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In the hands of God Pope’s health prompts media speculation, prayers among Catholics

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Nuns and other pilgrims wave to Pope John Paul II as he is driven through the crowd in St. Peter's Square following the canonization Mass for three 19th-century missionary priests Oct. 5. Some 30,000 people attended the service celebrating the new saints.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — At the beginning of one of the busiest months of his pontificate, Pope John Paul II’s continuing health problems prompted speculation in the media, concern among some cardinals and prayers by the faithful.

After announcing the names of 30 new cardinals Sept. 28, the 83-year-old pontiff carried out a full week of scheduled events — holding talks with international leaders, meeting with bishops and church groups, presiding over a general audience, welcoming the new Anglican primate and celebrating a canonization Mass for three new saints.

He went through his schedule appearing much as he has over the last few months: tired, unable to stand or walk, struggling at times to speak, but soldiering on to the end of each event.

At the general audience, he seemed to lose his voice at one point. As he stopped and shook his head, the audience burst into an encouraging applause, and several people in the crowd fought back tears.

The pope suffers from a degenerative neurological disorder believed to be Parkinson’s disease and has been slowed by arthritis of the knee and the effects of several surgeries.

His recent physical decline, although not drastic to those who have followed him closely, has prompted intense media interest, which in turn has generated comments by church leaders.

The most striking remarks — intended “philosophically” but which ended up in headlines around the world — came from Cardinal Christoph Schonborn POPE’S HEALTH, page 8 of Vienna, Austria.

Bishop Cummins of Oakland retires, is succeeded by coadjutor WASHINGTON (CNS) — Pope John Paul II has accepted the resignation of Bishop John S. Cummins of Oakland, meaning that Coadjutor Bishop Allen H. Vigneron immediately succeeds him as head of the diocese.

The changes were announced Oct. 1 by Msgr.

Leopoldo Girelli, charge d’affaires at the apostolic nunciature in Washington.

In March Bishop Cummins turned 75, the normal retirement age for bishops.

Bishop Vigneron, who turns 55 on Oct. 21, was a Detroit auxiliary bishop when he was appointed coadjutor of the Diocese of Oakland in January. Under church law a coadjutor of a diocese automatically

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succeeds the residential bishop when he dies or retires.

The diocese planned to hold evenings of prayer and Benediction at six different parishes during the month of October to celebrate the beginning of Bishop Vigneron’s leadership of the diocese.

Born in the Detroit suburb of Mount Clemens in 1948, Allen H. Vigneron was ordained to the priesthood in 1975. He earned a bachelor’s degree and a licentiate in theology at Gregorian University in Rome, and master’s and doctoral degrees in philosophy at The Catholic University of America in Washington.

Prior to being named coadjutor, Bishop Vigneron had been rector and president of Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit since 1994. He previously served OAKLAND BISHOPS, page 8

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Pope closes year of rosary by praying for peace at Pompeii shrine

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POMPEII, Italy (CNS) — Closing a year dedicated to the rosary, Pope John Paul II came to a Marian sanctuary in Pompeii Oct. 7 and prayed for world peace with an estimated 30,000 pilgrims.

The pope joined in reciting the five “mysteries of light” which he added to the rosary last year. Then, in a halting voice, he read a speech calling for a new movement of prayer and peacemaking to help heal the “conflicts, tensions and tragedies of every continent.”

The pope said the rosary is an ideal prayer for peace, with its simplicity and its ability to “calm the spirit,” and is especially needed in a world “torn by winds of war and lined with blood in so many regions.”

The pope looked alert and content during the three-hour visit, and he managed to read almost all of his two-page talk, although he had to pause often between phrases. At the end, he asked people there to pray for him “today and always.”

The pope’s declining health in recent weeks has prompted many to suggest that the visit to Pompeii, his 143rd trip in Italy, might be his last inside or outside the country. He suffers from a neurological disease that has made it difficult for him to stand or walk.

Using a small mobile lift, he boarded a helicopter at the Vatican and landed an hour later at a helipad next to the archeological excavations that have made Pompeii famous.

As the sun broke through threatening skies, he rode in an open jeep to the Sanctuary of the Blessed Virgin Mary of the Holy Rosary in the center of the modern city, waving to well-wishers on a route decorated with flowers and strung with banners that read: “Your Holiness, welcome home.”

“We have a special affection for this pope, and here there is a strong devotion to Mary.

That’s what makes this visit so special,” said

Pope John Paul II closes a year dedicated to the rosary at the Sanctuary of the Blessed Virgin Mary of the Holy Rosary in the center of Pompeii, Italy, Oct. 7. The pontiff joined in reciting the five mysteries of light, mysteries he formulated and added to the rosary in October 2002.

Filomena Cavallaro, a mother of four who watched the pope ride by. Like many in the city, she said she still had vivid memories of the pope’s previous visit there in 1979.

Seated on a platform on the steps of the sanctuary in front of a crowd that filled the square and surrounding streets, the pope slowly pulled out his own rosary and recited quietly as representatives from every continent lit oil lamps and led the prayer.

The five mysteries of light, which the pope designed as a major innovation to the rosary, focus on episodes from Christ’s public ministry: Christ’s baptism in the Jordan River, his “self-manifestation” at the wedding at Cana, his proclamation of the kingdom of God, his transfiguration, and his institution of the Eucharist.

In his speech, the pope said he was convinced that by proclaiming a “year of the

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rosary” he had prompted a significant reawakening of the prayer. That in turn should encourage Christians to put their faith into action in their own societies, he said.

“Today, like in the times of ancient Pompeii, it is necessary to announce Christ to a society that is drifting away from Christian values,” he said.

The rosary, he said, is like a compendium of the Gospel. It reviews the life of Christ from the perspective of Mary.

“And who more than she knows Christ and loves him?” he said.

In Pompeii, the rosary has been popular.

Two days before the pope’s arrival, some 10,000 people gathered to recite the rosary on the first Sunday of the month.

Many young people in the crowd wore rosaries around their necks. Several said they recited the rosary, though not as often as their parents did — it’s a question of not enough time, they said. Older people from the area said they’ve recited the rosary since childhood.

“Always, always, even in the family — it’s our way of praying to Mary,” said a woman who gave her name only as Anna.

She and a dozen others prayed the rosary aloud as they walked through the streets of Pompeii hours before the pope’s arrival.

Those who stood near the papal platform watched the 83-year-old pope closely, and some could not help but compare the frail figure, head slumped to his chest, with the energetic pontiff who visited them 24 years earlier.

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by Tom Burke St. Thomas the Apostle Parish is celebrating 80 years of “serving God and community” with monthly commemorative Masses through December. Men and women who entered religious life or the priesthood from St. Thomas are being honored Oct. 19. Among those being remembered are women religious including St. Joseph of Carondelet Sisters Jean Katherine de Blois, Noreen Joseph Doyle, Mary Lovia Escobosa, Patricia Ann Gilligan, Karla Ann Kvale, Mary Murphy, William Mary Murphy, Roberta Nuttall, Mary Dorothea Quinn, Christine Robertson, the late Sister Claire Doyle; Holy Names Sister Elizabeth Adams; Sacred Heart Sister Helen Hammack; Presentation Sisters Mary Ann Healy, Nancy Healy, Kathleen Healy, Doreen Healy; Holy Family Sister Jean Kathleen Shanahan; Daughters of Charity Sister Kathleen Sullivan; Mother Stella Marie Swendsen, a Poor Clare; Mercy Sisters Mary Nicole Vavuris and Marian Rose Power; and Sacred Heart Missionary Sisters Maura Walsh and Miriam Walsh. Father William O’Connell, retired pastor Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish, Belmont, his brother, Father Joseph O’Connell, retired pastor, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Parish, Mill Valley, and Jesuit Father Edward Stackpoole are among the men who went on to priesthood from the Richmond District Parish. Permanent Deacon Joe Symkowick of the Diocese of Sacramento, grew up in the parish and will serve as homilist at next week’s liturgy.

(See Datebook) …Was comforted by the words of Msgr.

Harry Schlitt, vicar for administration of the Archdiocese, who reminded in a recent homily that “God’s resources are always greater Holy Names Sister Miriam Jeanne Murphy than

St. Monica’s, now resides at her congregation’s residence in Los Gatos, mailing address, P.O Box 1906, Los Gatos 95131….Congrats to Holy Names Sister Colleen Kern, new prez of the Marin 49er Booster Club. Born in San Rafael and raised in Fairfax, Sister Colleen has taught at St. Anselm’s and St. Raphael’s and currently teaches at St. Isabella’s. The flock of fans she now heads has about 100 members….Happy 25 years married September 30th to Tina and Dave Barsi of San Francisco’s Epiphany Parish. They took their vows at the Mission District’s St. James Church as did Dave’s folks, Mary and the late Ralph Barsi when they married 61 years ago. First in line to wish Tina and Dave well and many more are their daughters Angie, Vanessa and Gia, all grads of Epiphany Elementary and Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory, as well as the messengers St. Joseph Sister Ann Coronas and Father Dan Maguire, pastor, of this good news…. Birthdays, births, anniversay all are welcome to the ongoing series of events saries, marriages, engagements, new jobs and all commemorating the history of San Francisco’s kinds of goings-on are welcome here. Remember St. Thomas the Apostle Parish. this is an empty space without ya’. Send items and a follow up phone number to On the Street Where our needs.”…Married 50 years ago September 12th at Sts. You Live, One Peter Yorke Way, SF 94109. Fax (415) 614Peter and Paul Church were Jean and Gig Ghiglieri. Jean 5633; e-mail tburke@catholic-sf.org. Do not send attachtold me she is a lifelong North Beach resident and Gig spent ments except photos and those in jpeg, please. You can reach the first six months of his life in Oakland before his family Tom Burke at (415) 614-5634... “came to their senses” and moved to the well-known neighborhood. A family dinner hosted by children Ruth Bolender and husband Gary, and Michael and wife Gerri marked the milestone. Grandchildren are Mike and Gerri’s son and daughter, Matthew and Michelle, a junior and freshman at San Francisco’s Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory School….“It has been 29 marvelous and gracefilled years,” said Holy Names Sister Miriam Jeanne Murphy on her service as teacher, music director and organist at San Francisco’s St. Monica Parish and school. Sister Miriam Jeanne, a religious for 55 years, retired in June. She said she is “especially grateful” to Father John Greene, pastor of St. Monica’s since 1999. “Father Greene has been most supportive, he is great in capital letters,” Sister Miriam Jeanne said. “We are very honored to have had Sister Miriam Jeanne at St. Monica’s as organist and choir master,” Father Greene said. “She is a very talented woman.” The St. Monica’s community gathered to pray for and bid farewell to Sister Miriam Jeanne on Pentecost Sunday. “This is a wonderful InStyle is the theme of November’s fashion extravaganza parish with wonderful parishioners,” Sister Miriam benefiting St. Ignatius College Preparatory School.

Jeanne said, noting that the number of weddings and Taking a moment from their chairperson duties with SI funerals she has provided music for during her three president, Jesuit Father Tony Sauer, are, from left, Becky decades at the Richmond District church number “in Loback, Isabella Lanza and Tina McGovern. (See Datebook) the hundreds.” Sister Miriam Jeanne, who grew up in

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WASHINGTON (CNS) — After cross-country bus rides from 10 different cities, participants in the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride converged on Washington in early October with the goal of persuading members of Congress to take up their cause. “Never before in the history of our nation have immigrant workers done what you are doing today,” they were told by AFL-CIO president John Sweeney at a rally. “Our nation must not turn a blind eye to the unjust and inhumane treatment of immigrant workers in this nation.” Much of the organizational work behind the bus caravans came from various labor unions, but other organizers and supporters included leaders from Catholic and other churches, immigrants and civil rights groups, and social service agencies. About 900 riders from across the country and hundreds more supporters from the Washington area met Oct. 2 on the U.S. Capitol lawn, where they were addressed by a handful of members of Congress, Sweeney and immigrants who had arrived on the buses. Participants then fanned out on Capitol Hill to meet with their congressional representatives to ask for a legalization program and a path to citizenship for immigrant workers; for improved immigration processes for family reunification; and for civil rights protections for immigrants and natives alike.

New calls for corporate reforms NEW YORK (CNS) — Church groups in the corporate responsibility movement are reacting to the recent wave of business scandals and controversies with a renewed push for reforms in corporate governance. This emphasis, which began last year in response to scandals such as those at Enron, has received further stimulus in recent months through developments such as Richard A. Grasso’s resignation as chairman of the New York Stock Exchange following controversy over his $139.5 million pay package. The Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, a New York-based agency that coordinates most of the church-related activity in the corporate responsibility field, gave its annual fund-raising event this year the theme of “Pushing the Envelope of Corporate Change.”

Oblate Father Seamus P. Finn, director of his order’s Justice and Peace/Integrity of Creation Office in Washington and vice chairman of the interfaith center’s board, said in an interview after the event that the center’s members would be pursuing the corporate governance issue next year as they filed proxy resolutions for the annual company stockholder meetings.

House passes partial-birth ban without backing Roe vs. Wade WASHINGTON (CNS) — After a House-Senate conference committee stripped it of a provision affirming Roe vs.

Wade, legislation that would ban partial-birth abortion again passed the House Oct. 2, this time by a 281-142 vote. But approval of the conference committee version was likely to take much longer in the Senate, where the amendment on Roe vs. Wade was originally passed. Although supporters of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act hoped to take it to senators Oct. 3, before a 10-day congressional recess began, many believed the Senate was not likely to take up the legislation until after Oct. 13. “We applaud the House of Representatives for its overwhelming vote to ban the horrible procedure of partial-birth abortion,” Gail Quinn, director of the U.S. bishops’ Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities, said Oct. 2. “We encourage the Senate to do the same as quickly as possible and get the bill to the president’s desk as soon as possible.”

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Lucia Maza, Zoila Molina and Rafael Avila cheer during the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride rally Oct. 2 on the west lawn of the U.S. Capitol in Washington. Immigrants traveled in buses from across the country to focus attention on immigrant rights and to lobby Congress for reforms to help workers.

Baseball helps integrate Latinos into U.S. society, says author WASHINGTON (CNS) — Baseball is ahead of U.S. society in integrating Latinos, said Tim Wendel, author of a book on the boom in the number of Latinos among U.S. players. U.S. businesses are looking to baseball for lessons on how to provide support systems for Latinos given baseball’s success in providing an environment which allows their Latinos to perform well, he added. In an interview with Catholic News Service, Wendel said that many famous Latino players cite their Catholic faith and family ties as being important to their playing success in a country where the language and culture are strange to them.

Wendel, a free-lance sports writer and a founder of USA Today’s Baseball Weekly, interviewed scores of Latino players for his book, “The New Face of Baseball: The One-HundredYear Rise and Triumph of Latinos in America’s Favorite Sport,” published in June by HarperCollins. About 25 percent of today’s major league players were born in Latin America or are U.S.-born Latinos, he said, and Latinos accounted for one-third of the 2003 All-Star game rosters.

Law should carry moral authority, cardinal says at Red Mass WASHINGTON (CNS) — Cardinal Avery Dulles told a congregation of lawyers, judges and government officials that although they could not legislate virtue they should have “a sense of the importance of moral convictions and moral training for the health of our society.” The cardinal, who was the homilist at the annual Red Mass Oct. 5 at St. Matthew Cathedral in Washington, stressed that “law and spirit belong together” and are “as inseparable as body and soul.” He told more than 1,400 people at the Mass, “Law, at least civil law, is a human achievement, but the spirit, if it is to be upright, depends chiefly upon the grace of God who can transform hearts and fill them with his love.” The congregation included U.S. Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Associate Justice Antonin Scalia, U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Mel Martinez, District of Columbia Mayor Anthony Williams and Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele.

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Pope meets Anglican archbishop, expresses concern about relations VATICAN CITY (CNS) — In his first meeting with the new head of the Anglican Communion, Pope John Paul II expressed concern that ecumenical relations face new tensions as Anglicans consider the implications of the ordination of an openly gay bishop in the United States. Pope John Paul welcomed Anglican Archbishop Rowan Williams of Canterbury to the Vatican Oct. 4 and gave him one of the first pectoral crosses forged to commemorate the 25th anniversary of his pontificate. The archbishop gave the pope a Canterbury cross, and he and his entire delegation kissed the pope’s hand at the end of the audience. Pope John Paul also kissed Archbishop Williams’ ring, a ring Pope Paul VI had given the archbishop’s predecessor, Archbishop Michael Ramsey, in 1966. But the warm personal relations were mixed with serious concern for the continued unity of the Anglican Communion’s 38 provinces and their decisions regarding the morality of homosexual activity.

U.S. return to UNESCO praised VATICAN CITY (CNS) — A Vatican representative welcomed the United States back as a full-fledged member of UNESCO, after a 19-year U.S. boycott of the cultural agency.

“Our work will benefit greatly by this, and the United States will also be a beneficiary,” Msgr. Francesco Follo told a UNESCO general conference in Paris Oct. 3. Earlier in the week, Laura Bush arrived in Paris with Louise V. Oliver, the president’s new ambassador to UNESCO, as the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is known. The United States withdrew from UNESCO in 1984 after accusing the agency of pursuing an anti-American and anti-Western political agenda.

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Oakland Bishop Vigneron speaks on the mission of Catholic education

By Jack Smith In his first major address as leader of the Catholic Diocese of Oakland, Bishop Allen H. Vigneron spoke on “the mission of Catholic education and the service of the Church in Oakland.”

Bishop Vigneron’s speech was given during a dinner and discussion, hosted by Holy Names College in Oakland, for priests, religious and lay leaders of the diocese’s Catholic schools on Oct. 2.

“We gather together this evening to dialogue with — and listen to the vision of our new bishop and to hear his challenge to us,” said Sister Rosemarie Nassif, president of Holy Names College in her introduction of Bishop Vigneron.

“There’s a corny saying, ‘if you don’t know where you’re going, any road will lead you there,’” Vigneron said stressing the importance of mission in Catholic education.

Without a “clear focus” on mission, Catholic educators cannot be good stewards of their limited resources, he said.

“When we are clear on mission, we have a lot more energy to do what we are about doing.”

In his role as Bishop, Vigneron said “I will insist that we be clear about the mission of our institutions. I will nag about it . . . I will underscore it.”

All mission statements are “teleological,” he said. “They say what we are to do and therefore what counts for success.” Such a mission or call for Catholic schools can be found in the Second Vatican Council’s Declaration on Christian Education, he said, “‘A true education aims at the formation of the human person in the pursuit of his ultimate end and of the good of society to which as man he is a member and in whose obligations as an adult he will share.’”

Vigneron said the mission of Catholic education is not “constructed” or “invented.” Rather, “it has been handed on to us in an unbroken chain that goes back through the twelve apostles to the Lord Jesus Himself . . . the proper predicate for the mission of a Catholic school is to say that we accept it; we do not negotiate it.”

Vigneron said the opposite of a “true education” called for by the Council is an education that “falls short.” It is like a $1,000 down payment for a house, he said, “it’s not

counterfeit money, but you would look at it . . .and say it’s not enough.” Catholic education needs to go “far enough and deep enough.”

Catholic education cannot simply produce consumers or participants in the economy, but “must help people learn how to uncover the truth and to make their own life ordering decisions on the basis of what’s true,” he said. Teaching students to be “wise” is to help them “understand how to capture what is most important and to live on the basis of those most important and profound realities.”

True Catholic education has a twofold goal, to teach students how to be truly human so they can achieve their ultimate end of “life with God; being saved” and so they are able to live rightly “in this human community,” he said.

Those two ends are ordered by the Church’s understanding of the relationship between nature and grace. “Instruction we give about how we live for God will be integrally related to how [students] learn how to live in this society.”

Vigneron said that education is “essentially an ecclesial act,” because the mission to teach came directly from Christ. “You are the enfleshment of that mission,” he told those present.

Following his exegesis of the Council’s teaching on education, Bishop Vigneron highlighted several corollary points.

He said his and the Church’s “uncompromising insistence on Catholic identity is not ideological. This is not a partisan move. . .It follows from mission that we be focused on mission.”

Involvement in Catholic education is an ecclesial service and “one’s contribution to the mission of the school is going to be in proportion to one’s acceptance of the mission,” he said.

Not every employee must be a practicing Catholic and not everyone need to be willing to die to give witness to the faith, but schools should not employ those who simply do not oppose the Church’s vision, Vigneron said. “Nonbelievers who work with us in our schools need to find our vision sufficiently reasonable that they do not think we are stupid to die for it.”

He called for an integrated curriculum with all parts related to each other and the whole. “If we have a curricu-

lum hung together like beads on a string, we are failing our mission.”

He also said Catholic education and curriculum must be a witness that knowing important truths is possible. He said this witness is an indispensable service in a society that “profoundly doubts” the possibility of knowing truth.

“Only when education is founded on confidence about knowing the truth, will it be education for living in freedom.”

Bishop Vigneron rejected the claim that Catholic schools are private schools. He said “there is no such thing; it is to speak of a square circle.” Catholic schools train people to be people, he said. “How can that be private?”

He challenged the wider society “to recognize our contribution as Catholic schools to the common good,” while at the same time he expressed “profound concern” for the excellence of all schools. This concern is partly “enlightened self interest,” in that the majority of Catholic children are not educated in Catholic schools and “we rely on government schools to teach kids how to be wise as citizens.”

But also, because every person is “entitled to true education,” he said. “If schools leave our children foolish about how to live as citizens . . . not only will our children be failures in this life, there’s a good chance they will be profoundly hampered in progression to their supernatural end.”

He said as bishop, he would be asking the Catholics of the Oakland diocese to work so “government and Catholic schools do right by California’s children.”

He also gave those present a bit of homework, asking that they read “The Catholic School on the Threshold of the New Millennium,” by the Congregation for Catholic Education. He asked the educators to read it and discuss it and to look at it “in the light of your own mission statements,” in order to discover what might need adjustment or focus “in light of the Church’s calling you to be part of the new evangelization.”

Bishop Vigneron ended his observations saying, “Only persons can deal with persons as persons. . . We must be devoted ourselves to the good. . . We have to know God. We have to pray. Catholic educators must pray or we will fail.”

At St. Pius Elementary School in Redwood City, the traditional blessing of animals, in observance of the Feast Day of St. Francis of Assisi, drew pets of all sizes and shapes on Oct. 3 for blessing by Father James MacDonald, pastor of St. Pius Parish. Shown here are St. Pius students Steven Mastracola (bottom left), Nick McHugh, (bottom right), Raquel Ferrari (top left), and Renee Ferrar (top right).

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“Tell a Parent” Pro-life supporters working for notification initiative

By Patrick Joyce Teenage abortions in California could drop by 15 to 20 percent if the “Tell A Parent” voter initiative becomes law, say pro-life activists who hope to have the measure on the November 2004 ballot.

The initiative would amend California’s constitution to require abortionists to notify at least one parent or legal guardian before an abortion is performed on anyone under 18.

California law does not require notifying parents that their daughter is seeking an abortion, no matter how young she is.

The state Attorney General’s office now is preparing an official title and summary of the initiative. Once that process is completed, supporters will begin collecting signatures.

They must collect nearly 600,000 valid signatures by the end of March 2004 to place the initiative on the ballot.

Parental notification and consent laws have been approved by the U.S. Supreme Court and are in effect in 35 states.

Supporters of the initiative base their estimate of reduced teen abortions in California on the experience of those states. Not only have teen abortions dropped in those states but also teen pregnancies, supporters of the initiative say.

Each year, there are more than 300,000 abortions in California. This is an estimate because the state does not require an accounting of the number, pro-lifers say.

The goal of the initiative is to save the lives of the unborn, said Bill Campbell, a former member of the state Assembly who led a similar effort in 1999 and is playing a leading role in the new campaign. The earlier initiative did not qualify for the ballot.

“We came very close last time. We just ran out of time because we didn’t prepare better. We’re better organized this time,” Mr. Campbell said.

Even though California has a reputation as a “pro-choice” state, said Mr. Campbell, now an Orange County supervisor, the initiative will not only qualify for the ballot but it can win voter approval and become law.

“Forty-eight percent of the people who identify themselves as pro-choice agree with this particular proposition - that parents should be involved in any decision regarding abortion,” he said. “And 68 percent of all voters support this proposal.”

“They see it not so much as an abortion issue as an issue of parental responsibility,” he said. “Parents want to be there for their children. The law says you can’t give an aspirin to a child in school without getting the parent’s signature. Yet she can be taken away and the child have an abortion without the parents even knowing or being able to advise or support their daughter.”

Pro-lifers focused on parental notification because it has been approved by the U.S. Supreme Court, Mr. Campbell said. So have some parental consent laws in other states but, he said, “In California when we did our polling, voters resonated more with notification than consent. If you want to get this to pass, you have to go with that.”

An initiative on other abortion issues such as third trimester abortions might not pass a court challenge, he said.

“You get into an area where you may or may not have the U.S. Supreme Court on your side. Let’s get one where we already know the decisions have been made and we can make this a matter of law and help protect the unborn.”

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In order to meet Supreme Court standards, the measure contains a detailed procedure for allowing a pregnant teenager to avoid the parental notification process by going to juvenile court. The process will be free. The court will help with the legal work and supply a lawyer.

A parental notification law has far-reaching effects, Clarke Forsythe, a leading pro-life lawyer, said. “The myth is that the law works only at the abortion clinic door” when a teen learns that she must notify her parents or get a waiver in court, he said.

In reality, the law prevents many teens from ever being faced with those choices, Mr. Forsythe said. “The data show these laws reduce abortion rates by changing teen behavior. They reduce abortions by reducing teen pregnancy rates,” he said.

The initiative will be an amendment to the state constitution rather than a law because of a California Supreme Court ruling that a 1987 parental consent law was unconstitutional. “There is no alternative to a constitutional amendment in California because of the way the state Supreme Court applied, really misapplied, the state constitution,” Mr. Forsythe said. “It must be overturned by a constitutional amendment.”

Backers claim the initiative will survive a challenge in federal court because the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld similar laws in other states. “The real issue now is not the courts but getting it passed,” said Mr. Forsythe, president of Americans United for Life in Chicago, which helped draft the 1987 California law and defend it in the courts. It also consulted on the current initiative.

The 1987 parental consent law passed with 11 Democratic votes in the Assembly and 11 in the Senate, said Jan Carroll, legislative analyst for the California Pro-Life Council. But it was tied up in the courts and never went into effect.

As a result of redistricting and term limits, bipartisan support in the legislature for pro-life legislation disappeared in the 1990s. Pro-lifers then turned to the initiative process but twice failed to get enough signatures to qualify for the ballot.

This time will be different, according to Don Sebastiani, a former member of the state Assembly who is helping in the initiative campaign. Mr. Sebastiani said parental notification is not only “a great idea” but also one that can win on voter approval, then survive court challenges and ultimately reduce the number of abortions and teen pregnancies.

“Substantial funding will be available” for the initiative campaign, Mr. Sebastiani said. While it is far too early to predict victory, “The numbers look good,” he said. “Polls show strong majorities, including many who are prochoice, support parental notification.”

Parental notification was favored by 83 percent of those responding to a Wirthlin national poll in 2001, according to initiative supporters. They said a Zogby poll last year showed 71 percent of Californians in favor of the law with 26 percent opposed.

“The success of this initiative will depend on churches of all faiths and on pastors willing to support it,” Ms. Carroll said. In an effort to get that support, initiative supporters are distributing a letter from the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, an interfaith public interest law firm. The letter reassures churches that are worried about losing their tax-exempt status if parishioners gather signatures for the initiative on church grounds. The letter says, “the law is crystal clear that such activities would not in any way jeopardize their 501 (c)(3) status.”

The bishops of California will review the issue at their meeting in mid-October, Ned Dolejsi, executive director of the California Catholic Conference said. “They have supported this twice in the past,” Mr. Dolejsi said. “They see parental notification as a positive thing, a common sense idea about the family, It is unimaginable to allow a young teen to have an abortion without her family knowing.”

“This is a great idea. This is primarily a family issue,” George Wesolek, director of the Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, said. “Parents need to be involved in these issues - that is very important - but children need this too.” He pointed out, however, that the Archdiocese had not yet taken a position on this particular initiative.

Some pro-lifers might complain that parental notification doesn’t do much. Mr. Forsythe rejected that view on two grounds.

“The Achilles heel of the pro-life movement is a lack of realism about the world we live in,” he said. “You can only do what you can do. You should do what you can do.” And in a world where Roe v. Wade is the law of the land, parental notification is doable.

“It would have a dynamic, positive impact in California.”

Mr. Forsythe said. “Notice and consent laws in other states have reduced the number of abortions and abortion rates. They reduce the pregnancy rate and the number of births by teens.”

Based on his experience in other states, Mr. Forsythe expects that “abortionists will file last-minute, desperate challenges to block this from getting on the ballot - challenges based on the election law or the wording, anything to keep it off the ballot.”

If those efforts fail, “You will see the dirtiest campaign against it,” Mr. Forsythe predicted.

Judicial bypass of parental notification The Tell A Parent initiative includes a judicial bypass provision allowing a pregnant minor to avoid the parental notification process. Here are some of its key elements: * The minor may file a bypass petition with juvenile court. * The court will help with the process. * The minor’s name will be kept confidential. * A free lawyer will be available. * Notification will be waived if the judge finds the minor “sufficiently mature and capable of giving informed consent to decide whether to have an abortion.” * Notification will be waived if “there is evidence of physical, sexual or emotional abuse of the minor by the parent or legal guardian.”

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“The entire world is experiencing a pope who is sick, who is disabled, and who is dying — I don’t know how near death he is — who is approaching the last days and months of his life,” Cardinal Schonborn told the Austrian state radio ORF Oct. 2.

The cardinal’s comment prompted anxiety among many Catholics. Some church groups sent e-mail alerts for prayers on the pope’s behalf. Several Vatican cardinals, however, quickly downplayed concern about the pope’s health.

Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, head of the Congregation for Bishops, said “there’s no cause for alarm” about the pontiff.

“The pope is a strong man with a sharp mind and a clear vision of the world. I saw him today at lunch,” Cardinal Re said later Oct. 2.

“Certainly he has difficulty with speech, especially when he’s tired, and he has problems walking. But he’s still a strong man,” he said.

Asked about the possibility of papal resignation, Cardinal Re responded: “The Holy Father is obedient to God’s will.”

Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins, head of the Congregation for Saints’ Causes, said the fact that the pope’s October schedule was being maintained showed there was no sense of panic at the Vatican.

“The pope and all of us are in the hands of God. I think this alarmism about his health needs to be moderated considerably,” he said Oct. 2.

The following day, Polish Prime Minister Leszek Miller met with the pope and said he did not look noticeably worse than in the past.

“It is not my impression that the pope is any worse, but of course the years take their toll,” Miller said afterward.

Polish Archbishop Stanislaw Dziwisz, the pope’s longtime personal secretary, did not seem overly concerned about the pope’s health as he chatted with reporters Oct. 2.

The pope was meeting with Lithuanian President Rolandas Paksas in an adjacent room.

Archbishop Dziwisz told the reporters jokingly that many journalists who have predicted the pope’s demise “are already in heaven.”

On Sept. 30, the German magazine Bunte quoted Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, as saying in an interview that the pope was “in a bad way” and that people should pray for him.

But the cardinal’s secretary, Msgr. Georg Ganswein, told Catholic News Service that the cardinal’s remarks were taken out of context and did not reflect a new sense of alarm over the pope’s well-being.

What happened, Msgr. Ganswein said, was that Cardinal Ratzinger met Sept. 22 with representatives of two German beer companies and was explaining to them why the pope could not grant them a private audience.

Apparently journalists in the group picked up some of the cardinal’s comments.

“The cardinal said, certainly, we all have to pray for the pope. The pope himself asked us to do this. But that is something that can be said at any time,” Msgr.

Ganswein said.

As for the pope’s health, he said, Cardinal Ratzinger was “more or less expressing what anyone can see with their eyes and hear with their ears, that the pope is not well and speaks only with difficulty.”

“All this was not said in any manner that could give a sense of alarm. Not at all,” the cardinal’s secretary said.

Even as the pope’s health issues were making news around the world, the Vatican added two major events to the pope’s already heavy October schedule.

The pontiff will preside over a public consistory with the new cardinals Oct. 21, officially inducting them into the College of Cardinals and handing each cardinal the traditional “red hat.”

On Oct. 22, the pope will concelebrate Mass with the new cardinals in St. Peter’s Square. During the liturgy, the pope will present each cardinal with a ring designating his new office.

Vatican sources said that despite the pope’s health problems no serious consideration had been given to abbreviating the traditional ceremonies.

as a vice rector, academic dean, and philosophy and theology professor at the seminary. He also had been vicar general of the archdiocese, an associate pastor at two suburban Detroit parishes and on the staff of the Vatican Secretariat of State.

Bishop Vigneron was one of the main initiators of a petition, signed by eight bishops last year, calling for the first plenary council in the United States since 1884.

The proposed plenary council, still under consideration by the U.S. bishops, would focus on the identity, life and mission of priests and bishops and reaffirm church teaching and discipline on sexual morality in general, on clerical celibacy in particular, and on the aids to virtue needed for priests to live holy lives.

Bishop Vigneron was helping head up Project Life for all parishes in the Archdiocese of Detroit at the time of his episcopal ordination in 1996. The project was established to provide help to those considering abortion and those who were contemplating assisted suicide.

The diocese he now heads covers Alameda and Contra Costa counties and has a Catholic population of more than 428,000 out of a total population of about 2.3 million.

Born in Oakland in 1928 to Irish immigrants and raised in Berkeley, John S. Cummins studied for the priesthood at St. Patrick’s Seminary in Menlo Park, and did graduate work in history at The Catholic University of America and at the University of California in Berkeley.

He was ordained a priest of the San Francisco Archdiocese in 1953. During his first assignment as an associate pastor, he also was campus minister at San Francisco State University. In 1957 he joined the faculty of Bishop O’Dowd High School in Oakland, and in 1962 was named the first chancellor of the newly created Diocese of Oakland.

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In 1971, he was appointed executive director of the California Catholic Conference in Sacramento. The conference is the public policy arm of the state’s Catholic bishops.

Three years later he was ordained an auxiliary bishop of Sacramento. In 1977, after the death of Oakland Bishop Floyd L. Begin, Bishop Cummins was appointed the second bishop of Oakland.

On the state and national level, he frequently pleaded for the rights of immigrants. In California, he criticized the state’s proposals for euthanasia and joined other state bishops in opposing the death penalty and calling for public policy on AIDS. During a service three years ago in Oakland, Bishop Cummins and other leaders of the diocese publicly apologized to victims of clergy sexual abuse, calling the abuse scandal “one of the most distressing aspects of the church’s recent history.”

In 1989, the Loma-Prieta earthquake, damaged St. Francis de Sales Cathedral and a parish church in Oakland, which had to be demolished.

This year Bishop Cummins celebrated the 50th anniversary of his priestly ordination. He said he plans to remain in the Oakland Diocese and serve as episcopal vicar for a proposed project to rebuild the cathedral.

The retiring bishop also has been named to the chair of Catholic thought at the newly formed John S. Cummins Catholic Institute for Thought, Culture and Action at St. Mary’s College of California in Moraga, where he will begin working next January.

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Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory opens new student life center

By Jayme George With the official opening of a new 44,000 square-foot student life center October 12, Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory will complete the final phase of its “Touching the Heart” campaign, which had the goals of improving facilities and creating a greater sense of community at the San Francisco high school.

Since the merger of all-boys Sacred Heart with all-girls Cathedral in 1987, when the school became the first co-ed Catholic high school in San Francisco, students have had to shuffle back and forth between the two campuses on Ellis street.

There has not been a place where the entire student body could meet for assemblies, liturgies, or athletic events.

The new center is named for Sister Teresa Piro, founder of the Daughters of Charity foundation, who passed away before construction began on the building in March.

According to John Vigo, director of development, Sister’s name was given to the student life center in memory of the nun’s vision, generosity and compassion. The Daughters of Charity Foundation provided an initial $2.5 million donation, which helped to catapult the campaign towards its goal of $16 million. The school has since raised an additional $11 million for the project.

The San Francisco school’s “Touching the Heart” campaign began in 1993. Since then the school has built an impressive library and chapel in the process of adding space to the La Salle building, which was the original site of the all-boys Sacred Heart High School.

But perhaps the most ambitious and exciting part of the plan is the completion of the Sister Teresa Piro Student Life Center. Where once there was a small patch of grass now stands an impressive building, which dramatically changes the face of the campus and, for the first time, gives students a place where they can gather for meals and Masses and host athletic home games. The building also is home to the Carl Gellert and Celia Berta Gellert Atrium

Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory students gather in front of the San Francisco school’s new Sister Teresa Piro Student Life Center.

— a spacious gathering space for students with trophy cases containing athletic relics dating back many decades.

Touring the new center, it seems clear that architect Ron Case, who also designed the school’s library, has succeeded in creating a space that is innovative and fresh. Case utilized color and light to create a setting that is both warm and bright, with windows overlooking a breathtaking view of the city.

Vigo, a 1981 Sacred Heart graduate,

believes “the quality of the facility reflects the quality of the students.”

For students, completion of the building also means relief from the drilling of jack-

hammers and the constraints of restricted access to the entrance of the school. But what they will gain in the new school year is a cafeteria and pavilion that puts most college facilities to shame.

When the building was first opened in late September for the campus community, everyone involved in the development and construction of the center beamed with the pride of brand new parents. This sense of connection was not just the result of months of labor, because for many, this project has been a homecoming.

Alumni spanning five decades of the school’s history have had integral roles in the planning, designing, funding, and construction of the new student center. The campaign was headed by William Barulich ‘68 and Michael Kelly ‘69, with Frank Rollo ‘58 in charge of design and Miguel Guzman ‘91 acting as senior project manager. Many more alumni served on the campaign cabinet and were involved in various aspects of construction.

In his remarks to the students before they began their tour on Sept. 29, Principal John Scudder said the building represents “a mission of faith—faith in God, faith in community, and faith in the students. A school community as strong as ours needs a central place to gather.”

Senior and student body president Cynthia Caputo says, “the Student Life Center is not just an amazing building, but a symbol of our community. It’s a place where students, faculty, staff, alumni, and friends can gather together. It captures the spirit of Sacred Heart Cathedral.”

The official dedication ceremony will take place Sunday, October 12 at noon in the La Salle Plaza with San Francisco Archbishop William Levada presiding. The dedication and Mass will be followed by a reception and self-guided tours.

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The Second Vat Its Impact on the Archd

Opening Mass of the Second Vatican Council in Saint Peter’s Basilica, Oct. 11, 1962.

By Bishop Francis Quinn Bishop Emeritus of Sacramento

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s the 1960s transformed American society, so the Second Vatican Council (1962Archbishop Joseph T. McGucken (right) in Rome as the w 1965) profoundly affected the San Francisco Archdiocesan community.

Those who grew up in the archdiocese well before the Council were comfortable in a long tive, a group of the clergy developed a “Priests’ Association” as an alternative. The late established Catholic culture. Preconciliar Catholics knew novenas, Forty Hours Devotions, the Father Matthew Sullivan was elected the first President of the Association.

Latin Mass with the priest with his back turned toward the people. Children made a dwarfed As in other dioceses, tensions arose here between the clergy and Joseph T. McGucken, who Sign of the Cross (Father, Son and “Holy Ghost”) passing the parish church, but they were not had become Archbishop of San Francisco just prior to the Council. allowed even to look into a Protestant church: Bishop Fulton Sheen on evening TV, Fridays with The Archbishop faithfully attended the monthly Priests’ Senate meetings, which became creamed tuna on toast or macaroni and cheese, the nine First Fridays, collections in school for debating sessions. Tensions flared also among the clergy themselves, frequently pitting the Pagan Babies, “J.M.J.” spontaneously scrawled at the top of homework papers. young priests against the older generation. On one occasion, in a gesture of harmony, a Garry Wills has written a classic description of the era: “Firemen at a church fire with Senate member proposed simply that all priests try to attend the funerals of their fellowpoles and axes, genuflecting as they pass back and forth before the tabernacle. Girls withpriests. Even this modest proposition was defeated 8 –7. out hats hair-pinning Kleenex to their heads – it fluttered as they strode to the Communion In the assignment of priests to parishes, one story goes that a bishop in the past would rail, like a raffish dove. At the moment of the consecration of the Bread and Wine at Mass, simply say, “Give me my pen, and I’ll scatter them!” Now, the priests themselves wanted a there was always that hush… then the scuffling resumed, all the coughs and sniffs inhibsay in the appointments of pastors and associate pastors. And clergy personnel boards were ited during the Consecration formed a firecracker series of soft percussions. born. Pastors no longer served for life, but for 6-year terms, renewable.

“The bus driver putting his hand over the fare box when a priest One deacon class from St. Patrick’s Seminary, about to be ordained to or Sister entered the bus. In the public swimming pool, brown scaputhe priesthood, announced a list of pastors with whom “we will not serve.” lars like big postage stamps glued here and there on boys’ chests and Other contentions involved seminary curriculum, the proposed backs. It was a world of comfortable regulations: looking up a movie relocation of the major seminary to the Graduate Theological Union in the Legion of Decency list, serious questioning of the contents of a in Berkeley, a Priests’ Senate hearing on the Archbishop’s disapproval soup on Friday – did it have gravy or other meat products in it? At the of Father Eugene Boyle’s handling of social justice issues with the altar rail, as one knelt on the hard marble step, the altar boy nicked seminarians. It was a time of soul searching and a sizable number of each Adam’s apple with his cold Communion plate, the paten.” priests and Religious left the active ministry.

Then came the Second Vatican Council.

Religious Sisters and Brothers simplified their lifestyles and their Now we had the Mass in English, with the priest facing the peoreligious habits, and searched for ways to return to the original ple, the Sign of Peace and holding hands at the Our Father. charisms of their communities.

Fewer statues and crucifixes adorned our churches, some cruciThe power of the priesthood was not diminished, but gradually the fixes were replaced with crosses without a corpus, fewer sermons on vocation changed from that of a sole authoritative minister to a role hell and purgatory. Often the tabernacle was moved from the altar to more resembling a symphony orchestra director, who was the a side chapel. We had emphasis on liturgy, rather than such personordained leader of many ministering personnel within a parish. al devotions as the Rosary or Our Lady of Perpetual Help Tuesdays.

Archbishop John J. Mitty died just before these changes swept over A gradual change from a law-and-order Church to a flexible the archdiocese. It is interesting to speculate how he would have reactChurch; the blurring of lines of authority. “Whatever happened to sin?” ed to the changing Church.

It is true that some of the changes were not adequately explained in advance The Permanent Diaconate was restored, at first principally in the and there have been excesses. On the other hand, some contend that the decisions Sister Marie (left) and San Jose area; deaneries were reactivated and new offices added to the of the Council have been implemented too slowly or not at all.

Sister Mary Benedict Chancery Office, such as Moderator of the Curia.

“Collegiality” was an important word at the Second Vatican wearing the modified The new Code of Canon Law (universal Church law) was issued in 1983.

Council. The word meant a sharing of responsibility. The bishops of and traditional habits of Vatican II emphasized the role of the laity and introduced the expresthe world were seeking to gain from the Vatican some of the authority in decision and governance of the Universal Church. The Bishop the Little Sisters of the Poor. sion “People of God” into the Catholic vocabulary. Lay ministry courses emerged. Pastors, somewhat gingerly at first, formed parish councils, of Rome, the Pope, agreed to some of this sharing, notably in the finance committees, and school boards with members elected by the parishioners. As a pastor, I establishment of regular world-wide synods of bishops to study and to respond to the know that I was somewhat apprehensive, at first, about “losing control,” but I soon learned how Church’s needs. effective these parish lay entities proved to be in conducting the ministry.

But the idea of “collegiality” is contagious. When the bishops returned to their dioceses, Eucharistic ministers, lectors, lay liturgy committees emerged and eventually girl altarthey discovered that other members of the Church also were interested in collegiality. servers joined the boys. At the archdiocesan level, lay women as well as men became chanParticularly the priests of the archdiocese wanted the archbishop to share some of his cellors and chaired the most important archdiocesan committees. responsibilities and prerogatives. A Priests’ Senate was formed, an instrument for the clergy The faithful of the archdiocese experienced a “new” Church in the relaxing of the fasting and to express its convictions in the conduct of archdiocesan affairs. abstinence laws, and in the renewal of the Sacraments. It was a time of “aggiornamento.”

Still later, when it appeared to some of the priests that the Priests’ Senate was not effec-

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ican Council and diocese of San Francisco

Guitar Mass at Sacred Heart Parish in San Francisco.

In the “spirit of the Council,” on the day of dedication of the new St. Mary’s, a group of clergy, Religious and laity stood in the Cathedral plaza with protesting posters and banners, as the dedication procession entered the church.

Somewhat novel to the Catholic Church in the 20th century were public confrontations of Church authorities. Now they were frequent: picketing at the Chancery Office, protests by women’s groups outside churches where priesthood ordinations were being held. world’s bishop’s gathered for the Second Vatican Council.

Even the hyperbolic paraboloid design of the new St. Mary’s Cathedral resulted at least indirectly from the Vatican Council climate of updating. Some pastors also felt the impact or The Ritual of Baptism was updated, and the option of immersion restored. In most change in church construction. When the new Holy Name of Jesus Church in San Francisco instances, the Sacrament of Confirmation would be conferred during Mass, rather than conwas nearly completed, Monsignor William Flanagan was obliged to suddenly direct his archicluded with the Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. tects, Shubert and Milano, to design an altar facing the people, in accord with the general Pope John Paul II, in a recent encyclical letter, Ecclesia de Eucharistia, has stated that principles of Sacro Sanctum Concilium, the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy. the Second Vatican Council has “greatly contributed to a more conscious, active and fruitFor the most part, scholarship in Sacred Scripture had not been a strong suit for the ful participation in the Holy Sacrifice of the Altar on the part of the faithful.”

Roman Catholic Church in the first half of the 20th century. Dei Verbum helped to change Communal Penance Services were introduced, and individual confessions were offered face-tothat. Outstanding Catholic biblical scholars began to emerge, most notably Father face, as well as anonymously. Communion now was taken most often in the hand, rather than on Raymond Brown, later closely identified with the major archdiocesan seminary, St. Patrick’s the tongue. The communicant stood, rather than knelt, and often received both consecrated Bread Seminary in Menlo Park. But even here there were some differences of opinion on specific and Wine. Gradually, there were fewer and fewer confessions and more and more Communions. subjects. Father Brown had offered new interpretations on Epiphany and the Magi.

Extreme Unction was changed to the Anointing of the Sick and liberalized, often in comArchbishop McGucken declared that “there will always be three Wise Men from the East vismunal anointing, to include not just those “in danger of death,” but anyone who was sufiting the Infant Jesus, as long as I am Archbishop of San Francisco.” fering from an illness.

Bible studies began to flourish in the parishes, oftentimes two or three parishes cooperRegarding Marriage, in the archdiocese and in the United States generally, the annulment ating in a unified Sacred Scripture series for their parishioners. At Mass, the Liturgy of the (or declaration of nullity) process gradually was expedited. This and other developments may Word was emphasized alongside the Liturgy of the Eucharist. have resulted not from the Council documents, but from the perceived “spirit of Vatican II” and The decrees on ecumenism (Unitatis Redintegratio) and on the relationship of the Church also from the sexual revolution concurrent in the 60’s with the Church Council. to non-Christian religions (Nostra Aetate) gave impetus to ecumenical and interfaith dialogue The controversy over in the archdiocese.

Humanae Vitae erupted. Some Following the leadership of theologians began to review the Council notables, such as Church’s teaching on birth conFather John Courtney trol and the morality of human Murray, S.J., parish priests sexuality generally. Many of the who had never before visited Church’s controverted positions their neighboring noncentered around sex and gender, Catholic clergy now joined and ran counter to new trends in them for interdenominaAmerican society on birth control, tional and interfaith services, pre-marital sex, remarriage, and laity, clergy and abortion, ordination of women.

Religious cooperated with First Priests’ Senate meeting of the New movements, such as the other faiths in commuArchdiocese of San Francisco - Holy Name Parish.

Charismatics, began to appear in nity projects. the archdiocese. Evangelization became an emphasis for Catholics. The Rite of Christian In more recent years, Archbishops John Quinn and William Levada have given leaderInitiation of Adults, a more structured approach to conversion, led to a formal, more organship in the challenges and opportunities of Vatican II. ized embracing of the Faith or a return to a practice of Catholicism.

Despite the split over interpretations of the Council, we need both liberal and conservaInspired principally by the Council document, Gaudium Et Spes, the Church in the tive Catholics.

Modern World, people of the archdiocese began to involve themselves in social issues. Justice We need liberal and progressive Catholics, who truly love the Church, to push us forward and peace committees were formed at the archdiocesan level and in parishes. Soup kitchens to new insights. and food lockers multiplied. Not previously known as public protestors, Catholics particiAnd we need conservative, traditional Catholics for balance, to provide a challenge to pated more and more in marches and demonstrations. new ideas, to insure that the Faith of the Church is not diluted when old truths are expressed The archdiocesan newspaper, The Monitor, felt the impact of the Vatican Council, reporting through new models. week by week the news stories out of the 1962-1965 sessions. Those were stomach-churning days, Yes, uncertainty and apprehension accompanied some of the changes that followed the with traditionalists and progressives charging that The Monitor was too liberal or too conservative.

Vatican II Council.

Archbishop McGucken, The Monitor’s publisher, held to the conservative position in Church In the 1950s, we were singing “Faith of Our Fathers.” doctrine. However, he never pre-censored news reports, advertisements or columnists – except Now, in 2003, at Mass, so often we are singing “Be Not Afraid.” on one occasion when he learned that a full-page ad protesting the new Cathedral was to be And Jesus is saying, “Why are you fearful? Fear not.” I am waiting for you to break the husks published in The Monitor’s Cathedral Dedication supplement. The advertisement was removed. of fear. Remember, “I am with you all days, even until the end of the world.”

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Catholic san Francisco Northern California’s Weekly Catholic Newspaper

By way of explanation Catholic San Francisco recently carried a news story and an editorial concerning a controversy surrounding the exclusion of former San Francisco police chief Tony Ribera from a San Francisco mayoral candidate debate held at the University of San Francisco.

The debate was sponsored by numerous Catholic and other faith-based and secular non-profit service agencies. The purpose of the debate was to sound out and challenge the various mayoral candidates to present their proposals for dealing with the pressing problems of homelessness in San Francisco.

In planning the event, organizers decided that only those candidates achieving five percent or higher in a published poll of potential voters would be invited to participate in the event. This clearly is a fair and rational basis for organizing a candidate debate in San Francisco, where everyone and their cousin is likely to run for public office at some time.

Jack McClean of the Leo T. McCarthy Center at USF, one of the main sponsors of the debate, explained that a limit was set on the number of participants to ensure “an economy of time in order to give sufficient forum to those candidates most likely to win.” This is a fair and reasonable goal.

Furthermore, the five-percent hurdle for candidates to participate in the forum was determined before the City’s deadline for persons to declare their candidacy for mayor. There is no reasonable basis to conclude, as some Republican and pro-life activists have asserted, that the rules of the game were rigged to exclude Ribera because he is Republican or because he is pro-life.

Ribera simply failed to achieve the required support in a published poll and therefore was excluded from the forum. Those were the impartial rules of the game.

Occasionally, however, when one fairly and impartially applies reasonable rules to a concrete situation, one discovers circumstances that suggest special consideration. The fair rules applied in this debate resulted in the inclusion of a raft of candidates who all (with the exception of Matt Gonzalez) publicly and pointedly advertise their Catholicism and at the same time uncompromisingly support the unlimited license to destroy innocent human life in the womb. Gonzalez has not advertised his faith, but he does support abortion.

The fair rules applied here also eliminated the only Catholic pro-life candidate from being heard at a debate sponsored, in part, by Catholic institutions, held at a Catholic University, where the Catholic pro-life candidate is employed.

This circumstance struck many Catholic and pro-life citizens of San Francisco as odd. It seemed to these individuals that a qualified pro-life candidate should be allowed to participate in the debate. It seemed to many that a respect for life position certainly had something to contribute to a discussion on homelessness and housing.

San Francisco Archbishop William J. Levada sent a letter to the debate’s five main sponsors Sept. 19 urging Ribera’s inclusion. “Mr. Ribera brings a voice to this forum that should be represented . . . I urge you to reconsider your criterion for inclusion and invite him to participate,” he wrote. Archbishop Levada did not say the criteria were applied unfairly, but simply asked that the criteria be changed.

The Leo T. McCarthy Center at USF did not find the situation sufficiently odd to respond favorably to the Archbishop’s request. Jack McClean, in his reply to Archbishop Levada, maintained the organizers’ original criterion for inclusion in the debate.

Leo T. McCarthy himself wrote to Catholic San Francisco (see “Letters”) objecting to our support of Ribera’s inclusion. McCarthy writes that the editorial “strongly inferred that candidate Tony Ribera was excluded from last week’s debate among mayoralty candidates because he is pro-life.”

It did not. The editorial and news story clearly reported that Ribera was excluded because he achieved less than five percent in the polls. The editorial argued, however, that “Ribera is the only pro-life candidate for Mayor,” and as such, “has a perspective that deserves a hearing and he should be included in all mayoral candidate forums.” Ribera has, in fact, been included in almost all non-partisan candidate forums.

There may be an explanation why the Leo T. McCarthy Center was not struck by the oddness of a debate that includes only pro-abortion Catholics. Its namesake, the former Lieutenant Governor of California, is a staunchly proabortion Catholic politician. In his 1992 run for U.S. Senator, abortion was a prominent feature of his platform. According to the Los Angeles Times, he promised to write the Roe v Wade ruling into law, support Medicaid funding of abortion and push for the distribution of the RU-486 abortion pill.

The argument is made that elections at the local level have no impact on abortion policies determined at the state or national levels. If that is so, why are there so many pro-abortion politicians at the state and national level who had their start in local politics?

The argument is made that abortion is not germane to this particular mayoral election. If that is true, why have so many candidates for mayor sought the endorsement of pro-abortion groups?

The argument is made that Ribera’s pro-life stance is not at question here. If that is so, why are some people upset with suggestions that Ribera should have been included because of his (unique among mayoral candidates) pro-life views.

People will have to decide these questions for themselves.

JS

Better than CNN The article on Yorke/ Phelan/McEnerney caught my eye because I lived in Phelan Hall at USF. As I read the article I was quite fascinated by the depth of the introspection into the relationship between the three men.

I can’t stand CNN type news because they tend to report bits and pieces without views to the whole or relationships with other people/events. Our daily newspapers aren’t much better. Obviously weekly periodicals do a much better job of this.

It almost reads like a chapter of a book.

Gary Ritzman Mercer Island, WA

Media make agenda Michael McGinley advises in his Oct. 3 letter that the Supreme Court’s Texas sodomy decision is not a slippery slope. “The courts are not philosophical or theological debating clubs.” Right. The press is.

In the 1940s Jevovah Witness case one justice was asked if he read the Constitution. The answer was “He reads the papers.” The justices follow the media, not the other way around. If the decision was, as McGinley writes, “about personal privacy,” then expect prostitutes and their customers to be next in line - providing they get on the media’s agenda. All it will take is some reporter with guts, critical thinking skills, and a sense of fairness and objectivity. There is one, isn’t there?

James O. Clifford Sr. Redwood City

McCarthy on debate

L E T T E R S

Your editorial in the September 26, 2003 edition of Catholic San Francisco strongly inferred that candidate Tony Ribera was excluded from last week’s debate among mayoralty candidates because he is pro-life.

That inference is factually incorrect.

Early this year, some 250 organizations that serve homeless and impoverished San Francisco residents formed a steering committee that met seven times to organize a debate forum for the S.F. Mayor’s race. One of the requirements they adopted was that to be invited, any of the nine candidates had to receive at least five percent support in a published poll.

Five of the nine candidates met the criteria and were invited to the September 25th debate hosted by the USF Center for Public Service and the Common Good.

The fundamental aim of these groups in organizing this debate was to focus on the reliability of housing, health and human services as they affect home-

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lessness. No extraneous issues were discussed at the seven meetings of the steering committee except the policy and funding questions dealing with the above issues, matters to which the San Francisco Archdiocese has devoted considerable resources and attention.

Mayoralty candidates Alioto, Ammiano, Gonzalez, Leal and Newsom came together to debate services for and solutions to the plight of homeless poor.

The 250 groups who organized this event should be applauded, not erroneously stigmatized by the suggestion that Mr. Ribera was excluded because he was prolife. That was not a factor.

There were legitimate reasons to include Tony Ribera. He brings a different voice as a Republican, because the above five are Democrats. He has important achievements to his credit: a fine record as a San Francisco police officer, culminating in being appointed chief.

But these 250 groups did what frequently has been done by organizations arranging debates for high office. They tried to identify viable candidates by setting a poll minimum number.

Mr. Ribera got two percent in eight polls and four percent in one. These polls were taken both before and after early June when the five percent bar was set. The failure to meet that five percent bar was the only reason he and three other candidates were not invited to the debate.

In summary, there was no conspiracy to exclude Mr. Ribera because of his pro-life position or for any other reason than the five percent requirement made known to all candidates. Any suggestion to the contrary is false and unfair to all of the groups who sponsored this illuminating mayoralty debate.

Leo McCarthy San Francisco

Bigger than life Congratulations on the article by James P. Walsh on turn of the Century lay and clerical Catholic Leadership.

It is good to get “an inside story” presented with such charity and clarity. It sounds as if it comes from the pen of a participant observer of part of the

epoch.

What many of us knew about Father Peter Yorke was that he was the author of the textbook on the Mass which we used in high school.

However my mother related a tale which embellished his reputation for wit and oratory. When a debating pair were a “no show” for a debate with him he intones “Where o where has Fleenor Wente.” (A parody on their surnames).

Thus the nativist campaign was scotched at the start.

When Senator Phelan’s generous bequest to St. Ignatius College was headlined in the dailies people were awestruck. Such a fortune for the times!

Garrett McInerney posed a mundane problem to some of us who attended Saint Brigid’s School. Mornings, he and his partner would meet at the corner of Laguna and Broadway and walk to the trolley line at Van Ness Avenue. On the wide sidewalk they would stride in unison conversing across the eight feet of sidewalk which separated them. We children knew it was not polite to walk through two persons in conversation. A man as broad and tall as Garrett McInerney wore an aura of authority to respect. Either we trailed him and his partner or crossed the street to the other sidewalk.

Professor Walsh’s data confirms our intuition of long ago.

Some people seem bigger than life.

Rosemary T. French San Francisco

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The Catholic Difference My favorite memory of Pope John Paul II? I must have been asked that question dozens of times in recent weeks, as the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Pope’s election approaches. The answer I invariably give often surprises my journalistic friends.

When I think back on the past quarter-century and ask myself what event or image or papal address best captures the meaning of John Paul II, I don’t find the answer in some of the more dramatic moments in the pontificate: his papal installation of October 22, 1978, with its clarion call, “Be not afraid! Open the doors to Christ!”; that epic first pilgrimage to Poland in June 1979, nine days in which the history of the twentieth century turned in a different and better direction; the showdowns with the Sandinistas in Nicaragua in 1983 and with Chilean rioters in 1987; the World Youth Days; the two great addresses to the United Nations; the opening of the Holy Door to begin the Great Jubilee of 2000. Rather, I think of something that took place out of the public eye.

It was Sunday, March 26, 2000, the last day of John Paul’s jubilee pilgrimage to the Holy Land. A week of televised drama on the Mount of Beatitudes and in Bethlehem, Nazareth, and Jerusalem was drawing to a close. That morning, the Pope had prayed at the Western Wall of Herod’s Temple, Judaism’s holiest site, and then celebrated Mass at the tomb of Christ in the Basilica of the Holy Sepulcher: two highly visible, very public expressions of his faith in the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Jesus. It seemed to both the

trip planners and the press that the only thing left for John Paul to do was to complete the formal farewell ceremonies at Ben-Gurion Airport and return to Rome.

The Pope had other ideas.

Quietly, during lunch, he asked whether he might be permitted to return to the Basilica of the Holy Sepulcher privately, to pray as a pilgrim. The authorities were aghast; how could security be arranged so quickly? But things were eventually worked out, and John Paul, who had a different sort of security in mind, returned to the Basilica.

Then it became clear why he had wanted to return.

That morning, he hadn’t been able to pray at the eleventh and twelfth stations of the cross, which are on an upper floor of the great church. So now, a man just short of his eightieth birthday, who walked with difficulty and pain, climbed the steep, stone spiral steps up to Calvary. Having challenged the world to fearlessness – and having embodied fearlessness himself for more than two decades – he now wanted to pray at the place where the Son of God, taking all the world’s fear upon himself, had offered that fear, and himself, to the Father.

That self-emptying, and the divine answer given to it in the resurrection, had enabled all of us to live without fear. That was why John Paul II was determined to pray at Calvary. He wanted to pray at the place where fear had been conquered through radical obedience and self-emptying love.

The entire pontificate comes into focus here, I think. John Paul II has been many things for the Church and the world

these past twenty-five years: a brilliant teacher, a compelling leader, a shining personal example. He is all of those things, however, because he is first and foremost a Christian disciple. The exceptional George Weigel talents and personal magnetism of Karol Wojtyla do not explain his accomplishments, nor do they get us to the core of his person. We have to look deeper for explanations and understanding.

We have to look to his faith. You cannot understand Karol Wojtyla, whom the world knows as Pope John Paul II, without confronting one, adamant fact: he truly believes, with every fiber of his being, that Jesus Christ is the answer to the question that is every human life. That is the conviction that makes him who and what he is. That is the conviction that drives his teaching, that makes possible his accomplishments, and that focuses his talents and his personality.

He is the great Christian witness of our time.

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

Evangelization The Rosary – a resource for evangelization and contemplation On October 16, 2002, our Holy Father, Pope John Paul II issued an Apostolic Letter titled, On The Most Holy Rosary, and declared that he wished October 2002 through October 2003 to be declared the Year of The Rosary. In section three of his letter he says, “To recite the Rosary is nothing other than to contemplate with Mary the face of Christ.” He goes on to say that “The Rosary, reclaimed in its full meaning, goes to the very heart of Christian life; it offers a familiar yet fruitful spiritual and educational opportunity for personal contemplation, the formation of the People of God, and the new evangelization.”

The practice of praying the Rosary, a form of prayer that has roots in ancient forms of prayer, has become for many an out-moded prayer, something they learned in their youth, but which for the now “sophisticated” Catholic is a thing of the past! Yet Pope John Paul II reminds us that his predecessors, Blessed John XXIII and Pope Paul VI promoted the Rosary for its “evangelical character and its Christocentric inspiration.” Perhaps it is time for us as Catholic Christians to revisit the Rosary and to learn anew what it really is as a form of Catholic Christ centered prayer.

I invite you to think back to the days of your youth when you learned how to pray the Rosary, to think about what it meant to you then. I remember watching the movie about the “Children of Fatima,” and being amused at how they prayed the Rosary as they went about taking care of their sheep on the hillside in their native village. They prayed this prayer as something mechanical they were supposed to do daily. But in typical childlike fashion, they hurried it up in order to get it said. I also remember the “pride” of some people telling me that they prayed the fifteen decades everyday and did it in a short time! My own experience of praying the Rosary as a child is something similar to the above examples. I knew how

to say the prayers of the Rosary, but I did not really understand what it was all about. I learned the “mechanics” of the prayer; I could repeat the names of the fifteen mysteries and the days on which we were supposed to say them but it was only in much later years that I came to understand the Rosary as a wonderful means of focusing on the life of Christ. Sadly, many Catholics have never gone beyond their childhood version of how to “say” the Rosary.

The Rosary is a very rich source of contemplation. Each “mystery” portrays a particular incident in the life of Christ, an incident that impinges on our Faith. As we pray the Hail Mary over and over again, we, at the same time, contemplate a particular mystery. The repetition of the prayer, in a sense, clears the mind causing a “free space” that enables us to focus our thoughts on a certain event from the Life of Christ. The repetition of the prayer has the same effect as the “mantra” used by ancient religions. Pope Paul VI in his Apostolic Exhortation Marialis Cultus, (1974) has this to say: “Without contemplation, the Rosary is a body without a soul, and its recitation runs the risk of becoming a mechanical repetition of formulas, in violation of the admonition of Christ: ‘In praying do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their many words’ (Mt 6:7). By its nature the recitation of the Rosary calls for a quiet rhythm and a lingering pace, helping the individual to meditate on the mysteries of the Lord’s life as seen through the eyes of her who was closest to the Lord. In this way the unfathomable riches of these mysteries are disclosed.” The recitation of the Rosary requires its own time and space. Hopefully, gone are the days when we hear the rattle of the “beads” during the Mass. Getting a Rosary “in” as was a custom with some in the past, while well meaning, did not do justice to the prayers of the Mass nor to the praying of the Rosary.

In praying the Rosary we, through the intercession of Mary, get a deeper insight into the Gospels. This Gospel prayer puts us in touch with the life of Christ and we become more aware of how Christ’s life speaks to our life. As baptized Sister Christians our mandate is to bring the life and the Antonio Heaphy light of Christ’s saving action to the world. This ancient and ever new form of prayer is indeed a prayer for the “new evangelization.” Pope John Paul II reminds us in section 17 of his Apostolic Letter; “Why should we not once more have recourse to the Rosary, with the same faith as those who have gone before us? The Rosary retains all its power and continues to be a valuable pastoral resource for every good evangelizer.”

Pope John Paul II has much more to say. His Letter, On the Most Holy Rosary, Rosarium Virginis Mariae is both inspiring and uplifting. If you wish to read the letter in its entirety contact one of the local Catholic book stores to order a copy. While you are at it, if you can’t find your old “beads” order a new Rosary Beads as well! You will be just in time to honor the Holy Father’s wish to make 2002-2003 the Year of the Rosary.

Presentation Sister Antonio Heaphy is director of the Office of Evangelization for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Spirituality

Jesus as divine self-abandonment Last year, in a presentation at a symposium on “Being Missionaries to our own Children,” Michael Downey posed this question: How do we speak of God inside a culture that’s pathologically distracted, distrusts religious language and church institutions, and yet carries its own moral energy and virtue?

That’s a key question today, when so many of our own children, siblings and friends no longer go to church and are challenging our religious beliefs. They certainly fit Downey’s description: Distracted, distrustful of religious language and church institutions, yet carrying a lot of moral energy in their own way. Where do we go with that?

Downey’s answer? Among other things, he suggests that we need an image of God and of Jesus that can show what God does in these situations. What image of Jesus might be helpful here?

There are, as we know, many images of Christ, both in Scripture and in our church traditions. Christ is presented

variously as “shepherd,” “king,” “teacher,” “miracle worker,” “healer,” “bread of life,” “sacrificial lamb” and “lover,” among other things. Different ages have tended, for their own reasons, to pick up more on one of these than the others. What might be a fruitful image of Christ for our culture, one within which so many of our own children no longer walk the path of explicit faith with us?

Downey’s suggestion: The image of Christ as the kenosis of God; Jesus as divine self-abandonment; God as emptying himself in the Incarnation. What does this mean?

Scripture tells us that, in Christ, God offers a love so pure, so self-effacing, so understanding of our weaknesses, so self-sacrificing, so “self-emptying,” that it’s offered without any demand, however veiled, that it be recognized, met, and reciprocated in kind. In the Incarnation, God, like a good mother or father, is more concerned that his children are steered in the right direction than that he, himself, be explicitly recognized and acknowledged for who he is and thanked

for it. God, like any parent, takes a huge risk in having children. To have children is to leave yourself painfully vulnerable. It’s also to be called upon for an understanding, a patience, and a self-dethroning that, litFather erally, can empty you of Ron Rolheiser self. That’s as true of God as of any mother or father.

What are the qualities of this “self-emptying”?

To “self-empty” in the way Jesus is described as doing means being present without demanding that your presence be recognized and its importance acknowledged. It means ROLHEISER, page 18

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Extraordinary faith conversations with San Quentin Prison inmates

By Evelyn Zappia Catholic San Francisco recently visited with ten San Quentin Prison inmates at the prison’s Catholic Chapel as the men shared their personal journeys of faith, which they said were greatly enhanced by a program sponsored by the Archdiocesan School of Pastoral Leadership (SPL).

More than two years ago, San Quentin Prison inmate Leonard Rubio read in Catholic San Francisco about School of Pastoral Leadership classes that were being offered in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. “The courses sounded like an interesting opportunity to learn more about our faith and our Church,” he said.

Leonard Rubio

Kevin Hagen

Jose Luis Montejano

With the newspaper article in hand, and a few enthusi- group built our relationships with one another, and that astic responses from inmates wanting to attend the courses, has helped us share with others in the community.” He Mr. Rubio approached Holy Ghost Father and then chap- describes the group of classmates as a newfound “brothlain Denis McManus regarding the possibility of SPL erhood,” crediting the SPL faith studies as the reason courses being taught at San Quentin. for the unity. He is particularly proud of the tremendous The answer was yes and shortly after Mr. Rubio’s visit growth of knowledge of the Church and spirituality he to Father McManus, he and 11 other inmates enrolled in witnessed among everyone involved in the program. the two and one-half year journey of SPL classes that Kevin Hagen was seeking deeper spirituality and began at San Quentin Prison. Jesuit Father Peter Togni, relationship with God when he decided to take the SPL under the guidance of Jesuit Father Michael Barber, for- classes. He knew to accomplish his goals it was impormer head of SPL, conducted the classes. Many volun- tant to learn and understand more about his faith. The teers, including Father Steven Lopes and Dennis Burke classes did not disappoint him. Reading and studying of Marin County’s St. Anselm Parish and Ms. Barbara the Bible brought him the understanding of his faith he Elordi, assisted in teaching. wanted. “Seeing the background of the Scriptures Prior to the classes the majority of the men said they helped me with my life in general,” he said. As a lector were searching for answers to the religion in which they and musician for Mass, the drummer said, “It taught me were born. They attended Sunday Mass out of habit, yet to humble myself even more because I have people that depend on me in this Church.” He also realized the never fully understood the meaning of their faith.

The SPL classes created a tight-knit brotherhood that importance of leading by example. “You can’t be one developed into a RENEW type small faith community, way in Church and come out of the Church and be a completely different peraccording to Mr. Rubio. son. People notice those The faith community things,” he said. developed a strong bond Understanding his faith that enabled the men to has also brought him a share and talk about “very great interest in pursuing personal and painful the history of African things” which caused some American Catholics in the to “shed a few tears,” said Church. He also would like one inmate. “That’s a big to see more prison ministry thing in prison. You really support from the local don’t want to look like a African American commusissy - but God tells us it is nity. okay,” he said.

Jose Luis Montejano The men appeared comsaid, “I feel blessed to be fortable with the inmate’s part of the group because I remarks as he continued. wasn’t real close to the “There is so much love in Catholic Church.” He this Chapel and I think the “grew up Catholic” but readers of Catholic San didn’t know what it really Francisco need to know meant to be a Catholic. All and understand that this that changed for him since kind of stuff does not take attending SPL classes. He place in the majority of describes the program as institutions in California. “wonderful,” helping him To my knowledge, I don’t to understand his faith, think it has ever hapgrow spiritually, and be pened,” he said. able to finally relate to the “Most of us here are liftrue meaning of the Mass. ers without release dates so “By participating in the there is not a lot of hope program I became closer to here. We don’t go to God. Also it somehow Church thinking God is brought us together and we going to set us free,” he got a closer look at oursaid. “We now go with a selves and it made us deeper understanding of Guard tower at San Quentin. brothers.” Mr. Montejano our faith, and a true apprewould like to see more ciation for what it means classes held at San Quentin. He believes classes in being a Catholic.”

Leonard Rubio wanted others to experience the joy Spanish would bring the Gospel to many more people in he found in being Catholic and initiated the SPL pro- the community.

Douglas (Skip) Collier cannot thank the staff and gram to be taught at San Quentin, making him the unofficial leader of the group. Since 1994, he has been active volunteers of SPL enough for bringing the program to at the prison’s Our Lady of the Rosary Chapel, serving San Quentin. “It made so many things about my religion as a sacristan, altar server and lector. His daily partici- make more sense to me,” he said. “It opened my eyes to pation in his faith just made it stronger through the the manner in which God’s love shines through other years. He said, “I want to be a Deacon,” and after paus- people.” Mr. Collier particularly liked the classes on the ing for a moment, continued, “but I want to find a wife Lord’s prayer, something he said he had recited all his first.” He said the courses gave him “greater insight” life but through the classes, he learned to understand the into his Church and “expanded” his spirituality. context, where it came from, and why it exists. “It was SAN QUENTIN, page 15 “Studying every single section of the Catechism as a

Douglas (Skip) Collier

Vy Xuan Le

October 10, 2003 learning about his faith was exactly what he had been looking for in his life. “The key to the classes was realizing how much I didn’t know about my faith, and how ■ Continued from page 14 much it brought into my life by fully understanding it.” really enlightening for me, and continues to be - it is a He feels he has a greater knowledge about what being tremendous blessing,” he said. He described his learn- Catholic really means, and that has helped him to deal ing about his faith as “exciting.” It gave him the oppor- with every day problems, the community, and other tunity to step back, rethink his spirituality, and be faiths. renewed. “Prison does that, some get spiritual and some Richard (Rick) Farias, Jr. said he received “a richdon’t,” he said. er fullness of what it means to be Catholic,” since Vy Xuan Le said he had always wanted to be rooted attending the SPL classes, and has a deeper relationship in the Catholic Church being brought up in a Catholic with Jesus. He credits Mr. Rubio for making all of it family. He believes the SPL program has given him his possible by bringing him his “first” Bible and inviting faith back, a faith he was always active in as a child. him to the classes. Prior to the classes he realized he “It’s a miracle because my spiritual life was gone,” he understood little about the faith he was raised in and the said. The program brought him closer to God and he faith he raised his children in. With the knowledge he said enriched his daily life. Being part of building a has obtained from the classes about his faith he now community in faith and love has been very special for feels “extremely comfortable” in his Church, and he has him. He felt privileged and honored to be invited to the succeeded in explaining to others their misguided interprogram that has created a brotherhood that he believes pretations of Catholicism. “In our studies we take the would continue to grow in love through faith sharing Word seriously. The Word jumps out at me from the and study. “We will not just learn and leave our knowl- Catechism and the Bible - it’s a matter of taking it from edge in the Chapel,” he said, “we will bring it to the the head to the heart,” he said. larger community of San Robert (Bob) Kaser Quentin.” said, “I didn’t lose my faith Eugenio Pená learned but I lost my way.” He so much more about the viewed the invitation to religion he was raised in attend the SPL classes as from birth. The SPL classan opportunity for “renewes taught him “why things al and recovery” of his are said and done at Mass,” faith. What he learned giving him a greater apprefrom the Catechism class ciation for his participation was “God works with us, at Mass. He would like to he does the work and we see a larger contingency of go along with him, - someSpanish-speaking people thing I was taught when I enroll in the classes so they was younger but didn’t can learn what he has understand,” he said. learned. He found the pair“When I’m off the beaten ing of homework partners path, He brings me back. a great help, learning from How He does this I do not the interaction and discusknow.” The most important sion. “My faith grew and I thing he said he needed in feel closer to God since I his life was the “accepttook the program, and ance of God’s grace.” He would like to see others now knows he does have benefit too.” He wants to God’s acceptance, “my encourage more people to heart and mind had to learn attend future SPL classes. it,” Mr. Kaser looks forAntonio Molinar ward to taking future SPL described himself as “a classes to expand his faith, lapsed Catholic” when he hope and love. first came to prison “with a “The inmates are childlike” understanding extremely grateful for the of his faith. He pursued tremendous amount of supmany catechetical and theport they received from the ological Catholic home Deacon George Salinger at Our Lady of the faith community in the Bay study courses beginning in Area,” said Mr. Rubio, Rosary Chapel inside San Quentin State Prison.

1996 that led him to “a referring to the Hispanic journey of spiritual discernment.” He said the SPL community of Corpus Christi Parish in San Francisco courses were “the icing on the cake” to his seven year that visits and shares its faith every month with the men. fact finding mission. “Prior to the program I learned the Groups from Our Lady of Loretto Parish in Novato, how. Within the context of the program I learned the Mission San Rafael, and the Vietnamese Community why,” he said. “It is my hope and dream that one day the from San Jose also make monthly visits.

Archdiocese of San Francisco will give me serious con“Men in prison are the dregs of society,” said Mr. sideration when I apply to the Permanent Diaconate Molinar. “We are the lowest rung on the ladder.” program. And my greatest hope is I will be accepted and Although he said where this example changes is that I can turn around and come back into this prison “through those who truly adhere to the doctrines of their and give to others what has been given to me.” faith. They don’t give up on us,” he said. “My Church Jose Chavez was impressed when he saw “the through the clergy, religious, and lay volunteers have changes” taking place among the people attending the given me support, unconditional love, and the acceptSPL classes, especially their noticeable “walk toward ance that had been taken away from me by my crime Jesus.” Although he joined the group late, he realized and by the system.”

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“One of the things that makes these men special is their dedication,” said Deacon George Salinger. “In a prison setting, it is very difficult. Things happen quickly in here. The men can be recalled to their cells in the middle of the classes, and yet they hang in and they come back. They don’t give up.”

“The men’s lives of private prayer have deepened, their ability to understand and analyze scripture has grown, and their desire to serve the Church as increased,” said Father Togni.

Deacon Salinger described the change in the men “as a wonderful thing to watch.”

San Quentin is one of the few prisons in California to have its own chapel where the Blessed Sacrament is present. Most prisons throughout the State have multipurpose rooms for religious services.

Robert (Bob) Kaser

Richard (Rick) Farias, Jr.

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Food & Fun Oct. 10, 11, 12: Fiesta commemorating the 227th anniversary of San Francisco’s Mission Dolores. Begins Fri. at 6 p.m. and continues Sat. 10 a.m. – 7 p.m. and Sun. 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. Silent auction, family-style spaghetti and chicken dinners, game booths, international food, and Mission Café Sports Bar in the school auditorium. Benefits Mission Dolores Elementary School. “It’s all for a great cause, so come out and join the fun,” the school said. Call (415) 621-8203.

Oct. 10, 11, 12: Star of the Sea’s Fall Festival 2003 featuring “dinners, entertainment, , kiddie carnival, raffles and bingo.” Fun for all ages. Fri. 7 – 11 p.m.; Sat. 1 – 11 p.m.; Sun. 1 – 9 p.m. Join the fun in the parish center, 345 8th Ave., SF. Oct. 11, 12: 84th Columbus Day Bazaar at Sts. Peter and Paul Elementary School on Washington Square in San Francisco’s North Beach. Games, food, entertainment, puppet shows, salami toss, SF landmarks miniature golf, and more. Italian sodas, pizza, grilled sausages. Saturday is Family Dance Night with surfer classics by the Rip Tides. Fri. 11 a.m. – 10 p.m.; Sat. 10 a.m. – 7 p.m. Call (415) 421-0809.

Oct. 16: The St. Thomas More Society, an organization of Catholics serving in the legal profession, will gather for its annual Red Mass Oct. 16th at 5:30 p.m. at Sts. Peter and Paul Church on Washington Square in North Beach. Call Stacy Stecher at (415) 433-1400 for ticket information.

Oct. 16: The Cathedral Autumn Group travels to Napa. Men and women 55 years and older are welcome. Call Mercy Sister Esther McEgan at (415) 5672020, ext. 218. Dec. 18: Christmas Luncheon; Jan. 15: Helen Rosenthal speaks on From Jerusalem: For Peace #2;” Feb. 19: Docent Tour of Grace Cathedral; March 18: International Luncheon.

Oct. 17, 18, 19: St, Dunstan Parish Fall Festival, 1133 Broadway, Millbrae, with Friday evening Kick-off dance from 7 – 10 p.m. featuring music of Hightop Posse, $15. Enjoy bingo, casino night, silent auction, Roast Beef Dinner, rides, games, raffles. Starts Fri. at 5 p.m. and continues Sat. noon – 10 p.m. and Sun. noon – 8 p.m. Call (650) 697-4730.

Oct. 17, 18, 19: Let’s Play, St. Cecilia Parish Festival 2003 at the parish school, 660 Vicente St. between 17th and 18th Ave., SF. Fri. 6 – 10 p.m.; Sat noon – 5 p.m. and 7 – 10 p.m. with dinner from 5 – 7 p.m.; Sun. noon – 6 p.m. Games, crafts, raffle and silent auction.

Snack bar, too. Call (415) 664-8481.

Oct. 19: St. Thomas the Apostle continues celebrations of its 80 Years of Serving God and Community with a liturgy at 11 a.m. honoring those who entered the priesthood or religious life from the Richmond district parish. Couples married there will be honored Nov. 16th. The parish school, Religious Education program and Chinese School graduates will be remembered on Dec. 7. Parishioners and friends from then and now are invited. Call (415) 387-5545.

Oct. 19: Happy 50th birthday to auxiliary of Mt. St. Joseph – St. Elizabeth, SF. Big birthday party commemorates the occasion from 2 – 6 p.m.. Cocktails and bountiful hors d’oeuvres. $50 donation benefits the children and families of Mt. St. Joseph – St. Elizabeth. Call (415) 587-1439 or (415) 386-1135.

Oct. 23: Fall Fundraising Dinner benefiting La Madre de los Pobres Foundation, and honoring Salesian Father Larry Lorenzoni at Spanish Cultural Center, 2850 Alemany Blvd., SF, 6:30 p.m. Tickets at $75 “help support orphans around the world.” Call (925) 846-7031.

Oct. 25: Nightmare on St. Thomas More Way, annual Fall Festival benefiting St. Thomas More Elementary School at 50 Thomas More Way off Brotherhood Way, SF, 11:30 a.m. – 9 p.m. “Booths, games, food and plenty of fun for the entire family.” Call Patricia at (650) 7569525 or Linda at (650) 755-1297.

Oct. 25: Pre-Halloween Zydeco Dance in the O’Reilly Center of St. Emydius Parish, 255 Jules Ave, at Ashton, SF, from 9 p.m. – 1 a.m. Music by Andre Thierry and Zydeco Magic. “Grub and Grog” available. Tickets $12 advance/$15 at door. Call (415) 333-0808.

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Datebook The St. Thomas More Society, an organization of Catholics serving in the legal profession, will gather for its annual Red Mass Oct. 16th at 5:30 p.m. at Sts. Peter and Paul Church on Washington Square in North Beach. San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop John Wester will preside. Homilist is Jesuit Father Stephen Privett, president, University of San Francisco.

Retired Alameda County District Attorney, John J. Meehan (left), will be presented with the group’s St. Thomas More Award. Dinner follows at San Francisco Italian Athletic Club.

Tickets $75 per person. Call Stacy Stecher at (415) 433-1400 for reservations.

Oct. 25: Annual Halloween Luncheon Fundraiser of Dolores #7 Young Ladies Institute in St. Cecilia Parish lower church hall beginning at 11 a.m. Tickets $12.

Call Claire Kendall at (415) 751-5875. Oct: 20: Regular meeting at 7:30 p.m. with official visit from Grand President Barbara Lovio. Call Rose Marie at (415) 753-5680.

Oct. 25, 26: Holiday Craft Fair benefiting St. Gabriel Elementary School, 41st Ave. and Taraval, SF. Items include scarves, jewelry, soaps, tote bags, ornaments and candles. Sat. 10 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.; Sun. 12:30 – 4 p.m. takes place in parish’s Bedford Hall. Call (415) 566-0314.

Nov. 1, 2: InStyle, 34th annual Fashion Show benefiting St. Ignatius College Preparatory School, SF, an event “that has raised millions of dollars for the SI scholarship fund,” the school said. “The paparazzi will be there and the runway filled with fashionable models.” Tickets to Saturday’s Evening Gala are $125. Sunday luncheon tickets are $75.

Sponsorship and other underwriting opportunities are still available. Call Jeannie Barulich at (650) 373-4140, or Theresa Moore at (415) 586-8051.

Nov. 15: Potluck dinner and presentation of Marin County Respect Life Program featuring Wesley J. Smith, internationally known author, attorney who advises The International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide. “The event is designed to educate the community about the realities of the Culture of Death as it relates to end of life issues, care of the disabled, the assault on medical ethics and more,” said Vicki Evans, coordinator. Call (415) 945-0180. Takes place at St. Sebastian parish, 373 Bon Air Rd. at Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Greenbrae at 6 p.m.

Performance/Auditions Admission free unless otherwise noted.

Oct. 12: David Hatt, concert organist, composer, and assistant organist at SF’s St. Mary’s Cathedral “will present an exciting program of contemporary organ music,” at St. Sebastian Church, Bon Air Rd. at Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Greenbrae at 4 p.m. Call (510) 233-5629.

Reunions Oct. 25: Class of ’78, Our Lady of Angels Elementary School, Burlingame at Doubletree Hotel in B’game. Still looking for some classmates.

Contact Robin Rando Del Pape at (650) 759-5926, robindelpape@comcast.com; or Julie Britton Kanzaki at (650) 464-2354 or kanzakis@pacbell.net.

Vocations/Prayer Opportunities Oct. 11, 12: One Body and One Spirit, a Holy Spirit Conference at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough and Geary St., SF from 7:30 a.m. Sat. and 8 a.m.

Sun. Tickets $20 day/$30 weekend. “Experience the fresh anointing of the Holy Spirit calling, leading and inviting all,” the Charismatic Renewal Board said.

Call Ernie Von Emster at (650) 594-1131.

Oct 11: Dominican Sisters of San Rafael offer a day of reflection on St. Catherine of Siena, 9:30 a.m. – 4 p.m., at 1520 Grand Ave., San Rafael. Contact Sister Pat at (415) 257-4939 or pfarrellop@sanrafaelop.org.

Oct. 23, 30: Dominican Sisters of San Rafael offer Discernment Evenings from 7 – 8:30 p.m. in San Francisco. Contact Sister Pat at (415) 257-4939 or pfarrellop@sanrafaelop.org.

Oct. 13: Procession and Mass commemorating Feast of Our Lady of Fatima at St. Finn Barr Parish, 415 Edna St., SF at noon. Reception follows in parish hall now named for former pastor, Father Lawrence Goode. Call (415) 333-3627.

Oct. 18: Rosary Procession and Mass, 11 a.m. at St. Thomas More Church, Junipero Serra Blvd. and Brotherhood Way, SF with Msgr. John Sweeny, founder of Santa Clara’s Our Lady of Peace Shrine.

Celebrates the conclusion of the Year of the Holy Rosary. Sponsored by the Legion of Mary at the invitation of St. Thomas More pastor, Father Labib Kopti. Call (650) 992-8049.

Oct. 19: National Catholic Daughters Sunday is commemorated at St. Anthony of Padua Church, 1000 Cambridge St., Novato at 11 a.m. Mass. All are invited to pray with and learn more about the group.

Oct. 20: Special morning of reflection and conversation on the Earth Charter, 10 a.m. – noon, with Notre Dame Sisters Sharon Joyer and Pat Nagle, founders of Earth Home Ministries and pioneers and advocates in “getting people together to work the ground to create beautiful and productive community gardens.” The event is free. Box lunches are available for $10. Takes place at the Sisters’ Province Center, 1520 Ralston Ave., across from Ralston Hall on the college campus. Contact Shryl McCormick at (650) 593-2045, ext. 350 or mccormicks@SNDdeN.org. Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur also offer Prayer: Creating a Life with God tomorrow and each 2nd Sat. of the month with Notre Dame Sister Michelle Henault.

Respect Life/ Family Life Oct. 11: Training session and information on Tell a Parent initiative for those gathering petition signatures related to the legislation. Takes place at

downstairs Serra Room of St. Cecilia Church following the Saturday vigil Mass at 6 p.m. Call Bea Smalley at (415) 221-5150.

Oct. 18: The Spirituality of the Gospel of Life with Father Frank Pavone of Priests for Life. “Celebrate the sanctity of life united in prayer, meet people in the pro-life community and learn more about pro-life initiatives and activities.” Begins at 8 a.m. with light continental breakfast and ends with Mass at 5 p.m.

Takes place in Flanagan Center of Holy Name of Jesus Parish, 39th Ave. and Lawton St., SF. Call Mary Peterson at (415) 614-5567. $15.

Retreats/Days of Recollection —— Vallombrosa Center —— 250 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park. For fees, times and details about these and other offerings call (650) 325-5614. Presentation Sister Rosina Conrotto, Program Director.

Oct. 11: The Contemplative Way – Contemplation and Compassion exploring how contemplative prayer enables becoming more effectively human and more compassionate. Facilitated by Carol Fowler, a leader in centering prayer.

Oct. 11: Caring for Caregivers, a reflection on how caregivers can find a balance between their concern for others and their regard for themselves.

Facilitated by Carol Kaplan , a licensed child and family counselor.

Oct. 19: On Being Church – A Mystery of faith: Images in Song, and afternoon of music and inspiration with Bob Hurd, composer, musician, vocalist.

Taize Prayer Oct. 15 and subsequent 3rd Wed. at 7:30 p.m. with the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur in their Province Center Chapel, 1520 Ralston Ave., Belmont across from Ralston on the college campus. Call (650) 5932045, ext. 350 or www.SistersofNotreDameCa.org.

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) 359-6313.

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) 631-2882 1st Sat. at 8:30 p.m. at SF Presidio Main Post Chapel, 130 Fisher Loop. Call Catherine Rondainaro at (415) 713-0225

Single, Divorced, Separated Sundays, Oct 12 – Nov. 23: Divorce Recovery Course, 7 p.m., O’Reilly Parish Center, 451 Eucalyptus, San Francisco. $45 fee includes materials. “Provides a chance to understand the emotional journey begun with the loss of a marriage,” said Separated and Divorced ministry of the Archdiocese of San Francisco sponsor of the sessions. Call Susan at (415) 752-1308 or Vonnie at (650) 873-4236.

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Long views of U.S. Church A PEOPLE ADRIFT: THE CRISIS OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH IN AMERICA, by Peter Steinfels. Simon and Schuster (New York, 2003). 392 pp., $26.00 THE COMING CATHOLIC CHURCH: HOW THE FAITHFUL ARE SHAPING A NEW AMERICAN CATHOLICISM, by David Gibson. Harper (San Francisco, 2003).

350 pp., $23.95.

Reviewed by Brian T. Olszewski Catholic News Service During 2002, books with “Catholic” and “crisis” in the title were a staple in a bookstore’s religion section. Their focus was the crisis of 2002 — sexual abuse of children by clergy. These two new books by Peter Steinfels and David Gibson recognize that, while sexual abuse by clergy is a part of it, the Catholic crisis is deeper, wider and more than an annual event.

Unlike some authors who, in writing about the sexual abuse crisis, cited a specific cause, such as dissent or homosexual clergy, Steinfels and Gibson demonstrate that the crisis is the result of multiple factors. Each factor, explained in a tone that is calm but emphatic, will give readers cause to think.

As an editor, writer, and university instructor, Steinfels has the credentials to state, “American Catholicism, to put it bluntly, is in trouble.” He thinks decisions in the next decade or two will determine the church’s direction for the remainder of this century.

His opening chapter provides a concise overview of the scandal and the issues it raised. Steinfels sees a “vacuum of leadership,” not only during the sex abuse scandal, but also in liturgy, catechesis, the role

of women, institutions, and among the bishops themselves.

As he ends one chapter, Steinfels links it to the next. For example, concerns about worship lead to how the faith is being handed on from one generation to the next.

A short but thorough history of catechetics in the U.S. leads him to conclude that adults must be the prime market for religious education.

In regard to women, Steinfels maintains, “Catholicism is at a very strange juncture.”

He is thorough in delineating church teachings and attitudes toward sexual matters and the role of women, including the ordination of women to the priesthood.

“To forbid discussion of a church practice is a virtual admission that it cannot withstand scrutiny,” he writes of women’s ordination.

He states, “If the church’s case against ordaining women to the priesthood is valid, it should withstand the test of Catholics’ becoming familiar with women ordained to the diaconate and women holding positions of real decision-making power.”

In his chapter on leadership Steinfels not only speaks of bishops, priests, religious and laity, he also speaks to them. His critique of bishops’ leadership cites failures of comprehension, empathy, decisiveness, focus, persistence, follow-through, openness and explanation.

Maintaining that as a group U.S. bishops are less likely to take the initiative on issues than they did 20 years ago, he asks, “Why are American bishops so consistently spineless in their dealings with Rome? Why are they so pliable before the nation’s handful of cardinals?

Do they fear being excluded from the club of other bishops? Do they fear the low-level harassment that Vatican offices can conduct?”

Meanwhile, in “The Coming Catholic Church,” his first book, Gibson touches upon

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most of the same topics as Steinfels, as well as clericalism and the church after Pope John Paul II. He is optimistic about the reform process, acknowledging it as a “difficult road ahead,” while calling it “inspiring and invigorating.”

He says that women, Latinos and young people are the “tripod on which the future of American Catholicism rests. Remove any of them, and the church will be in serious trouble.”

Gibson is a former religion writer at the Newark Star-Ledger daily newspaper and a former Vatican Radio reporter who converted to Catholicism as an adult. His book draws upon polling research, Catholic thought over the last couple of decades and

interviews with people who bring an educated perspective to aspects of the crisis.

These books are a source of personal, prayerful reflection, a basis for candid discussion and an inspiration for action to correct those flaws that threaten to weaken, and possibly destroy, the institutional church.

Their words are too important to be ignored if Catholics are to witness a church — their church — as one, holy, catholic and apostolic rather than as one that is perpetually in crisis.

Olszewski is editor of the Northwest Indiana Catholic, newspaper of the Diocese of Gary, Ind.

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Need a trim - Who’s you’re stylist?

It’s become abundantly, though recklessly, clear that, even if it saves me a few bucks, I should not be allowed to wield scissors anywhere near my head when I’m in the mood for a trim.

It started on a Wednesday. My bangs needed a little trim. I’d been cutting my bangs two or three times between stylist appointments for years. And, hey, I’ve watched people cut hair for over thirty years! How hard can it be?

Whoops, one slip of the scissors and whoa, they’re short.

Mom always said, “It’ll grow back,” which while true, isn’t all that comforting in the here and now.

Thursday: Hmmm, with those bangs so short, I might need to trim up the bottom and the sides a bit. Friday: it looks like the right side is longer than the left side. Better fix that. Oh and here are those “magic scissors” I got at the dollar store to thin it out a bit… Saturday: (you can’t stop me with the reality of my inept shearing) Saturday brought shorter sides on top, wispy, awkward sides on bottom and the very disturbing realization I’d absolutely have to go to a stylist and admit my reckless snipping.

Not that they’d need me to say anything – just looking you could tell something had gone terribly awry. I hate having to admit stuff to professionals.

It occurs to me that this is sometimes how I’ve treated my spirituality. I’d go regularly to a spiritual director for months and months. Then, for some reason, a change in schedule (his or mine) I’d miss one appointment, then another. One day I look around and my “spiritual hairstyle” needs

a trim and I think I’m the one who can do it. After all, I’ve been Catholic for a while and seen how others do it. So, I take out the sacred scissors and start cutting. Pretty soon, I’m looking in the mirror and seeing a lopsided spiritual self.

In those self-help times, I pray “when I feel like it,” rather than on a regular schedule. I give myself permission to miss Mass (for travel reasons) even if I tried I could make it. I tell myself I’ll read my “spiritual reading” later, when I’ve got more time, and am more rested. Meanwhile this article in “Real Simple” is just what I need or this episode of Alias. Surely God can use secular media too, to get through. Well, yeah, but…

There I go again, looking in the spiritual mirror. I’m lopsided again. I need a trim and I need it from a professional.

Maybe I need it from a number of professionals! Fortunately this time around, the opportunity to check in with some professionals is painlessly, joyfully available right down the street.

On Saturday, October 25th, the Office of Young Adult Ministry and over 100 young adult volunteers host the seventh annual Fall Fest (A Time for Young Adult Catholics to Come Together.) Over 300 young adults (ages 18-39) will come to USF and spend the day deepening their faith, celebrating their community, connecting with one another and the God who calls them. Just what the doctor ordered, to mix my metaphors.

Are you a young adult? Do you know any? In need of a trim too? Maybe someone you know might be interested in a shape and style. If you (or someone you know) is a young adult looking to do some regular maintenance on your spiri-

tual style, meet others who share your faith, or just want to tease me about my loopy hair, check out the Fall Fest registration materials at www.sfyam.org.

If you’re not a young adult but also are ready for some styling, why not check out the resources section of our website to find a spiritual director Sister or a faith community.

Christine Wilcox Fall Fest Registration will be open at 8:45 a.m. and because I love a deal – if you bring this column, you’ll get five dollars off the registration fee! Now’s your chance to invite a friend too! Just cut this out now and share it with a young adult or two! Now if I can just find a coupon for a good styling salon!

Rolheiser . . .

missionaries in the toughest mission field of all today, our own culture, with its own innate virtue and its own innate inattentiveness to God and church. Downey’s suggestion that we take as our horizon God’s “self-emptying” in Jesus is, I believe, a very good one. Properly understood, that image can show us where and how to stand in faith inside a culture that likes to think it has outgrown faith.

At that same symposium, a social worker from Quebec, Vivian Labrie, in her keynote address, made this statement: “I believe that God is mature enough that he doesn’t demand to be always the center of our conscious attention.” While that statement needs some nuance, it is, in its own way, a commentary on the famous Christological hymn in Philippians (2:6-11) which describes Jesus’ “selfemptying” in the Incarnation.

When a mother or father sits down at table with the family, she or he doesn’t need, want or expect to be the center of attention, a prerogative a healthy adult generally

cedes to the kids. What he or she does need and want is that the family be happy, respect each other, respect the ethos and aesthetics that the family values, and that everyone is essentially on the right track in his or her life so that each family member knows what’s ultimately sacred, moral, and important, even if a given member doesn’t, at this particular moment, recognize or credit the family for what he or she has been given to prepare him or her for life and happiness.

This is even truer of God, whose love, understanding and patience are beyond our own and who, like any good parent, doesn’t demand to be always the center of our conscious attention.

■ Continued from page 13 giving without demanding that your generosity be reciprocated. It means being invitational rather than threatening, healthily solicitous rather than nagging or coercive. It means being vulnerable and helpless, unable to protect yourself against the pain of being taken for granted or rejected. It means living in a great patience that doesn’t demand intervention, divine or human, when things don’t unfold according to your will. It means letting God be God and others be themselves without either having to submit to your wishes or your timetable. Not an easy thing at all — that’s why we’ve sung Jesus’ praises for 2,000 years for doing it — but that’s the invitation.

We need a theology of God and an image of Christ that can give us a horizon and some hope as we struggle to be

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Dominican Sister Christine Wilcox is director of Young Adult Ministry and coordinator for university and college campus ministry for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser is a theologian, teacher and award-winning author.

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WORLD MISSION SUNDAY OCTOBER 19, 2003 IS A SPECIAL DAY FOR ALL OF US

“HEALING A BROKEN WORLD” The great Religions of Asia with the respective creeds or religious practices and laws reveal the different paths leading to God whose spirit is active in all the cultures and peoples.

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– World Mission Sunday 2003 – Dear Friend of the Missions, October 19, 2003 is a special day for all of us who are called, by Baptism, to be involved in the missionary work of the Church – it is World Mission Sunday.

World Mission Sunday truly belongs to the world. It is celebrated in every country, in every diocese and in every parish – in a remote chapel far out in the African bush, in a predominantly Muslim or Hindu area in Asia, in a poor village in Latin America. We are citizens of the world, members of the one Body of Christ, and are at our best when we act lovingly and generously to our brothers and sisters in the Missions.

So this year remember that on October 19, 2003, World Mission Sunday, the family of the Church celebrates that we are “one family in mission.” Please pray for the people of the Missions and for missionaries. I ask also for your most generous help to make Christ known. The collection gathered for the Society for the Propagation of the Faith on that Sunday – the offerings of Catholics worldwide is vitally needed for the pastoral and evangelization work of more than 1,100 mission dioceses.

Asking the Lord to bless you for your generous missionary spirit, I am Sincerely,

Most Reverend Ignatius C. Wang Auxiliray Bishop / Archdiocesan Director

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Jesus falls a second time . . .

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