March 19, 2004

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By Jack Smith Immigrants are not problems, they are people “made in the image and likeness of God,” said Bishop Thomas Wenski at a March 13 conference on immigration in San Francisco.

Regarding immigrants as persons leads to certain principles to be followed under Catholic social teaching, said Wenski.

“The human dignity and human rights of immigrants should be respected, including the right to find opportunities for the conditions of life in one’s homeland, and the right to emigrate to find the conditions for the support of one’s family.”

Wenski added that sovereign states have a right to control their borders, but this right is not absolute and it must in practice favor “the ethical over the technical.”

Bishop Wenski is coadjutor of the diocese of Orlando and chair of the U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops Committee on Migration. The Florida native was ordained for the Archdiocese of Miami in 1976 and has extensive work experience with immigrant, particularly Haitian and Cuban, communities.

He was one of several speakers featured at the Archbishop John R. Quinn Colloquium on Catholic Social Teaching, an annual event co-sponsored by the Archdiocese of San Francisco and the University of San Francisco.

Wenski said from the earliest times the Church’s success has been in its catholicity. The Church decided at its first council at Jerusalem the question of whether gentile converts to Christ must adhere to Jewish dietary laws and other codes.

The decision not to impose these cultural codes “meant the way of the Church would be a catholic (universal) way,” he said. The Church’s readiness to respond specifically to the needs of different cultural groups which had adhered to Christ can be seen early in the creation of the “diaconate, established to serve the needs of Greek speaking Christians.”

In looking at the American Church in the nineteenth and

Nearly 100,000 turned out March 14 for the 152nd Annual Saint Patrick’s Day Parade in San Francisco. The parade sponsored by the United Irish Societies of San Francisco included bands, bagpipers, Irish dancers of all ages, Irish wolfhounds, politicians, labor unions, and San Francisco’s police and firefighters. Providing some of the best entertainment was the perennial favorite Archbishop Riordan High School Crusaders Marching Band.

Catholics named to council developing plans for chronic homelessness rominent Catholics are among 33 individuals appointed by San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom to a 10-Year Plan Council on Homelessness charged with developing strategies for improving the city’s management of services to the chronic homeless.

San Francisco’s 3,000 chronic homeless include those suffering from mental illness, drug and alcohol dependency and other serious disabilities, according to Council member and Archdiocesan Director of Public Policy and Social Concerns, Mr. George Wesolek.

The Mayor’s Council was formed in part at the urging of the Bush administration, which has promised better funding opportunities for cities developing 10-Year plans for chronic homelessness. Atlanta, Chicago and other cities have already developed such plans and their proposals are among data being considered by San Francisco.

Attorney and former president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors Angela Alioto chairs the Council which will be meeting weekly. Mayor

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Newsom has set an end of June deadline for the Council to submit its 10-year plan.

The Council is a diverse group that includes business leaders, homeless advocates, human service providers, mental health professionals and religious leaders. “I don’t think any member knows more than a third of the other people in the group,” Wesolek said. “This is really an attempt to get a different cross section of leaders than in the past.”

Other prominent Catholic leaders on the Council include Franciscan Father John Hardin, executive director of Saint Anthony Foundation; Dr. Suzanne Giraudo, clinical director of California Pacific Medical Center Child Development Center; Michael DeNunzio, chair of the San Francisco Republican Party and member of the Aging and Adult Services Commission; and Brian Cahill, executive director of Catholic Charities CYO. While Catholic Charities primarily deals with problems of family homelessness, Cahill also brings to the Council his years of service with the San Francisco Department of Social Services, including

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by Tom Burke Today is St. Joseph’s Day, a very important 24-hours to me for many reasons including my middle name, my brother Joey, and the fact that one of the most important events of my life took place on this feast. I’ve always been glad to pray to St. Joseph and think of him in the way I envision most of our dads. He was a good and loving father who did the right thing….Hats off to two 7th graders from St. Anne Elementary School who have made their mark in the areas of spelling and Geography. Jessica Kung competes tomorrow in the Chronicle Spelling Bee whose winner will word it out at national competitions in the nation’s capital in June. Also good with arranging the alphabet is Jessica’s brother, Jonathan, a St. Anne’s 6th grader, who was runner-up in a St. Anne’s bee that his sister ultimately won. The word that he misspelled and his sister put all the right letters together for was Octopod – the family of which the octopus is a member. The kids’ proud folks are Maureen and Philip Kung. Where-things-is whiz, Edward Kong, will compete in a written National Geographic Bee in Sacramento April 2nd. He took his first step to the state capital competitions via an oral Geo Bee at St. Anne’s. The answer that secured his being the last-onestanding was Italy. The question? The 2006 Olympics will be held in Turin, a city on the Po River in what European country? Edward’s proud mom and dad are Ana and Manuel Kong. Also cheerin’ the students on are Jessica’s teacher Patricia Meek, Edward’s teacher, Laverne Fahey

and school principal, Tom White.…Congrats to Mater Dolorosa 8th graders Danielle Ciappara and Jessica Protasio for their success at Mercy High School, Burlingame’s recent Science Fair.

Danielle’s project on seashells won her 3rd place.

Right up there, too, was Jessica with an honorable mention for her work with light and geraniums.

Proud parents are Carmen and Brian Ciappara, and Connie and Sid Protasio. Also offering her kudos is Jeannette Swain, who taught at the school for almost a decade before becoming its “excitedly new principal” in the fall…It’s an Evening in Tuscany for ticket holders to St. Isabella Elementary’s annual auction and dinner April 24th. Chairing the event are Iwona Dunne, mom of kindergartner, Michael, and Terri Geck, mom of 7th grader, Richard and 4th grader, Michelle.

Thanks to Wendy Calcaterra for fillin’ us in (See Datebook)… Glad to pass along this giggle I received from Patti O’Donnell Kuhn with whom I attended the elementary grades in the Philly burbs.

A traveler sought Edward Kong shelter from a storm in a monastery she discovered along her way. Once inside, the woman was treated to a meal of fish and chips.

She was astounded at how tasty the simple fare was and went to thank to cooks. “The fish and chips were the best I ever tasted,” the wayfarer told the two cuisine-artists anxious to learn who cooked what? “I’m the fish friar,” said the first with the second chiming in as “the chip monk.”…Talk of the fish and chips takes me back to our meatless Fridays – days I’m never shy to say I miss – which we revisit during Lent. As a kid, Thursday nights were for whipping up the tuna salad for the next day’s lunches before settling down for shows like Donna Reed and Bewitched. Macaroni and cheese and stewed tomatoes

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were staples of all Friday evening meals. The main course was fried seafood of some kind often from a take-out place my dad’s family owned in South Philly that only opened on Fridays.

How small a world is it that Holy Namer Rick Seher is from South Philly and remembers a regular Friday ration of fish cakes and such from Burke’s?

Rick and his wife, Jessica Kung Alice – a local lass and alum of Lowell and UC Berkeley– celebrated 20 years married November 22.

They are the proud parents of 8th grader, Zoe, 5th grader, Zach, 3rd grader, Zeph, all students of the parish school. Rick grew up not far from my grandparents – where my cousins and I often over-nighted – and I’m sure that he and I were unknowing teammates or rivals in some pick-up stickball or other game somewhere along the line. Given that the Burke grandkids often helped out at the store, I might have handed him his order on one or more occasions.

Holy Mackerel!! “You can take the boy out of South Philly but you can’t take South Philly out of the boy,” Rick said.

I’ll second that!! Rick is a 1969 grad – the same year I picked up my diploma about 75 miles East on the Jersey Shore - of Philly’s Bishop (now Saint) John Neumann High School, where my dad also went to school when it was known as Southeast Catholic….Remember, this is an empty space without ya’!!! Send items and a follow up phone number to On the Street Where You Live, One Peter Yorke Way, SF 94109. Fax (415) 614-5641; e-mail tburke@catholic-sf.org. Do not send attachments except photos and those in jpeg, please. You can reach Tom Burke at (415) 614-5634….

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A prayer rally in defense of marriage and family will be held at Sts. Peter and Paul Church in San Francisco, Saturday, April 3 at 10:00 a.m. Catholics from throughout the Bay Area and all people interested in promoting, preserving and protecting the institution of marriage are invited to participate.

The event is being sponsored by Your Catholic Voice, the nation’s largest Catholic grassroots political and policy organization, in cooperation with the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Dolores Meehan of Saint Dominic’s Young Adult group is helping organize what she hopes will be a major demonstration of popular opposition to Mayor Gavin Newsom’s unlawful actions granting marriage licenses to same-sex couples. “This is ground zero, this is where it’s happening,” she said, “Clearly the Mayor has disregarded all of the people who voted for him who had no idea he had unlawful activist intentions.”

Meehan said the event’s purpose is three-fold: To get people to pray, to stand up and be counted and to mobilize Catholics for the promotion and protection of marriage and family.

“As a people of faith, our greatest strength is prayer,” she said.

The rally will be preceded by adoration of the Lord in the Eucharist beginning at 8:00 p.m. on Friday, April 2 at Sts. Peter and Paul Church in North Beach. Benediction will be held 8:30 a.m. on April 3, followed by Mass at 9:00 a.m. The rally and procession around North Beach begins at 10:00 a.m. on the steps of Sts. Peter and Paul Church on Filbert Street between Stockton and Powell.

Sts. Peter and Paul pastor, Salesian Father John Malloy, offered his church as a venue, “because I’m so gung ho about this. I’m so disappointed, I’m sorry I voted for Newsom. We’re preaching all the time about the sanctity of marriage.”

George Yen is a member of Your Catholic Voice and a parishioner at St. Finn Barr. “We as Catholics should make our voice heard in the public square,” he said. “This is not an antihomosexual message. It’s a message on marriage and family, on upholding the dignity of marriage as a union of one man and one woman. Nothing else serves children like the institution of marriage.”

All concerned faithful are invited to the rally and to “pray that our politicians and our judges will uphold the law and preserve marriage as the union of one man and one woman.”

Catholic TV program airs Sunday March 21 at 6:30 a.m.

Father Tom Daly brings his insight on youth and vocations, Lent and Easter, and the film, “The Passion of the Christ” to his guest appearance on “For Heaven’s Sake” which airs Sunday, March 21 at 6:30 a.m. on KRON-Channel 4. Father Daly is Director of Vocations for the Archdiocese of San Francisco and President Pro Tem of Marin Catholic High School.

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Prayer rally for marriage set for Saturday, Pope names Glendon first woman to head major pontifical academy April 3 at Sts. Peter and Paul Church

Mary Ann Glendon, a professor of law at Harvard University

By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Pope John Paul II has named Mary Ann Glendon, a professor of law at Harvard University, to be president of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences.

The Vatican press office said the March 9 appointment marks the first time a woman has been named president of one of the major pontifical academies. The academies for sciences, for social sciences and for life involve international groups of scholars who conduct and encourage research on topics of concern to the Catholic Church.

Glendon, 65, has been a member of the social sciences academy since its founding in 1994.

The academy focuses on issues related

to the social sciences, economics, politics and law. Although autonomous, the academy works in consultation with the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.

Glendon also was the first woman named to head a Vatican delegation to a major U.N. conference; in 1995, Pope John Paul named her head of the Vatican delegation to the U.N. Conference on Women in Beijing.

Glendon’s research has focused on bioethics, human rights, the theory of law and comparative constitutional law.

Since 2001, she also has served on The President’s Council on Bioethics, which advises the U.S. president.

In addition to teaching at Harvard, she has been a visiting professor at Jesuit-run Gregorian University and the Legionaries of Christ’s Regina Apostolorum Athenaeum, both in Rome.

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WASHINGTON — With the release of Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun’s personal papers, many people have been looking closely at his observations on one specific case: the near overturn of legal abortion in a 1992 decision.

Blackmun’s papers from his 24 years on the court were made public March 4. They shed particular light on how closely the Planned Parenthood vs. Casey case in 1992 nearly went the other direction. Particularly telling are notes about Justice Anthony Kennedy, who was initially voting in the Casey ruling to overturn the 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision written by Blackmun. But Kennedy later changed his mind. The Casey case, which was upheld in a 5-4 vote, reaffirmed the “central holding” of the Roe decision but as a compromise position it also upheld four provisions of Pennsylvania’s Abortion Control Act that it said would not pose “undue burden” on pregnant women, including informed consent, a waiting period, parental notification and other recordkeeping prior to abortion.

Religious freedom commission lauds Iraq’s interim constitution WASHINGTON — Iraq’s interim constitution guarantees every citizen freedom of religion, representing an upgrade from an earlier draft, said a U.S. commission that monitors international religious freedom. The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom said the new version guarantees every citizen freedom of thought, conscience and religious belief. “This emphasis on individual freedom is unique for the region. These guarantees should not only be put into practice now, but also enshrined in Iraq’s permanent constitution,” the commission said in a March 8 statement. The U.S.backed Iraqi governing council signed the interim constitution March 8, laying the groundwork for future elections, a permanent constitution and an eventual return to self-rule.

Priests in St. Cloud Diocese join call for dialogue on celibacy rule ST. CLOUD, Minn. — Thirty-seven priests in the St. Cloud Diocese have signed letters to the president of the U.S. bishops’ conference calling for dialogue on the issue of mandatory celibacy. The letters were sent in early March to Bishop Wilton D. Gregory, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Each priest signed a copy of the same letter and all were sent along with a cover letter. Their action resulted from a survey

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Bishop Jesus Catala Ibanez of Alcala de Henares, whose diocese accounted for at least 40 of the victims of the train bombings that hit Spain March 11, presides over a funeral Mass March 13. The attack killed 200 people and injured 1,500. Pope John Paul II condemned the attack and said the world had been shaken by its barbarism.

mailed to priests in mid-February by Father Robert Kieffer, pastor of Our Lady of Victory Parish in Fergus Falls, and Father Ronald Weyrens, pastor of St. Joseph Parish in Waite Park. “We join our voices to those of other dioceses to urge the bishops of the United States to talk with priests on the issue of mandatory/optional celibacy for diocesan priests of the Roman rite,” they said in a cover letter that listed the priest-signers. “We ask the bishops to create a format for discussion in which any priest who wants to may be heard on the issue,” they said. “Our concern for the well-being of our priesthood is genuine, as is our concern for the sacramental life of the church,” they added. “The celebration of the sacraments becomes more problematic as the number of priests available to serve in parishes declines.”

Human cloning ban measure approved in Canadian Parliament OTTAWA — A bill that would ban human cloning and regulate research on embryos has passed both houses of Parliament and was awaiting the governor general’s assent to become law.

The governor general was expected to approve the legislation by the end of March. The Assisted Human Reproduction Act bans human cloning, sex selection, commercial surrogate motherhood contracts, the sale of sperm and eggs, and sets out rules on human embryonic stem-cell research. The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops did not take an official position on the bill, but expressed concerns about parts of the bill before the Senate Standing Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology.

Pope says Catholics must use dialogue, culture to promote faith Pope urges university students VATICAN CITY — Pope John Paul II said Catholics to promote Christian values must use dialogue, reason and culture to introduce others to the message of Christ. “It is up to pastors and the faithful to discover and delve into the basic questions and aspirations of people today,” to dialogue with them and “propose the Gospel message and person of Christ, the redeemer, in original and inculturated ways,” he said. In a speech March 13 to the Pontifical Council for Culture, the pope underlined the council’s role in “discerning great cultural changes and their positive aspects so as to help pastors give appropriate ways to open people up to the word of Christ.”

VATICAN CITY — For centuries European universities solidified the Christian foundations of European culture, and they are called to continue that role today, Pope John Paul II said.

Connected by satellite with university students from the 10 countries set to enter the European Union in May, the pope and 9,000 university students and professors gathered with him at the Vatican March 13 proclaimed their faith in Christ as the source of hope for the continent. The pope and the students prayed the rosary and sang along with an orchestra and choir made up of 1,700 students from Italian universities and conservatories.

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Vatican: China should reveal charges against arrested bishop

VATICAN CITY — Religious indifference and a growing “religion of the self� pose a greater challenge to the church than atheism and its denial of the existence of God, said the Pontifical Council for Culture. In a working document, the council prepared what it called “a pastoral resource in the face of new forms of unbelief and the new religiosity� of self with the aim of helping pastors define a concrete plan of action. The document — the result of a worldwide survey seeking to get a picture of the state of belief and religious identity in today’s culture — served as a guideline for participants in the council’s plenary assembly at the Vatican March 11-13.

VATICAN CITY — The Vatican said any charges against a Catholic bishop arrested in China should be made public. Joaquin Navarro-Valls, head of the Vatican press office, said in a March 10 statement that the Vatican learned through international news services of the March 5 arrest of Bishop Wei Jingyi of Qiqihar. “Whatever accusations there might be against the arrested bishop, they should be made public as happens in every state of law,� the Vatican statement said. “The Holy See, for its part, has no reason to doubt the prelate’s innocence,� it said. One news agency reporting on the arrest was UCA News, an Asian church news agency based in Thailand. UCA News reported that Bishop Wei, 45, his driver and two foreign church visitors were arrested March 5 in Harbin, near the China-Russia border. The driver and visitors were released, but Bishop Wei remained in custody. – Catholic News Service

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Cardinal Konig dies at 98 VATICAN CITY — Retired Austrian Cardinal Franz Konig’s work for peace and reconciliation “radiated far beyond the boundaries of his homeland,� Pope John Paul II said in a telegram of condolence for the death of the former archbishop of Vienna.

Cardinal Konig, who was the last of the surviving cardinals created by Pope John XXIII, died in his sleep early March 13 at the age of 98. He had been a cardinal for more than 45 years and Cardinal Franz Konig has been recognized widely as one of the leading promoters of the 1978 election of Cardinal Karol Wojtyla of Krakow, Poland, as Pope John Paul. An influential figure at the Second Vatican Council, Cardinal Konig continued to defend the council’s teaching and to promote its emphasis on dialogue within the church, with other Christians, other religions and the world.

Well into his 90s, he continued calling for decentralization of power within the Catholic Church, for greater collegiality among the world’s bishops and for a broader involvement of priests and laity in the nomination of bishops.

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Catholic Scouting awards recognize spiritual growth

By Tom Burke The journey of scouting has been expanded beyond lifesaving awards to include what might be called soul-saving awards. The spiritual dimension is an opportunity installed for Catholic Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and Campfire Girls by Archbishop William J. Levada one year ago.

The badges and awards for Catholic achievement and learning are available to all ranks and levels of scouting including troop leaders and assistants, said Social Service Sister Celeste Arbuckle, director of the Office of Religious Education and Youth Ministry for the Archdiocese, who oversees the Catholic Scouting program.

Sister Celeste said the secular side of scouting is in full support of the faith-driven program saying it is accepted as one more way to help define the scouting oath’s pledge to “God and country.” The Catholic awards program does not interfere or replace any of the traditional medals, Sister Celeste said.

“Looking at our relationship with God is all part of being a scout,” Sister Celeste said.

Honors range from a Family of God award for younger scouts to St. George and Elizabeth Ann Seton awards for adults. Additional acknowledgements include a Marian Award, a Light of Christ Award and an Ad Altare Dei Award.

“People need to look at their faith as part of their life in growing up and it’s important,” Sister Celeste said. “If we can support kids as they grow up in their Catholic faith, we should be doing that.”

Workbooks and Catholic mentors guide aspirants through the process of earning each badge. Assignments vary on age from talking with family members about your name and baptism for children, to exploring how Eucharist

Christopher Doran shows his medal to his parents Erik and Cintia.

Archdiocese of San Francisco Catholic Scouting Committee. From left to right: Norman Ten, Mike Verducci, Cynthia Dragon, Fr. Tony LaTorre, Sr. Celeste Arbuckle, Paulette Dunleavy and Antoinette Marracq.

unites the scout with his Christian past for older Boy Scouts and writing one’s own litany to Mary for older Girl Scouts.

Though Catholic in orientation, the faith awards have an interfaith aspect, according to Sister Celeste. “Catholic scouts share what they’re learning about their faith with the other kids.” Sister Celeste estimated the number of Boy Scout troops in the Archdiocese at 25 with 70 Girl Scout troops and one Campfire Girls troop.

Comparable faith awards for Scouts exist in other religions as well including Protestant, Jewish and Islam, Sister Celeste said.

Catholic Scouting’s first Emblem and Recognition rite took place within Mass at St. Mary Cathedral, March 7. San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop Ignatius Wang presided. Representatives of regional leadership from the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts were present for the ceremony where Catholic Scouting medals and badges were presented to more than 50 youth and adults.

For more information about Catholic Scouting, call Sister Celeste at (415) 614-5652.

You can reach Tom Burke at tburke@catholic-sf.org.

Vatican bioethicist: All patients have right to hydration, nutrition

By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Patients who are in a persistent vegetative state have a right to hydration and nutrition even though it must be provided through artificial means, said a leading Vatican bioethicist.

Bishop Elio Sgreccia, vice president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, said that “with all these tubes in the veins, the nose and the stomach” too many people think of nutrition and hydration as a form of medical treatment.

“These interventions are simply care, which is obligatory to the moment of natural death,” he said at a March 16 Vatican press conference.

The bishop was introducing a four-day congress, “Life-

Sustaining Treatments and the Vegetative State: Scientific Advances and Ethical Dilemmas.”

The March 17-20 gathering of more than 350 physicians and medical ethicists from 42 countries was co-sponsored by the academy and the World Federation of Catholic Medical Associations.

“Some say that when a person loses the use of reason, he or she ceases to be a person, leaving the possibility of discontinuing nutrition and hydration to allow them to die,” Bishop Sgreccia said.

But Catholic teaching emphasizes that as long as a human being is alive, he or she is a person with a right to receive care.

“As long as they are absorbed by the body and are beneficial to the patient,” he said, nutrition and hydration must be provided.

“The church’s message is getting hammered by proponents of euthanasia,” he said.

Dr. Gianluigi Gigli, president of the Catholic medical federation, said the withdrawal of nutrition and hydration from patients who are unconscious and unresponsive, but not in immediate danger of death, amounts to “therapeutic abandonment.”

He said that especially in the United States, Great Britain and Australia there have been efforts to extend the possibility of withholding care to patients suffering from severe dementia and severely disabling strokes.

In addition, Gigli said, there is a very fine line between active euthanasia and withholding care.

If you can suspend nutrition and hydration, people will start asking if there isn’t a better way to induce the death of these patients,” he said.

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St. Emydius school Pastor’s recommendation to close school accepted by Archbishop After struggling for several years to deal with declines in the number of students and increases in operating costs, the current school year appeared to be crucial in determining the future for St. Emydius School in San Francisco.

In the end, the weakening state of the school’s finances and a bleak outlook for enrollment in the next school year proved too much for the 65 year-old parish school.

In late February, Father Bill Brady, pastor of St. Emydius, along with Principal Judy Borelli and Business Manager Maria Teresa Patino, recommended to Archbishop William J. Levada that St. Emydius School be closed at the end of the current school year. After receiving assurances from Catholic Schools Superintendent Maureen Huntington that places in other Catholic schools would be available for any St. Emydius student, Archbishop Levada accepted the recommendation.

In a letter to the Archbishop dated March 2, Father Brady said a severe decline in expected enrollment for the coming school year and financial difficulties were the major reasons for closing the school.

To keep the elementary open this school year, the Archdiocese of San Francisco provided a $100,000 subsidy to the school with an enrollment of 150. Twenty-five students will graduate this June, and, to date, Brady said the school received notification from parents that only 83 students would return next year.

As a means to survive this year, St. Emydius School has combined the first and second grades and the third and fourth grades.

In his letter to Archbishop Levada, the St. Emydius pastor recognized the difficulty of the decision. Yet, he also noted that a very large subsidy to a school with a

(CNS PHOTO BY LAWRENCE CHATAGNIER, BAYOU CATHOLIC)

Lynette Boudreaux places bread in the shape of a saw on the St. Joseph altar in the home of Margo Battaglia in Thibodaux, La., March 11.

Other items placed on the altar include fruit, figs cookies, cakes and seafood. The custom reportedly originated in the Middle Ages in Sicily during a famine. Altars were set up and prayers were said in St. Joseph's name. When famine ended, Sicilians gave thanks by making offerings of their most precious possession -- food.

small enrollment is unfair to other viable Catholic schools in the city.

“I am personally aware of the needs of other parish schools in San Francisco and the limited resources available to them,” wrote Brady. “Therefore, I can’t in good conscience recommend that we continue the path we are going on. All signs point to the fact that we have crossed below the tolerable line of a viable school.”

Brady also thanked the Archbishop for being extraordinarily supportive and generous to St. Emydius.

Nine surrounding parish schools have room for additional students for the coming school year. Transitional help regarding moving to other schools will be provided to students and their parents. Special Open Houses for St. Emydius families are in development and will be provided to the families this week, according to the Offices of Catholic Schools.

BBC program protested LONDON (CNS) — Catholics in Britain have expressed concerns about plans to broadcast “Popetown,” a television cartoon program that portrays a corrupt Catholic Church.

“Popetown” is scheduled to be aired by the British Broadcasting Corp. in May and is said to feature the pope as a childish pensioner whose every fickle whim must be indulged. Thousands of Catholics already have written to the BBC to protest. Archbishop Mario Conti of Glasgow, Scotland, said in February that plans to broadcast “Popetown” were “socially irresponsible. “ As Britain’s main public service broadcaster, the BBC has a 44 percent share of radio and TV audiences and is funded by a license fee system to which all British taxpayers must contribute.

"It is no wonder Britain's Catholics are saying enough is enough," Archbishop Conti wrote in the Scottish edition of the Daily Mail newspaper.

"To be mocked is bad enough. To pay to be mocked through the license fee adds insult to injury. I bear no grudge against the BBC. Indeed, it is because I value it and care about it that I am speaking out," he said.

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March 19, 2004

Students from 14 diocesan schools in Academic Decathlon

Second place: Good Shepherd School

First place: Saint Gabriel School

Students from fourteen diocesan grammar schools participated in the Eighth Annual Junior High Academic Decathlon, March 26, at Junipero Serra High School. The sixth, seventh and eighth graders competed individually in tests on eight academic subjects, and as a team for a logic competition and Super Quiz.

Saint Gabriel School in San Francisco took home first place overall this year followed by Good Shepherd in Pacifica and Saint Anthony-Immaculate Conception School in San Francisco.

Saint Gabriel will go on to represent the Archdiocese of San Francisco in the statewide competition to be held May 1 in Los Angeles.

Third place: Saint Anthony-Immaculate Conception School

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Sisters of Mercy donate $1 million for affordable housing Academic Decathalon . . .

■ Continued from page 8 The Sisters of Mercy of Auburn and Burlingame announced March 18 a joint gift of $1 million to invest in the residents of their affordable housing programs throughout California. The announcement said the donation, out of the Sisters’ general funds, shows the firm commitment of the Sisters of Mercy to building healthy communities and to providing stable housing for individuals and families who are “low income.”

To assure that more families and individuals all over California can find safe, affordable housing, the Sisters of Mercy have made this gift as an “Act of Mercy,” to enhance services for Mercy Housing residents to continue as independent, productive members of their community through Mercy Housing’s Power of Housing campaign. Their gift initiates commemorations for this year’s 150th anniversary of the Mercy Sisters’ arrival in California. Mercy Housing has 99 housing communities in this state alone.

“We are making this donation to highlight publicly the critical need not only for affordable housing, but also for supportive services that will enable persons to take their rightful place in society,” said Sister Mary Waskowiak, president of the Burlingame Region, Sisters of Mercy. “Mercy Housing has developed an expertise in meeting the needs of families and individuals on the edge of society. These underserved groups have been our concern since we were founded 173 years ago in Dublin, Ireland.”

Today, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, reports that 5.4 million very-low-income households are living in worst-case housing environment (either living in substandard housing or paying an excessive portion of their rent for housing costs). The majority of those families are trapped living in unhealthy conditions because for every 100 households

in need, there are only 36 affordable units available.

The Sisters of Mercy are addressing this serious issue through Mercy Housing’s housing developments and resident services throughout California.

The Sisters have also learned to leverage their funds. Their housing ministry, Mercy Housing, began in 1981 when the Sisters of Mercy of Omaha, Nebraska set aside $500,000 to address the need of families for safe, affordable housing. Now 13 communities have invested over $8 million, which has leveraged financing of over $1 billion in quality, affordable housing in 20 states.

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icon of solidarity and resurrection ever since. It is on’t be fooled: Even when the shooting pinned to the wall above my desk.” She sent a copy stops, the animosity continues. It has to Sobrino. Last summer when she returned, Swan been nearly 12 years since the civil war reminded him of their meeting 13 years ago. In in El Salvador ended, but people are still workthe ensuing conversation, Father Sobrino told her ing on reconciliation, Alli Swan discovered durhe had kept the photo above his desk, too. “It was ing a visit to that Central American country last a wonderful moment…there was a sudden sense summer. with him that we had been there before.” And that “In Perquin, near the site of the 1981 El the commitment we made then, and the longMozote massacre, where an entire village of term commitment is something people continue women, men and children were murdered by to make. “He always said it is not exactly what you right-wing death squads, the mayor is still trying do; it is just that you do something.” to “get people, even family members to speak.”

When she was five years old, Alli Swan As a result, economic development can only now remembers going with her mother to protests just begin to happen, she said. against U. S. involvement in the El Salvador civil Alli Swan was one of seven St. John of God war. Her little brother went along too, in his parishioners who went to the Central American stroller. Every time her mom, Linda, traveled to El country last August to deliver $3,000 to a women’s Salvador, little Alli would wear a special T-shirt to cooperative there. The gift was a donation in memschool. It had the word “Sanctuary” on it. ory of Laura Kennedy, former co-chair of the Last month, Alli Swan, now 23, told parishparish’s Sanctuary Committee. ioners at St. John of God how Linda’s involvement Health promoter and Adrianne The seven visitors reported on their 10-day with the Sanctuary Movement had shaped her at Health Clinic in Guarjila. trip during a liturgy last fall commemorating own life. “I vividly remember pictures drawn of the murders of Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero, six Jesuits and their two women Salvadoran children my same age of families being shot. In that half-conscious way that housekeepers by the right wing military. A United Nations Truth Commission Report in children take in the world, I knew in an eerie way that something was profoundly wrong.”

1993 cited 26 persons for these murders and the attempted cover-up. Of these, 19 had As an adult, this young teacher carries those early Sanctuary experiences with her. graduated from the U.S. Army School of the Americas in Ft. Benning, GA. When the U.S. made the decision to attack Iraq, she decided to become an official memReflection and prayer for the people of El Salvador and Guatemala is one of many ber of Solidarity. When people asked why she would join with a country whose civil war activities the parish participates in as a Sanctuary church, said Linda Swan, Sanctuary was over, she told them, that “El Salvador is not unique for its suffering or oppression.

Committee co-chair, and Alli’s mother.

Neither is Iraq. They have their own unique stories, but suffering and oppression are St. John’s is part of a nationwide Sanctuary Movement, a ministry begun in 1980 to present throughout the world, even at home. I march in the anti-war protests and I think shelter Central American refugees fleeing war and death squads in their homelands. they’re an incredibly important step toward peace, but also a reactionary step. If I only Founded in Tucson by Redemptorist Father Ricardo Elford, Presbyterian minister John become involved in efforts to stop imminent war, then I lose sight of why it occurs in the Fife, and Quaker Jim Corbett, the Movement spread across the United States, and soon first place and what I do daily to prevent it. Peace for me is that active, daily involvereached California. ment, and that is what work in Sanctuary is. I personally cannot walk in Father Peter Sammon, then pastor of St. Teresa Catholic church in protest carrying anti-war signs if I am not also doing this type of work.

San Francisco, spearheaded the movement in the Bay Area and helped to …If I am to be anti-violence, I cannot call it quits either at cease-fire.” form a coalition of Christian and Jewish congregations. In 1984, the coali“I choose El Salvador because if I’m going to be of any use to any comtion managed to get a resolution passed designating San Francisco a City munity, than I have to understand who they are as a people and what their of Refuge. In 1989, while Father Sammon was serving on the Human history is. Time spent, then, is of great value. The Saint John of God comRights Commission, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted to make munity has been involved with the Salvadoran community for 17-18 years. this resolution an ordinance.

When we told that to groups we met, there was a qualitative difference in the St. John’s became the second San Francisco parish to sign on to the way they responded. They knew we are serious about our commitment, not Sanctuary Movement after Archbishop John Quinn’s 1983 Pastoral Letter the quick fix; that we know that real problems are about the long haul.” on Central America inspired parishioners in that direction. They listened Fr. Jon Sobrino Like her mom, Alli Swan, had a memorable conversation with Jon to refugees’ stories and researched the moral and legal issues regarding Sobrino. “He hugged me and whispered, ‘you should be like your mother.” political asylum. In 1986, the parish voted to become a Sanctuary Community. Since “I was so touched…we are both but two grains of sand, but he was referring to then, the parish has been involved in a number of major activities, including providing the commitment that spans a generation. Yes I have every intention of being like my free legal support for immigration to Canada or political asylum in the U.S., and food mother.” and shelter for refugees and families. They have reunited family members, been active Martha Shaughnessy’s memories are of Rufina Amaya, and they are not happy in the Interfaith Coalition for Immigration Rights, and provided financial and medical ones. She came face to face with “this small stout, sweet-faced woman with a long ponycontributions to Central American communities. In addition, 20 members have made tail and a single scar visible in her ankle length skirt and short-sleeved shirt.” Rufina is more than 25 trips to El Salvador and Guatemala the only non-military survivor of the massacre at El Mazote. She hid in the bushes, pray“Projects have tended to go with the flow of the times, reflecting refugees’ needs,” ing as her four children and the entire village were killed by “the elite, Americansaid Swan. The emphasis these days is providing health care and economic assistance. trained” branch of the military. Rufina had watched the decapitation of her husband, Some of the refugees have gone back to Central America but have returned, “Because the and his father. economy is so terrible there.”

“Her eyes are so sad,” Ms. When Swan and her company of Shaughnessy told her friends at St. John travelers came back from El Salvador, of God’s. And Rufina’s story, told in a book they brought many touching stories and on the subject, “made the legacy of the memories with them.

School of the Americas a visceral truth.

Linda Swan first went to San The men who’d speared babies and torSalvador five months after the murder of tured families had been taught how to do the six Jesuit brothers. During her visit, so on American soil, their weapons purFather Jon Sobrino, a faculty member at chased by the United States government.” the University of Central America, showed Ms. Shaughnessy remembered how her the site of the murder – a garden. Had Rufina cried, as she related her story to he not been traveling, he, too probably the visitors. “There were silent tears would have been among the dead. The streaming down her weathered face… gardener, whose wife and daughter had her hands instinctually going to her been killed along with the priests, planted breasts as she remembers the feeling of some rose bushes, saying “we have to having her infant child torn from her, Women of the cattle cooperative in front make the resurrection real.” and the pain of trekking for days with of the office they built. Each member Swan took a photo of Father Sobrino no child to suckle. The burden of her had to provide one building brick. in front of the rose bushes. “It has been an truth is immense.”

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nt in peace and justice Theresa Cameranesi told the story of Yanira, a 40year-old campesina who joined the guerillas as a teenager and fought alongside the men. Today Yanira is president of a women’s cooperative, which Voices on the Border helped her set up. The women’s cooperative provides small loans to other women; only one member has reneged on a payment. Yanira, the mother of four children, “looks great, and has a nice house and several cattle. Yet she voices the loss of not having the support of a husband and father. The cost of war has been incredibly high for the male former soldiers and adjustments to peace quite difficult for ex-guerillas. Yanira says that the strength and support of other women has been the steadiest anchor she has known. Not the government, not the princes of the church, not the male former soldiers. It has been the cooperation of women.”

Andy Kennedy Oliver will never forget his meeting with the town council of Guarjila, and its 26-year old president, Santos. The council was extremely glad to see the San Franciscans, because they represented a group who has been committed to El Salvador for the long haul. St. John’s contributed $500 to the clinic during their visit.

“Throughout their meeting I learned that there were other groups that had come down offering their assistance, but their missions had failed. This happened because of a lack of cooperation or a failure to build strong relationships through face to face contact.”

But the clinic has ongoing help from a doctor in Switzerland who is paying the salaries for two of the clinic doctors. It is the only community-run health clinic in El Salvador. The government operates the rest.

The impressions of Adrienne Plasse’s visit metamorphosed into one voice – “the Church of the Poor.” She said, “We listen to the Gospels and we figure out what they mean for us here and now. We know Jesus is with us. We don’t have to look far to see him here. We see him in each other.”

The people of El Salvador keep the faith by remembering their martyrs. “Aug. 15 was the birthday of our beloved bishop and martyr, Oscar Romero. We love him so much.

He really is a saint. We pray to him like a saint. It rained that night but the church was filled. Oscar always knew how to pack a house. Many of us who had been close to him and worked with him during the war were there.”

And the Voice of the Poor, as articulated by Adrienne Plasse, said: “the civil war tore apart our families and communities. Our work since the end of the war has been to get people back together as brothers and sisters, to get soldiers and guerillas to sit down next to each other. We help them to talk, to ask for forgiveness, to forgive. I think we will be doing this job for awhile.”

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The delegation from St. John of God meeting to discuss plans after a meal in El Salvador From left, Linda, Allison, Andy and Mattie.

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By Father Eugene Hemrick All kinds of news reports over the past few years have had a capacity to erode our trust in leaders — to shake our faith. How much can we take before that happens?

Take, for example, the recent doubts that arose about whether Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Why, really, was the United States in Iraq?

People are asking whether the wars we get involved in are about spreading democracy and freedom or represent a quest for American supremacy.

Again, great numbers of hard-working, middle-class people have lost life savings and pension plans due to corrupt CEOs. What companies can we trust anymore, and where is it safe to invest our earnings?

Coaches long were considered mentors for our youth. But consider the ongoing reports of those coaches whose actions weren’t all that honorable. In too many cases today, even the field of sports doesn’t sport the clean-cut look it was known for.

People today often wonder whether government leaders aren’t more interested in becoming re-elected than in serving and protecting them.

And churches, the last bastion of hope for honesty and truth, now are fighting for credibility due to unfortunate scandals.

When the faith of a nation is shaken, the consequences are major. Faith, more than any other virtue, is the bonding glue that keeps society and people together. Without it families break up, businesses collapse, governments fall, churches are left empty and anarchy is given free reign.

Even more destructive is a broken spirit. The very life that faith manifests is deflated, and the will to work together is disheartened.

How do we stand firm in the midst of all that is shaking our faith? More important, what do we teach our children?

In the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, a frieze over the justices’ benches depicts the works of good on one side and the works of evil on the other, with Justice sitting in the middle and Divine Inspiration at her side.

Herein lies our answer.

When we reflect upon all that is shaking our faith these days, we learn that justice is always there to stop untruthfulness. Those who thought their clandestine, unlawful deeds would go unnoticed now are being tried in the light of justice.

There is an old saying, “What goes around, comes around.” One may get away with something for the moment, but the moment arrives when all is brought out into the light. Even figures of history with shady past lives have been “dug up” and “put on trial.” Most important of all, throughout the pages of Scripture God’s promise of ultimate justice is a constant theme.

It is interesting to note in the Supreme Court frieze that Divine Inspiration is leaning against a sword, signifying that the quest of justice is a constant battle.

No doubt, the dishonesty we’ve experienced in our times is disturbing. Our best antidote is to study the works of justice throughout history and to renew our resolve never to let anything break our fighting spirit in the championing of justice.

“It helps now and then …”

“It helps now and then to step back and take a long view. The Kingdom is not only beyond our efforts, it is even beyond our vision. We accomplish in our lifetime only a tiny fraction of the magnificent enterprise that is God’s work.

Nothing we do is complete, which is another way of saying that the Kingdom always lies beyond us. No statement says all that should be said. No prayer fully expresses our faith. No confession brings perfection. No pastoral visit brings wholeness. No program accomplishes the church’s mission. No set of goals and objectives includes everything.

This is what we are about. We plant the seeds that one day will grow. We water the seeds already planted, knowing that they hold future promise. We lay foundations that will need further development. We provide yeast that produces effects far beyond our capabilities.

We cannot do everything and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that.

This enables us to do something and to do it very well. It may be incomplete, but it is the difference between the master builder and the worker. We are the workers, not the master builder; the ministers, not the messiah. We are prophets of a future that is not our own.”

– Archbishop Oscar Romero, 1917-1980 As we begin with this issue a look at the human side of current immigration issues in the United States, it seems appropriate to call to mind the words of Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador, who was assassinated March 24, 1980.

Romero believed that the Church would betray its own love for God and its fidelity to the Gospel if it stopped being a defender of the rights of the poor, a humanizer of every legitimate struggle to achieve a more just society that prepares the way for the true reign of God in history.

In considering the human dimensions of the immigration issue, let us do so with openness and a commitment to truth, justice and human dignity.

MEH

Many faces, one faith Mr. James Clifford Sr.’s article, “All Catholics Are Pilgrims in the Same Boat,” should be honored for going against the tide of political correctness in which the media often emphasizes differences a.k.a. “diversity” instead of celebrating our common humanity.

He has the courage to write the simple, yet beautiful, truth of our Catholic faith which binds so many people from various backgrounds together - many faces, one faith. This fact is often lost in the current of “multiculturalism” to which a great many contemporary politicians and religious leaders subscribe.

For most of us who had made a pilgrimage to World Youth Day, Denver in 1993 and subsequent WYDs, we were moved to have seen so many of our fellow young pilgrims from all over the globe, speaking a multitude of tongues, gathered in the Rockies with our Holy Father to share and celebrate a common Catholic faith. Such is the universality of our Church. Needless to say, the word Catholic means universal. We were one in the Spirit, walking humbly with God, in solidarity with one another regardless of age, income level and social status.

Whereas there’s “diversity,” let us all seek harmony, promoting mutual respect, understanding and peace. After all, variety, a word often neglected in this day and age, is the spice of life.

Whereas there’s “tolerance,” may Christ grant us the wisdom to know what is right and what is wrong. Whereas there’s “multiculturalism,” may we see the cultural errors that condemn one generation to the next to a lifetime of poverty and ignorance because some cultures are inherently corrupt and feudal. And I, for one, have been a witness to that and have also lived through it.

Palmer Chan San Francisco

No clothes

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In reading all the blather about “gay marriage,” I am reminded of the timeless story, “The Emperor’s New Clothes”. I’m sure most readers know this story. A vain and wasteful emperor was conned by some scheming weavers into allowing them to make him special clothing for an upcoming procession through town. The clothing would be made from a miraculous material. A funny thing about this material, however - it was invisible to those who were unfit for office or who were extraordinarily simple-minded. As the garments were woven, all who initially looked at the loom, although none could see even a stitch of material, agreed that the fabric was indeed beautiful and of worthy quality for their emperor. (After all, they did not want to be thought of as unfit for their jobs, or simpleminded.) When the garments were finished by the weavers, the Emperor put them on, and exclaimed how splendid they looked and how well they fit. (Of course, he could see nothing.) The emperor, to the oohs and ahs of his subjects, processed through the town until the voice of a small child was heard: “But the Emperor has nothing on!” Only then did the populace cry out: “But he has nothing on!”

What’s the relevance to “gay marriage”.

When I saw that Fr. Gerald Coleman had a Feb.

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27 Catholic San Francisco column entitled, “A guide to protecting marriage,” I was hoping that he would put forth the truth: “But there is no such thing as gay marriage,” but he did not.

He danced around the subject, again using the homosexualist term “gay” as if it was correct terminology, and he discussed marriage in mostly secular terms, giving credence to the claims that “gay marriage” is a right. Why can’t Fr. Coleman, with the Church credentials he has, tell the truth so that all Catholics can realize what is going on here? Why can’t he strip away the lies and declare with authority that there cannot be marriage between sodomites.

Marriage is only between man and woman. Has Father not read the many biblical references to marriage? All refer to husband and wife. Can he not see that only man and woman can marry? Even your basic dictionary (Webster’s) defines marriage: “the state of being married; the relation of husband and wife.”

This lie has gone on for far too long and the “simple-minded” among us have bought into the phony garment of “gay” respectability. Too bad our Church leaders were also fooled. Now it appears to be too late to undo the damage.

Laurette Elsberry Sacramento

What’s the big deal?

Thanks so much for the numerous articles on same-sex marriage.

Not differing viewpoints, perhaps, but many thoughtful columns of print to reflect on.

I am truly wondering, though: since the Church doesn’t recognize City Hall weddings anyway, why does it matter who gets married there? What’s a few thousand more people saying they’re married who in the Church’s eyes aren’t?

People who aren’t Catholic (and maybe some who are) use condoms, skip church on Sunday, eat steak on Fridays in Lent, do much else contrary to our teachings.

The Church has not sought to outlaw these behaviors. I understand why abortion is different, if considered equivalent to murder. But why same-sex marriage at City Hall? No one is being killed.

If the question sounds glib, it is not meant to be. I take the obligations of the faith seriously. So I was glad to see same-sex marriage did not elbow Lent off the front page.

Patrick Mulcahey San Francisco

What He did for us I read with interest two letters to the editor dated March 12, which spoke about Mel Gibson’s “The Passion.” One was written by Michael Murphy who had “serious reservations” about the movie because of its “unrelenting violence, and its horrific view of humanity.”

Having seen “the Passion” with my family, I was moved to tears by the powerful images of Jesus suffering torture, humiliation, and ultimately crucifixion to save all of humanity from sin. How else can these events be depicted if not with the reality of how much Jesus suffered for all of us because He loves us?

This movie was very courageous in giving us a true glimpse into what Jesus endured for every one of us. Perhaps some viewers would have difficulty really witnessing the truth of what Jesus went through but it was a poignant reminder to me about how much Jesus really loves us.

The letter by Jack and Marilu Hitchcock stating that they would not even see the movie because they didn’t want to “give Mel Gibson the power to determine their Lenten experience” is curious as everyone will have a different personal reaction to the movie which no one can determine but themselves.

Some people are afraid to see “The Passion” because to really see how brutal and painful it was for Jesus to be scourged, derided, crowned with thorns, and nailed to a cross is a humbling and life-changing experience. If Jesus could endure all that for us can we watch a movie for two hours and be there with Him and know in our hearts just what he did for us?

After all, isn’t that what Lent is all about?

Kris Flowers Hillsborough

March 19, 2004

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Suing for the right to live A little noticed litigation in the United Kingdom David again if he suffers another medical emergency. could be a harbinger of medical woes to come here in the But the unrepentant doctors fought back, one testifying United States. Leslie Burke, age 44, is suing for the right that he objected to the parents’ resuscitative actions to stay alive. Yes, you read right: Burke, who has a ter- because they had “prevented him from dying.” minal neurological disease, is deathly afraid that doctors Clearly, the issue in the case wasn’t whether will refuse to provide him wanted food and water when David’s life was beyond saving but whether it was his condition deteriorates to the point that he has to worth saving. Shockingly, the trial and appellate courts receive nourishment through a feeding tube. supported the doctors, ruling that in the United Burke’s fears are, quite rationally, based on current Kingdom, doctors—not patients or parents—have the international legal and bioethical trends. Futile Care final say as to who should live and who should die. And Theory, the bioethical maxim that gives doctors the if Burke loses his case, it will mean that competent right to refuse wanted life-sustaining treatment based patients in Britain who opt in advance for life-sustainon their perception of the quality of their patient’s life, ing treatment in the event of future incapacitation, canhas imbedded itself like barbed hook into British med- not be confident that their desires will be respected. ical ethics and law. Indeed, current British Medical Lest you stretch, yawn, and think that Burke’s fears Association ethical guidelines permit doctors to stop have little relevance here, the dark shadow of Futile Care tube-supplied nutrition and hydration if they believe the Theory has already reached our shores. Throughout the patient’s quality of life is poor, leading to eventual country, hospital and nursing home bioethics commitdeath. In such cases, patients’ or relatives’ views on the tees have begun to quietly promulgate procedural protomatter must succumb to the medical and bioethical con- cols that allow them to impose Futile Care Theory on sensus.

America’s most defenseless and helpless patients.

Making matters These “medical futiliworse for Burke, British ty” or “inappropriate courts previously stamped Weak and vulnerable patients in care” guidelines establish their imprimatur upon internal bureaucratic proFutile Care Theory, bring- the United Kingdom are having a cedures that generally ing with it the terrifying work something like this: ● In the event of a prospect that Burke will be denied wanted life-sus- duty to die imposed upon them by dispute over providing taining treatment. Indeed, wanted life-sustaining a previous lawsuit involv- medical ethicists and the courts’ treatment, the matter will ing a disabled child first be discussed inforalready granted doctors mally among bioethicists, the final say as to whether approval of Futile Care Theory. chaplains, social workers, the boy lives or is abandoctors, family, and doned to death through The same game is now afoot here. patient (if capable). ● If the dispute canthe denial of resuscitating treatment. not be resolved informalThe case involved David Glass, who in 1998 at age ly, it will be brought to the hospital bioethics committee 12 suffered respiratory failure. His parents rushed him or other body established for “adjudication.” ● The committee hears from the doctors, family, to St. Mary’s Hospital in Portsmouth, only to have doctors refuse to save his life. Not only that, they sought to bioethics experts, and others. If the committee rules that inject David with a palliative agent that would have fur- the treatment is not to be provided, the patient will be ther suppressed his respiration. Their reasoning: denied all further treatment in the hospital, other than David’s profound development and physical disabilities comfort care—this, even if the family finds a doctor made his life not worth living. willing to provide the desired services. ● At that point, patients and their families have three Amazingly, David’s folks were able to resuscitate him after the doctors turned their backs. Then, outraged options: (1) Acquiesce, meaning that the patient probably at the medical discrimination imposed against their son, dies. (2) Find another hospital—a daunting if not imposthey sued to prevent doctors from refusing to save sible task given that the patients who would be refused

care under futility protocols would usually be the most expensive to care for and thus, given the economics of managed care, probably unwelcome in another institution. (3) They could sue.

Wesley J. Smith A primary reason bioethicists have created futility protocols is to stack the deck against such patient/family lawsuits. Indeed, as one Futile Care Theory apologia published in the Cambridge Quarterly of Health Care Ethics in 2001 put it, “Hospitals are likely to find the legal system willing (and even eager) to defer to welldefined and procedurally scrupulous processes for internal resolutions of futility disputes.” In other words, bioethicists and hospital lawyers plan to say to the judge, “Our futility protocol has already been agreed to by the experts. It represents the standard of care. Who are you, a mere lawyer after all, to tell us how to practice medicine?” Given that the courts increasingly reflect the views of the elites rather than the people, this tactic seems a good bet to succeed.

Weak and vulnerable patients in the United Kingdom are having a duty to die imposed upon them by medical ethicists and the courts’ approval of Futile Care Theory. The same game is now afoot here.

Bioethicists are getting their futility procedural ducks in a row to persuade the courts to permit them to impose their values on the patients and families of America. And lest you believe that U.S. courts would never allow the medical intelligentsia to impose Futile Care Theory on Americans, remember this: The United States Supreme Court now looks to European courts for precedent and guidance on how to decide cutting-edge legal and cultural issues. This means that the Burke and Glass cases could eventually become the justifications used by U.S. courts to deny you or someone you love, wanted life sustaining medical care.

Author Wesley J. Smith, is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute, an attorney for the International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide, and a special consultant to the Center for Bioethics and the Culture. This article originally appeared in the Daily Standard.

Spirituality The Agony in the Garden: The place where angels strengthen us In a book soon to be released, Trevor Herriot writes: “Only after we have let the desert do its full work in us will angels finally come and minister to us.”

That’s one of the lessons of Gethsemane. It’s only after the deserts of loneliness, duty, and helplessness have done their work in Jesus that “an angel from heaven came and ministered to him.” A unique thing can happen to us when we are overwhelmed. When the burden of self-sacrifice prostrates us in weakness and leaves us sweating blood, it’s then that God’s strength can flow into us most deeply. Many people have experienced this.

Martin Luther King, Jr., for example, recounts his own agony in the garden and the angel that came to strengthen him: “One night toward the end of January, I settled into bed late, after a strenuous day. Coretta had already fallen asleep and just as I was about to doze off the telephone rang. An angry voice said, ‘Listen, nigger, we’ve taken all we want from you; before next week you’ll be sorry you ever came to Montgomery.’ I hung up, but I couldn’t sleep. It seemed that all of my fears had come down on me at once. I had reached a saturation point. I got out of bed and began to walk the floor. Finally I went to the kitchen and heated a pot of coffee. I was ready to give up. With my cup of coffee sitting untouched before me I tried to think of a way to move out of the picture without appearing a coward.

“In this state of exhaustion, when my courage had all but gone, I decided to take my problem to God. With my head in my hands, I bowed over the kitchen table and prayed aloud. The words I spoke to God that midnight are still vivid in my memory: ‘I am here taking a stand for what I believe is right. But now I am afraid. The people are looking to

me for leadership, and if I stand before them without strength and courage, they, too, will falter. I am at the end of my powers. I have nothing left. I’ve come to the point where I can’t face it alone.’

“At that moment I experienced the presence of the Divine as I had never experienced him before.”

The parallel to Jesus in Gethsemane is so obvious that it’s superfluous to elaborate on it. God sends angels to strengthen us precisely when God finds us lying prostrate, sweating the blood of duty. Moreover, that particular kind of sweat does something else for us as well.

In the Gethsemane accounts we’re told that, right after being strengthened by an angel, Jesus gets up off the ground and walks with courage to face the ordeal that awaits him. His agony, and the strengthening he receives within it, readied him for the pain that lay ahead.

Indeed, at the time of Jesus, the word “agony” had a double sense. Beyond its more obvious meaning, it also referred to a particular readying that an athlete would do just before entering the arena or stadium. An athlete would ready himself (in those days the athlete normally was a he) for the contest by working up a certain sweat (agony) with the idea that this exercise and the lather it produced would concentrate and ready both his energies and muscles for the rigors that lay ahead. No athlete wants to enter the contest unprepared, not ready.

The Gospel writers want us to have this same image of Jesus as he leaves the Garden of Gethsemane.

His agony has brought about a certain emotional, physical, and spiritual lather so that he is now readied, a focused athlete, properly prepared to enter the battle.

Moreover, because his strengthening brings a certain

divine energy, he is indeed more ready than any athlete.

Christina Crawford, writing about a low time in her life, once commented: “Lost is a place, too!” Indeed, biblically, it’s a very important place. It’s Father the place where angels Ron Rolheiser can come and minister to us and it’s the place that readies us for spiritual battle. When our own strength gives out, when the pain of duty seems too much, when we lie prostrate in weakness and cringe before what truth, justice, and God seem to be asking of us, when we’ve come to the point where, like Martin Luther King, Jr., we can no longer face it alone, we’re finally at that place where angels can minister to us and we’ve finally worked up the spiritual lather that has readied our souls and bodies for the Good Fridays that await us all.

Certain things, Trevor Herriot suggests, can happen only in gardens and deserts: “How long, covered in the sackcloth of grass, thorn and sky, before our desires and illusions fall to intimations of communion; before edges dissolve and we comprehend the mystic’s dream of union beyond all boundaries and distinctions?”

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

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FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT Joshua 5:9a; 10-12; Psalm 34 2 Corinthians 5:17-21; Luke 15:1-3, 11-32

A READING FROM THE BOOK OF JOSHUA (JOS 5:9A, 10-12) The Lord said to Joshua, “Today I have removed the reproach of Egypt from you.”

While the Israelites were encamped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho, they celebrated the Passover on the evening of the fourteenth of the month. On the day after the Passover, they ate of the produce of the land in the form of unleavened cakes and parched grain. On that same day after the Passover, on which they ate of the produce of the land, the manna ceased. No longer was there manna for the Israelites, who that year ate of the yield of the land of Canaan.

RESPONSORIAL PSALM (PS 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7) R. Taste and see the goodness of the Lord.

I will bless the LORD at all times; his praise shall be ever in my mouth.

Let my soul glory in the LORD; the lowly will hear me and be glad.

R. Taste and see the goodness of the Lord.

Glorify the LORD with me, let us together extol his name.

I sought the LORD, and he answered me and delivered me from all my fears.

R. Taste and see the goodness of the Lord.

Look to him that you may be radiant with joy, and your faces may not blush with shame.

When the poor one called out, the LORD heard, and from all his distress he saved him.

R. Taste and see the goodness of the Lord.

A READING FROM THE SECOND LETTER OF ST. PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS (2 COR 5:17-21) Brothers and sisters: Whoever is in Christ is a new creation: the old things have passed away; behold, new things have come. And all this is from God, who has reconciled us to himself through Christ and given us the ministry of reconciliation, namely, God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting their trespasses against them and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. So we are ambassadors for Christ, as if God were appealing through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. For our sake he made him to be sin who did not know sin, so that we might become the righteousness of God in him.

A READING FROM THE HOLY GOSPEL ACCORDING TO LUKE (LK 15:1-3, 11-32) Tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to listen to Jesus, but the Pharisees and scribes began to complain, saying, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.”

So to them Jesus addressed this parable: “A man had two sons, and the younger son said to his father, ‘Father give me the share of your estate that should come to me.’

So the father divided the property between them. After a few days, the younger son collected all his belongings and set off to a distant country where he squandered his inheritance on a life of dissipation. When he had freely spent everything, a severe famine struck that country, and he found himself in dire need. So he hired himself out to one of the local citizens who sent him to his farm to tend the swine. And he longed to eat his fill of the pods on which the swine fed, but nobody gave him any. Coming to his senses he thought, ‘How many of my father’s hired workers have more than enough food to eat, but here am I, dying from hunger. I shall get up and go to my father and I shall say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I no longer deserve to be called your son; treat me as you would treat one of your hired workers.’” So he got up and went back to his father. While he was still a long way off, his father caught sight of him, and was filled with compassion. He ran to his son, embraced him and kissed him. His son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you; I no longer deserve to be called your son.’ But his father ordered his servants, ‘Quickly bring the finest robe and put it on him; put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. Take the fattened calf and slaughter it. Then let us celebrate with a feast, because this son of mine was dead, and has come to life again; he was lost, and has been found.’ Then the celebration began. Now the older son had been out in the field and, on his way back, as he neared the house, he heard the sound of music and dancing. He called one of the servants and asked what this might mean. The servant said to him, ‘Your brother has returned and your father has slaughtered the fattened calf because he has him back safe and sound.’ He became angry, and when he refused to enter the house, his father came out and pleaded with him. He said to his father in reply, ‘Look, all these years I served you and not once did I disobey your orders; yet you never gave me even a young goat to feast on with my friends. But when your son returns who swallowed up your property with prostitutes, for him you slaughter the fattened calf.’ He said to him, ‘My son, you are here with me always; everything I have is yours. But now we must celebrate and rejoice, because your brother was dead and has come to life again; he was lost and has been found.’”

Scripture REV. STEPHEN A. BARBER, S.J.

Prodigal Grace Saint Paul, in the Second Letter to the George Balanchine, founding choreographer and muse of the New York City Corinthians, addresses the issue of Ballet, set the tale of The Prodigal Son in Christ’s transformative grace. “Whoever ancient Russia. Originally choreographed is in Christ is a new creation…new things in 1929 for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes at have come.” This unique offer of grace in the Theatre Sarah-Bernhardt in Paris, and through relationship with Christ ultiBalanchine telescopes our attention in the mately works to reorient our lives. Grace early moments of the story. We observe not only wakes us up to the frequently the Son, imprisoned at home, standing harsh realities into which our sin leads us. behind a low-lying fence. His fists As the Psalmist sings, in God’s grace we clenched against the sky, he prowls like a “taste and see the goodness of the lion waiting to be unleashed. At one Lord…we look to Him, and our face does point, he pummels his own legs, amplify- not blush with shame…instead we radiate ing his frustration at being locked behind joy…we are saved from every distress.” the family gate. The Father, willing to let Every distress.

On a recent morning, in the village of go his anxious Son, can only gesture toward the uncertain future. The Father’s San Quentin, in Marin County, a young white hair and staff reveal in symbolic, man received a phone call from his family. external form, an internal wisdom and Mario, a first-born son, now incarcerated, compassion informing the young Son’s sat virtually unnoticed in a housing unit “release.” This folk narrative allows the known for its rigid protective custody. He viewer to savor the mythic dimensions of was allowed access to a telephone to the characters, without the clutter of arbi- receive news that, following a long bout with cancer, his mother was to be removed trary movement. from life support Jesus’ parable that morning. Could of the Prodigal Son he, as his sister held holds a place of Ultimately, I believe, the phone to his privilege in the mother’s ear, offer Lenten scriptural this parable is a his farewell? canon. It’s one of From a windowthe passages in the less bunker, amid a Gospel of Luke narrative of God’s cacophony of daily which, during the movement, Mario, event of its procla- prodigally offered gift of fists clenched, and mation at Mass, trembling with teninvites the believer grace in Christ Jesus. derness, spoke into toward a wide the telephone. . . “I range of sympathetic responses. Especially for parents am with you…mom, I am with you…you who have had the blessing of raising chil- take care now, hear?…don’t worry about dren, then seeing them enter into the me…I’m gonna’ be all right…I’m sayin’ world, this Gospel parable holds unique my prayers, just like you taught me…I currency. Perhaps the sending forth of a love you, …don’t you worry about a particular son or daughter — off to col- thing…I’ll see you on the other side…can lege or into a career, occasioned a you hear me, mom? Can you hear moment of white-haired anxiety, in me?…You won’t hurt no more…you just resemblance to Balanchine’s Father fig- let go now, just let go and go on up to Dad…I’m gonna’ see you again…” Mario ure.

When our attention is focused on the hung up the phone, sighed, wept, and Son and his older Brother, frequently we opened his fists.

Grace has a way of finding out what is fall into two camps. Often they run along these lines: “When in my life have I needed, sometimes what hurts, and what behaved like the Prodigal Son? When can help us reorient to God. Mario was have I lacked a sense of gratitude for the able to offer consolation. He was a witness gifts in my life? Have I squandered gifts to his own compassion. He tasted the of faith, family, friendship, good health, grace of reconciliation. After a remarkably freedoms in religious or civic life? When simple gesture, a phone call, his mother the onslaught of modern culture lures my went to her Savior. Mario is on his way.

As the Prodigal Son returns home, in sensibilities toward the Jerry Springer vocabulary of experience, do I respond in the Balanchine incarnation, he is stooped over with the fatigue of his experience. He a like-minded dialogue?”

In a parallel mindset, we can identify has undergone a transformation, only the with the older Brother. A sense of self- world could imagine, produce and from righteousness, of self-accomplishment, which it alone profits. His eyes are cast wells up. “Where does my obedience get downward. He has lost sight of the horime? Who notices the fact that I get up, go zon of hope he knew at home. Once able to work, pay my bills, live responsibly? to bound over the Father’s white picket fence with ease, he now reaches out for Where’s my party? How fat is my calf?”

The Son and his older Brother both the support, physical and restorative, stand in unwitting need of God’s transfor- which his Father offers. Narrative dance mative grace. For the Prodigal, God will affects us without words. We are invited arrange the occasion of grace, as the to interpret the gestures for ourselves. young man gorges himself on the effable Movement can tell the truth.

A poet once wrote of the God toward products of a culture without substance.

For the older Brother, the grace will flow whom we move during Lent . . . “This from a restored relationship with the God heals us with the hands of a nurse, Father. But let’s not stop there. What loves us with the heart of a mother, and demands our attention however is not the believes in us with the faith of a fool.” A narcissistic plight of either of the sons. fool indeed. By the world’s standards Hold them with compassion, yes. See in God’s prodigal outpouring of grace is an them a facet of ourselves, of course. act of supreme foolishness. Just ask Jesus.

Ultimately, I believe, this parable is a narFather Barber is Catholic Chaplain rative of God’s prodigally offered gift of grace in Christ Jesus. at San Quentin State Prison.

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Women at the Vatican: breaking into the old-boy network

By John Thavis Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — In naming three women to key Vatican institutions, Pope John Paul II was chipping away at centuries of male dominance at the center of the universal church.

On March 6, he appointed the first women members of the International Theological Commission, the prestigious group that advises him on doctrinal issues.

Three days later, he named Mary Ann Glendon, a Harvard Law School professor, to head the Pontifical Academy for Social Sciences.

The same week, a Vatican official marked International Women’s Day by telling a U.N. commission that women deserve real equality in all areas of social life, including career advancement.

The groundbreaking Vatican appointments were celebrated as a sign of the times.

“I think it’s good. The pope himself has continued to call for greater involvement of women in many areas — including decision-making — and he is implementing it,” said U.S. Sister Sharon Holland, one of the highest-ranking women at the Vatican.

But the new appointees are still exceptions to the rule.

Of the approximately 400 people on the administrative, professional and technical staff of the Vatican’s 10 most important offices today, only 38 are women. Of the 35 chief administrators in the same offices, none are female.

Why aren’t women better represented, especially in the top positions?

Part of the answer is tradition. For centuries, cardinals have been the ones who help the pope govern the church.

Although the expanded Roman Curia now includes hundreds of officials, the rules still stipulate that cardinals or bishops must hold the top two positions in major departments.

Before women break through the “all-male” barrier at these higher echelons, the church has to accept that nonordained Catholics can occupy those offices. And that’s a hot topic right now inside the Vatican.

The argument commonly voiced by Roman Curia officials is that jurisdiction and governance in the church flows

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from holy orders, so lay people cannot hold positions of authority. They cite Canon 129 in the church’s Code of Canon Law, which says “those who have received sacred orders are qualified ... for the power of governance.”

But the same canon goes on to say that lay Catholics “can cooperate in the exercise of this same power.”

“It’s ambiguous,” said one canon law expert in Rome.

“The argument could certainly be made that serving as a secretary or undersecretary in a Vatican congregation is such a form of cooperation.”

Sister Holland, a member of the Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary and one of four “section leaders” at the Congregation for Religious and Secular Institutes, said the position of secretary — the No. 2 job in most Vatican departments — is reserved to bishops under current Vatican rules.

But she said the question has arisen whether a nonordained man or woman could serve as undersecretary — the No. 3 position — of the Vatican’s nine main curial agencies, called congregations.

That issue remains unresolved. But over the last few years laymen have quietly moved into the undersecretary position of two lower-ranking Vatican departments, the pontifical councils for laity and for social communications.

“There’s no reason why a woman couldn’t hold the same office,” said one Vatican expert in church law.

Why aren’t there more women at the staff level of Vatican offices? For one thing, the hiring process still favors priests, who usually come recommended by a bishop or other church official. The Vatican doesn’t advertise job openings, and people don’t just drop off resumes.

The Vatican’s diplomatic corps remains all-male and all-clerical. The reasoning is that, in addition to representing the Holy See to a foreign state, Vatican diplomats act as the pope’s personal representatives to the local churches and so should be ordained.

Most of the women at the Vatican are found in newer departments that have grown up since the Second Vatican Council and in the academic and cultural institutions of the Holy See. Women comprise 35 percent of the staff of the 11 pontifical councils, which address issues like health care, migration and ecumenism.

One woman in an important Vatican position, who asked not to be identified, said women’s talents are increasingly appreciated at the Vatican, but that doesn’t mean women are treated just like men.

“One nice thing about the church is that they’re not trying to force us into a male role in order to be valued. If you’re a woman in the corporate world, you have to become like a man,” she said.

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Lenten Opportunities March 23, 30: The National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi Lecture Series featuring talks from speakers including Franciscan Sister Ramona Miller, Father David Anderson of the Byzantine Rite, Steve Syder of St. Mary’s College, Darlene Pryds of the Franciscan School of Theology, and Stephen Cordova of Campion College. Presentations are at 7:15 p.m. at the Shrine, Vallejo and Columbus, SF. Call (415) 983-0405.

March 23: Chance for a check-up at St. Mary Medical Center’s Diabetes Awareness Fair, 450 Stanyan St., 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. in the cafeteria. Free blood glucose test, foot screening, tips on nutrition and exercise and more.

Call Sylvia Samoulis at (415) 750-4810.

2nd Sat.: Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur offer Saturday Morning Prayer 9:30 – 11:30 each 2nd Sat. of the month at their Province Center, 1520 Ralston Ave. across from Ralston Hall on their university campus in Belmont. Call (650) 593-2045, ext. 350.

April 1: The Sisters of Mercy commemorate their 150th year in the Archdiocese in 2004. Among events celebrating the occasion is a speaker series with presentation tonight at 7 p.m. at Mercy Center. For more information, call Liz Dossa at (650) 340-7480.

3rd Thurs.: Monthly breakfast meeting of Catholic Professional and Business Club with featured speakers. Meeting includes light breakfast beginning at 7 a.m. in halls below St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough and Geary St., SF $20 for non-members/$15 for members.

Memberships available at $45 annually. Call (415) 6145579 or visit the Web site at www.cpbc-sf.org.

March 22: Evening of Recollection with Franciscan Father Dan Lackie, chaplain to the St. Anthony Foundation, at Star of the Sea Parish, Geary Blvd. at 8th Ave., S. Begins with Mass at 6 p.m. followed by dinner and exhortation with theme of The World Renewed in school auditorium. $14 fee includes dinner. Sponsored by San Francisco Council of Catholic Women. Call Kathy Parish-Reese at (650) 756-8858.

March 23: Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur offer Catholic Scholar Series in Ralston Hall 1520 Ralston Ave. on their Notre Dame de Namur University campus in Belmont. Today, hear Sulpician Father Richard Gula. Call (650) 593-2045, ext. 350.

March 26: Via Crucis, a concert of choral music for the Stations of the Cross by Palestrina, Mendelssohn and others featuring the voices of the Solemn Mass Choir of St. Dominic Church, 2390 Bush St. at Steiner, Sf, at 7:30 p.m. $10 donation requested.

Simon Berry, director. Call (415) 567-7824.

March 27: Day of Recollection sponsored by the SF Guild of the Catholic Medical Association at St. Cecilia Church, 17th Ave. at Vicente, SF from 9 a.m.

– 2 p.m. Light breakfast and lunch included in $30 fee. Facilitated by Dr. Pierre Barbet and based on the book A Doctor at Calvary, “this discussion and reflection on the Passion of Jesus Christ will provide a medical perspective on the aspect of Christ’s physical suffering.” Members of the medical community especially invited. Call (415) 219-8719.

March 28: Passion Cantata featuring voices of Peninsula choirs at St. Matthew Church, One Notre Dame Ave. off El Camino Real in San Mateo. The 2:30 p.m. concert includes songs and readings reflecting on the Passion of Christ.

March 29, 30, 31 April 1: Journey with the Holy Spirit on this Parish Mission with Paulist Father Rick Walsh at St. Pius Church 1100 Woodside Rd., Redwood City. Morning and evening presentations.

Call Sister Mary at (650) 368-0429 or mary@pius.org.

April 2: 1st Friday Mass of SF Catholic Charismatic Renewal Board at Our Lady of Mercy Church, One Elmwood Dr., Daly City with rosary at 7 p.m. and liturgy at 7:30 p.m. Father Joe Landi will preside. Call (650) 756-7563.

Luke: The Gospel Proclaimed, a “spectacular and dramatic presentation of Scripture, light and movement” at St. Matthias Church, 1685 Cordilleras, Redwood City, March 21st, 7 – 9 p.m.

“This exciting Lenten performance makes Scripture come alive in a fresh way,” said Laurie Coulter, director of Adult Faith Formation.

Featured player is Michael Reardon.

A meet-the-artist reception follows.

A free-will offering may be made.

Call (650) 366-7085, ext. 12.

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Social Justice/ Family Life Information about Natural Family Planning and people in the Archdiocese offering instruction are available from the Office of Marriage and Family Life of the Archdiocese, Chris Lyford, director, at (415) 614-5680.

Sat. at 9 a.m.: Pray the Rosary for Life at 815 Eddy St. between Franklin and Van Ness, SF. Call (415) 752-4922.

Worldwide Marriage Encounter Weekends can add to a Lifetime of Love. For more information or to register, call Michele or George Otte at (888) 568-3018.

Seton Medical Center Natural Family Planning/ Fertility Care Services offers classes in the Creighton Model of NFP. Health educators are also available to speak to youth and adults on topics of puberty, responsible relationships, adolescent sexuality, the use of NFP throughout a woman’s reproductive life, and infertility.

Call (650) 301-8896 Retrouvaille, a program for troubled marriages. The weekend and follow up sessions help couples heal and renew their families. Presenters are three couples and a Catholic priest. Call Peg or Ed Gleason at (415) 221-4269 or edgleason@webtv.net or Pat and Tony Fernandez at (415) 893-1005.

The Adoption Network of Catholic Charities offers free adoption information meetings twice a month. Singles and married couples are invited to learn more about adopting a child from foster care.

Call (415) 406-2387 for information.

TV/Radio Class of ’53, Most Holy Redeemer Elementary School, gathered in November for Nostalgia and fun. “Most of the students hadn’t seen one another in 50 years,” said Terry White. “More than half the class attended and we all want to do it again soon.” From left: Al Murray, Angelica Marquez, Terry, Ed Browne.

April 3: The Psalms, a Day of Recollection with Franciscan Father Michael Guinan of the Franciscan School of Theology in Berkeley. Takes place in St. Emydius parish Center, 255 Jules Ave. between DeMontfort and Holloway, SF from 10 a.m.

– 3 p.m. Bring a bag lunch. $5 donation requested.

Sponsored by small faith groups of the parish. Call Peggy or Joe Koman at (415) 585-8260.

Sundays: Concerts at 4 p. m. at National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi, Vallejo and Columbus, SF. Call (415) 983-0405 or www.shrinesf.org. Open to the public. Admission free.

Sundays: Concerts at St. Mary Cathedral at 3:30 p.m.

Gough and Geary Blvd., SF. Call (415) 567-2020 ext.

213. Concerts are open to the public. Admission free.

Food & Fun March 22: 6th anniversary and Mardi Gras Feast of National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi, Vallejo at Columbus, SF featuring Cajun buffet and dancing to the music of the Zydeco Flames from 5 p.m. Tickets $50 per person. Enjoy organ recital of French classics at 4 p.m. Call (415) 983-0405.

March 26, 27 and April 2, 3, 4: The ever-popular Hello Dolly! at Archbishop Riordan High School, 175 Phelan Ave. across from City College. Curtain at 8 p.m. except April 4 matinee at 2 p.m. Tickets $10 adults/$7 students and seniors except Alumni Night, March 27th when $25 tickets include champagne reception at 6 p.m. Call (415) 587-5866.

March 26, 27: Celebrate Spring, a weekend of events benefiting Schools of the sacred Heart and held in its Flood mansion, 2222 Broadway, SF. Champagne Luncheon is Friday from 10 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. and includes a boutique and flower mart. Tickets $60. Family Festival is Saturday from 10 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. with family carnival, food, games, magic show and raffle. Tickets $5. Evening Gala is Saturday from 6 – 10 p.m. with cocktails, wine auction, gourmet fare, live auction and dancing. Tickets $175. Call (415) 345-5825.

March 30: Catholic Networking Night at St. Dominic’s Church, 2390 Bush St. at Steiner, SF from 7 – 9 p.m. “Widen your networking circle at this spirit-filled evening,” said Connie D’Aura, a founder of the group.

“Job seekers and those currently employed will pick up career tips from our guest speakers.” Admission is free. Those attending are asked to bring a snack to share.

Reservations are requested. Contact Connie at daura@ccwear.com or (415) 664-8108. Meeting also May 4.

March 31: Welcome Spring, the annual Luncheon/Fashion Show of the Good Shepherd Guild at Green Hills Country Club, Ludeman lane, Millbrae. Begins with social hour at 11:30 a.m. with luncheon at 12:30 p.m. Tickets $45. Contact Beverly Desmond at (415) 587-5374 by March 24th.

April 3: Island Elegance, 15th annual Auction Dinner Dance and Grand Drawing benefiting Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish, Belmont at the Hotel Sofitel, Redwood City. Doors open to silent auction at 5:30 p.m. with gourmet dinner at 7:30 p.m. followed by live auction and dancing to the Jack Aces Band. Tickets $75. Call Gail at (650) 593-6157.

The Cathedral Autumn Group welcomes men and women 55 years and older. Call Mercy Sister Esther McEgan at (415) 567-2020, ext. 218.

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.

Now celebrating its 49th year. Reservations not required. Call (415) 824-1762.

3rd Sat.: Handicapables gather for Mass and lunch at St. Mary Cathedral, Gough and Geary St., SF, at noon. Volunteer drivers always needed. Call (415) 584-5823.

4th Sat.: Handicapables of Marin meet at noon in the recreation room of the Maria B. Freitas Senior Community adjacent to St. Isabella Church, Terra Linda, for Mass, lunch and entertainment. Call (415) 457-7859.

California Handicapables needs volunteers including drivers, servers, donors, and recruiters of those who might benefit from the experience. Call Jane Cunningham at (415) 585-9085.

1st Fri.: Catholic Marin Breakfast Club gathers for Mass and special presentation. Now in its 10th year the morning begins at 7 a.m. in St. Sebastian Church, Bon Air Rd. and Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Kentfield.

Breakfast and presentation follow in parish hall.

Reservations required to Sugaremy@aol.com or (415) 461-0704 daily. Members $7, others $10. Dues $20 per year. April 2: Father Tom Daly, president, Marin Catholic High School. May 7: Mary Taverna of Hospice Sundays: Concerts at 4 p. m. at National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi, Vallejo and Columbus, SF. Call (415) 983-0405 or www.shrinesf.org. Open to the public. Admission free.

Sundays: Concerts at St. Mary Cathedral at 3:30 p.m. Gough and Geary Blvd., SF. Call (415) 5672020 ext. 213. Concerts are open to the public.

Admission free. Feb. 22: Harry Bernstein Ensemble; March 7: Emma Lou Diemer, organist.

Mon – Fri., KEST 1450 AM, 7 p.m.: Catholic Radio Hour features rosary, music and commentary with Father Tom Daly.

Sunday 6 a.m., WB Channel 20/Cable 13 and KTSF Channel 26/Cable 8: TV Mass with Msgr.

Harry Schlitt presiding.

1st Sun, 5 a.m., CBS Channel 5: Mosaic, featuring conversations on current Catholic issues.

3rd Sun, 6:30 a.m., KRON Channel 4: For Heaven’s Sake, featuring conversations about Catholic spirituality.

Returning Catholics Programs for Catholics interested in returning to the Church, have been established at the following parishes: St. Philip the Apostle, 725 Diamond St. at Elizabeth/24th, SF. Call the parish office at (415) 282-0141; St. Hilary, Tiburon, Mary Musalo, (415) 435-2775; St. Anselm, Ross, parish office at (415) 453-2342; St. Sebastian, Greenbrae, Jean Mariani at (415) 461-7060; Old St. Mary’s Cathedral, SF, Michael Adams at (415) 695-2707; St. Dominic, SF, Lee Gallery at (415) 221-1288; 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, Chris Booker at (650) 738-1398; Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Mill Valley, Rick Dullea or Diane Claire at (415) 388-4190; St. Mary Star of the Sea, Sausalito, Lloyd Dulbecco at (415) 331-7949.

Taize Prayer 3rd Wed. at 7:30 p.m. with the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur in their Province Center Chapel, 1520 Ralston Ave., Belmont across from Ralston on the college campus. Call (650) 593-2045, ext. 350 or www.SistersofNotreDameCa.org.

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“Red Betsy” is a slow ride Reviewed by Jayme George In the opening shots of the film “Red Betsy,” the camera sweeps over the rolling green hills of 1940s Wisconsin and the sound of melodious string instruments welcomes you to a story of love and loss set amidst the backdrop of World War II. It is a time of pivotal societal change, a time in which one family will learn through the course of the movie something I have suspected all along; nothing actually happens in the Midwest.

From Lang Films comes the family drama, “Red Betsy,” opening this month in select theatres around the Bay Area. The movie features a cast of notable character actors and independent films stars such as Alison Elliott (The Spitfire Grill), Leo Burmester (Lonestar), and Lois Smith (Minority Report). “Red Betsy” is the first feature film from writer/director Chris Boebel, who penned the screenplay based on a short story written by his father, Charles Boebel.

The story centers on the lives of the Rounds family, humble people carving out a humble existence on a small Wisconsin farm. At the start of the film, the biggest crisis for the Rounds is that their fresh-faced son Dale is engaged to an intelligent city girl who threatens the townspeople with her “views.” Then the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor and their world is thrown into a tumult. Mrs. Rounds (Lois Smith) passes away shortly after hearing the fateful radio broadcast and Dale enlists in the army. Now Dale’s young bride Winifred (Alison Elliott) is left behind to care for her crotchety father-in-law Emmet (Leo Burmester).

The pairing of the ambitious minded Winifred and the “set in his ways” Emmet is the main source of conflict throughout the story. Together they make the ultimate odd couple. She likes the coming of electricity to their rural community, he likes grumbling and running kids off his property. When the news of Dale’s disappearance over the North Sea reaches home, it becomes clear that Winifred and Emmet will have to learn how to co-exist peacefully.

The rest of the film earns itself the distinction of being “the movie that could have been.” Several intriguing plot developments arise, only to be quickly abandoned so that we can go back to watching Winifred and Emmet be unhappy and mope around. Intriguing observations of rural 1940s life or romantic subplots are not as interesting to director Boebel as the restrained emotions of people who don’t talk to each other.

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Overall, Boebel’s first attempt as a feature filmmaker is not wholly undesirable. “Red Betsy” is a part of a dying breed—a family friendly film that thankfully does not star Hillary Duff or Frankie Muniz.

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Stage The character development of Winifred and Emmet is both well written and well acted, and the film boasts a beautiful score composed by Michael Bacon, of Kevin Bacon’s band, The Bacon Brothers. However, it is hard to ignore the paucity of dramatic events.

There must be better ways to depict our Midwestern states so as to shed a more positive light on that vast space separating California from the rest of the world to the East. I’m open to suggestions. “Red Betsy” earns just a C- grade. The film is rated PG. Write to Jayme George at georgej@sfarchdiocese.org.

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Lisa Ramirez said. “If you want a man to walk with you, make sure he has comfortable shoes” rather than forcing assimilation.

Providing for the process of inculturation from a position of comfort and strength benefits the Church but also immigrant communities and society at large, he said. “Children most comfortable with their parents’ culture do better than those who, because of shame, Americanize to quickly . . . Rootless people become ruthless people.”

Bishop Wenski said the breadth and richness of Catholic social teaching could be summarized, “No human being should ever be reduced to being considered as just a problem.”

“Reductive definitions” of the human person tend to regarding people as problems calling for a solution, in the extreme, “a final solution.”

Dr. Michele Waslin, Senior Immigration Policy Analyst for the National Council of La Raza, spoke about current U.S. immigration policy, its shortcomings and proposed solutions. Waslin said U.S. policy “works on

Dr. Michele Waslin paper well, but is not in tune with the current economic and social situation.”

Waslin said asylum and refugee based immigration has dropped in half since 9-11.

The unintended consequences of this and other stricter border policies have resulted in increased border deaths and use of exploitative illegal smugglers. Furthermore, undocumented workers now typically extend their stay in the U.S. because of the increased difficulty and penalties of re-entry.

Waslin said the 9.3 million undocumented workers in the U.S. are “here to work, are not eligible for welfare,” and have a greater participation in the workforce than either established African-American or European-American communities. Their illegal status means they are subject to greater exploitation by employers and criminals. In addition, their very illegality, makes immigrants sought after workers for unscrupulous employers who want to avoid prevailing wage and labor regulations. This

has negative consequences for the labor market and society as a whole, she said.

Waslin said it is unlikely that any significant immigration reform will be passed “in this election year.” She said President Bush’s recent immigration proposal amounts to “a huge guest worker program,” which is not a long term solution, and maintains a “permanent underclass of guest workers.”

Waslin said that immigration is a complex problem requiring much study. Any successful long-term solution must both mitigate the harm done to undocumented workers and society as a whole by moving toward legality for those already here and “regulating future flows of people.”

Orange County immigration attorney Lisa Ramirez recounted several stories putting flesh on the dangers and injustices faced by immigrants and broader communities by current immigration policy. She said recounting such stories and putting a human face on immigration is the most effective way to change hearts and policy.

Through her work with Catholic Charities and other Catholic programs, Ms. Ramirez has observed that Catholics are “typically” like everyone else when it comes to politics.

Catholic Republicans tend to hold to the tenets of the Republican party on a broad range of issues and Catholic Democrats hold to Democratic Party tenets. She said it is “My prayer that people of faith would take to heart the Church’s teaching first and follow faith before political party identification.”

Homelessness. . .

City develops a viable plan. Cahill said that Philip Mangano, President Bush’s point man on homelessness, “wants the San Francisco to put together a plan that can be funded.”

Funding is a critical issue according to Wesolek. “What one has to do to put a dent in the problem of chronic homelessness is provide services, and that will take money,” he said. A subcommittee of the group will be looking at “all possibilities of funding for the disabled, mentally ill, and substance abusers,” he said.

Cahill also sees long-term ancillary

benefits to the work of the Council.

“Angela Alioto did a good job in setting the tone,” during the Council’s first meeting last Friday, he said. “It’s crucial that there is unity here . . . In the past the obstacle has always been the unwillingness of people on either side of homeless issues to respect the validity of each other’s perspective.” Cahill hopes, if this Council can work together on chronic homelessness, there will be “buy-in across the board on a supportive housing bond” and other housing and homeless solutions.

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twentieth centuries, Wenski said the Church can be seen doing the same thing. The creation of the National Parish was a “fruit of American genius,” which successfully integrated immigrants into both Church and society. National Parishes gave immigrant communities a base of strength where priests, parish leaders, parish activities all came from and for a specific immigrant community.

Sociologically, this was a formula for success because “people integrate only from a position of strength,” he said, “deny that position of strength and they remain marginalized.”

Such a creative approach is also a response to the Gospel, Wenski said. “Just as the Word became incarnate in a particular way . . . so must the Church enflesh herself in a particular way,” through inculturation, he said. “We are called to inculturate the Gospel into each culture.”

Bishop Wenski said Vatican II and later Canon Law have allowed for creative means of serving immigrant communities. He lamented the move from using National Parishes. “We cannot think that our current parish structures” are adequate, he said. Protestant Churches have learned from the Catholic Church and are using, with great success, the National or cultural parish models Catholics are abandoning.

Trying to integrate new and working class immigrant communities into middle class suburban parishes won’t work, he

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Cahill is optimistic about the Council’s chances of success. “I actually believe we have a Mayor who wants action on this issue and a Council chair who is passionate about it.” He also hopes the federal government will follow through on its promise of funding if the

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The Promise of Eternal Life Our Catholic Faith helps us to understand that death is merely a passage to a new life.

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