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Pope prays for peace, U.S. cardinals give measured support to war By Catholic News Service American cardinals, speaking separately, have given measured support for the retaliatory strikes launched by American and British forces against military targets and suspected terrorist camps in Afghanistan. Pope John Paul II and nearly 250 bishops meeting in a monthlong synod began their Oct. 8 session with a special Latin-language prayer asking for peace and justice and for wise decisions by those in positions of responsibility. Addressing pil grims in St. Peter 's Squ are the same day, the pope said he wanted to "share with you and entrust to God the worry and concern we feel at this delicate moment in international life. " He ended the encounter with another prayer for peace. The pope made no specific comments on the U.S. air stri kes, but an informed Vatican official who asked not to be identified said it was important th at the United States had emphasized this would be an attack against terrorism , not Islam. "It's also important to realize that to eradicate terrorism , we have to go to the causes. Many people are now recognizing that if justice is brought to the situations in Palestine and Iraq, terrorism will not have a terrain in which to grow, " he said. "This is a just war," declared Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago, "not a holy war or a war of religions. " In an Oct. 9 statement from Rome , where he was attending the Synod of Bishops , he asked God to "help us to overcome war and violence and to establish your law of love and justice. "

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An Afg han family, f leeing a country beset by food shortage and American bombing, waits to cross into Pakistan Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick of Washington called the military campaign a "necessary ' response" but one he prayed would not take innocent life and would be guided by "principles of morality and human dignity. " Cardinal Bernard F. Law of Boston said it was "understandable, given the threat to the common good posed by terrorists and their supporters. " He .called it "measured and carefully targeted. " . ' Cardinal Anthony J. Bevilacqua of Philadelphia said, "Our government has the right and duty to defend its people against the evil aggression of terrorists against

our nation. " He said he is confident the goal is justice , not vengeance. And , according to Cardinal Adam J. Maidaof Detroit , "a military necessity now presents itself to thepeople of the free world. " He-cited "mass terrorism " and the threat of more attacks . Cardinal Edward M. Egan of New York, in an Oct. 7 statement, said' that while celebrating Mass in Rome for the Sisters of St. Brigid , he invited the assembly "to join me in praying for the safety of the armed forces of " POPE FOR PEACE, page 5

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In this issue . . .

Muslims, Christians decry terrorism, scapegoating

Just war debate swirls after Sept. 11 attack

Real Presence of Jesus Christ in Eucharist

Film Reviews look at 'Serendipity '

Tongan Catholics show diversity in archdiocese

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Justin is enjoy ing a tour of European cities including Pans and Florence....St. Cecilia's said good-bye to parochial vicar, Father Thuan V. Hoang, at a Mass of Thanksgiving in June. The priest, ordained for the Archdiocese in 1997, is now studying Canon Law in Rome. Also thank you to Ethel Herst ::-:J\ ^-....¦ v "«f ¦—¦»¦.»¦*.¦-..* ¦¦¦¦¦„¦¦¦, ¦ who has taug ht painting at the parish's Collins Center for 18 years and will be "sorely missed" a recent bulletin said. Remember that St. Cecilia's is live on the internet at www.stcecilia.com....Our Lady of Mercy Parish has bid adieu to Father Jevino Pereira who has returned to his by Tom Burke nati ve India , and Sonia Parodi, who has left her position as rectory cook. OLM offered "thanks and gratitude " to the El Belated Happy Birthday to Tony D'Aura, 18-month-old Camino High School Leadership Class who, under the son of St. Stephen parishioners, Connie and Joe, also known direction of Joel Martinelli and his nephew Brian, helped for their work in marriage preparation and Engaged with some parish painting St. Matthias Day Care Center Encounter....Ninety-six years old and loving her life in Half is hopin' to soon say "Hello" to a new pre-school teacher. It 's a full-time assignment with Moon Bay is Evelyn Draves, children 2 1/2 to 5 years old. an Our Lady of the Pillar Call director, Mary Omellas parishioner who each Friday at (650) 367-1320 if you 're receives communion from interested....St. Paul of the Eucharistic Minister, Parish welcomed Shipwreck Marilyn Wright. Evelyn, a Franciscan former pastor, native of Pennsylvania 's Father Benny Bavero, for a Poconos Region, read here visit this past spring, and says that Stuart Hall High School thanks to Willene House, staffer, Michael Barclay, also Herb Johnson, Conrad hails from there and said she Bulos, James Hall , Willie intended to be in touch to see Cain, and parish secretary, if they have any neighbors in ' for Kay and Tom Mullen of St. Irish Eyes are Smilin Dinia Wright for their "great common....Ran into Karen Cecilia Parish who celebrated their 50th wedding work" all year on the environand Bill Rogers on their way "bash" thrown by anniversary in June at a surprise ment of the Jamestown Ave. to cheer daughter, Elizabeth, their seven children. Kudos continue with a Happy church. Willie was also part a St. Ignatius College Birthday to Tom who marks his 80th year this month. of a crew that helped move Preparatory sophomore, in Thanks to son and daughte r-in-law, Bill and Lynn school principal, Dominican her cross country purMullen, for the info and the Erin-esque quip above. Sister Kathryn Camacho to suits....Was happy to check a new residence. The parish is in with Sts. Peter and Paul music director, Lola Simi, who has served at the North "vibrant in the Spirit because people step up with their gifts Beach parish since 1953. Lola's husband, Lorenzo, now and talents" a June bulletin said.... A sellout crowd attended retired from the restaurant business, continues his hobby the Giants' Until There's a Cure Day on Aug. 5 at Pacific hunting mushrooms, and their daughter, Valentina, coordina- Bell Park. Siblings in the faith coordinating the event were tor of artists' services for the San Francisco Opera, is active Giants' execs Mario Alioto, a Sacred Heart, now Sacred in the Sts. Peter and Paul Young Adult group. Happy Heart Cathedral, alum, and Nativity, Menlo Park parishanniversary to Lola and Lorenzo who celebrated 44 years of ioner, Patrick Gallagher, with comedian, Michael marriage in February....Lola and I crossed paths at an Pritchard, handling the yuks. Conor, my brother, Joe, and I August meeting of more than 100 church musicians from were at the game and we had a wonderful time. It's gotta"be America's best ballpark....Lend an ear to brother in the faith , Bobby Ocean, of St. Isabella Parish, San Rafael, now masterfully handling afternoon drive on KFRC....Hats off to Father Dan Adams, fonner pastor of St. Benedict Parish for the Deaf , who comNew St. Raphael principal pleted this year 's Bay to Breakers in one Dominican Sister hour and 15 minutes. Abby Newton. Fifth graders at St. Raphael Elementary, San Rafael got earning $5,655 for the busy with a bake sale and collection that eventually Octavia St. parish....Happy 80th Birthday to Father sent more than $5,000 to their-Dorn 'mican "cousin " school, Holy Cross Elementary in New York City's Times Eugene Duggan, retired pastor, St. Mary Star of the Sea Parish, Sausalito....Sounds like it's gonna' be fun at Square neighborhood,to help families affected by the tomorrow 's Casino Night benefiting St. Brendan recent terrorist attacks . The middle-schoolers are Elementary School. Headin' up the good time are chairpergrateful to all who helped arid St. Raphael's is "very proud" of the youngsters." From (eft: Fifth graders sons Kelly Flannery, Donna Murphy, and Debi Spiers, Holly Olson handling publicity and Mara Bonelli booking Jessica Aycock, Michael Reyes, Javier Espinoza and reservations. (See Datebook)...A belated hats off to Ten AHie Shoff with their teacher, Julianne Beach, after Baxter, Gloria Fleming, Janet Leyte-Vidal , Sharon campaign had just passed the $4,000 mark. Klobuchar, and Joanne Bottini , officers of the Ladies Guild around the Archdiocese who came together to discern how at St Mark Parish, Belmont....If you have discovered a they might better serve the assembly through their music method of relieving the stress of this most strife-filled time ministry. Was also glad to gab with Justin Kielty, organist at be it meditation, exercise, tossin' a ball in the yard - let us St. Cecilia Parish for the last 36 years, and recently retired know about it. Send your tips and other items to On the Street from a 35-year career teaching English in San Rafael City Where You Live, One Peter Yorke Way, SF 94109. Please schools, most recently Davidson Middle School. Before don't forget to list a follow-up phone number. You can reach returning to the keyboards at St. Cecilia's in about a month, Tom Burke at (415) 614-5634.

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The issue of shared church governance emerged as the dominant theme of the Synod of Bishops , but the strongest applause at the meeting followed a speech by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger saying that Catholics spend too much time talking about the church and not enoug h about Jesus. Cardinal Ratzinger, head of the docUinal congregation , said bishops should take more responsibility for correcting doctrinal error in their dioceses. "If bishops have the courage to jud ge and decide with authority in this battle for the Gospel, the sodesired decentralization happens automaticall y," he said. The cardinal said the world had a thirst to know "not our church problems but the fire that Jesus broug ht to earth. Only if we have become Christ ' s contemporaries and this fire is alight within us will the Gospel announced touch the hearts of our contemporaries. "The central problem of our time is the emptying of the historical figure of Jesus Christ," he said. Cardinal Ratzinger cited a synod speech earlier in the week by German Cardinal Joachim Meisner of Cologne, who urged bishops to take a stronger approach toward governance and correcting doctrinal error. Also drawing applause, Cardinal Meisner said Catholic leaders were partly to blame for a current "crisis of faith" facing the church because they had adopted a laissez-faire approach to governance.

TV documentary tells story of Jewish-Catholic reconciliation "1 Am Joseph, Your Brother," a documentary on the "Catholic Church's 50-year journey toward reconciliation with the Jewish people" will be broadcast this Sunday, Oct. 14, on KGO-Channel 7 at 5 a.m. Pope John Paul IPs personal effort in this regard makes the piece even more compelling according to the American bishops' Catholic Communications Campaign which funded the program. "I Am Joseph, Your Brother" is the revolutionary story of estranged brothers and sisters beginning to speak with one another, leading to a deeper understanding and genuine mutual respect," according to Rabbi Ron Kronish of the Interreligious Coordinating Council in Israel which produced the show. "After 2002 years, we in this generation right now have an incredible opportunity to mm around something that it took 2000 years to mess up," said Eugene Fisher of Ecumenical and Interreli gious Affairs office of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. "The clean-up has begun and we can now structure the future so diat the next certainly 2,000 years will be much more productive." Among the authorities on Catholic-Jewish relations who appear on the hour-long program are Cardinal William Keeler of Baltimore and Cardinal Edward Cassidy, former President of the Vatican Commission on Religious Relations with the Jews. Evelyn didn 't know that long-term care cost $48,000 a year. Nobody told her that Medicare would not cover it. Without long-term care insurance she had to spend almost everything she had to gel the care she needed. II ' she had boughl the affordable insurance approved by the California Partnership for Long-Term Care, she would have prolecied what she owned. You could lose everything you' ve worked for - or you can protect yourself through the Partnership. Call today for more information.

But other partici pants , particularl y from Asia , put the Several bishops criticized the synod process, and some emphasis on bishops ' traits of listening and accompaniment advocated modeling it more closely on the synods of to take the Gospel to pluralist societies, because "God's Eastern churches. Unlike their Western counterpart, which truth does not impose itself on people." has a pure ly advisory role, Eastern synods make concrete Another theme taking shape in the synod on the bishop 's decisions for their churches. role in the church was the need for church leaders to be prophets Several Vatican cardinals also supported forms of of social justice. Several bishops cited the international embar- decentralization. Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, prefect of go of Iraq, the situation of Palestinians and extreme poverty. the bishops ' congregation , suggested that head s of major The synod partici pants include nearl y 250 bishops from archdioceses "play a more incisive role" in coordinating more than 110 countries. The Vatican released summaries of the joint ventures — like seminaries and public speaking bishops ' speeches, and reporters were briefed on their content. events — with bishops in neighboring dioceses. About two dozen synod fathers — roughly 18 percent of the A number of bishops focused on outreach to groups of 136 who spoke the first week — directly raised the issue of suffering people around the globe — including (he poor, church governance, with several questioning whether today's people with AIDS, migrants and victims of violence — and model achieves the co-responsibility they said was envisioned the bishop 's role as a prophet of social justice. by the Second Vatican Council . More than half a dozen prelates, Several cited political and social injustices that they said including two leading U.S. churchmen, suggested further study were the root causes of terrorism, like the Sept. 11 attacks of greater decision-making authority for bishops' conferences. on New York and Washington . Most bishops who addressed the issue did not propose The terrorist attacks were mentioned in numerous specific areas in which local churches might be given more speeches, and the synod fathers pledged special prayers for responsibility, but simp ly called for greater Vatican "trust New York's Cardinal Edward M. Egan, the synod's general and confidence." reporting secretary. The cardinal was to return to his archOne exception was Archbishop Henry S. D'Souza of diocese for an Oct. 11 memorial service for the victims. Jerusalem's Latin-rite Patriarch Michel Sabbah said it was Calcutta, India, who called for liturgical translations and texts every bishop 's duty "to hel p identify the roots of evil : to know that are "free and idiomatic" to better suit local cultures. "Translations from a dead language — Latin — belong- political injustice, as for example the destiny of the people of ing to a foreign culture — Roman — though seen as a vehi- Palestine, as for example the embargo on Iraq, which makes cle of orthodoxy, fail to respond satisfactorily to the charac- life inhuman for millions of people, all sorts of social injustice ter and style of living Indian and tribal languages," he said. which divide the world into rich countries and poor countries." Archbishop Vincent M. Concessao of Delhi, India, said Bishop Patrick J. Dunn of Auckland, New Zealand, proposed that heads of bishops ' conferences meet "every year or the Sept. 11 attacks drew the world's attention but "there is two with brother bishops of the Roman Curia" to discuss another kind of subtle, hidden, litfle-spoken-of terrorism. 1 pressing pastoral challenges. His examples included use of mean the terrorism of an unjust economic system which general absolution , admitting divorced and remarried grinds to death thousands of people every day." Among concrete proposals to alleviate poverty, Cardinal Catholics to the Eucharist, and the validity of Anglican orders. German Cardinal Friedrich Wetter of Munich-Freising said Sergio Sebastiani, head of the Vatican's budget office, recomregional churches should have a greater role in the selection of mended that each diocese establish a program of microcredits, new bishops in their territory. But several bishops warned that, small loans to help poor people start their own businesses. while joint efforts could be beneficial, conferences must not The synod also took up some practical issues, like the retirement age for bishops. Three prelates, two of whom encroach on the work or authority of individual bishops. Archbishop Hector Miguel Cabrejos Vidarte of Trujillo, work in developing countries where life expectancies are vice president of the Peruvian bishops ' conference, said lower, recommended reducing the retirement age from the such regional bodies should support the pastoral work of current 75. their members, "avoiding that the pastors are turned into spokesmen for a group of experts who work in the shadow of the episcopal conference. "

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DUBLIN — The Irish government will conduct a referendum on a proposed constitutional amendment that would outlaw abortion in most cases but would allow it to protect the life of the mother. The amendment would not affect women's ability to travel abroad to procure abortions, but it would redefine the legal definition of abortion so that it does not include the morning-after pill and intrauterine devices. If approved by the Irish electorate , the amendment would take effect only if specific legislation , the Protection of Human Life in Pregnancy Bill, were enacted within 180 days of the referendum vote — otherwise the amendment in its entirety would be nullified. The Irish bishops have been campaigning for a new constitutional referendum, with Cardinal Desmond Connell of Dublin giving his support to the wording proposed by the Pro-Life Campaign, "No law shall be enacted and no provision of this Constitution shall be interpreted to render induced abortion lawful in this state. " Announcing the referendum plan and publishing the government's proposed legislation Oct. 2, Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahem said, "The new law will give complete protection to medical procedures necessary to avoid those risks. In a small number of cases of strict and undeniable medical necessity, as you know, those procedures can entail or result in ending of the life of the unborn. " Pro-Life Campaign officials said their initial reaction to the government 's proposal was "generall y positive," but added they wished to study the details of the proposed Protection of Human Life in Pregnancy Bill before giving a full reaction. Irish citizens passed a constitutional amendment outlawing aborti on in 1983. A 1992 Irish Supreme Court ruling allowed for abortion in certain cases when the mother 's life was threatened.

Pope says trip to Asia encouraged minorities, interfaith work

VATICAN CITY — Pope John Paul U said his trip to Kazakstan and Armenia helped spread a message of interreligious and ecumenical cooperation , while encouraging the small Catholic minorities in both places. The pope, speaking at a general audience Oct. 3, thanked religious and civil authorities for the success of his Sept. 22-27 trip. In the wake of the terrorist attack on the Unites States and the build-up of military forces for a possible strike against militant Islamic groups, the pope said he hoped his appeal in predominantl y Muslim Kazakstan for worldwide religious harmony had an effect. "From that eountry, in which followers of various religions live peacefull y, I reaffirmed forcefull y that religion must never be used as a reason for conflict ," he said. "Christians and Muslims, together with believers of every religion, are called to firmly repudiate violence, in order to build up a humanity that loves life and that develops in justice and solidarity," he said. In Armenia, the pope said he wanted to pay homage to a Christian people that has endured unspeakable sufferings through the ages. Among them, he said, were the "mass exterminations" at the beginning of the 20th century — a reference to the 1.5 million Armenians killed by Ottoman Turks. The pope said he was moved by his final event marking 1,700 years of Christianity in Armenia, a brief visit to a dungeon where tradition says St. Gregory the Illuminator prayed 13 years for the nation's conversion, which finally came in the year 301.

Educators say no U.S. p rograms p repa re women for diaconate

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"That doesn 't exist, " said Deacon Gerard Wilson , executive director of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Secretariat for the Diaconate , when he was asked if there are any U.S. programs preparing women to become deacons. Barbara J. Fleischer, director of Loyola Institute for Ministry in New Orleans, one of the largest lay ministry formation programs in the country, said the wife of a deacon candidate may be required to participate in her husband's formation program . She added, however, "Clearly it 's not preparing (the women) for ordination . Women coming into the program understand that ordination is not open to women." The Vatican order came in the form of a four-paragrap h "notification" issued jointly Sept. 17 by the Vatican's doctrine, liturgy and clergy congregations. Since die church does not foresee the possibility of ordaining women to the diaconate, "it is not licit to undertake initiatives which, in some way, aim at preparing female candidates for diaconal ordination ," the statement said. Gregory L. Sobolewski, vice president and presidentelect of the national Association of Graduate Programs in Ministry, said he had heard of programs preparing women for ordained ministry in the Catholic Church in Austria and Germany and possibly Switzerland. In his contacts with lay ministry formation leaders around the United States, however, he said he had heard of nothing like th at occurring in this country.

Cardinal Keeler says October is a time to recommit to value of life

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Catholic Church designates October as a time "to recommit ourselves to building a culture in which every life is valued , no matter how poor or sick, how old or microscopic," said Cardinal William H. Keeler of Baltimore . "Recent tragic events may tempt us to think we are very far from living in a world that values life," said the cardinal, who is chairman of the U.S. bishops ' Committee on Pro-Life Activities. "When terrorists can readil y destroy themselves and thousands of innocent people to promote their cause, it may seem that human life has become cheap." But following the attacks came "humanity at its very best ," he said , as people came to the aid of co-workers, firefighters and police lost their lives rescuing others , and many who faced death called "to reassure their spouses and children that they loved them." "Our culture sometimes seems to teach that life is not a basic good , that love is but a feeling rather than a commitment to serve others, that we may reject or ignore those who seem burdensome or inconven ient," he said. "Women with difficult pregnancies are encouraged to accept abortion , then abandoned to grieve in silence for a lost child. "Commercials aimed at elderly citizens today subtly caution them not to burden their families or society, while groups advocate suicide and assisted suicide as an end to their problems," he continued. "High profile executions become headline-grabbing media events, while society pays little heed to many anonymous prisoners with inadequate legal counsel who face death with no fanfare."

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Af ter 20-year scrutiny, Vatican releases new booh of saints

VATICAN CITY — Sts. George and Christopher have survived a 20-year scrutiny, keeping their traditional feast days in a Vatican list of saints approved for public devotion. The martyr St. Philomena did not make the cut, thoug h, in the revised "Roman Martyrology " released Oct. 2 at a Vatican press conference. The new martyrology is a 773-page book listing saints and blesseds by their feast days and indicating that their public veneration is approved by the church , said Archbishop Francesco Pio Tamburrino, secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments. The absence of a name like Philomena's "denotes the lack of an officiall y authorized cult ," usually because there is not enough historical evidence to be certain that the person existed, he said. In the case of St. Christopher and others, even if much of the information surrounding the saint is considered to be legend , evidence of public ' devotion going back to the first centuries of the church' s existence is considered to be "empirical proof that such a person existed, Archbishop Tamburrino said. In 1969, Pope Paul VI removed St. Philomena from the universal calendar of feast days of the Roman rite and downgraded the celebrations of Sts. George and Christopher, leading some to believe they would be removed from the martyrology. But Cardinal Medina, who proudly claims St. George as his patron saint, said: "St. George was never taken off the calendar. His feast was lowered fro m a mandatory to an optional feast, but no one ev er said he did not exist."

Opus Dei members hop e f ounder will be canonized next year

Italian news media reported Sept. 29 that a commission of cardinals from the Congregation for Sainthood Causes had voted recentl y to recognize the healing of a 69-year-old Spanish radiolog ist as the miracle needed for the canonization of Blessed Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer, the founder of Opus Dei. While Opus Dei members said they hoped their founder would be canonized next year, Msgr. Flavio Capucci, an Opus Dei member and promoter of Blessed Escriva's cause for canonization , said it is too earl y to know. "I do not know if or when the meeting of the cardinals occurred The final decision is up to the Holy Father and becomes pu blic at the moment the decree is read; until then, there is nothing to do but wait." Msgr. Escriva was beatified in 1992, only 17 years after his death . He founded Opus Dei, Latin for "work of God," in 1928 to promote holiness of life and the transformation of society through the professional work of its members. According to Vatican statistics , Opus Dei now counts about 82,500 lay members and more than 1,750 priests.

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the United States and its allies and for a speed y and decisive victory." From comments he heard after the Mass, Cardinal Egan added , "I sensed that all wholeheartedl y supported the decision of President Bush and his administration ." Cardinal William J. Keeler of Baltimore , in an interview with Catholic News Service in Rome , said, "We certainl y hope that civilians don 't suffer and (hat the innocent don ' t suffer" in Afghanistan. He said a number of bishops were struck by the fact that , apparentl y for the first time in history, humanitarian aid was being provided to the people of a country even as military targets were being hit. In his statement , Cardinal George said, "It is for all of us to understand the reasons for the deep resentment against the United States b y many, especiall y the resentment caused b y the inability to resolve the way in which Israelis and Palestinians can live together in justice and in peace." Cardinal McCarrick said he was pray ing for servicemen and women involved in the strikes. In his statement Oct. 7, the first day of the retaliatory attacks, he said he also was praying that "our nation 's goals of punishing the guilty and destroy ing this network of evil may be successfull y accomplished ," that no "innocent people " would be killed, and that the U.S. action be guided by "the princi ples of morality and human dignity. " Cardinal Bevilacqua , also in an Oct. 7 statement, said he was "convinced that

those making momentous military deci- "provoked by acts of mass terrorism and by In a separate statement Oct. 9, Bishop sions in this war against international ter- the threat of more indiscriminate attacks." Fiorenza said , "Military action is always rorists are seekers of He recalled princi- regrettable , but it may be necessary to justice and peace , ples of Catholic just- protect the innocent or to defend the comnot of vengeance. " war teaching, includ- mon good. " "It will be lamenBishop Walter F. Sullivan of ing proportionality; table if more lives noncombatant immu- Richmond , Va., called the air strikes "a are lost ," he added. nity, meaning civilian perilous effort to put an end to terrorism "God is with us as populations cannot be and to bring terrorists to justice " in an we, with other allied targeted; and "right Oct. 9 statement. "Our response as a peonations , seek to intention ," which ple of faith must be to direct our thoughts defend the common means "the aim of to prayers for peace with justice ," he good of our nation as political and military added. well as the internaBishop Sullivan asked pra yers for the leaders must be peace tional common good military and their families, the Af ghan with justice." and peace throughSupport for the peop le , national and world leaders , out the world. We air strikes also came Muslims , terrorists and their victims , 2 "ourselves " and "for a lasting-peace built must believe that )S from Bishop loseph o good will be victoriA. Fiorenza of on the foundation of justice. " ous over evil." Expressing sorrow for the retaliation P P Galveston-Houston , o president of the U.S. In his Oct. 8 was the Dominican Leadershi p X r Conference statement , Cardinal Conference , made up of 30 Dominican of i2 y. Catholic Bishops. Law said , congregations and provinces of sisters "However necesHe told CNS Oct. and friars meeting in Philadelphia. Disaster and relief workers join sary and justified We deep ly regret that military action 8 in Rome that the a prayer service at the ruins of the military force may attacks seemed was considered necessary. Our Christian World Trade Center on October 7, be, its use is always "appropriate and fai th leads us to declare that violence can shortly before the U.S. began air regrettable , Our measured" and that onl y breed violence ," it said in an Oct. 7 goal as a nation strikes in response to the the United States letter to all Dominicans. must be for a peace"This action calls us to deeper prayer "needed to take this terrorist attack on America. ful , just and stable military action" to in solidarity with the innocent victims of world. " end the operations of Osama bin Laden , violence and terrorism around the worl d ," He identified Afghanistan , the Middle widely suspected as being behind the Sept. it said. East and Sudan as three places where "we 11 airplane attacks in America, and to get Contributing to this story was John Thavis in Rome. should also make every diplomatic effort to humanitarian aid to the Afghan people. encourage a peaceful and just resolution." He said the current military action must "continue to be limited. " Cardinal Maida , also in an Oct. 8 statement, said the retaliatory bombings were (Exp (orin0 Sp irituaiity in and Carea iving

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St. Vincent de Paul 'Church of Earthquakes suddenl y gasped, It s shaking...the earth...everything at 3701 Divisadero. He freed himsel f but could not free her. She insisted that he flee the flames and live and tell is shaking...the glass it 's all falling." "And then," write s Father John K. Ring, "it hit me her family of her belief in God and her love for them." Over its 100 year-history, St. Vincent de Paul parish "And now the family wanted permission to enter the has been called "The Church of Earthquakes." Since from behind; it felt as if a car ran into my lower back. closed off area to have a service at the site of her death . 1901 the church at Green and Steiner Streets in San ..the house was like a noisy bucking bronco." He remembers rushing out through the neighborhood Bureaucratic doors were closed. The family was desFrancisco has suffered through three temblors and thre e searching for parishioners. perate ." bouts of repairs - 1906, „—_™^He saw fires. Crumbled After making a series of phone calls, Fath er Ring got 1957, and again in 1989. buildings. "A burl y parish- the permission. So when present pastor ioner came running to me The very same day, 12 members of Janet Ray 's famFather lohn K. Ring decidsobbing. . . . I met a young ily, each carry ing roses, entered the area in police cars. ed to write a complete hiswoman speeding up on Father Ring was with them. "When I was not praying tory of the parish in honor roller skates. She lived on aloud , all that could be heard was the water of the bay of its 100th birthday this Russian Hill and came the from blocks away and the crackling of the still smolmonth , quite naturall y, he fastest way possible when dering fire in front of us. We prayed. We wept. " hoped to find a wealth of Father Ring remembers the knock on the door in the she saw where the fire was. information chronicling She was looking for her middle of the night. The visitor was Archbishop John the impact of the quakes famil y. I took her to her Quinn , who had been attending a meeting in San Diego on the life of the parish — father. He was the burl y when the quake struck. The Archbishop, accompanied especially fro m the viewpoints of the pastors. man who was sobbing." by Auxiliary Bishop Carlos Sevilla had come as soon as The author recalls open - he could. "I led them by flashli ght up to my room. We "First person " details ing the rectory to six quake needed more li ght , so I lit a candle on the credenza. I from them , however , refugees that night and told the bishops it was a most appropri ate candle to proved sketchy. Yes, the church building survived sharing his supper with light on this night in their presence. I had just found it them. the 1906 quake, just as it among my mother 's memories. The last time it had been was to emerge from the Since phones were out , lit was at my ordination. " l next two. Father Marti n Parishioners will be able to read their pastor s full o< Father Ring put up a clip>< board on the rectory door account of the quake later this month , when his history Ryan , the first pastor , in noted in his diary that St. for people to leave mes- rolls off the presses in time for the parish's gala 100th Vincent 's parish basement sages. anniversary celebration. The party will take place fols B. functioned as a soup When the phones were lowing a noon Mass Oct. 21 , with Archbishop William Father John K. Ring kitchen and clothing distrirestored , Father Ring Levada as the celebrant. Present and former priests of bution center during the 1906 San Francisco quake . received the message that he had been dreading most, the parish will serve as concelebrants. Father Ring, the He stayed busy offering Mass both in the church and ferventl y hoping it wouldn 't happen. But it did. One of pastor for the past 14 years , will give the homily. in refugee camps at the Presidio , plus helping in the his parishioners had died in the earthquake fire. "Janet When St. Vincent de Paul was founded in 1901 , there center. And Father Ryan reported that two days after the Brown Ray and her husband had been trapped in the fire ST. VINCENT DE PAUL, page 7 quake , a couple showed up at the church to be married — sans marriage license - for good reason , of course, since San Francisco City Hall had been destroyed. But as far as recounting some of his own experiences, Father Ryan 's diary suddenl y went blank. Which was "sad for historians ," wrote Father Ring, "but understandably, for someone who underwent the earth quake , Father Ryan was unable to write a word ." Sunday, November 4 • 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. The 1957 quake was a similar story. A few accounts do report such incidents as Father William Lowery, the fefe assistant pastor, looking out his window during the tem|U Tuesday, December 4 • 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. blor and seeing the church steeple sway back and forth. Some of the school children said the quak e felt as if they were hit by a wave. In ensuing weeks, the churc h underwent extensive retrofitting to keep it from sliding down the hill. When it's time for a future pastor of St. Vincent de Paul to update the church' s history, he will find plenty of material about the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake , thanks to Father Ring. 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bring tax exemption of private non-profit schools to a narrow victory of 50.81 percent to 49.19 percent ," the parish history points out. But even heroes have their try ing days , and Father O'Kane was no exception. At one point , he had to fend off a series of petty neighborhood complaints. One individual complained to the Health Department that the school' s Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul had become litterbugs. A Public Health officer who investi gated put the complaint into proper perspective: To wit: "Some months ago, there was a comp laint registered with this department that the Sisters were in the habit of eating their lunch on the roof of the school in hot weather, and on one occasion a paper napkin flew away and although the sister tried to catch it, it drifted down in one of the neighborhood yards. The complaint stated that the Sisters were throwing refuse over the fence." Then there is the pithy quip from an active parishioner, Angelina Alioto. Mrs. Alioto had organized a women ' s fund raising auxiliary to the De Paul Youth Club in 1954 to provide scholarships to promising athlete s, and to pay the dues of poor children who couldn 't afford to partici pate in parish sports programs. She noted that her husband Joseph and other men of the A statue of St. Vincent de Paul welcomes worshippers. parish had been able to build a gym, "but they didn 't know how to keep it open." Catholic in the City of San Francisco. " "We offer peer support ," he exp lained. Another The generosity of St. Vincent de Paul parishioners has matched the charism of their church' s namesake on appeal of the group is its discussions around the chalmany occasions , one being 1962, when St. Mary 's lenges facing Catholics today. One recent meeting feaCathedral burned down. Parishioners raised $540,000 tured a Harvard professor discussing Islam and the toward building a new cathedral. clash with Western civilization. In future years, when Father John K. Ring looks back Members attend Mass together every third on his pastorate at St. Vincent de Paul, what will he Wednesday and partici pate in community service. They w recall? tutor children in a Tenderloin program, staff a soup u He will remember Sept 11, 2001. All the collective kitchen , deliver fruit to homeless shelters, visit the eldo parish grief over Janet Ray ' s death in the 1989 quake erl y at a retirement center , and assist with the work of X Bu came rushing back that horrible Tuesday, when the the parish St. Vincent de Paul Society. news hit that Melissa Harrington Hughes, a parishioner, Mr. Jarocki has been a member of St. Vincent 's for had died in the World Trade Center terrorist attack. Mrs . six years. He visited the church four days after he O Fj moved to San Francisco from the East Coast and knew o Hughes had been on a business trip that week. a. He will remember that , within hours of Mrs. Hughes ' immediately he had found a welcoming community. death , 300 peopl e showed up at church for an emerThe young adult group reinforces the "belong ing" The child Jesus reaches out to touch gency Mass, having learned about it through e-mail or aspect , he said. "It's nice to go into a room on a Monday his mother in this statue. night , and be with 80 peop le who are holding hands sayword of mouth. Of course , Father Ring will recall numerous happy ing the Our Father." were onl y scattered homes, dairy farms, marshes and memories, as well, such as "the wonderful communisand hills in the area known then as Spring Hill. In the earliest years of St. Vincent 's parishioners ty spirit , the beautiful ' attended Mass in a second floor union hall over a paint- liturgies, the laughter of H ^^^ wss the boundaries of tocountry, ^£ft^ ing and decorating shop on Fillmore Street. The semi- our children , and the faith ^Ljflfr languag e and cut f are live jp T" gothic church that stands now at the corner of Steiner of our young adults. " m^ proclaim the Gospel with the ^*jj lr II. m St. Vincent De Paul in and Green was designed to resemble churches Father Martin Ryan had seen j n Switzerland. The architects , Parish has the largest Frank T. Shea and John Lofquist , incorporated the Swiss young adult group in the ¦P w, If you think God is calling you to serve Archdiocese, said the pasinfluence in the protective, bracketed gambrel roof. WfH m your brothers and sisters as a priest **\ During its 100 years, the parish has recorded 7,671 tor. There are 400 people or lay missionary, please contact us. the e-mail list. baptisms; 4,302 marri ages, and 100,000 Masses. Today, on Anywhere from 70 to 80 it is predominantly Italian American. Good stories about St. Vincent de Paul are not limit- of them turn out for meetings every second and ed to the parish's three earthquakes, of course. P fourth Monday night. O'Kane, appointed pasFather Thomas For instance, Fr. Arttiro Aguilar, S.S.C, - Vocation Director People come from as tor in 1951, was nationally known as a gifted speaker. Si. Coiumbans, NE 6805(i - (402) 291-1920 He often was invited to be on the Catholic Hour radio far away as San Mateo and program. Father O'Kane became active in the fight to Mountain View, said Tom e-mail: vocations@columban.org repeal the taxation of private, non-profit secondary and Jarockr, chief coordin ator. www.coiumban.org elementary schools in California , which was the only The group reaches out to contemporary young state to tax them. "In 1952, Father O'Kane 's cogent articles, pul pit Catholics, with the mesannouncements, and his oratorical skills , helped to sage that "it's okay to be ¦ Continued from page 6

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Just-war debate swirls over U.S. anti-terror response By Jerry Filteau Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — The developing U.S. war against international terrorism has provoked a wide new debate as to how the princi ples of just war apply when the adversary is not a nation but a secretive , internationall y dispersed network of terrorists. Commonweal , a national lay Catholic review of public affairs , reli gion and culture , summarized the core of the debate succinctl y: "The moral legitimacy of using military force is not in question; its effective and proportional use is. " Even Vatican press officer Joaquin Navarro-Valls weighed in on the question. On Sept. 24, in the midst of a papal trip to Kazakstan and Armenia, he said, "Either people who have carried out a horrendous crime are put in a position where they can do no further harm, by being handed over - and put into custody, or the principle of selfdefense applies with all its consequences." Among early public explorations of what the just-war tradition says to the United States following the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks was a half-day seminar on the topic Sept. 24 by the Faith & Reason Institute in Washington. The Jesuit-run national magazine, America , devoted much of its Oct. 8 issue to the question , featuring articles by three leading Catholic justice and peace thinkers. The Catholic just-war tradition focuses on two main areas of moral jud gment: "ius ad bellum ," or the right to go to war, and "ius in bello," or right conduct in war. ¦ For "ius ad bellum," a war must be focused on repelling injury or aggression, entered into as a last resort, and carried out by a legitimate authority. It must have a reasonable chance of success. For "ius in bello," a nation at war must respect noncombatant immunity and be limited in scope. The means used must be proportional to the purpose intended. Mainstream Catholic commentators were agreed that the Sept. 11 attacks were acts of aggression of a kind that justifies use of military force if necessary to defend the country against an imminent threat of further aggression. But they raised serious questions whether U.S. operations will meet the high moral standard required for just conduct in -war. America magazine editorialized that, if terrorists still threatening the nation cannot be brought to justice peacefully, "they are legitimate targets of military action." Father J. Bryan Hehir of Harvard Divinity School , an

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effective long-range strategy against terrorism is to dram the swamp" that breeds it. Attacking the conditions thai nourish terrorism requires responding constructively tc "real grievances " many poor nations have against the way the United States exercises its political and economic power around the world, he said. New York Times "Beliefs" columnist Peter Steinfels wrote in Commonweal: "I have no problem calling the Sept. 11 attacks "acts of war.' But when we are said to be at war — but a new, different kind of war — I want to know what that means. Is it like the Cold War? The war on drugs 1 ... How will we know when we have won? And weren 't we alread y fighting a war against terrorism? What will be done differentl y? Why will it succeed? Who will be the victims?" In America magazine, University of Noire Dame peace studies director George A. Lopez wrote that having a moral compass in combating terrorism requires that the United States "adhere fully to the rule of law, that there be a logical relationshi p between means and ends and that concern for protecting civilians and limiting collateral damage be paramount. " "However inconv enient, these strictures are both real and serious," he said. The comments by Vatican spokesman Navarro-Vails took on added significance in light of the fact that Pope John Paul II had been one of the most vocal critics of the U.S.-led assault on Iraq in the 199 1 Persian Gulf War. Navarro-Valls also warned, however, that "eventual action must be directed against terrorism and not against Islam" — a theme repeated in various ways by virtually every commentator addressing just-war issues. Cardinal Camillo Ruini, president of the Dalian bishops ' conference, called self-defense against terrorism not only a right but a "necessity and duty." But he added a warning against "an unjust identification or confusion between the ideology of violence and of war and the Muslim religion." The Vatican 's top ecumenical official, Cardinal Walter Kasper, said, "Every country must defend itself in a just manner. Something has to be done or else we will all become hostages of these terrorists." But he warned that the response must not result in a "blood bath" in Afghanistan, the country most likely to be a scene of U.S. military action. . "A disproportionate show of force that kills innocents yet fails to cripple an elusive enemy will only strengthen the terrorists ' hand ," said the Commonweal editorial. "We must not become what we hate," said America magazine.

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Hel p f or Hel p ing Hands

Thank you so much for the great article by Tom Burke regarding Helping Hands at St. Sebastian church. We have received so many positive comments from this article from people in San Francisco and Marin. To our surp rise, two more people have decided to join our ministry. People really do take the lime to read Catholic San Francisco even in such troubled times. Joyce Massucco Greenbrae

Prayerf or blessing

Thanks for the articles in Catholic San Francisco pertaining to grief. We need to reach more peop le about this great ministry. My heart cries out to the Lord in prayer more and more as this tragedy keeps unfolding. I have put my thoug hts in words and wish that they be shared with others. I offer up to Our Heavenly Father daily the following prayer for strength and guidance in the days to come. I pray for the dead and for the suffering in this traged y, and I especially ask Him to touch each grieving heart with the light of his comfort and love. Blessings Bless our minds that our thoughts are fashioned In your name, Bless our eyes that we behold the beauty of your creation In your name, . Bless our ears that we listen In your name, Bless our lips that our words are spoken In your name, Bless our hearts that we reach out with love In your name, Bless our hands that they achieve wonders In your name, Bless our feet that the paths we ÂŚ walk lead to You, Only, then, Lord, Can we all live together on this vast Earth In peace and harmony Sarah DiMare Burlingame

those terrorists who act, however mistakenly, to obtain relief from evils such as unrelieved famine or unfair trading terms. All of these are wrong - not j ust the terrorism! It should be clear thoug h that might is not always right. Violence is not an acceptable answer, and the greatest violence does not confer the greatest right. We must instead use the means offered by discussion , dialogue and negotiation. If this sounds too good to be practicable , consider the eff ects of perestroika and g lasnost in the fall of Russian Communism , and the overwhelming vote in favor of the Good Friday Agreement in Ireland. Forceful response to terrorism must be proportionate, so that we do not become the evil we seek to oppose. On arriving in Kazakhstan on September 22, this year, the Pope referred to "the conviction that controversies must be resolved not b y recourse to arms but by the peaceful means of negotiation and dialogue ". Jim McNamee County Cork, Ireland

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Defe nse with justice

Self-defense is a human right and in certain circumstances it becomes a duty. And in order to defend one 's rights it is legitimate to employ the police and even the military. The first moral obligation binding on everyone is to follow one's conscience. But this will not necessarily bring about agreement, let alone peace, even among people of good will. Justice is an essential element of true peace, which is not merely the absence of strife. Justice cannot be merely superficial. It would not be enough to condemn alone

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The meaning of blessedness

The following letter was sent in by James Grealish. It was written by Father Walter J. Ciszek, S.J. Father Ciszek spent 23 years in Soviet p risons convicted as a "Vatican spy ". Mr. Grealish writes, "Although Father Ciszek died in 1984, the enclosed seems to be appropriate at this time. " How easy it is, in times of ease, for us to become dependent on our routines , on the established order of our day-to-day existence , to carry us along. We begin to take things for granted , to rely on ourselves and on our own resources , to "settle in" in this world and look to it for our support. We all to easily come to equate being comfortable with a sense of well being, to seek our comfort solel y in the sense of being comfortable. Friends and possessions surround us, one day is followed by the next, good health and happ iness for the most part are ours. We don ' t have to desire much of the things of this world - to be enamored of riches , for example, or greedy or avaricious - in order to have gained this sense of comfort and well being, to trust in them as our support, and to take God for granted. It is the status quo that we rel y on, that carries us from day to day, and somehow we lose si ght of the fact that under all these things and behind all these things it is God who supports and sustains us. We go along, taking for granted that tomorrow will be very much like today, comfortable in the world we have created for ourselves , secure in the established order we have learned to live with, however imperfect it may be, and give little thought to God at all. Somehow, then, God must contrive to break throug h those routines of ours and remind us once again, like Israel, that we are ultimatel y dependent onl y upon Him, that he has made us and destined us for life with Him through all eternity, that the things of this world and this world itself are not our lasting city, that His we are and that we must look to Him and turn to Him in everything. Then it is , perhaps , that He must allow our whole world to be turned upside down in order to remind us it is not our permanent abode or final destiny, to bring us to our senses and restore our sense of values, to turn our thoughts once more to Him - even if at first our thoughts are questioning and full of reproaches. Then it is that He must remind us again, with terrible clarity, that He meant exactl y what He said in those seemingl y simple words of the Sermon on the Mount; "Do not be anxious about what you shall eat, or what you shall where, or where you shall sleep, but seek first the kingdom of God and His justice." Fr. Walter J. Ciszek , SJ.

Family Lif e

After September 11, mothers face ancient fears After weeks of being on pins and needles, I finally reached an old friend from college who works in the Pentagon. She was physically unharmed by the attack Sept. 11, but she remains emotionally traumatized. "This is a terrible time to be raising kids," she said despondently. At first I was stunned by her remark. Then it occurred to me that my friend is in a far different place than I am. While I have returned to my daily routine of cooking, cleaning and helping the kids with their spelling, she has returned to an office permeated with the smell of smoke. She is surrounded by those whose duty it is to think through every possible future scenario. Nevertheless, I questioned aloud whether there has ever been an easy time to raise children. Many of our mothers watched their sons go off to Vietnam. My grandmothers' sons grew up during the Great Depression and fought in World War II, and my great-grandmothers' sons served in World War I.

Sift through time, even the relatively short time of our nation 's history, and one discovers that life and peace have always been fragile. I have a family tree from my mother 's side of the family dating back to colonial days. It record s generation after generation bearing a number of children and burying half of them before they reach the age of three. Not only the men but also the boys of those families fought in the French and Indian Wars, the War for Independence, and the Civil War. So it is no more agonizing to be a mother now than it was before . And yet like many other mothers out there, I am beset by worries that were far from my mind only a month ago. The very day of the hijackings, my older son said sardonically, "Oh, great! Now there will be a war, and I'll have to fi ght in it." After hearing something on the radio, my 8-year-old daughter cried, "Will someone really poison our water?"

What do I do with their newfound fears as well as my own? The only thing I know of — pray. Once I recommended to my younger son that he pray about something troubling him, and he moaned, "Oh, Mom, why do you always bring God into every tiling?" "Because," I answered , "God is the only one who can give me the strength and the sanity I need to get through the day." That was true then. It was true for my ancestral mothers. And it is true now.

Vivian W. Dudro

Sp irituality

God takes a risk by giving us freedom Why doesn't God make things easier? Perhaps the most vexing faith question of all time is the problem of God's silence and his seeming indifference. Why does God allow evil? Why do bad things happen to good people? If there is an all-powerful and all-loving God, how do you explain that millions of innocent people can suffer and die under Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, in massacres in Rwanda, Algeria, and the terrorist killings in the USA? Where is God in all of this? The presence of evil in the world poses a deeper question: Why is God (seemingly) hidden? If God is so massively real, why do so many people not recognize, acknowledge, or care about his existence? Why do believers have to live, almost always it seems, on the edges of doubt? Why doesn 't God make Ms (her) existence clear, a fact beyond doubt? Why doesn 't God silence his critics? There's no satisfying answer to that question — not theoretically — and there never will be. No definitive faith textbook can ever be written that will soothe every doubt and answer every critical objection. Why not? Because making peace with this mystery, the mystery of God's hiddenness, is a question of a relationship in love and trust and not simply a question of right theory. Faith, like love, matures through relationship. Understanding God's hiddenness, God's way, is like a child coming to understand his or her parents. You have to relate long enough, live in patience long enough, and develop enough maturity so that, at a point, understanding arises. Love is the eye, Hugo of St. Victor used to say. When we are loving enough we begin to understand. However, theory is still important. An old philosophical axiom suggests that the heart follows the head, that love

itself must be guided by intellectual vision. Thus some theological theory on the question of evil and God's hiddenness can be helpful. Classical, Christian theology has taught essentially this: Evil exists because God respects freedom, both in nature and in human beings. When we are confronted with the problem of evil in the world the conclusion we might draw is not that God doesn 't exist or doesn't care, but rather that God respects and values freedom in a way that we don ' t. What does this mean? God doesn 't make things easier because God can't make things easier, at least not without making us and the world into something far less than we are. When God made us he gave us as much freedom, creativity, and spunk as was possible. He didn 't play it safe, but gave us as much godliness as he could. Simply put, in making us, God went so far as to give us a freedom that even he won't tamper with. A risky business, but, it seems, as a parent, God would rather risk than control, allow creativity outside of his influence than limit ingenuity, and tolerate the misuse of freedom than relate to robots. God is perceived as silent because he allows human freedom and ingenuity to be precisely what they are meant to be — non-coerced, even by God. God is not a frightened parent who needs to control, or a threatened creator who kept what was best back for himself. God allows evil because God respects the freedom and ingenuity of creation and, as we know from elsewhere in our faith , can ultimately redeem whatever goes wrong. This helps explain not only the question of evil, but also why life can be so distressingly complex and why we

can sometimes bod over into a quasi-divine rage. We have been made, as Scripture assures us, "as little less than God." If God could have given lis divinity, I believe, he would have. But the one thing God can ' t do is to create another God. So, in creating us, God took us as close to divinity as possible. Given the incredible array of qualities that God put in us, it shouldn 't then be surprising that we are pathologically complex, that human grandiosity has a perpetual itch to set itself against God, and that, when frustrated , we are capable of becoming killers who can take life itself as if we were God. We should never be surprised at how messy life can get or how deranged we can be. What is surprising, rather, is that sometimes — in the pre-sophistication of a child or the post-sophistication of a saint — we do see simple happiness, simple meaning, and simple faith. Things could be simpler only if God had made us Swiss clocks — wonderfull y tuned to pre-set rhythms, with no mess, no sin, no evil, and the beauty of perfect crystal . But then there wouldn 't be any love, freedom , creativity, or meaning. No. God built us on a razor 's edge, so full of godly fire that we are capable of both martyrdom and murder.

Father Ron Rolheiser

The CatholicDiff erence

Third World needs people power through law In early September I was lecturing in Bogota , Colombia, and talked with a range of Catholic leaders in that strife-torn land. In trying to parse their country 's continuing poverty, one group of Catholic scholars regularly blamed "neo-liberalism," which is often Latin America code language for the global market. No doubt there are ways in which the market could function better in Colombia, for the benefit of all Colombians. But this instinctive anti-market reaction struck me as hollow — and perhaps even an evasion. I got the same reaction from a senior churchman who said, in so many words, "This country 's problem isn ' t the market. It 's corruption. Entrepreneurship can 't work here because there's no legal structure to protect entrepreneurs and small investors. The peop le who suffer most from this pervasive lawlessness and corruption are the poor. The greatest challenge for the church's social doctrine in Latin America in the early 21st century is legal reform , which means mounting a sustained challenge to the pandemic corruption that afflicts Latin American countries." It was an arresting thought, not least because it so closely parallel s the thinking of Hernando de Soto, one of Latin America's most imaginative minds. De Soto, an economist, has long argued that the problem in much of the Third World is that peop le with economic energy, entrepreneurial skills, and real assets "haven 't been inserted into the system" — meaning the market that

would allow them to turn that energy, those assets, and those skills into value. What's missing in much of Latin America is what De Soto calls "the rules of the game," which he explained by a sports analogy: "It's like a soccer match. You can put up goals if you want to and you can put some white lines on the turf , but if there are no rules, you can kick your opponent, you can make a goal with your fist, one team can have 24 members and the other one only eight members. If there are no rules, there is no game." And , of course, there are no real players. That, De Soto, suggests, is what has happened to the four billion men and women on the planet who live in countries where the things they in fact have — including their imaginations, wits, and wills — can't be turned into assets because of legal systems that don 't work and the corruption they engender. If you have a house, for example, but can 't legally own it because the legal system is inefficient or corrupt , your house isn ' t an asset. It's "dead capital." Of which, according to De Soto, there is a lot in the world. The Peruvian economist estimates that "the total value of real estate held but not legally owned by the poor in the developing world is $9.3 trillion. " In Egypt, for example, De Soto estimates that the poor own, but can 't turn into productive assets, some $240 billion of real estate — which, he notes , "is equivalent to all investments in Egypt over the last 200 years , including the

Suez Canal and the Aswan Dam." De Soto doesn 't blame the situation so much on bure aucrats as on bad laws — a "wall § of paper," as he puts it, that keeps the poor from turning dead capital into resources they can develop. That wall of paper, in turn , creates what De Soto calls "property apartheid," in which the rules are rigged to protect the property of the wealthy but no one else. De Soto applauds the legal reform s that have opened the Thud World to foreign investors but then asks, what about the little people? Shouldn 't the laws be made "hospitable," as he puts it, for the little investors, the peop le who have, together, more assets than the foreigners , but who can 't use those assets because they have no way to demonstrate legal ownership? Railing against "neo-liberalism" isn't going to help the poor of Bogota. Laws that allow them to turn what they have into what they own, so that assets rise from the grave of dead capital, would help. So would national moral and cultural renewal that confronts the habit of corruption and breaks it, not just in courts, but in hearts. That 's the church's challenge.

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George Weigel

SCRIPTURE & LITU RGY 'Outsiders' show 'insiders' how to give thanks The spotli ght is on us assembled for Sunday worship. The scriptural texts, chosen for this Sunday 's liturgy of the Word, shed light on the profound meaning of who we are as Church. Specifically, they illuminate the action of giving thanks (the meaning of "eucharist") as our recognition that God's Word has leaped off the scriptural pages into the fabric of our lives, that we recognize these experiences as ripples and echoes of what God has accomplished in Christ, and that we rehearse the whole story in praise and thanksgiving at the holy table with sisters and brothers who have similar experiences and stories. Let's have a look at these texts. Unlike our experience of the whole story of Naaman the Syrian leper during Lent (Monday of the Third Week of Lent), we hear today only the ending to bring the healed leper 's thanksgiving into sharper relief. Without doubt, tlie Word of God has entered this Gentile 's life: "Naaman went down and p lunged into the Jordan seven times at the word of Elisha, the man of God. His flesh became again like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean of his leprosy." Without doubt , Naaman recognizes that he has been touched by the God of Israel who spoke through his prophet: "Now I know that there is no God in all the earth, except in Israel, " he says to Elisha. More critically, however, Naaman wishes to keep alive die memory of God's action on his behalf, ". . . Please let me, your servant, have two mule-loads of earth, for I will no longer offer holocaust or sacrifices to any other god except the Lord." Bypassing the little strangeness of the time (gods belonged to lands and had to be worshipped on the soil of those lands), we have an outsider, a Gentile, remind the People of God that they must keep alive by thanksgiving the wonders God has done for them/us. True to form, Luke has an outsider, mdeed a hated Samaritan, show insiders that giving thanks for healing does more than the healing itself. It brings salvation (for Luke this word means the assembled sisters and brothers gathered in worship because they recognize God's favor, the very purpose of Jesus' coming into our world: "Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests.")

Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time II Kings 5:14-17; Psalm 98; // Timothy 2:8-13; Luke 17:11-19.

Father David M. Pettingill In response to the ten lepers ' p lea as Jesus is on his "exodus"journey ("As he continued his journey to Jerusalem"), "Jesus, Master! Have pity on us!" Jesus sends them off to the priests who would pronounce them clean and restore them to the community. Luke continues, "As they were going they were cleansed. And one of them, realizing he had been healed, returned, glorifying God in a loud yoke; and he fell at the feet of Jesus and thanked him. He was a Samaritan." There is something more than healing happening for this person. To remember God's action in Jesus ' "exodus"journey (his going to Jerusalem and the cross and to glory at God's right hand) is to be made part of the journeying community God has created in him. That is why this "foreigner" is more than healed; he is saved: "Then he said to him, 'Stand up and go; your faith has saved you.'" If we recognize the ripples and echoes of Jesus' completed "exodus" in our lives, then we realize we are experiencing the Gospel first hand. Like the author of our second read-

ing (II Timothy) who up dates what he thinks Paul would say to young Timothy, we are willing to exert ourselves for this Gospel: "Remember Jesus Christ, raised from the dead, a descendant of David: such is my gospel for which I am suffering even to the point of chains, like a criminal. But the Word of God is not chained. Therefore , I bear with everything for the sake of these who are chosen so that they too may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus, together with eternal glory." What the author and we enjoy th anks to Jesus Christ, we want to share with others even to the point of paying the price. We can do no other because, as the baptismal hymn the author quotes, puts it so beautifully: "If we have died with him (the baptismal experience) we shall also live with him; if we persevere we shall also reign with him." To assemble, to hear the Word that creates the healing it proclaims , to give thanks for what we recognize as the ripples and echoes of Jesus ' "exodus" in our lives is to be formed as the community embodying salvation for the whole world. What angels sang of on that holy night we realize and proclaim with them. Questions for Small Communities: 1. Why is remembering so important for Christian communities? 2. Why is it so essential that we be aware of Christ 's ministry happening within and around us?

Father Dav id M. Petting ill is assistant to the moderator of the curia and parochial vica r at St. Emydius Parish, San Francisco.

Needed today: A school for the ministry of the assembly As a seminary professor, I am particularl y aware of the long and demanding journey toward priesthood. The men at St. Patrick's Seminary begin that journey with the support and encouragement of a few people, but by the end of their years of formation, those few voices have become the loud and consistent and enthusiastic call of entire parishes as well as many pastors and of course the bishop. The journey to discern that kind of call to priesdy ministry includes formation in the spiritual life, attitudes of selflessness and compassion, immersion in scripture and knowledge of the liturgy, and pastoral skills of many kinds. Preparation for life in the order of priesthood is critically important, but so also is preparation for life in the order of the baptized. Seminarians commit much time and attention and plain hard work to the demands of the liturgy, for example. What would a school for members of the assembly look like? How might we learn well what is asked of us who are baptized into the ministry of the assembly? After the Second Vatican Council and "the new Mass" of 1970, seminarians were schooled in how to preside at Eucharist, using the new missal. The roles of the baptized had also radically changed. The documents of the Council called us to "full , conscious, and active participation," but the only "schools" for us were the celebrations of Mass itself. How we were to participate in completely new ways? How were we to fulfill our new roles as ministers within the assembly? How were we to learn to offer the Mass with the priest? How were we to move from "praying at Mass to praying the Mass"? What pastoral skills for worship are asked of us?

Sister Sharon McMillan, SND Weekly preparation for Sunday Eucharist might have these elements: • Prayerful reading of the Sunday scriptures , during the week, since the eucharistic celebration presumes biblical knowledge. Immersing our minds and hearts in God's word during the week is a fine start. • Arriving before Mass starts is another skill, often very challenging ! Acknowledging that we come as those who belong to this Body of Christ. Our baptismal vows bind us

to this community. We may arrive as individuals but committed to forming one Body during this Mass. • When invited, we take up the hymnal or songbook and sing our praise to God. This is what the ministry of the assembly involves. We surrender our personal preferences about this song or this range or this choir or this priest or that lector or that usher. Eucharist is surely about being called out of ourselves, and some Sundays we may experience that more than others ! • Another key pastoral skill for ministry within the assembly is the ability to pray in silence with hundreds of other people. It is not necessarily easy. "Let us pray" invites us all to plumb the depths of our spirits in silence as does that extended silence after the readings, the homily, and after communion. This is an invitation to another surrender, to let go of whatever is on the surface of our minds and enter into the silence of encounter with God. Celebrating the Eucharist as one in the order of the baptized takes considerable attention, preparation , and pastoral skill. We did not just suddenly become experts at this once the Mass was in English. But the Eucharist itself is our school. The liturgy itself will form us. Let us surrender to its demands.

Notre Dame Siste r Sharon McMillan is assistant professor of sacramental theology and liturgy at St. Patrick Seminary, Menlo Park.

"The Imitation of Christ" provides guidance, needs balance life. I t s been a classic for centuries, the priest said, so maybe I 'm missing something. (California) "The Imitation of Christ" has indeed been one of the most widely read books on Christian spirituality nearly ever since it was written, probably sometime early in the 15th century. Its beneficial influence on Christian spirituality has been immeasurable. • You put your finger, however, on one reason other spiritual writings have been found more useful in these later times. The "Imitation" was among the first works of "Devotio Moderna," modern devotion. It was called modern because it placed greater emphasis on the inner life of the individual, on interior meditation, in opposition to the rather speculative and

Father John Dietzen Q. What is your opinion of the book by Thomas a Kempis, "The Imitation of Christ "? A priest strongly urged me to read it for meditation, but I 'm not finding it helpful. It seems so "other-worldly," and not much connected to my

philosophical focus of spirituality in preceding centuries. "Devotio Moderna" centered more on Christ 's humanity and on self-denial. It was especially suspicious of scholarly speculation. What does it profit if you speak learnedly about the Trinity but displease the Trinity by your lack of humility? it asked. "I would rather feel contrition than know how to define it" Another favorite theme was that involvement with the world brought only temptation and danger. It quoted approvingly the noted Roman philosopher Seneca's statement, "Whenever I go out among men, I come back less a man" The message of the "Imitation" seemed to be that the QUESTION CORNER, page 17

The Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Sacrament of the Eucharist Catholic San Francisco continues its publication of "The Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Sacrament of the Euch arist," a document issued by the Catholic bishops of the United States. The third and final installment will appear next week. 5. IS IT FITTING THAT CHRIST'S BODY AND BLOOD BECOME PRESENT IN THE EUCHARIST UNDER THE APPEARANCES OF BREAD AND WINE? Yes, for this way of being present corresponds perfectl y to the sacramental celebration of the Eucharist. Jesus Christ gives himself to us in a form that emp loys the symbolism inherent in eating bread and drinking wine. Furthermore , being present under the appearances of bread and wine, Christ gives himself to us in a form that is appropriate for human eating and drinking. Also, this kind of presence corresponds to the virtue of faith , for the presence of the Bod y and Blood of Christ cannot be detected or discerned by any way other than faith . That is why St. Bonaventure affirmed: "There is no difficulty over Christ's being present in the sacrament as in a sign; the great difficulty is in the fact that He is reall y in the sacrament, as He is in heaven. And so believing this is especiall y meritorious" (In IV Sent , dist. X, P. 1, art. un., qu. I). On the authority of God who reveals himself to us , by faith we believe that which cannot be grasped by our human faculties (cf. Catechism , no. 1381). • 6. ARE THE CONSECRATED BREAD AND WINE "MERELY SYMBOLS"? In everyday language, we call a "symbol" something that points beyond itself to something else, often to several other realities at once. The transformed bread and wine that are the Body and Blood of Christ are not merely symbols because they trul y are the Body and Blood of Christ. As St. John Damascene wrote: "The bread and wine are not a foreshadowing of the body and blood of Christ-By no means!-but the actual deified body of the Lord, because the Lord Himself said: 'This is my body'; not 'a foreshadowing of my body ' but 'my body ', and not 'a foreshadowing of my blood' but 'my blood'" (The Orthodox Faith, IV [PG 94, 1148-49]). At the same time, however, it is important to recognize that the Bod y and Blood of Christ come to us in the Eucharist in a sacramental form. In other words, Christ is present under the appearances of bread and wine , not in his own proper form . We cannot presume to know all the reasons behind God' s actions. God uses, however, the symbolism inherent in the eating of bread and the drinking of wine at the natural level to illuminate the meaning of what is being accomplished in the Eucharist through Jesus Christ. There are various ways in which the symbolism of eating bread and drinking wine discloses the meaning of the Eucharist. For example, just as natural food gives nourishment to the body, so the eucharistic food gives spiritual nourishment. Furthermore, the sharing of an ordinary meal establishes a certain communion among the peop le who share it; in the Eucharist , the People of God share a meal that brings them into communion not only with each other but with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Similarly, as St. Paul tells us , the single loaf that is shared among many during the euchari stic meal is an indication of the unity of those who have been called together by the Holy Spirit as one body, the Body of Christ (1 Cor. 10:17). To take another example, the individual grains of wheat and individual grapes have to be harvested and to undergo a process of grinding or crushing before they are unified as bread and as wine. Because of this, bread and wine point to both the union of the many that takes place in the Body of Christ and the suffering undergone by Christ, a suffering that must also be embraced by his disciples. Much more could be said about the many ways in which the eating of bread and drinking of wine symbolize what God does for us through Christ , since symbols carry multiple meanings and connotations. 7. DO THE CONSECRATED BREAD AND WINE CEASE TO BE THE BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST WHEN THE MASS IS OVER ? No. During the celebration of the Eucharist , the bread and wine become the Bod y and Blood of Christ, and this they remain. They cannot turn back into bread and wine, for they are no longer bread and wine at all.

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Blood of Christ "endure s as long as the Eucharistic species subsist" (Catechism, no. 1377). Against those who maintained that the bread that is consecrated during the Eucharist has no sanctif ying power if it is left over until the next day, St. Cyril of Alexandria replied , "Christ is not altered , nor is his holy body changed , but the power of the consecration and his life-giving grace is perpetual in it" (Letter 83, to Calosyrius, Bishop of Arsinoe [PG 76,1076]). The Church teaches that Christ remains present under the appearances of bread and wine as long as the appearances of bread and wine remain (cf. Catechism, no. 1377). 8. WHY ARE SOME OF THE CONSECRATED HOSTS RESERVED AFTER THE MASS? While it would be possible to eat all of the bread that is consecrated during the Mass, some is usuall y kept in the tabernacle. The Bod y of Christ under the appearance of bread that is kept or "reserved" after the Mass is commonly referred to as the "Blessed Sacrament. " There are several pastoral reasons for reserving the Blessed Sacrament. First of all, it is used for distribution to the dying (Viaticum), the sick, and those who legitimately cannot be present for the celebration of the Eucharist. Secondl y, the Body of Christ in the form of bread is to be adored when it is exposed , as in the Rite of Eucharistic Exposition and Benediction , when it is carried in eucharistic processions , or when it is simply placed in the tabernacle , before which peop le pray privately. These devotions are based on the fact that Christ himself is present under the appearance of bread. Many hol y people well known to American Catholics , such as St. John Neumann , St. Elizabeth Ann Seton , St. Katharine Drexel, and Blessed Damien of Molokai, practiced great personal devotion to Christ present in the Blessed Sacrament. In the Eastern Catholic Churches, devotion to the reserved Blessed Sacrament is practiced most directly at the Divine Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts , offered on weekdays of Lent. 9. WHAT ARE APPROPRIATE SIGNS OF REVERENCE WITH RESPECT TO THE BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST? The Body and Blood of Christ present under the appearances of bread and wine are treated with the greatest reverence both during and after the celebration of the Eucharist (cf. Mysterium Fidei, nos. 56-61). For example, the tabernacle in which the consecrated bread is reserved is placed "in some part of the church or oratory which is distinguished , conspicuous, beautifull y decorated , and suitable for prayer" (Code of Canon Law, Can. 938, §2). According to the tradition of the Latin Church, one should genuflect in the presence of the tabernacle containing the reserved sacrament. In the Eastern Catholic Churches, the traditional practice is to make the sign of the cross and to bow profoundly. The liturgical gestures from both traditions reflect reverence, respect, and adoration. It is appropriate for the members of the assembly to greet each other in the gathering space of the church (that is, the vestibule or narthex), but it is not appropriate to speak in loud or boisterous tones in the body of the church (that is, the nave) because of the presence of Christ in the taberna-

cle. Also, the Church requires everyone to fast before receiving the Body and Blood of Christ as a sign of reverence and recollection (unless illness prevents one from doing so). In the Latin Church, one must generally fast for at least one hour; members of Eastern Catholic Churches must follow the practice established by their own Church. 10. IF SOMEONE WITHOUT FAITH EATS AND DRINKS THE CONSECRATED BREAD AND WINE , DOES HE OR SHE STILL RECEIVE THE BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST? If "to receive" means "to consume," the answer is yes, for what the person consumes is the Bod y and Blood of Christ. If "to receive" means "to accept the Body and Blood of Christ knowingly and willingly as what they are, so as to obtain the spiritual benefit " then the answer is no. A lack of faith on the part of the person eating and drinking the Body and Blood of Christ cannot change what these are, but it does prevent the person from obtaining the spiritual benefit , which is communion with Christ. Such reception of Christ ' s Bod y and Blood would be in vain and , if done knowingly, would be sacrilegious (I Cor. 11:29). Reception of the Blessed Sacrament is not an automatic remedy. If we do not desire communion with Christ, God does not force this upon us. Rather, we must by faith accept God's offer of communion in Christ and in the Holy Spirit, and cooperate with God' s grace in order to have our hearts and minds transformed and our faith and love of God increased. 11. IF A BELIEVER WHO IS CONSCIOUS OF HAVING COMMITTED A MORTAL SIN EATS AND DRINKS THE CONSECRATED BREAD AND WINE, DOES HE OR SHE STILL RECEIVE THE BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST? Yes. The attitude or disposition of the recipient cannot change what the consecrated bread and wine are. The question here is thus not primarily about the nature of the Real Presence, but about how sin affects the relationship between an individual and the Lord. Before one steps forward to receive the Body and Blood of Christ in Holy Communion, one needs to be in a right relationshi p with the Lord and his Mystical Body, the Church, that is, in a state of grace, free of all mortal sin. While sin damages and can even destroy that relationship, the sacrament of Penance can restore it. St. Paul tells us that "whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord unworthil y will have to answer for the bod y and blood of the Lord. A person should examine himself , and so eat the bread and drink the cup" (I Cor. 11:27-28). Anyone who is conscious of having committed a mortal sin should be reconciled through the sacrament of Penance before receiving the Body and Blood of Christ unless a grave reason exists for doing so and there is no opportunity for confession. In this case, the person is to be mindful of the obligation to make an act of perfect contrition , that is, an act of sorrow for sins that "arises from a love by which God is loved above all else" (Catechism, no. 1452). The act of perfect contrition must be accompanied by the firm intention of making a sacramental confession as soon as possible.

School of Pastoral Leadership For times, registration materials, costs, exact locations and additional information, call Joni Gallagher at (415) 614-5564 or spl@att.net Preregistration is necessary for many programs. Visit the Web site at www.splsf.org. The History and Theology of the Mass with practical applications lor lectors and eucharistic ministe rs taught by Father James McKearney of St. Patrick's Seminary, Menlo Park. Reading and Praying the Bible in the Parish taught by Scott Moyer, director, Adull Faith Formation, St. Dominic Parish, San Francisco. Introduction to the Old Testament taught by Jesuit Father Donald Sharp. Encountering the New Testament taught by Father David Pettingill, founding director of the School of Pastoral Leadership. The classes above are scheduled for Tuesdays, Oct. 30- Dec. 11 from 7:30-9:30 p.m. at Junipero Serra High School, 451 W. 20th Ave., San Mateo. The Sacraments: Doors to the Sacred, taught by USF Prof. Mary Romo. Exploring the Spiritual Maps of 16th Century Spanish Mystics taught by Carmen de la Vega Neafsey, who holds a graduate degree in Spanish Literature. Introduction to the Old Testament taught by Jesuit Father Donald Sharp. The classes above are scheduled for Wednesdays Oct. 31 - Dec. 12 from 7:30 - 9:30 p.m. at Archbishop Riordan High School, 175 Phelan Dr., San Francisco. Thursdays Nov. 1 - Dec. 12, 7:30 - 9:30 p.m.: Join Eastern rite priest, Father David Anderson for Expressions of Prayer in the East and the West Through the Centuries at Marin Catholic High School, 675 Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Kentfield. Fridays Nov. 2 - Dec. 14: Jesuit Father Donald Sharp speaks on Prophets and Wisdom Literature from 2- 4 p.m. at the new Chancery/Pastoral Center, One Peter Yorke Way, SF. Oct. 19 and 20: Called and Gifted Workshop at St. Dominic Church, 2390 Bush St. at Steiner, SF. Fri, 7 - 9:30 p.m.; Sat. 9:30 a.m. - 4 p.m. Contact Scott Moyer at (415) 567-7824.

Datebook . versation. Facilitated by Nancy Deutsch. Women's Spirituality: God's Work of Art in Progress, a retreat for Catholic women between the ages of 22 and 50, Oct. 12 - 14 at Presentation Center, Los Gatos in the Santa Cruz mountains. Facilitated by a team of Presentation Sisters the experience will name, discuss, reflect and pray about the various stages through which women come to know God as they develop their spirituality. No fee. Donations accepted. For more details, contact Presentation Sister Monica Miler at (415) 751-0406, ext. 22 or mmiller@pbvmsf.org.

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

Young Adults The Young Adult Ministry office of the Archdiocese can be contacted by phone at (415) 614-5595 or 5596 and by e-mail at witcoxc@sfarchdiocese.org or jansenm @sfarchdiocese.org.

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Oct. 15: Join Two Tribes, young adults from the Catholic and Jewish tradition who meet to dialogue about their journeys of faith at 7 p.m. at American Jewish Committee building al 121 Steuart St., SF. Call Eric Suba at (415) 922-2364 or eric.suba@kp.org.

250 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park. For fees, times and details about these and other offerings call (650) 325-5614. Presentation Sister Flosina Conrotto, Program Director.

Oct. 27: Fall Fest 2001, 5th annual Young Adult Conference with keynote, workshops , Mass, dinner and dance. Contact Eric Suba at (415) 922-2364 or eric.suba@kp.org.

Nov. 1: Bent Halos, A Celebration of All Saints day, with Sister Toni Longo. How can people live the sainthood Jesus calls them to? Nov. 2-4: Silent Retreat with Holy Ghost Father Tom Timmins. Deepen an awareness ol God's infinite love and mercy toward all.

San Francisco's St. Agnes Parish, 1025 Masonic, SF and St. Agnes Spiritual Life Center, 1611 Oak St., SF announces talks and prayer opportunities. Call Chad Evans at (415) 487-8560.

Nov. 9-11: A Silent Retreat led by Father John Talesfore, director of worship for the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Conpemplate God's eternity breaking into daily life.

Synergy Yoga at St. Agnes/SF, Mon. and Wed. 7:30 - 9 p.m. in Lower Gym Hall, $5 per class. Call Chad Evans at (415) 487-8560, ext. 226.

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? Oct. 14: Elizabeth Lily with the Parable of the Lost Coin; Nov. 11: Father Wayne Campbell with the Parable of the Wedding Feast.

Social Justice/Respect Life Sat. 7:30 - 10 a.m.: Pray the Rosary Apostolate gathers for prayer at the corner of California and Baker St., SF. Call (415) 752-4922 for more information.

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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) 3333627.

Oct. 14: Mercy Center celebrates its 20th year with a Taize Prayer Service and picnic supper on the lawn of the Burlingame retreat. Dinner is at 5:30 p.m. with the prayer service at 7 p.m. 3rd Sun: Salon, a monthly gathering of people in the second half of life to explore opportunities and challenges facing them using arts , literature and con-

Single, Divorced, Separated Oct. 19: The Separated and Divorced Catholics of the Archdiocese is hosting its annual Dinner gala at Cafe Riggio, SF. Tickets are $36 with reservations

annual festival kick-off at Good Shepherd Church, 901 Oceana Blvd., Pacifica. An adult evening of casino fun with games ol chance, great food, dancing and great prizes. Come in costume! Tickets /$22 in advance, $25 at door. Call Diane at (650) 3552593.

required by Oct. 15. Call (415) 751-0420 or (415) 2735521. Through Nov. 18 at 7 p.m.: Are you or someone you know separated, divorced, widowed? Separated and Divorced Catholics of the Archdiocese of San Francisco is offering The Divorce Recovery Course which provides a chance to understand the emotional journey begun when a marriage ends. Takes place at St. Dominic Church , 2390 Bush at Steiner, SF. $40 fee includes materials. Call Pat at (415) 389-9790 or Theresa at (415) 666-0876. For information about additional ministries available to divorced and separated persons in the Archdiocese, call (415) 273-5521. Oct. 26 - 28: Beginning Experience of San Jose/San Francisco offers a weekend for divorced, separated and widowed men and women that is designed to be a powerful, positive growth experience. Wee kend creates space where those who have suffered loss can re-evaluate themselves and their lives and move on to the future with renewed hope. Call Pam at (415) 934-8932; Alan at (415) 422-6698; or John at (650) 692-4337.

Vocations Oct. 19-21: Women invited to Vocations Weekend. Do you want to deepen your spirituality and serve people in need as a Sister of Mercy? Are you a woman age 18 - 45? Come to talk at a weekend of discernment. Contact Mercy Sister Lenore Greene at (650) 340-7434 or lenorersm@aol.com. Oct. 26-28: Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers hold a weekend retreat in Los Altos for young men interested in exploring whether God is calling them to be a missionary priest or brother. More information at www.maryknoll.org Contact Deacon Matt Dulka at (510) 481-9098 or mdulka@maryknoll.org.

Lectures/ Classes/Radio-TV Oct. 27: Bringing the Dark Madonna to Light , a day-long celebration and study of the enduring symbol of healing and wholeness at University of San Francisco from 10 a..m. - 5:30 p.m.Fee is $25/$5 seniors and students. Call (415) 422-5979 or darkmodonna@usfca.edu. Mon - Fri. at 7 p.m.: Catholic Radio Hour featuring recitation of the Rosary and motivating talks and music with host Father Tom Daly. Tune your radio to KEST - 1450 AM. Oct. 15: Presentation Sister Monica Miller discusses vocations to religious life; Oct. 22: Father Craig Forner continues the look at vocations with a perspective on priesthood.

Food & Fun Oct. 12, 13 14: Annual Festival, Star of the Sea Church , 8th Ave. and Geary Blvd., SF. Dinners and entertainment including Karaoke with Pizza plus Chinese and Italian dinners. Fri. 7-11 p.m.; Sat. 1 - 11 p.m.; Sun. 1 - 9 p.m. Oct. 13: Casino Night beginning at 7 p.m. benefiting St. Brendan Elementary School in the parish's new Msgr. Donnell Walsh Gymnasium off Portola Dr. at Laguna Honda Blvd., SF. Buffet dinner and dancing complements the evenings games including Black Jack , Roulette and more. Call Mara Bonelli at (415) 564-5221 for ticket information. Oct. 13: Holy Name Carnival and Craft Faire benefiting the parish school. Games, food, raffles, crafts and gifts from 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. at 40th and Lawton, SF. Also climbing rock , mini-golf , bingo, silent auction. Call (415) 731-4077. Oct. 13: Monte Carlo at the Haunted Mansion,

Oct. 18: Annual Red Mass and Banquet for the St. Thomas More Society at Sts. Peter and Paul Church and the Italian Athletic Club on Washington Square beginning at 5:30 p.m. Archbishop William J. Levada will preside. The organization's St. Thomas More Award will be presented to California Court of Appeals Justice Joanne C.Parrilli. Dinner tickets are $65 and $30 for clergy and religious. Contact Kathryn Ringgold, 1520 Taylor St., #504, SF 94133. Oct. 19, 20, 21: Under the Stars , annual Good Shepherd Church Festival , a weekend of fun for all ages marking the parish's 50th year. Games , rides , the Dave Clemmons and Blues Casters bands, plus local high school bands. Fabulous food, special dinners and a Sat. Night 50s Sock Hop. Visiting 49er and Raiders, too. Fri. 6 - 1 0 p.m.; Sat. 11 a.m. - 10 p.m.; Sun. 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. 901 Oceana Blvd., Pacifica. For information and dinner tickets , call Diane at (650) 355-2593. . Oct. 19, 20: Fun for the entire family at St. Catherine of Siena Parish "County Fair". See "Late Night Catechism " on Fri. night and dance the night away to live jazz in Festival Tent on Sat. Fun rides, exciting games, lots of food , even a 9-hole miniature course. Call (650) 743-9418 or golf SCCountyFair@aol.com. Benefits parish and school projects. Oct. 20: Holiday Craft Fair sponsored by the Parent Organization of St. Gabriel Elementary School in Bedford Hall at 41st Ave. and Ulloa, SF. Handmade items include doll clothes , Christmas and Halloween decorations, jewelry, candles and more . Call (415) 566-0314. Oct. 20: Annual Catholic Physicians' Mass with Archbishop William J. Levada presiding at St. Ignatius Church, Fulton and Parker St., SF at 5 p.m. Dinner and an address by Sulpician Father Gerald Coleman, president/rector, St. Patrick's Seminary follows in nearby Xavier Hall. Dinner tickets $50. Call (415) 661-0740. Oct. 24: Octobertest Lunch and Bingo Party benefiting Grace Center, a work of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd at Basque Cultural Center, 599 Railroad Ave., South San Francisco . Tickets $35. Call Beverly Desmond at (415) 587-5374. Oct. 27: Nightmare on Thomas More WayCarnival 2001 benefiting St. Thomas More Elementary School , 50 Thomas More Way off Brotherhood Way, SF. Theme booths, games , activities, food and plenty of fun for the entire community. Call (415) 905-4660 , ext. 20. Oct. 27: Harvest Fest/Arts and Crafts Fair benefiting St. Matthias Day Care Center, Redwood City in the Parish Hall at 533 Canyon Rd. off Cordilleras. Shop for the holidays from more than 25 vendors. Also a food booth, bake booth, silent auction, entertainment, games and more. Call (650) 367-1320. 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.

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By Juli e Sly Catholic News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CNS) — The California Supreme Court Sept. 26 agreed to review an appeals court decision requiring Catholic Charities of Sacramento to comply with a state law requiring employers to include contraception in health plans that cover prescriptions. Without comment, the high court 's six jud ges voted in private in San Francisco to review the July 2 decision by the 3rd District Court of Appeal in Sacramento. Catholic Charities argued in a suit filed last year that the law should be set aside because it violates the group 's religious freedom. The organization 's lawyers argued that under the relig ious tenets of Catholicism "the use of contraception is intrinsically evil and a grave sin." The 1999 state law, they said, burdened Catholic Charities ' "sincerely held religious beliefs, thereby violating the religious freedom guarantees" of both the U.S. Constitution and the California Constitution. The appellate panel upheld the law, saying it did not force Catholic Charities to endorse contraception, only to treat its male and female employees equally. The court also rejected

Catholic Charities' assertion th at the law interfered with religious freedom by exempting the Catholic Church but not a church-affiliated charity that serves the general public. The appellate court ruled that the exemption was valid in that it applies equall y to all reli gions. In its Supreme Court appeal , Catholic Charities called the exemption "religious gerrymandering" and said the state was meddling in church affairs. The organization 's lawyers wrote that the law requires Catholic Charities to choose between providing contraceptives, which it considers morally abhorren t, and withdrawing ail prescription coverage , which it considers a moral duty. James F. Sweeney, attorney for Catholic Charities, said in a written statement Sept. 27 that he was pleased that the state Supreme Court , "which has a long and distinguished history of broadly protecting freedom ri ghts of Californians under our state's constitution ," agreed to review the case. "We hope that this court's tradition will be reaffirmed and the rights of people of faith secured from discriminatory treatment by government," he said. A brief from Catholic Charities is due in the Supreme Court on Oct. 26, according to Sweeney. He said oral arguments will be held in either Los Angeles or San Francisco sometime next year.

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Tongans: Growing presence in archdiocese

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their own hall and church buildings. The recent celebration was held at a park in Oakland for which the commuMembers of one of the fastest growing immigrant populations in the Archdiocese hail from the nity paid rent , she said. Informati onal materials from the Office of Ethnic smallest kingdom in the world: Tonga. The Tdngan presence here is so strong, the King of Ministries say about 24 percent of Tonga's 102,000 citizens Tonga visits his emigrated subjects in San Francisco twice are Catholic. Catholicism was introduced to Tonga by a year, according to the Tongan consulate general, who Marist missionaries who established the first mission in described the Bay Area as one of the most important pock- 1842. In 1855 Tongan Catholics were granted by the civil government the freedom of worship. ets of Tongan people in the world. ' A Tongan priest is assigned by the Bishop of Tonga to be According to a report from the Archdiocese s Office of Ethnic Ministries, Tongans represent a growing presence in the national chaplain for 23 Tongan communities disthe Bay Area. The report estimates that there are about as persed in nine states throughout the U.S.: Alaska, Idaho, many Tongan households, 145, as African American Seattle , Reno, Salt Lake City, Arizona , Texas, Florida and households , 147, in the San Mateo County portion of the California. The Tongan chaplaincy, active in the U.S. since 1984, is based at St. Timothy Parish in San Mateo. The curArchdiocese. Tongan populations are concentrated in several rent chap lain is Father Saimone Moala. The chaplain 's assistant said the Bay Area has nine parishes in San Mateo County: St. Timothy, San Mateo, St. Francis of Assisi in East Palo Alto, St. Anthony Padua communities of Tongans, whereas there were only five in Menlo Park and St. Bruno in San Bruno. Participants pockets of Tongans here 15 years ago , Father Tuakalau at a recent Tongan youth celebration in Oakl and broug ht Thipulotu estimated the Bay Area has about 3,000 to 4,000 faithful from St. Vincent Parish in Vallejo , St. Anne Parish Tongans calling the place home. He and Father Moala in Sacramento , Oakland's their Tongan flock help St. Bernard , p lus folks from with a variety of spiritual Salt Lake City, Texas, , _____ ___I and p hysical needs, he said. __-P-r_3sRfifl8 Reno and Alaska. l-RS^ifv Arizona, -SI V'I* _^__ffi_ Tk\ The priests help them Z^^****' ^ "We bring the youth PiSKjfltt* 7. K'"_7^ ^~* l_^l_____Mr______i __K^^a _ _ :'' * become involved in the here to interact with each parish, offer Mass in local marrying other instead of Tongan monthly or quarfaith , " outside the terly, and assist them in setexplained St. Vincent tling as newcomers into a parishioner Agnes Peleki , _______ jsar ' ^lW _f very different .culture. ' 'w P^^_i&;^^^> about the celebration. Ms. B' Peleki was described by a friend as the "mother of the youth program " for the Vallejo parish. Faioso Pahulurelaxes on the lawn. Ms. Peleki said Tongans "We help thenin the U.S. enjoy greater economic opportunities, but "they understand what " really are homesick. Important cultural traits include respect of the aunt it is to be an and uncle, respect of the highest and lowest ranks in the A m e r i c a n , " clan, respect of women, and an emphasis on singing and Father Tuipulotu Cultural dancing, according to materials from the Office of Ethnic said. changes show the Ministries. When asked why her people leave the islands , one difference between Vallejo St. Vincent parishioner said simply, "Economic and Tonga's "very traSt. Vincent's, Vallejo, ditional , family educational opportunity." pa rishioners Stanley Ms. Peleki expressed app reciation for Archbishop values, Christi an Salt, Anita Toki and mixed William Levada who she said "has done so much for values , " Vailena Namomo. youth , and for immigration purposes. " She asked for with the "chalongoing help from the Archdiocese as the Tongans need lenge of living in a very secular world" in the United States

lupe Green and Palepa Fauolo, both of Sacramento's St. Anne Parish, dance during a recent Tongan youth celebration. The best of Tongan culture hinges on its "very communal" nature, he said. "We care and share and love each other." The best of American culture focuses on the possibility to "earn what you get. In Tonga, everything is hereditary. In America, you don 't have to wait for that. You can work for what you want. " Father Tuipulotu spoke the sentiments of several Tongan parishioners when he described why Tongans leave the islands they love and miss: educational opportunity for children. "This is the land of opportunity," he said. Consulate General Tevita Kolokihakaufisi described the pattern of migration from the island during the past 50 years as a "consistent flow" which started when representatives of the Mormon Church began bringing Tongans to the U.S. for study and economic prosperity. Mr. Kolokihakaufisi said the migrants normally emigrate under the auspices of their various denominations and are grouped not as Tongans but as members of those faiths. The island was evangelized beginning in the 17th century, he said. Mormons are the largest religious community, followed by Catholics and Methodists, according tc Mr. Kolokihakaufisi. New Zealand and Australia are alsc home to communities of Tongans, although many of them too flock to the U.S. for economic opportunities, he said. The Tongan consulate general decried a lack of national identity, and called on Tongans around the world to celebrate the kingdom 's independence day next June 4. Still, he described Tongans in the U.S. as a crucial economic pipeline to the islanders, with much needed funds flowing from U.S. Tongan families to support infrastructure on Tonga. Tonga is the only Polynesian island - it's actually a group of more than 100 islands — that has never been colonized, according to materials from the Office of Ethnic Ministries. A treaty with Great Britain signed in the latter part of the 19th century made the kingdom a protectorate. At the time, Britain took over the treasury, the foreign affairs port and the defense port, the consulate general said.

Ethnic Ministry Report: 'Much needs to be done' Much remains to be accomplished in ministering to non-white and Hispanic Catholics, according to a report issued by the Archdiocese's Office of Ethnic Ministries. The report, Ethnic Diversity in Parishes, draws several conclusions based on a parish survey distributed in January. • Hispanic and Asian Pacific populations continue to follow an upward trend, while black, American Indian and white populations continue a downward trend . By • 2040, the face of the Archdiocese will be more Hispanic and Asian, with the Asian population having a slight edge. Asians, as identified in the papal document "Ecclesia in Asia," Include people from East Asia, Southeast Asia, Central Asia, Asia Minor and the Middle East. Tongans, Samoans and other Pacific Islanders belong to this group. • While the Archdiocese shows decreasing numbers of whites, blacks and American Indians, dioceses in other parts of Northern California show increases. Oakland shows increasing numbers of black and American Indian Catholics. San Jose Diocese shows an increase in the black population, which the report identifies as African-American and "Other Black" people such as Nigerians, Haitians and Congolese . The Dioceses oi Stockton , Sacramento and Santa Rosa all show increases in white, black and American Indian populations. The report states a need to minister to ethnic populations in a variety 0f ways.

Some immigrants come from a mono-cultural society, and their experience of a multicultural society is "very new, confusing to some, complex and intimidating to many," says the report. " Many need help establishing parish contact where they live. Some find Sunday liturgies somewhat meaningless and lacking in singing. Many parents want their children to attend Religious Education given in native languages. The less personal nature of the life in the U.S. and the absence of closeness to nature can prove culturally confusing. Ideas for responding to an ever-changingCatholic population include providing resources for celebrations, help planning multicultural liturgies , offering tips on evangelization, and continued promotion of unity and acceptance. "Not sure, but we do need help, " was one reply. "Even with the significant increase in the population of non-white minority groups and Hispanics," the report concludes, "many parishes still struggle to accommodate, much less encourage, the cultural expressions of faith of various ethnic groups. A majority of pastoral ministers, no matter how willing they are to welcome and serve newcomers and immigrant groups, lack the knowledge and experience to reach out to those whose liturgical life or faith is tied more closely to devotions, family, prayer groups, and native countries than to the parish community or local church. It is apparent thatso much still needsto be done..."