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Grassroots entrepreneurs The president and treasurer of a community bank in Senegal receive paym ents and make reports during a bi-monthly meeting that includes 15 to 100 women who have become grassroots entrepreneurs , thanks to a Catholic Relief Services "microfvnance"program.The agency, sponsored by the Catholic Church in the United States, makes small loans to help the poor start their own businesses in developing countries. A "Friends of CRS" prog ramstarted by participants in the RENEW at St. Denis Parish, Menlo Park, has helped raise $400, 000 for the prog ram. See Pages 12 and 13.

Sacred Heart School will stay open next year By Jack Smith K J 1 an

Francisco's struggling Sacred Heart Elementary School has won a reprieve in its fight to stay open, thanks to the fundraising efforts of Jesuit Father Charles Gagan and a decision by Archbishop William J. Levada. The Western Addition school has suffered from budget deficits and low enrollment for several years. Over the last seven year's, the Archdioceseof San Francisco has provided more than $1 million in subsidies to the school. San Francisco's Basic Fund, a privately funded scholarshiporganization, provides about $100,000 in tuition assistanceper year. Because of Sacred Heart's financial situation and the limited ability of the Archdiocese to provide further subsidies, Sacred Heart seemedpoised to close. But on May 14 Archbishop Levada issued a statement saying, "Yes, Sacred Heart School will remain open next year and I am very grateful to Father Gaganfor heading up the fundraising efforts. " The Archbishop expressed his gratitude to the many people who have contributed to the school, which includes a number of non-Catholics. Father Gagan, pastor of Saint Ignatius parish in San Francisco, said he expects to exceed his fundraising goal of $350,000. Sacred Heart will also receive a $50,000 subsidy from the Archdiocese next year. He is working with others to develop a plan to ensure the school's long term viability.Three committees are being organized to help Sacred Heart toward that goal.

A finance committee co-chaired by Saint Ignatius parishioner, Peter Newell and David Lickman of First Republic Bank will work to help the school become financially solvent. "The first tiring the finance committee will do is have an audit," Fattier Gagan said, "We want to assuredonors that their money is being well spent." Father Gagan hopes that by carefully monitoring the situation and updating donors on the school's progress, people will be motivated to make long term commitments to Sacred Heart. An academic committee co-chaired by Mrs. Reese Fernandes, the Sacred Heart principal, and Dr, Paul Warren, dean of the University of San Francisco's School of Education, will work to develop strategies to increase student performance. Saint Ignatius parishioner Bill Campbell will head a strategic planning committee which will help Sacred Heart reach its three goals of increasing student enrollment and test scores and bringing more parental and community involvement to the school. In addition, Father Gagan said that the California Jesuit Province will provide the salary for a part time development director at the school. Mrs. Fernandes said, "I' m grateful to Fattier Gagan for coming to my rescue and .'ÂŚ sharing my vision with so much tenacity.I'm also grateful to the Archbishop for giving the youth of the Western Addition an opportunity." Father Gagan said he has received about twelve major gifts up to as large as $100,000. He has also receivednumerous smaller gifts totaling approximately $40,000 as a resultof news coveragein CatholicSan Franciscoand other publications. If you would like to help Sacred Heart School, contact Fattier Gagan at 650 Parker Ave., San Francisco, CA94118 or call (415) 422-2188.

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up the ensemble with another 650 families , friends and such , including pastor, Msgr. James McKay, and principal , Kenneth Boegel , enjoy ing the evening from the stands. It 's the second year the school has crooned for the crowds at the Giants new home, and before that for five years at Candlestick. Special thanks for help with tickets and stuff go to Dave Vella, Helen Doeschl , and Roxanna Morris....A click of running shoe heels for St. Gregory 8th grader Colleen Spiers who has been by Tom Burke racking up consecutive wins in various track events. Her folks , John and Bernie, and sisters, Shannon and Katie are pretty proud... .St. Raymond Parish , Menlo ...Was glad to speak with on-the-air sister-in-the- Park bids adieu to pastoral associate George Seeber faith Susan Sikora, host of the program bearing her who recently retired.... Thanks to George Devine, Sr. name that airs Mondays on KBHK - Channel 44, for more on Catholic hig h school grads in the media. Cable 12, at 9:30 a.m. She and her husband , Skip, are St. Ignatius Preparatory alums on the broadcast cirparishioners of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Mill Valley cuit include Ken Dito, Larry Krueger, Dan Fouts, where Susan serves as lector and trainer of lectors. Dan Devone, and Joe Hallissy, and let us not forget , Credentialed in English , speech and dram a, the New the senior George's son , George Devine, Jr. of Sacred Jersey native has also been a presenter at workshops Heart High School. On the pencil side of the biz is sponsored by the Office of Worship and the School of Junipero Serra High School's Rick Eymer of Pastoral Leadership. Though we didn 't know it until Associated Press, and for 36 years, Serra grad , John our recent chat, the two of us spent some of our teen Horgan, has been writing for the San Mateo Times, years growing up not too far apart in the Garden most recently as author of a daily peop le column of State Many happy years to Cynthia Brooks, which I am a regular reader. John 's mom is longtime St. administrator at USF's Center for Law and Global Matthew 's parishioner, Rose Marie Horgan. Now 85 Justice, and Tom DeMartini who were married at St. years old, Rose Marie can still be found volunteering at Cecilia Parish on May 5 with pastor, Msgr. Michael the parish and with the Saint Vincent De Paul Society, Harriman, presiding. Cynthia, a paralegal , is also as well as a twice a week on the links. John and his studying toward a graduate degree in theology at the wife Marilyn , parishioners of St. Catherine 's, Burlingame , married at Jesuit school....Also at St. St. Matthew 's in 1968. Cecilia 's, hats off to Betty Prayers please for former McCunniff , parish RCIA St. Matt 's teacher Holy director for the last seven Cross Sister Angela years.... Father Paul Marie Emrick who is now Perry, parochial vicar, St. very ill. Not to be missed Sebastian Parish , is Jim Clifford , Riordan Greenbrae, unveiled a "15 '56 and before that St. second homil y " he has Gabe's, who just retired sometimes relied on during from the AP wire service his 34 years as a priest , at and is enjoy ing his time off first Saturday Mass at Holy at home in Redwood City Cross Cemetery, Colma on with his wife, Peggy, 8th May 5. "Life is short, death grade teacher at Our Lady is certain , what are you Mt. Carmel doing about it? ," Father The St. Vincent De Paul Society of San Mateo County of Elementary. Watch for Perry told and asked the celebrated its 70th year here with three parties on 's freelance stuff in more than 400 peop le Jim April 28. More than 250 people attended the rallies assembled for the litur- at St. Gregory, St. Raymond and St. Andrew parishes. publications including gy... .Prayers please for America.... Hats off to Handling the details of the almost May-lee were Father Edward Cleary, Men 's the Young Lucy Bartson, Janet Greenwood , and Roland retired pastor, St. James 's Catholic Institute Desmoreaux. Pictured are Linda and Cledwyn Parish, San Francisco, Person or Couples of the Fernandes who chaired the day's events. and retired Father Year who were recognized William Duggan , formerly of the Canon Law by South San Francisco YMI Council #32 at cereDepartment of the Archdiocese, who are recovering monies at St. Veronica Church on April 22. Asked to from recent surgeries....Prayers and good thoughts come forward were Yvonne Vik , St. Veronica; for Father Brian Costello, parochial vicar , St. Monica and Jose Luis Gonzalez , St. Bruno; Norene Anthony, Nova to celebrating his first year as a priest , Thurman, Holy Angels; Gloria and Joseph Flores, and to the Rev. Messrs. Kenneth Weare, Steven Mater Dolorosa; Amor and Andy Baldomero , St. Lopes, William Nicholas, and Vito Perrone who will Augustine, Buenaflor and Nenar Nicolas , All be ordained for the Archdiocese b y Archbishop Souls....St. Vincent De Paul Society of San Francisco William J. Levada on June 23rd at St. Mary 's reports two new parish conferences at St. Mary Cathedral....An all hats off for Alma Lee Pinkston Cathedral , Remybelle Perez , president , and Sacred who died on March 10 and is the mom of Paulist Heart, William Gatewood , president. The group ' s Father Bob Pinkston, pastor, Old Saint Mary 's new spiritual director, Deacon Dan Rosen, and the Parish, San Francisco....Maury Healy, Catholic San cathedral' s, Father Agnel De Heredia , did much to Francisco associate publisher, congratulates the San help establish the new units. ...Congrats to San Francisco Chronicle on the new tabloid design of sev- Raphael's Catholic Daughters of America Court St. eral sections of its Sunday edition, a layout technique Raphael on its 55th anniversary celebrated with Mass used b y CSF from its first days more than two years and brunch on A pril 29. Father Paul Rossi , St. ago.... In a recent homily, Father John Greene, pas- Raphael pastor and whose mom, Mabel is a longtime tor, St. Monica Parish, said that in the Gospels member of the org anization , presided. Guests included "women are the most faithful disciples - women at the Dolores Herrle , Gloria Raffaelli , Mary Kobler and foot of the cross , women taking Jesus down from the Ida Kohl. Thanks to Regent Marie Webb for the cross, women at Christ 's tomb. "... O' say did you see info....I enjoy watching the TV show Nash Bridges, St. Matthew Elementary School choir singing The especiall y for its San Francisco camera angles and diaStar Spangled Banner at Pac Bell Park before the logue that includes names of surrounding suburban Giants and Cubs game on April 27th ? School music cities, but I don 't like seeing star, Don Johnson, tooldirector, Barbara Varian Barrett said 80 voices made ing about in his Barracuda without seatbelts....

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B y Tom Burke As a young adult looking for a way he could live a life that would make a difference, Peter McDonald placed his faith in priesthood. In June, more than 50 years later, Father McDonald will retire from a career of pastoral work that has taken him from Ireland to Alabama to the Archdiocese of San Francisco including 18 years as pastor of St. Anselm Parish in Ross. Ordained in Ireland in 1959, Father McDonald was among a group of priests who chose service outside the diocese. "My home diocese had sufficient priests so it was allowed for some to serve in mission territories, mostly in England but also in the United States," Father McDonald said. "I chose Mobile, Alabama." At that time one diocese encompassed all of Alabama and some of Northwest Florida. "There was no Catholic population to speak of, fully qualif ying it as mission territory," Father McDonald said. "It was, of course , the beginning of the civil rights movement and the beginning of the '60s, a time of great tumult." The priest recalled Alabama 's then-Gov. George Wallace as "a staunch segregationist" noting all priests were named "agitators" by the openly racist politician. "Real discrimination was not something you read about ," Father McDonald said, "it was something you witnessed everyday. " After more than a decade serving in Alabam a parishes and high schools and one year as chaplain at Jacksonville State University in Florida, Father McDonald

"I don 't regret a moment of my priesthood ," Father McDonald said. "I've found all the years exciting and challenging. I have no hesitation inviting a person to consider this vocation in life, You 're going to hear some negative things today but there 's negativity all over the place. This is very positive, very wonderful." Father McDonald is from a family of four children, one girl and three boys. His brother Michael died in Ireland four years ago. "I barel y made it home in time for his death," Father McDonald said. "I was saying Mass in his room with all the nieces and nephews around his bed and during the Mass, Michael died, It began as a Mass for a peaceful death and became a Mass for the repose of his soul. It was an incredibly emotional moment for me, a profound moment for me." That distance from family in Ireland and other parts of the Unites States is among the reasons Father McDonald "knows it 's the right time" for retirement, "I'll be released from the administrative duties but I'll still be active as a priest," Father McDonald said, adding he hopes to be available to parishes, particularly in Marin where he expects to reside. A priest already assigned to St. Anselm, Father Neil Healy, will become its new pastor on July 1. "He knows the place very well and is a hard worker," Father McDonald said about Father Healy who has served as parochial vicar for the last four years. A Mass of thanksgiving commemorating Father McDonald 's priesthood will be celebrated at St. Anselm 's on June 10 at 11 a.m. A reception follows .

Tve found all the years exciting and challenging. I have no hesitation inviting a person to consider this vocation in life. ' decided to move to San Francisco, which he had earlier visited and enjoyed , and where Archbishop Joseph McGucken soon received him into the Archdiocese. He would serve as a parochial vicar at the Ingleside District 's St. Emydius Parish and Daly City 's Our Lady of Perpetual Help before being appointed parochial vicar at St. Anselm in 1982 and pastor in 1983. "You have such a wonderful group of people here," Father McDonald said about St. Anselm parishioners. "If you allow them to exercise their God-given talents , you can do marvelous things. This has been a successful parish experience because we worked with each other to achieve that. " Father McDonald' s confidence in priests is not shaken by reports of priest misconduct. "There may be incidents," he said, "but for every incident there are 99 wonderful priests out there and that 's what I've encountered all my life. We get more publicity than others because peop le expect more from us, and I think they should."

Father McDonald says "the priesthood is not about power but about humility " noting, "If anyone thinks it's about power, they 're making a huge mistake." "Any power in the priesthood is in the power to serve," Father McDonald said. "We should remember what happened on Holy Thursday when the Lord knelt down and washed the feet of his disciples. That 's what it 's all about." About parish service, Father McDonald says, "A pastor has to love his people. It then becomes a family and the people notice that. They are very astute and know if a priest is happy or not, and if a man is unhappy, why should he bring it out on the people?" Remembering what helped him see priesthood as a viable choice, Father McDonald said, "The priests in my home parish were exemplary men, models of priesthood, someone you would like to know. They were men who had great interest in their parish and I think th at influenced me enormously."

Jubilarian hosts 'high tea' for Madonna residents Mercy Sister Patty Campbell celebrated her 25fh Jubilee March 13 by sitting down to high tea with the elderly women of the Madonna Residence in San Francisco ' s Tenderloin "These women are my guests of honor," said Sister Patty, who works with the women as their social worker at the residence, Sister Patty is following a pattern set down by the Mercy Sisters' founder Catherine McAuley. When she founded the Sisters of Mercy in Dublin in 1831, tea was an almost sacramental element for the Irish group. Tea and cakes showed Mercy hospitality to strangers and created community. On her deathbed , Catherine said, "Make sure the sisters have a comfortable cup of tea when I am gone." She wanted to make sure those who had traveled to see her to the next world would have refreshment in this one. "It is part of my ministry as a Sister of Mercy to offer hospitality to those I come in contact with," says Sister Patty who served scones, crumpets, and petit fours with the tea

on linen table cloths. The low income women who range from 60 to 96 years old have found a safe, affordable place to live at Madonna Residence, one of St. Anthony Foundation's twelve programs , Sister Patty 's jubilee celebration was designed to be an appropriate homage to society 's elders, whom she has served during her 25 years as a nun. When she entered the religious community she began doing social service work with the elderly; she spent 12 of those years at Mercy Retirement and Care Center in Oakland, taking time to study for a Master 's in social work at California State University Sacramento. The tea party, attended by about 45 residents and staff, ended with a sing-a-long and a few solos. Mila, in a gold shirt and a rakishly tilted hat, read several of her poems which she said she writes "to enhance my twilight years. They lift the soul to spiritual heights." Sister Patty grew up in San Mateo, attended St. Matthew 's Elementary School and Mercy High School Burlingame. ^©a^

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The same day, Israeli helicopters shelled 5 Palestinian offices near Yasser Arafat 's headquarters in "It's not a question of putting their children under presGaza, and five Palestinian policemen were killed in a sure, but a question of letting their children know how m shootout with Israeli troops in the West Bank. 5 - much they esteem the priesthood , how convinced they are The pop e said that during his May 4-9 trip to Greece, that Christ 's p lan for the church requires the priesthood Syria and Malta, he had been saddened by continuing because it requires the Eucharist," he said. reports of attacks in Israel and the Palestinian territories. The archbishop cited an urgent need for vocations, sayo i "In fact , we are facing a spiral of absurd violence. To Pi ing that the needs of the archdiocese are far greater than the spread death every day only exasperates souls and delays § number of priests available. the blessed day when everyone can look each other in the "Luckily, we have been blessed with many priests over eye and walk together as brothers,"he said. the years and still have a good number of them. But it is St. Patrick's Cathedra l is seen behind a new street "Everyone , especially the leaders of the international obvious that as priests grow older and the needs increase sign designating John Cardinal O'Connor Way in community, has the duty to help the parties in conflict that we need more and more young men who are willing to New York. One block of East 50th Street in Manhattan break this immoral chain of provocation and reprisal," he accept the invitation of Christ to follow him," he said. was named for the cardinal who died last year. said. The language of peace should replace the language of "incitement to hatred" if a lasting solution is to be found , Pope John Paul said. moving into a situation "even worse" than the violence Since fighting worsened last fall, more than 440 "our government has been responsible for " over past Palestinians have been killed , along with more than 70 decades, the bishop said. HOUSTON — A faith-based outreach program that Israelis. In a brief response at the end , Father Berrigan, spoke meets in three prisons in the Galveston-Houston Diocese is mostly about Vietnam and efforts to deal with its lingering designed to help prisoners reject a life of crime and victims impact on veteran s and others . process their trauma and develop empathy for inmates. The Bridges to Life program was founded in 1998 by John Sage of St. Michael Parish in Houston , after he came WASHINGTON — The general secretary of the U.S. to terms with the murder of his younger sister. "The probishops ' conference urged members of the House of gram's ultimate goal is for God's love and forgiveness to Representatives to keep alive the Mexico City policy which GUATEMALA CITY — A U.S. nun who worked with transform" the victim and offender, Sage told The Texas forbids U.S. funding of organizations that perform or pro- victims of violence in Guatemala was shot dead in what Catholic Herald diocesan newspaper. mote abortions overseas. appears to be a politically motivated murder, human rights As part of the program, victims of violent crime meet In a letter, Msgr. William P. Fay asked the House mem- activists said. over a 12-week period with inmates. Groups usually pair bers to support an amendment to the Foreign Relations Charity Sister Barbara Ann Ford of New York, who four inmates with two victims and a group facilitator. Both Authorization Act by Reps. Henry Hyde, R-IU., and Chris assisted the Guatemalan bishops' historical memory proj- the victims and inmates are trained prior to the start of the Smith, R-N.J. It would negate an amendment proposed by ect, was shot numerous times in a midday assault in meetings. Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., and approved earlier by the Guatemala City May 5. During the two-hour weekly sessions, participants pray Senate International Relations Committee. The Lee amendInitial reports indicated that Sister Ford was shot while and discuss topics such as responsibility, forgiveness and ment would permit nongovernmental organizations to resisting an attemnt by thieves to steal her pickup truck. restitution. The curriculum outlines Scripture verses based receive U.S. funds as long as "practices they promote can- However, the Mutual Support Group, Guatemala's largest on a weekly theme. not be shown to violate the host country 's law or U.S. fed- group of war victims and human rights activists, charged The program targets inmates who are due to leave eral law," Msgr. Fay said. May 7 that the killing was a political execution . Details of prison within 18 months. Participation is voluntary. "The Mexico City policy prevents the United States the shooting were sketchy, but eyewitness reports said the However, inmates are required to share their stories with from exporting and encouraging a culture of death as a sup- nun was shot by "two well-dressed men, no more than 25- their group. They are also required to write a letter to their posed answer to these needs," Msgr. Fay added. "Instead, years-old," according to a statement from the Washington- victim and the victim's family. our government should respond directly to the real needs of based Guatemala Human Rights Commission/USA. poor women through a comprehensive poverty alleviation Sister Ford, 62, worked in Guatemala for 20 years, helpprogram and greatly increased development assistance." ing victims of the country 's 36-year civil war recover from President Bush reinstated the Mexico City policy first their psychological wounds. She assisted efforts to recover adopted in 1984 under President Reagan and rescinded by bodies that were buried in mass graves during the war. TEMPE, Ariz. — Deacons must be willing to be "witPresident Clinton in 1993. Charity Sister Elizabeth Vermaelen, the order 's presi- nesses of Christ" who "preach the Gospel to all who will dent, said Sister Ford "was a woman who loved God' s peo- listen," said Auxiliary Bishop Gerald F. Kicanis of ple, especially the people of Guatemala, passionately." Chicago, chairman of the U.S. bishops ' Committee on the Diaconate. "We go out into the deep. The spirit has taken hold of NEW YORK (CNS) — Hundreds of people gathered in us, set us on fire, and sent us out on a mission," Bishop New York May 6 to celebrate the approaching 80th birthKicanis said during the opening Mass at the 25th annual day of Jesuit Father Daniel Berrigan and to demonstrate TURIN, Italy — Cardinal Severino Poletto of Turin said convention of the National Association of Diaconate that the spirit of resistance was continuing into the new tests on the Shroud of Turin should continue, although Directors in Tempe. century. faith, not science, is the key to understanding the cloth' s Bishop Kicanis told The Catholic Sun, newspaper of the The early celebration of Father Berrigan 's May 9 birth- image of a crucified man. Phoenix Diocese , that the deacon plays a unique role in the day was held in the basement of the Church of St. Paul the The Gospel calls believers to know Christ and to see church. "It is first of all a sacramental ministry, so it kind Apostle. The turnout included large numbers of young peo- him, the cardinal said May 4 at a Mass marking the liturgiof sacramentalizes what others are doing. It is especially a ple who were not yet born when Father Berrigan became cal feast of the Shroud of Turin. "It means to see with the nationally known as a hero to some, and notorious to oth- eyes of faith, not with those of science or human history," ministry of the Eucharist , of the word of service." A deacon's primary ministry is parish-based , but some ers, through his participation in the 1968 burning of draft Cardinal Poletto said. dioceses are moving toward having deacons in ministries records at Catonsville, Md. Nevertheless, he told the congregation, the church has "More than ever we need Dan Berrigan," said Auxiliary allowed scientists to continue investigations on the cloth, such as those serving prisons or hospitals. "Primarily, the deacon is to be an icon of service to the church," the bishBishop Thomas J. Gumbleton of Detroit. With current whose image resembles a photographic negative of a cruciop said. attempts to develop a nuclear defense, the United States is fied man. UJ

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The crew didn 't think that was exactly the same the annual pilgrimage to Lourdes, France, sponFather Barber, a Lieutenant Commander and chap- thing, Father Barber said. sored by the Western Association of the Order of One of the crew lain in the Navy Malta — the "young people who worked tirelesstold Father Barber , Reserve , was staly transporting the 'malades' (sick) to and from "You know, Father, I tioned during Holy the grotto," according to Msgr. Thomas Merson , haven 't been to good Week at a Marine who spoke with many of them during the May 2about going to Mass. base in Hawaii when 9 trip, You know, now I really the 24 crew members "I was most impressed with the young people know how much I need arrived at the headwho came - many at some personal sacrifice," God and I can tell you quarters of the Navy 's Msgr, said Merson, administrative assistant to when I get back to my Pacific fleet at Pearl Archbishop William J. Levada. family and my kids, Harbor. They were Carol Campell, fifth grader at St. Vincent de I'm going to be going there for an intensive Paul School, was described by Msgr. Merson as to Mass every de-briefing before "11-years-old going on 36, and an inspiration to Sunday." returning home to everyone." She walked the mile-trip several Father Overall , Washington State. times to and from the grotto, pushing the wheelBarber says, "It was a The senior chapchair carts that carried the "malades." real Lenten experilain at the Marine Nathan Sarmiento, seventh grader at St. ence for them." They base asked Father Timothy Parish in San Mateo missed a very were in captivity durBarber, who is direcimportant track meet, and Garrett Faller, a junior ing Lent and had their tor of the archdioat Marin Catholic High School gave up his junior debriefing during cese 's School of prom. Another Marin Catholic High student , Holy Week and were Pastoral Leadershi p, Christopher Morales , missed two Advanced finally re-united with to go to Pearl Harbor Placement tests which would have given the sentheir families and because they needed a ior advanced status in two of his college courses could go to a full Catholic priest. It was next year at the University of San Diego. Mass at Eastertime , Good Friday and the Of the 250 participants, 45 "malades were he said. crew members wantguests of the Western Association of the Order of Father Barber said ed to have some sort Malta. The balance were support staff - physiof service. that the crew reported cians, nurses , chaplains, volunteers, family and Protestant and they were generally friends - including Archbishop Levada. Catholic chap lains well treated by their Mary Ellen Hoffman of the Council of Priests, met with the crew in captors. "The main a first-time volunteer, described her experience the Admiral' s problem was that it as "an exhausting, spiritual retreat, where dedicaConference room and was hard to keep tion and love flourished and everyone was willheld a joint prayer clean ," he said, "they ing to go to any lengths to take care of the sick." service which includhad no soap or toiFor Mrs. Hoffman, the highlig ht of the trip ed a reading from the letries initiall y, and was the celebration of Sunday Mass in the underpassion of Christ. no changes of underground Basilica, where Kni ghts , Dames, and , the two After that wear or clothing." friends from around the world gathered for the groups sp lit for sepaWhen the standing room only event, May 6. rate services. American military The Order of Malta is a 900-year-old internaAbout half of the attache fro m the U.S. tional lay religious order whose members take a Father Barber gives a Vete rans Day crew members were embassy in China vow to take care of the sick and the poor and Father Catholic , invocation on the USS Horn et. was first allowed to defend the faith. Regionally, the Order helps supBarber said, and they visit them , "he port over 40 apostolate s, notably St. Anne Home held a short communion service together. There was not bought up all the soap and razors and shampoo and in San Francisco and Mercy Retirement Home in time for a full service; they were only allotted thirty things he could find ," Father Barber said. 0i"dmi minutes for the liturgy. The first stop on the crew 's return home was in YOUTH, page 6 After the service, many of the sailors and Marines FATHER BARBER, page 6 who had been held hostage for nearly two weeks wanted to speak with the chaplains. 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Father Michael Barber ori ginall y became interested in the military chaplaincy while teaching at the Gregorian University in Rome. He was asked , occasionall y, to concelebrate or fill in to say Mass on the USS Belknap, the flagshi p of the Navy 's sixth fleet , stationed in Italy. It was a different experience for Father Barber. On one occasion, "the ship was rocking and we were all try ing to hold onto the chalice. " He got to know the sailors and one of the officers told him, "Hey, we ' ve got to get you some stripes to go with your priest uniform. " Father Barber says he is "another Father Jack O'Neill recruit." Father O'Neill , who is now retired from the Navy, was one of the highest ranking chaplains on the west coast. He has convinced many priests to join the military chap laincy. One of the reasons Father Barber was convinced to join the Navy reserve is because of the shortage of priests serving sailors and Marines. He estimates that about twenty-five percent of sailors and Marines are Catholic. He says that when he is called to duty he is always happy to do it. "If I don 't , there 'll be a Southern Bap tist there and there are a lot of conversions because they provide so many more chaplains to the Navy than the Catholics do." Father Barber has also seen a lot of vocations to the priesthood and the religious life fro m the Navy and Marines. "It 's fertile ground ," for vocations ,

"many sailors that I' ve met who were influenced by their Catholic chap lains are now in seminaries ," he said. He also knows of a woman who developed a vocation to the reli gious life in the Navy. She was a regular line officer and a full Commander. Father Barber heard her talk a few times about pursuing a vocation. "The last time I saw her," he said, "she was at USF and she was wearing a habit and a veil. "I didn 't know whether to call her Sister or Yes Mam !, because she outranks me." On his off duty time, Father Barber is Director of the School of Pastoral Leadership for the Archdiocese of San Francisco. In July he will leave that position to complete his Doctorate in Rome. Last year he was promoted to Lieutenant Commander. "All that means is that I don 't have to get Father Padazinski's coffee for him anymore," he said. Father Michae l Padazinski , who heads the Diocesan Tribunal , is a Major in the Air Force (an equivalent rank to Lieutenant Commander in the Navy). Father Padazinski insists "I still outrank him!" "As you know the Navy and Air Force don 't always see eye to eye," Father Barber said, "When we're in our white uniforms, they call us ice cream salesmen and we call them greyhound bus drivers." "It ' s a friendly rivalry though," Father Barber says.

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brought out all these plastic rosaries that the Navy buys to hand out to sailors and Marines ," Father Barber said. "They 're plastic so they won ' t make noise in your pocket when you 're in war." As Father Barber was handing them out, one of the pilots looked at him with a grin on his face and said, "I don't think that I can accept this Father. " It had a big tag on it saying, "Made in China."

¦ Continued from page 5 Guam. Father Barber said , "the first thing they did when they got to Guam was to ask for clean underwear," When the service was over on Good Friday, the Catholics asked for rosaries. "So we went to our storeroom and

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WASHINGTON (CNS) — Saying he is "seriously concerned" for the welfare of priests who serve as military chaplains , the head of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services sent a letter and outline April 5 to U.S. chaplains stationed all over the world, specifically stating their expected duties. Archbishop Edwin F. O'Bri en began his letter by saying that Catholic chaplains often are overburdened because of the current priest shortage. "Increasingly, one priest is now expected to do the amount of work done by two or even three priests not so many years ago," Archbishop O'Brien wrote. In addition , he noted that today 's chaplains face challenges from the military demands of their jobs , including obligations regarding staff meetings, unit coverage, ceremonial duties and professional military education. "This can lead — and for some has led — to frustration , burnout and early departure from the chaplaincy, " the archbishop wrote. Archbishop O'Brien noted that many chaplains are able to fulfill their increasing responsibilities , but said he was concerned that the greater expectations placed on chaplains today has made it more difficult for many of them to accomplish their primary duty of "pastoral care of our Catholic people." The archbishop pointed out that, despite the good intentions of many military leaders who desire to see Catholic programs succeed, they lack a "realistic understanding of what our church, people in the pews and hierarchy expect of a priest if he is to carry out his pastoral responsibilities properly in a military context." In an interview with Catholic News Service, Archbishop O'Brien said that in meetings he has attended all over the world in the past four years, he came away with the overriding sense that military leaders fail to clearly understand Catholic chaplains ' roles, specifically, their duties as Catholic priests.He said the letter was not meant to cause divisions but to "clarify chaplains ' roles and perhaps start dialogue." Today there are 500 full-time chaplains serving the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Veterans Affairs Medical Centers and Government Service Overseas. "Our numbers are slirinking. We should have double that amount," the archbishop said in a telephone interview from Germany. 'The fewer chaplains we have the more responsibilities they get, which is a source of increasing tension. "

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WASHINGTON (CNS) — Time, sex and money pose the three biggest obstacles to satisfaction in the lives of newly married couples, according to a study by the Creighton University Center for Marriage and Family. In its report, "Time, Sex and Money: The First Five Years of Marriage," the center said the other top problem areas were, in order, husband' s employment; overall financial situation; expectations about household tasks; constant bickering; communication with spouse; parents or in-laws; and time spent together with spouse. Communication and conflict resolution formed a cluster of issues the Creighton stud y identified as appearing regularly among top problematic issues, though they did not make any subgroup 's top-ten lists. The stud y said respondents did offer three pieces of advice to married couples: 'Communicate, communicate, communicate." The report said that debt brought into marriage, the couples ' financial situation, balancing job and family, and frequency of sexual relations were of greatest concern to those ages 29 and under. Couples 30 and over shared with their younger cohorts the concerns of balancing job and family and frequency of sexual relations, but also added as problem areas constant bickering and expectations about household tasks. The study is intended to help diocesan marriage preparation programs be more effective in counseling engaged couples about what to expect in married life, according to Gail Risch, one of study's authors and a member of the marriage and family center of the Jesuit-run university in Omaha, Neb. "Although the early years of marriage involve much that is applicable to marriage in general, there are experiences, needs and issues unique to the first five years," the study says. It said the findings are not applicable to Spanish-speak. ..

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ing Catholic coup les because the center could not obtain enough replies from Spanish-speaking couples who had taken the personal inventory for engaged couples used in many U.S. dioceses. The inventory is called FOCCUS, which stands for Facilitating Open Coup le Communication, Understanding and Study. The study used a random sample drawn from couples who had completed the FOCCUS inventory and had agreed to participate in future research. A mailing of questionnaires resulted in a total sample of 947 couples or 1,894 individuals. Out of that a total of 793 individual questionnaires were returned, wh ich the study called a "highl y acceptable" response rate of 48.5 percent; 35.7 percent of the return s were completed questionnaires from both spouses. The study says that more than half the respondents had cohabited with their spouse prior to marriage. It said that on problematic issues, respondents who had cohabited and those who had not were generally similar. While not statistically significant, according to marriage and family center director Michael G. Lawler, a higher percentage of respondents (15.2 percent) who had cohabited "with their spouse and others" said they were "maritally distressed," compared to respondents who had cohabited only "with their spouse or others" (13.3 percent) or those who had not cohabited at all (13.2 percent) . Respondents who did not cohabit prior to marriage had significantl y higher average scores than those who did cohabit regarding religious behaviors , personal faith , church attendance and joint religious activities. One solution toward relieving marital stress and distress the study listed would be to "extend the dual-career family into a tri-career family, establishing the family itself as a third career whose responsibilities and obligations are symmetrical with the other two careers," the study reported. More than half the respondents said they attended church regularly or often and more than a third attended 'FOCCUS' ON MARRIAGE, page 9

Marriage prep may be wave of the future By Laurie Hallstrom Catholic News Service RAPID CITY, S.D. (CNS) — Catholic marriage preparation must deal with a strong anti-marriage environment in the United States, Notre Dame Sister Barbara Markey told a Rapid City diocesan gathering of 250 pastoral ministers. Sister Markey, family life director for the Archdiocese of Omaha, Neb., and associate director of the Center for Marriage and Family at Creighton University in Omaha, was keynote speaker at the diocese's Pastoral Ministry Days in April. "We live in a time when marriage and family are under attack in a way that probably has not happened before," she told the participating priests, deacons and lay leaders. To underscore her point, she said that for the first time, in 2000, the U.S. Census Bureau did not ask people on the short form if they were married. Also, four years ago the bureau quit gathering data from the states on marriages and divorces, deeming it irrelevant. The number of U.S. weddings declined 25 percent between 1975 and 1995. According to University of Wisconsin sociologist Larry Bumpass, a leading researcher on U.S. marriage demographics, marriage is no longer the common starting point for having an ongoing sexual relationship or for having a child or a home, Sister Markey said. She noted that church law obliges pastors to assure that couples receive adequate preparation for marriage. "The church has done that around the fact that marriage is a sacrament," she said. "It is a sign of the way MARRIAGE, page 9

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in the name of the Holy See a significant milestone in defining the answers to questions that have been raised ' to the worship congregation, said he thought the document 's overall impact would be "significant," though many of the changes would affect only the behind-the-scenes mechanics of liturgical translations. "Almost every paragraph of it concerns subjects that I've heard bishops of the United States discussing over the past five, 10 years," he said in an interview in Rome. "Certainly the document provides in the name of the Holy See a significant milestone in defining the answers to questions that have been raised," he said. On the issue of inclusive language, Father Moroney said the document shows "a high degree of correspondence between what the instruction says and the principles that were followed in the final revision of the Lectionary for the United States. " In a separate interview, the worship congregation source said the inclusive language section was, in fact , drafted largely from the Lectionary revision principles. Father Moroney said the instruction still would permit inclusive translations, like "Happy the one ..." instead of "Happy the man ..." where the original text clearly intended to communicate men and women. However, the instruction specifically rejects a number of common devices used by translators to avoid use of exclusive language in translations, including "a mechanical substitution of words, the transition from the singular to the plural, the splitting of a unitary collective term into masculine and feminine parts, or the introduction of impersonal or abstract words." In language about God and the persons of the Trinity, it says, "The truth of tradition as well as the established gender usage of each respective language are to be maintained."

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woman in Calcutta found a great idea for making money. Every evening at the dinner hour, she and her school-age sons would go door to door, selling tomato paste to her neighbors to make their soup tastier and more satisfying. She had just enough capital to buy a few days' worth of the paste for the families immediately surrounding her. She was making a living but could do much better with even a small increase in cash and inventory. A Catholic Relief Services pro gram provided the capital that sprouted her business. With a "micro" loan of $5, she bought three cans of tomato paste and sold it by the spoonful for a 300 percent mark up. Two years later, she now offers 15 or 20 different products , including beer and saltine crackers. With CRS' backing, she and other women in her neighborhood formed a "micro" finance cooperative similar to those in 33 countries around the world. CRS representative Schuyler Thorup told the entrepreneur 's story at a recent "Friends of CRS" dinner. CRS representatives aim to provide the self-employed poor, especially women, access to reliable financi al services through specialized micro-finance institutions. The programs target entrepreneurs who have little or no access to formal credit, reaching nearly 260,000 clients , 84 percent of whom are women, in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean. While individual loans average about $100, they vary according to local economies , Thorup noted. These micro finance programs are rooted in the Catholic social teaching call to end poverty and injustice . They serve the poorest clients, link loans to savings , and use group guarantees to replace collateral . The co-ops charge interest at market rates. Clients practice "participatory management" to manage and administer the micro finance services they receive. For example, they vote on loan applications and collect payments from other borrowers. CRS micro-fi nancing representatives will strive during next five years to "vastly increase " the number of clients served and to transform local programs into "healthy, viable financial institutions. " With an eye toward such permanence in programming, organizers invest in research, design , staffing and training from the beginning of a program to A Senegalese woman receives payments during "move a program from start-up to fora bi-monthly meeting as part of a CRSmalization." backed Village Bank program.Debtors make Such formalized financial instituloan payments at publ ic meetings as "part of tions are springing up in heretofore public pressure" that ensures good performance, financially remote areas, such as the according to CRS representative Schuy ler Republic of Senegal in West Africa. Thorup. The "micro loan cooperative institution CRS/Senegal works through partner model is demonstrating success in Africa , Asia , organizations to implement credit and savings programs through its Village Europe , Latin America and the Caribbean. " m- wmmQMN*\miZ.\ "— "i "'' i . irwuiinwMi nTiii fl wfa-.' i miwi ii M i mMtifmmmmmmm \mMuiwm ii immmmmB *em *iM Ban k Program. Now in its 13th year, this program has been "highly successful" in creating opportunities for the poor to develop income-generating activities, such as food-processing, animal-fattening, fabric-dying and soap making, according to a 1998 annual summary of activities. Through involvement with CRS/Senegal, local residents have p lanted trees, reclaimed and cultivated rice fields, and constructed dikes, the report states. Founded in 1943, Catholic Relief Services is the international humanitarian aid and development agency of the U.S. Catholic Conference. CRS began coordinating small-scale micro finance programming in the 1960s. In 1988, the agency initiated a pilot project to test micro finance methods through five country programs on three continents. During the 1990s, the agency's trend was to "divest out of a jack of all trades " mode and identif y areas of the greatest interest, Thorup told Catholic San Francisco. The micro finance pilot proved to be one of those areas of interest. Donors to CRS' micro finance program include the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) , the United Nations Development Programme, Citigroup Foundation, Calvert Foundation , and other organizations. "Our investment and hard work is bearing fruit," a Senegalese client said in the 1998 summary. "We are gaining a sense of renewed hope. This has been possible thanks to encouragement and support from CRS ," More information on the program is posted on the Web site: v7ww.cath0licrelief.org.

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After reading the May 4 issue of Catholic San Francisco , I feel compelled to offer my humble experience and understanding of being called to vocation , so beautifully presented in the article on Cardinal Stafford and Archbishop Prendergast. It is true that most priests never experience being knocked off a horse , as was St. Paul , and in reality most of us called live lives of holiness , our true vocation , are nurtured in homes and parishes which value our presence and di gnity and who, Taking note of the Pope 's recent request for forgiveness for past actions like Christ, find us loveable and valuable. My personal cry is when we pray taken by members of the Catholic faith against the Orthodox Church in Greece, exclusivel y for priestl y and reli gious faithful reader Muri el Calegari wrote a letter to the editor with the wry mesvocations , it is as if we are pray ing for a sage, "Please be patient ladies. He will get around to us eventually." Published good right arm while the body is sick and last week, Muriel's letter earned our admiration for its wit and brevity. weak. What about the rest of the folks? But upon seeing the letter, a perceptive woman close to the paper made the What are we called to? Is there dignity in observation, "The Pope did ask for forgiveness for the actions of members of our vocation or are we simply folks i who pray for "true vocations. ". the Church against women, he did. " I find it odd that in our prayer She was referring to the prayer of "confession and repentance" in St. for priestl y and reli gious vocations Peter 's Basilica in Rome on the first Sunday of Lent in the Great Jubilee Year we consistentl y fail to remember to 2000. Pope John Paul IT and seven members of the Vatican's Curia expressed include the order of deacon, a clera historic and profound prayer requesting forgiveness of sins on behalf of all gyman called by God to serve the peop le of God in the everyday munmembers of the universal Church. The confession of sins and asking for for- dane places of work , home and mingiveness was part of a celebration of the Eucharist, making the request for par- istry. It is a wonder to me that most of our priests have yet to understand don a living prayer. Prominent among the seven areas of concern in the prayer was a confession the call to diaconate and to respect these clergymen. of "sins against the dignity of women and the unity of the human race." As for most men in the priestIn that moment, a Cardinal of the Curia said, "Let us pray for all those who hood finding that their invitation have suffered offenses against their human dignity and whose ri ghts have been comes from other priests: this may trampled; let us pray for women, who are all too often humiliated and emar- be so, and yet it is in the midst of a whole and dedicated family that ginated, and let us acknowledge the forms of acquiescence in these sins of young men and women grow in which Christians too have been guilty." their dedication and love of God and The Pope then prayed, "Lord God, our Father, you created the human the Church. My own son was only being, man and woman, in your image and likeness, and you willed the diver- eight years old when I called him in sity of peoples within the unity of the human family. At times, however, the for a serious conversation about his vocation and the fact that God may equality of your sons and daughters has not been acknowledged.. .Forgive us one day call him to be a priest. After and grant us the peace to heal the wounds still present in our community on some time of being alone and contemplating, Dan 's response was: account of sin, so we will all feel ourselves to be your sons and daughters." Here in America, the U.S. Bishops have noted the importance of women, "No, Mom, I want to have a lot of little babies." It was already clear in saying "Scripture testifies to the key roles that women have played in Christian his mind and heart that he was history: Mary assented to becoming the mother of God; the woman at the well called to be a father. From his famibecame the first missionary to the Samaritans; and women brought the news of ly we may one day see a priest or resurrection to men. For 2,000 years, women have graced Church history with deacon or a brother, and we may see another father. We may see a relitheir holiness, courage, intellectual gifts , and works of justice and mercy." gious sister, a mother or a single person whose life is completely dedicated to God while living a very ordinary life. As we place our needs before God , let us pray for single couples and families to come to the living water of faith and The Holy Father 's recent apology to the Orthodox Christians also has some bring that water to their homes and to the people asking whether the Pope is apologizing too much. This reaction par- world where all we be satisfied. Let us tially arises from something deep within us that just is not comfortable with pray that all parish communities as well as clergy and reli gious leaders will give asking to be forgiven. the finest example of how living out our This uneasiness, of course, runs counter to a fundamental message of Jesus tru e vocation brings place and glory to Christ, which is forgiveness. Through the sacrifice of the Son, the Father says God and sincere commitment to all whom to us, I forgive you. God calls to serve his Church, whether as Sometimes, the request for forgiveness is seen in the limited human terms clergy, religious, single or husband and wife, of pride and hatred, which lead to an entrenched bitterness and animosity Paulette A. Borg and asking forgiveness is seen as a weakness Tiburon But asking forgiveness is neither a sign of weakness nor inferiority. Expressed humbly and sincerely, asking forgiveness can be a sign of great strength. To ask forgiveness means that you yourself have already forgiven A fellow inmate has been giving me others. Both elements are inextricably linked as a necessary precursor to rec- his copy of Catholic San Francisco for onciliation. Asking forgiveness can be a most liberating life event, because it makes possible the love that Jesus spoke of when he said, "Love one another as I have Catholic San Francisco welcomes loved you." letters from its readers. Please: A refusal to ask for forgiveness is a sign that we have not fully relinquished >- Include your name, address and the self, that we have not fully experienced trust in the loving nature of God. daytime phone number. Our Lord taught forgiveness throughout his ministry, giving us the prayer >ÂŚ Sign your letter. to the Father, "Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass >- Limit submissions to 250 words. against us." 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months , and it has broug ht me so much comfort , knowled ge and entertainment. As an inmate here at San Quentin , my spirituality and renewed conversion have a very important meaning. My Catholic faith is sound and strong now, and I continue to grow and learn every day. I would like to respond to Father Ron Rolheiser 's column of Marc h 30 because I feel the same way he does as "the Eucharist as sacrifice. " I would like to put another twist on it, though. Pope John Paul II was once quoted as say ing the Mass was like "heaven on earth." Althoug h some peop le may have taken that comment as a symbolic one, the author and theologian Scott Hahn didn 't seem to think it was that symbolic. In fact , he wrote a book about the Mass and how closely intertwined it is with the Book of Revelation. The book is entitled "The Lamb' s Supper ," and Dr. Hahn has opened my eyes to how rich and meaningful every Mass can and should be for Catholics. He explains how the lamb revealed in Revelation 5:6 is not only Christ but the Eucharist that we share in every Mass. The point I am try ing to make is that there seems to be no enthusiasm in the celebration of the Eucharist. We as Catholics sing and chant , "Lamb of God , you take away the sins of the world." But most of the time we are just going throug h the motions. The priest says, "This is the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world as he, in an almost programmed voice, holds up the Holy Eucharist. Hey, this is the Christ , our savior being held up by the priest like a "lamb that seemed to have been slain." (Rev. 5:6) He has invited us to "eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood." (John 6:53) The Mass is "heaven on earth" if we full y understand the beauty, spirituality and symbolism that have been handed down to us. Thank you again for filling me with hope, faith and forgiveness during this time of my life. My walk with God is a monastic one at this time , and it gives me peace. Richard S. Farias, Jr. San Quentin

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'The Lambs Supp er' Letters welcome

FTAA spells p rosp erity

Anyone who has passed high-school economics(the dismal science, I mean , not a bunch of loony-left or raving-ri ght propaganda) and applies the understanding thu s shown to a reasonable knowled ge of today 's world sees fairl y clearly that the Free Trade Area of the Americas can make the vast majority of the people of the Americas materially better off. This is not a matter of opinion , but one of understanding, intelli gence and honesty. Nevertheless the Archbishop of Quebec warn s the FTAA organizers against putting profits before more equitable distribution of wealth and the rights of women, children and individuals (he must mean "persons"), as though there were some conflict. The increase in wealth will come largely because of the desire for profits. There are profiteers who will lose by the FTAA, and those are being given comfort by the pronounc ements of the Archbishop . The anti-liberals who demonstrated against the Quebec Summit and a while ago against the Seattle Round are culpably ignorant and have wicked leaders , campaigning in favor of cartels and guild monopolies. It is particularl y ironic that the Archbishop claims concern for the smallest American countries, i.e. those of the Caribbean , because they are the ones most likely to get a quick increase in prosperity by the sale of their sugar, at the expense of those engaged in the present U.S. sugar cartel, while the people in the U.S. at the same time get cheaper sugar than they now have. John A. Wills San Francisco

On Being Catholic

Church or Bible? The question may have been asked with sincerity or hostility, but you have probabl y heard the challenge in one way or another: the authority of the Bible versus the authority of the Catholic Church. Beneath the polemics is a fundamental issue: how are we connected to the first community of believers and their experience of Christ? How does "the Gospel" reach us? For some Christians , the only certain source of God' s truth is the Bible. What do we believe as Catholics? Article Three of the Second Chapter of the Catechism of the Catholic Church deals at length with our understanding of Scripture , but for now suffice it to say that we believe that the Bible, and onl y the Bible , is the inspired, inerrant word of God. "Sacred Scripture is the speech of God as it is put down in writing under the breath of the Holy Spirit." (CCC #81) More basic than the Bible , however, is that living community of the Church which began with a handful of disciples and has spread over the past twenty centuries to every corner of the world. The primacy of this community can be seen in several ways: 1. Unlike some great religious leaders, Jesus produced no writings. What He did do was gather around Himself a group of disciples and devote Himself to teaching them and forming their leaders. 2. This community spread the Gospel at first in the same way Jesus did: by preaching, praying together, and seeking to live a life of selfless service to others . Only

graduall y were the writings we call the New Testament produced by this community. 3. It took several hundred years for this New Testament as a set collection of writings to be fixed. During those centuries , the work of handing on the Good News was carried out in a variety of ways: through preaching, liturg ical celebrations, prayer, reading of Jewish Scriptures and of writings attributed to the Apostles, moral exhortation, catechesis. The same Holy Spirit who inspired the authors to write the Scriptures led the Church and its leaders to recognize those writings as inspired, and to understand the meaning of those texts within the whole lived reality of the community. It is our belief as Catholics that the Holy Spirit continues to guide the Church in every age in understanding the Scriptures, and to assist the Pope and Bishops in the teaching office (Magisterium) they have inherited from the Apostles. Thus the Bible/Church dichotomy is false. The Bible is the word of God written in the community of believers, by the community of believers and for the community of believers. Like any other text , the Bible is not self-interpreting; evidence for this is as near as the Yellow Pages, where you can find scores of churches which seek to find truth in the Bible alone, and which disagree with each other on almost any given teaching. In reality, every denomination has its tradition of interpreting the Bible. To see the Scriptures within the context of the Church is not to lessen its unique authority. The Bible is the mirror into which the Church of all subsequent ages must look to keep its

likeness to the first community of believers alive, the norm for all that the Church teaches. In the words of the Second Vatican Council , "The Magisterium is not superior to the Word of God, but is its servant." (CCC #86) Hugo Rahner once described the Church as "the Mary of the history or the world." He was referring to the biblical image of the mother of Jesus pondering in her heart the events of Christ. I sometimes picture the Church as a wise old woman, and the Bible as an album holding photographs from her youth. The photos are precious and irreplaceable , since they capture and preserve a moment in time in a unique way. But without her living memory, the photos have less meaning, and can be a source of confusion - "Is that my dad as a boy, or my uncle John?" I don't know, but she does - because she was there.

Father Milton T. Walsh

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

Catholic On Purp ose

We are born alone and die alone — or do we? "You're born alone and you die alone," I explained to a new friend when I was 20 years old. "Your life is spent forming relationships to compensate for these facts." In the 13 years since that conversation , I have grown up, studied theology, researched whether we do, in fact , die alone, and given birth to a child who did not seem a bit alone at her coming. I even said recently that I had abandoned that earlier point of view, which childhood heartbreak must have caused. Now that I felt familiar with God, mothered a child, and lived in a marriage, I half-hearte dly espoused the conviction that we are born into communities, and ought to die in the same way, surrounded by loved ones who would never leave us. Now I understand that one reality does not negate the other. With grace, we are born into loving families, and are certainly accompanied by our mothers physically, if not always emotionally. Likewise, at death, we moderns typically die in institutions surrounded by paid professionals, again at least physicall y attended. Some of us find the fortune of dying in a loved one 's arms or in familiar beds next to family members. Still, psychically, we enter and exit this life as little individuals with personalities and thumbprints unique to us. This individuality can feel frighteningly lonesome, as though one faces utter abandonment at one or two turns

around each comer. If our families do not nourish, if our marriages prove far lonelier than any nightclub, if our God seems much more silent than active, do we not return to the deeply felt notion that indeed we do walk alone? Even if our relationships bring untold happiness, do we still not feel the slightest bit set apart? And what then ? When faced with the reality that our childhood nightmare is true - that we do inhabit a dark terrain populated by bogie men - how do we cope? How do we manage the craving to meld with another being? We reach out , and up. We listen to, talk to, and share time with friends. We make ourselves more present to our children than we imagined possible, hoping to reduce their feelings of innate alone-ness. And if we possess the gift of faith , we cultivate our relationship with God. We speak to God about how we wish we could make someone else walk our journey for us, not just with us. In the Garden of Gethsemane during the last morning of Jesus ' human life, Jesus seemed to feel lonely agony when he complained to his dozing friends, "Could you not keep watch with me for one hour?" (Mark 14:37). To our great benefit , Jesus had already provided the antidote to such alone-ness the night before, at the last meal he ate before he died. When we receive communion, we do meld with anoth-

er being: Jesus. We find sp iritual and psychic nourishment in the Eucharist. For a brief moment , and to the extent to which we remain conscious during the act, our bodies are not alone. For a beautiful flash, we are joined to the "living well," drinking a substance that will actually satisfy. Yes, I was born psychically alone, and must die my own death at an appointed time. What's more, God created within me a sometimes desperate longing for another. Human relationships prove essential to most of us. Social contact seems as crucial as physical nourishment or shelter. But in our most alone moments, humans can onl y stay awake with us for so long. When everyone else has drifted off despite their best intentions, Jesus remains.

Kamille Maher

Kamille Maher is a member of St. f ohn of God Parish, San Francisco, and a member of the Catholic San Francisco editoria l team.

The Catholic Diff erence

Child abuse in a no-fault society Some people never quite get it. Take Minnesota Sen. Paul Wellstone, who is said to be contemp lating a run for the presidency. In his new book, Conscience of a Liberal: Reclaiming the Compassionate Agenda , Sen. Wellstone wrote thi s about education reform: "Our national goal must be to insure that every child, by kindergarten , knows the alphabet , colors, shapes, and sizes, and how to spell his or her name. This will require well-paid professional teachers, assisted by skillful and well-paid teaching assistants." In other words, it 's the government 's job to teach your kids how to tell red from blue and squares from circles. Here we have the reductio ad absurdum of the myth of the public school. Here is the net result of the Democratic Party 's enthrallment to the National Education Association , and to other lobbies for maintaining the government 's monopol y on tax dollars for elementary education. Perhap s in the second Wellstone Administration the Department of Education would see to it (with proper NEA involvement , of course) that potty training is adequatel y attended to from sea to shining sea.

Then there was Sen, Hillary Rodham Clinton 's most recent entry into the child-protection lists. Sen. Clinton opposed a Bush nominee for the chairmanship of the Consumer Products Safety Commission, in part because the nominee opposed certain regulations on bab y bath seats. USA Today breathlessly noted that the seats in question had "been associated with 67 infant deaths ," creating the impression of bath seats devouring children . The Washington Post clarified the matter, noting that "there have been 67 deaths associated with the [bath seats], most occurring when the parents left a baby unattended." As John Miller and Ramesh Ponuru of National Review commented, "Aha ! So babies drown when parents put them in bathtubs and leave the room. Long ago, when some people still cared about such antiquated notions as personal responsibility, there was a word for this: negligence." Does that word exist in the newspeak of Sen. Clinton 's child care village? In the debate over President 's Bush 's faith-based social welfare initiative, there has been a certain reticence

about using the word o "character." Yet it seems S virtuall y certain that the a. ffl primary reason why religiously-informed social 2 service programs are 5 successful in helping break men and women out of the cycle of poverty is that they transform lives. They develop character — the habit of making morally good choices. And the optimum time to start developing the habit — or virtue — of moral responsibility is in childhood. For virtues, like muscles, need exercise if they are to develop. The longer we have to work on the musculature of the moral life, the better-tuned and more supp le our moral sinews will be. That is why strengthening the two-parent family ought to be a high priority for any genuinely compassionCATHOLIC DIFFERENCE, page 16

George Weigel

SCRIPTURE & LITURGY 'Mystagogia' — a wonder taking place in 50 days of Easter Allow me to spotli ght a wonder that is taking place in our parishes during these fifty days of Easter: it is the mystagog ia. Parish teams are forming our newl y initiated sisters and brothers by inviting them to reflect on their initiation experience at the Easter Vigil when the community and the presenter bathed them in the water-bath of baptism , anointed them with chrism , and welcomed them to table-communion at the first Eucharist of Easter. This "teaching about the mysteries " (the sacramental experiences) embraces peop le of "every race , language, and way of life ," and gets directl y to their hearts. The readings for this Sunday 's liturgy of the Word invite us to celebrate this wonder. It all has to do with the Spirit-taught Word , so says the gospel selection. When we welcome Jesus ' word s, really those of the Father ("yet the word you hear is not mine but that of the Father who sent me "), the Father and Jesus come to us and dwell with us. All this happens because the Word we hear and welcome makes present Jesus ' passover to the Father: "You heard me tell you , 'I am going away and I will come back to you. ' If you loved and catechetical methods required by the differences of me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father; for culture , age, spiritual maturity, and social and ecclesial the Father is greater than I." This living Word is Jesus ' condition among all those to whom it is addressed. Such way of coming "back to you." This living proclamation indispensable adaptations are the responsibility of p articenables us to experience Jesus as Source of the Holy ular catechisms and , even more, of those who instruct the Spirit , who then enables us to translate Jesus ' gospel into faithful. . . ." (C.C.C., 24.) See these "indispensable our own flesh , language , deeds, and culture , just as he adaptations " being made as parents answer their propromised: "I have told you this while I am with you. The foundly religious questions, as youth club members Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in respond with gospel values to those who are sorely my name, will teach you everything and remind you of tempted to compromise, as effective leadership on every all that I told you." level encourage the Spirit 's gifts to be surfaced and The Spirit's "reminding" us "of all that I told you" shared. has little to do with recalling the incidents of Jesus ' life 'Twas ever thus. Our first reading from Acts presas they were lived and everything to do with making him ents the primitive Church responding to a crisis by the real, relevant , translated, and responded to now. See the Spirit 's guidance. First there is the controversial asserSpirit 's work in the four gospels as their inspired authors tion: "Unless you are circumcised according to the make Jesus responsive to the needs of their respective Mosaic practice, you cannot be saved." There then folcommunities. See our parish RCIA teams and religious lowed the consultation: "Because there arose no little education personnel up date the message for the varied dissension and debate by Paul and Barnabas with them, participants , as "The Catechism of the Catholic Church" it was decided that Paul , Barn abas, and some of the othforcefull y insists: "By design, the Catechism does not set ers should go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders out to provide the adaptation of doctrinal presentations about this question." There followed further discussion

Father David M. Pettingill

Sixth Sunday of Easter Acts 15:1-2, 22-29; Psalm 67; Revelations 21:10-14, 22-23; John 23-29. and finall y a decision which a letter would contain: "It is the decision of the Holy Spirit and us not to place on you any burden beyond these necessities. . . ." What a pattern of behavior our ancestors set for us! The Spirit guides them through controversy, discussion, and decision-making to assert that Jesus is Lord for all, that Israel has place of prime importance in God' s plan , and that Gentiles need not become Jews before they become Christians. Behaving in this Spirit-guided way as we up date the gospel for our parishes assures us a place in the final day glory of the New Jerusalem — open to all ("There were three gates facing east, three north , three south , and three west."); evolved from the Israelite and Apostolic experi ence ("It had a massive, high wall, with twelve gates. . . on which names were inscribed, the names of the twelve tribes of the Israelites... . The wall of the city had twelve courses of stones as its foundation on which were inscribed the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb."); consummated in glory with no need for any mediation ("I saw no temple in the city for its temple is the Lord God almighty and the Lamb. The city had no need of sun or moon to shine on it , for the glory of God gave it light, and its lamp was the Lamb."). I told you a wonder is going on in our parishes! Questions for Small Communities of Faith Are we making "indispensable adaptations" to make the gospel real? What prevents us from so doing?

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

The sheer beauty of the song I was recently accompany ing a hearty group of singers whose awareness of their sound seemed to be minimal. They seemed to be immersed in their brazen pray er as they sang in praise of God without knowledge of its wonder and beauty. It was a gift for me to hear and, I am sure, a gift given to God without guile. It was one of those "shiver moments." You know - one of those moments when you get goose bumps. Not a very attractive image, I know ! Strange phrase isn 't it? Goose bumps. Nevertheless it describes one of those experiences we have when we 've touched upon something beyond description in human language. So much in our human life is or can seem ugly or unrefined as goose flesh, but upon further reflection reveals the presence of God in the midst of human finiteness. God loves and gives goose bumps! My experience of accompanying my robust singers reminded me of anoth er one I had in the Connecticut parish I served as a new associate pastor. I was presiding at liturgy one Sunday morning when a developmentally disabled gentleman began crooning out of tune during the gathering song. I was struck by a strange beauty. Yes, a strange beauty. Please do not misunderstand me. In all honesty, every musical bone in my body groaned for relief from the horror of the tones , but I was struck by the reality of sheer participation of one who felt no shame for his song. What a wonderful reali-

Catholic diff erence . . . ¦ Continued from page 15 ate public policy. Two generations of experimentation with "alternative" families and "no-fault" divorce have produced a grim bill in broken lives. Those problems aren't going to be satisfactorily addressed by governmentsponsored coloring books. Nor will they be resolved by efforts to substitute federal regulatory agencies for the moral habits of parental responsibility. Moral choice is a burden — the distinguishing bur-

Father Jim McKearney ty - the sound of a person singing without awkwardness and self-consciousness! Have you ever sung with all of your heart only to find strange or offended looks coming your way? One can have the voice of a great lyricist and still receive such condemning looks . It is sad that we thwart one another 's heart-felt song. Even priests with really decent den that the Creator laid on human beings. Learning to carry that burden lightly is of the essence of becoming a mature human being. For we are all born capable of freedom: rich, middle-class, or poor; white, black, Hispanic, or Asian-American. To be fit for freedom means to be responsible — to five my freedom in such a way that my own life, and the fives of those I touch, are both ennobled. As the distinguished social critic, Midge Decter, recentl y wrote, "Whether a person is a slave or a billionaire, a homeless vagrant or a king, his moral conduct remains his own. They can beat and starve and even kill him, but they can-

voices shy away from singing parts of the Mass proper to him because of fear of something imperfect. Goose bumps come even with imperfect notes full of sincerity as much as they can come from the most exquisite phrase played by the San Francisco Symphony. (Notice I didn 't say The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra - one of my favorites!) No , goose bumps are God' s gift to those who encounter purity of heart and intention. Musicians need to cultivate within their assemblies the holiness of intentioned , prayerful , human sound. It is holy for the people of God to sing their praise. It is not only holy when the holy people of God sing as the choir of angels in heavenly perfection , because they are human singers and it is awesome even for angels to behold! Fostering the sound of the people of God means creating a community of unselfconscious prayer. This takes time. It takes energy and it takes discipleship. Disciples lead others to encounter the risen Lord, and when the risen Lord is encountered , nothing, and I mean nothing will matter but praising him in song. Talk about goose bumps!

Father McKearney is a Sulp ician candidate from the Archdiocese of Hartf ord , Conn., and director of music f o r St. Patrick Seminary, Menlo Park.

not make him immoral; only he can do that. " To love children, truly, is to wish for them the burden and the glory of moral responsibility. It doesn 't take a village to do that, Mrs. Clinton 's book notwithstanding. It takes responsible adults — the kind of adults who know that they ought to teach their children the alphabet and that kids can 't be left alone in the bathtub.

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

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'Do Whatever He Tells You' For years I have had to refuse the persistent invitation of one of the organizers of the annual pilgrimage of the Order of Malta to Lourdes. Each spring around the first week of May, the Knights and Dames of our Western Association join their counterparts of the other two associations in the United States , and from Britai n and Ireland , France and Italy, Germany and Spain , and elsewhere too , in a pilgrimage to the beautiful shrine of Our Lad y at the foot of the Pyrenees in southern France. But for their bishop chap lain , this is also the Easter Season , and the preferred time in many parishes for the celebration of the sacrament of Confirmation , which adds significantly to the number of commitments in the episcopal schedule. As a result , these schedule conflicts have always prevented me in the past from revisiting Lourdes in the company of the Knights and Dames of Malta , and the many sick persons whom they sponsor and accompany on this pil grimage. But this year was different , thanks to early planning in my office. This year I was able to sign on for the week's pilgrimage, and I can tell you I don 't regret it! From individual pil grims to groups numbering in the thousands , Lourdes is always ready to receive visitors as if it were Mary herself who was extending the welcome. So it was for me and for our pilgrims this year. Apart from the wintry rain and wind , I couldn ' t imagine a better way to begin Mary 's month of May than at Lourdes , where over the 143 years since Our Lady appeared to Saint Bernadette some 68 medical miracles have been documented. How many more physical healings have taken place one can only guess , but the reports are plentiful. And perhap s even more important , the miracles of grace and spiritual healing seem to be the far more prevalent claim to fame of this most famous Marian shrine .

I want to compliment the Order of Malta for the dedication to the sick people they sponsor and accompany on these pilgrimages. They are personall y attentive to each sick person , with teams, pulling and pushing their "voiture s" or carts back and forth to the grotto , even two or three times each day. Throug h an impressive track record , they have perfected an organization which allows everyone , "malades" and sponsors , to gain a beautiful and deeply spiritual experience of Mary, both as our Blessed Mother, given to us as Mother of the Church — of us all — and as fellow disciple, who knew how to focus her whole life on her Lord and Savior. A visit to Lourdes cannot but deepen one 's understanding of what it means to be a Christian, a Catholic, a disciple of Jesus. The waters dug out of the grotto by Bernadette still flow, and they link us to the waters of Baptism, the Easter sacrament which makes us one with the death and Resurrection of Christ. The Anointing of the Sick reminds us of the anointing of the nascent Church by the Holy Spirit on the first Pentecost , and of our anointing by the Spirit in the Pentecost sacrament of Confirmation. The sacrament of Penance , and every Eucharist - at the Grotto , in the Prairie across the River Gave, in the shrine church and the huge underground basilica — brought us closer once again to the central mystery of salvation: the death of Christ on the cross for the forgiveness of sins, and the pled ge of eternal life made possible by our reconciliation with the God of love. As a priest and bishop, it was a particular joy to share in the hopes and prayers of the sick persons who accompanied us from California , and who joined us at Lourdes in such numbers. What struck me in particular was the realizati on th at at Lourdes the weakness caused by sickness and even physical deformities are not con-

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sidered a problem , but a part of the normal routine. The sick and well alike carry th eir candles in the darkness of the Rosary procession. The light of each one's candle represents Christ, the Risen Lord , the Light of-the world. At Lourdes we celebrate and are celebrated for, not our own power or achievements , but rather the precious dignity each one of us has as beloved children of the Most High God. The true lesson of Lourdes for me is summed up in learning once again the lesson Mary first gave us at the wedding feast in Cana of Galilee: "Do whatever He tells you. " At the beautiful house of her shrine in Lourdes , as in the prayers and devotions of this Mary 's month of May everywhere in the Church universal , she shows us once again how to respond to her Son 's invitation, "Come, Follow me."

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The March 30 edition of Catholic San Francisco carried an editorial note in its Letters to the Editor section about my column of March 23, "An Open Letter to Lay Catholic NewsNotes and Mission." The editor commented specifically on my reference to the "difficult question " regarding civil recognition of "committed, chaste , life-long unions between homosexual persons." In light of this "difficult question ," I made reference to Archbishop Levada ' s approac h to San Francisco 's "Non-Discrimination in Contracts Ordinance ," from which several readers wrong ly inferred that he favored such recognition. As the editor 's note remarked: "the compromise governing city contracts was arrived at because the Archdiocese of San Francisco, on the basis of Church teaching, would not accept the original Ordinance language, which sought to extend benefits specifically and solel y to domestic partners. The regulations adopted at the behest of Archbishop Levada provided that the extension of benefits to any member of an employee's household (including blood relatives) would comply with the ordinance. Thus , the Church was not required to recognize domestic partner arrangements. The Bishops of the California Catholic Conference have been consistently opposed to affording civil recognition of same-sex relationships as equivalent to marriage." Since my "Open Letter" has been misunderstood, I see the importance of revisiting Archbishop Levada 's action and its context in order to clarify my own views on this subject and to offer pastoral guidance on the question of same-sex-sex unions and the Church' s teaching on marriage and the family. Archbishop Levada 's Action In 1997, Archbishop Levada was responding to specific legislation proposed in the City and County of San Francisco, which was attempting to coerce all agencies and institutions receiving publi c funds to comp ly with the City ' s "Non-Discrimination in Contracts Ordinance ." By comply ing with this City Ordinance, the Catholic Church would have been p laced in a position of recognizing the civil legitimacy of same-sex unions (often referred to as domestic partnerships), thus compromising Catholic moral and social teaching on the importance of marriage and the family in God' s p lan. Refusing to comply with the Ordinance and threatening legal action, Archbishop Levada rightly felt that he could not acquiesce to this legislation by letting the matter pass quietly, or by withdrawing Catholic agencies and institutions (e.g. Catholic Charities) from the use of public funds. Archbishop Levada argued that if

the issue were benefits, he would advocate a broadest possible approach. Thus , he worked diligentl y with Mayor Willie Brown and City supervisors to reach a productive compromise on the legislation , under which "an employee may designate a legally domiciled member of the employee's household as being eligible for spousal equivalent benefits." Importantl y, this compromise allows an employer to comp ly with this Ordinance and indeed exceed its requirements: e.g. an employee may designate a dependant and domiciled elderly aunt as beneficiary of the employee's job benefits; or a homosexual person might designate a dependant and domiciled partner as eli gible for the same benefits . In this latter example, the City Ordinance is being followed but this relationship is not recognized as a civil union. The Church Teaching The 1986 Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith warns against civil legislation that condones homosexual behavior, (no. 10) In 1992 this Congregation made this concern more detailed in Some Considerations Concerning the Catholic Response to Legislative Proposals on the Non-Discrimination of Homosexual Persons. In regard to civil recognition , Considerations warns against approval of same-sex unions due to the disordered nature of homosexual acts and the "negative impact on the family and society." (no. 6), which such approbation would cause. The nature and rights of the family are placed "in jeopard y " when homosexual activity is seen to be the equivalent to or as acceptable as "the sexual expression of conjugal love." (no. 6) This teaching reaches its conclusion in the final paragraph of this document: "The Church has the responsibility to promote family life and the public morality of the entire civil society on the basis of fundamental moral values , not simpl y to protect herself fro m the application of harmful laws." (no. 16) Pastoral Guidelines In light of the instruction in the Letter to the Bishops that "in great measure the clear and successful communication of the Church's teaching to all the faithful, and to society at large, depends on the correct instruction and fidelity of its pastoral ministers," (no. 13) the following pastoral guidelines may be useful: First, society and the Church must always uphold the dignity and value of all persons no matter their race, culture, age, religion or sexual orientation. The Letter to the Bishops is very clear, "It is deplorable that homo-

sexual persons have been and are the object of violent malice in speech or in action. Such treatment deserves condemnation from the Church' s pastors wherever it occurs. It reveals a kind of disregard for others, which endangers the most fundamental principles of a healthy society. The intrinsic di gnity of each person must always be respected. " (no. 10) Second , "changing ... statutes and laws," no matter how "well-intentioned ," (Letter to the Bishops, no. 9) to civilly recognize same-sex unions must always be rejected because such recognition gives legitimacy to homosexual acts and devalues the meaning of the marital union and the family. Third, it is possible to morally and pastorall y uphold the dignity of every homosexual person while not sup porting same-sex unions. In other words, society and the church can simultaneousl y give support and respect to homosexual persons and not approve of legislation that gives civil recognition to same-sex relationships. Fourth, as the 1973 "Princi ples to Guide Confessors in Questions of Homosexuality" of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops points out , a stable , life-long and chaste friendship can be encouraged when such a relationship helps a homosexual person "grow as a person." (nos. 10-11) Such a statement must rel y on sound pastoral and moral principles and cannot be equated with civil recognition of such a relationshi p. Fifth, the words in Human Sexuality: A Catholic Perspective for Education and Lifelong Learning (United States Catholic Conference, 1990) offer sound guidance for all pastoral ministry to homosexual persons, "We understand that having a homosexual orientation brings with it enough anxiety, pain, and issues related to self-acceptance without society adding additional prejudicial treatment." (pg. 55)

Father Gerald Coleman, S.S.

Sulp ician Father Gerald D. Coleman is pr esident and rector of St. Patrick Seminary, Menlo Park.

Person-to-person approach to better world By Sharon Abercrombie Stories have shaped Kevin Danaher 's spirituality. They have molded his life 's work as a social activist. "When you look into the eyes of people and listen to their stories , they can 't not affect your heart ," said Mr. Danaher , 50, co-founder of the Global Exchange , a San Francisco-based human ri ghts organization. When he was a little boy, Kevin Danaher would cuddle up in his father, James ' lap to hear true-life yarns about life in Northern Ireland. They were not "happ ily-ever-after " stories. In one incident , British soldiers fire d on James Danaher. Their bullets missed the terri fied youngster, but killed the family cow - a serious situation in itsel f, since there were nine in the famil y who depended upon the animal for her milk. Kevin Danaher ' s immigrant father shared thousands of memories with his son about growing up amid oppression. But they were free of anger. "He kept his sense of humor. He believed in loving his enemies, just like Jesus," remembers Mr. Danaher. When he died , hundreds of peop le showed up for this New York City bus driver 's funeral. Kevin , then 16, was stunned. "We were poor. We didn 't have any of the material stuff the ads said we had to have to be successful , yet my father was loved ," During his growing up years , James Danah er's son also loved to hear stories about Jesus. "He was like my dad . They were both driven by unconditional love." As Mr. Danaher matured , he was struck by the story of Jesus driving the moneychangers out of the temple. That news, however, has yet to reach the world' s power brokers , Mr. Danaher says. The moneychangers are thriving. Today's moneychangers are free market forces which promote economic globalization at the expense of the poor and the environment , Mr. Danaher says. In 2001 the moneychangers operate

sweatshops and despoil the planet throug h gold mining, oil drilling, irresponsible logging, and pesticide -ridden agribusiness. The Global Exchange is an organization conceived , in part , fro m all those stories of oppression and forgiveness Mr.

level and promotes sustainable development. In pre-Global Exchange days , Mr. Danaher taught at the School of Government at American University, worked at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington , D.C., and as a senior ana-

T can't just say my prayers p rivately and do nothing else while big corp orations are destroy ing the p lanet.' Danaher grew up hearing. The Global Exchange was born , in part , fro m his doctoral research in sociology which took him around the globe, listening to the poor of South Africa and Guatemala , looking into their grief-stricken eyes. Mr. Danaher remembers the Guatemalan woman whose husband was hacked to death with machetes by the military for simply teaching his neighbors how to start a cottage industry raising rabbits. Besides adding more protein to the people 's diets , the villagers could earn a better living by selling the rabbits. Then they could quit their sweatshop jobs on a coffee plantation. Her husband was killed because the military general that owned the plantation needed the peop le to work for him, the widow told Mr. Danaher. That conversation was "a major spiritual moment of enlightenment for me," he said. So in 1988, Mr. Danaher, his wife, Medea Benjamin , and a colleague , Kristen Moller, launched The Global Exchange "to help Americans realize that a better world is possible." Their organization links people in first and third world nations at a person-to-person

lyst in San Francisco at Food First. He is the author of many books , including "Fifty Years Is Enough: The Case Against the World Bank and the IMF, " and "Corporations Are Gonna Get your Momma: Globalization and the Downsizing of the American Dream ." Located on the third floor of a building at 16th and Mission Street the Global Exchange sponsors a vast array of programs. They include Reality Tours -"reverse Club Med tours," he quips. Unlike traditional junkets , these trips give people hands-on opportunities to explore crucial world issues and to examine how the U.S. economic and foreign policies impact other countries. Visitors can talk to people in Chiapas, Cuba , Northern Island , South Africa , India , Iran , Haiti , Palestine and Israel. They can learn first hand about Africa 's public health crisis , successful grass roots development in India and

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Crooner Perry Como remembered as a man of faith since 1932? In between , I've sung some songs. It's been a good life," Como said. JUPITER , Fla. (CNS) — Singer Perry He called his wife "a better Catholic " Como, who died May 12 at his home in than he, because she read the Bible "all the Jupiter Inlet Colony six days shy of his 89th time," although he went to Mass and conbirthday, was known as a man with deep fession regularl y. His favorite Christmas songs were "Ave reli gious faith. "Everything Maria " and "White Christmas." He said of that ever hapthe former: "I worked long and hard to pened to me leam it." He called "Rudol ph the Redhas been the Nosed Reindeer " "kind of dumb. Christmas result of faith should be 'Ave Maria ' and 'White — the faith I Christmas."' found in my Como also told The Evangelist that he father 's house, preferred priests "who don't talk down to and now find you and who can talk about religion within my own out lecturing you. " house , and in Como 's wife, Roselle, died in 1998, less than two weeks after their 65th wedding my world ," he was quoted as anniversary. At a charity event after her death, saying in a 1979 interview in St. Anthony he dedicated "And I Love You So" to her. Messenger, a monthly Catholic magazine. His daughter, Terri Thibadeau , said Como, whose singing career dated to the Como had been suffering from Alzheimer 's Great Depression , recorded many hits , but disease for about two years. In addition to his recordings of "Ave Maria" and "The bis daughter, Como is survived by two sons, Lord 's Prayer" are seen by many as the Ronnie and David, and 13 grandchildren. definitive renditions of those hymns. As a vocalist, Como recorded his first In 1952-53, Como was featured in a million-seller, "Till the End of Time," in series of Bible readings that was produced 1945. It was that year ' s biggest hit and by the National Council of Catholic Men earned him the moniker of "King of the and that aired on NBC Radio. Jukes" because his songs were played so He gave a nod to his Italian heritage by often on jukeboxes. speaking Italian on an Italian TV quiz show Other hits he had in his singing career in 1958, winning $1,000 for an Italian chari- included "Temptation," "Catch a Falling ty. He also filmed his 1964 Christmas special Star" "Hot Diggity," "Papa Loves Mambo " from the Vatican gardens, with the Sistine and "Prisoner of Love." When rock music Chapel boys ' choir featured on the program. hit it big, Como's star waned, but he In 1966, Como won the "Club of enjoyed more chart success in the late Champions " award from the Catholic 1960s with "It 's Impossible," "Seattle" and Youth Organization of the New York arch- "And I Love You So." diocese. It is given for "outstanding service Como's hit-making power earned him and inspiration to youth." In 1987 , he won his own radio show after World War II, but a Kennedy Center award for his contribu- his relaxed onstage manner translated espetions to the performing arts. cially well to television. His TV debut , a Como performed many benefits during simulcast of his radio program, aired his career, including a ball benefiting char- Christmas Eve in 1948. It would be the first ities of the Archdiocese of New Orleans, in a series of televised Christmas specials and some for the old Rosarian Academy that would span nearly a half-century. High School in West Palm Beach, which Starting at 15 minutes in length, Como's his daughter had attended. show grew to 30 minutes and eventually to an 'I'm what you would call an ordinary hour, having its greatest success Saturday and Christian," Como said on the "Donahue" Wednesday evenings on NBC 1955-63. He daytime TV talk show. "We go to Mass. If I won four Emmys for his work on the show. feel troubled about something, I go to my Even after his weekly show ended, he confessor. I may do the same thing over regularly starred on "Kraft Music Hall" again ... but I think a moment's peace is specials into the late 1960s. Much was made of Como 's career as a worth a lot. " In a 1992 interview with James Breig, barber in his native Pennsylvania while still editor of The Evangelist , newspaper of the a teen-ager, and how he would sing while Diocese of Albany, N.Y , Como said he did- cutting hair. He sold 100 million records in his lifen 't think a movie would be made of his life. "What would they say? That I was a bar- time, and 13 of his albums are now availber when I was 12 and that I' ve been a singer able on compact disc. By Catholic News Service

Pictured in rehearsal are NDV eighth graders Makrizia Fabio (left), Sydney Schrader (front) and Madeleine Heller (back).

The Eighth Grade Class of Notre Dame des Victoires School in San Francisco (NDV) will perform the award-winning Broadway musical, Once on this Island , on May 18, 19, 20 at the NDV Theatre. The musical based on the book My Love, My Love by Rosa Guy explores the cultural, religious and racial divisions found in Haiti between the ruling class and the rural peasants. The New York Times calls Once on this Island "Rousing Musical Theatre; Everyone is likely to emerge from the theatre ready to dance down the street." Tickets are still available for the May 19th and 20th productions. Call 415-421-0069.

"Anne Frank," miniseries Sunday, Monday By Anne Navarro Catholic News Service The poignant miniseries "Anne Frank" goes beyond the 25 months covered in the young Holocaust victim's renowned diary to give a more complete picture of Anne and the circumstances that surrounded her. It airs Sunday-Monday, May 20-21, 9-11 p.m. each night on KGO-TV.. Despite some unevenness in the film's story line, viewers are likely to find "Anne Frank" a gripping film. The film is based on Melissa Muller 's biography and original research and interviews by writer Kirk Ellis.

Danaher... ¦ Continued from page 18 Unlike a great number of such meetings, where folks on the inside pretend to ignore what is happening on the outside, Mr. Danaher got them to their feet and to the windows. How did he do it? B y leading his group in a Biblical chant: "The love of money is the root of all evil. So what is next for Kevin Danaher, social provocateur and

Thirteen-year-old Hannah Taylor-Gordon stars as Anne. Anne began her famous diary on her 13th birthday. It ended when she and her family were arrested by German troops. The first part of the film will be more familiar to viewers as it presents what is largely in her diary: the years in hiding in a building behind her father 's spice factory. The second half is more emotional because of its depiction of the family enduring the horrors of the death camps. The film once again directs attention to the Holocaust. Parents should be aware that in depicting the human tragedy in the film's second half, there are scenes of nudity and some violence. spiritual activist? The Global Exchange will soon be moving to a new building. It couldn 't be happening a minute too soon. In a point of real estate irony, which could happen only in San Francisco, the Global Exchange has been living in a building, which is also occupied by a multinational corporation - McDonald' s. The new Global Exchange headquarters will include a non-fast food restaurant , a day care center, and office space for four other human rights organizations.

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250 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park. For fees, times and details about these and other offe rings call (650) 325-5614. Presentation Sister Rosina Conrotto, Program Director. May 19, 26: The Mandala: Path to Remembering and Redeeming, retreat workshop days with Sister Toni Longo. June 8-10: Growing in Wisdom and Grace with Sister Marilyn Wilson, B.V.M. June 23: Motherhood in the New Millennium with marriage and family therapist Carol Kaplan June 23: The Contemplative Way, a new retreat theme with Carol Fowler and Benedictine Sister Barbara Hazzard Parables 2001: Stories Jesus Told, a monthly revisiting of the scripture stories with well known retreat leaders, scholars and people of faith. What about these tales? Are they true? Did they really happen? What implications do they have for the Christian in the 21st century? May 20: Father Peter Sammon talks on the Parable of the Vineyard Laborers. June 3: Parable of the Hidden Treasure with San Jose Bishop Patrick J. McGrath.

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25 Magnolia Ave., San Rafael. For fee times and details about these and other offerings, call (415) 457-7727. June 18-24: Earth Week with writer and former Zen Buddhist Monk, Clark Strand, and gardner, teacher Wendy Johnson. July 16-22: Contemplative Ways of Being: An Experience of Sabbath with Cistercian Myriam Dardenne guided by the theme "Know your own heart and you will be saved." Aug. 13-19: A Silent, Contemplative, Scriptural Retreat with Dominican Martin lott. Daily Mass, morning and evening communal prayer and Scriptural reflection.

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2300 Adeline Dr., Burlingame. For fees, times and other offerings , call (650) 340-7474 3rd Sun: Salon, a monthly gathering of people in the second half of life to explore opportunities and challenges facing them using arts, literature and conversation. Facilitated by Sandi Peters.

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300 Manresa Way, Los Altos. For fees , times and details about these and other offerings call (650) 948-4491. June 1-3: Three Rs of Relationships, a married couples retreat with Jesuit Father Jerry McCourt, and Peg and Ed Gleason. Silver Penny Farm offers retreat facilities near the wine country, 5215 Old Lakeville Rd., Petaluma, 94954. All quarters have bedroom and sitting room with fireplace. Call Father Ray Smith for a brochure at (707) 762-1498.

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3rd Tues at 8:30 p.m., St. Dominic Churc h, 2390 Bush St., SF. Call Delia Molloy at (415) 563-4280 1st Thurs. at 5:30 p.m. at Old St. Mary 's Cathedral, 660 Calfo rnia at Grant, SF. Call (415) 288-3809 3rd Thurs. at 7:30 p.m. at Vallombrosa Center, 250 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park with Sister Toni Longo 1st Fri. at 8 p.m. at Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Dr., Burlingame with Mercy Sister Suzanne Toolan. Call (650) 340-7452; Church of the Nativity, 210 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park at 7:30 p.m. Call Deacon Dominic Peloso at (650) 322-3013. 3rd Fri. at 8 p.m. at Woodside Priory Chapel, 302 Portola Rd„ Portola Valley. Call Dean Miller at (650) 328-2880 1st Sat. at 8:30 p.m. at SF Presidio Main Post Chapel, 130 Fisher Loop. Call Delia Molloy at (415) 563-4280.

Young Adults Oct. 27: Fall Fest 2001, 5th annual Young Adult Conference with keynote, workshops, Mass, dinner and dance. Contact Mary Jansen at (415) 614-5596 or mjansen@sfyam.org. Wed.: Help children learn at St. Dominic Elementary School, Pine and Steiner St., SF. 7:15 8:15 a.m. in school library. Call Kathleen Reilly at (415) 387-5692. Various dates: Read with youth ages 5 - 14 as part of the Tenderloin Reading Program, 5:30-6:30 p.m. at 570 Ellis St. between Hyde and

Datebook Leavenworth, SF. Contact Marie Borges at (415) 401-0925 or marieborges@yahoo.com. Help at St. Joseph's Village Homeless Shelter. Bi-monthly Sat. from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Village is at 220 10th St., SF on site of former St. Joseph Parish. Call susangsf@yahoo.com; (415) 584-5587; anne.petrides@centresolutions.com; (415) 4403598. Synergy Yoga at St. Agnes/S F, Mon. and Wed. 7:30 - 9 p.m. in Lower Gym Hall, $3 per class. Call Chad Evans at (415) 487-8560, ext. 226.

Social Justice/Respect Life 22nd of each month: Respect Life Mass at 8:30 p.m. in the chapel of Carmelite Monastery of Cristo Rey, Parker Ave. and Fulton, SF. Sponsored by the Respect Life program of the Archdiocese. All are invited. Call (415) 614-5572. Jubilee 2000 USA, as part of a worldwide effort to relieve the crushing debt owed by struggling countries to stronger lands, announces a Bay Area speakers bureau. Knowledgeable speakers are available without charge to address parish groups and organizations on this Jubilee Year topic. Call William or Jean Lesher at (510) 524-6645 or welesher@aol.com.

Prayer/Devotions San Francisco 's St. Agnes Parish, 1025 Masonic, SF and St. Agnes Spiritual Life Center, 1611 Oak St., SF announces talks and prayer opportunities. Call Chad Evans at (415) 487-8560. 2nd Fri.: Holy Hour for Priests at St. Finn Barr Church, 10:30 a.m. Includes talk by priest from Opus Dei with silent prayer and Reconciliation if desired. Followed by simple lunch in rectory. Call (415) 333-3627. Take a Pilgrimage to the Holy Land without leaving the Archdiocese by visiting an ongoing exposition at St. John of God Parish, 5th Ave. and Irving, SF. Open M-F 1:30-5 p.m. and until 1 p.m. on Sundays. Their Web site address is www.sjog.org. Mass for people living with AIDS at St. Boniface Church, 133 Golden Gate Ave., SF at 5:30 p.m. Takes place on last Sun. of month. Call (415) 8637515.

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Family Life Introductory instruction for married or engaged couples about Natural Family Planning is available by appointment from NFP consultant Gloria Gillogley. Call (650) 345-9076 for information about NFP, Retrouvaille, a program for troubled marriages. The weekend and follow up sessions help couples heal and renew their families. Presenters are three couples and a Catholic priest. Call Peg or Ed Gleason at (415) 221-4269 or edgleason@webtv.net. Worldwide Marriage Encounter, a dynamic marriage enrichment experience designed to deepen the joy a couple shares. Call (888) 568-3018. The Adoption Network of Catholic Charities offers two free information meetings tor families

considering adoption on the 2nd Tues. of every month at 98 Bosworth, San Francisco at 7 p.m., and on 1st Wed. at 36 37th Ave., San Mateo at 7 p.m. Call (415) 406-2387.

Single, Divorced, Separated May 25-27: A Beginning Experience weekend at Vallombrosa Center, 250 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park. Designed to help widowed, divorced and separated persons and those who have suffered a significant loss make a new beginning in life. Call Lanier Reeves at (650) 375-8332 or Ward Miller at (415) 821-3390. Catholic Adult Singles Assoc , of Marin meets for support and activities. Call Bob at (415) 8970639 for informafion . Are you or someone you know separated, divorced, widowed? For information about additional ministries available to divorced and separated persons in the Archdiocese , call (415) 273-5521. New Wings at St. Thomas More Church, SF meets on 3rd Thursdays at 7:30 p.m. Call Alan Fisk at (415) 584-2861 or e-mail stmchurch@hotmail.com. Call Ron Landucci at (650) 583-6016 about upcoming social activities. May 12: Boat trip and picnic at Angel island; May 17: Are you ready for remarriage? with Bobbi and Larry Hennessey.

Consolation Ministry Our Lady of Angels , 1721 Hillside Dr. , Burlingame , 1st Mon. 7:30 - 9 p.m.; 1st Thurs., 9:30 - 11 a.m. Call Sara h DiMare at (650) 6977582; Our Lady of Mt. Carmel , James St. between Fulton and Grand , Redwood City, Thurs. 6 - 7:30 p.m. Call (650) 366-3802; St. Andrew, 1571 Southgate Ave., Daly City, 3rd Mon. 7:30-9 p.m. Call Eleanor and Nick Fesunoff at (650) 8789743; Good Shepherd, 901 Oceana Blvd., Pacifica. Call Sister Carol Fleitz at (650) 3552593; St. Hilary, 761 Hilary Dr., Tiburon, 1st and 3rd Wed., 3 - 4:30 p.m. Call Sister Colette at (415) 435-7659; St. Gabriel, 2559 40th Ave., SF, 1st and 3rd Tues., 7 - 9 p.m. Call Barbara Elordi at (415) 564-7882; St. Mary Cathedral, Gough and Geary St., SF, 2nd and 4th Wed., 2:30 - 4 p.m. Call Sister Esther at (415) 567-2020, ext. 218; St. Finn Barr, 415 Edna St., SF in English and Spanish, one Sat. per month. Call Carmen Solis at (415) 584-0823; St. Cecilia , 2555 17th Ave., SF, 2nd and 4th Tues., 2 - 4 p.m. Call (415) 664-8481. Ministry for parents who have lost a child is available from Our Lady of Angels Parish , Burlingame. Call Ina Potter at (650) 347-6971 or Barbara Arena at (650) 344-3579.

Lectures/ Classes/Radio-TV Join Joe Stinson for "Good Grief" Sundays at 9 a.m. on Catholic Family Radio, KDIA1640 AM. Call (650) 866-3525. Mon - Fri. at 7 p.m.: Catholic Hour featuring recitation of the Rosary and motivating talks and music with host Father Tom Daly. Tune your radio to KEST - 1450 AM. "Mosaic ", a public affairs program featuring discussions about the Catholic Church today. 1st Sundays 6:00 a.m., KPIXChannel 5. "For Heaven's Sake", a public affairs program featuring discussions and guests , 5 a.m. 3rd Sunday of the month, KRON-Channel 4. Both shows are sometimes preempted or run at other times , please check listings. Produced by the Communications Office of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. May 23: Father Francis Tiso speaks on the Gospel of John at 9 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church, Blithedale Ave., Mill Valley Call (415) 388-4190. Through May 28: World Wonders , an exhibit featuring the art of College of Notre Dame , Belmont alumna Char Pribuss , founder of Paintbrush Diplomacy, an international art and writing exchange program. Wiegand Gallery on the College of Notre Dame campus , 1500 Ralston Ave., Belmont. Free admission. Call (650) 3516611 for times. May 20: Learn to Save a Life , a free training in CPR at the San Francisco Zoo from 8 a.m. - 10 a.m. Participants get into zoo free. Sponsored by American Heart Association. To register, call (888) 443-2787. May 29: If you experience persistent heartburn two or more days a week , you will benefit from this workshop at the Sunset Senior Center, SF. Free and open to the public. Call (866) 321-LEADER or www.acidcontrol.com.

Food & Fun June 2: International Gathering featuring Irish and Middle East music and dance with lessons in same at St. John of God Parish hall, 1290 5th Ave. at Irving, SF, beginning at 6:30 p.m. Tickets $10 adults/$2 under 12/$20 family rate. No dance experience necessary. Proceeds benefit poor in the Holy Land. Call Pat Beaupre at (415) 206-0926 or patbeaupre @ yahoo.com. May 21-22: Reno Fun Trip sponsored by St. Thomas More Church. Call Nancy at (415) 3332798. May 26: Retro Fashion Show and luncheon sponsored by Catholic Charities Auxiliary of San Mateo County at St. Dunstan Parish, 1133 Broadway,

Millbrae beginning at 11 a.m. Fashions are from the group 's Primrose House resale shop promoting the theme "What's old is new again." Tickets $25. Reserve by May 22. Call (650) 349-1162, 348-5750, 344-8304, 697-6159. May 26: Annual Bingo Luncheon, Young Ladies Institute, District #1, at St. Cecilia School auditorium, 17th and Vicente, Sf beginning at 11 a.m. Tickets $8. Call (415) 586-9589. June 1 and most 1st Fri.: Join the Marin Catholic Breakfast Club for prayer, dialogue and a meal beginning with 7 a.m. Mass at St. Sebastian Church, Sir Francis Drake Blvd. and Bon Air Rd., Greenbrae. Members $5/non-members $10. June 1: SI grad, Oakland Mayor and former Gov. Jerry Brown. Call (415) 461-0704 but reservation requests preferred to sugaremy@aol.com. June 2: St. Kevin, the Saint/St. Kevin, the Church, a homecoming dinner dance commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Bernal Heights' church and the upcoming 80th anniversary of the parish in the parish hall on Ellsworth St. off Cortland. Tickets $25. On June 3, former pastor, Father James O'Malley will preside at a noon homecoming Mass followed by entertainment and a reception. Call (415) 648-5751. June 23: Whale of a Sale at St. Sebastian Church, Bon Air Rd. and Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Kentfield 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. Spaces still available at $25 to sell your crafts and household items. Call Kathie Meier at (415) 461-1933. 3rd Fri.: Open house and pot luck dinner and bingo at Catholic Kolping Society, 440 Taraval St., SF. No-host bar 6 p.m.; dinner 7 p.m.; bingo 8 p.m. Call Bill Taylor at (415) 731-1177. Knights of Columbus of the Archdiocese meet regularly and invite new membership. For information about Council 615, call Tony Blaiotta at (415) 661-0726; Dante Council, call Vito Corcia at (415) 564-4449; Mission Council, call Paul Jobe at (415) 333-6197; Golden Gate Council, call Mike Stilman at (415) 752-3641. 3rd Sat.: Handicapables gather for Mass and lunch at St. Mary Cathedral, Gough and Geary St., SF, at noon. Volunteer drivers always needed. Call (415) 584-5823.

Reunions June 9: Class of '51, Star of the Sea Academy will gather for luncheon at the Irish Cultural Center, 45th Ave. and Sloat Blvd., SF. Contact Lillian Harrington McKernan at (415) 892-5233 or frankm31@prodigy.net. June 16: Presentation High School, San Francisco, class of '51 celebrates its 50th anniversary at the Villa Hotel, El Camino Real, San Mateo. For more information, call Audrey Sylvester Trees at (650) 592-0273. June 23: Class of '51, St. Agnes Elementary, SF. Seeking missing classmates to join the celebration to be held in the City. Call W. Urie Walsh at (415) 386-5847. Sept. 8: Mercy High School, SF class of '86 at Ramada Plaza Hotel, SF. Preliminary information already mailed, invitations to follow. Classmates who have not been contacted should call Deborah Heffernan Hinds at (925) 694-2843. Class of '46, Presentation High School, SF is looking for classmates for an upcoming 50th reunion. Call Carolyn Bacigalupi at (415) 821-2541. Alumni, former students, parents, grandparents of St. Finn Barr Elementary School, SF. The school is developing an alumni newsletter. Please call (415) 469-9223 and leave your name, address and phone number.

Performance Admission free unless otherwise noted. May 18, 19, 20: Once on This Island, a ravedabout Broadway musical featuring the 8th grade students of Notre Dame des Victoires Elementary School at 659 Pine St, SF. Curtain at 7:30 p.m. except May 20 at 2 p.m. Tickets $7 at door. Delightful entertainment for all ages. May 20: Spring Concert Performance by Golden Gate Boys Choir and Bellringers at Chapel at Treasure Island, Avenue of the Palms , at 4:30 p.m. Tickets $12 adults/$6 seniors and under 14. Call (415) 431-1137. June 3: Organ Recital by Father Paul Perry at St. Sebastian Church, Bon Air Rd. and Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Kentfield. All invited. Call (415) 4610704. Sundays in May: Concerts at St. Mary Cathedral featuring various artists at 3:30 p.m. followed by sung Vespers at 4 p.m. Gough and Geary Blvd., SF. Call (415) 567-2020 ext. 213. April 21: hear Roger Fisher, organist. Tickets for this performance only, $10/$5. Sundays in May: Concerts at National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi featuring various artists at 4 p.m. following sung vespers at 3 p.m., Columbus and Vallejo, SF. Call (415) 983-0405. Sundays in May: Concerts at St. Philip Church, Diamond and Elizabeth St., SF at 4 p.m. featuring various artists. Call (415) 225-6563.

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Capsule film reviews "About Adam " Off-putting romantic comedy set in Dublin in which a charming young man (Stuart Townsend) seduces a sweet nightclub chanteuse (Kate Hudson), and then unbeknownst to her, proceeds to also bewitch her two sisters (Frances O'Connor and Charlotte Bradley). Told in flashbacks from varying points of view, director Gerard Stembridge's selfish characters and meandering narrative show little respect for marriage or family ties while conveying that sex is a cure-all. Several sexual encounters with fleeting nudity and recurring rough language and profanity. The U.S. Catholic Conference classification is 0 — morally offensive. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is R — restricted. "The King Is Alive " Pretentious drama about a group of bus travelers stranded in an abandoned African desert town who decide to stage a production of Shakespeare 's "King Lear," which ultimately reveals the naked truth behind their personalities and relationships. With drivel for dialogue and a pathetically weak narrative, director Kristian Levring 's film is tediously paced and populated with stock characters. A suicide, a sexual encounter with brief nudity, some menace and much rough language. The U.S. Catholic Conference classification is A-III — adults . The Motion Picture Association of America rating is R — restricted . "A Knight 's Tale " Rollicking action adventure story about a young squire (Heath Ledger) in 14th-century France who assumes his deceased master 's identity and works his way up the jousting circuit to foil a nasty villain (Rufus Sewell). Inspired by Chaucer 's "Canterbury Tales," director Brian Helgeland deftly blends contemporary attitudes , dialogue and rock music into an entertaining period piece although the movie 's length is a bit indulgent. Intermittent action vio-

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Immaculate Heart of Mary School Now hiring for 200 1 -02 The following positions are available: • Middle school teacher, Math & Science • First Grade Teacher • Fourth Grade Teacher • Fifth Grade Teacher Send resume to: Principal, IHM School 1 000 Alameda de las Pulgas Belmont, CA 94002 or fax at 650-593-4342

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Join our class and be paid to train for your certification as a nursing assistant. If you enjoy helping others , call us today and enroll in our class. We encourage our CNAs to go on to LVN and RN programs and give financial help! Call or stop by:

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Notre Dame High School , Belmont CA is seeking full time faculty for the 2001-02 academic year in: Foreign Language (Spanish) Religious Studies Science Technology Minimum Requirements for Notre Dame High School • Bachelor of Arts Degree and • California Teaching Credential (preferred) • Master 's Degre e in Theology or Religious Studies Salary and benefits reflect the competitive range approved by Notre Dame High School's Board of Directors (Placement on the scale is dependent on degrees , qualifications , and experience) Degree and Credential preparation should be consistent with guidelines set fort h by the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Located on 11.6 acres , Notre Dame High School was founded in 1851 in San Jose. The school moved to its present site in Belmont in 1922. In the past five years , the school has experienced a 39% increase in enrollment. Interested candidates should submit a letter of intent and resume to:

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Mercy High School is an all-girl Catholic, college preparatory high school located in Burlingame. We are seeking a Graphics Communications Coordinator to work 20 hours per week beginning Jul y 1, 2001. The Coordinator is responsible for the computer layout , design, and production of our newsletters, creating ad's, writing articles, and sending press releases. Must demonstrate proficiency in desktop publishing and design/typography skills through the use of Microsoft Word, IBM or Macintosh PageMaker and Photoshop and possess excellent written, verbal and interpersonal skills. BA in Commercial Art/Communications or a certificate in Graphic Design preferred. Two to four years related experience preferred. Must have initiative, flexibility, and excellent organizational skills. Be detail oriented and able to meet multiple deadlines. Position is year-round, flexible hours .

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Send your resume: Jeannie McCullough Stiles, RN Special Needs Nursing, Inc. 98 Main Street , #427 Tiburon, Ca 94920

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Sunset SNF seeks CNAs whose hearts and hands are full of kindness and caring. We care about our CNAs with all our hearts! Contact:

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