug ht your editorial addressing the Church' s policy on homosexuality was excellent. And your response to Jerry Betz ' letter was even better. Thank you. i would also like to compliment George Weigel on his column "The Clinton Legacy ". Well said , Mr. Weigel. Sandra Mangold Millbrae
The other vocations crisis By Patrick Joyce For a generation , Catholics have been worry ing about one "vocations crisis," while largely ignoring another. If too few young people are responding to the call to the priesthood and the reli gious life, too few seem to realize the joys of Christian marriage. There is no better way to live than to marry and have a bunch of kids close together - and perhaps throw a widowed grandfather with a thick Irish brogue into the mix. That 's a minority opinion in contemporary American society, but the majority is wrong. It is time to say a few words not in defense of Christian marriage but in praise of it. Too often the Catholic Church lets itself be thrown on the defensive in talking about sex and marri age: the Church condemns this and opposes that , forbids X and outlaws Y. The Church's teaching seems to consist entire ly of a long list of negatives about sex. And when many "experts" get around to talking about marriage , they manage to make it look like a field of landmines: "Each partner has to contribute 100 percent . . . . Parenting is the most difficult job in the world.... " There is, of course , some truth in all of this. But human life has been difficult since sin and death entered the world. Christian marriage doesn 't make life harder; it makes life easier and , more important , happier. The best kept secret about Christian marriage is the joy of sex; it shouldn ' t be. That's the way it has been since Adam and Eve walked in the Garden of Eden, naked and unashamed. Every discussion of sex ought to begin at the beginning: the Book of Genesis: ". . . man leaves his father and mother and clings to his wife, and the two become one bod y." That ancient wisdom was forcefull y endorsed in Jesus, teaching about married
coup les: "They are no longer two, but one flesh." There is nothing negative there . Equall y important , there is nothing abstract. In Old Testament and New, the words are clear and vivid. They do not speak about a couple signing a contract but of a woman and man coming together "in one flesh." And Catholic teaching is equally clear: the sacrament of marriage is not conferred by a priest in the church but by husband and wife. In Genesis, God gave the first husband and wife, one command but it was clearly positive: "God blessed them , saying 'Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth....'" The conventional wisdom of contemporary society disagrees with this idea of children as a blessing. Unfortunately, even some well-intentioned Catholics focus on the problems of having children, rather than the joys. With childre n colliding into each other and the noise level reaching rock-concert levels famil y life can be chaotic - on the surface. Things are always chang ing as kids go from crawling on the living room floor to graduating from college but , as Cardinal Newman said , "To live is to change and to change often is to be perfect." And beneath the surface, the ties that bind husband and wife , parents and children , create an underl y ing unmatchable sense of solidity. When troubles come , as they must , mother and father and children come together with an easy grace. In a fallen world, married love opens the way not only to happ iness but also to suffering. There is nothing worse in life than to have something bad happen to one of your kids , but there is nothing better than to see them do something good. Above all, no possessions can match the love of a good wife. Patrick Joyce is editor of Catholic San Francisco.
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A Papal Gift to Russia Just about a year ago, my wife and I, with four Polish and American friends , were having lunch with Pope John Paul II in the papal apartment. An hour into our conversation , Bishop Stanislaw Dziwisz , the pope 's secretary, leaned over the dessert and asked quietl y, "Do you think the ladies would like to see the icon?" 1 said I thought they certainly would , and the rest of the company, too. I had been shown this astonishing artifact three months earlier, at Caslel Gandolfo; there, it had rested on the altar of the pope 's chapel. Bishop Dziwisz now brought the icon from the apartment chapel and passed it around the table. My wife and friends were stunned by the priceless diamond and ruby-encrusted frame which partially covers the icon itself , whose extraordinary history was then exp lained. Our Lady of Kazan is one of Russia 's most venerated religious images. A long list of miracles is attributed to the icon , which depicts Mary and the Christ Child looking, not at each other, but at those contemplating the image. The 13th-century Kazanskaya, as she is known , has long been regarded as the "liberatrix and protectress of Holy Mother Russia." Broug ht to the new imperial cap ital of St. Petersburg in 1721, she was transferred in 1811 to the Cathedral of Kazan , built there especially to house her. On Christmas Day, 1812, the czar offered the "Mother of God of Kazan " the captured flags of Napoleon 's army. In 1904, thieves stole the icon; a decade and a half later, Lenin 's Bolsheviks turned the cathedral into a
museum of atheism. No one knows how the miraculous icon escaped Soviet Russia. The Kazanskaya made her next appearance at an art auction in Poland after World War I. Then she disappeared again , only to re-emerge in the 1950s in an English castle. There , she was recognized by an exiled Russian countess; her claim that this was indeed the original "Mother of God of Kazan " was supported by a senior Russian Orthodox bishop, who came from his Paris exile to examine the icon. Having subsequently been sold to satisfy estate taxes , the Kazanskaya eventually found her way to the United States, through whom or by what means no one seems to know. When a private art collector decided to put the icon up for sale, it was obtained by the Blue Army, which raised millions of dollars to redeem the Kazanskay a and transfer it to Fatima. Some years ago, the Blue Army decided to give the icon to Pope John Paul II, so that he could take it back to Russia whenever it became possible for him to make his long-awaited pilgrimage there. Ever since, the icon has never been far from the pope. When he leaves the Apostolic Palace to go to his summer residence, Castel Gandolfo , the Kazansyaka goes with him. John Paul has told the Patriarc h of Moscow , Aleksy II, that he has no intention of holding onto this irrep laceable Russian religious treasure . Rather, he would like to return it to the Russian peop le and the Orthodox Churc h in person , in Russia , as a sign of his profound regard for the Christian East. Thus
far, as we know , the patriarch has declined % to invite the pope and , so to speak, the Kazanskaya , to Russia. | c The December 2000 issue of Inside the George Weigel Vatican has an extensive cover story on this amazing business. Some will be a little skeptical of the magazine 's attempt to link the drama of the Kazanskaya to various theories of the Fatima appari tions â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the saga is remarkable enough in its own right without further embellishment. But the crucial ecumenical point remains. The pope (who once told me, "Russia is a big part of the story ") burns to take one of Russia 's holiest images back home, and in doing so, to illustrate Rome 's fraternal love for the largest church of the Christian East. And no one who believes that Providence acts in history will deny that the incredible journey of the Kazanskaya is , in a word , providential. Or, as John Paul himself said at Fatima, a year after he was shot in his front yar d, St. Peter 's Square , "In the designs of Providence there are no mere 'coincidences '." George Weigel is a senior fello w of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington , D.C.
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For months eig she suffered daily nosebleeds; several times her blood ed by the Farm Bureau and approved by the to make ends meet. In g Rick Mockler J the pressure plummeted and she nearly passed out. She Legislature, would have created a farm labor contrac- November, was exposed to pesticide drift and felt ill, yet was tors ' license verification unit and subjected contractors California Institu te required to keep working. "I just endured it," she said, to criminal penalties for violating state labor laws,. for Rural Studies issued a report on the subject , conUnfortunately, Governor Davis vetoed the bill, saying cluding "it is a tragedy and more than a little ironic of her time in the fields. that the labor force that is responsible for pro Damaris, whose story was recentl y docuducing such a great abundance of health y food mented by Human Rights Watch , is but one of in California should themselves be suffering many youth who have spent a major portion of . . . the bishops denounce the exploitation of grueling and danfrom the effects of an inadequate diet." childhood toiling under their immigrant workers and recall the , Also in November, the U.S. Catholic bishgerous conditions. Hundreds of thousands of issued a major statement on the needs of children and teens labor each year in fields, scriptural p roclamation to treat the stranger ops immigrants, entitled "Welcoming the Stranger orchards , and packing sheds across the United Among Us." The statement was in response to States , many in California. justly. They hold out the Holy Family of a request from Pope John Paul II , and in it the Farming is an extremely competitive busibishops denounce the exploitation of imminess. The stakes are high for growers, who fre- Nazareth as the archetype fo r every grant workers and recall the scriptural proclaquently strugg le to maintain their financial higher stakes are even mation to treat the stranger ju stly. They hold The viability. immigrant and refugee family. health and health and well out the Holy Family of Nazareth as the archefor workers , whose physical type for every immigrant and refugee famil y. being are often in jeopard y. Our faith tells us that youth like Damaris deserve Although agriculture is the second most danger- that he preferred civil penalties to the creation of criminal workpenalties. On the positive after mining , side, healthy childhoods and access to education , and they States, last year the United in the ous industry Legislature industries. funded major new farm worker housing in should not be required to work long, dangerous hours ers are actually less protected than in other to support their families. Just laws, however, don 't Under a policy of "agricultural exceptionalism " California , which was approved by the Governor. On the federal level, farm laborers face an even happen by themselves. They require active support and Congress has excluded agriculture workers from the protections of the Fair Labor Standards Act. Under this greater political struggle . Last year , HR 4548 by Rep . advocacy by people of faith and conscience. In this exception , children may work at younger ages, includ- Richard Pombo of Stockton , would have expan ded the case, it means becoming aware of the human price that ing under hazardous conditions , and for longer hours , importation of forei gn migrant workers , further limit- is paid to produce cheap fruit and vegetables , supported their wages, and eliminated the requirements on ing local farms , and lending our voice to promote the than children in other industries. growers to provide worker housing. The legislation fair treatment of farm laborers. is a fields The presence of so many children in the reflection of the subsistence wages earned by farm was opposed by the U.S. Catholic Conference and died laborers , and the need for youth to supplement their in Congress, but we anticipate a renewed push in the Rick Mockler is Executive Director upcoming session to undermine farm worker protecparents ' wages. of Catholic Charities of California . He can , tions. contractors to be paid by The lowest wages tend be reached at rmockier@ca catholic.org. Catholic Charities agencies routinely receive who serve as intermediaries between growers and
SCRIPTURE ŠL ITURGY Embracing and prolonging the all-inclusive ministry of Jesus If you should ask people who are considered successful in their chosen fields how they got that way, their response would more often than not include the word strugg le. You know, the wisdom of Alice in Wonderland repeats itself: "To get anywhere here (where everyone runs) you have to run twice as fast." If this wisdom holds true for successfu l professionals it has more relevance for communities of disci p les of Jesus. The Scri pture chosen for this Sunday 's liturgy of the Word insists that when we embrace and prolong the all-inclusive ministry of Jesus , we are in for a strugg le and a fight that Jesus the Lord has turned into victory. Once we hear that the first reading is fro m Jeremiah , we brace ourselves for a dose of gloom and doom. Perhaps we do so because Jeremiah is so candid about the unromantic vocation God gave him: he is to preach the politicall y incorrect , the risk y gamble with other nations , and the faithfulness of a God whose Peop le did not trust him. Yet Jeremiah waxes eloquent about the unshakable source of his security and strength to ride out the inevitable strugg les and disputes .his word s incite. The prop het places the se words in God 's mouth: "Do you gird your loins; stand up and tell them all that I command you. Be not crushed on their account , as thoug h I would leave you crushed before them. . .' . They will fi ght against you but not prevail over you , for I am with you to deliver you , say s the Lord." The cause of this strugg le has eloquent expression in our gospel selection fro m Luke . When Jesus announces his boundary-breaking ministry in the synagogue at Nazareth , he invites trouble. Once his hearers get over their initial favorable response to him ("all spoke highly of him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his mouth."), the climate changes as the allinclusive scope of Jesus ' ministry dawns on them: "Isn 't this the son of Joseph?" Jesus then goes on to insist that his ministry welcomes all by citing examp les from the career of two Israelite prophets whose mantle Jesus now wears . Did Elijah take care of Israelite widows during
Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time Jeremiah 1:4-5, 17-19; Psalm 71; / Corinthians 12:31-13:13; Luke 4:21-30.
Father David M. Pettingill the "severe famine "? No, "It was to none of these that Elijah was sent , but only to a widow in Zarephath in the land of Sidon ," a Gentile. Did Elisha , Elijah' s successor, cure the lepers in Israel? No , "not one of them was cleansed , but onl y Naaman , the Syrian ," a Gentile. Jesus declares here what the entire Gospel and Acts of the A postle shows lived out in Jesus ' and the Church's ministry, outreach to all: tax collectors , sinners, Gentiles , women. The hearers get the message, become resentful , then hostile , and then violent: "When the peop le in the synagogue heard this , they were all filled with fury. They rose up, drove him out of the town , and led him to the brow of the hill on which their town had been built , to hurl him down headlong. But Jesus passed throug h the midst of them and went away." This precipitous action of the peop le of Nazareth antici pates the hostility of the reli g ious leaders who will constantl y object to Jesus ' all-inclusive community and bring him to grief , but Jesus ' escape h ere at Nazareth likewise anticipates
God's vindication of him with exalted glory at God' s right hand. Luke is quite clear : all-inclusive , hosp itable ministry leads to grief and glory. We draw strength and hope from our Sunday table celebration of Jesus ' vindicated strugg le. His Spirit is given to us; his all-inclusive love warms our hearts. While we rejoice in the many gifts the Spirit gives , were we to be without this love , we would be "a resounding gong or a clashing cymbal": or just plain "nothing. " But with this love, we are dressed for every occasion: "Love is patient , love is kind. It is not jealous , it is not pompous , it is not infl ated , it is not rude. . . ." Unlike the other g ifts of the Spirit which will cease, "love never fails. " This enduring love both moves and strengthens us to carry on Jesus ' boundary-breaking ministry as his Church. With this type of love, we grow up: "When I was a child , I used to talk as a child , think as a child , reason as a child; when I became a man , I put aside childish things." Growing up and living end-time inclusive life even now means strugg le , yes. But it also means glory and success as communities of Jesus ' disci ples. Renew Questions: What is the greatest obstacle to living Jesus ' all-inclusive ministry in our small community ? In our parish? In our Archdiocese? lii our Church world-wide? How do we remedy the sad divisions among Christians?
Father David M. Pettingill is assistant to the moderator of the curia and parochial vicar at St. Emydius Parish, San Francisco.
Does the worship space affect the assembly's song? Does the space where the Churc h gathers for liturgy affect the singing of the peop le? Although we may be tempted , we need to avoid giving a quick , precision oriented answer to this simp le sounding yet complex question. During the Christmas, mid-semester break 1 had the opportunity to preside at Mass in two very distinct churches. They are distinct in relation to their community 's economic and social make-up but also in the way they celebrate Mass, There are those who would argue , including the pastors of these churches , that much of the way they celebrate may be influenced simply by the physical structure of the church itself. It mi ght hel p if each building is briefl y described. One church , let us call it St. Mary 's, is a Gothic structure that seats, front to back , 800-1000 people. The other church , let us call it St. John 's, is a small Tudor type structure that seats 200-300 people. Like St. Mary 's, St. John 's seats people front to back in traditional pews in which all people face forward toward the sanctuary. Both churches have large organs and competent musicians to effectivel y lead and support the community 's sing ing. At St. Mary 's, very few peop le sang the Christmas carols approp riately chosen for the liturgy and the season. At times I felt, as the presider, like I was "performing " a duet with the organist who sang with pleasing quality into a microphone as he played the organ. Why did so few people sing in spite of the fact that they were invited and encouraged? I had to ask myself , "is there a history here of which J am uniformed?" Many questions swirled around in my mind , so much so that afte r Mass I was moved to ask two people â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the
Father Jim McKearney organist and the pastor. The organist said with sad frustration , "1 simply don 't understand why they won 't sing!" Knowing that he respects me as a musician I was able to comfort him about his fears of possible poor musical leadership. Even though as an organist he holds a master 's degree in organ performance he was in need of assurance in such a difficult situation! The pastor said , "the problem is the church building!" According to him the church was constructed in such a way that the people were told subliminally by the design itself , does this assembly know their ri ght and duty to partici pate in the liturg ical enterprise? Long-standing problem s tend to breed long-fange solutions. St. John 's community sang up a storm and responded
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enthusiasticall y during the Mass. As was the case at St. Mary 's, the music was led and accompanied by a competent musician. I wondered to myself , "is this little church more conducive to sing ing and partici pation by nature." Is a church " where people can actuall y hear each other more conducive to partici pation? Is a church where people can see and hear each other even better? Given the fact that the worship space is one variable in the equation , I also had to ask, "how well are the people of St. John 's parish catechized about the liturgy and the necessity of the assembl y 's partici pation? " It is difficult to answer without asking further questions. There are no simp le solutions to the comp lex problem of achieving the full , conscious and active partici pation of the faithfull y assembled. Imp licit in this statement of course is the ideal , spiritual princi ple that the baptized should realize their God-given di gnity and worshi p God from the heart . Regardless as to whether or not the baptized realize their dignity there is the necessity for parishes to evaluate their liturg ies in order that growth be possible. We are called to look past quick answers to complex questions but also to look for the obvious in our problem solving. Catechesis is necessary as is the importance of moving beyond blaming our beautifu l churches for what they communicate or fail to communicate. New ways of facilitating song and oratory may be called for in our problem solving as we move into this new millennium with churc h buildings from another time in our total history. * In the end we need to acknowled ge the fact that the church is not so much about granite as it is about living stones worshi pping the living God.
Father McKearney is a Sulp ician candidate from the Archdiocese of Hartf ord, Conn., and director of music for St. Patrick Seminary, Men to Park .
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From Maintenance to Missionary • We know what to do for someone who comes to church , but we don ' t know how to get someone to come to church. • We know how to be Christian when we are poor, under-educate d, and culturall y marginalized , but we struggle to be Christian when we are affluent , educated , and have a full place in the culture. These over-simp lifications speak volumes about the state of the Church in the Western world. Simply put , today we are better at dealing with someone already sitting in our church pews than we are at getting anyone there in the first place. Our churches are strong on maintenance, weak on being missionary. This is everywhere evident. We look at our churches today and we see so many wonderful things: faithfilled individuals , good liturgies, good preaching, good music, wonderful programs , sensitivity to justice, faith sharing groups , excellent theology, ecumenical openness, soul-work in our renewal centers, beautiful church buildings , and an ever-increasing lay involvement. It has been centuries since we have done so many things so well and maintained church life with such quality and balance. But we see something else too, less positive. Onehalf of all baptized Christians rarely enter a church; our churches are gray ing; the cultu re is increasingly marginalizing the church; and, most serious of all, too often we cannot pass on our faith to our own children. Even as so many good things are happening within the church we are losing ground. The crisis , it seems, is not in the area of parish program , liturgy, or theology, but in the area of the missionary dimension of Christianity. We know how to run a church , but we don 't know how to found a church. What 's needed? We need to become more deliberately, reflectively, and programmaticall y missionary
within our own culture, to our own children. We need to send missionarie s into secularity in the very same way as we once sent them off to faraway countries. The churc h in the secularized world needs a new kind of missionary. What will this new kind of missionary need to bring? Before anything else, real faith. What we need are men and women who can walk the workplace, the marketplace, the academy of learning, and the arts and entertainment industry, and radiate a faith that is not infantile , over-protective, paranoid , colorless, or compromising. We need men and women who are post-affluent , post-sophisticated , post-liberal , post-conservative , and post-fearful in their faith. Their faith needs to have a double strength. It must be strong enough not to be defensive in the face of secularity, even as it has the capacity to sweat the blood of self-renunciation rather than compromise the great future for present consolation. Beyond personal faith , the missionary to secularity will need these things , too: a new language for a postecclesial generation; a new Gospel artistry to re-fire the romantic imagination of a secularized mind; a new way to connect the Gospel to the streets; a new way of moving beyond personal gift and charism to the building of lasting community ; a new way of connecting eros and spirituality, justice and piety, energy and wisdom; and a new way to combine God's consolation with prophetic challenge. No easy task. In all these areas we are, right now, still searching for new ways. Perhaps the person we can look to for guidance is Henri Nouwen. To the extent that our age has had a missionary to secularity, he fits the bill. His life and his writings touched people in all walks of life — not just inside church circles. His approac h was deliberate and faithfilled; he was trying to speak to the heart of secular culture from the perspective of the Gospel. Slowly, through many year's of writing, he devel-
oped his own language. He rewrote his books many times over in an attempt to be simple without being simplistic; to carry real feeling without falling into senP tVi f - r timentality; to speak the ru iS ' er Ron r> Rolhe language of the soul ======= without falling into psyetiological jargon; to be personal without being exhibitionist; to put forth Christ 's invitation and challenge without being preachy; to challenge toward community without being church y; and to offer God 's consolation without falling into mushy piety. He didn 't always succeed, but he did it better than the rest of us. And more so even than the popularity of his writings (that unique appeal and effectiveness of the language he developed), Nouwen is a model to us in terms of the quality of his faith. He walked inside secularity with a visible faith, raw, without fear and without compromise (albeit not without tears, heartache , and breakdown). In the end , what shone through was faith , his belief that God's existence is real and is the most important thing of all. We need to learn from people like him , learn the difference between providing church maintenance and being missionaries. We know what to do with peop le once we get them into a church , but we must learn again how to get them there.
billboards and cereal boxes are beginning to change from shapes to letters to words that make sense. Soon he 'll realize that he can read anything. I remember sitting on the same couch with Lucas four years ago, listening to the same book. One night , brimming with excitement, Lucas called me back to his bedroom. "Listen, Mom, I can read this!" He opened his Bible story book. "In the beginning," he read, "God made the heavens and the earth." A new world opened up. A couple years later, Lucas noticed his name on a paper lay ing on my desk. "What 's this?" "It's a copy of my column." He picked it up. "Hey," he said, "You're writing about us!" The baby I'd been writing about since he was born could read the words I put down. He sat down to read, and I wiped a tear from my eye. I knew I'd witnessed a miracle. Children keep us from taking life for granted. I go through the day jotting lists , scanning e-mail, reading the newspaper — without giving it a second thought. Only when I witness my sons beginning to unlock the mystery of reading do I stop to think what a miracle and a blessing it is.
It wasn ' t until 3,000 B.C. that the human race invented writing — many ancient cultures considered it a gift from the gods — and for
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Everyday miracles "Bird is out. Chip is not out. Chi p is in." Gabe held the first-grade reader on his lap. His fingers traced the word s on the page as he read . "Bird said , 'Come out, Chip. You and I can run. ' Chip said , 'I will not run. ' Bird said, 'Will you come out? ' Chip said, 'Yes, Bird . I will come out. I will not —.« ' ** run. Gabe looked up with a triumphant smile. "I can read this story!" "Read it again," I said. "I like this book." "New Friends " is a popular book at our house these days. As the story unfolds , Chip the Chipmunk and his friend Bird find their friend Bear, and they all go out in a boat. Later they ride in a hot air balloon , go skating on the pond , and make a model plane with Turtle. ("We did it " said Bird . "Yes, we did make this plane," said Chip. "Now 1 can make the plane go, said Bear.) It 's Sally, Dick, and Jane with fur and feathers. Still, Gabe is so enthusiastic , I never get tired of hearing him read. He builds up the suspense, reading as if Chip just might change his mind and decide to run this time — you never know. Each day Gabe 's reading gets smoother , and he recognizes more words. The shapes scrawled on papers and
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Retreats/Days of Recollection VALLOMBROSA CENTER 250 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park. For fees, times and details about these and other offerings call (650) 325-5614. Presentation Sister Rosina Conrotto, Program Director. Parables 2001: Stories Jesus Told, a monthly revisiting of the scripture stories with well known retreat leaders, scholars and people of faith. What about these tales? Are they true? Did they really happen? What implications do they have for the Christian in the 21st century? Feb. 11: Holy Names Sister Molly Neville; March 11: Father Thomas Madden, Ph.D. , Vallombrosa director; April 8: San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop John C. Wester. Jan. 27: Christian Prayer: Christian Meditation: A Journey From Belief to Relationship with Carol Fowler. Feb. 14: Be My Valentine , an evening for married couples. When was the last time you and your spouse went on a date? spent an evening together? shared a meal? Enjoy a festive Valentine's Day dinner followed by an evening prayer service led by Father Tom Madden, Vallombrosa director.
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Taize Prayer 3rd Tues at 8:30 p.m., St. Dominic Church, 2390 Bush St., SF. Call Delia Molloy at (415) 563-4280 1st Thurs. at 5:30 p.m. at Old St. Mary's Cathedral, 660 Calfornia at Grant, SF. Call (415) 288-3809 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 Molloy at (415) 563-4280.
Young Adults Jan. 26: Called and Gifted Workshop at University of San Francisco's McLaren Hall, 7 - 9 p.m. How does one find the purpose for which he or she was created or best use their gifts? Contact Dominican Sister Christine Wilcox at (415) 565-3629 or christineop@sfyam.org.
Datebook Wed.: Help children learn at St. Dominic Elementary School, Pine and Steiner St., SF. 7:15 8:15 a.m. in school library. Call Kathleen Reilly a1 (415) 387-5692. Various dates: Read with youth ages 5 - 14 as part of the Tenderloin Reading Program, 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. at 570 Ellis St. between Hyde and Leavenworth, SF. Contact Marie Borges at (415) 401-0925 or marieborges @ yahoo.com.
Social Justice/Respect Life Inquire about the annual Respect Life Essay Contest. Students in grades one through 12 are invited to enter. Winners will be recognized at a special Mass on May 13 at St. Monica Church, San Francisco with Bishop John C. Wester presiding. Call (415) 565-3672 . Jubilee 2000 USA,as part of a worldwide effo rt to relieve the crushing debt owed by struggling countries to stronger lands, announces a Bay Area speakers bureau. Knowledgeable speake rs are available without charge to address parish groups and organizations on this Jubilee Year topic. Call William or Jean Lesher at (510) 524-6645 or welesher@aol.com. 3rd Sat.: Maryknoll Affiliates meet from 11 a.m. 1 p.m. at the Maryknoll House , 2555 Webste r (between Pacific and B'way), SF to share faith and plan an action agenda. This is a group comparable to some religious communities ' Third Orders made up of lay women and men interested in assisting the Maryknoll mission. Call Marie Wren at (415) 3866600.
Prayer/Devotions 2nd Fri.: Holy Hour for Priests at St. Finn Barr Church, 10:30 a.m. Includes talk by priest from Opus Dei with silent prayer and Reconciliation if desired. Followed by simple lunch in rectory. Call (415) 333-3627. Take a Pilgrimage to the Holy Land without leaving the Archdiocese by visiting an ongoing exposition at St. John of God Parish, 5th Ave. and Irving, SF. Open M-F 1:30-5 p.m. and until 1 p.m. on Sundays. Their Web site address is www.sjog.org. Mass for people living with AIDS at St. Boniface Church , 133 Golden Gate Ave., SF at 5:30 p.m. Takes place on last Sun. of month. Call (415) 863-7515.
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 Churc h, 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. 9:30a.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) 588-0572. Our Lady ol Guadalupe Chapel. St. Francis of Assisi Shrine, 610 Vallejo St. at 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 Lynn King at (650) 349-0498 or Jim McGill at (650) 574-3918 for times. Corpus Christi Monastery, 215 Oak Grove Ave., Menlc Park, daily from 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Call (650) 3221801. St. Bartholomew Church, 300 Alameda de las Pulgas, San Mateo, 1st Fri. from after 8 a.m. Mass until just before next day's 8 a.m. Mass.; St. Dominic Church, Bush and Steiner St., 8:30-9:30 a.m. and 6-7 p.m. each Mon. and Wed. (415) 5677824. 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) 566-5610; 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 Barr 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. 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) 366-9544
Family Life Retrouvaille, a program for troubled marriages. The weekend and follow up sessions help couples heal and renew their families. Presenters are three couples and a Catholic priest. Call Peg or Ed Gleason at (415) 221-4269 or edgleason@webtv.net. Worldwide Marriage Encounter, a dynamic marriage enrichment experience designed to deepen the joy a couple shares. Call (888) 568-3018. The Adoption Network of Catholic Charities offers two free information meetings for families considering adoption on the 2nd Tues. ol every month at 98 Bosworth, San Francisco at 7 p.m., and
on 1st Wed. at 36 37th Ave., San Mateo at 7 p.m. Call (415) 406-2387.
Single, Divorced, Separated Catholic Adult Singles Assoc , of Marin meets for support and activities. Call Bob at (415) 8970639 for information. Jan. 27: a night at the theatre for Tallulah at San Francisco's Curran Theatre . Are you or someone you know separated, divorced, widowed? For information about additional ministries available to divorced and separated persons in the Archdiocese , call (415) 273-5521. New Wings at St. Thomas More Church, 50 Thomas More Way, SF meets on 3rd Thursdays. Call Claudia Devaux at (415) 334-9088 or e-mail stmchurch@hotmail.com. Call Ron Landucci at (650) 583-6016 about upcoming social activities. Jan. 27: New Wings Pot-Luck at St. Thomas More Church; Feb. 2: Taize Prayer at Mercy Center, Burlingame; Feb. 10: Lunch and a movie at Stonestown; Feb. 15: Canon lawyers on annulment.
Consolation Ministry Our Lady of Angels, 1721 Hillside Dr., Burlingame, 1st Mon. 7:30 - 9 p.m.; 1st Thurs., 9:30 -11 a.m. Call Sarah DiMare at (650) 697-7582; Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, James St. between Fulton and Grand, Redwood City, Thurs. 6 - 7:30 p.m. Call (650) 366-3802; St. Andrew, 1571 Soulhgate Ave., Daly City, 3rd Mon. 7:30 - 9 p.m. Call Eleanor and Nick Fesunoff at (650) 878-9743; Good Shepherd, 901 Oceana Blvd., Pacifica. Call Sister Carol Fleitz at (650) 355-2593; St. Hilary, 761 Hilary Dr., Tiburon, 1st and 3rd Wed., 3 - 4:30 p.m. Call Sister Colette at (415) 435-7659; St. Gabriel, 2559 40th Ave., SF, 1st and 3rd Tues., 7 - 9 p.m. Call Barbara Elordi at (415) 564-7882; St. Mary Cathedral, Gough and Geary St., SF, 2nd and 4th Wed., 2:30 4 p.m. Call Sister Esther at (415) 567-2020, ext. 218; St. Finn Barr, 415 Edna St., SF in English and Spanish, one Sat. per month. Call Carmen Solis at (415) 584-0823; St. Cecilia, 2555 17th Ave., SF, 2nd and 4th Tues., 2 - 4 p.m. Call (415) 664-8481. Ministry for parents who have lost a child is available from Our Lady of Angels Parish, Burlingame. Call Ina Potter at (650) 347-6971 or Barbara Arena at (650) 344-3579. Our Lady of Loretto, 1806 Novato Blvd., Novato, structured 8-week group meeting evenings or late afternoon. Call Sister Jeanette at (415) 897-2171; St. Isabella, One Trinity Way, San Rafael, structured 6-week group meeting evenings. Call Pat Sack at (415) 472-5732.
Feb. 4: We're Opening the Doors Wide to You, a commemoration of Consecrated Life Day. Religious communities around the Archdiocese invite those discerning a vocation and others to visit their convents , rectories and friaries from 1:30-4 p.m. Augustinian Friars , 108 Cole St. SF (415) 387-3626; Capuchin Franciscans , 1721 Hillside Dr., Burlingame (650) 342-1489; Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose, 1544 Treat St., SF (415) 648-2303; Dominican Sisters of San Rafael, 1520 Grand St., San Rafael (415) 453-8303; Little Sisters of the Poor, 300 Lake St., SF (415) 751-6510; Sisters of Mercy, 2300 Adeline Dr., Burlingame (650) 340-7400; Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, 1500 Ralston Ave., Belmont (650) 592-2572; Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, 3900 Balboa St., SF (415) 752-9351; Sisters of the Good Shepherd, 1310 Bacon St., SF (415) 586-2922; Sisters of the Holy Family, 174 Stanyan St., SF (415) 221-7704; Sisters of the Presentation, 2340 Turk Blvd., SF (415) 751-0406; Missionaries of the Kingship of Christ , 610 Vallejo St., SF (415) 983-0405.
Lectures/ Classes/Radio-TV Jan. 26: Grace, Poetry and Redemption, a talk by Father Albert Huerta, professor and poet, with excerpts from Father Huerta's new book of poems in English and Spanish, in the chapel of St. Dominic Church, 2390 Bush St. at Steiner, SF at 7:30 p.m. Call (415) 567-7824. Jan. 29: 22nd Paul Wattson Lecture at USF's Pacific Rim Room, 1st floor, Lone Mt. Campus, 2800 Turk St., SF at 8 p.m. Internationally known theologian, Ted Peters, Ph.D., will speak on The ScienceReligion Dialogue: An Ecumenical Catalyst. Shuttle available from Anza St., J Parking Lot off Parker Ave. Public invited. Sponsored by USF and Franciscan Friars of the Atonement. Feb. 3: Annual Religious Education Institute, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m., at St. Ignatius College Preparatory, 2001 37th Ave at Sunset, SF. An especially rewarding day for Religious Education directors and teachers, youth ministers, RCIA directors/team members, and any adult seeking additional faith formation. Opportunities include a look inside the Byzantine Catholic Church, a lesson on how parents can help prepare their children for the sacraments , embodying pacifism in everyday life. Sponsored by Office of Religious Education/Youth Ministry in conjunction with the Department of Catholic Schools and the Offices of Ethnic Ministries, Evangelization/ RENEW, and Worship. $18 through Jan. 16, $20 after. Group rate $16. Box lunch available for $5.50. Call (415) 565-3650. Join Joe Stinson for "Good Grief" airing Sundays at 9 a.m. on Catholic Family Radio, KDIA 1640 AM. Call (650) 866-3525.
Catholic Healthcare West offers free classes and instruction on all areas of health at their San Francisco and Daly City facilities. Visit their web site at www.chwbay.org for details. Mon - Fri. at 7 p.m.: Catholic Hour featuring recitation of the Rosary and motivating talks and music with host Chris Lyford. Tune your radio to 1400 AM. Now produced by the Communications Office of the Archdiocese of San Francisco.
Food & Fun Jan. 27: Annual fundraising luncheon for San Francisco Council of Catholic Women at the Golden Gateway Holiday Inn, Van Ness Ave. at Pine St., SF. Fashion show with members modeling ensembles, hats, and accessories, and silent auction are highlights of the afternoon. Proceeds benefit Works of Peace program supporting poor women in undeveloped countries become self-supporting. Tickets $30. Call Diana Heafey at (415) 731-6379. Feb. 2,3,4: Annual Parish Festival, St. Anne of the Sunset Parish, 850 Judah St. at Funston, SF. Fri. 6 10 p.m.; Sat. 10 - 11:45 a.m. breakfast , brunch and entertainment , noon - 10 p.m. fun and games; Sun. noon - 5 p.m. Call Jerry Motak at (415) 661-7378. Feb. 2 and most 1st Fri.: Join the Marin Catholic Breakfast Club for prayer, dialogue and a meal beginning with 7 a.m. Mass at St. Sebastian Church , Sir Francis Drake Blvd. and Bon Air Rd., Greenbrae. Members $5/non-members $8,On Feb. 2, hear Msgr. Harry Schlitt , vicar for administration of the Archdiocese of San Francisco and well known radio/TV personality. March speaker is Father Cyril O'Sullivan, parochial vicar, St. Isabella parish, San Rafael. Call (415) 461-0704. 3rd Fri.: Open house and pot luck dinner and bingo at Catholic Kolping Society, 440 Taraval St., SF. No-host bar 6 p.m.; dinner 7 p.m.; bingo 8 p.m. Call Bill Taylor at (415) 731-1177. Knights of Columbus of the Archdiocese meet regularly and invite new membership. For information about Council 615, call Tony Blaiotta at (415) 661-0726; Dante Council, call Vito Corcia at (415) 564-4449; Mission Council, call Paul Jobe at (415) 333-6197; Golden Gate Council, call Mike Stilman at (415) 752-3641. 3rd Sat.: Handicapables gather for Mass and lunch at St. Mary Cathedral, Gough and Geary St., SF, at noon. Volunteer drivers always needed. Call (415) 584-5823.
Returning Catholics Feb. 5, 12, 19: St. Pius Parish, 1100 Woodside Rd., Redwood City, announces Catholics Coming Home, a series of meetings geared toward inactive Catholics but everyone is welcome. Held in Rm. 5 of the parish school. Call (650) 368-0429.
Reunions Feb. 4: St. Thomas More Elementary School invites alumni/ae to visit for Mass at 10 a.m. and the open house and hospitality hour that follows. To be sure to receive all future announcements, sign in that day or mail your name and address to STM Alumni Assoc , 50 Thomas More Way, SF 94132 or stmalumni@hotmail.com. Call Linda Kilmartin at (415) 543-3194. Did you attend SF's St. Paul of the Shipwreck Elementary School? We need to hear from you. Please call the school at (415) 467-1798 between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Mon. - Fri. or e-mail Shipoff @ stpaulshipwreck.com with your name , address, phone numbers and year graduated. A special event is planned for spring 2001. Centennial of St. Anne's Home, SF. Looking for old photos or written recollections of the Little Sisters of the Poor, St. Anne's Home or residents of the home. Contact John McGuckin at (415) 765-2945.
Performance Admission free unless otherwise noted. Sundays in Jan.: Concerts at St. Mary Cathedral featuring various artists at 3:30 p.m. followed by sung Vespers at 4 p.m. Gough and Geary Blvd., SF. Call (415) 567-2020 ext. 213. Sundays in Jan.: Concerts at National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi featuring various artists at 4 p.m. following sung vespers at 3 p.m., Columbus and Vallejo, SF. Call (415) 983-0405.
Volunteer Opportunities 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) 664-1580, 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.
Datebook is a free listing for parishes, schools and non-profit groups. Please include event name, time, date, p lace, address and an information p hone number. Listing must reach Catholic San Francisco at least two weeks before the Friday publication date desired. Mail your notice to: Datebook, Catholic San Francisco, 441 Church St., SF. 94114, or f a x it to (415) 565-3633.
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Archdiocese dre w more than 600 peop le to San Francisco 's Chinatown Jan. 12 and raised almost $16 ,000 to support the ministry ' s many programs , which this year include sending a group of 21 to the Youth Day of the Reli g ious Education Congress in Anaheim , Feb. 15. "In exchange for their tri p, " said Canossian Sister Maria Hsu , "the youth perform three days of service , working with the elderl y at San Francisco ' s St. Anne 's Home, Sts. Peter and Paul Church and also organize , Fun Day, where the youth invite parishes throug hout the Archdiocese and prepare snacks and games for lower grade school kids." The annual Chinese Ministry Mass will be celebrated at 3:30 p.m. Feb. 11 at St. Mary 's Cathedral with William J. Archbishop Levada as princi pal celebrant.
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Bishop Jaime Soto, auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Orange, will deliver the morning keynote address in English "Our Lady of Guadalupe , the Star of the New Evangelization , Belongs to All of Us," at the annual archdiocesan Reli gious Education Institute on February 3. Bishop Soto will exp lore the ways in which Our Lady of Guadalupe speaks to the theme evangelization and how she speaks to us today. Bishop Soto 's experience includes working in a parish community in Santa Ana; he has also been active in the issues and concerns of the immigrant community for many years. Father Ken Westray, a priest of the Archdiocese since 1981 and pastor of St. Sebastian Church in Greenbrae , will deliver the afternoon keynote in English. His topic, "Evangelization and Inculturation ," reflects a challenge to the universal church as well as local parishes. He will pay tribute to saints whose lives have addressed this challenge. Theologian Father Clodomiro Siller will address the Spanish speaking community on the top ic "Las Culturas en la Evangelization y en la Pastoral (Cultures in Evangelization and in Ministry). He will speak of the Biblical treatment of interaction among different cultures and the proposed guidelines based on Christ 's actions to facilitate the realization of a multiethnic , multicultural ministry. Father Clodomiro , has a doctorate in philosoph y from the Urban University in Rome, with a specialization in Mexican anthropological philosop hy. The Institute will be held at St. Ignatius College Prep in San Francisco. In addition to the keynote talks , the day will be filled with prayer, and talks on a wide variety of topics, exhibits from more than 40 service providers and publishers , and a liturgy with Archbishop William Levada. The Office of Reli gious Education and Youth Ministry invites all parish ministers to attend the institute. For information on registration , contact the office at 415-565-3650.
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Administrative Assistant to the Executive Director Seeking experienced individual able to maintain accurate computer-based files of all retreats, perform with poise and sensitivity the interface between the Executive Director and (he public, direct the work of other administrative staff, balance and manage financial data, and provide other administrative support to the Director. Position has a high information technology content. Applicant should understand the Internet, including e-commerce; have a thorough working knowledge of Windows-based Personal Computers, word processing, spread sheets, accounting applications; be able to process credit card receipts bolh in batch and transaction mode.
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St. Dunstan Parish in lovely Millbrae, seeks a person to fill the position of parish secretary, Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. The secretary must have people skills and be able to deal with a diverse community. The person must have organizational skills, computer skills (a must), have a pleasant personality. This person must be able to set the weekly bulletin , record keeping, data base maintenance, mailings, secretarial office duties and answer a very busy phone. The person must have the ability to work with staff and volunteers . This is essential. Full benefits are offered. This person must be ready to commence work February 1, 2001.
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El Salvador earthquake victims struggling to recover "Please help us, " Archbishop of San Salvado r begs Food For The Poor, American Catholics critical supplies. Additional shipments will follow as the full damage caused by the quake is revealed. In response to the country's repeated , urgent requests for aid, the charity is appealing to its donors to help quake victims.
BY JANET RICE SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — All is quiet; then , the earth begins to shake again. And , once again, millions of Salvadorans begin to pray: Please, God, don 't let this one be as bad — or worse. The victims of the powerful Jan. 13 earth quake that rocked El Salvador are living, days later , in terror. Frequent , powerfu l aftershocks have driven those who still have homes — as well as tens of thousands of newly homeless — into the streets , franticall y seeking safety. Many say they are too fearful even to sleep. The earth quake , which measured 7.6 on the Richter scale, killed more than 680, injured more than 2,500 and damaged or destroyed more
"Besides our prayers — which I beg everyone to offer — the Salvadorans' most desperate need is for immediate assistance," said Mahfood.
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multimillion dollar relief effort to help quake victims cope. The earth quake , the country 's deadliest natural disaster in well over a decade , struck El Salvador barely 24 hours after a group of FFP donors and staff returned from a p ilgrimage to the poor there on January 12th. Food For The Poor is shipping more than $15.3 million in emergency supp lies — 41 trailer loads — to El Salvador immediately. The shipment includes more than $7 million in medical supplies, hundreds of thousands of nutrition drinks , and other "The earthquake has truly been a national disaster; no Department (of El Salvador) has been spared its fury. The damage has been unthinkable. "It is in times of grief and terrible suffering that we raise our voices to the Lord, thanking The damage from the quake Him for the life we share and is so severe that the asking Him to p lease remind Archbishop of San Salvador , our brothers and sisters in the Fernando Saenz Lacalle, has north of the needs of personall y appealed to the His peop le. South Florida-based charity "Help us, p lease, Mr.Mahfood. " Food For The Poor (FFP) for In response to the desperate hel p. In a January 16th letter to FFP President Robin need in El Salvador , Food For Mahfood , the Archbishop writes: The Poor has launched a than 90,000 homes in the Central American nation. In the aftermath , thousands of Salvadoran families need food , water, medical attention , and shelter immediately. Some rural towns were almost completely destroyed.
A financial donation will help FFP provide immediate medical care, food , water, and shelter for thousands of Salvadorans, Mahfood said — as well as crucial support to help rebuild homes and lives. "The needs will be there long after the story disappears from the front page," Mahfood said. "I am praying that the American people will not only help the Salvadorans now, but will also remember themr^as" they heal from these wounds in the weeks, months, and years to come." To make a tax-deductible contribution to Food For The Poor's emergency earthquake relief effort in El Salvador, individuals can call 1-800282-7667 , log on to www.foodforthepoor.org, or send donations to: Food For The Poor Earthquake Relief Fund #26445 550 SW 12th Ave. Deerfield Beach, FL 33442
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