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Vouchers get hey test in Sup reme Court

By Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — A decision on whether a school voucher program in Cleveland violates the constitutional separation of church and state now rests with the U.S. Supreme Court.

Those on both sides of the case before the court say its outcome will have long-term ramifications, either bringing new life to a burgeoning voucher movement or putting a halt to it.

Based on some of the comments made by the justices during oral arguments on the issue Feb. 20, Cleveland's voucher program might be considered constitutional as long as parents are offered a wide variety of alternatives for their children beyond just public and religious schools. Alternatives include tutoring programs, magnet schools and community schools, which are public schools separately chartered from the regular school district.

An editorial look at the school voucher issue

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Currently, 96 percent to 99 percent of students who participate in Cleveland's 6-year-old pilot voucher program attend a religious school.

Opponents describe this as a government endorsement of religion.

A lawyer arguing in favor of the program said the tuition offered to low-income families of up to $2 ,250 per year did not signify government support for the schools parents chose for their children.

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Catholic school pa nel looks at new strategies

AN APOLOGY AND A PROMISE: Bishop Wilton D. Gregory of Belleville, III , president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, has issued a statement on behalf of the bishops apolog izing to victims of sexual abuse and their families and promising "to protectour youthfr om this kind of abuse." r The text of the statement is on Page 15. ~

The Archdiocese of San Francisco is in the midst of addressing concerns facing Catholic schools, such as teacher retention , Catholic identity, and financial strategies, through a newly formed Strategic Planning Commission.

A Feb. 25 update to pastors, principals and school communities says the origin of the commission arose from concerns about declining elementary school enrollment; demographic and socioeconomic trends in the Bay Area, including escalating costs of living and housing; and the movement of families and school personnel outside the Bay Area.

Increasing challenges in the recruitment and retention of qualified Catholic school teachers and administrators in an environment of rapidly escalating salaries at other schools are an additional consideration.

Archbishop William J. Levada said the commission is to act in a consultative role to advise him and the superintendent of Catholic schools. The panel has been directed to recommend: ÂŤ actions to stabilize Catholic schools over the long term and to assure their availability to all.

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by Tom Burke a graduate of St. Louis University and has earned sevUSF's Golden Reunion Committe e has been busy planeral graduate degrees in Rome.... Prayers please for ning the March 23rd celebration. Top from left: Chic At the Lakeside District's St. Stephen Parish it 's Deacon Paul Moriarty who is recovering from serious Roach , Tom Wade , Jack Riordan , John Bible, Jim thanks to Doreen Aguirre , who assists as a weekday surgery, and for his wife, Lorraine , who is by his Grealish , Tom Tasso, Al Alessa ndri, Jack O'Dea, Jack sacristan.... Dan and Barbara Gallinetti are helping side. ...Don 't miss tomorrow and Sunday 's Flea Deasy, Dan Mattrocce, Mai Visbal, Jim Kelly; Bottom make the season 's meatless Fridays meaningful and Market at St. Elizabeth Parish, Goettingen and from left: Jack Muzio, Ray Roure, Ken Denman, Frank tasteful with a special Lenten sandwiches menu at their Wayland St., SF. It 's a bundle of fun and treasures , D'Atri, Jesuit Father John LoSchiavo , Stacey Ver. The Woodside Deli. The Our Lady of the Wayside parish- including a snack bar, and is sponsored by the parish ioners have designed choices from the dependable tuna Women's Club. Sat. 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.; Sun. 10 a.m. - 3 class of '52 will be welcomed into the Golden Alumni and the classes of '32, '37, '42, '47 will also be spotlighted.

I'm writing this column in the midst of and egg salad to Stilton cheese with app les and walnuts , p.m calamari steak, and mozzarella cheese with pesto and Conor 's first weeks behind the wheel. Today, we drove tomato , Dan and I had a chance to chat about the good to school with the emergency brake on. No wonder it probab l y not very profitab le on his shift.... Congrats to old days when every Friday meant no meat and decided took so long to get there.... What's up with the whistles students of the Excelsior District's Corpus Christi and other contraptions being advertised to deter tele- Elementary who entertained at several City hotels durphone salespeop le? Whatever happened to "No, thank ing Christmas including the Sheraton Palace, St. you"?... How about Rickey Henderson signing anoth- Francis and Hotel Argent. Conducting the choir is er contract to play baseball. Will he ever retire? I under- Richard Herron. Principal is Salesian Sister Anna stand he's the onl y active player who has actuall y field- Goretti. Pastor is Salesian Father John O'Brien....A ed a ball off the bat of Babe Ruth Thanks for the mortarboard salute to Steve Phelps of St. Ignatius help wi th spellin ' Rickey 's name to Mike Lynch of St. College Preparatory who will be recognized at Veronica Parish and Enterprise Rent-a-Car. Mike 's National Catholic Education Association meetings in folks are longtime St. Veronica parishioners Marianne Atlantic City, NJ in April. Steve, a USF grad now finand Leo Lynch and his grandfolks are longtime St. ishing a doctorate at the school 's Institute for Catholic Matthew parishioners. Nancy and Gene D'amico. His Educational Leadership, will be honored for his work brother is Junipero Serra High School junior Scott in planning and implementing professional development Lynch....Serra and St. Pius grad Michael Vaissade of programs for Catholic school personnel.... I've gotten a St. Matthias Parish takes first vows as a Franciscan few calls from married couples who thought they had to Friar of Renew on Monday in Bronx , N.Y. Flying back be present for the Anniversary Mass on Feb. 9 to have The ministry of Paris Foreign Mission Father Heribert for the rite are Michael's sister, Gina, and their dad, their names in this column . That 's not true at all. We'd Duquet was celebrated and commemorate d at a Mass Benjamin....The welcome mat's out at Our Lady of love to hear from all of ya ' . and reception at St. Cecilia Church on Feb. 10. Father Remember, this is an empty space without ya ' and Duquet , who will be 88 years old in Jul y and a priest 63 Mercy for Father Kevin Kennedy who will reside at the Daly City parish while studying toward serving in it takes but a moment to let us know about a wedding, years in June , has served in retirement as presider hospital ministry....Thanks to longtime Holy Namer anniversary, birthday or other special or entertaining and visitor of the sick at St. Cecilia 's for 25 years. It is said that Father Duquet, the regular principal celebrant Gerry Hipps for sharing some of her memories of the event. Just jot down the basics and send to On the Street Sunset District parish that were piqued by a story pub- Where You Live, One Peter Yorke Way, SF 94109; fax of St. Cecilia 's daily 6:30 a.m. Mass, was, at one time, lished in CSF last fall. Gerry says she has "nothing but it to (415) 614-5633 or e-mail it to tburke @catholicmaking as many as 800 Communion calls a month to fond memories" of priests she remembers serving there sf.org. However you get it here, please don 't forget to the sick and homebound of the Parkside District. and "great Mercy Sisters, too." Gerry 's memory of cur- include a follow-up phone number. You can reach Tom Today, he continues the ministry as presider at the rent pastor, Father Donald D'Angelo "scooping many Burke at (415) 614-5634.

7:15 a.m. Mass and visitor of the sick at St. Anne's a good ice cream cone" at Home where he recently took up residence. Bishop a neighborhood creamery John C. Weste r was present in the sanctuary for the Happy Anniversary to Diana and Bob Logan who were are right on track, Father Mass. From left: Msgr. Michael Harriman , pasto r, St. married 50 years ago in St. Raphael Church, San Rafael.

D'Angelo said, confirming Cecilia Parish; Father Duquet; Msgr. James McKay, The Logans have been parishioners of Burlingame 's St. that he was in the employ pastor, St. Matthew Parish, San Mateo who served Catherine of Siena, where they serve as lector and of The Big Dipper at 33rd as pastor of St. Cecilia 's from 1976 - 90. eucharistic minister, for more than 30 years. Diana is an Ave. and Judah all throug h alum of the revered St. Rose Academy and Bob is a Cal hi gh school.

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Peninsula churches join affordable housing battle

By Kamille Nixon A growing band of 25 congregations from Mountain View to Pacifica, is working to fix a chronic affordable housing shortage on the Peninsula , where some 27,400 people languish on HUD Sec 8 waiting lists for affordable apartments.

Leaders of the coalition , Peninsula Interfaith Action , expect about 1,500 residents and at least four political officials to address the issue at an "Affordable Housing Action Meeling" on Monday, March 4. The event will begin at 7 p.m., at Fox Theater, 2215 Broadway, in Redwood City.

The meeting is a response to a 1,000-person rally at a Peninsula hi gh school last year. Since then, members of the boards of supervisors for San Mateo and Santa Clara counties have pledged support , organizers say. "Now, the question is whether they have the political will to fund it ," says a PIA press release.

Pushing public officials to pay attention is a major goal of the faith-based group.

PIA leaders will lay out demands for an ongoing revenue stream for publicly funded housing trust funds in the counties.

"The desperately poor compel us all," PIA organizer Kathy Curran said. "But it's not just the desperately poor feeling housing pain."

Short-term funding possibilities include the hotel tax or real estate transfer tax, and a sales tax ballot initiative may be in the offing, according to organizers.

Confirmed officials at the March 4 event include Mike Nevin, Rich Gordon , and Rose Jacobs Gibson from the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors and Liz Kiiiss from the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors .

"Funding for the Housing Trust Fund will keep 10,000 families together and off the bridges ," said Diana Reddy,

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'The desp erately poor compel us all. But it 's not jus t the desp erately poor feeling housing pain .' co-chair of the PIA Board . "It is not acceptable that our teachers, firemen, and service providers cannot live in the communities they serve."

Ms. Curran said 65 percent of San Mateo County firefighters don 't live in the county. Only one of Palo Alto 's 95 police officers lives in the city and more than 50 percent of high school teachers in Pacifica live elsewhere, she said.

"We lose dozens and dozens and dozens of high school teachers every year and they say in their exit interviews

that they just can't afford to live here," Ms. Curran said.

Organizers say the problem has been going on for years, and it seems so enormous that people ' want to throw up their hands. Something can be done , they say, and that is to establish a permanent source of revenue for afford able and low-income housing.

The housing trust fund would be similar to funds in some 257 other communities, including Sacramento.

A 30-member advisory committee meets every other month to hammer out details. Meanwhile, PIA is developing more than housing solutions. The organization, winch is similar to other grassroots federations such as San Francisco Organizing Project, is also creating leaders from seemingly unlikely sources.

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VATICAN CITY — Althoug h he was in the middle of a weeklong Lenten retreat, Pope John Paul II met Feb. 21 with Syrian President Bashar Assad to discuss the complicated and violent situation in the Middle East. After meeting the pope, Assad and his foreign minister, Farouk al-Shara, met Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Vatican secretary of state.

The leaders discussed "way s to bring peace to the Middle East and especiall y to the Holy Land , based on the resolutions of the Unite d Nations ," said a short statement from the Vatican.

The Vatican supports U.N. resolutions recognizing Israel's right to exist, calling for an independent Palestinian state and urging recognition of Jerusalem 's status as a city holy to Jews, Muslims and Christians.

During the meeting, Assad gave Pope John Paul a copy of the Koran, the Muslim holy book, describing it to the pope as "the sign of coexistence " among the descendants of the patriarch Abraham .

Massachusetts Senate rejects exemption for birth control

BOSTON —The Catholic Church in Massachusetts lost an important battle in the effort to avoid a government mandate to pay for artificial birth control for its employees.

A Senate bill would require all health care coverage in the commonwealth to include contraceptive coverage as it does hormone replacement therapy. The bill exempts only the archdiocese and directl y controlled entities.

An effort to broaden the exemption to include other church-affiliated institutions , including Catholic Charities and Carilus Christi, the Archdiocese of Boston 's health care system, failed to receive enough support in a Senate committee.

Catholic Charities is fighting a legal battle against a similar law in California.

Vatican announces early release of some WWII archival material

VATICAN CITY — The Vatican announced it would open ahead of schedule part of its 20th-century archives, including new documents on Vatican-German relations and Pope Pius XIl's efforts to help prisoners during World War n.

The Vatican described the move as an "exceptional gesture" by Pope John Paul II that should help put an end to "unjust and thankless speculation" — an apparent reference to accusations, strongly rejected by the Vatican, that Pope Pius XII and others did not do enough to stop the Nazi rise to power and the Holocaust.

The announcement came in a two-page statement Feb. 15 by officials of the Vatican Secret Archives and the Secretariat of State. For years, Jewish scholars in particular have pressed the Vatican to open its archives so experts could examine a more complete historical record from the period .

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Chinese p resident def ends jailing relig ious fig ureswho 'break law'

BEIJING — No one has the right to interfere in legal action taken against religious figures in China who break the law, Chinese President Jiang Zemin said at a press conference with visiting U.S. President George W. Bush.

"Any religious follower has to abide by the law," Jiang said. "So some of the law-breakers have been detained because of their violation of law, not because of their religious belief. " Fides, news agency of the Vatican's Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, released a list of 33 Catholic bishops and priests who were arrested or under house arrest since the mid-1990s because of their refusal to join the government-approved Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association.

Sp read of AIDS fueled by lack of values, Af rican archbishop says

YAOUNDE, Cameroon —The spread of AIDS among African youth has been fueled by a careless attitude about sex and the lack of a value-based educational system, said Archbishop Andre Wouking of Yaounde.

Archbishop Wouking criticized AIDS-awareness campaigns that focus on the use of condoms rather than abstinence as a way of avoiding AIDS. Society should "encourage youth to abstain from living a sexual life that is even inferior to that of animals, which at least have some instinctive discipline," the archbishop said.

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Orthodox occup iers demolish Catholic churches in Romania

CLUJ, Romania — Archbishop Jean-Claude Perisset, the Vatican's nuncio to Romania, has confirmed that Eastern Catholic churches are being bulldozed by Orthodox occupiers and urged the country's "political class" to settle the dispute.

The Eastern Catholic Church in Romania faces "a double difficulty," the archbishop said, "since its places of worship, parish houses and monasteries have been used by the Orthodox Church for 50 years."

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VATICAN CITY —The scandalous collapse of Enron Corp. marks the "globalization of fraud" and illustrates the need for effective controls on capitalism, a top official of Vatican Radio said.

Jesuit Father Pasquale Borgomeo, Vatican Radio ' s director-general, said Enron was an example of the "unbri dled capitalism " that can bring catastrophe to millions of people and to the market system.

Its human costs — including financial damage and job losses — extend around the world and will become fully apparent only in coming months, he said in an editorial commentary Feb. 19.

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Sainthood cause may take pope to Guatemala aft er Yov*h Day

VATICAN CITY —The sainthood cause of the missionary known as the "St. Francis of the Americas" may take Pope John Paul II to Guatemala this summer, sources in Rome said. The sources said that the pope is strongly considering a trip to Guatemal a City to canonize Blessed Pedro de Betancur, who once walked the wealthy neighborhoods of the Guatemalan capital ringing a bell and begging support for the poor.

The founder of the Bethlemite Brothers and Sisters, Blessed Betancur died in 1667 and was beatified by the pope in 1980. He would be the first saint to have worked and died in Guatemala.

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By Jerry Filteau Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) - "We can make a difference," John Carr, the U.S. bishops ' secretary for social development and world peace, told about 500 Catholic social action leaders Feb. 25 at the annual Catholic Social Ministry Gathering in Washington.

Carr noted that the Clinton administration was hostile to debt relief for the world' s poorest nations and most of Congress was indifferent or opposed to it when Catholic social action leaders joined forces with bishops and other religious leaders and humanitarian groups and fought for debt relief.

"Then, to the surprise of virtually everyone, the United States forgave its entire bilateral debt for the poorest countries of the world, and even more surprising, Congress appropriated hundreds of millions of dollars to multilateral debt relief," he said.

The debt relief task is not done yet, he said, "but no one thought we had a prayer and we took our principles, our ideas, our presence and our passion, and we made a difference."

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• short-term and long-term financial strategies to control expenses while assuring continuation of quality educational programs.

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The two dozen members of the commission will consider how issues relating to Catholic identity, especiall y in schools with large non-Catholic populations , impact school structure , finances and enrollment.

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"Just this last year, there was going to be a huge tax cut, and we weren't going to affect that ," he added. "But that tax cut was not going to offer one dime to the poorest working-class families in this country."

He said Catholic social action leaders had been working with others for 10 years to get family credits "refundable , so that the families that strugg le the most would get a little bit of hel p. So we said, if you leave no child behind, we'll hel p. And we went to the administration and we went to the Congress, and frankly most people couldn 't care less. Refundability 's hard to explain and even harder to pay for."

"But we had cardinals calling from the Vatican, we had parishioners calling from their home towns, we had you contacting your legislators, we had our lobbyists on Capitol Hill, we had our (bishops' conference) president in the newspapers, and to the surprise of virtuall y everyone, the family credit was made refundable. Not a lot of headlines, but $80 billion for woTtdng-class and poor families over the next 10 years.

"And we will build on that," he added.

"When we get our act together, we can make a difference."

Issues the social action leaders would bring to Capitol Hill the next afternoon , when they were to break up into state delegations to meet with members of Congress, included foreign assistance for AIDS in Africa , carrying through U.S. commitments on debt relief for poor countries and seeking improvements in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families system, or TANF, which conies up for reauthorization this year-.

Carr asked them when they went to meet their legislators to "be proud of being institutional people. You are leaders of faith communities."

"When we go to the Hill , we 're not just another lobby," he said. "We don 't have PACs (political action committees), we don 't offer junkets. When you come to our meeting, you get tough question s and a thank you note, not a check. ... We 're leaders of a community of faith that tries to take this message and make a difference."

He added , "Whether it 's globalization or TANF or housing, we try to look at society from the bottom up — in a city that 's preoccupied with the top down. ... We're a community with global reach and local

mission members' willingness to contribute their time and expertise as "an essential contribution to the important Church apostolate of Catholic education."

Recommendations for specific financial or organizational decisions regarding this year or next are not within the commission's charge. However, the up date said, it is important that school communities with the most serious concerns about their immediate future be heard , and they are challenged to begin considering structural changes that might be available to them.

Members on the commission , who come from all three counties of the Archdiocese , held their first meeting three months ago, and have met monthl y since. Co-Chairs are Arlene Fife , princi-

pal of Our Lady of Mercy Elementary School in Daly City, and Msgr. Maurice McCormick , pastor of Mission Dolores Parish in San Francisco. A steering committee for the commission was also constituted , with co-chairs Board of Education member Robert Sullivan , and Msgr. Robert McElroy, pastor of San Mateo ' s St. Gregory Parish.

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Noting that "Sept. 11 changed every thing " has already become a cliche, Cansaid, "It changed a lot, but it didn 't change our mission. It just made it more important than ever."

He said that at least for the present there is unity on the Hill on the war against terrorism and on building homeland security.

But "partisanship is very much alive" and there will be "bitter battles" on economic policy and other issues that are of concern to Catholic leaders, he said.

Reflecting on the hatred behind the Sept.

11 attacks and the effect it has had on the American psyche, he said, "I think the way we overcome the hatred , the way we get over it, is by going back to mission — why we chose to be a part of this, why we're here this week. ... Now, more than ever, we need to be about our mission."

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"1 see the pain that people go through for housing," said retired engineer George Chippendale. "It's hard to understand. Housing pain is really a serious pain; there's no question about it."

Mr. Chippendale sees it very day. The full-time St. Vincent de Paul volunteer described the plight of a couple who live with their four children in an uninsulated, unheated garage who are too afraid to get a rental contract from their landlord for fear he will evict them. They pay $500 per month p lus utilities for the unit.

Another woman asked for $67 to pay her tax preparer so she could get a refund to pay March' s rent. Mr. Chippendale, a member of St. Francis of Assisi Parish in East Palo Alto, may just give her the $67 out of his pocket.

PIA organizer Rosemary Finnerty sees others' housing

dilemma , and experiences one herself. Ms. Finnerty, a member of St. Thomas Aquinas Parish in Palo Alto, has lived in five different places since 1997. A retired executive secretary for Hewlett Packard and Colgate, Ms. Finnerty is being evaluated again to qualify for below-market-rate housing so she can stay in the place she found last year. If she doesn't qualify, she may have to move.

"1 might just give up," she said. "It's very painful for me. And I'm not poor."

Ms. Finnerty is working to solve the problem for herself and countless others, and this is what keeps her motivated in PIA. PIA develops leaders from such people, and frequently meets with tangible success, such as saving a senior assisted living facility and setting up community homework centers.

Not all of the efforts end in success, though. Recently organizers tried to receive a portion of a statewide $50 million after-school program fund but were not awarded any money.

Mr. Chippendal e was surprised by that outcome, and isn 't sure why it happened. He remains motivated, however, to work to solve the problems facing his community, such as bringing a supermarket to East Palo Alto. There is

'Mosaic' features S.T. Georgiou March 3

Quinn Colloquium on cloning "A Catholic Understanding of Genetic Engineering and Human Cloning" will be the subject of discussion for the Sixth Annual Archbishop John R. Quinn Colloquium on Catholic Social teaching to be held on March 9 at the University of San Francisco.

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On Sunday, March 3 at 5 a.m., Mosaic, with host Tom Burke, features an interview with author, teacher and lecturer S. T. Georgiou .

Mr. Georgiou will talk about his upcoming book about Lax: Poet, Peacemaker and Sage." Robert Lax, a close friend of Thomas Merton was a Jewish convert to Catholicism whom Mr. Georgiou met and befriended on the isle of Patmos, Greece during the 1990s.

Mosaic is a production of the Office of Communications of the Archdiocese of San Francisco in collaboration with KPLX, the CBS affiliate in the Bay Area. It airs on the first Sunday of die month with a Catholic perspective. The show will repeat on March 10 at 2:30 a.m. and on March 31 at 6 a.m.

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Ms. Curran said she frequently meets with real estate developers who tell her if the housing trust fund existed there would be crucial money for prospects, research, and contractors.

"There is an absolute need for this money," Ms. Curran said. "The beauty of it is it has worked in other areas. It 's a very creative solution with tremendous buy-in."

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By Jack Smith Catholic leaders from across the western United States meet this week in Phoenix , to discuss and plan imp lementation of the U.S. Bishops ' pastoral letter, "Welcoming the Stranger Among Us Unity in Diversity."

The Archdiocese of San Francisco delegati on to the conference will be led by Auxiliary Bishop John C. Wester who will be accompanied by leaders from various Catholic agencies and offices.

The pastoral , approved by the Bishops last November, is a response to the challenges and opportunities faced by the Church in America as a result of recent immi gration. The pastoral calls on all Catholics to find ways to welcome immigrants , to learn about their diverse spiritualities and cultures , gather "into one the dispersed children of God," (Jn 11:52) and "to sum up all things in Christ, in heaven and on earth." (Ep h 1:10).

The faithful are asked to achieve these goals through responding to Pope John Paul IPs call for conversion , community and solidarity.

Noemi Castillo , director of Ethnic Ministries for the Archdiocese is a member of the national planning team working to imp lement the pastoral . "We are becoming more and more an immigrant church ," she said. As such, "we need to remind everyone to welcome the stranger," she said . Ms. Castillo hopes that throug h the work of

implementing the pastoral, Catholics will come to "acknowled ge cultural differences as gifts; gifts to be shared with each other."

Catholics need to guard against becoming "isolated communities ," the pastoral says. In order to avoid this isolation, the bishops believe "The Church of the twentyfirst century requires a profound conversion in spirit and in its institutions to reflect its own cultural pluralism. " Archbishop William J. Levada established the Office of Ethnic Ministries four years ago. The office represents and coordinates the activities of twenty different ethnic groups throughout the Archdiocese. The creation of such an office in every diocese is one of the goals of the pastoral letter.

As part of its effort to sponsor unity in diversity, the office sponsors two major events each year which bring together different cultures for sharing and mutual appreciation. The first is an annual cultural celebration centered on a major holiday.

The purpose of the celebration is to "encourage ethnic groups to share their rites and rituals as a family," Ms. Castillo said. The last celebration centered around Christmas traditions and featured Mass, an international food fest, traditional dancing and song and a live multi-cultural manger scene. More than 2,000 attended the event at St. Mary 's Cathedral .

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St. Mary's Chinese Schools construction begins With an initial goal of $7 million reached, construction has begun on the new four-story Si. Mary 's Chinese Schools and Center and the adjacent International Senior Housing building at Kearny and Jackson streets in San Francisco.

Paulist Father Daniel E. McCotter announced the news at a luncheon Feb. 17.

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In exchange for the trip, the youth will complete service days, visiting senior day care centers, and working with the Missionaries of Charity, serving the needy.

Canossian Sister Maria Hsu , thanked the gathering for its ten-year support , and welcomed a new Chinese community group to the ministry from San Mateo's St. Matthew Church.

Bishop John C. Wester addressed the group. He wished everyone a Happy New Year, and spoke about the importance of "appreciating the gift of diversity and unity," which he witnessed at the gathering through the attendance of "many faithful , religious, deacons, and priests," including Father Michael Harriman, pastor of St. Cecilia Parish , who was celebrating his 60th birthday.

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Dominican Sister Sheila Keane San Francisco children have received warm, decent clothing handmade by its There were plenty of staff and "dedication and hard has known the members. ...

11. .. i i volunteers to assist the clients, work" of the The Stitchers since the Nearly 17 years ago, Alice who appeared like any other organization was established. Her 28 Alexander called a small group of her shoppers searching through the "women friends" together to discuss years at the St. Anthony Foundation merchandise, looking for the best has given her the opportunity to the possibility of making clothes, in bargains. attend many of the meetings. "They their spare time, for needy children.

"Parents who choose clothing are wonderful people," she said.

There were "no takers." However, at that The Stitchers have created are "They produce so much, and it is all the end of the meeting one lady said always excited about die quality and high quality. They are wizards." to Alice, "It's a great idea. Here's a style," said Ms. Lucchesi.

"The Stitchers weave love into dollar for your cause."

"Expecting mothers are extremely every stitch that they sew," said Ms. With the one-dollar bill, a few grateful for the baby layettes." knitting needles, and a subde camChur. "The work is a visible sign of Ms. Smith discovered a new paign for her "cause ," Mrs. love, which creates a link between jacket made by one of The Alexander established a remarkable the hearts and hands of The Dorothy Myhrberg happily displays one group of ladies who have provided St. Stitchers and the lives of our Stitchers, and was quite happy to of the many quilts she makes for the children.

Anthony's Clothing and Furniture clients." take it home to her 9-year old son.

Center with a continuous flow of The amazing thing about these women is that all their creations are made from Ms. Somerville found clotiies for her son, then could not resist the temptation extraordinary original clothing for donated materials from a long list of sources the organization has built through the of searching through the shoe section for herself. She was mulling over a pair, for Alex Alexander infants, toddlers and kids through „ years. Since the members never know what kind of material will be donated, each quite some time , finding them difficult to resist. ,Mt „...', f o u n d eofrThe Stitchers age 7 since 1985 outfit demands quick creative thinking for the one-of-a-kind designs.

Ms. Smith and Ms. Somerville are in the same drug rehabilitation program , Mrs. Alexander, a long-time parishioner of Good r-^^ ^^tUm^m^smn& "The Stitchers work is beautifully made, with and appear to have struck up a friendship, determined to help each other to Shepherd Parish in Pacifica is no stranger to the needs meticulous attention to detail," said Ms. Chur. "They make new lives. of children. As a registered nurse most of her life , she HL ij m, \-.. sometimes add whimsical touches through applique The outreach of The Stitchers, through the services of St. Anthony's, spreads to said her seven years working at Shriner's Hospital for or the design of a sweater. They create gorgeous the needy in the San Francisco districts of the Tenderloin, South of Market, Mission, children is what she "loved most." dresses, sturdy play clothes, colorful quilts, warm and Hunters Point, Portrero Hill, West Point, and Sunnydale projects, according to Ms. The unique skills and contributions of original wonderful sweaters."

Chur. "About 85 percent of the families are Spanish speaking, with smaller perdesigns by "The Stitchers," is a rarity for charitable "So many parents have expressed their gratitude centages of Asian, Caucasian, and African-American families." organizations. Often, donations are less than acceptable. for the chance to dress their children in new outfits," There is no end to the generosity of The Stitchers, according to Ms. It is the job of Krista Lucchesi, as Qothing Services said Sister Sheila. Often , the children are receiving new Lucchesi. She has endless stories she recalls, like the Stitcher who couldn't Coordinator, to inspect all donations before they are clothes for the first time. make a meeting one month so she and her husband drove into the city from "clients" can choose placed in the (lothing Center so the Today, there are more than 150 Stitchers, who Pacifica to deliver more than 100 pairs of boys' pants she had made. Then , one clean, decent clotlung. "It's a matter of dignity," she says. work in their spare time at home , making clothes for Stitcher received a $500 gift certificate to Target and spent all of it on children 's "The uniqueness of each piece created by The needy children. Six or more of the members live outshoes. And , there is one member who creates at least a dozen children's quilts Stitchers is in the spirit of the Franciscan values , side of California yet still continue the work they began each month . where it honors the dignity of each person , and also in Pacifica.

Jackie Allswang, a 3-year veteran of die Stitchers for St. Anthony, says Alice strives to create a personal relationship with the peoOn the first Friday of each month , the ladies gathAlexander is "such a fine lady, and deserves tremendous credit for estabhshing die ple who participate in the work," said Elizabeth Chur er their creations and bring them to Pacifica's Good organization."

Shepherd Parish hall, where St. Anthony's large white Mrs. Alexander just doesn't see it that way. "The members deserve the trib¦ van, driven by Siphai Phommavongsay, is waiting to ute for generously giving take the newly made stacks of clothes to the . their time and skills to the Distribution Center. children all these years," "I love The Stitchers," said Mr. Phommavongsay. she said.

"They are wonderful. What they do for St. Anthony's is Is there anything that admirable." could help the organizaA Krista Lucchesi Before the creations are whisked away, a meettion? "More members," displays a quilt in ing is held , where the ladies take the opportunity to Mrs. Alexander said.

The Stitchers Corner share with the group their original designs. Those "There can never be members who are homebound are never left out of enough. It's as if there are the presentations — their work is also shown . more children in need Following the meeting, the van is loaded with the new bundle of clothes that will today, and St. Anthony's is be given to children of low-income parents . The van is nearly 80 percent full each getting less donations." month, according to Ms. Lucchesi.

For more information The clothes are dropped off at St. Anthony's Clothing Center on Eighth Street in on volunteering for The San Francisco. Inside the center, a testimony of appreciation to the women is disStitchers , call Mrs. played called "The Stitchers' Corner." A group photograph of some of the ladies is Alexander at (650) 359exhibited, along with many of their creations for the needy children.

0125. To donate fabric, "At The Stitchers' Corner children can watch a video, read a book and play with buttons , yarn, or other stuffed animals, while their parents shop at the Center," said Ms. Lucchesi. materials call Krista "The FamilyServices," are held Monday through Fridayfrom 11 Lucchesi of the St. am. to 12:30p.m.

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I CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO Sup reme Court and School Vouchers The Ohio school voucher case argued before the U.S. Supreme Court nine day s ago begins with Fannie Lewis, a life-long Democrat and 20-year City Councilwoman representing Cleveland' s seventh ward, composed of inner-city neighborhoods where 70 percent of the residents live in poverty.

Lewis has been active in Cleveland' s public schools since her children first attended them more than 50 years ago. She has witnessed firsthand the repeated failures of Cleveland's inner-city public schools to educate children despite the expenditure of vast amounts of taxpayer dollars.

By the mid-1990s, Cleveland' s public schools were in crisis and Lewis had become impatient with those who, in the face of repeated failures , continued to preach that more money was the answer to saving public schools. Lewis knew that Ohio yearly spends $7,000 on each student in Cleveland, yet more than two-thirds of the city 's students fail to graduate.

Fannie Lewis and others urged the Ohio legislature to embark on an ambitious experimental program to improve Cleveland 's schools by introducing competition and parental choice. Begun in 1995, Cleveland 's program was designed to rescue poor children from a failing school system by providing scholarships for use at private, religious or suburban schools which chose to participate and accept the $2,250 voucher as 90 percent of tuition.

This year about 4,000 students are in the program and independent research shows the satisfaction of voucher parents is four times higher than that of public-school parents. The program is intended to present parents with a wide choice of options, but it is religious schools, mostly inner-city Catholic schools, which are participants in the early stages of the six-year-old program.

Because of this circumstance, opponents of vouchers and enemies of educational choice are seeking to kill the Cleveland voucher program, claiming it violates the U.S. Constitution 's mandate that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion."

Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, argues that vouchers "are unconstitutional because they represent direct payments of tax dollars to private religious schools. " Lynn has argued that parents are "inconsequential conduits" in the education voucher process.

However, Fannie Lewis sees vouchers as a means to break the cycle of school failure and a way to exercise parental choice. "The voucher is a good thing," she says. "Purchasing an education, getting the best I can for my child - any mother ought to be able to do that, any parent ought to be able to do that."

Clint Bolick, an attorney and author of "Transformation: The Promise and Politics of Empowerment," supports educational voucher programs.

He argues, "the concern of public education shouldn 't be about where a child learns; the concern of public education ought to be whether a child learns, and if that child happens to learn in a private school, that fulfills the goals of public education."

Using tax dollars for vouchers to parents so they can choose the best education option for their children is not a direct payment to religious schools. Parents are more than the "inconsequential conduits " that voucher opponent Barry Lynn has called them. Parents in low-income families have the same right to make educational choices in a state-sponsored endeavor to improve the education of its poorest citizens.

A voucher provided to parents to pay for the education of a child is no more a direct payment to a religious school than is the tuition paid to religious schools with funds received through the GI Bill or Pell Grants to students. Vouchers, GI Bill and Pell Grants are alike in that they can be used to attend any school - private or public. By the logic of voucher opponents, one would have to argue that the GI Bill is unconstitutional.

The Cleveland school voucher program is the opposite of an establishment of religion, because it expands the education choices of parents to the broadest possible degree. Moreover, school choice programs arise out of a secular analysis of the best means to address the problems of inner-city education.

In the past, voucher opponents have been successful in raising alarms that such programs imperiled public schools, but the scene may be shifting.

The whole point of educating our children is so they can have a better chance to live meaningful lives. Low-income students should be able to participate in voucher programs, which allow them to choose schools offering them a sound education and enabling them to escape lives of poverty.

We hope the decision that the U.S. Supreme Court reaches in the next few months will uphold firmly the Cleveland voucher program. Indeed, we hope that such programs could be made available in California where inner-city children face many of the same dire situations as their counterparts in Cleveland.

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Make Catholic \ote count

Not many peop le seem to be pay ing attention to the upcoming primary election in March. And yet the obli gation to be an informed , responsible voter is one that all Catholics ought to take very seriousi y. Many candidates for significant offices will have sharp ly differing positions on bedrock moral issues, such as abortion and the licitness of the gay lifesty le. We owe it to ourselves , our families and our community to have a reasonabl y adequate knowled ge of where the candidates stand on such matters.

There are many political issues about which we Catholics need to make ourselves informed. They include propositions which may affect where our tax dollars and bond issues will be spent , how the homeless problem will be addressed , among others. An ignorant electorate is one that is ripe for being misled into supporting government policies that may well worsen the alread y deteriorating quality of urban life, place greater burdens upon business and thus increase unemp loyment , and perhap s make affordable housing an even more distant dream.

Off-year elections are frequentl y decided by a relatively small number of voters. Let us make certain this time that the input of conscientious and knowledgeable Catholics make up our fair share of the votes cast on March 5. It is really important.

Dr. Richard Sonnenshein San Francisco

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Signed: "Worried Bob".

Robert Riordan Redwood City

Justice Scalia and the death pe nalty

Jud ge Antonin Scalia says he has given the Church teaching on capital punishment "careful thought and consideration" and rejected it because it is not an "ex cathedra" pronouncement , Catholic San Francisco (2/8/02).

Would he allow Catholics to follow his example as regards Church teaching on contraception , homosexuality, the invalidity of Anglican Orders and the non-ordination of women? Or will he be subject to a Vatican investi gation and discip line for his public dissent from non-infallible teaching and for causing confusion and scandal among the faith?

Robert Nugent, SDS Baltimore, MD

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Your recent editorial , "Richard Riordan and an American Dilemma," was either political or misinformed or maybe both.

Your political leanings were either seeping through throughout or you are unaware that you are the victim of one of the most vicious smear campaigns in modem times, instigated by our current Governor, Gray Davis.

If you weren 't being political, then why didn 't you specifically mention the names of all of the so-called pro choice (or woman's right to choose) candidates instead of homing in on Richard Riordan? And why use phrases such as, "...the Davis commercials - unlike many campaign hit pieces - may be correct."

In the televised Republican primary debates Mr. Riordan identified himself as a practicing Catholic and so identified another candidate as belonging to his same church. Mr. Davis, I have heard, was also raised a Catholic and if he is still practicing he should be morally accountable for his hypocritical personal attacks on another human being's ethical conduct.

If indeed the only way to get elected these days is to espouse a woman's right to choose, then Riordan has it right. He is against abortion for any reason , but respects a woman's right to make that personal decision for herself.

Where have you been in the almost forty years since Vatican II? Are you not aware that the Council, even though it termed abortion an "unspeakable crime," also dogmatically affirmed the primacy and sacredness of one's own conscience? Do you think that just because a woman is granted the right under our civil laws to make a decision involving abortion that she will make the wrong decision? Come on. Get real.

You state that 57 percent of people in a recent newspaper poll categorized abortion as murder. I would suspect that if only women were polled that the percentage would be about the same. If such a poll has already been conducted , I would be interested to know the results and, if not , why don't you conduct one.

As an independent voter I was planning to vote for Gray Davis until these vicious ads began appearing. I am not sure who I am going to vote for now but it certainly won't be for Mr. Davis. And if you intend to continue to turn out the kind of political and/or naive claptrap contained in this editorial, then your publisher, Archbishop Levada, should give you your walking papers.

Robert Brown Emerald Hills

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In Feb. 22 column , Father Ron Rolheiser writes of "the nonviolence of God." Since I am 78 years old , and may come face to face with Him any day now, I was thrilled to read that: "God is absolutel y and utterl y nonviolent. " That He is "always gentle " and "never a threat ". That He "has infinite patience and endures all things , not a great avenger who kills all the bad guys".

Believe me, that column made my day. But it left me with a troubling question.

Which God was it that sacked Sodom and Gommorrah , turned Lot's wife into a pillar of salt, exterminated all life on planet Earth except for the lucky few couples who made it onto Noah' s ark ? And oh yes, ordered Abraham to kill his beloved son as an offering to Him. I'm confused. Have these two Gods

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The Cross as Revealing God's Unconditional Love A number of years ago, a young man came to me in crisis. He had been having an affair with his girlfriend and she had become pregnant. For a variety of reasons , marriage was impossible. The pregnancy would have an irrevocable impact on a series of lives: his girlfriend' s, his own , their families' — not to mention the child that would be born.

He knew that he had been irresponsible. He made no attempt to rationalize or to deflect blame from himself. He recognized that he had done wrong and that throug h his irresponsibility a certain innocence had been lost, trust betrayed , and lives permanently disrupted — and he would now live in a certain brokenness. This troubled him deeply.

"I was irresponsible and this has, forever, hurt some people because even God can't unscramble an egg !" he said. For him , it now seemed, there would always be a skeleton in the closet, a ghost to haunt his happiness.

Even God can 't unscramble an egg! What a statement!

And how true, except for one tiling: The cross of Jesus reveals that we can live, and live happily and healthil y, beyond any egg we have ever scrambled. That is the central message of the cross.

Sigmund Freud , the father of modem psychology, said that we understand the makeup of things best when we see them lying in pieces. In the brokenness we see the underlying structure.

That is also true of love and fai th . We see how they are made up when we see them fractured. Jesus ' death shows us this. At the second he died , Scripture says, the "curtain veil in the temple was torn from top to bottom." The curtain veil separated the people in the temple from the hol y of holies;

it represented the veil between God and ourselves. The cross of Jesus tears apart that veil and lets us see inside the holy of holies, the heart of God. And what do we see there ?

Unfathomable love , unfathomable forgiveness, a compassion and tenderness beyond understanding. In the cross, God tells us: "You can do this to me — and I will still love you!"

Another young man told me how he once so badl y betrayed all that he believed in that he decided to commit suicide. Setting out to kill himself , he decided , first , to slop in a church and say some final prayers. He entered a church and sat down . The only thing lit up in that darkened church was a crucifix on the front wall. He looked at the cross and, in a second of sheer grace, understood what it meant.

Here are his words: "I looked at the cross and I understood. 1 was in hell and God hadn 't stopped loving me for one second. I saw that God loves me, no matter what. I'm not proud of what I did and it will always be part of me, but I can live beyond it, and be happy, knowing God 's love and strength are always with me, even when I betray them."

Unaware that he was doing it , he was tenderly fingering a cross he was wearing around his neck as he shared this.

An elderly nun, whom I much love and respect, is fond of saying: "I' m a loved sinner!" The secret to spiritual health is to acknowledge both parts of that equation: We are sinners without any need to excuse ourselves, even as we have the sure knowledge that God loves us, deeply and irrevocably, in our weakness. The cross tells us that God doesn 't stop loving us, even for one second, irrespective of weakness.

The cross of Christ tells us how God loves and redeems us even when we are unfaithful and our lives are broken.

It is not surprising thai hundreds of millions of people wear a cross in some form. These cross-

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The cross is the ultimate symbol of love. It shows what love is, what love costs, and what love does for us.

Most important of all, it shows us that God never stops loving us even for a second, no matter what we do, and that we can live, and live happ ily, beyond any egg we have ever scrambled.

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

On BeingCatholic

Keeping body and soul together A wise friend was fond of remarking, somewhat wryly, "If I were God, I would have not let it out that human beings were made in His image and likeness - it's hardly flattering to God!" But this is what Genesis tells us, and from this truth the Catechism draws four important lessons. (CCC #355-384) First lesson: since we are made in the image of God, we are created to know and love our creator. Human beings are the onl y creatures on earth privileged to enter into this relationshi p, but we are to bring everything else God has made into that relationshi p of love. According to the "First Principle and Foundation " of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius , we human beings were created to live in communion with God, and everything else was created to help us attai n that goal. Being in the image of God , every human being possesses the dignity of a person - a dignity which must never be forgotten , even when the human being is on death row, the batt lefield, or in the womb.

Second lesson: the human person uni tes the material and spiritual worlds. Formed from the clay of the earth , we also have received the breath of life from God Himself. We are not souls trapped in bodies, nor are we simply highlydeveloped physical organisms; the human being is both soul and body. That soul is directl y created by God, an act which imparts a uni que personality - even identical twins are unrepeatable individuals. Christianity is not about "saving souls", it professes a resurrection of the bod y. This will be a body unlike what we know here on earth , but a true body still.

Third lesson: human beings in the image of God were

created male and female. Since God is a communion of persons, it is not surprising that creatures made in God's image should manifest both distinction and unity. There is a builtin complementarity to the sexes, and in the wider sense a reality that human beings are made for each other. We are made for communion, and we cannot be human without relationships.

Fourth lesson: we are made for friendship with God. Everything we see around us glorifies God simply by being what it is. We have been given an intellect and free will so that we can enter into a bond of friendshi p with God, to choose to accept God's love and love Him in return .

The Book of Genesis reveals a world before the Fall marked by harmony: the interior harmony of each human being, where body and soul lived in cooperation; a harmony between man and woman , who found in one another a perfect companion; harmony between human beings and the world , over which they exercised the "dominion " of loving care and stewardship; harmony, finall y, between human beings and the God in whose image and likeness they were made.

Genesis has to reveal this situation , because we do not see it in the world today. All of these areas of ori ginal harmony are now battlefields. As we go throug h the season of Lent and Easter, we are invited to watch God restore this harmony while respecting our freedom. This is the great work the Father has accomplished in sending His Son and the Holy Spirit.

The Old Testament gives us some idea of what it means to be made in God's image, but it is in the coming of Christ

that what it means to be human is more clearly revealed. While it is true that, as the Son of God Christ reveals the Father to us, it is also true that, as our brother in all things but sin, Christ reveal s US to us. In the words of the Second Vatican Council , "it is only in the mystery of the Word incarnate that light is shed on the mystery of humankind. " Jesus does more than provide a pattern to follow. By His suffering and death He has opened for us the way to salvation , a retur n to that harmony and friendshi p torn apart by sin. For Christians onl y? The Council boldl y teaches: "This applies not only to Christians but to all people of good will in whose hearts grace is secretl y at work.

Since Christ died for everyone . . . we are obli ged to hold that the Holy Spirit offers everyone the possibility of sharing in this paschal mystery in a manner known to God." (Gaudium et spes, n 22)

Father Milton T. Walsh

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

Church's position on gluten in hosts Father John Dietzen Q. You have written some helpful columns in the past on celiac disease. I hope you can clear up my confusion about recent newspaper articles on the church 's position regarding gluten in Communion hosts.

We are told that European bishops have approved hosts with low g luten, whereas the American bishops have not. Why is there a difference between what they can do in other countries and what we can do here ? (Florida)

A. Celiac disease, or celiac sprue , is an inherited disorder in which intolerance to the protein gluten causes insufficient absorption of food in the intestine. It can become a serious , even fatal , illness. Gluten is found in rye, barley, oats and wheat.

Obviousl y, this constitutes a major problem for Catholics so afflicted. General Catholic teaching is that there must be at least some gluten in Communion hosts for a valid celebration of the Eucharist. This teaching was repeated in 1995 by Cardinal Josef Ratzinger, prefect of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

Earlier this year the bishops of Italy approved an extremely low-gluten eucharistic host, developed in Germany, for those who are allerg ic to wheat flour. This is consistent with Catholic requirements that hosts with no gluten whatsoever should not be used.

The policy adopted by the U.S. bishops adheres to that requirement; hosts that are entirel y gluten-free may not be used in the Eucharist.

The current confusion seems to arise from differing medical assumptions about how much gluten celiac sufferers can tolerate . The American policy is related to medical opinion in the United States that , it seems to me predominantl y considers even the smallest amount of gluten dangerous.

Judg ing from the voluminous mail I' ve received , those with the disease report amazing l y diverse , sometimes contradictory, experiences of what they can and cannot bear. Apparently on advice from their physicians some believe they can tolerate part of an ordinary Communion host. For others even a tiny piece excites the allergy.

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SCRIPTURE & LITU RGY Acknowledging our need for God's action in Christ Today the elect (those who will be initiated into our Church at the Easter Vigil, March 30) celebrate the first of three scrutinies. Right! What 's a scrutiny ?

The scrutinies ritualize what has been going on recentl y in the lives of the elect and of us who hope to renew our baptismal commitment at Easter. They are meant "to uncover, then heal all that is weak, defective , or sinful in the hearts of the elect; to bring out , then strengthen all that is upright , strong and good." (RCIA, ^141) This "uncovering " and "bringing out " are the work of communities empowered to do so by the Word of God chosen for thi s Sunday 's liturgy.

To uncover "the weak, defective , or sinful" is to allow the Word to identify us with Israel in the desert, the community of Christians at Rome , and the Samaritan woman at Jacob's well. Being God' s people is no light honor; at times we are total ly unaware of his guidance and prefer to go back to slavery and isolation.

"In their thirs t for water, the people grumbled against Moses, say ing, 'Wh y did you ever make us leave Egypt? Was it just to have us die here of thirst with our children and our livestock?' " With the community at Rome, do we have difficulty believing that our Lenten journey will get us somewhere God-guided? Do we trust that what God has accomplished in Jesus Christ will ripp le and echo in our lives because of the Spirit 's presence in our communities? "We boast in the hope of the glory of God. And hope does not disappoint , because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us."

With the Samaritan woman at Jacob' s well , we can thirst for the wrong water. In the face of Jesus promising her "living water," she thinks of the substance in the well, "Sir, you do not even have a bucket and the cistern is deep; where can you get this living water?" With the Samaritan woman, we must allow Jesus to expose

Third Sunday of Lent, Year A Exodus 17:3-7; Psalm 95; Romans 5:1-2, 5-8; John 4:5-42

Father David M. Pettingill to us our past life. "I do not have a husband ," she said.

Jesus replied , "You are right...for you have had five husbands, and the one you have now is not your husband."

Thanks to the Lenten liturgies, the elect and we have been in the health y process of acknowled ging our need for God's action in Christ; we have been declaring operational space for him in our lives. Bring ing out all that is "upright , strong, and good" has also been the ministry of our community to us.

Desert travelers do have their thirst quenched: "Strike the rock , and the water will flow from it for the people to drink." We can become convinced of how deeply God loves us: "For Christ, while we were still helpless, died at the appointed time for the ungodly . . .

God proves his love for us in that while we were still sinners Christ died for us." We can drink the "living

water " Jesus provides and bear witness to him in our world: "Come see a man who told me everything I have done . . . . " the woman said, and "Many of the Samaritans of that town began to believe in him because of the word of the woman. " The first scrutiny reminds us of how much has been going on in our parish communities because the Word we hear discloses to us our profound need for God' s action in our midst and his response to that need in the death and resurrection of Jesusâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the event that makes and maintains us as Church. So we pray for the elect (and for ourselves) on this Sunday of Scrutiny: "That , like the woman of Samaria, our elect may review their lives before Christ and acknowledge their sins . . . That while awaiting the gift of God , they may long with all their hearts for the living water that brings eternal life . . . That they may share with their friends and neighbors the wonder of their own meeting with Christ Questions for Small Communities of Faith 1. Do we understand that any conversion to Christ includes evangelization?

2. What can our group do to live this way ?

Father David M. Pettingill is assistant to the moderator of the curia and parochial vica r at St. Emydius Parish, San Francisco.

Six minutes a day, praying the Passion of Christ The Diocese of Saginaw, Michigan, calls it The Little Black Book. Intriguing title, intriguing shape.

Seven inches by four inches, plain black, construction paper cover. Inside is dynamite. Spiritually speaking, that is.

My friend , Anne, shared this book with me and I want to pass on the idea to you. A committee of Catholics in the Saginaw Diocese has taken the entire Passion reading from Matthew 's Gospel and divided it up for the forty days of Lent. The invitation for everyone in the Diocese is to spend six minutes every day of Lent, praying the Passion of Jesus Christ according to Matthew.

Why Matthew? The liturgical year that began this Advent is called Year A which takes Matthew 's Gospel as its focus almost every Sunday. The Passion according to Matthew will be the Gospel reading on Passion Sunday, March 24.

Why give everyone just the one Passion reading for all of Lent? These texts go right to the heart of the matter: the passion and death of Jesus Christ. What better way to follow in Christ 's footsteps during Lent than to spend time reflecting on these great saving mysteries of his love? To keep watch with Christ in his suffering and death throughout Lent and so be ready to rise with him during the Easter Season?

Why six minutes every day ? Even the busiest of us can snatch six minutes of silence and solitude to follow

Sister Sharon McMillan, SND Christ more closely. When is this longing more keenly felt in our hearts than the holy season of Lent? When I don 't know what to pray, I can turn to the words of the Gospel itself and let the Spirit guide my meditation.

Why The Little Black Book? The work has already been done for me. I just turn the page each day and slowly pray the words of Passion before me. This type of praying over scripture

"What better way to follow in Christ's footsteps during Lent than to spend time reflecting on these great saving mysteries of his love?"

Question Corner . . . ÂŚ Continued from page 13 Medical jud gment elsewhere can differ from that in the United States. The Italian Celiac Association, basing its conclusion on the advice of physicians in that country, says the small amount of gluten in the new formula satisfies church requirements, yet is too insignificant to be a health problem for celiac patients.

Italian bishops basically approved the conclusion that Communion hosts made using this process are valid matter for the Eucharist and may be used at Mass.

To my knowledge, hosts made with the new German formula have not yet been used in the United States, and American celiac specialists have not yet evaluated it.

Information readers of this column might relay to me will be appreciated. As I' ve indicated when treating

is called lectio divina, a kind of reading that is slow enough, attentive enough to let certain words and phrases touch the heart and mind . It's not reading for information or for speed. This is Spirit-guided reading that allows the divinely-inspired words to penetrate deep within.

I know. You don 't have one of these Little Black Books and you don ' t live in Saginaw anyway. But the entire Passion from Matthew 's Gospel is in that bible on your shelf and on my shelf.

The Passion reading begins with chapter 26, verse 14: "One of the Twelve whose name was Judas Iscariot went off to the chief priests and said, 'What are you willing to give me if I hand Jesus over to you?'"

I read, pray the text slowly, and ask the Spirit to guide these six minutes. When I come to a word or a phrase that is meaningful , I stop and savor it. Let it rest on my heart. Let the images and words and experiences of Christ in the Gospel make their home in me. There is nothing to accomp lish during this time but welcoming Christ. If I onl y pray through one sentence today, that 's enough. If I don't finish praying the entire Passion by Passion Sunday, that 's fine. If I end up reading it twice, that's fine too.

Thanks to the Diocese of Saginaw for this great idea.

And thanks, Anne, for giving me a copy. May these words of Spirit and life from Matthew's Gospel draw us ever closer to our crucified and risen Lord.

Notre Dame Sister Sharon McMillan is assistant professor of sacramental theology and liturgy at St. Patrick Seminary, Menlo Park. this subject in the past, the number of people suffering from this disease is far greater than most of us imagine.

Catholics will be grateful in a special way for any formula that allows them to receive the Communion host without further endangering their health.

(Questions for Father Dietzen may be sent to him at Box 325, Peoria, IL 61651. This column is copyri g hted

by Catholic New Service.)

An apology and a promise

Prevention, Policies, Prompt Action

Here is the text of a Feb. 19 sta tement by Bishop Wilton D. Gregory of Belleville, 111, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, on sexual abuse of minors by priests.

In recent weeks our attention has again been turned to the issue of sexual abuse of minors b y priests. Though the renewed focus on this issue is due largely to cases of priest abusers that were not dealt with appropriatel y in the past, it gives me the occasion as a pastor and a teach er of faith and morals to express, on behalf of all of the bishops, our profound sorrow that some of our priests were responsible for this abuse under our watch . We understand that your children are your most precious gift.

They are our children as well, and we continue to apologize to the victims and to their parents and their loved ones for this failure in our pastoral responsibilities.

The attention to this issue also gives me the opportunity to renew the promise of our bishops that we will continue to take all the steps necessary to protect our youth from this kind of abuse in society and in the church. While we still have much for which we need to be forgiven — and much to learn — I am very heartened by the professionals who work with both victims and abusers who encourage us in this work because, they tell us, there is not another institution in the United States that is doing more to understand and address the horror of sexual abuse of minors.

As a church, we have met with those who are victims of sexual abuse by priests.

We have heard their sorrow, confusion , anger and fear. We have tried to reach out pastorally and sensitively not only to victims of this outrageous behavior, but to their families and the communities devastated b y this crime. We have confronted priests accused of abuse and removed them from public ministry.

Over the past two decades, the bishops of the United States have worked diligently to learn all we can about sexual abuse. Our conference has encouraged the development of policies in every diocese to address thi s issue. Bishops have developed procedures whereby priests moving from one diocese to another must have certification of their good standing. Bishops have also revised seminary screening and have mandated in-service program s for priests, teachers , parish ministers and volunteers to emphasize their responsibility to protect the innocent and vulnerable from such abuse. Dioceses have implemented programs to ensure safe environments in parishes and schools. While we have made some tragic mistakes, we have attempted to be as honest and open about these cases as we can, especially in following the law on these matters and cooperating with civil authorities. We remain committed to seeing these initiatives implemented full y, because the church must be a place of refuge and security, not a place of denial and distress. Sadly, we are faced with the fact that evil does harm the innocent , something which human life has faced since the beginning of time. This is a reality against which we must be ceaselessly on guard.

I want to say a word about the more than 40,000 wonderful priests in our country who get up every morning to give their lives in full service to the church as witnesses to Jesus Christ in our midst. I am very saddened that the crimes of a few have cast a shadow over the grace-filled and necessary work that they do day in and day out for society and for the church. The priesthood is a unique treasure of our church , and I give you my assurance that we are doing everything to ensure that we have worth y and healthy candidates for the priesthood and to strengthen the many priests who faithfull y fulfill their ministry on behalf of all of us.

While we deplore the sexual abuse of young people, especiall y that committed by a cleric, we are confident that the numbers of p riests involved in such criminal activity are few. The damage, however, has been immeasurable. The toll this phenomenon has taken on our people and our ministry is tremendous. This is a time for Catholic people, bishops , clergy, religious and laity, to resolve anew to work together to assure the safety of our children. These events serve to remind us all that the cost of preventing these terrible misdeeds in the future is a careful watch that cannot and will not be relaxed. We bishops intend to maintain that watch together with and on behalf of our people.

As we pursue this common work for the safety of our children and for the good of society and the church we love, let us continue to remember one another before the Lord in prayer and in charity.

The following is the text of a letter sent to all priests by Auxiliary Bishop John C. Wester, Vicarfor Clergy, on Feb. 22.

A good deal of national media coverage has resulted from the current situation in the Archdiocese of Boston , where a former priest was sentenced this week to prison after his conviction on child molestation charges.

In light of ths broad media attention recendy given to sexual abuse of minors by priests, Archbishop Levada and I thought it would be hel pful to review a number of the actions taken by the Archdiocese of San Francisco to deal with this very serious issue. Across the nation, sexual abuse of minors by priests involves a relatively small number of individuals, but the harm done to children is immeasurable and the shadow cast upon all good priests is very harmful.

For more than a decade, the Archdiocese has had in place a firm written policy on issues of sexual abuse. In recent years, Archbishop Levada initiated a review of Archdiocesan policies on sexual abuse with the goal of updating and improving the effectiveness of our procedures in reporting and handling such cases.

A significant step forward is the creation of an independent fact-finding committee charged with investigating cases involving genital contact between a minor and a priest or any other adult minister or employee. Currently, the independent fact-finding committee is composed of six persons: four lay people including two child psychologists, a retired judge and a former police inspector; a woman religious who also is a registered nurse; and a religious order priest who also is a recognized expert on child protection issues.

In the preface to the revised Policies and Procedures Regarding Child Abuse and Harassment , dated April 3, 2001, Archbishop Levada said, "One can never justif y abuse of children ... It is essential that the Church take a leadership role in condemning such behavior and help those involved in providing ministry, and those who are recipients of that ministry, to better understand and respond to those problems when they arise."

Concurrent with the promulgation of revised policies and procedures, a series of mandatory training sessions was conducted last Spring in all three counties of the Archdiocese. More than 1,000 priests, administrators and other staff attended these training sessions, which included presentations by local child protection agencies.

Our approach to the issue of sexual abuse begins with prevention efforts such as the screening of personnel and includes training of staff so that the signs of abuse can be recognized and reporting procedures followed. The Archdiocese also is committed to implementing prompt action to remove any known danger to our children, and working cooperatively with authorities in any investigation.

In a statement released earlier this week, Bishop Wilton D. Gregory, president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, said much has been learned about sexual abuse over the past two decades. In turn, the U.S. Bishops have encouraged the development of policies in every diocese; procedures have been developed whereby priests moving from one diocese to another must have certification of good standing; and increased seminary screening and updated in-service programs have been put in place.

Like Bishop Gregory, I also am saddened by the great harm that instances of abuse inflict upon children, particularly when the abuse comes from a priest or any other trusted member of the Church. For children and families who have suffered abuse by priests, we offer our prayers and pastoral support.

We also recognize the damage the action s of a small number of priests bring to the Church and the reputation of our many good priests. Archbishop Levada and I are continually impressed by the faith-filled and dedicated service of the priests of the Archdiocese. All of our fellow priests hav e our prayers, our support and our admiration.

As an additional resource, I am attaching a copy of the statement released earlier this week

by Bishop Wilton D. Gregory, president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.

May I note also the excellent resource available on the web site of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops at www.usccb.org — "Restoring Trust: A Response to Sexual Abuse."

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/most Reverend John C. Wester ^Auxiliary Bishop of San Francisco

More information on the Church 's response to issues involving sexual abuse is available on line at: www.nccbuscc.org/comm/restoretrust.htm This site includes: • "Restoring Trust: A Response to Sexual Abuse"

# The Five Principles to Follow Regarding Allegations of Sexual Abuse

•To Combat Clergy Sexual Abuse Against Minors

•Diocesan Policies

•Interview with Frederick S. Berlin , MD, Ph.D.

•Opinion: Bishop John F. Kinney, Chairman Emeritus, Ad Hoc Committee on Sexual Abuse

• "Walk in the Light: Pastoral Response to Child Sexual Abuse"

» "We Have Been Enlightened" by Bishop Wilton D. Gregory

Court to rule on Cleveland voucher program ¦ Continued from cover "Anyone looking at this legislation would conclude there is no endorsement of religion , but the government trying to resolve a problem " of failing schools , said David Young, an attorney from Columbus , Ohio, representing parents and schools that use the voucher program.

Both sides looked to the questions and comments of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor , who is considered a pivotal vote in the case.

O'Connor asked several questions about all of the options available for Cleveland school parents and suggested that, "if anything," the program was "skewed against religious schools in terms of public support."

Justice David Souter questioned the practical implications of the program, noting that, even though students could choose an alternativeto their failing school, more than 96 percentof them have chosen religious schools.

Justice Astasia Scalia pointed out thatit madesense

that students were choosing parochial schools because these schools are already "up and running" and have a proven track record of success.

Acknowledging the failure of the public school system in Cleveland , Scalia questioned the lawyers about the means to provide a better education, asking: "How do we get from here to there?"

Funneling public money to religious schools through vouchers is the wrong approach , argued Robert Chanin , general counsel for the National Education Association, who repeatedly accused the program of lacking a "circuit breaker" or intervening party between church and state even though the voucher money is given directly to parents.

Cleveland, which has one of the worst-rated public school systems in the country, established the voucher program so that parents could send their children to any of 51 participating schools. Forty-two are religious and most are Catholic.

Secular private schools and suburban public schools are eligible to participate in the program, but have cho-

sen not to do so. That is not the fault of the program itself, argued French.

Some of the justices pointed out that , over time, more secular schools might participate in the voucher program so that it would not be as heavily weighted with parochial schools.

"The question is whether there is neutrality," between religious and nonreligious schools , said Justice Anthony Kennedy, noting that the voucher opponents were asking the court to "look at onl y part of reality."

The case has long attracted the interest of educators around the country. Dozens of school board s, teachers associations, church groups, civil liberties organizations and state agencies weighed in with "amicus ," or friendof-the-court, briefs urging the court to approve or reject the Cleveland program.

Many of then arguments echoed points made by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in a brief arguing that the program should not be considered unconstitutionalbecause mostvoucher recipients choose to attend church schools.

Lenten Opportunities Fridays: Lenten Evensong, a community celebration of song, word and prayer at St. Agnes Church, 1025 Masonic Ave., SF at 7:35 p.m. parking available in Oak St. lot. Call (415) 487-8560.

March 4, 11: A Lenten Series on Prayer and Meditation at St. Stephen parish, 601 Eucalyptus Dr. by Stonestown , SF at 7 p.m. Presenter is Patrick O'Halloran, Ph.D., a licensed psychotherapist with degrees in theology. Call (415) 681-2444, ext. 27.

March 3: A Journey to Africa, a slide and video presentation by Maryknoll Affiliate Marie Wren with a special session for children by Deacon Matt Dulka, featuring work by Maryknoll members in Kenya and Tanzania.

Star of the Sea parish, 180 Harrison Ave., Sausalito, 2 - 4 p.m. Information on Maryknoll Affiliates and lay mission opportunities will be available. For information or to let them know you'll be there, call (415) 331-9139 or mwren48026@aol.com.

March 4: Dead Man Walking - The Journey, an evening with Sister Helen Prejean, a Nobel Peace Prize nominee and author of the best selling book later portrayed on film and in music. Free admission. Donations will be accepted for the anti-death penalty campaign Moratorium. Autographed copies of the Pulitzer Prize nominated book will also be available. Notre Dame de Namur University Theatre, 1500 Ralston Ave., Belmont.

Call (650) 524-9811.

March 6: Pergolesi's Stabat Mater and a cappella Passion Music at St. Dominic Church, 2390 Bush St. at Steiner, SF at 7:30 p.m. Features the voices and instruments of The Musicians of St. Dominic's under the direction of David Schofield. Tickets $8/$10. Call (415) 567-7824.

March 7: Taize Prayer Around the Cross at St. Rita Church, 100 Marinda Dr., Fairfax at 7:30 p.m. This is an ecumenical evening sponsored by St. Rita's, Sleepy Hollow Presbyterian Church, and Fairfax Community Church. A second evening of Taize will take place March 21 at Fairfax Community Church, 2398 Sir Francis Drake Blvd. in Fairfax. All are welcome.

March 9: A workshop on forgiveness with Frederic Luskin , director , Stanford University Forgiveness Project, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Luskin has been called an expert on the subject of learning how to forgive for a better, happier, more hopeful life. West Berkeley Senior Center, 1900 Sixth S(. Berkeley. Tickets $7&$5Q students and seniors.

March 14: Jesse Manibusan in concert, St.. Anne of the Sunset Church , 850 Judah St. at Funston, SF, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets 510/students $5. Call (415) 587-7949.

Special session with students, reservations required, from 5:30 - 6:45 p.m. Kelscan2@yahoo.com.

March 22: An evening of Taize Prayer with Mercy Sister Suzanne Toolan at Our Lady of Angels Church, 1721 Hillside Dr. just off El Camino Real, Burlingame at 7:30 p.m. Sister Suzanne, composer ol hymns including I am the Bread of Life and music for the Mass prayed at Candlestick Park with Pope John Paul II in 1987, is a premier presenter of the sung Taize mode. Call (650) 347-7768.

March 22-24: He has come to his people to set them free, a silent Palm Sunday weekend retreat lor men and women with Father Thomas Madden at Vallombrosa Retreat Center. 250 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park. $160 single/5140 shared room. Begins with dinner Fri. at 6 p.m. and concludes after lunch on Sunday. Call (650) 325-5614.

March 23: Penance Service sponsored by Deanery One with Bishop John C. Wester presiding, at St. Anne of the Sunset Church 850 Judah St. at Funston, SF beginning at 9:30 a.m. People from all deaneries are invited.

Datebooh March 24: Join the Militia Immaculata for prayer, a spiritual talk and potluck meal at 3 p.m. at St. Finn Barr Church, 415 Edna St. at Hearst , SF. Everyone invited.

Children welcome. Please bring dish if planning to stay for potluck. Call Madeleine at (650) 738-8616 or Nellie@ignatius.com.

School of Pastoral Leadership For additional information , call Joni Gallagher at (415) 614-5564 or spl@att.net. Pre-registration is necessary for many programs. Visit the SPL Web site at www.splsf.org .

San Mateo - Tuesdays March 5 - April 16, 7:30 - 9:30 p.m. at Junipero Serra High School, 451 W. 20th Ave.: Catholic Mora l Theology with USF professor Michael Torre; Introduction to the Study of World Religions with Father Francis Tiso; Continuation of Introduction to the Old Testament with Jesuit Father Donald Sharp; Continuation of Encountering the New Testament with Father David Pettingill.

San Francisco - Wednesdays March 6 - April 17, 7:30 - 9:30 p.m. at Archbishop Riordan High School, 175 Phelan Dr.: Catholic Moral Theology with USF professor Michael Torre; Why Do We Believe That? An Introduction to Apologetics with Mark Brumley, editor of Catholic Dossier; Introduction to Islam with Iftekhar Hai, director, United Muslims of America; Jesus in the Gospel of John with Father Francis Tiso; Continuation of Introduction to the Old Testament with Jesuit Father Donald Sharp.

Fridays March 8 - April 19, 2 - 4 p.m. at the Pastoral Center, One Peter Yorke Way, 1 st Floor: Continuation of the Wisdom Literature of the Old Testament with Jesuit Father Donald Sharp.

Marin - Thursdays March 7 - April 18, 7:30 9:30 p.m. at Marin catholic High School , 675 Sir Francis Drake Blvd at Bon Air, Kentfield: Expressions of Prayer in the East and the West Through the Centuries: Answering the Call of God Through the Purgation, the Illuminative, and the Unitive way with Father David Anderson , pastor, Eastern Catholic Mission of Ukiah.

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.

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March 16: Italian Lunch with Bingo sponsored by Alberian #93 YLI, Corpus Christi Hall, Alemany Blvd. at Santa Rosa Ave., SF at noon. Donation $12 includes one Bingo card. Call Connie Pisciolta at (415) 334-6429 for tickets.

3rd Wed.: All you can eat Spaghetti Luncheon at Chapel of the Immaculate Conception, 3255 Folsom up the hill from Cesar Chavez, SF. $7 per person. A San Francisco tradition for decades. Reservations not required. Call (415) 824-1762.

Family Life Marc h 8 - 1 0 : Worldwide Marriage Encounter Weekend: A Weekend of Discovery, a Lifetime of Love.

For more information or to register, call Michele or George Otte at (888) 568-3018 or at the e-mail address above.

Returning Catholics Programs for Catholics interested in returning to the Church, have been established at the following parishes: St. Dominic, SF, Lee Gallery at (415) 2211288 or Dominican Father Steve Maekawa at (415) 567-7824; Holy Name of Jesus, SF, Dennis Rivera at (415) 664-8590; St. Bartholomew, San Mateo, Dan Stensen at (650) 344-5665; St. Catherine of Siena, Burlingame, Silvia Chiesa at (650) 685-8336, Elaine Yastishock at (650) 344-6884; Our Lady of Angels, Burlingame, Dorothy Heinrichs or Maria Cianci at (650) 347-7768; St. Dunstan, Millbrae, Dianne Johnston at (650) 697-0952; Our Lady of the Pillar, Half Moon Bay, Meghan at (650) 726-4337; St. Peter, Pacifica, Shirley Bryant at (650) 355-5168; Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Mill Valley, Rick Dullea or Diane Claire at (415) 388-4190.

Introductory instruction for married or engaged couples about Natural Family Planning, Billings Ovulation Method, is available by appointment from NFP consultant Gloria Gillogley. Call (650) 345-9076.

Natural Family Planning classes on the Billings Ovulation Method of NFP are olfered at St. Brendan Parish, Ulloa and Laguna Honda Blvd., SF. Call instructor, Jodi Mendieta, at (415) 285-3036..

Retrouvaille, a program for troubled marriages. The weekend and follow up sessions help couples heal and renew their families. Presenters are three couples and a Catholic priest. Call Peg or Ed Gleason at (415) 2214269 or edgleason@webtv.net.

Reunions

Worldwide Marriage Encounter, a dynamic marriage enrichment experience designed to deepen the joy a couple shares. Call (888) 568-3018.

St. John Ursuline High School, SF is looking tor members of its class of '52 for an annual April Golden Diploma Mass and Brunch. Call Gayle Fitzpatrick Vannucci at (650) 692-4196.

The Adoption Network of Catholic Charities offers two free information meetings on adoption and foster care on the 2nd Tues. of each month in San Francisco and on 1st Mon. in San Mateo at 7 p.m. Call (415) 4062387.

March 16: First Annual Alumni Fundraiser of Our Lady of the Visitacion Elementary, SF.All alumni invited.

Details at www.olvisitacion.com.

March 23: USF's Golden Alumni Reunion recognizing classes of '52, '47, '42, '37, '32 on the school's main campus from 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. Call (415) 422-6431 or reunions@usfca.edu.

Consolation Ministry Groups meet at the following parishes. Please call numbers shown for more information.

Our Lady of Angels, Burlingame. Call Louise Nelson at (650) 343-8457 or Barbara Arena at (650) 344-3579. Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Redwood City.

Call (650) 366-3802. St. Andrew, Daly City. Call Eleanor and Nick Fesunoff at (650) 878-9743; Good Shepherd, Pacifica. Call Sister Carol Fleitz at (650) 355-2593; St. Robert, San Bruno. Call (650) 5892800. Immaculate Heart of Mary, Belmont. Call Ann Ponty at (650) 598-0658 or Mary Wagner at (650) 5913850. St. Isabella, San Rafael. Call Pat Sack at (415) 472-5732. Our Lady of Loretto, Novate Call Sister Jeanette at (415) 897-2171.SL Gabriel, SF. Call Barbara Elordi at (415) 564-7882. St. Finn Barr, SF in English and Spanish. Call Carmen Solis at (415) 5840823; St. Cecilia, SF. Call Peggy Abdo at (415) 5647882. Epiphany, SF in Spanish. Call Kathryn Keenan at (415) 564-7882.

Ministry for parents who have lost a child is available from Our Lady of Angels Parish, Burlingame. Call Ina Potter at (650) 347-6971 or Barbara Arena at (650) 344-3579. Young Widow/Widower group meets at St. Gregory, San Mateo. Call Barbara Elordi at (415) 5647882.

Information about children's and teen groups is available from Barbara Elordi at (415) 564-7882.

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March 23, 24: St. Ignatius College Preparatory, Class of '52 reunion. Contact Dick Wall at (415) 434-3323, owwm@pacbell.net or Jack Mona at jemona@aol.com April 6: Annual Alumnae Mass and Luncheon Notre Dame High School, SF. Begins with Mass at Mission Dolores Basilica at 11 a.m. followed by lunch at Spanish Cultural Center, 2850 Alemany Blvd., SF Classes of '52 and '77 are honorees but all are invited. Call Joan Flade at (415) 893-9673 by March 6. Class of '52, Notre Dame High School, San Francisco. If you have not been contacted, please call Patty Moran at (415) 861-2378.

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age drinking. An imp lied sexual encounter , casual treatment of teen pregnancy, brief underage drinking and a few instances of crass language . USCCB: A-IV — adults , with reservations.

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Melodramatic tale in which a desperate father (Denzel Washington) take s a hosp ital ' s emergency room hostage after he 's told they can ' t give his son the heart transp lant he needs because of health insurance problems. Director Nick Cassavete s wraps a heavy-handed social message about health care coverage for the poor in a gut-wrenching story about a parent 's worst nightmare, but the shameless emotionu al man ipulation and cop-out ending undermine the film 's a. potential significance. Mature elements brief " violence with a , 1j v few instances of profanity and crass language . USCCB: A-III — adults. MPAA: PG-13 — parents are strong l y cautioned.

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Quirk y drama about a strugg ling, alcoholic wri ter (Arliss Howard ) trying to regain control of his life while dealin g with his ex-wit'e (Debra Winger) and her re fusal to let him see their two children , one of whom has an incurable disease. First-time-director Howard creativel y uses visuals to capture what 's inside the writer 's mind , but the film is overlong, crammed with too many bizarre incidents and not enough character development , desp ite an ultimatel y stirring conclusion. Some sexual encounters and several sexual references , a few disparaging remarks about Christianity, fleeting rear nudity, brief violence , recurring profanity and sporadic rough language. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops classification is A-III — adults. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is: R — restricted.

'Dragonfly '

Inane drama about a doctor (Kevin Costner) who thinks his late wife (Susanna Thompson) is trying to communicate with him through the near-death experiences of her patients.

Director Tom Shadyac 's clunk y thriller offers some garbled spiritual bunkum about the "next world" with overripe dialogue and a derivative script that grows increasingly ridiculous. Perplexing advice given by a Catholic nun about contacting the dead , fleeting nudity, brief crass words with an instance of rough language and profanity. USCCB: A-III — adults. MPAA: PG-13 — parents are strongly cautioned.

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bite . An implied sexual encounter, recurring blood-sucking violence with gore and an instance of profanity. USCCB: A-IV — adults , with reservations. MPAA: R — restricted.

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Terrible teen drama about an 18-year-old girl (Britney Spears) who takes a cross-country hip with her two gal pals (Zoe Saldana and Taryn Manning) to find the mother who abandoned her when she was a child. Aimed at the vulnerable pre-teen and teen audience , director Tamra Davis ' contrived film scorns virginity and abstinence while sugar-coating under-

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Lowbrow comedy about five Vermont state troopers (led b y Brian Cox) constan tly pulling pranks who, facing budget cuts, need to crack a drug smuggling ring to save their jobs.

Although the humor is occasionally rau nchy and the p lot nearly transparent, director Jay Chandrasekhar ' s film offers a few silly, albeit unsophisticate d, laughs. Several sexual situations, some nudity and drug abuse, brief fisticuffs and recurring profanity and rough language. USCCB: A-IV — adults , with reservations. MPAA: R — restricted.

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Dear Friend, If you need to write or review your estate plan, we encourage you to call the Office of Stewardship and Development of the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

The Archdiocese will provide you with a free estate planning kit on request. Though not a substitute for legal advice, the kit offers a clear review of basic estate planning issues important to those who wish to protect those they love from unnecessary court costs, taxes, delay and dissension.

In addition, the Archdiocese also offers detailed and confidential information on the tax and income benefits of charitable remainder trusts and other techniques that give you tax and income benefits now, and help good causes later.

Once you have taken care of your family 's needs, we hope you will remember your parish and other ministries of the Archdiocese in your will or living trust. Bequests make sure th at future generations will have at least the same level of Catholic education and formation we enjoyed when vocations were plentiful and costs were lower. That was our endowment.

Your bequest endows the future .

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