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Do not receive Communion Sacramento bishop targets Davis for abortion stand

By Catholic News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CNS) — Any Catliolic politi| cian who supports abortion should "abstain from receiving holy Communion until he has a change of heart," Bishop William K. Weigand of Sacramento said Jan. 22.

In a homily at the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament, marking the 30th anniversary of legalized I abortion in the United States, Bishop Weigand singled I out California Gov. Gray Davis, a Catholic, for criticism.

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) - A day before a U.N. briefing on weapons inspections progress in Iraq, Pope John Paul II appealed for peace and watched as two doves were released from his window over St. Peter's Square.

The release of the doves by two young Italian members of Catholic Action was a symbol "offering everybody a message of fraternity and hope, " the pope said at a noonday blessing Jan. 26.

The youth section of Italy 's Catholic Action dedicates the last Sunday of January every year to projects for peace.

The pope bolstered the appeal for peace as he noted commemorations of World Leprosy Day and the centenary of the birth of its founder, Raoul Follereau , "whose name is always tied to the fight against leprosy, poverty " and the marginalized.

"How current is his appeal, which called for the destination of resources not to war-making arsenals, but to fight misery and illnesses," the pope said.

The pope 's plea highlighted growing opposition by Catholic leaders around the world to a pre-emptive war against Iraq.

A statement by German bishops Jan . 20 said war could only be justified as a response to an attack or to prevent "the most serious crimes against humanity such as genocide."

"As the Charter of the United Nations organization and international law itself remind us, war cannot be decided upon except as a very last option, " the bishops said.

On Jan. 24, the lay Central Committee of German Catholics said war against Iraq could only be authorized by the United Nations.

The Central Committee said that the United Nations

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was justified to threaten Saddam with military action if the Iraqi leader did not comply with the U.N. resolutions, but that any U.N. action "must always stand under the primacy of peacekeeping. " The bishops said they recognized that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is a danger to the world, and that the threat of military action might be justified as a way of exerting pressure on Saddam to give up his potential for making weapons of mass destruction,

He praised Msgr. Edward J. Kavanagh, pastor of St. Rose Parish in Sacramento and director of St. Patrick's Home, for barring Davis from distributing Christmas gifts at the home in December because of the governor 's stand on abortion.

"Thank you, Msgr. Kavanagh, for standing up for the unborn, for your dedication to truth and for your pastoral concern for souls, including the governor's, " Bishop Weigand said.

"As your bishop, " he added, "I have to say clearly

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by Tom Burke Happy SO years married to Ginger and Mike Loyd, longtime parishioners of Our Lady of Mercy Parish , who took their vows March 7, 1953 at the Richmond district's St. Thomas the Apostle Church.

At work on an upcoming family celebration of the event are the couple's children , Patty Lacy with husban d, Norman; Terrin Henderson with husband , Tom; Peter, a St. Ignatius alum now teaching at the Sunset district school , with wife, Tina; Tim Loyd; and Marybeth Bock with husband , Tim. Grandkids , including triplets Ellen, Christopher, and Maddie Loyd, are Jillian and Kara Lacy; Cairlin , Conor, Carolyn , and Christin Henderson; Adam and Brittany Loyd; and Payton and Carson Bock....Also at Our Lady of Mercy, the parish offers a hats off to its "gallant knights" who watch over the parish property in the evening. Brandishing their good will are Nathan Bowens, Matt Bushong, Tony Castellucci,

Happy 90th birthday to Liz Bain, right, who celebrate d the occasion with family and friends including Alice Whearty, left, and Irene Smith who also became nonagenarians in 2002. Liz is mom of well-known healing priest, Father Richard Bain of the Archdioces e of San Francisco; Father John Bain of the Diocese of Reno; and Cathy Bain, whom we thank for this good news.

Congratulations and gratitude to the Salesians of Don Bosco on this, the feast of their founder, St. John Bosco.

The congregation has serve d mightily in the Archdiocese since their arrival here in 1897, when they were e ntruste d with Sts. Peter and Paul Parish in North Beach, and, a year later, helped found Corpus Christi Parish ir the Excelsior. Serving today in the Archdiocese are Father Nicholas Reina, SDB, provincial; Father Thomas Prendiville, SDB, secretary; Father Richard Presenti, SDB, treasurer; Father John O'Brien, SDB, pasto r, Corpus Christi; Father John Malloy, SDB, pastor, Sts. Peter and Paul; with Father Armand Oliveri, SDB; Father Aloysius Pestun, SDB; Father Ralph Murphy, SDB; Father Joseph Scanagatta, SDB; Father Hugo Santucci, SDB; Father Jerry Bonjean, SDB; Father Austin Conterno, SDB; Father Salvatore Giacomini, SDB; Father John Lam,SDB; Father Paul Maniscalco, SDB; Father Michael Ribotta, SDB; Father Steve Whelan, SDB; Father Larry Lorenzoni, SDB; Brother Alberto Andretta, SDB. Seen here are Corpus Christi Church c. 1949 at Santa Rosa and Alemany Blvd., where the parish hall now stands, and today's Corpus Christi Church on Santa Rosa that was dedicated in 1952. The Salesian Provincial Residence is at 1100 Franklin Street, San Francisco.

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Archbishop Levada calls f or 'recommitment , action, comp assion

By Evelyn Zappia At St. Mary 's Cathedral , Archbishop William J. Levada celebrated a noontime Mass on Jan. 22, the 30th Anniversary of the Supreme Court Roe v Wade decision , a decision the Archbishop described as "opening the doors wide to abortion on demand in our society." He asked the gathering "to pray to our gracious God, if it is his will, that we may be part of working for a better solution than we have arrived at now, in our country."

Before everything else, the Archbishop remarked, "We should raise a hymn of gratitude to God , the author of life, and the author of such great love that he sent his son to be with us - as savior and redeemer - as brother and friend. " In his homily, he emphasized, "the call to be witnesses to the beauty of

human life, the preciousness of human life , and the dignity of human life." He added , "no difficulty should be spared ,

ing against the Roe v Wade ruling, "making sure that every life is given the dignity that it deserves. "

'We want to have a solution which does not ignore the fact - the fac t of the humanity of these unborn children. ' not even ourselves, in seeking to proclaim and be witnesses to the gospel of life in its entirety."

His message called for "recommitment, action, and compassion," in work-

New posts for Bishop Wang, Msgr. Schlitt, Fr. Meriwether Archbishop William J. Levada has appointed Auxiliary Bishop Ignatius C. Wang Episcopal Vicar for the Promotion of Spiritual and Apostolic Life, and for Ethnic Ministries.

Msgr. Jose Rodriquez will continue to serve as Episcopal Vicar for the Spanishspeaking.Bishop Wang will continue, for the present time, as Director of the Office of the Propagation of the Faith.

Archbishop Levada also made the following appointments: Msgr. Harry G. Schlitt Moderator of the Curia in addition to his responsibilities as Vicar for Administration.

Father Stephen Meriwether Chancellor of the Archdiocese, part-time, while remaining pastor of the Church of the Nativity, Menlo Park, through June 30, 2003, at which time he will return full-time to the Chancery as Chancellor and Tribunal official.

He said that "ultrasounds , sonograms and genetic research" seemed to "confirm , from a scientific perspective, what the scriptures have always formed in our minds and in our hearts - that the hand of God works through the mystery of our human love and sexuality to create a new human life that is precious to him."

He quoted "the beautiful words" of the 139th Psalm: "Oh Lord, you know when I sit and when I stand. Truly, you have formed my inmost being. You knit me in my mother 's womb. I give you thanks that I am carefully, wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works."

The Archbishop said the "easy access to abortion ," in our society should not be looked upon as "a celebration of human choice, as it is so often portrayed , but as a tragedy," expressing the difficulty of "appreciating the confusion of some of our fellow citizens. " "How should we look at the times in which we live," he asked.

"It seems to me," he continued , "that we should recommit ourselves to witness and to action. " The Archbishop then conveyed a compassionate consideration of the role Catholics can p lay today.

"We should help those in difficult pregnancies," the Archbishop said, praising the work of Gabriel Project and Birt hright , describing the programs that "trul y care for women in difficult circumstances."

And for those who "need healing and reconciliation after an abortion , we should help and reach out to them ," referring to "the wonderful work" accomplished in this regard , by Project Rachel.

He stressed the importance of "recommitting to dialogue with — and advocate with —state , federal legislators , and elected officials to create policies that do not promote abortion but rather seek to heal the wound , and the difficulty, that the dismissive attitudes toward unborn human life cause throughout our society."

He suggested "education and counseling," as tools to communicate a "better way to respect the dignity of human life, born and unborn."

The Archbishop expressed his hope that through dialogue and cooperation we could "be part of a new solution for our country and for our world ," stating clearly, "we do not condone excessive anti-abortion behavior , such as bombing clinics and murdering physicians," or "a coercive approach to women in difficult situations."

"We want to have a solution which does not ignore the fact - the fact of the humanity of these unborn children. "

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Mexican and U.S. bishops seek major immigration reforms

WASHINGTON —The bishops of the United States and Mexico have jointly challenged their governments to change immigration policies and promised to do more themselves to educate Catholics and political leaders about the social justice issues involved in migration.

The challenge came in "Strangers No Longer: Together on the Journey of Hope," the first joint pastoral letter of the two national bishops' conferences. It was released Jan. 23 in Mexico City and Jan. 24 in Washington.

The 50-page joint letter says the governments of both countries must change policies, including making it easier to legally immigrate to the United States, better protecting the civil rights of migrants in both countries and addressing the root causes of migration — poverty and lack of employment options in Mexico and Central America.

It says that "mispercepfions and xenophobic and racist attitudes in both the United States and Mexico contribute to an atmosphere in which undocumented (people) are discriminated against and abused."

The letter urges both governments to give up policies "that give rise to smuggling operations and migrant deaths" and to restore due process rights. It encourages a broad legalization program for the millions who are in the United States illegally.

Such a program would benefit both countries, the bishops said.

Hong Kong diocese joins in call fo r end to death p enalty in China

HONG KONG — A Catholic diocesan commission has joined other nongovernmental committees appealing to the Chinese government to abolish the death penalty. The Joint Committee for the Abolition of the Death Penalty, handed petition letters and 1,200 signatures to the Liaison Office of the Chinese Central Government in Hong Kong, reported UCA News.

China executes morepeople a year than the rest of the world put together. Amnesty International said that by the end of 2002 China had recorded "4,015 death sentences and 2,468 executions, although the true figures were believed to be much higher."

Father Franco Mella of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions, a committee member, said that an early-Decembei conference in China on the death penalty shows that the country is making progress on the issue. Or Yan-yan, project officer of the Honk Kong Diocese's Justice and Peace Commission, said the committee was happy to learn about the conference because abolition of the death penalty was suggested by mainland Chinese scholars rather than "something forced on them by the West."

Pop e p raises Code of Canon Law's 'p ersonalist dimension^

VATICAN CITY — Pope John Paul JJ told participants in a Jan, 24 Vatican meeting marking the 20th anniversary of the revised Code of Canon Law that one of the code's most significant changes is its emphasis on the duties and rights of all church members.

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ROME—Financial pressures on Bethlehem University and its students have led the university to accept aid from an unlikely source — Saudi Arabia.

Saudi officials recently offered to give every Palestinian university a one-time grant of $200,000 and pay 75 percent of the tuition of third- and fourth-year students, provided the university paid the other 25 percent. U.S. Msgr. Robert L. Stern, chairman of the university's board of regents, said the Saudi offer was too good to refuse, especially under the current hardships, he said.

The university, like all of Bethlehem, has felt the tremendous repercussions of Israel's military incursions and occupation of the city, Msgr. Stern said. The university is struggling to keep its programs alive in the face of repeated Israeli army incursions in response to suicide bombings, he said. The university was closed for "roughly one-third of 2002."

Brazil's bishops are encouraged to reach out to minority groups

VATICANCITY — Pope John Paul II encouraged Brazil's bishops to combat the spread of religious sects in their largely Catholic country through uncompromised catechesis, revitalized evangelization and liturgical fidelity, especially in the celebration of the Eucharist.

Meeting Jan. 23 with a group of bishops from southern Brazil, the pope praised church efforts to reach out to Brazil's minority indigenous and black peoples but warned the bishops to be cautious when incorporating African cultural elements into the liturgy.

In many cases, the pope said, insufficient catechetical formation has led believers to think all religious paths are equally valid and that faith in Christ and adherence to his church are not necessary. He warned of confusing Catholic liturgy with elements from "the pantheon of spirits and divinities of African cults," leading to a form of syncretism or relativism.

Any incorporation of African cultural vestments, songs, language, ceremonies and liturgical objects must be accompanied by "the rigorous application of a serious and profound discern-

ment about its compatibility with the truth revealed by Jesus Christ," the pope said.

Federal officials p robe vandalism against NJ. Catholic churches.

NEWARK, N.J. — Local and federal authorities have formed a task force to investigate a wave of vandalism that damaged statues in several Catholic churches and in public spaces in Newark.

At St. Lucy's Church 13 statues were badly damaged the evening of Jan. 14. Three nights later the right hand was broken off the Sacred Heart statue outside Sacred Heart Cathedral.

Early Jan. 12, staff at St. Patrick's Pro-Cathedral discovered three statues damaged in the church courtyard. At St. Michael's Hospital, the head was lopped off a statue of St. Michael.

Police Jan. 19 arrested a 20-year-old Newark man, Jamil Gadsen, and charged him with a Christmas Eve sledgehammer attack on a statue of Mary with the child Jesus outside St. Thomas Aquinas Church, In recent weeks, vandals also attacked statues of an eagle at the federal courthouse, a Pilgrim and a Native American in a park, and an eagle at the headquarters complex of PSEG, an international energy company.

Indian bishops vow to evangelize despite anti-Christian resurgence

TmUCHIRAPPALLI, India — India's Latin-rite bishops declared evangelization a human right and expressed concern that it is threatened by "the resurgence of a monocultural militant nationalism which identifies Indian-ness with one culture and religion."

During a mid-January meeting, 116 bishops reiterated that proclaiming the "mystery of Christ is the primary mission of every Christian" and "the essential activity of the church," UCA news reported. The Latin bishops said "difficulties , oppositions and even persecution" would not deter them from proclaiming the Good News.

Their statement said that factors such as discrimination have impeded evangelization in some places. Despite such problems, the bishops noted an enthusiasm among lay people for evangelization. Charismatic renewal, small Christian communities and biblical movements have fueled this new enthusiasm, the bishops said.

"All Asian cultures are experiencing a period of resurgence," the statement said. While genuine cultural renewal is welcome, the bishops said "the negative attitude of monocultural nationalists, who look at religious and ethnic minorities with a hostile eye, is a matter of concern."

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The pope urged bishops not to neglect their duty to govern through administrative processes, trials and sanctions, calling it a "pastoral service" necessary to prevent "true injustices."

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By Jack Smith Best-selling author and Catholic apolog ist Peter Kreeft spoke about "Heaven , the heart 's deepest longing" to an overflow crowd at St. Mary 's Cathedral Conference center last week.

"I never denied the existence of God. But I thought I didn 't want to go to heaven, because I though t heaven was an eternal church service," Dr. Kreeft said, describing his school days views. Since then the Boston College philosophy professor has changed his mind and written several essays and three books on heaven.

"Since God's there, you don 't need a church service," he told the crowd at his Jan. 18 talk, which was sponsored by the School of Pastoral Leadership and Ignatius Press.

Rather, he explained , the proof of heaven is found in every human 's deepest longings and its purpose is the fulfillment of those longings.

Professor Kreeft shied from his academic role and sought to bring heaven from abstraction to concrete reality. He concurred with this point of the agnostic founder of pragmatism, William James, "Any question that doesn ' t make a practical difference to your life isn 't worth worrying about." Kreeft says he wouldn 't worry about heaven if it didn't make a difference , but it makes all the difference, and James, even in his agnosticism agreed, he said.

He told a story of two peasants hauling a heavy load in the rain to build a Cathedral, one cursing and one singing.

Both put one foot in front of the other to get to the Cathedral he said, but to one, he was hauling through miserable rain , for the other, he was singing happily to be building a Cathedral .

He said heaven is not just a form of escapism, but it is formative and causative. "We human beings are the only things in the world that can make time work backwards," he said. He used the example of a game of pool . In a normal causative explanation, the cue-stick hits the cue ball, which hits the eight ball, which veers into the pocket and thus the game is won. For human beings, "The desire to win the game comes first ," he said. Your present action is dependent on that future goal, so the precise movement of the cue stick is calculated on the necessity to sink the eight ball, backwards to the cue ball and so forth.

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Professor Kreeft explained St. Thomas of Aquinas ' principle of causality, that everything happens , "Out of the love of God , out of the love of some divine perfection." Our movement toward some divine perfection persists, "known or unknown, consciously or unconsciously," he said.

Unlike other creatures, we have some longing which is not satisfied by the most ideal environment.

He said children are natural philosophers in this sense.

"They don 't say 'why ?' . . . They say 'why, why, why?'"

If the first answer to a child's "wh y?" is mechanical or scientific, e.g. "Why do we have to go to the store . . . To buy food ," the child will continue asking why until the answer ends on a first princi p le or metaphysical question . . . "Why do we have to live, mommy?"

Every human being, if they are honest with themselves, is dissatisfied with their existence. Unlike other creatures, we have some longing which is not satisfied by the most ideal environment. If we long for food , there is food; sex, there is sex . . . the world presents, at least the possibility of satisfying all of our drives, he said, but humans, alone, are never satisfied.

"Look into your heart and you will see th at you are not happy and you want to be," he said. We have an innate desire for joy without boredom, he said. It is a desire not conditioned by outside influence.

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"There is no such thing as a natural desire that doesn 't correspond to an object that can satisfy it," he said. He said the uni que human desire for an object that is not apparent was used by C.S. Lewis as a proof of Heaven.

"How come all these other desires are so coordinated that they can be fulfilled (food , warmth, money, sex)," he asked.

He said all of these temporary satisfactions of worldly desires are but an appetizer for the "main course," or the "scent of a flower we have not found."

Given that our desires are onl y satisfied here as appetizers , "then if when it comes to the main course, there 's nothing. If at death there 's nothing, then the universe is not designed by chance or unintelligent blind luck . . .

The universe is designed by the devil. He ' s a sadist ," he said.

C.S. Lewis explained , even in good marriages and in the best circumstances, "there is something that we grasp at the first moment of longing that fades away in the reality." Professor Kreeft said there were three responses to this universal feeling that something has evaded us. The first is the fool's way: to blame the things themselves. We can imagine that a different woman or a different career would have made the difference in our happiness. "Most of the bored, discontented rich people in the world are of this type," he said.

The second person "thinks the whole thing is moonshine. So he suppresses the part of himself which used to call for the moon."

The last way is the Christian way; to hope that some satisfaction exists for these longings, to see in fleeting earthly pleasures that they "arouse it. They suggest the real thing," he said. The desire is "an indefinable longing " which will find its end not in unhappiness, but in the greatest happiness, in the light of the love and true knowledge of an infinite God.

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Annual Appeal launches campaign for ministries, programs

By Evelyn Zapp ia More than 300 attended the luncheon Jan . 21 at St. Mary 's Cathedral launching the Archbishop 's Annual Appeal 2003, one of the primary sources of funding for the many archdiocesan-wide ministries and programs.

Archbishop William J. Levada expressed his gratitude to the gathering say ing, "Your presence here is a testimony to the wonderful success of the Church over the years in San Francisco. I cannot say enough about my gratitude for the work you do in serving programs that directl y serve parish activities, and others - such as the prison and hosp ital programs. " As a response to the question "what does the Archdiocese do with the money raised ," the Office of Development added the Ministry Fair, where various

From Immaculate Heart of Mary Church in Belmont Betty Martin, Gail Weber and Judy Needham.

From Mater Dolorosa Church in South San Francisco Frank CiancioJo , Henry Broock, Rosemary Whittle and Mary Cianciolo.

Chancery office personnel provided brochures and information on how the archdiocese serves approximately 420,000 Catholics in more than 90 parishes and missions in San Francisco , San Mateo and Marin Counties.

The traditional workshop was also provided to assist those directl y involved in the fundraiser at the parish level.

This year's total budget of the Archdiocese is $10.2 million, according to archdiocesan officials. The budget for 2003 allocates $6.9 million to ministry and programs.

The AAA in 2003 will provide $5.3 million of the $6.9 million.

Deacon John Norris , director of development said it was important to note "that no money is allocated from the annual

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Sharing abundance to fulfill the mission of Jesus The Archbishop ' s Annual Appeal is a primary source of "funds for the basic work of the Church in Archdiocesewide ministries and programs," John Norris, archdiocesan Director of Development, said.

funds. ' By law, those funds can only be used for the designat- istries the most. We're trying to be very clear about what the ed programs and ministries. Those programs do not include money will and will not be used for so that peop le can donate settlement of sexual abuse cases, legal fees associated with with the confidence that the money will be well utilized. " such cases, maintenance of priests on administrative leave, or Archbishop 's Annual Appeal includes parish goals or the cost of insurance premiassessments based on a ums to cover these cases," process devised by priests A list of parish assessments PAGE 9 Deacon Norris said. and approved by the The economic slowPriests' Council, Deacon "We take part in fulfilling the mission of Jesus when we down and slumping stock Norris said. share our abundance with others . . ." Deacon Norris said. market may reduce conThe process begins "The ministries and programs funded by the AAA do this in tributions from people, he with consideration of the ways that no parish could do alone and with a scope that no said, but he believes other parish's ordinary income, single parish could possibly afford. We magnify our own contributors will take up rental income, investment effort when we join with others in a caring, sharing manner." the slack. income, debt service , None of the money contributed to the Archbishop's "I have great confiwhether it supports a Annual Appeal will be used to pay sex abuse claims, Deacon dence that Catholics will rally in these bad times and do what school and income level of parishioners. "Then the Norris said in response to a frequently asked question. It will is necessary to maintain the ministries of the Church," Archbishop 's Stewardship Council, comprised of one pasonly be used for the designated ministries, he said.

Deacon Norris said. "People are smart - and they know that tor from each of the eleven deaneries in the Archdiocese, "Money contributed to AAA 2003 is to be 'restricted these difficult times are hardest on those that need these min- adjusts the goals based on their collective knowledge of the specific situations of the parishes," he said.

"It is a very fair process that works over-time to help struggling parishes while meeting the needs of the Archdiocese for programs and ministries that could not be executed by any single parish," he said.

Tom Burke will interview philanthropist Kenneth Behring to talk about the Wheelchair Foundation and its "We are called as Christians, by virtue of our baptism, worldwide mission to provide a wheelchair to every person who needs one but cannot afford to buy it. This to evangelize," Deacon Norris said, "to take the message of new co-production of the office of Communications of the archdiocese and KPIX will air this Sunday, Jesus to those who have not heard it, to give witness to that February 2 at 5:00 a.m. on channel 5 KPIX. If you are planning to tape the show please call last-minute proGood News to all people by the way we live and act, and gramming changes at 415-765-8785 before programming your VCR. to support others as they strive to live in a Christ-like way."

"I have great confidence that Catholics will rally in these had times and do what is necessary to maintain the ministries of the Church. "

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By Brother Guire Cleary, S.S.F. C% an Francisco 's oldest intact building is Mission Dolores, the principal remaining p hysical monument of the Spanish ,s ,„ V Empire and Mexican Republic in the region of the San Francisco Bay. The mission is named after the founder of the \ ^J Franciscan Order, Saint Francis of Assisi (1182-1226) . Founded under the direction of Fray Junipero Sena , it is the sixth Franciscan mission to be established in Alta California. The California Missions were princip ally established to spread the Good News of Jesus Christ among the Indians and to be centers of new communities.

On August 5, 1775 the Spanish naval vessel San Carlos became the first Spanish ship to enter San Francisco Bay, commanded by Captain Juan Manue] de Ayala and having the 32 year-old Fray Vicente de Santa Maria as chaplain and missionary. The first instance of sharing the faith with die Indians in the San Francisco Bay Area took place at Angel Island on August 24 , 1775. Two tule reed canoes of Huchiun Miwok men approached the San Carlos. At the prow of the boat was the head chief, Sumu, who gave a speech from the boat. At one point Padre Santa Marfa displayed an image of San Francisco de Asfs, which the Indian men kissedwith such devotion that Santa Maria wrote, "they stole my heart and the hearts of all who observed diem." Sumu left with his delegation.

Santa Maria men impetuously decided that he wanted to visit Sumu alone so that he might "communicate in greater peace. " An astonishing religious exchange took p lace between the Franciscan and Sumu 's people. The Indians took out rattles and began singing what Santa Maria believed to be sacred songs with tears in their eyes. At the conclusion , they handed the Franciscan priest the rattles and indicated he should sing as well. In response Santa Marfa sang the beloved Spanish hymn, Alabad, "to which they were most attentive, and indicated that it pleased them. " Mission San Francisco de Ms has as its common name "Mission Dolores, " taken from the name of the now vanished Lake Dolores and Dolores Creek. The Senor Commandante, Colonel Juan Bautista de Anza, who explored the creek and lake on the Friday before Palm Sunday, April 5, 1776, gave them the name "Dolores ". This day was traditionall y called the Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows (Nuestra Sefiora de tos Dolores) . On June 27, 1776 the colonists under the command of Lieutenant Jose'Joaquin Moraga arrived along the shore of Laguna Dolores, near what is now Albion and Camp Streets in the Mission District. Two Franciscan padres, Fray Francisco Palou and Fray Benito Cambon , accompanied them . Under an arbor (enramada) built by Moraga 's soldiers , Fray Francisco Palou , the first pastor, celebrated the first Mass at what was to become the first church in this archdiocese on the feast of Saints Peter and Paul , June 29, 1776.

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C>sia6/is£men/J' lncf S-owl/i The missionaries turned their attention to the establishment of the mission and the conversion of Ramaytush Ohlone Indians in the nearby village of Chutchui.

The mission was formally opened on October 9, 1776. The first adult Indian baptism took place on June 24, 1777 when Chamis, a 20-year-old Ohlone man, was baptized and given the Christian name of Francisco Moraga. Lieut. Jose Jo aquin Moraga acted as Godfather.

Chamis later became the first Indian married at Mission Dolores , taking Paszem as his wife on April 24, 1778.

The present adobe church was dedicated on August 2, 1791, making it the oldest intact church nave in California.

Within a few years, other adobe buildings

were added for housing, ranching, agricultural, and manufacturing enterprises. At its peak in 1810-1820, the average Indian population at Pueblo Dolores was about 1,100 persons. The California missions were not only houses of worship. They were farming communities, manufacturers of all sorts of products , hotels, ranches, hospitals, schools, and the centers of the largest communities in the state. Mission Dolores at the peak of its prosperity in 1810 owned 11,000 sheep, 11,000 cows, and thousands of horses, goats, pigs, and mules. Its ranching and farming operations extended as far south as San Mateo and east to Alameda. Horses were corralled on Potrero Hill , and the milking sheds for the cows were located along Dolores Creek at what is today Mission Hig h School. Twenty looms were kept in operation to process wool into cloth . The circumference of the mission 's holdings were said to have been about 125 miles.

The period after the onset of the Mexican War of Independence in 1810 was a difficult time for relations between the church and government of Mexico and life at the missions. Indians, who made up the bulk of the population of Mission Dolores, were experiencing a horrific loss of life due to various illnesses. Hoping to improve the health of the Indians by a transfer to a more healthy climate, the Mission of San Rafael (the angel of healing) was established on December 14, 1817.

For a number of years afterward the population of San Rafael was recorded on the books of Mission Dolores.

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Uhe interior of Mission Dolores Due to deteriorating conditions at Missions San Francisco de Asfs and San Rafael, the pastor of San Francisco, Fray Jose Altimira, and Governor Luis Antonio Arguello opened up a new mission San Francisco in the town of Sonoma and planned to close Dolores and San Rafael in 1823. The religious authorities were shocked that the government had intervened and that the local pastor had complied. After some wrangling it was agreed that San Francisco and Dolores would not be closed and that the new mission would be known as San Francisco Solano, the missionary to Peru . In order to avoid confusion between the two San Franciscos , Mission San Francisco de Asfs came to be called Mission Dolores after the little creek that is now under 18th street. To this day Mission San Francisco de Asfs is generally called Mission Dolores.

In 1834, Mission Dolores with its farms , ranches, warehouses and factories was ordered by the Mexican government to be turned over to an administrator who valued the holdings at $67,227.60. The process of secularization meant that the missions would no longer manage the agricultural , ranching and manufacturing enterprises with their vast holdings of land and livestock. The missions would essentiall y be made into parish churches consisting of only the church proper, the residence of the priests and a small amount of land immediately surrounding the churches for use as kitchen gardens and cemeteries. By 1842, there were only eight Indian Christians resident at the mission. Spiritual needs of the parish were met by remaining Franciscans, but the situation of the parish was doubtful , and the last Franciscan, Fray Jose Real, withdrew to Santa Clara in 1845.

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l/'osi- rranciscanhistory The period 1835 to 1853 was an uncertain time for the now secularized missions of Alta California. Most of the buildings in the compound of Mission Dolores were taken over for secular purposes.

On October 4, 1840, Garcia Diego was consecrated bishop of Alta and Baj a California at Guadalupe in Mexico City. On January 1, 1846, Rev. Prudencio Santillan was ordained the first secular priest for San Francisco , San Rafael and San Francisco Solano. The conquest of California by the mostly Protestant and English speaking United States of America in 1846 presented the largely Catholic Spanish and converted Indian population with many challenges. The discovery of gold increased San Francisco 's population from perhaps 400 to 30,000 in just three years. In 1849, the total Roman Catholic priesthood of California consisted of 7 Franciscans and 4 seculars. That same year also saw the establishment of the first nonmission church, St. Francis of Assisi, in what was then called Yerba Buena. With a growth in population Mission Dolores saw the establishment of a parish school in 1852 and the diocesan seminary of St. Thomas Aquinas from 1853-1866.

The building of two plank roads from Yerba Buena to the Mission District in the 1850s allowed easy access to what became an entertainment district. Bull and bear fights , gambling, drinking, and odier entertainments became a feature at Mission Dolores, aldiough the mission church continued as a p lace of prayer. Some of the buildings were turned into a hospital ,

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German brewery, saloons, gambling hall , etc. The acquisition of Alta California by the United States of America began an investigation into the land claims asserted by the Mexicans. Most of these claims had been carved out of what had previously been mission holdings. Much of the immediate land of Mission Dolores became part of Rancho San Miguel , owned by the Noe family.

On March 3, 1851, President James Buchanan confirmed some four acres of the original immense holdings of Mission Dolores to Bishop Joseph Sadoc Alemany, O.P. who had become fust archbishop of San Francisco on July 29, 1853. Many of the gold seekers were Irish, French, and German Roman Catholics and the burial registers show a change from predominate ly Spanish names to Irish. In honor of the centennial of San Francisco in 1876 and to accommodate a growing population , Mission Dolores dedicated a new red brick Victorian neo-gothic church . The erection of a modern church next door to the old mission allowed for the adobe church and its Spanish era art to be preserved , or at least largely forgotte n except as a relic of the past.

On April 18, 1906, a major earthquake that created fires that heavily ravaged the Mission District struck San Francisco. In an effort to save Mission Dolores from destruction, firefighters dynamited the Convent and School of Notre Dame across the street from the mission church. Later this was thought to have been unnecessary.While the adobe structure survived , the red brick church was structurally compromised and torn down.

Some 23 square blocks of the 46 square blocks comprising the p arish of Mission Dolores were destroyed on April 18-20, 1906. A temporary church was erected along 16th Street. Noted San Francisco architect Willis Polk supervised a sensitive retrofitting and restoration of the adobe church in 1917. Foundations for a new parish church of steel and concrete were laid in 1913 and the first Mass was held on Christmas Day, 1918.

Architects Frank T. Shea and John O. Lofquist designed the new parish church in the California Mission style and of concrete and steel to withstand earthquakes, Decoration of the new church continued for another 15 years and included much Baroque Mexican architectural embellishment. This work , under the direction of architect Henry Minton , was undertaken for the celebration of San Francisco 's sesquicentennial in 1926. Particularly noteworthy are the interior mosaics and stained glass windows depicting the 21 Franciscan missions of Alta California executed by the Meyer Company of Munich. The Basilica, in addition to being a place of prayer and pilgrimage, is now a performance venue for such renowned groups as the Cora Hispano de San Francisco , Conjunto Nuevo Mundo, and Chanticleer.

World War II saw many changes in the parish. Its Irish population relocated, and increasingly the parish served a largely Latin American population. On Febru ary 8, 1952 , Pope Pius XII raised the church to the honor of a Minor Basilica. Mission Dolores became the first church designated a basilica west of the Mississippi River. On September 17, 1987, Pope John Paul II became the first reigning Roman Pontiff to visit San Francisco and pray at the Basilica. Particularly memorable and moving was his embracing of a child with AIDS. Another earthquake in 1989 occasioned a major campaign for retrofitting, strengthening and conservation. The cemetery and the artwork of the old mission church were brilliantly restored to period appearance in 1995 under the direction of then pastor, Msgr. John J. O'Connor.

MLts' sj ion-DoAires - Jnaar/ The year 2001 marked the designation of Mission Dolores as a Jubilee Pilgrimage site and the 225th anniversary of its establishment. In celebration of these events its pastor, Msgr. Maurice M. McCormick invited Ohlone descendants to plant specimens of culturally significant flowers, shrubs, and herbs. A traditional rule reed house was also erected. The Native Sons of the Golden West p laced a p laque on the wall of the mission paying tribute to the Ohlone as the founders and builders of the mission and this community, thus making Mission Dolores one of the very few colonial p laces in California explicitly memorializing the contributions of the First Peoples.

Mission Dolores has been recognized as a landmark by both the City of San Francisco and the State of California. The Old Mission welcomes thousands of tourists, visitors, pilgrims and school children every year. Its beauty has captured the imagination of poets (Bret Harte, "The Bells of Mission Dolores"), filmmakers (Alfred Hitchcock , "Vertigo"), rock musicians (Jerry Garcia, "Mission in the Rain "), shipbuilders (S.S. Mission Dolores and S.S. Mission San Francisco) , and tens of thousands of peop le wishing to take in the beauty of its architecture and art, the peace inside its walls and cemetery, and the continuous history of living the Franciscan motto, "La Paz y Bien , " Peace and All Good.

Episcopal Franciscan Brother Guire Cleary is curator of the Miss ion. This is one in a year-long series of articles marking the 150th anniversary of the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Jeffrey Burns, archdiocesan archivist and author of a history of the Archdiocese is coordinating the series

JLCATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO j Brothers and sisters to the world The episcopal ordination of Bishop Ignatius C. Wang as Auxiliary Bishop of San Francisco on January 30 at St. Mary 's Cathedral is a cause for great joy in the local Church of the Archdiocese of San Francisco and a unique moment ( in the life of the Catholic Church in America.

He is the first bishop of Chinese ancestry or Asian background to be | appointed in the United States and his ordination recognizes the rapidly grow\ ing numbers of Asians who have immigrated to this country from China, | Japan, Korea, Viet Nam, the Philippines and other countries.

Archbishop William J. Levada said recently, "It is particularly appropriate \ for us here in the Archdiocese of San Francisco to have a Bishop from among i the Chinese people, whose forebears were among the first immigrants to San | Francisco and California at the time of the Gold Rush in 1849, and whose I heroic work brought the historic transcontinental railroad to completion in 1868. From the time of those first immigrants there has been a small commu| nity of Chinese Catholics, strong in faith, who have been an active part of the " I life of the Archdiocese of San Francisco since its founding in 1853.

Today it is estimated that 23 percent of the three-quarter million inhabitants | of the City of San Francisco are of Chinese origin. Well over a quarter of Catholics in the Archdiocese are of East Asian ancestry, including a great many Filipino-Americans.

The ordination of Bishop Wang reminds us once again that the Catholic Church in America is an immigrant Church - where people from virtually every nation in the world come together in worship as brothers and sisters in Christ.

Referring to the American Church, Pope John Paul II, in "Ecclesia in America," spoke of earlier European immigrants. ' The greatest gift which America has received from the Lord is the faith which has forged its Christian identity. For more than five hundred years the name of Christ has been proclaimed on the continent. The evangelization which accompanied the European migrations has shaped America 's religious profile, marked by moral values which, though they are not always consistently practiced and at times are cast into doubt, are in a sense the heritage of all Americans, even of those who do not explicitly recognize this fact. " A pastoral letter issued by the Catholic Bishops of America and Mexico less than 10 days ago is a direct link to the earliest migrations of Americans of European ancestry. The title of this pastoral letter, "Strangers No Longer, Together on the Journey of Hope," indeed could serve as the theme of evangelization in the American Church throughout the course of migrations of people to America from countries around the world.

Today, the Archdiocese of San Francisco is one of the most diverse dioceses in the nation in the ancestry and background of its people. In this great mix of national ancestry and cultural background, we seek to follow Christ as one.

We hear the words of St. Paul who urges us "to live in a manner worthy of the call you have received, with all humility and gentleness, with patience bearing with one another through love, striving to preserve the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. " Internationally, we should recognize that — by virtue of immigration — America already is brother and sister to every nation in the world. The population of the United States is composed of immigrants or descendants of immigrants. Many U.S. citizens still have family members living in other countries.

As we seek within the Church to be brothers and sisters in Christ, in another context we should seek to be strong and helpful brothers and sisters to the world.

In the current national debate concerning the threat to security posed by the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq and appropriate action to be taken by the United States, we should be concerned about the future U.S. place in the world. A unilateral approach that ignores the concerns of other nations could undermine the ability of the U.S. to build needed coalitions in the future.

The preferred approach to dealing with the dangers posed by the regime of Saddam Hussein is one that is multilateral and works within the framework of the United Nations ' organization.

This approach, which accords greater respect to the concerns of other nations and builds greater respect for the United States, does not preclude strong action.

Indeed , earlier this week, a lop Vatican official said the international community, while avoiding war, could use "robust means" against Baghdad to obtain Iraqi compliance with U.N. resolutions.

Archbishop Renato Martino, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, rejected characterizations of the Vatican as "pacifist " and said the Church recognized that the international community's obligation to work for peace around the globe required courage and sometimes strong action.

While Archbishop Martino said Iraqi compliance with U. N. disarmament resolutions was "a must, " he said the U.S. case f o r "preventive war" against Iraq on self-defense ground s was unjustified under the church's traditional just-war theory — a position he said was the view of Pope John Paul U and the Vatican.

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Attention to g lobalization

Many thanks for the article on globalization by Fr. Kenneth Weare. It 's important that Catholic San Francisco give attention to this type of social issue.

The Church has spoken , at length , about the growing threat of uncontrolled globalization on the poor, the environment , and our own Catholic values.

The mainstream media largel y ignores the Church's position and it is extremely important that the Catholic press balance this lack of reporting.

Christopher Cody San Francisco

Thanks for memories

Doctor Kevin Starr's excellent article on the early history of the Archdiocese of San Francisco in the Jan. 17th issue of Catholic San Francisco broug ht back many memories of the pre-World War II days in San Francisco.

I believe the priest standing to the left of Mayor Rolph in the picture was Monsignor William Sullivan , the pastor of Most Holy Redeemer church in the early 1930's who passed away in 1948.

Thanks for the memories.

James Grealish San Francisco

All stations serve the Lord

the luncheon for public officials on Dec. 3.

Please note that residents of Gracenter pay 64 percent of their own income toward the cost of care.

Thank you for sharing the "Good News" of the Archdiocese .

Sister Madeleine Munday, RGS Gracenter San Francisco

War always horror

George Weigel's Dec. 6 article about Just War is devious in arriving at a very wrong answer to a matter of life and death. His unnecessary complicating of the subject confuses the reader with lots of disinformation - and at the end , with the reader in disarray, he concludes that the decision for war should "be cared for by its traditional custodians " (meaning President Bush). Worse, Weigel says that applying his just war ideas means "the possible effects of war" are of lesser importance than the end sought.

As a World War II veteran , I know personall y of tremendous destruction and death . In particular, my sorrow goes to 500,000 American boys, 18-22 years old, who lost their lives - they were clean, honest kids. And there are 88,000 bodies still missing. How can America forget this?

Think also, per the New York Times, 82 percent of Americans in 1939-40 were against the U.S. being in a foreign war.

But in secret, the British and a few rich Americans prevailed on the sickly Roosevelt. The U.S. Secretary of War then said what 's needed is that the first shot has to be fired by others. Britain and the U.S. then cut Jap an off from oil and Pearl Harbor followed.

As for the end now sought by the Bush group. Their plan is to obtain control of the planet.

They want the U.S. and Britain to have control of the oil and to have the most powerful armaments. Between oil and military superiority, the rest of the world is then at the mercy of Washington, D.C. More and more Americans will become the collateral dead resulting from retaliations (like 9/11) - in answer to fifty years of very wrong Washington , D.C. foreign policies , which are the cause of many genocides in this world.

The people of the USA are in a stupor even one and a half years after 9/11, and they, therefore, can be victims of manipulation. Weigle's just war articles contribute to this and seem calculated to produce the horrible Bush end.

Randolph Montalvo San Francisco

L E T E

The good letter from Michael Murp hy about Holy Matrimony (Jan. 17) must have struck a nerve because your quick response again sailed into "the greater excellence of virginity consecrated to Christ."

In fact consecrated celibacy is only greater to an unconsecrated celibacy which can be selfish and not even what it pretends to be.

Sacramental marriage is difficult and self-sacrificing. The old notion of marriage as the inferior choice does degrade an equally t—— great opportunity to serve the Lord .

S.M. Verdino San Carlos

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Good News at Gracenter

Thank you for the wonderful feature on Good Shepherd Gracenter in the Jan. 24 issue.

We appreciate your presentation of Gracenter and the work of the residents, staff and sisters. Thank you for articulating the financial needs of the program.

Thank you for taking such vibran t photos for inclusion in the feature .

I am especially gratefu l that you acknowledged the work of the Women's and Men 's Guild through the years, and the presence of their respective presidents at

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Real grace of Baptism

I really enjoyed Pat Joyce's last column on baptism. You might be gratified to know that Ignatius Press publishe s the autobiograhy of a French nun , who like the boy in your article was baptized secretly by grandparents. Her parents were atheists and leaders in the Communist Party. They moved to North Africa , where they raised their daug hter in complete ignorance of the Catholic faith and in hostility toward all religion.

Nevertheless, while the young girl was looking over a mail order catalogue from France, she saw a crucifix for sale and somehow knew that the man on the cross was God and that He had died for her.

She cut out the picture and placed it in a locket. ' Years later, she entered the Church and eventuall y the Poor Clares.

She is now a mother superior in a North African convent. She prayed and sacrificed for the conversion of her parents , and they both were reconciled to the Church before they died. The name of the book: A Memory for Wonders .

Vivian W. Dudro San Francisco

The Catholic Diff erence

Myths about Cardinal Law's resignation Within hours of Cardinal Bernard Law 's resignation this past December, the myth-makers were at work, spinning tales of why this had happened and what it all meant.

Before two such myths congeal into "facts" of the "everyone knows that... " variety, permit me to do some demytliologizing. What follows are neither impressions nor speculalions. What follows comes from on-site, personal knowledge of the Roman dynamics in play in December, and from extensive conversations with many of those directl y involved in these dramati c events.

Myth #1: Cardinal Law was forced from office by the Vatican in response to irresistible pressures from Boston clerical and lay activists.

This is the master myth. It is wrong — wrong about facts, and wrong about causalities.

The fact is that Cardinal Law, who had publicly acknowled ged serious errors of jud gment and governance , had been prepared to lay down his charge in April. By early December, the cardinal had become further convinced that he could not give the Archdiocese of Boston the kind of leadership it desperately needed: settling the legal and financial issues invol ved in the sexual abuse scandals and getting on with thoroughgoing, radical , and authentically Catholic reform. Cardinal Law persuaded the relevant officials at the Vatican, including the Holy Father, of this. So the decision to accept the Cardinal's resignation was made.

In brief, the chief factor in Cardinal Law's resignation

was Cardinal Law. Whatever you hear to the contrary from Voice of the Faithful , the Boston Priests ' Forum , Newsweek, or the Boston Globe is myth-making, usually agenda-driven.

M yth #2: Rome 's decision was heavil y influenced by the public letter signed by fifty-ei ght Boston-area priests, asking Cardinal Law to resign.

This is the key secondary myth within the master myth. It, too, has no basis in fact.

Didn 't the Vatican sit up and take notice when fifty-ei ght priests took this unprecedented public step on December 9?

Of course the Vatican did. But what did the Holy See notice?

The first thing officials in Rome likel y noticed was that there are some 1,650 religious and diocesan priests in the Archdiocese of Boston; thus the signatories represented about 3.5% of the Boston presbyterate . Not exactly a landslide, that.

The second thing to be noticed and pondered were the names on the list. However slow il has sometimes been to measure accurately the breadth and depth of the crisis in the American Church, the Vatican is not clueless. Officials in Rome could see that the signatories included priests who had never trul y accepted Cardinal Law ' s authority; their request for him to lay down an authority they had rarely acknowledged rang rather hollow.

The third thing no one in Rome could have missed was the text of the priests' letter itself. It praised Cardinal Law for his ecumenical and inter-religious initiatives, his work for immigrants and the homeless, and his opposition to cap-

ital punishment. But what was blatantly and (il :»; H o i sCL could onl y be assumed) m deliberatel y missing was I wi. ¦r any reference to Cardinal : W Law 's major public poliI O cy concern for eighteen years — his defense of the ri ght-to-life of the unborn . This particular non-barking dog clearly demonstrated where these fifty-ei ght priests were coming from , so to speak — and where they wanted the Archdiocese of Boston to go. Which is not, one expects, where the Vatican wants to Archdiocese of Boston to go.

Cardinal Law did the ri ght thing by laying down his charge. Some would argue, not unreasonably, that the Church' s cause might have been better served if what final ly took place in December had happened in April. That being said , however, no good is served, in Boston or elsewhere , by agenda-driven myth-making. Enough of th at is quite enough.

George Weigel

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

Family Lif e

Sharing family fiascoes One summer day many years ago, my mom tried to make a Boston cream pie for my dad 's birthday and ended up with a disaster. The Midwestern hot and humid weather was one reason the cake became a slipping and sliding, chocolate-covered crater. My younger brother breaking his arm was the other. While riding his bicycle, he had been pretending to be a motorcycle stuntman and had ended up with a compound fracture.

The story of that infamous cake is a big chapter in our family folklore, and Boston cream pie is for us ever associated with foll y and failure . So natural ly, I felt some trepidation when my younger son requested one for his 13th birthday; but, in the name of family tradition , I gave the cake a try anyway.

Just as I feared, I was plagued with problems from the start. First, the cake did not rise, which presented a challenge because I was supposed to slice it into two layers. 1 baked another one, thinking it would serve as the second layer, but it stuck to the pan and came out in p ieces.

"You would think I was under some kind of curse," I quipped to a neighbor who stopped by.

"Don ' t worry about it," she said. "When you cover it with frosting no one will ever know it looked this bad once."

My next problem was the filling; it did not thicken after hours in the refri gerator. I contemplated starting over , but then put it back on the stove, added more starch, and hoped for the best.

Amazing but true, the cake glued together rather nicely and even tasted pretty good; but shortl y after dinner, my husband and I heard a loud crashing sound. We ran upstairs to our sons' bedroom , where we found, in the place of the window pane, a gaping jaw with jagged teeth.

"I was closing the window, and the glass broke," explained my son 's birthday guest. He was not at fault, we assured him. The glass was already cracked; it was an accident waiting to happen .

"I guess you did not escape the curse of the Boston cream pie after all," he added with a grin.

Well, it could have been worse. No one was hurt, not even my older son, who was outside beneath the third-story window when the glass smashed onto the cement in front of

him. Yet thinking I should not tempt fate again, I resolved never to make another Boston cream pie; that is, until my thirteen-year-old gave me a big hug and said , "Thanks for the great birthday, Mom. Can you make me another one of those awesome cakes next year?"

Of course, I said insanely. "I' ve worked out all the bugs in the recipe; it'll be a cinch." Besides, I thought to myself, what stories will my children have to tell their own kids if we do not have our share of family fiascoes?

Vivian W. Dudro

Vivian Dudro is the mother of four (ages four to 13) and a member of St. Mary 's Cathedral Parish.

Sp irituality

Speaking with the authority that changes lives Recently, inside church circles, a debate took place as to whether St. Therese of Lisieux should be named a "doctor" of the church. Her proponents pointed to her influence within the faith and argued that few theologians or writers , at least not within the last century, have touched as many lives as Therese.

Another constituency argued against it. She died at 24, not exactl y the age of wisdom. Moreover, her writings consist of just three short manuscripts which, while moving and aesthetically exceptional , are hardly in the same theolog ical league with Augustine , Aquinas , Rahner, Barth or Tillich. Nor do her writings , in terms of academics, measure up to the standards demanded even of graduate-level students in our theological institutions.

So why declare her a "doctor"?

We know who won this argument. Therese is today a "doctor " of the church. A wise choice. Why? Because doctors heal people and her writings have healed persons in a way that many other writings that are academically and theologicall y superior have not. That ' s not to say that the writings of the academy of theology don 't have their place , but it is to say that the power to heal depends upon things beyond brilliance , learning, professional standards, and authority or position.

We see that clearly alread y in the Gospels. We're told there that Jesus "spoke with authority, unlike the scribes and the Pharisees" (many of whom were, no doubt , bril-

liant , learned , and sincere). What set Jesus ' teaching apart? Its effect. He cured people and changed their lives in a way none of the other preachers and teachers of his time could. The word of God coming from his mouth simply affected things in a way th at this same word coming from other mouths didn 't. His word s made sick people healthy, made sinners change their lives , and even brought some dead people back to life. As a teacher or preacher, I can onl y envy that !

And envy it I do! Allow me a little self-indulgence. I will offer a personal reflection here, not because I think that my teaching and preaching are exceptional , but rather, the opposite , because I sense myself as typical, the norm. So here's the reflection: I' ve been in the business of teaching and preaching for 30 years and , from the normal indicators , have been successful enough. I'm in demand as a speaker, my writings are popular , and I receive my share of affirmation and compliments. After speaking to congregations and various audiences , I generally sense a positive reaction.

So far so good.

What I don't sense is that I speak "with authority, " even when people do positively affirm me in words. Why do I say that? Because the longer I teach, preach, and write, the more skeptical I become about the effect of my efforts. I'm not sure that I ever say and do things "with authority."

I've never effected a physical cure , not that I' ve ever tried; never raised anyone from the dead , not th ai I've tried; and I wonder to what .extent my teaching and writings have ever empowered anyone to trul y convert and change his or her life morally. It's one thing to be told you 're wonderful; it 's quite another to hav e someone actually change his or her life on the basis of your preaching.

That isn 't true for everybod y. Mother Teresa used to go out on a stage, face a thousand people , say "God loves you!", and everyone 's eyes would fill with tears and they would know that this , the deepest of all realities, was true. She spoke with authority. I envy her, too. When I speak or write I still need an infinitel y more complex message to have any effect.

There 's a lesson here, but it shouldn 't be misread . The lesson is this: Our preaching and teaching can be powerful and transformative, though not on the basis of brilliance, scholarship, or doctrinal accuracy. We can have ROLHEISER, page 14

Father Ron Rolheiser

Liturgy

Ritual, rubrics, regulations: why they really matter

Recent months have brought a series of small but sig- our good and loving God. When we can enter deeply into hear God' s word togethnificant changes in the way Catholics celebrate the the rhythms of the Church's liturgy, Christ himself prays er, join in prayer and Eucharist. In the midst of learning new patterns, of altering within us. The Spirit dwells in the assembly, drawing us to song and silence together, offer the sacrifice familiar rituals , it is not unusual to hear the question "why?" encounter God truly present there. together, share together or what our No matter what our personal feelings are Why does ritual matter? Why do we pay so much in the Lord 's table, and be, we allow may creativity preference for spontaneity and attention to liturgical law? Why should parishes bother the patterns of the liturgy itself to shape us as individuals treat each other with the with close attention to the liturgy?

The meaning is in the Church's prayer itself. Liturgy is and as a community. Whatever might appear to be mere tenderness of brothers profoundly an act of spiritual formation. That is, our worship rubrics or annoying regulations are ultimately the Church' s and sisters. It is comSister Sharon shapes us and forms us, and ultimately transforms us as dis- acts of prayer which exist to facilitate that profound dia- mon ritual that allows McMillan, SND us this profound prayer. ciples of Jesus Christ. Our worship is the Church's prayer, logue happening between God and God's people.

So it matters.

How We hear what God proclaims and our hearts burn withcreated and recreated over the centuries. Its goal is to enable the assembly to pray, to enable the assembly to encounter the in us in loving response. The patterns of the liturgy help us we enter into the hear that proclamation deeply and respond with one heart church, how we process for communion, how we respond almighty and merciful God in our acts of worship.

The patterns of our worship really do matter. They aim and one mind and one voice. As servants of the Church' s to the prayers, how we greet one another at the sign of to make as absolutely clear as possible the proclamation of liturgy we are then servants of the Church's prayer, more peace: it all matters because the prayer of the Body of Christ matters. And it is the common elements of ritual that the good news of Jesus and then to invite all of us into the shaped by it than shaping it according to our preferences.

At the heart of the "why" liturgical law exists and rit- serve to bind us together into his Body for the life of the mystery of his dying and rising. The pattern then is proclamation and response: God's faithful love alive and present ual exists is the reality that in Christ we are all one Body. It world. in Jesus Christ and the invitation for us to respond with the is our very union in Christ that is nurtured and supported by attention to the same gestures, the same postures, the same gift of our lives of loving service.

Sunday after Sunday, season after season, year after prayers, the same acts of worship.

Notre Dame Sister Sharon McMillan is assistant St. Peter calls the baptized the holy people, the royal year, the familiar, communal patterns of the Church's professor of sacramental theology and liturgy at God. In our set apart and chosen by prayer mold our minds and hearts. The patterns of worship priesthood, the people St. Patrick Seminary, Menlo Park. call us to rehearse the attitude that is Christ's: surrender to common liturgical prayer we practice that sacred unity. We

Who decided that the bible is God's word?

Q. Your recent answer about the authority of the Bible confuses me. You state on one hand that the Bible is the word of God. True authenticating of the Bible, according to you, is by some group of Christian believers. Please clarify. Who is the authority that says it is the insp ired word of God? (New Jersey) A. As you are aware, the Bible is a series of books which together are called the canon, the authoritative list of books contained in the Bible, designating them as God's revealed word.

It is important to note first that not all holy writings, even some letters or "gospels" supposedly written by the apostles or other early Christian leaders, are included in the canonical books of our Scripture.

Your question is, then, Who deterf«, ¦ " in mines which specific "sacred writings" y*^**"™ / can be proposed to Christian believers VeIS £ JL* as the word of God and source of God' s revelation? How do we • ' ^jjj Sp know which ones to accept as / if God's revealed truth and which ^ II ^ %t ones not to accept? ' ^ ^ /f ^ In Catholic belief, the identi- ^^^ ty of the true books of the Bible is |y determined by the living tradition of the 2§ church through the centuries. The com- «Jm munity of believers, in communion with %i^ teachings of the bishop of Rome and other bishops, determines which are the sacred books demanding biblical faith.

In Protestant belief , canonicity is generally determined more by the ability of a book to enkindle and proclaim religious experience, or because it has roots in ancient Jewish tradition or was written in the era of the early Christian apostles.

For these and other reasons, the canon accepted by most Protestants is somewhat shorter than the Catholic, mainly because several parts of the Old Testament are considered apocryphal, not enjoying divine authorship.

The process by which the canons of the present Christian Bible were formed by Catholics and Protestants, especially the Old Testament, is long and complex. It began in the first decades after Jesus, and continued for centuries.

The content of the Catholic biblical canon was fin ally defined in 1546 at the ecumenical Council of Trent.

This canon includes, in the New Testament, the four Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles, 14 letters traditionally attributed to St. Paul (Romans, 1 and 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippi ans, Colossians, 1 and 2 Thessalonians, 1 and 2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon,

Hebrews), 1 and 2 Peter, 1,2 and 3 John , James, Jude and Revelation.

Finally, contrary to an implication in your question , there is a significant difference between inspiration and canonicity. Inspiration, according to our understanding, means a document was authored by God, using a human writer as his instrument.

A book is canonical , part of the biblical canon, when, as I explained , it is recognized by the church as inspired and is presented to Christian believers as the word of God and a source of revealed truth .

Did Jesus have a brother named James?

Q. The news media recently reported evidence that Jesus had a brother James. An inscription to this effect was supposedly found on . .— — — a — burial container. We are aware that ihQi years ago brothers and sisters did not necessarily refer to real brothers ar, and sisters as we call them.

Considering our belief that Mary was a virgin even after the birth of Christ, how do we interpret these findings? (Wisconsin) A. The Gospels of Matthew (13:5556) and Mark (6:3) mention four brothers of Jesus: James, Joses (Joseph), Judas (Jude) and Simon, along with some unnamed sisters.

As you note, in the Bible the title "brother " in conversation may refer to a close friend or fellow member of a group . As a family reference, however, as in these passages, brother seems always to have meant a blood relative.

Accepting the ancient Christian belief that the virgin Mary had no other children, various explanations have been offered about who these sisters and brothers might be. One is the possibility you mention, that they were cousins or distant relatives of Jesus. The predominant assumption today, I believe, is that these brothers and sisters were children of Joseph by a previous marriage.

As unfamiliar as this may appear to some people, it is not a new idea, nor does anything in the Gospels or in official Catholic teaching conflict with this possibility.

Early Christian documents , among them the second-century Gospel of Peter and the Protoevangelium (First Gospel) of James, identify the brothers of Jesus as children of a union before Joseph's marriage to Mary.

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Father John Dietzen Many Christian traditions which we readil y accept find their source in these documents. The names of the parents of Mary, Joachim and Anne, for example, come to us from the Protoevangelium. Similarl y, their view of the sisters and brothers of Jesus seems most probable.

If this explanation is true and Joseph died before Jesus began his public life, it helps explain why Mary would have accompanied these brothers and sisters, as Mark and Matthew tell us, and perhaps even raised them.

A long-standing assumption in Christian devotion is that Joseph was somewhat older than Mary. If that is true, an earlier marriage could explain the "brothers and sisters," causing people in those days to assume that Jesus was their half-brother.

Please note that I am speaking here about official Catholic doctrine . Later private revelations, beginning from the Middle A ges to modern times, spread the opinion that Joseph, like Mary, lived a virginal life before and after Christ's birth. Perhaps this trend is what led to the decline of the older "previous marriage" theory. Whatever the case, private revelations to saints or other visionaries about details of Joseph' s life may be fascinating; they are not, however, a necessary part of Catholic belief.

(Questions for Father Dietzen may be sent to him at Box 325, Peoria, IL 61651. This column is copyrighted by Catholic New Service.)

others enough to give up protecting ourselves, that our tivity, and even brilliance, but, too often, we can 't heal or real concern is God's kingdom and not how we impress really change anyone, including our own children. ¦ others, that we consider the community bigger than ourContinued from page 13 The miracles we need, it would seem, aren 't wrought selves, and that we are wdling to sweat blood rather than by brilliance alone. all of these and still not speak with any authority, be bril- get bitter or walk away. liant and not change anything.

I wonder whether our failure today to pass on our faith People will recognize us as speaking with authority to our own children, to effect forgiveness and harmony Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser, a theolog ian, only when they sense that, like Jesus, we are under divine within our families and communities, or to inspire others teacher and award-winning author, serves authority ourselves, that our message is not our own, that to any kind of religious vocation, isn't predicated preour actual lives stand behind the message, that our words cisely on our incapacity to speak God's word with in Rome as general councilor for Canada are meant to reveal God and not ourselves, that we love authority. We can speak it with insight, accuracy, sensifor the Oblates of Mary Immaculate.

Vatican says Catholics must not promote anti-life laws

By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Catholics must not promote or vote for any laws that would lead to attacks on human life , said a new document from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith .

While the freedom of conscience leaves Catholics free to choose among political parties and strategies for promoting the common good, they cannot claim that freedom allows them to promote abortion , euthanasia or other attacks on human life , the congregation said.

The 18-page "Doctrinal Note on Some Questions Regarding the Participation of Catholics in Political Life " was approved b y Pope John Pau l II and released Jan. 16 at the Vatican.

"Those who are involved directl y in lawmaking bodies have a ' grave and clear obligation to oppose ' any law that attacks human life," it said. "For them, as for every Catholic, it is impossible to promote such laws or to vote for them."

"A well-formed Christian conscience does not permit one to vote for a political program or an individual law which contradicts the fundamental contents of faith and morals," it said.

Nor does a Catholic who focuses exclusively on one issue fulfill the obligation to work for the common good by promoting the values encompassed in Catholic social teaching, the document said. "A political commitment to a single isolated aspect of the church' s social doctrine does not exhaust one 's responsibility toward the common good," it said.

Especially in European countries with a Catholic majority, some commentators have tried to paint debates on issues such as abortion , euthanasia, cloning and divorce as a debate between those who favor democracy and those who want to impose church teaching on society. The document rejected that view, saying th at Christians are simply offering their contributions to building a more just society.

Catholics have a special responsibility to defend the truth about the meaning and dignity of human life when proposed laws come up against "moral principles that

Pilate once asked, 'What is truth?'

Our society has been ashing the same question, and one has the impression that it does not really want a response. do not admit of exception , compromise or derogation ," particularl y regarding abortion and euthanasia , the document said.

The congregation also quoted Pope John Paul' s 1995 encyclical , "The Gospel of Life ," in which he said that when it is not possible to repeal a law legalizing abortion or to stop it from becoming legal, "an elected official, whose absolute personal opposition to procured abortion was well known , could licitl y support proposals aimed at limiting the harm done by such a law . .. " The congregation listed as particular obli gations: "the duty to respect and protect the rights of the human embryo"; to safeguard the family "in the face of modern laws on to oppose divorce "; attempts to legally equate cohabitation or homosexual unions with marriage; and to defend the rights of parents to educate their children. Other obli gations it listed included: protecting children; fighting "modern forms of slavery " including drug addiction and prostitution; promoting religious freedom; working for justice

and solidarity in the economy; and promoting peace.

In a commentary also published by the Vatican, German Cardinal Joachim Meisner of Cologne said that the document recognizes the legitimate "plurality of concrete political strateg ies" while insisting on "nonnegotiable ethical princi ples, which are the underp inning of life in society."

"Pilate once asked , 'What is truth?' Our society has been asking the same question , and one has the impression that it does not reall y want a response," the cardinal said.

The church was sent into the world to give witness to the truth , a mission that lay peop le are charged to carry out in the world of politics , he said.

The more modern society pushes an idea that truth and values are completely subjective , Cardinal Meisner said , the more Catholics have an obligation to be clear in promoting those values that are not simply based on Catholic teaching, but on the reality of the human person as a creature with inalienable ri ghts and obligations.

"The aim and ideal of the church is not a theocracy in the current 'fundamentalist ' sense," he said , but of a democracy in which human life and dignity are respected and the common good is promoted.

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Feb. 12: Serra Club of San Mateo meets at 12 noon at the Cronin Center of St. Matthew Parish, El Camino Real and 9th Ave., San Mateo with a presentation by Kathy Atkinson, Director of Cemeteries for the Archdiocese. Call Dennis Pettinelli at (650) 34 1-5050, ext.

Courage, a Catholic support group for persons with same-sex attraction, meets Thursdays at 7:30 p.m. Call Father Lawrence Goode at (415) 333-3627 or Father Agnel Jose de Heredia at (415) 567-2020, ext. 209.

Feb. 4: Save Our Aging Religious (SOAR) annual award dinner in the Grand Ballroom of Union Square's St. Francis Hotel. Reception at 6:30 p.m./Dinner at 7:30 p.m. The Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose are among the honorees. Call (415) 564-3846 or (650) 5534241. SOAR provides emergency aid to orders of U.S. Religious unable to care for their frail and older members.

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

Feb. 7: Catholic Marin Breakfast Club meets. Mass at 7 a.m. in St. Sebastian Church, Bon Air Rd. and Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Kentfield, with breakfast and presentation following in parish hall. Guest speaker is Sister Patricia Simpson, Prioress General, Dominican Sisters of San Rafael with Dominican Sisters of San Rafael: Who Are We? Reservations required to Sugaremy@aol.com or (415) 461 -0704 daily. Members $5, others $10. Dues $15 per year.

Sat. at 9 a.m.: Pray the Rosary for Life at 815 Eddy St. between Franklin and Van Ness, SF. Call (415) 7524922.

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

Family Natura l Seton Medical Center Planning/Fertility Care Services offers classes in the Creighton Model of NFP. Health educators are also available to speak to youth and adults on topics of puberty, responsible relationships, adolescent sexuality, the use of NFP throughout a woman's reproductive life, and infertility. Call (650) 301-8896 Retrouvaille, a program for troubled marriages. The weekend and follow up sessions help couples heal and renew their families.

Presenters are three couples and a Catholic priest. Call Peg or Ed Gleason at (415) 221-4269 or edgleason@webtv.net or Pat and Tony Fernandez at (415) 893-1005..

Feb. 8: Valentine's Dinner and Dance at St. Kevin's Parish Hall, corner of Cortland Ave. and Ellsworth St., SF beginning at 7 p.m. with dancing to the music of Los Amos from 9 p.m. Tickets $20. Call (415) 648-5751.

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Feb. 8: Late Nite Catechism presented by St. Dunstan Elementary School in Parish Center 1150 Magnolia Ave., Millbrae. Curtain at 7 p.m. Tickets $37.50/$35/$32.50. Call (650) 692-9705.

Eighth grade students from San Francisco 's St. Dominic Elementary School recently visited Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma and the gravesites of some of the more legendary people interred there. Before the trip, the class sp lit up into teams and wrote biographies of late business , sports and civic magnates now at rest at Holy Cross , including the Bank of America's, Amadeo Peter Giannini, Gov. Edmund G. Brown, and Yankee Clipper, Joe DiMaggio. "The entire class ,teachers included , wishes to thank you for a most memorable field trip," said Rhonda Hontalas, who teaches the eighth graders , in a note to Director of Cemeteries , Kathy Atkinson, and the staff of Holy Cross. "We truly appreciated your time, energy and compassion. " Kathy, too , was impressed by the visitors, noting their "kind and polite" behavior. Prominent among the words of thank you notes sent by members of the class were how "great an experience" it was , "I learned a lot," and "life is not the end and that we have wonderful people taking care of us after we die." Standing by the grave of late San Francisco Mayor George Moscone are, from left, Domanique, Victoria, and Seghel.

For information about cemetery tours, call Holy Cross at (650) 756-2060.

Feb. 23: Late Night Catechism at St. Sebastian Parish, 675 Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Greenbrae. Tickets are $35 and benefit the parish scholarship fund. Curtain is at 4 p.m. Call (415) 461-0704.

Feb. 28: Comedy Night benefiting Birthright of San Francisco featuring the Meehan Brothers at John Foley's Irish House beginning at 8 p.m. Tickets at $25 are available by calling (415) 664-9909. Show takes place in Cellar of the Irish House located one block from Union Square at 243 O'Farrell St., SF. 3rd Wed.: All you can eat Spaghetti Luncheon at Chapel of the Immaculate Conception, 3255 Folsom up the hill from Cesar Chavez, SF. $7 per person. A San Francisco tradition for decades. Reservations not required. Call (415) 824-1762.

Knights of Columbus of the Archdiocese meet regularly and invite new membership. For information about Council 615, callTony 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.

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

Sundays: Concerts at St. Mary Cathedral at 3:30 p.m. Gough and Geary Blvd., SF. Call (415) 567-2020 ext. 213. Concerts are open to the public.

2300 Adeline Dr., Burlingame are holding an Open House and dinner on Feb. 7th from 5 - 7 p.m. The Little Sisters of the Poor, 300 Lake St., SF, are holding an Open House on Feb. 7th from 2:30 - 5:30 p.m. For other locations, go to www.bayareacatholicsisters.org.

March 15: Praisel Prayer! Worship Explosion! At St. Cecilia Church hall, 17th and Vicente St., SF from 9 a.m. -1 p.m. Father James Tarantino will preside. Music

by Gospel Jubilation Singers. Call Norma at (650) 8754265.

Feb. 2: Day of the Immaculata at St. Finn Barr Church, 415 Edna St. off Monterey Blvd., with Rosary at 2:45 p.m. and Mass at 3 p.m. followed by Potluck Dinner, please bring a dish. Marian Consecration is the topic of a talk by Franciscan Brother Louis Schmidt. Call Nellie at (415) 387-8431 or Nellie@ingatius.com.

Mass is celebrated each first Saturday of the month in the chapel of All Saints Mausoleum at Holy Cross Cemetery, 1500 Old Mission Rd., Colma. Priests of the Archdiocese preside. Call (650) 756-2060.

Feb. 7: First Fri. Healing Mass of the Sacred Heart, 7:30 p.m. at St. Gregory Church, 2715 Hacienda St. at 28th Ave., San Mateo. Rosary at 7 p.m. Father Frank Murray will preside. Music by Our God Reigns music ministry. Call John at (650) 261-0825.

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.

2nd Fri. at 7:30 p.m. at St. Peter Church, 700 Oddstad Blvd., Pacifica. Call Deacon Peter Solan at (650) 3596313.

2nd Fri. at 7:30 p.m., St. Dominic Church, 2390 Bush St., SF. Call Laura McClung at (415) 362-1075 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 Catherine Rondainaro at (415) 713-0225

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March 10,11, 12, 13: Parish Mission, St. Pius Church, 1100 Woodside Rd., Redwood City at 7:30 p.m. with well-known publisher and champion of the Catholic faith, Dr. Elinor Ford. Topics include Finding Joy in Who You Arel; Embracing Hope Through Healing and Forgivenessl; I Can Do This: Living the Vocation God has Given; Going Forth as Bearers of God's Joy and Hope. Dr. Ford, the first woman Superintendent of Schools for the Archdiocese of New York, has been named among the most influential people in Catholic education. Dr. Ford will also speak at all weekend Masses of March 8 and 9.

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Feb. 14: San Mateo County Council of the Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women at 10 a.m. at 768 Elm St., San Carlos. Catholic women of San Mateo County are cordially invited to learn about the group.

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Catholic Adult Singles Assoc, of Marin meets for support and activities. Call Bob at (415) 897-0639 for information.

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The YMI has invited other Catholic organizations , including the Young Ladies Institute , Knights of Columbus , parish altar societies, Our Lady's sodalities , ethnic , youth and young adult groups , to participate in the event. Each group is invited to carry its banner or other emblem in procession at the beginning of 5:30 p.m. Mass.

Those symbols will be placed around the altar during the Mass.

The theme of the Mass will be "pride in being a Catholic in today 's Church." The Mass will be followed by a buffet dinner and social.

'The time has come once again to stand up as proud Catholic men and women, professing our faith as true Christians, so that we encourage one another," Father Agnel Jose De Heredia, grand chaplain of the YMI and administrator of the cathedral said. "Our faith will prevail and our organizations will be here for our children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. They are Catholics of the future."

For more information call the YMI Grand Council Office at 650-588-7762.

'Theology on Tap' comes to Foley's Irish House Theology on Tap, "a program for the modern twenty-something seeker," will begin its second year in the Bay Area Monday, Feb. 10, at Johnny Foley 's Irish House, 243 O'Farrell St., San Francisco.

Theology on Tap is a "theologically-based meeting of young adults in one of our native habitats, the local pub," according to its sponsors,.^the Episcopal Diocese of California and the Archdiocese of San Francisco. It will run from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on four Monday evenings.

Feb. 10: "Violence Unveiled: Humanity at the Crossroads." Author Gil Bailie will discuss the relationship between violence and social disintegration and how Jesus provides alternatives to violence.

Feb. 17: "You, God and the Unknown: Life Decisions" presented by the Rev. Kate Flexer of the Episcopal Church and George

Fleming, a young Catholic who is a personal and career coach.

Feb. 24: "Bed and Bible: Christian Relationships." Father Richard Sparks, pastor of Holy Spirit Newman Center in Berkeley, will bring "humor and insight to the topic of sexuality and ethics."

March 3: "Spiritual Self/Secular World: Living with Integrity." Young adults Greg Brown, a chemist, and Trish Plunkett , a law professor, will tell how they integrate their spirituality into the real world.

Food and beverages may be purchased; young adults under 21 are welcome. For more information, call Mary Jansen, assistant director of Young Adult Ministry for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, at 415614-5596 or visit the Episcopal Diocese of California website a www.myyaya.org

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By Jack Smith Franciscan Father Louis Vitale, pastor of Saint Boniface Parish, held a press conference, Jan. 22, following a three month stay in a federal prison camp for trespassing, last year at a military training school in Fort Benning, Georg ia, during an annual peaceful protest sponsored by School of the Americas Watch (SOAW).

SOAW was founded by Father Roy Bourgeois in 1990 as an effort to convince the US government to close the School of the Americas in Georgia. Central and South American officers who had been trained at the school have been implicated in numerous high profile human rights violations and acts of terror in their home countries including the 1989 murder of six Jesuit priests and two of their companions in 1989 and the assassinations of Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador and Bishop Juan Gerardi of

Abortion stand... ¦ Continued from cover Bishop Weigand cited the U.S. bishop s' statement on the 30th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade and Doe vs. Bolton , the U.S. Supreme Court decisions that legalized abortion virtually on demand throughout the nation, and the Vatican statement this January that Catholic politicians have a duty to uphold fundamental moral positions in their public policy decisions.

"Issues of the sacredness of human life and other questions of basic morality are matters of natural moral law, not simply of church teaching. . . . There can be no division between public and private morality. It is untenable to say,

Opposition... ¦ Continued from cover But "under no circumstances must this policy fall into the logic of escalation which inevitably ends up in war, " the bishops said.

The bishops also said that a war against Iraq may further destabilize an already volatile region , increase the influence of Islamic fundamentalism and place at risk the international alliance to combat terrorism.

In Northern Ireland, Archbishop Sean Brady of Armagh, said in a letter to British Prime Minister Tony Blah that a war in Iraq "could have unpredictable consequences for stability all over the Middle East."

"It could provoke the kind of attacks that it is intended to prevent and provide motivation for future terrorist action which, at present, may not be in existence," the archbishop said in a Jan. 14 letter released Jan. 20.

Archbishop Brady, who is primate of all Ireland, was among a group of Christian leaders who met with Blair at the prime minister's London residence Jan. 14. The archbishop said the group discussed the escalating tensions in the Persian Guff.

"From a Christian point of view, it strikes me that the most pervasive error in this matter seems to be the assumption that mass suffering from war is simply inevitable and acceptable in the world, as long as it does not begin to affect those who now have the privileges and advantages," Archbishop Brady said in his letter.

Guatemala. SOAW also discovered manuals in use by the school advocating torlure.

Following these revelations by SOAW, members of the House of Representatives, twice tried unsuccessfully to close the school. The Department of Defense, reorganized the school's curriculum and renamed it the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHJNSEC).

At the press conference, Father Vitale and others, presented information from a recent Amnesty International report which , he said, gives credence to SOAW's continued demand to close the reorganized school. The report states, in part, "WHEMSEC is essentially the same school as the SOA, with the same mission - conveying military skills to members of Latin American armed forces."

The Amnesty International report credits pressure from SOAW for numerous changes and improvements in the school 's curriculum. It faults the school for its lack of any

accounting for past activities of the SOA and for insufficient oversig ht or tracking of its graduates to ensure the school does not act as a training camp for terrorists and human rights abusers. The Amnesty International report also recommends reparations for victims of human rights violations to which training at the SOA contributed.

Father Vitale said that SOA Watch would continue to demand the closure of the school and the establishment of an independent commission to investigate past atrocities committed b y graduates of SOA. SOA Watch will continue its peaceful protests and political activities and renewed its demand for annual reports to Congress and the general public tracking applicants and graduates of WHINSEC-SOA. Father Vitale 's statements were echoed by West Point graduate , Laura Slattery, who along with eight other Bay Area residents is facing jail time for her participation in the latest SOA protest in November.

'I am personally opposed to abortion,' but support someone else's right to kill their unborn baby," Bishop Weigand said.

Criticizing the position of Davis, the bishop said, "In stating that many Catholics believe as he does and insisting that women should retain the right to decide to kill their own children by aborting them , Gov. Davis needs to recall that we do not own our bodies. We are not proprietors. We are stewards — stewards of a sacred trust. " He said abortion involves not just a woman 's body but "another body, that of the infant."

"The prohibition of God and the law of nature is abundantly clear: 'Thou shalt not kill,'" he said.

"We know it is not politically correct to be pro-life; but right and wrong, good and evil, are never revealed in a poll.

All human life is sacred," he said.

"A true leader stands up for what is right, not for what is popular," he said.

Bishop Weigand wrote a briefer version of his homily in his column in the Jan. 25 edition of the Catholic Herald , the Sacramento diocesan newspaper.

"People need to understand that you cannot call yourself a Catholic in good standing and at the same time publicly hold views that are contradictory to the Catholic faith," he wrote.

"Roe vs. Wade cannot stand as the law of this great nation, a nation founded on the self-evident truth that all people are created with an inalienable right to life," he added, quoting from the statement the bishops adopted last November to mark the 30th anniversary of that decision. "We are committed, no matter how long it may take, no matter the sacrifices required, to bringing about a reversal of this tragic Supreme Court decision."

In a separate Jan. 20 statement, Cardinal Desmond Connell of Dublin, Ireland, called on Irish Catholics to pray for peace in the Middle East.

"Peace cannot be assured by force of weapons alone.

This has sadly been our experience here in Ireland.

International law, honest dialogue, solidarity and diplomacy between the nations are means of striving for peace worthy of human beings," the cardinal said.

He called on world leaders to do all they can to avoid a war between the United States and Iraq.

In Rome, the church' s international confederation of Catholic aid agencies condemned a potential pre-emptive attack on Iraq, saying war would be immoral, illegal under international law and disastrous for Iraqi civilians.

In a "position paper" issued Jan. 21, the Rome-based Caritas Internationalis appealed to world leaders to give "absolute priority" to finding a diplomatic and political solution to the Iraqi crisis.

Caritas said the use of mihtary force in Iraq would lead to a major humanitarian disaster for the country's civilian population, already weakened by 12 years of U.N. sanctions that have "proven to be ineffective, cruel and dangerous."

It said a conflict not only would lead inevitably to the deaths of thousands of civilians but also would disrupt a national food distribution system that two-thirds of the population needs to survive and water and sewage systems needed to prevent outbreaks of disease and epidemics, Citing the "Catechism of the Catholic Church" on just war, Caritas said it firmly believed "that an attack on Iraq

would not fulfill the moral criteria that might ultimately justif y the use of military force."

While stressing that its appeal was primarily humanitarian and not political, Caritas said, "Our wish for the Iraqi people is that they have the same freedoms and peace enjoyed by people in democracies throughout the world."

In an open letter to U.S. President George W. Bush , Christian leaders in Pakistan urged the American leader to use "every alternative means" to avoid war with Iraq.

Archbishop Lawrence Saldanha of Lahore and Victor Azariah, general secretary of the National Council of Churches in Pakistan said in the Jan. 18 letter that they are concerned that the people of Iraq will suffer most if war erupts, reported UCA News, an Asian church news agency based in Thailand.

They cautioned that "hundreds of thousands of civilian " lives may be lost and that the war may "provoke a global backlash" from those who see the Iraqi people "as victims of aggression."

The said the pope and the U.S. and British bishops have openly opposed a U.S.-led war against Iraq.

"One of the reasons for bitterness is the 500,000 children who died in the past few years due to sanctions against Iraq, which prevent adequate supplies of food and medicine," the letter said.

In their message to Bush, the Pakistani Christian leaders warned that if war does break out , it is "very likely that nuclear or biological or chemical weapons " would be used by the side that sees itself losing the conflict.

The church leaders called on the U.S. government to engage in a dialogue with the Muslim world that would examine the "causes of frustration that have led to terrorism."

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