October 3, 2003

Faith Formation Conference Hun dreds of peop le attend annual conference for catechists and teachers

By Maurice Healy rich menu of speakers , workshops and discussions drew more than 1,700 people to 4 „4 the Faith Formation Conference at the Marriott Hotel in downtown San Francisco J. XSaturday, Sept. 27. The conference, co-sponsored by the Archdiocese of San Francisco and the Diocese of San Jose, attracted individuals working in religious education including catechists, religion teachers, religious education directors and many others.

From the keynote address by Father Patrick Brennan of the Archdiocese of Chicago to the closing liturgy celebrated by San Francisco Archbishop William J. Levada with San Jose Bishop Patrick J. McGrath and Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop Gabino Zavala, attendees found what one of the conference organizers called "an extraordinary opportunity to enliven one 's faith ."

For the first time in more than a decade, the Faith Formation Conference, formerl y called the Religious Education Institute , was the result of collaboration between local dioceses. The Office of Religious Education and Youth Ministry of the Archdiocese of San Francisco teamed with the Off ice of Pastoral Ministry of the San Jose dioceseto p lan and stage the event , which featured major speakers, more than 40 workshops , three dozen exhibitors , and special offerings for youth, Spanish-speaking and Vietnamese.

For catechists or teachersof children , there were workshops such as "Lord , I love 'em, but ' they re driving me nuts." For the new catechist, workshops such as "Help, I said yes — now what do I do?" And for teachers of adolescents, "Sometimes we dance, sometimes we wrestle."

Practical help for teachers included workshops on planning a lesson, teaching techniques and ideas, and guidance in working with children with special needs. In addition, workshops covered topics such as preparation for receiving sacraments, making the Gospels come alive, spiritu ality, music and liturgy. FAITH CONFERENCE , page 24

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Members of a choir in traditional dress attend Mass celebrating Korean Catholic heritage at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Concep tion in Washington Sent. 21. The service marked the 100th anniversary of Korean immig ration to the United States. About 1 million peop le of Korean descent live in the United States. About 70,000 are Catholic.

St. Michael Korean Church is in San Francisco .

Faith groups, non-profits hold candidate forums

By Jack Smith In two candidate forums held last Thursday, San Francisco mayoral hopefuls responded to questions and concerns of faith based communities and non-profit social service providers.

The first, held at the University of San Francisco, was hosted by sponsors representing over 250 service agencies and organizations in the City, and focused on homeless and affordable housing issues. More than 700 people heard candidates Tom Ammiano, Susan Leal, Angela Alioto, Matt Gonzalez and Gavin Newsom."During these difficult times when hundreds of billions of federal dollars (are spent) in support of military action at the expense of domestic needs, and the economy continues to stagnate, and city and state tax revenues decline, it is the poor who are most adversely affected," USF President Father Stephen Privett said in

introducing the debate. "Concern for them is the driving force behind this event," he said.

Broadcast journalist Belva Davis moderated the debate with brief opening statements followed by prepared questions posed by leaders in the non-profit community and impromptu questions by Ms, Davis.

Supervisor Tom Ammiano credited his Catholic school upbringing for his commitment to "community and liberation theology " and concern for the poor. His experience as a public school teacher and elected official increased his concern for "class, ethnicity and multicultural issues," he said. He hopes to translate that experience into being a Mayor "who would lead you down a compassionate and practical road" to solutions on the homeless issue. He later said he favors introducing a City Value Added Tax as a method of increasing revenue.

Former Board of Supervisors President Angela Alioto also mentioned her Catholic education at Convent of the Sacred Heart, Lone Mountain and USF Law School. She said as Supervisor, "the poor of our City was always the top of my agenda." Her homeless plan "is about going out and taking people off the street, taking them to a triage center for no more than two hours and bringing them immediately to the programs... who take care of their particular issues. " She said , "it is absolutely unconscionable to make the homeless scapegoats."

Board of Supervisors President Matt Gonzalez said he entered work as a public defender and later supervisor to work for "social justice and economic justice. " He said he has been a "solid progressive vote " on the board of supervisors, but that he has worked to be fair to peop le SF MAYOR, page 3 rimnifi

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b y Tom Burke Happy 50 years married to Helen and Tom Perlite who renewed their vows on their June J 3th anniversary to the witness of famil y, friends and ,. Helen 's cousin , Jesuit Father John Murphy, at St. Stephen Church, their longtime parish. Tom 's brothers are the late Father Paul Perlite, former pastor of Sacred Heart Parish, Olema, and Jesuit Father John Perlite now retired at Sacred Heart Jesuit Center in Los Gatos. Helen and Tom were the "first couple to be married in the original St. Stephen Church ," their proud famil y including sons , Tom, John, Mark , and Paul , said. "They are wonderfu l parents and grand parents and continue to be an inspiration to all of us. We love them very much. " Helen and Tom are also coup led in service at St. Stephen ' s as Eucharistic ministers.. .Celebrating 50 years of marriage September 15th were Ellen and Humphrey O'Leary of St. Anne of the Sunset.

"Their presence is a real source of strength to our faith community, " the parish said in a recent bulletin wishing them "abundant blessings. " St. Anne ' s Helen and Tom Perlite will be 100 years old in 2004. A Centennial Corner in the bulletin reports that Masses were first prayed in the Park View Hotel. Still around? If not, what 's where it was? Earliest St. Anne pastors listed in the Directory of the Archdiocese are Father

Joseph McCue, 1904 - 11; and Msgrs. William G. O'Mahoney, 1911-36; and Patrick Moriarty, 1936 70. The parish offers congratulations to parochial vicar, Father William Myers, who celebrated 15 years as a priest 24th....Our September Lady of Mercy says thank you to Larry Brookes, recentl y retired "volunteer sacristan " at the Daly City parish's dail y 7 a.m. Mass, and John Mangini , "parish finance committee" member and "very generous bulletin advertiser " who helped make a recent Estate Planning Seminar a success....St. Peter 's, Pacifica gave "blessings and thanks" Congrats to St. Brendan 's new Parish Advisory Board that was installed for its new at a morning Mass on Sept. 14th. Front from left: Mary Ann Schwab, Ed Callahan Pastoral Council Bernadette Warren, Greg Berardi, Marcy Kauppi, Theresa and Finance Chen-Louie, Ed Dollard, Kevin Kosewic, vice president; Father Tom Committee.

Parenti, pastor; Patt Parenti, Mary Liz Lincoln, secretary; Michele Members include Kasimor, Carlos Alvarez, Jeannee Martin, Holly Olsen , Steve Flannery.

Pete Cacicedo, At back left, holding his outgoing president 's plaque is Teresa Benevides, James Sangiacomo with current president , Wayne Kauppi.

Ron Bernardi, C e l e s t e Chernicky, Dave Hickman, Jerry McGowan, the feast of its patronal saint. Renewing vows at this year 's Lucky McGowan, Bill Mullen, Diane Patrito, Mass were Cheryl Ann and John Pierce, Janice and Davi John Caldwell, Sal De Rogatis, Rudy Pickell, Howard, Mary Elaine and Joseph Sylva , Leonila and Dennis Powell.... Brushing up on their yes- Romy Sabangan, Maria and Tomas Cu, Rosalie and terdays for a 25th reunion on October 25th is Reycard Mariano. Father Eugene Tungol, pastor of the the class of '78 from Our Lady of Angels South San Francisco parish , presided with Fathers Tony Elementary School. Thanks to Julie Britton Claudio and Jun Ligta concelebrating. Deacons Bob Kanzaki for lettin ' us know. "We're still seek- Bertolani and Frank Almeida assisted... .Happy annivering contact information for some of our class- sary to Mary and Joe Bruce who celebrate d 50 years mates," Julie said, recalling the alums' 8th August 21st. Parishioners of St. Rita, Fairfax for their grade teachers as Patrice Antosik and Andrea entire married life, they took their vows a half-century ago Scarborough. Additional faculty of the time at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Parish in Mill Valley. A party includes Elaine Scoles, who now teaches 2nd hosted by their children Becky Bruce, Tom Bruce and grade at the Burlingame school; Mercy Sisters Karen Adams marked the occasion. Thanks to Mary 's sisKathleen Kinney and Victoria Brady now of ter, Grace Farley of St. Mary Church, Nicasio, for the Southern California; Mercy Sisters Mary good news....Birthdays , births , anniversaries, marriages, Loretto Hunt and Carmela Cesari now retired; engagements, new jobs and all kinds of goings-on are welMercy Sister Linda Laine now at St. Matthew come here. Remember this is an empty space without Elementary School in San Mateo, Mercy ya ' . Send item s and a follow up p hone number to On the Sister Anne Murphy now part of the congregation 's Street Where You Live, One Peter Yorke Way, SF 94109.

Leadership Team; and the late Mercy Sister Mary Fax (415) 614-5633; e-mail tburke@catholic-sf.org. Do William Dui gnan. (See Datebook)... St. Augustine not send attachments except p hotos and those in jpeg, Parish has made an annual rite of blessing marriages on please. You can reach Tom Burke at (415) 614-5634...

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Supervisor Gavin Newsom said he is "not satisfied with 130,000 San Franciscans that are uninsured . . . that over 30,000 people are looking for work . . . that San Francisco leads the nation in drug abuse . . . that working families don't have the opportunity to live and work and raise a family, in San Francisco." He wants to "unite San Francisco around real solutions to the very real problems this city faces." Newsom later said he wanted a more coordinated response to the homeless problem rather than administering it through 12 different City departments as is currently done.

City Treasurer Susan Leal said she wanted San Francisco to again be a "City of opportunity." She said both of her parents came to San Francisco from Mexico and neither of them finished high school. "What was instilled in me is that this is a City of opportunity . . . an opportunity to raise a family . . . be a kid . . . to live in dignity."

She said that making opportunity happen today is impossible without "non-profits

and faith based organization." She said such organizations are the "front line " that "get things done." She said that government needed to be a better partner to faith based organizations that provide "so much service .. . so much dignity " in the City.

About forty Republican s and Catholic pro-life activists , along with former police chief Tony Ribera, greeted attendees with a picket. They were protesting Ribera 's exclusion from the forum.

Inside, USF President Father Stephen Privett , introducing the event said , "the single and sole criterion for inviting candidates to participate in this forum was that they demonstrated a minimum of five percent support in a published poll. " Ribera was present at the second mayoral forum held at Saint Mark 's Lutheran Church and sponsored by the Bay Area Organizing Committee.

BAOC is a non-partisan grass roots political organizing committee composed of representatives from labor unions, Catholic parishes and other faith communities.

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The foru m was part of a BAOC business meeting at which members ratified a platform statement and committed to provide volunteers to work on a get out the vote effort in the upcoming election.

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Candidates were read a list of 18 requests developed and agreed to by BAOC members dealing with issues of immigration, health care, housing, homeless and job development. Candidates were allowed to answer only yes or no to each item. All candidates answered yes to each item, with the exception of Tony Ribera, who said no to some items.

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WASHINGTON (CNS) —As the U.S. Senate began debate on a $13 million voucher plan for students in the District of Columbia, Washington Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick joined nearl y two dozen parents and children , a senator and the archdiocese 's school superintendent at a press conference in support of the program. On Capitol Hill , surrounded by children and parents wearing "School Choice" stickers , Cardinal McCarrick Sept. 24 stressed the importance of giving all parents in the District of Columbia , rich or poor, equal opportunity when it comes to choosing the right schools for their children. "These young peop le should have the best education in the country," he said. "This is the nation 's capital. We want parents to have a choice to say, 'OK, I can go here, I can go there, I can go anywhere I want,"" when choosing a school for their child , he said.

"We really believe that the future of this city, this country, depends on the kids." He added that a three-pronged approach to federal funding for education in the district was critical to helping the city 's children. A public school system that is "the best in the nation," funding for low-income families who choose nonpublic schools and strong chatter schools will help ensure that the children succeed , he said.

Catholics praised fo r opp os ition to VS. military training center

WASHINGTON (CNS) — A federal legislator praised Catholic priests and nuns Sept. 23 for raising public awareness of evidence that Latin American military graduates of a U.S. training center have been involved in human rights violations.

Rep. James McGovern, D-Mass., said continued pressure by religious organizations and individuals is needed to get congressional action to shut down the program. McGovern is the sponsor of a House bill to temporarily close the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation at Fort Benning, Ga., while a congressional review is done of the program. The institute is the successor of the School of the Americas, which was closed about three years ago. The institute is "a stain on the honor of die U.S. community," said McGovern at a news conference in Washington. McGovern and other critics of the school and the institute said that its graduates have been involved in killing and torturing people in Latin America, including Latin American and U.S. church people. Despite the name change, "it's still the same old school," he said.

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MILWAUKEE (CNS) — Catholic actor and social activisl Martin Sheen carries a rosary in his suit pocket. While the prayer beads are used as a prop for his character, President Josiah Barilet, on the NBC television drama "The West Wing," Sheen said his devotion to the rosary is not an act. "I've come to love the rosary," Sheen said during a press conference two weeks ago at Marquette University. The actor was in Milwaukee to receive an honorary doctorate from Marquette and to help dedicate the university 's new $55 million Library, Sheen was recognized b y Marquette for his dedication to social justice. Sheen said he prays the rosary while driving to the NBC studio in Burbank , which is about one hour from his home.

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Human rig hts group s express relief on woman 's acquittal

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Catholic and human rights activists expressed relief that an Islamic court in Nigeria acquitted a woman sentenced to death by stoning after she was found guilty of adultery. "We hope thai as time goes on, everyone will dance to the tune of justice ," Ni gerian Archbishop Anthony Olubunmi Okogie of Lagos told Vatican Radio after the Sept. 25 court decision. The acquittal came from the Shariah Court of Appeals in Katsina , one of a dozen predominantly Muslim states in northern Ni geria that has adopted an Islamic code of law. Amina Lawal, a divorced woman and mother of a 2-year-old daug hter, was convicted of adultery in March 2002 and sentenced to death by stoning. The verdict and sentence were overturned mainl y on technicalities , including the lack of an eyewitness required by Islamic law.

Pop e names 30 new cardinals; Archbishop Kigali f rom U.S.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope John Paul II named 30 new cardinals , including Philadelphia Archbishop Justin F. Rigali, enlarging and further internationalizing the group that will one day elect his successor. The pope will induct the cardinal s in a consistory at the Vatican Oct. 21, adding a major event to an alread y heavy program of celebrations for the 25th anniversary of the pope 's election. "The candidates ... come from various parts of the world and cacry out diverse duties in the service of the people of God," the pope said in announcing the names from his window above St. Peter 's Square Sept. 28. "As a group, they well respect the universality of the church arid the multip licity of its ministries ," he said. The new cardinals represent 18 countries from all six continents. Seven are Vatican officials, 19 are heads of archdioceses around the world and four are priests over 80 years old being honored for their service to the church. The pope also said he was preserving the name of one new cardinal "in pectore," or in his heart. In the past , such cardinals have served in places where public knowledge of their appointment might provoke hostility against the church. ¦nma

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26, also warned that chronic poverty, ecolog ical degradation and declining respect for human life were threats to world peace. Partici pants agreed to hold the meeting every three years. It will be called the "Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions," and the next encounter will also be held in Astana , the Kazak capital. The meeting broug ht together Christians , Muslims, Jews, Buddhists , Hindus , Shintoists and followers of 11 other religious faiths. Leading the Vatican delegation were Cardinal Jozef Tomko, former head of the Vatican ' s evangelization congregation , and Archbishop Renato Martino , president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. The final statement hi ghlighted the ri ght of every person to freel y practice religion and said dialogue and tolerance were essential building blocks to global harmony.

New saints to hig hlig ht church's missionary role in Africa , Asia

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — To underline the church' s universal mission , Pope John Paul II is preparing to canonize three 19th-century priests who helped launch evangelization programs in Africa and Asia. The Oct. 5 liturgy in St. Peter 's Square will highlight the lives of people who took radical and sometimes risky steps in order to spread the Gospel in new geographic areas. The pope will declare as saints: Blessed Daniel Comboni , who founded the Comboni missionary order and evangelized parts of Africa; Blessed Arnold Janssen , who founded the Divine Word order and began a missionary program in Asia; and Blessed Joseph Freinademetz , who dedicated his life to evangelizing in China. "*""

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Auxiliary Bishop Andraos Abouna of Baghdad said he believed media were running a propaganda campaign to discredit the American-led coalition that ousted Iraq i President Saddam Hussein and now runs Iraq. Bishop Abouna, a Chaldean Catholic, told The Catholic Herald in London that the situation in Iraq was steadily improving rather than descending into a morass resembling the Vietnam War, as often depicted by media outlets. "It 's getting better but still there are many problems," Bishop Abouna said. "The fust problem is that they need security, then they need water and electricity — and all these things are getting better," the bishop said.

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope John Paul II praised bis two predecessors, Popes Paul VI and John Paul I, for their deep faith and their willingness to dialogue with all people of good will. The pope, speaking at a memorial Mass for the two popes Sept. 27, said they demonstrated that the church should face challenges with joy and openness and not "close itself off." The pope delivered the sermon at the St. Peter 's Basilica Mass, celebrated by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, dean of the College of Cardinals. Pope Paul died Aug. 6, 1978, after a pontificate of more than 15 years. Pope John Paul I died Sept. 28, 1978, after just more than a month as head of the Catholic Church. "In both pontiffs was reflected the soothing joy of the church. Even when it is tested by many sufferings, the church does not fear; it does not close itself off, but trusts in the Lord," the pope said.

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ROME (CNS) — Rewriting a proposed Vatican document on liturg ical norms, Vatican officials have dropped all references to altar girls and are substantiall y revising other points in the document , a Vatican official said. A ban against allowing ministers of other mainline Christian faiths to bless the congregation at the end of a Catholic liturgy also has been removed, an official familiar with the document told Catholic News Service Sept. 29. The official said the document , which the Vatican hopes to release by December, will be less detailed than the draft circulated in June to members of the congregations for the Doctrine of the Faith and for Divine Worship and the Sacraments.

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By Sharon Abercrombie "Pray for us , Sister. We are hungry." When Belmont Notre Dame de Namur Sister Phil D'Anna was visiting Zimbabwe this summer she heard this plaintive request much too often from the children at St. Bernard's School in Bulowayo. They weren 't exaggerating. If it weren 't for the daily school lunch, a "mealy meal" of corn mush garnished with beans, relishes, or tiny fish , many of these youngsters would only get to eat a few times a week.

If Sister Phil has her way about it , however, they soon will have more to eat every day and will have warm clothes to wear during the country 's chilly winters. Sister Phil is part of "Partners in Compassion: Zimbabwe AIDS Orphans Project," a unique interfaith project co-sponsored by the Notre Dame Sisters and the Center for the Practice of Zen Buddhist Meditation in Murphys, California. The two groups are raising funds to create a program to assist children who have lost their parents to AIDS. An estimated 13,000 people die in Zimbabwe each month from AIDS, explained Sister Phil. Currently there are 77,000 orphans in Bulowayo, the country's second largest city.

Many of these children are being raised by their teenaged brothers and sisters or by adult relatives, said Sister Phil. "I met one granny who was taking care of 18 children . This isn't uncommon," she said. Some of these children, many suffering from AIDS themselves, attend St. Bernard's.

Besides the AIDS epidemic, Zimbabwe has socio-economic problems as well, noted Sister Phil. The country is in the middle of a three-year drought so food and water are scarce. Its political system is unstable. Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe's president , has run the country since 1980, when it became independent from Britain. But Mugabe's government isn 't paying its bills to other countries, so basic services and deliveries have been cut off, explained Sister Phil. Eighty percent of people live at the poverty level.

So far, Partners in Compassion has raised $45,000, to support food and clothing programs for children at St. Bernard's and two other schools. The funds will also be used to train and hire people as drivers to deliver food and supplies to the schools. Eventually, Partners in Compassion hopes to build a Retreat Center staffed by monks from the Zen monastery, to be used as base to assess the needs of the area.

There will be work retreats for local people as well as Zen meditators from all over the world to build or repair whatever is needed to assist these orphaned children . In addition, the center will provide lunches to children during summer vacation when school is closed.

The partnership first took root two years when Notre Dame Sister Terry Davis, then a member of her community's leadership team, visited the Notre Dame sisters at St. Bernard School. Last year, the local superior sent an urgent e-mail to the congregation pleading for help. Sister Terry and her Notre

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Creating pen pals might seem like an insignificant activity, but not to Sister Phil. "Making friends in one way to help ease the world 's pain. The way to end terrorism is for peop le to get to know each other."

The visitors quickly developed their own ways of alleviating a bit of the world's pain. Shortly after arriving in Bulowayo , they discovered that, unlike the grade school, St. Bernard 's High School has no school lunches. So they immediately arranged for the janitor to take driving lessons, so he can get his license and go pick up food.

Ignatius, a former Catholic seminarian, is getting his driver 's license too, thanks to Partners in Compassion.

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Dame colleague Sister Phil, told Cheri Huber, their Zen teacher, about the ongoing human tragedy. The two Sisters often meditate at the Zen Center. Sister Phil even lived there as a monk for 10 years. During her residency she helped build five hermitages and the present retreat center.

Cheri Huber, the monastery director, recalls that "after listening to Sister Terry describe the situation , "it occurred to me that we, as a Sangha, (community) could expand our relationship with the sisters of Notre Dame to include this work. Listening to Sister Terry talk about the poverty, the need, the potential, and the courage of those burdened b y the disease , I felt inspired to contribute our support. It seems to me that working together in mindfulnes s and compassionate awareness, we could be of assistance in this situation," Miss Huber added. "As I've spoken to people, I' ve heard myself say, 'we 're builders. That 's what we do.

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By Catholic News Service NOTRE DAME, Ind. (CNS) — The Catholic Church needs to respond to the current troubled situation in Africa not out of mere charily or for economic or political reasons , but as "a matter of faith, hope, solidarity and justice ," said Bishop John H. Ricard of Pensacola-Tallahassee, Fla. The bishop, who is chairman of the U.S. bishops ' Committee on International Policy,-addressed partici pants Sept. 21 during a four-day conference at the University of Notre Dame on "A Call to Solidarity with Africa." The Sept. 21-24 conference was jointiy sponsored b y the University of Notre Dame's Institute for Church Life, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Nigeria.

Bishop Ricard noted that in recent tri ps to Africa he has met "peop le of deep faith who were performing miracles on a daily basis," particularly community health care workers caring for nearly 14 million AIDS orphans.

He said he has also witnessed the growth of the Catholic Church and its provisions of health care, education and mediation between governments and rebel militias.

"The church in Africa is growing at an annual rate of nearly 3 percent , a rate unparalleled anywhere else in the world," he said.

But even with such growth, he said, African Catholics need to know that Catholics around the world are in solidarity with them.

"As the churc h in Africa grows and struggles, she stands as a permanent example of the call to see ourselves as members of one human community and the one famil y of faith," Bishop Ricard said.

The bishop said there are several examples of solidarity between Catholic officials in Africa and the United States.

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He also said that the bishops' Committee on International Policy met with Zimbabwe's archbishop and arranged for him to meet with Secretary of State Colin Powell. The committee also met with Archbishop Michael Francis from Liberia and accompanied him at meetings with U.S. government officials and the secretary-general of the United Nations to lobby for a rnilitary force to help stabilize the country.

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Bishop Ricard said the current conditi ons in Africa include "diseases , corruption, obstacles to free and fair trade, a crushing debt burden , (and) denial of reliSIERRA gious liberty and human rights."

He also said the continent 's "poor L governance, drought and odier natu( rat catastrophes produce a self-reinforcp ,vo ing cycle of poverty, death, disintegration of family and social institutions , a crisis of social identity and deprivation."

Such challenges "demand a response from c Africans themselves ," he said, but added that the responsibility is not theirs alone. ' "The international community and the citizens of this powerful democracy also bear tremendous responsibility and must offer a NORTH AFRICA response that can and will make a difwiir AF1(ICA ference," he added.

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By George Wesolek During our recent trip to Tanzania and Uganda , I was particularl y struck by the sounds of Africa. I awoke in the mornings to the sound of bells and the gentle singing of the Sisters at the convent of the Sisters of St. Therese where the Archdiocesan delegation stayed.

These sounds of Christian prayer were interrupted by the Mullah' s amplified call to prayer for the Muslims of Bukoba , Tanzania. Then the drums and harmonious songs of the outdoors Mass in Swahili punctuated by the raucous noise of seeming l y thousands of birds filled the air.

It seemed that song was never far from the lips of Africans. Most compelling were the children - their voices clear , bri ght and full of joy, lifting away the heavy mantel of pain and misery of having no parents , orp haned by AIDS. Some of them were singing street children at a parish on the outskirts of Kampala , Uganda. The parish staff said that these children were "vulnerable. " They lived on the streets, most with no family. The Catholic Relief Services program that the parish was able to provide broug ht them off the streets, fed them breakfast (the only meal most of them would have) and taught them simple skills in reading and writing.

This poor district of Kampal a is the home of many refugees fro m countries such as Sudan , Tanzania, Rwanda , Burundi , the Congo as well as the internall y disp laced from U ganda itself. All were fleeing poverty and war. Here they were at least relativel y safe from the violence , but not the poverty. Many of them would resort to prostitution to survive. They sang and danced for us in welcome, dancing in shoes that someone else had broken in , dressed in simple smocks swaying to the rh ythm of the drums and smiling broadl y with joy at the delegation that had come to visit them. Another group at the same parish enacted a mini-drama with song and broad theatrical gesture to teach about AIDS, its danger,

hoping to tell the other childre n how best to avoid this scourge.

The children of Africa are signs of hope. Their experience of suffering, forged in conditions that we would consider unthinkable , grounds their hope and faith in the future . At one session, we listened to Sudanese refugee children living in Uganda tell their stories. One after another, they meekl y opened their hearts and told tales of immense pain. We were overwhelmed with both the pain expressed by these young ones and at the fact that they, the innocent ones, would be so ravaged at such an early age - tales of being abducted by the mercurial and violent rebel group known as the "Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). Girls as young as seven made into sex slaves for the soldiers. Young boys given rifles larger than they and taught to brutall y maim and kill.

One little boy told of escape and living in the bush for weeks, afraid to travel by day, terrified but traveling at ni ght , foraging for food. He described being alone , alone with no parents , no older brothers and sistersalone in a violent and hostile world at the age of nine.

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But for all the bad news, there are many good things happening too. Among Francis' followers , his spirit lives on.

Reli gious communities are involved in what Passionist priest and ecolog ist Thomas Berry calls "The Great Work" of caring for the earth so that the children of all species will once more have a place to live sustainabl y, happily and well. "Unless we go into the future together as a sacred community of subjects rather than as a collection of objects, we will not go at all ," Berry has warned.

One local examp le of Berry 's Great Work is the Sisters

of the Presentation Retreat Center in Los Gatos where a "green" buildin g project is being completed. Presentation Retreat Center is the latest Catholic institution to sign onto ecological sustainability, joining a growing number of women religious communities involved in similar projects.

Today Catholic religious orders are in the forefront of environmental activism. Both nationall y and locally, they are running sacred ecology centers, earth-based retreat houses, earth literacy schools and other programs and projects.

In her book, "Earth Spirituality: In the Catholic and Dominican Traditions ," Spring field Illinois Dominican Sister Sharon Therese Zayac mentions 34 ecospirituality centers run by reli gious sisters throughout the United States. They include the Center for Earth Spirituality and Rural Ministry in Mankato Minnesota operated by the School Sisters of Notre Dame; the White Violet Center for

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At their recent annual meeting, the Leadership Conference of Women Reli gious , which represents more than 75,000 women religious in the United States, focused its attention on the cosmos, ecolological justice and the Catholic Church.

LCWR past-president Sister Mary Ann Zollmann, a Sister of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, told the group "we women religious are living out and growing more deeply into an ecofeminism that is a communion of companionship, responsibility and accountability to the whole web of life.

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During the conference, busloads of sisters traveled to Monroe, Michigan to visit the ecovillage project completed in April 2003 by the Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. The IHMs invested $56 million in a massive effort to convert their 376,000-square foot molherhouse in an environmentall y conscious way, develop ing geothermal wells for heating and cooling and a gray water system of reusing water that will cut consumption by thirty five-percent .

Earlier this summer, the Justice Promoters of the Dominican Congregations and Provinces of North America vowed to focus attention on the earth for the years 2003-2006; "As followers of Dominic...and Eckhart... we embrace all of creation imbued with God's goodness, Even more, we proclaim the sacredness of all life, believing... 'all creatures have within them a trace of the Trinity ; within all creation there resides an image of God. '"

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Entitled "Faith Factor/Factor de la Fe," this year 's conference of youth will be a pioneering event for San Francisco because it is the first youth day to feature bilingual and multicultural workshops.

The title of the program , chosen by the partici pating youth group members, is a spoof of the popular reality show "Fear Factor." On the show , people test their willpower by jump ing off cliffs and eating live tarantulas. Fortunatel y, no one who partici pates in this year 's youth day will have to endure anything quite so horrif ying because the "Faith Factor" represents the challenges that youth today have to face spirituall y. The conference will address these issues with bilingual workshops led by popular motivational speakers.

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Elaine Rachko, Associate Director of Youth Ministry, believes the youth day showcases all of the positive ways in which teens are involved in youth ministry. In the wake of all the controversy that has plagued the Catholic Church recently, this profusion of youth involvement is a refreshing and heartening development, she said.

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Interviewed by Jack Smith Father Robert Cipriano , pastor of Saint Rita Church in Fairfax, is one of the prie sts to whom Project Rachel refers women who are suffering fo llowing an abortion. Project Rachel is the post-abortion ministry of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Catholic San Francisco interviewed Father Cipriano about his approach to the suffering of women who have had an abortion and his advice for others in discussing the subject.

How do you find yourself speaking with women who have had an abortion?

In different ways, some women are referred , some come on their own, and some aren 't even Catholic. I have found with most of the women I' ve talked with that even if they don ' t have much of a belief system, the abortion tends to haunt them. It can be 30 years, even 40 years later, and it 's haunting. I think God has placed in humanity, especially women who are mothers , that this is the life of a child.

The peop le who promote abortion call a fertilized egg a "product of conception." We're in a society that consumes.

We produce and consume, so it's a product of conception.

It 's the way you and I began life. It's a child at some stage of its development and I think they know it , or if they didn ' t know it then it comes back some later time in their future . So there's an emptiness they feel and they want to talk to somebody about it.

Why you?

Well, some come after they 've gotten to know me, after I've been in a parish for a while. Others are referred to me because they know I' ve been involved with Project Rachel. I was ordained a priest when I was 48. Before I was a priest, I was a social worker and a counselor. I was an employment counselor, but even there, working with people 's employment history, you'd be surprised at the things they tell you. So for years and years, even before I was a priest, it would come up in conversation.

Doyou ever talk about abortiontoyou congregation?

We do talk about it. I've given homilies that include abortion. I don 't think I' ve ever given a homily that was- all about abortion , but a pro-life homily that will include abortion. And we always pray for unborn babies at every Mass.

Aren 't you concerned about alienating women or men involved in an abortionf rom your parish?

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We ' re sinners. In one form or another, we're all sinners. And if you don ' t talk about this kind of stuff , what are you going to talk about? God is a warm tedd y bear in the sky and will forg ive you? God will forg ive you , if you are repentant. Nobod y mentions that second part.

God forgives repentant sinners or peop le who are ignorant of their sin.

How did you get involved in Project Rachel?

I was invited and there was special training. There was a seminar and thing s we had to read. But again being a social worker a lot of th at stuff was there for me. And the whole idea of being a priest is that people want to come. They want to unload. They want to be free of guilt in their feelings. And for many it 's within the confessional. Some not , for some, afterward , there is still a feeling of guilt.

How do you deal with that?

There are things you can do. For example, there are a coup le of Jesuits who work with a woman and they came up with the idea of the woman bringing the child ri ght now into the present and naming the child — to name the child and then to give the child to Jesus. I did a version of that at the Project Rachel Mass last week, saying, if you haven ' t done this , give your baby now to Mary, because her arms are big enough to hold all of them - and there's only one place to take them - and that's to Jesus , her Son. And I also use the Gospel of the widow of Nairn.

She was a widow and had one son; he was sixteen . He died and that meant starvation for her, because there was no social security and there didn 't appear to be any male relatives to take care of her. So Jesus raises her sixteen-year old son , and it says in the Gospel, "He gave him back to his mother." And so I think , Jesus will do that with these babies. He will give them back to th eir mothers.

Somehow, women tell me this is their unborn child.

They don 't say embryo, fetus or product of conception.

Some are haunted; they say the unborn child is calling out to them.

We don ' t have a teaching in the Catholic Church as to what happens to unborn babies. But we do know that God effectively wills the salvation of all and that he is all merciful. So somehow, some way, they are included in his plan. They are not abandoned or ignored by him.

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Is there any common thread in stories women tell you?

"I felt I had to." That [thought] is very, very prevalent - I felt that I had to.

Economics; I didn 't want my parents to know; I wanted to keep my boyfriend , which is very odd because usuall y they break up after that . They felt pressure, real pressure to have this done. I haven 't seen or heard too many who said they had an abortion because they wan ted to go to grad school. They felt some kind of pressure or fear. Which , of course, helps reduce responsibility in the eyes of God. It doesn 't excuse it , but it certainl y affects then decision-making.

I bring that up too, because they often see a black and white thing. And I say, well what was happening at the time you made this decision. And there are usuall y some pretty strong extenuating circumstances in their lives.

How do you deal with social situations where the subject of abortion comes up and you know it's just going to be bitter and divisive to talk about it?

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pher and when he writes , you really have to go throug h those encyclicals a few times. The "Gospel of Life " is really easy reading and he tells us in there that this is part of our duty as Christians to stan d up for life. He talks about the "culture of death." We try to use death to correct the problems of life - and it never works. War, capital punishment , abortion - it never works. We use death to try to solve some problems and what we do is we create a lot more.

In one of the Pope 's exhortations on "Reconciliation in the Church and the Modern World ," he talks about the "communion of saints" — but he also talks about the "communion of sinners." Our sin affects other peop le, whether we think so or not , because we are a community. God created us to be a community, in union with one another. I think abortion is one of the most prevalent sins, and the United States being one of the most wealthy and powerfu l nations , unfortunatel y, exports it. The whole concept of people who are sorrowful , hel p, even thoug h they may not be aware of it, the people who are not sorrowful.

mea culpa , mea maxima culpa." So I ride in the same boat everybody else does. We are all sinners . I see the Church as like a giant diamond. And through the centuries it 's looked at through different facets.

And the Second Vatican Council is like taking the diamond and turning it and we 're looking at it throug h a different facet. When I was a child , it was exactl y that , when you went to confession , it was "mea culpa, mea culpa " - and the stress was on you the sinner. Now the stress is on Jesus the forgiver, which is where it should be. Because if you are trul y sorry, that is the whole idea of reconciliation.

The mission of the Church is to reconcile humanity with God and humanity with humanity. So if you include yourself in humanity - don 't worry, you 're talking to a sinner. Let's get this out and talk about it. That 's what I would say, not to approach it from a condescending position; I' m the hol y one, you 're the unhol y one, but , let 's talk about this; we're human beings and we make mistakes and very serious ones.

You were a bartender once?

That 's very important. In my background , that 's very important , because they used to laugh at me in the seminary.

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Parental Notification Initiative

Signature gathering is expected to begin in October to place an initiative on the November 2004 ballot to require parental notification before a minor seeks an abortion in California. Under current State law, girl s under age 16 must obtain parental permission for school field trips and medical procedures , including ear piecing, but are not even required to notif y parents to obtain an abortion.

Parental consent laws have been passed in 31 states and similar statutes have been upheld by the United States Supreme Court. This initiative , if passed by the voters , would become a State Constitutional Amendment, removing it from review b y State courts.

Initiative organizers say that in States where parental notification laws have been implemented , the abortion rate in that age group declines dramatically.

585,105 valid signatures are required to place the "Tell a Parent", initiative on the ballot. To learn more or to volunteer, visit website LifeontheBallot.org

Information and training sessions for Raymond Denneh y will speak on the signature gatherers will be held at: ramifications of legalizing assisted suiSt. Cecelia Church cide for life , society and democracy at 17th Ave. and Vicente St., San Francisco Campion College of San Francisco on Saturday, October 11 , 6:00 p.m.

Friday, October 3 at 7:30 p.m. His lecture St. Gregory Church is part of a fre e, year long speaker series 2715 Hacienda St., Warner Center offere d by Campion College to Catholic (on 28th Ave.), San Mateo laity as an aid to the work of evangelizaThursday, October 16, 7:30 p.m. tion and engag ing modern culture .

St. Francis ofAssisi Church Raymond Denneh y is Professor of 1425 Bay Rd., East Palo Alto Philosophy at the University of San Francisco (Bay Rd. & Glen Way), church hall and has debated euthanasia and abortion on Thursday, October 30, 7:30 p.m. television , radio and university campuses for Dr. Raymond Dennedhy Saint Sebastian Church nearly 40 years. He is author of two books, Sir Francis Drake Blvd. and Bon Aire Road , Kentfield Reason and Dignity and Anti-Abortionist At Large.

Saturday, Oct. 4, 9:30 a.m.

The lecture will take place at Foudy Hall , beneath Saint Monica 's church at Geary Blvd. and 23rd Ave. in Physician Assisted Suicide San Francisco. All are invited.

Popular lecturer, debater, author and philosopher, Dr,

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"No" I said , "isn't Mary Magdalene one of the greatesl saints?" At that time we still thought she was a prostitute.

He said yes, so I asked him , "so you 've had a lot to repent of?"

"Yes." "Therefore," I told him , "when you 're sitting on your screened porch , as a priest in Texas on some hot day and somebody is standing out there shaking saying 'Father I need to go to confession , I' ve been away from the Church for forty years,' you ' re gonna say 'come on - I know where you 've been .'"

I'm not saying you should go out and sin, but if you 're repentant of sin , first of all you know what sin is about; you know how it captivated you , whatever it was.

There ' s always a good hidden in a sin , you 're looking for some good , but it 's warped; you 've turned your back on God and looked toward creation. You 're trying to find God in the creation , but God is ri ght there with you . He's in the creation - yes - but He's right here with you saying 'turn around , look at me ' and commands 'I' m waiting for you to come on back."

At the foot of the Cross, Archbishop Sheen said,

there were three: Mary Magdalene , the repentant sinner; the Virgin Mother, puri ty ; and John , who represents the priesthood both of the peop le and the ordained. You have the converted sinner, the pure mother and the priests and all three will always be at the foot of the Cross.

If you are suffering grief, loss, isolation, or emotional and spiritual wounds follo w ing an abortion contact Project Rachel at (415) 717-.6428. All calls are strictly confidential.

¦ Continued from pag e 12 for 15 years. When I walked out of college , I handed my mother my diploma from a Catholic college, and I said , "you earned this." And I walked out of the Church and I thoug ht to myself , "you poor old dinosaur, you can 't even help yourself , and you want to help every bod y else." I knew everything and I left.the Faith for 15 years.

Does the experience of being away from the Church facilitate your ability to talk to people?

I was a hippy. I had hair out to here. I had a ram ' s head around my neck because I was an Aries. I lived in Haight-Ashbury. I' ve almost been married twice. I' ve been th rough the whole schmere. I' ve been through life.

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The Spirituality of the Gospel of Life

Celebrate the sanctity of life, pray with and meet others in the pro-life movement during a day long retreat with Father Frank Pavone , Director of Priests for Life. The retreat takes place on October 18 at Holy Name Church in San Francisco and will include opportunities to learn more about pro-life initiatives and activities.

Father Pavone is an internationally known speaker who has produced television and radio programs for EWTN, The Odyssey Network , Catholic Family Radio, Vatican Radio and others. He has also appeared as a guest on national shows such as Hannity and Colmes and The O'Reilly Factor.

Registration begins at 8:00 a.m. with pastries and coffee provided. Please bring a bag lunch. The retreat ends with 5:00 p.m. Mass.

This event is sponsored by the Archdiocese of San Francisco Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns.

To reserve a space, please send a $15 check to the Archdiocese of San Francisco (memo line - Respect Life Conference) or leave a detailed message at 415-614-5567.

Serri n M. Foster, executive director of Feminists for Life in Washington D.C., will speak at Saint Vincent de Paul Church half on Monday October 27 at 7:30 p.m.

Like Susan B. Anthony and other earl y American suffragists, today 's pro-life feminists envision a better world, where no woman would be driven by desperation into the personal traged y of abortion.

Feminists for Life was started 25 years ago when two women were thrown out of a NOW meeting in Ohio for distributing anti-abortion literature. Feminists for Life is a national non-sectarian , grassroots organization that continues the efforts of the earl y American feminists to systemicall y eliminate the root causes that lead women to abortion by facilitating practical solutions.

Serrin Foster is a dynamic presenter with a thought provoking message that focuses on the real-life, human face of this difficult issue.

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They are immigrants, they are Latinos, they are Giants B y Jose Luis Aguirre and Diana A. Otero Behind the fame of many celebrities there are hidden life stories similar to any individual. Many of diem have had to struggle for years and overcome obstacles in order to get where they are today. And although some may disagree, the road they have traveled has not been easy for these athletes.

We interviewed five Latino players of the San Francisco Giants in order to learn about their lives as immigrants. These are some of the difficulties encountered on the way to success and the rewarding and painful experiences as immigrants as revealed b y Marvin Bernard, Felix Rodriguez , Edgardo Alfonzo, Alberto Castillo and Pedro Feliz.

Proud of his roots

For Marvin Bernard, who arrived in the United States at the age of 12 to escape the war that terrorized Nicaragua, stalling out in this country was not easy. "Sometimes I felt alone, and when I began my classes in school I perceived for the first time the difficulties of my new life. I was confronted with a different language and culture. Then I opened ray eyes and realized that I was not in my country and I would have to adapt myself."

But this process.of adaptation requires many years, and while time passes, the memories still remain in the mind and heart, making it impossible to ignore the cultural differences that persist. "In our countries we are used to sharing, here that is rare. Neighbors know each other, but here the doors are always closed. Not like in our countries, where they are always open and one can pass by to greet and visit , where it is possible to walk the streets and say hello to the elderly and enjoy the simple things in life."

"We cannot feel that other people are better than we are.

We should feel proud of everything that we have and not feel ashamed of who we are and where we come from. We left our country looking for something better and here, if one has the will-power, we can achieve our goals."

Bernard does not forget the difficulties that he had to pass through at the beginning of his career, but his life is a testimony to what you can accomplish with hard work, For that reason, Bernard makes a promise everyday to be better and has reason to be thankful. Always thinking about his Hispanic community, Bernard actively participates in the agency CARECEN, Centra de Recursos Centra Americanos, with his presence at various events and by asking his fans to support the organization with donations.

For Rodriguez , education is the key to success

Simplicity and humihty are what characterize this player.

Felix Rodriguez, 31 years old and from the Dominican Republic, arrived in this country in 1990 to play in the minor leagues. Four years later, thanks to his effort and dedication, Rodriguez began his journey towards success in the major leagues. "In the beginning, it seemed very difficult to ieam English, but that is the tool that opens doors in this country. I had to communicate with my teammates and my trainers and little by little I was learning. I was adapting to a new language, but also to a new environment and I began to make new friends."

Although Felix came to the United States with a work visa, it pains him to see the people who don't have documents in this country and to see how they suffer and fight to succeed, Rodriguez also misses his country and all his family who still live in the Dominican Republic. He misses the music: the merengue and the bolero, and the food: the sausage, the butifarra, the pudding, the black beans and rice, and the platanos maduros with sugar and cinnamon.

But although he misses his country very much, he affirms that his life would have been very difficult if he had stayed there. "To have the opportunity to live and share with human beings that love is something marvelous. But we all try to come to this country in order to better the conditions of our lives. Now I also think that the basic thing is to take advantage of the opportunity to study. Because education stays with you always. Although I did not study, there was baseball to help my family. Today I see many athletes who rush into a career and they don't know how to do anything else. It is here where education makes a big difference."

Alberto Castillo

Felix Rodriguez Edgardo Alfonzo, a man of faith and action

For this Venezuelan, living in the United Suites was a great opportunity, but at the same time a decision fraught with sadness. "It was a hard decision to make because a family is very important to Latinos, we are tied to it, and we always maintain contact with the people we love. Leaving Venezuela, I was leaving behind a very important part of my life," Although Edgardo's family has experienced the bitterness of his departure, when his brother left for the United States, Alfonzo 's trip brought new sad memories of the separation. "For my family, it was hard when my brother left Venezuela, we thought that we would never see him again. We cried for almost a week.

And then when I came I also felt separated, but the most important thing was the unconditional support of my family."

Like other Latino athletes, Alfonzo had to overcome tough competition and demonstrate that he deserved the position he had attained. "The first years were hard, adapting yourself and learning how to be a man or a woman when you are outside of your country without anyone you know is difficult, but you always have to keep your morale high and know that with talent, you can survive anything you are faced with. Although we have suffered discrimination and racism for being from other countries and because we came to take a position that should have been for an American, litde by little with our great efforts we can change this image and earn respect and trust."

"It is essenti al to have the outlook that if we are here because we have triumphed, then we cannot be detained by what we have left behind but we should always be looking forward. Life is like sports , it's not easy, there is a lot of competition, and you have to push yourself in order to see results. God gave me the strength to get where I am today and He will help everyone to reach their goals."

Alberto Castillo, consistency and dedication are his secret weapons

"The first month I was here I wanted to go back to my home, I missed my family and my friends. But despite all that, I was always thinking of them and it consoled me to think that my family benefited from that sacrifice. From here I have been able to offer them my support and although it's been a hard job, I have adapted and I keep going."

For Alberto's mother it was very painful to see the youngest of her eight children leave. "My mother cried a lot, she worried for my nourishment, at my house everyone knew that one of my weaknesses was food. When I arrived in this country I had to call and ask her how to make rice. She suffered not being able to be at my side making me my favorite dishes. However, with time I learned to cook better and it was less of a problem for me and less anguish for my mother."

But adapting to the food wasn't the only difficult thing for Castillo, he was confronted with a language barrier that put

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him in uncomfortable situations. "When we tried to speak English, others made jokes and laughed if someone made a mistake. But I wanted to communicate with my teammates.

They gave me the chance to be on this team, so I had to struggle to be able to speak with them. I never missed my English classes, and although it was not easy, overcoming this language barrier has been one of my greatest satisfactions."

In the middle of triumphs and defeats , Castillo does not lose his view that each day he has to make a great effort to survive in this country. "The Latinos have to give all of themselves to succeed, at least 200 percent. We have to work hard, we cannot arrive late, and we always have to give the best of ourselves. In the end, we are the real winners because we continue demonstrating the quality of our people and our professionalism."

A man contagiously happy

Feliz (happy) is not just a name, it is an adjective to describe this young Dominican of 28 years. Pedro always displays a warm smile and tries to make the people around him happy. It is precisely this quality that permitted him to overcome the sadness of being far from his country and his family.

"Changing from the Dominican Republic to the United States was very difficult , but 1 try to keep myself going with new friends and teammates to make things easier. In time, one has to adapt to adverse situations and then begin to discover the positive things that this country has to offer." Since he arrived in 1994, he has worked to better the name of Latinos and of his home, the Dominican Republic.

"In search of improvement, they would throw away the house" is the popular phrase that encompasses the story of thousands of immigrants who abandon everything in search of a better life. "An immigrant has to work day and night, almost killing themselves for the possibility to survive in this country. Sometimes there is no other option and many have to stay, without being able to leave, living with the fear of deportation. This is not easy. To live so many years without seeing your family is very painful." For this reason Pedro considers it very important to lend his support and help to immigrants, so that their experiences are a little less difficult and they can live a better life.

Like many immigrants, for Pedro the life in the United States would be better if his family were here with him. "It would be perfect if I could bring my whole famil y. I believe that they would be as happy as I am if I could bring them here and not have to wait eight or nine months to see them." But like he says, we have to have faith.

Translated by Jayme George.

Originally published in El Heraldo Catolico , a Spanish-language monthly newspaper published by the Archdiocese of San Francisco, and the Dioceses of Sacramento and Oakland.

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JLCATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO The Vi rgin of the S ign

By Frederica Mathewes-Green I am looking at a painting of a woman with her anus upraised in prayer. But her eyes are not closed, or even lifted up; they gaze out at the viewer with steady solemnity. The most startling thing about this image is at its center. Upon the woman's red-robed torso rests a large circle of blue , and this disk represents her womb. Within it we see her unborn child , clothed and haloed , surrounded by stars and radiant as the sun. His hand is lifted in blessing. This icon of the Orthodox Christian Church is called "The Virgin of the Sign ," recalling the familiar prophecy of Isaiah: "The Lord will give you a sign: behold , a virgin will conceive and bear a son..." (Isaiah 7:14) This image reminds me of the comment often made in pro-life circles that "If wombs had windows, there would be no more abortion." The Virgin of the Sign is an ancient representation of a womb with a window; we look into that small private space and find it exploding with the stars and glory of heaven, filled with the Lord of the Universe himself. Surely, if unborn children could be seen, their right to survive would be evident; it is only the veil of flesh that makes them appear the inert, tumor-like property of their mothers.

Yet too many pro-lifers make the reverse mistake, treating the bundle of flesh surrounding the baby as a mere carrier. Sometimes she is even seen as an enemy from whom we must rescue her child. But anything which separates mother from child is a lie: they are one in the profoundest intimacy that humans can know. We each knew this silent floating communion. It filled the long dark first months of every human life, tuning us for human intimacy and trust, tuning us for prayer.

A broken world drives women to believe that they must sacrifice their children's lives to continue their own. But when we adopt the opposite argument, fighting for the child's life by ridiculing the mother as selfish or motivated by convenience, we adopt the same lie. The idea that mother and child are enemies, that only one can win—whether espoused in arguing for or against abortion—partakes of an ancient lie, a bid for power and dominance, bearing the faint scent of an Apple.

When we undertake to "save the babies," whatever that work may be, let us remember the woman who surrounds the child. It is she, not us, that is appointed the protector of that child. Our job is to find ways to be her servant so that she can love^her child to life.

Far from dreamy theory, this approach demands concrete and unglamorous action. It may involve volunteer work at a local pregnancy center, finding housing and clothing for women in need. It may require some to open their own homes to pregnant women. It may call some of us to political action, not just seeking limits on abortion but also strengthened child support laws, compassionate maternity leave policies, and adequate and accessible medical care.

My copy of the Virgin of the Sign is small, but in many Orthodox churches it is breathtakingly large, the image traditionally chosen to fill the apse. If one were to visit, for example, St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral in Washington, DC, one would see her image rising over the priests, over the altar, gazing from the high curved ceiling to the congregation below. Like all icons, the image represents spiritual truths beyond number and beyond words. But the painting also shows, on its simplest level, a peasant woman who carried a difficult pregnancy. High above we see her in prayer, and see the precious life in her womb.

But her eyes are not closed, nor are they focused upward; her eyes are looking at us. We will see her again, in young women afraid and desperate, scanning the abortion clinic ads that run along the subway walls. Her eyes are looking at us. May we look back with true love and courage.

Frederica Mathewes-Green is a widely published essayist, author and lecturer. She is an Eastern Orthodox Christian, mother of three and grandmothe r of five. Her latest book is The Open Door: Entering the Sanctuary of Icons and Prayer (Paraclete Press).

Crisis in Africa

After reading your recent article on the crisis in Africa, it would be hard to believe that we readers are not changed in some way.

Hopefully, we are more able to carry our own crosses, more generous in responding to needs around us, and thankful for those who are directly helping in this terrible situation.

May I commend you for your choice of articles and the breadth , depth and quality of writing with which you present them.

Sr. Judith Guevara, PBVM San Francisco

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Just wanted to let you know how much all the members of the Saint Charles anniversary committee appreciated the mention of our celebration in your column , "On the Street." It was well written and the picture of Father McCormick and Father La Torre was wonderful.

We hope the mention will bring back some of our Saint Charles parishioners who have moved away.

Pat Cauterucci San Carlos

the University of San Francisco. I immediately called my friend Monsignor Bruce Dreier.

After listening to my concerns, Monsignor Dreier notified Archbishop Levada.

The Archbishop responded with compassion and leadership. I am most grateful.

Tony Ribera San Francisco Ed note: Organizers of the Sept. 25 debate at USF restricted participation to those candidates showing f ive percent or better support in a published poll. Mr. Ribera polled less than f ive percent and was excluded. Archbishop Levada wrote to organizers requesting their criteria f o r inclusion be altered to include Ribera. (See Catholic San Francisco, Sept. 26)

Politicians still the same

Professor James P. Walsh characterized Senator James Duval Phelan 's life as being "bifurcated. " Although a philanthropist to San Francisco Jesuit institutions, notably to St. Ignatius College (the forerunner of today 's USF) from which he graduated inl881 and later an estate will bequest of $100,000 to build the Stanyan Street campus of St. Ignatius College Prep in 1929, Phelan had a dark side to hisMachiavellian political life. He was well known from public records of vile "anti-Chinaman" [sic] rhetoric as a demagogue. His later political defeats for presidential ambitions were partly attributed to the excesses of his Machiavellian tactics.

Politicians of today can learn from the mistakes of someone like Phelan, who put his own ambitions above the greater good by choosing pro-choice "rights" as against antiabortion and anti-euthanasia moral principles.

Raymond A. Lew San Francisco

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Lif e and death p enalty

I was astonished as I read the guest commentary authored by Archbishop Charles J. Chaput in the August 15 Catholic San Francisco. In the article, Archbishop Chaput sharply criticizes Senator Richard Durbin of Illinois, a Catholic and member of the Senate Judiciary Committee who was opposed to advancing the nomination of Alabama attorney general William H. Pryor to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Archbishop Chaput suggests that the ultimate party-line vote on Mr. Pryor reflected religious discrimination , since Mr. Pryor is a Catholic whose beliefs shape his strong antiabortion stance. Archbishop Chaput states , "Mr. Pryor believes th at Catholic teaching about the sanctity of life is true" and that "Catholic members of Congress like Senator Durbin" should support "competent pro-life judicial appointments".

I listened to some of these same Senate Judiciary Committee hearings involving Mr. Pryor. One point raised by Senator Durbin during the hearings, but overlooked by Archbishop Chaput in his article, was that Mr. Pryor supports the death penalty.

Archbishop Chaput suggests that views on abortion maintained by individuals like Senator Durbin "should humiliate any serious Catholic". Perhaps views on the death penalty maintained by "pro-life" individuals like Mr. Pryor and Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia should also "humiliate any serious Catholic".

Brian Somerday Livermore

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I would like to commend you for including Christopher J. Smith' s letter in Catholic San Francisco as well as the letter from Robert Brown on Fr. Coleman 's piece on the Texas sodomy decision. Both are right in their critiques and go right to the heart of each issue.

George Weigel begins with a very good point about the traditional Church teaching on homosexuality. One has to answer the questions raised by scripture, tradition and Church teaching on the subject. But Weigel doesn ' t stop to make his argument there. He really wants to vent on a favorite theme: sociology (social science) versus Church tradition and theology.

From there Weigel leaps on to excoriate the Anglican Communion for its connection to Henry VhTs expropriation of Church property and then to the Anglicans' acceptance of famil y planning and the ordination of women! He concludes b y insulting both Protestants and Anglicans by arrogantly quoting from Cardinal Newman.

Nothing would kill "the Anglo-Catholic dialogue" more than to approach it with all the authoritarian predisposition that Weigel musters in his shameful and shallow apologetic.

On the other hand Fr. Coleman 's is half-right: the Supreme Court 's decision was about basic civil rights in a pluralistic society. It is also about personal privacy. To fear and "predict dire results for society" as Robert Brown so correctly observes is to slip into the "slippery slope" fallacy-predicting all sorts of dire results for scientific research, legal decisions, and administrative choices. The conclusions are alleged or inferred without having to go through the painful responsibility of critically reasoning through a problem.

The courts are not philosophical or theological debating clubs. Their responsibilities are practical and mediative in our pluralistic, secular society. Judging homosexuality was not the focus of the Texas decision but that of protecting persons from unnecessary harassment. It is interesting to note that Justice Scalia's dissent from the majority seemed to reflect some of the same "slippery slope" argumentation that Fr. Coleman employed.

Michael McGinley San Francisco

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Mr. Leahy's Limbo - stalling the Pryor nomination Readers bom before 1955 or thereabouts will remember "limbo ," that post-mortem place of "natural happiness" where, according to one theological opinion, unbaptized infants would spend eternity, There hasn 't been much discussion of "limbo" in recent decades; the Catechism of the Catholic Church (#1261) avoids the word. Which makes it all the more curious that the United States Senate has revived limbo with a special assist from four Catholics: Senators Patrick Leahy, Edward Kennedy, Joseph Biden, and Richard Durbin.

One of America's most thoughtful Catholic public servants now finds himself in what I call Leahy 's Limbo, in honor (so to speak) of the ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Bill Pryor has a distinguished record as Attorney General of Alabama, where responsible observers across the political spectrum have praised his fairness and probity.

Nominated earlier this year for a seat on the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, Pryor 's nomination got through the Senate Judiciary Committee on a straight-line party vote, with Senator Leahy leading his Democratic colleagues in a solid phalanx of opposition. Senate Democrats now threaten a filibuster in order to prevent a straight up-or-down vote on Pryor in the full Senate - a vote Pryor would almost certainly win.

Thus Leahy 's Limbo: a state of "natural happiness" (i.e., you get past the Judiciary Committee) that falls short of the fullness of beatitude (in this instance , life tenure on the federal bench).

The knock on Bill Pryor is that he's an 'extremist" who 's "outside the mainstream." Senators L^ahy, Kennedy, Biden, and Durbin carefully refrain from giving a clear definition to this charge. It doesn't take a political genius to figure out what 's going on, though. Bill Pryor thinks that Roe v. Wade was wrongly decided - that the U.S. Supreme Court got it wrong, constitutionall y, in creating an unlimited abortion license out of the thin air of a "privacy " right nowhere mentioned in the Constitution 's text. According to the Senate Democrati c leadership and every Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, that judgment renders one an extremist outside the mainstream.

Oh, really? The Attorney General of Alabama came to his conclusions on Roe v. Wade as an intelligent man and a wellread student of constitutional law. Piyor knows that elementary embryology and logic both teach us that the product of human conception is a human being, period. Thus from science, logic, and a close reading of the Constitution, Bill Pryor judges that Roe v. Wade was wrongly decided. That also happens to be the judgment of the Catholic Church , of which Pryor is a devout and committed member. Bill Pryor 's Catholic faith certainl y informed his moral and legal judgment on Roe v. Wade. His faith didn't dictate that judgment in an uninformed or mindless way.

Yet that 's what anyone listening to Senator Charles Schumer, grilling Pryor at a Judiciary Committee hearing this past summer, would have had to conclude. Schumer (D-NY) bluntly declared that Pryor 's "deeply held beliefs" would prevent

him from being an impartial judge. Did any of Pryor 's P H fellow-Catholics - Leahy, O X a.

Kennedy, Biden, or Durbin - challenge this brazen attempt to suggest that the § Catholic Church's position O on abortion was irrational?

No. Did Leahy, Kennedy, Biden, or Durbin even gently suggest that a de facto religi ous test for public office was being imposed on Bill Pryor?

No. Senator Schumer evidently believes that only his deeply held beliefs are permissible in public life; that 's bad enough.

That no Catholic member of the Senate Judiciary Committee was willing or able to demand that this debate be put on a higher level, as a matter of constitutional decorum and public mental health, is worse. That these same Catholics tacitly acquiesce in the canard that the Church is trying to impose its sectarian moral judgments on the nation is perhaps the worst of all.

Leahy 's Limbo tells us more about those who created it than those who currently reside there.

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

Family Lif e

Angels watching over us "Who's that little boy running throug h our yard?' My husband Steve pointed out the front window.

"He's probabl y out with his mom," I replied. "He's too young to be alone." It was Sunday morning, and we were getting ready for church . I watched the boy head past the stop sign toward busy 180th Street. A small, black dog ran ahead of him. "Maybe I'd better check, just in case."

By the time 1 got to the comer, a man was pulling the boy and the dog out of the street. "This your son?"

"No. 1just came out to see if he was OK." It turned out the man had been returning from the gym when he saw the boy and the dog in the street. He turned his p ick-up truck around and came back to help.

"Where do you live?" I asked the boy.

"Down a bi g hill ," he said cheerfully. "Sparky got away. Then I saw a dead beaver in the street." He was enjoy ing his adventure , blissfully unaware of any danger.

"What's your name?"

"Josh."

Steve came out with a rope and tied it around Sparky 's collar. I checked the dog's tags. They listed a phone number and an address about three blocks away.

The man from the pick-up pulled out a cell phone and dialed the number. "No answer."

"Are your mommy and dadd y at home? I asked Josh .

"No." "You're kinda little to be staying by yourself. " "I'm 4."

"Do you stay by yourself a lot?"

"Sometimes."

The man and I shot each other a concerned look. Then again, I knew better than to believe everything a 4-year-old said.

"I'll help you take Sparky home," I said .

"1can go by myself. I'm 4."

"I know. But I'm coming with you."

He tamed and headed back toward his house. 1 followed with the dog in tow. The green pick-up drove behind us.

Josh paused at the first corner. "Where 's the hill?"

"It's up ahead, on the left."

Soon we arrived at a house at the bottom of the hill, Josh's parents were home after all, and he had been missed. The dad was in the front yard, a baby on one shoulder. The mom was driving up and down the street, searching for her lost boy.

The dad thanked me, then turned to his son. "Young man, you are in trouble." The mom just hugged him close.

"We were so worried about you!"

I told them where we'd found him. They thanked us , looking relieved and a bit embarrassed.

Little Josh was lucky—lucky that Steve just happened to look out the window, lucky that the man in the green pick-up cared enough to turn around, lucky that the nightmares that till the

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n 't happen here.

Later, I told my friend across the street the whole story. She shook her head, imagining what could have happened . "You were his guardian angels," she said.

Like Josh, at times we all run unaware into trouble and danger. That's when we find that God is watching over us, loving and protecting us. God sends angels to guide our steps and pull us, when necessary, out of harm's way.

We slipped in the pew a few minutes late that morning, but with smiles on our faces . We'd seen angels—and they were us.

Christine Dubois is a widely published free lance writer who lives with her family near Seattle .

Sp irituality

Living with criticism, seeking identity from God Nobody goes through life without facing criticism, opposition , misunderstan ding, suspicion and, at some point , having to experience hatred.

This is one of the great pains, perhaps the greatest, inside family, church and community. Eventually we are subject to criticism , our motives and integrity are questioned, and we have to live with the bitterness of those judgments, a bitterness that can rob our lives of joy and us of any self-confidence. The real pain, though, is not when these negative judgments come from outside , but precisely when it comes from inside, from persons with whom we are meant to share family and faith.

Experiencing hated , bitterness, and being accused of hypocrisy are not an easy thing to cope with. How do we not question our own essential goodness in the face of criticism and judgment? How do we not put our own truth up for grabs when it's bitterly questioned? And how do we sustain ourselves in community and resist the urge to walk away in the face of criticism?

I've often wondered how Jesus coped with this because certainly he had to face it. He moved around Palestine preaching love, joy, community and vulnerability, even as people called him a blasphemer and hated him enough to kill him. How did he stay joyful in the face of this anger? How did he let himself be vulnerable when others were attacking him? How did he continue to be self-confident in his mission when he was accused of being hypocritical and self-deluded?

By always taking his real identity from God and not from himself or from the opinions others had of Mm. As Jesus moved about doing his mission, he met every

kind of reaction. Sometimes the crowds loved him and tried tc make him king; other times the same people hollered for his head, "Crucif y him!" He was both loved and hated and always there were some who stood, in bitter opposition.

What's important to notice is that Jesus never took his identity from these reactions, good or bad, feeling confident when the crowds supported him and feeling insecure when he faced opposition. He took his truth and identity from elsewhere. Where?

"I do the will of my father." His identity, his truth, his courage to act, and his joy were all rooted in something beyond the affirmations or criticisms of the moment.

Looking at Jesus, we see that, in the face of criticism and hatred, his key questions weren't: "Can I live with this criticism? Do I let another's negative jud gment intimidate me from the truth and mission I feel called to? Do I let someone's hatred of me destroy my energy and joy?"

Looking at Jesus , we see that the key questions are: "Can I live with myself? Can I be centered and patien t enough to let God, history and truth be my jud ge? Can I be sensitive to how I'm seen and jud ged by others, even as I take my identity from a reality deeper than public opinion and the view of those who dislike me? Can I, by casting my eyes more toward heaven, continue to sustain myself in energy and joy, even in the face of bitterness and hatred?"

Jesus shows us the way here, albeit it 's far, far from an easy one. This gate, too, is narrow. It's not easy not to be intimidated from doing what we are called to do. There will always be opposition. Not just because darkness perennially resists light, but

because it's impossible to live for any length of time inside of any kind of closeness, family or community, without irritating and hurting each other.

We have different personalities, different histories, different perspectives, and we all anive on the scene carrying wounds from elsewhere.

A caution needs to be added, however. There is always a danger of self-delusion when we discern our truth. In the face of criticism, opposition and hatted, we should always seek spiritual direction , from the wise and from the good. Wisdom and goodness are the great principles of discernment. Hence, go to those within the community who are wise and go to those within the community who are good. Ask them how they see you and how they see those particular actions of yours that are so upsetting to your critics.

And know and accept that there will always be criticism, anger, and sometimes even hatred. Jesus experienced this and, in the end, it killed him. He warned that , for us, it will be no different.

Father Ron Rolheiser

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

Church-State Conflict and Catholic Schools in California Catholic schools strugg le against nativists, Know Nothings and the Klan

By Gordon M. Seely, Ph.D. From the Gold Rush Constitution of 1849 until 1952 California witnessed a century-long battle to achieve tax exempt status for private schools. Populist aversion to any tax exemption, Nativism, anti-Catholicism, Masonic hostility, and razor-thin judicial decisions color the story. Not unti l 1952, when voters passed Proposition Three, did California at last join the other 47 states of the Union in freeing private sub-collegiate schools from taxation. While the economic considerations of exemption formed a major part of the controversy over the years, opponents of exemption repeatedly advanced the fundamental argument that private, especially Roman Catholic, institutions, undennined American republican values. Therefore, they deserved no kind of assistance from the State.

Opposition to private school tax exemption is best understood against the cuirents of Nativism and anti-Catholicism that ebbed and flowed in American life between 1850 and 1958. Nativism expressed deep hostility toward new immigrants, most particularly toward Roman Catiiolics, who came to the United States in increasing numbers after 1830. Nativists saw in Roman Catholicism a danger to traditional Protestantism and to the political and cultural institutions of the United States. In then view Catholicism and democracy were incompatible. The Know Nothing Party, until its influence waned after 1855, provided a major vehicle for such views, (hi 1855, California elected a Know Nothing Governor.)

Following the Civil War, Nativism remained quiescent until the formation in 1887 of the American Protective Association (A.P.A.), which was virulently anti-Catholic in its program. The A.P.A. enjoyed significant local political success before 1896, when the movement disintegrated during the McKinley "free silver" campaign. Locally, Father Peter C. Yorke gained fame by "vanquishing" the A.P.A. in San Francisco. By the 1920s, traditional opponents of immigrants and Catholics found allies in the newly-revived Ku Klux Klan, which enjoyed great strength in the Mid-West, in Oregon, and even in the Great Valley of California.

When a move to grant tax exemptions in California emerged in the 1920s , arguments advanced by nineteenth-century Nativists found new voice in the leaders of Scottish Rite Masonry. Until the exemption issue was finall y laid to rest in 1958, they remained the most persistent and intense opponents of school tax exemption.

The present Constitution of California, written in 1879 and reflecting a strong populist flavor, unequivocally banned any kind of private property tax exemption. The bar to exemptions held firm unti l 1900, when the Legislature passed and the voters approved the "Stanford Amendment," which freed the lands of Stanford University as well as its personal property from taxation.

In 1914, by the tiny margin of 38,000 votes, voters passed Proposition Forty-Three, which extended the Stanford tax exemption to all private colleges and universities. The Proposition established a fundamental principle in support of tax exemption: any institution serving the welfare of the state

CALIFORNIANS SHOULD NOT PAY TAXES FOR A FOREIGN RELIGIOUS DICTATOR VOTE YES ON NUMBER 16 It is unjust and immoral for one man to be forced to pay another's taxes. Our taxes are already too high!

It is double taxation for Califomians to pay taxes for public schools , and then to pay taxes , in addition, to make up the taxes private religious ' schools escape. Such schools escape $3,500,000 taxes on $53,000,000 of private school property, 90%. owned by the Catholic Church ruled from Rome.

This Church, the biggest and richest business in rhe world is weii able to pay its own taxes. It is an absolute dictatorship; its property stands in the names of its bishops and other agents—not in the names of the congregations as is the case of most other denominations. In the U. S. A. it owns properly worth tens of billions of dollars, and has about five billion dollars a year income. In addition to thousands of parish buildings, schools, hospitals, colleges, it operates hotels, farms , commercial businesses, one of the state's biggest wineries and distilleries. It is exempi from most of the taxes on its properly and income.

With this huge income andt wealth, dwarfing all other U. S. corporations, it wields tremendous political and financial power, having most of our politicians under its thumb. Radio, T .V., newspapers, movies , national magazines fear to publish anything critical of it. Our local paper is edited by a Catholic and it follows the Catholic line—giving great amounts of free favorable publicity while suppressing most unfavorable news of the Church. Remember that private corporations must pay 52% of their net income in U. S. taxes , besides other

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It took another 38 years of political and judicial maneuvering to extend that principle to sub-collegiate private schools.

The Campaigns of 1926 and 1933

Tax exemption efforts failed in the electoral campaigns of 1926 and 1933. Out of them came, however, the fundamental arguments for or against tax exemption for schools that later characterized the hard-fought campaigns of 1952 and 1958.

Proponents argued that private schools saved the public large sums of money and that California was the only state in the Union that taxed private schools. Opponents formed the California Taxpayers Alliance as an opposition umbrella group. Its propaganda displayed ongoing Catholic-Masonic antagonisms and described private schools as un-American.

Final Steps in The Tax Exemption Struggle Develop In November 1944, voters took the fust concrete step in achieving private school tax exemption. A constitutional amendment was passed, which enabled the Legislature to grant tax exemption for what it deemed welfare or charitable purposes. Education, however was omitted.

In 1951, Assemblyman Laughlin E. Waters of Los Angeles, together with 57 other members of the Assembly, introduced the most important piece of legislation in the tax exemption struggle. His bill added sub-collegiate educational institutions to the list of exempt institutions allowed by the "Welfare Amendment" of 1944. The Senate concurred by a vote of 33 to 3, and Governor Earl Warren signed the legislation.

Proposition Three Referendum Campaign of 1952 Opponents of the Waters' legislation lost no time in

mounting a referendum campaign to block private school tax exemption. The Joseph Robinson Organization, with significant financial backing from the Scottish Rite Masons, led the repeal forces. The California Taxpayers Alliance, which had previousl y fought against tax exemption in 1926 and 1933, again led the fight. Catholic bishops and allied groups, together with significant support from Protestant churches that maintained schools, formed the base of support for what became known as Proposition Three.

The campaign was expensive for the time. Proponents for tax exemption spent $550,000; opponents made outlays of almost $355,000. Scottish Rite Masonic bodies both inside and outside of California made major contributions to the opponents. The vast majority of Masons were not active participants.

Rather, members of the Scottish Rite, formed the much smaller cadre of Masons seeking the defeat of Proposition Three.

Proponents and opponents were zealous in using almost all public relations media available to carry their messages. In addition to public speeches, they employed radio talks, newspaper advertisements , and direct mail pamphlets.

Califomians were subjected to relatively new television spot commercials, billboards, and bumper strips. Newspaper disp lay advertising carried statements by Protestant ministers both supporting and opposing the Proposition.

Robert D. Philbrick, today a prominent Republican leader in New Hampshire, was a young Army lieutenant sojourning in California in the late summer of 1952 while awaiting embarkation for Korea. He still vividly recalls being so caught up in the importance of Proposition Three to Catholic schools, of which he was a great proponent , that he passed the hat among his fellow officers and made a significant financial contribution to the Califomians for Justice in Education.

The major arguments advanced by proponents had been heard in earlier campaigns. They included: the important welfare contribution in dollars and cents that the operation of private schools made to the State; the incongruity of exempt colleges but taxed schools; the fact that in the United States California alone taxed private schools. Proponents also noted that non-sectarian and many religious groups besides the Roman Catholics operated schools.

The principal argument advanced by the opponents was a variation of the old Nativist charge. A school system—the Roman Catholic—foreign and inimical to republican ideals, served by devotees of a foreign religious leader, the Pope, posed a great danger to the public school system. A typical California Taxpayers' Alliance pamphlet tilled Don't Let Them Get Away With It warned that the Catholic Church had as its objective the complete obedience of every human on earth to the Roman Catholic Church and the Roman Pope. Tax exemption, the pamphlet warned, was the first step in attaining that goal.

Citing issues of fairness and tax-saving, major newspapers throughout the state supported the ballot proposal. The California Teachers Association, as it had done in 1926 and 1933, took no position. Governor Earl Warren announced his support for the measure in October.

The final tally showed Proposition Three received the heaviest vote of the twenty-three state propositions on the November 4 ballot. The winning margin was thin—a tiny plurality of 77,477 votes out of 4,804,000 cast.

Twenty-six years after the first effort to exempt private schools had been defeated, those schools stood exempt from personal and ad valorem property taxes. After a campaign in which sound arguments for and against had become almost lost in the whirlwind of divisive religious dispute, California aligned herself with the other forty-seven states of the then Union. The story of tax exemption however, was not over yet.

The Issue Goes to the Courts

San Francisco Chronicle editorial cartoon opposing private school taxation, 1958.

Within three months of the 1952 election Henry C. Clausen, CHURCH-STATE, page 19

schools violated the principle of separation of church and state embodied in the First Amendment.

Church-state . . . ¦ Continued f rompage 18

Opponents of Exemption Launch a Final Assault

Henry Clausen and his fellow opponents waited only three a prominent leader of the Scottish Rite Masons and a lawyer of days after the announcement of the Supreme Court 's decision strong anti-Catholic sentiments, filed a taxpayers suit in the to initiate still another electoral battle over exemption.

Superior Court in Alameda County. He argued that the under- Prominent San Francisco contractor Charl es L. Harney wrote lying 1944 Welfare Amendment to the California Constitution, Bishop Joseph T. McGucken of Sacramento in an effort to on which the Waters exemption-enabling bill was based, specif- explain Clausen's zeal for his defeated cause. Harney wrote ically and with intent omitted educational institutions. Clausen that Clausen had devoted his time and talents "to cause any also charged that Proposition Three violated the First harm that he can cause to Catholics in any way, shape, or Amendment prohibition against an "establishment of reli gion." form." From his position of top leadership in the Masonic Clausen and his clients prevailed in a two to one decision Scottish Rite of the Southern Jurisdiction Clausen was able to of the Alameda County Superior Court sitting en banc. rally financial and political support to his favorite cause.

Majority judges held that the Welfare Amendment of 1944 was Even the Grand Lodge of California, by tradition non-politnot intended to include "education " among welfare activities ical, as well as the women 's Masonic affiliate, the Order of the enjoying tax exemption. They ignored the federal question .

Eastern Star, supported Clausen's efforts. Grand Master Leo E. Defendants, officials of Alameda County and the State Anderson sent a copy of the Califomians for Public Schools of California, and archdiocesan attorney Andrew Burke , as pamphlet, Repeal Parochial School Tax Exemption?—Yes! to intervenor representing largely Catholic interests , appealed every Lodge, with a strong endorsement to stud y it. to the Supreme Court of California , which heard the appeal

By August 20, 1957, Secretary of State Frank M. Jordan on December 5, 1955. On June 7, 1956, the Supreme Court, announced that 356,315 valid signatu res calling for an iniin a four to three decision , reversed the earlier jud gment of tiative constitutional amendment to repeal private school the Superior Court and held that the Waters Bill did not vio- tax exemption were deposited in his office. A new initiative late the State or Federal Constitutions. titled Proposition Sixteen was born . It would be the last in Chief Justice Gibson wrote that the word "charitable" had the story of school tax exemption. historically been given broad construction in America and that nonprofit schools operated for the benefit of the public came under the broad definition. He dismissed the argument that a federal question of establishment of religion was involved.

Clausen immediately appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States to overturn the California Supreme Court. The Waters Act, he argued, violated the First and Fourteenth Amendments.

The appeal involved only private schools that taught religion.

The defendants and the intervenor, Andrew Burke, Donation envelope to defeat Catholic school tax initiative. urged the Supreme Court of the United States to dismiss the appeal on the ground that a Joseph Robinson again served opponents of Proposition federal question was lacking. In a memorandum decision, the Three under the designation Califomians for Public Schools, Supreme Court of the United States, on December 3, 1956, dis- a successor to the old California Taxpayers Alliance. missed the Clausen appeal for lack of a substantial federal ques- Opponents included leading Scottish Rite Masons and severtion. al Protestant clergymen. Dr. Tully C. Knoles, Chancellor of The validity of tax exemption for private schools, both the College of the Pacific switched sides on the exemption those that taught religion and those which did not, was now question to warn that the chief opponent to the public school settled law. The issue of the constitutionality of such exemp- system was "admittedly a foreign-controlled organization tions had passed the test of legislation, popular referendum , [whose] very title proclaims this to the world,..." and judicial decision. The highest court in the land had rejectProponents campaigned under the designation Citizens ed the assertion that tax exemption as applied to religious United Against Taxing Schools. A separate Catholic organ-

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THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA, DO TO OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS IF HE IS ELECTED? THE POLICY OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH IS TO DESTROY THE PUBLIC "Xt wil1 be a glorious day in this country when under the law, the public school system will be shivered to pieces." THE CATHOLIC TELEGRAPH, quoted in THE ROMAN CATHOLIC PROBLEM, by George

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"The public school system is a swindle of the people—a foul disgrace in matters of morals and should be abolished." THE BROOKLYN (DIOCESE) TABLET, ibid, "The Pope's encyclical (Pope Pius Xl'r Christian Education of Youth) sounds a note at wi startle Americans for it assails an ^ ^ institution dearest to them— the PUBLIC SCHOOL—without which it is hardly conceivable that democracy could long exist."

NEW YORJK TIMES, January 1, 1930.

From the Los Angeles Times, March 4, 1958

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Diego, March 3 (AP)—-Atty . Gen Brown, wno seeJcs t}le Democratic nomination for Governor, today proposed a major shake-up in state education , with the Governor assuming broad responsibility for results.

"Brown said he would , if Governor, inaugu rate changes through new appointees , if necessary, on the State Board of Education. " PAT BROWN, IF ELECTED. COULD CARRY OUT THE OBJECTIVES OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH TO DE-

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ization , the Catholic Diocesan Committee Against Taxing Schools, played a prominent role in public and, even more actively, behind the scenes, in providing financial assistance and in urging parishioners to vote to support exemption.

The arguments of the Proposition Three campaign of 1952 reappeared. Proponents included three new emphases: the service private schools performed in alleviating what was at the time crowding in the public schools; the historic welfare contributions of private and public schools working together which the California Supreme Court noted in its 1956 decision; the threat to tax all church property, educational or not, implicit in the efforts of the opponents of private school tax exemption.

Vehemently joining the fray, the colorful James K. Pike, just arrived in May, 1958, in California to become the Episcopal Bishop of California declared himself "most reticent to speak out on local matters until I become very familiar with this city." On the issue of private school tax exemption, however, he had no hesitancy uf'jumping in on that [question] with both feet" in favor of exemption.

The state Republican and Democratic parties announced opposition to the repeal of tax exemption, as did Senator William F. Knowland and Attorney General Edmund G. Brown, candidates for governor. The California Federation of Labor (A.F.L.) and Goodwin J. Knight, Republican candidate for the United States Senate and incumbent Governor of California, announced strong opposition to the initiative.

On the other hand, the new-style Nativism found its voice in G. Bromley Oxnam, Methodist Bishop and frequent critic of the Catholic Church. He argued that schools, unlike colleges, were agencies of religious propaganda and indoctrination. Therein lay the danger of Catholic schools. The Bishop was also a leader of Protestants and Other Americans United for Separation of Church and State, which had been founded by the Catholic-baiting Paul Blanshard, the author in 1949 of a most popular and influential book titled American Freedom and Catholic Power A final argument by proponents was blatantly anti-Catholic. They saw private school tax exemption as an early phase in the Catholic effort to dominate every aspect of life in the United States and as part of a global plan to Catholicize the world. Blanshard had developed this argument fully in his chapter "The Catholic Plan for America?" The pamphlet, Repeal Parochial School Tax Exemption?—Yes!, warned that Catholic monopoly of education would y ield American schools that resembled those in Colombia, Spain, and Italy. The traditional America would exist no longer.

When the votes were counted, Califomians had strongly repudiated the campaign to repeal tax exemption by 67 to 33 per cent. Proponents, with significant help from the California Catholic Bishops, spent close to two million dollars. Masonic lodges in California and the nation contributed almost one million dollars to the opponents.

Conclusion

There is a certain irony in the Catholic school situation in California today when one considers it against the background of the tax exemption struggle. The major proponents and opponents of the long c ampai gn for exemption have retreated from the field.

Neither most Catholic leaders nor spokesmen for the Masonic Order appear to have much interest in the largest question facing schools in California today: vouchers.

Perhaps new proponents and opponents of that educational reform will emerge in the years ahead .

Information in this article was drawn, in part, from two previous works by the late Bishop Mark J. Hurley.

Gordon M. Seely, PhD. is Professor of History emeritus at San Francisco State University.

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Food & Fun

. Oct. 3, 4, 5: Mater Dolorosa Parish Festival, Sensational 70s, looks back on the "disco era" with fun games , silent auction and more . Fri. 3-10 p.m.; Sat. noon - 11 p.m.; Sun, 1 - 8 p.m. at 307 Willow m Ave., South San Francisco. Call (650) 583-4131.

Oct. 4: Fiesta Filipiniana at St. Anne of the Sunset's Moriarty Hall, 7 p.m. - midnight. Tickets $25 adults/$10 children. Sponsored by parish FilAm Society. Call Lucy Jacinto at (415) 681-8719.

Oct. 4: Harvest Fest benefiting St. Matthias Parish Pre-school , Canyon Rd. off Cordeleras , Redwood City from 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. The arts and cratts fair features "20 local vendors who sell their wonderful and creative homemade items ," said Mary Ornellas , school director. "It's a lun-filled day for the entire family." Also featured are bake booth , food booth , silent auction and raffle.

Children's game area and Cosmo Jump, too. Call (650) 367-1320.

Oct . 4: Rites commemorating feast of St. Francis of Assisi at St. Mary's Cathedral, Gough and Geary St., SF including blessing of the animals and evening Jazz Mass featuring the Jazz Mass Ensemble of the Diocese of Monterey and the Gospel Choir of St. Paul of the Shipwreck Parish, SF. Call (415) 567-2020.

Oct . 10, 11, 12: Fiesta commemorating the 227th anniversary of San Francisco's Mission Dolores.

Happy 50th birthday to the Auxiliary of Mt. St. Josep h - St. Elizabeth, SF. A big Begins Fri. at 6 p.m. and continues Sat. 10 a.m. -7 birthday party commemorates the occasion Oct. 19th from 2 - 6 p.m. with cocktails p.m. and Sun. 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. Silent auction , famand bountiful hors d'oeuvres. $50 donation benefits the children and families of Mt. ily-style spaghetti and chicken dinners, game booths, international food, and Mission Cafe Sports St. Joseph - St. Elizabeth. Call (415) 587-1439 or (415) 386-1135. From left, auxiliary Bar in the school auditorium. Benefits Mission members Candy Bermejo Zaczek, Kay Kleinen and Sally Mulkerrins, at last year 's Do/ores Elementary School. "It's all for a great cause, so come out and join the fun," the school Christmas Extravaganza benefiting the program which for 150 years has provided said. Call (415) 621-8203. quality care and services to children and families in San Francisco. "Our purpose is Oct. 10, 11, 12: Star of the Sea s Fall Festiva to strengthen family life and to enhance the physical, social-emotional , intellectual 2003 featuring "dinners, entertainment,, kiddie carnival, raffles and bingo." Fun for alf ages. Fri. 7-11 and spiritual growth of each person in our care ," the agency, founded and p.m.; Sat. 1 - 11 p.m.; Sun. 1 - 9 p.m. Join the fun served by the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul, said. in the parish center, 345 8th Ave., SF. Oct. 11, 12: 84th Columbus Day Bazaar at Sts. Tickets $12. Call Claire Kendall at (415) 751-5875. between 17th and 18th Ave., SF. Fri. 6 - 1 0 p.m.; Peter and Paul Elementary School on Washington Oct : 20: Regular meeting at 7:30 p.m. with official Sat noon - 5 p.m. and 7 - 1 0 p.m. with dinner Square in San Francisco's North Beach. Games , from 5 - 7 p.m.; Sun. noon - 6 p.m. Games, visit from Grand President Barbara Lovio. Call Rose food , entertainment , puppet shows , salami toss , crafts , raffle and silent auction. Snack bar, too.

Marie at (415) 753-5680. and more .

Italian SF landmarks miniature golf , Call (415) 664-8481 . sodas, pizza, grilled sausages. Saturday is Family Reunions Oct. 19: St. Thomas the Dance Night with surfer classics by the Rip Tides. Fri. 11 Celebrations of Filipino American Apostle continues celebra Oct. 31, Nov. 2: Class reunions and Alumnae a.m. - 10 p.m.; Sat. 10 a.m. - History Month continue at St. Patrick tions of its 80 Years of Mass and Brunch honoring classes of '58, '63, '68, 7 p.m. Call (415) 421-0809.

Church, 4th and Mission St , San Serving God and Community 73, 78, '83, '88, '93, '98 at Notre Dame High with a liturgy at 11 a.m. honOct. 16: The St. Thomas Francisco on Oct. 4th with An Evening oring those who entered the School, Belmont. Contact alumnae office at (650) More Society, an organization of Classical Music. The concert fea- priesthood or religious life 595-1913, ext. 351 or alumnae@ndhsb.org. of Catholics serving in the legal tures Filipino cellists Wilfredo Cartas? fro m the Richmond district Oct. 18: 1st annual reunion of St. Monica profession, will gather for its Pasamba and Angeltta Gartase parish. Couples married Elementary School alumni. Call Bret Allen, principal, annual Red Mass Oct. 16th at Pasamba, and the music of composers there will be honored Nov. for an invitation, (415) 751-9564.

5:30 p.m. at Sts. Peter and including Bach, Chopin, and Haydn. 16th. The parish school, Oct. 18: Annual reunion St. Brigid High School, Tickets to the ? p.m. concert are availPaul Church on Washington Religious Education program SF. All alumnae invited to Castagnola 's, 280 Square in North Beach. San able at the door for $15. and Chinese School graduJefferson at Fisherman's Whari. Luncheon at noon.

Francisco Auxiliary Bishop ates will be remembered on Calf Evelyn Vanucci Carrignani at (415) 775-0491 or John Wester will preside.

Dec. 7. Parishioners and friends from then and Lorraine Pengel Grenfell at (650) 345-2476. "We're Homilist is Jesuit Father Stephen Privett, president, now are invited. Call (415) 387-5545. trying to find as many of our classmates as possiUniversity of San Francisco. Retired Alameda ble," said Barbara Graham, class of '42. "The school Oct. 19: Happy 50th birthday to auxiliary of Mt. St. County District Attorney, John J. Meehan, will be Joseph - St. Elizabeth, SF. Big birthday party comclosed over 50 years ago but last year we had 101 presented with the group's St. Thomas More Award. ladies attending our reunion. It was a wonderful memorates the occasion from 2 - 6 p.m.. Cocktails Dinner follows at San Francisco Italian Athletic and bountiful hors d'oeuvres. $50 donation benefits school."

Club. Tickets $75 per person. Call Stacy Stecher at the children and families of Mt. St. Joseph - St. (415) 433-1400 for reservations.

Oct. 11: Class of '58, Mercy High School, SF. Elizabeth. Call (415) 587-1439 or (415) 386-1135.

Postcards have been sent "to all the addresses we Oct. 16: The Cathedral Autumn Group travels to Oct. 25: Pre-Halloween Zydeco Dance in the have," said Kathe McDonnell Farrell. "If any classNapa. Men and women 55 years and older are welO'Reilly Center of St. Emydius Parish, 255 Jules mates did not get a postcard, we don't have your come. Call Mercy Sister Esther McEgan at (415) Ave , at Ashton , SF, from 9 p.m. - 1 a.m. Music by address." Call Kathe at (415) 681-2876 or Clare 567-2020, ext. 218. Dec. 18: Christmas Luncheon; Andre Thierry and Zydeco Magic. "Grub and Grog" Breen Mayne at (415) 826-5255.

Jan. 15: Helen Rosenthal speaks on From available. Tickets $12 advance/$15 at door. Call Jerusalem: For Peace #2;" Feb. 19: Docent Tour of Oct. 25: Class of 78, Our Lady of Angels (415) 333-0808.

Grace Cathedral; March 18: International Elementary School, Burlingame at Doubletree hotel Luncheon.

Oct. 25: Annual Halloween Luncheon Fundraiser in B'game. Still looking for some classmates. of Dolores #7 Young Ladies Institute in St. Cecilia Contact Robin Rando Del Pape at (650) 759-5926, Oct. 17, 18, 19: Let's Play, St. Cecilia Parish Parish lower church hall beginning at 11 a.m. robindelpape@comcast.com; or Julie Britton Festival 2003 at the parish school, 660 Vicente St. Kanzaki at (650) 464-2354 orkanzakis@pacbell.net.

Nov. 1: Class of '53 from Marin Catholic High School at Deer Park Villa in Fairfax . Class members should call Rosemary Penna U'Ren at (415) 4640489 or mennau@aol.com.

This Sunday morning at 5 a.m. on KPIX-Channel 5, Deborah Payne and Edward Nov. 29: Holy Name of Jesus, class of '53.

Classmates should call Jerry Ames at (415) 454Watson of the St. Vincent de Paul Society will visit with Tom Burke on the 1394.

"Mosaic " TV program. This lay Catholic group has been providing emergency help Class of '54, from Corpus Christi Elementary, SF, to needy people on a daily basis, relying mainly on the fifth Sunday of the month "Where are you?" A 50th reunion is in the works. collections which are taken in many parishes. Mosaic is a co-production of the Call Joe Giusto at (650) 588-5220 or Carol Fabei Gallucci at (650) 697-4768.

Office of Communications of the Archqiocese of San Francisco and KPIX-Channel Looking for members of the class of '53, Stai 5, the CBS affiliate in the Bay Area. For last-minute programming changes please of the Sea Elementary, SF. 50th reunion is being caH 415-765-8952 . Watch or tape for later viewing. planned. Contact Rose Fitzpatrick Bamett, (650)

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Vocations/Prayer Opportunities Oct. 3: 1st Fri. Mass ol the Sacred Heart at St. Cecilia Church, 17th Ave. and Vicente St., SF with rosary at 7 p.m. and Mass at 7:30 p.m. Father Joe Landi will preside.

Oct. 4: Praise, Prayer and Worship Explosion , St. Cecilia Lower Church, 17th Ave. and Vicente St., SF 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Led by Father James Tarantino, pastor, St. Hilary Parish, Tiburon. Music

by Gospel Jubilation Singers. Sponsored by Charismatic Renewal of the Archdiocese of SF. Call (415) 664-7729.

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. 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. 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.

Office of Young Adult Ministry: Connecting men and women in their 20s and 30s to the Catholic Church. Contact Dominican Sister 5595, 614Christine Wilcox, (415) wilcoxc@sfarchdiocese.org, or Mary Jansen, (415) 614-5596, jansenm@sfarchdiocese.org.

Thurs. at 7:30 p.m.: St. Dominic Adult Formation Series in the parish hall 2390 Bush St. at Steiner, SF. Explore the skills needed to understand the bible and help it inform daily life. Join at any time.

Contact Scott Moyer at scott@stdominics.org.

Oct. 5: St. Dominic's Young Adults Newcomer Dinner will help welcome new members following Mass at 5:30 p.m. Please contact Tracy Kalafut at (415) 461-2486 or tkalafut@mindspring.com.

Oct. 12 and 19, 7:30 p.m.: Tolkien and the Lord of the Rings - A Christian Epic? at St. Agnes Spiritual Life Center, 1611 oak St., SF. Enjoy the film during week one and discuss it and the book relative to Christian belief. Contact Father Geoff Glaser t (415) 487-8560, ext. 238 or director@stagnesslc.org.

Oct. 25: Fall Fest 2003 at USF's McLaren Center.

Why Listen? Why Follow? Hearing God, Making Connections, an all day event featuring keynote talks, exhibits, workshops, liturgy, dinner and dance.

Contact Mary Jansen at jansenm ©sfarchdiocese or (415) 614-5596.

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

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

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By David DiCerto Catholic News Service NEW YORK (CNS) — A Texas farm becomes an unlikely classroom for life lessons when a timid youngster spends an unforgettable summer alone with his two eccentric great-uncles in the breezy coming-of-age heartwarmer, "Secondhand Lions" (New Line).

Bolstered by double-barrel bravura performances by Robert Duvall and Michael Caine, the film, directed by Tim McCanlies, hits all the right emotional notes, resulting in an enchanting story about family and the transmission of values as generations change hands.

At the center of the tale — set in the early 1960s — is Walter (Haley Joel Osment), a sheepish 14-year-old dumped on the dilapidated front porch of his two crusty kin by his self-absorbed mother (Kyra Sedgwick).

Scarred by a lifetime of lies and abandonment, Walter invests little currency in his mom 's empty promise of returning soon — or, for that matter, in anything else.

The only people on the porch less happy with the arrangement than Walter are his two uncles, Hub (Duvall) and Garth (Caine) McCaan — a pair of ornery and antisocial curmudgeons, the highlight of whose daily routine is taking turns picking off traveling salesmen — deemed trespassers — with their shotguns.

They reckon that Walter is yet another ploy in a long line of gold-digging relatives ' attempts to ingratiate themselves into their will, an inheritance that would include the fortune which the old-timers are rumored to have slashed somewhere on their property — a treasure trove they are said to have amassed in their younger years as either bank robbers

or Mafia hit men. In one of the film's funnier episodes, Hub and Garth use some of their hidden loot to purchase tire eponymous "secondhand" feline to use as hunting game on the ranch, but wind up with a "sick zoo castoff ," mirroring their own faded , long-inthe-tooth glory.

After a rocky start, the old codgers ' gruff exteriors begin to thaw, allowing the lad glimpses of soft underbellies beneath their tough-as-nails hides. Prompted by the discovery of a mysterious, fading photo of a beautiful woman in his dusty attic lodging, Walter coaxes the brothers ' story out of Garth, the more approachable of the two geezers. Garth spins an amazing yam of adventure and romance set in exotic lands, told visually through serialinspired flashbacks which introduce a cliffhanger subplot into the main narrative.

The tall tale sets up a seismic shift in the way Walter views his uncles , offering him a chance to finall y believe in something, no matter how outlandish the claims.

Reciprocall y, realizing that they are all th at Walter has in the world, Hub and Garth find themselves reinvigorated with a new sense of purpose and reason to keep on living.

Form-fitted to the roles of the surly septuagenarians, Duvall and Caine — both masters at the top of their game — leaven the required rough-and-tumble grit with a disarming warmth that offers a refreshingly tender slant on manhood — one which imbues hugging a child with as much masculinity as mopping the floor with a band of Lone Star delinquents. This unabashedly courageous portrayal of restrained virilitystands in stark contrast to the standard sulk and smash machismo measured by Hollywood's testosterone barometer, making the film's at times heavyhanded, feel-good fuzzies easy to applaud.

"Secondhand Lions" also touches on important issues involved with aging, dramatizing the erosion of vitality caused by a lost

Haley Joel Osment. Michael Caine and Robert Duvall star in a scene from the coming-of-age heartwarmer "Secondhand Lions."

sense of purpose — an anxiety evident in Hub's "fear of being useless." The film offers a beautiful alternative view of growing old to the one peddled by our pathologically youthfixated society, which treats old age as a curse. McCanlies' story imparts a message that the elderly — far from being burdens — are repositories of lived experience and wisdom and the vehicles by which civilization passes on its values.

The film speaks eloquently about what ancient sages and the church would call "virtues." In one scene Hub, after making short order of a bunch of local ruffians, offers them a paternal pep talk, his "how to be a man" speech. Later, he gives Walter a condensed version, extolling such oft-neglected ideals as honor, courage and true love — in his words, "things worth believing in."

During the sermon, Walter asks Hub if all the heroic stories Garth told him are tru e, to which his uncle replies , "Just because some-

thing 's not true doesn 't mean you can 't believe in it." Rather than viewing his response as philosophical equivocation, one might interpret Hub's words as saying those things which can not be quantifiably verified like honor — or for that matter most acts of faith and love — have far more value than those which can be "proved" or measured, such as money and power.

While its lions may be secondhand , this film is first-rate and has a lot to roar about.

Due to some thematic elements, minimal mildly crude language and some action violence, the USCCB Office for Film & Broadcasting classification is A-II — adults and adolescents. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG — parental guidance suggested.

DiCerto is on the staff of the Office f o r Film & Broadcasting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic B ishops.

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Christopher Walker brings laughter to an appreciative workshop audience.

Attendees with a general interest found workshops such as "Catholic Morality in a Changing World" presented by Father Gerald Coleman , president of St. Patrick Seminary in Menlo Park, and "Prayer - its causes and cures," presented by Father David Petting ill.

Father Patrick Brennan of Chicago gave the keynote address. He is a university professor at the Institute of Pastoral Studies at Loyola University in Chicago and pastor of suburban Holy Family Parish in the Archdiocese of Chicago. A recognized leader in evangelization, catechesis and religious education , Father Brennan in Ms address and a subsequent workshop spoke of a model of parish life designed to create a synthesis of ministry efforts that reaches out to every member of a parish to invol ve them more deeply in the faith community.

Father Brennan said Holy Famil y Parish is atypical , having been established 20 years ago by Cardinal Joseph Bernardin.

The parish is in the northwest suburbs , two miles from a large evangelical church with many former Catholics in its congregation . Father Brennan said Cardinal Bemad in's mandate for the parish was "to be progressive, to be fundamentalist."

In practice, the parish seeks to create the environment of the early Church. The pastor says staff members ought not to "do for" rather they should "do with" parishioners, empowering and facilitating the baptized to do ministry.

The emphasis is on calling people to the "Priesthood of the Faithful" rather than on mere volunteering.

The parish conducts a "call to ministry" three times a year

and practices a "wholislic stewardship" — five times each year homilies focus on the responsibility to support ministries with gifts of time, treasure and talent. Ministry is defined as "being or doing something as a baptized person to help with the emergence of God's reign in our local parish," according to Father Brennan.

The Chicago priest's vision of parish ministries elicited different responses from attendees. One veteran woman religious said the message was one that more priests ought to hear.

But hearing of the involvement that seemed to be called for, a lay woman asked , "What about the ordinary person?"

Bernie O'Halloran , deacon at St. Anselm Parish in San Anselmo, said the message is that "every ministry in a parish has to be one of evangelization , and it means that stewardship also must be taken seriously."

Maureen Lundy and Linda McCarthy, teachers at Star of the Sea Elementary School in San Francisco, found the day to be both helpful and challenging. They were impressed by "the number and quality of speakers and the diversity of the attendees."

In another workshop , internationall y known composer and conductor Christopher Walker spoke of music and the liturgy of the Word with children. He said care must be taken because children experience spiritual harm if they are continually exposed to things they don 't understand.

"I always come away from the conference with something enriching to bring back to my students," said Gretchen Harris, a religious education teacher at St. Sebastian Parish in Marin County.

Dr. Jerome Baggett , professor at the Jesuit School of Theology and University of California in Berkeley, presented sociological trends in American society in relationshi p to religion and secularization.

More than 200 young people attended a "youth track," which featured workshops of special interest to youth.

Jennie Murray, a member of the parish youth group at St. Peter 's Parish in Pacifica, said "The Faith Conference teaches you to grow with a deeper knowledge of your faith. " Cathy Aveson, teacher at St. Dunstan in Millbrae and a parishioner at St. Robert 's in San Bruno , said she got some great ideas for teaching junior high school students.

"Since I work with kids who do not go to parochial school, I am always looking for ways to engage them and encourage them to participate at Mass," said Terri Espinoza of St. Bruno Parish in San Bruno.

Sister Celeste Arbuckle , director of Religious Education and Youth Ministry for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, said, "The conference was an opportunity to learn and be enlivened in our faith and the response of the people was extraordinary."

In his homily at the closing Mass, Archbishop Levada spoke of a recent book by Peter Steinfels, former Religion Editor of the New York Tunes, titled , "A People Adrift: Crisis of the Roman Catholic Church in America."

He said among the larger issues facing the Church in the twenty-first century is the need to evangelize, presenting a personal challenge to each of the catechists, religion teachers, clergy and religious present at the Conference.

Archbishop Levada said, "For all the gifts we have received, we still experience a sense of polarization" and we find ourselves in "a world so in need of the love and peace that comes from Christ. Jesus invites us to solidarity with our brothers and sisters who also seek what is good."

Jay me George contributed to this story.

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