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A record croivd of parakeets, dogs, iguanas, cats, horses and other creatures were blessed in honor of thefeast day of St. Francis of Assist by Franciscans of San Francisco 's St. Boniface Parish on Sept. 30. Father Floyd Lotito (blessing a white bird at right) presided at the event and told pa rticipants, "St. Francis called all animals his brothers and sisters. In this city of St. Francis... we realize how all creation reveals the beauty and love of God. We are all called to be family , living in harmony with each other. We are stewards of creation, not masters. " It was the 11"' annual "Blessing of the Animals " at the parish. Above, St. Boniface pastor Franciscan Father Louis Vitale blesses a dog. St. Francis'f east day is Oct. 4.

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K \. while he and others work to re-lfuil l staff morale afTtL ^' ! Cafefjimity trust. > < a "periodic , direct / ^\ The"Ie&j s meant to be part of and he head of Catholic Charities for the Archdiocese of coiTuhunj catiorf^^'Jo supporters people who work/ San Francisco has mailed a letter of apology to donors, with CathoTibChariflls, (Jahill explained , adding he plans volunteers, pastors, government officials, and others who to communicate ^n-as many different ways aspossible." have an interest in the social service agency, which is "The greater good wa>not harmed" by the former working to recover from negative publicity after revelations executive leadership team 's "exthwagant spending," comof expense account "abuses" of its former leadership. mented Jack Fitzpatrick , the chair of tKfr-agency 's Board In addition, the agency has committed to continuing of the Directors' finance committee. Guerrero House, a program for homeless teens and young "Being part of the investigation , I understand the adults that had been slated for probable closure at the same extent of the problem that existed," said Fitzpatrick , a time expense account abuses were coming to light in June. long-time supporter of the agency, which provides services Dated Sept. 28 and signed by Brian Cahill, interim to people with AIDS, homeless mothers, abused and negexecutive director of Catholic Charities, the letter was lected children, and isolated elders. mailed in envelopes marked with the words "an apology" "The people running the programs weren't impaired in bold letters. . by this at all, and in fact, did an outstanding job ," "The strongest message is that of apology," Cahill Fitzpatrick explained in a telephone interview. told Catholic San Francisco. While many supporters have expressed "anger," it is Cahill , who also heads the Archdiocese's Catholic "too early" to judge whether financial support has Youth Organization , said he intends the letter to commudeclined, Cahill told CatholicSan Francisco. ' nicate the agency is being "restored" and "stabilized," Indeed, Fitzpatrick said while some donors expressed

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anger to him, they "calmed down" after he pointed out damage to services was "limited. " "I know first hand that there's no reason for me to stop giving to Catholic Charities," he said. Another donor and board member said she plans to renew her financial commitment. Mary Male Schembri said many supporters called her to say they "wouldn 't give another cent" until the agency was "fixed". "We can say that it's fixed," commented Schembri, who chairs the board's new programs committee. She said the board has "identified the problems and addressed them and has changed procedures. " "The board is committed to much more oversight," Schembri noted. Schembri also said services did not suffer, due largely to the efforts of the professional staff. "Our reputation was damaged, but not the programs," she said. Still another long-time supporter said the situation had "raised questions about who is the ultimate beneficiary of those gifts. " William Coblentz, a director of the CATHOLIC CHARITIES, page 16

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continued for three years at the Belmont school as director of a program helping others return to college later in life. Jerry is a retired accountant.. ..St. Pius celebrates its 50th anniversary with prayer and party on June 23 of next year....The Lakeside District's St. Step hen Parish marks its first half -il_!!_!lU_JL.._ ' <] J? . century on Oct. 22 and the Sunset District's Holy Name of Jesus Parish convenes to celebrate its 75th anniversary the same day (See Datebook for both). St. Stephen 's will gather for an afternoon Mass with Archbishop William J. Levada presiding and former pastor, Bishop John C. Wester as by Tom Burke homilist. The parish choir, under the direction of Cheryl Arnold has recorded a CD commemorating the milestone. Retired Sacramento Bishop Francis Margaret Doherty, a 72-year Quinn will preside at the morning member of San Mateo 's St. Mass at Holy Name that is the first of Matthew Parish, is very happy a series of anniversary gatherings that for her grandson Eric and new include a Nov. 11 Remembrance Mass granddaug hter-in-law, Ingrid , and a Mass concluding the year-long who married several months ago. occasion on Oct. 28, 200 1 with Hats off to Margaret who is 94 Levada presiding.... Archbishop years old. Th anks to Eric 's Aunt Please keep us in your prayers to Kate Moran for f'illin ' us in. Salesian Sister Suzzette Arante who Eric 's dad is Deacon Paul profession of vows in made peipetual Bromham of the Santa Rosa dioEric and Ingrid Bromham receive San Antonio in August. Salesian cese. ...S peakin ' of deacons, Ash Wednesday 2000 blessing from pastor of St. Father David Purdy, Deacon Gerald Pera , former Pope John Paul II at the Vatican Peter and Paul Parish in North deacon at St. Mart's but now living in Idaho, has been named chancellor of the Diocese of Beach , where Sister Suzzette had been previously in ministry, Boise. Gerry, ordained in 1995, is a retired executive of attended.... Prayers p lease for Rita Leone Cerami of St. Timothy Southern Pacific Transportation. Parish , San Mateo who is battling illness....Ray Any parish or organization looking for an organ is welMcKeon , director of detention ministry for the come to the Rodgers Organ at St. Mark Parish , Belmont Archdiocese and a longtime parishioner of South San say s pastor, Msgr. Floro Arcamo. The parish is remodeling 's Francisco St. Veronica 's, worked with the parish and the 30-year-old two-keyboard instrument is too bi g for ' graders on notes of encouragement that will be school s 5th the worship space. distributed to inmates at San Quentin during a retreat there Call (650) 591this weekend. Meg Murphy is 5th grade teacher. Congrats 5937... .Fide a 6th to Rachel Amato, grader at St. Veronica 's and her sisC h r i s t o ter, Melissa a freshman at Sacred Heart Cathedral , on , Apostolates of their wins in the YMI St. John Bosco Council #613 essay , Vallejo has precontest. Thanks to Carmela Di Mauro , school developsented San ment director for the update.... Rafael's St. San Francisco 's St. Paul of the Shipwreck Parish welVincent de Paul comed relatives of Cynthia and Sam Selmar who were in Dining Room town over the summer for a famil y reunion. Thanks for a with $1 ,000 to " wonderful dinner dance" went to H. Welton Flynn , Paul continue its work. Paul McCarthy and Rose, James Hall , Ola Donley, June Donley, Dinia Wright Fide Christo execSVDP's Bill Eberhart and Deola Toussaint, who also was thanked for her longtime utive director. " "Christian service as hospitality minister, youth group menPaul McCarthy , is nephew of late Franciscan and friend of tor and cook for the Friars. The parish says farewell to longthe poor, Father Alfred Boeddeker....Prayerful good wishtime Gospel Choir director, Arna Ashford , and puts out a call es to Michael Vaissade who entered the Franciscan Friars for someone who might be able to fill the role. If interested , of Renewal in New York last month. Mike is a St. Pius call the parish office at (415) 468-3434... .Kudos to the parish Elementary and Junipero Serra High School grad.... community of St. Augustine South San Francisco, who , Congrats to Father Dominic Savio Lee , parochial vicar at St. Anne of the Sunset Parish , on becoming a U.S. citi- have been praying in the nearby Westborough Middle zen on Aug. 22.. ..Hats off to St. Mary 's Cathedral pastor, School while the parish church is being enlarged. Hopes are Msgr. John O'Connor , and Cathedral regent, Denis B. high for a February finish to the upgrade....Congratulations Dineen, for helping facilitate a warm welcome for Cork to Holy Namers Marina and James McKenzie on their City, Ireland Lord Mayor Damian Wallace and his wife , 40th wedding anniversary; Nelia and Ruben Osotio of St. Grace, on their recent trip to the city for chats with Mayor Peter's, Pacifica on their 25th; and Suzanne Rocha and Willie Brown and other civic leaders. Msgr. O'Connor took Eric Swanson of Our Lady of the Pillar, Half Moon Bay the couple on a personal tour of the cathedral and Denis on their recent marriage.... treated them to a tour of San Francisco and Mu ir Woods plus lunch in Sausalito. The Cork Sister City Committee, of which Denis is a member, also feted the visitors with dinner at - "where else?", Denis said - Fisherman 's Wharf.... Do they tape shows like Jerry Springer and the courtroom fiascoes in the same place and share guests?....

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Redwood City 's St. Matthias Parish has ceased its Saturday night Bingo after 24 years but not without thanking those who made it possible including

Virg inia Letzring, Ed Coleman, Joe Kaz , Roger Flores , Marge and Bob Mitchell , and Carol Flores.... Our Lady of Angels, Burlingame recently prayed for Bingo pioneer, Frank Cistulli , who died in August....St. Matthias neighbor, St. Pius, will always be grateful to originators and supporters of its now closed Bingo program including Dominic Fama, Joe Crespo, Joe Cornish , Tom Blanchard and Jerry Volk.... Hats off to St. Pius parishioners Peggy and Jerry Pribyl who have been married 56 years next month and have 13 children, 35 grandchildren and 8 great grandchildren. Peggy completed a degree in English at College of Notre Dame after her children were grown, and

Helen and Vincent Finigan hosted Paris Mission Father Heribert Duquet (left) and Msgr. John Foudy at the Olympic Club, Lakeside in May. The celebration commemorate d Msgr. Foudy!s 60th year as a priest. The Finigans, married 58 years , met as grade school students at the Richmond District's St. Monica Elementary. They have lived in the Parkside District 's St. Cecilia Parish, where both priests are in residence , for the last 39 years.

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McCracken 's older brother, Kevin , 30, pleasure and a benefit for me." "This is the first time I can go home at is also employed by Ashbury Images. "Apparentl y the company is happy with night knowing I did a good job and probmy work as they asked if my brother ably helped people gain some life-skills would be interested in interviewing," he that they can use in the futu re," said Eric Cleland , production supervisor. "It 's a said. Like his brother, Kevin has a drug little bit more rewarding than buy ing my addiction. He served time in jail for pos- boss a new boat this year. It 's kind of session. He is extremel y proud of his nice working for a non-profit." Ashbury Images emp loys approxinearl y two-year sobriety. "The bi g thing is don 't spend time with people using or mately 15 transitional employees at one drinking," he said. time - training them to go on to full , perKevin always wanted to work in "non- manent employment. The average stay is profit ," but no one would hire him. One eight months. It has helped hundreds of year ago, Ashbury Images brought him people, according to Sheinbein. He said on. as office manager. "It 's a good place they have many success stories. Some to get back on my feet ," he said. As the "graduates" have entered the administrabusiness grows he said he is given more tive field , even working in law firms. responsibility and he feels the personal Others have become graphic artists . T-shirts will not be available at Pacific growth. ," 's good that people come in fresh Bell Park on the day of the Jubilee Mass. "It • observed Kevin , "because it 's a reminder Persons should order them through their where I came from . The job 's been a parish, Mass organizers emphasized.

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NEW HAVEN , Conn. (CNS) — The board of direc tors of the Kni ghts of Columbus has named Carl A Anderson , 49, as the 13th supreme kni ght , or chief executive officer , of the 1.6 millionmember international Catholic fraternal service organization. A kni ght since 1985 , Anderson has been a member of the Knights ' board and was named supreme secretary in 1999. The announcement of his promotion was Carl Anderson made Sept. 26 at Kni ghts ' headquarters in New Haven. Anderson succeeds Virgil C. Dechant , 70, who is retiring after 24 years as supreme kni g ht. Dechant will remain on the Kni ghts ' board .

Posses hill to p rotect infa nts

WASHINGTON (CNS) — The House approved on a 380-15 vote Sept. 26 a bill that the head of the U.S. bishops ' pro-life office had called necessary to counteract an "appalling trend" in the U.S. courts toward approval of killing babies outside the womb. Gail Quinn , executive director of the bishops ' Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities, had commented on the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act in a Sept. 21 letter to members of Congress. Senate passage was considered unlikel y before the expected Oct. 6 adjournment.

partici pated in World Youth Day in Rome apparently decided to remain in Italy illegall y, a Vatican news agency reported. Fides, the news agency of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, reported that 60 of the 232 Senegalese youths and 45 of the 102 Zambians stayed behind when their peers returned home after the Aug. 1520 event. "The situation should speak to the world and the governments of Africa about the desperate situation of disenchanted African youth without a future in Africa ," said Father Al phonse Seek, national director of Senegal's Catholic laity office.

Bush p raises Catholic schools

LOS ANGELES (CNS) — Praising Catholic schools for challeng ing "the soft bigotry of low expectations ," Texas Gov. George W. Bush broug ht his presidential campai gn to Ascension School in the South Central section of Los Angeles. "1 appreciate the fact that Catholic schools have high expectations for their students and zero tolerance for disruption ," the GOP presidential candidate told an assembly of students , teachers , parents and community members gathered on Ascension 's playground Sept. 27.

Father Nouwen archives open

TORONTO (CNS) — Research into the life and work of writer, teacher and retreat leader Father Henri Nouwen gained a big boost with the opening of the Henri J.M. Nouwen Archives and Research Collection at the Kelly Library of Toronto's St. Michael's College. The Dutchborn Father Nouwen , who died in 1996, enjoyed a wide following for his writing and teaching on Catholic spirituality, psychology and pastoral ministry.

Ash end to Cuba sanctions

WASHINGTON (CNS) — The chairman of the U.S. bishops ' International Policy Committee has called for an end to sanctions on the sale of food and medicine to Cuba. A group of prominent Republican leaders are also urging Congress to allow food and medicine sales as well as end restrictions on travel by Americans to the island ; "It is time to leave aside a policy that , whatever moral justification it may once have had, has clearly outlived its purpose," Boston Cardinal Bernard F. Law said Sept. 27.

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MANCHESTER , England (CNS) — The Catholic Fund for Overseas Development has urged the British government to consider economic sanctions against Indonesia unless the wave of violence in West Timor ends. The agency, the official development arm of the Catholic bishops of England and Wales, wrote to Clare Short , secretary of state for international development , and to John Battle , a minister at the foreign and commonwealth office. .The agency said actionswere necessary to prevent the complete breakdown of law and order in Indonesia.

Bishops ask troop mthdrassal

BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNS) — Lebanon's Maronite bishops called for the withdrawal of Syrian troops from Lebanon . The withdrawal of Syrian troops is the only way to preserve the "historic and geographic links" between the countries and the "ties of ... kinsmanship, friendship and common interests" while preventing the dismantling of Lebanon, they said. "Now that Israel has withdrawn , is it not time for Syrian troops to consider relocating in preparation for a final withdrawal in conformity with the Taif agreement?" they said in a Sept. 20 statement obtained by Catholic News Service Sept. 25.

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WASHINGTON (CNS) — "1 went crazy. There's no other way of putting it," said a smiling and soft-spoken Cyprian Rowe , now in his mid-60s and still wearing the kind of African attire he wore as a Marist Brother. The AfricanAmerican scholar, who has several degrees and has been a research associate in the psychiatry department at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore , said he was talking about his Cyprian Rowe decision to leave the Catholic Church and the Marists three years ago to join a breakaway African-American Catholic Community. "By " crazy,' I don 't mean I was some kind of drooling and incoherent dodderer," he exp lained , lau ghing. "I'm talking about someone who was so focused in one area of his life that the rest of his life fell away." A former executive director of both the Washington-based National Office for Black Catholics (1978-80) and of the National Black Catholic Clergy Caucus (1981-83), Rowe said he is writing a letter to the superior of the Marist Brothers , asking to re-enter the community which he originall y joined in 195 1 at the age of 15. He has become disenchanted with the African-American Catholic Congregation , founded b y Archbishop George Augustus Stallings Jr., a former Roman Catholic priest.

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) — While the Hol y Year official ly will have ended , Pope John Paul II is scheduled to continue his Jubilee Year pil grimages by going to Damascus in Syria early in 2001. The tri p, likel y to take place at the end of February or early in March , also will include a stop in Malta — part of a pilgrimage in the footsteps of St. Paul , a Vatican source said.

Assisted suicide debated

PORTLAND, Maine (CNS) — The head of Maine 's only Catholic diocese is warning that "life as we know it is under attack in the state" because of efforts to legalize physician-assisted suicide . Bishop Joseph J. Gerry of Portland urged Catholics to educate themselves about the proposed physician-assisted suicide initiative , to be voted on Nov. 7.

Murder Uganda missionary

ROME (CNS) - Rebels murdered an Italian missionary in northern Uganda , said MISNA , the Rome-based missionary news agency. Members of the Lord 's Resistance Army shot and killed Comboni Father Raffaele Di Bari Oct. 1 as the priest was traveling by car from his mission in Pajule to the small village of Acholibur, where he was to celebrate Mass and baptize several children , .MISNA reported. Father Di Bari, 71, had been working in Uganda since 1959.

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Pope on 'Dominus Iesus': 'mistaken interpretations' By John Thavis VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Responding to sharp criticism from other religions and other Christian churches , Pope John Paul II defended a Vatican document on salvation , saying its affirmation of Christ as the one true savior was "not arrogance." Speaking at a blessing Oct. 1, the Pope said the document had been subject to "mistaken interpretations." He said the text, far from being an effort to weaken interreligious or ecumenical cooperation , offered a framework for meaningful dialogue. "The document clarifies the essential Christian elements, which do not obstruct dialogue but illustrate its foundations , because a dialogue without foundations would be destined to degenerate into empty verbosity," he said. "Our confession of Christ as the one Son, through whom we see the face of the Father, is not arrogance that shows contempt for other religions, but a joyful recognition that Christ

revealed himself to us without any merit on our part ," he said. The document, published Sept. 5 by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, affirmed that the church of Christ exists full y only in the Catholic Church. It rejected the idea that —^—————— "one religion is as good as another." It said that while others can be saved through a special grace, the Catholic Church is necessary for their salvation. It barely mentioned more than 30 years of ecumenical and interreli gious progress, instead criticizing the danger of a growing acceptance of religious pluralism. The document prompted two rabbis in Rome to cancel their partici pation in a Christian-Jewish symposium scheduled for Oct. 3, an embarrassment that forced the Vatican to cancel the event.

While many Catholic leaders cautiousl y welcomed the document , accentuating its more positive aspects, the reaction from other religions and other Christians was a steady stream of criticism. Many questioned to what extent the document real ly reflected the senti1 ments of the Pope, who has written eloquently about the value of such dialogue, including a 1995 encyclical, Ut Umim Sim ("That All May Be One"). The Pope appeared to answer that objection in his remarks, saying the document "was approved by me in a special form." He said his intent was to "invite all Christians to renew their attachment to (Christ) in the joy of the faith, unanimously witnessing that he is, today and tomorrow, the way, the truth and the life." He noted the document does not deny non-

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Christians can be saved, but makes clear that this possibility ultimatel y comes from Christ. Likewise, he said, when the document emphasizes the Church's position that the one church of Christ subsists in the Catholic Church , "it does not intend to express little consideration for the other churches and ecclesial communities." On the contrary, he said, the Catholic Church suffers to see that these other churches which contain "precious elements of salvation" are separated from the Catholic Church . "Thus the document expresses once again the same ecumenical passion that runs through my encyclical, Ut Unum Sint " he said. "It is my hope that this declaration, which I feel strongly about , after so many mistaken interpretation s, can end up performing its function of clarifying and at the same time of opening up" dialogue, he said. The Pope's unusual public defense of a Vatican document came after verbal and written criticism by several groups and individuals involved in the various dialogues conducted by the Vatican.

Pope canonizes Chinese martyrs; China issues protests VATICAN CITY (CNS) — In a ceremony that prompted a new outburst of criticism from China, Pope John Paul II canonized 120 Chinese and missionary martyrs and called them universal models of "courage and integrity." The martyrs — 87 native Chinese and 33 foreign missionaries killed between 1648 and 1930 — loved China and the Church, the Pope said at a Mass Oct. 1. Defending the new saints' reputation for holiness, he said the Holy Year was the right time to highli ght their "heroic witness." The Mass, celebrated in St. Peter's Square before some 30,000 people — including individual pilgrims as well as at least two organized groups from the Archdiocese of San Francisco — featured Chinese singing, readings and incense-bearing processions. It also marked the canonization of several other saints. One group from the Archdiocese was from Sts. Peter and Paul Parish, San Francisco, who attended largely for the canonizations of two Salesian priests — Fathers Aloysius Versiglia and Callistus Caravario. The missionaries were martyred in China approximately 80 years ago. Sts. Peter and Paul is an Italian National Parish staffed by the Salesians of Don Bosco headquartered in Italy. A second contingent of Bay Area Catholics was led by Canossian Sister Maria

Among the 33 foreign missionary martyrs canonized at St. Peter's Square Oct. 1 were two Salesian priests . Fathers Callistus Caravario (left) and Aloysius Versiglia.

Hsu, director of the Chinese Ministry Office. Her order, the Daughters of Charity of Canossa, is also based in Italy. Chinese authorities, who had branded the martyrs as anti-Chinese criminals in the days leading to the Mass, expressed fresh indignation at the canonizations and said the move would seriously damage dialogue with the Vatican. A Chinese Foreign Ministry statement said some of the martyrs were "evil-doing sinners" who raped, looted and committed unforgivable crimes against the Chinese people.

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In his sermon, the Pope touched gently on the political issues, saying the martyrs had lived during complex and difficult periods of Chinese history. Most were killed during the anti-foreigner Boxer Rebellion of 1900. He said the canonization Mass, however, was not the moment to "form judgments on these historical periods. This could and should be done in other circumstances." "Today ... the Church intends only to recognize that these martyrs are an example of courage and integrity for all of us and do honor to the noble Chinese people," he said.

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Following is the excerpted text of emails recicved Oct. 2 and 3 from the outskirts of Bethlehem written by Catholic Relief Services staff member Rev. Sandra Olewine. Catholic Relief Services headquarters office serving Israel and the Palestinian Territories is located in east Jerusalem. Rev. Olewine is a United Methodist minster who has served in the Middle East for several years '. Dear friends, By now, you have probabl y seen the horrible scene of a father and son p inned down behind a cement block in Gaza. The father is screaming and at one point frantically waving his hand. What he is say ing in Arabic is , "Child! It 's child. Stop. Child , child." Then the horrific moment when the boy collapses , followed by his father.

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From Catholic News Service JERUSALEM — As Israeli-Palestinia n violence increased and the death toll mounted , Latin-rite Patriarch Michel Sabbah declared "enoug h bloodshed" and said the onl y way to prevent such conflict is creation of a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital. "These painful and blood y events which we are living today, following the provocation of reli gious feelings in the al-Haram al-Sharif (the Noble Mosque) demonstrate one thing: there is no choice but to have justice for the Palestinian people. And they will have life and freedom , sooner or later. We hope it will be sooner than later," said Patriarch Sabbah in an Oct. 2 statement. The "provocation " to which the patriarch alluded was the Sept. 28 visit to the Temple Mount , known to Muslims as alHarem al-Sharif , by Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon. The day after the visit violence erupted in Jerusalem and throug hout the Palestinian Territories after Israeli troops stormed the Temple Mount , which includes the Western Wall, a Jewish holy site, and the al-Aksa Mosque, a Muslim hol y site. "The Palestinian state must be bom and have stability which allows it to address its own affairs, external and internal ," the patriarch said in his statement , adding, "The Holy City should be the city of reconciliation.... Palestinian Jerusalem should be the capital of Palestine , and West Jerusalem the capital of Israel. And above all that , it should remain the 'holy city ', and its holiness protected and respected by its own governors, and by the requirements which its sanctity imposes on the entire international community." "This will lead to real stability for both Israelis and Palestinians and the entire region ," he said in the statement , translated from Arabic.

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Hol y Land . .. ¦ Continued f rom page 6 that the grief and pain of God's suffering were close at hand. But , we were also in the nei g hborhood of Christ 's resurrection , and therefore may be we could walk throug h this time , recalling a deep sense of hope , remembering that God is stronger than all forces of death and destruction. How to be a witness to God' s love , justice , truth , compassion , and care in days as these is no simp le matter. Please pray for those of us who are "guests" here , that

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Oct. 28: "Jubilee Mass 2000 " at San Francisco's Pacific Beli Park with Archbishop William J. Levada and Auxiliary Bishop John C. Wester presiding. Gates open at 12 noon. Pre-liturgy events beginning at 1 2:45 p.m. with Father Miles Riley as master of ceremonies include a multi-cultural celebration featuring hundreds of singers and dancers, and a parade of parishes. Presentations by theologians including St. Patrick's Seminary's Msgr. Warren Holleran, Siste r Sharon McMillan and Father Milton Walsh. Music for the 3 p.m. vigil Mass will be under the direction of well known composer Christopher Walker, whose works include "Like a Child Rests " "Because the Lord is My Shepherd", and the Celtic Alleluia. Father Bill Vaughan, a world class organist. Is among the featured musicians. Tickets for Jubilee Mass 2000 are available through parishes. For ticket and travel information call your parish or Jubilee Mass 2000 coordinator, Kathleen Buckley, at (415) 565-3672. Extraordinary Ministers of the Eucharist are currently being recruited for the Mass. Forms have been sent to parishes. Volunteers must be commissioned Eucharistic ministers in their parish and be able .to walk up and down steep stairs easily. Need to arrive at PacBell Park by noon on the day of the event. For information, ask at your parish or call the Office Of Worshi p at (415) 565-3689.

Young Adults Fall Fest is Oct. 14 and deadline for pre-registering is today. Day includes several workshops with noted presenters , Eucharist with Bishop John C, Weste r presiding, plus dinner and a dance closing the event. Call the Office of Young Adult Ministry at (415) 565-3629 or 581-354 5 or contact Mary Jansen at mjansen @sfyam.org. Volunteers to serve as ushers during Communion at the Oct. 28 Jubilee Mass are needed. Volunteers will sit behind home plate and be able to keep a special umbrella they'll use to guide communicants. Please call (415) 565-3629 or 581-3545.

Prayer/Devotions Oct. 8: Sunday evening prayer at St. Patrick Seminary chapel, a Jubilee Year pilgrimage site, 320 Middiefield Rd , Menlo Park , 5:15 p.m. Everyone is welcome. Call (650) 325-5621 . Also, Oct. 22; Nov. 5, 12, 19; Dec. 3. Oct. 12: Healing Mass with Father Richard Bain presiding at 12:30 p.m. at St. Sebastian Church, Bon AirRd. and Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Greenbrae. Call (415) 663-1 139. Oct. 6-8: Annual Charismatic Renewal Convention, St Marys Cathedral,Gough and Geary Blvd., SR Three days of prayer and exhortation with presenters including Archdiocesan Liaison, Father Joe Landi; Msgr. Fred Bitanga, and Jesuit Father Bob Nery. Call Ernie Von Emste r at (650) 594-1131. Through Oct. 1: Christian Renewal " Mission at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church, 3 Oakdale Ave., Mill Valley with Redemptorist Father Carlyle Blake presiding. Morning and evening Masses with special retreat Mass on Sept. 28. Call (415) 388-4190.

Datebook* Nov. 5: Archbishop William J. Levada presides at a Mass commemorating the life of Blessed Josephine Bakhita who will be proclaimed saint by Pope John Paul II on Oct. 1. Blessed Bakhita was a Canossian Daughter of Charity. All are invited. St. Marys Cathedral, Gough and Geary St, SF. Call (415) 753-6685. 2nd Fri.: Holy Hour for Priests at St. Finn Barr Church, 10:30 a.m. Includes talk by priest from Opus Dei with silent prayer and Reconciliation if desired. Followed by simple lunch In rectory. Call (415) 333-3627. Take a Pilgrimage to the Holy Land without leaving the Archdiocese by visiting an ongoing exposition at St. John of God Parish, 5th Ave . and Irving, SF. Open M-F 1 :30-5 p.m. and until 1 p.m. on Sundays. Their Web site address is www.sjog.org. Oct. 29: Mass tor people living with AIDS at St. Boniface Church, 133 Golden Gate Ave,SF at 5:30 p.m. Call tor dates (415) 863-7515.

Family Life Oct. 13-15: Catholic Family Retreat at St, Clare's Retreat Center in the Santa Cruz mountains. Single and couple families with children age 4 -teenage are welcome. Sponsored by Retrouvaille. Call Ed or Peg Gleason at (415) 22M269 or Mike or Nancy Demaree at (408) 227-1 759. Partial scholarships available.

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Thurs: "Good Grief" meets at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Parish, James St. between Fulto n and Grand, Redwood City from 6 - 7:30 p.m. Call (650) 366-3802. Oct. 27: "Mourning Customs: From the Victorian Age to the Information Age ", 11:30 a.m. - 2 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church , 1500 Easto n Dr., Burlingame. $15 fee Includes box lunch. Featuring talks by mourning art expert Maureen De Lorme and journalist, Sandy Burnett. S ponsored by Mission Hospice. Call (650) 554-1 000.

Glasses/Radio-TV/Exhibits Oct. 15 , 16, 17, 22: See 'The Late Churches ", an exhibit of the work of Pietro Belluschi, design architect for St, Marys Cathedral and a prominent name in contemporary church architecture. Belluschi is a lite achievement award winner from American Institute of Architects and in 1991 was named a National Medal of Arts winner by President Georg e Bush. Hours of exhibition in the cathedral's St. Francis Hall are Oct is, 22: following 9 and f 1 a.m. Masses; -3; Oct. 17: 9 a.m. -. Landings, a program for returning Catholics will meet for 10 weeks on Mon. and Tues. evenings at St. Dominic Church, Steiner and Bush St,SF with a group retreat on Dec. 2. Call Dominican Father Steve Maekawa at (415) 567-7824 or Lee Gallery at (415) 221-1288. Join Joe Stinson for "Good Grief" a 1 3-week series airing Sundays at 4 p.m. on Catholic Family Radio, KDIA 1 640 AM. Call (650) 866-3525.

Food & Fun Oct. 6, 7, 8: "An Enchanted Fore st", All Souls Parish Festival 2000 , comer of Miller and Walnut in South San Francisco. Gre at family fun! Lots of games, prizes and food including bingo, silent auction and entertainment. Fri. 6 - 1 0 p.m.; Sat. and Sun. noon - 1 0 p.m. Call (650) 871-8944. Oct. 7: "Fall Fantasy: a fashion show and luncheon sponsored by the Rebel Cork Ladies Associ ation at the United Irish Cultural Center, 2700 45th Ave. at Sloat, SF Fashions by Glamour on the Go. Call Margaret McAuliffe at (415) 341-7272 or DellaTeahan at (415) 587-9558. Tickets $25. Oct. 7: Annual Creole Cuisine Feast at St. Dominic Parish hall, Pine and Pierce St, SF, 1 - 8 p.m. Menu of Gumbo, red beans, rice, fried chicken , corn muffins , salad and dessert. Tickets in/children's plate $12. Order sweet potat o pies, $10, in

advance. Benefits St. Dominic parish school. Call Lorraine Gash at (415) 922-5339 or Vick y Winston at (415) 921-3293. Oct. 7-8: Columbus Day Bazaar of Sts. Peter and Paul Parish, 666 Filbert St. at Washington Square, SF. Spaghetti dinner, children's games , sports games, music, bingo, and more. Sat. noon-1 0 p.m., Sun. n o o n - 8 p.m. Call (415) 421-0809. Oct. 7: 23rd annual Fiesta Filipina at St. Anne of the Sunset' s Moriarity Hall, Funsto n and Judah St, SF beginning at 6 p.m. Includes dinner, entertainment and dancing until midnight. Tickets $20 adults/$6 under 12. Call Cely Zapanta at (415) 753-5 1 54. Oct. 8: soth Anniversary celebration of SF's St. Anthony Foundation at St. Boniface Parish. Mass at 11 a.m. followed by street party celebration. Call 863-7515. Oct. 8: "Great Chefs of Marin Catholic ", featuring the cuisine of Marin Catholic High School graduates who are today some of the area's better known chefs including Linda Ghilotti Gotti of Scoma's; Mark Franz of Farallon; and Carl and Kimo Bertram of the Atherton Food Co. Call (415) 461 -9434. Starts with wine and appetizers at 5 p.m. and continues until 7 p.m.Tickets $50. Oct. 12: "A Swinging Good Time ", the 32nd Annual Golf Tournament benefiting the works and care of the Sisters of the Presentation, Presidio Golf Course. Sponsorship opportunities at various levels still available . Tournament fee of $200 per golfe r includes green fees, cart, lunch, dinner, fabulous prizes and great fun. Call Maggie Lopez at (415) 751-5208. Oct. 13-15: "Harvest Daze", the annual festival of St. Dunstan Parish, 1133 Broadway, Millbrae featuring carnival rides, booth games, silent auction, family dinners, bingo and on Sat. night, a DJ. Fri. 6 - 1 0 p.m.; S at. noon - 10 p.m.; Sun. noon - 9 p.m. Call (650) 6974730.

Church, 415 Edna St, SF, 3:30 a.m. - 4 p.m. Continental breakfast available in the morning with dishes from Italy, Philippines, China, Mexico, U.S. and Central America during the day. Live entertainment and games too. For all ages . Call (415) 3333627. Oct. 22: Celebration commemorating the 50th anniversary of St. Stephen Parish, 601 Eucalyptus Dr., SF. Archbishop William J. Levada presides at a Mass of Thanksgiving at 2 p.m. with former pastor, Bishop John C. Weste r, as homilist. Reception follows in Donworth Hall. Present and former parishioners , clergy, staff and students welcome. New 50page parish history/memory book for $5.Call (415) 681-2444. Oct. 22: Celebration commemorating the 75th anniversary of Holy Name of Jesus Parish, 39th Ave . and Lawton St, SF. Retired Sacramento Bishop Francis Quinn, who as a young priest lived at Holy Name, presides at Mass at 11:30 a.m. followed by a reception in Ryan Hall. All present and former parishioners, clergy, staff and students welcome. First of more than a dozen anniversary events taking place during the next year. Call (415) 664-8590. Oct. 23-24: Reno Fun Trip sponsore d by St. Thomas More Church, SF. Call Nancy and Bill Mannion at (415) 333-2798. Oct. 25: Good Shepherd Guild's annual Ocioberfest Luncheon and Bingo Party at Basque Cultural Center, 599 Railroad Ave, South San Francisco. Social hour 11:30 a.m.; luncheon 1 2:30 p.m. Tickets $35. Call Beverly Desmond at (415) 587-5373. Benefits Good Shepherd Sisters ' Grace Center. Oct. 26: "Set the Captive Heart Free ", a concert by Jesse Manibusan benefiting Kairos Outside, a ministry supporting women affecte d by the incarceration of a loved one, at 7 p.m. at St. Leander Church, 550 West Estudillo Ave , San Leandro. Tickets $10 adults/$7.50 13-17/$S under 12. Call Denise Dawson at (510) 226-0605. Nov. 3: Catholic Marin Breakfast Club meets for 7 a.m. Mass, breakfast and a talk from Gerald Jampolsky of the Attitudinal Healing Center at St. Sebastian Church, Bon Air Rd, and Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Greenbrae. Members $5/ non-members $8. Call (4 15) 461-0704 . Meetings take place on first Fridays.

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Oct. 13 - 15: Annual Festival, Star of the Sea Parish Cente r, 345 8th Ave. between Geary and Clement, SF. Chinese dinner Sat. 5:30 - 8 p.m.; Italian dinner Sun. 4 - 7 p.m. Fri. 7 - 1 1 p.m.; Sat. 1 - 11 p.m.; Sun. 1 - 9 p.m.

Oct. 7: University of San Francisco beginning with Mass in St. Ignatius Church at 5 p.m., reception and dinner at Lone Mtn. Campus at 6 p.m. and a picnic the next day Call Catherine Williamson , alumni relations, at (415) 422-2 646 or422-6431.

Oct. 14: Monte Carlo Night at Good Shepherd Parish, 901 Oceana Blvd., Pacifica featuring an enchanting Mardi Gras Masquerade theme with a trip for two to New Orleans for the best costume. Special appearance by Rhonda Bentley of KTVU' s Mornings on Two. Join the fun. Costumes optional. Tickets $25 in advance or at the door. Call Dianne at

Oct. 14: St. Paul High School, SF Class of 1960. Call Lillian Carter at (415) 584-3938 or Jann Ortega Phillips at (415) 647-6589.

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Oct. 14: "Gigantic Treasure Sale" at St. Denis Church, 2250 Avy Ave,Menlo Park from 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. benefiting outreach programs with 47 stalls of goods gathered from parishioners' homes for sale. Teens of the parish will be selling food and beverages. Call (650) 854-5976. Oct. 14: Halloween Costume Ball/Dinner Dance at St. Finn Barr Church, 415 Edna St,SF 7 p.m. midnight with prizes tor best costumes.Tickets $20. Costumes optional. Call Carmen A. Soils at (415) 584-0823. Oct. 15: "Songs and Celebration", an afternoon commemorating the i soth anniversary of the Siste rs of Notre Dame de Namur in California featuring the talent of Opera San Jose , the Gospel Choir of Notre Dame High School, San Jose; and the Chorus of Notre Dame High School, Belmont at College of Notre Dame Chapel, 1500 Ralston Ave , Belmont, 1 p.m. Benefits construction of Sisters ' retirement residence on Belmont campus. Tickets: $50. Call (408) 74 1-0324. Oct. 15: St. Brendan's Mothers ' Club presents Fabulous Fashion at the Mark Hopkins Hotel, SF, a fashion show echoing memories of the Mary Quant and Yardley styles with an early 60s English Invasion theme. Piccadilly Silent auction begins at 2 p.m. with Tea and fashion show at 3 p.m. Tickets $50 adults/$40 children. Call Marllu Donnici at (415) 753-1077 or Kathy Morello at (415) 584-6275. Oct. 16: 8th annual Father Fergus Memorial Golf Tournament at Sharon Heights Golf and Country Club, Menlo Park benefiting seminary fund of the Capuchin Franciscan community. 18 Hole Scramble begins w ith 10 a.m. check in and lunch, noon shotgun start, cocktails at 6 p.m. and dinner at 7:30 p.m. $225 ticket includes greens fees, cart, tee prizes, lunch, beverages and cocktails/dinner. Contact Mike Stecher at (650) 3424680 or Anne Hahn at (650) 692-5044. Oct. 20-22: Mardi Gras 2000 , Good Shepherd Parish Festi val, 901 Oceana Blvd., Pacifica. Thre e days ot fun for the whole family. Booth games live music, rides, food, classic car show, and more . Fri. 6 - 10 p.m.; Sat . n o o n - 9 p.m.; Sun. 1 0 -6 p.m. Call Dianne at (650) 355-2953. Oct. 21: St. Thomas Mo re, SF presents "Nightmare on Thomas More Way: the Trauma Continues ", an annual Halloween Carnival in Carroll Hall at so Thomas More Way of Brotherhood Way, 11 a.m. - 9 p.m. Food, games, haunted house, Astro Jump. Fun for the whole family. Call (41 5) 905-4660 , ext. 20. Oct. 21: "White Mass ", the annual gathering for medical professionals at St, Mary's Cathedral Gough and Geary Blvd., SF at 5:30 p.m. with Archbishop William J. Levada presiding Banquet follows at USF's Xavier Hall . William Andereck , M.D, will speak after dinner about "How the DoetoniPatient Relationship is Weathering Managed Care ". Call (415) 66I-Q740 or (650) 548-9946 for ticket information. Oct. 22: International Food Faire at St. Finn Barr

Oct. 14: Star of the Sea Academy, Class of i960 at the Italian American Social Club, SF. Call Loretta Fraguglia Repetto at (415) 585-5301 or MconroySatoi@juno.com. Oct. 21: "Fashion Show, Luncheon, Milestone Reunion " honoring classes of 1940, 45, 55, 60, 65, 70, 75, 80, 85, 90, 95 fro m Notre Dame High School, Belmont. Call Donna Westwood, alumnae director, at (650) 595-19 13 , ext. 351 or alumnae@ndhsb.org. Oct. 14: Class of 1975 reunion. Call Karen Schwarz at (650) 572-2675 or Debbie Bradley Schembri at (408) 267-8740. Class of 1 982 is planning its 20 year reunion. Call Denise Miller at Dmllsports@aol.com; Wynne Hegarty at WHegarty@aol.com; Amy Ellingson at Almeliing@aol.com; Lenore Wagner Grant at lenore@dellnet.com. Class of 1 990 planning a 1 oth reunion. Call Megan Centis at (650) 3699784 ormcentis@yahoo.com. Did you attend SF's St. Paul of the Shipwreck Elementary School? We need to hear from you. Please call the^chool at (415) 467-1798 between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Mon. - Fri. or e-mail Shipoff@stpaulshipwreck.com with your name, address , phone numbers and year graduated. A special event is planned for spring 2001. Centennial of St. Anne's Home, SF Looking for old photo s orwritten recollections of the Little Sisters of the Poor, St. Anne's Home or residents of the home. Contact John McGuckin at (415) 765-2945.

Perf ormance Oct 13: "A Farewell Concert" featuring the St. Mary's Cathedral Choir, the Schola Cantorum and the Cathedral Boys and Girls Choir traveling on pilgrimage soon to Italy. Works by Palestrina, Copland and others. St. Mary's Cathedral, Gough St. at Gear y Blvd., SF 7:30 p.m. Tickets $7/$5 seniors , students. Call (415) 567-2020 , ext. 213. Oct. 13: Com Hispano of San Francisco presents "Songs of St. Francis " featuring the Misa Criolla, music from Renaissance Mexico and music of the California Missions. Old Mission Dolores, Dolore s near 16th St ,SF. Free parking in schoolyard . Tickets $15/$ 12 students, seniors . Call (415) 4314234 . Oct. 15: Father Paul Perry will present a recital on the new Rodgers 950 Computer Organ at St. Sebastian Church, Bon Air Rd. and Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Greenbrae at 4 p.m. Ail welcome. Admission free.

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Bishops dismayed over FDAs RU-486 decision WASHINGTON (CNS) — Bishops and other Catholic leaders responded to the Food and Drug Administration 's approval of the use of RU-486 with dismay, bewilderment and a firm resolve to continue the fi ght against abortion in all forms. Los Angeles Cardinal Roger M. Mahony said in an Oct. 2 statement the FDA's decision was a setback for "the common good of our society." The use of RU-486 "fu rthers the myth that abortion is a priv ate matter w ithout broader social implications ," he said. "It advances the claims of abortion ri ghts advocates who insist the main issue in this debale is one of individual choice, not the protection of human life."

See Cardinal's Statement, page 12 The FDA Sept. 28 approved the use of mifepristone , the generic name for RU-486, which is used along with a prostaglandin drug to cause abortion in the first few weeks of pregnancy. It was expected to be marketed under the name Mifeprex and available in about a month. "Never has this nation had a stronger reason to fear for the loss of its basic decency and honor," said Archbishop Edward M. Egan of New York in an Oct. 1 statement. "It is time for all citizens to speak out for an abandonment of the culture .of death and a recommitment to the culture of life." The decision could have unforeseen implications in California , according to Kathleen Buckley who heads the Archdiocese of San Francisco 's Respect Life program . "California State Senator Burton 's bill , SB 370, was signed Sept. 25 by Gov. Davis," she noted. "This new law removes the restriction that abortions be done onl y by licensed physicians. Now, in the state of California, a physician who has had his license revoked , or a non-licensed person can legally perform abortions. This bill also opens the door for non-physicians to prescribe RU- 486. " "Many of the backers of the abortion pill claim to be acting in the name of women 's health and freedom ," Buckley added. "However, as we look at these two recent decisions, we see that access to abortion is far more important than the safety of women. The approval of RU 486 offers one more way for America to destroy its unborn children and one more

way for women to experience the emotional anguish follow ing abortion. "Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick of Newark , N.J., said he was "bewildered that the agency refused to accept much well-documented testimony about the complications this drug can inflict on the women who may use it ." Viigil C. Dechant, outgoing supreme kni ght of the Kni ghts of Columbus , said the FDA decision "marked a new low in public health and medical policy" with approv al of a drug "the very purpose and effect of which is lethal to human life." Bishop Edward J. O'Donnell of Lafayette, La., who was director of the first diocesan pro-life office in the United States in St. Louis, said he was appalled at the approval of RU-486. "Peop le interested in the financial well-being of the poor have often remarked on the fact that we build hi ghways and reconstruct neighborhoods so that wealth y peop le traveling from the suburbs from the central city don 't even have to see poverty," he said. RU-486 "is much like that ," the bishop added. "We don ' t have to see the grizzly aspect of abortion and so it is somehow less appalling to us. The fact is that in any abortion a human life is taken, and making the taking of human life even easier is not something to be proud of." Among the first bishops to comment on the FDA action were Cardinal Anthony J. Bevilacqua of Philadelphia , who said the decision represents "another assault ... on unborn babies and possibly the mothers ," and Bishop Joseph A. Fiorenza of Galveston-Houston , president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, who said the approval signals the government introduction of "another way to kill new human lives in their mothers * wombs." "To some this may be scientific progress, but to the child destined b y God for birth, it is a brutal and fatal chemical attac k ," Bishop Fiorenza said.

Abortion by using a combination of drugs — mifepristone and a prostaglandin — has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration. The use of RU-486 is suggested for abortion of up to seven weeks gestation, shown in photo here.

Bishop Paul S. Loverde of Arlington , Va., called the FDA action "irresponsible and morall y wrong " and said the drug "is an advancement in the culture of death , not the advancement of women." Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein of Indianapolis said it was "a sad irony " the FDA decision was announced just days before Oct. 1, when Respect Life Sunday is celebrated in most U.S. dioceses.

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Democracy fragile , social challenges myriad in Guyana

By Dan Morris-Young Many initiall y confuse the country with the African nation of Ghana. Most remember it as the tragic site of the infamous Jim Jones mass suicide in 1978. When 16 of us Catholic Press journalists and photographers piled out of vans at a Hindu-affiliated school in Guyana 's cap ital city of Georgetown, we were introduced to the Hindu Sister who is head mistress, a Hindu priest who oversees the residential program , and a young woman who was described as "first lady." Not one of us realized we had actually just met the nation 's first lady, Uma Jagadeo-Beni , the wife of Guyan a 's president ', Bharrat Jagdeo. No limousines , security personnel, or other trappings of power and prestige were in sight. As we were touring the open-air, cement-floor modest school p lant — that educates over 700 children — and learning of the dearth of school supp lies, teachers and even food (computers are a far-off dream), the headmistress finally hinted she was perplexed that we were paying little attention to the young woman who most of us assumed was a teacher or leader of the school's equivalent of the PTA. When it dawned on the group who we had with us , we were astonished. Even more astonished th an when we would meet her husband two days later at a remote village. He was transported in a small, two-engine aircraft almost identical to the one Food for the Poor — our host — had secured for our trip to what the president referred to as "the hinterlands. " He had one Army official with him , and two or three advisors or plainclothes security men.

Guyana 's President Bharrat Jagdeo is interviewed by Food for the Poor international field correspondent Geraldine Hemmings.

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I Both instances stood in stark contrast to what First "working to expand democracy worldwide," and funded by World citizens associate with government leaders, and the National Endowment for Democracy, the U.S. Agency accentuated what we already knew Guyana is one of the for International Development and private donors. Much of Heffernan 's work centers on January 's anticipated national poorest nations on the planet. As President Jagdeo told us, Guyana is not small — elections there. After President Jagdeo departed the village of roughly the size of the United King dom. Yet its annual budget is only $300,000,000, far less than many if not most Paramakatoi, local residents echoed another observation by Heffernan . They seemed non-plussed by the morning meetU.S. states. Its population is roughly 750,000. Jagdeo underscored that Guyana 's battle for social and eco- ing he had held with local villages ' "captains ", and more animated about the possibility that nomic goals — education , employFood for the Poor representatives ment and public safety — are mired might be able to supp ly some type under "debilitating" debt that drains of medical instrument sterilization nearly half of its federal revenue. equi pment (to replace the woodDespite this, progress has been fired kettle-boiling currentl y used made on the debt , he said, and govat the medical clinic) and perhaps ernment spending on social proa generator and fuel to provide grams has increased in recent years o li ght for the clinic at ni ght or when from 8 percent of the budget to aa.5 the iffy electrical power goes about 22 percent. p down. "We are spending 10 times more o Guyana faces "an env ironment than we were spending on education a > in which the public has little confidecade ago," Jagdeo told us. "If you 1 go around you will see a big thrust in o dence in the capacity of political the education sector, in health care, z inslitutions to resolve the coun2 a try 's problems ," Heffernan said. and in housing and water." Areas we toured with Food for Since founding its Guyana First lady of Guyana, Uma the Poor, however, underscored what operation in 1998, the private Jagdeo-Beni , speaks with Catholic a Bay Area man living and working international relief organization Press journalists at a Hindu-affiliated in Guyana told Catholic San has distributed nearly $52 million school in the capital city of Georgetown, Francisco — that "Guyana remains in goods, services and food there, one of the hemisphere 's poorest FFP officials said. nations and faces enormous development challenges. While the president and first lady stressed the "very John Heffernan , whose family has been long-time important role" relief organizations such as FFP play in parishioners and widely active in the San Francisco Guyana, Jagdeo said some non-profit agencies have Archdiocese, is country representative to Guyana for the unthinkingly "promised all kinds of things" but failed to National Democratic Institute for International Affairs and followed through . "People see this as the government havhas lived there for about a year with his wife and three ing to deliver it , not recognizing the difference between a daughters . The NDI is a private, non-profit organization civil society organization and the government ," he said. 'SI

John and Margie Hefiernan have lived in Guyana for nearly a.year, part of an organization monitoring the scheduled January national elections there. The Bay Area couple ' s daughters are Olivia 6, Sofia 3, and Isabella 1.

Food for Poor founder resigns to fight bipolar disorder By Tom Tracy WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CNS) — After 18 years of raising awareness about poverty in the Caribbean, the head of Food for the Poor resigned Sept. 25 and is being treated aggressively for manic-depressive illness. "As many of you know, the past months have been extremely difficult for FFP, my family and me," said Ferdinand Mahfood , founding president of Food for the Poor and its CEO until his resignation. He made the comments in a statement read to his staff at the organization 's headquarters in Deeifield Beach Sept. 25. Mahfood has long suffered from bipolar disorder, commonly called manic depression. He said he planned to enter a residential facility specializing in the illness. Although there is no cure for bipolar disorder, it can be successfull y managed with a combination of treatments, he noted.

"Unfortunately, I have not recently successfully managed my illness and some of my behaviors have been unacceptable," Mahfood said in his statement. "For those behaviors 1 apologize and ask forgiveness." Bishop Pau l Boyle of Mandeville, Jamaica, who is a senior member of the organization 's board of directors, issued a press release stating that Mahfood's 56-year-old brother, Robin , has been appointed president and CEO. Citing privacy concerns, neither Robin Mahfood nor a FFP public relations official offered any specifics as to what behaviors prompted Mahfood 's resignation . Speaking Sept. 25 with The Florida Catholic diocesan newspaper, Robin Mahfood said he spent the day meeting with Food for the Poor staff in small groups. He read the statements from both Ferdinand and Bishop Boyle and prayed with the staff. "There were tears all around ," Mahfood said of his brother's resignation . "Ferdy has

Ferdinand Mahfood is greeted by a youngsters at a Haitian orphanage that receives Food for the Poor assistance.

been at home for the last six weeks, going to new doctors, and trying to understand what to do with his future." Commonly underdiagnosed , bipolar disorder is described as a major health problem with consequences that often lead to destruction of personal relationships, loss of employment and suicide , according to a article about the illness in a periodical of the Annenberg Center for Health Sciences in California. Robin Mahfood — who has served as FFP secretary and vice president since its inception — said the same mental illness that tormented his brother may ironically have also been a source of energy which Mahfood drew upon to inspire others . "He had a real heart for the poor. He still does, and he calls himself a servant of the poor," Robin said of his brother. Founded in 1982, Food for the Poor raises funds and provides direct relief assistance to the poor in more than 16 countries, mostly in the Caribbean and Central America.

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St. Anthony Foundation turns 50 Franciscans ' 'agreement 9 with saint leads to 28 million meals — and more

By Elizabeth Chur

V_^ n Oct. 4, 1950, Franciscan Father Alfred Boeddeker opened the doors of St. Anthony Dining Room in San Francisco and served 400 free , hot meals to hungry people. More than 28 million meals later, St. Anthony Foundation marked its 50'1' birthday on Wednesday. St. Anthony Dining Room served a special meal of roast pork with rosemary au jus , seasoned mashed potatoes, and chocolate cake. Additionall y, St. Anthony Foundation has issued a public invitation to a day of celebration on Oct. 8. There will be a multicultural , multi-lingual Mass at St. Boniface Church , 133 Golden Gate Ave., beginning at 10:45 a.m., followed by a block party and barbecue lunch outside from 12:15-3 p.m. Before Father Boeddeker opened the Dining Room , he had served sandwiches to people in need as pastor of St. Boniface Parish in the Tenderloin. He wanted to do more. One day, while he was praying in front of a statue of St. Anthony giving bread to hungry people, he heard the statue ask, "Why don 't you do this?" The Franciscan replied , "You do it, and I'll help." A converted auto repair shop next door to St. Boniface became the Dining Room 's first home. Today it serves an average of 2, 100 meals each day.

As the needs of people who were poor became more complex , St. Anthony 's programs also grew. In addition to the Dining Room, today St. Anthony Foundation 's 12 direct service program s include : • St. Anthony Free Medical Clinic , which provides 16,000 free medical appointments a year. • Clothing and Furniture Program , which distributes free clothing and furniture to 2,200 individuals and families a month. • Madonna Residence , which offers supportive residential accommodation s to 50 low-income senior women (see Catholic San Francisco ' s Sept. 22 feature). • Marian Residence for Women, which provide s emergency shelter and transitional housing for 55 homeless and mentall y ill women. • Senior . Outreach and Support Services, which provides case management, spiritual outreach , social activities, and client advocacy for Tenderloin seniors. • Social Work Center, which connects an average of 50 homeless, low-income, undocumented , and working poor individuals and families to resources that can stabilize and improve the quality of their lives. • St. Anthony Farm, an organic garden and dairy in Petaluma that provides 43 men and women the opportunity to experience physical , emotional , and spiritual healing from addiction. ST. ANTHONY, page 15 St. Anthony Dining Room — which now serves 2,100 free meals daily — started out of a converted auto repair shop a half century ago.

St. Anthony Farm in Petaluma offers 43 men and women the opportunity to experience physical, emotional, and spiritual healing from addiction.

Franciscan Father Floyd Lotito and Mercy Sister Patrick Curran stand beneath a portrait of Franciscan Father Alfred Boeddeker, founder of the St. Anthony Foundation. At one time Father Boeddeker 's assistant, Father Lotito is Foundation media consultant. Sister Curran is executive director.

An ep ip hany

Statement on the app roval of abortion pill RU-486 Following is the text of the statement issued Oct. 2 by Cardinal Roger M. Mahony, archbishop of Los Angeles , on the recent approval of the abortion drug protocol known as RU-486 by the United States Federa l Food and Drug Administration. I am deeply troubled that the Federal Drug Administration has approved the abortion pill mifepristone, commonly known as RU 486, for distribution in the United States, The common good of our society has been delivered yet another setback by the Federal Drug Administration 's introduction of this drug into the market. This action creates wider access to abortion procedures across the country. Abortion , whether it is done through a surgical procedure in a clinic or hospital or via prescription drug in one's home, is still the destruction of innocent human life. The availability of this abortion pill and the method of its use furthers the myth that abortion is a private matter without broader social implications. It advances the claims of abortion rights advocates who insist that the main issue in this debate is one of individual choice, not the protection of human life. It is a choice laden with moral and ethical implicaFetus at six months tions, made in a broader social context, and with impact beyond the person making that choice. It is a choice about whether the life of an unborn child is valued. It is a choice about whether our society will protect its weakest and most vulnerable members. It is a choice about whether human dignity will ultimately be preserved. As a society, instead of refining methods of abortions to make them cheaper and more accessible, we should be investing time and resource to: • Ensure that every pregnant woman has access to comprehensive prenatal care. • Make certain that every child has access to basic, preventative health care. • Develop additional opportunities for safe, affordable childcare. • Strengthen and expand opportunities for pregnant women who choose to give their children up for adoption or foster care. The Catholic Church will continue to: • Provide support and guidance to pregnant women to find alternatives to abortion. • Offer through Project Rachel counseling services to those who are experiencing adverse reactions as the result of an abortion. (See letter in adjacent columns.) * Advocate for the expansion of adoption and foster care systems. The Catholic Church in the United States observes Respect Life Month each October. In the light of the Federal Drug Administration 's recent action, Respect Life Month is an opportunity to pray for the conversion of our society to embrace a "culture of life."

I am writing to commend you for publicity you have g iven Project Rachel and the Respect Life Office this past year. I saw an article in a February issue detailing the mission of Project Rachel , which is to minister to women who have been burdened by the sin of abortion. I was one of those women and it took all the strength I could muster to place a call to Mary Ann Schwab, local director of the Project Rachel outreach , after I read the article. Nonetheless , I called because I knew deep in my heart this program is what I had been desperately searching for for 14 long years. I was ready to face this deep, dark secret in my past. I met the woman who was to help me so wonderfull y throug h this journey in June. Althoug h I had to wait a coup le of months , this was nothing to the years that I had been carrying the burden of my past , and it was well worth the wait , to say the least. Last night I celebrated a memorial Mass for my child with my sponsor from Project Rachel and my parish pastor. It was the culmination of a long and difficult journey, but a journey filled with forgiveness, trust , mercy, and love. Never could I have imagined that my one phone call would lead to such a deep and sincere sense of healing and forgiveness. I feel as though I have experienced an ep iphany as I have traveled from an unspeakable sin to a place of enlightenment and transformation. My sincere thanks to my sponsor, my pastor, Mary Ann Schwab, and all those involved with Project Rachel . You saved my life and I encourage all women who have had an abortion to contact Project Rachel. Name withheld South San Francisco Ed note : The local number for Project Rachel is (415) 717-6428.

ter in the Aug. 25 issue. The tone of the Aug. 11 story on vouchers was so luke as to discourage readers from further investigation of Proposition 38, "School Vouchers 2000". Is it reasonable for a Catholic newspaper to damn by such faint praise an initiative that would address the financing of children 's education on a basis choice rather than the state-run monopoly that presently prevails? To suggest that Proposition 38 is somehow inadequate or stingy for chi children who attend private schools misses the point. Parents who scrimp to pay for private schooling for their children seek a better way to rear their offspring Prop. 38's "scholarship " of $4,000 would be a real help to parents whose budget is always stretched to make ends meet. When archdiocesan educationists pooh-pooh Prop. 38 support , they put themselves at direct odds with the laity who pay the piper twice: once in taxes and again in tuition, to say nothing of the fact lay peop le also pay educationists ' salaries. Deke Welch San Rafael

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Vote conscience

My heartfelt thanks for Sept. 22 letter writers Frank Hegarty and Larry Burdoin for their excellent thoughts on the sociopolitical problems associated with abortion . Perhaps "abortion " is too general a term. Should we speak more plainl y and call it what it really is — the killing of a tiny human being? The subsequent marketing of its baby parts is a profitable option. We are all aware of the imperfections of both major political parties. However, I do not feel comfortable voting for any man or woman who can rationalize murder. Pray for pro-life. Vote your conscience. Jackie Sarraille San Francisco

Vouchers would help

I was happy to see Richard Harnett's let-

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Ageortion?

Your editorial , "Will you still love me when I'm 64?" — which recounted the Time article dealing with the future of aging baby boomers — foresees a much rosier time ahead than I do. Hopefull y, with the grace of God, I am wrong. The boomers , who made "choice" such a buzz word, should feel lucky to settle for a "late life" that will "be meaner and more Spartan." I think they might not have any "late life" at all. This is the cohort that broug ht us the culture of death in which the way to end a problem is to kill it. The future will probabl y be more like the 1973 movie "Soylent Green " in which elder citizen Edward G. Robinson is convinced to lake the bi g sleep in a state-provided pastoral setting that includes pleasant symphonic music to accompany his death. The Church is presented as overwhelmed and powerless. All the problems the boomer generation will bring with it can be ended with the use of post-natal abortions in the "th ird trimester of life." By that time there will be nothing sadder than an "unwanted senior citizen ," forcing society to make a "choice" regarding its useless members. We can't really feel guilty because no one can agree when life begins — or ends. Some media manipulati on will be necessary, of course. How about a new euphemism for killing, say "ageortion?" James Clifford , Sr. Redwood City

Housing is a ri g ht

All faith tradition s hold that housing is a universal, sacred right and that when these rights are violated or ignored at any level of government, we are morally bound to raise our voices to influence a just and appropriate response to these violations. Currently, 5.4 million families in the United States are forced to live in unsafe, unhealth y and/or unaffordable housing. There are additional millions of women, men and children whose only "home" is the harsh and dangerous streets of our cities. This monumental social tragedy exists simultaneousl y with an unprecedented national prosperity. These year 's Federal Housing Administration (FHA) budget surplus of $5 billion alone could impact, immediatel y and si gnificantly, our nation 's housing crisis. The current incredible silence of President Clinton and the presidential candidates about the housing crisis is unconscionable in li ght of the immeasurLETTERS, page 16

Catechesis:

The Ap ostolic Blessing and the p lenary indu lgence

By Father Milton T. Walsh On the occasion of Jubilee Mass 2000 at Pacific Bell Park on Oct. 28, Archbishop Levada will impart the Apostolic Blessing of our Holy Father, Pope John Paul II. On great solemnities in Rome, the Pope gives a special blessing "Urbi et Orbi" ("to the city of Rome and the world"). As a sign of collegiality between the Pope and his brother bishops, and their common reliance on the prayers of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Apostles Peter and Paul , diocesan bishops are granted the privilege of bestowing this blessing on special occasions. To this blessing is attached a plenary indulgence. The Catholic doctrine of indulgences rests upon two fundamental truths: • While God forg ives our sins as soon as we turn to Him in repentance , it is necessary to do penance to undo the effects of sin in our lives. • As members of the Body of Christ, we receive assistance from one another and offer assistance to one another. The exemplary penance of the saints is shared with us by them , and we in turn can do penance for others. A p lenary indul gence removes all need to do penance for past sins , but we must avoid any mechanical understanding of this gift. For an indulgence to be plenary, we must be free from any attachment to sin, even venial sin; otherwise, the indul gence is partial. ^ The basic requirements for obtaining the indulgence are: • Confession: since conversion is at the heart of the Jubilee , those seeking an indulgence should frequentl y celebrate

Holy Year

Pacif i c Bell Park named Jubilee destination

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In preparation for Jubilee Mass 2000 A L.,, <® A A Eucharistic Day lor the Archdiocese of \4m ill [ San Francisco , am p leased to desi gnate MM^ r^Mill Pacific Bell Park as a special Jubilee -5d^PEsmEBHBE33Pilgrimage destination for all who will be f ^^ participating in this special celebration. Those who attend the Mass will receive a plenary indulgence provided that they receive Holy Communion and the Sacrament of Penance within one week before or after the Jubilee Mass on October 28. This will make it possible for all of the faithful of our parishes, who will be celebrating this Jubilee event with us, to enjoy the blessings, graces and special indulgences which have been granted by our Holy Father during this Jubilee Year. Asking God's blessings on you, I am Sincerely yours in Christ,

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the sacrament of reconciliation. Those wishing to receive the indul gence on Oct. 28th should to go confession within one week before or after the Mass. • Eucharist: indul gences celebrate our communion with Christ and His saints , which is most profound in our communion with them in the Eucharist. Ideall y, those seeking the indulgence should receive Hol y Communion at the Oct. 28 Mass; otherwise , within one week before or after the Mass. • Communion with the Church: our bond with the rest of the Churc h is manifested by our prayer for the intentions of the Holy Father. There is no specific prayer stipulated. The Jubilee Indulgence is organically linked to reconciliation , Eucharist and to prayer for the intentions of the Hol y Father as an expression of communion within the Church. To reconciliation , because in this sacrament we celebrate the forgiveness of sin freely given by God; this mercy can never be earned, it can only be received. To Eucharist , because this is the sacramental celebration of our union both with Christ and with one another as members of His Body. And to communion with the Church, since the whole meaning of indulgences is that they represent a way of responding to the command of the Apostle: "Help r#-2£-^ /> carry one another 's burdens; in that way you fulfill the law of Christ."

Family Life

Why were (are?) the Christians silent? One of the new "signs" of the Jubilee proposed deny the inherent dignity of each individual human by the Holy Father is justice. The Jubilee in the Old being. The combination of lofty ideals and a fundaTestament called for the restoration of land to those mental denial of human dignity have appeared who had lost it and the liberation of slaves, as vivid throughout history, most dramatically in the rhetoric reminders that everything we have is given to us by of Nazi Germany in the 1930's. As our society wrestles with "life" issues, we would do well to examine God, and ownership is ultimately His. This theme takes on a special focus as we cele- the dynamics that led to the extermination camps. Several years ago, brate "Respect Life " mmmmmmmmmmmmmim ^mmm Robert Jay Litton month , October. The The combination of lofty ideals and explored the process by moral foundation of our which doctors were country 's laws is the transformed from healaffirmation that all a fundamental denial of human ers into killers. From his human beings are dignity have appeared throughout lengthy study, The Nazi endowed by their Doctor s, two themes Creator with certain history, most dramatically in the emerge which I would inalienable rights: life , like to consider. The first liberty and the pursuit of rhetoric of Nazi Germany. ... is ideological: for the happiness . Human digmasters of the Third nity is inherent , not granted by any outside agency, be that the state or Reich, the individual had meaning only in terms of the common good. The sick, the mentally ill, the another human being. In defending this fundamental principle we fight handicapped were consuming precious resources and an uphill battle , because the discourse is twisted by had to be eliminated. From this position it was a short mechanisms of denial. Such is the human condition step to the view of Dr. Fritz Klein, who likened the since the time of Adam and Eve. Centuries ago, St. Jews to a gangrenous appendix which must be Ambrose saw in the fig leaves with which they sought removed. Once the source of human dignity becomes to cover themselves an image of "empty and idle talk the state, the doctor, or a relative, the tracks are laid with which the sinner interweaves... fallacies for the which lead to Auschwitz. The second theme is the importance for the Nazis purpose of" shielding himself from the awareness of his guilty deed." Notice that the fallacies are aimed of surrounding the horrific system with medical and scientific trappings. Doctors, not soldiers, directed not simply at fooling oth ers, but at fooling oneself. The arguments presented by the proponents of prisoners to the work camp or the crematorium; hos"the right to choose" and "mercy killing " appeal to pital paraphernalia were employed in the process of noble ideals of the quality of life , but at root they euthanasia; falsified death certificates were created.

The gruesome work was clothed in technical eup hemisms: a "special diet " meant starvation and the gas chamber was called the "central hospital." Lifton noted that in Father T I T T I tens of thousand s of -wi ^ ^ MlltOIl T. Walsh documents kept in the camps, there was no mention of killing. The Nazis not only wished to fool the prisoners; they wished to fool themselves. Once the line is crossed which denies the inherent dignity of each human being, whatever her condition or his stage of development , then all that is left is "might makes right." As one survivor of Auschwitz put it , "The doctor, if not living in a moral situation where limits are clear, is very dangerous." While Hitler was constructing his "central hospitals," where were the opposing voices raised by Christians? This is a question asked frequentl y these days. To me, the question is merely theoretical unless it challenges me to examine my behavior now. Will a future generation look back on the massive killing of the unborn, surrounded though it may be by the white coats of doctors and the black robes of Justices , and ask, "Why were you Christians silent?" Father Milton T. Walsh is dean of students and an assistant professor of systematic theology at St. Patrick Seminary, Menlo Park.

The CatholicDiff erence

Clearing the air after 'Dominus Iesus' Few churchmen have the standing of Father Richard for Asia, in which much concern was expressed about John Neuhaus to comment on the tremendous uproar theologians, including Catholic theologian s, who were that followed the September publication of "Dominus promoting various form s of syncretism with Buddhism , Iesus " and the obtuse and/or tendentious reporting that Hinduism , and other religious traditions. "The gist of the declaration 's teaching is that , since accompanied this Vatican statement. Forty years of ecumenical activism , more than 30 years of interreligious there is only one God, there can onl y be one 'economy of salvation.' If Jesus is dialogue with our — Lord — if He is , as all Jewish brethren , and ... since there is only one God , there Christians affirm, true his own acute intelligence amply equi p can only he one 'economy of salvation. ' God and true man — then He is Lord of all. Father Neuhau s to God does not deny comment on the — Father Richard John Neuhaus anyone the grace suffi charges that "Dominus cient to salvation. God Iesus " represents a dramatic reversal or a move on the ecclesiastical-political desires that all should be saved. All who are saved are chessboard . Here is the "comment" that Father Neuhaus saved through the one plan (or economy) of salvation prepared when he was swamped with phone calls, e- centered in the incarnation, atoning death, and victorious resurrection of Jesus the Lord. That is true even if they mails, and faxes: "Last [month] the Congregation for the Doctrine have never heard of Jesus Christ. But there can be no of the Faith (CDF) issued a declaration titled doubt about the missionary mandate to proclaim the 'Dominus Iesus,' and according to the New York Gospel of Jesus Christ to all peoples. "Some non-Catholic theologians , such as Southern Times, the Washington Post , and a host of other sources, it represents a major 'setback ' to Christian Baptist Dr. Timothy George , dean of Beeson unity and a reassertion of the 'pre-Vatican II teaching Theological Seminary, have correctly read 'Dominus that only Catholics can be saved.' That is in no way Iesus ' and warmly welcomed it as a ringing affirmation true. Some of the misunderstandings may be excusable of the uniqueness ... and universality of the Gospel of but others , one cannot help believ e, are willful misin- Jesus Christ. "As for ecumenism, the declaration says that since terpretations. ' there is only one Christ there can be, in the deepest sense '"Dominus Iesus says absolutely nothing that has not been established Catholic teaching for a very long of the term, only one Church, which is the Body of time. CDF and Cardinal Ratzinger, the prefect of CDF, Christ. It reiterates the language of Vatican II that the thought a reiteration of that teaching [was necessary] to one Church of Jesus Christ 'subsists in ' the Catholic counter what they perceive to be a rising tide of religious Church. Therefore , it says, other churches and ecclesial relativism. It may reasonably be assumed that the decla- communities are deficient in that they are not in full ration was more immediatel y occasioned by the Synod communion with the Catholic Church, which is defined

as the community led by the bishops who are in communion with the Bishop of Rome. The declaration goes on to specif y some of the obstacles to such full communion , noting George & Weigel °_ that the obstac les are much smaller in the case of [Eastern] Orthodoxy. "All this is standard Catholic teaching. Critics have said that the declaration has an 'in your face ' tone to it , especially with regard to ecumenism. I can understand that criticism , and it may be related to some of the hon- • est misunderstandings of 'Dominus Iesus.' If, however, the declaration is plainspoken and even blunt at times, perhaps that , too, helps clear the air and remind all of us that the only unity that we should be seeking is unity in the truth. I assume CDF thought such a reminder was needed, both in ecumenism and in interreligious dialogue, and therefore intended to reiterate Catholic teaching with the force of clarity. "My strong suggestion is that folk read the actual declaration. The complete text of 'Dominus Iesus' is available on a number of Catholic and other Web sites. Then let the dialogue and the arguments (always, as St. Paul says, speaking the truth in love) proceed.... " Amen. And thank you. The Eng lish-language text of "Dominus Iesus " in available on the Vatican Web site: www.vatican.val. George Weigel is a senior fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington , D.C

What is the 'Gospel of Thomas' mentioned in 'Stigmata '? A good example is the passage you point out. Actuall y Q* At the end of the movie "Stigmata " there was a printed statement that a Gospel of Thomas (words of Jesus) the Thomas Gospel, "Saying 3," reads, "The kingdom is was found near the Dead Sea scrolls. It states that the inside you and outside you." The Gospel of Luke (17:21) Vatican will not accept this Gospel , calling it heresy. The quotes Jesus, "The reign of God is already in your midst" message from Jesus in this Gospel is supposed to be that — literally, within you. While not among the accepted books of the Bible, the "the kingdom of God is within us all." What is this all antiquity and content of the Gospel of Thomas have proven about? (Pennsylvania ) A. The so-called Gospel of Thomas is perhaps the enormously helpful in studying the life and words of Jesus. It most well-known of several early Christian "gospels" that also, however, reflects many gnostic beliefs which caused aim nuuuua theological paaiuiui problems uituj ugi^ai and pastoral serious lilt New li ^vv yi\ in the early Church. are not included in the books ofi the : *»>»*m*. As in other gnostic literatu literature , for example, Peter is Testament. * portrayed as hostile to Mary (Magdalene) (Ma in blatantl y sex? Written most likely before the year r 100, its existence had been known ist ways. The final sayfor centuries through brief refer- •"""^l ing of the Gospel of Thomas has Peter ences and quote s in other / Christian documents. The comtelling Jesus , "Mary should leave us, for plete text, however, has been avail- ^ ^^^ able for only 55 years. females are not worThe accidental discovery of the thy of life." entire document in 1945 , in a clay jar near Jesus responds , S V^/AVl N Jt/IV the modern town of Nag Hammadi nrnadi ir, in "I shall guide her to )ead Sea upper Egypt (not near the Dead make her male, so scrolls), is among the most significant archeological events that she too may become a living spirit resembling you in the history of New Testament scholarship. males. For every female who makes herself male will enter Unlike the four canonical Gospels, the Gospel of heaven's kingdom." Thomas contains no narrative or theological structure. It The Catholic Church has had no occasion to take a forconsists solel y of 114 "hidden sayings" of the "living mal position on the Gospel of Thomas. And since it is not Jesus," many of which can be found nearly word-for-word one of the four canonical Gospels, it is seldom , if ever, in Matthew, Mark, Luke or John. referred to in official Catholic documents or liturgy.

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John E. Cahill dies Sept. 23 John E. Cahill, whose construction firm Cahill was president of Cahill built San Francisco's St. Mary 's Cathedral, Construction Company, a family firm died on Sept. 23. The San Francisco native founded in 1915 by his father. In addition was 85 years old and had been suffering to the Cathedral , the company built from Parkinson's Disease. churches including the Sunset District 's Cahill was a 1936 graduate of Stanford Holy Name of Jesus and the rectory at University. He and his wife, Helen, are Chinatown 's Old St. Mary 's. The compalongtime members of St. Sebastian Parish, ny is the principal contractor on the new Greenbrae. Pastoral Center/Chancery of the

Father John Dietzen There 's nothing secret about it. The document is readily available in several publications. A new translation , with the orig inal Coptic text and notes, was published in 1992 by Harper Collins Publishers in New York. (Questions for Father Dietzen may be sent to him at Box 325, Peoria, IL 61651. This column is copyrighted by Catholic New Service.)

Archdiocese at One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco, that is expected to open early next year. The firm also handled the construction of several buildings on the campus of San Rafael's Dominican University of California and in 1959, received an award from the American Institute of Architects for its work on the City's John Hancock Building. The late Cahill took a personal hand in the preservation and retrofitting of San

Francisco's St. Dominic Church after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. A funeral Mass was celebrated at St. Dominic on Sept. 28 with interment at Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma. In addition to Mrs . Cahill, Cahill is survived by a daughter , Ann Fidanque, and sons, John , Gerald and Edward. Remembrances may be made to the Dominican Sisters of San Rafael , 1520 Grand Ave., San Rafael, 9490 1, or Stanford University - Parkinson 's Disease Research, 770 Welch Rd., Ste. 400, Palo Alto , 94304.

LITURGY & SCRIPTURE Sunday Eucharist mirrors Christ's surrender Pope John Paul II has invited and challenged all Roman Catholics to live this Jubilee Year in a way that is "intensely eucharistic." I believe his challenge refers to our celebration of the Mass as well as to our eucharistic living that flows from the Mass. The Sunday Eucharist is at the heart of our Christian lives and so requires significant preparation. Not only do the liturg ical ministers prepare - - presiders and homilists , lectors , servers, musicians , eucharistic ministers , ushers, those whose care is the environment - - but each member of the eucharistic assembl y prepares. There is no audience at Sunday Mass. The baptized are not to be present as silent spectators . Over and over in its liturgical documents , the Church calls us to full , conscious , and activ e participation in the action of the Eucharist . We are the ones who gather and greet, forg ive and are forgiven , pray, listen , reflect , and respond. We are the ones who bless and thank God , share the consecrated bread , drink the consecrated wine: Christ 's own Body and Blood. We are the ones who go forth with the Gospel to the world. Participation in this most profound and life-giving, life-

Sister Sharon McMillan, SND saving reality urges us to prepare for it. How? Prayerful reading of the Sunday Scriptures during the week. Prayerful reflection over the graces and blessings of the

Eucharistic ministers' arrival time extended Commissioned eucharistic ministers in the Archdiocese of San Francisco who wish to help distribute Communion during the Oct. 28 Ju bilee Mass 2000 at Pacific Bell Park may arrive at the stadium as late as 12:30 pm, officials of the Office of Worship emphasized this week. An earlier announcement had noted a 10 a.m. arrival deadline, but the time has been moved back to address potential participants' travel and transportation needs, said Father John Talesfore, director of the office. Potential volunteers should still contact their pastors to register as eucharistic ministers for the Holy Year event which is expected to be attended by in excess of 40,000 Catholics. For information , the Office of Worship can be contacted at (415) 565-3689.

week to bring in thanksg iving. Presence in the church before the gathering song begins. But perhaps the most significant element of our eucharistic preparation is a willingness to surrender to the prayer of the Church , realized on Sunday in the parish community, i come with my own preoccupations , my own feelings , my own prayers , my own needs , my own preferences. All of which I am welcome to bring to the sacrifice of the Mass. But the Mass is the sacramental celebration of the entire Body of Christ. The Mass invites me to surrender what I bring to the broader reality of the Church's ritual. Someone may be sitting in my usual spot; I surrender that habit. I don 't like the opening hymn; I surrender that preference and add my voice to the community prayer. The words of the Psalm don't match my feelings; I surrender my mood and identify with those in the community who have the experience of which the psalmist sings. There is a restless child near me, disturbing my attention; I surrender that concern, and have compassion on the child and on myself. I come to Church to pray to God and am distracted by the activity around me; I surrender my prayer to our prayer. I surrender what is mine to choose to become part of what is ours. Preparation for Mass involves the willingness to surrender. The celebration of Mass involves the willingness to surrender. What does this have to do with "intensely eucharistic" living? The core reality of the Mass is Christ's total self-surrender to his loving Father. It is this same surrender to which he invites us as his Body, as his disciples, as those filled with his Spirit by baptism into his death and resurrection . We practice Christ-like self-surrender through our "eucharistic living" during the week. We practice Christ-like self-surrender through the Eucharist on Sunday. A Jubilee Year that is "intensel y eucharistic" invites us all to imitate the mystery we celebrate.

Mark's J esus restores marriage to God's initial intent

Crepehangers are insidious because they can infect us subtly. Those who believe that things are destined to turn out badly can erode our Christian hope. When a student of Marin Catholic showed her new puppy to a former faculty colleague of mine, he darkened the occasion by opining, "Those dogs grow up to be vicious, real killers, and they 'll rip out your throat." So much for a possible Hallmark moment. Because some people have experienced genuine pain and damage as marriage partners or physical, verbal, or mental abuse as children of such unhappy unions, it is easy to forget the blessings that parishioners of viable, sacramental marriages are to Church life. The Scripture, chosen for Sunday 's Liturgy of the Word, will not permit us to do so, indeed will lead us to the table with praise and thanksgiving. The Genesis passage (our first reading) does what all myths do: in simple and profound fashion , it associates us with the intent of God's heart , where human maniage is the partnership of equals. Notice the plight of the man; he is virtually alone. While he can exercise his dominion / control (hopefull y stewardship) over all the animals by naming them, "none proved to be a suitable partner for the man." Notice further that God, who has said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a partner for him, " now makes a woman who is like the man, part of the same nature as the man; "The Lord God then built up into a woman the rib that he had taken from the man." Notice finally, the man 's ecstatic discovery of his equal and the author 's comment: "This one, at last, is bone of my bone s and flesh of my flesh ," and "That is why a man leaves his father and mother and clings to his wife, and the two become one flesh." Equals, once incomplete, complete each other in the married life God's heart has designed.

St. An thony . .. ¦ Continued from pag e 11. • Covenant House and Seton Hall, drug and alcohol rehabilitation programs in San Francisco that provide 61 men a safe and supportive environment to recover from addiction. • Emp loyment Program/Learning Center provides classes in basic literacy, job preparedness and job retention

Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Genesis 2:18-24; Psalm 128; Hebrews 2:9-11; Mark 10:2-16.

We have come a long way "from the beginning of creation." Human relationships, to say nothing of the most intimate communion in marriage, tend to unravel with centrifugal force taking over. That is why Mark provokes our wonder at what God has accomplished in Christ. Let us register three facts to introduce this passage. First, we are reading from Mark's section on discipleship (8:22; 10:52) which is framed by two stories involving the healing of blind persons. Second, disciples fail to understand Jesus and His destiny (8:33; 9:33-37; 10:35-45). Third, the present passage which is intended to open our eyes can be easily misunderstood by disciples unless we allow Jesus the Lord to open our eyes progressively.

In response to the Pharisees question , "Is it lawful for a husband to divorce his wife?" Jesus takes us back to the "beginning of creation:" "Because of the hardness of your hearts, he (Moses) wrote you this commandment (permission for a husband to divorce his wife). But from the beginning of creation, God made them male and female. For this reason a man shall leave father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two-shall become one flesh. So they are no longer two but one flesh . Therefore what God has joined together, no human being must separate." Mark's Jesus restores marriage to God's initial intent. Disci ples can "see" and "hear" this teaching only if the community Jesus has created works on them. To identify with the community at worship is to identify with God's action in Christ, says Hebrews, (our second reading). God has done something for us in Christ. Christ shares with us what God has done: "For it is fitting that He (God), for whom and through whom all things exist, in bringing many children to glory should make the leader (Jesus Christ) to their salvation perfect through suffering. He who consecrates and those who are being consecrated all have one origin. Therefore, He is not ashamed to call them 'brothers' (and 'sisters')." It is the glory of the parish communities to discover their fruitful , life-giving marriages which they have nourished and which nourish them, In so doing, they take down the crepe that was hung and replace it with eucharistic celebration.

to help participants secure employment at a living wage. • Justice Education and Advocacy, which offers volunteer opportunities and informational sessions on poverty and justice to more than 5,000 students, business professional s, and community members each year. St. Anthony Foundation relies entirel y on the generosity of the community for its $13 million annual budget. It does not accept government funds. "We are deeply grateful to the Bay Area community, which has made this work possible," said Mercy Sister

Patrick Curran , the Foundation 's executive director. "It was Father Alfred' s dream that when we reached this milestone, we would have put ourselves out of business: that all of our sisters and brothers would have a place to live, enough to eat, and affordable health care," Sister Curran said. "By working together with all of you — individuals , non-profits , government, businesses, the media, and congregations of every faith belief — perhaps by our 100* anniversary, we truly could close our doors because we had created a society in which we all may flourish."

Father David M. Pettingill

Capital punishment foes to gather in San Francisco A three-day conference on fighting California 's death penalty is scheduled for Nov. 16-19, at San Francisco 's Cathedral Hill Hotel. Organ izers are calling it the "largest anti-death penalty conference ever," with speakers including Dead Man Walking

author Sister Helen Prejean , and actors Danny Glover and Mike Farrell. The Archdiocese's Respect Life program supports the conference as a member of one of the sponsoring organizations. Sponsors include Religious Organizing Against the Death Penalty Project , the American Friends

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child that all non-Cath olics were condemned to hell. Later, this was somewhat modified: non-Catholics who led good, holy lives could save their souls. Now enters the recent proclamation by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith . It is as if they want to push the Church back into the Middle Ages, or at least retreat to the days when eating meat on Fridays was a mortal sin. If we continue in this vein, we can expect eventuall y the Churc h will consist of grim , bitter , frustrated old men in robes and miters sitting around the Vatican or bishops ' mansions and talking to themselves. I fear this proclamation will weaken the Church by convincing more lay persons to abandon it, and even lessen vocations to the priesthood. John Abraham San Francisco

tions , and prepare and serve meals. I would like to suggest that we meet and provide service to others. Could this new group handle good deeds — and then talk? I much prefer working with people before I listen to their broad range of experiences. Perhaps somehow a group could be prearranged to meet , greet and assist at the Oct. 28 Jubilee Mass. Caregivers could have a location for unloading and then be able to part and walk for a few moment 's respites. Maybe a group could be assigned a staging area for assistance as needed. How about a roving group that helps serve and prepare breakfasts after the individual parish family Mass? The group might also share activities with established organizations that welcome singles. Name withheld by request San Francisco

have become a "bom again " Christian. Salvation is not based on what religion you belong to, it is based on a loving, personal and intimate relationshi p with Jesus Christ. Jesus loves all people. You must believe and accept Jesus into your heart freely and believe He died for us that we may have everlasting life. Jesus is the only way to our heavenl y Father. We must also believe that God the Father rose Him up from the dead. After going to a Christian church , I went back once to a Catholic Church. I raised my hand up during the service to worship the Lord and closed my eyes. When I opened my eyes people were staring at me, as the worship in a Catholic Church needs a lot of work. We worship the Almighty with all our hearts and minds in the Christian churches. We are free and not bound to sit down and be real quiet. We clap our hands and sing praises of joy. When I attended the Catholic Church I never felt as close to the Lord as I do now. It is our faith in God the Father, Jesus His Son, and the Holy Spirit and our obedience to the will of God that grant us God's grace and mercy for our salvation not what religion you belong to. Jim Novello San Bruno

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able human suffering resulting from our nationwide lack of affordable housing. Over the past month Reli gious Witness with Homeless People, a San Francisco Bay Area interfaith coalition , organized our second annual national housing campaign, Reli gious Leaders' National Call for Action on Housing. More than 400 prominent , diverse religious leaders from all across the nation - - including Archbishop William J. Levada , Bishop John Wester and Bishop John Cummins - - have signed a strongly worded letter to our national political leaders urging the allocation of the $5 billion FHA surplus for the increase of affordable housing and the preservation of the existing stock. The suffering of millions of people inadequatel y housed across our nation demands an immediate, positive response from our political leaders. In regard to the Sept. 22 letter Sister Bernie Galvin , CDP "Missing ministry": I agree we Catholics Founder and director, Religious could try to support another group in our Witness with Homeless People midst. I wish we could have a group that are San Francisco Ambassadors of Service. I have been blessed with the opportunity of meeting In regard to your front-page article on many wonderful people as I set tables, put Sept. 8, "Vatican says Catholic Christianity hand-outs together, attend Cursillo funcneeded for salvation ": I was taught as a tions, organize items for sales and dona-

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to Wills, clerical celibacy was imposed on the Church at large ^ _--—"~ ^ "* because even mar^c ^ V sT D 6 ried sexual activity ^ was believed to \ defile the purity of \ the ministers of the V k sanctuary. Now that > y} f~Sr < this deni gration of the \AtfUv\ dignity of the marriage VV bed is no longer accept- \^^H able , the rule of celibacy is BJ^Tw justified by the allegedly f| in J greater availability of the f t ¦$£celibate for universal love. H Such "jerry-built con- «| trivances " are "shoved under" IB tottering doctrines and practices ^^ to keep them in place, and the result is "the quiet corruption of intellectual betrayal." Whatever one thinks of Wills 's particular examples, he is certainly right in his claim that what passes for "traditionalism " in the Church is often , in fact, an authori tarian insistence on the status quo, liable to be subverted or at any rate troubled by proper attentiveness to the complex reality of the tradition. In the end , however, there is something repellently illiberal about Wills ' angry liberal certainties, his wholesale and unqualified conviction that every right-thinking Catholic must agree with him, and that the positions he rejects can be held together by nothing except rank tyranny and the intellectual equivalent of quantities of chewing-gum. Every issue he discusses is open and shut, and he finds in the standard works of biblical commentary or popular history on his shelves unchallengeable proof of his own views. Since, then , the Apostles were not bishops, Peter was not the firs t pope , the lay ing on of hands was merely a solemn form of Jewish commissioning for any responsible job, therefore hierarchy and priesthood are matters of mere ecclesiastical organization and there can be no reason to exclude women from the priesthood. Quod erat demonstrandum. History for Wills , as for his model, Lord Acton, is an arsenal of cautionary tales, demonstrating again and again how all those mean old guys got it wrong. The history of the papacy in particular is an endless saga of tyranny, crassness, and self-interest. Wills makes much of the disturbing story of Pius IX and his godson, the Jewish boy Edward Mortara, baptized by a Christian nurse while dangerously ill , and subsequently taken from his parents and educated as a Christian , ending his life as a devoted Catholic priest. Wills is understandably scandalized by this heartbreaking story, but the case for him has no nuances, no moral ambiguities. Mortara was just a scalp on the papal teepee; a testimony to the moral blindness of Pius IX. Wills has no sense that to leave a technically Christian child in a non-Christian home might actually have presented a real dilemma even to good men in another age, that a 19th-century pope might sincerely have conceived his responsibilities in terms other than those that seem self-evident to a 21sl-century American. If any parallels to the case of Ellin Gonzalez occurred to Wills, he does not mention them. The limitations of Wills' approach are on display in his discussion of "Marian Politics." For Wills, the Catholic cult of the Virgin Mary is essentially a ghastly mistake, propagated by the papacy, which has

idolatrously exalted a creature in Virgin gazes upward in prop hetic rapture , the place of her Lord, oppressed her prominent belly pregnant with the women , deni grated sexuality, Church's future , her hands raised in the tra\ usurped the proper role of the ditional "orante " position like a priest 's at / Ghost , and infantilized the altar, an unforgettable theological clergy. Mary, for him, "is vision of the Church which eludes Wills 's i mother of Jesus ' weak- reductive analysis. To a Catholic living in Britain , Wills' :ss, not His strength ," and ¦aditional Catholic exege- book seems symptomatic of the profoundl y sis of the Cana story, polarized state of American Catholicism. notabl y that of the present Most intelligent Catholics will share some of Pope "eager to foist his Wills ' concerns, and all will surely applaud view of the mediatrix on his insistence on the need for truthfulness in [ the revealed word," has the Church. Yet it is hard to know what to got it "exactly back- make of a Catholicism so profoundly at odds ^ ward." Wills betrays with itself. Wills recently published a book sense at all that a millenni- titled A Necessary Evil: A History of um and a half of Marian devotion, art, and American Distrust of Government , in which theological reflection might be something he defended the role of federal authority. But other th an a blind plunge into misunder- distrust of the Church's government, and of standing and alienation , th at the figure of the Church's past, looms everywhere in the Mary might have offered the Christian book under review. It is of course prudent not to take offiworld a legitimate vehicle for the exploration of a multitude of themes — the place cials, even Christian officials , at their own of the feminine in the Church , the relation- estimation. In the end , however, Wills ' criship between nature and grace, the cooper- tique of the present state of the Church is a ation of the creature with its creator, the monologue, which attribute s no worth to historical rootedness of the messiah , and opposing positions, and which envisages no the role of nature and nurture in his hum an function or motive for ecclesiastical authority except ignoble and overbearing selfformation. Wills takes us on a walk round the art interest. Cardinal Newman, one of Wills ' galleries of Florence in search of bad theol- truth-telling heroes, thought the life of the ogy. Pausing in front of Botticelli' s Church involved a complex interplay — "Coronation of the Virgin," an exquisite and tension —between the elements of celebration of the transfi guration of human prophet, priest, and king. Prophecy meant vulnerability by grace, shrinking vernal intellect , theology, and its demands; priestnature made immortal by the Incarnation , hood meant the prayer life of the Church Wills sees only a piece of papal propagan- and its spiritual and intuitive dimension; da (though the picture was not a papal com- while the royal element of the Church was mission). God the Father, he notices, is its organizational and historical dimensions wearing a papal tiara, "a comparison of the — structure , hierarchy, tradition. For Newman true Catholicism invol ved pope to God." Before Orcagna 's representaan endless struggle to hold these differing at Pentecost, gathered tion of the Apostles round the statuesque figure of the Virgin as energies in balance , privileging none over the dove descends, Wills tuts in disap- the others. He would have hated this book. Eamon Duffy is Reader in Church proval, because the Apostles appear to venin the University of Cambrid ge and not the Spirit. He seems History erate the Virgin, blind to the astonishing theological com- Fellow of Mag dalene College. He is the p lexity of this image of the Church, as male author of The Stripping of the Altars and Apostles bow in deference before a strong- Saints and Sinners: A History of the Popes , ly feminine figure. Indeed , in Botticelli's both published by Yale University Press. archaistic version of the same scene, which This review appeared originally in the July Wills must have walked past in the Uffizi, 14 issue of Commonweal magazine. ' the Apostles reel and cringe in disarray as Copyright: 2000 Commonweal the fire falls, while in the midst of them the Foundation , reprinted with permission

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CALL (41 3) 565-3699 OR RAX TO (4 1 5) 565-368 1 Prayer to the Blessed Virgin never known to fail. Most beautifu l flower of Mt. Carmel Blessed Mother of the Son of God , assist me in my need. Help me and show me you are my mother. Oh Holy Mary, Mother of God , Queen of Heaven and earth. I humbly beseech you from the bottom of my heart to help me in this need. Oh Mary, conceived without sin. Pray f or us (3X). Holy Mary, Iplace this cause in your hands (3X). Say prayers 3 days. JB.

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awist me in my need. Help me and show me you ore my mother. Oh Holy Mary, Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and earth. I humbly beseech you from the bottom of my heart to help me in this need. Oh Mary, * conceived without sin. Pray for us (3X). Holy Mary, I place this cause in your hands (3X). Say proyer 3 days. JW.

Prayer to the Blessed Virgin never known to fail. Most beautiful flower of Mt. Carmel Blessed Molher of the Son of God, assist me in my need . Help me and show me you are my mother. Oh Holy Mary, Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and earth. I humbly beseech you from the bottom of my heart lo help me in this need. Oh Mary, conceived without sin. Pray for us (3X1 Holy Mary, I place this cause in your hands (3X1. Say proyer 3 days. VG.

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Most beautiful flower of Mt. Carmel Blessed Mother of the Son of God, assist me in my need. Help me and show me you are my mother. Oh Holy Mary, Mother of God . Queen of Heaven and earth. I humbly beseech you tram the bottom of my heart to help me in this need. Oh Mary, conceived without sin. Pray for us [3X1, Holy Mary, I place this cause in your hands (3X). Say prayers 3 days. 0G.

Most beautiful flower of Mt. Carmel Blessed Mother of the Son of God, assist me in mi) need. Help me ond sham me you ore my mother. Oh Holy Mary, Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and earth. J humbly beseech you from the bottom of my heart to help me In this need. Oh Wary, conceived without sin. Pray for us (3X). Holy Mary , I place this cause In your hands

(5X). Soy prayers 3dcys, AC.

Coordinator of Youth Ministry

Catholic Church Bulletins J.S. Paluch Co., Inc. is interviewing for experienced Sales Reps to sell advertising in weekly Catholic Church Bulletins. Bilingual a plus. Work in your local area. We offer the qualified candidate realistic

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For an interview Call 1-800-675-5051 and FAX resume tO 707-258-1195

f L Associate Director of O Stewardship and Development The Archdiocese of San Francisco is seeking a dynamic and highly motivated individual who will assist the Director of the Office of Stewardship and Development with the coordination and oversight of all functions. The successful candidate will be a team player with a bachelor of Arts/Science and experience with fundraising, budge ts and making foTmal presentations. In addition , this individual will possess excellent interpersonal, organizational and PC skills and will have excellent command of the English language along with the ability to research and prepare well-written documents. Also required will be to work independently, a demonstrated level of professionalism and poise , and the ability to thrive while working under pressure . A critical component of the success of the candidate will be an understanding of the mission of the Church and the the ability to express it to others. A Catholic education and/or background would be highly desirable. Please submit a resume with a cover letter expressing what you bring as an individual tha t would help you succeed in this position. In addition , p lease include your salary history and submit all by mail or fax to: Archdiocese of San Francisco Office of Human Resources 445 Church Street San Francisco, CA 941 14 FAX: (415) 565-3648

CAREER SALES POSITION We are a 50-Year Old, Catholic owned, Nationwide churc h supply company looking for an energetic person to call on the Catholic Parishes in the San Jose and San Francisco Diocese. We are seeking an individual active within the Catholic Community, who would welcome the opportunity to grow, while enjoying an excellent income selling to Catholic organizations. Experience in sales would be a plus, and we will train an individual who is personable, professional, hard-working, self-motivated, a good communicator, and willing to take a step forward and benefit from a true career opportunity. We offer a competitive salary, plus commissions , 401K , expenses and car allowance. Ability to specfk Spanish is ' a plus , and computer skills would be an asset.

If you are interested in this unique and rewarding opportunity, please forward a letter and resume or personal profile to: John Trudnowski, Vice President of Sales The Autom Company Fax: (800) 257-0519

E-mail: SMasingill@Autom.net

All inquires will be held in confidence. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer

We arc looking for someone who will provide vision and leadership in coordinating a comprehensive ministry with high-school aged youth in this vibrant and diverse parish of 601)0 households. We want this ministry to address the pastoral and sacramental needs of these teenagers , to develop their relationship with God and each other, and to benefit the entire parish with their youthful energy and talents . Responsibilities include the coordination of the Confirmation program and development of a weekl y Sunday youth-friendly liturgy. Fulltime position beginning December 2000 . Competitive salary and benefits package. Send letter of interest and resume b y October 25 to Si. Monica Parish , 725 California Ave., Santa Monica , CA 90403. Atln: Search Committee. For more information call 310-319-9753.

Prayer to the Blessed Virgin never known to fail. Most beautiful Bower of Mt. Carmel Blessed Mother n( the Son tif God, assist mt in my need. Help me and show me you are my mother. Oh Holy Mary, Mother of God, Queen oi Heaven and earth. I humbl y beseech you from the bottom of my heart to help me in this Reed, Oh Mary, conceived without sin- Pmy for us (3X). Holy Mary, I place this cause in your hands (3X). Say prayer 3 Jays. LM.R.

Pray this prayer 3 consecutive days without asking your wish. AMDG.

Weekly Newspaper Editor Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco Have you ever wanted to make a difference?

This is a unique opportunity to become editor of a high quality, respected , and award winning weekl y newspaper. The editor will be responsible for the planning, preparation and production of [he weekly (43 issues per year) newspaper , which will support the mission of the Catholic Church and the goals of the Archdiocese , while earning a strong reputation for quality. A pp licants should have a BA degree or higher (preferabl y in Journalism or Communications), at least ten years of newspaper experience (with tenure as an edilor or assistant editor), strong management and communication skills and knowledge of newspaper production. An understanding of Catholic Doctrine and Beliefs as well as being a practicing Catholic are required. A background that includes work in the Catholic Press is desirable. Please mail resume and cover letter with salary hislory to:

Kathy Andrews, Archdiocese of San Francisco, 445 Church Street, CA 94114 or fax to (415) 565-3648 or e-mail kandrews-hr.asl@plaiieteria.net.

St. Bri gid School

Human Resource Generalist

needs an Extension Program Aide. From 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm.

Provide administrative support to the HR Department , responsible for coordination of employment process , orientation and education; proposing, improving and maintaining Human Resources administrative processes , preparing reports/written materials, and follow-up on specific tasks as assi gned. Assumes primary responsibility for maintaining/updating ADP/ HRInfo . System. Works closely with Director of Human Resources in employee relations, interpretation/development of policies, consulting with supervisors on employment related problems, follow-up on workers compensation and unemployment claims. Bachelo r's Degree in Human Resource Management or related field preferred. Minimum of 3 to 5 years experience in Human Resources and previous supervisory experience preferred. FT benefit position.

Phone: (415) 673-4523 Fax: (415) 674-4187 F Shelter Manager " Weekend and evening shifts available at Rap hel House, a Christian family shelter. Bilingual - English/ Spanish Helpful. Call Fr. Thomas at 415-474-4620 or fax resume to 415-474-7020 or e-mail: _ rhangela@aol.com _

Submit resume fay October 24, 2000 to: Human Resources Director Sisters of Mercy 2300 Adeline Drive Burlingame, CA 94010 Fax: (650) 347-2550 E-mail: HRCherie@aol.com

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Thinking About Pre-lVeed Arrangements What motivatesp eople to p lan in advance f o r their burial arrangements? Most people make a purchase because they don't want family members to be burdened at the time of death with all the decisions and details involved in making burial arrangements. Because everything is arranged in advance, relatives are spared a lot of stress durÂŚ ing these difficult and emotional times.

Most families also feel that prepaying for burial arrangements makes good financial sense. The cost you lock in today is certainly less than it will be in the future .

What about cemetery location? Is that a f actor f o r many f amilies?

Even though we live in a very mobile society, most of us want to be buried near other family members. The cemetery becomes a p lace of continuity and tradition for families. Making a pre-need purchase ensures that the location of your choice will be available.

Why do p eop le delay these decisions?

People are not comfortable talking about death. In fact, some people are a bit superstitious . But by talking about their fears and concerns, people come to realize that there is wisdom in expressing their wishes to each other.

Considering burial arrangements is a personal and private matter for families, each of whom has unique needs and concerns. We are here to share information and answer questions about the many burial options available. We hope to give peop le the opportunity to discuss the issues surrounding pre-need p lanning.

For more inf ormation about p re-planning or to make an app ointment, p lease call (650) 756-2060. Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery - Colma 2000 Calendar of Events Jubilee Mass

Veterans' Day Memorial Service

AH Souls ' Day Mass

Christmas Remembrance Service

Saturday, October 28th Pacific Bell Stadium, San Francisco Doors will open at 12:00 noon Thursday, November 2n " - 11:00 a.m. All Saints Mausoleum Chapel

(No Mass) Saturday, November ll" 1 - 11:00 a.m. Veterans' Section (No Mass) Saturday, December 9"' - 11:00 a.m. All Saints Mausoleum Chapel

Monthly Mass - Is.' Saturdays - 11:00 a.m. All Saints Mausoleum Chapel

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The Catholic Cemeteries Archdiocese of San Francisco

Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery 1500 Mission Road, Colma, CA 94014 650-756-2060

Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery Intersection of Santa Cruz Avenue, Menlo Park, CA 94025 650-323-6375

Mt. Olivet Catholic Cemetery 270 Los Ranchitos Road, San Rafael, CA 94903 415-479-9020